The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-01-02

'11sid Af1l1st "a D0WlIng and
family are very busy this week,
moving into their handsome new
home. The family occupied the new
home on Tuesday night for the first
time. Exactly 26 years ago on this
same Tuesday night Mr.. Bowling
had his hands and feet frozen DUR
ng one of the worst hlizzards the
state ever experienced, hence friend
bowling thot he would celebrate
the anniversary by sleeping in the
new house for the first time.
Franklin Tribune: On Sunday
Dec. Both, Father Woods will de-
liver temperance lecture at the
Redwood Falls court house, under
union auspices. The lecture is one
on which Father Woods has devoted
a great deal of time and study and
no doubt it will be an able message
on the question of intenlp~ ance.
FIR. Woods has consented to give
the same lecture here the Sun
day following, provided that ar
rangements can be made to have it
given under union auspices.
Sanborn Sentinel: r. B. Bur-
bridge, the jolly travelling man,
who is SO well known along the line,
IS agltatlng a bachelor taxation
law The idea is to begin taxing
young men at the age of thirty and
to annually double the tax up to
fifty years of age, and if there are
any who hold out to that age, then
confiscate their property and drive
them as exiles to the PHILIPPINES.
The funds thus obtained are to be
used in the erection Of a home for
old maids. The scheme ought to
have quite following.
Wood Lake News: Andrew East
man, formerly a resident of Wood
Lake died at the city hospital in
Minneapolis Tuesday His remains
were brot here today and the fun
eral will take place Friday. Mr..
Eastman has suffered for years from
asthma, and it will be remembered
by many here Of his living in tent
near the opera hall in order to re-
main out of doors to ward off the
disease. He was a very kind and
educated old gentleman, always hav-
ing word with everybody, especial
ly children. Several relatives living
here will look after his estate and
burial.
Brown County Journal: The De
cember term Of the district court
adjourned yesterday morning. The
last case to be tried was criminal
one, namely. the state Of Minnesota
against Lottie Tillotson. 1t was an
appeal from the decision of the
justice court at Springfield, where
the defendant was fined SIS and costs
for absconding with money belong
ing to the Degree of Honor lodge
Miss Tillotson had been engaged by
the ladies to deliver lecture on the
Hawaiian islands. When it came to
making settlement as to her share
of the receipts there was a dispute
and in order to settle matters Miss
Tillotson took about So as being her
share of the proceeds. The Degree
Of Honor claimed that she appro-
priated more than her share. She
took an appeal to the district court
and won out. Judge Olsen, after
hearing the evidence. instructed the
jury to bring in verdict of mot
guilty Of petty larceny for the de
PENDANT.
Cottonwood Current: Neil Nc
Leod, living southeast of the Posen
church, met with an accident last
Saturday night that cost him the
loss Of a horse and almost the loss of
his own life. While returning from
Echo, after darkness had set in, he
was driving his unshod team across
a slough when one of the horses
slipped and fell, breaking hole in
the ice sufficient for the horse to
fall thru. He Immediately cut the
other horse loose, and freeing it, set
about to rescue the other which had
fallen thru the ice and was strug-
Cling in about four feet Of water.
All his efforts wara of M avail and