The Redwood gazette., 1909-11-24
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items Of Interest Taken from the
Country Papers.


Morton, who broke his arm while
on the way over here to the county
fair in September, was here can
vassing for a farm paper during the
week. He is one of the deserving
ones and met with fair success.
Madison Press: The dust that has
blown into the various places of bus
mess during the past week is a re-
minder that city waterworks and a
bit of street sprinkling would be
good thing for this city. To say
that we have got along without it
for twenty-five years is a poor con-
ISOLATION for the damage done to
stocks of goods to say nothing of
the inconvenience it causes.
Cottonwood Current: The high
prices that furs will bring this fall
and winter will make the occupation
of trapping a profitable one, even
for the man who devotes only a part
of his time to the business. The
skin from the mink, skunk, muskrat,
fox. wolf, and even the pelt of the
humble domestic house cat is in de-
mand at better prices than they
have ever been known to reach.
New Ulm Review: Why do not
some farmers in this portion of the
state raise broom corn? Not a
great while ago broom corn jumped
up in price to S100 per ton, and re-
Gently it has gone up to the enor-
nous price of $225 per ton. Broom
corn can be grown in this part of
Minnesota as successfully as cane or
corn, and its cultivation and. care
for ripening is as simple as that of
any common crop.
Candy News: The dead-beat is
probably the most despised creature
that walks the earth. No man is
wholly free from sin, but so many
lesser evils are tolerated that a man
should hesitate long before becoming
dead-beat. Criminals are despised
and abhorred, the dead-beat deserves
all of this as we'll as the contempt
of his fellow man. There is some
thing at once so mean and so little
in taking advantage of the conf
dence which comes with friendship
that the hand of every man is turned
against the dead-beat as soon as his
reputation is we'll established.
The LeSueur News man relates a
funny case of checkmate for dealer
in wet goods in that town. 1t seems
that in row in a saloon some weeks
ago cuspidor was thrown by one of
the crowd, at another. The latter
lodged and the glass back Of the
bar was met squarely in the center,
and broken into hundreds Of pieces
The owners of the saloon on Satur-
day last brought a criminal charge
against the party who threw the
cuspidor. Almost Immediately he
swore out a warrant charging the
owners of the saloon with keeping
open on Sunday. Both cases were
adjourned, and the News pre-
diets that the adjournment will end
the actions.
Bird Island Union: The church
building recently purchased by the
Evangelical Association of Osceola,
newly organized congregation of
which Rev. F. R. Riedel of Danube
is the head, was burned near the
Milwaukee tracks near A. P. Thurs
tons farm, between Olivia and Bird
Island last Friday evening. Three
men employed in moving the build
ing from Olivia to its new site in
Osceola were sleeping in it and
awoke about eleven o'clock to find
the structure in flames and barely
had time to escape with their lives.
The origin of the fire is a mystery
but was probably set by a passing
locomotive as the wind blew from
the north. Otto Schmidt of Danube
had the contract for moving the
building and his entire outfit was
burned.
Minneota Mascot: Mrs. Gabriel
Berg. matron at the Berg hospital,
was the victim of terrible catas-
trophe yesterday morning, from the
effects of which she is in a serious
condition, and the doctors are not