The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-02-28
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items of General interest Taken from
Different County Papers.

Have you been betrayed by prom
ises of quacks, swallowed pills and
bottled medicine without results ex-
cept damaged stomach To those
we offer HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain
Tea. 35 cents. H. M. Hitchcock.
The Peat Manufacturing Co. of
Norwood have abandoned the field, "
says the Olivia Times, gin spite of
numerous promises made to the
business men of that town. How
ever, there is possibility that the
business interests of the town will
unite in company to make and sell
the peat fuel.
A New Ulm youth was caught
recently in an attempt to get a
forged check cashed at the Citizens
bank. He presented the check with
the name of a prominent business
man attached, and when asked to
endorse it he wrote upon the back
of it the name of another business
man. On account of his tender age
he was released with a reprimand,
but is thought to be one of a youth
full band of robbers who have been
stealing goods from the stores of
the city for some time past.
One M. J. Murphy has secured an
option on the Louisville dam site
near Grand Forks and proposes to
obtain cheap power, by construct
ing large dam at that point, for
electrical purposes. He expects to
transmit the electricity to other
points and will probably light
Crookston, Grand Forks and East
Grand Forks. Mr.. Murphy has held,
for several years, the lighting fran
chise of Grand Forks, and now the
cheaper power is made necessary by
other and lower bidders on the
proposition.
We nave for sale some good seed
what, also timothy seed and choice
No. 25 flax, an early variety and
heavy yielder.
27-tf. VIM BROS.
The Bird Island Union says that
recently Henry Walter of Melville
received a check from the Great
Northern railway company for 1888,
which he earned while working for
said company % years ago next
April. Mr.. Walter was 10 years old
at the time and only worked a
couple of days, and never demanded
his money. In looking over his old
accounts few days ago he found
that he had never been paid and
wrote to Jim Hill for his money,
which arrived Monday, with letter
from Mr. Sanberg, the general man.
ager, stating that the bill was found
correct.
Editor Stewart of the Ceylon Her.
aid has a feeling of gladness in his
heart that there was only one pack
age of the medicine in his house.
The following excerpts from his
paper explains the case very clearly:
A woman who gave birth to triplets
the other day, so says the advertise
ment, lays her good luckssto Rocky
Mountain Tea" The writer is go
ing through the medicine chest at
home and if we find the burned stuff
in stock, throw it to the four winds.
-Ames Times. After reading the
above, the penpusher of the Herald
went home and threw a package
of the above tea out into the snow.
We're scared. -Ceylon Herald, Feb.
LIST. Born, Monday, Feb. 9Th, to the
wife of Editor Stewart of the Ceylon
Herald, son.
The Ortonville Journal, of last
week, tells of law suit which took
place at Ortonville recently that
brought to light a smooth swindle
which had been worked upon num-
Der of Big Stone county farmers:
1T seems that a stranger called on
the farmers last September claiming
to have sure cure for lumpy jaw
on cattle and desired to leave a
sample package, taking a receipt for
the same and making the aforesaid
farmer the agent for the company's
patent medicines. Later the farmer
received a consignment of goods
from the firm which was followed
in a few days by bill for $148.