The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1906-11-21

Chaska, Minnesota, will make
$4,000, 900 pounds Of sugar this year
from $4,000 tons of beets raised
near Chaska. The average yield
was twelve tons to the acre.
A. G. Dittbenner of Morgan ar
rived Tuesday and has been busy
taking an inventory of the restau-
rant stock, says the Gibbon Gazette.
He takes charge to-day. Mr.. Dit
benner promises to give the people
first-class accommodations, and will
keep a complete up-to-date stock.
That he will do we'll goes without
saying. His family will arrive next
week.
Ole Mondale. who has been with
his son Theodore in Redwood county
for the last five or six months look
ing after his farm interests there,
returned last Friday evening and he
will be with us again permanently
in the future. He reports condi-
lions not so favorable down there on
account of continued heavy rains
and then he says farmers are not
awake to the necessity of fertilizing
and draining their land, which great
ly diminishes their chance for a
good crop in an off season. -Bricelyn
Sentinel.
Here is a wild duck story from
the Walnut Grove Tribune: Last
Monday while blowing with his four
horse team, Will Harold had what
might have been a serious accident.
1t seems that he had been turning
round at little hillside or ravine,
when few wild ducks splashed in a
little pond and arose at which the
horses took fright, overturning the
gang pillow and rolling it completely
over Will, shaking it up in general.
However he managed to get himself
out of the fracas unhurt with the
exception of few bruises.
The lake at Lake Benton continues
to rise, according to the News. The
pier just back of the creamery is
now covered with two inches of
water. This pier was built twenty
four inches above the water some
time last May The lake has raised
about four inches in the last two
weeks. Since last May the lake has
been increased by a volume of water
fully fourteen square miles in area
by twenty-six inches in depth. The
west end of the lake-for nearly a
mile outs now entirely free from
rushes and sea weed, and the water
is clear. The rushes in the east end
are so thin that on windy days when
the waves are rolling they are not
visible. Another striking feature of
the lake is the great transformation
that is taking place in the bottom
and shore line The mud in both is
being rapidly replaced by sand.
Sanborn Sentinel: While party
of young men from town, including
Ben and Bob Sackreiter, Henry
Edgar, Henry Ibsen and several
others were out hunting rabbits last
Sunday forenoon an accident hap
pened that might have been much
worse, but will probably be lesson
to those who composed the party to
be more careful. The boys were all
along IN the underbrush, trying to
drive the rabbits from cover, each
going where he pleased; when sud-
denly a rabbit jumped to the side
nearest Ben Sackreiter and he fired
at the bunny up the bluff. Imagine
his dlSmay when he heard somebody
scream and noticed human form
fall a few rods up the bluff. The
boys all rushed to the spot and
found that Henry Ibsen had received
part of the charge in the right side
OF his body and face. The blood
was streaming from his wounds and
the boys hurriedly brought him up
town, where it was found that his
wounds were not serious. Nine shot
had entered his body, seven in his
face and neck and two under his
right arm inside, and all were SO
deep that they could not be extract
ed. His face was badly swollen but
it is believed that no serious result
will transpire.