The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-08-05
THE HARVEST IN
NORTH DAKOTA
Hot Weather Will Reduce the
Yield of Both Flax and
Small Grain.
0. b. Turrell Writes of Con-
tinuous Round of Gel
ebrations.

Ed. GAZETTE: My last trip to
Redwood Falls was cutie out of the
common. | was away from Ryder
about month, but in that time |
had a greater opportunity for recre-
alton, amusement and instruction
than usually happens to a Dakota
homesteader. At first | had the
benefit of the Chautauqua at Red
wood, which was instruction and
amusement of a high order. | am
hoping you people who had the
Chautauqua in charge will make an
effort to have the meeting every
year, and give the people.something
to look forward to and prepare to
enjoy. The attendance Indicated
that there was not general appre-
citation of what was going on and of
the treat the citizens were missing,
but suppose it takes time to get
folks into the Chautauqua habit.
| reached st. Paul just in time to
witness the Shriners' street parade.
With 5000 Shriners dressed in Orient
al customs, beautifully decorated
streets, music, vociferous cheering
from $4,000 to 100000 spectators
and full moon looking down over all,
the spectacle was superbly grand.
My next experience was at Max,
a junction point % miles from Ryder
where they had on a two days cele-
bration of the second anniversary of
the founding of the town. There
was a good program of sports, in
Guiding bronco busting, Indian
dances, base ball and dancing at
night. Finding the train was to be
held till midnight l stayed oyer to
find that the train was to be held
again with the result that | did not
reach Ryder until Saturday morn
ing.
Lots were sold at five towns on
consecutive days and the celebration
habit seems contagious. The people
here try to do something out of the
ordinary, which took the shape, this
year, of a roasted OK and fixings, all
free-everything free.
The Chautauqua, Shriners, two
days at Max and big day at Ryder
left me all done up and l was glad
to get out to the shack and rest up.
There were twelve men from Chica-
go on the train going to Minot to
run the kitchen of the Leland Hotel,
from whom | learned that help in
large hotels in these far away places
is furnished by agencies in Chica-
go in much the same way teachers
are secured through those who make
it business to supply them. There
was chef and the other help under
contract for "a months.
Another novel incident was
travelling man from Indiana shout
ing for Bryan, who said he was born
in Kentucky and lived there until
recently, and always voted the re-
publican ticket as did his father,
that this will be his first democratic
vote. Surely, l said, you must have
pretty strong reason to make you
change your party now, Che was So
can you tell what it is? He seemed
only too glad to get the chance to
explain. 1T is on account Of the
negro domination" he said, and
added that in Ohio, Indiana and Illi-
nois the white vote was democratic,
that take out the heavy colored
vote in the states named the election
would always be cornered by the
Democrats.
The yarn did not appeal to me as
probable. The story shows the great
repugnance the southerner has to
the idea Of a negro voting at all,
and especially the republican ticket
and on howthin pretext man some
times change their political faith