The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-08-29
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items of General Interest Taken from
Different County Papers.

kicked on the St. Louis depot and
environments and the superintend-
ent of the road sent the club a
letter telling them that the proper
repairs would be made. Here is an
object lesson in kicking.
A woman worries until she gets
wrinkles, then worries because she
has them. If she takes HOLSTER s
Rocky Mountain Tea she would have
neither. Bright, smiling face fol
lows it's use. IS cents, tea or tab
let's. H. M. Hitchcock & Co. 6
The Sleepy Eye Milling Co. has
started up the old mill with a crew
of IS men and are advertising for as
many more in order to run the mill
at it's fullest capacity. The COM
pany starts in the present season
under the most favorable circum-
stances and anticipates a big -four
output.
Rue M. Riegel, the fifteen year
old son of J. M. Riegel of St. Paul,
formerly a resident of Tracy for a
number of years, was drowned in
the Mississippi river at St. Paul last
week. He was camping with a
number of friends along the river
banks and with them had gone in
swimming. He got caught in the
current and was soon whirled to the
bottom of the river.
The Walnut Tribune announces
that ''R. R. Freeman and daughter,
left Tuesday evening for their new
home in Colorado, where Mr.. Free
man owns quite a large tract of
real estate. For several years Mr..
Freeman has been a business man in
this part of the county as a banker
and hardware dealer. The Free
man family gained a large number
of warm personal friends during
their residence here, and these are
all sorry to see them leave, and
wish them future happy home.
Just what town they will locate in
has not been fully determined"
Young futile throws a bouquet
every now and then and recently
passed up one to the Sheridan and
Kintire town boards by saying that
1.-The roads between Seaforth and
Belview show great improvement,
and all due to the ditching that has
been done along side of it. In sew
eral places the sloughs have been
drained nearly dry and had it been
done early in the summer several
tons of good hay could have been
cut" Mosquitoes will disappear with
the water and frost, and then we
will enjoy ride out on the pike be-
tween the homes of the two Tuts.
The little town of Nassau, Lac qui
Parle county, had narrow escape
from cyclone. The Advertiser says
that some little excitement was oc-
casioned when a large black cloud
in the shape of a funnel was seen
approaching from the east, going
about three miles from here in a
southerly direction towards Dawson.
Two farmers say that the twister
struck within a few rods of them
and that it sounded like train COM
ing. 1t picked up grain shocks and
took them into the air so that they
looked like little birds and sucked
quantities of water out Of running
brooks. Here is where Bob. Dunn
will insist that Charlie Halvorson of
Dawson was getting in his deadly
spouting work some more.
1t might be to the interest of
farmers in this section of the state
to experiment with growing alfalfa.
The Ames, Iowa, college, after
making careful tests, proclaims that
it can be successfully grown in al
most all parts of Iowa, and will
become crop of great Importance
to the farmers there. There is
every reason from soil conditions
and climate to believe that this
valuable crop would thrive in many
sections of Minnesota. Alfalfa will
field in single season from two to
three times as much as clover and
timothy. With fair soil conditions
three cuttings may be expectedsin a
season and probably fourth. It is
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