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

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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., Cam are
guests of Mrs. Metcalf's sister, Mrs.
Ebb Horn.
Mrs. VIM. Westphal went to Red
wood Falls on Sunday for 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. Joerls
and Miss Mollie Joern who were gu
-ests of Mr.. and Mrs. McRae, returned
with him.
DR.. and Mrs. C. Cherry are enter
tanning DIR. Cherry's sister Mrs. Clare
Edwards and her daughter Ruth, who
are residents of Dallas, Texas. The
guests arrived Saturday evening and
will be in Redwood Falls severa.
weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Parsons of FL
bow Lake were guests from Thursday
until Saturday at the home of their
son B. j. Parsons. Mrs. Parsons, Jf.
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. DR.. Cole
and DR.. Finn performed the opera
tion.-Olivia Times =
An announcement was received by
this office the fore part of the week
announcing the marriage of Ruth
Archer to Glenn MacTaggart on July
the 26th. 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. ~.
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 fiftieth 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
aral 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 had
ignited the roof of the structure.
For more than an hour the flames
gained Roadway unnoticed and, when
the fire department arrived insufficI
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. M. Dennistoun, secretary of the
Redwood County Farm Bureau reports
that a 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,
its 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 its 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. 1t 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
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
flames made such Roadway. Twenty
pigs and one brood SOW and calf
were burned, also three sets of har-
nocc O. x,om food mill Slad hy1poy