The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-09-04

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. A. 1907.
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items Of Interest Taken from Che
Country Papers.

Cass Lake is to have box factory.
1t will be in operation the year
round and will employ 100 men.
Tracy is to have its second annual
street fair and harvest jubilee. com
mencing Sept. 10Th and lasting three
days.
Sherborne county has already ex-
pended $4,000 in the building of
bitches. At this rate it has cost
that county S4.55 per acre for the
retaining of $500 acres.
A canning factory at Mountain
Lake. this state, has put up over
10000 cans Of beans at profit Of
five cents per can. The entire out
put was sold to Hill Griggs & Co. of
ST. Paul. On a quarter acre one
farmer cleared 1924 raising beans,
which he sold to the factory.
Down at Madison, Wisconsin, they
have a way Of Kidding themselves Of
tramps which might serve we'll in
other communities where the Willies
are too numerous. Three months
in Jail with bread and water
diet ought to make 'boes" steer
clear of any town, and that's what
fl,nxv <~14 - NHnl,oor
An exchange says that Hamline
university turns out more and bet
ter teachers than any other educa-
tional institution in the state. not
excepting the big overgrown state
university. This year first grade
teachers certificates have been is
sued by the state department of
public instruction to college grad
yates as follows: Hamline 49,, Uni
versity Of Minnesota 16, Carleton
College Is, University of Wisconsin
I 5, Gustavus Adolphus 4, and % dis
tributed among Ia other educational
Institutions. The University of Min
nesota has ten times more pupils
than either Hamline or Carleton and
costs the taxpayers Of the state
several hundred thousand dollars
annually.
A tramp has beaten all known
records by swimming twenty-seven
miles in thirty minutes. He did not
mean to do it. He merely tried to
steal ride from ST. Louis to Chi
cago on the rear Of a locomotive
tender. When the train started he
fell over backward. through the
open manhole, into the water tank
The noise of the train drowned his
cries for help, and he was obliged to
swim until the first stop was reached,
at Alton. When taken out he was
nearly dead, but the engineer was
so unfeeling as to call his attention
to the fact that the water was only
four feet deep and he might have
stood up. The conductor, also, I'M
feeling, asked him for his ticket,
but the tramp said he did not come
by rail, but by water. Blue Earth
Register.
Here is some bullhead luck. The
Martin County Sentinel says: "A
report in the daily papers states
that bullhead fishing has become
quite an industry at Cannon Lake.
situated few miles west of Fari-
bault. There are as many as TWEEN
ty-five fishermen engaged in the
business of catching these fish and
all doing well at the occupation. Dur
ing the last season more than ST, 900
worth of these fish have been caught.
The fish are dressed and sent to the
twin cities where a good price is
paid for them. Many of the fisher
men make the largest catches at
night by the aid Of a lantern. Hooks
and lines are used, and many times
the men come in with their boats
well filled. Most Of the men live
at the lake in tents during the sea-
son and the married men have their
families with them"
Milroy Echo: We learn that the
storm Sunday night did much dam
age in the neighboring localities.
At the Hicks home in Gales the
lightning struck the house and did
some damage to the building, and
at the Nelson farm owned by l..
Garlock struck the barn and killed
seven head of horses for Mr.. Kile,