The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-09-01
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items of interest Taken from the
Country Papers.

The pesky fly now makes you
swear by crawling, crawling every
where. He wipes his feet upon the
bread and creeps about your hairless
head. In the milk he takes a bath
and then he Anglers Mary Jane by
speaking up the window pane; and
mamma yells and baby squirms, be-
cause he leaves those awful germs.
Get out the stick paper quick and
make him goshamighty sick.-Stol-
en-.
The Winnebago City Enterprise
says: Just at present there is
race on in Southern Minnesota that
is more interesting than anything
that Dan Patch and Minor Heir
could put up. We refer to the race
between King Corn and Jack Frost.
At present King Corn is in the lead
and pulling away nicely, driven
along by the suns rays at terrific
clip. Come on corn, we are all
with you.
Morton Enterprise: A workman
on the surfacing gang near Gibbon
was run over by q passing freight
train early Sunday morning. The
only motive that can be given is that
the man must have been intoxicated
and went to sleep on the track as
i the men had been paid off the day
before. The body was horribly mu-
tilated and not until they reached
Gibbon did the trainmen discover
that anything unusual had hap
pened.
Franklin Tribune: A threshing
engine belonging to the Tredbar
Bros. went thru the big dump on
Franklin Hill while pulling up the
grade Tuesday. 1t appeared that
the filling has gradually sieved
through break in the roof of the
culvert until only the crust on top
remained, consequently, when the
heavy machine pulled across it broke
through. 1t took considerable work
to hoist the heavy engine, as one of
the drivers was completely in the
hole; while the machine was almost
over on its side.
Lamberton Star: Michael Kuka,
section foreman at Wanda. met with
very painful injury at that place
last Saturday. While lifting load
ed shotgun from the hand car on
which he was riding, he took hold
Of the muzzle of the gun, when in
some manner the trigger caught and
the gun was discharged. The charge
of the shot tore off the flesh from
the front part of his forearm, max
ing large, ugly wound, and few
Of the stray shot grazed his side.
He can consider himself lucky that
he was not killed, DR.. Walker was
called and repaired the injury.
New York Tribune: Nervous peo-
pie will be interested in some advice
given by an eminent electrician as
to the safest position one can occu-
py during thunderstorm. "A per-
son reclining on a sofa or bed at a
distance from all walls of the room
could scarcely suffer injury" he
says, "even in a house struck by
lightning, but one lying on bed of
brass or iron, the head of which is
surmounted by an erection support
ing curtains, would have almost alb
solute security. Such a bedstead
forms the most complete lightning
protector which could we'll be de-
vised."
Granite Falls Journal: A sad ac-
cident befell Salmer, the twelve
year-old son of H. B. Hognestad, of
the town of Hazel Run. one day last
week. He slid down the side of the
stack with fork in his hand, and in
some manner fell with his face on
the fork, one tine of which entered
his right eye and passing upward
penetrated the brain. This caused
him to lose his reason somewhat, be-
ing unable to answer questions in an
intelligent manner, so DR.. Hacking
thought it best to take him to the
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