The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-06-09
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items Of Interest Taken from the
Country Papers.

Springfield took kaSOta, S ball team
into camp the first of last week,
scoring s to 0 the first game and 5
to 8 in the second.
The Ivanhoe Times sends out a
warning against blackleg. three diff
ferent farmers near there having
lost several cows in one day from
this dread disease, which is said to
be incurable.
Sanborn Sentinel: Prof. Faunce
of Hutchinson who is to succeed
Prof. Mitchell next year was in San
born last Saturday looking over the
field and making preparations for
next years work.
Winnebago City Enterprise: A
piece of poetry recently got two con-
victs out of the Kansas penitentiary.
We have seen some poetry" that
ought to get its author 90 years at
hard labor in a workhouse.
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Springfield Advance: Richards &
Strickland secured the contract for
judicial ditch in Redwood county.
The ditch will be one and half miles
in length and the firm expects to
begin work on the same about the
goth of this month.
Milroy Echo: Theo. Blake is au-
thority that there is quite a stir
among the residents of Underwood
township, especially those where the
new county or judicial ditch is pro-
posed. The township will be COM
PEELED to build many bridges should
the ditch be ordered constructed.
Morgan Messenger: John Poncin
of Sherman, who has been connect
ed with the office of town clerk for
several terms. was in town Friday
to get the safe which was purchased
by that township. John says he has
over $40. 900 worth Of papers to keep
track of and that he wants to have
them in "safe" keeping.
LeSueur News: The promoter
canning factory is thing Of the
past. So is the promoters creamery
1t is not the fault of either industries
that they have failed. There was
no room for them in the field where
established. 1t was poor business
judgment to build them. They
have flourished where the people
needed them and built them.
Rochester Post and Record: Mon.
day was the ninetieth anniversary
of the birth of DR.. w. w. Mayo
He was born in Manchester, Eng
land, May 81, 1919. His many
friends and admirers will congratu
late him on this event. DR.. Mayo.
in a way, celebrated his ninetietf
birthday by purchasing an automo
bile. He was the recipient of many
, floral gifts of remembrance.
Fairmont Sentinel: Peter Laurit
sen, who sold out in this county last
year and returned to Denmark, is or
his way back to Fairmont and will
henceforth be good and contented ir
America. Upon his return to the
land of his nativity he was siezed
and compelled to serve in the army
and subjected to other penalties fol-
having emigrated to America ir
his young manhood. He was so dis
gusted with the whole thing that a:
soon as he was free to do so he sole
the farm he had bought at a loss anl
left the country once more fol
, America.
A. A. Brooks, head miller in thu
Springfield Milling company plant
has just received a u. S. patent OF
a wheat steamer of his own inven
ton, and he has now applied for ;
Canadian patent, reports the Spring
field Advance. The steamer is /;
most useful article in mills, and thu
numerous millers who have inspect
ed it pronounce it the most perfec
yet invented. The steamer is so con
structed of brass as to cause tn,
flow of wheat to pass through it in {
, zig-zag manner, assuring every ker
mel of wheat to be of an even tenn
perature.
Candy News: Albert Bitzek at tn,
county poor farm might be called /;
horrible example of the demon O
r the bowl. AS noted in the News las