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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-12-27
FREIGHT TRAIN LOSES
THREE CARS AT CROSSING

During the snow storm Thurs
day night three cars, consisting
Of 9 box cars, filled with mer-
chandise, an empty stock car
and gondola, loaded with rail
way ties, were piled up in a heap
at the Center street crossing
of the Northwestern railway
main track. Traffic was tied up
for several hours, while the
wreckage was being cleared
away. The accident, which oc-
Cured about $50 in the even
ing was caused by a mistake in
signals.
The cars belonged to a west
bound freight train, which
stopped here to switch in a car.
A local switching engine was
used in pushing it up the hill
west of town, and had been cou-
pied on the rear end train, while
the regular crew was switching
at the front end. The forward
brakeman gave the signal to the
engineer on the head locomotive
to go ahead, which was taken
by the rear-end crew for them
to proceed, which was done, with
disastrous results.-New Ulm
Review.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-12-27
THE REDWOOD GAZETTE, REDWOOD FALLS, MINNESOTA
Farmers Dedicate
Big Packing Plant

Faribault, Mimi, Dec. 49,
Faribault witnessed the dedica-
ton today of the biggest CO.
operative enterprise in Southern
Minnesota, when approximately
1000 stockholders, mostly farm
ers, formally viewed the recent
ly organized Faribault Packing
& Provision company's plant and
were dined at noon in the cool
err building.
Representing approximately
SO per cent Of the stockholders
and holding more than SO per
cent Of the stock, the farmers
invaded the city early in the
day aboard special and regular
trains.
C. w. Glotfelter Of Watervil-
lie, regent of the University of
Minnesota and vice president of
the packing and provision COM
pany, presided at the dinner and
meeting of stockholders and an
nounced the plant will be ready
to receive hogs and cattle on
January 2.
No formal program had beel
arranged, but a notable list Of
speakers were present. Among
those who planned to be here be-
fore the conclusion of the in
formal gathering late today were
Governor J. A. A. Burnquist,
Secretary of State J. A. Schmahl,
Lieutenant Governor elect
Frankson, State Auditor Preus,
Fred D. Sherman, state commits
sioner of immigration, Dean A.
F. Woods of the state college Of
agriculture, J. J. Farrell, state
dairy and food commissioner,
Prof. C. P. Bull, state agronom-
list, Prof. Gray, bureau Of ami
MAJ husbandry, Clifford Willis,
editor of the Northwest Farm
stead, Dan Wallace, editor of the
Farmer, and Hugh J. Hughes,
editor of Farm, Stock & Home.
Cost 100000
The cooperative company has
a capital stock Of 100000, and
it's plant was constructed at a
cost of 100000, with a capa-
city Of 1000 hogs a day. M. E.
Brooks, formerly with Swift &
Company, later general manag-
er of the HORNED plant at Aus
tin, and originator of some of
the famous cures of the coun--
try, is the general manager of
the new concern, and has
brought many Of his foreman
with him.
The company is organized I'M
der the laws Of Minnesota and
is the first real farmers pack
ing plant in the state. It's Off
GERS are: President, Alison Bod
gett, Jr.; vice president, Charles
w. GIotfeller; secretary and
treasurer, w. T. Mollison.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-12-27

out the face of Liberty, the ar
fist has sunk the diverse side
Of the coin bowlwise and the in.
dentation at the edge is deep,
though graceful. The concave,
surface gives play to lights and
shadows while the dime is new.
Hold it one way and Miss T.ib-.
erty, darkly beautiful, sw:
a silver sea. Hold it a
way and her face shines ]
ly from the surace of
owed pool.
The wear of the coin w
be on the cheek of Liberty II
was in the old design, but On tM
edge Of her cap, which is more.
like a motoring helmet than the
former fashion in the beaddress-
es for this important lady. The
cap covers her ears, and the
wings on it suggest that she j
in sympathy with the moder
pace.
She is fine looking girl; not
the cold Roman lady of the pre-
vious coinage, but person who
might hav e come from Vassar.
Her neck is more slender than
that of the old girl and her chin
is fine and strong, but not thick.
It is easy to see where her n I
departs from her brow. It is
nice little nose. The mouth is
small and human, without the
grim lips Of other Liberties.
The secret of this new Lib
erty's beauty is youth. She
seems to be p, whereas the eld-
er Liberties appeared to be at
least 80 and conscious of their
age.-New York Sun.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-12-27
AN. INNALIyS REQUEST.

When l am i'll and sore beset.
With all the aches that flesh
is heir to,
When | must lie in bed and fret.
And swallow dose l do not
care to.
When on the table standing near
Are powders, capsules, pills
in DOZENS.
| have no great desire to hear
Of something that relieved
your cousins.
When as you sit beside my bed
A violet coughing fit attacks
me-,
And my pale cheeks turn fiery
red.
And you behold how sore it
racks me-.
In silence let me cough it out.
In silence even let me smother,
That's preferable beyond
doubt,
To being told what cured y"
brother:
If you can tell with just a 81
(For al my symptoms =
show IT'D
That my disease
aunts,
Just pass i,
know it.
Just bear in miilu, |
hope
By passing up my daily ration
To swallow all the kinds of dopt
That cured your friend !
their relations.
Edgar A. Guest.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-12-27
TRYING TO BEAT
THE BLOCKADE

outchouc that had tried to make
its way to Germany in the let
ter mail; that tube of red lit
barge, many tons of the valu-
able oxide of lead; that pair of
stout shoes, many thousand ca
ses, and so on. One of the most
arresting displays is a loft. long
roll containing a single cowhide,
the wrapping still bearing some
thing over 40 dollars worth of
American stamps.
This hide, with other articles
such as boots, beltings, and bars
of various metals, were evident
ly sent quite openly in the hope
that the fact that they were
consigned to the letter post
would carry them through in
any event. Other things-espe-
cially since it became known
abroad that the British were
searching the frst-c.ass mail
bags-displayed the greatest in
genuity in the manner in which
they had been disguised or con-
cealed. One Of the cleverest
things was a "honeycomb" made
of pressed sheets Of thin yellow
rubber, filled with "honey" of
rubber dissolved in benzine.-
Popular Mechanics.
Tru O,,r wont ode fo~ ~oo,,1+.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-12-27

It was early in the present
ear that a search of the bag
age of German lady who was
pnked to sail from New York to
Rotterdam by a Dutch liner re-
vealed the astonishing fact that
three of her Is trunks were
filed with sole leather and the
remaining l2-of an aggregate
weight Of over a ton-with
hunks Of crude Para rubber. In
her stateroom were found suit
case full of dental rubber and a
box of honey jars filled with
rubber solution. To cap the eli
max, several hundred yards of
pUre-rubber surgeons bandage
weighing close to fifty pounds
-swathed her body from hips
to shoulders. She was led into
the searching room a stout wad-
ding Fraeulein of apparently
200 pounds, her ample figure
fairly bursting the hooks and
seams Of her fashionable trav-
cling suit; she came out five
minutes later a scraWny dame
Of $50, laundering in the folds
Of the same suit like a contest
ant in a sack race.
! told this story to an official
of the British postal censorship
in the course of a recent visit |
paid his remarkable establish
ment through the courtesy of
the war Office.
Very WE'LL" he laughed; 'you
have seen what the Germans
have tried to do with the fe-
males IN order to get the rub
Der and other things of which
they are short. Now you shall
see what they have tried to do
with the mails. | will show you
practically every article, from
imitation pearls and brass jew
cry to bags of rice and rolls of
tanned cowhides, that you might
expect to find in modern Ger
man industrial exposition; in
deed, | am able to show you a
few things that have heretofore
not been displayed in any kind
of an exposition, such as, for
instance, models of little steel
hooks to be mixed with oats and
fed to horses"
The British censor's emu
scum" is really sample room,
and fully to appreciate what it
means one has to consider how
each of the several thousand
different articles exhibited there
are multiplied many thousand
times in value or weight by sim
liar things stored away in great
warehouses. That black chunk
of Para rubber represents the
many tons of the valuable ca
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1916-12-27
THE NEW DIME.

One impression conveyed by
the new dime, fresh from the
haunt Of the money devil, is that
of a picture in a shadow box.
In order that he might bring
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-09
GOVERNMENT MAY
SPRING OIL SENSATION

Washington, May 9.-As result
of special investigations which it is
known are taking place daily in Chi
cago and other large cities of the
Middle West, the government, if ru-
mors materialize into facts, will
spring another oil sensation upon the
business world before the close of
the summer. The simultaneous rose
of the price of gasoline throughout
the country recently, is what seems
to have aroused the suspicious of the
department of justice, with the re-
suit that investigations have been
quietly started. If 1t can be proved
that the increased was due to an il
legal combination the Standard iOl
Company no doubt will be fined
heavily. Uncle Sans sleuths say
that while the European consump-
tion of American gasoline has in
creased materially since the begin
ming Of the mar, this demand can be
met by increased production from
undeveloped fields. and should not
be allowed to create scarcity and
high prices to American consumers
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-09
GERMANS VIOLENTLY
BOMbARD HILL 3O4,
But REPULSED,
hYHEUzEHMs "t k..s- :,
RVIVJtJnlIIIvU EUA ~
French REPORTS
(By Associated Press. }

Paris, May 9.-After a violent
bombardment of French positions on
Hill 304, the Germans attempted to
advance at o'clock this morning.
The war Office says they were re-
pulsed. The French counter attack
east of the Meuse drove the Germans
out of some parts of the trenches
they had taken west of Thiasumont
There was intense German bonn
bardment in the Elk and Chatiles
sectors and between Douamont and
Vaux. Grenade fighting occurred at
Apremont and in the yFecht valley,
south of Autreches. Near Scissors,
the German attack was repulsed. At
Solante in Argonne the French cap
tured two small German posts, kill
ing the occupants. No important de-
velopments elsewhere.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-09
FRANCE HAS OLD
METHODS OF FARMING

Paris, May S.-Superannuated
methods of farming, M. Charles
Nordmann says in the Revue des
Deux Mondes, are largely RESPONSE
BILE for the fact that France has not,
In spite of war difficulties, kept its
production of cereals up to the nor
NAL. The prejudices that existed
against the substitution of the ma
chine for the muscles of man, he
contends, must absolutely disappear
with the accentuation by the war of
the dearth of farm help.
"All the land of France must be
cultivated" he says, "and means
must be adopted and put into use for
its cultivation now. because of the
number of men who have had to
dop the plough for the rife and be-
cause of the number who will never
come back to take 1t up again"
"Motorculture." as it is called in
France, with steam plows or gaso-
line motors and similar improved
agricultural implements, M. Nord-
mann points out, is the only means
of supplying the deficiencies of farm
labor. He advocates the creation in
France of farm implement manu-
featuring industry, holding that the
United States, which is the only
country now able to furnish these
machines, manufactures types the
majority of which are unsuited for
the cultivation of French land.
Competitive trials of motor farm
machinery that were organized by
the minister of agriculture last year
are to be followed by public trials
at Gournay-surlarne this spring.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-09
WATERMELON SEASON
OPENS IN FLORIDA
(The Packer.l

Jacksonville. Fla, May 9.-The
Floida watermelon season opened
April 27, and the first car was ship
ped by Lightsey & Kelley, of Fort
Myers 1t was reported that the mel
ons were Of good size, some weigh
ing over 80 pounds.
The melon acreage is considerable
less than last season The Atlantic
Coast Line Railway estimates It at
$500 acres as compared to 1880
acres last season on its line, and 200
acres Of cantaloupes. The Seaboard
Air Inc claims 1t has 2,7S1 acres of
melons and 200 acres of cantaloupes.
This combined with the acreage
throughout the state probably will
reach from 1900 to 1,4OO acres,
while the cantaloupe acreage will
run about 600. 1t is estimated that
the total movement for the season
will aggregate $500 cars of melons
ana lou 10 zoo cars of canteloupes,
compared to 1857 cars of melons
and 245 cars of canteloupes last sea-
son.
The crops at the present time are
In fair shape, but rain is needed.
There is at present no blight re-
ported.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-09
NINE MEXICANS DESERTED
SHIP A PENSACOLA PORT

Pensacola, May Immigration
Inspector R. ]. Leary has been in
formed that nine members of the
crew deserted the Mexican steamer
Plan de Guadalupe, which dis
charged cargo of mahogany logs
here last week, and are at large
somewhere in Escambia They are
all Mexicans and will be arrested
and deported If they are found and
have no intention to ship from Pen
sacola on a merchant vessel.
Inspector Leary said he had heard
nothing of the whereabouts of the
Mexicans since he had received the
report of their desertion. They are
all seamen and he ass lmcs that they
left the Mexican ste inner in order
TO 60 with some other ship.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-09
HASTINGS POTATO CROP
AVERAGES 50 PER CENT
(The Packer.)

Hastings, Fla, May 9.-4The po-
tato crop in this section is not turn
ing out we'll. The frost and con-
tinued dry weather for the past
three months proved too much Of a
handicap and the yield Is below nor
NAL. It was demonstrated this season
that the quantity Of potatoes in a
given field cannot be estimated by
the appearance of the vines, as in
many instances the vines with nice
looking tops have dug out below the
average and a poor quality OF po-
tatoes at that.
The movement up to the present
time has been light. This probably
will help the potato growers to re-
ceive good prices for first class stock.
Some Of the finest fields in the
Hastings section have produced an
average of only 90 barrels to the
acre, while other patches that did
not have as good care dug out even
as low as Is barrels to the acre.
1T is now estimated, basing the
figures on what already has been
dug, the crop is fully so per cent
short Of normal. The total movement
out Of the State to April 29 was 29O
cars compared to 500 cars for the
corresponding period last season.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-09
WHITE STAR Liner CYNR|C
SUNK THIS MORNING: five OF
CREW KILLED BY EXPLOSION
JAPANESE STEAMERS TO
INCREASE FREIGHT RATES

Toxic, May Sin view of the in
crease of exports and growing scar
city of cargo space the government
has authorized the Japanese steam
ship companies to increase freight
rates. The increase affects the three
great japanese shipping concerns
which run a service to the United
States and Canada. The increase of
rates to America is from 15 to 20
per cent when the goods are con-
signed to ports and 20 per cent when
destined for interior points.
The principal items of the goods
exported to America to be affected
by the increase comprise rice, tea,
fancy mating, raw silk, silk fabrics,
cotton manufactures, soy, bamboo
and bamboo works, porcelain and
earthenware, strawbraid, provisions,
corn, peanuts and camphor.
The freightage on the goods i'm
ported to Japan from America has
been raised by about 25 per cent on
the whole, with a few exceptions
The goods affected are cotton (raw
and ginnedD, machinery, iron and
steel plates, salted fish, pulp, wheat
and flour, zinc plates, iron nails,
glass, condensed milk, malts and
other commodities.
The communication department is
consulting with the Nippon Yusen
Kaisha with a view to increasing the
carrying capacity on the Antwerp
and American lines and 1t is not un-
likely that the company will run ex-
ira steamers. The Osaka Shosen
Kaisha also will probably increase
its capacity by putting on chartered
vessels on the line to America.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-09
SHAKESPEARE ENDORSED
sKEETER CRUSADE

New York, May 9.-For the bene-
fit of the health boards of large
cities throughout the country who
are conducting swat the skeeter"
campaigns this week, 1t may be no.
ted that whatever rank the world in
the last analysis shall accord to Will
liam Shakespeare, his works declare
him an "Al sanitarian." Foes OF the
mosquito can fight 1t on no less an
authority than the Stratford bard
himself. Here are some of the quo-
tations from the poets works which
are of timely interest and prove that
Shakespeare had an extensive knowl-
edge of the evils caused by disease
carrying insects:
How the poor world is pestered
With such water flies, diminutives OF
nature."-5 Rol. & Cres.
"And whittier fly the gnats?''
Henry Eighth.
Stamps and bites the poor flies in
his fume. Venus and Adonis.
Scatter up and down and care not.
whom they sting. Henry VI.
Evidently the mosquitoes bred in
the Avon marshes were particularly
ferocious, for in Macbeth" the poet
says, "The multiplying villainies of
nature do swarm upon him." and in
"Timon of Athens" he cries, 30,
blessed breeding sun, draw from the
earth rotten humidity" AS to
Shakespeare's familiarity with ma
laria. the mosquitoes foes point to
this from Venus and Adonis:"
Burning fevers, agues, pale and
faint,
Life poisoning pestilence.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-09
DENVER MAY ABANDON
COMMISSION SYSTEM

Denver, COL, May Proposals
to revert to the mayoral form of gov
ernment in Denver after two years
trial of commission form of govern
ment, are being considered by voters
at a special municipal election to-
day. The election was evoked
through the circulation of three pc
titions. each seeking 10 replace the
commission form of government and
to supplant it with a mayoral sys-
tenn. The Charter League, which is
leading the fight, calls for the crea-
tion of the office of mayor with
broad executive powers, whose du-
ties to the city are that of bust
ness manager /" Two other petitions
seek the return to Office of former
Mayor Robert W. Speer and the cleo
tion of w. w. Booth, respectively.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-09
SUBMARINES HAVE BEEN
SINKING 10000 TONS OF -.
SHIPPING A WEEK
(By Associated Press. }

London, May 9.-Hostile subma-
rines have been sinking each week
about 10000 tons of shipping with
the regularity of clockwork and the
consequent scarcity OF tonnage Is
causing the Englismen to look for
ward to food cricis in this country
which is believed by many to be not
far OF.
About $500, ,OO0,O 900 worth OF
food has to be brought TO these
shores every year. In normal times,
with the help Of neutral shipping,
tho British mercantile marine can
Just about manage it. But not so
nod. The underwriters view is that
the odds against making a safe pas
sage are more than ten times as
great as before the war; and, with
the increase of enemy submarines, so
the odds increase, neutral shipping
becomes more and more shy of enter
ing British waters, and food becomes
scareer and dearer.
Estimates of the 1915 crop In for
eign countries are not encouraging
and the question is raised as to
whether the foreigner is in a posi-
tion to supply the demands here even
if conditions were normal. The fol-
lowing shows the decreased in wheat
land estimated by the International
Agricultural Institute for 1915:
Canada, 14.9 per cent; United States
11.9 per cent and France S.6 per
cent. In other countries the de-
crease is said to be in the proportion.
Although every effort has been
made to remedy the situation by
/ giving up all available land to crop
raising, the British Board of Agri-
culture has been tempered by lack
of labor. True, thousands of women
have replaced men called to the col
ors but the Board finds that they are
not sufficient to utilize the land to
the full.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-09
WOMEN CAN GET THEIR
RIGHTS WITHOUT TROUBLE
WHEN WAR IS OVER
(By Associated Press. }

Rome, Italy, May Sit won't be
necessary for women to smash win
dows and go to jail to get their
rights when this war is over" said
Miss Cristobel Pankhurst to a corre-
spondent of The Associated Press
during her visit here for the purpose
of forming a closer organization of
the women of Italy with those of
France and England,
This war is helping the cause OF
women wonderfully" she continued.
1--WE are helping the men with all
our might, with all our strength,
and l am sure they will appreciate
this fact when the war is over. Be-
sides, Europe then will be mentally
and spiritually fifty years ahead of
where it was before the war started.
There has been an exaggeration, for
instance, of the amount of physical
destruction caused by it, out one
cannot exaggerate the mental awak-
ening it has brought, and this means
broader outlook on the position of
woman.
This mental male revolution was
sorely needed both in England and
in Germany. l feel that in helping
to down Germany, as the women OF
England, France, Gtaly and Russia
are doing, by their physical work,
we are putting down the great en-
envy of womankind. The Kaiser, you
know, has always frustrated the ef-
forts OF German women to rise from
their subordinate position, and he
typifles the attitude of the German
men. At that, however, the German
women will have to fight out their
own salvation after the war, along
with the men. They won't get any
help from us. There has been too
much internationalism heretofore.
Now, it will be a matter for each
nation to solve many of its own
problems and in particular the Ger
man nation.
England has been driven out of
conservatism, at last. We women
have shown English men that we are
worth something, that we are not
inferior creatures. I am sure that
If women had had say in the con-
duct of the war, England would
have been ready quicker. One of our
misfortunes has been that the young
men, the open-minded men, have
gone to the front to fight leaving
the old, slow-minded men, in charge,
Take the case of the effort to get
steel helmets for the men so tha