The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-03-21
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items of General Interest Taken from
Different County Papers.

WOOu IoihC ID OdIu W w elAeSA ellS
Belview Roller mill.
Prof. E. T. Critchett has been re-
elected superintendent of the New
Ulm schools for the twelfth con-
secutive year.
We have for sale some good seed
wheat, also timothy seed and choice
No. Is flax, an early variety and
yielder.
27-tf. VIM BROS.
Joseph Schoffman, proprietor of
the hotel at Morgan, is remodeling
and renovating the hosiery thru
out. The office and dining room are
being enlarged.
Joel Porter of Morgan has pur-
chased 800 acres of land south of
the Turtle mountains, in North Da-
kota, and will leave Morgan with
his family for their new home about
April LIST.
Put. of the Granite Trib. puts in
the following: 1--WE had thot Jesse
Thompson was satisfactory to all the
people over in Redwood county.
He is fine fellow and very popular
over this way"
The Granite Falls papers claim
that the new coaches making up the
day and night trains on the Mil
waukee road running thru that
town are beauties -vestibuled and
upholstered turnout.
Fairfax has a billiard association,
a number Of men of that town hav-
ing grouped together and purchased
five billiard and pool tables which
they have set up in rooms especially
prepared for a club room.
Senatoa A. V. Rieke of Renville
county has taken out a license to do
an auctioneering business in Rem
vile county. With politics, grow
ing law business, and block worker
the senator will certainly be "going
some" all the time.
The Bird Island Union says that
W. D. Griffith has just completed
the mounting of II deer heads,
which indicates the number of those
animals slain by his party on their
hunting trip last fall. The work
clearly indicates that Mr.. Griffith is
a taxidermist of no mean ability.
Winston Bros. & Dear expect to
finish the work of rip rapping the
St. Peter Ottawa road short line
next week. Up to last Saturday the
quarries at Kasota had furnished
nearly $4,000 of the 10000 yards OF
rip rap needed, and they will be able
to complete the contract in a few
days.
The Marshall Reporter is en-.
couraging base ball team for that
town and says that at a recent meet
ing of the local fans F. B. Sweet was
elected manager and Guy Hicks cap
tain of team yet to be made-up
When the Redwood Falls high school
team gets busy it proposes to walloI
everything in this section off from
the diamond.
Hector, Renville county, was q
years old on Feb. 23d last, the in
corporation occurring in 1881. The
town was first called Milford, but as
there was another town by that
name in the state theI name was
changed to Hector, after town ir
New York, from whence came 9
number of the then residents Of
Hector. w. D. Griffith was the
first president. .......
The Springfield local telephone ex
change reports the net earnings fol-
the past year at 20 per cent. of the
value of the stock, and says that il
the earnings of the rural lines were
not computed with those of the city
exchange the earnings would have
been between 80 and SO per cent
The company has just double the
amount of capital invested in the
rural lines than it has in the loca
exchange.
Christ Hanson, the buttermakel
of the Hanska creamery, recently
sent a tub of butter to the 18TH
annual convention of the Nationa
Buttermaker's association, held Feb
ruary IL to "a, 1906, at Chicago
says the Hanska Herald. The butter
scored IS per cent. and the care
l. IL I