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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-08
twenty teachers
Sign Contracts
for Next Year
OTHERS TO MAKE DECISIONS IN
NEAR FUTURE; NINE HIGH
SCHOOL INSTRUCTORS PLEDG-
ED TO RETURN.

Twenty members of the teaching
corps of the Redwood Falls public
schools, including the superintendent
and the principal of the high school
have signed contracts for the 1926
26 school year. While it is known
that two or three have signed with
reservations which may release them
later, it is assumed that with these
possible exceptions all Of those sign
ing up will return. One or two of
those not yet signing have been
granted extension of time in which
! to make decision for various reasons
and will probably make their plans
their return from the Easter vaca-
/ tions.
Those signing the contracts for
next years work include:
S. E. Hargis Superintendent.
R. P. Nelson, principal of high school.
Lois Herrick, high school.
c.. D. Clipfell, high school.
Agnes Swanson, normal training.
Opal Giebler, music and physical
education.
Margaret McNaughton, high school.
Margaret Tupper, high school.
A. F. Dahlberg, high school.
H. E. Hoffert, high school and coach
Grace Jacobs, high school,
Jessie Chase, high school.
Ruth Gillispie, grade school.
Mabel Kuenzli, grade school.
Theo. Jensen, grade school.
Elizabeth Bomelyn, grade school.
Inez Jones, grade school.
Bernice Fritton, grade school.
Bernice Hewitt, grade school.
Ruth Cooper, grade school.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-08
James Arnold
Killed at VeSta
Saturday Morn.
VESTA FARMER HIT BY BOX CAR
ON TRACK IN VILLAGE; BU-
RIAL SERVICE AT VESTA
TUESDAY.

James C. Arnold Of Vesta was kill
ed instantly Saturday morning April
4th' when he was hit by a switching
engine with box car attached. The
body was brought to Redwood Falls
mortuary and will be taken from there
Tuesday afternoon to the Presbyterian
Church at Vesta where the burial SER
vice will be held. Interment will be
made in the Vesta cemetery.
AS near as can be learned concern
ing the accident to which there was
no eyewitness, Mr. Arnold had left
his auto at the Vesta postoffice and
was walking across the tracks between
the two elevators. The engine with
the car was backing and the first
knowledge the crew had that there had
been an accident was when the fire
man saw the body lieing on the track,
the box car having passed over the
chest. Just how Mr.. Arnold happen
to be hit by the car will probably
never be learned. The chest was
badly crushed and evidently death
had been instantaneous.
Mr.. Arnold was one of the prom
inent residents of the Vesta communi-
ty having lived for number of years
on his farm a mile south of Vesta.
His immediate family consists Of his
wife and one daughter, Miss Margaret
Arnold, an alumnus of the Redwood
Falls high school and now student
at Manchester College, Saint Paul
The deceased was man about fifty
years of age, of good character who
had the respect and liking of all the
people of the community in which he
lived. The Arnold family is one OF
considerable prominence in Redwood
County history, and the death of this
member of it will be mourned through
out the county.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-08
Department
Fights Fire
at Wood Lake
SMALL FIRE ON THURSDAY AND
CALL FROM YELLOW MEDICINE
VILLAGE FRIDAY CALL FIRE
MEN OUT.

The Redwood Falls Fire Department
got its annual spring workout last
week when a pair of alarms were
turned in on Thursday and Friday.
The Thursday blaze was reported in
the afternoon, about five o'clock,
when the chicken house on the Ed.
Wells farm just outside of town was
ignited from a garden blaze. The
grass in the garden adjoining the
building was being burned off but
owing to contrary winds the blaze
spread under the chicken house and
burned the structure to the ground.
The department was rushed to the
scene of the conflagration and sue
ceeded in preventing the spread of
the blaze.
I Friday evening about 11:5O the
Wood Lake fire chief phoned the
Redwood Fire eaters to come help
drown, a mammoth smudge in the
loop district of Wood Lake. Accord
ingly seven members of the local red
ink squad took the truck and made a
short business trip to Wood Lake,
where they arrived just in time to
see the General Merchandise store
crumple to the ground. Three other
buildings were ruined, but the mer-
chants had removed the entire stock
from all of the establishments, so the
loss was much less than it would
otherwise have been. A general
store, meat market, a hardware
store and one vacant building were
consumed by the flames, and only
| the hard and efficient fighting of the
! fire department on the job prevented
the spread to other adjoining places
of business. The departments were
greatly handicapped by lack of wa
ter, as the water tower in Wood
Lake had been dismantled to make
room for a newer structure. The
Redwood truck was used to pump wa
ter from nearby cistern, but this
supply failed long before the fire
was under control. Chemicals were
used to great extent.
The fire departments of Clarkfield,
Granite Falls, Montevideo and Red
wood Falls were called upon to as
sist the> Wood Lake crew. Redwood
arrived first upon the scene at about
1 12:40, after drive of thirty-five
minutes, and the Granite Falls, Clark
field and Monte trucks arrived shortly
Continued on last page)
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-08
Sleepy Eye
Has Big Fire
in Lumber Yard
COSTLY BLAZE STARTS FROM
BONFIRE; LOSS ESTIMATED AT
$4,000; STOCK WELL INSUR-
ED.

One of the most disasterous fires in
wears broke out at the Steinke-Seidl
Lumber Co., at Sleepy Eye shortly
after noon Thursday and within five
minutes the east section of the yards
in big black pillows that made the
saving of any of the yard daubtful
proposition.
Mr. Offerman, president of the
Steinke-Seidl Co., noticed the flames
just as he entered his home across
the street, having just left the yard
to go home for the midday meal.
Fastening to the telephone he turn
ed in the alarm and in less than
three minutes the fire department was
on the scene with one stream playing
on the flames. A second was added
moment later.
All the east end of the yard was
ablaZe, the lumber piles in the sheds
furnishing food for the flames in ar
unending stream Like all lumber
yard fires, the heat created by the
burning mass made it almost i'm.
possible to get close to the flames
but the fire company went forward
under shield of tin siding that was
found ON the ground and thus were
able to escape apart of the heat anG
smoke as they played the water or
the burning mass.
The dangerous section was the
northeast section of the yard where
the east sheds join and connect with
the north section. The building is
continuous SO that the flames had
a clear passageway through.
An estimate of the loss places it a,
$500. The lumber was we'll insured
1t is supposed that the blaze started
from bonfire near the lumber yard
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-08
New Office Quarters.

Mr.. E. j. Zorn, manager of the
Redwood Falls Farmers Elevator, an
nounces that new office building will
be erected for the elevator this
spring. The structure will be of hol-
low tile construction, and will be built
upon the site of the old office build
ing.
The new building will be much lar
ger and more convenient, both for
the employees Of the company and for
the patrons of the elevator and lum-
ber yard The building which was
formerly used as an office has been
moved and the groundwork will be
started on the new office at once
This is but the opening step in the
campaign to enlarge the capacity of
the elevator for handling the in
creased business which is pouring in
to it every year. These changes in
innate that the Company continues
optimistic.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-08
Assessors Meet.

Friday morning April 3rd, County
Auditor l.. P. Larson called to order
the meeting of the Redwood County
Assessors with only three of the
number absent. Samuel Lord, a men,
ber of the Tax Commission was pres
ent and gave the assembled assessors
instructions concerning their work
which begins May first. The three
assessors who were absent were E.
w. Butcher of Morgan township, AL
fred Egle of Vail Township and Geo
Leslie of Delhi Village.
The assessors present were: J.. P.
Krag, Brookville; Henry Holman
Charlestown; F. NJ. Stronach, Delhi;
IS. E. Weber, Gales; Joseph Wagner
Granite Rock; w. c.. Mann, Homer;
Emil Otto, Johnsonville; A. M. Mon
son, Kintire; VIM. Miller, Lamberton
Township; G. E. Luscher, New Avon;
c. E. Hanson, North Hero, A. N. Hill
Paxton; Phil. Kammerer, Redwood
Falls; Herman Fixsen, Sherman, Jo-
seph Woelfel, Sheridan; j. M. Lord
fSpringdale; Charley Jensen, Shutdown;
Henry Hettle, Swedes Forest; Joseph
Beran, Three Lakes; Fred Stava, I'm
derwood; Joe Dunno, Vesta Twp; E.
M. Schwahn, Waterbury; Fred Brak-
ke, Westline; VIM. p. Eichten, Willow
Lake; A. F. Abraham, Belview Viii;
C. F. Lauer, Clements Vil.; Geo. Nigg
Lamberton Viii; F. c. Wegner, Lucar
Vii; Elmer F. Welter, Milroy Vii;
Bert Root, Morgan Vii; Chas. w
Brandt, N. Redwood Viii; VIM. G.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-08
CHILD is DROWNED.

Little Iona Kotten, twenty-months.
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Johr
Kotten, residing on a farm one anG
one-half miles southeast of Sleepy
Eye was found dead, lying face ur
in stock tank, containing but &
foot of water, by her mother.
The child had been with hel
father prior to his going to the
field, and it is supposed climbed UP
on the tank and fell in. She was
playing in the yard, when Mr.. Kot-
ten left for his work in the field.
Resucitation measures were al
once taken by the parents of the child
but of no avail.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-08
ADMITTED TO BAR.

Charles Howard, a we'll known
Pipestone young man, son of Attor-
ney and Mrs. C. T. Howard of this
city, has successfully passed the ex-
aminations for admittance to the
Minnesota, bar, according to informa-
tion received here, and on Monday
will appear before the Supreme
Court to be sworn in. Charles will
complete his course and graduate
from the law department of the state
university in June, and will immedi-
ately come to Pipetsone where he
will become associated with his fa-
ther in the practice of the profess
sion.-Pipestone Star.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-08
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
DIR. A. w. Ross, Past

Dr. A..
for Communion.
close
Class will
meeting for this class.
service with baptism reception of
members and Sacrament of the Lords Supper Special
Sunday The Easter of the Commandery All
Masons and Eastern Stars are especially invited The
public will be cordially welcomed
7OO-Christian Endeayor
70O-Junior
8O0-Evenng Worship
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-08
ST. JOHNS LUTHERAN CHURCH.
Rev. w. C.. Nickels, Pastor.

Good Friday-1OOO Confessional
1030 Communion. =
Annou Communion Wednesday,
Sunday-1O:30 Special German.
73O Special services in English.
Easter Monday- Special services German.
Come to of preached
the salvation Of your cordially invited
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-08
CLUBS AT wINNEBAGO.

Federated Club women of the Sec
on District are planning to attend the
annual meeting of the District Fed
Grafton which will be held this year
at Winnebago. The dates selected
are June 18th, 18th and 10Th. A
fine program is being arranged by
the president Mrs. Cheadle and her as
Sistants.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-08
CHURCH OF CHRIST.
f. p Gabriel pasfOra

Special services every evening of Passion week except
Dahl of Minneapolis will have charge of all music
Tuesday-7:45 "Where Battles Fought"
Wednesday-7:45 "The Conquest of Fear
Unavoidable Decision"
Friday-745 "The Heart of the Gospel
Easter Sunday-7:O0 Sunrise Prayer meeting.
945 A. M.-Bible School.
A. M.-"The Resurrection of Jesus Christ
300 p M-Baptismal service with Illuminated Cross.
TOO p M and Senior Christian Endeavor.
500 T. M.--"The Absentee" or Blessing Lost"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-08
BANKERS AT FAIRMONT.

H. A.. Baldwin president of the
Second District Bankers Association
met last week in Minneapolis with
officers of his and other districts to
plan the summer meetings Of the
various groups in the State Bankers
Association. The Second District
Group will meet at Fairmont june
,4th and 5th.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-08

The Springfield school board has
reelected the entire teaching force
for the school year Of 1925-26. It will
be remembered that Superintendent
Van Cleve was reelected for another
year some weeks ago.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-08

Mrs. Fischer who spent the winter
months in Redwood Falls with her
son-in-law. and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Schultz left Friday for
her home at New Ulm.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-08

Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Shirley who
spent the winter months at Los An
geles, Calf, arrived in Redwood Falls
Saturday and were weekend guests
of Mrs. Mary Reed and family. They
left Monday noon for their home at
Morris, N, d.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-08

Miss Anna Falk who is teaching at
Glenwood is spending her spring va
cation in Redwood Falls with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. N. Falk.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-08
FIRST ENGLISH LUTHERAN CHURCH.

T.
There will be the regular Easter
of the Holy Communion. Sunday School
Immediately after this service
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-08
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Rev. e. C.. Prosser. Rector

n : T. e.
Easte730 The Maundy Thursday service
Good Friday-12OO- 800 "The Words of the Cross"
Easter Eve-4OO P. M. Baptismal service.
Easter Day-lO:3O "The Higher Plane"
1880 "The Walk to Emmaus."
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-08

Emil Seifert and Max Eckhart went
to Minneapolis Saturday evening re-
turning here Monday evening.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-08

A. j. Weldon of Wabasso was a
Friday business caller here.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-08
METHODIST CHURCH.

METHODIST CHURCH.
Paul l.. Grove, Pastor
the auditorium Cooed
electric and special singing Sermon topic:
Will Thine, Be Done"
M the Lords Supper will he
auspices and insprational
meeting, gala Easter service will be held
There will be special music by the choir; the Sentinel
and Priscilla Sunday School classes uniting to
beautify the interior with floral decorations; there will
Easter the catechsm Class together with
others, will be taken membership
will derive
uplifting associations something helpful
for the SOUL
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-04-08
CATHOLIC CHURCH OF ST. CATHERINE.
Rau / NJ Iiracak Pastor

Thursday-1OOO A. M. High Mass. 500 P. NJ Holy Hour
A. NJ Mass the PreSancted 1880 p NJ Way OF
the Cross
Saturday-8:OO Morning Service with Mass at 900.
Service with High Mass Regular
vices throughout the day.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-21
China Faced With
Child Labor Problem

The child labor question constitutes
one of the most pressing domestic
problems now confronting China.
Percival Finch, correspondent on the
staff Of the Shanghai Sunday Times,
declares in an article in the August
Current History Magazine. The
fight to liberate "China's child
slaves" which had centred on
Shanghai received serious setback
recently when the Shanghai Interna-
tional Settlement foreign ratepayers
failed to pass the settlements child
labor measure. The defeat of this
bill,' writes Mr.. Finch, was due to
apathy among ratepayers." The eff
feet was especially unhappy. because
the Chinese industrialists had looked
to the foreigners to set the lead in
the reform. However" Mr.. Finch
sdds, "the fight has not been aban-
doned. This bill which would imme-
diately free 1000 children from labor
in Shanghai. and which would, it is
hoped. result beneficially to children
throughout China, will be pushed at
payers in April, 1926"
Mr.. Finch ascribes China's child
labor evil to the modernization of in
dustry. He quotes social reform
leaders in citing the injury to the
children affected by premature physi-
cal strain DR.. Sherwood Eddy, one
Investigator in Chinese factories,
wrote as follows of the infants work.
ing in the steam room of a silk fla
ture: 1.-THE children learn to work as
soon as they are able to walk. The
eyesight of many has been affected
by the steam in their eyes. With no
medical care for their eyes, these
children must give up work ami face
hunger or go on and be satisfied with
smaller wage"
Concluding, Mr.. Finch explains:
"The child labor campaign does not
aim at ending this evil overnight: 1t
aims at making a start" To that
end. the foes of child labor in China
have organized their forces for a
concerted effort to enact the Shanghai
measure next year.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-21
A Chinese Field Marshal

When the great man did come In,
with hurried step, it was not the
burly figure that I had expected. He
was slight and bird-like with an I'M
wrinkled brow. grave but not trou-
bled. Before him lay a pile of let
tiers which, with an apology, he IN
rolled and scanned as he listened TO
our Wang and his own secretary
who told him that we were students
desiring to pass to the West and
anxious to know from him if the
roads We're safe. He promptly as
sured us that if they weren't they
could be made so, and promised a
guard, explaining that the bandits
were the care Of the provincial of
f1clals and that he> never had at
tempted to rid the country Of them.
When We said that we had hoped 10
go on without a guard and did not
wish to appear as rich official per-
sonages. he waived our objections
aside and said that ten men would
be with us as far as the borders Of
Shensi Province. Still opening let
tiers and occasionally signing a docu-
ment or giving short order over his
shoulder to his orderly, he talked
about archaeology and about paint
lngs, getting up to point out a pic
ture in gray Ink which hung on the
wall. 1t showed a dead plum tree
stump from which a few live switch
es in bud had sprung up. This he
said he loved, because it was SYM
bolical of new China. In half an
hour he left us, giving orders that
we should dine with him and his
staff in another hour. - Langdon
Warner amid Western Chinl's
Bandits in Search of Earliest Art
Treasures" in Worlds Work.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-21
Commission Raps
"Short" Buying and
Selling of Grain

Washington, Sept. 20-(AP)-Criti-
cism of the practice. of buying and
selling grain for future delivery was
expressed today by the federal trade
commission in it's sixth report on the
grain situation.
Although the procedure has been
defended by many elements of trade
as a price stabilizer, the commissions
report declared the data studied do
not indicate that future prices are
especially stable. and the technical
conditions of future trading appear
to cause some fluctuation in prices
that would not otherwise occur" A
similar contention has been voiced ny
representatives of the farmer and
grain producer.
The report declared that zone of
the most important and significant
facts statistically demonstrated Is
the downward bias of the future
market"
AN extensive comparison of price
data it continued. for various
grains and options over many years
shows that, on the average, there is
a definite tendency for the future
price in the earlier months of trad
ing perhaps nine months ahead Of
delivery, to fall short of the price
subsequently attained just before or
during the month of delivery.
'In other words, the tendency CT
the future price is to under-state the
ultimate price. This is true merely
in large majority, but by no means
in all of the instances dealt with
This bias of the. futures market In
the direction of low prices is in part
explained by the weight of selling
hedges during the heavy marketing
season."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-21
This Skin Game Cost Him SIS

The proprietor of a large food
market in Denver, Colorado, tells The
Progressive Grocer of a finn fam
game that was worked on him and
which he would like other grocers
to learn about. so that they may be
on their guard.
"a young woman made a small
purchase of Csc. and handed me
$40 BILL" says Mr.. Goldstine. Il
gave her 1915 in change. After
putting the change in her purse, she
asked me for two SC. chocolate bars.
She gave me loo. for her candy
and, while she had her purse open.
asked me if 1 wanted IS in silver In
exchange for bill.
Il told her 1 did and went to the
register to ring up the 10c. and to
get the IS bill to give her in ex-
change for the silver.
l gave her the bill, and she, while
putting away the bill with one hand,
counted the silver out in my hand.
After she counted the IS in silver,
she reached in her pocket, produced
SIS bill and said, you might as well
give me my $40 bill back. Here's
IS more
Il, like 'chump,' took her SIS bill
with my IS in silver and gave her
a $40 bill which set me back IS. 1t
might appear on the face of it that
l was over careless, but such change
transactions are carried on daily and
what grocer suspects a customer of
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-21
NATIONAL HOME

Officer Of the day Capt. Charles A.
Dunno.
Miss Martha Stephen. daughter of
DR.. ]. F.. Stephen. has returned to u.
OF N. ut Orono to resume her studies
in domestic art.
Mrs. Frank Collins and little daugh-
Yer Lucille have gone to San Pedro,
Cal, to join her husband, an engineer
In the navy.
Miss zilpha Hatch has returned to
ner nome in Monmouth after a few
Gays visit with Mr.. and Mrs G. S.
Gates.
Ambrose Mason of Lewiston, late
% +, lst Me. II. A, and Arthur Col
Teton OF Pascoag. r. l., late Co. D, LIST
X. l. H. "A, have been readmitted.
Inc moving picture for this week
will be: Tuesday, George o'Brien in
The Roughneck," with a review and
comedy; Friday, Reginald Denny in
On Doctor" with a Psthe News and
comedy.
DR.. Aldine E. Morgan and Mrs. Nor
gan have just arrived here by auto
from the Southern Branch at Hamp-
ton, va, he having been transferred to
MI the vacancy caused by the promo
ton of DR.. J. w. Loughlin to surgeon.
Dr. Morgan is a native of Lafayett,
lnd.' and after attending the public
schools of that place graduated from
the Indiana University. He was for
10 years on the medical staff of the
State Soldiers Home at Lafayette. He
was in the United Staes service during
the World War. He was assistant sur
geon at the Southern Branch about two
years. They have one daughter who
Is at present in Chicago. They will
reside in the north half of the double
quarters in the rear of the hospital
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-21

many mushrooms, MOSES or lichens
Should the afternoon be stormy
there will be program after the
business session.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lorin L. Arnold Of
Brockton. Mass. who have been
visiting Mr.. Arnolds mother, Mrs.
Ruth L. Arnold, 2 Royal street this
town, and Mrs. Arnold's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Loren E. Candage of East
Bluehill, have returned home. They
were accompanied by Mrs. Arnold's
sister, Miss Mildred F. Candage.
During their vacation, Mr.. and Mrs.
Arnold made motor trips throughout
the State. Mr.. Arnold is a special
writer for Brockton newspaper,
while Mrs. Arnold is engaged in
private nursing. she being a gradu-
ate nurse of the Augusta General
Hospital.