The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-11-20
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items Of Interest Taken from the
Country Papers.

1 OO~Nt
at the home Of her daughter in St.
Paul on the 9th inst.
People are peculiar, observes the
Princeton Union. They will strain
their necks to watch gasbag float
ing DER their heads when they can
run across a dozen of them every
day as they 60 to dinner.
Walnut Grove Tribune: Mrs. Jas.
A. Larson and children intend to go
to- st. Paul the last Of this week to
spend the winter months with Asst.
Secy. of State Larson. Miss Bertha
will not go until after Christmas.
Granite Falls Tribune: We are
informed that Mr.. w. G. Hauck of
Wood LakeShas severed his connec-
ton with the Estate Bank there, and
intends to engage in business in
eastern Colorado. as soon as he finds
a desirable location.
Hector Mirror: S. G. Peterson,
who edits the Redwood Reveille, was
here yesterday conducting his an
nual cloak sale at Nelson Bros.
He keeps up his newspaper work
while on the road and edits his
paper every week, going home when
convenient for two days Of the
week.
st. Peter Herald: Charles E. Lam
berton Of Redwood Falls and Kelly
III. Lamberton Of Blue Earth were
in town several days of the week
visiting their mother, Mrs. Helen
M. Harkin. The latter has disposed
of his livery and dray line and will
move to Waverly, Ia, to engage in
business.
Wood Lake News: Pete Altman,
who for the past six months has
been employed in the meat market,
severed his connections with the
same on Monday and departed for
his home 2 Fairfax the same day;
when he uill enter the butcher
business at Belview. Mr.. Altman
made many friends during his stay
here and they are sorry to see him
go, but wish him success in his new
location.
Sleepy Eye Herald: The manage
ment of the local team is in COM
munication with the Renville high
school team for a game to be played
Saturday at Redwood Falls and will
in all probability land the date. The
Renville team has always had an
excellent lot Of players and as they
defeated the Redwood high by a
score of over 80 to 0, it would ap-
pear that the locals are going, after
a pretty stiff bunch.
Fowler & Pay of Mankato are to
install apparatus in their lime kilns
so that they can burn coal instead
of wood. The price Of wood has
become so high that the firm finds
it will be cheaper now to burn coal,
and arrangements are to be made
for making the change as soon as
possible. A great amount of wood
has been consumed in the lime kilns,
and a change to coal will make quite
a difference in the quantity of wood
consumed in Mankato.
Sanborn Sentinel: The McAllis-
ter & Vaughn Ditching Co., who
have been operating in this locality
all summer, finished their operations
last week and left for their respec-
tive homes on Monday last. They
ditched about $4,000 rods or about
40 miles this summer. The expense
of operating an outfit of this kind
is enormous, feed for horses alone
costing about $40 per day. The
benefit derived from this amount of
ditching is of inestimable value to
| the farmers of this community.
Franklin Tribune: An amusing
lot of newspaper men are they who
dwell in Redwood county, who i'm
prove each shining hour, year in and
year out discussing county politics
and declaring in ominous ten-point
that there is trouble ahead for some
shivering occupant of the Redwood
Falls court house. First the occult
Star of Lamberton whispers some
villainous sound in his editorial
columns; then comes the blithe and
gay Dad Tuttle and exudes fiery
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