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Arizona republican., 1921-05-24
EMMA BERGDOLL HEATED IN
 STACKER PROBE
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WASHINGTON, May g. Mrs. Emma c. Bergdoll, mother of Grover Bergdoll, the stacker. again went to the bat today with the house investi- gating committee. After a two-hour cross examinat ton Mrs. Bergdoll came up smiling, for the committee refused to send her before the bar of the house for not answering questions bearing on her buried gold. There were times when the witness. rising from her chair and slamming the floor with a parasol denounced the inquiry as another persecution.
 It was while Representative John son, Republican of Kentucky. had the witness in hand that the clash oc cured. which caused him to offer a motion charging her with contempt. The committee, however, though best to decide this question in executive session and 10 minutes later the doors were opened and Mrs Bergdoll was told she might return home
 While making no attempt, as he ex- plained, to find where the woman had buried $105.000 obtained from the treasury in 1919. MT. Johnson drew from her the statement that it was on the Rergdon farm near Philadelphia. It was while he was trying to learn who assisted in hiding it that Mrs. otISuO1 IlSW lfitO d IdSt anu Qc- clared it was shame for members of congress to be so nasty MT. Johnson replied that he was trying to lay a foundation to see if she was telling the truth, at which Mrs. Berg doll launched into a tirade- This was checked by Chairman Peters: T refuse 10 give you any other in- format tion about the gold'' she shout ed, banging the table with her para sol T am sick and tired of it. You ought not to be so nosey. It's a waste of time and I don't propose to console you by answering it.
 Mrs. Bergdoll declared that all of the gold was placed in one hole, that nobody knew where and that if she died. it never would be found. Rep resentative Luhring, Republican oi Indiana, wanted to know if she would l dig it up and let the committee have i a look.
 .No. I won't" she exclaimed. "nol
 my children either, I would not pu l that temptation in your way Asked how Grover had been named 1 for President Cleveland. Mrs. Berg l doll shouted: He has got as goo,
 a chance as anybody here of becom ing president
 How many Liberty bonds did yol | buy?" Luhring asked.
 l None-that's how many. she re 1 piled. ..All the posters had in bii l words. Kill the Huns.' and I'm no T willing to kill anybody. And hoy many did you buy and how many di' : the president with his big salar
 buy?' But Chairman Peters stoppe the outburst.
 The committee found from Mrs
 Eergdolfs books that year az Grover Bergdoll paid income ta
 amounting to $5.330 and s137 for tn current year. The stacker, she sait
 was worth a half million dollars. fi The hearing will end tomorrow.
Arizona republican., 1921-05-24
Saue Money On Your Laundry

You save money when you save labor. This is true whether you do vour own work or have 1t done. You should therefore have expert advice on the arrangement of your work.
 You save money if you save your clothes from injury-from hardening, from fading, from shrinking. Be sure fo use the right kind of soap, the rirht kind of lye, the proper washing
 You should know how to use i;,tle soda when you put your clothes to soak and a little turpenune when they are yellow
 The department of agriculture has ,ade an exhaustive study of al tbese problems of the laundry has prepared bulletin that is now ready for free distribution. Oui , Washington Information Bureau vii s-af copy for you if you send Il t,our name and address with tw' ssnts in stamps for return postage.
Arizona republican., 1921-05-24
5 Union Officials
 Indicted For Part
 In Building Graft
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CHICAGO. May 23-Five union officials were indicted on charges of conspiracy to extort money to- day by the special state grand jury Investigating alleged graft in the building trades on evidence un- folded by the Daiey joint legisla- tive committee. The men against whom true bills were returned were Charles Wright. carpenters union: Albert Young. iron workers union; J. J. McAndrews, elevator conductors union; Michael Artery, teamsters union and Charles F. Peters, janitors union. All were named in connection with the pay ment of alleged graft to settle labor disputes.
Arizona republican., 1921-05-24
Thousands Of Acres Razed By Fires In
 Minnesota Forests
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 DULUTH, Minn., May 23.-A strip of heavy wooded forests 20 miles long and seven miles wide was burned by the fires which started in the Wales branch ot the Northeastern Minnesota forest reserve forestry men reported today. C. A. Mahl- gren, supervisor of the superior na- tionsl reserve, said today that the fires had stripped about o00.0O0.000 feet of timber in about 2.5o0 acres.
 Logging camps and sporting clubs have been destroyed by the fire ac- cordinx to reports
Arizona republican., 1921-05-24
Administration To Place Government On Business Basis
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NEW YORK, May 23.-The admin istration's purpose to place the fed eral government on a sound business basis, even at the cost of offending "a certain class of politicians" was re affirmed by President Harding to- day in an address here at a luncheon of the Academy of Political Science.
 The task, the president declared, already had shown that to be success fully completed it would require per sistent. determined. stony hearted de- votion to the public interest," without a trace of sympathy for the office holder whose only excuse for draw ing a salary is that he needs the money. Loss of certain sort of prestige to the administration. MT. Harding said, was certain to result, though it might be compensated in the long run by a realization of the good accomplished for the general public.
 Recapitulating the work already done by the reorganization commis- sion created by congress and by ex- ecutive orders of the administration the president said considerable prog ress was promised for the immediate | future.
 The text of the presidents address follows in part:
 | Everywhere we turn. we note tha1 government has in recent time as- stunned a more complex relationship tt | the public than it ever sustained be | fore. The mobilization of man power | industrial forces and financial re sources, made necessary in the war. exigencies. could only have been ac J complished through the exertion O the utmost powers of government. Working at War Pitch Many men thoGghtessly urged that when the government took owe the control. even the conduct of man,
 industries and facilities during tn }. twar. there followed a great increas lin wages. a vast expansion of bushes
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Arizona republican., 1921-05-24
Funeral Trust Will
 Be InUestigated By
 Chicago Grand Jury

CHICAGO. May 23- Investigation of an alleged funeral trust" was be- gun by the states attorneys office today following refusal of chauffeurs and liverymen to drive or supply automobiles for the funerals of two former soldiers.
 The trust was accused of having maintained minimum prices of s19.50 for hearse and $16.50 for each car in a funeral procession. Efforts of the combine. which was declared to rule a ma ajority of the undertakers and drivers in Chicago and the suburbs to prevent Sunday funerals, were said to have resulted in the | bombing of the rooms of an under taker who refused to abide by the | Sunday ban.
Arizona republican., 1921-05-24
Conscientious Wor Objector Dies On
 6Oth Day or Fast
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SELMA, la, May 2S-Walter Oliver, son of a wealthy farmer living near here died today on the sixtieth day of his self imposed fast.
 Oliver was a conscientious ob- 5ector and was sent to the federal penitentiary when he refused to don a uniform at Camp Dodge. 5 Upon his return to his home here short time ago, he became a re- cluse and so days ago entered into fast, declaring ''I will not take : fo 1cesstSi the Lord bless me"
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Arizona republican., 1921-05-24
Globe Miner Kills
 Girl: Shoots Self

GLOBE. May 23-Martin kriscola. 49 years old, a miner, shot and killed Rosa Franco. 19, late today and then turned his revolver and- fatally wounded himself with bullet through the head. Kriscola was said to be suitor to the girl who refused him because of the difference in their ages, according to the police.
Arizona republican., 1921-05-24
Reuoke License Of
 Ball Park Where 5
 "Block Sox" Played
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CHICAGO. May 23-A recommen- dation that the license of a baseball park where five indicted former members of the Chicago American league baseball team have been playing be revoked was voted today s to ?, by the city council judiciary committee. The five piayers-Felsch, Jackson. Risberg, Williams and Gan dil-have been appearing with a semi professional team in week end zaEG
Arizona republican., 1921-05-24
CHARLESTON GETS

ST. LOUIS. May 23.-Chafleston. w Va. was chosen for the next gen
 eral assembly of the Southern Pres ! byterian church at the sixty first general assembly today.
Arizona republican., 1921-05-24

u,,ederic I. Haskin, Director, 1-be Arizona Republican, Information Bureau Washington, D. C. enclose herewith two cents III i 1i,,,,,- of the Laundry Book. Verne street .-.-..----
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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-10-05

Once more the Gazette is moved to remark that
Redwood County can afford to cut off expenditures
in any other place rather than in her school sys-
tenn. One had only to go through the school ex-
hibit building; to see the products of club work
in livestock, garden, corn raising, etc.; to watch
the canning and baking demonstrations and to
see everywhere the evidence of the children's work
throughout the county to know that here is the
real energy, the real ability, the real hope of this
community as it is of any other community. And
vet whenever there is talk of a necessary cut in
expenditures, some old wiseacre rises up and tells
about the extravaganza in the school system; how
much more eff ecien and full of learning was the
schoolin' he got when be was a boy-and how in
fnitely CHEAPER and advocate that the school
rate be lowered. Folks-we can't afford to do it!
The next time it is suggested in your hearing re-
member what you saw at the Redwood County
Fair of the actual accomplishment of these school
children and determine that they shall not be
handicapped by curtailment of the funds for
necessary equipment or for qualified teachers:
It isn't extravaganza the schools need, but COM
mon sense and justice. We love our roads and
bridges and precious bitches, but Oh, you Ameri-
can school children!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-10-05

Joe Reynolds, in writing of the Redwood County
Fair in The Mankato Free Press said "In addi-
ton to the horse races there will be baseball games
each day." Gosh, Joe-there wasn't any place
for little time stuff like ball games at U show!
By the time everyone had seen the races, and the
tumblers, and the strong lady, and the bicycle man
and the other bicycle man, and the ~airplane stunts,
and ridden twice on the ferris wheel and once on
the merry-go-round and gone through that giggle-
giggle tent and let the big snake crawl over
them and had their fortune told and gone down@to
see the cunning little white calf, and the COW that
was all puffed up and a few of the other million
things, it was time to eat a hamburger or two
and get ready to start all over again. There re-
ally want no time for ball games.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-10-05

We have always felt that comparisons are ex-
ceedingly odious and it has always been the Ga
zette's policy to carefully avoid them. But we
can't keep our linotype from recording some of
those things which visitors to other fairs said
when they came to visit us last week. For in
stance, a Brown County man quite frankly told
the president of the Redwood County Association
(when the Gazette editor was standing around
with one ear to windward) II give it to you fell
lows for making things comfortable for your ex-
hibitors and for looking after their convenience.
It is much better than anything we have at home.
And say, these home-cooked meals which are fit
for the president of the United States, are a real
godsend to us stockmen who like to remain right
on the grounds with our stock. At home if we
want a real meal we have to go down town to get
it." eve try to be humble, but excuse US if we
put our thumbs in our armholes and strut just a
bit.)
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-10-05

If you and l and your relatives and my relatives
and your neighbors and my neighbors and all
their respective relatives on both sides, will just
each give to the Salvation Army Appeal next
week, just a small fraction of what we spent for
our own personal pleasure at the fair, the S. A.
will stand a pretty good chance of helping a few
of all those thousands of needy people it has on
it's lists. Chat above long-winded sentence is
just a request that you think of others comfort
about one fifth Of what you thought of your own
pleasure.)
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-10-05
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1921.
HARD TIMES.

w E have no right to compare our CONDITION
M with q state such as our imagination car
c%onjure- up for the qualification of extra.
vagent dreams. Such a comparison does not make
us poor, or hard up.
It is not what we want but what we need that
should give us the most vital concern.
One half of the automobile mileage of America
is wasted mileage. Think what that means in
time, gasoline and tires wasted!
Gum, candy, tobacco, booze and Refreshments"
of that nature are costing us a sum so large, each
year, that we can not comprehend it's enormity.
Those who are setting up this hard-times cry
should remember that it is more fair to compare
our situation with that of the rest of the world,
and with the condition Of people in other lands,
than it is to compare the Overland" we are rid
would like to ride in.
As far as finances are concerned America went
through the war on a wild joyride, with a loop
the-loop finish.
Since then we have been trying to adjust the
speed, that is all.
Young man and young woman, if you think that
these are hard times, talk to your father or your
mother, or your grandpa and your grandma about
the time when they came out here and settled on
these then barren, prairies, and let them tell you
what they went through. Let them tell you of
the things that they went without, and the time
that they had in getting the things that they ac-
tually needed-and, say, kid, if you do that you
will find that you know about as much about hard
times as a hog does about heaven!-Gunnar BIZ
ornson.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-10-05


About as good an answer as we know to the re-
cent question as to why high school diplomas
should not serve as certificates for rural school
teaching was found right in the school building at
the fair. No one could see that most splendid ex-
hibit of handiwork and class work done by the
school children of the county and not recognize
that back of these children are teachers who know
their Job and know how to impart their know
ledge. Many of these things, of course, were
made by children of graded schools whose teach
ers have had more or less special training in these
lines. But the ones of which we are particularly
speaking were those shown in the rural school ex-
hibits where there is only one teacher to teach
everything, when the equipment is more apt to be
something the pupils and teachers have adapted
than anything adequate provided by the board OF
Really remarkable are many OF the
things shown-and bear strong evidence OF the
teaching ability to be found in the rural schools
of the County.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-10-05
With a PrOviso.

One Saturday recently a friend of
mine served her. husband and two
small sons a hearty hot dinner at 1
o'clock.
When supper time came she said
to the boys: II am not going to both
er much with supper. l shall have
something light and airy"
The young boy, Clarke, who has
a healthy appetite, Immediately said:
That light and airy stuff is all right,
mother, if you have lots of it."-Ex-
change.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-10-05

"We would exhibit at the Redwood County Fair
if we had to tie every one of our herd to the fence
outside said one of the largest stock exhibitors
a man who has exhibited at many shows, including
state fairs. When stockmen of that stamp are
willing to put up with crowded quarters just for
the sake of being among those present at the
Redwood County event it is quite apparent that
it is SOME Fair.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-10-05

1t is aid that one-fifth of all the
gold in the world is in the u. S. trea-
sury. Even if we are the richest ma
ton in the world and have money ~
the billions stored away in the sxb-
treasures all over the country, II
does not bring good times. The hux
and influx of commercial relations be-
tween the countries of the world il
what makes times good in this
try. The haggling over peace has
cost the world far more in trade than
the war cost in money.-New Ulm
Journal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-10-05

til nightly .disconcerting to hunt around for
a stockman or somebody to tell you who is the
owner of a certain group of good looking cows,
how many prizes they took etc, and then, when
you do find such a person., to have him look scorn-
full and say Them? Oh, them is just nurse cows
for some of these'ere purebreds. They're just
grades and amt of no Importance" Anyway the
Gazette editor found it disconcerting-and awful
ly shriveling like.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-10-05

Well say that Oscar Borg is a good old house
keeper! That is slangy but sincere! And we
know we are about to be agreed with by every one
who spent any time at all on the fair grounds
last week! Mr.. Borg is the supervisor OF build
ings and grounds-and supervision with him
means a real job instead of a mere title. Com
ments are frequently heard concerning the un-
usual cleanliness and tidiness of the grounds, on
the careful preparation they undergo each year
before the fair opens, on the fact that so little re-
fuse is allowed to accumulate on them during the
fair and that there is such a general air OF being
well taken care of. Not everyone knows that this
is Mr.. Borg's particular line of helpfulness, and
that in keeping fairgrounds up to the high stand
ard he has set for his own work, he is doing a
great deal more than his bit in making the fair
the success it is. Horsemen have for many years
commented on the super-excellence of the Red
wood Falls race track without knowing that there
is just one man responsible for it-and may
heaven help the man whom oscar" finds abusing
that-track, for he'll sure need help! There is no
secret about the way in which Mr.. Borg attains
this perfection Of upkeep-it is the simple world
old, ever-efecient method of hard and careful
work; of get-right-down-and-dig tactics. Not al
ways popular methods these, but the only kind
that can be sure Of getting one hundred per cent
success fact which Mr.. Borg demonstrates in
his supervision every year.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-10-05

: The women surely were a credit to their sex
this year in the number of exhibits they made in
all departments. For the past few years these
for various reasons, have not been
we'll filled and the return to the old condition Of
full and running over was heartily welcomed by
all who find these products of the household arts
among the most interesting features at the fair.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-10-05

The most of the grumbling at the little breeze
which scampered over the fair grounds Wednes-
day vas done by the men, As one woman re-
marked-"Id like to tell each one of the grouches
to put on a hair net and then they'd be all right"
The women are the real good sports after all.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-10-05

Have you ever visited the Ramsey Park at
Redwood Falls? If not, you have missed the
most beautiful scenery in the state. Looking
up the gorge from the south is one of the
grandest sights in the Northwest and is only
equaled by the Dalles of the St. Croix. The
next time you plan your picnic, go to Ramsey
Park. You'll never regret it.-Bob Forest in
Lake Wilson Pilot.
Bob is the least bit mixed on his directions bu
RICHTER. tacks in his beauty judgment
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-10-05

II hope Sanger comes over from Windom-Td
like to have somebody from Cottonwood County
see a real county air-wa the statement Of one
exhibitor who has made the rounds Of county
fairs this year. Cottonwood County papers please
copy.)
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-10-05

How'd you like to be a valet to a Chester White
pig? After noting the pink-of-perfection con-
dition of the Rams herd we decided none of it for
us-and we amt a bit afraid of hard work either.
But the responsibility would certainly be the death
of us.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-10-05

1t was lots of fun to get out to the fair
ground early enough in the morning to see all
those Herefords and Shorthorns getting their
hair marcelled. We wonder why some of those
stock men haven't invented a permanent wave so
that they wouldn't have to go through the pro-
cess quite so often.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-10-05

Isn't it queer that the housekeeper who has
spent the afternoon at home always prepares a
delicious hamburger supper for the family who
has spent the afternoon on the fair grounds ?
Sometimes telepathy works by contraries.