The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-09-18
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Redwood 0u3ette
WEDNESDAY,, SEPT. Is, 1907.
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items Of interest Taken from tht
Country Papers.

Renville tar-Farmer:: The Brown
Hopper farm Of 188-acres was sold
last week to A. Babescheck, the ten
ant, for $50 per acre. The farm is
/ located in Redwood county.
1 Franklin Tribune: Mrs. B. F.
Webber, ST., received slight para
lytic stroke Wednesday morning and
4 in the absence Of DIR. Cole, in the
city, DR.. Penhall was summoned.
The aged lady's condition is causing
much anxiety.
The Fairfax Standard says that
John Palmer, resident there, be-
lieves he has solved the ice prop
osition. He is excavating tract
of land 15Ox30O feet and 6 feet
deep, and will fill it with water
furnished by two large windmills.
The wintry blasts are expected to do
the rest.
The races at the Renville county
fair to be held at Bird Island, Sept.
18th, 10Th and 10th, 1908, will be
the best ever held in the county
The classes are divided as follows:
Sept. 10 2:40 trot or pace, purse
$500. 2:20 trot or pace, purse $500.
Sept. 20-2:30 trot or pace, purse
$500; 2:10 trot or pace, purse $500.
A statement issued at the post
office department in Washington
shows that there were 1,522 rural
routes in operation in Minnesota on
Sept. I'd, and thirty-seven petitions
for establishment pending. Since
rural service was first put in opera
ton there have been 1922 petitions
filed for establishment of routes in
Minnesota, of which 353 were re-
ported on adversely.
P. w. Satory, president of the ST.
Peter commercial club, and Sam.
Haugdahl of that city went to St.
Paul last Wednesday,, and extended
an invitation to the directors of the
State Buttermakers' association to
hold their annual convention in St.
Peter Oct. Both to 31st, and Nov.
LIST. A number Of other towns,
among them being Rochester, Owa-
tonna and ST. Cloud, were candi-
dates for the convention.
The latest nature fakir story
comes in a recent dispatch to the
Pioneer Press from Preston, Mimi,
stating that a collie dog belonging
to j. G. Mills has just emerged from
a mudhole. where it has lain buried
for eight days after being bitten by
a rattlesnake. The dog ignored all
effort to get it out of the mud, and
is now perfectly well. The snake
was killed. It was four feet long,
with ten rattlers and button.
Two young men working on a
ditching machine were killed near
Dunnell, in Martin county, on the
10th inst. They were Rollin West
colt, Estherville, Iowa, and John
Bnrdick, aged nineteen, Waterville,
Wis. AS near as can be learned a
piece Of the machinery broke, the
sweep on the capstan flew back and
struck both young men on their
heads. crushing their skulls. The
victims died instantly. The victims
died instantly. Their remains were
shipped to their respective homes.
| The Granite Falls Tribune learns
from Preston paper that the ven
cradle Major Hotchkiss has gone to
Seattle, to spend his remaining days
with daughter, and adds: Few
men have made the local history of
this state equal to Mr.. Hotchkiss, as
he was an indomitable fighter and a
relentless enemy if he was an op-
ponent. Until few years ago he
published newspaper that was full
of invectives, always handling his
subject without gloves" The mayor
is a brother of F. V. Hotchkiss of
this city.
Selling tombstones on commission
got to be too slow an occupation for
M. j. Whetston and recently the
gentleman purchased a half interest
in the North Redwood Granite
Works. Mr.. Whetston will continue
to solicit business in the territory he
has traversed for years past. The
North Redwood Granite Works were
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