The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-07-12
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items of General Interest Taken From
the Different Exchanges.

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port an immense crop, despite the
rainy weather.
G. II. Peake, the 61-year old faith
err of Fl. H. Peake of Sanborn re-
Gently passed away at his home in
Minneapolis.
Rev. E. F. Wheeler of Newell,
Iowa, has accepted a call to the
Congregational church at New
Ulm, and commenced his work in
that city on July I'd.
Revere parties are training their
ROSTERS for a genuing cooking
main, and the event is scheduled to
be pulled off in the course of a few
days, with admission tickets at a
high price.
The Cotton wood Current reports
that Rev. and Mrs. w. w. Hendryx
of Vesta have been conducting a
series of successful evangelistic
meetings in that thriving town.
The converts have been numerous.
The Tribune is kicking against
the double system of telephones in
Granite Falls and says that the
people of that town may wish they
had never seen a phone before
the war between the local and Min
nesota Central comes to an end.
The two-year old child of John
Westerlund, residing near Sanborn,
was poisoned to death as a result of
eating mushrooms other than those
used for edible purposes. The
child was i'll only about two hours
before death ended its agony, ac-
cording to the Sentinel.
At a meeting of the Lutheran
synod at Sleepy Eye the DR.. Martin
Luther college at New Ulm asked
for 81 900 to assist il in building a
residence for officers of the institu-
ton. The request was granted in
full, after lively discussion, there
being considerable opposition.
The New Ulm rural telephone
company offered to pay the city 25
cents per pole for the use of the city,s
electric light and other poles, on
which to string their cables for the
new line in that city. The matter
was referred to a committee on
streets, and the latter gave the
company bump, telling the of1c-
ers that they would have to erect
their own poles.
New Ulm Review, June %: After
spending the time of the fercest
part of the storm that swept oyer
this county, Saturday, in his cellar,
Geo. Woodrich thought he would go
out and see how his stock Jared
and departed for the pasture. When
he was some distance from the
house there was bright fash of
lightning, deafening report, and
Mrs. Woodrich, looking from the
house, was unable to see her hus-
band. She did see an object lying
on the ground in the direction he
took when he left the house, and
sending the hired man out to look
was Mortified to learn that her hus-
band bad been killed by the bolt. It
had apparently struck him on the
head and passing through his body
had left thru his feet for there was
hole in his hat and the shoes were
torn to pieces.
The Springfield Advance says
that J. j. Ray, as guardian of the
minor child, Anna Ray, has served
notice on the Springfield village
council; that he will sue the village
for $25, 900, by reason of damages
sustained by the minor child in
having fallen into a culvert at the
intersection of Spring and Railroad
streets, that town, the culvert be-
ing open as part of the negligence
of the village. The complaint says
that Anna Ray, "by reason of the
accident, sustained a penetrated
fractured skull; that shortly after
said accident and by reason there
of the said Anna Ray became en-
tirely paralyzed; that again and
about the 18th day of June A. D.,
1905, the said Anna Rays side be-
came entirely paralyzed and again
an operation was found necessary