The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-04-29

to do is to break up the separators
and sell them for old scrap iron and
then go to town and buy new one
of the local merchants instead Of
trying to get cheap one from the
catalogue houses.
The fourth annual Lyon County
Sunday School convention will be
held at the First Presbyterian church
at Tracy, Mimi. May 4th and 9Th.
1908. A splendid program has been
arranged.
Madison Press: Nick Martie of
Hutchinson spent a day with his
parents in this city last week. He
had been up to Redwood Falls to
dispose of some property he owned
there and took advantage of the oc-
cssion to extend his trip to Madison.
Apparently in the best of health.
Carl A. Anderson Of the Sleepy Eye
mills began his work on Tuesday
and without the least warning death
came. His fellow workmen who
witnessed the sad scene rushed to
his assistance, and took him into the
open air. D. A. F. Stricken was at
once summoned, but before he ar
rived on the scene Anderson had
passed away.
Arthur Elliot of Byron, a fireman
on an extra freight train eastbound
from New Ulm between one and
two o'clock Monday morning. was
instantly killed as the train crossed
the bridge mile and a half west of
Cambria. His remains were mangl-
ed beyond. recognition and the exact
cause of the accident is not known
and never will be. but it is supposed
he stepped out on the platform and
forgetting the bridge, struck pro-
jecting timber with his head. The
engineer backed the train and the
body was picked up and taken to
Mankato.
Lyon County Reporter: The 81
teen year old son of Harry Herring
STANLEY township was brought to
town yesterday afternoon from the
farm ten miles northeast of this city
with badly mangled face, the re-
suit of an experiment with a rife
He was experimenting with a As
calibre rifle in trying to supply miss
ing caps in the shell at hand. He
loaded up shell to try and not hav-
ing cap, inserted the head of a
parlor match in the shell. When he
closed the breach of the gun, the
scraping was done with the result
that the shell burst out into his face.
driving completely through the skin
and flesh and lodging up against the
bone. His face and even the eye
balls were peppered full Of powder.
DR.. Hard managed to get the pow
der all out of the eye balls and he
will probably suffer but little from
his eyes, but he will bear bad look
ing scar through life. One of the
other boys lost finger sometime
ago and the father lost a hand in a
corn shredder.
The following testi mony of Nc
Leod county farmer will be of inter
est to farmers in this county who
are vitality interested in the drain
age question: .'Our farmers are
finding the open laterals which they
have dug on their farms to drain in.
to to the county bitches are labor
mostly wasted. as they are contin.
ually clogging up and are nuisances
IN the neldS. Farmers are beginning
to see that they had better laid TIL
ing in the first place. And our big
county bitches have become a far
mers' burden even before they are
paid for. They are caving in anc
filling up and it is costing from So
to 500 quarter section to clear
them. We shall have to do witt
them as they do in Illinois, spread
over the land the dirt piled alons
their sides by the dredger, slop,
them out and get turf to CROWN,
on the sides to prevent caving in
Then instead of an unsightly scar OF