The Redwood gazette., 1934-12-27

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duction Credit association.
Mrs. Milton Born, the former Miss
Evangeline Knudson of Redwood
Falls, and her husband narrowly es-
capped death during the floods which
took heavy toll of life in Califor-
MIA.
Torger Nelson of Worthington as
sumed the managership of the Gam
BILE store.
Aldermen w. L. Hardy and George
A. Patton were appointed by Mayor
H. D. Thorp to investigate the possib-
lie construction of an airport with
government money.
January 18, 1884
The high school basketball team
defeated Sleepy Eye 31-14.
Leon H. Brown was elected presi-
dent of the Ninth District Bar assic-
iation at the annual meeting in New
Ulm.
Miss Lillian Frederickson and Miss
Leona Schafer, employees at the
Mint cafe, were taken to the hospital
for treatment after. being affected by
fumes from a leak in the refrigera
ton plant at the cafe.
January rs, 1884
A federal relief office was set up at
Vesta to distribute feed to farmers in
nine townships which suffered from
drouth the previous summer.
Miss Helen Larson, 25 year old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Lar
son, died following long illness.
The high school cage team downed
New Ulm 21-17.
L. o. Alexander, ]. L. Parsons, E.
A. Johnson and Dr. C. L. Lynn escap-
ed injury when their car went into
the ditch and struck telephone pole
near Gibbon,
65 mayors and councilmen from
, throughout the county attended a
conference in Redwood Falls to dis
cuss the new state liquor law.
February l, 1884
More than 1000 persons attended
the Roosevelt birthday party.
CWA payrolls were reported at
$61 ,5S7.
1t was estimated that six and a
half percent of the residents of the
county were unemployed.
Cyril Smith and Douglas Stewart
were injured when their automobile
tipped over on the loose gravel south
west of town.
DIR. C. L. Lynn and w. E. Paffrath
were named to the Minnesota Valley
Area Boy Scout executive board.
Fire did considerable damage to
the Thomas F. Reed Sr. home near
Milroy.
Nearly 800 farmers whose last year
crops were affected by the drouth ap-
piled for government feed for their
livestock.
The mercury fell 60 degrees in II
hours to 10 below.
The Cardinal cagers defeated Tracy
Ellis.
February 8, 1884
The fire department purchased a
1922 model Cadillac truck with pro-
ceeds from the firemen's ball, to be
used as ladder truck.
The Lions club plea for more ade.
quate policing was rejected by the
city council.
The city council approved resol-
ution prohibiting slot machines, dice
boxes, punch boards and other gam
bling devices in the city.
Cardinals 80, Morton 10.
February Is, 1884
Bids were called for the new Red
wood bridge.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Neils Mckay observ-
ed 40 years of married life.
Harold Campbell, 13 year old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. R. M. Campbell, died
from an illness caused when he was
struck on the head by a kittenball.
Redwood county's oldest resident
Mrs. Margaret Leslie Of Delhi, 102
years old, was buried in the Redwood
Falls cemetery.
! Miss Mabel Waters and Homer
Hodges were married.
The Cardinals took New Ulm into
camp 1915.
/ About 75 Skelly Oil company EN-
ployees met in the Ramsey hotel.
February 70, 1884
j Sl.365, ,434.72 was estimated tx
have been poured into the county by
the government within a six months
period.
Indications pointed to an 80 to 81
per cent sign up of corn-hog con
tracts in the county.
i Funeral services were held fo
Gus f. Alberts and Henry Zorn.
The plan to restore the lake q
North Redwood with CWA labor wa
abandoned.