The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-01-19
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items Of interest Taken from the
Country Papers.

Country Papers.
1t is persistenely rumored that a
third bank will be established in Fair
fax in the near future. The Stand
ard understands that it will be a
National Bank and will be capital
lied by well known Fairfax capital
lists.
Seaforth Item: Mr.. and Mrs. A..
A. Hanna. after spending few,
weeks with the formers parents at
Burt, Iowa, came here on the early
Sunday morning train to visit with
w. A. Hauck and family for short
time. They drove from here to their
home atRedwood Falls on Monday
The Mascot announces that two
mercantile establishments of Mimi
Gotta have gone over to cash basis.
The ones making the announcement
are the Big Store and P. M. Berg.
More and more stores throughout
the country are annually making
the change from credit to cash
basis. Close students of the bust
ness matters tell us that this is
the system that all the country as
well as city merchants will come
to sooner or later and the sooner
they come to it the better it will be
for both merchant and customer.
Ivanhoe Times: H. A. Strom, a
special agent of the postoffice de-
partment, is now engaged in making
the rounds of the newspapers in this
vicinity, inspecting the subscription
lists and seeing that they are comply
ing with the rules which require
that they shall not allow subscribers
to be in arrears more than twelve
months. The newspapers designated
in general terms country" are
more or less inconvienced by this
step taken by the postal authorities
to rid the government of unjust ex-
pense. The country newspaper
manager is personally known to his
patrons and credit is therefore ex-
pected. This ruling Of postal de-
partment ismandatory, however, and
the publisher is obliged to do his
collecting promptly and without
hesitation. This is no move on the
part Of the publisher. but it is fore
ed upon him that he collect his sus-
cription promptly. If he does not
do SO he comes under the law.
Marshall Reporter: Mr.. Dibble
was taken with nervous breakdown
Sunday and for time was not ex-
pected to live, though he is now up
and around and recovering rapidly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rea were in st Paul
that evening and were called up by
phone and told Mr.. Dibble could not
live until morning. 1t was then too
late to catch the passenger train
to Marshall. so a special was chart
cred and left the St. Paul union
depot at eleven o'clock at night arriv-
ing here at four o'clock Monday
morning, to find Mr. Dipble getting
better and out of danger.
While the last Lyon county fair
was an unusually successful one the
troubles Of the association are not
solved, the Minneota Mascot report
| ing that in spite of this success
finances Of the association are not in
a particularly promising condition.
The secretary explained to the meet
ing Monday that the only assets of
the concern were so acres Of land on
which the fair grounds are located.
Valuing this at $3.50 per acre. which
/ il considered top price. the assets
would come to $4,000. The in
debtedness Of the association, in the
annual report of the secretary was
shown to be $12. 657.7O and then it
was explained that this did not i'm
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