The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1910-10-18
Straw for sale. Apply to Frank

Straw for sale. Apply to Frank
Pratt. 10-4
Pictures are good so is the song.
Take in the Dream, bring your
friends along.
Mrs. Ehrstein and children are en-
joying a few days rest at the VIM
farm this week. Here is an oppor-
tunity for the good housewives of
Pastor Ehrstein's congregation if
he does not run away to Delhi.
! Leave orders for dressmaking at
Miss Abraham's millinery store. 1t
Rev. G. Albrecht and wife of Rem
vile made short call on Rev. A.
Schaller Of this city, while on their
way to New Ulm last Saturday.
They were called there by phone, as
their son Emmanuel, who is attend
ing the DIR. Martin Luther College
at that place, was taken i'll suddenly
with an attack Of appendicitis, and
will have to undergo an operation.
We are informed that Messrs.
Crimmins, Lyman. Logan and Peter
son, who went to Missouri last week
purchased nearly 1000 acres of land
there, the prices being no higher
than they were in Redwood county
rs years ago. But the buyers do
not claim that all Of this land is in
the same class as Redwood county
land.
Mrs. j. H. Bowers Of Spokane was
the guest of honor last week at sew
eral functions managed by members
of the ladies' club, of which she was
one of the original members. Mes
danes Hitchcock and A. E. King,
Mrs. Anna Ward and Miss Frances
Everett, Mesdames J. B. Robinson
and H. N. Bell, and Mrs. C. 7. How
ard were hostesses at the four sew
eral functions, which were friendly
rather than formal in their nature.
The recent report from the state
prison at Saltwater is not without
general interest. Of the 694 en-
rolled, IA are iIliterate and Fl read
only and cannot write, "a have high
school and IL college educations.
The largest number of prisoners are
between the ages of 80 and 40-257.
443, or nearly two-thirds of the in
mates are single men and 634--all
but 6O-are either moderate or. in
temperate drinkers, which shows the
elevating influence of the poor
mans club.
The Cottonwood Current intimates
that that vicinity will have the prob
lem of disposing of a slough full of
dead carp and other fin which have
been cut off from the lake by the
dry weather. There will be a great
many places where conditions will
be ripe for typhoid soon, owing to
the drying up of sloughs and lakes,
and Redwood Falls people may thank
their lucky stars if they escape alto
gether, notwithstanding their adj
vantages in site high and dry above
water level.
Wood Lake News: A number of
| the boys are having great fun now
catching carp in the mud at Sand
Lake. The lake has dried out until
there is only six inches of water in
Ii it, and the mud is about a foot and
half deep. Large schools of carp
may be seen pIoughing their way
through the slush and may be picked
up without much trouble, Christ
Klinckert picked up two grain sacks
full on Tuesday and distributed
them about town. Large pickerel
and bullheads are numerous also,
but are not so easy to catch.
Rev. and Mrs. j. j. Ehrstein and
Doctor and Mrs. Gibson showed
themselves splendid entertainers last
Friday evening, when hundred or
more young people, with leaven of
the older ones to share the good
time, united in the reception pro-
gram arranged by Rev. and Mrs.
Ehrstein at the DR.. Gibson home.
No attempt was made at speech
making. but there were few reel
tations and games in which all could
take hand. The party broke up
at quite late hour, and all we have
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