The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-07-21
ABOUND TIE COUNTY.
Items c! Interest Taken from the
Country par2rs.

her sister, Maud, singing in the
Lyric theatre Monday night. She
returned to her home Tuesday after
noon.
The country has gone auto crazy,
states an eastern exchange. The
big factories are working over time
and still are months behind in their
orders. A person who tries to buy
machine and gets one this year
may consider himself lucky.
Carrie Nation passed through
Mankato en- route to Brle Earth. go
ing across the country in an automo-
bile at the cost of fifteen dollars-a
means of conveyance resorted to in
order to meet her Chautauqua en-
gagements. she did not attempt
any stunts there.
Of the seventeen largest cities of
the country, St. Paul shows the
smallest number of deaths by vio-
lence, the ratio being 500 per 1OO,-
900, and Minneapolis and Milwaukee
come next with a ratio of 69.8. Then
respectively come Detroit, Balti-
more, Chicago, St. Louis, Philadel-
phia, Washington, Greater New
York, San Francisco, Cincinnati,
Boston, Buffalo, Kansas City, New
Orleans and Pittsburgh.
Morgan Messenger: Mr.. and
Mrs. E H. Albrecht returned Sun
day from a two weeks sojonrn at
the Seattle exposition and other
points on the coast. They both re-
port most pleasant trip. 1t made
Mr.. Albrecht rejoice, however, to
get back to Redwood county and
see her great prospects for bumper
crop. He states that this vicinity
has the most promising outlook of
any section he passed through on
his journey to the coast.
There were 43,O18 births in Min
nesota during 1908, which is doing
pretty we'll for a state with just
little over 100000 population. The
births during 1907 were only 1927,
but the officials of the state board
of health. who have just completed
the figures, believe that all the
births were not reported in 1907 and
previous years and that in 1908 the
reports were practically complete.
The deaths Of 1908 were less than
half the births. or 20,715.
Madison Independent: From the
appearance of the fields along the
track of the Minneapolis & St. Louis
railroad in South Dakota one would
conclude that the principal crop of
that section of the state traversed
by the road is mustard. There is
mustard everywhere and the refec-
ton of it casts a golden glow
throughout the passenger coaches
as the train speeds through the
country. In plain English those
mustard fields are a monument to
the laziness of the people who own
them and are not likely to encour-
age thrifty farmers to invest in
South Dakota lands.
''It is beyond comprehension to
me that Mrs. Ledbeter and her sis
ter can be guilty Of the brutal and
ghoulish crime they are charged
with" writes P. T. Mullin in the
Hutchinson Independent. Il knew
them we'll when they were girls on
nearby farm when | lived down in
Blue Earth county. They were
bright, nice girls in every way.
There has been nothing in their lives
since to harden them to the COM
mission Of one of the most awful
deeds on record. If they are guilty
their case presents phase of human
nature which cannot be explained
and one can suppose that he himself
or anyone he knows might be
brought to commit some crime
equally revolving"
Milroy Echo: William Duncan
and the editor were in Gales Monday
evening and while out in that Sec
ton called on Mr.. and Mrs. S. S..
Gale. We found Mr.. Gale feeling
much better than for some time
past and he informed US that during
the forenoon he was able to walk
about mile. His friends will be
glad to note his recovery from a
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