The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-04-04
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items of General interest Taken from
Different County Papers.

SS%OSO
exchange says: Jerome Pankake has
made application to the village coun-
Gil for liquor license and will open
a saloon in that village on April LIST.
Keep the little ones healthy and
happy. Their tender, sensitive bod
les require gentle, healing remedies.
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea will
keep them strong and well. 35
cents, tea or tablets. H. M. Hitch
cock. march
Sleepy Eye Dispatch: Superinten-
dent A Williams of Willmar, and
E. c. Shoot Of Minneapolis, su per-
intendent Of construction of the
Minneapolis Telephone company,
were in the city on Tuesday to start
the work of rebuilding the system
here.
An exchange has ascertained that
in 1906 no holidays will occur on
Sunday. New Years day was Mon
day, Washington's birthday on
Thursday, Memorial day on Wed
nesday, Independence day on We'd
nesday and Labor Day on Monday.
Other special days are st. Valen-
tines days on Wednesday, Thanks
giving on Thursday and Christmas
on Tuesday.
The Minnesota Central Telephone
company has agreed to put in all
metallic service at Lamberton be-
fore Aug. LIST. 1906. In addition
they agree to institute an all night
and Sunday service, to paint the
poles and to establish rural lines
for the convenience Of the farmers
adjacent to the village and arrange
for free connection with all patrons
of the company at Wanda.
Lamherton Star: Last Saturday
afternoon while the school teachers
WEI learning to kill time on roller
skates at the opera house, Miss
Helen Purvis met with a painful
accident that will confne her to her
room for five or six weeks. While
attempting to skate she fell and
fractured the large bone in her
right leg, above the ankle. The
board Of education met Monday
morning and hired Mrs. Wakefield,
wife of the superintendent, to fill
the vacancy caused by the accident.
Experience is a pretty severe teach
er in a good many instances.
Brown County Journal: The home
of Otto Pfeifer on Broadway was
the scene of a tragedy Sunday even
ing at 6 o'clock. AS the rays of
the setting Sunday sun were throw
ing their last CLEANS on the home,
Mrs. Pfeifer drank freely from a
mixture of hydrochloric acid and
zinc, which is deadly poison, with
the intention Of quitting this abode
Of sorrow and entering the great
beyond. She was discovered by her
husband shortly after the poisonous
mixture had been swallowed and he
at once notified two doctors, who
Immediately gave the victim ante
dotes, and in a few hours the lady
was out of danger, altho much the
worse from the effects of the acid,
which burnt her considerable about
the mouth and stomach.
Mrs. Caroline C. Johnson, passed
away at her home in St. Peter Sat
urday night Of last week after a
long illness of sarcoma. Her maid
en- name was Caroline Christine
Hadden, was born in Sweden, March
5, 1888, and was aged 68 years and
"A days. Her childhood was spent
in the land of her nativity, but in
1852, at the age of fourteen years
her family immigrated to America,
reaching this country after stormy
ocean voyage which lasted eleven
months. In 1856 Mrs. johnson came
west to Minnesota, and she has thus
been a resident of the state for
exactly half century. She settled
in st. Paul, but remained there only
a few months and then came to
Traverse DIES Sioux. Two years later.
Feb. 18th, 1858, she was married to
Gustof Johnson. After her mar
riage Mrs. johnson lived for a time
on farm west of St. Peter. Dur
ing the Sioux uprising of 1862, how
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