New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-03-19

: he failed to make and gave me back
1855. guess ! was lucky at that
Felix, Reinhart was caught with seed
grainson hand that he had sold to two
OF his neighbors but which they had
not yet taken to their homes. His.
explanation did not suffice and he had
to turn it in for the benefit Of the Red
Cross.
Herman Fritsche was forced to join
the Farm Bureau and to come across
with $500. Frank Retzlaff and Carl
Kamn were fined $50 each for auto hire.
Joseph Beraneck said that he con Z
| lied with. the notice published in the
paper and hauled his wheat to the.
elevator without waiting for orders
to DO 50. But that he found it Eek
pedlent' to turn the entire proceeds,
1 amounting to 1920, over to the Red
/ Cross.
William Palmer complained that he
had to give virtually all the proceeds
from three loads OF wheat to the Red
! Cross.
John Klingler said his wheat slip
called for 1854, and that he gave 1929
to the Red Cross, and paid Wye $25
Tor car expenses.
Got None OF $476 Due Him
i Peter sWendinger said his wheat
slips from Gibbon and New Ulm ele-
yators totaled $476; that he gave $3.50
to the Red Cross, bought $40
worth Of War Savings Stamps, and
/ doesn't know what became Of the
! balance. He received no money, he
said, and claims he had hauled his
!, wheat to market two days before WYE
land Cutting appeared at his place.
i John Kokesch also alleges he had
hauled his wheat to market before
Wye instructed him. to do SO: He
Esays he sold l44 bushels at $2.01 a
bushel, and that all Of it went to the
Red Cross excepting SIS, which WYE
deducted for expenses when he told
him he had no other money on hand.
/ William Rieke OF Gibbon said he
had delivered $23S5 worth OF wheat
and had his slip for it when Cutting
called at his home He said his wife
told Cutting to turn the entire proceeds
over to the Red Cross and not bother
/ them
Elevator Also Accused
/ N. Reinhart of CORTLAND said that
after the proceeds from 273 bushels
of wheat belonging to him had been
given the Red Cross he was compelled
! to dig down in his pockets for $40 adj
ditional to pay expenses. He also
contends that the elevator where he
sold his wheat took advantage OF the
Red Cross, for whereas his wheat al
ways before had been graded as No. 2
lin this instance it was graded as No.
4, and brought only $1.97 bushel.
/ Similar complaints are voiced by
many farmers throughout that cons
munity, among them being Robert
Runck, Mat. Walser, August Schnei-
der, Benjamin Janni, Joseph Griebel,
Henry Biebel, Otto Sprenger, T.. Man
derfeld, Pred Bianchi, Emil Golnick,
Alexander Russell, L. P. Bushard
Alexander Russell, L. P. Bushard, r..
Massopust, Fred Rolloff, John Quinn
Charles SteAen, George Drummer, Carl
Kamm Gus Fehlman. Robert Lieder
and others.
tIn addition to the outrageous con-
tributions demanded for the Red Cross
our farmers we're obliged to pay ex-
cessive fees for what the agents termed
car expense = Herman Pfaender said
ct seems this item Of expense ranged
anywhere from 50 to $500. II the
i farmer had the amount in his pockets,
he was forced to hand it over. Ii he
didn't have it, the agent deducted it
from the wheat sale check that was
turned over to the Red Cross. |
should like to know how these car
expenses items were credited in the
/ agents accounts. In one commun-
| ity near Searles four farmers were fined
I a total Of $40 for car expense. The
four Of them would have contributed
even more if Joe Sperl hadn't talked
the. agents into reduction from
$40 to $40
Pfaender asserted that it is the
practice Of all thrifty farmers to re-
tain seed grain from the previous years
crop: to insure clean seed for the next
planting, and, to his knowledge, none
Of the farmers penalized had
more than enough wheat on hand
than was required for seeding purposes.
Contradictory items had appeared in.
some Of the farm papers concerning
the privilege Of holding seed grain,
he said. and this is what caused much.
Of the confusion.
John H,lelskamp explained that work