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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-06-22
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Had Poor Highways

uncles, who is tolerably well off, is
coming to visit them next week. And
they've been hunting everywhere for
big picture of him that they used to
have so they can get it framed and on
the front room table before he arrives.
Some person at Albany called ST.
mon Sloan on the telephone last Fri
day, and they kept asking was that
him they were talking to. But Simon,
who was little suspicious, wouldn't
say definite that it was until he found
out what they wanted.
Harley Burton had the misfortune
to knock a big flower pot off of a
stand on their porch yesterday and
broke it. But by limping around a
while and letting on like it hit his foot
and hurt it bad, he got his wife to
sympathize enough so that she didn't
say much about how awkward he
was.
Noak Walls, who drives mule team
for the planning mill, had to take a
load of lumber several miles out in
the country last Tuesday. 1t being
place where he had never been be-
fore, he somehow got on the wrong
road coming back and was lost for
an hour or two. And the men at the
mill said it didn't surprise them any
at Noah, but they would have thought
the mules would have known the way
back.
Sam Price had his barber pole re-
painted last week, and he thinks he'll
have to have it done over on account
of so many people saw the sign which
said wet pait, and put their hands on
it to see was it dry yet.
Some one mentioned the other day
how with radio and the monograph
everybody can have good music now.
And Uncle Bill Bobbitt said that
was all right, but he wished he knew
where he could go once more and
hear an old-fashioned organ, and
somebody to second on a guitar. He
said that was the kind of music that
could start a man to seeing himself
coming home some day with his name
in the papers and the band out to
meet him.
Howard Evans was somewhat up
set yesterday when he found that one
of the rubber heels was gone off Of
his Sunday shoes. And where it went
was his boy, Chester, took it to put
in ball to make it bounce good.
Sidney Moon was complaing the
other day about expenses, and he
took the occasion to mention how
some of the family throws away ex-
pensive hosiery as soon as it shows
the least little break. And he said
seems like the young generation never
has learned the art of covering up
hole in sock with shoe backing.
Mrs. Hettie Thomas, who always
has lot of company as soon as the
roads get good in the spring, has re-
marked that the fiivver sure has been !
a big help in reviving distant rela-
Mrs. Felix Cobb took some visitors
to the picture show last Saturday
night, but she didn't take them in.
And the reason was that Felix was
to meet her there with money for the
tickets and he stopped in the bar
Der shop for a minute and found |
copy of The Gazette, which he be-
came so interested in that he forgot |
where he was going.
Somebody gave Jud Johnson a cigar
yesterday, and being of saving dis
position, he singed his moustache toll
arably bad trying to smoke it too
short.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-06-22
DAMAGE BY FLOODS, WASHOUTS,
GREATER IN MANY OTHER
STATE THAN IN MINNESOTA
MANY BRIDGES DESTROYED.

Motorists in Redwood and other
Minnesota counties who were impa-
tient during the period Of impossible
roads this spring, may take some So
lace from the fact that motorists in
other states had to contend with roads
that were just as bad, or worse. News
paper account and reports of tourists
agree that not since the automobile
came into general use have poor roads
bene so general throughout the nation
The damage to Minnesota roads
although it will run into hundreds
great as in some other states. The
principal loss and there was only
minor damage to grades by wash.
outs, mostly on new construction.
In the six states affected by the
Mississippi valley floods. Arkansas
Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ten
nessee and Illinois, 1900 miles of main
interstate routes and thousands of
miles of secondary roads, were put out
of commission. Some of these roads
were under blanket of mud and wa
ter for weeks, and the damage will
run into millions. Hundreds of bridges
were destroyed. In Ohio, high water,
with alternate freezing and thawing,
caused numerous landslides and wash
outs which will necessitate the rebuild
ing Of many miles of the state high
day system.
Bad roads were not confined to the
states which had floods. Roads in the
western part of New York, according
70 the Highway Engineer" were left
IN worse condition than ever before
when winter ended
AS result the construction program
had to be revised and emergency con-
tracts let for the rebuilding of several
highways which had been impossible
by the winters snow and frost.
Due to the heavy rainfall, the North
Dakota highway department has in
creased its maintenance allotment for
S65O,O00 to $850,O0. Heavy rains caus
ed the bottom to fall out" of MANY
OF the roads. Several bridges were
washed out in a cloudburst near Wi
shek. Every road patrolman is work.
ing full time.
Wisconsin, Illinois and Missouri
each have from two to six times as
much pavement as Minnesota. But
conditions on unpaved roads in these
states, as well as in Iowa, Kansas and
Nebraska, were reported to be fully
as bad as in Minnesota.
The Minnesota Highway department
spent $2224,000 for wages of main
tenance men in March, compared to
$4,000 in March, 1926. When the
accounts for April are all in, it will
probably show as big an increase.
Some letters and newspapers COM
ment we have received indicates that
some people thought our maintenance
men were not on the job this spring"
commissioner c. M. Babcock says.
There were times when it was so
wet that it was useless to try to do
anything, but wherever a road could
be made passable or kept passable by
a reasonable expenditure, it was DONE.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-06-22
FOLKSBURG ITEMS
P. G. COX, Itemizer.

Somebody stopped us in Cromwell
the other day and wanted to know
did we write these items from Folks
burg. But we didn't make direct
reply, on account of we've learned
that wehn anybody asks us that ques-
ton, why it's best to recollect some
thing real urgent and hurry while
it's fresh in mind.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Hall received
word Tuesday that one of Millions
Evening star., 1927-09-14
ALEXANDRIA.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, September IA
(SpeciaD.-Rev. Hugo Blankenship,
who recently resigned as rector of the
Emmanuel Episcopal Church of Brad
dock. was bid farewell by a gathering
in the church auditorium last night.
He resigned to become dean of the
Episcopal Cathedral at Havana, Cuba.
Tho Right Rev. Henry st. George
Tucker. bishop of Virginia, and Bishop
Hulse of the Episcopal Missionary Dio-
CeSe of Cuba, We're present. Rev. DIR.
William j. Morton, rector of Christ
Episcopal Church: Rev. Percy Foster
Hall. rector of st. Paul's Episcopal
Church: DIR. Samuel A. Wallis, pro-
fcssor emeritus of the Episcopal Theo-
logical Seminary of Virginia; Rev.
George Vest, who will assume the du-
ties Of rector of Emmanuel Episcopal
Church, October l. Rev. Allen Castel-
man of Falls Church; Rev. Charles
Shears of Bra addock, and Drs. Bowen
and Gl2Zebrook Of Washington, the
latter the son Of clergyman, also at
tended. together with approximately
250 members of the church and
friends.
The final community concert OF the
Summer was given by the Fort Hum
IlllIeNS IDIIIu Gl the IliuiI(Iflttt S"i
ming pool grounds last night.
Work of constructing five and one
half foot sidewalk from Stone Bridge
TO the city limits on the south side of
Duke street will be completed this
week
Contractors have completed the
work of laying asphalt roadway on
the one half-mile stretch of road be-
tween Highway Bridge and AleXan-
dria. which formerly was paved with
rough Belgian blocks. With the finish
of the work the entire highway be-
tween Washington and Alexandria is
SmOoth-surfaCed.
The Mount Vernon. Alexandria &
Washington Electric Railway will re-
duce its fare between Alexandria and
New Alexandria within the next few
days from 10 cents to 5 cents. The
round-trip between New Alexandria
and Washington will be lowered to
% cents. ]. w. Rich. general manager
of the company, made the announce
ment in a letter to Fl. NOEL Garner,
local attorney, who is counsel for
several residents of New Alexandria.
Councilman Thomas j. Fannon and
Edward f. Ticar. City Treasurer
Roger c. Sullivan and J. Harvey
Robinson, delegates to the Atlantic
deeper waterways convention at Balti-
more. have returned to this city. They
were appointed by Gov. Harry Flood
Byrd.
The Retail Merchants Club of the
Alexandria Chamber of Commerce will
meet in the chamber headquarters at
o'clock tonight.
Evening star., 1927-09-14

Sandy Spring Fire Department yes
terday was pronounced by Josiah
Jones, head of the committee. as
the most successful ever held there.
Two cups were presented to the
apartment, one for best unlimited
pumper demonstration at Silver
Spring recently and another for best
standing pumper hook-up at Be
thesda. Four hundred suppers were
served and $3.50 cleared. A tourna-
ment with automobiles instead of
horses used by the filters, and ath-
etic games, were features. The
Highland base ball team defeated
Sandy Spring, s to a.
Chairman Jones said the Fire De-
Evening star., 1927-09-14

partment, which has been In exist
ence only two years, has paid $4,000
on equipment and building site and
has $3.500 Indebtedness. He said 1t
has responded in an unusually large
number of fires and has proved itself
a real need.
Evening star., 1927-09-14
East Indies Air Mail Planned.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM. Holland-The Royal
Dutch ALL Mail Navigation CO. has
presented the Netherlands govern
ment with plans for the establishment
of a regular air mail service to the
Dutch East Indies.
The intention is to conduct the
service with eight machines and one
departure weekly.
Evening star., 1927-09-14
Gales Lifts Wire Censorship.

NIEXICO CITY. September IA LF).
BY order of President Gales the
censorship on telegraphic messages
was lifted last night. No explanation
was Forthcoming, but it is understood
the order was due to protests by the
Western Union Telegraph Co. al
leging heavy losses under the CEN
sorship. which has been effective
since the Guadalajara train attack,
April q.
Evening star., 1927-09-14
Tired Feeling.

From the Boston Transcript.
Man is a million years old, says
scientist. There are days when he u
feels II
Evening star., 1927-09-14

built over the Potomac to replace the
Chain Bridge, which has been closed
Evening star., 1927-09-14
CARNIVAL SUCCESS
AT SANDY SPRING
400 Suppers Served After Tourna.
ment and Other Events at
Firemen's Celebration.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE. Md, September IA
The carnival and tournament of the
Evening star., 1927-09-14
PARK SITES FUND
PLANS |NDORSED
Chamber of Commerce Group
Favors S10,0OO,OOO Ad-
vance for Purchase of Land.

Provision for fund of $40 900 600,
10 be advanced from the United
states Treasury and made available
TO the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission for the acqui
sltlon of needed park sites. together
with several other important legis
latlve recommendation affecting the
park and highway systems which
may be submitted at the coming seS
sion of Congress, yesterday was ap
proved by the committee of the
Washington Chamber of Commerce
on parks, Fairgrounds, highways and
bridges.
The recommendations of the COM
mittee viii he laid before the COM
mission at a meeting at the Cos
mos Club Friday evening, to which
representatives Of the Board of
Trade, the local chapter of the Amer
lean Institute Of Architects, the Oper-
ative Builders Association and Citi-
zens' Advisory Council also have
been invited.
Evening star., 1927-09-14
Would Repay Money.

Ihe Slo,UUo,0o0 would be advanced
at a rate Of $2.000.000 annually and
would be repaid later with interest.
This and other recommendations
drafted for the planning commission
by its executive secretary. Lieut.. Col.
Y. S. Grant. Sd, were indorsed after
general discussion Of their pur-
poses which was led by Fred G..
Coldren, expert Of the commission.
The committee approved the pro
posed law, which would place addition
al restrictions on the character of the
exterior of buildings more than 40 feet
high erected within zoo feet of pub
lie buildings and parks. Another rec
commended act would authorize the con
struction of bathing pools or beaches
not to exceed II in number. and pro
vide for their transfer to the jurisdic-
ton of the District Government
Street Closing Power Favored.
A fourth measure ind0rsed would
authorize the District Commissioners
to close streets and roads rendered use
less by changes in the highway plan,
and another would authorize the Pan
ming Commission to dispose of isolated
or fractional parcels of land deemed
not essential to the general park plan.
would permit the leasing for limited
periods of land or buildings on land
eventually to be needed for Govern
ment uses and would permit the com.
mission to acquire future estates and
rights in land later to be acquired.
The discussion by committee mem
bers was favorable to the proposed
new plan Of a condemnation commits
sion of one judge of the District Su-
preme Court to adjudge condemnation
cases.
The chamber committee also recon-
mended that an entirely new bridge be
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-04-22

his competitors when he nsd TO or
lose. In an open tournament, de-
cided by stroke play and with the
usual excellent lot Of players, the
winner must play his best game for
four successive rounds in two days.
He cannot have a ~noticeably poor
round. Usually he cannot have
even n poor hole. 1t Is mighty
seldom that the winner Of an open
championship has a score as high
as seven in any hole of the entire
seventy-twO. The leading dozen
players, especially where separated
by only a few strokes, are under an
intense mental and physical strain.
Every shot is a crucial one. In the
1924 Open championship, for in
stance, Cyril Walker played prac-
tically a ffawless game until his
drive on the last hole, which went
into the rough. He was leading
Bobby Jones by four strokes at the
time and simply wasted n of the
margin by playing back to the fair
way.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-04-22

cerned hin had to dig through a
a of both ordinary newspapers
and farm journals. All that is now
done away with.
The National Farm News is truly
a farm newspaper. 1T is made up Of
live new for farmers and for those
who, while not actively engaged in
farming. are interested financially or
otherwise in farm affairs.
Being a newspaper, it takes the
form Of a newspaper-not a journal
or magazine. This, too, is something
new, Heretofore, papers meant for
farmers have been made up on the
farm of journals or magazines. The
National Farm News presents to
farmers of the United States the news
of the week, while it is still live
news. in real news style that is easy
and interesting to read.
Why a Farm Paper!
The National Farm News gives the
farmer and the rural town mar an
all-aericultural survey Of the weeks
news, with valuable information on
the economics of production and
marketing. The editorial staff is in
close touch with the marketing ma
chinery of the Agricultural Depart
ment and all the heads of the various
cooperative marketing associations.
They are located in Washington.
What is offered along this line rep
yeeents the best thought obtainable
at the time. There is q service of
unlimited value through such a paper,
conducted solely for the beterment of
American agriculture.
. Why In Washington 4.
We are still an agricultural nation,
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-04-22
NATIONAL FARM news OCCUPIES
UNIQUE STATION In FARM FIELD

despite our great shops and factories.
Washington, the NATIONAL CITY,
is the great clearing house of farm
news. Congress and the seat of Gov
eminent are here. All eyes are now
turned on Congress and the Admin
istration. Every day brings the Ma
tional Government into more intimate
relationship with the country's basic
industry-AGRICULTURE. The pro
gram for permanent improvement IN
farm life and farm business will be
I'm keeping with what the Farmers
want in the measure hat the farm.
ers KNOW what Congress and the
President are doing.
Washington is the headquarters of
the Department OF Agriculture. This
great governmental agency is only
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tact, acquaintance and use of this
agency.
All of the GREAT NATIONAL
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fore Congress and the Departments
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The National Farm News carries
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A full stafr of trained newspapssr
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the personnel OF THE NATIONAL
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1t is equipped to perform q real serv-
ice for the farmer and to meet a real
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In brief, The National Farm News
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(Advertisment)
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-04-22

THINK III over ana n must agree
that Walker o his championship
and Bobby Jones won the amateur
championship because of perfect
physical and mental condition. 1t
is not as easy to say why Bohbie
did o win the open title instead
Of running second TO Walker unless
it was his mental state in playing
the tenth hole, where he lost more
than enough strokes to lose the
title he had won at Inwo0d. His
brain must have stopped function
ing normally every time he played
the hole.
The champion must begin his
training months in advance. He
must have the most perfect conf
dence in his ability to execute the
shots and must then out-game all
competitors. He must be and re-
main in good physical and mental
condition. He must refrain from
any excess that might upset him.
He must live the right life before
and during the tournament.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-04-22
Only National Weekly Newspaper
Devoted Exclusively to Agri-
cultural Interests.

Something entirely new In the
newspaper world was instituted when
The National Farm News was launch
ed as a weekly newspaper for arm
ers.
There have been numerous farm
papers"-but never before a farmers
newspaper. Until the starting of The
National Farm News the farmer who
wanted to read the news that con
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-04-22

were engaged come to consider it
perfectly justifiable to hire some
good athlete to go to their college.
In secretly planting a star on their
university eleven they think they
have done something good-instead
of merely smirching its honor. So
colleges and clubs and managers of
track meets are tempted to offer in
ducements to amateurs. And the
amateurs-because of high pres
sur hero worship-are tempted to
accept.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-04-22

THOSE who once stroye to win
now have their hearts set on
seeing others achieve glory. If
their old school or college wins, it
makes them feel a reflected glory.
If their favorites lose, it is a per-
sonal defeat. Then they come to
the point of view that to win is the
BIG thing-win at any cost.
GRADUATES who would scorn to
~ cheat at cards. billiards or any
game in which they themselves
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-04-22
47-The Winner.

There are fifty, perhaps a greater
number, of golfers of sufficient skill
to win any tournament. There can
be but one winner. That winner
almost invariably plays good golf
more consistently than his com
petitors. Admittedly, he may have
beaten a better player and admit
teddy, he may be no better than half
a dozen others in the tournament.
There can be no question, how
ever. that he played better than
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-04-22

Ham for baking may be boiled
a day or two beforehand, left stand
ing in a cold place in the liquor in
which it was cooked, reheated in
this, then skinned, covered with
bread crumbs and sugar, stuck
with cloves and put in the oven
for final browning just before din
ner.
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-04-22

(Advertisment)
The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1927-04-22

The red color sometimes admired
in DEVILS food cake is due 10 the
use of more soda than is necessary
to ~neutralize the acid in the sour
milk and chocolate. This results
in taking into the body more soda,