The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-12-27


of officers in the chapter Of the
Eastern Star at that place.
The Redwood County Rural Tele-
phone Co. commenced work last
Thursday morning on the erection
of poles in this city for the purpose
of installing six or seven connection
phones with that of the long dis
lance service of the Twin City
Telephone Co. The rural people
conduct their own office and that Of
the Twin City company in the post
office building.
The service given by A. G. Bur
meister, owner of the electric light
ing plant, is all that could be desired.
Mr.. Burmeister has the lights
turned on at 5 O'Clock in the morn
ing, and they remain on until day
furnishes the proper light for most
any kind of work. Last Thursday
morning, owing to the gloomy con-
dition of the weather, the plant was
in operation until 9 o'clock. In
printing offices, where light is always
an important factor, this service is
greatly appreciated.
A. E. Chapman returned home on
Wednesday evening of last week
from an extended trip to Winnipeg.
Mr.. Chapman was greatly surprised
at the growth of that town, the
population Of which is now about
$4,000, and in which the building
boom continues without abatement.
He believes that Winnipeg is destined
to be one of the big inland towns of
the continent. The people up there
were enjoying the same weather
that we were enjoying during Mr..
Chipman's absence, except that just
enough snow had fallen to make
sleighing fine, and the people were
enjoying 1t immensely
The Glencoe Enterprise reports
that 121 carloads of sugar beets
were shipped from that point to the
Menominee River Sugar factory for
the purpose of passing through the
mills and extracting the sugar from
the same. Heretofore the beet crop
of that section has gone to the Min
nesota Beet Sugar Co., with head
quarters at St. Louis park, but the
buildings of the concern having
been destroyed by fire made it
necessary to ship the beets out of
the state for refining purposes. Next
year the beet sugar factory at Chaska
will be in operation, and all Mime
sofa sugar beets will be shipped to
that point. Of the beets raised
around Glencoe there were 425 acres,
and of this amount only Is acres
proved failure, due to low lands
and the water drowning out the
plants. The growers received S4.25
per ton and the yield per acre was
good.
Jack Desmond and bride turned
the trick on a host Of the bridal
party last Wednesday. The friends
of Jack had "drummed up" all the
boys in town to come up in a bunch
just before the team carrying them
to the St. Louis depot would leave
the Vaughn house. In addition a
great rice, trunk and old shoe shower
was booked to occur at the depot.
Jack got on to the movements and
tipping the matter off to his bride
and her father, G.. w. Vaughn, the
latter had the team come around to
the house at 11:45, 35 minutes earlier
than necessary. Jack and his bride
got into the buggy and were driven
to Morton. Thirty-fve minutes later
the omnibus called for the remainder
of the party and drove them to
North Redwood, and that was the
first mixing that they had of the
clever ruse. Determined to play
partially even they got on to the
train and went to Morton, where
only partial farewell shower was
given the couple.
The Fairfax Standard chronicles
two important structures of that
town as nearing completion. The
first is the new school building which
the contractors say will be ready for
occupancy by Feb. 1st. Leroy Steg-
ner's crew of plasterers finished
work last week and Cuddy & Cav
anagh, the steam heating contract