The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-06-21

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burned to the ground recently and
the owner has decided not to re-
build. It was owned by an indi-
vidual.
Bird Island lacked one-seventh
OF one vote in securing the neces-
sary two-thirds vote for the carry
ing of the proposition to bond the
town for the gas plant, and the
council has ordered another cleo
ton.
The plans for the new orphans
home at Eagle Lake, Kandiyohi
county, which is to succeed the
orphans home at Lamberton, this
county, have been prepared, and
the contracts will be awarded soon.
The plans call for a building 38x7O
feet.
The Echo Enterprise says that
DR.. ]. T. Gill has purchased a lot
west of the Enterprise Office aud
will soon erect a hospital 24x40 feet
in dimensions on the same. The
building will be two stories high
and will be equipped for hospital
purposes throughout.
| The Nicollet county rural tele-
phone company, after purchasing
the st. Peter system and meeting
the first costs of building exchanges
att Cleveland, New Sweden and
Nicollet, as well as a number of
rural lines, was able to declare a
| dividend of s per cent at the annual
meeting recently held at st. Peter.
| At the 18th annual meeting of the
stockholders of the Lamberton
building and loan association F.
Schandera, w. G. Starr, T. J. Dick
son, II. N. Gerhard and Knute An
derson were elected directors.
Frank Schandera was elected pres
ident and Geo. ], Grimm secretary.
The fourth series of stock was re-
ported to have matured and worth
$1.73 per share.
Owing to the fact that Morgan
was obliged to pay several hundred
dollars for running its sewage on
4 Aug. Zaske S land, the council of
that town, at recent meeting, vot-
ed that inasmuch as the creamery
furnished the larger portion of the
sewage matter, it would be but just
that the creamery pay $500 of the
expense, and ordered that amount
paid under penalty of shutting off
the creamery's connection with the
sewer.
Lac qui Parle Press. This paper
mentioned the fact last. week that
Frank Millard, representing the
Minnesota Valley Fair Circuit, had
gone to Illinois and Indiana to Sc
cure fair attractions for the several
fairs in the circuit. He has re-
turned and announces that he has
partially concluded deal with
large Chariot and Roman standing
race combination which will fur
nish 81 separate acts during each
afternoon of the fair. In fact the
only thing is the question as to
whether the fairs can stand the ex-
penses.
Granite Tribune The old river
refuses to give up the quantity of
fish it has in times past, for several
reasons that should be sufficient to
send some people to the penitenti-
airy. 1t is reported that a fence
made Of wire has been stretched
across the river below the Yellow
Medicine, and not content with such
; damnable methods dynamite is
used to slaughter fish that would
otherwise come up were it not for
these detestable conditions.
A man driving big team and with
load of oats last Friday took our
foot bridge for a wagon road and
drove some ways onto it before be-
ing discovered. Had he been al
lowed to proceed his oats would
have sailed down the river and the
horses would have been obliged to
swim for dear life if they reached
the shore, while the wagon and man
would have done well to keep right
side up. *x* Joe and Mrs. Foun-
tain and Mrs. Fred Warner and