The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-08-08
FORTY YEARS AGO.
Excerpts Taken from St. Paul Papers of
Forty Years Ago.

ants prevails here. Wages vary
from So up to as high as S. pei
month. An Importation of a few
hundred good domestics would be q
great help to the town.
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The Merchants hotel addition is
fast approaching completion, and in
a few more days the roof will be on
and the floors laid. Next season
will see the balance of the structure
built and the edifce completed.
Friend Shaw deserves all the praise
he is getting for his enterprise, liber-
atty and energy. The Park Place
hotel is also fast approaching com
pletion, and will be opened next
month. The grounds are being put
in an ornamental and handsome con-
dition.
A grand German picnic was held
at the Murray house, White Bear,
last Sunday. About Z a. m. long
train of carriages proceeded down
Seventh street, filled with jovial
party and followed by a four-horse
express wagon heavily laden with
supplies for the bibulous crowd. On
arrival at the lake the tents were
pitched in the beautiful grove at
tached to the Murray house. Alder
man Dorniden was appointed mar
shall of the day and Charles Lienau
was chosen to deliver the opening
grafton, which he did in his usual
eloquent style. The party returned
at a seasonable hour after highly
enjoyable day.
Thomas G.. Merrill, brother of D.
D. Merrill, is back home after an
absence of three years in Montana.
He went west with Fisk's second
expedition in 1868, and has been
there since, visiting every portion Of
it and becoming thoroughly ac-
quainted with the country and with
gold mining in all it's phases. He
proposes to make a visit to Yer
million lake, where his experience in
quartz mining will be of value to
the miners. Mr.. Merrill was form
erly a resident of St. Paul and in
1861 was principal Of Jefferson
school. He brings encouraging news
from those Minnesotans who went
out in 1852 and 1868. R. C. Knox is
in Helena doing WE'LL Rev. A. M.
Torbet is at GaIlatin valley farming.
J. M. Cashier is mayor Of Virginia
City.
Lake Como is literally crowded
with pleasure seekers these beauti-
full evenings. A perfect procession
of buggies and carriages pass to and
fro, and ON moonlight nights it is
long after midnight ere many of
them return. Hundreds of people
go there for bathing, and complaint
is being made that the lake is be-
coming almost too public for that
sport. Many are talking of chang
ing their resort to Lake PhaIen,
which is fully mile further.
H. P. Hall has disposed of his
interest in the St. Paul Pioneer,
and his connection with that paper
entirely ceases with to-morrow's
issue. His partner, John X. Davi-
son, continues in charge of that
journal for the present.
Col. John H. Stevens, formerly of
Glencoe, but now of Minneapolis,
was in the city yesterday. The
colonel is the same genial and So
ciable gentleman as of yore.
Hon. Edmund Rice, Col. William
Crooks and William B. Litchfeld.
the principal owners of the St. Paul
& Pacific road, returned yesterday
on the Anna Johnston, after a long
absence. Messrs. Rice and Crooks
were in England for some time, at
tending to the purchase of iron,
where sufficient of that material for
the whole line to be finished this
year, was purchased and shipped
several months ago. Mr.. Litchfield
has been east attending to the trans
rOrfofioYo Of Tho ;ro,, al IL.