The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1904-01-20

Rev. g. w. Lutz, w. S. South wick
ID. II. Duryea and W. H. Wallace
traversed aFportion Of southern
Minnesota last week, composing {
quartette OF singers furnishing
music at entertainments at which
Rev. g. w. Lutz delivered his lee
ture on the Yellowstone park They
returned home Friday.
George +. Evans, @. w. Vaughn,
| Al. M. Welles and julius A. Schmahl
we're all attending the meeting 81
the minnesota Valley Fair and
Driving association circuit at the
Merchants Hotel, st. Paul. on Wed.
nesday evening last, a full account
of which meeting appears in another
column of this paper.
The First National bank annual
meeting of stockholders reelected
the old board of directors consisting
OF A. G. Burmeister. Ell. d. Baldwin,
z. A. Luscher, A. E. Ward, III. E.
Miller and Ell. A.,Baldwin, while the
board of directors reelected A. G.
Burmeister president, H. D. Bald
win vice president, Fl. A. Baldwin
cashier, o. w. Mcmillan assistant.
The directors declared the usual
dividends.
Henry f. Buechner left Thurs
day on visit with relatives in the
eastern part of the state and ON
Sunday left St. Paul over one of the
northern transcontinental lines for
San Francisco, where he will rep
resent all of the heirs Of the late
Mr.. Schumacher, ia receiving the
amount apportioned to them under
the testament of the deceased. Mr..
Buechner will visit at Los Angeles
and other southern California points
before returning to Redwood Falls.
The financial statement for 1903,
which will be published in full in
THE GAZETTE next week, is volum-
nous document and shows the as
sets of the county to be $112, 334. 30,
while the liabilities are only $23, :
942. O4, making the total assets over
liabilities of $88, 1892. %. The liabil-
tiles consist of $780, railroad re-
funding bonds, $1,000 jail bonds,
$282.97 unpaid warrants and 81, $685.
08 county revenue fund overdrawn.
The principal assets of the county
is the court houseEand Jail property,
which was listed at $65, 900. The
taxable real and personal property
for 1903 is so, 1913, $50.
The Renville Record contains the
following interesting sequel to w.
w. Harvey's experience in attempt
ing to find good well of water for
that village: After everything
seemed so favorable for an early
completion of the new village we'll,
it was with considerable dissapoint-
ment that it was discovered the lat
ter part of the week that the well
was not yet completely under con
troll. It was found that the pres
sure which forced the water up the
pipe had filed about so feet of the
pipe with coarse gravel and small
stones very closely packed. There
was practically no fine sand in the
mass, the stones ranging from four
inches in length down to the size of
a pea. Harvey set to work to clean
out the obstruction. He got it near
ly all out and was down to within
couple of feet of the former depth
when he felt the rope of his bucket
slack up. There followed q pro-
longed slows grinding noise for
about a minute and it was found
that the gravel had been forced
back into the pipe to the former
heighth.
The state board OF health recently
took action which will require tre-
mendous expenditures by Minnesota
cities, if the action of the board,
which seems to be in the interest of
certain companies, is to be sus-
tanned. A resolution was passed
requiring all municipalities which
drain their sewage artifcially into
rivers, streams or lakes, to install
septic tanks or filter beds to purify
the sewage and prevent it contami-
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