The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-06-27
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items of General Interest Taken from
Different County Papers.

When the baby talks, it is time to
give HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain
Tea. It's the greatest baby medi-
cines known to loving mothers. 1t
makes them eat, sleep and grow.
35 cents, tea or tablets. H. M.
Hitchcock. 6
New Ulm Journal: An accident,
which in all probability will prove
fatal, occurred at the site of the
Northwestern bridge across the Min
nesota, near the Redstone quarries,
Wednesday morning Leonard Lar
son of Winona, who is one of the
bridge crew which is making i'm
provements on this structure, re-
ceived injuries about the head, by
being crushed between two piles,
and was taken to the local hospital.
There seems to be little hope for his
recovery.
Marshall Messenger: Ben Gates,
one of the leading jewelers. of Sc
attic, and a former Marshall boy,
writes to his mother from San Fran
cisco that he is stopping there for a
few days at the Hotel Baltimore,
the only hotel left in that Inflated
city, and that he is there with $685.
900 to buy diamonds, which many
people are anxious to sell at less
than market value in their present
circumstances. Ben says there may
be $4,000 people left in the city, but
not many more, and that no one
can describe the miles and miles of
ruins.
There is a concerted effort on the
part of the state board of health to
abolish the public drinking cup. This
public servant is to be placed under
the ban, if the desires of many of
the medical profession and health
boards are taken into consideration.
1t is said that many of the con-
tagiv us diseases which are extant at
certain seasons of the year can be
traced to this source. There are
many ways devised whereby this
public benefactor can be dispensed
with. 1t is argued that everyone
should carry his own drinking cup,
while in New Ulm it is agreed that
the only safe way is to drink out of
a bottle.
New Ulm News: There was a
sheep shearing contest at Alex.
Russell's in West Newton Friday of
last week, when Mr.. Russell sheared
"a sheep, Bruce Kennedy sheared 80
and Louis w. Bushard sheared 81.
This was a close shave on Russell, as
Kennedy and Bushard were green
hands; and Kennedy says he thinks
he would have tied Russell had not
some one taken his shears at noon
under pretencc of sharpening and
nicked them, and Bushard claims he
would have certainly tied Kennedy
had he not grabbed the last sheep
away from him. Russell has not
been heard from.
The Ortonville Journal tells of a
new industry that may soon be
established in that city for the manu-
facture of soil fertilizer from the
powdered granite The Department
of Agriculture has made some ex-
periments that has proved that
powdered granite is valuable ferti-
lizer. Granite contains potash which
is valued so highly that large GUAM
titles of potash salts are imported
from Germany at cost of more
than 500 per ton and it is shown
that powdered granite contains one
half the amount of potash per ton
as the valuable potash salt and
granite may be ground at a cost of
So per ton. Already mills are being
erected to manufacture the rock
fertilizer.
The LeSueur Sentinel of last week
tells of a shooting affair at Cordova,
a little village a few miles east of
LIE Sueur, in which minister shot a
lad, and did the shooting on Sunday
at that. 1t seems that a group of
boys have been annoying various
families in that village at night, by
fixing tick-tacks at their windows,
drawing boards down their roofs
and other pleasantries. On the night
in question the boys had placed one
of the tick-tacks on the Vine parlor