The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-05-26
Road Signs

efforts to make the city beautiful progressive,
and generally attractive to the shopper and tourist
q sometimes overlook important details.
One of these details far as Redwood Falls is
concerned is road signs which describe Ramsey park
and other facilities which make the city attractive
stopping place for the thousands of tourists who
pass through every season.
Shoppers who come to Redwood Falls need no
road signs; they read the newspapers and other
mediums of advertising sent out by firms here and
visit because of the bargains and fine treatment
which they know await them.
But the tourists are seldom on the mailing lists Of
either the newspapers the merchants. They fire.
quently come here with only maps and road signs to
guide them.
1t is unfortunate that persons coming from the
south on Highway No. find more Wilmar signs than
Redwood Falls signs. Except for highway department
markers which necessarily only give the of the
city, the tourists find little to interest them in the city,
If they from afar, as many do, they may never
have heard of Redwood They have nothing to judge
it by except the highway signs which put in class
with every village and crossroads which has little to
offer except change of OIL tank of gas lunch and
perhaps ill-equipped tourist camp.
Redwood Falls has hotels, stores, theatre, an ex-
ceptiona park and tourist camp, eating places and
dozens Of other accommodations any tourist seeks
Some plan could be devised by civic groups by
which the principal roads entering the city could be
provided with suitable signs, describing the citys adj
vantages and placed where they would not interfere
with the scenery. 1t would be worthwhile venture.
Should Have Accepted
w THILE the suggestion of Governor Floyd B. o.
W. that the state be saved about 100000 by
voluntary two weeks salary cancellations is
plainly campaign material, doubt the wisdom of
Republican departments of the state in re-
fusng to accept the suggestion.
Any move toward economy in government inter-
ests the voter especially when the economy is in sal
aries BY refusing to agree to the cut the campaign
value of the suggestion is enhanced.
First Memorial Day
n ETERSBURG, VIRGINIA. claims the distinction
of being the originator of Memorial Day. now
generally observed on one date or another
throughout the United States
On June 9, 1864, General Kautz with 10000 Fed
eral cavalrymen marched Petersburg then unguard-
ed except for few Confederate pickets Hastily 125
old men and boys of the home guard gathered to-
gether to oppose the Federals and partially checked
their advance until an army of Confederate cavalry
arrived, II of the defenders being killed.
The next year on the first anniversary of the bat
tie the people of Petersburg decorated the graves of
these dead In 1868 Mrs. Logan wife of General John
A. Logan, then commander of the G. A. R., happened
to visit Petersburg its memorial day and was so
impressed with the beautiful tribute of flowers and
flags that she suggested to the general that should
be made national custom. The next year he issued
order for the observance of May 80 by the veterans
of the North as Memorial Day and the custom has
continued.
In the South April 2e is observed in Alabama
Georgia, Mississippi and Florida May 10 in North and
South Carolina, the second Friday in May in Tennes-
see, and June in Louisiana
While Virginia observes the national date, May &c.
Petersburg still keeps its custom of decorating its
June 9, also thus having two memorial days
each year.
Thus according to the claim of that city the ma
tonwide yearly tribute to the dead veterans of both
North and South had its origin in the commemoration
of the valor of the heroic little band of Petersbugs
defenders
"Bank failures are fewer today than in the lush
days Of 1929"-clpsheet. The banks are fewer too.