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 HISTORY OF GOODH1 E COUNTY 615 opposite, furnished with cots, when' all were taken and tenderly cared for by those who loved to dp unto others as they would be done by. The dead were properly interred and the epidemic spread no further. When the call came for aid to the sufferers by the great fire in Chicago, this city and immediate vicinity responded by send- ing one carload of flour, two carloads of potatoes and a cash collection of over $1,000. A few years later when a call came for aid from the citizens of our own state who had lost all their crops by the ravages of the grasshoppers, a similar response was cheerfully given by the peopel of this city. In this case the gifts were made at dif- ferent times and through different channels, and the aggregate cannot now be known. During the Civil War the charity of the people of Red Wing and Goodhue county became proverbial. In more modern times, collections have been taken for all the popular causes, and the Goodhue county response to all worthy calls has been most lib- eral. Flood, fire and cyclone unfortunates in various parts of this country, famine sufferers in India and Russia, earthquake victims in San Francisco, and various missionary efforts and church charities all have reason to thank the generosity of Good- hue county people, while the large-heartedness of many private citizens has relieved much individual distress not known to the community at large.