The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-04-15
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so YEARS AGO

The cooler SneltereQ one or
two cases of plain drunk the past
week. earl Peabody went in
training as herdboy on his faith
er's farm few days ago. M.
w. Clay, former Redwoodian,
was building a second brick block
at Hutchinson Mankato was to
have free postal delivery with
four letter carriers, one of them
mounted Thomas March moved
his shoeshop west of his old stand
to the shop formerly occupied by
Pitts Tenney.- The restaurant
formerly in the Ward brick build
ing was moved opposite the Sec
ond street meat market Jasper
Stegner had taken the H. Winter
daily newspaper agency in char
ge.- The Granite Falls council
vetoed wire fences within the viii
lage limit. Said the Gazette, "We
must prohibit the freedom of the
cow first and the fence will dis
appear of itself"- "Unless our
street sprinkler is started soon
there will be daily rise in real
estate in Redwood Falls that will
please nobody c. A. Francois
and wife arrived from trip to
California Leon H. Peters, for
merly of Redwood Falls and Lulu
A. Bell were married in Marietta,
Ohio Said the North Redwood
correspondent of the Gazette,
Saloon keepers in Redwood Falls
should be a little more sparing of
their nerve quieter or else Oop-
selaugh will enter a complaint
against them. Last Friday there
was more than one man who
came from Redwood Falls that
would not have been courted in
respectable society," John Whit
tet of Three Lakes was putting
on lots of style with a new buggy
purchased from Thompson and
Noon A small house owned by
L. Duvol, located across the river
near the ferry at Morton, burned.
Is YEARS AGO
Asa Wallace, state deputy fire
marshal, inspected the Redwood
Falls school building and found
little to criticise.- Billy Smith
who had the reputation of being
unusually considerate of farmers
fidgety teams met buggy driven
by feeble old lady while driving
through the country in his big
Cadillac. He got out of his car
and led the horse safely past the
auto. When he had finished the
old lady said, II thank you very
much for your kindness and con-
sideration, young man, but your
| act was entirely unnecessary as
my horse is stone blind The
domestic science department of
the high school was equipped
with electric stoves and ovens.
Miss White, the able domestic
science teacher, had charge of the
department. H. H. Peavey was
made mayor of Washburn, Wis
consin.- The Mite Society of the
Presbyterian church cleared SOC
on the presentation of "Union De-
pot" with 125 local people in the
cast Gus Alberts of Belview
was employed in the KumI1l
blacksmith shop here j. Albert
Johnson was thrown out of the
car but was not seriously hurt
when an automobile driven by
Cassius Hanks of Marshall bump
ed into telephone POLE Char
les Huntsberry who was the city
recorder as well as the proprietor
of the picture house was making
good with his boy Sunday Schoo
class, "The Upstreamers. = Mis-.
Lydia Hauptli, a teacher at Glenn
ents, visited at the Fred Nurse
home Ralph Tenney sustained
a painful injury when a piece Of
timber fell on him while he wa.
helping his father tear down the
old barn he recently purchased
from j. B. Robinson Mr.. ant
Mrs. Ralph Wetmore had new
son. This made another son fol
Redwood Falls butchers. Johr
Schmid had three boys, M. Hir.
mer had one and Fred Banker
had one The business men O
Redwood Falls were playing tn,
role of White Wing to keep tn,
downtown streets clean 180t
lives were lost when the Titanic
sank Oscar Mason was build
ing a fine cement garage at TIT
rear of his residence on Bridg'
street Miss Jessie Beer arrived
home from a trip to the south.
10 YEARS AGO
u. Arrangements for the Redwoot
J county achievement day were be