The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-03-18
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items Of Interest Taken from The
Country Papers.


been elected to repr esent the Red
wood county rural carriers at the
state convention in June.
The Morton Enterprise reports
that Jerry Keefe, who is still at Los
Angeles in care of P. H. Farrell of
North Redwood, is slowly recover
ing.
j. Max Weiser, the young Man.
kato newspaper man who tried to
commit suicide, is now an inmate
of the asylum for insane at St.
Peter.
Springfield Advance: Mrs. w. II.
Tompkins, who has been suffering
with virulent attack OF pneumonia,
is improving. all of which will be
good news to her many friends.
Renville, Sacred Heart, Window,
Hanley Falls. Dawson, Cottonwood,
Hazel Run, Clarkfeld, Boyd and Bal
atom were among the neighboring
towns to vote no license last week.
Gustavus Adolphus College at St.
Peter is soliciting $4,000 from its
friends so as to meet the conditions
of an offer from Carnegie to furnish
like amount provided the college
would furnish an equal sum, for
building two dormitories.
St. Peter Herald: Fl H. Drill.
the well-known CORTLAND merchant,
has decided to conduct his general
store in that village on the cooper
tive county chain-plan, making it a
farmers store. He has engaged
the services of H. L. Hodge, of the
Right Relationship League, Mime
apolis, to help dispose of shares.
Hanska in Brown county and La
fayette village in Nicollet county
have both gone dry, reports the
New Ulm Review. The vote in the
former village in favor of abolish
ing the saloons was so to 35 and in
the latter village A to %. In both
towns the fight was strenuous, but
in one of them at least the result
was not unexpected.
Morton Enterprise: S. J. Com
stock arrived in town this week
from Menagha, where, as men
toned in another article, he per-
formed the sad duty of taking
charge of the burial of his brothers
wife, Mrs. H. L. Comstock. S. ].
will remain with his son Edison for
few weeks before returning to his
home in Silverton, Oregon.
Waseca Herald: The new law for
telegraph operators went into effec
yesterday. Tom Carroll has received
the appointment for third shift in
the G.. & N. w. office in this city.
The general observation for hours is
from z a. m. to 4 p. M, from 4 o.
m. till l a. M, from l a. m. till IL
a. M, with one hour off for break
The men on first two shifts are not
allowed any time off for meals. The
man on third shift is to do some
clerical work about the station after
his relief at the key arrives.
Sanborn Sentinel: We are in
formed that B. E. Rollins, who has
been agent at Porter, Mimi, for the
past few years, has been transferred
to Lamberton, where he will move
his family shortly. His friends at
Sanborn are pleased to hear of his
advancement, and commend him to
the people of Lamberton as a genial,
painstaklng gentlemen who will adj
minister to their many wants in a
gentlemanly manner, Mr. Rollins
learned telegraphy here and was a
resident of Sanborn for many years.
Renville exchanges speak in praise
of the late Mrs. Evert, whose death
was briefly noticed in these columns
recently. The remains were tax n
to the German Evangelical church at
Middle Creek, Flora township, where
appropriate funeral services were
held, conducted by Rev. c. F. Sy-
dow. Burial took place in the ceme-
terry near the church. The funeral
was one of the most largely attend
ed of anyaever held in that neighbor-
hood all her old friends and neigh
bors turning out to pay their last re-
spects to kind and good neighbor.
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