The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-12-11
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items Of Interest Taken from the
Country Papers.


Mime Sofa, the charming daugh-
ter Of Editor Whitney of the Mar
shall News Messenger, will be led to
Hymen's altar Dec. 18th, when she
will wed Fred. Anabel Hills of Du-
luth.
Fairfax Standard: Special sery-
ices were conducted at the ST. An
drew's Catholic church on Monday
and Tuesday Of this week, by the
pastor, Rev. ]. ]. Goergen, assisted
by Rev. FIR. F. S. Rant, Arlington;
Rev. FIR. j. Klein of Madison and
Rev. FIR. j. J. Woods of Redwood
Falls.
According to the Olivia Review
Fred. Hodgden will have to pay
VIM. Baumgartner S1,066 for the
satisfaction Of striking that person
on the ear some time ago. Baum
gartner sued Hodgden for $4,000
damages, asserting that the ear
drum was permanently impaired.
The case was fought out in district
court.
Wood Lake News: O. j. Swan
and wife of Redwood Falls, who
have been spending the past three
weeks visiting relatives and friends
in this vicinity and around Granite
Falls are former residents here and
their visit was enjoyed by old friends.
10. J. returned home Wednesday
noon but Mrs. Swan says she will
stay until they send her home.
At the annual meeting Of the Rem
vile County Agricultural society,
held at Bird Island, the following
officers were elected for the ensuing
year: President, A. ]. Richardson,
Bird Island; vice-president, D. S.
Hall, Buffalo Lake; secretary, Jos.
Haggett, Bird Island; treasurer, J.
B. Keltgen, Bird Island.
Madison Independent: Tuesday af-
ternoon, at the dairymen's meeting,
the Hon. j. F. jacobson was called
upon for brief talk and in respond
ing he gave his hearers about the
best talk they have heard for many
a day. The sum and substance of
his talk was that the creamery was
about the best proposition open to
them and if they wanted to reap the
benefits of it, all they had to do was
to get busy.
The eight year old son Of Elmer
Miller, living two and half miles
north of Silver Lake, suffered seri-
Gus injuries by the explosion of a
dynamite cartridge last Friday af-
ternoon, which so badly mangled his
left hand that DR.. Trutna was
obliged to amputate the thumb and
first two fingers. The youngster
had been given the explosive by a
schoolmate and told it was no good,
but while tapping it on the desk it
exploded.
Another didn't know it was load
ed" affair was the cause of serious
wound to Dale Burgess, young lad
at Eagle Lake. He with some other
boys was at the home Of Merit Ny
nard playing with guns when the
oldest Mynard boy. Clifford, raised
a 22-calibre revolver and pulled the
trigger. The ball entered the Bur-
CESS boys right eye and lodged in
side the skull. The Mynard boys
claim he did not know the gun was
loaded
The women Of Sutherland, Iowa,
evidently became tired Of giving
church suppers. fairs, rummage sales
and the like to defray the expenses
Of their church, and had hit upon
another plan. Downing sweaters and
overalls, to the number of fifty
strong, they rode in motor cars to a
large farm near town, where they
husked corn at 8 cents per bushel
and realized the tidy sum of SIS fol-
their days work and were doubtless
less tired than after a seige of church
summers and fairs.