The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-08-02

! Pokegama Sanitarium on the 18th
ult., and put 10 a few days in the
society of Mrs. Goethe, who contin-
ues under treatment at that institu-
tiou.
4 The board of education has ap-
pointed John McIlreavie of this
city to inspect work on the new
high school building and report
any deviation from specifications. as
the work progresses. The brick
work is now going forward salts
factorily. and work on the interior
will be taken up actively in a week
or two.
The annual statement of Marshall
schools as published in the News
Messenger, shows that the citizens
OF that town are alive to the impor-
lance of treating their school inter-
ests literally. Marshall paid out
$19, 120.25 for school expenses, of
which over $13, 900 went for salaries
alone, or about double the amount
OF the teachers pay roll in this city
Marshall has bonded school debt
of $50, 900, with outstanding orders
amounting to nearly two thousand
dollars, and only $3.50 on band. It's
school buildings are valued at $75,-
900.
The latest acquisition to Sheriff
Schueller register of summer
boarders is James Peterson, who
skipped the county last fall after
forging his brothers name to a
check for 5000, which was paid by
the Bank of Morgan. AS some of
our readers will recall, the brother
was in the st. Peter hospital at the
time OF the forgery, and upon his
recovery discovered his brother S
rascality, and brought suit against
the bank for the money paid to his
unnatural brother. At the last
term Of court Attorney Howard re.
ported that the victim of the forg-
cry, his client, had a second time
been sent to st. Peter, and had the
case continued. J. D. Hansen of
Evan, one the forger's creditors,
heard that Peterson was at Sioux
City and went after him, taking a
couple of constables out of the city
with him to farm where Peterson
was engaged at work on threshing
rig which he only recently purchas-
ed. Peterson was taken by sur
prise and brought into town where
he was held until Sheriff Schueller
arrived. He is now in jail and will
be held until until the next grand
jury meets.
/ A friend of the late Mrs. Brown,
whose death was chronicled last
week, furnishes the following bio
graphical sketch: Clarinda PUNT
was born in Hamburg, N. Y, April
IA, 1912. She was the daughter OF
| Fl. N. Plumb, a Baptist clergyman.
| A little later her father moved to
| Folsomville, N. Y, to take charge
of pastorate. Here she grew up,
and married Rev. Henry Brown
Sept. IS, 1869. The young couple
went directly to North Virgil, ILL.,,
where work awaited him. In 1887
with her husband and family she
moved to Spencer, Iowa, where Mr..
Brown took charge Of the Baptist
church. He died in 1892. She con-
tinued to reside there until the
spring of 1905, when she moved to
Redwood Falls to reside with her
children, Mrs. T. B. Secor and Roy
| Brown. She was the mother of
four children, the two above sur
viving her. Just before leaving
Spencer she had a severe attack OIL
pneumonia, and soon after arriving
in Redwood Falls she suffered re-
lapse and after twelve weeks of lin.
gering illness passed away on July
22d. Mrs. Brown entered the
Christian life at the age of IA, ano
in all her after years, as minist ter {
wife, Sunday school teacher anG
leader in all church work, she
was a faithful worker.