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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-03
Parts Lie Unused

More than SAL 900 in auto truck
parts purchased last year lay un-
used in the district garages at Wina-
mac. Columbia City and Dale. Ind,
for a year or more while identical
material was being ordered for use
in other garages which did not have
it in stock. the report says.
Examples Of excess purchases
made include purchase of $3.50 steer
ing knuckle felts at 55 cents each
for 252 trucks in a single year; 1925
printing caps at 80 cents each for
the same number of trucks.
Bills were paid without referring
to catalog prices, it is charged, and
upon large orders from Indianapolis
freight and express were paid from
CHntonville, Wis. the report says.
For felt washers listed at 5 cents
the State paid $2.70 for hundreds
of them, the report says. The State
paid S160 for disc wheels listed at
500; S6SS for bearings listed at
s1.76. and 55 cents for thousand?
of felt strips listed at 1215 cents, the
report declares
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-03
Graft Charged in High7guy Department
Accounts Board Says State
Lost $4,000 Through
Irregularities in Equip
ment Division Inef-
ficienCy Alleged in Report,
Extravagant purchases, un-

EXtraVagant purchases, un-
warranted expenditures and
general incompetency, costing
the State of Indiana thousands
IF dollars is charged against the
division of equipment, State
highway commission, in a re-
port made public today by the
State board Of accounts.
The report says the division, which
was until his resignation few
weeks ago, directed by George Bart
ley. had been overcharged more
than $4,000 for truck parts by o.
F. Schlensker an auto parts dealer.
Schlensker returned the money TO
the State, May 26.
Thousands of dollars worth OF
truck parts were purchased and
stored IN the district garages over
the State where they were un-
touched for more than a year, tying
up the States money, the report
declares.
Influence" Charged
Certain officials have by their
statements sought to influence in
dividual employees Of the Highway
department against giving us infor
nation, contrary to the public ac
counting law" the report declares.
One member of the commission
was allowed the same amount per
day for virtually every day IN the
year, as is allowed members OF the
commission for attending board
meetings, the report charges.
Considerable work on private cars
was done in State garages, the ex-
aminers state, indicating that while
not illegal the practice is bad.
The receiving department of the
division is totally incompetent, the
examiners declare. This lack of sys-
TEN retarded them in their work. the
report says.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-07-03

4 RE you following Steve
"A Hannagan's New York
column, appearing daily on the
Editorial Page of The Times2
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-07-30

On warm summers night drift
ing lazily in a canoe, the grooming
melodies Of Stephen Foster are the
ones that are easiest to hum. They
belong to the North, to the South,
to the East and to the West. There's
a homely beauty about the "Old Folks
at Home" "Old Black Joe" and sMy
Old Kentucky Home" that makes each
generation claim them as it comes
along.
The song that lives is rarely learn
ed by note, it does not need to be
carried by radio to make it popular.
Yet it is literally broadcast on the
air by the human voice without
mechanical attachments.
Can you recall how you first heard
"Silver Threads Among the Gold"?
Perhaps your mother sang it as she
stood before the mirror.
Your day will come when you, too,
will repeat the words with a tighten
ing OF heart strings. H. P. banks,
who wrote that tender tune, died in
poverty some twenty years ago.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-07-30

to the admiralty, speaking at Bristol
on Sunday: the Workers Charter
and he said that when speaking to
representatives of continental trade
unionism he had often been struck by
their envy of our Sunday.
Indeed, he declared that there was
movement on the continent for the
adoption Of something like the English
Sunday.
do not wonder. For it can not be
gainsaid that a great increase of
Sunday amusements for the upper
and middle classes must result in a
great increase of work for the poorer
sections of society.
Even if one day in seven is secured
to all workers it will not, as Mr.. Am
mon pointed out, compensate for the
loss of Sunday. Half the pleasure,
and more than half the refreshments,
of day of rest is lost to working
man if the other members of his FAM
lily are at work.
A second important point is the
need which all men have for some
time of quiet and rest.
DR.. Inge has said that he believes
most civilizations break down, so to
speak, by their own weight. AS a
fywheel, if spun at too great a pace,
flies to pieces, so when the rush of
civilization becomes too great human
nature can not stand it.
A third argument is supplied by
what we SO often hear from those
who object to the English Sunday.
1t is such dull day, we are told.
Surely that in itself is merely an
admission on the part of those who
make it of the possession of dull
minds.
People who can not amuse them
selves for one day in seven unless
they either have some professionals
to act, sing, play, dance, or in some
other way perform for them, or un-
less they are permitted to play with
some form of ball must be so utter
ly devoid of mental resources that
they should be excluded from all
places of amusement till they have
cultivated their own internal powers
sufficiently to be able to avoid bore
dom.
And, to come at last to the first
and chief argument, there is surely
the need for one day on which religion
will be the chief interest. The attl-
tude of mind Of many "good Eu-
ropeans" before the war was that re-
ligion was an extinct superstition
which cultured people could only
smile at.
Does any one take that view to-
day? But it is no good saying that
the world needs spiritual forces for
it's regeneration if we are unwilling
to pay the price for them.
These, it will be objected, are gen.
eral arguments, not an answer to my
proper problem-namely, how to deal
with young people. But the answer
there is surely plain. Sunday and
Sundays chief concern-namely, re-
ligion-must be made so real and
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-07-30
Songs of Yesterday
That Are Sung Today
Virginia Pope in the New York
Times.

Virginia Pope In the New York
Times.
Old songs, like old wine, keep their
flavor. 1t is their spirit that lasts,
the stuff that the author, all unknown
to himself, was able to put into them.
If men could write it in consciously
every song might be popular hit
and every song writer a millionaire.
Ask any one of them what has made
his song live, and he will answer:
II don't know. If l did! Per-
haps it was the sincerity of the mood
in which l conceived the idea A real
success is thing that is born, not
made. The emotion experienced is so
deep and so true that it carries
straight to the heart of the public"
No other explanation can account
for the fact that some songs are as
popular today as they were twenty
five or fifty years ago.
The human heart does not change
Sentiment lives on forever. Only
exteriors are different.
Yesterday we waltzed; today we
fox trot. But we always dance in
pairs.
Let the rhythm do what it will, the
makers of lyrics will ever vary their
rhymes on the same old themes:
"Love Me and the World Is Nine"
Live in My Heart and Pay No Rent"
"Tell Me, Pretty Maiden, Are There
Any More at Home Like You?"
The popular song does not appeal
to the intellect; it strikes right at the
hoorf &c h. L. L.
in the street whistles or huns as he
goes about his business, giving vent
to his mood.
Single out the ballads that have
come down from the past generation
and one will find that they deal with
a profound sentiment. The love of
sweetheart, the love of a mother,
the love of a country. They touch
the thing that is fundamental in
mans nature.
1t is not sentiment alone that makes
the song. The tune must have a
swing that will carry. They must
be born at the same time, says Will
liam Jerome of "Bedelia" and "Mr.
Dooley" fame. A popular hit must
be spontaneous and not manufactur-
ed. That is why, in his belief, the
jazz of today will not live,
THE songs of the present genera
ton are written for the feet and not
for the heart" said Mr.. Jerome, COM
pairing the success Of 1894 with those
of 1924. ITO contemporary writers
rhythm is all-important and the lyrics
are manufactured to fit it. They are
machine-made. What the public
wants for all time is real sentiment"
Mr.. Jerome ought to know. Not
only is he well-known lyricist, but
his wife has made name for her
self in that field. AS Maude Nugent
she was responsible for "Sweet Rosie
OGrady," who flashed across the
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-07-30
Help The Old Folks
A Helping Hand Extended to Many
Old People in Redwood Falls.

Old People in Redwood Falls.
The infirmities of age are many.
Most old people have bad back.
The kidneys are often weak
Or worn out with years of work.
Backache means days of misery,
Urinary troubles, nights of unrest.
Doan's Kidney Pills have helped to
make life easier for many.
They are doing so for old and young.
Redwood Falls people are learning
this.
Read the following local endorse
ment.
G. E. Mckay, retired merchant, E.
5th., Redwood Falls, gave the follow
ing statement October IL, 1918: 81
can certainly say Doan's Kidney Pills
do the work just as they are repre-
scented. I had considerable backache
and trouble with the kidney secre-
tions. I always found that Doan's
Kidney Pills removed these troubles
in quick order"
On September Is, 1928, Mr.. Mckay
added: 81 have not lost confidence in
Doan's since I endorsed them some
years ago. 1t is pleasure to con-
firm my previous statement"
60c, at all dealers. Foster Milburn
Co., Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-07-30
The Use of Sunday
Artifex in Manchester Guardian.

Artifex in Manchester Guardian.
l have been asked what should be
the attitude of parents, and others in
loco PARENTS, toward young people
who wish for a larger liberty in mat
tiers OF Sunday amusements than their
elders have been accustomed to re-
gard as right.
1t is quite useless, and worse than
useless, to force our own standards on
young people merely by authority.
Such use of authority does more harm
than good. Sound reasons alone are
not of any use.
Can we think out any principles
which are likely to be accepted by
thoughtful and sincere young people?
One thing is clear. The matter, at
Christian standpoint. And, therefore,
we may at once deal with one argu-
ment with which one is often con-
fronted.
Our Sunday, we are often remind
ed, is not the Sabbath.
OF course it is not. It is some
thing much more. 1t is the Dies Do
minica-the Lords day. To suppose
that the obligations Of Sunday are
less than those of the Sabbath is sure
ly completely to misunderstood
Christ's saying that He came not to
destroy the law, but to fulfill it. No
doubt the obligations of Sunday are
profoundly different from those Of
the Jewish Sabbath, but to suppose
that they are necessarily less is to
miss the whole significance Of Christ's
teaching.
Here, as in so many other things,
we get a passage from a mere mega
tive prohibition to positive command.
A day of rest to give place to the
Lords day.
l had the pleasure the other day
of hearing C. G. Ammon, secretary
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-07-30
July %, 80, Aug. 6
CITATION ON HEARING ON Pc
TITION FOR PROBATE OF WILL
ESTATE OF Anton Mertens.
nf Mi,nocnfo \

County of Redwood }
In Probate Court.
In the Matter Of the Estate of
Anton Mertens, Decedent
THE STATE OF MINNESOTA
TO all persons interested in the al
lowance and probate of the will of
said decedent; The petition of Dena
Mertens being duly filed in this court
representing that Anton Mertens,
then a resident of the County Of
Redwood, State of Minnesota, died on
the 3rd day of July, 1924, leaving
last will and testament which is pre-
scented to this court with said petit
ton, and praying that said instru-
ment be allowed as the last will and
testament of said decedent, and that
letters testamentary be issued there
on to Dena Mertens;
THEREFORE YOU, AND EACH
OF YOU, are hereby cited and re-
quired to show cause, if any you
have, before this court at the Probate
Court Room in the Court House IN
the city of Redwood Falls, in the
County of Redwood, State of Mime
sofa, on the 25th day of August, 1924,
at 1000 o'clock AM, why the prayer
of said petition should not be grant
ed.
WITNESS, the honorable A. R. A.
Laudon, Judge of said court, and the
seal of said court, this 18th day OF
July, 1924.
A. R. A. Laudon,
George A. Barnes, Judge.
Attorney for Petitioner.
COURT SEAL) 2-3ts.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-07-30
July 23-Aug. 27
SHERIFFS SALE
County of Redwood
State of Minnesota,

County of Redwood
District Court, Ninth Judicial District
James McWilliams, Plaintiff, VS..
Felix G. York, Defendant.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN,
That by virtue of an Execution to
me directed and delivered, and now
in my hands, issued out of the Dist
riot Court, Ninth Judicial District,
State Of Minnesota, in and for the
county of Redwood upon Judgment
rendered in said court in favor of
against Felix G. York, Defendant, |
have levied upon the following de-
scribed real property of said defend
ant. to wit: The North east Quarter
(NEA) of Section Twenty-Five (25)
Township One Hundred Twelve
(112), North, Range Thirty Nine
(39), West, County of Redwood and
State of Minnesota, the said real PRO-
perty having been attached in said
action on May 2, 1924, and judgment
having been rendered in favor of
plaintiff in the same action.
And that I shall, on Saturday the
Sixth (6th) day of September, A. D..
1924, at the hour of Ten (1O) o'clock
A. M. of said day at the West front
door of the Court House in the City
of Redwood Falls in said County and
State, proceed to sell all the right,
title and interest Of the above named
Felix G. York in and to the above
described property, to satisfy said
judgment and costs, amounting to
Seven Hundred Twenty-one ($721.)
Dollars and ninety-fve (95) Cents,
together with all accruing costs of
sale, and interest on the same from
the First day of July, 1924, at the
rate of Six CO. per cent per annum,
at Public Auction, to the highest bid
der for cash.
L. J. Kise,
Sheriff of Redwood County.
Stanley S. Gillian,
Plaintiffs Attorney,
1000 Metropolitan Life Bldg,
Minneapolis, MINI.
Dated at Redwood Falls, Mime
sofa, this 21st day of july. A. D.
1924. 2-6 wks.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-07-30
ANOTHER RED SCARE

Residents of Ohio in the neighbour
hood of Columbus Grove-and in these
days of swift motor transportation,
have settled back to their daily work
after season of excitement, the like
of which the oldest inhabitant was
unable to recall. The people were
thrown into state bordering on ter
ror by the appearance in a grove near
Columbus Grove of a mysterious red
light, which appeared soon after dark,
and wandered about in the grove like
lost soul. It was reported that in
a single evening as many as $4,000
people saw the light, shuddered, and
retreated in disorder.
Although the brave citizens of the
community were willing to enter the
haunted grove by day, and even to
that the red glow was caused by phos-
phorus rising from the ground, no one
not even the scientist-could be per-
suaded to enter the sacred precincts of
the ghost at night. The mystery
might have remained unsolved had
not grinning boy walked out of the
grove and explained that he was en-
gagged in the business of shining"
nightcrawlers, which he sold to fish
ermen for bait, and that he employ
ed red lantern in his business be-
cause it happened to be handy. His
ambition was to raise enough money
to buy roadster.
The boy probably never heard of
Lenine, the sharp, little, practical
Russian political leader, who mired
the Russian people, but he had much
in common with the departed Russian
politician. Lenine manipulated his
Red scare in the Russian political
jungle with intent to achieve a degree
of social comfort and affluence APP
proximating that of an exuberant
American boy with roadster. Len
inc and the boy both frightened a
considerable number of credulous
common people. 1t is not improbable
that both secretly enjoyed a chuckle
at the expense their victims. They
differed in that the boy came out and
shared his fun, while death overlook
Lenine before he could give the world
a book telling just how he stood the
world off with his red lantern.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-07-30
July 16. %. 80.
CITATION FOR HEARING ON FIN
AL ACCOUNT AND FOR DIS
TRIBUTION.


AL ACCOUNT AND FOR DIS
TRIBUTION.
ESTATE OF Edward A. Chapman.
State of Minnesota,
County of Redwood }
In Probate Court.
In the Matter of the Estate of Ed
ward A. Chapman, Decedent
THE STATE OF MINNESOTA,
to all persons interested in the final
account and distribution of the es-
tate Of said decedent: The represent
alive of the above named decedent,
having filed in this court her final
account of the administration Of the
estate of said decedent together with
her petition praying for the ADJUST
ment and allowance of said final &C.
count and for distribution of the res
idue of said estate to the persons
thereunto entitled.
THEREFORE, YOU, AND EACH
OF YOU, are hereby cited and re-
quired to show cause, if any you
have, before this court at the Pro-
bate Court Rooms in the Court
House, in the City of Redwood Falls,
in the County of Redwood, State of
Minnesota on the 18th day of Au-
gust, 1924, at 10 o'clock am, why
said petition should not be granted
WITNESS, the Judge of said
Court, and the Seal of said Court,
this 18th day of July, 1924.
A. R. A. Laudon,
COURT SEAL) Probate Judge.
lists
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-07-30
FIND NEW ANAESTHETIC

A new anaesthetic known as
"sommifere" which is claimed to be
far superior to any hitherto employ
ed, is being used by DR.. Fredet of
a hospital in Paris. In doses of ten
to fifteen cubic centimetres it is in
jected in the veins after previous in
jections of morphine or scoplamine.
According to the account given the
French surgical society, the result
ing anaesthia is complete, permitting
the longest and most serious opera
ton. The patient remains plunged
for twenty-four to thirty-six hours
afterward in a torpor from which,
however, he can be aroused from time
to time for food. There is no sickness
and no i'll effects on the liver and
kidneys.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-07-30
Brace Up Your Business
With Advertising

what he has and blames it on
conditions"
The big mail-order houses
are sending out millions of
flyers" each week with allur-
ing price reductions on certain
goods. They are making ev-
cry effort, through persistent
follow-up advertising, to turn
their merchandise as quickly
as possible and thus prevent a
greater loss.
What advertising is doing in
readjustment for the big, sue
cessful merchandisers of the
country it will do for any live
merchant if he will but use it
persistently.
The force that will carry any
merchant to his goal is coiled
up inside of him in his energy
his pluck, his grit, his original
ity, his determination to go aft
er the business in his commun-
ity and get it.
This can be accomplished on
ly by adapting the same proven
methods that the big catalog
house uses in building its mann
moth business persistent adj
vertising.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-07-30

The abnormal and greatly
stimulated business activity
which has just passed was far
from being sound and healthy.
It could be likened to the alb
normal activity of a man who
has been stimulated by too
much alcohol. He feels pretty
bad after the effects have worn
off.
REIMBURSEMENT compels the
live retail merchant to greater
effort in creating new business
in his community and in keep
ing what business there is from
going to the mail-order houses.
We have two distinct types
of business men and it is dur
ing such times as these that we
see them clearly. We see one
going right ahead with his adj
vertising in order to stimulate
and increase the sale of his
goods, the prices of which are
changing daily; and the other,
who upon the first signs Of de-
preston, will wiring his hands,
stop his advertising or sales
promotion work and waits for
the people to come in and buy
his high priced goods. The
first cleans up" with a nice
profit and the second loses
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-07-30

vital that young people shall welcome
it and not shirk it.
If young people are denied amuse-
ment by parents who themselves take
no interest in religion, what wonder
if they regard the whole things as q
quote from the mouth of youth)
"stuffy nonsense"
If religion is reality in the home,
Sunday will be a well-loved day.
And, where it is so loved, young peo-
pie will not desire to spoil its flavor
with secular amusements.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-07-30
July 16, %, 80.
CITATION ON HEARING ON Pc
Triton FOR PROBATE OF.
WILL.
ESTATE OF Margaret j. Carbert.
State of Minnesota -.

WILL.
ESTATE OF Margaret j. Carbert.
State of Minnesota,
County of Redwood }
In Probate Court.
In the Matter of the Estate of
Margaret j. Carbert, Decedent.
THE STATE OF MINNESOTA,
To all persons interested in the al
lowance and probate Of the will of
said decedent; The petition of Mar
garet P. Carbert being duly filed in
this court, representing that Mar
garet ]. Carbert, then a resident of
the County of Redwood, State of
Minnesota, died on the End day of
July, 1924, leaving a last will and
testament which is presented to this
court with said petition, and praying
that said instrument be allowed as
the last will and testament of said
decedent, and that letters testament
airy be issued thereon. to John L
Borg;
THEREFORE, YOU, AND EACH
OF YOU, are hereby cited and re-
quired to show cause, if any you
have, before this court at the Pro-
bate Court Room in the Court House
in the city Of Redwood Falls, in the
County of Redwood, State of Min
nesota, on the 18th day Of August,
1924, at 1000 o'clock AM. why the
prayer of said petition should not be
granted.
WITNESS, the honorable A. R. A.
Laudon, Judge of said court, and the
seal of said court, this 14th day of
July, 1924.
A. R. A. Laudor,
Judge.
COURT SEAL) lit
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-07-30

Come along, get you ready,
wear your bran, bran
new gown,
For dey's gwine to be
meetin' in dat good, good
old town,
Where you know'd everybody
and dey all know'd you,
An you got a rabbits foot to
keep away de hoodoo.
When you hear de preachin'
does begin
Bend down low for to drive
away your sin,
And when you get religion
you want to shout and
say,
There'll be a hot time in de
OF town tonight, my
baby.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-07-30

Better good paying job than a
low-salaried position.