The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-02-20
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Redwood 003ette,
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 20, 1907.
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items of Interest Taken from the
Comfy Papers.

Interest VI ID. "a. OIldll III LiiS SUI
at Revere heretofore known as
Chester Bros. & Small, and Mr..
Small has gone to look over his farm
in Colorado.
amberton Star: Miss Mamie Clau-
sen arrived here the past week from
Grand Forks on a visit to her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Clausen. Miss
Clausen few weeks ago proved up
on a homestead in North Dakota,
and has pretty good idea of pio-
neer life in that new state.
! Wichman Bros. of Clements have
again resumed work on their great
ditching machine and they expect to
have it ready for work next spring.
If it works as they expect it will,
ditch thirty feet wide and eighteen
feet deep can be dug with the ma
chine.
The New Ulm board of education
has decided to erect new four-room
public school building in the first
ward, at the corner of south Fifth
street, to cost with the addition for
a site say $4,000 The building IS
to be about 40 x 20 feet, two stories,
with basement and heating plant, and
will have all the modern appliances
and convenience of an up-to-date
school building, capable of accommo-
dating $50 pupils.
The additional train service going
westward asked for by the Spring
field Commercial club and endorsed
by business men from New Ulm
westward is to have the Winona
train that arrives at Mankato each
evening and stops over there, con-
tinue thru to Tracy the same even
ing and in the morning return from
Tracy instead of Winona. The run
would be heightened about 81 miles,
at an additional cost, but it would
make the train service all that could
be desired.
Wabasso Standard; Geo. Parsons
ad a narrow escape from what
might have been a serious matter
last Saturday while on his route in
New Avon. The hard wind over
turned his vehicle, breaking some
parts of it. The blankets he had
with him took fire from the over
turned stove aud Cor a moment
George was a ''Ieetle bit skeered. "
He, however, succeeded in forcing
an exit thru the top, at the same
time keeping his frightened horses
from running away
The News Messenger of last week
stated that there was hard coal
famine on in Marshall, with no i'm
mediate prospect of improving con-
ditions. Not a pound of hard coal
could be had at either of the yards,
altho orders for the same has been
in the hands of the wholesale dealers
for many weeks. Car loads of coal
ordered on the fifteenth and twen-
ty-ninth of January have not arrived
tho it is said that one car is stalled
somewhere between Sleepy Eye and
Tracy.
Flax that will yield from 20 to
rs per cent. more flax seed an acre
than the common variety has been
developed at the Minnesota expert
ment station, says the Evening Jour-
nal. 1t has been tried with uniform
success for two. years, and it is
unhesltatingly recommended to the
farmers of the state. The new va
rlety is known as No. 25. In 1905
seed was distributed among forty
elgnt FARMERS IN various parts of the
state, and these reported an average
increase in the yield of 26 per cent.
better as yielder than the common
flax. There are now several thou
sands of bushels of the new flax
available for seed. VIM Bros. are
selling this variety of fax seed.
The Great Northern is doing more
freight business thru Marshall than
it has ever even been thot capable
OF doing heretofore, says the Re-
porter. Now that the thru Western
frelghts in the Dakotas have been
abandoned or nearly so, practically
all the freight that goes into the
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