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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-12-27
Highway Bonds to
Level Year Costs
WILL ENABLE STATE TO CHARGE
EACH YEAR WITH IT'S FAIR
SHARE OF COST OF ALL PER-
MANENT ROAD WORK.

Minnesota is paying now for the
roads of yesterday, today and tomor-
row.
Funds of 1922 are being used for
many highway improvements which
should have been made in past years
and which will serve for many future
years as much or more than at the
present time.
Charles NJ. Babcock, state highway
commissioner, in public statement
yesterday, made plain that to correct
this condition is the main purpose of
the proposal for first state highway
bond issues to be recommended by the
state highway department to the in
coming legislature.
'The Recommendation is aimed sole
ly to give a fairer share of highway
benefits for the taxes being paid now,
which can be done only through the
bond method" said Commissioner
Babcock. owe cannot avoid paying
now for road improvements which
should have been made long ago, but
we can justly pass on to future years
a fair portion of permanent highway
betterments many of which will last
for all time"
Official records show that nearly
l 500 miles of grading, some 80 miles
of paving, several expensive bridges
and other lasting improvements took
nearly half-40 per cent to be more
nearly exact-of the 1922 trunk high
way construction fund. Highway Of
ficials pointed out that the future
should share in the payment as we'll
as the benefits.
Commissioner Babcock repeated
that the highway bond recommended
lions are in line with lower taxation.
with taxes becoming burdensome, y
he said, "there is only greater reason
for letting the future pay for its share
of highway improvements in proper
ton to the use and profit it will derive.
Better roads reduce the costs of farm
transportation and motor vehicle OPP
Grafton and pay for themselves many
times over. Bonds, will provide i'm
mediate improvements which will stop
big drains on the public pocketbook-
indirect due to inadequate roads but
running into large figures annually.
It is simple economy. Practical tests
snow Cndt pOSSlDle savings oH Sdso-
line and tires would pay for paving
the 7,000-mile trunk system in few
years and the highway department is
urging that the public put into good
roads only the money or a part of il
which otherwise must be spent for
extra tires and gasoline and car up
keep items"
The commissioner again pointed out
that bond interest and principal can
be paid only with motor vehicle tax
receipts and federal aid and that the
bond plan will not interfere with road
tax reductions started when the state
took over the improvement and main
tenance of the arterial highways.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-12-27

Exports of corn from the United
States during the calendar year 1922
promise to exceed those of any year
since 1900, when the exports reached
190,386 ,489 bushels, according to the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture.
Most all the shootin' sports of Fair
fax, and some that are not shooters,
went on a rabbit hunt recently, after
choosing up sides. Mayor Huels-
kamp headed one bunch and they
succeeded in only sharing 81 out of a
total of ninety-two, shot by both par
ties. The losers fed up the winners
on a chicken dinner as result of the
hunt.
The case of E. F. Hayden VS.. the
North Western Railway company
came to a sudden close in district
court at Marshall when a settlement
was reached by the payment of $751;
500 to the plaintiff. Hayden, who
was struck by coal chute while
working as a fireman on the North
Western between Tracy and Water
town, asked the company for 100000
damages.
During the heavy windstorm,
which swept this part of the state
Thanksgiving day, thousands of crap
pies were cast upon the shores of
Lake Washington, LIE Sueur county
states the St. Peter Free Press. The
fish were blown from the shadows on
the northeast end of the lake. The
heavy gale raised huge waves on the
lake, which carried the fish out of the
shallow bottoms and far up on the
sloping beach. Many of them were
cast thirty feet from the shore line,
where many of them died. A large
number were picked up by those, who
heard of the incident.
Delegates from all county wool
growers associations in the state
and ather persons interested, will
meet at University Farm, St. Paul,
Thursday, January A, in connection
with Farmers and Homemakers' week,
to complete organization of a per-
manent state wool marketing as
ISOLATION. The organization meet
ing was held in St. Paul November Is,
under Farm Bureau Federation aus
pices. Since, special committees
have completed drafting a constitu-
ton, bylaws and other details that
had to be prepared before the per-
manent organization could be FORM
ed.
Recently the state supreme court
handed down a decision, reversing
the district court of Redwood coun-
ty, which is far-reaching in it's i'm
port T. j. Frederick had a contract
to construct county ditch in the
neighboring county. During the per-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-12-27
in January, OF Farmers and Home

in January, or Farmers and Home
makers Short Course week.
The horse, swine, and sheep breed
ers will meet on Tuesday, January 3,
and the different cattle breeders as
sociations on Thursday, January 4.
All associations will have their own
speakers and separate sessions.
The Minnesota Livestock Breeders
association, which may be called the
parent organization, will meet at the
farm on Friday, January 5. Three
outstanding speakers have been en-
gagged. C. w. McCampbell, head of
the animal husbandry division of the
Kansas College of Agriculture, will
speak on beef cattle; and Prof. III. III.
kildee, chief or animal husbandry at
Iowa State College at Ames, who
formerly occupied a similar position
with the University of Minnesota, will
discuss the dairying outlook. D. D..
Aitkin Of Flint, Michigan, nationally
known Holstein breeder, has also pro-
missed to give an address. The annual
banquet of the breeders association
will be held the evening of January 4.
The announcement bulletin for the
ninth annual Farmers and Home
makers Short Course for men and
women is now being mailed to all parts
of the state. Persons failing to re-
ceive it should address the director of
short courses, University Farm, ST.
Paul, for copies. Nearly every phase
of farm business and farm life will re-
ceive attention during this great short
course. Farmers should make their
plans now to attend.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-12-27
Good Roads Pace
Up to lawmakers
L LEGISLATURE TO DETERMINE
WHETHER NEEDED IMPROVE
MENTS IN MANY PARTS OF
STATE MUST WAIT.

More than half of needed trunk,
highway improvements which may be
made in the next two years are hang
ing on action by the incoming legis-
lature on the highway department re-
concentrations for first issues of
trunk highway bonds, according to
John H. Mullen, assistant commission
er and chief highway engineer.
There is no magic about road build
ing-it simply takes money in rea-
sonable proportion to the work under
taken," asserted the official. "Minne-
sofa has been fortunate in getting low
prices and in other ways since the new
highway program was launched, but
under the most favorable conditions
the highest standards of financing are
of first Importance.
First state highway bonds are pro-
posed now to permit the state to make
greatly needed improvements, to stop
maintenance waste, to give immediate
benefits in nearer proportion to i'm
mediate expenditures and to keep pace
in the general movement among states
for better highways.
"Unless the bond funds are made
available, it will be possible to do in
the next two years less than half as
much in the way of permanent better
ments than will be done otherwise. A
just policy of using funds to the best
interest of the largest numbers of
highways users gives precedence to
the heavy traffic routes. So in reality
the purpose, more than to permanently
improve many heavy traffic sections,
is to release money to go on with
very extensive grading and crawling
work on the longer mileages of lighter
travelled state highways. There is
now every prospect of favorable action
on the proposals and future results
will establish the good business prac-
tice behind the recommendations"
Mr.. Mullen said the department will
continue to distribute highway bet
terments as widely as possible but
that more adequate funds are needed
to overcome the greater increase in
traffic over highway improvements.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-12-27
10 Reasons For
Highway Bonds
RECOMMENDATIONS TO LEGIS-
LATURE SUPPORTED BY
BULLETINS.

Officials expressing confidence that
the proposal for first trunk highway
bonds by the next legislature will be
acted upon favorably, if fully and
correctly understood new bulletin
from the state highway department
publishes the following:
plan Is Just Good Business.
Hundreds of districts in the state
virtually all-borrow to build schools
and there are as good or better rea-
sons for borrowing to build roads;
also state credit is good, exceeding
debts by nearly $12 for every man,
woman and child in the state.
NO Increase in Road Taxes.
Under the state constitution only
motor vehicle taxes and federal aid
can be used on the trunk highways,
and gasoline, tire and other savings
through better roads already more
than offset automobile and truck
taxes, owners generally agree.
3-LOcal Road Taxes Dropping.
Relieved under the Babcock plan of
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-12-27

the big expense of improving and
maintaining the main highways, coun-
ties, townships and cities and villages
are levying less road and bridge
taxes, cut of nearly $1,300,0OO hav-
ing come the first year.
4-Good Roads Economy Proved.
Recent practical tests by recogniz-
ed experts show that the savings pos
sible on gasoline and tires alone
would pay the full cost, with interest
of paving the entire 7,000-mile sys-
tenn of Minnesota trunk highways in
a period of five years.
5-Pay-As-Y ou-Use Policy Sound.
Minnesota like other states is put
ting nearly half of it's highway con-
struction funds into foundations
grading, thing, etc.-good for all time
and fairness and good business de-
mands spreading of costs over the
years the roads will be used.
efficient Organization Now.
Minnesota highway department,
standing on the last 18-months' rec
ord, is willing that the public should
judge whether the highway program
is being efficiently and economically
handled and whether the state is
equipped to get biggest results and
success.
Highway Bonds Agreed To.
Good Roads Amendment No. /,
adopted by to l vote, provides for
trunk highway bond issues which
many citizens believed were being
voted direct, and the provision is but
one sound feature of a model scheme
of highway development, experts
agree.
S-Will Keep More Money at Home.
The new highway program is only
diverting to road betterments the
money which otherwise would be
spent outside the state for more new
cars, extra tires and gasoline, and is
not taking a dollar of additional mon
ey from Minnesota motor vehicle tax
payers.
9-Highway Work Prices Are Low.
Recent bids on highway improve
ment projects show that prices now
are at extremely low levels, probably
lower than the state may profit by
again in years, and that general con-
ditions are right to secure extensive
highway improvements with a mini
mum of outlay.
10-Other States Speeding Up.
Minnesota must look to it's reputa-
ton as good roads state, now that
others are using far greater funds for
road betterments with $780,
100000, Missouri with $116,0O0,000,
and Illinois with S6O,OO0,OOO of bonds;
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-12-27
Bond Issues

(From The ST. Paul Daily News)
The legislature, meeting January 2,
will have before it several bond pro-
posals.
These include the S20,0O0,0O0 issue
for speeding up the good roads pro-
gram, and another issue for the gen.
eral improvement program in ST. Paul.
For some reason a horror seems to
arise in the minds of numerous citizens
when bond issue is talked Of. They
are opposed to any kind Of public
debt.
We cannot share this horror with
them, unless they can demonstrate
that the money will not be properly
expended. We regard properly
limited and restricted bond issue as
the best kind of business.
1t is simply doing in a public way
what every successful man is doing
in private way. The building of a
home will suffice as simple illustra-
tion. 1t is the desire of every man,
we dare say, to have home of his
own, but yet as a matter of plain prac-
tice mighty few men will have homes
if they have to accumulate enough
money to pay for one before they start
building it.
What the sensible man does is save
money enough to buy lot. Then he
makes arrangements to have his home
built, gives mortgage on it and pro-
ceeds to occupy the house and enjoy
the satisfaction of having home
while he is paying for it.
That is, in simple terms, what q
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-12-27
Does Crank
Start Fires?
MANKATO, WINONA AND HAM.
LINE FIRES MAY HAVE BEEN
SET BY sFIREBUG."

A plot to destroy normal school,
college and university buildings in
Minnesota by fire, which already has
caused S1,000,000 loss this year, is
indicated as State Fire Marshal G..
I'll. Nettleton Investigated a small
blaze at Hamline university and was
called upon to investigate 100000
fire at Winona State Teachers college.
Circumstances surrounding t h e
100000 Winona fire lay exactly par
allel the 100000 fire February 5,
which destroyed the Mankato State
Teachers college. officials said.
W. G. Norton, Winona fire chief, and
Ben E. Bangerter, Mankato fire de-
partment head, agreed that clues
pointed to incendiarlsm in each case.
Both fires destroyed educational
landmarks, as we'll as historical and
educational records, which cannot be
replaced.
Clues which point to incendiarism
at both the Winona college and Man.
kato college fires, and support the
theory of plot, according to Off
Gals, are:
Fires started early on a Sunday
smoldered a long time and were
beyond control when discovered.
Both fires started in the basement
of a main building
Origin of the fires was not deter
mined.
Suspicious persons were seen lol-
tering about the campus before at
least one of the blazes.
"There was a long and thorough
investigation of the Mankato fire, "
Chief Bangerter of Mankato said,
land suspicion pointed to two or three
persons, but evidence never was found
sufficient to warrant arrests.
FLAMES had made such a Roadway
that most of the clues were lost.
Marshal Asked to Investigate.
II have asked the state fire mar
shall to investigate the Winona fire"
Chief Norton said
Between l a. m. and 2:45 a. m.
Sunday several persons saw light il
the library building on the Winona
college campus. The library is con-
nected by an underground tunnel
with the basement of the main build
ing, where the fire started. This tun-
mel is left open at all times for use of
people in either building.
when | answered an alarm shortly
after 5 a. m, | drove around the
buildings. There was no light in the
library building, but later I found d
window in the room where the light
had been seen, had been left open"
Puzzled Regarding Motive.
Authorities who are inclined to the
belief that the fires were set are puz-
zled regarding a motive. One sug-
gestion that is being followed is that
crank opposed to all forms of edu-
cation might have been responsible.
It is evident that, if the fires were Of
incendiary origin, the firebug was
careful to cause no loss of life. When
the Winona and Mankato state col
Ieges were destroyed no persons could
possibly have been in the buildings.
There is the further theory that a
frebug, eager for excitement and the
thrill that a spectacular fire brings,
was responsible.
State Fire Marshal Nettleton said
he was not satisfied, as yet, with the
Hamline university blaze. The fire
burned papers taken from store
room, damage being nominal. DR.. S.
F. Kerfoot, president of the university,
said he had established nightwatch-
men on the campus as result OF the
blaze.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-12-27

iod of construction, heavy rains
washed sediment into the ditch, part
ly filling same. The contractor was
requested to clean out the ditch be-
fore the county would pay him the
balance due, which he refused to do,
claiming he was not responsible for
damage to the ditch by reason of
weather conditions. The county won
the case in the district court. An
appeal was taken and the supreme
court reversed the findings in district
court.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-12-27

bond issue means. 1t is method of
getting public improvements and en-
joying them while they are being paid
for.
We fail to see why there should be
any objection to such a practice, as
Stunning, of course, that those who pay
the bill get full value for their money,
and that it is not distributed among
scheming contractors in the way of
exhorbitant profits.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-12-27
Breeders of Livestock
Will Rally at ~" Farm

Minnesota livestock breeders asso-
Citations will hold their annual meet
ings at University Farm the first week
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-12-27

Pennsylvania spending $4,000, 900
and Wisconsin $37 100000 year, and
so forth.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-05-03
MELLON CREATES SURPLUS

Secretary Mellon is certainly the
modern wizard Of finance. BY SIM
pie twist of the wrist he changes a
deficit into a surplus, thus:
There is an admitted threatened de-
ficit OF $4,000 600 for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1922. Within that pc
Rod $71, 100000 obligations fall due. BY
postponing the payment Of these OBJ
legations until next year the secretary
of the treasury is able to make 1t APP
pear that there will be a surplus OF
s47,O000 900.
This is the same kind of financial
sleight of hand by which $17,000,000 is
put In the list OF Savings" of the
Harding administration when $4,000
600 of Pittman Act certificates fell due
and were not paid.
Secretary Mellon has already ad-
mitted that there will be a deficit of
s484, 600, 900 for 1923, but this does not
include proposed $4,000, 900 for Mr.
Lasker. or s75.O0O,OOO for the initial
bonus, s17,000,0 900 extra for rivers and
harbors, and $6O.OOOoOO extra for the
navy in excess of General Dawes esti-
mates. There is a prospective deficit
therefore, for 1923 of $500, 0000 900, and
the administration is going right on
claiming that it is saving money, prac-
ticing economy and reducing taxes.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-05-03
BOSTON AND LEE

Editor Pensacola Journal:
During the recent conclave OF knights
Templar at New Orleans, an incident took
place worthy of mention, and the following
from the New Orleans states is of inter
est:
lone of the most interesting incidents
OF the visit OF the knights Templar to
New Orleans was that which occurred at
the statue Of Robert L. Lee and was re-
corded in our local columns
1t was a salute of the bronze figure
OF the Southern chieftain by one Of the
visiting communicates and the placing of
a beautiful wreath at the base of the
white marble shaft on which il stands.
If Southern commandeTy had been
the author Of this pretty bit Of sentiment
the incident probably would have passed
without much notice. But it gains very
much in significance from the fact that
the commandery was from Boston. cap
ital OF q state which was a conspicuous
factor on the Union side in the civil war.
We do not know what moved this fine
Boston commandery to a notable act
whether il was a recognition Of Lees
worldwide fame as a soldier or a desire
to show that since the youth of the
North and South have fought and died
together in two foreign wars since our
own internecine strife there is no longer
room for sectionalism in this republic, or
that, the Templars, being a Christian or
ganization, il was deemed by these real
Yankees fitting that a tribute should be
paid to a soldier who was not only IL
military genius but sublime Christian
to whose superb Christian character, in
deed, we remember no finer tribute than
that OF Father Delamoriniere, of our own
Southland, one of the greatest Of the ora
tors Of America and the Catholic church.
whatever the motive, the Boston COM
mandery ought to commend itself to all
Southerners, indebted to all Americans,
for having had the happy thought to
make the New Orleans conclave the &C.
casion for an incident which evidences
how completely the great world war is
removing the traces Of sectionalsin."
Boston Commandery No. l, knights
Templar, is the Oldest eommandery in
the United States, being organized in
1905, and its present membership consists
of quite a few men who fought on the
Union side during the civil war. 1 am
sure we will admire the sentiment ex-
pressed by the action of this lit year old
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-05-03
MAN LOSES HUNDREDS
OF DOLLARS

II am sorry,T did not hear of Mayr's
Wonderful Remedy few years ago,
as it would have saved me several
hundred dollars. Five years I suffered
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grew worse all the time. Ny doctor
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for the past year have been entirely
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the inflammation which causes prac-
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ailments. including appendicitis One
dose viii convince or money refunded
Crystal Pharmacy and druggists every
Observation-Disclosures
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-05-03
DAVIS HOWE WEDDING LAST NIGHT AT
CHRIST CHURCH BRILLIANT SOCIAL EVENT

Suggestive of the Springtine in its
floral setting and charming in its simple
dignity and beauty of detail was the
wedding of Miss Beatrice Howe, only
daughter of Mr.. F. w. Howe, to Captain
]. z. Davis, U. s. NJ. c., last night at
Christ church.
The ceremony took place at nine
o'clock, and long before the appointed
hour the church was crowded with
friends of the bride and groom, service
society having been largely represented,
as well as the city and bayshore. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev. j.
G. skottowe.
The Decorations
The interior of Christ church lends it
self beautifully to decoration, and never
was it lovelier than in it's profusion of
pure white Easter lilies and exquisite
pink gladioli, with white oleander and
magnolia blooms used against the green
of palm and vine, under the soft glow of
many candles, which shed their bright
but softened radiance from high above
the altar and on either side, from many
single and branching candelabras.
The pure white blooms of the Easter
lilies were used in profusion about the
altar and the chancel rail was banked
with many growing foliage plants against
which the white oleanders were rnassed,
with the magnolia blooms used in such
a way as to suggest that they were
growing from the green hedge which was
formed.
Tall palms on either side formed an
arch under which the wedding VOWS were
taken, and here and there smaller palms
and other foliage plants were seen, max
ing a background of green to throw into
relief the vases Of white Easter lilies and
exquisite pink gladioli, used to carry out
the color tones of the wedding. The