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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-05-14
W.C.l'T.U. Awards
.., in Essay Contests
Eight Local School Prize Win
ners Awarded Premiums for
Temperance Articles

The essay contest of the public
schools of Redwood Falls is an an
nual event sponsored by the local w.
C. T. U. Small cash prizes are given
to eight students, whose essays are
Judged best by persons outside the
schools and the w. G. L. U. ms
year the judges awarded the winning
essays as follows: In the High
School, Rex Gales, first; Arthur
Hawton, second. Ninth and tenth
grades, Florence Lines, first; Margar-
ct Smith, second. Seventh and
eighth grades, Billy Finn, first; Myr-
tie Kramer, second. Fifth and sixth
grades, Gertrude Smith, first; lnez
Truesdell, second.
The number of essays written this
year was 432. Material for study for
this contest is furnished by the local
w. C. T. IT,. On Thursday morning
the prizes were awarded in the High
School and ninth and tenth grades.
Supt. Wichman addressed the stud
ents and then introduced Mrs. A. D..
McRae, who gave the prizes to the
winning students for the w. Z. L.
IT,, after brief address.
On Tuesday morning the prizes
were given at the Lincoln school, and
were awarded by Mrs. o. B. Sparks,
who told the students that thirteen
schools competed in this district. The
essays receiving first prizes in the
local schools are sent in to the dis
trict and later on the winners for the
district are sent to the state conven-
ton. MIR. Wichman gave addresses
on both occasions to the students.
A number of the members of the w.
C. T. u. were present at the meet
ings.
The district convention will be held
at Worthington June 10 and IL and
the state convention September 10
and IL at Winona.
Mrs. L. H. Kuck is president OF
the local Union and Mrs. Sparks IS
in charge of temperance essay work
in the schools. In 1929 Redwood
students won three prizes in state
work.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-05-14
Former Redwood Falls
Citizens in Meeting
Former Citizens Meet in Mime
apolis; Summer Picnic at
Como June %

Thirty-one former Redwood Falls
folk, now Twin City residents, made
merry Monday evening at an inform
al gathering in Minneapolis. These
are they who in glad raiment, at
tended:
Messrs and Mesdames H. A. Bald
win, F. R. Lobdell, S. j. Race, H. M.
Hitchcock, w. B. Clement, C. F. Apitz,
Ernest Heilman, Eugene Drake,
Clarence Roe, John Lamberton, W..
A. Stenborg, AL. Vihstadt; Messrs.
H. ]. Heilman, G. A. Schildknecht;
Mesdames, Maude Winter, Horace
Baldwin; Miss Fern Kennedy; Bess
M. Wilson, former publisher of the
Redwood Gazette; A. M. Welles,
former publisher of Redwood Reveille
now Redwood Falls Sun.
The meeting was held at the new
home of the St. Anthony Falls Com
mercial Club on the east side of the
river, in Minneapolis, where H. A.
Baldwin is the efficient secretary of
the organization. 1t was a jolly eve
ming these expatriates spent togeth-
er. Mr.. and Mrs. Baldwin received
the guests and made them feel at
home-and then some. Old acquaint-
ances were renewed, yarns snapped
and various and sundry other exer-
cises in keeping with the occasion
Continued on page eight
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CITY POPULATION
PLACED AT ESQ
INLATEST RETURNS
Figures Received From ]. V.
Weber, SlaytOn, Show an
Increase of 129
FIVE PERCENT INCREASE
City Increases SS4 in Population
in Twenty Years Accord
ing to Figures

According to an announcement
from J. V. Weber, Slayton, supervls-
or of census of the district, the po-
pulation of the City of Redwood Falls
is set at 1850 for the 1880 Federal
census, an increase of 129 persons or
approximately five per cent over the
official figures of 1920 which were
given out as 2,421. "While the fig
ures given in this announcement are
preliminary and subject to correction,
they are believed to be substantially
correct" stated Mr.. Weber.
The population of the city has in
creased 889 in the past 80 years. The
Federal figures for the past four CEN
sus takings are as follows: 1861 IN
1900; 1866 in 1910; 2,421 in 1920 and
1850 this year.
A total of 10 farms were also TAX
en- in the city of Redwood Falls.
This classification is plot of three
acres or more used for growing or
a plot where $4,000 or more is TAX
en- off per year.
The latest figures of the different
townships and villages to be received
are as follows for townships:
1920 1880 Farms
Lamberton = TOT 674 112
Redwood Falls Alb 479 81
Villages
Lamberton 872 781 2
Seaforth lib ia
In the next issue the Gazette ex-
poets to carry the complete returns
of Redwood county.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-05-14
TRAILING DOGS OF
KISE AGAIN LEAD
POSSE TO CAPTURE
Local Dogs Trail Melette, Muir
derer of Mcmillan, Wisconsin
Man to Lair
COAN HIGHLY PRAISED
Redwood Falls Man and Dogs
Bring About Capture of
Brutal Murderer

Again the trailing dogs owned by
Sheriff L. ]. Kise and trained by A.
B. Coan have prove invaluable and
efficient in the search for fugitive
from justice. A two weeks search
for Henry Melette, murder of George
Casper of Mcmillan, Wisconsin, was
terminated last Saturday night when
Melette was trailed to a brush pile
by the dogs, about 8 miles from Mer-
rillan.
Melette shot Casper on April %,
authorities charged, in dispute over
his niece, Mrs. Violet Westerland,
who kept house for Casper, 81 year
old farmer of that section. Melette
is SO years old.
A call came to Sheriff Kise last
Thursday for the use of the dogs in
search. A. B. Coan and c. c. Crock
er left Redwood Falls with the dogs
at II a. m. that day and arrived in
Mcmillan, Wisconsin, late that after
noon.
Melette had been driven out of a
barn near Mcmillan about two hours
before the call came to the Redwood
Falls authorities. When Mr.. Coan
and Mr.. Croker arrived at the barn
in search for trail, several hundred
people were about the place and a
trail was almost impossible to pick
up.
Mr.. Coan worked all of Thursday
night with the dogs in the search,
with Mr.. Croker and parties contin-
uing on Friday. Late Saturday af-
ternoon the dogs picked up trail
that finally led to the capture of Mel
cite.
The dogs came to a brush pile,
years old, where heavy weeds had
grown up around the pile. Here they
let out their usual roars in sense Of
capture. Melette had crawled under
the pile and had been there since he
was seen leaving the barn two days
before. He was in a weakened condi-
ton and could not walk and could
barely talk.
So pleased was Sheriff Carl An
derson of Black River Falls, Wiscon-
sin, with the work of the Redwood
Falls men and dogs, that he highly
recommended them for any search
and made payment for their services
with his personal check.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-05-14
Frank Prokosch Dies,
Clements Pioneer
Passes Away at the Home of
His Daughter in Clements
Buried Monday

Frank Prokosch passed away
Thursday evening at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Conrad Drexler of
Clements with whom he has made his
home for years. Funeral services
were held Monday morning at nine
o'clock from ST. Joseph's church at
Clements and interment was made
in Clements cemetery. The Ameri-
can Legion of Clements had charge of
the services at the grave.
The deceased was born June Oath,
1S43 in Germany. At the age of IA
years he came to America to make
his home with an uncle at New Ulm.
At the age of 16 years, he joined the
9Th Minnesota Regiment at the time
of the Indian Outbreak and also serv-
ing for short time with the
Mounted Rangers. He was first bug
Ter for Capt. Sibley. He was mar
ried to Miss Ann Gribner, July 26,
1869. Mr.. and Mrs. Prokosch settled
on a farm east Of Morgan and lived
there until 1890 when they moved to
a farm near Clements. In 1910 they
moved to Clements. Mrs. Prokosch
passed away in 1918.
He is survived by five children,
Mrs. Martin Jannotta of Morgan,
Mrs. Joe Walter, Mrs. Gus Backer,
Mrs. Conrad Drexler, and Peter Pro-
kosch of Clements. Two brothers,
Peter and Wenzel also of Clements
and 32 grandchildren and % great
grandchildren.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-05-14
Odd Fellows Meet
Saturday, May II
Southwestern Minnesota Odd
Fellows to Hold Big Celtic
Gether Meet

Saturday evening, May 18th, is the
date set for the big Booster Meeting
of the Odd Fellows of southwestern
Minnesota to be held in Redwood
Falls. Thirty or more visiting lodges
are expected to be here. Grand Lodge
officers from all over the state have
been invited. A big delegation OF
Odd Fellows from the Twin Cities
will also attend.
A class of local candidates as well
as candidates from the neighboring
lodges will make a large class to
receive the first degree. The de-
gree staff from Flour City Lodge No.
118, the crack degree staff of Mime
sofa will confer the degrees. The de-
gree staff will carry their own Or
chestra to furnish music during the
evening.
The plan for the gathering includ-
es a six o'clock dinner which will be
served by the Rebekahs. Following
the dinner the Odd Fellows will form
in line for a parade and led by the
High School Band will march through
the streets to the Armory. Canton
members will wear their uniform and
Encampment members are asked to
wear their fez.
Those in charge of the meeting are
as follows: L. o. Alexander, N. e.,
appointed the following committees:
Arrangements, E. F. Lindeman,
chairman; Parade, D. L. Crimmins,
Marshall; Publicity, Geo. 7. Freyer,
chairman, L. P. Larson and Douglas
Whyte; Reception, A. J. White and
Mrs. d. L. Crimmins; Entertainment,
lVern Shoemaker, chairman and Bon
ME Lindeman.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-05-14
BAND AND ORCHESTRA
TO PRESENT PROGRAM

Mr.. Limburg's organizations, con-
sisting of the high school band and
orchestra, assisted by the Women's
Clubs of Redwood Falls, will present
a musical program on Tuesday eve
ming, May 20, at the Lincoln School.
The Lions Club will also assist in
supporting the program to help de-
fray the expenses of the. new band
uniforms. Watch for details of this
program later.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-05-14
Greater Minnesota
Day Set for May y
Governor Urges Citizens to Co.
Operate with Associations
in Advertising State

Governor Theodore Christensen
has designated May % as Greater
Minnesota Day at which time citizens
of the state will cooperate in MEM
campaign of the Ten Thous-
and Lakes-Greater Minnesota Asso-
citation to provide funds to advertise
the state to the world this year.
The Association has outlined a pro-
gram which will call for the expendi-
ture of 100000. Newspapers, mag
azines and the radio are now being
used to attract new farmers, tourists
and new industries. Thousands OF
inquiries have been received at the
Headquarters offices of the associa-
ton concerning vacations and farm
ing opportunities and officials of the
organizations look forward to an
especially successful year, provided
the entire program may be carried
out as planned.
The governors proclamation fol-
lows:
PROCLAMATION
1 would call to the attention of the
people of the state the plan of acti-
vities of the Ten Thousand Lakes
Greater Minnesota Assoc iation fol
1880.
This organization has rendered ex-
ceptional service for thirteen years II
attracting tourists; has done splendid
work during the last two years in i'm.
migration promotion, and now plan:
a campaign for 1880 which will add
to its activities the securing of new
industries and businesses for thu
Continued on Page So
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-05-14
Annual Field Day
of Local School

The third annual field day of the
local schools will be held Friday af-
ternoon, May 10th, from 2:30 to 4:30
P. M. Each grade will participate in
four events, there being five classes
of competition: First grade VS.. Sec
ond grade; Third grade VS.. Fourth
grade; Fifth grade VS.. Sixth grade;
Seventh grade VS.. Eighth grade;
Freshmen VS.. Sophmores. For the
past two years the banner has been
won by the sixth grades. These field
events will take place on the play
ground east of the Lincoln School.
Seats will be provided for spectators.
There will be no charge for admis-
sion.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-05-14
CLASS OF NINETEEN THIRTY
Redwood Falls High School
Tentative List
Tentative List

MARIAN ALEXANDER
DOROTHY BARNES
MILDRED BENEDICT
GORDON BRAvINDER
LORNA CLEMENTS
AUBREY DlRLAM
RoNALDo DROGOScH
BERNIcE FRANKLIN
REX GALES
HAZELlE HANSON
ARTHUR HAWTON
Lorraine LANG
FREDA LAUDON
AGNES LOVE
IVA LUSSENHOP
CELIA MAlEcEK
HARRIET MELGES
MABEL MUETZEL
MILDRED NAFSlNGER
LUCILLE PAPE
ARDMER Peterson
ROY PHlNNEY
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-05-14

MILTON QUESENBERRY
HOWARD QUESENBERRY
EDNA REDETZkE
AUGUST REBEL
FRANCES ROHLlK
EDNA RUSSELL
CLEO SAYRE
FLOYD ScHMID
BERTRAM SCOTT
PEARL SiEGFRIED
ALICE SiMONDET
LOIS SIAYMAkER
GRANT SMITH
ALICE STEWART
MILDRED STEWIG
MARGARET TIFFANY
clARicE TRUESDELL
MILDRED WILCOX
GEORGE WlNSELL
BESSIE WHiTTET
MILDRED WOESE
FRED WOOD
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-05-14
A. d. McRae Files for
Register of Deeds

A. D. McRae, register of deeds of
Redwood county for the past TWEEN
ty-two years, filed for reelection
with County Auditor L. P. Larson
last week. Mr.. McRae will be oppos-
ed for his office by E. H. Bollum of
Redwood Falls, his only opponent at
the present time.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-05-14
Union Services at the
M. E. Church May rs

Union Memorial Day services will
be held at the Methodist Episcopal
church on Sunday morning, May 25.
DIR. j. P. Linn, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church, will preach the
Memorial Day sermon at the services.
The Methodist, Presbyterian, Christ
ian and English Lutheran churches
will participate in the services.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-05-14
BUFFALO CALF BORN
IN RAMSEY STATE PARK

The population of Ramsey State
Park was increased last Saturday
when buffalo calf was born. This
makes the second buffalo calf to be
added to the park in the past year,
making the herd total four at the
present time.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-05-14
Lauterbach's to Celebrate
Opening Next Saturday

Lauterbach Brothers will cele-
brate the opening of the ice cream
season next Saturday with their an
nual spring opening, concentrating
their twenty-fourth year in the con-
dictionary business in Redwood Falls.
At this annual affair there will be
flowers for the ladies, cigars for the
gents and a surprise for the kddies.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-05-14

Mr.. and Mrs. B. L. Mack and
daughter, Florence, of Winnebago,
motored here Sunday and spent the
day with their daughter, Mrs. G. R.
Engeman. Miss Florence remained
here for a weeks visit with her sis
fer
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-05-14

Miss Elsie Howe was q weekend
visitor at her home at Wabasso.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-30
Dinner Party
to Be Held at
Country Club

Mr.. and Mrs. William Guy Wall,
1881 North Delaware street, will en-
terrain tonight after the races with
a dinner party at the indianapolis
Country Club In honor Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert Earl Wall, Warsaw, N.
c., who have been their guests at
French Lick, and who are their
house guests.
Others in the party will be Colonel
and Mrs. Arthur w. S. Harrington,
washington, D. c.; Mr.. and Mrs.
Delmar Roos, South Bend; Mrs.
Katherine Raymond, High Point, N.
c., Miss Elizabeth Warner, Mon
treal, Canada, and her brother, Ed
ward Warner, New York; Mr.. and
Mrs. Roy Palmer, Mr.. and Mrs.
Donald Morris, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Kurt Brown and DR.. and Mrs. Harry
Kahlo.
Mrs. Wall will hold a luncheon
bridge Monday at the Woodstock
Club for her guests.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-30
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

be. A mans conscience often is his
wife,s best friend.
No married man ever is so amen
able as on the morning after he has
come sneaking in about a. m, loser
in a nice sociable game, believing
that he is going to get the very
dickens from his wife. Imagine,
then, his glad surprise when she
does not mention the matter or
asks casually whether he had good
time.
That always fetches him. A man
under the shock of such surprise
can be so overcome with gratitude
that many have been known to hand
out $50 bills with grandiose gestures
and go off congratulating them
selves upon their skill in selecting
a sensible woman. Here is good
motto for every wife's room:
A little poker now and then
Is relished by the best of men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-30
Poker Game
Big Help to
Mat1-in1Ony
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

"
At last there comes a wall from
pa that deserves to be heard. A
man complains that while his wife
always is trotting off to meeting
of some kind he can't even mention
a poker game without getting Hail
Columbia.
1 hereby raise my feeble voice
against such domestic injustice. The
time has come when women must
realize that marriage without poker
is tyranny.
The general trend of the modern
female is toward committee meet
ings. And it's been my observation
that the more organizations a wom-
an belongs to herself. especially if
they be of a reform, uplift or edu-
cational nature, the more likely is
she to be entirely devoid Of any
sympathy for a mans poker pro-
pensities. Being constantly busy
with noble enterprises, she does not
seem to understand these primal
longingS of the male.
I never have shared the general
feminine antipathy to poker as a
masculine diversion. Indeed, the
all-night poker party, stag, is veri-
table domestic life saver.
1t has been one of the greatest
forces for the preservation of
connubial bliss that the world ever
has known.
Nothing is as good for the average
husband as little game now and
then. If he loses, SO much the
better
His conscience will prick him and
this always tends to make him
more polite, thoughtful, and
generous than he would otherwise
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-30
Wife Faces
Problem in
Holding Job
BY MARTHA LEE

There's no hedging about it, the
problem of being working wife
takes the inside track these days for
presenting the most complicated
angles. Not only complicated, but
very often Numerically opposed.
SO much can be said in favor of
the wives who work. And you only
have to read this column occa-
sionally to see how much can be
said against them.
From an economic standpoint
there are two kinds of working
wives. Those who are a help and
those who are a drag. The second
class includes wives who are not
specially skilled, who are doing work
which pays them very little and
probably leaves nothing after car
fares. lunches and incidentals are
taken care of.
These wives can not care for their
homes properly. Nor can they af-
ford, with the money they earn, to
pay some one else to keep it for
them. They are economic drags.
There are the other wives, whose
earnings help to maintain stand
ard Of living for the family which
otherwise would be impossible. And
they are economic assets for the
husbands.
What Part Problem
Another problem confronting the
working wives is just what part of
their salaries should be given over
to the upkeep of the home and what
part is their own to do with as they
see fit. Generally speaking, work.
ing wife should keep up her share
of the household expenses in proper
ton to her income and that of her
husband.
have a letter from young
working wife who misses both these
classes. She is, from the standards
mentioned, an economic drag. But
it 50 happens, since the unemploy-
ment situation came about, that she
is an asset.
Dear Miss Lee-I have been married less
than a year. During the past few months.
nv husband and I have quarreled more
than the average married couples do in
ten years.
He has been out Of work two months.
I appreciate the fact he is worried about
this. but I am working every day and
paying in almost everything 1 make. al
though 1t isn't much. He says I am not
doing nv part. If come home with 2
pair OF stockings or something for my
self. he almost raises the roof of. He
SAYS I can do with out these things. but
working in an Office as I do. it is neces-
SarY to look halfway decent.
I have worked ever since our marriage.
have read a lot of letters about nag
EinR wives. In my case. it is Just the
opposite. Even when 1 put fresh towels
in the bathroom. he thinks the others
would do day longer and that am be-
ing extravagant.
He had enough money saved when we
married to pay cash for our furniture and
now he throws that in my face, saying
the things are his, not mine.
I believe If We separated a while, may
be things might change. Since he is not
working. we are going to have to break
up our home anyway. I will not accept
anything from his parents. and have them
throw that up to me every time anything
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-30
GSve Dance

Alpha chapter, Omega Chi sor-
GRITTY, entertained with dance
Thursday night at the Womans
Department Club. Miss Agnes Nay
rocker, chairman in charge, was
assisted by Miss Martha Heller, Miss
Loretta Nayrocker, Miss Martha
Hodge, Miss Mary Hockersmith,
Miss Versa Newcomer, Miss Flor
ence Hoffer, Miss Aletha Hayden
and Miss Mary Thompson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-30
Miss Hunter Welded

Miss Bessie Hunter. daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hunter, Edin-
burg, became the bride of John Nc
Cleary, Camden, Wednesday eve
ming at the home of the Rev G. M.
Wachter, 656 North Colorado street.
Mr.. and Mrs. McCleary will make
their home in Burlington.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-30

comes up they do not like. Do YOU think
under the circumstances things may turn
out ripht if we split up for while?
UNDECIDED.
Things look pretty black right
now, but don't break up your home.
Your husband will find work soon,
and if you quarrel now about things,
it would be terrific after you went
to live with his family or your own.
Don't Think of Leaving
And don't think of leaving him.
Don't you see that it would be aw-
fully unsportSlnanlike to leave him
when he's down? He is irritable be-
cause he is ashamed that you are
going out every day, working, and
he has nothing. And shame reacts
in funny ways. With your small
salary it must be awfully hard to
make ends meet. And it probably
does seem like an extravaganza to
him when you buy little things for
yourself when the money is needed
SO badly to keep the house going.
You'd feel the same way if the stu
alton was reversed, and your hus-
band was spending money on HIM
self when there were so many more
important things to be done with
the money.
Stick it out until he has Job
and you get back on your feet. Then
if you still feel unhappy with him,
suggest a change. But don't dare
Leave him NOW