The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-05-15
Redwood Oo3ctte
WEDNESDAY, MAY Is, 1907.
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items of Interest Taken from the
Country Papers.

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Wednesday morning for Redwood
Falls and Morton, where he has sew
jobs of surveying. He will also
have another job onthe Lawrence
King farm. Louie says that between
his wagon shop and the surveying
he is kept on the jump.
New Ulm Review: Governor John
son and his staff will leave on May
21st for Vicksburg to take part in
the dedication of monuments to the
Third, Fourth and Fifth Minnesota
volunteer infantry and the First
Minnesota artillery. F. w. johnson
and wife of this city will be Of the
/ party.
The Redwood county Merchants
association held a meeting at Red
wood Falls last night in which oyer
fifty persons attended from all over
the county. A number of we'll known
speakers were present. The organ
ization up there is doing something
to help the trade while it seems
down here everyone for himself and
Old Nick for the rest. Sleepy Eye
| Herald.
Lake Benton News: The local
creamery's shipment of butter today
brought 33a cents per pound, F. O..
B. cars at Lake Benton. Figure
your test, the creamery's over-run,
etc., with this price and see if there
is any other system that equals, or
even approaches our creamery in
to dollars. We think when you get
thru figuring you will be forced to
acknowledge a good creamery is the
greatest thing for making the COW
a money Garner, and above it all in
strong, bold relief, with a big G,
will stand out the fact that the Lake
Benton creamery is good.
After the lapse Of more than a
century since the original claim ac-
crued William Cox, Mrs. Irene Buell.,
and Eugene Cox, children of the
late E. st. Julien Cox, have received
from the estate of the grandfather,
a prominent figure in the Revolu-
tionary war, checks representing
their share of an allowance made by
the, United States government on
account of French spoilations claims.
The Cox claim rested upon damages
inflicted upon French war vessels in
reprisal between 1908 and 1900 for
alleged violations Of treaty pledges
made between the United States and
France. Cox was the owner of sew
eral vessels that cruised against the
French, and this is the second al
lowance the heirs have received.
A Minot, N. D., dispatch to the
Journal of last Tuesday reports that
Jess Skinner Of Bird Island, Mimi,
met terrible death five miles west
of that city at an early hour this
morning. Skinner was one of a
party of Minnesota Immigrants on
their way to Buford,, Mont. where
the big ditch is being put in. The
train stopped on the big trestle five
miles west. Skinner stepped from
the car in which he, was sitting to
turn out the light in his car two
lengths ahead, not knowing on ac-
count of the light fall of snow that
he was on bridge. Stepping out
he turned to speak to his comrades
and tumbled 100 feet to the ground
beneath. His body was crushed in
to an unacceptable mass. The
police of this city met the train and
took charge of the body and sent
it back to his home.
The trade territory of town can
be pretty accurately measured says
an exchange by the enterprise of its
business men. Live tradesmen reach
far out beyond the natural territory
of community and make expenses
and snug profit in a field neglected
by neighboring competitors. The
day has passed when profitable
business will come to the merchant
who lacks in inclination or ability to
let the public know that he is anxious
for trade and has bargains to offer.
Did you ever consider the enormous
amount of business a town acquires
by extending its trade territory one
mile in each direction? It's worth
thinking about. Good roads, hos
| pitalitv and antartoinpoont mill do