The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-08-07

WEDNESDAY. AUG. I, 1907
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items Of Interest Taken from the
Country Papers.

lOunty rapefS.
Danube Herald: Mrs. Lindeman
and two children of North Redwood
visited with the H. w, Shoemaker
family here since Tuesday. She re-
turned to her home yesterday.
From reading the Ortonyille Jour
nal one may conclude that the pres
ent season will see the closing of the
Big Stone Lake Chautauqua for
good unless new blood sees fit to
take hold Of the matter and not only
run it, but also finance the scheme.
Franklin Tribune: Fairfax's
bright young attorney, Frank H.
Hopkins, was last week honered
with the position of president of the
Marshall District Sunday School So
ciety, when convened at Redwood
Falls. The honor waswell bestowed.
Cottonwood Current: The Lyon
County Reporter announced on We'd
nesday Of last week a scarcity of
preachers in that city and within two
days eight Mormon elders have ar
rived and are doing alittle mission
airy work along their line of religious
faith. Lo, the power Of the press.
Dawson Sentinel: Following in
the footsteps of our strenuous pres
ident, who has recently been show
ing farmers how to pitch hay, Secre-
tary of State Schmahl and Private
Secretary Day have been up in the
northern woods showing some of the
printers up there how to set type.
No wonder those fellows are hard
to beat.
Seaforth Item: Mr.. Ed Long
bottom arrived home again last
Tuesday, from Redwood Falls where
he has been working this summer.
He had an attack of appendicitis
last week but got over it so that he
thought he would go to work again.
He worked one day when he got so
bad that he had to quit and come
home.
Milroy Echo: A. M. Thompson,
the Tracy house mover, was here
Monday looking oyer the lumber
sheds and buildings belonging to the
Hayes Lucas Lumber company which
he expects to move to the site they
secured from the Queal Lumber COM
pany. He will begin operations as
soon as the machinery can be hauled
over from Tracy.
A tramp has beaten all known re-
cords by swimming twenty-seven
miles in thirty minutes. He did not
mean to do it. He merely tried to
steal a ride from St. Louis to Chica-
go on the rear of the locomotive ten
der. When the train started he fell
over backward, thru the open man.
hole, into the water tank. The noise
of the train drowned his cry 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 unfeeling, asked
him for his ticket, but the tramp
said he did not come by rail but by
water.
The Milroy Echo gives new YER
sion of the circumstances attending
the recent drowning of Bert Blake.
From information received it APP
pears that after dinner Bert had di-
vested himself of his working clothes
and went swimming as boys do in
the summer time and as the day was
hot, he was enjoying his bath as he
was an excellent swimmer. He
climbed out on the end of the ties
along the railway track and would
dive off into the water which at this
place is about ten feet deep, and it