The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-07-31
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 81, 1907.
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items Of Interest Taken from the
Country Papers.

Country Papers.
1t pays to attend the best school.
Mankato commercial college will
place you in good position. Send
for catalog.
The Bird Island ball club has dis
banded with $13 in the treasury.
They probably thot the treasury bal
ance hoodoo.
That lightning sometimes strikes
twice in the same place has been
demonstrated at Marshall, where
the court house tower recently
scored three strikes from the mys-
FERROUS fluid within a few years.
The damage was small.
If her creditors leave her $40
worth of wearing apparel, her $40
watch and SIS sewing machine, they
can have all that is left of the world
" possessions Of Ida M. Brooks, who
has been conducting store at Rem
Vile. With $516 liabilities and only
SITS worth of stock in her store, she
has filed voluntary petition in
bankruptcy.
Marshall Reporter: Rev. McKib-
bin left for Detroit, this state. Mon
day evening to be present at the
closing days of the Lowry revival
meetings in that city. Next week
Mr.. McKibbin will go to Winnepeg
and there spend the remainder of
his three or four weeks vacation.
Bob Dunn is not worrying over
the recent destruction by fire of
big Michigan breakfast food factory.
He observes in the Princeton Union
that Local sawmills can furnish a
very fair substitute for the product
of the factory at much less cost.
A St. Cloud man wants a closed
season on new kind of fishing in
that city. His wife woke up to see
her husband S pants disappearing out
of the window, and aroused the
owner just in time for him to grab
them and disengage them from a
fsh-hook which a bright sneakthief
had used to angle with. The fisher
man had already landed the coat
and vest and they were found with
the pockets turned inside out, in the
yard near the window.
Marshall Messenger: Mr.. Bailey,
one of the press agents of the Bar
nurn & Bailey circus stated that
Marshall gave them the largest
crowd of the week outside of the
twin cities. Even at Mankato and
Red Wing the audience was much
smaller than in Marshall. Hence
when the ring barker came in on an
elephant and said that Marshall was
one of the best show towns in the
northwest, evidently he was sincere.
Those circus fellows ought to see a
Marshall audience crowd into ly-
ceum lecture!
The Wood Lake battlefield COM
mission has purchased one acre of
land from Sheriff G. O. Homme on
which a monument will be erected
to commemorate the battle of Wood
Lake says the News. This acre of
land takes in the rise of ground on
which entertainments were thrown
up by Gen. Sibley's troops, and is
now dotted with trees set out by
Mr.. Homme. The price paid for
the acre of ground was $3.50. In a
few years Sioux Agency will have
what will be known as the Wood
Lake battle field park.
At recent meeting of the New
Ulm city council the ACCESSIBILITY of
the city utilizing the exhaust steam
from the municipal plant was dis
cussed. President Eibner stated
that other cities were making a sue
cess of municipal heating plants, and
he could not see why New Ulm could
not do likewise. The matter was
talked over and the water works
committee instructed to secure data.
| Ii favorable report is made. it is