The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-02-26
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items Of interest Taken from the
Country Papers.

Morton Enterprise: Miss Eva Nc
Clintock. who has been employed in
Minneapolis the past few months.
was summoned home to care for the
wants of her grandfather, Judge
AhrenS.
Sleepy Eye Dispatch: Otto Drews,
who has been visiting in this vicinity
for the past week, left Monday for
Edgeland, N, D., where is employed
as cashier Of large banking insti-
ton. While in the city Mr.. Drews
was the guest at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. O. w. Hagen.
Renville Union: Messrs. Serbus
and Dobias Of Henryville township
were in town Friday and shipped GA
pounds of frogs legs to provision
dealers in the city. We are unable
to say how much the boys received
for their uniqne shipment. but it is
safe to say that they realized a good
profit.
Sanborn Sentinel: Supt. w. j.
Mosher, of the Redwood Falls high
school has been reelected for anoth-
er year. Mr.. Mosher is considered
one of the best educators in this
part of the state and is bringing the
Redwood schools up to standard
that should be envied by towns
around.
Olivia Times: A woman forger
tried to get in her work at the State
Bank Tuesday afternoon, and fail
ing disappeared as mysteriously as
she appeared. She called at the
bank about 4:30 and presented one
of J. M. Freeman's checks for $54
made out to Fred. J. Erickson.
Miss Bordewich, the cashier, re-
ceived the check, glanced at it, and
stepping over to where Mr.. Bowling
was at work, asked him if she should
pay it. Mr.. Bowling inspected it
and told the cashier not to pay it,
whereupon the woman made feeble
explanation and disappeared. The
check was rank forgery.
Springfield Advance: The burst
ing of an emery wheel at the saw
mill near town while sharpening the
big circular saw on Monday fore
noon was the cause of serious injury
to Albert M. Keil. Shortly after
the accident. happened he was
brought to town and as soon as his
wound was examined he was hast
ened to st. Johns hospital, where
thorough examination revealed the
fact that he had received serious
scalp wound just over the left eye.
His skull was fractured, which was
exposed by an ugly-looking cash
nearly two inches long and nearly
an inch wide. At the time Of going
to press the victim was not yet out
of danger, and his ultimate recov-
cry cannot be vouchsafed at this
writing.
Did you ever stop to think what
the hen does for US? We pay her
So, 900, 100000 per year. Her eggs
for one year, if shipped in one train,
would make solid line Of cars from
Washington, D. c., to Chicago, ILL.,,
a distance of over 900 miles. Her
16,000,0O0,O00 eggs a year if made
into a necklace would reach from
the earth to the moon and back.
If made into an omelet, the omelet
would be large enough to complete
ly ervelop the entire earth. With
the money spent on eggs we could
build two Panama canals year and
a congressional library every seven
years. We paid more for eggs last
year than all the teachers, the wheat
raisers or the corn growers earn,
accorning to a reliable exchange.
Friday afternoon at half past two
o'clock John HUM, aged about
fifty-five years, lost his life at the
Eagle Roller Mill at New Ulm by
falling into bin of shorts and be
ing suffocated, says the Brown
County Journal. Mr.. HUM has been
an old employee of the mill com.
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