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The Redwood gazette., 1918-02-13

tainment, and it is expected that a
large attendance will be the result.
| Peter Mckay attended the Johnson
sale of shorthorn cattle at ST. Paul
last week and purchased cow and
calf of the strictly milk strain vari-
ETY.. Mr.. Mckay paid the nice little
sum of $5O5 for his cow. When it
comes to cattle raising, Mr.. Mckay
believes in the best only.
| A beautiful service flag containing
10 stars, and a good sized red cross
flag have been added to the church
decorations, one hanging on each side
of "Old Glory"
On Friday night the 18th the men
of the Presbyterian congregation will
the ladies aid. The committee on
much information, but this much has
served will be chicken pie. These
banquets have become an annual af-
fair and the gentlemen have made
themselves quite famous for being
able to plan good things to eat. A
program will follow the supper, and
will be held in the auditorium. Ev-
erybody will be welcome at this BAN
quet.
A second farce, in addition to "Jum-
bo jun" is being put on for the la
dies aid entertainment, entitled "The
Pull Back" Mrs. Oldstyle, who goes
on the "Keers" to pay visit to her
brother, is very unique in her presen-
tation of the star character and is
worth the price of admission.
Five cars Of livestock were shipped
from this point Thursday of last week.
Last week the Delhi branch of the
Redwood County Red Cross, sent out
sixteen knitted sweaters, 28 pairs of
home made socks for the soldiers, two
pairs wristlets and four rolls of linen.
Another lot of hospital bed shirts VIII
be started off this week.
E. E. Peterson went to the ct as
with his livestock shipme ut the LIST
Of last week.
M. J. Monson went to Minneapolis
last week to attend the auto show
and to visit his brother.
The Young Women's Club will be
entertained next week, Monday night,
by Miss Grace Tibbetts.
Miss Helen Martin of Redwood
Falls, was an over Sunday guest of
her friend, Miss Bernice Parker.
George Carbert left last week for
a visit with relatives at Melfort, Can.
Miss Lenora Knutson of Belviewy
was a guest Of her friend, Miss Eden
Flore.
R. E. Archer is expected home this
week from his Nebraska trip.
The Redwood gazette., 1918-02-13
Notice

To Stockholders, Directors and Man.
ayers of Farmers Elevators thru
out the State of Minnesota.
We urgently request you to attend
the graindealer's convention at the
West Hotel, City of Minneapolis, on
Feb. 10, 20 and 21, 1918. The key
note of the convention will be loyal
ty to President Wilson and the ad-
ministration.
The address by NJ R. Meyers of
Chicago on cooperation and democ-
racy will alone pay you for the trip.
The address by Judge Leary on citi-
The Redwood gazette., 1918-02-13

Martin and Eddie Norell transacted
business in Redwood Falls Tuesday.
The Misses Jessie Jorgensen and
Annie Eliefson went to Walnut Grove
Tuesday.
The Misses Peterson and Coulter
entertained party of young people
at the Sundown school house Wed
nesday evening.
Olga, the oldest daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Ole Croft, is seriously ill.
At the meeting of the Sundown
Mothers Club Thursday the follow
ing officers were elected: President,
Mrs. Robert Peterson; Vice-President,
Mrs. j. M. Thorsten; Secretary, Mrs.
arrie Jensen; Treasurer, Mrs. Ebert
Meyer.
The Redwood gazette., 1918-02-13
DELHI NEWS ITEMS

Milton Mertz of Redwood Falls, was
an over Sunday guest with his friend,
Don Archer.
Prayer meeting this week, Wednes-
day evening, will be held at the home
of Mrs. H. S. Welder.
Mrs. ]. A. Piersol visited over Sun
day with the families of her sons and
daughter at Morton.
Mrs. NJ. S. Miller was a twin city
visitor the last of last week.
On Friday night, the 22nd Of Feb
ruary, is the night set for the ladies
aid entertainment in the village hall
The ladies are putting a good deal
of time and practice into this enter
The Redwood gazette., 1918-02-13
SUNDOWN NEWS

Miss Rikka Meyer is the guest of
Minneapolis relatives.
Miss Agnes Jensen will entertain
the Ladies Aid Society Thursday,
February IA.
A daughter was born to Mr.. AMI
Mrs. John Neudecker one day last
week.
Ebert Meyer returned Thursday
from a trip to the Twin Cities.
The Redwood gazette., 1918-02-13

zenship and loyalty will be we'll worth
taking in. The Farmers National
Council and it's work at Washington
by the farmers representative, w.
H. Shorthill, will also be interesting.
Mr.. Thorne, the lawyer who won
the famous railroad fight for the ma
tional council at Chicago, will also
be present and speak. Besides many
other prominent men. So remember
the dater and be sure and be there.
Program Committee.
The Redwood gazette., 1918-02-13
DELHI STATE BANK
Delhi, Minnesota

You doubtless have heard of the man who
kept his accounts on the barn door with chalk,
and the barn burned down. Did it ever occur
to you that person is in the same class when
he pays his bills with cash9 A check is a receipt
that can never be denied. Let us use the chalk
on your book and ours rather than waste it on
the barn door.
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of my neighbors also are doing. And
it's great stuff"
While down in southern Illinois. the
other day. I ran into former MEM
Der of Congress who is doing a
mighty interesting bit toward help
ing out Uncle Sam.
When I arrived in his Office I was
surprised to find that he was not in
court. Inquiry revealed the fact that
court had adjourned until November
to permit the attorneys and others to
do some work worth while"
ION the opening day of court" this
former member of Congress explained,
II looked over the docket and saw
that we had only a fair number of
cases. They were as important, 1
suppose. as any that we had had be-
fore the war started, but they looked
mighty insignificant when compared
with urgent war work.
Then I looked around the room and
saw all the lawyers, and the thought
struck me that they could be doing
more for the country than f1ddIing
around with those dinky law suits,
SO I arose and addressing the court,
spoke my mind.
at occurs to me- I said. that we
lawyers have mighty little to do IL
we stay here and try these law suits.
taking up the courts time, the jurors
time and our own time. I think that
we should be doing something worth
while. and. therefore. 1 move that
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ton that Mary didn't put any soft
pedal on her Growing over the beans.
Wasn't it nightingales' tongues on
Roman banauets which began on
Tuesday and lasted until a week from
the following Friday? I'll bet the
Roman pluto who gave a banquet
didn't put on half as many airs over
over her beans. But TIL admit the
old Roman didn't have as much ex-
cuse for feeling chesty. His night
ingaies probably had been trapped By
barbarian captives he had brought
home chained to his chariot wheels
her own fair hands, Drawing mascu-
line scorn in doing it, and had nur-
tured them with tenderest care. That
makes a big difference, you know. 1
know it from the SAVIOR those green
peas and new potatoes had.
X 4
/ haven't said much lately about my
backyard garden because the quar-
ter-acre farm" Fred Turner and
are operating in partnership has
taken most of my time and engaged
most of my thought. But 1 haven't
been neglecting the back yard. and
now that we have had good growing
weather and things are coming along
so well find my interest veering
back to the smaller undertaking.
For it Is in the back yard. you know.
that am doing my fancy" garden
ing. On the farm" we are just
growing things to eat. a maximum
production with the minimum of ex-
pense and labor being the objective
IN the back yard 1 am growing, or
hoping to grow. things to brag about
For instance, l have ponderosa to-
motoes tied up to stakes; keep them
pruned down to two main stems and
am pinching off about two-thirds OF
the blossoms. l expect to grow to-
matoes of a size and quality never
seen in market-never seen anywhere
on earth. in fact, except on the litho-
graph covers of seed catalogues.
And the cantaloupes 1 am going to
grow are the kind you may have
dreamed about but never tasted in
your waking hours. They are going
to be a combination Of nectar and am
brosia, the drink and food Of gods.
Writ. the scent Of violets, the distilled
sweetness Of dewdrops from honey
suckle and the essence Of the rose.
Some cantaloupes. Ell?
Not this year but next We are going
to have our own Strawberries. great
and good in the bottom of the box as
they are on top. That's about the
most you can say about strawberries,
isn't it? All my life I've been buying
strawberries sight unseen, as 1t were.
When we have q box Of Strawberries
are neither green and gnariy nor soft
and rotten at the bottom.
At the suggestion Of q neighbor
Mary bought and I planted twenty
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other sections whose climate was bet
ter suited to the raising of hard
cereals. Now. however. impeiled both
by a desire to help the government
and by the good price for wheat,
they are going into planting it
strongly. Southern Illinois. which in
recent years has had little wheat
planted, is making a particularly
good showing.
The determination to raise good
corn crops and help win the war
also is evident in southern Illinois,
where blowing for corn now is going
on in many sections. Ordinarily the
corn crop would be in long before
now-in fact, corn is six inches high
in most sections of the state-but the
southern Illinois farmers. who have
had a dry spring. are not resignedly
saying it is too late to get crop.
They are taking a gambling chance
on making crop. and farmers tell
me that there is good chance of
their winning.
The man behind the hoe is not to be
overlooked, either. The countless
number of war gardens that are In
the country are enough to make a
red-blooded American poke out his
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chest and shout. Let me give you a
sample Of what the surburbanite is
doing. While I was writing, a mo-
ment ago, a newspaper man of per-
haps fifty years of age. walked in on
me and shook hands. His palm was
as hard as nails. the bay window"
which he used to wear had disap-
peared, and his color was better than
it had been in years.
Sure I'm in war work." he said.
"Just as soon as get through work
at night, I rush out home and work
in my garden. I hoe a while and
when I get tired of that I take up
some other kind of garden work, and
then when I tire of that. go back to
hoeing. AS soon as it gets dark. I
eat something and then I rush down
to drill with the home guards. And
you ought to see me do the double
quick. Up to the time that 1 went
into the guards. I hadn't run for If
teen years; and the last time I ran
then was for a train.
What 1 am doing is what hundreds
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q HAVE only about half as much
q entitled to under the rules and
regulations of war gardening, you
understand; but thought 1 had lot
which 1 know now 1 was not entitled
to have. 1t came about this wise:
Capt. Thompson, who has given me
lot of advice about gardening, some
of which 1 have followed. came out
from the office with me the other
evening to see how things were COM
ing along. He hadn't been in the
garden two minutes until he said:
"You ought to get the suckers off
that sweet corn"
81 know I had" l answered. i've
been intending to spray it,
The captain whirled around and
glared at me as if had called him a
fighting name.
demanded. Are you a nfSRkety-
blank fool. or do you think 1 ann"
~.
knew I'd made some kind of a
biunder. but / didn't know what.
Spraying is recommended for all sorts
Of insect pests. and I didn't see why
it wouldn't be good for suckers. It's
true hadn't noticed any suckers and
didn't have a very distinct idea as to
what they ought to look like, but /
didn't see any special need Of con-
Tossing my ignorance. Besides. they
sounded something to be sprayed for.
"You said bugs. didn't your STAN
meIed, stalling for time and trying
- GHa d way out.
mo. didn't say bugs" the captain
setorted hotly. You know blamed
He walked over and began viciously
to pull up my precious sweet corn by
the roots, but was too faabbergasted
to protest When he had gathered a
handful of stalks he turned and shook
them savagely in my face. ."Them's
suckers, you monkey. ne said
Then l began to see light. l re-
membered having read somewhere
about pruning the suckers OF fruit
trees. but I'd never heard that sweet
corn had 'em.
-oh. why. yes. certainly. of course"
I wriggled. II intended to get the
thing else and didn't catch what you
said"
From the way the captain snorted I
knew he didn't believe me-: but he
was willing to let 1t go at that. and SO
was /. He found a lot Of other things
to criticise. but didn't betray myself
again by protesting knowledge where
when Capt. Thompson had taken his
dtsdainful departure, tackled the
job of suckering the sweet corn. but
did it with a bleeding heart. When
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The Observer Writes From the Middle West Of Wartime Farming

court do now adjourn until the No
yember session.
every member of the bar was de-
lighted, and. without dissenting
voice. we adjourned"
A few hours later the former mem
Der took me about the farms when
he is experimenting as his bit to the
war. They embrace about SIX nun
bred acres of the finest land IN tne
state, and every available acre OF
them in under cultivation. He has
clover, oats. corn and other cereals
and live stock in great numbers
AS we passed a wonderful field of
red clover-which, by the way. looked
good enough to eat without sugar or
cream-he pointed to it and said:
six of those attorneys who agreed
to adjourn court are going to help me
cut that clover. None of them is
farmer, but they can ride moving
machine. 1 reckon
Way up on top of a beautiful knoll
We came to a splendid orchard of blue
grass which seemed fairly alive with
hogs. Certainly the pig of history
that was kept in the parfor would
have felt that at last he had achieved
luxury If he could have gotten into
that orchard. The pigs grunted hap
PLY at the approach of the ex-
member. and he smiled in apprecia-
ton.
These hogs and 1 get on fine" he
said. I'VE understand one another.
There were two hundred and fifty of
the hogs, and the ex-member said he
was very positive that il the war
were not in progress he would not
have had one of them. And the same
fact held true in regard to his cattle,
he declared.
Leaving the farm. he paused at the
house to obtain few eggs He had
made an arrangement with the Wife
of his renter to share eggs with her.
he explained, and later he told me
that she was so interested in helping
the food situation that she was taking
care of six hundred chickens.
COPY of a local paper which contained
a story on the front page to the
effect that the merchants were plan
ming to close their stores one day IN
each week and contribute that days
labor to the farmers who could not
get help.
Gazing back over his shoulder as
we moved out of sight of the coun-
try, the ex-member laughed and SAID:
'This certainly is worth while It's
a blamed sight better than ffddling
with the law. or making statutes,
isn't it,"
And. an hour later, when he put me
on the train that was to bear me
back east. he looked very serious.
and said:
The country's all right, the people
are all right, and we are going 10
win"
If you don't think that he was right.
come out west here and see the fields
of waving wheat, the determined
farmers behind the pillow and the
woman with the hoe.
THE OBSERVER.
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FIVE black raspberry plants along the
fence at the side of the yard which
is too shady for growing vegetables.
The neighbor said the berries would
do well in the shade and it seems she
was right. for they, already are put
ting up young shoots which will bear
berries next year. I don't think we
ever will do much in the vegetable
line in the back yard. but we GER
tainly can grow small fruits. l won.
der why every city lot owner doesn't
THE WAR GARDENER.
(To be continued.)
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griefs and sorrows, but it also has
its recompenses. The same night i
had to pull the suckers off my sweet
corn we sat down to mess Of green
peas and new potatoes and, believe
me, dat ole hawse Broomstick"
wasn't alone in enjoying a banquet
from out my garden.
No one could question our right to
eat the peas, but I'll. admit 1 was
ashamed to look those potatoes in
the eye-they were SO infinitesimally
small. 1t was almost a crime to dig
them, Of course. but the pIeasurable
part of my boyhood recollection of a
garden involved green peas and new
potatoes. and I was just bound to
have them. The biggest potato I
found was about the size Of marble
and some of them weren't much
larger than the peas. The plants I
would have produced bushel or
more OF matured potatoes, but 1 don't
reckon the kaiser will win the war
just because I INDUCED in this one
gluttonoas orgy.
had to crow softly about my peas
and potalt toes. however. for Mary had
beaten me to it as a producing
gardener. We Already had had 4
mess Of snapbeans from her plants
those beans which Capt. Thompson
and I had advised her not to plant
so early and which. despite our dole
full predictions Of dire disaster. had
trees. It's true I never saw a green
bay tree and haven't the remotest
idea how It grows and thrives. but
always did like that expression.
Sounds like you knew a lot
1t probably is unnecessary to men
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A Spoiled Celebration.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
LONDON. May 80. 1918.
THE gallantry of all ranks of the
British navy at Zeebrugge and
Ostend recalls an amusing story that
spent thirteen months as a civilian
prisoner of war at Ruhleben camp
While he was confined there elab-
crate and Enthusiastically Teutonio
arrangements were made for ce1ebrat-
ing the birthday Of the kaiser, which
occurs on January 81. It was settled
that all the prisoners in the camp
should be assembled in the center of
the place, where a new and lofty flag
staff had recently been erected.
Massed bands were to be in the midst
Of them. These latter were to crash
out the German national anthem,
whereupon. at a signal. the German
imperial ensign was to be broken out
at the masthead. t.r
All the first part of >the program
was duly carried out. Tho unlucky
prisoners. representing many nation
alitles, were duly assembled. The
hdtiOhdi dhlhCm WAS uuly SIIuCk up
But, alas! when the great moment for
breaking out the nag of the kaiser
arrived and the halyards were pulled
nothing happened, the bag that had
contained the emblem proving to be
entirely empty.
The explanation Of this colossal
fiasco, which petrified the Hun prison
authorities. was that, in the dead of
the previous night, a couple Of British
tars. who were among those confined
at Ruhleben. had climbed up the flag
stan and distracted the imperial ban
ner from the sack which contained it.
No doubt. had it been possible to
discover which Of the prisoners had
been guilty Of this crime" the Of
tenders would have been shot. but the
secret was we'll kept, and all the ef-
forts Of the outraged commandant to
discover their identity proved un-
awaiting: As 1t was obviously impos.>
sible adequately to punish several
hundred men. this insult to the ruler
and imperial Hunland remained I'M
avenged.
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got down to it, of course, I found
the suckers were not true stalks at
all and were simply using up the VII
tally of the soil without any chance
that they would produce corn. but it
looked like shame to pull them or.
Under Capt. Thompsons instructions
I already had thinned the corn TO
three stalks to the hill, and the doing
of it had been an awful wrench. I
had been comforted, however. when
each stalk / left had turned into three
stalks, and now two of these had
to go.
+ +
When had finished had a pile Of
sucker stalks big enough to NIL
small wagon and I was wondering il
there was any use they could be put
to. when an ancient negro who was
driving by halted his scarecrow of a
horse with whoa, dar. Broomstick."
Say, boss" he sang out. what
you-all Ewan do wild dem Gavin
sukahs?"
told him I had NO use for them,
that he could take them along il he
wanted them.
He ciambered down from his rattle
trap of . wagon with all the alacrity
his rheumatic joints would permit.
mace. Dis heah Broomstick hawse
sho am Ewan to hab some banquet dis
heah night" he chuckled.
But be still, sad heart, and cease
repining. Behind the clouds is the
sun still shining. Into each life some
rain must fall. some days be dark
and dreary. War gardening has its
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Special Correspondents Of The Star
SOMEWHERE IN INDIANA.
June IL, 1918.

June IL. 1918.
7F the folks back east could see
what I have seen in a week of
wandering through the rural dis
= tricts of the richest part of the
great middle west there no longer
would be any question in their minds
as to whether the farmers here are
behind the war.
They are behind the war-heart and
soul And if you don't believe that.
you have only to go into the fields for
a single day. There is where you
will have to go, by the way, if you
find the farmer, for he is in the fields
from sunup until shutdown and then
some.
It seems that every available piece
of land in this great fertile valley is
under cultivation. In the other days
before the war there was lots of
waste land here: good land, too, but
it frequently was out of the way
perhaps down on the side of a slope
or it was covered with brush, or it
offered some other reason for being
neglected. So. from year to year, the
best parts of the farms were culti-
waited and the land that required a
1iltie extra Work or inconvenience
was neglected.
But now all of that is changed. The
hillsides and the hramble land are
under cultivation as they never have
been before. Stumps are being blast
ed out, brush Is being cleared away.
and then, when all is set for the
blowing. the farmers drive Just as
close as they can to the fences and
get as many seed into the ground
al possible.
X
One of the most striking features
Of farm work this year is the pres
ence Of the middle-aged and old men
in the fields. A farmer from Bowling
Green, Mo-, Champ Clark's home
town, summed up the situation well
when he said to me:
The older farmers are learning
what hard work is this year. The
they have been called to cities to
work in the big industries. leaving
their parents and farm owners to do
their own work Left with the prop
osition of either farming his land
himself or letting 1t lie idle, the
in making his choice. He is doing
the big. patriotic thing and putting
his best ticks into the cultivation of
crops"
It seems to me that I have seen
more wheat in the fields this year
than I ever saw before in the many
years that lived in the middle west.
Time was when wheat was raised
through Indiana and Illinois on
rather large scale, but few years
ago the farmers of those sections
began to yield the wheat growing to
the farmers of Kansas, Minnesota and
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1918-03-21
Want Prisoner
For Burglary

Sergeant James Skeeley of the
California police arrived In Taco
ma Thursday morning to bring to
California Frank Oliverez who Is
wanted in San Francisco charged
with the robbery of jewelry store
of $4,000 worth of diamonds.
Oliverez or Joseph Miller, as he
was known in Frisco, is Just fin
ishing 90-day sentenue in the
county Jail for shoplifting In
Cherry's clothing store.
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"ADS" BROUGHT TO THE OFFICE

10 possible and convenient always pleased TO
those columns the offics,
and deal personally with the ad takers suggestion by
who familiar with writing classified ads often improves the
pulling Of the So have want ad that you
desire inserted to the office without inconve
nience, 1t Is always well to do