The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-05-26
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items of Interest Taken from the
Country Papers.


Fairmont Sentinel: The editor of
Westbrook Sentinel is in trouble
knee deep. Newton Lord and Jennie
Helper got married, and the editor
used the hyphenated heading, Lord
Helper" in his write-up of the
event.
At the annual meeting of the
Sleepy Eye Rural Co., the monthly
toll rate was raised from 81 to SIPS
and the sum of S1O31.5O was appor-
toned among the stockholders in the
shape of dividends. The company'sre-
ceipts for the fiscal year were So, 120
and its operating expenses 81 ,572 IA.
The value of the system is placed at
s2O,298.56.
Mapleton ENTERPRISE: Patrons of
the cooperative creamery can learn
lesson from the remarks of Patrick
HoWley. of Beauford, as chronicled
in our Beauford correspondence this
week. While Mr.. Howley secured
80 cents a pound for butter fat, his
brother in Kansas, where the CO.
operative creamery has been driven
out, secured but Is cents.
The 2-year old son of F. w. Zimms
was drowned in the mill pond at
Marshall, Saturday afternoon, May
18th. About 4 o'clock the boys
mother saw him playing on the
porch and shortly after when she
tried to find him she could not.
Early Sunday morning the mill dam
was stopped and the water lowered
a foot. For half mile men dragged
the bottom and found the body. It
had lodged half a mile below where
the boy fell in. The father was at
Wabasso, but came home Sunday.
A Sioux Indian by the name of
Thomas Quinn, whose home is at
Sisseton, S. D., was shot and killed
at Granite Falls on the 18th inst,
by William O'Connor of Sacred
Heart. Quinn was visiting relatives
and was fishing on the river bank
opposite from O'Connor when the
latter commenced firing into the
river with revolver, notwithstand-
ing the bank on both sides was lined
with people fishing. A bullet from
his gun passed through Quinn's
heart, killing him instantly. Quinn
was wealthy Indian farmer.
Vesta Censor: Rev. Mcmillan
arrived in Vesta last Saturday and
delivered an excellent sermon at the
Presbyterian church Sunday morn
ing. He is very pleasant gentle
man to meet and from comments
heard during the week, he will have
a crowded house at his next Sunday
service. Parties at Clara City
were phoning to Vesta Monday for
the address of Mrs. S. S. Byram,
stating that her father was not ex-
pected to live. Mrs. Byram recent
ly moved to Watertown, but seems
her folks did not know her address.
Fourteen million bushels of onions
were raised in the United States last
year and so great was demand that
fourteen hundred thousand bushels
more were imported from Spain,
Egypt, Bermuda and the South Sea
Islands, writes one who is interested.
The value of Americas crop was
$4,000, 900, and the department of
agriculture believes that of 1909
should be worth twice as much. 1t
has just issued bulletin on the sub
ject as a gentle reminder to the av-
erage farmer and truck grower that
they are overlooking the onion-as
if any one could do such thing.
Window Citizen: Frank Clague
and Albert Emerson, both lawyers
of Lamberton, were in Window on
business Monday. In commenting
on the past legislature the former
referred to the tonnage tax and
said that there is no question
about the constitutionality of the
bill. Ed. Young spent weeks get
ting it in shape, and even T. D.
O'Brien advised the governor that
it was constitutional. He pooh