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February II, 1885. - The day Is the
fourteenth anniversary OF Mexico's
independence, and q chronological
listing OF some prior and subsequent
events connected with the early
life OF Mexico and Texas Is appropri-
ate. 1325-Ananuac- or the Valley
OF Mexico. occupied by the Aztecs
or MeSica. where they built Teno-
chtitlan tMexico city. l4s2-4-s and
1902, discovery Of and subsequent
trips 10 New World by Christopher
Columbus. l493-Pope Alexander vi
assumed 10 grant TO Spain all Of the
countries II might discover west OF
a certain line drawn around the
earth from pole 70 pole. l502-Mon-
tezuma became Emperor Of the Az
tees. l5l9-landing OF the Spaniard.
Cortez on the coast OF Mexico. 1920
death OF Montezuma. l52l-cap-
ture OF Mexico City by Cortez. 1922
founding Of the first Christian
church in Mexico. l~527-Sacking Of
the Aztec archives and destruction
of picture written manuscripts. 1891
miracle OF the Virgin Of Guadalupe.
l547-death Of CoTtez. i57l-estab-
lishment Of the inquisition In Mexi-
co. 1685-LaSalle, searching for the
Mississippi. landed az Matagorda
Bay. l8l0-Hidalgo, curate OF Do
lores. raised the cry OF independence
IN Mexico. lSll-Hioalgo captured
and shot. lsl3-another soldier
priest, MoreloS. captured and shot.
lSi3-first Mexican congress. 1914
first Mexican constitution in the
making. lS20-suppreSsion Of the
inquisition. l82l-MoSes Austin's
petition approved by Spanish author
tiles; consummation OF Mexican in
dependence. lB22-Tturbide made
Emperor. 1923 Moses Austin's
grant transferred 10 Stephen r..
Austin. Santa Anna declared for a
Republic. l924-formation OF State
OF Coahuila- Texas. l827-comple-
ton OF Coahuila-T Texas constitution.
, 1935-02-21
Tourists Invited
To Mission Party
lSnecial 70 me HerAIdl

MISSION. Feb. 2l-Winter tour
lists and visitors are urged 70 attend
the party planned by the American
Legion post In Mission for Tuesday
February 26th, at 8 o'clock.
According TO Paul Rosette. chair
man OF the entertainment commit
tee. a musical program will be pres
ented. 10 be followed by bridge and
refreshments. The members Of the
post and the auxiliary will attend
and II is hoped q large number Of
visitors will respond.
The affair is being planned BY
Paul Rosette, r. G. Avery. and A. r
5cheulke. and will be hdd In the
Legion hall In the Lions park II
Mission.
, 1935-02-21
Ellebrecht Funeral

ESPECIAL % The Heraldl
HARLINGEN, Feb. 2l.- Rev.
Harold CrameT conducted funeral
services for Louis j. c. Ellebrecht
from st. Paul's Lutheran church
wednesday afternoon and burial
followed al the la Feria cemetery.
Ellebrecht died at his farm home
near Santa Rosa Sunday night.
Palloearers we're Henry BrugRe-
man, Charles Meier, Dan and Henry
K~loeppIng, Max and Walter Kuhn.
, 1935-02-21
QUEEN

Rex Bell, SIX feet tai without hls
cowboy boots, Is the tWo-tisted hero
of The Tonic KID" western epic
action talkie of the Tonic country
OF Arizona, showing Friday and sat
urday at the Queen theatre Browns
vile.
Ruth Mia, daughter OF Tom MlA'
dean of all western cowboy actors
and Buzz Barton, who became fam
ous as a boy actor in silent westerns
share feature honors in The Tonic
Kid" which Il q pictorial account o.
4 conspiracy Matched in the BRAN ~
\ ruthless western lawyer TO rob the
Granddaughter Of an Arizona cattle
baron Of her rightful inheritance.
, 1935-02-21
Pickett Recovering
LsDeclaI ID lhe HaraInl

- Sag hNfHNuN
EDINBURG. Feb. 2i.-Bob Puck
EFT, employe OF a Brownsville filling
station, Is recovering from injuries
sustained in an automobile crash
here Sunday night. His car was In
collision with another. driven By an
Edinburg resident, when the latter
turned suddenly from the street
into a filling station. Pickett Is in
County-City Hospital here suffered
q crushed shoulder, which was
broken in three places, cuts about
the face and many bruises.
, 1935-02-21
Vaudeville Proceeds
To Go to Scout Aid
Especial to The Heraldl

MERCEDES. Feb. 2l.-Art Brault's
Canadians, radio and recording or
chestra will be the main feature OF
q high class vaudeville program to
be presented IN connection with the
Boy Scouts Benefit American Le-
gion Vaudeville Show at the Mer-
cedeS junior high school auditorium
Tuesday night. March 5. Proceeds
will be used tor construction Of a
permanent home tor Troop IL, which
is sponsored by the J. A. Garcia post
A public address system is being in
stalled in the auditorium for use in
this high class musical organization
Commander w. d. Collier Of the
post stated that the orchestra l.
being brought TO the Valley by the
San Benito club. Tickets will 60 on
sale Feb. IS.
, 1935-02-21
RIYOLL. san BENITO

Sweet Music scheduled at the
Rivoli Theatre In San Banito Friday
and Saturday and at the Arcadia
Theatre III Harrington for Saturday
Midnlte PreVleW and Sunday, Mon
Gay showing. Is another Of the
screens musical spectacles by the
producers OF "Golddiggers OF Broad
way" Twenty Million Sweethearts'
and FILTRATION Walk"
The featured cast IN Sweet Music
is headed by Rudy Vallee, Ann Dvor-
ak. Alice White. Ned Sparks and
Helen Morgan.
In Sweet Music" there are a mum
Der Of new catchy songs sung BY
, 1935-02-21
Growers Organize

WESLACO, Feb 2l-At q meeting
Oi the Citrus Growers Of the Weslaco
district this week a permanent or
ganization was established, naming
the organization the Weslaco Cit
rus Growers Unit OF the Valley Cit
rus Growers association.
II. @. Mottmiller was elected pres
ident. F. <. Whitaker, secretary
treasurer and ID. A. Cleveland. di'
rector Ia the Valley organization 70
represent the Weslaco unit. The
next meeting OF the organization was
called for Tuesday az 8 p. m, Feb
ruary 26th in the Stephen r. Austin
school.
, 1935-02-21

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. tR-The
move TO pay the veterans s2.l0O,000.-
600 new money was accelerated
Thursday as Representative Patman
D-TeXasl, notified house members
that ne would file a petition immed-
lately 10 have his bonus bill
, 1935-02-21
HARLINGEN

The picture that VII TAXI =
place among the truly great screen
achievements Is Charles DlcAsL :
David Copperiield" scheduled toI
showing at the Arcadia Theater ID
Harrington, Friday and SATURDAY.
AS 1t develops its absorbing STORY
n runs the fun gamut OF entertain
ment qualities. There Is a wealth.
~ romance and comedy. There are
, 1935-02-21
.Hidalgo League Meet
Dates Are Arranged
Especial 10 The Herald)

MISSION, Feb. u. Literary
events OF the annual Hidalgo County
InterscholaStic League meet will be
held III Mission high school audito-
rum Saturday, March 80, according
70 Superintendent Hugh Proctor,
league director-general
League athletic events will be held
March % at Donna and will be di-
reeted by Principal Al Weir Of Nc
Allen high school, League athletic
director.
, 1935-02-21
Haystack Blaze Is
Fought by Firemen
tSnecial % The Heraidl

IoNttIAI 20 n HeraIdI
HARLINGEN, Feb. PA Harlin-
gen chemical truck and a La Feria
pumper fought a haystack fire on
the Mayfield farm near Stuart
Plaes Tuesday, saving a nearby barn.
An auto parked in the middle OF a
grassy lot at 322 E. Tyler was saved
When the grass caught fire.
, 1935-02-21

Rudy vaIIee. Ann Dvorak and Helen
Morgan.
, 1935-02-21
Labor Drive Important

Donald Richberg, director OF the
national emergency council, said re-
vision Of section IA Was 4 matter
entirely for congress 70 decide, but
he expressed the personal opinion
that the section was adequate.
Another labor union arrive has
important bearing on the NRA
problem OF maximum hours. The
American Federation OF Labor and
others are striving TO obtain enact
ment Of the Black 30-hour week
bill. fought by industrial and bust
ness leaders and frowned upon by
high administration officials. This
bill has just been approved by a
subcommittee OF the senate judiciary
committee and the fun committee
Is expected 10 call II up next week.
, 1935-02-21

Water viii dissolve more subs
tances than any other LIQUID II.
, 1935-02-21
EXTENSION OF
NRA QUICKLY
HITS TANCLES

WAsHINGTON, Feb. 81. CPp-
President RooSevelt's recommends
ton for a two-year extension Of
MIRA headed Thursday straight into
q legislative situation bearing all
the signs Of bitter controversy.
Arrayed for the skirmishing we're
the forces OF industry. union labor
and those who accuse NRA OF fost-
ering monopoly. They we're all
ready TO press their demands.
Collective Bargaining
There was no doubt al all in the
minds OF legislators that one Of the
ficrcest struggles probably would
rage around section 7-A-the col
lective bargaining provision. They
noted that President Roosevelt sim
ply called for protection OF the
rights OF employees freely to organ
lie for the purpose Of collective
bargaining" and did not disclose
whether he desires the section
changed or continued as II Is.
Senator Wagner CD-NYl. who
holds that the recovery act has fall
Cd TO gain some Of the ends ex-
pected Of II, planned TO introduce
Thursday his revised labor disputes
bill. There have been repeated re-
portk that Il would provide majority
rule In collective bargaining, q
principle vigorously opposed by
many industrialists, and would seek
10 prohibit what labor leaders cal
company unions" II also has been
said the bill would strengthen the
labor relations board. making n y
sort OF supreme court for labor
disputes.
Wagner has been one OF the ad-
ministration's principle advisers OF
labor and social matters and has
been hoping that the administra =
ton would back his bill. So far as
Is known, such support has not yei
been forthcoming.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-12-19
Carkhuff Given Until First
Of Year To Raze House
In Park Addition

The difficulties between Asa
CarkhufF and the city council ap-
peared to be nearing an end We'd
nesday when Mr.. Carkhuff agreed
to tear down a house which ne
built this summer from an old
garage on his lot in the Ramsey
park addition, in a position VOL
ating the city zoning ordinance.
An order STIMULATING that Cark-
huff start tearing down the house
December q and have the razing
completed by the first of the year
was made by Judge T. F. Reed, Jr.
following Carkhuff's appearance
in municipal court Wednesday
morning on an order to show
cause why the suspension of SEN
tence against him should not be
revoked. Shortly after an order
to vacate the place was served by
the city on the Alfred Beach fam
lily which has been living in it.
Carkhuff seemed reluctant to
begin work of removing the place,
as an eye-sore by
neighbors. 'It's nothing but put
up scheme. They want to make me
trouble" he stated in regard to
the city council during the near
ing. ''I'll move it if l feel good
and if l don't WON'T" he assert
ed. 1t was explained to him, how
ever, that if the work were not
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-12-19
Dassel Farmer Fires Buildings,
Wrecks Car, Kills Horses and Self

County authorities at Dassel
are seeking a motive for the fren-
zy of destruction that led Edwin
Swanson, 60-year-old bachelor liv-
ing south Of the town to kill his
horses, wreck his automobile, set
fire to all his buildings and then
destroy himself with a shot from
his own rifle.
His body was found in the
cEarred ruins of his farm house.
Neighbors of Swanson heard
two shots fired in the direction of
the barn, q crash and the sounds
of an az falling on metal and
wood. A short time later the sky
was lighted by the flames of burn
ing buildings.
The Dassel fire department was
sent to the farm. They found
every building on the place afire.
Two horses were dead in the barn,
the siding was ripped off the re-
cluse's house and hay had been
stuffed into the sidewalks. The
fire was out of control. Swanson's
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-12-19
High School Wins
Jig Saw For Work
In Seal Campaign

A modern jig saw for use in its
manual training department was
won by Redwood Falls High school
as second prize in the special COM
petition held in connection with
the 1885 Christmas Seal high
school radio contest, according to
DR.. E. A. Meyerding, executive
secretary Of the Minnesota Public
Health association, which spon-
sors the contest. In addition Lois
Anderson Of Redwood Falls High
school received honorable mention
for her talk.
Two special prizes were offered
the schools which put on the most
effective educational campaign in
the local preliminary contest. De-
troit Lakes High school. first
prize winner, will get drill press.
Special report forms were sent
each principal wishing to enter
his school in this part Of the con-
test C. N. Nicholson, Redwood
Falls principal, reported that all
seniors were required to write
papers on the stated subject,
Fight tuberculosis with Modern
Methods" and juniors were per-
mitted to write them. Talks were
presented before two school audi
ences as well as being printed in
The Gazette.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-12-19
4 CUT, BRUISED IN
ICY ROAD MISHAP
Car Skids Over Enbankment !;
Occupants Treated at
Hospital Here

Four persons were badly bruis-
ed and shaken up and narrowly
escaped more serious injuries Sun
day afternoon when their car skid
ded on the icy road near the Dan
Mott farm home near Clements
and plunged over a six foot en-
bankment, landing on its top.
In the car were Mr.. and Mrs.
Irwin Quesenberry of near Spring
field and Miss Iona Overmeyer
and her little niece, Joyce Over
meyer of Wabasso. Mr.. Quesen-
berry was pinned between the
steering wheel and dash board.
and was badly bruised. Mrs. Cues
enberry was painfully bruised and
received cash over her eye. Miss
Overmeyer and the child also were
bruised and cut.
Passersby freed them from the
car and brought them to the Red
wood Falls hospital where their
injuries were treated and they
were able to leave that night.
They were going home after at
tending church services when the
mishap occurred.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-12-19
City Takes Further Steps
To Enforce Zoning Rules

completed in the specified time,
the city would use its own work
men for the razing.
July II he was found guilty in
municipal court of constructing a
building without a permit and
given a $25 fine or sentence of
% days in Jail. Judge Reed, now
ever, granted a ten day stay of
execution in case the building was
torn down or made TO conform
with municipal standards and a
permit obtained. 1t was also or
dered that he discontinue building
during the ten day period.
Later he served two days in Jail
for contempt of court, the evil
dence being that he not only had
not complied with the first order
but had continued construction Of
the house. Since his release he
has been away from the city until
recently when he allowed occu-
pc ncy of the house.
That the coming law has teeth
in it is shown by clause making
it possible to give a Jail term of
80 days or fine of 500 for sacn
day it is violated which would
make possible jail term of 35 or
10 years in this case.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-12-19
POSTOFFICE RUSH
JUST BEGINNING

That many people still have
gifts to buy and wrap for mailing
and cards to get off was Indicated
by the fact that the postoffice
rush was only getting started this
week, although already ahead of
the last two years.
Christmas cards mailed in the
last six days totalled 9,476 with
Monday and Tuesday the busiest
with 2,314 and ISIS. Wednesdays
mailing was not included. For
the same six days in 1888 only
6, 199 were mailed while last year
the total was 1854.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-12-19

2 of First Class
To Attend Banquet

Two members of Redwood Falls
High schools first graduating
class, that of 1886, will attend the
alumni banquet to be held, Decem-
Der 80. They are Mrs. Minnie
johnson of Seaforth and Mrs. Ella
Root of Redwood Falls. Final
plans for the affair were drawn up
at meeting of committees and
officers Tuesday evening when in
vitations to $50 out-of-town grad
yates were mailed. The program
will be carried out in the form OF
radio amateur program and dec
orations will be in red and white,
the school colors.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-12-19
NIGHT RATES FOR
PHONE CALLS MAY
BE USED SUNDAYS.
Elan Before Commission to
Make Person to Person
Calls Cheaper
If Approved, Discount for
Sunday Calls Will Be
Adopted January Is

A plan that will place in effect
the lowest night long distance
rates during the daytime Sundays
is being considered by the Fri
state Telephone and Telegraph
company and the state regulatory
commission. If this plan is estab-
lished, the lowest rates on station
to station calls which are now in
effect every night between 7 p. m.
and 4:30 a. M. will also be in
effect between 7 p. m. Saturday,
through Sunday until 4:3O a. m.
Monday
Also a plan to establish a dis
count on person to person calls at
night and Sundays is being dis
cussed. At the present time there
is no discount on person 10 person
calls at any time. 1t is proposed
that a discount be established on
person to person calls from Z p.
m. to 4:30 a. m. each night and
uuling the daytime Sundays. The
amount of these discounts will be
me same as row applies on sta
ZION TO station calls for cores
bonding distances.
If approved, both of these
changes will become effective jan
uary Is, 1886.
The extension of the night dis
count period on station TO station
calls throughout the daytime Sun
day will add to the convenience of
long distance service and make it
more useful to our customers"
Fred Seifert, local manager of the
tri-State Telephone and Tele-
graph company explained.
The present night discount on
station to station calls does not
meet the needs of many of our
customers who desire to talk with
specified person during these
same hours. The proposal TO ex-
tend the discount to person 60 per-
son calls during the night and SUM-
days will permit those who wish
co talk with a specified person TO
have the advantages heretofore
enjoyed only by those using sta
ton to station service at night"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-12-19
RINK URGED FOR
SMALL CHILDREN
School Grounds Rink Asked
BY Lions; Favor Night
Mail Service

Flooding of a part of the school
grounds as skating rink for the
younger children, to keep them
off the lake when cutting ice
makes skating there hazardous,
was favored by Lions club men,
bers at their luncheon Monday
noon.
After several members had ex-
pressed the opinion that it should
be a city project paid for and sup
ervised from tax funds, Frank
Clague, speaking as generous
donor to the scout organization,
declared he felt that the Boy
Scouts could easily assume the
job of building barriers to i'm
pound the water when the rink is
flooded and assume supervision OF
the rink.
As mayor of the city and head
of the Boy Scout organization,
DR.. C. L. Lynn was given the as
signment of seeing what can be
done OF provide rink either
through one plan or the other.
1t was brought out that mail
is no longer collected at the hotels
at 10 p. m. except on certain
nights of the week and agitation
was urged for restoration of this
service which has been paid Cor
by the hotels.
T. F. Reed Jr. and his team was
-
MES at recent meetings than the
team headed by D. w.
Buckley and Mr.. Reed was named
chairman of a committee to see
that the best possible use Of the
is made to make Christmas
happy for several poor families.
Others on the committee are j. B.
Fhilbrick and DR.. J. P. Linn. The
was $1,000.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-12-19
MARSHALL COMING
FOR GAME FRIDAY
Cole and Discher on Bench
Hurts Chances in Last
Tilt of Year

With Cole on the sidelines with
a sprained ankle and Discher in
eligible, Redwood Falls High is
handicapped for its third Little
Ten conference tilt which brings
Marshall to the Lincoln school
floor Friday evening.
Marshall has been rated as an
average team in the loop and the
Cardinals had hopes of improving
their rating to .667 until this new
bit of hard luck befell them. Now
they enter the tilt as slightly un-
derdogs, particularly since the
Tigers showed signs of teamwork
and craftsmanship in beating a
veteran Cottonwood team last
week "a to Is.
Coach Obermeyer is grooming
Neale Serkland and Noble Starr
this week as reserves while other
squad members prepare for their
last game before the holidays.
Defeated by New Ulm last
week, the Cardinals are in third
place standings. Sleepy Eye with
wins over Fairmont and st. James
is in the lead, with New Ulm also
undefeated.
Continued on page LAY
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-12-19
OF
GILBERT DELAYED
Faces Christmas In Jail AS
HOrejsi' Recovery Is
Still Uncertain

Maurice Gilbert will spend
Christmas in the Renville county
Jail awaiting arrangement for a
confessed attack on Henry Hore-
Jsi, Bechyn farmer, authorities
sand this week when informed by
University hospital physicians
that it will not ce known for a
week or ten days whether Horejsi
will fully recover from shotgun
wounus received November IL.
The story of how ne came TO
pick up, load and ire the gun was
told by Gilbert this week in a
story which conflicts slightly with
The bare outline of his crime Civ
en- to officers previously. Seeing
horeJsi asleep, Gilbert says, ne
left The house and upon returning
knocked over the .16 gauge shot
gun which stood near the door.
He picked it up. and carried it 20
the living room wnere Horejsi
slept. linen went back into the
kitchen tor shell and loaded the
gun. From then on he cannot
remember anything so far as the
actual shooting is concerned, ne
He admits to the at
tempted murder, however.
previously Gilbert stated that
re closed his eyes as ne fired.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-12-19
COUNTY WpA JOBS
PAY 264 WORKMEN
$6,5l9 in MONTH
November Report Shows Men
In New Ulm District
Drew $73,515
Payroll First Is Days In
December Jumps Here
To $6,443.4O

A total of $73,515.57 was dis
bursed by the Works Progress Ad-
ministration during November to
2,476 employables engaged on
work relief projects in the New
Tim district, according to figures
released by Linus c. Glotzbas z,
district director.
A total of 104 projects in this
district were going forward dur
ing November. The amounts dis
bursed to employables on WPA
projects in the counties of the dis
1rict during November follow:
Blue Earth, $500 So; Brown, Sill
341.37; Cottonwood, $5,144.40;
Faribault, $2,145-41; Jackson, ST.
506.3S; Lincoln, $6,46S.2S; Lyon,
S9,S92.11; Martin, 81, 453.9o; Muir
ray, $4,362.84; Nicollet, $4,090.79;
S2,252.89; Pipestone, 3d.
O7O.OS; Redwood, $6,519.01; Rock.
$2,D6412; Watonwan, $2,S13.6o. Ga
The number of employables
working on WPA projects in the
district during November, is Blue
Earth, PAS; Brown, 1877; Cotton
wood, 142; Fari5ault, s3; jackson,
So; Lincoln, 179; Lyon, 334; Mar
tin, "a; Murray, III; Nicollet, 132;
Mobiles, IA; Pipestone, 153; Red
wood, 264; Rock, 6S; Watonwan'
IS.
For the first Is days in Decem-
Der, Redwood county had a pay
roll of $5,421.5O Tor relief clients
and $257.5O for non-relief men
while $54.40 was paid for truck
hire, a total of $6,443.40, George
Matson, WPA supervisor, an
Wednesday. Forty-two
women and 284 men working on
nine jobs received WPA salaries.
Largest job is a countrywide gra-
Yelling project employing 100 men
while the women are employed on
a sewing project.