The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-01-08
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items Of Interest Taken from the
Country Papers.

Country Papers.
Dec. 18th last was the forty-ifth
anniversary of the hanging of 38 bad
Indians at Mankato in '62.
A Wabasso special to the Minneap-
oils Journal is authority for the
statement that Steube Bros. have
already ahipped over $1,000 worth
of muskrat skins from their branch
office in that village to their head
quarters in New Ulm.
An open winter and an early crop
of politicians will be chronicled in
the first chapter of the Redwood
county 1908 new book. reading like
this: Weather mild, crop the larg-
est in history, destructive and dam
aging storms yet to come. says the
Vesta Censor.
Granite Falls Tribune: Said an
observer to us the other day: "Won-
der what will be the effect of the
neglect of young fellows to learn
trades. Hardly an apprentice in
town or other places of this size.
They all go after the professions in
stead of the trades" That is too
true and some time there will be a
reaction.
"Waen | heah you tawk about hav-
in tempah" said the Kentucky
colonel, Il can't hep thinkin' of
Jack Chinn and whut old man Hutch
ms used to say of him back theah in
Harrodsburg. Old man Hutchins
used to say: Jack Chinn he's jes'
about the mos en-tempahed man
evan was in the wuhld; he is mad all
the time.
Granite Falls Tribune: We hear,
with no small amount of sorrow,
that our friend Will O.Connor, of
Renville, and known to most people
here, was on Christmas day discover
ed to be mentally unbalanced and
on the day following was taken by
his brothers to a private sanitarium
in Wisconsin. What caused the
dread malady no one seems to know
for he has no hereeity faint of that
nature and people are perplexed.
The Monte Leader says that they
have new kind of socials over in
Swift county known as Cupid s
Dart Socials." The girls, or rather
their names, on a little heart are
stuck upon a big red heart and the
boys pay so much per arrow for a
shot at them. When they hit the
name they get the girl for partner
at lunch, she furnishing the lunch.
This game, which is the very witch
cry of archery" is likely to strike
our town, so get into practice. You'd
hate to miss the girl you want and
have to eat out of her great. aunt's
lunch basket.
Grant County Hearald: Gov. john
son is popular, and yet he has rem
dered no conspicuous service for the
people. In what he has done for
the people he cannot be compared
with man like Jacobson who fought
for the people without regard for
those who'got hurt as result. When
both were candidates for governor
Johnson had the support of the rail-
road, lumber, whiskey and other
corporate interests, while jacobson
had their undying opposition. While
Johnson has been very careful not to
antagonize these interests, it appears
to us that the D'Autremont charge
that J. J. Hill and other big guns in
the world of finance are backing his
candidacy because they believe him
to be a safe" man for president, is
done for the purpose of discrediting
him in other states.
Madison Independent: Good farm
buildings are pretty generally the
rule among the farmers of this coun-
ty, but Jens Jensen, of Madison
township, is in class by himself
when it comes to an up-to-date barn.
The building is 40x80 with a full
basement and lean to. There is a
hay NOW which will hold hundred
and fifty tons of hay and up in the