The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-04-04
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items of Interest Taken from the
Country Papers.

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day and Sunday, where she visited
her sister, who has charge of the
suit department in the Gales &
Schildknecht large dry goods store.
Marshall Reporter: Levi Ketchum
who attempted to shoot his eldest
son last Friday night. hung himself
IN the county Jail here yesterday
morning, evidently fearing a too
protracted dry spell away from his
beloved booze.
Franklin Tribune: Mr.. and Mrs.
John Casey and little babe arrived
in Franklin Monday from Woodbine,
Iowa. They will visit relatives here
for short time, after which they
will go to Redwood Falls where they
will reside in the future.
Tony Lou, former Tracy boy,
was shot by a tramp while on his
run as engineer out west near Port
land, Oregon, says the Marshall Re-
porter. Tony ordered the tramp off
the tank, where he was trying to
beat ride and was shot dead in his
tracks.
A Spearfsh, S. D.. Methodist min
lister, strong for prohibition, but de-
string to be fair. offers his pulpit
any Sunday evening to any Spearfsh
saloon keeper that wants to present
his side of the case. Guess the JOY
palace man would feel as odd in the
pulpit as the minister would mixing
gin sings behind the bar.
/ Mankato Daily Free Press: The
household goods belonging to James
L. McCleary were today moved
from the front rooms on the second
floor of the James H. Spencer build
ing and stored in a small room in
the rear. Negotiations to have Mr..
McCleary move out of the rooms
failed and he was given a certain
time to get out, and this expired to-
day, and Chief Pond and some as
sistants moved the goods.
New Ulm Review: Miss Mary
Hess, daughter of Supt. Hess, and a
graduate of the Hamline university
this spring has been elected by the
board of education Of Springfield as
assistant high school principal for
the coming term !. Geo. Book,
former county surveyor, and wife,
who about a month ago left for Cal
ifornia to look up a location with
the view Of purchasing orchard land /,
returned recently. Mr.. Book is
afflicted with rheumatism and pre-
fers living in better climate He
will sell his farm in New Sweden
township, Nicollet county.
Sanborn Sentinel: The Fountain
medicine troupe in its special car
side tracked here last Thursday and
showed three nights. The troupe
left Monday morning for Morgan
much to the relief of the Sanborn
people. The long haired boss very
kindly "bawled out" the town from
the stage every night during his
stay here because the people would
not buy his dope" Sanborn peo
pie have had experience with such
fakirs before and don't need old DIR.
Fountain to tell them what to buy
and what to take. And the show
phew-it was the rottenest thing
that has ever hit the town.
Col. Roosevelt hit the proper
chord when he said recently: There
is altogether too much tendency to
pay more attention to Furnishing
than to awarding public service, al
together too mich tendency to omit
entirely the sum of a good mans
qualities and think only of his mis-
takes or shortcomings; a tendency
which inevitably results in pushing
! forward weak nonenities simply be-
cause the nonenity rarely does any
thing either good or bad. while the
strong man, however good, is sure,
if he has had long career of sue
cessful achievements to have his
record of good deeds intersperseG
with occasional failures and mis-
takes"
Marshall Reporter: At the cleo
tons last week. Tyler. Lake Benton
Wood Lake and Russell voted in sa-