The Redwood gazette., 1905-11-29

N1illu6SOtd valley nave D0en quite
numerous of late and the hunters
report a fair harvest of the pretty
Poor Bob White birds.
Dougal Milne came up from Roch-
ester early last week and spent sew
eral days visiting with his brother
and sister, William Milne Smith and
Kitten Milne Houghmaster, and 9th
eral relatives.
At the regular meeting of Red
wood lodge No. AZ, Knights of
Pythias, held last Tuesday evening,
nominations for officers were made
for the ensuing year. Several nomi-
nations were made for each office,
and a spirited election contest is
looked for in that order. Following
the business session the members sat
down to an oyster supper prepared
under the direction of w. J.
Smithers Of the Home restaurant.
Harry Hinton of Morton has pur-
chased the livery stable formerly
owned by Edward Pratt, of PARCELS
& Son of this city, and took posses
sion of the property early last week.
PARCELS & Son will conduct the bus
mess at the stand they purchased of
Barnes Bros. shortly after acquiring
the Pratt property. Mr.. Hinton is
one of the best known livery stable
men in this section Of the state and
will undoubtedly keep up his record
of having good rigs and fast and re-
liable teams Mr.. Pratt will assist
him in the management of the livery
stable.
1t was during the trial of Krause,
indicted for disposing of chattel
mortgaged property without the
consent of the mortgage, that
Attorney Howard, attempting to get
out the technical part of the evi-
dence, asked a witness what state he
was residing in, and the witness
replied: 'Brookyille." Twice more
did Charlie ask the question with
the view of having the witness say
Minnesota" but each time the re-
ply came "Brookville." Finally Mr..
Howard got the answer he wanted
by asking the witness: DO you
live in Iowa or Minnesota"
The officials of the Minneapolis &
St. Louis R. R. company are busy
laying the side tracks to the new
sugar factory site in Chaska and
expect to have its trackage laid as
soon as the machinery shall arrive
from Michigan. We learn that this
is complete factory with machinery
for sugar making, double the capacity
of the factory at st. Louis Park; SO
that it will manufacture all the
sugar all the beets will produce that
can be grown in this part of the
state, that shall be tributary to it.
The factory will be erected in ample
time for the sugaring of next years
crop of beets. Chaska is to be con-
graduated for the energy her citi-
zens displayed, in finally landing
that beet sugar plant as one of its
business industries.
The Morton Enterprise says that
Mrs. John Moore died at the reserva-
tion east of this city on Nov. 18th
at the ripe old age of 70 years.
Mrs. Moore was a sister of Joseph
Renville, and was of the Dakota
Indian and French mixture extrac-
ton. She was the widow of John
Moore, who owned a trading post
near the present site of North
Redwood. She was above the aver
age intelligence and by her influence
the family.and many Of her relations
were saved in the Indian massacre
of 1862. After the death of her
husband in South Dakota a few
years ago..Mr Moore came to Min
nesota and has since spent the
remainder of her days near her
childhood home. The funeral was
held at the agency church on the
Friday following her demise, the
Rev.. Henry st. Clair officiating.
Six young Redwood county stu
dents, at the Luther college in
Decorah, Iowa, sent in their names
as new subscribers to The GAZETTE
during the early portion of last
week. : They are all sons of prosper
Gus farmers of Swedes Forest and
Kintire, and every one of the six is
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