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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-11-08
Student Play
Is Big Success s 4
FULL HOUSE GREETS YOUNG
AMATEURS WHO PRESENT
HURRY! HURRY! HURRY!

A capacity house greeted the cast
of Hurry! Hurry! Hurry! when the
curtain of the armory theatre went up
for the first act of the play last Fri y
day evening. This was especially
appreciated by all the students of the
school as well as the cast since the
play was given as a benefit for the
schools athletic fund. The net pro
ceeds of the evening fully met the
expectations of those promoting the
benefit.
Under the able direction Of Miss
Anes Of the high school faculty the
play was splendidly presented, the
young actors without exception taking
their parts exceedingly we'll. The
lines were read with /promptness
and accuracy rarely met with in stu
dent productions, this making the en-
tire presentation go with smoothness
and ease. Several of the parts were
taken with cleverness which would
have been creditable in much older
cast.
The leading feminine part, that OF
Floy Hooker was very well presented
by Lois Ball who made snappy and
vivacious debutante. Mildred Tout
as the Languishing Leitita was also
very much in character. Lilah Marvin
as the Modern Mother and Margaret
Brammer as the Pert Housemaid were
also very pleasing and able,
Clifford Reynolds, playing opposite
the leading lady, was all that could
be asked for as handsome and mast.
erful lover, Alvin Bittrich was the
clever comedy bit of the play and as
Ted Stone possibly did the most fin
ished work of any one in the cast.
Other male parts were well taken by
Howard Whitcomb who played Father
Hooker, Everett Fuhr who very well
pictured the modern brainless college
boy and Jack Wilson who ran to the,
other extreme, and as Professor
Alosius Bartholomew, got himself
much disliked for his all too-welghty
intellect.
Music for the ocassion was furnish
ed by a special orchestra lead by Mr..
Bittrich, the Instrumentation consist
ing of piano, first and second viollns,
cello, cornet, trombone and traps. The
several selections given by the orch
estra were well played and very gem
erously applauded by the audience.
Special numbers were given by the
Ladies Sextet under the direction OF
Miss lone Pickle. Two selections
were sung, the first Dreaming" and
the second "Jolly Gypsies", the latter
being given in costume. The sextet
consists of Misses Ruth KuenzE,
Evelyn Warner, Mabel Walter, Mabel
Mason, Leila Ebright and Lorena
Johnson.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-11-08
Judge Chas. Half
Red Cross Leader
STATE HEADQUARTERS OPEN
AT GRANITE FALLS; PLANS
--~v1.sss FOR RoLLssCAI1..

On October 10Th there was opened
at Granite Falls, Mimi. under the
direction of Judge Charles F. Hall a
state office for handling in Minnesota
the Sixth Roll Call of the American
Red Cross. He is assisted by Miss
Grace Hayes, Minnesota Field Re
preventative, and Miss Gladys Ham
blin of Minneapolis. According to
Judge Hall the state is already well
organized and plans fer the work are
now under way.
Preparatory to the campaign, four
regional conferences were held at
Glenwood, ST. Cloud, Rochester, and
Grand Forks which were largely at.
tended, byrepresentatives from near
ly all the Minnesota chapters. The
various activities of the Red Cross
were presented by Chapter and Divi
sion representatives and Roll Call
plans were outlined by the State Direc
tor Mr.. Walter Davidson of Chicago
Manager of the Central Division, was
also present.
The Red Cross is chartered by the
government to relieve and prevent
suffering in peace and war, at home
and abroad. It's expenditures are au-
dited by the government. It's great
work of assisting Disabled Ex-Service
Men, it's Health Service, Disaster Re
lief, and Junior Red Cross Activities,
are the highest expression of Christian
life among the people. The Red Cross
is our messenger of mercy, service
and good will to the stricken nations
overseas.
The American Red Cross is now q
volunteer army of 100000 men ano
women with an auxiliary force OF
100000 Juniors.
From Armistice Day, November |
to Thanksgiving Day, November 3Oth
the Roll of the Red Cross will be call
ed to enlist 100000 men and women
Of this nation. 135, 900 of them are to
be from the State of Minnesota.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-11-08
REDWOOD MINNESOTA WEDNESDAY NOV. s, 1922.
Will Restore
Oldest Church
DIR. A. w. ROSS INTERESTED IN
RESTORATION Of CEMETERY
AT TRAVERSE DEs SIOUX.

DR.. A. w Ross was in ST. Peter
Wednesday and Thursday of last week
working with a committee which Is
greatly interested in the restoration
of the Traverse des Sioux cemetery.
An effort is being made not only to
restore the cemetery in honor. of
those who are buried therein, but to
also place there a chapel which shall
be a replica of the oldest church
building in Minnesota, this building
having been located near the cemetery
originally. In this cemetery lies the
dust of DR.. Williamson who came
here as the first Protestant Missionary
in 1884 and worked among the people
who are now buried in the cemetery.
The committee consists of DR.. Ross
chairman, Col E. E. Miller and DR..
McGiffen.
Twenty-Five hundred dollars is the
amount required for the restoration
and Dr. Ross states that six hundred,
thirty three dollars have already been
raised by the citizens of St. Peter and
an additional two hundred dollars is
also in sight. An effort will be made
to raise the remainder as speedily as
possible in order that no more time
may be lost in paying due respect to
the men and women who did pioneer
work in Minnesota and to the building
which played SO important part IN
the early history Of the state.
Keen interest is felt in this project
by all who have lived in the vicinity
of the church and cemetery as well as
by those who have relatives or old
family friends buried there. Col.
Brown of Washington learned. Of the
work of DIR. Ross and his committee
through an article which appeared re-
Gently in the St. Peter Herald. He
Immediately wrote letter expressing
his cooperation and enclosing a sub :,
stantial check for the fund.
DR.. Ross feels keenly the fact that
the original church building, which is
still standing, has been used for the
past thirty years as slaughter house.
Even though it were possible to obtain
possession of this structure-which is
not possible at the present time-it
would be impossible to restore it to
anything resembling decency of con-
dition and the committee hopes that
sometime in the future it may be
practical to have it absolutely destroy
ed Plans. exactly copying it have
been drawn however, these plans in
cluding chapel room exactly like the
original church on the first floor, with
vault, caretaker's supply room and
furnace in the basement. .5as
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-11-08

With election returns still unofnclai
it is apparent that at the present time
"wednesday noon) Shipstead is IN the
lead for United States Senator, Sena-
tor Kellogg a close second and Mrs.
Oleson third. The Shipstead faction
is basing it's hope on early returns
from the Twin Cities and Duluth
which went strong for the Farmer
Labor candidate. Whether the re-
turns from the country districts Will
be strong enough to overcome this
lead will be shown within the next
few hours.
It is also conceded that Congress
man Volstead of the Seventh Con-
gressional District is defeated.
However the official count will un-
doubtedly make a change in his op-
ponent's majority which has not yet
been arrived at with anything like ac-
curacy.
Governor Preus and the other mem
bers of the State Republican ticket are
admitted to be safely elected, the most
of them by. very wide margins. jus.
tice Quinn is also considered to be
safely elected.
In Redwood County some surprising
results were obtained as is shown by
the above tabulation of the unofficial
vote from the forty three precincts.
it is apparent that the County is
In addition to the results thus shown
pretty evenly divided upon the Kel-
-Shipstead fight although the
slowness with which returns are COM
ing inson the state ticket makes ac-
curacy on this matter impossible at
this time. The entire vote cast was
between five and six thousand.
OF the votes reported upon IN the
County Fern Kennedy, candidate for
reelection as superintendent OF Coun-
ty Schools, polled the largest vote. IT
is possible that the complimentary
vote given Congressman Frank Clague
swilf equal or exceed this but because
Mr.. Clague had no opposition his vote
has not vet been reported. Louis Kise,
candidate for reelection as sheriff
also polled an exceedingly heavy vote.
Judge A. C. Dolliff candidate for
State Senator stated at noon today
that he had lost Brown County to
Ronaberg by about twelve or fifteen
how Brown voted on the Rothenburg
how Brown voted on the Rathenburg-
Kramer election but it was estimated
before election that the county would
90 strongly for Kramer and his elec-
tion as Representative Large is
conceded. G.. M. Bendixen was re-
turned. to the House by an appreciable
majority as the table shows.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-11-08
Refugees Need
Much Clothing
EVERYONE ASKED TO GATHER
CLOTHING TO SUPPLY DESTI-
TUTE CHILDREN OF GREECE. :

Through Miss Lucille Joscelyn, the
executive secretary of the Redwood
County Red Cross Chapter the follow
ing appeal is being made to every
thoughtful and sympathetic person in
the County.
"a call has come to every Chapter
worker in the American Red Gross,
both adult and Junior, asking that
clothing be sent at once to meet. the
appalling needs of the refugees in
Greece. For generations great
Greek colony has existed in and about
the city of Smyrna, Asia Minor. AS
a result. of war between Turks and
Greeks, the Greek Army has been
driven out of Turkey and an attempt
has been made by the Turks to force
the entire Greek population of Asia
Minor out of the country.
''The Greek Government, impover~
ished by a succession of disastrous
wars, is unable to meet this emergen-
cy and has appealed to the American
Red Cross. for help. The response
of the Red Cross has been prompt
Not only are American relief work
ers now enroute to Greece, but large
purchases of food, clothing, blankets
etc, have already been made. But
from the Chapters must come the
infants clothing, the shoes, the
warm suits and coats at once if they
are to reach the refugees in time
Quotas will be sent to every Chapter
from the Division offices, but do not
wait for this letter, get together
whatever garments you have on hand
organize your collection committee
your cutting committee, and send at
once whatever material you have
ready for shipment.
Mrs. Frank Parish has consented to
act as chairman of the committee to
be orangized in Redwood Falls fol
this relief work. 1t is hoped to have
on this committee one member from
each womens organization in the city
Until the committee is fully organizes
however, garments and other articles
Of clothing may be left with Mrs
Parish or with Miss Joscelyn at the
courthouse. The need is urgent ano
the response should be ready.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-11-08
Mrs. Sheua Lutz

Mrs. Shella Lutz, a former resident
of Redwood Falls, died early Monday
morning at Rochester. The body WI,
arrive in Redwood Falls today ana
funeral services will be held at the
Methodist Church Thursday afternoon
at two o'clock with Rev. Paul Grove
officiating. Interment will be made
in the Redwood Falls cemetery where
Mrs Iutz's husband was buried thir-
teen wears ago. Mrs. Lutz is survived
by four daughters who will come 70
Redwood Falls to attend the service
Mrs Lillian Hall, who has been IN
Minneapolis with the Misses Lutz,
viii also come to Redwood Falls TO
attend her sisters funeral.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-11-08
Pat0n-TrOseth

Miss Berndetta Patton, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Patton of Redwood
Falls was married October 20 to
Ralph Troseth, the marriage taking
place at Blackfoot, Idaho where Miss
Patton was attending teachers inst
itute The wedding was very informal
and Mr.. and Mrs. Troseth left immedi-
ately after by motor for Portland,
Oregan, where Mr.. Troseth is in busi-
ness. Mrs. Troseth spent the sum-
mer in the National Park and met her
husband there The announcement
comes as a big surprise to her Red
wood friends all of whom extend hear
ty congratulations.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-11-08

Mrs. w. B. Clement returned Satur-
day night from a weeks visit IN Mill
neapolis.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-11-08

T. Keefe made a trip to Morton
Tuesday in order to vote in his own
home town.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-11-08
Revere will hold it's annual

Revere will hold its annual Red
Cross meeting sometime next week,
>fne date not having been definitely set
las vet. A playlet will be given by
the school children of the village,
!. there will be several numbers OF specl-
Al music and Miss Joscelyn will give,
4 talk on Red Cross work in Redwood
County. The meeting will close with
the election of officers.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1922-11-08

Mrs. J. E. Mulligan and daughter
returned to Minneapolis Monday at
ter a weeks visit at the home of Mrs.
Lillian Lamberton.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1922-11-19
90 Dour Hmas @boppinQ eap Early ~=
OUR TOY DEPARTMENT SPREADS ITS
WONDERS OVER A WIDE SPACE
ON OUR THIRD FLOOR

ON OUR THIRD FLOOR
Every day unlocked and added already
selections of fascinating things made in this
country imported from Europe. Santa Claus is hero
Surprise Packages for little boy and little
girl at Is cents each.
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-12

Mexican labor was imported, as
many as $50 men being en-
ployed at a time.
A short time after the first
laborers had arrived, smallpox
broke out among them and it
was necessary to send away
those not attacked by the dis
ease. Kit Carson was at the
post at the time, and he, with
the Bent brothers, was a victim
of the epidemic. but none of
the white men died.
A vivid account of Bent's
Fort in 1889 was given some
years later by Thomas J. Farm
ham, a traveller, who mentioned
having met two Of the brothers
on his visit there. They were,
he said, clad like trappers in
splendid deerskin hunting
s h i + t S and G S,
with long fringes on the outer
seams of the arms and legs, the
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-12

shirts decorated with designs
worked in brightly colored por-
cupine quilts, and on their feet
moccasins covered with quill
work and beading.
The great establishment,
standing alone in the midst of
a wilderness, much impressed
Farnham, who not long before
had left a region where men, if
not crowded together, were at
least numerous. He spoke of
the fort as a solitary abode of
men seeking wealth in the face
of hardship and danger, and de-
clared that it reared its towers
over uncultivated wastes of ma
ture like an old baronial castle
that had withstood wars and
desolations of centuries. To
him the Indian women, walking
swiftly about the courtyard
and on the roofs of the houses,
clad in long buckskin dresses
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-12

camped nine miles below the
fort after its long and weary
march across the plains from
Missouri. On the morning aft
er its arrival the for was filled
to overflowing with soldiers
and officers, white trappers,
Mexicans. Cheyennes, Arapa-
hoes, Kiowas and scores of the
Indian wives of trappers from
the far away Columbia and st.
Lawrence, the Missouri and
the Yellowstone. The scene
was a picturesque one, there be-
ing a babel of tongues and jar
CONS. The walls were lined
with men, women and children,
all eager to watch the white
soldiers.
A cloud of dust appeared
moving up the valley "at the
rate of a horse walking fast" at
length announced the appear
ance of the troops. AT the head
of the column rode General
Kearney. Behind him came a
company of the old United
States Dragons, followed by a
regiment of Missouri cavalry
volunteers, two battalions of
volunteer cavalry and a couple
of companies of infantry. It
was an army of 1,700 men and
it greatly impressed the In
dams, who until now had not
realized that there were half
as many men in the whole
white tribe" Swinging to the
left as it neared the fort, the
column marched up the valley,
forded the river to the Mexican
bank and went on its way. Part
reached Santa Fe, part marched
through to California and part
went to Mexico City. For sew
eral hours while the troops
marched by, Charles Bent en-
tertained in the fort a group of
officers, serving mint-juleps. A
few months later some of these
men marched from Santa Fee to
Taos to avenge the murder of
Charles Bent.
BY 1850 the fur trade had
begun to decline, the beaver
having been pretty thoroughly
out of many of the
mountain streams. Besides that
the silk hat had been invented
and was rapidly taking the
place of the old beaver hat. The
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-12

mountains were full of idle
trappers, and a colony of these
settled on the present site of
the city of Pueblo, where they
farmed in a limited way and
struggled much whisky from
Mexico to the plains country.
The stagnation of the beaver
trade, of course, affected the
trade of William Bent, whose
chief business was now in buff
falo robes and horses. The es-
Establishment at the fort was
much reduced, and in the early
SOS Bent tried to sell it to the
government for a military post.
AS too small an amount was Of
fered, in 1852 he laid charges
of gunpowder in the buildings
and blew the old fort into the
air.
Bent thereafter built a new
fort below Fort William and
leased it to the war department.
In the late COS he built sti1l an
other post, where he died in
May, 1869. His friend, Kit
Carson, died at Fort Lyon, Col
orado, just a year before.
George Bird Grinnell, in his
interesting narrative, Beyond
the Old Frontier, tells of visit
Ing the sit of Bent's Fort 10
years ago and describes its ap-
pearance then as follows:
I'm the autumn of 1912 I
stood on this historic spot, still
bare of grass and marked on
two sides by remains of the
walls, in some places a mere
low mound, and in others a wall
four feet high, in which the
adobe bricks were still recog-
nizable. Here and there were
seen old bits of iron, the frag-
ments of a rusty horseshoe. of
a rake and a bit of cast iron
which bore letters and figures
which could be made out as
portions of the words, st.
Louis, 1859
Such, briefly, is the end of
Bent's Fort, the oldest, largest
and most important of the fur
trading posts on the great
plains Of the United States.
The land on which the fort
stood has been given over to
the care of the Daughters OF
the American Revolution to be
used as a public park for the
counties of Otero and Bent
Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-12

/ muskets and pistols completed
the means of defense.
Two immense swinging
doors made of heavy planks,
studded with heavy nails and
plated with sheet-iron, to resist
fire, formed a wide gateway in
the east wall Of the fort, and
over this, the main gate, was
a square watch tower from the
top Of the belfry surrounding
which a flagstaff rose. This
watch tower consisted Of a sim
gle room, with windows on all
sides and a spy-glass mounted
on a pivot. Here was stationed
continuously a sentry, with a
chair and a bed for his con-
venience, and if anything IN
usual were noticed through the
telescope he gave notice and
proper precautions were imme-
diately taken. A huge bell in
the watch tower sounded the
hours for meals.
Perhaps the only feature of
the place which might come un-
der the head of a luxury was
a combination bar and billiard
room, a second story room ris-
ing above the walls at the back.
The various warehouses,
stores and living rooms were
ranged around the walls of the
fort and opened into the court
yard within. Whenever In
dams entered the fort to trade
cannons were loaded and SEN
tries patrolled the walls ready
for action on an instant's no.
tice. In the later years of it's
existence, however, these pre-
cautions are said to have
ceased. The corrals were out
side the fort and were built SOL
idly Of wood, with cactus plants
on top Of the walls to prevent
any marauders from going
cover the top"
Difficulties Of Building
The difficulties of building
Bent's Fort were many, which
accounts for the fact that it's
completion required four years.
It was determined by the part
ners that it should be built of
adobe brick in order to make it
fireproof, so that it could not
be burned by the Indians.
Adobe construction was, more
over, more durable and more
comfortable than wooden logs.
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and bright moccasins, were full
of interest; while the naked
children, with perfect forms
and the white of the Saxon
race showing through the dark
er hue of the mother blood, ex-
cited his enthusiasm. He Won
dered at the novel manners and
customs that he saw; at the
grave bourgeois and their
clerks and traders, who in time
of leisure sat cross-legged in
the shade smoking the long
stemmed Indian pipes which
they passed from hand to hand;
at the simple food-dried buff
falo meat and bread made from
coarse, unbolted wheaton meal
from Taos-meals which lacked
seasoning and sweets of any
kind.
Here, as it seemed to him,
were gathered people from the
ends of the earth; old trappers
whose faces were lined and
leathery from long exposure to
winters SHOWS and the burn
ing heat of many summers; IN
dians, some of whom wore civ
ilized clothing, but retained the
reserve and silence of their
race; Mexican servants, hardly
more civilized than the Indians ;
Yankees from New England,
Englishmen, Spaniards and ne
groes. The prairie men re-
peated their adventures in the
north, the west, the south, on
the plains and among the noun
tains. There was much talk of
where the buffalo had been or
would be, of the danger of hos
tile tribes, of past fights, of
comrades who had gone I'M
der" in battle or ambush and of
many other topics of the plains.
kearney's Army Passes
One of the great events of
Bent's Fort was the passage of
General Kearney's little army
on it's march into Mexico in
1916. It was a gala day at the
fort, an accident marring the
celebration for a few minutes,
A brass cannon,
purchased from st. Louis, was
to the muzzle by some
enthusiastic employees to salute
the general. Being overloaded,
it burst and injured many
of the bystanders.
Kearney's army had en-