The Redwood gazette., 1905-11-29

factory at Springfield and moved it
to the old creamery building in that
town and is now daily at work bot
ting the sweetened carbonated bev-
erage.
Two Echo men went out hunting
for ducks, and instead of getting
the wild birds, brought in several
domestic ducks belonging to a!farmer
residing near slough. = They had
shot the domestic birds : thinking
that they were Of the wild variety.
Editor Wilson of the Milroy Echo
was made the father of "a nine
pound girl on his press day week
prior to last. He never stopped the
press, but continued to run off his
edition, and all present say that he
did not show the least sign Of
nervousness.
Morton has decided on having an
old settlers reunion on June 14th
and 18th next year, and the enter
prising business men Of that town
have already subscribed between
$400 and $500 for the entertainment
of the people who appear there on
those two days.
j The young men of Milroy are
good fellows. They go out duck
hunting and bunch their game. The
game is cleaned and prepared for
the roasting pans by the boys and
then the girls are asked in to do the
roasting. The band leads the pro-
cession to the town hall, where the
girls prepare the tables and roast
duck is served the crowd. Later,
the band drifts into some dancing
music and those so disposed drift
away in dance dreamland. There's
happiness for you.
! The Tribune claims that the school
building in Walnut Grove was
damaged about $500 by the fire of
| Nov. 18th. Itseems that the furnace
pipe carrying heat to the second
| floor was defective, and the fire
originated from the same. The loss
was covered by insurance, and the
best thing that the school board of
!. Walnut Grove can do is to tear
down the remaining portion of the
building and build in place of the
same fine brick building, with
j high school facilities, that will be
a credit to the town. This is the
! only thing wherein Walnut Grove
has not kept pace with her sister
towns.
! Granite Journal: Work at the
power house down at Minnesota
Falls is progressing very satisfac-
torily. Sunday last the structure
was up even with the raceWay. 1t
is being built of cement blocks and
these are laid up quite fast. If we
can have two weeks more Of fair
weather the work will be well along
by that time. The dam has been
completed, with the exception of
closing the holes in the center. After
the stone work was finished then a
coating of cement was put on to
make it smooth, and on top of this
an iron netting was. spread and on
this another coat of cement, the net
ting sesving to bind the cement solid
to the rocks. The dam has been put
in in the most solid way possible,
and it looks as though it would stand
for all time to come. No ice jam
will ewes be able to bulge it, The
poles for the wire have been set be-
tween the falls and Montevideo.
The government money order sys-
tenn has been changed the third
time since it was instituted and that
gang of clever crooks which has
been acquiring some wealth and
more notoriety by raising the
amounts on postal money orders has
reached the end of its rope, and
within a month or SO its members
will have to high themselves to the
tall grass and concoct a new scheme
for obtaining their livelihood. This
method of getting coin of the realm
has been in vogue for many years,
but during the past twelve months
| it has been extremely popular, and
the postofice inspectors have been
so busy running down the thieves
that they have had little time for
anything else. Twice before since