The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-02-16
City and County
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spending tnlS week With her 1aCnef,
L. P. Larson returned Friday from
a stay in the Twin Cities on business.
w. A. Hemler returned Monday
from short business stay in Mime
apolis.
Clarence Sehmid last week purchas-
ed Chevrolet coach from the Stems
vad Garage.
O. A. Stensvad spent Monday in
Minneapolis in the transaction of
business matters.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Daskam of
Lucan were Friday evening guests at
the w. G. Weldon home.
Senter Baldwin of Shakopee was
the guest Of his mother, Mrs. Mary
Baldwin over the weekend
j. Farrell left Sunday for Mime
apolis to attend the State Hardware
Mems convention held this week.
The County Board of Commission
ers will meet Thursday in the Com
missioners Room at the Court House.
G. G. Mellgren of Reading, Mimi,
has purchased the Mercer Hardware
at Milroy and has already taken pos
session.
j. L. Knapp returned Saturday from
a two weeks business stay in Georgia
in the interest of the Straus Bros.
Land Co.
John Stewig returned Friday from
Rochester where he went last week to
receive medical treatment at the
Mayo hospital.
]. X. Lamberton attended the Auto
Show in Minneapolis last week and
was also present for the meeting of
Nash and Dodge dealers.
Paul Gold of st. Paul spent Friday
in Redwood Falls with his sister, Mrs.
John Lipscum, who is visiting at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Rosner.
Mrs. Bess M. Wilson will go to
Minneapolis today to attend the Char
ter Day program at the University of
Minnesota. Friday she will attend
the State Editorial convention in St.
Paul and return home Saturday.
Friends of H. N. Bell offered their
congratulations to him Monday when
he attained the age of eighty years.
Mr.. Bell has for many years been one
of the prominent and much-loved resi-
dents of this community and the good
wishes extended him on this occasion
were many and sincere.
George Erwin of Marshall whose
appeal was denied by the Supreme
Court Friday of last week, was taken
to the state prison at Saltwater We'd
nesday after being convicted in Lyon
County court for selling liquor to a
minor.-News-M Messenger.
An Armenian shoemaker. named
Manghigian, who as executioner in
the Russian armies had decapitated
364 condemned victims, rounded out
his gruesome record in Paris the other
day by severing his wife's head from
her body with one deft swing of his
sword. Now it is possible that the
gullotine will end Mankhigian's bloody
career with a taste of his own sharp
medicine
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Collins left Mon
day evening for st. Paul where Mr.
Collins will ttend the meeting of
Northwest Retail Dry Goods as
sociations at the Ryan Hotel from
Tuesday until Thursday. Mr.. Col
Inns who is the manager of the
shoe department at the f. W.. Phil
brick & Son store will at this time
purchase the spring stock for his de-
partment.
Frank Muzik, aged 81 years, COM
mitted suicide Saturday of last week
between Silver Lake and Hutchinson.
He placed the barrel of shotgun in
his mouth and tripped the trigger with
lath, blowing out his brains. No
cause can be given for the rash act
which evidently has been deliberately
planned. He was prosperous, wealthy
and unmarried. His S5-year-old moth
err lived with him, who kept house and
at times labored hard in the fields.
He hired a man three weeks ago and
took unusual pains in showing him
just what to do. The reason for this,
he told the man, was because he ex-
pected to leave soon on a long trip.
Three Rat determination demon
strations will be held in Redwood
County Thursday, February 18th. The
first of these will be held at the B.
p. Kelly farm west of Redwood Falls
at nine o'clock. The second one is
held at the Hans Knudson farm at
Morgan at one o'clock and at four
o'clock the demonstration will be CIV
en- on the L. G. Bredvold place at
Sanborn. Working with the County
Agent Lynn Sheldon in these demon
strations will be DR.. Johnson of the
Zoology department of the University
of Minnesota. The two men will at
tend meeting of the Shutdown Farm
Bureau Unit to be held at Shutdown
Thursday evening.
The congregations of the New Avon
Methodist church and the Methodist
Church of Redwood Falls united in an
all day meeting at the local church
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