The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-01-29
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items Of interest Taken from the
Country Papers.

/ Renville Star Farmer: Rudolph
Stensvad of Redwood Falls came
over Tuesday morning to attend the
annual meeting Of the stockholders
at the State Bank, in his touring
car. How is that for January in
Minnesota?
Echo Enterprise: A fine specimen
of a baby boy was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Geo. Frazier on Monday.
Grandpa D. McC orquodale felt high
ly elated over the event and ten
cent cigars were smoked on the new
boy.
Tracy Herald: Major Gibbs was
brought home last week from a Min
neapolis hospital where he has been
receiving treatment for a cancer.
He is reported to be very low at
this time and the end of his suffer
ing is soon expected. His son My
ron, who has been attending the
University at Minneapolis, accom-
panied him home.
F. O. Gold leaves Monday for his
old home at Easton, Pa, where he
was born, says the Star-Farmer. 1t
is fifty years since he removed with
his parents from that place, and
while yet not being old enough to
remember anything connected with
the place, yet Notwithstanding, the
land of ones birth, is always an in
teresting spot. Mr.. Gold will visit
at other points in the East, and will
be gone thirty days.
Madison Independent: Messrs. H.
M. Aune and c. H. Frederiksen, two
of the county commissioners of Red
wood county, were here during the
past week for the purpose of in
speeding the poor house of this
county which they had heard was
one of the best in the state. They
said that Redwood county had re-
Gently purchased tract of land and
proposed building poor house soon
and that they, as members of the
board of county commissioners of
that county, went out on tour of
inspection. They spoke very highly
of the poor farm buildings and the
management of the farm.
Referring to the recent promo
ton OF Cashier Dickson to the Man
kato Bank, the Lamberton Star
comments: Mr.. and Mrs. Dickson
are among our best citizens and
their many friends will regret to
see them move from our midst,
though pleased to learn of his de-
served promotion. Geo. Carroll,
who for a number of years has been
the efficient agent at this place for
the Northwestern, has accepted a
position in the State Bank. He is a
genial gentleman who has won the
esteem of the people as agent and his
friends will all be pleased to know
that he has been promoted to the
new position which he will enter up
on the first of February.
j. C. Swenson, a wealthy stock
farmer of Candy, Minn,, who ar
rived in Minneapolis with $50 fat
porkers, whose average weight was
900 pounds. is a strong advocate of
soft coal for hogs. He says: 81
am not enough of a pathologist, or
might say a hog alienist, to be a
bit more scientific in my phraseol-
ogy, to exactly explain why soft
coal does the business, but it does.
That is to say, with the sympathetic
aid of kerosene and liberal amount
of salt sprinkled oyer the soft coal
the Indiana variety is the best
adapted for porcine needs we find
that our hogs are rendered abso-
lutely immune from the ravages of
a disease which has broke many a
hog farmer before now, and the
hogs like the dope, too"
Joseph Stangel, who left Sleepy
Eye two years ago and settled near
Annaheim. Saskatchewan, N. w.
Ter, writes a long letter to the
Herald of that town, giving an &C
count of the conditions in that part
of King Edwards domain. Among
other things he saws the weather I'm