The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-01-20
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items of Interest Taken From the
Country Papers.

Items of Interest Taken From the
Country Papers.
Northwestern Hide & Fur Co..
Minneapolis pay II cents for hides
and high price for furs. Sell traps
cheap. 23-7t.
Granite Falls Journal: Appleton
people are now making arrange
ments to have a home telephone
company and cut out the Minnesota
Central. The company is certainly
up against it all along the line.
Fairfax Standard: On Monday
morning of this week Anton Altman
the pioneer butcher of Fairfax re-
tired, having sold the business to
Peter Altman and Joseph Winkler,
who will conduct the business und er
the firm name of Altman & Wink
Her.
Glencoe Enterprise: During 1908
the Glencoe Butter & Cheese Co.
received $3.50, 3O5 pounds of milk.
compared with 1891 ,O82 in 1907.
The number of pounds of butter fat
was 348, 1888 compared with 307. 1896
of the previous year. 419. 8493
pounds of butter were manufa
ured in 1908 against 1862, 6644 in 1907
and the company paid it's patrons
during the past twelve months $685.
988.67 for butter fat.
Because man duns you is no rea-
son why you should get angry, OBJ
serves an exchange. A dun is not
an impeachment nor reflection upon
integrity. but simply an outcropping
of the mans necessities. For in
: stance, a thousand men owe one man
from one to four dollars each. He
has to dun them all, and what a
, large sum it makes. Instead of
getting angry because the man asks
for his dues, the debtor should pay
him if he can.
: A stammering boy, after much
drilling, was able to say without
? tripping, peter Pickle Prandle
t picked three pecks of prickly pears, F"
2 but, when he was congratulated up
t on his success, he could not see
''h-how it c-could be used in COM
. common co-co-conversat!on." That
is the trouble with a good many of
the requirements Of girls and boys
while in school. Many of their &C.
; complishments, acquired with trou-
, BILE and expense are useless in the
common affairs of life.-Exchange.
Hutchinson Leader: | have an
t Irish acquaintance who | always sus-
: pected possessed a heart of pure
2 gold. Recently he did me a great
a kindness and in thanking him | re-
marked, Pm afraid | shall not have
a chance to do you a like favor. "
"Well my boy" he replied. "then
!, do someone else favor" This Irish
mans church is not my church for
l haven't any; his creed is not my
creed for | haven't any, but the re-
ligion which is his rule and guide
Of faith" is good enough for me and
if there were more of it in this
world. the worlds burden of trouble
would be lightened tremendously.
Glencoe Register: Paul F. Dehnel,
publisher, of the Renville County
Free Press. a weekly paper published
at Olivia, and late publisher of the
Chaska Review which "died'' with
| out expressions of regret on the
| part of the citizens of Chaska or
tributary territory, is now roaring
! CRATER" and ''grafters" at the
newspaper men of Renville county
and questioning the honor of the
board of county commissioners of
that county, because the latter in
the best interests Of the people of
that county let the official printing
to responsible newspaper publishers
at the regular legal rate, ignoring
| the bid of Dehnel to do the work
| for 40 per cent less. The people OF
| Renville county are to be congratu.
| lated that the county printing is il
| the hands of such men as Landy