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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-20
North Redwood

Mr.. and Mrs. S. J. Sampson of
Franklin were business callers here
one day last week.
Miss Dolwin of Willmar was week
end guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Zwemke.
Mrs. Mae Skewis and son, Lenar
returned to their home at Luverne
Saturday after visiting few days at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Harold
Mann.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Sellers Of
Faribault visited a few days last
week at the w. C. Mann home wniie
on their honeymoon trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grant Martin Of Red
wood Falls visited friends here one
day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Neale and daugh-
tiers and Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Richie
and daughter of Redwood Falls visit
ed relatives here Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. P. Gaffney and
Mrs. Anna Lechner and children were
Sunday guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Smith.
Miss Lilly Becker went to Apple
ton Friday to attend the class play
given there.
X. P. Harris was a Sunday guest
of his parents at Vesta.
| Mr.. and Mrs. S. S. Castle, Mr.. and
Mrs. r. L. Castle and son, Mr.. and
Mrs. Alva Gaffney and family, Mr.
and Mrs. VIM. Neale and daughters
and Mr.. and Mrs. o. w. Simondet
and sons were Sunday guests of Mr..
and Mrs. H. M. Hepner of Redwood
Falls.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Lindeman Of
Minneapolis were week end guests of
his mother, Mrs. w. Lindemann here.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-20

ment which provides that receipts
from a gas tax must go into the state
highway fund. While the Legislature
has always had power to levy tax
on motor fuel the money would have
gone into the general fund of the
state but the action of the voters so
strongly expressed was taken by the
lawmakers as a mandate to pass a
gas law.
The law is to be administered by
the state oil inspection department.
The state will collect it's tax at point
of entry. The wholesalers will pay
their carlot shipment. They in turn
will pass the tax on to the retail
dealers and service stations, who will
reimburse themselves by putting the
two cen0 tax on every gallon of gas
sold. The dealer has nothing what
soever to do in determining the re-
fund, even if it is known at the time
of purchase that the gas will be
used In stationary engines or other
than on roads. The dealer must,
however, if requested, give a sal,
ticket with purchase of gasoline
showing the name of dealer, purchas-
er, place, date and amount of gallon !.
etc, which sales ticket properly file
out will have to be submitted to t.
oil inspection department with 9th, I,
data if refund on such gas tax
desired. More information on tina
point will soon appear in the newspa
pers.
The collection of the gas tax BY
the state oil department is simple
and economical process as the depart
ment has all the necessary data at
hand at all times and the tax collec-'
ton amounting to between four and
five millions annually can be handled
for a few thousand dollars for extra
clerks, books, blanks, etc. The re-
funds may make a different story.
Undoubtedly it will be up to the field
force of deputy inspectors to keep a
watchful eye ON that feature and
make checkups in suspicious cases.
While adding to the work and duties
of the oil inspector the refund pro-
position may add nothing in the way
of expense to the state as the inspec-
tors are paid stated salary.
Nurmi races with watch in his
hand. How time does fly.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-20

U. H. Lipp motored to Mankato one
day last week on business.
Mrs. Fred Becker motored to New
Ulm Saturday.
M. J. Hansen was Sunday guest
of his parents at Storden.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Ahrens and family
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Zumwinkle and
sons, w. C. Mann and family and
Mr.. and Mrs. George Sellers of Fari-
bault were entertained Sunday at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Mann.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Lindemann mo-
tored to Sleepy Eye Sunday where
they met friends from Mankato and
enjoyed an outing together there.
Mrs. Olson and Mrs. Elmer Lon
gren and daughter returned to St.
Paul Saturday after a weeks visit
with relatives here.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-20
The Truth About
That Last Night

Gunnar Bjornson was present at the
last session of the Minnesota Legis-
lature. In his paper, the Minneota
Mascot, he gives the lie to the story
that the members were intoxicated.
This is what he says in part:
"The last night of the present ses-
sion was a night of disorder and
drunkenness. The writer Of this was
present from eight o'clock Tuesday
evening until adjournment Eat seven
o'clock Wednesday morning.
Looking back and comparing this
night with some other last nights that
we have seen in the Minnesota legis-
lature, we thought that the exit of
the Legislature of 1925 was rather
tame.
"Until about three o'clock in the
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-20
GOITRE CAUSES.
Eye Pressure, Nervousness, Sleep
lessness, Headache, Difficult
Breathing. A Liniment Gave
Complete Relief.

Mrs. William Tullock, 827 Brennan
Ave, ST. Louis, Missouri, is so en-
thusiastic about the results obtained
from Sorbol- Quadruple that she in
vited anyone to call on her or write.
She says she was given up to die
and today she is in excellent health,
having gained 80 pounds.
Sold by all drug stores, or from
Sorbol Company, fredericksburg, Ohio.
Locally at Gertsmann Drug Store.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-20
IL Got Real Mad When 1 Lost My
Setting Hen," Mrs. Hannah.

81 went into the hen house one
morning and found my favorite setter
dead. l got read mad. Went to the
store, bought some RATzSNAP and
in week | got six dead rats. Every
body who raises poultry should keep
RAT-SNAP." Three sizes, 35c, Csc,
SIPS. Sold and guaranteed by Pub
lie Drug Store and Farrell & Keefe.
44-2ts.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-20
How To Strengthen
Ewes.

In a surprising short time simple
camphor, witchhazel, hydrastis etc,
as mixed in Lavoptik eye wash,
strengthens eyes so you can read or
work more. One small bottle shows
results. Aluminium eye cup free.
Gerstmann Drug Store.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-05-20
HOW no SOLVE a CROSSWORD PUZZLE

CROSSWORD PUZZLE
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which refers
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Evening star., 1925-06-21

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pans
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attractive lal
lion designs suit
able for office and
hoiIdoir use.
Evening star., 1925-12-13
Tradition Must Be Chief Reliance
For Parts of Queen Family History
OF Land Ownership
ceded hof Francsd

Y " WHEN the Church of st.
IA Francis de Sales was con-
NV secrated In May, 1908, and
when its corner stone was
set In A Anril 1907 Washing
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l think that the deed was made about
1922, and that date will kill part of
the Queens Chapel tradition. That
would be under the restored Proprie
taly government. and if a Catholic
family had private chapel in its
home It was because of piety or for
convenience, and not because of anti
Catholic law. 1t would put Queens
Chapel in the class of those chapels
built by landlords because the nearest
Catholic church was too far or the
road too bad.
In the paragraph quoted above you
see the Queen family associated with
the dates 1857, 1721 and 1929, and
you also see the line 'in those times
the sleepy old village of Bladensburg
the Queens were locally famous as a
nautical people
That is sample of family tradi-
ton. Bladensburg was created un-
der authority Of an act Of the Mary
land Legislature of l742. 1t Was al
ways small village. as we measure
towns now. but it was an important
place to farmers for several miles
around. We think of Dumfries. Col
chester. Port Tobacco. Piscataway
and Matildyville as great places.
There were stores, taverns and
wharves and two or three hundred
persons, merchants. artisans, laborers
and few lawyers and physicians.
Ocean going ships used to come UP
to the docks at Bladensburg, is an
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and its first pastors those intrepid
brilliant memories of their labors;
that is. the traditions suggest their
heroism and zeal, but unfortunately
they left no records of their labors.
Historical students have searched in
vain the records OF the Archdiocese
of Baltimoge. the Woodstock letters
and the annals Of the Maryland His
toriCal Society, but so far the patient
investigator is compelled to admit
that the dawn of Catholicity in this
part of Maryland is set forth in no
known document"
EFT me turn to this paragraph:
Tradition in the Queen family
sets forth that Richard Queen came
TO the estate decided to him under
charter from Cevil Calvert in 1921. The
deeds recorded in the old city of ST
Marys, the first capital of Maryland,
are now in possession of the family
and show that the propertr was part
Of the grant known as Haddock Hills
an estate which was allotted TO the
Queens in 1857 Haddock Hills en-
braced practically two counties. and
from 1t were carved out the Richard
Queen holdings, Barbados and Sea
mans Delight. Both names recall the
fact that in those times the sleepy
old village of Bladensburg was a port
Of much Importance, and the Queens
were locally famous as a nautical
people. Mr.. Queen called his home
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ship Shenandoah with her commander
and 13 of her crew over Ava, Ohio, on
September last and ending with the
destruction OF 8 seaplaneS and the
partial loss of i more at Baltimore
"u October 25, including the loss of
tho submarine Sol with "a of her
crew on September %, and an eXplo-
sion in the boiler room of the de-
sfroyer Noa with the loss of lives on
September :. These are but the more
recent casualties Of long, long list
a. happenings which emphasize the
fact that hardluck jinX is abroad
with the Navy wherever it's units are
roaming the Seven Seas
This deluse of trouble started off
with the ramming Of the destroyer
Xeilen by the transport Henderson
turing a thick fog OFF Admiralty Inlet
On July %, 1928. Fortunately. no
lives were lost by this accident. But
the list since that date includes every
thing imaginable, from submarine aC-
cidents, the stranding of destroyerS,
turret explosions, hitting of uncharted
rocks by cruisers. grounding of all
kinds of craft to aircraft crashes and
total wrecks Of cruisers in storm.
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of St. Francis de Sales do not give
many facts about Queens Chapel that
the Rambler has not found in deeds
and wills in Washington and Mari
boro. but they give the tradition" of
the chapel. Tradition is a handing
down of words and i tradition ought
to preserve a fact. though it over
lay it with romances. One trouble
is that many a thing called a tradi-
ton is not "a handing down OF words
from the time of the event, but
fabrication of later date. The Queens
Chapel tradition has marks Of prob
ability.
7 EFT us turn to the yellow. ragged
~ newspaper before me and take up
that Of April Z. 1907. The introduc-
ton, like the Introduction Of many
newspaper articles. is quite linguistic.
Here 1t is:
Like the ancient belfry of Bruges,
thrice consumed and thrice rebuilded,
the venerable edifice known In Mary
land annals as Queens Chapel te
about to take it's place among the
Columbia. The modern inheritor of
all the hallowed memories clinging to
the old church Is a neat brick edifice
of familiar contour in country sec
tions-a sloping roof Of slate. bell
tower and wide. hospitable porch, sit
uated in the heart of the picturesque
suburb Of Largdon. AS did the zeal
Gus artisans Of the middle ages. the
good people Of Langdon are building
the church with their own hands. No
architect, no builder, no contractor of
any description has part in the work
unless he be Of the congregation. and
then his labor is for the reward to
come Though the work has been
progressing barely three months and
the artisans could devote themselves
only in their leisure hours after the
regular labor of the day, the building
is about half completed. and in a few
weeks will be prepared for use every
Sunday Right Rev. Alfred A. Curtis.
formerly Bishop of Wilmington. Del,
and now assistant bishop of Balti-
more, will officiate at the laying of
the corner stone this afternoon, and
invited guests will include many of
the representative families Of Mary
land and Virginia. with the faculties
Of the Catholic University and it's
affiliated colleges. The new church
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with the sounding machine, were the
causes of this terrible disaster.
Eleven days after this great smash
up, on September 10, the destroyer Nc
Farland, during night maneuvers with
the fleet, was rammed by the battle
ship Arkansas. Prompt action on
the part of all concerned kept the loss
of life down to one enlisted man and
saved the Mcfarland from sinking.
On the heels of this affair came the
sinking of the submarine 0-5 in Limon
Bay, Panama. when she was run down
by the freighter Abangarez. Five lives
were the toll exacted by the Old Man
Of the Sea for this performance
After the sinking of the 0-5 the
jinx seems to have stopped pursuing
the fleet during 1928, but it kept right
on as far as naval aviation was con-
cerned The annual report Of the
chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics
lists the number of aircraft crashes
as 112, with d loss of "a lives,
serious injuries and 25 minor injuries
being suffered by the flying personnel
in addition to the loss of life.
Bright and early in 1924 the jinx
got busy with the surface and sub
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will be for the present under the
charge of Rev. Edward A. Southgate.
pastor Of st. AnthOnys. in Brookland,
and he will be assisted by a priest
from the Apostolic Mission House"
Along in the article IS this:
Catholics in every part of the
country are rejoiced that Queens
Chapel is to be continued on the list
OF churches in the District Of Colum-
bia. for 1t is identified with the days
of religious intolerance and its early
miSsioners were those who wrote
their names. sometimes In blood, In
the annals OF Maryland. When the
modest structure, which has become
identified with the evangelization and
civilization Of the region which IS now
the seat OF the American Capital. was
first erected the penal laws were in
force and its history is clouded In the
errors and exaggerations Of those
times. The first parishioners Of
Queens Chapel were Colonial mag
mates and later Revolutionary heroes,
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a Francis de Sales was con-
NV secrated In May, 1908, and
when its corner stone was
set in April. 1907, Washing
ton newspapers printed accounts OF
those ceremonies and stories OF
Queens Chapel. If you have not read
other rambles telling Of the Queen
family and Queen lands in northeast
Washington. and If you insist on read
ing this ramble, you ought to know
that the church Of st. Francis de Sales
is on the site of Queens Chapel. that
successive churches have stood there.
and that each OF these churches has
had the neigHLUrhood name of
Queens Chape." That is because a
member of the Queen-aamily built
chapel on the farm. In that chapel
the Queens and their Catholic neigh
bors came together for prayer and
meditation, and at times that were far
apart priests came to that chapel
from far-away churches in Maryland
to say mass.
A matter sought to be cleared is
whether Queens Chapel. which was
on the Queen farm an undetermined
time before 1893, was in succession to
a chapel in the Queen farmhouse.
During the reign OF the English
monarchs, William and Mary. and
after the BlackiStOne-Coode revolt in
Maryland. the Legislature Of the
province forbade Catholic worship
The Legislature made law that a
Catholic priest should be fined $50
and imprisoned six months for say
ing mass, that no Catholic was COM
petent to buy or inherit land. etc
Catholic families, numerous in the
part Of Maryland now the District of
Columbia. worshiped secretly. and
priests who visited them made no
written memoranda of their visits.
Early in the reign OF Queen Anne.
the Maryland law against Catholics
was modified and mass was allowed
to be said 'in private family Of the
Roman Communion" A room in the
home was made a chapel. After
restoration of the Proprietary govern
ment. the farmer who had n chapel
in his home might build Il chapel
on his farm.
If the Queen ownership OF the lands
Enclosure" and "Haddock Hills" in
northeast Wsshington-the seats of
Brookland. Langdon and Woodbridge
goes back to the time OF Catholic
persecution in Marylan nd Queen s
Chapel was probably the issue of a
chapel in the Queen farmhouse Anne
became Queen Of England in 1904. and
the earliest record l have come on of
Queen ownership in the District is
the will OF Samuel Queen. 1893, be-
queathing the land 10 his son. Samuel
He does not mention the chapel in
his viii. but no significance is In
that. Richard Queen. l think his
grandson, mentions the chapel in his
will of 1898. The newspaper stories
of 1907 and 1908 relating TO the church
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Many lives were lost in these vic

Many lives were lost in these vic
tories of Davy Jones and his lieuten-
ants, the four winds of heaven. 1t is
not too much TO say that the years
1928, 1924 and so much Of 1925 as has
passed by are red-letter years in the
annals Of our Navy in so far as peace
time accidents and mishaps are con
Cerned.
on August 90, 1923. came the second
accident of the long series when sub
marines RS and Ri came together
in Pearl Harbor. Hawaii, while pass
ing in the crooked channel at that
place and at a critical moment mis-
understanding the signals CuStomarily
exchanged under such conditions.
Happily no lives We're lost. Rejoicing
over this latter fact had hardly sub
sided when word reached the Navy
Department on September S that seven
dcstroyerS We're a total loss. two more
damaged and the lives of % officers
and men Snutfed out by the destroyers
Delphy. s. =. lee, Young, Woodbury.,
Nicholas. Chancey and Fuller running
ashore near Point Arguello, Calf, in
heavy fog while maneuVering in
division formation. The Farragut and
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Somers also grounded, but were float
ed with slight damage.
X X X
1T appears that IL deStroyerS were
steaming along at n great rate of
speed. 90 knots an hour, when the
Delphy. the leading ship, ran on the
rocks called The Devils Jaw" This
crash came so suddenly that distress
signals could not be given and thus
the whole division, except two ships
in the rear of the formation. followed
the Delphy to her cruel fate. Aside
from the lives lost, it is estimated
that the property loss to the Nation
was about S13,4S3,000.
A naval court martial found that the
disaster was due to bad navigation.
and the division commander and the
commander of the Delphy We're SEN
fenced to the loss of $50 and leo num-
bers in grade, respectively. On the
other hand, several officers and men
received letters of commendation for
heroism in connection with the ex-
hibtion of sheer courage in rescuing
the crews, and further commenda-
ton for fine discipline and superior
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The Enclosure and soon after tax
ing possession OF his estate he erected,
probably in 1922, the mansion in
which one wing was dedicated TO d.
vine service"
There's a lot of bedevilment in
that paragraph. The tract "Haddock
Hills was not granted TO Richard
Queen, did not embrace practically
two counties" and out of it were not
carved Richard Queens holdings
Barbados ard Seaman's Delight"
Haddock Hills, 500 acres. was granted
to Benjamin Hadduck April II. 1885.
The tract called Enclosure" was
granted to Ninian Beall September /.
1887. II contained 1903 acres-a large
tract. What probably happened was
that a Queen bought a large acreage
covering parts of Haddock Hills anG
Enclosure, but neither tract entire.
The Rambler has looked for the deed
in the courthouse at Marlboro, has
not found it, and will try again.
That deed will settle several things.
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in the face Of desperate

seamanship in the face Of desperate
odds.
1t was brought before the court
that the commanders Of the ships fol
lowing the Delphy We're sailing under
the follow the leader" policy,
formation safest for small craft i'll
the open sea except in unusual con
ditions. Only one ship in this type
OF formation, that of the senior Off
Ger. usually gets radio bearings. this
method being employed to avoid in
reference. AS long as the visibility is
, miles. the speed of 20 knots IS
customary, because destroyers hold
their course better and handle better
when maintaining that speed than is
the case with lower speeds.
At the time of the accident there
was a thick fog over the land, and
when the Delphy got series OF radio
bearings she headed in and ran into
the fog, with only three minutes to
act in reducing the speed of the di-
vision before she struck the rocks.
an error in judgment with respect to
the actual position OF the ship when
the radio bearings were received, and
failure to check the depth of water
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entering Portsmouth IIarbor, ran
aground. This disaster was similar to
that of the SIG. no lives being lost.
but serious damage being sustained
by the underwater boat. The next &C.
cident took place in the Philippine
Islands, where on February 26 the
second-line cruiser Huron grounded
on an uncharted pinnacle rock. but
she was floated off under her own
power at high water. and inasmuch as
the sea was calm she was not seri-
ously damaged and there were no cas-
ualties among her crew.
Except for several aircraft crashes
the hard-luck jinx went on leave Of
absence from the Huron mishap until
September 3. when the rigid airship
Shenandoah, on her way west from
the naval rigid airship station at
Lakehurst. N. j., ran into q Zine
Storm" unwarned. and was racked to
Continued on Fourth Page)
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the slipper, dangled comfortably on
her toes and she could eat in peace.
DIR. Marston didn't talk very much
during the meal. Evidently she had
invited Fay as a favor to her mother
and was not at all interested in her.
Finally the luncheon was over. and
DIR. Marston arose-and Fay couldn't t
get her slippers on She reached down
and tugged at them, but to no avail.
Her face turned scarlet.
Good heavens, child, what's the
matter?" asked the surprised doctor.
My-my-slippers" gasped Fay,
almost in tears. 4 slipped them off, +,
and now
You can't get them on re-
membering sort of smile flashed
across her hostess face. THAT re.
minds me of the very same sort of
thing that happened to me once when
/ was about your age and / was hav.
ing tea with our minister. 1t seems
funny now, but L nearly died! Here,
child, push back your chair and I'll
slip them on-no. better STILL III
fetch you pair of bedroom slippers,
for you can't visit comfortably in
tight shoesn' She laughed again, once
more a human being instead of a dig,
nified doctor
So Fay owed her precious friend.
ship with DR.. Marston to tight shoes.
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The Eyes of a Cat.

p ECENT experiments throw new
~ light on the apparent superiority
of vision in animals that are active at
night, says the Scientific American.
Evidently, they see not only the part
of the light spectrum that we see but
some of the ultraviolet light as well.
This greatly improves their vision.
In order to ascertain just what part
Of the spectrum various animals do
actually see, their eyes were dissected
out and placed before a quartz spec
trometer. an instrument for measuring
the spectrum of light radiation. A
small portion at the back of the vari-
Gus eyes was cut away and a thin
quartz plate was cemented over the
opening in each. Quartz was used in
stead Of glass because glass would
shut out the ultraviolet rays which
might pass through the eye, while
quartz does not.
First, q record Of the spectrum of
Light was made BY means Of a tung'