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The Redwood gazette., 1917-04-11
Mrs. Lines Writes
To Redwood Falls
Tells Of Pleasant Winter in
West; Also Some Ex-
periences

March 81, 1917.
Dear Mrs. Wilson:
We leave Ell Centre, CAL, on
the 9th inst. for Ell Paso and
San Antonio, Texas. Please send
our Gazette to San Antonio un-
til further notice.
We came to this famous I'm
perial Valley which only about
fifteen years ago was a place of
interminable sand, devoid of all
things growing except gnarled
mesquite and scrubby grease
wood, a land of heat, thirst and
death. At that time the only
sign of human life on the desert
was a mere handful of pioneers
living in a single camp, who
saw that this barren waste
would become a vast Empire,
the home of a prosperous and
happy people. At tl.at time all
effort being directed to the one
thought-the leading of the Col
orado to the thirsty soil. Since
that time water has spread over
the land. Three hundred thou
sand acres under canals, and in
a good state of cultivation.
While the North and East are
still snowbound, Emperial Val
ley products are harvested and
shipped, and the premium of
high market prices realized. The
lands lie from sea level to near
ly three hundred feet below.
The heat and dust is simply ter
rible. We are guests at the Bar
bara Worth Hotel. Ell Centre
is fifty feet below sea level but
the floor on which we sleep is
a little above sea level. Har-
old Bell Wright's studio in which
ne wrote, "The Winning of Bar
bara WORTH" we had the pleas
ure of seeing on one of our trips
through this valley. Mr.. Wright
built this beautiful hotel and
many other buildings here from
the proceeds of his books.
| suppose our friends at Red
wood have read of the fire in the
Rosslyn Hotel, Los Angeles, and
are anxious to learn all about it.
There were 100 guests in the
Hotel at the time Of the fire
none was injured although many
OF the women and children were
carried out of the structure by
the police and firemen. We were
reused from sleep by the clang-
ing Of the gongs and the shouts
of the firemen. A few minutes
after the fire was discovered,
guests thinly clad began pour
The Redwood gazette., 1917-04-11
CITATION FOR HEARING ON
FINAL ACCOUNT AND FOR
DISTRIBUTION.

Estate of Mildred Barnes.
State of Minnesota, County OF
Redwood. In Probate Court.
In the Matter of the Estate
of Mildred Barnes. Decedent:
THE STATE OF MINNESO-
IA to all persons interested
in the final account and
distribution of the estate of said
decedent: The representative of
- above named decedent, hav-
led in this court his final ac-
of the administration Of
The Redwood gazette., 1917-04-11
Try our want ads.
A WEAK STATEMENT

Senator LaFollette says that
go per cent Of the people of
Wisconsin are against war,
which is a pretty weak state
ment. We venture to say that
he has underestimated the per
centage. 100 per cent of Min
nesota people, generally speak
ing, are against war. They are
also opposed to famine, sick
ness, plague and death, but at
times they must be faced. They
are the price Of living.
War and all it's untold misery
is often the price demanded for
the right Of a nations right to
The Redwood gazette., 1917-04-11
Canada Offers 100 Acres Land Free
to Farm Hands
Bonus of Western Canada Land to Men Who Assist
in Maintaining Needed Grain Production

The Demand for Farm Labor in Canada is Great AS
nducement to the necessary at once Can
ada will give ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY ACRES OF
LAND FREE AS HOMESTEAD and allow the time Of
the farm laborer, who has filed the land to appv as
residence duties the if he actually had lived on
it. Another special concession is the reduction of one
in the time to complete duties Two years instead
of three heretofore but only working on the
farms for at least six months in 1917 This appeal for
farm help is in way connected with enlistment for
military service but solely to increase agricultural output
wonderful opportunity to farm and draw good
wages at the time Canadian Government will pay all
fare cent per mile from ST. Paul Duluth to
Canadian destinations. Information to low railway
rates may be had application to
r. A. GARRETT, 3I1 Jackson ST., ST. Paul, Mnn
The Redwood gazette., 1917-04-11
Another Redwood
Falls Case

1t Proves That There's A Way Out
for Many Suffering Redwood Falls
The Redwood gazette., 1917-04-11

life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness and high ideals. There
is no forgiveness for those who
force war upon the people of a
The Redwood gazette., 1917-04-11

nation; but there is no escape,
except in oblivion, for the ma
tion which will not fight for it's
principles. .-Lamberton Star
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-01-12
Dancer in Raw PORK

There is considerable danger in eat
Ing pork or pork products raw or not
thoroughly cooked. The disease fire.
quently resulting is called trichinosis.
1t is caused by certain round worms,
microscopic in size, that often infest
the flesh of hogs.
Of 100000 hog carcasses micro
scopically inspected by federal inspec-
tors in eight years, about one in every
thrty-nine contained these worms. OF
about 1000 American cases of trichino-
SIS zoo came from eating raw sausage
and 213 from raw ham.
In a community in Wisconsin last
year q cases developed in five fa,ni-
hes and three deaths resulted from
eating sausage that was only slightly
cooked. These round worms die at a
temperature of 40, so thorough cook
4hg does away with possible danger.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-01-12
LEONARD o. UHL.

Leonard o. Uhl died at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. Minnie Fingado, at
240 Sixth avenue, Wauwatosa. He was
sick for two weeks.
The funeral was held from the home
of Mrs. Fingado on Friday afternoon,
with a service at 2 o'clock in Evan
gelical Paul's church. Burial was in
Wauwatosa cemetery.
Mr.. Uhl was So years old. He was
born in Bavaria, and came to this
country in 1854. He lived in Milwau-
kee six years, and then moved to
Waukesha, where he lived several
years. For the last nine years he has
made his home with Mrs. Fingado.
Survivors are his widow and two
daughters, Mrs Fingado of this city.
and Mrs. Fred Schmidt of the town of
Wauwatosa.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-01-12
The Chinese Taxicah.

We are assured that the taxlcab is
no new thing, being, in it's general
principles, thing known to the an
cient Romans; but now an orientalist
goes even further and asserts that me-
chanical carts capable of registering
distances Travelled by counting and
recording the revolutions of very large
cartwheels connected by cogs with 9th
er concentrlc or eccentric horizontal
and perpendicular wheels, of proper
tionatc diameters, have been well
known to the Chinese for LOO or ! 800
years. On top of the cart was the
figure Of man holding drum, which
he beat when one II, third of n mile,
was Travelled. Some carts had, In adj
dltion, figure holding a cymbal,
which was struck when the drum had
been beaten ten times.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-01-12
Bio Collection of Brains.

The brain collection of the United
States National museum, which has
lately received valuable additions rep
resenting the higher apes, was started
IL years ago by Ales Hrdlicka, and
now contains about 1900 human and
animal brains. OF these 223 are hui
man, including 95 of whites and 128 of
other races, and 34S belong to the goril-
las, chimpanZees, orangs, gibbons,
balloons and other primates. The num-
Der of adult anthropoids, though it en-
braces only single adult chimpanzee,
is believed to exceed that of all other
known collections. Besides those of the
primates, the collection now has the
brains of 165 carnivores and cetaceans,
90 insectivores, 266 ungulates or hoofed
animals, 81 rodents, AZ edentates or
toothless animals and marsupials, or
pouch-bearers, and 287 birds and rep
tiles.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-01-12
FALLS HEAVIEST ON FARMER
Modern Warfare Said to Make Great
est Claim on Those Who Are
Tiliers of the Soil.

investigators having in view the in.
tereSt of the farmer as n class make
claim TO the discovery that modern
warfare bears heaviest upon the tiuers
81 the soil and not, as popularity sup
posed. upon the factory hand. In the
trenches on the French front go per
cent of the soldiers are small farm
ers and only u per cent are industrial
workers. This is due TO the fact chat
the newer weapons, the Quick-fring
cannon the machine guns, the maya
zlne rifle, the gigantic howitzer and
the bomb throwers demand highly or
ganlzed and efficient factories. So do
the drafts for clothing, steel helmets,
concentrated foods and other supplies.
IL takes several active and exnert
workers at home to maintain one SOL
der in the field. The farms can he
cared for by the old men, the women
ana the children. Therefore the army
organizers are Selling the farmers and
eXempting the more valuable factory
employees, both statements, of course.
being relative.
What is true o. France in this re-
spect is equally applicable to England
and Russia and the other allies of the
progressive type. The extent of the
exemption in England alone is shown
by the recent announcement that con-
scription would be applied to men fit
for military duty excused previously
to perform other work. This draft. it
was said, would produce 1,250.O0O sol
diers. Agricultural leaders, possessed
of these rather astonishing facts. are
beginning to spread the information
among their followers as part of a
propaganda against militarism. Quick
and forceful protest may be expect
ed, as the American farmer is not
prone to keeping silent when his in
tereSts and his own skin are imperiled.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-01-12
BY Special Delivery.

The burgar had Just begun his term
and was assigned TO work in the broom
who studied him intently and seemed
to be awaiting an opportunity to say
something. 1t came while the over
seer was at the ice-water tank.
"HOw long are you in for?' he whis-
pered.
Three years. replied the new
conner.
The veteran looked around nervous
~ and thrust a letter in the burglars
hand.
Tn in for life" he said Mail this
when you get out. "-Johnson's Smoke
Rings.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-01-12
Finding the Rance.

1t is one thing to spot a hostile bat
terry and another problem altogether to
hit it. The locality may be well kncwn,
but the range difficult to determine To
simplify matters in this RESPECT,
tracer" shells are used. Into the hase
of the shell a metal case is screwed
containing a material which is self-ig-
hitting as the projectile PUSHES through
space. For night operations the ma
terial used in the tracer" bursts INTO
brilliant flame, but by day the
"tro Ger" leaves a trail of dense black
smoke. By this means the gunners are
able to watch and time the shell right
up 10 the moment the explosion takes
place, and by knowing the locality in
which the shell bursts, the adjustment
to the range of the target is compara-
lively simple matter.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-01-12
Offers 81 600 to Save Don

Just how big place a dog may take
in ones affections was demonstrated
strongly when Miss X. e. Henesey of
this city lost Yorkshire terrier, York
Sunshine Girl. The little terrier
weighed only couple of pounds, but
its owner would not have sold it for
anything. There was swinging door
between the rooms in Miss Henesey's
apartment, and the deg was caught IN
it as it slammed. knowing that there
was no veterinarian near by. Miss
Henesey called physician, who, hap
pened TO be a high-priced specialist.
When he saw what the case was he
said he was no veterinarian.
Here's check for $1,000" she said.
you have no objection to earning that,
and if you can save her it is yours"
The dog had a broken neck, how
ever, and was beyond saving.-New
York Herald.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-01-12
Survivors of Great TRAGEDIES.

Jarnes Boyle, who had SO remarkable
an escape from the fate of all others
aboard the Inflated Connemara and Re-
triever, will take a place among the
sole survivors of great tragedies. When
the French mail steamer General
Chanzy went on the rocks, off north
west Minorca six years ago, one man,
Marcel Badez, was the only survivor
of 15S passengers and crew, and nu-
merous other instances are on record
of wrecked vessels from which a soli-
tary survivor lived to tell the tale.
Possibly the two most remarkable
cases of q single man escaping from an
overwhelming disaster are those of
Doctor Brvdone, who alone reached
safety Of the $3.50 soldiers and 10000
camp followers who set out on the re-
treat from Cabul in 1912; and of a ne
gro prisoner, confined in an under
ground cell at st. Pierre, who alone
out of the 10000 inhabitants survived
the destruction of the city by the erup-
ton of Mont Pelee in April, 1902.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-01-12
MORE THAN HE COULD STAND
Absence of properties" Caused Acs or
to Leave the "BaIIy Rotten Show"
in q Hurry.

Humorous recolections of slip in
stage business turning thrilling eli
max into comical sight is told in Il.
II. Sothern's book, ms shown in the dra-
matte department of the Sunday Post
and that brings to mind the funny ex-
perience of Taylor Holmes, the young
! farce comedian remembered in "The
Third Party and Ills Majesty Bunker
Bean"
1t was when Holmes was with a
stock company in Newark, n. ]. The
| heavy man was well-known actor,
who was playing In stock 10 tide him
over the summer financially, and he
was unaccustomed to the free and easy
way of doing without things used in
the play.
The regular stock actors made no
complaint when props were missing,
but improvised as best they could.
The opening night in Ticket of
Leave Man." as Jack Dalton (the
heavy and Meter Moss (Taylor
Holmes) were supposed to be kidnap-
MS Ppo AiACliy " d SAul NiIF az W.
Holmes said to the heavy in the wings
just before their entrance:
Don't ask me for the light. Cut the
line"
"Why should 1 cut my lines?' de-
manded the heavy with all his dignity.
you'll have TO cut them" insisted
Holmes. 81 haven't any lantern to give
you"
"My word. what a balIy rotten show"
said the heavy. I'm not accustomed
to this sort OF thing" as he stalked on
the stage.
All mis- lines fed-excepting the one
he should have forgotten. lie looked
blankly at Holmes, suffered and STAN
mered, then Numbered:
Moss. give me the glim -
81 can't gif you no glim; amt got
no glim," said Holmes. But the heavy
was now past comprehending.
Moss, give me the glim-giye me
the glim ~ he shrieked.
Il amt got no gim. Didn't I tell
you not to ask for the glim? You
don't need no glim; it's light enough
for your dirty work" said Holmes,
frantically trying to ad lib and set the
heavy straight in the scene.
The heavy gave Holmes one disgust
ed look snOrted as he threw up his
hands, and said: Good night, this is
awful. / cannot stand it, I'm not used
to IT," and stalked off the stage, leav-
ing the audience bowling with glee.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-01-12
They Just Want to Know.

The inquisitiveness of children
which, as Oliver Wendell Holmes says,
makes them the terror and despair
Vi their parents, has no object save
the craving TO know about things. so
Dr. j. Mitchell Bruce, consulting physi-
can to Charing Cross hospital, Lon
uon' told his students at the opening
u the winter session. The small boy
Is hungry for knowledge for it's own
sake, just as he eats because he is
hungry, without any notion OF physio-
logical use of food.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-01-12
SUFFRAGE LEGISLATURE.

Wisconsin legislators, gathering
this week for their annual session in
Madison. are to be confronted by a
dangerous woman = dangerous to the
peace of mind of those who oppose
woman suffrage.
She is Mrs. Maud McCreery. nee
Leonard, Green Bay, the littlest
worker and the biggest vote getter'
for the cause among the workers of
this state. Mrs. McCreery will lobby
for the suffrage bill She will be as
ISOLATED with Mrs. Henry M. Youmans
of Waukesha, state president; Mrs.
Ben Hooper Oshkosh, chairman of
legislative work
Mrs. McCreery's rise, since she en-
tered suffrage work about FIVE years
ago, has been meteoric. She sprang
into prominence soon after she joined
the Political Quality League, Mil
waukee, where she sang from an auto
mobile to draw crowds for speakers
on the streets.
During the last five years Mrs.
McCreery has won wide recognition
by her success as an outdoor campaign
speaker She has worked in New
York, Pennsylvania, Nebraska. Neva-
da, and Iowa. Her latest success
came last fall, when she was one of
the most successful of the workers in
a whirlwind campaign which almost
won the vote for South Dakota women.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-01-12
Sure SIGN.

A minister, while visiting his ped-
pie one day in the bush, was asked TO
stay for dinner.
While sitting down on the veranda,
q little boy, about five, came round to
him, and after talking a little while,
said:
"You can't z, ess what we are going
to have for DIM ?"
The minister said he would give It
up, after several guesses.
The little boy then said:
TITS roly-poly puddin l know, COS
mothers only got one stocking on
Weekly Telegraph.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-01-12
Hard on the Burglar.

81 hear that the home of Scribbins,
the writer, was entered last night and
a number of manuscripts stolen"
as that so? l suppose Scribbins
has set the police on track of the
thief"
ooh, he says that if the fellow has
any better success in placing the stuff
than he has had himself he's only 700
glad to let him try it."-Farm Life.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-01-12

"What do you think of the move
ment to ameliOrate the living condi-
tions of goldfish in captivity?"
I'm strongly in favor of it.
never go out and leave the cat in the
room where my gold fish are that /
don't imagine they look at me through
the side OF their globe with appealing
eyes"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-01-12
Reckless pisreqard.

"The law Of supply and demand"
said the economist, lis as inexOrable
as the law Of gravitation.'
you can't always enforce either OF
them. The law of gravitat IN doesn't
prevent people from getting away up
in the air these DAYS
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-01-12
BenefIcent Motives.

What makes you keep boosting the
price of commodities under your con-
troI?"
, philanthropy, my boy" replied Mr..
justin Stax. Economy makes people
happier and better; and we're teach
'ng economy to people who never had
any previous idea of what the word
Meant"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-01-12
Matter o, Money.

l thought Katherine figured on mar
fying Jack Hanson"
she did; but another girl with
more money outfgured her."-Boston
Transcript.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-01-12
Proner Definition.

Little Lemuel-Say paw, what is
the meaning of 'premonitionT'
Paw-It's VIII t ails people who say
II told you So son.
Morris tribune., 1917-12-28

units away from this regiment. We
have about twelve hundred draft
men here now and still need about
a thousand more to bring us to the
required strength of thirty-six hun
dred men.
ct have been working in the post
office section now about six weeks.
There are four of us altogether do
ing nothing but handle the mail.
Walter Trip is getting along fine.
1 see him almost every morning drill
ing his squad. R. L. Anderson is
now a sergeant. We get the Morris
papers here right along so get most
of the Morris news. Also read about
the splendid work the ladies of Nor
ris are doing for all the boys from
Morris and vicinity who have heard
the call to the colors.
Morris tribune., 1917-12-28
Surgical Dressing Workers to Meet

Major Grayson Murphy, head of
the Red Cross Commission in France
has cabled the American Red Cross,
that surgical dressings in millions
must be sent over with all possible
speed. If this is not done and done
Immediately, a'serious calamity and
national disgrace is inevitable.
All members of the two surgical
dressings classes and all those inter-
ested in the preparation of the dress
ings which are going to mean life
or death to our own men, are re-
quested to meet with Mrs. George c..
Thorpe at the Red Cross Headquart-
ers, Friday, December %, at 500 p.
m.
Those who passed the examina-
tions will also receive their cards at
this time.
Ella F. Spooner, Chairman.
Morris tribune., 1917-12-28

Another tale has it that the men at
Fort Smelling are freezing. Still an
other story is to the effect that army
officers don't want the Red Cross
garments and are refusing to accept
them for their commands
Many letters have been written to
Coler Campbell, director of the bur-
eau of military relief for the divi-
sion, inquiring concerning the truth
of these rumors. When the letters
first came Mr.. Campbell began a
searching investigation of condi-
tions at the various camps. His in
quiry proved conclusively that there
was no truth in any of the rumors
circulated against the Red Cross.
Now, every day, in his mail, he is
receiving letters from soldiers and
officers in the various camps that
corroborate the proof that the tales
are false. At Smelling the men were
given a Red Cross outfit ten days
ago. The men at Camp Dodge we're
equipped a fortnight ago. At other
camps the conditions are similar.
Instead of refusing to accept Red
Cross knitted goods, officers at the
cantonments are writing letters of
appreciation for them, praising the
work of the women who have furn-
ished the garments and the system
of the organization that has seen to
their thorough distribution.
Members of the Camp Fire girls,
social organization at Ellendale,
N. D., are making scrap books for
soldiers who have gone from North
Dakota. Every newspaper article
printed in the papers of the state
which tells of troop activity is clipped
and pasted in the books.
Morris tribune., 1917-12-28
GAS KILLS ORTONVILLE
MAN WORKING In WELL
Charlie Mellon Overcome by Gas
While Down Well on Farm Near
Ortonville

An unfortunate accident occurred
Tuesday of last week on the Mike
Hurley farm, one and a half miles
east of Ortonville, when Charlie
Mellon was overcome by gas while
going down a we'll which he and his
father-in-law, Mr.. Shalenn, had been
digging.
The we'll was about 73 feet deep
and had been covered since the Sat-
urday before, allowing a quantity of
gas to form with no chance to escape.
The two men were working to-
gether, and Mr.. Mellon was let down
into the we'll by the use of a horse
AS soon as he had reached the bot
tom, Mr. .Shaleen called to him and
asked him how he was getting along
but upon receiving no response went
Immediately to the house for help
and telephoned to Ortonville for a
doctor and other help. A hurry up
call was sent around town and about
twenty men accompanied the doctors
to the Hurley farm, and it was with
great difficulty that the body was
raised out of the we'll even with the
use of graphing hooks, and by the
time the doctors could get to Mr.
Mellon life was extinct.
Mr.. Mellon leaves wife and three
small children who will miss a faith
er's loving care and Watchfulness.