The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-11-21
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items Of Interest Taken from the
Country Papers.

When Emanuel Jaeger, who was
janitor at the Lutheran church, fail
ed to ring the six o'clock bell Satur-
day night as was his usual custom,
Rev. G. H. KowaIske. pastor of the
church. felt that something was
amiss says the Stewart Tribune.
Having known that the old gentle
man had not been in the best of
health of late and thinking that he
might be ill. he made up basket Of
eatables as was custom of the pas
tors and went down to see what
the trouble was. He found the door
of the old mans shack east of the
hotel, fastened on the inside but
was unable to get any response to
repeated rapping on the door. Be-
coming alarmed he went back up
town and summoned Marshal Man.
gold and when the latter forced an
entrance through rear window he
found the old man stretched upon
the floor dead. and it was evident
that he had been dead for some
time. Hector Mirror.
Some three years ago Erick Erick-
son, near Rice Lake, five miles south
of Cokato, bought and moved his
large family into an old house in
which there had but shortly before
been death from tuberculosis. AS
if this was not exposing his family to
sufficient danger he bought of
neighbor in whose family there had
been a death from the disease, a
quantity of household goods includ-
ing bedding. AS the law which
makes effect follow cause could not
be suspended for the particular ben
eft and protection of Mr.. Erickson 5
family the thing to be expected sad
and hard to bear though it was
happened. Last spring one of his
children died cause, tuberculosis.
The reader would be glad to learn
that this is the end Of the story, but
it isn't. October 81 two more child
rem from the unhappy family. to
which ignorance beckoned disease
and death. were laid away at one
/ time. Cause, again. tuberculosis.
Here. surely. the story of suffering
and sorrow should come to an end,
but it may be marked to be con-
tinued," for all of the nine surviv-
ling members of the Erickson family
are found to be infected and two
show very plain symptoms of the
disease. Hutchinson Leader.
! John Garry ST., found freak OF
nature when he harvested his crop
of beans few days ago when he
found bean stalk which, for pro.
ductiveness, takes the cake. Unlike
the one that Jack" planted which
all went to stalk, the bean that Mr.
Garry planted devoted its energy tt
producing pods, and as result IA!
we'll developed pods containing 81
beans were harvested from this on
, lone stalk. Who can produce NOR
prolific stock? Cottonwood Curre,lt
After long siege of illness of t !
four children Of typhoid fever, t.
wife and mother. Mrs. Mary Pa j
/ son, succumbed last Thursday nigh
at IL p. M, to complication 0
pneumonia and erysipelas. TIL
daughter, Myrtle Beatrice, died fiji
teen hours later, on Friday. Al
gust, 10 years old, who has been sic
with typhoid for three months,
just convalescing; and the other tu
sons. Arthur Is years and Rueben
years, are still in bed with this trou
BILE. Mrs. Paulson was taken sic
three weeks ago. her illness no douh
being brot on by long hours of wor
at nursing her children. The ty
phcid infection has been traced t
the well. Willmar Tribune.
Gust. Schumacher, who resides o
North State street. holds the cor
husking record as far as is known j
Brown county. for he husked A
J bushels and some odd pounds 0