The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-11-10
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items of Interest Taken from the
Country Papers.

c.. B. Huschke. manager of the
GilflIan estate, reports the sale of
two more farms, in the Morgan Mes
senger. Chas. Lussenhop of Pax
ton and Adam Reiter each pur-
chased a 160-acre tract.
Vesta Censor: Since the news has
been circulated that the creamery
would start up in a few weeks, a
MINNEAPOLIS concern has been work
the country offering extraordinary
inducements to the farmers to ship
their cream to the big city 1t is
anything to down a new institution
starting up in new town.
Morgan Messenger: M. j. Whet-
son, one of the firm Of the North
Redwood Granite Works, was in
town Thursday and Friday. He
shipped in a carload of granite mon
uments which he erected for Julius
Honl. Aug. Gluth and Mrs. W. E.
Dittbenner. They were three very
large monuments weighing over
eight thousand pounds each.
Cottonwood Current: A farmer
living about mile west of Amiret
endeayored to burn off some stubble
Wednesday of this week but lost
control of the fire which soon devel-
oped into a raging prairie fire, burn
ing up 40 large stacks of hay and
timothy. Only by heroic effort on
the part of the citizens was the vii
lage of Amiret saved being consumed
by the flames. Everything is so dry
at present too great precaution can
not be taken when handling fire.
New Ulm Review: There were
1923 cars of range cattle shipped
from LeBeau, S. D., last week,
through this city to Chicago, over
the M. & St. L. and C. & N. w.
railroads; two trains of SO cars on
Monday, two trains on Wednesday
of Al cars, and two trains of A cars
on Thursday. Altogether 562 cars
of cattle have been shipped since
September from LIE Beau through
New Ulm. containing 11,240 head
of cattle, and there are yet about
100 carloads to be shipped through
here this season.
The Springfield Advance reports
the death of Redwood county pion-
eer, Mrs. Basel. The deceased has
made her home the past few years
with her son, Charles Basel, in Sun
down. She was born in Germany in
1920, being 80 years old at the time
of her death. In 1848 she was mar
ried to Andrew Basel and as a result
of this union five children were born
to them, three of whom survive her,
namely Charles and j. F. Basel and
Mrs. John Balfany, all residing in
Redwood county. They came to
America from the old country in
1861, and in 1873 they located on a
homestead in Redwood county near
Lamberton.
Granite Falls Journal: The sur
vey for new line for the Milwaukee
road on the hill leaves the old line
beyond Hawk Creek, passes north of
Minnesota Falls. Henry Thompson's
residence and crosses the deep ra-
vine at point where the old pest
house used to stand, quarter of a
mile north of the residence on the
Volstead farm. 1t is scarcely prob
able the line will ever run there
Should such thing happen nearly
all the freight from and for this
place would surely be shipped over
the Great Northern, as it would be
too much of a task for teams tt
climb the hill. But the facts are
several lines have been surveyed
and one is now being run to see il
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Granite Falls.
Fairfax Standard: The first victim
this season of the much dreaded
corn husker is Joe Hacker, an ole
and experienced thresher, who while
running his corn shredder on the
Frost farm Monday morning got his
left hand RULED in between the