The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-12-01

the work of a corn picker on the
farm of G. S. Gilmore in Stately. |
All were convinced. says the Comfrey
Times, that the machine does all
that is claimed for it. Actual work
in the field has demonstrated beyond
a doubt that they are practical |
success, and can be relied upon. 1t
has taken many years Of experiment
and continual improvement to bring
the corn picker up to its present
state of perfection.
Sleepy Eye Herald: Chas. Robert
son, civil engineer on County Ditch
No. 16. was at New Ulm Monday to
be present at the meeting on the
opening of the bids for letting the
contract of this ditch. Three bids
we're submitted and Chas. Newdall
of Lamberton was awarded the con-
tract, his price being S22, 1860. The
ditch is to be nearly all tile, and will
go as deep as IA feet in many places.
Thing ranging from 8 inches to "a
inches are called for in the specif-
cations.
Springfield Advance: The Board
Of Education has secured Professor
Dietrich LANCE to give his illustrated
lecture on birds and animals in the
high school assembly room on Satur-
day, December 4th. Professor
LANCE is an author Of several books
and a recognized authority on birds
and animals and his lecture is GER
tain to be both instructive and en-
pertaining. In the afternoon he will
speak to the children and in the
evening to adults. Prof. LANCE used
to live in Springfield and some of
the early settlers will undoubtedly
remember him as a boy. At pres
ent he is principal of one of the St.
Paul high schools.
Marshall News-Messenger: News
Messenger readers who are not ia
miliar with the dairy interests of the
state may be surprised to know that
there are enough creameries in the
state to average ten for each of the
eighty-five counties, that last year
they made over ninety million pounds
of butter and paid to their patrons
for milk and cream over twenty
million dollars. In this product is
represented only little over half of
the estimated million cows in the
state, and it may be concluded that
the dairy butter made would ad
fifty per cent to the creamery fig
ures in the total butter product of
the bread and butter state"
st. Peter Tribune: The late Thos.
Montgomery, for many years an
honored resident of this city and
known throughout the state in Ma
sonic circles on account of his service
to the fraternity as grand secretary,
was paid handsome tribute by his
home lodge, at Hamline, last Friday
night, when the lodge formally un-
yelled life-sized portrait of the
former grand secretary. A sketch
of the Life of Thomas Montgomery
was given by Charles N. Akers, and
{ addresses were made by ex-Lieuten-
ant Governor G. S. Ives, ex-Supreme
Judge W. L. Collins and other mem
5 bers of the fraternity, after which a
Z banquet was spread.
Sleepy Eye Herald: The county
commissioners were all here Tues
day and made an investigation of
the work Of the Brown and Redwood
Judicial ditch which was completed
by the contractors. They drove
from one end Of it to the other and
Y after seeing the water which was
: flowing from Horseshoe Lake in
} Redwood county down into Sleepy
/, Eye creek south of Sleepy Eye, pro-
f nounced the work satisfactory with
: the exception of little excavatine
! to be done west of town. The ditch
: is from 20 to 40 feet wide and from
4 six to II feet deep giving a regular
: fall for nearly 10 miles. County
!. Commissioner Knudsen says the
t ditch is a good one.