The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-11-27
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items Of Interest Taken from the
Country Papers.

l0mtN Papers.
Morgan Messenger: Messrs. j. G.
Albrecht and John Hillig returned
Sunday afternoon from a weeks
deer hunt near Hinckley. Both
parties were fortunate in shooting a
deer. j. C. shot a doe, weighing
about sixty pounds dressed, and
John killed buck weighing about
65 pounds dressed. The deer arrived
here on Monday afternoons train.
The hunters have been kept quite
busy relating their short but excit-
| ing experience.
| w. P. Schmitt, who has been
farming near Joliet, N. D., the past
summer, returned home last Thurs
day, notes the Morgan Messenger.
He states that crops in that section
of North Dakota, were fairly good,
especially the oat and barley crop.
He realized $1,000 off of a quarter
section. He raised oats and barley
entirely. The grain was sold when
coarse grains were at the top notch.
Freddie Bean, aged fifteen years,
son of Peter Bean, marshal of Ma
della, died Sunday night as result
of injuries received on the school
house playground about two months
ago. The little fellow was injured
while wrestling, boy falling on
him with his knees in his abdomen,
causing internal injuries from which
he never recovered, although he ling
cred for two months.
w. H. Harris, in his address at
Hutchinson college aptly said that
no man is a good citizen until he
takes an active interest in the vel
fare of his own town, reports the
Leader. No man is good citizen
who regards the town merely as a
convenient place to live. No man is
a good citizen until he becomes
Jealous about. the town and all it's
material and moral affairs. Every
citizen ought to stop and ask him
self every once in awhile: What
can do to make the town a better
and more hornelike place.
Morgan Messenger: Friday even
ing Fred. Ulrich of Sherman, had
the misfortune to fall and break his
right leg. Mr.. Ulrich's granary is
built on side hill and he had a
plank placed from the door to the
ground, upon which to walk. While
descending from the granary on the
plank, which was covered with frost,
he slipped and fell to the ground.
Mr.. Ulrich is bachelor and was
alone at the time Of the accident.
He was unable to hitch up team
and drive to town until Saturday
afternoon when he had the broken
bone set. He will probably be laid
up for five or six weeks.
The hunting season in Wisconsin
has proved fatal beyond all records
this year, as far as hunters are con-
cerned, there has been smaller
slaughter Of deer. The season
opened on Nov. 18th, but there have
been thirty Nimrods killed in that
time. In a few cases those who
persisted were crossing ice and were
drowned, but in most instances they
were slain by other hunters who
mistook them for deer, or through
carelessness in the handling of fire.
arms. With the increasing use of
high power guns, capable of killing
at mile, the death rate has gone
up rapidly.
To show that the railroad officials
are not entirely thoughtless of their
men they are sending out all pay
ments in small checks of about
twenty dollars each, so that their
employees would not be caught in
the meshes of the financial furry by
being unables to have large check
cashed. Elk.
There is a state law which makes
it misdemeanor for parents to
allow their children under eighteen
years of age to carry firearms, yet it
is no uncommon thing to see young