The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-12-06
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items Of General interest Taken From
Different County Papers.

A new rural route has been
established out of Sanborn. The
Winter, Scott, Burginger, Wichman,
Weber and other families northwest
of that town will be benefited by
the new route.
The Winthrop News last week
commenced the 10Th year of its
existence. Under the management
Of Alvin T. Johnson the News has
been bright sheet, and the editor
promises to improve upon his al
ready excellent record.
The cash receipts Of the M. & ST.
L. station at Fairfax during the
month of October were $1,000.
Freight contributed $500, ticket
sales 5000, express $410. The con-
struction Of a big mill and a $4,000
school house brought in As cars of
building material. Pretty good for
Fairfax.
"A balky valve at a prominent
position at the gas plant" has been
the latest thing to check the good
service of the Sanborn gas lighting
plant, and residents of that town
are beginning to think that it is
time that there should be no more
baking on part of the machinery of
that expensive local improvement.
Miss Carrie Hartwick has resigned
her position as manager of the tele-
phone exchange at Morgan and Miss
Gertrude Wederath has been APP
pointed to fill the vacancy. Miss
Hartwick has made an excellent
operator at Morgan and we "long
distance patrons of that exchange"
hope that her successor will be as
quick and accommodating in getting
our hearers at that end of the line.
According to the Taylors Falls
Journal G.. w. Folsom of Revere,
this county, was in that town re-
Gently making arrangements for the
transferring of a portion of the
Lindstrom News printing Office plant
to Plymouth, Iowa, where Mr.. Fol
som is starting paper. The Journal
truthfully remarks that Mr.. Folsom
publishes good papers and his
services have been in demand at
many places.
The Morgan creamery received
122,655 pounds of milk during the
month ending Nov. 10th, a gain of
1854 pounds over the preceding
month, showing that the patronage
is increasing, rather than decreas-
ing, as the cold weather comes on.
1859 pounds of butter fat were
secured from the milk, and the
butter brought an average price of
Il cents per pound. The annual
meeting of the company was held at
the creamery on Nov. 18th.
Milroy is having trouble with its
drainage, according to the Echo, and
Frank Jaehn of Springfield has been
UP there looking over the situation.
In companyawith the village Officers
he ran couple of surveys, but
nothing satisfactory was found.
About the only route for drainage is
southwest by the Methodist church.
Every cellar and basement in that
town is filled with water at the
present time and a drainage system
is badly needed.
1t is somewhat out Of the usual
order of things for a lady to be a
landscape gardener for a railroad,
but the Milwaukee company has one,
and she has recently been making
tour along the III. & D. road, and
at each station superintended the
setting out of shrubs, trees and
plants in the small parks the COM
pany is preparing to maintain at
each station, says the Granite Jour-
nal. These parks with the new brick
walks put in at all stations will add
much to beautify the places.
ST. Peter is to have free delivery
system, and the government official
in charge of the matter has given it
out that on streets where there are
no sidewalks, or where the walks are
in an impossible condition there will
be no delivery, the papers of that
town intimating that the ruling is
made in order to keep the carriers
from getting cold feet. The Tri-