The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-04-12
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items of General Interest Taken From
the Different Exchanges


/ The Messenger is trying to boom
the organization of a Commercial
club for Morgan.
/ Architect VanDuseu of Winona
| is preparing plans for the new
| Catholic parochial school at New
/ Ulm.
! A bunch of San born people re-
Gently left for Underwood, North
Dakota, where they have taken up
claims.
/ Springfield people are getting
Riverside park in readiness for the
1905 season. The park will be
beautifed with shrubs and plants.
Ivanhoe is considering a step
back ward by reducing the amount
of the license 10 sell Intoxicating
liquor in that town from 81 900 Ito
$500.
The Granite Falls council has
awarded the contract for the cor
struction Of what is known as the
Hill street sewer, to S. Anderson
for 1912.
The city clerk of New Ulm re-
ports that thirty people of that city
have made application for license to
sell Intoxicating liquors during the
ensuing year.
The Review states that 100, 900
feet of lumber were sawed by lum-
Der mills on the banks of the MIN
nesota river near that city, during
the past winter.
The business men of Sleepy Eye
are agitating the question of organ
izing a rural telephone company
that will construct rural lines in
various directions out of that city.
The telephone Office at Morgan
has been moved to the basement oil
the Farmers & Merchants state
bank. A new switch board has
been added to the conveniences oil
the Office.
The Winthrop News reports &
case of wife beating, and insists
that the Nolan whipping post bill
should be passed at once and made
retroactive to reach the case in
question.
Mrs. Mary Bobletter, wife o.
Joseph Bobletter, and one OF the
Oldest residents of New U,n, re-
Gently passed away in ST. Alexan.
der's hospital, that city, at the age
OF 81 years.
Eleven business men of New Ulm
have agreed to pay for eleven uni.
forms for the New Ulm base ball
| club. The uniforms will all be
| different and the team will un-
doubtedly be variegated hued
one.
| New Ulm will soon vote on the
proposition ofissuing SO, 200 worth
| of refunding bonds, the city not
1 being in position at the present
time to pay this debt for which
bonds were issued several years
\ ago.
| The Journal says that the Mime
sofa river at Granite Falls was
| clear of ice on March 25th this year.
| 1t is further added that the ice
simply melted, there being no high
water to break it up and carry it
Iaway.
| The Sanborn village council spent
a day in Lamberton to inspect the
| lighting plant at that place, with
the result that the mem bers of the
council will probably adopt the
Lamoerton system for lighting the
streets of Sanborn.
At the last meeting of the village
council of Milroy an ordinance was
adopted providing that liquor
licenses in that village could be
transferred by securing the con-
sent of the council. Street lamps
were ordered purchased for the
town.
The Milroy Echo reports that the
soliciting committee say shares in
the Farmers Elevator Co. at Mil
roy have all been subscribed for
and that at meeting held Saturday
afternoon the proper steps were
taken for the organization and for
building an elevator.