The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-03-06
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Redwood Oo3ette
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1907.
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items of interest Taken from the
Country Papers.

A. o. u. W. and D. of H. lodges at
the grand lodge which convenedNa at
Minneapolis this week.
New Ulm Journal: Conductor [.
R. Hughes, of the Northwestern
from Mankato to Tracy, has been off
duty several days this week, on
account of the serious illness of Mrs.
Hughes parents, who reside at Wa
SEGA.
Marshal Mike Moore of Lamber-
ton has gone to Hot Springs, Arkan-
sas, to be absent for about month.
He has been suffering with rheuma-
tism. Deputy Sheriff Albeit is
wearing the star in the absence of
Mr.. Moore.
Largely signed petitions, protest
ing against the passage of the coun-
ty option bill, were forwarded to
Senator Clague and Representatives
Peterson and Bendixen from New
Ulm. The petitions were circulated
by the brewers.
A bill providing for the establish
ment of commission to survey the
battlefield Of Wood Lake, in Yellow
Medicine county, and authorizing
the commission to purchase all or
part of the battlefield for the pur-
pose of converting it into state
park, was introduced Feb. 10Th by
Senator Virgil B. Seward of Mar
shall
Math. Eichten of near Wanda, one
of the early pioneers of Willow Lake
township, has purchased residence
property in New Ulm and will retire
from business and move to that
town to make his future home, ac-
cording to the Lamberton Star. He
will have a public sale on March
18th at which time he will dispose
Of his yvlsonal property.
Lamoerton Star: The new steel
bridge north of town. over the
Cottonwood river was completed last
Friday and Saturday County Com
missioners Geo. Posi- and Frederick
son met with the township officers
and accepted the bridge from the
contractors. The bridge cost SIPS
and is the best bridge in the county
for the price so Mr.. Fredrickson tells
US.
A disastrous fire consumed the
Mansfield block and contents at Gay
lord recently, and as result about
fifteen thousand dollars worth of
property was destroyed. The hard
ware stock of F. H. Kimpel and the
general merchandise stock of A. T.
Skaro were destroyed and means a
loss of abont $1,000 to the former
and about $500 to the latter, as
insurance covered the other losses.
The Hutchinson Telephone COM
pany has notified its patrons that on
March LIST raise of rates from 81
to S1.25 month on residence and
rural phones will take effect. There
were numerous threats of discon-
tlnulng phones, but since the COM
pany has made a statement justi-
flying the raise, most patrons are
pacified and there is likely to be
little loss of business to the COM
pany.
! One hundred farmers of the towns
of Milford, Siegel, Cottonwood,
CORTLAND, Lafayette and West New
ton, in Brown and Nicollet counties,
met at New Ulm last week and
organized the New Ulm Farmers
Elevator company. The capitol stock
is $500 and Indebtedness is limited
to $4,000. 1t is proposed to erect
building with capacity of about of
10000 bushels as soon as a site is
selected on either the right of way
of the Minneapolis & St. Louis or
Northwestern railways.
Dairy Record: Up at Hinckley,
Mimi, there was a private, local
creamery doing fair business in
spite of fierce competition with the
centralizers in Duluth and the twin
cities. The creamery burned down
the other day and the very next
morning, so Mr.. Knickerbocker, one
of the proprietors, tells us, the price
of cream dropped three cents per