The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-09-23
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items of Interest Taken from the
Country Papers.

PioyS q VI oiCCpy GyS c1i1e
a former star player at the Mime
sofa state university. has accepted {
J position as assistant coach for The
state university football team al
Seattle, WASH, for the 1908 season
New Ulm Review: Andrew Wag
ner, Essig's foremost citizen anc
merchant, died at the hospital ir
this city Friday afternoon, the re-
suit of blood poisoning originating
in a slight wound to one of his
fingers while adjusting the machin-
cry of his automobile. Amputation
of the infected finger over a week
ago failed to save his life.
Morgan Messenger: The wrestling
match pulled off at the town hall at
Evan Saturday evening between
Hector Mckenzie and Fred. Jensen
was decided a draw. The men
wrestled for 80 minutes and tore up
the mat SO much that it was unfit
to work on and both parties agreed
to call the match draw and will
wrestle again next month.
Olivia Times: VIM. Wickman was
in town Monday making inquiries
concerning a house to rent. He re-
Gently sold off his personal property
at auction and is making arrange
ments to leave the farm. When
seen by the writer he had not fully
decided whether to move to Olivia
or Morton but it is likely that he
will make the county seat his home.
A farmer says that he rids his
farm of rats in the following man.
ner: ION number of pieces of
single | put out a teaspoonful of
molasses and on that a quantity con-
centrated I've and then put the
shingles around under the cribs. The
next morning | found some forty
dead rats and the rest left for parts
unknown. I've cleaned several farms
OF these pests this way and never
knew it to fail.
The Minneapolis Progress has got
the auto death rate figured out some
thing like this: The auto death rate
is as great as that of apoplexy and
cancer combined, twice as deadly as
old age, six times as much as that
of railroad accidents, ten times as
disastrous as appendicitis, and much
more destructive than TYPHOID fever.
meningitis or diphtheria. Even
and consumption togeth-
er kill only four times as many
people as do the "horseless carriag-
es"-the modern Gears of Jugger-
naut."
A dispatch in the dailies, states
that Henry Schroer, aged thirty
five years, was drowned shortly
before noon, Sept. Nth, while fish
ing at the confluence of the Mime
sofa and Cottonwood rivers, south
of New Ulm. In company with
John Chart and family they had an
outing at that place. The drowned |
man waded into the water and was
catching minnows with small net.
1t seems he ventured too far out
and stepped into a deep depression.
The parties on snore made frantic
efforts to save him by 2extending
their fish poles, but Schroer was
unable to reach them, being carried
down stream by the swift current.
ochroer was unmarried and was
landscape gardner by trade, but
lately was bartender in Henry Her
rian's saloon.
Fairfax Standard: The people of
Fairfax were startled last Sunday
when word was passed
around that Rudolph Suter, baker
in Emerson's restaurant, was miss
ing. Saturday afternoon Rudy left
on hunting trip after he had fin
shed his labors at the bakery for
the week. He did not return Satur-
lay evening, but as he did not have
to do at the shop nothing
was thought of his absence, but on
Sunday searching party was or
ganized, and about three o'clock
word was sent to town that his body
had been found lying in a stubble
field not far from where the search
ers had been looking in the morning.
He was first located by his faithful
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