The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-05-05
AROUND TIE COUNTY.
Items of Interest Taken rom the
Country Papers.


Margaret Fraas, a single woman,
of AZ years, who lived alone with
her father, John Fraas, in New Ulm
committed suicide last Wednesday
forenoon by firing a revolver bullet
into her temple. III health and de-
spondency were the impelling
causes.
The will of the late Jacob Pfen-
niger of New Ulm disposes of about
S126,000 of personal property. the
widow being the principal benefi-
ciary, and the New Ulm Turnverein
receiving requests amounting to
about $4,000.
New Ulm Review: Announce
ment has been made of the approach
ing marriage of Paul Kann and
Miss Alma Lindemarn. Mr.. Kann
is the local representative Of the In
ternational Correspondence schools
and his bride-to-be is the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Lindemann.
Morgan Messenger: Aug Evert,
who has been associated with the
Morgan Fur Co. the past winter,
has handed US few figures showing
the total amount of business carried
on by that company during the past
season. The company handled A.
65l rats, 1929 mink, 1448 skunk,
139 red fox and 1T badger and sew
eral hundred of other furs such as
white weasel, etc. The company
paid out over $4,000.
Messenger: Lake Marshall has
furnished good sport for fishermen
the past week or ten days. J. W.
Pike and Harry Miller got the big
gest of the big ones last night, and
brought in a string of fourteen
pickerel which would weigh consider
ably over a hundred pounds, the
smallest being a four FOUNDER, and
the largest weighing twenty and a
half pounds, measuring forty-one
inches in length, with an eighteen
inch girth. Nine of them averaged
over ten pounds. Both Pike and
Miller speared the big fellow at the
same time.
Olivia Times: Albert F. Bratsch,
living east of town, informed us
that the other day his wife noticed
a dark looking object making mo-
tons in a snow bank near the house.
Upon investigation she found it was
the head and neck of turkey. AT
ter clearing the snow away she
found the turkey. 1t had been
there since the blizzard the last of
January, and was just eighty days
without food. Talk about bears hi.
bernating living all winter without
food: it seems fowls can do the same
thing. AS soon as it was liberated
it commenced to eat, and although
pretty thin in flesh, it appeared none
i, the worse for its confinement.
Moorhead Independent: A CLAW
county farmer, who lives only q
short distance from Moorhead, made
the final payment Monday morning
on his farm, which he bought ter
years ago at $35 per acre and he went
home carrying the document of sat.
isfaction which made him clear with
the world. He has paid for the farm
reputed to be one of the best in that
large county, solely out of his pota
to crops. Regularly, spring and
fall, he has always been reasonably
certain of having sufficient receipts
from potato shipments to meet his
deferred payments on his land con
tract. On Monday he received &
check for 81, 102 covering one sale Of
potatoes at rs cents a bushel, ano
out of that check he made the last
payment on the home farm. Out OF
: his grain, stock, poultry and miscel
laneous produce he has maintained
his family and made numerous i'm
provements on his now we'll equip
ped place.