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Bank No. 405.
AMENDMENT TO CERTIFICATE
OF INCORPORATION


of the State Bank of Redwood Falls.
At meeting of the Stockholders Of
the above named Bank, held at the
Banking House on the fourth day of
January, A. D., 1927, the following
resolution was offered and adopted by
a majority vote Of its Capital Stock;
RESOLVED: That section Six (6)
of the Certificate of Incorporation Of
this Bank be amended to read as fol-
lows:
{ Section SIX: The government of
this corporation and the management
of its affairs, shall be vested in a
Board of not less than three (3) or
more than nine TO- Directors, who
shall be elected at the regular annual
meeting of the stockholders, to be
held on the Tuesday after the first
Monday in January Of each year and
who shall hold their office until the
next annual meeting, and until their
successors are elected and qualified.
We hereby certify that the fore
going resolution was duly adopted by
a majority vote of the Capital Stock,
at meeting duly called for that pur-
pose and held at the Banking House
in Redwood Falls, Minnesota, on the
fourth day of January, A. D., 1927.
A. C. Burmeister, President.
A. F. Hassenstab, Cashier.
corporate SeaD
State of Minnesota, County of Red
wood, SIS.
On this 21st day of January, 1927,
before me appeared A. c. Burmeister
and A. F. Hassenstab, and to me per-
sonally known, who being by me duly
sworn did say that they are respec-
lively the President and Cashier OF
State Bank of Redwood Falls, that
the seal affixed to the foregoing in
strument is the corporate seal of said
corporation, that said instrument was
executed by them as their free act
and deed.
Mona Leavens, Notary Public,
Redwood County, Mimi. My Com
mission expires July 21st, 1888.
tNotarial SeaD
State of Minnesota, Office of Com
missioner of Banks.
4 st. Paul, January 9th. 1927.
4 This is to certify that the action
If the stockholders of the STATE
HANK OF REDWOOD FALLS in
adopting the foregoing amendment to
/, tie Certificate of Incorporation, has
been approved by me.
A. j. vEIGEL,
Commissioner of Banks
(SeaD
State of Minnesota, Department OF
State.
] hereby certify that the within in
strument was filed for record in thi,
Office on the 9th day of January, A
d., 1927, at Ais o'clock p. NJ, and
was duly recorded in Book C of State
Bank Records, on page $50.
\ MIKE HOLM,
Secretary of State
Office of Register of Deeds.
County of Redwood, Minnesota.
Thereby certify that the within in.
strument was filed in this office fol-
record on the 1st day of February
A. D., 1927, at 2 o'clock P. M. anc
was duly recorded in Book "23" Of
Miscl., page 257.
A. d. McRAE,
Register of Deeds
32-2ts
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Mr.. and Mrs. James Gallery and
son Jimmie and Miss Mary Stitz of
Redwood Falls visited at the E. ].
Bellig home Sunday. Miss Rose Cal
lery, sister of Mrs. Bellig, who has
been visiting here the past two weeks
returned to Redwood Falls with her
parents Sunday evening. -Lamber-
ton Northern Light.
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HThe answer to the question, How
much money can university use.
profitably? is the same as to the
question How much whiskey can 2
Scotchman drink ANY GIVEN
QUANTITY A. Lawrence Lowell
.The whole secret of life is to be
interested in one thing profoundly
and in Thousand other things well-
Walpole.
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Feb. Bismarck 80
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORE
CLOSURE SALE.

Default having occurred in the con-
ditions of certain mortgage bearing
date the 18th day of November, 1920,
executed by Joseph Parker and Al
thera Parker, his wife, as mortgag-
ors, to The Provident Life and Trust
Company of Philadelphia (now Provi-
dent Mutual Life Insurance Company
of Philadelphia, a corporation under
the laws of the State of Pennsylvania,
as MORTGAGE, which mortgage was
filed for record in the office of the
Register of Deeds of Redwood Coun-
ty, Minnesota, on the 23rd day of
November, 1920, at 1910 A. NJ, and
was duly recorded in Book 50 Of
Mortgages, on-page SAC, which mort
gage contains a power of sale; the
whole amount secured by which mort
gage has become and is hereby declar-
ed by the mortgage to be immediate
ly due and payable, and upon which
mortgage there is now due the sum
of Seven Thousand Five Hundred
Thirty-two and 47-100 Dollars ST.
532.47); and no action or pro-
ceeding at law having been instituted
co recover the debt secured by the
said mortgage or any part thereof;
NOW THEREFORE, NOTICE IS
HEREBY GIVEN, that by virtue of
the power of sale in said mortgage
contained and pursuant to the statutes
in such case made and provided, the
said mortgage will be foreclosed by
sale at public auction of the prem
Uses therein described, to be made by
the Sheriff of Redwood County, Min
nesota, at the front door of the Court
House in Redwood Falls, Minnesota,
on Tuesday, April IL, 1927, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon of that day,
to satisfy the amount which will then
be due on the said mortgage, includ-
ing taxes on said premises, if any,
paid by the MORTGAGE, the costs and
disbursements of foreclosure and
sale, and the attorneys fees of One
Hundred Dollars ($100.O01 stipulated
in said mortgage to be paid in case
of foreclosure thereof.
The premises described in said
mortgage and so to be sold are all
that certain real estate lying and be-
ing in the County of Redwood and
State of Minnesota, and described as
follows, to-wit:
The Southwest quarter of
Southeast quarter (SWk
SEN of Section Twenty (20)
and the West half of the North
east quarter tWh NEA) and
the South half of North half of
Northwest quarter (Sh Nh
NWAI of Section twenty-nine
t29), all in Township One Hun
dred and Eleven q11) North, Of
Range Thirty-five (35l West of
the Fifth Principal Meridian,
containing 16O acres, more or
less, according to the United
States Government Survey there
of, and all being used and occu-
pied together as one distinct
tract or farm and so mortgaged.
Dated February %, 1927.
PROvIDENT MUTUAL LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY OF
PHILADELPHIA,
formerly The Provident Life
and Trust Company Of Phila-
delphial,
Mortgages.
Dokerty, Rumble, Bum 4 Butler,
Attorneys for Mortgages,
1905 Merchants National Bank
Buildings
Saink P1ul. lIinesota- 3 81
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time, your pleasure, your love.
D. his soul to the lowest pit
in h.. / wish to God he dies q
most horrible death this night and
/ could look on and laugh. Yes,
could kill him myself, pull him
limb from limb. The 49, dog.
This thing has gone far enough
and too far.
Mind About to Crack
''I have wanted only you since
the night I met you and you alone
had my time, companionship and
love. 1t has been you. you. you,
all the time, and for the life Of me
can't see why should be sub
jected to this treatment. can't
ask any more than I'm willing to
give.
"And I do ask and demand all
your time IL you care to continue
the relations that exist between us.
MY mind Is about to crack. 1 can
hardly stand 1t. IL you had only
let me know. But you didn't,
didn't. You fooled me. You laughed
in my face.
And have loved you so much,
/ demand an explanation. de.
mand it Just as soon as you get
this letter, If it is o'clock in the
morning. If can't see you to.
night, I'll know it Is all off be.
tween us and / shall not be re.
sponsible for anything lO.--J. w. r,
Claiming that the woman com.
mitted suicide, L. o. Wendenburg
in his. opening statement said he
expected to prove that Mrs. Snipes
told Mrs. Faison she would remove
herself from the picture, il she lost
Faison's love, and that another
witness, Henry Clay Robinson. over.
heard Mrs. Snipes tell woman
friend that she would blow out her
brains IL Faison thrust her aside
and returned to his wife and five
children.
Visited Minister
How Falson, trying to break
away from the woman who had him
in her power, went to his minister
for advice, how Mrs. Snipes became
historical when Faison informed
her of his intentions, and how the
sordid story came to its tragic de.
nouement November Is, was told
the jury by defense counsel.
Faison, after the shooting, did not
rush the MORALLY wounded woman
to the hospital Immediately, the
Commonwealth charged. Rather, he
left the apartment and re-entered it
four times before placing Mrs.
Snipes in his automobile and taking
her to Stuart Circle Hospital,
Prosecutor Satterfield stated.
Wendenburg painted the picture
of man who was Sunday school
superintendent who lost his reason.
ing. practically deserted his wife and
children, and figured in tragedy,
all within the short period of four
months. A husband who confessed
to his wife that he loved Mrs.
Snipes, patient wife who planned
to start action for a divorce, and
who later told Mrs. Snipes she
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A POEM
By RUTH SNYDER
NEW YORK, Dec. rs,

" Z Is
From behind the sOire mesh
through 4Ohich Ruth Snyder
looks at her mother, Mrs. JO-
sephine BYotUn, IN Sing Sings
death house, she today dicg
tnted the fONOWiltg poem sic
UrOte for the NesO York
Daily Mirror:
Copyright. 1897. b. Daily Mirrorl
1.-THE cross I am bearing,
At times l feel | shall fall.
God give il to me to carry,
He knows the weight Of It
all.
I'll not tire Of my heavy
cross,
But walk in the same old
way.
God pointed On. for my very
That will lead to Heaven
some day.
$50
God gives NJ what in his
sight 10 best
To held ON fast and stumble
not.
Go right on and take the
test.
The reward Of Efe's rugged
path
ls eternal rest"
RUTH SNYDER.
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would fight to the bitter end to keep
her husband.
The Commonwealth attorney,
claiming Faison's jealousy of Mrs
Snipes knew no bonds, said that
early on the night OF November Is,
Faison took his wife and children for
an automobile ride. At the time Mrs.
Snipes was in her apartment, with
Mrs. Minnie Wade. Mason Smith
and DIR. Robert Bybee as her guests,
Satterfield said, Faison telephoned
four times before the guests de-
parted, he continued.
Don't Leave Me
As they were leaving, the Jury
was told, Mrs. Snipes followed them
to the street. Don't leave me here
Faison is coming back" she said
You'll be sorry that You left me,
were her parting words
Faison and Mrs. Snipes quarrelled
and she got out OF his car, the
commonwealth attorney said. Later
they returned to the woman's
apartment. The woman went into
another room to telephone.
I'VE expect to show that while
she was talking on the phone
Faison opened the door and shot
her, the bullet entering the fore.
head above the right eye. 1t took
downward course, came out and
richochetted against a WALL"
Girls Hear Shot
Two single girls. living In the
apartment above Mrs. Snipes' bed.
room, heard the pistol report and
mans voice as in prayer, followed
by footsteps and the clicking of an
electric light button, Satterfield de.
clared.
"A doctor heard Faison tell his
wife he was at Stuart Circle Hos
pital. DIR. Stuart Michaux, throuy h
Faison, tried to have the woman
utter some word. Faison kissed her
and said, Elsie, why did you do
/ this? but she never was able to
speak.
ION November 4. a gentleman who
is now en- route to this courtroom
from Louisiana, was seated at a
table. Gle is H. C. Robinsonl He
heard Mrs. Snipes say to another
woman, seated at an adjoining table
1T looks like Mrs. Faison is going
to get her husband back, and il she
does I'm going to blow my brains
out We learned this information
| only last Friday"
A.
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y JUDGE w. K. MATTHEWS
Presiding at Faison Trial

troll, she could do anything pos.
sible. Many States recognize this
and have allowed emotional pleas
as immunity from punishment
Counsel for the defense consid.
cred it another evidence of sub.
normal state of brain that Velma
was engaged to two men at one
time. For months prior to clipping
with the said West, she was en-
gagged to William Chapman. Cleve.
land lunch room owner, So years
her senior. Chapman was intro.
duced by Yelma to her cousin"
The cousin" was young West.
A month later, it is stated, Chap.
man received from his fiancee q
telegram announcing her eIopment
with West, though &C the time, she
wore an engagement ring given by
Chapman.
Her lawyers say that they are
laying the ground work for ex-
aminations by alienists to establish
her as being subnormal mentally.
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In one OF the letters read Dy
J. J. Hatch, special prosecutor,
Faison, married man with five
children, told the little music
teacher. that his fondest hope was
that 'our love should be: sealed
with a little one. the browning
event Of our lives concluding by
signing off over station LOVE. -
Throughout the correspondence,
Faison addressed the woman he Is
alleged to have shot through the,
head early on the morning Of No
vember Is, in her apartment on
Hanover Avenue, as MY Dear
Little Wife" my Dear Sweet
Wife, and signed himself your
Hubby"
How Love You"
In another passage. he said:
'sGOd, Elsie, you don't know how
love you. i miss you 50 much,
no one wanting me, no one waiting
for me, no one to 90 to-
Three letters identified as being
IN Faison's handwriting were not
read. They were addressed to /. A.
Snipes, divorced husband Of the
slain woman. living at ASHORE,
n. c. Attorney Hatch doubted
whether they would be offered in
evidence. Hatch closed by reading
q letter from Faison to Mrs. Snipes
dated October %. The latter, in
part, reads:
God / am crazy. I don't know
what to do or think. love you
10 much am beside myself with
jealousy. The thoughts that are
going through my head right now
are enough to drive me mad. Oh,
can picture you with someone
else when you should be with me.
II thought was your husband,
now someone else is claiming your
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soning power was unable to come
to the rescue. There are two
theories as to what caused her so.
called indifference after the sIay-
ing" (veIma attended, q bridge
party and dance in Cleveland a few
hours later.l
Emoti0naIly Drained
1T may have been mental de-
rangement. or she may have been
enlOtiOnally drained. The reason
she could retain her calm when she
was trying to establish an alibi may
have been because her nervous sys.
tenn was numb with exhaustion.
West and Velma Van Wosrt
probably were mismated. Uncon-
genialities In early married life are
cumulative. A girl who begins by
disappearing may end by hating.
Then, IL she has no emotion con-
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magazine reading and an occasional
excursion into the Bible. Her col.
lapse, for the time being, at least,
is over.
Is Herself Again
Velma is quite herself again.
Which means that she again may
be described as a woman of COM
posture, albeit she faces trial in
which Lake county will seek to
exact the death penalty.
For an hour and a half yesterday
she was in conferences with her
lawyers. Following the talk, the
attorneys went to the bungalow in
which she killed her husband to
make notes Of the death room up
stairs.
The first step in the effort to
prove Velma mentally unbalanced
since childhood was taken when the
defense engaged DIR. III. Del Spence,
former chief of the clinic of mental
and nervous disease at Lakeside
Hospital, Cleveland, to test her
mind. From a cursory reading OF
the case DR.. Spence said today,
eff it had not been for the power
OF suggestion of the hammer being
where she could see it, perhaps
Velms West would never have slam
her husband.
Belongs TO New School
IF she had had to go somewhere
to get that hammer, most likely she
never would have thought Of using
it as a weapon. IL it had been
necessary to take the hammer and
follow her husband upstairs the sug-
gestion might have lost its power.
"She was product Of the new
school Of young people. She is
fond of excitement and distractions.
There may be a lack of co.ordi-
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LEGION To free
DOTY'S PAL

PARIS, Dec. ia pardon for
John Harvey, British citizen who
is serving four years in Clairvaux
prison for deserving the French
Foreign Legion with Bennett J..
Doty, an American, was before
President Doumergue for signing
today.
When War Minister Painleve pre-
scented the pardon to the President
it was intimated that it,sWpuld be
signed late today. Harvey till has
some time to serve in the legion
before his enlistment term expires,
but it Is understood that 1t, like
Doty's. will be waived by the war
ministry. Doty, who was recently
released sailed for New York yes
terday.
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Mrs. Brown carried q slip OF
paper on which she had written a
poem which Ruth had dictated to
her through the wire mesh of the
cage in which she stands when she
receives visitors. She gave it to q
reporter.
The Queens Village blonde, who
forgot her daughter Lorraine in
her infatuation for Judd Gray.
which has led her to the death
chair. has made up her mind at
last to die without seeing her child
again. She said emphatically today
she would not say goodby to
Lorraine unless she could see her
in room and put her arms around
the child. The prison rules forbid
this, and 1t is not likely any change
! viii be made to accommodate
Ruth's new sensitiveness.
An unknown Jack" from Am
sterdam, telephoned Mrs. Brown to
ask her to inquire of Ruth If she
remembered him. Ruth told her
mother she did not. A second call
from Jack" in which he was told
this. brought the curt response.
We'll, in that case, can't help
her." The mysterious caller re.
fused to see her attorneys.
Gray Depressed
Judd Gray. following the visit Of
his mother and sister. was much
affected. and, according to prison
officials, looked terrible" He in
sisted he never knew anything
about the insurance angle of the
Snyder case until after the murder,
and SO repudiated allegations he had
plotted to kill Snyder for his in
surance.
Dana Wallace, back In New York
] from his trip upstate to secure
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-12-15
TRUCE SEEN IN
OKLAHOMA
BY international News Service

OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 15 The
Oklahoma senate was in search Of
a presiding officer for its court OF
impeachment today.
Meanwhile armed militiamen,
called out 10 prevent assemblage of
the legislatures on Monday, stood
guard over the house OF representa-
tives chamber to keep any member
Of the mouse from entering.
The supreme court was to hold
conference at o'clock to de.
termine whether any OF its Justices
would consent to preside over the
trial OF Gov. Henry s. Johnston.
An hour later the senate was to
mast and select one of its own mem.
hers y preside should the judges
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But she wasn't so very blue, it
seemed. She had become resigned
to her situation though her spirit
is broken" her attorneys, Francis
Poulson and Richard Bostwick, said.
Having become resigned to circum-
stances arising from her striking a
hammer with fatal force against the
skull of her husband, r. Edward
West. she has taken to letter writ
ing. humming and singing tunes,
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,IudsOn G. Welliver has written
the most comprehensive story Of
the Veterans Bureau that has
yet appeared. The Nig Sunday
washington Herald win present.
this article on December IL. Read it.
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MOTHER WISHES GRAY
HAD KILLED RUTH

NEW YORK Dec. 15'It would have been better if Judd
Gray had killed Ruth instead of Albert said Mrs Josephine
Brown Ruth Snyder mother she out of the grim
gray pile Sing Sing today, after visit with her daughter
sentenced to die during the week of January g.
Then she added wping away tears Ruth would be out
of her miservs
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Calm Again

AFTER THE mysteries which
followed her first appearance on
the stand in a preliminary hear.
ing on the charge Of numbering
her husband with hammer,
VeIma West, gainesville, Ohio,
bride, has regained her calm and
Is planning her own fight for life.
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"Split- Mind" Slayer
Discovers Bible
BY CHARLES M. BAYER

J 1tCopyright lss1 Aicr) -@
PAINSVILIE, Ohio, Dec. 15-Vema West has discovered
the Bible but she hasn't discarded jazz She this
ing at $50 examine the Good Book but tossed the
Bible aside after WHILE it is sad and sang series of Jazz
songs, including " Oh, So Blue.
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'FAIS0N LOVE NOTES TELL
OF HIS JEAL Gus FRENZY
COULD TEAR HIS RNAL
LIMB FROM LIMB

RICHMOND Va, Dec 15.John Wesley Faison passionate
love letters written his pretty affinity Mrs. Elsie Holt
Snpes with whose Staying he charged read into the
record of his murder trial here late yesterday.
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MRS. SNIPES' FAMILY
THE RELATIVES of
Mrs. Elsie Holt Snipes,
slain Richmond (Va.)
woman, are shown at the
trial of John w. Faison,
Mrs. Snipes' alleged slayer.
Left to right they are Mrs.
A. Y. Baldwin, sister; Mr..
and Mrs. Calvin A. Holt,
parents, and Mrs. Raiford
Oliver, another sister. Fai-
some parents are shown
below.
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nation between her emotions ana
reasoning power. In this case her
emotions dominated her and her rea.
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ELEANOR LINK

evidence, Gent a telegram to District
Attorney Newcombe of Queens, ask.
ing for an investigation OF Haddon
Gray. of Syracuse, who testified at
the trial and was exonoreated Of
completely IN the case.
Newconibe, while discounting the
value of the new evidence, said he
would see Wallace any time the
latter wished.
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would not submit to being dis
possessed even temporarily.
Al truce until after the holidays
was in sight with the possibility
that the legality Of the legislatures
self-convened session might be on
It's way to the United States SUI
preme Court before an actual at
tempt was made TO bring the gov
ernor to trial.
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all decline.
BY an almost unanimous vote, the
senate decided late yesterday not to
suspend the governor at this stage
Of the proceedings. This postponed
the conflict that doomed IL the
senate had attempted to elevate
Lieut.. Gov William J. Holloway to
the acting sovernorship In the face
Of Jchnstcn's assertion that he