The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-04-28
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items of Interest Taken rom the
Country Papers.

ed that the people from eight hun
dred to a thousand miles north of US
are having nice, warm weather.
Well, of course, the nearer one gets
to the north pole the warmer it will
be-in the minds of the real estate
brokers.
Morgan Messenger: On Tuesday
last, at high noon. at the home of
the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j.
]. Penning of Eden, we'll known and
respected citizens of Brown county,
occurred the marriage of their only
daughter, Martha Julia, to Mr..
Charles G. Fixsen, eldest son Of Mr..
and Mrs. H. D. Fixsen of Morgan.
Sleepy Eye Herald: Hon. George
w. Somerville and wife came home
from three months visit south and
in California, last Saturday evening.
They visited for month at points
in Texas and the remainder of the
time they were at Los Angeles where
they visited with Mr.. and Mrs. A. F.
Ruenitz. Mr.. and Mrs. Somerville
are both well and glad to get home.
AL. Ruenitz has a responsible posi-
ton in one Of the banks in that city
and is doing we'll.
Brown Co. journal: Word was
received at Sleepy Eye from Port
land. Ore, to the effect that the al
legged murderer of Frank Lamp has
been apprehended and taken back to
the scene of the crime. The MUIR
dered man was an old resident of
Sleepy Eye and the son of Lars
Lamp of Evan. The alleged slayer
was brother-in-law of the victim,
the wife of Lamp being a sister of
the suspect. The crime was the re-
suit of long standing feud between
the parties.
Sanborn Sentinel: One of San
born's most highly esteemed and be-
loved souls in the person of Mrs.
John Yaeger. ST., was called from
our midst by the Angel of Death on
Monday morning at eleven o'clock.
Mrs. Yaeger had contracted a bad
cold and on Monday of last week
took to her bed with Lagrippe which
in turn developed into a severe case
of pneumonia which, on account of
her advanced age, she could not
throw off and just one week after
taking to her bed she breathed her
last.
Sanborn Sentinel: Without the
sound of a trumpet or cymbal 70
apprlse his numerous friends of the
fact, Hobart H. Peake drove to the
county seat on Tuesday of this week
and was united in marriage to Mrs.
Emma Poulton of this place, the
ceremony being performed by Rev.
G. S. Nook of Redwood Falls at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. McRae.
The contracting parties are among
the best known people of the COM
munity. the bride having been born
and raised within a few miles of
Sanborn while the groom has spent
the past eleven years of his life here,
being engaged in the mercantile
business all the while. By diIigent-
ly attending to his business interests
here Mr.. Peake has built up an enor-
nous trade and at present carries
the largest stock in the town in his
line.
Madelia Messenger: We often
hear of record catches of fish, but
we have never heard of a record for
catching rats to equal the following
made by Silver Hage this week. In
five successive nights, with single
wire cage trap he caught %, "a, 26,
10 and 6 rats respectively, making
grand total Of 113. The second
night the trap was so full that no
more could possibly get into it. Mr..
Hage has been troubled great deal
this winter by rats gnawing holes
through the floor of the feed bin in
his barn. One day last week he
took small wooden box and turned
it oyer hole in the floor, having
first bored hole in one end of the
box about the size of the one in the
floor. He then set the mouth of the
trap against this hole at the end of
the box on the outside. The rats
would come up into the box, find the
hole in the end and run right