The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-02-08

Miss.Esthers Mauravel.1sof Water
town and Miss Della Johnson were
among the teachers registered at
the hotel last week.
| Thursday was ground hog day
and if that tabled animal didn't get
enough of zero weather and crawl
back into his hole he must have
been a hog indeed.
Mrs. FL. M. Aune received a tele-
gram announcing the death of her
mother, Mrs. Swain, at Madison,
Wis, last Tuesday. Mr.. and Mrs.
Aune went to Madison the morning
following to attend the funeral.
Mrs, Swain had been gradually
wasting away for some time past,
and as she was well along in years,
her death was not wholly unexpect-
ed.
The theatre loving public of Red
wood Falls have reason to be thank
full to Manager G. Fred Thompson
whenever he books such companies
as the Columbia Comic Opera Co.
which sang Dorothy" at the Red
wood Falls opera house Tuesday
evening of last week. The music
was tuneful and the chorus large
and well trained and the comedy
parts new and appropriate to the
piece. The public failed to patron
ize as well as the opera warranted.
The Tenney brothers have re-
Gently been notified that the estate
of their uncle, Samuel S. Tenney,
late of Olmstead county, was being
administered in the probate court,
and that it's value is estimated at
at from 1923, 900 to $25, 1000. Their
deceased uncle was bachelor
farmer, and the owner of over $50
acres of Olmstead county land, be-
sides other property. He died
without will and his property
will be divided between 17nephews
and nieces, two of them being the
Tenney brothers here.
Manager Clark Miller of the rural
telephone line is feeling well over
the enthusiastic way in which the
Echo people are supporting his
efforts to establish a satisfactory
telephone service in that town.
Sixty-one shares have been sub
scribed there already, a delegation
from Wood Lake having visited
Echo and joined forces with the lat
ter town. AS soon as the frost is
out of the ground Mr.. Miller and
his company will push work on at
least four lines out of Echo, one of
them connecting with the Belview
system and another running to
Wood Lake. Echo will begin with
central Office and 40 phones j. the
village.
Three sleigh loads of Red wood
Falls people drove over to Delhi
last Wednesday evening, upon
the invitation of the pastor and
officials of the church of that village.
In spite of a temperature of 80 be-
low, the meeting was a warm one
throughout, both the Delhi aud
Redwood Falls people participating
being thoroughly aroused. Otto
Goethe was called to preside at the
testimony meeting, and the party
returned with the good news that
seventeen converts had declared
themselves at the conclusion of the
meeting. The hospitable Delhi
people insisted upon serving their
visitors oysters, hot coffee and
other refreshments, and it was some
time IN the small hours of the morn
ing before most of the party were
able to reach their homes.
Mrs. J. H. Bowers was severely
burned about the face and hands
by gasoline explosion, on Thurs
day morning last. She had brought
in small quantity of the fluid in a
little pail to use in cleaning some
garments, and as it was intensely
cold outside, had put the pail in
hot water at what she supposed to
be a safe distance from the kitchen
range. In order to satisfy herself
that that the gasoline was no longer
icy cold Mrs. Bowers dipped one
hand into the little pail. Meanwhile
the gasoline had formed a gas in
the room, and communicating in