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The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-23
Youth Fatally
Hurt on Road
Building Job
DELANEY SCHUCK DIES
OF SKULL FRACTURE
AT HOSPITAL

Lamberton-Victim of the sec
ond fatal accident occurring dur
ing highway construction work in
Redwood county in a five day per-
iod, Delaney Schuck, %, died at
the Tracy hospital Sunday at a
a. m.
He was injured Saturday morn
ing while working with the Can
tine construction crew two miles
northwest of Lamberton, not a
great distance from where Werner
A. Stadick, 27, a member of the
Schmitz and Company crew was
fatally injured when struck by a
culvert the previous Monday af-
ternoon.
Schuck had just started the
motor on a sitting machine, where
he was protected by a shield, when
a. large stone rolled off the con-
veyer, struck chain running
over a pulley and dropped onto his
head, fracturing his skull.
DR.. F. w. Brey was called and
administered first aid after which
Schuck was rushed to the Tracy
hospital. He lost consciousness
when he arrived in Tracy and fail
ed to respond to treatment.
Delaney William Schuck was the
son of William Schuck and Hattie
Cantine Schuck, born at Lamber-
ton May II, 1918. In early child
hood he lived in Walnut Grove,
going to Waterloo, Iowa, with his
mother in 1923 where he finished
grade school and was graduated
from East Waterloo high school
in 1882. He was awarded the high
est honors in citizenship, scholar
ship, leadership and social con-
duct.
He then took a two year
course at Mankato Teachers col
lege and taught the fifth and sixth
grades in the Wabasso school, SER
wing as assistant athletics coach
and starting a Boy Scout troop of
which he was scoutmaster. He has
made his home with Mr.. and Mrs.
Peter Cantine, being employed
with the Cantine road construction
crew when not teaching or at
tending school.
Survivors include his mother
Mrs. Christ Henke and a half-sis-
ter, Barbara May Henke of Free
port, Illinois; his father and three
half-sisters at Lamberton, his
grandmother, Mrs. Myrtle T. Can
tine and 20 aunts and uncles and
25 cousins.
Rites were conducted at the
home of his grandmother and at
the Methodist church in Walnut
Grove Tuesday afternoon and bur-
ial was in the Walnut Grove ceme-
terry with Rev. John Gresham of
ficiating. Members of his Boy
Scout troop acted as honorary
pallbearers.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-23
WAY CLEAR FOR
RESTORATION OF
SLEEPY EYE LAKE

Sleepy Eye-A long sought pro-
ject to restore Sleepy Eye lake ap-
peared to be within the city's S
grasp this week with the promise
of the state conservation depart
ment to underwrite any damages
to adjacent property which may
acrue as result of the restora-
ton.
This decision of the department
coupled with $4,000 for materials
promised by the state executive
committee and $1,000 from the
federal government for labor
clears the way for the project. 1t
includes damming the Redwood
county ditch mile northwest of
the lake bottom during the late
winter and spring and building a
diversion ditch which will take
the water to the lake. The lake is
expected to be six or eight feet
deep without dredging.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-23
BEVAN FANS II
BUT REDS LOSE
TO JAILERSg I46
Visitors Outhit Redwood Ia
to 8 While Hurias Has
Is Strikeouts

Seventeen strikeouts somehow
fell far short of being sufficient
Sunday when Leavenworth scor-
ed in five innings to defeat Red
wood Falls Ia to 6 at the fair
grounds diamond.
Mixed with the whiffers, who
averaged almost two to the in
ming, were IA hits scattered
through seven frames which gave
the visitors a healthy lead from
the second canto on, a lead which
entitled them to a tie for first
place in Twin county league stand
ings and pushed the Reds further
down the ladder.
T. Hurias had a strikeout rec
ord almost as impressive, tanning
Is Redwood Falls batters and he
held the Reds to eight hits, the
first being a double in the fifth
by Whiting who remained at Sec
ond while two team mates whitfield.
Bevan, Cuff and Worsech singled
in the sixth, Worsech and Hosken
scoring. Bevan was caught at
second and Cuff failed to beat a
throw to home plate.
Redwood had its best foray in
the ninth when Kickul doubled
and scored on Writings single.
Discher got on through an error
and Coubal singled, the Leaven-
worth shortstop stopping the ball
by throwing his glove at it. Un-
der little known rule, this en-
titled all runners to three bases,
Whiting and Discher scoring and
Coubal taking third where he
scored on Bevan's second single
He and Hosken, who was hit by
a pitched ball, died on first and
second as Hauck, Worsech and
Cuff famed in order.
Redwood Falls plays at Wanda,
Lamberton at Leavenworth and
Wabasso at Morgan Sunday as
teams near the end of the second
half schedule with four tied for
first honors.
Wanda tripped Wabasso IL to
last Sunday to give both teams
two wins and one loss while
Lamberton stepped into that classi-
tication with a Is to 5 win over
Morgan. Leavenworth improved
its place by handing Redwood an
Continued on Page l2)
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-23
Corn Suffers
For Want of
Soaking Rain
SMALL GRAIN THRESHED
YIELDS BETTER THEN
EXPECTED

Farmers watched golden grain
of unexpected quality and yield
pour from thresher to wagon box
this week, pausing frequently to
scan promising clouds which could
do wonders for a moisture-starv-
ed corn crop, but up to Wednes-
day evening had failed to accom-
modate.
Already corn has suffered SER
ious damage, especially early
corn. from the not weather and
drouth but a fair to average yield
could be realized on most fields
with a drencher this week, farm
ers said. The slightly less ex-
treme temperatures this week
helped some but rain is needed
badly as much of the corn is dry
ing from top or bottom or botn-
Small grain, however, is a better
crop than most guessers had oar
ed hope. Barley is running IL TO
40 bushels per acre, elevator op-
orators said, while oats is yielding
around 40 bushels and wheat 16 to
Is with an exceptional field going
25. Early seeded grain generally
is better than grain sowed later
in the spring which when threshed
may bring down the average.
Wesley Sommers, manager of
the North Redwood Farmers Ele-
vator, reported his firms biggest
day in two years as threshing got
into full swing, unloading As loads
much of which was new grain. His
first load of wheat was from G.
w. Lueck of Middle Creek. 1t test
ed SO pounds to the bushel and
was of high quality. Jake Frank,
northeast Of North Redwood
brought in the first load of new
grain.
Farmers Elevator of Redwood
Falls reported the first new grain
in this section last week, a load
of field-threshed oats from the
Charles Huhnerkoch farm. The
National Atlas Elevator got its
first load from Leroy Woodford
1t also was oats. All agreed more
grain than usual this early is be-
ing received.
Ghe Delhi Farmers elevator re-
ported receiving barley from the
nail area which is of good quality
although tn yield is small, 10 to
15 bushels. Some oats from that
area ran around 20 bushels.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-23

All Festival
ACHIEVEMENT DAY WILL
BE HELD IN CITY
AUGUST 20

The Redwood Falls Lions club
will sponsor the annual All club
achievement day to be held here
August 20, it was decided at The
luncheon meeting of the club Mon
day.
The club will locate suitable
quarters for exhibiting about rs
head of livestock which young
sters from throughout the county
are expected to bring here and
raise about $125 for prizes. D. W.
Buckley volunteered to give each
exhibitor a ticket to the Redwood
/ Theatre.
Besides livestock, which includes
only purebred stock competing fo1
state fair trips and colts, poultry
will be exhibited and there will be
demonstrations and a style show
plans for which are not yet COM
plete.
The project was turned over to
the boys and girls committee OF
the club members of which are
Reede Gray, DR.. C. L. Lynn and
w. E. Paffrath.
Home economics girls will COM
pete Saturday at the Lincoln
school in county contests, winners
of which will enter the sub-dis-
trict meet also to be held here
August l.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-23
RITES FRIDAY FOR
MRS. HENRY RESOFI
Wabasso Woman, 81, Died at
Home Tuesday After
Long Illness

Wabasso-Mrs. Henry Resoft.
62, died at her home here at 3
a. m. Tuesday of diabetes after
an illness of three and one-half
months. During the first six weeks
of her illness she was a patient
at a Rochester hospital but was
brought nome and was under the
care of a trained nurse until her
death.
Mrs. Resoft, nee Mary Zollner.
was born July /, 1874 at st.
George in Nicollet county and at
tended the parochial school there.
She was married February 1, 1893
to Henry Resoft at the Catholic
church at st. George. Mr.. and Mrs.
Resoft moved to a farm two and
one-half miles west of Wabasso
which was their home until 1880
when they came to Wabasso.
Surviving are her husband
their daughter, Mrs. George Cob
lirsch of Wabasso, three grand
children George, Leroy and Quen-
tin Goblirsch, two sisters, Mrs
Fred Bianchi and Miss Hannah
Zollner of st. George and siz
brothers, John, Robert, and Anton
Zollner of Wabasso, George of St
George and Joseph and Franz
Zollner of Fairfax. Two sisters,
Mrs. Catherine Ranweiler of Fair
fax and Mrs. Therese Matsch o1
st. George preceded her in death
Funeral services will be conduct
ed at $3.50 a. m. Friday at st.
Anne's Catholic church and bur.
ial will be in St. Anne's cemetery
The Christian mothers, of which
she was a member, will attend
the service in a body.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-23
Morgan Postmaster
Under Z Presidents
Gives Up Position

Morgan-Postmaster of Morgan
under seven presidents, F. s. Pol
lard thumbed through the mail
for the last time Monday and
turned the keys over to A. j
Tauer who that day received his
commission and assumed his dut-
les Tuesday. Miss Ino Metzke is
assisting while he becomes ac-
quainted with the work
Mr.. Pollard held the office for
nearly q years, being commission
ed by five presidents, Theodore
Roosevelt, William Howard Taft.
Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge
and Herber. Hoover. He also SER
we'd under Warren G. Harding and
Franklin Roosevelt.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-23
p ECHO WOMEN
BADLY INJURED
AS CARS CRASH

Two Echo women are confined
in the Willmar hospital following
an automobile accident which oc-
Cured at 9 p. m. July II, seven
miles south of Willmar on high
way II.
Mrs. Elmer Chapman suffered
a broken pelvis and Mrs. B. G.
Hustad had her leg broken just
below the hip when a car driven
by Mr.. Chapman and another by
Willard johnson, 20, of Willmar
crashed.
Eight persons, Mr.. and Mrs.
Chapman, their two children, Lor-
raine and Anola, Mrs. Hustad and
two sons, Paul and Harvey and
Stanley Slocum, all of Echo, were
returning home from visiting at
Nest Lake.
As a result of the accident
Johnson was held in the county
jail pending the outcome of an in
vestigation which was launched by
authorities Immediately after the
accident.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-23
2 COUNTY BOYS
.DRENCHED AS
CCC RAFT TIPS

Two Redwood county boys, K
B. ALEX of Wabasso and j. Ling
of Lamberton, were part of a
group of "a CCC youths who were
thrown into the middle of Sawbill
lake near Tofte, Minnesota, when
their barge, propelled by an out
board motor, overturned as they
were returning from shift OF
forest fire fighting Sunday. G.
Galloway of New Ulm was also
among them.
The boys were on their way
back to camp TIC, after fighting
fires "a miles north of Tofte, in
the northeastern corner of the
state.
Too many of the boys got or
Ione side of the barge and it over
turned, dumping the fully-clac
youths into the water. They
fought their way out of THEN
water-weighted clothing and most
of them struck out for shore. A
few clung to the barge which
floated awash and upside down
and were rescued by boat.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-23
Grain Shock Sweep
To Be Demonstrated

Another machine designed te
take the work out of threshing, the
John Deere grain shock sweep will
be demonstrated Friday forenoon
on the Thomas Green farm. form
erIy the julius Melges place, five
and one-haf miles southwest OF
Redwood Falls.
The 16 foot sweep, operated
from a tractor, will replace the
bundle teams required for a 2e
inch thresher of standard make. II
is claimed. Six to nine shocks are
loaded and brought to the machine
every two minutes where they are
dropped on the ground to bs
pitched into the thresher. The
demonstration will be carried on ir
a 40 acre barley field.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-23
mrs. McCETRICK
RITES WEDNESDAY
Lived in Community for
Many Years; Died in
Kansas Saturday

Requiem high mass was sale
at 9 a. m. Wednesday for Mrs
Mary McGetrick at st. Catherine e
church of which she was for many
years a member. Rev. Godfrey
0Sullivan, pastor of the church
was in charge. Mrs. McGetrick
died Saturday at the home of he1
daughter, Mrs. R. j. FLYNN at
Wichita, Kansas.
Mary Quigley was born in April
1861 in New York and came to
Minnesota when small child with
her parents who settled in Renville
county.
She was married in 1894 to j. A.
McGetrick and they made their
home in Redwood Falls until af-
ter Mr.. McGetrick's death in 1916
and their son, Roy McGetrick, in
1917. For many years they lived
in the house which is now the
Schoen apartments and later built
the house owned and occupied by
Mr.. and Mrs. T. A. Whittet. Dur
ing the last years Mrs. McGetrick
made her home with her daughter,
Agnes, Mrs. FLYNN.
Besides her daughter, she is sur
vived by a sister, Mrs. j. L. San
dusky of Duluth and two grand
children, Mary and John FLYNN
Mrs. Frank Baldwin and Mrs.
Edythe Byram of Redwood Falls
are her nieces.
Mr.. and Mrs. FLYNN motored here
from Wichita for the rites which
|were also attended by Mrs. FLYNN
Sr., of Minneapolis and Mrs. San
dusky of Duluth. Burial was in the
Catholic cemetery. The pallbearers
were j. R. Keefe, j. j. Lauterbach,
j. F. Prokosch, John Schmid, c.
H. Schultz and w. F. jackson.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-23
|REA To Complete
Signup by July 80

Directors of Redwood county s
rural electrification project will
concentrate efforts the remainder
of this month on getting the few
additional signers needed before
the plans can be submitted to
Washington, D. C. for approval
Adrian M. Wilson, county agent,
said this week every effort will be
made to get the list complete by
July 80 when the directors are to
meet at Wabasso.
One Minnesota county is re-
ported to have lines under con-
struction while several others, in
cluding Brown, have plans in
Washington.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-23
WOrthingtOn Farms
Damaged by Storm

Worthington-A violent wind
storm swept through Mobiles coun-
ty Sunday about 8 p. m. damag-
ing buildings and crops on so
farms. About a dozen barns were
wrecked and smaller buildings suf-
fered in larger numbers, making
an estimated total damage to
buildings of $4,000. 1t was feared
that crops suffered more severely.
Uncut grain was flattened while
shocks were piled against fences
and telephone wires were covered
and bitches filled with straw.
Trees were badly damaged and
hail fell in spots although it add
led little to the loss. 6
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-23
Board Inforrnedon
Building Procedure
ELECT TION NECESSARY
TO BOND DISTRICT;
PICK SITE

G. N. Nelson with 373 votes
and Parker D. Sanders with $50,
out of a total of 426 cast, were
elected to three year terms on the
board of education at the annual
school meeting Tuesday night
and are ready to plunge, with
four holdover board members, in
to the task of building a high
school to replace the 81 year old
structure which burned July IL.
Mr.. Nelson is new on the board,
replacing L. E. Backer who ran
third with LOG votes. Mr.. Sanders
has served one term and is sec
retary of the board. Other mem
bers are DR.. A. Asleson, presi-
dent; Clarence Hillig, Louis Chen
ley and Mrs. C. A. Lauterbach.
A series of meetings which will
severely tax board members spare
time is already starting. The in
surance adjustors who have been
preparing figures on the loss and
salvage will go into a huddle with
the board Friday at l p. m. with
hopes of a speedy settlement.
Next step, the board is in
formed by the state department
of education, is to obtain the
services of an architect. Already
the board has been deluged with
offers of professional services in
this regard.
The architect will prepare tenta-
tive plans for a new building, pro-
badly after the board has made
some visits to new buildings else
where for guidance. The plans and
estimates of the cost will then be
studied by the board.
When plans have been approved,
the matter of voting bonds to the
amount likely to be needed and
the question Of site will be placed
before the voters at an election.
Members of the state department
this week added their ''by all
means" to the proposal that the
new school be built alongside Lin
coin school instead of blocks away
as was the old building. Little op-
position to this move is anticipat-
ed when the economies Of such a
change are considered.
Meanwhile Superintendent Reede
Gray and C. N. Nicholson, high
school principal, are working on
plans for the housing of classes
while the new building is under
construction. Tentative plans indi-
cate it may be feasible to improve
the unfinished room in the Lincoln
school basement for shop classes.
Quarters will then have to be
found for the commercial classes
and study room provided, one
scheme being to use the main
floor of the library mornings for
the latter purpose. With this addi-
tional room and a carefully work
ed out schedule at Lincoln school,
it may be possible to work in
classes satisfactorily except for
congestion in the halls.
One problem is that Of classes
requiring laboratory work but the
only possibility there is to sub
stitute demonstration work until
the new building is ready. Where
possible, students will be advised
to postpone taking laboratory
courses until the following year.
Among other matters to be
considered by the board is that of
asking a PWA grant, other cities
having obtained 45 per cent of the
cost through the federal govern
ment under this program. The
BOARD also will consider the sug-
gestions that quarters be provided
for a junior college and that
gymnasium be included in the
plans.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-23
Walnut Grove Gets
Second PWA Grant

Walnut Grove-An additional
PWA grant of $16,867 supple
menting a grant of $29, ,75O has
been made. for the completion of
the high school building here, ex-
pected to be ready for occupan-
cy with the opening of school.
The building will cost approxi-
mately 100000 of which $46,617
is an outright grant from the
government:
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-23
Marshall Licenses
|Pinballs; Fee 500

Marshall THE city council de-
cided this week to license pinball
machines, bone of contention in
Minnesota cities for months. But
the fee viii be 500 per machine
and the regulations require that no
machine shall be operated within
$50 feet of school and that no
one under Is years Of age shall
be permitted to play. Furthermore,
gambling In connection with the
machines is prohibited.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-23
Morgan Man Escapes
From Burning Auto

Morgan-Morris Jorgensen had
"a narrow escape when his car ran
off the road and overturned on
the highway near Wanda Satur-
day night. He was alone and for
a time was unconscious but he
regained his senses and broke a
window to get out when the gaso-
line caught fire. The car was de-
stroyed by fire but Mr.. Jorgen-
sens principal injuries were cuts
on his hands from broken glass.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-23
Horseshoe Tourney
At Lincoln School

A horseshoe tournament will be
held in the Lincoln school base
iment in Redwood Falls Saturday
from to 6 p. m, the two high
men to enter the county playoff in
August. The Redwood county fair
board will send the county win
ner to the state fair where $500
in prizes viii be divided between
the IL high men. The tourney Sat-
urday is open to anyone and each
player will receive two chances to
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-23
Company L Attacked From
Air During Pretended War

Well here we are back in Red
wood again. / mean Company L
of course. We left Camp Ripley
about $3.50 and arrived in North
Redwood at about 3:15 a. m. Sat-
urday, only an hour or so behind
schedule but that is fairly close
considering everything. The very
thoughtless engineer had to run
over a pretty little black and white
pussy, called skunk by naturalists,
and it surely stunk everything up
for sometime following the Incl
dent. Two of the boys got off the
train when we went through Min
neapolis. They were Bob Hosken
and Art Corcoran. Bob has honor
able intentions of joining the Mar
ines if he can pass their examina-
tions. / don't know how honorable
Arts intentions were for he didn't
reveal to the writer just what he
intended to do. Though l have
ideas of my own I. don't believe I
had better tell just everything that
l think. 1t was noticed upon our
arrival that there were several
girls very anxiously waiting for
the train and some of them looked
rather disappointed when they
couldn't find the object of their
search right away. The writer,
however, had no one to greet him,
just another wallfower | guess.
Woe is me.
Our overnight bivouac was
postponed from Tuesday afternoon
until Wednesday afternoon, at first
because of the heat and then later
in the afternoon we had a rain and
big wind storm. We left the
camp Wednesday afternoon about
5 and we marched until about 9:3O.
We rested then and ate supper and
then our company left the main
group and went out about a mile
or mile and half and there we
were posted as we would be in war
time to halt all vehicles and troops
from going into the camp unless
they were part of our forces. 1t
was like a game only on bigger
scale and all those who took part
were part of the camp. 1t was
really lot of pretending, we had
to imagine that war time condi-
tions existed and we had to keep
very quiet.
When we smoked we had to cup
our matches and the cigarets so
that the light would not betray our
positions to the enemy scouts
who might be in our vicinity.
Airplanes from the camp training
field were substituted for enemy
planes and we had to guard the
troops from them. When an air.
plane was seen flying near the
troops and quite low so that it
might do damage to them, the
(scouts) air guards, who were To-
Gated about so yards or more from
the main body, would shout, slow
flying enemy air craft" The men
would break ranks and seek cover
along the side of the roads and
commence firing on the airplanes.
Some of the airplares came very
close to the troops and would very
likely have done great damage to
them if their machine guns had
been loaded, but then if our guns
had been loaded we could have
done some damage too, so it wasn't
SO awful uneven. If it had really
Continued on page 12)
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-23
Chick Goes Through
Binder Unharmed

Walnut Grove-An eight weeks
old chick went through the grain
binder on the Abel Anderson
farm last week and came out none
the worse for the experience. In
fact he is considered a good risk
to some day become first class
spring fry.
Mr.. Anderson was cutting grain
when he noticed the chick on the
binder platform. By the time he
could stop the binder the chick
had been carried through it and
tied in bundle. Oscar L. Ander-
son cut the string and out hop
ped the chick.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-23
FIRE DAMAGES
HOUSE OCCUPIED
BY 3 FAMILIES

Morton-Fire gutted the old
Doty house in Morton Tuesday af-
ter three families escaped from
the flaming structure with most
of their possessions.
Starting about $50 a. M, the
fire had its origin in an upstairs
room in which two men had been
sleeping only a half hour previous.
Mrs. George Shining, resident
of the house, gave the alarm af-
ter flames rushed at her when she
opened her bedroom door.
The loss to the frame residence
is estimated at about so per cent.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-23
Springfield Mill to
Quit Making Flour

Springfeld-One of the oldest
industries in Brown county, the
Springfield Milling company is de-
finitely in the process of liquida-
tion, it was learned Wednesday.
The milling of flour will be dis
continued entirely in about a
month. The grain and feed depart
ment may be retained.