The Redwood gazette., 1936-12-31

mercury clung below the zero
mark.
An entire half block of New
Ulm's business district was des-
troyed by fire with an estimated
loss of 100000.
Robert ]. Keefe was made head
of the new Forster Furniture
store at Fairmont and E. j. Ste
phany assumed management OF
the store here.
F. K. Gage of Fairfax was nam
ed chairman of committee to
fight dismemberment of the M
and st. L railroad.
Mrs. Anna Schottenbauer, early
county resident, died in Wabasso.
February 6, 1896
The weather was still making
banner headlines as January ended
with a record of 81 days of sub
zero weather.
D. w. Gold of Redwood Falls
was elected president of the Min
nesota Farm Managers association
at their st. Paul convention.
The Redwood Falls fire depart
ment was authorized to purchase
an auxiliary pump unit; j. Albert
johnson was named city assessor
and Joseph M. Corbett was selec-
ted fire marshal at meeting OF
the city council.
About $50 persons attended
President Roosevelt's birthday
ball here.
February 13, 1886
The county was isolated after a
severe snow storm which blocked
roads where drifts were piled 10
feet high.
John De Wild of the Minneapolis
Civic and Commerce club and AL
len MCGOWAN, secretary of the
Minnesota Editorial association
talked at the Civic and Commerce
club dinner where an athletic
field drive was planned.
William Housman, 43, Delhi
farmer, was killed when a tree he
was cutting down fell on him.
Faced with a deficit and over
draft in the poor fund, the county
commissioners voted to borrow
$85, 900 for relief. The relief board
office was moved to the library
basement.
Marriages included those of
John Apuli and Emily Frantz OF
st. Paul, Herbert Johanneck and
Myrtle Holt of Delhi, Bessie
Schoelkoph and Ernest Hogstad of
Franklin.
Torger Strand, SIS, died in May
nard and Lila ROLAND, IL, died at
Milroy.
February 20, 1886
E. A. Johnson was selected to
manage the New State Theatre at
Olivia, owned by d. w. Buckley.
Robert Kedioski, farmer living
between Vesta and Milroy was
found dead in a truck stalled on a
drifted road. Death was due to
exposure.
Redwood county residents and
Twin Cities sportsmen contribut-
ed generously to a fund to save
pheasants dying by the hundreds
in the unusually bitter weather.
The Appleton property case
which attracted statewide interest
and brought several state officials
here went into the hands of Judge
Albert H. Emerson.
Gordon Alexander was award
ed the appointment to West Point
from the seventh district when he
topped class Of so in the exam
ination.
February "a, 1886
Mrs. Regina Shoemaker, mother
Of ex-congressman Francis Shoe
maker was buried here. Other
deaths were those of Frank Carl
son of Walnut Grove, Mrs. j. F.
Bunting of Delhi and Gustaf Lar
son, former resident. Henry Al
termatt, As, who was found dead
in a haystack at Vesta, died of
cerebral hemorrhage, coroner DR..
j. Gordon Cole said.
CAROLS CORES and Otto Brau
were married at Wanda.
Rev. w. Henry Westby was ex-
hibiting bible 164 years old
which he obtained from Miss
Luella Turrell.
Robert Paffrath was made an
Eagle Scout.
March 5, 1886
Fire which originated in the
Theodore Hensch mercantile store
at Sanborn threatened an entire
business block and caused loss
of $4,000. In fire at Tracy,