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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-12-15
BABCOCK GIVES
ROAD NEEDS FOR
NEXT TWO YEARS
COMMISSIONER OUTLINES PRO-
GRAM FOR LEGISLATURE;
BOND ISSUE AND INCREASED
TAX AND LICENSE FEES.

Charles M. Babcock, state highway
commissioner, Saturday, completed
his program of recommendations to
the state legislature.
He will ask the legislators meeting
in January to:
Enact a law providing for $780,
100000 bond issue to complete the
trunk highway system.
Increase the gasoline tax from 2
to cents gallon.
Restore automobile license fees to
the higher levels prevailing before
the 1925 legislature reduced them.
Establish state highway patrol
force.
Enact a law requiring all vehicles
travelling on the highways at night
to be equipped with lights.
This program if approved by the
legislature, will enable the highway
department to develop and maintain
the state highway system on basis
in accordance with the demand of
motoring public and with the steadily
increasing traffic that it will have to
bear in 1927 and years to come, Mr.
Babcock said. 1t also will permit the
department to make faster progress
inspaving the 4,S00 miles Of mpaved
highway which carry traffic of SOC
cars day or more, he explained.
The one-cent increase in the gaso-
| line tax, from two to three cents
would give the highway department
total of at least $7,500,000 for 1927
figured on the basis Of the 1926 tax
collections.
Restoration of the higher automo.
bile tax would increase the cost of a
license for car or truck from the
present figures of "a per cent of its
value to 2.8 per cent. 1t would re-
establish the minimum tax on Min
nesota motor vehicle at SIP, as COM
pared with the present $40, for Class
A cars, and at SIS instead of SIP for
heavier Glass B. cars. The higher
figures were those in effect from
creation of the state highway system
and passage of the vehicle tax law,
in 1921, until 1925, when the legisla-
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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-12-15
WHY THE CHIMES
RANG" PLEASES
LARGE AUDIENCE
STUDENTS DIRECTED BY GEN.
EVA nj. FLYGARE PRESENT
ANNUAL CHRISTMAS PRO-
GRAM TUESDAY EVENING.

The Christmas season opened most
auspiciously in Redwood Falls Tues
day evening when the public schools
presented the annual Christmas pro-
gram at the Lincoln School under the
direction of Miss Geneva M. Flygare.
The little one act Christmas play
"Why the Chimes Rang, was express
i've of the theme of the program and
was beautifully presented against a
background of sacred and secular
Christmas music sung by the Junior
High School and the grade choruses.
The program closed with the singing
of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus by the
combined Senior High School Glee
Clubs.
The first part of the program was
entirely musical, opening with a
group of songs by the Junior High
School Chorus, the group including
o Come All Ye Faithful by Reading,
The First Noel, the Besancon Carol
Shepherds Shake Off Your Drowsy
Sleep, and Adams Cantique De Noel.
The reading by Tom Finn, Jr., of the
Christmas Story from the second
Chapter of Luke added much to the
spiritual atmosphere of the program.
The grade chorus, which included
all the children of the lower grades
sang group of songs from the bal
cony of the auditorium. These includ-
ed the traditional Jingle Bells and
the sacred Christmas songs, Away in
a Manger, o Little Town of Bethle-
hem, and Silent Night. The singing
by this group and the Junior High
Chorus was exceptionally well done,
showing careful and expert directing
on the part of Miss Flygare and the
teachers of the grade rooms. The
singing of all of these songs from
memory, without break or mistake,
was, to many of the audience, rev.
elation of what children can do in
a musical way when well taught.
Many comments on the splendid exc
cution of these songs were made by
those hearing them.
The second part of the program, the
symbolical Christmas play by Eliza
beth Apthorp McFadden, was dram
attic demonstration of the Christmas
spirit which will long be remembered
by all seeing it. The contrast of the
peasant cottage, the home of Holger
and Steen, with the beautiful cathed-
raj sanctuary, formed a perfect and
very picturesque setting. The scene
in the peasant hut was well portray
ed by Royal Theiring and Elm Pet
erson as the two peasant boys, Willis
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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-12-15
LAND
VALUES ARE NOW
PICKING up
ONE REDWOOD COUNTY FIRM
SELLS 2,O61 ACRES FOR AL
MOST QUARTER MILLION DOL.
LARS; AVERAGE PRICE is $11O.

The Minneapolis Journal of last
Sunday contained an interesting arti-
Gle concerning the selling of farms
in the state during the past year.
Nine counties reported to the ques-
tionaire sent out by the Minnesota
Realty Association and the acreage
sold in these counties was 29,280,
bringing a total of $1,702,5O0.
Redwood County was not included
in the report but should have been
since apparently much land and that
at fairly good values has changed
hands here since last March. One
Redwood Falls Real Estate firm
alone, that of VIM. M. Smith Com
pany, reports the sale of farm lands
approximating nearly a quarter of a
million dollars. j. R. Keefe, repres-
entative Of this firm, has sold be-
tween the dates of March 9th and
December II total of thirteen farms
at an average of $110 per acre. The
farms sold were the following:
L. T. White farm, 143 acres.
C. A. Lauterbach farm, 100 acres.
Ed. Schmeising farm, 1853 acres.
j. A. Schmahl farm, 100 acres.
Mrs. Terhell farm, 80 acres.
L. H. Voghue farm, 120 acres.
Rudy Gluth farm, 120 acres.
Mrs. Ahrens farm, 160 acres
j. j. Swoboda farm, 80 acres.
w. T. Wilcox farm, 320 acres.
F. ]. Daugherty farm, 32O acres.
Mrs. Hemsworth farm, 80 acres.
Mr.. Johannkusy farm, 116 acres.
The total acreage sold is 2,061.
This is the report from a single land
office and is probably the approx
mate volume of business done in
many of the others throughout the
County. The encouraging item of the
report is that this land brought the
average price of $110 per acre
which is extremely high, according to
the $500 average reported by the
Minnesota Realty Association. The
prices reported to the Association
range from $500 for wild land to $175
for well developed land. The condi-
tions over the state show an improve
ment in the land values and steady
trend toward return of prosperity
in the real estate business.
The Associations report contains
the statement that reports from
bankers, farmers real estate and
business men, in more than half Of
the counties of the state showed am
pie funds available for farm loans and
farming operations" Many of the
counties reporting also state that
there has been more building done
during the past year.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-26
LABOR COLLEGE FILLS
LONG FELT NEED

MENA, ARK. - Workers from Is
states and 20 industries make up the
student group of Commonwealth Col
lege, Mena, Ark, a resident labor
school, now in its fourth year, whose
teachers and students earn their
meals, room, and laundry service b.
working four hours a day on the col
lege's farms and buildings.
Fifteen rough but serviceable build
ings and a farm on which the stu
dents and teachers raise a large part
of their own food are the chief phys
ical assets of this new kind of school,
where labor students willingly put up
with multitude of inconvenience in
order to prepare themselves for eff
Gent service to the labor movement.
Commonwealth As students,
for the most part young persons from
Is to 30, are nearly all members of
labor or farmer organizations or are
the sons and daughters of those with
such affiliations.
Commonwealth teachers have set
good example by organizing them
selves: they constitute Local 1874 of
the American Federation of Teachers
and their union is affiliated with the
Arkansas State Federation of Labor
Commonwealth takes a non-partisan
position within the labor movement
and cherishes a tradition of free dis
cussion.
AS Commonwealth is dedicated to
the proposition that labor needs train
ed organizers, speakers, writer's, and
research workers, it offers courses es-
pecially fitted to labor's needs - &c
onomics, sociology, labor history and
problems, statistics, public speaking.
law, written English, and commercial
subjects in addition to the mare gen
eral work in psychology, literature
and history.
Commonwealth offers a two-year
preparatory course, a three year col
lege course, and a short labor course
Of one to three years.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-26
BIG STREET
CELEBRATION
AT SCOBEY

SCOBEY. Nov. 21. - Friday and
Saturday Scobey's annual fall carni-
val and community fair was held at
the Community all. The opening
Friday evening was well attended. The
speaker was Rev. Mr.. OTner of Pop
lar. Mrs. Carl Cole and Mrs Fred
Bruner sang. Mrs. McDougal wife
of Professor McDougal of the Scobey
schools, and Miss Pence of MinOt,
each gave violin number, and little
Joice Cole saag a Thanksgiving solo
which was charmingly rendered.
Saturday at 400 a street parade of
clowns being in line. At 500 the La
dies Aid began serving dinner at the
hall. Four different shows were put
on, one from each class of the high
school, and quite a little real talent
was displayed. Boy Scouts, Girl
Scouts, Cub Scouts and many others
had booths, and there was a big dis
play of vegetables-the largest and
best-of turkeys, chickens and farm
stuff, all Of which sold later in the
evening. There was popcorn, pink
lemonade, confetti, noise, confusion,
and fun; a menagerie, a fish pond,
strange individual from Mars, and
fortune teller. Pleasant Valley, Ma
doc, Smoke Greek, Westfork, Battle
son and other communities were rep
resented with big displays.
Everything for the sale and for the
entertainment was contributed, and all
money raised 60 esa to the upkeep of
the community han for the comm g
wear
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-26
HIGH TO
GIVE OPERETTA

"The Feast of the Red Corn" an
American Indian Operetta, is to be
given by the Girls Glee Club of the
Westby High School on Friday, De-
cember 3rd.
The theme deals with the custom
of the maidens of the Wanta tribe
of Indians. Once a year they repair
to a secluded spot to celebrate the
Feast of the Red Corn. The one who
finds the first red ear of corn has
the privilege of expressing a wish
Characters
Weeda Wanta, Queen of the Wanta
tribe Carolyn Hoeck
Impee Light, her younger sister
Agnes Juve
Fudge, Fudge, Nudge, three chill
dren of the Queen Vernice Hall,
VictOrine Helm, Clifford Nereson
Old Squaw, sOrceress of the tribe
Olga Bruce
Chorus: Sopranos, representing spir-
its of happiness and joy; altos,
representing spirits of sorrow and
woe.
Dancers.
Scene
An Outdoor Scene.
Time
Evening before and the morning. of
the Feast of the Red Corn.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-26

The Government has ordered q
comprehensive survey Of existing
brOadcasting conditions. Officials
in Washington are worried at the
present outlook. Drastic action is
needed, and needed in hurry.
Since the courts declared that
governmental control of broad
casting is impossible without fur
tier congressional legislation, the
broadcasting situation has grown
steadily worse. Stations are ap-
prOpriating wavelengths at random,
brOadcasting at any time that they
choose, and boosting their power.
New stations are coming on the air
in large numbers.
This increasingly chaotic cOndi-
ton should not be blamed against
broadcasters. They have no desire
to ruin the brOadcasting art, nor
to fight one another rather than to
cooperate to their fullest ability.
But their hands are tied The
number of stations is constantly in
creasing. and there is no room for
them. All available wave channels
within the present broadcasting
range have been taken already-in
many cases by more than one sta
ton. Broadcasters cannot help
crOwding each other because there
are fan too many of them for the
channels available.
There is one remedy that will
take care of the present crowded
conditions, and that is, to adopt
some new band of broadcasting
waveiengths where there is plenty
of room for expansion. That is
the only scheme which will solve
the problem of crOwding satisfac-
torily. Many such wavelength
bands are available within the
short-wave range.
"A short-waye band could be
chosen = below the present broad
casting range in which one hum
dred times as many stations as are
at present operated could broad
cast without the slightest interfer-
enca Apparently such a solution
ts the one to which the broadcast
ing art win very soon have to
come Fortunately when short
wave broadcasting is adopted it
will not only clear up present con-
ditions OF interference, but will
make It possible for fans to re-
eeive over much greater distances.
both IN the daytime and at night.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-26
SODBUSTERS EDITION
is NOW UNDER WAY
KROGMAN IS NOW USHIN
FULL STEAM AHEAD" AS AR
TICLES ROLL INTO THE PRINT
Frs HANDS.

Mr.. Herman Krogman, back from
his trip to Western Montana in the
interest of the So0busters Edition of
the Producers News, says that state
wide interest is being taken in the
big booster book. He saw Liney Line
barger, editor of the Havre Promoter
as we'll as other well known publicists
express their approval of the project
and sent their good wishes. Public
service companies, whom the Produc-
ers News fought bitterly in the past,
recognize that this is one of the few
enterprises undertaken by a Montana
weekly newspaper which will result
IN solid advantages to the state in the
way of advertising, and are preparing
to take space to suit the occasion.
While the eyes of the state are To-
cussed on the Forthcoming SOdbust-
ers edition, local contributors to its
columns are mo- letting the grass
grow under their feet. Howard M.
Lewis has completed the best early
day history of Sheridan county ever
submitted to the public. 7. w. Greer
has compiled an article on Charitable
institutions that leaves nothing un-
said in this respect while Jay Gunther
has accumulated a fund of informa-
ton and photographs of the Plenty
wood of early days which he is now
rounding into an article which will be
read with interest by all who ever
lived in the town.
Jack White and Dan Mckay were
in town last week and state they have
their articles on the oil and mineral
resources of the county almost COM
pleted. Many others are busy and ex-
pect to send their stories to the print
er this coming fortnight.
J. J. Gibbons History of Railroad
and Transportation" is nearly ready
and deals with the times from which
the branch was built until the farm
ers of the ScObey-Opheim country
raised 100000 to push the line fur
Their west.
Business men are taking advantage
of this opportunity to advertise their
goods in medium which will be pre-
served long after newspaper copies
have been destroyed. They realize
that they are doing themselves anC
their county a good service by boost
ing the big booster edition of thc
Producers News.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-26
IN TIE LRK1CHT
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notice giving 20 days to any town or
village that its name might be put
on the ballot as a candidate for the
location of the school. All nOmina-
tons for the location of the school
must be filed with the County Clerk
not more than 80 days after the pub
LEGATION of the notice referred to.
After the expiration of 80 days from
the first publication Of the notice
the County Commissioners M u ) 1
call an election to decide whether a
High School should be established,
and where. Should the election re
suit in a favorable vote for the pro-
ject the County Commissioners
would NOT be able to raise more
than $4,000 by special levy for tho
erection of the High School Building
by reason of the provisions of Sec
), of Article XIII of the COnstitu-
ton Of Montana.
BUT the County Commissioners can
appoint a Board of Trustees, COM
posed of seven members. of which
the Superintendent of Schools shall
be one, to formulate plans for the
establishment of a High School. A
majority of this board can certify to
the County Commissioners that they
consider a Bond issue for the cree
ton and maintenance of a County
School advisable. The County Com
missiOners shall then submit the
Bond Issue to a vote Of the people
and if the vote is favorable IN >
money for the erection Of the School
Building shall be Obtainable. When
the County High School is once es
tabished il would be a comparative
ly easy matter to get il designated
a Junior College, a nd get su c h
funds from the state as are available
for such purposes. The bond issue
would be for 20 years, and I have
no doubt in my mind that an issue
for such a purpose, would be imme-
diately snapped up ri g ht here in
Sheridan County by people who have
some spare cash but refuse to trust
il to Che bankers. So all the bone-
fits would come back to the people
of the county. If any readers of the
Producers News want to express
themselves on this important ques-
ton they will be given all the space
they need. This is a thing that vi
tally affects the people who liv e
here and deserves their most earnest
consideration.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-26
DISTURBER OF PEACE
IN JAIL AT POPLAR

WOLF POINT. - w. c. Tatem is
serving a 90 day sentence in tn e
county Jail here as the result of dis
turbing the peace at Poplar, Novem-
Der 5. A. quarrel on the Poplar
streets between Tatem and Mollie
Williams, also of that city, resulted
in his being brought before Judge
Turner who gave him a 9O-day SEN
tence, suspending the sentence on a
condition that he leave town for that
length of time. Tatem came to Wolf
Point. Last Thursday he went across
the river in a car. When he came to
return the ferry had stopped run
ming S o Re crossed a t the Poplar
ferry. He wandered into the town
and was promptly arrested.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1926-11-26

A. w. Laird Of Potlatch, Idaho,
Is president Of Western Forestry
Conservation Assn, and head Of
committee that called on President
Coolidge to discuss the problem Of
saving our great national wooded
lands-thst are facing destruction
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-12
MEHELHORN HAS
PENINSULA OPEN
GOLF MEET LEAD

DEL MONTE, Cal, Dec. IL
(AP)-Playing fiawless golf, Bill
Mehelhorn, Chicago, turned III a
starting 20, two under. paF"today
to maintain a substantial lead in the
72 holes $4,000 Monterey Peninsula
Open championship. His card, with
yesterdays first round, 72, gave
him a total of 142, three strokes
below the field. Most of the out
standing entrants had completed
their second round and it was not
held likely that Mehlhorns mark
would be surpassed.
Three other cards of seventy also
were chalked up today with Olin
Dutra, Fresno; Harry Cooper, Los
Angeles, and Johnny Golden, New
York, as the luminaries.
George Won Elm, Los Angeles,
national amateur champion, strok-
ed a II to bring his total score to
147.
H. Chandler Egan, Medford, Ore.
former national and present Cali
fornia amateur title holder, made
a comback after a somewhat disas-
trous 85 yesterday. His score to-
day was Is, or total of 152, which
was expected to qualify him among
the GA finalists tomorrow.
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-12
.CROQUET URGED
BY WRITER AS
NATIONAL GAME

SAN FRANCISCO, Calf. Dec II
(AP)-Americans are overlooking
q real potential national game if
they do not develop croquet, in the
opinion of Kathleen Norris, novel
ist.
Mrs. Norris, now an expert of
the wicket and mallet game, says
that croquet combines all of the
good features Of golf and billiards
without the necessity of the play
ers having to remain indoors, as in
the table game, or cover many
weary" miles of landscape, as in
golf.
On the Norris estate at Saratoga,
near here, the croquet is one of the
principal features. Here Mrs. Nor
ris, her husband, her son and her
13 nephews and nieces keep the
balls rolling all day long and regis
ter many an expert split shot.
"The game calls for considerable
strength and great deal of tech
nique," Mrs. Norris says. "It has
all the attractiveness Of tennis,
none of the WEAKNESS Of golf and
all of the art of billiards.
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-12
Iu1rley' S Boxing
Exhibitions Given
OK. In New York
"a

NEW YORK, Dec. II (AP)-
Attorney General Albert G. Citing
er, i nan opinion forwarded to the
state athletic commission, today
said that the appearance in a
Vaudeville boxing exhibition of
Gene Tunney. worlds heavyweight
Champion, was not in violation of
the state boxing law. The cham
pion was arrested November 20 on
a. charge of appearing in an nnli-
eensed exhibition during a vaude-
vile performance in a local thea
TIE and hearing was set for De-
cember p.
~
3. While Attorney General Citing
er cannot intervene in the case. his
opinion as to the legality of the
exhibition had been asked by the
state athletic commission and by
District Attorney Banton.
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-12
KanSanS Strength Unknown

No local football followers have
seen Newton, and since little at
tention is turned eastward, no dope
on the strength of the corn-fed
Kansans is to be had.
1t is known here, however, that
San Bernardino presents remark
ably able defense, and a charging
forward wall that is poisonous on
the offensive. In the backfield, the
sunkissed-crew boasts a line plung-
ing fullback as hard to stop as
bad news and a tall and rangy half
whose thrusts off tackle helped
most pitifully to defeat the local
apprentice club in an earlier game.
San Bernardino has we'll
rounded team, not boasting the
high polish Of a college eleven,
but with plenty of strength in the
first string and reserve, a variety Of
plays, good groundwork Of their
subject, and battling spirit.
You can't pick them blind,
though. Nothing is known of
Newton, but much will be known
tonight.
The game will start at 2:30 p. m.
today, at city park.
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-12
ALLOWSDETR0IT
HOCKEY LEAGUE
TO DROP GAMES

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Dec. II
(AP)-Detroit was authorized to
suspend play for the remainder of
the American professional Hockey
League schedule, but will retain its
franchise for next year at meet
ing of directors Of the league here
today.
The Greyhounds' withdrawal
from competition was necessitated
by failure of contractors to COM
plete building of the teams arena
in Detroit in time for use for home
games, it was declared at the
meeting.
That the best players might be
retained for the league, distri-
button was made among the re-
naming clubs. Chicago, which in
the opinion of directors was most
ly in need of assistance, drew three
players, Lesard, a wing, Donnelly.
defense, and Walsh, goalie
st. Paul drew Woodruff, a fast
wing Brown, defense, went to
Duluth, Monroe, defense to Min
neapolis, and Campbell, center, to
Winnipeg.
Detroit's remaining games are
cancelled.
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-12
Northern Arizona
Freshies Planning
Transforming Trip

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Dec IL
(SpeciaD-The freshman team of
the Northern Arizona Teachers col
lege are contemplating making a
trip into northeastern Arizona the
second week in January, playing
the members of the northern high
school loop conference. The pre-
liminary schedule calls for games
with Winslow, Holbrook, Snowflake
and st. Johns.
1t is not known who will make
up the personnel of the quintet
but Coach Lynch hopes to put a
strong team in the field.
Winslow daily mail., 1926-12-12
ORMISTON HIDES AS
POLICE OPEN SEARCH
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clients reported plans for fighting
extradition to California.
Asa Keyes, district attorney at
Los Angeles, is to arrive tomorrow
from Washington to take a hand
in the situation, and further moves
by officials apparently await his
coming. One of his assistants,
Harold Davis, also was reported
on his way here.