The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-12-13
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items of General interest Taken From
Different County Papers.

OtltCi CHt NUuuty 0PCio.
Attorney J. A. Metzler Of San
born was called to st. Paul recently
to be present at the funeral services
Of his aged grandmother.
The Milroy band boys had a basket
social recently for the purpose of
raising money for the purchase of
new instruments, and $47.10 was
what the baskets brought. The
band, under the leadership of DIR.
Bickford, is making rapid strides
towards the musical goal.
The Springfield Advance says that
the seasons work for the Springfield
rural telephone company has. been
completed and that the result has
been IA new rural telephone lines
and 312 telephones placed in use. Of
the telephones 166 are in the country
and the remainder in Springfield.
Nicholas Schmidt, a farmer u
years old, was killed by an incoming
passenger train while walking on
the Redwood branch track towards
Sleepy Eye. The train was going at
the rate of 80 miles an hour, some
thing remarkable for train on the
Redwood branch. A coroner's jury
exonerated the train crew. Schmidt
leaves a wife and two children.
The Montevideo Advance says that
there are large number of dogs in
that town disobeying the ordinance
requiring that all dogs running at
large be muzzled. The Advance
further says that none of the dogs
have put in an appearance for the
enforcement of the penal portion of
the ordinance that of being shot.
1t appears to be a case of the dogs
having laugh on the council.
At the annual meeting of the
Morgan creamery P. H. Nielsen was
elected president, John Mielke vice
president, John Welter secretary, C.
M. Bendixen treasurer. Lars George,
Nels Frederickson and Jacob Smith,
together with the officers, constitute
the directory. The creamery re
ceived 1874, 059 pounds of milk dur
ing the year. From this 3,789
pounds of butter fat was extracted.
The average net price received for
butter was Zig cents.
Granite Falls, having passed up
Col. P. H. Greer, of insurance and
mining company fame, has taken it
upon herself to organize a mining
company of her own an iron con-
Germ of which D. A. McLarty is
president, John M. Emmel is vice
president and O. A. Zierold secre-
tary. The incorporators are several
in number and the stockholders will
be that portion of the public which
subscribes to the shares. The COM
pany claims to have 480 acres of land
on the Vermillion iron range.
The Sleepy Eye Milling Co. has in
augurated a new system which will
practically do away with Sunday
work. Heretofore they have started
their mills at Z clock Monday morn
ing. Now they have arranged to
start at IL o'clock, giving the men
an opportunity to do repairing and
look over the machinery Monday
morning, and avoiding the necessity
of doing so on Sunday. The en-
ployees appreciate the new arrange
ment very much. The coopers at
the mill are working night and day
to keep ahead of the orders. Ordi-
narily they put out about 600 barrels
per day, but now they are running
far ahead of that number.
Bernhard C. Siez, the assistant
sergeant-at-arms of the last house,
is vice-president of fuel manu-
featuring company, and has recently
been making the towns along the
line of the st. Louis road, and show
ing samples of peat fuel dug from
the bog near Norwood, where the
company is erecting a big peat
manufacturing plant. The Fairfax
Standard says that he showed three
samples of peat fuel made by his
company one from Illinois, one from
Wisconsin and one from Michigan,
besides one from Norwood. They
were all of the same size and shape