The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-08-13

Miss Florence Thune returned
Monday from a visit. win friends IN
St. Paul. ra .,r~
Mrs. w. A. Stenborg Of Minneapolis
is guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
H. A. Baldwin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grover Mansfeldt are
the parents of a daughter born We'd
nesday, August 9th.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Rehfeld OF
Vesta were guests at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Storts Sunday.
Miss Lucille Luscher went to Lake
Okoboji last week to attend house
party given by one of her girl fri
ends.
Mrs. H. A. Metcalf and her daugh-
ter Miss Edith Of Sask., Can are
guests of Mrs. Metcalfs sister, Mrs.
Ebb. Horn.
Mrs. VIM. Westphal went to Red
wood Falls on Sunday for a few days
visit with her mother, Mrs. James
Gibbon.-Franklin Tribune.
There will be an ice cream social
and home talent play at the New
Avon Methodist Church Friday eve
ming, August 18th. Everybody wei
come. sit
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Storts and Mr..
and Mrs. Leonard Stitz were Sunday
evening guests at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Herman Blankenhagen OF
Vesta.
A. D. McRae returned Sunday from
his cabin at Park Rapids. Mrs. Joerl.
and Miss Mollie Joern who were gu
ests of Mr.. and Mrs. McRae, returned
with him.
DR.. and Mrs. C. Cherry are enter
tanning DR.. Cherry's sister Mrs. Glare
Edwards and her daughter Ruth, who
are residents Of Dallas, Texas. The
guests arrived Saturday evening and
will be in Redwood Falls several
weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Parsons of Ell
bow Lake were guests from Thursday
until Saturday at the home of their
son B. J. Parsons. Mrs. Parsons, Jr.
and her son Glenn motored to Elbow
Lake with them Saturday, returning
Sunday.
Mrs. George p Wacek has spent
several weeks at the Redwood Falls
Hospital and recently underwent an
operation for appendicitis. DIR. Cole
and DR.. Finn performed the opera
tion.-Olivia Times. -
An announcement was received by
this office the fore part of the week
o--o,,n.;ro fho N, o,.ric oo of Pit h
Archer to Glenn MacTaggart on July
the Goth. Both young people were
formerly from this vicinity.-Lamber-
ton Light.
The Cooperative store at New
Ulm which went through receivership
proceedings will pay all its creditors
one hundred cents on the dollar and
interest. A one hundred per cent as
sessment on the stockholders is sup
plying the funds. j..
Mrs. A. F. .Seebeck left Monday
for Minneapolis for a visit of ter
days with her daughter and other
relatives. While there she will at
tend the fftieth wedding anniversary
of her brother Henry Soltau and his
wife. Her little granddaughter,
Lavon Dittbenner, who has been the
guest of her grandparents for sew
,ral weeks returned TO her home in
Minneapolis with Mrs. Seebeck.
ST. Mary's hall, the main building
of st. Mary's Episcopal school for
girls at Faribault, was destroyed by
fire Tuesday, after lightning he'd
ignited the roof of the structure.
For more than an hour the flames
gained Roadway unnoticed and, when
the fire department arrived insuffiCl
ent water pressure made efforts OF
little avail. Intense heat at the time
threatened the nearby campus struc-
lures. An accurate estimate of the
loss is not available, but there was
100000 insurance on the building.
The damage will exceed that figure.
A. NJ. Dennistoun, secretary of tle
Redwood County Farm Bureau reports
that thousand dollars is the am
cunt collected up to date by the Bu-
reau for the tornado victims. Re-
Spouse from all sections of the Coun-
ty has been generous with the ex-
ception of very few townships where
the solicitation has not yet been made.
Brookville made splendid showing,
it's one hundred twenty-four people
contributing $233.75. The biggest
contribution in this instance was SIX
dollars, this indicating that everyone
took some part in the donation, rather
than that few people paid the bulk
of it. Belview village was the first
to send in it's donation and Brookville
came in second. The largest single
contributor is C. o. Gilfillan who gaze
hundred dollars Immediately after
the storm. This gift, however, is not
credited by Mr.. Dennistoun in the
thousand dollars reported.
Monday night Fred Bluhm, resid-
ing six miles north Of Morgan, suffer
ed a heavy loss when both of his
barns burned to the ground. It is
believed that both barns were struck
by lightning at about the same time.
The electrical storm was severe in
that vicinity and many bolts. struck
nearby. AS soon as Mr.. Bluhm real
lied that the barn had been struck
he rushed out and found not one but
both buildings in flames. They were
a hundred feet apart and the fires
were not far enough along when first
noticed for one to have caught from
the other. Mr.. Bluhm was able to
recover only a little property as the
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