The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-10-23
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items of Interest Taken from th'
Country Papers.

J. N. Post of Drain, Oregon. has
been in this vicinity the past two
weeks looking after his farm in
Sherman township.
The twenty-sixth annual conven-
| ton of the Minnesota Woman Suf-
frage Association will be held at
Austin Tuesday and Wednesday,
October 10Th and 30th.
Madison Press; The creamery at
Milan has shut down. Gradully the
trusts are closing in and in due time
they'll reap their reward while the
man who milks the cows will be
damning the trusts after making
them.
Wabasso Standard: Ed. Brough-
ton took charge Of the telephone
work at this place last Monday in
place of E. A. Brush who had re-
signed. Ed. is competent man and
we'll known here, having had charge
of this work before.
St. Peter Presbyterians, led by
their pastor, Rev. R. E. Clark, form
erly Of Wabasso, will hold a three
days jubilee celebration of the
fiftieth anniversary of the establish
ment Of their church, commencing
on Friday of this week.
The Minneota Mascot pronounces
the last Lyon county fair the best of
the series. "The receipts were be
tween two and three thousand dol
lars and will, we are told, exceed
the expenditures by several hundred
dollars. This is certainly very graft
flying as heretofore the balance had
been on the wrong side of the ac-
count
Franklin Tribune: The basket ball
girls just about cleared expenses
from their dance last Friday even
ing, which should not be cause for
Encouragement considering the lack
of hotel Accommodations for outside
visitors. Socially the affair was 9
pronounced success and the music
furnished by the Redwood orchestra
lead by Maj. Lorenz, was first-class
! Speaking of lecture course in {
neighboring city, the local paper
says for them what might just a.
well be said for our own course
that Entertainment of the elias!
that have been brought here by the
| local committee are a good thing
| for the community. They get us tt
thinking about things outside of oul
| own little lives and our own littl.
town, and help in broadening oul
views and our opinions"
! Superintendent Gregg of stat,
farmers institute fame, says Mime
sofa is short on tidy and we'll KEEP
/ farm homesteads. Which remind
us Of what we heard banker sa.
not long ago, that in showing Iii
nois and Iowa formers around tn
country, it was hard to explain tn
untidy appearance of many farms
! and that little attention given Of
rainy days and odd times to maxim!
the premises look attractive, Woul
add many dollars to the selling pric
of hundreds of farms in this county
Madison Press: Complaints cor
tinue to come in about the conditio
of things up in the Canadian north
west. The latest is from Cardstone
Alberta. Can. The letter was pub
lished in full in the Breckenridge
Telegram. The writer says thu
frost froze the potatoes and all gal
den truck on the fifteenth of Al
gust. About the middle of Septen
Der 38 inches Of snow fell. On tt
10th of that month ice formed q
water in his kitchen two inch,
thick. Eggs are high but the hel
won't lay, too cold. He closes h
letter as follows; When you me,
anyone going or thinking of goir
to Canada, just refer them to n
: and will do the rest. / am read
for one, to emigrate.' One qua
ter section of Lac qui Parle count
land is worth township up the
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