The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-03-03
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items Of Interest Taken rom the
Country Papers.

the copper? About two miles of
copper wire was swiped after the
storm on the line south of town that
had fallen down or had been blown
down by the wind and no one can
account for it's disappearance. The
value of the wire was about $50.
Morton Enterprise: Word was re-
ceived in this village that our towns
man George Welsh was taken i'll this
week with serious attack of acute
pneumonia. The latest news is that
he is slowly recovering but will be
several weeks before he will be able
to resume his commissioner work at
the capitol.
The following deputy boiler in
spectors for this vicinity were named
this week: C. Mullin for Blue Earth
county; Andrew Young for Nicollet
county and Patrick Fahey for Sibley
county. The Inspector for Brown
and Redwood counties has thus far
not been appointed, reports the New
Ulm Review.
Marshall Reporter: Ez. Evans of
Monroe township, Lyon county,
brought in eight full-grown wolves
Saturday to the county capitol at
Marshall, for which he receivee $50
bounty and $40 for the hides. He
has two stag hounds and one grey
hound with which he run them down
near the Cottonwood river
Brown Co. Journal: A bill has
been introduced into the state legis-
lature to force the saloon keepers to
pass certain moral examination.
We don't see why someone don't in
troduce bill compelling the mem
bers of the legislature to stand an
examination as some of them need it
as bad as the saloon keepers.
Court litigation is apt to result
from the failure of the fire insurance
companies to satisfactorily adjust
the loss on the Wilson drug stock in
Sleepy Eye, incurred in a recent fire.
The owners of the stock carried
$500 worth of insurance and claim
this amount is nOmore than sufficient
to cover the extent of their loss.
This the insurance companies refuse
to concede, and a settlement seems
impossible.
Fairfax Standard: Mrs. Leora
Showalter of Preston was a guest at
the home of A. M. Wallace over Sun
day. The lady left on Monday for
Pennington. where she is directing
local talent of that town in a home
talent play The lady will return to
Franklin in time to prepare drama
for the annual St. Patrick's day en-
tertainment in our sister village.
Mrs. ShoWalter may return to Fair
fax after Lent and assist the Fairfax
dramatic club in presenting a brist-
ling comedy for the benefit of the
high school piano fund.
No. l on Wednesday had one of
the latest type of passenger engines
that will be used exclusively on the
H. & D. hereafter, says the Granite
Falls Tribune. The small engines
have been entirely relegated now
with the exception of the way freight
which has them in order to do the
switching at stations. We expect
to make the trip to Minneapolis in
two hours pretty soon. The H. &
D. is getting to be railroad. The
new engines are ten wheelers and
have the headlight on the center of
boiler, the latest American pattern.
Lamberton Star: The pastors of
the NJ. E. church and Scandinavian
Lutheran church, Revs. Gooch and
Framstad, circulated petition this
week and presented same to the vii
lage council asking that honorable
body to have the question of wheth-
er the town shall be wet or dry the
coming year, presented before the
people, for their consideration at
the village election next month.
The law provides that any ten legal
voters can have the liquor license
question brought up for considera-
ton at a village election. The petit
ton has been filed and from what we
can learn the scrap is on.
Springfield Advance: The salary
of County AttOrnev AuU C. Erick