The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-05-02
Federal Building Sought for City;
Many improvements Underway Here
Committee Selected to Urge
City be Placed on List
to Get Building

City be Placed on List
to Get Building
Believing that Redwood Falls
should be in line for a new feder-
al building as part of the govern
ment's extensive building opera
tons, a committee representing
all civic organizations of the city
was appointed this week to work
on the project.
Members of the committee are:
w. M. Smith, chairman, DR.. C. L. !
Lynn, Frank Clague, T. F. Reed,
W. L. Hardy, G. N. Nelson, s. B.
Duea, A. C. Burmeister and w. r.
Roberts.
1t is understood that part of the
four billion dollar appropriation of
congress to prime the pump Of
activity in the heavy industries
and offer work to millions now on
relief will be spent for federal
buildings in towns where a need
can be shown.
Redwood Falls organizations
feel that there is a need here both
for postoffice and for office
space for government activities as
the court house is crowded and
space has been taken by such
agencies in several other build
ings.
The firm of Finn, Cole and
Finn was issued a permit We'd
nesday to move the former War
ner cottage 80 feet back from its
present location and remodel it
into two modern apartments with
entrances facing west. They will
also remodel the Redwood Falls
hospital, increasing the number of
offices and patients rooms and
moving the entrance to the south
side Of the building. 1t is also
planned to make over the old
Finn residence on Third street
into four or five apartments and
to build small cottage to the
west Of the present residence for
occupancy by the T. E. Finn fam
lily.
Forty-nine new telephones have
been installed by the Redwood
County Rural Telephone company
since January l, according to Bert
Kleaver, manager. The names of
new telephone subscribers are
listed in the company,s advertise-
ment on page seven. Telephone
users are asked to clip the list
and paste it in their directories
for future use.
Ira Reynolds has purchased two
houses formerly owned by A. ].
White. Mr.. White will continue
living in one of them and Mr.. and
Mrs. Rex Miller will move into
the house now occupied by the C.
N. Nicholson family, June 1.
The house, owned by Mrs. Alex
ander Williams, and now occupied
by Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Baldwin
and family was recently sold to
G. L. Crooks who expects to live
there.
The six room house planned by
7. o. johnson is now under con-
struction. 1t is located on east
Fourth street, across from the d.
w. Gold residence.
Closing the Peoples Market
which has been located on Second
street since December, Phil Dir
lam Tuesday moved his equip
ment to the Kolbet building on
Mill street, the former location Of
the Dittbenner Implement COM
pany. He will open the new place
about June 1 with a short line Of
groceries as well as a butcher
shop.
The place just vacated has not
yet been rented, according to the
owner, William Neale.
The Standard Oil station at
which Morrisey Warner and Ray
Gray are employed has been paint
ed cream color with bright blue
trimming at the base Of the can
opy pillars. The red fixtures
about the building have also been
freshly painted. The station was
formerly aluminium colored.
L. B. Cox of Slayton is con-
structing bulk station along the
Chicago and North Western rail-
road tracks and will serve Phil
lips "66" dealers and users in the
territory adjacent to Redwood
Falls. Mr.. and Mrs. Cox moved
into the downtown Philbrick
apartments Tuesday.
Drogosch and Son have taken
over the agency for the Refinite
water softening machine, now on
display in their building on Third
street.