The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-01-18
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items of General Interest Taken From
the Different Exchanges.

of Tuesday, Dec. 9th.
Readon Bros. at Morgan have
dissolved, A. v. Readon conducting
the hardware business in the future
Eric Ericsson of Renville county
was elected president of the county
superintendent state organization.
Editor McRea and wife broke
bread with Simon Dotson at Ceylon,
and liked the fare, as we'll as the
town.
The Springfield Advance is the
official newspaper OF Brown county,
with the other papers getting sup
plements.
Mrs. E. p. Dotson Igaye goose
dinner" on Christmas. One goose
was sacrificed to number of geese
and ganders.
A can of strawberries poisoned
Otto Maasch and family residing in
Underwood, recently. They have
all recovered.
DR.. Golden of Redwood Falls con-
demned some cattle belonging to a
farmer named Erickson, residing
north of Echo, because they
had tuberculosis.
On Jan. 7th school district No.
109 voted on the proposition of Sc
curing loan from the state 10 pay
off its Indebtedness.
Morgan is still looking for the
identity of the man found dead in
Hanson S corn field. 1t was thought
once that he was Mr.. Cobb.
The 13-year old son of Lebrecht
Schults of Brookville was recently
hooked by a steer and is receiving
treatment at the Springfield hospi
| tai.
Work on the construction of the
new steel bridge across the Red
wood river between Underwood
and Vesta townships has COM
menced.
Marshall has colored barber
who recently passed his Tooth mile
stone.in the journey of life, only a
small portionsof which was passed
in Marshall.
Prof. J. l.. Silvernale has been
given three years term as prin-
cipal of the Olivia schools in order
to prevent st. James from getting
him away from that town.
The Northwestern railroad COM
pany paid 30 cents per hour for
snow shovelers on Dec. 28th, after
the big blizzard, and many well-to~
do man turned into shoveling snow.
! G. o. Meier pays $15 for all the
buttermilk that can be turned out
by the Vesta creamery during jan
uary, February and March, not
even giving young Lewis a chance
at it.
Kid Lewis OF Vesta don't like
Bro. Sunday style and coldly re-
fers to him as harmless lunatic. :"
If Kid Lewis heard him several
times he would be the first to Jump
on the Sunday wagon.
Granite Falls has a bonded in
debtedness of $23, 500, and has only
a little more than $500 in it's wam-
pun. 1t is time that towns like
Redwood and Granite were getting
down to a solution of their financial
difficulties.
Renville rural schools are taught
by 129 female and four male teach
ers, the former having the average
paltry salary of 1928 and the lat
ter of $40 per month. Isn't itabout
time for Renville county to wake up
on the school question?
Joe Ciesielski, the well-known
liquor dealer of Marshall, who has
been in poor health for a number
of years, recently passed away in
Los Angeles, Cal. The remains
were laid to rest in one of the GEM
eteries in or near Marshall.
Col. Pollard, postmaster at Nor
gan, has put a new cabinet and
fixtures in the postoffice in that
town, and the lock boxes are of the
combination kind. Prosperity has
already struck the postmaster-edi-
tor, and the boy was born only a
few months ago.
The strong wind of Dec. 9th
blew down the chimney on the resi-
dence of DR.. Bennett of Sanborn.
Although an alarm of fire was turned