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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-01-09
BERT BRANDT TAKES
CHARGE OF ORCHESTRA

(From LeMars Iowa) Globe-Post)
The famous Brandt's Hot Points
under the management of Bert
Brandt of Mitchell, S. D., brother OF
the late Fred G. Brandt, played to a
large crowd at the LeMars Armory
Thursday night. This orchestra is
big favorite among dancers in this
vicinity and have many friends here
who greeted their coming, as well as
expressing their sympathy for the
death Of their lost leader.
Mr.. Brandt of Mitchell is a must
clan and is capable of filling the posi-
ton held by his brother for so many
years. The even rythm, up-to-date
numbers, coupled with the art in
which the nine musicians put over the
numbers, makes this orchestra one of
the most popular in the middle west.
The Chinatown Ball attraction
held here Thursday evening had all
the effects of a Chinese garden.
Pretty lanterns, parasols, crystal
balls, glittering velvet and many
other pretty decorations, made the
armory an ideal place. Chinese cos
tunes, worn by the orchestra, added
to the elaborate setting.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-01-09
20 PROHIBITION AGENTS
VISIT NICOLLET co.

Federal prohibition officers to the
number of 20 passed through St.
Peter last week in five automobiles,
in connection with series of search
warrant raids on business and resi-
dence places in Nicollet county.
The st. Paul men were unaided in
searches made in Nicollet county,
which in the main are said to have
yielded little or no evidence of infrac-
tions of the prohibition law.
Cooperating with these officials,
Sheriff Charles j. Norman was in
North Mankato at the same time
where he raided the drug store of
Ernest Rebestock and the dwelling
house of Oliver Mertber, both of
whom were arrested on charges of
sales similarly drawn by both county
and federal officials. At Nicollet,
the officers searched both the resi-
dence and business place of Charles
Schouveiller, who was arrested, as
was also his son.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-01-09
Won1en's League viii
Push Welfare LaUs
FARM COURSE TO HAVE
"FARM MACHINERY DAY.

The part that the intelligent use of
labor saving machinery of farm
crops, and therefore makes for in
creased income, will be emphasized in
the program for Farm Machinery
Day." Wednesday, January 16, of the
Farmers and Homemakers Week
Short Course January Ia to 10 at
University Farm. Practical farmers
and representatives of manufacture
concerns will join with experiment
station men at the farm in presenting
the program.
Talks will be given the forenoon of
Farm Machinery Day" by ]. B. Tor
rance of the university faculty on
Getting the Most Out Of Your Trac-
tor" by ]. M. Larson, also of the uni
versity staff, on Possibilities of Ell
ectric Power on the Farm" and by F.
A. Writ of Racine, Wisconsin, on
'Why One Out of Every Five Mime
sofa Farmers Uses Tractors"
C. H. Gamble of Moline, Illinois,
will open the afternoon session with
an address on "New Developments in
Doll 11llaSe Equipment. II. d. DdS-
sett of University Farm will de-
scribe "Corn Machinery U-to-Date,"
and C. L. Blanchar of Sherburn,
prominent as a corn grower and sue
cessful farmer, will draw on his own
observation and experience to show
"How the Use of Farm Machinery
Affects Production Costs"
These sessions, like all others of
Farmers and Homemakers' Week, are
free to all who register. To make the
day of still further practical value
several hours will be given to demon
strations of adjustments and the use
of farm machinery in the laborator-
les of the agricultural engineering
building at the farm.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-01-09
FINDS NUGGET OF PURE
GOLD IN DUCKS GIZZARD

Who ever heard of the humble duck
being a gold digger? A. D. Camp
bell of Tracy, after his New Years
experience, thinks it would pay Tracy
farmers to look more carefully into
what their ducks pick up about the
place.
Mr.. Campbell bought duck for
New Years dinner and while Mrs.
Campbell was preparing the fowl,
found in the gizzard nugget of pure
gold. It's shape indicated that it was
not part of piece of jewelry, but a
real gold nugget. They investigated
and found that the duck had come
from farm in the Lake Shetek re-
gion, and now Tracy residents are
visioning "gold rush" to the gravel
deposits in that section.
jewelers. pronounced the nugget
genuine with weight of Az grains.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-01-09
Minnesota League of Women
Voters Maps Out Program of
Legislation Desired

The Minnesota League of Women
Voters is prepared to launch its pro-
gram at the 1929 legislature and tc
attempt to push through at an early
date continuance of maternity and in
fancy measures, amendments to the
minimum wage law, limiting the
hours of labor for women and q
change in the marriage law.
Plans for the leagues legislative
work were mapped out at an all-day
meeting of the board of directors held
Friday.
A persistent effort is to be made
by each local league to secure inter
views with Representatives from their
home districts.
Measures on the leagues legisla-
tive program which it will attempt
to secure early consideration of by
the legislature, include:
State appropriation to assure con-
tinuance of maternity and infancy
work already started.
Amendment to the minimum wage
law to make it apply to girls as it
now does to boys under Fl years OF
age.
Re-enactment of the standards OF
the 1923 hour law for women to pro-
vide for a nine and one-half hour day
and 54-hour week.
Amendment to the marriage law
to provide for a five-day waiting per-
iod and the appearance of both appli-
cants before the license is issued.
In this action, it was explained, the
league is following out precedent
established by the national league OF
designating certain measures for first
consideration in its legislative work
Miss Emily Child, executive secre.
tary, reported upon questionable
addressed to county auditors from
state league headquarters to secure
information on women elected to pub.
lie office in Minnesota on November
6. A report for the state on this
subject has been prepared by the
Minnesota league for two previous
years, 1926 and 1927, in response tt
the request of the National League Of
Women Voters and has aroused un
usual interest. The auditors il
some so counties of the state made
prompt reply to the questionable
and it is hoped, Miss Child said, re
plies will be forthcoming from othel
counties in the near future. The ell
ection of four women to the state
house of Representatives as compared
with three women in the 1927 hous'
is noted in the report. The election
of officers of villages and townships
as we'll as county superintendent o.
schools in some few counties were re-
ported but, in general these munich
pal elections are held in the spring
and county officers hold over for {
four-year term expiring in 1880.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-01-09
WELCOME MAN HELD
FOR BANK ROBBERY

Jack Robinson of Welcome, west of
Fairmont, was arrested last week by
Sheriff L. E. Hoey Of Algona, alleg-
ing that he was one of two bandits
who held up the bank at Fenton,
Iowa, Monday, two weeks ago, and
escaped in an Oldsmobile car, which
it is alleged is owned by Robinson.
Rumors were that Robinson had
confessed to the robbery and had i'm
plicated another Fairmont man, but
later it was found that Robinson
had denied all knowledge of the crime.
The men who robbed the Fenton bank
made their escapes in car which had
no license plates and which was very
dirty.
At 1890 on Monday morning Rob
inson was in Fairmont getting his
car washed and suspicion therefore
Immediately pointed to Robinson. Re-
ports from Welcome, however, were
that Robinson was at his home at the
time of the bank robbery.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-01-09
POSTOFFICE AT MINNEOTA
MOVES TO NEW LOCATION

Thursday of last week was the
first day the postoffice at Minneota
served its patrons in the new quar-
tiers provided in the Kile building in
that city. Fixtures had been in read
mess for several days and supplies
were moved over from the old loca-
tion the day before.
Patrons have been studying out the
combinations on their, shiny new
lock-boxes, 271 boxes having been in
stalled. Every bit of the new fix
lures is of all-steel construction, MAX
ing the postoffice. fine improve
ment, says the Minneota Mascot.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-01-09
TRAVELS FROM OMAHA
TO MANKATO TO SUICIDE


Louis Hans Larson of near Omaha,
formerly a resident of North Man.
kato, travelled the distance to Manka-
to last week and then committed SUI
eide on the back steps of the home of
his son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. M. v. Walrath.
Stepping off the Omaha train
early in the morning, Mr.. Larson
went directly to the home of his
daughter and there placed the gun to
his head and committed suicide. In
an overcoat pocket the coroner found
a letter addressed to his children,
purporting to have been written by
him at Florence, Nebraska, and in
which he stated his purpose to comit
suicide and implored their forgive
ness for the act.
He also advised them about the
whereabouts of his property and
gave directions about his burial. His
body was not discovered on the steps
until about 8:15 in the morning when
it was seen by a neighbor.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-01-09
MORGAN SCHOOL PRIN-
CIPAL RESIGNS POSITION

During the holiday vacation Supt.
Albert Klomps, head of the Morgan
public school system, received a tele-
phone from Principal William ,Stien-
stra, asking to be relieved from fur
Their duties at the Morgan school, so
that he could accept employment with
a seed firm. Mr.. Stienstra desired
to enter upon his new work at once
and wished not to be required to re-
turn to. the Morgan school. Supt.
Klomps made special trip to the
Twin Cities in an effort to sign up a
new school principal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-01-09
TO INCREASE POWER

Workmen are busy at Worthington
installing huge new generating unit
in the municipal power plant. The
new engine is an 800 horsepower
Skinner Uniflow and will develop as
much power as both of the old en-
gines now at use in the plant. 1t
will cost the city of Worthington
about $4,000.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-01-09
ROB JUNK DEALER OF
PURSE CONTAINING $3.50

Joe Alik, a junk dealer who had
been travelling in the Murray county
community and around Slayton, was
recently approached by two strangers
who asked if they could purchase a
pair of gloves, but when Mr.. Alik
turned to get the goods one of the
men held a revolver to his head and
demanded that he turn over his
money. Mr.. Alik claims to have had
about $3.50 which the two men took
from him.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-01-09
SPRINGFIELD WELL
SUPPLIED WITH HORSES

Evidently the farmers around
Springfield are well supplied with
horses. A carload of fine horses
were shipped here and offered for
sale at auction, Saturday, and altho
there was a large crowd at the sale,
the bidding was slow. Only one ami
NAL was sold. The shipper sent the
horses on to Wisconsin where bet
ter market was hoped for.-Spring-
field Advance-Press;.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-01-09

Fashion experts say skirts should
reach half way to the ankles. They
do, measuring from the top of the
hat.-Ex.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-01-09

Our list of current SMILES, we
add the following timely one: About
as permanent as New Years resell
ution.-Ex.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-01-09

Archaeologists have discovered .
roadway in Peru which was started
5000 years ago and never finished.
Give the government time.-Ex.
New Britain herald., 1929-02-27
CHICAGO FOOLS Us

Our telegraph editor tells us this morning that so far as he can de tcrmine the most serious thing that happened in the Chicago election yesterday was that somebody threw brick. Our telegraph machine. at this writing. bears him out, the bur den of the Chicago dispatches being that it was the most quiet election ever hrld there.
 Even tho "bloody .oth" ward seems to have had q rebirth of goodness. The alderman whose chances of remaining alive over the election were about even" lives to talk about the result
 The reason for Chlcaso's new fangled election style is self-evident. Drovcs of policemen were at every point where trouble could be ex- pected. The cops had blood in their eyes and let it be known they would brook no fooIjng. The gangsters. sought on general principles. saw fit to remain under cover. lt was a vic tory of law and order over hood lumism.
 The warning by the grand jury was also effective. Among those in- dicted on charges to commit elcc- ton frauds was coroners physician and leading politician. judges of election, and clerks of election. Their racket. it is chal ged, was to make ballots, stuff ballot boxes, and all 1 low unfranchised persons and re- peaters 10 vote. Indictments have a way of discouraging such activities. Bill" Thompson henchmen. of course. won most of the civic points of vantage. so that the Thompson machine remains pretty well in con- trol of the political pickings.
New Britain herald., 1929-02-27
BRANCH LINES THAT DON'T PAY

The Public Service Commission of New Hampshire may be justified in it's criticism ot the Boston X Maine railroad. The railroad has myriads ct branch lines throughout the state and is giving terrible service over them. The reason is not d modern mystery travel over the branch lines is low, most citizens preferring to do their travelling in the more convenient automobiles. Yet there are some who do not take to the tired machines and for these the railroad is expected to maintain good service.
 This can't be done, and the quicker New Hampshire realizes ii the better for New Hampshire. The railroad has been willing to abandon many of these non paying branch lines but has been denied the right 10 do so. Why not let the lines be junkcd and let the people rely on buses and trucks"
New Britain herald., 1929-02-27

man present cases for trial?
 You are oD duty at your desk in the station house iD the capacity of sergeant. An officer brings tn g prisoner charged with crime. You book him. What facts do you enter in the arrest hook?
 "A man because Of religious scruples refuses to summon doc tor to attend a sick child. Of what crime. if any, is he guilty?"
 Any citizen who can correctly an- swer the foregoing is qualified to be a sergeant of police. provided he can also pass some other examinations.
 No. the answers will not be pub lished in our next issue. Call at the police station for the answers; or ask the corporation counsel; or consult any good lawyer.
New Britain herald., 1929-02-27
THE WHYIOIsE OF MERGERS

The big business age is being re- i flectcl in the number of bank mergers in the metropolitan centcrs. i Legal restrictions as to the size of i loans to any one industry are said to
 be q factor in stimulating these com hnations of banks. According to this thesis a bank must be large enough to serve a big industry needing two or three times as much money as formerly. If such an industry can not obtain adequate accommodations from it's favorite bank it must add other banks. Thus desirable business is lost to banks not large enough to fit the enlarged industrial canvas. There may be other potent reasons for the mergers. but the foregoing
 seems logical one, according 10
 bankers.
 Thus the Guaranty Trust company and the National Bank of Commerce
 merged into the largest single bank in the world, a $2.0o0. GOO. .00O insti- tuition. Officials of the Steel Corpora- i ton, big railroads and of tue Morgan 1 firm stimulated the merger. The bank mergers of conseuuence | ly to the big cities. One rarely hears of banks in the smaller cities com bining. The small city banks until now seem 10 be well able 10 serve their clients without trying to bulge i into coioSsi.
New Britain herald., 1929-02-27
10 friend in the Legislature in Judge

|
 no friend in the Legislature in Judge Peasiey.
 Realtors. we understand. would gladly pay license fee of $l0 for the satisfaction of being dubbed professionals. They wouldn't miss the money at all. But in spite of all that Judge Peas.ey says and thinks. is there any logical reason to deny to realtors the prestige of belonging to professional ranks? None at aiI, that we can see. If realtors. who sweat as they build and build as they sweat. are not professionals in the truest sense then we don't know the meaning of the term.
 Perhaps Senator Peasley doesn't think newspaper men belong to any profession. either. Maybe he thinks anybody can be reporter. Let the judge try it. if he thinks thus lightly: we'll bet if he were assigned 10 a marriage or funeral he would get half the names mixed up and get the bride married in the wrong church and the late deceased" buried in the wrong cemetery.
 By the way. there are the politi- clans up in the Legislature. Are they professionals" If not why not? and
New Britain herald., 1929-02-27
THE FANF, OF THE AQUA
 TANAIE
Letter Found by II. F. Hartman)

Dear Shirr:'
 Shince we hashn't been in bsh- mesh very long, yoush woush be sur prished at SC fame zhat she Aqua Tamale Stewdio hash attained. Shince she very inshepshuns. it hash enjoyed she favor and patronage of thish towns thirsh -nighsher. bush now it ish reaching out. and becom- ing famoush far and wide. Vishitor' always are cordially welcome.
 Bush guesh wno paid ush vishIt lash week? Yoush haven't an idea, hash yoush?
 Well shirr. when old number Nine. which we faceeshusly call she speshal train whish docks at nine bells. rolls in. a well dreshcd lady steps off she train. Where dish she want to go? To she Monagha? To she Astorka? Or to shum usher O: our jushly Amoush hosteleriesh No shrr! She jumps into banana wagon and tells she driver to driver to she Aqua Tamale Stewdio. Yesh, it wash Mish Willebrandt! Dish we get a paddock? No! Wesh hash one alreshy and she coushen' get in.
 Thanking yoush for pash flavors I ish,
 Yoursh truly, Al. Wagner P. S. She dishcnt know aboush sh' back door not having she padiosk
New Britain herald., 1929-02-27
TO AN INFANT

By Harry C. Musco Infant. fair, ethereal,
 Lying in your crib Scattering your cereal
 All about youf bib. Clear your language may be To your doting ma, But tell me. darling baby. What you mean by "Blah ?" When you try to swallow
 Everything you find. l, in part, can follow
 The working of your mind. 1 can sympath h,ze. too.
 When you weep and sob, But. baby. put me wise to What you mean hy "P!ob." When. your mother proudly Claims to figure out What you mean, ] loudly
 Register a doubt. Though hopeless dub, I
 Find your meaning hid. When you murmur Club" Fail 10 get you, kid!!
New Britain herald., 1929-02-27
Questions dndA1lswors hc1&M &MlkhiAqo1l
QUESTIONS ANSWERED

You can get an answer to any question of fact or information hy writing to the Question Editor, New Britain Herald, Washington Bureau. 1922 New York avenue. Washington. D, C., enclosing two cents iE stamps for reply. Medical, legal and marital advice cannot be given. nor can eN- tended research be undertaken. All other questions will receive per- sonaI reply. Unsigned requests can- not lc answered. All letters are conIidential.-Edit
 O. When and where was Frcsi- dent Lincoln shot?
 A.. At Ford's theater in Wash ington. D. C.. on the evening of April IA. 1865.
 O. What is the value of a U. s. small copper cent dated 1865?
 A. From 10 cents.
 O. What is the citizenship of a child born in this country of alien parents?
 A.. American
 e. Is the trombone difficult to learn?
 A.. II is considered one of the most difficult wind instruments to master.
 Q. Who played the part of Mrs. Bancroft in the Nitaphone talking picture "1'he Home Towncrs?"
 A. Gladys BrOckWoll
 Q. How old is Clara Bow? How lures?
 A. She is twenty-three years old. Sh" entered motion pictures in 1923.
 e. What is the meaning of the name Douglas?
 A. It is d Celtic name meaning dark gray
 Q. What was the first steamship to cross the Atlantic ocean?
 A. The City of Savannah" com- manded by Captain Moses Rogers of New London, Conn. The ship was launched in Savannah, Georgia. August %. ISIS. Ii left Savannah May 2o, 1sI9, and reached Liver pool June 20. 1919. It was pro- polled partly by steam and partly by sail. The owners were Scar borough and Isaacs of Savannah. :
 Q. Why are some cities not in counties?
 A. Because the state constitutions conferred upon these cities the power to frame their own charters and to separate from county.
 Q. What is the diameter of the star Polaris?
 A. The U. s. Naval Observatory says it has not been measured di- rectIy. From it's spectral type mag nitude, and the best value of it's dis tance which we have the diameter is estimated between 20 and 40 million miles.
 ,. How many universities and colleges are there in the United States? ...-
 A. About 145 publicly controlled universities and colleges in the United States and TO under private control.
 Q. What active volcanoes are in the United States and its posses sions?
 A. The only active volcano in the United States exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii. is Lassen Peak. Cali
New Britain herald., 1929-02-27
MAYOR GETS HOLD OF GOOD ISSUES

Mayor Paonessa is to be com- mended for his determination to re- duce the city's interest rate on over- due taxes. We should like to see a bank or ether institution try to eX- act such usurious rates: how quickly the state would be down on it's neck!
 Nine per cent after the first six months: then 10 per cent; then l2 per cent after the first year. Who ,ver heard of such interest charges except in the case of the small loan law?
 The law on lien foreclosure is good enough as it stands. After five years of failure to pay taxes properties can be foreclossd. The law used to be 15 years. and that perhaps was too long a period. Now, however. there is a move on foot by the state to make the period two years. The state Is amply protected under the present five-year law.
 The mayor. the corporation coun- sel and the tax collector seem to be in accord on the interest and lien issues. It is to be hoped they are suc- cessfui in the Legislature. The only trouble is that the issues are so good that 1t is doubtful whether the Re- publicans in the Legislature will permit the Democrats to get credit in starting such reforms.
New Britain herald., 1929-02-27
25 Fears Ago To-day

The New Britain icemen have gotten together and have formed an organization which will control the ice business in this city. The idea is modelled somewhat on the plan followed by the brick manufacturers !n having a brick exchange. The ice exchange will be located in the cen fer of the city and all business will be transacted through it. While it does not necessarily mean an in creased price. the heavy snow this winter has made it costly to harvest the ice crop.
 President rfanli H. Johnston Of the City Coal X Wood Co.,, has ar rived from trip through the bi- luminous coal regions of Pennsyl- ,ania. It vas his first visit there, although he is familiar with the an- thracit" districts. IL is believed the miners vii lstrlke about April l Mr. Johnston said.
 The New Britain regulars will meet the All Massachusetts team at the Casino tonight in basketball game.
 About 70 pupils are now attend ing the. evening schools. The Peoples church has rented the building al the corner Of Chap man and Jubilee streets and fitted up for a mission for religious work in that part of the city. It has been used as paint shop and will ac- conmodate 100 people. The mission i is in charge of H. C. Capen. l.. H Taylor. Mrs. Nntti" Coats. Miss Mary Lyman. Miss $. F. Dickinson. and Rev. Lyman <. Johnson. A fore" of men from the Berlin rstructlon Co. is prepared 10 build 9 new bridge al sunrise tomorrow over Piper brook near NeNingtor junction on the main line railroad tracks.