The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-05-01
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WEDNESDAY, MAY !, 1907.
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items Of interest Taken from the
Country Papers.

IOuHtIy Idpe'S.
Archbishop Ireland was due to
hold a confirmation service at New
Ulm last evening.
Ruenitz. the Springfield Sunday
school man, has leased the ball park
of that town and put Sunday lid
on it.
Lon S. Bradley, one of the victor
ious Carleton debating team, has
been engaged as science teacher in
the Mankato high school.
Franklin village is putting in the
atrical scenery for its handsome
town hall. There will also be flies
in it, but no flies on Franklin's star
attraction, Dan Whetston.
The Citizens Bank of New Ulm,
one of the strongest banks in the
state. will be Incorporated into a
state bank in the. near future to
comply with the new banking law.
Editor McRae puts on his war
paint and says that there are a few
old soaks in Sanborn who ought to
be put on the black list. Same IN
some other towns we know OF.
It's a fright, the slaughter of the
innocents by the careless combination
Of the boy and the gun Hardly a
paper on our exchange list but con-
tains some horrible example. The
Milroy Echo says the handkerchief
boy, wounded near that town by a
neighbor boy with a shot gun, must
go thru life sightIess on account of
that single act of carelessness.
Matt. Weichselbaum and w. j..
Heaney returned Tuesday from a
trip up into sunny southern Alberta,
says Renville paper. They sold
several tracts Of land to the Red
wood Falls parties, who accom-
panied them. Mr.. Heaney says that
Marion johnson, formerly of Red
wood Falls, has 800 acres of 1900
acre farm there into winter wheat.
When the ballots were counted at
the special school election at Balaton
the vote stood 85 to "a in favor of
putting up a new school building.
However, on comparing the poll list
and the number of ballots it was
discovered that there was one ballot
more than the number of the voters
on the poll list. Another election
has been called for the twentieth.
Granite Falls Tribune: The organ
ization of the local ball team has
been perfected with Theo. Maybohm,
president; Martin L. Pratt, man
ager; C. E. Wheaton, secretary and
Will Kramer, treasurer. With the
assistance of hired pitcher and
catcher a good team will be put in
the field and the first game has al
ready been arranged for May 18th
with Cottonwood.
Leader: A sad sight in Hutch
inson is the number of boys and
young men who are fastening upon
themselves the tobacco habit. Any
evening on Main street you can see
boys in their teens smoking cigar
.ettes or pipes. : Out Of 400 school
boys who took examinations in the
Cincinnati schools recently 1923
failed to pass and of the 1923, 1920
used tobacco. Boys, cut it OUT at
least until your body and brainshave
got their growth and then don't
begin.
A Mankato dispatch of last Tues
day reports that w. w. P. McCon-
nell, former state dairy and food
Inspector, had his fine dairy herd of
Jersey cows on his famous Minneopa
stock farm tested for tuberculosis.
The test was made by DR.. Whit
comb, an expert of the state sani-
tary board, of which Mr.. Mcconnell
is member, and of approximately
100 animals. mostly pure bred, thir-
ty-one were condemned and shipped
to the South st. Paul stock yards,
where they will be slaughtered.
J. G. Dodsworth, man about Is
years old, and a resident Of Granite
Falls for nearly twenty-five years,
met death on the 23d ult. by fight
ing a prairie fire on the outskirts of
that town, near his home. He was