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The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-30
LibraryEnjoys
Business Gain
MORE BORROWERS, MORE
BOOKS MENTIONED
IN REPORT

Assuming the theory to be cor
rect that reading improves the
mind, Redwood Falls residents de-
veloped their mental powers con-
siderably last year, according te
the annual report of the city IL
brarian.
A total of 27,904 books were cir
culated by the public library dur
ing the year, ABOUT ten per capita.
This was an increase of $3.50
books over the previous year.
About 65 per cent of the city's
population is registered as library
borrowers, a total of 202 new bor-
rowers having received cards last
year. They have access to 6,1S6
books in the library of which q
233 belong to the school collection.
Four hundred fifty books were
added in the last II months, 1S4
to the regular library and PIP to
the school division. Fifty-four
were gifts.
Miss Irene Holland, librarian,
stresses the Importance of the IL
brary in community life in her
report, citing its increased use by
schools not only for study but for
class visits, library instruction
and class room collections OF
books. Women's clubs also make
considerable use of library facili-
ties.
She urged continuation of the
policy of buying the best material
on a wide range of subjects of
known interest in the community
and an endeavor to build up an
adequate reference collection for
the benefit of patrons. The state
library division is used for books
of more limited appeal.
The Carnegie endowment for in
ternational peace has placed the
Redwood Falls library on the list
to receive books from the interna-
tional mind alcove, q collection
which has proved popular.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-30
Clubhouse Opening
Successful Affair

Pronounced a decided success.
the opening night function at
the Redwood Falls golf club
house Thursday evening marked
the beginning of a series of
events which will add much to the
social life of the community.
Nearly 100 persons attended the
affair.
Accompanied by an admiring
gallery, men enthusiasts played a
round of golf after the 6:30 din
ner while others played bridge ON
the porch overlooking the course
or visited in the living room. La
ter, dancing completed the eve
ning's entertainment.
Mrs. o. G. Austbo was general
chairman of the dinner and was
assisted in the arrangements by
members of all the standing COM
mittees.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-30
County toBuy
HeatngPlants
COUNTY HOME AND JAIL
TO GET EQUIPMENT
THIS FALL

Redwood county commissioners
expect to buy two boilers and a
stoker for county buildings at
their p.eeting next week, the call
for ads requiring that offers be
in their hands by 10 a. m. August
4.
The boiler and stoker are to be
installed at the county home while
the other boiler will heat the coun-
ty Jail.
More old age pensions were con-
sidered at a special meeting Tues
day, after which Herman Beck
man, Philip Raveling and Herman
Muetzel accompanied H. E. Chard,
division engineer for sthe state
department and Richard
Cook, county engineer, on tour
of inspection to three road pro-
jects recently completed in three
commissioner districts.
The county paid pensions to
800 old people last month.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-30
Sales to Tourists
Exceed '35 Record
MARKED INCREASE SEEN
IN TRAFFIC; MANY
FROM KANSAS

The ancient wheeze which goes
the rounds each spring when red
dust from the central west sweeps
over Minnesota was revived again
this week as tourists streamed
through Redwood Falls on their
way to northern lakes and resorts.
'The Kansas and Nebraska
farmers must be coming up to
farm their own lands" say oil sta
tion attendants, cafe owners, cab
in camp managers and the park
superintendent.
Agreeing that the tourist busi-
ness is between SO and 100 per
cent better that it was last year,
those directly interested in the in
f1ux of out-of-state persons say
the tourist season has just begun
in earnest. During the hottest
the number of travellers
dropped off, although tourists
"hollered about the heat but kept
right on driving" according to one
oil station attendant.
While the tourists decreased,
soft drink sales diametrically in
creased during the hot spell. One
establishment dealing in soft
drinks expects it's gross figures for
July this year to surpass those of
last, although the July business
was considerably less.
Planning on an even heavier
trade predicted through their
trade magazines, some oil station
owners are somewhat disappointed
in the volume, believing that the
detour on highway II near Sam
born sends many travellers north
on rs.
Kansas licenses are in the ma
jority, with Iowa, Nebraska and
Missouri cars also headed toward
the north woods. Waldo Marsh,
park superintendent, says several
Arizona parties have camped
there.
Receipts from the 25 cent fee
charged by the state conservation
for each car remaining
overnight in the park were SIT Tor
June and $18 so far in July.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-30
3 Boys Will Leave
Sunday For Patrol
Camp In NOrthland

As reward for outstanding
work in the Lincoln school safety
patrol last year, Dean Muetzel,
Cletus Zitzman and Maurice Kat
zenberger will leave Sunday MORN
ing to represent the patrol here at
Big Lake camp near Bemidji, q
boys camp sponsored by the Amer
lean Legion for safety patrol men,
bers. The camp is the first of its
kind in Minnesota and probably in
the United States.
The boys viii be guests Of Mel
win Daskam post for their weeks
stay at the camp which will be
conducted with recreational, handi-
craft and athletic periods inter-
spersing the instruction given by
state highway patrolmen and other
leaders IN the movement To pro-
mote safety-mindedneas.
The Jackson Legion post win
send two boys who win arrive
here Saturday evening to join the
Redwood Falls group on the trip
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-30
Rites Held For
Mrs. Alfred Hoyt

Walnut Grove Funeral services
were held Monday afternoon at st.
Olaf church with Rev. o. j. Govig
officiating, for Mrs. Alfred Hoyt
who died at the Tyler hospital
Thursday morning following an
operation for gallstones.
Charlotte Leona McArtor was
born March 10, 1899 at What
Cheer, Iowa, later moving with her
parents to Clay county, Iowa
where she grew to womanhood.
In 1916 the family moved to
Westbrook and March 27, 1918 she
was married to Alfred Hoyt. They
have five children, Leslie, Loren,
Myron, Alton and Lyla. Her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. L. l.. McArtor,
three brothers, Erwin and Carl of
Westbrook and DeLoss of Mar
shall and two half sisters, Mrs.
Ida Fotrall of Cedar Rapids, Iowa
and Mrs. Yost Yader of Wellman,
Iowa, also survive.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-30
Will
Follow Trail
SCENIC RIVER BOTTOM
ROAD WILL BE
EXTENDED

Replacing a trail once worn
smooth by the bare feet of Indians
to whom it was a main thorough
fare, Renville county has ordered
the construction of road along
the Minnesota river bottom which
will begin at highway II on the
Morton hill and angle west ana
slightly north to North Redwood.
Continuing a road already popu-
lar with lovers of natural beauty,
from Fort Ridgely along the river
bottom to Morton, the highway
may some day follow the river fur
ther north and west.
The present contract calls for
the grading of between five and
six miles of road. Work will
start about September. 1. Henry
Van De Riet of Raymond was the
successful bidder on the project.
At present his crew is building
state aid road from federal high
way PIP south and west to join
state highway 81 where it turns
west north of Echo.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-30
County Receives
$995,518 Benefits

Redwood county has received
S995,518.81 in rental and benefit
payments in the three years since
the creation of the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration, cover
ing the period May IL, 1888
through May 81, 1886, according
to information received by Anna
Dickie Oleson, state director OF
the National Emergency council.
Rental and benefit payments In
Redwood county for the wheat
program totaled $76,747.71; corn
hog S91S,771.10.
Rental and benefit payments in
Minnesota amounted to $35,S24,-
689.13 for the three year period.
$3,OO7, ,594.13 of this amount was
paid during the first five months
of 1886.
Wheat rental and benefit pay
ments made aggregated $685.
134.68; tobacco $95, ,382.37; corn
hog S29, 9,361, ,4S2.7S; sugar 1894,
698.30.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-30
.ankatoFnim
Will Prepare
School Plans
LINCOLN SCHOOL ARCH
ITECTS HIRED BY
BOARD

The Mankato firm of Pass and
Rockey,. builders of the Lincoln
building, were chosen Wednesday
afternoon as architects for the
new high school building to be
here as soon as pos
sible.
George Pass of the firm, one of
many which sought the job, was
in conference with the board
most OF the afternoon, talking
over plans for the new building
which it is expected will adjoin
the Lincoln school and conform to
it III style of architecture
From the applicants for the
job of drawing plans and super
vising construction, the board
selecred six whom it interviewed
here last Thursday concerning the
project.
three members of the board,
Mrs. C. A. Lauterbach, Parker d.
Sanders and G. N. Nelson and
Reede Gray, superintendent of
scnoo.s, spent all day Tuesday in
specting buildings under construc-
tion or completed in recent years
Winthrop, Gaylord and Glencoe
Schools were inspected on the way
to the Twin Cities and later in
the day the group visited the
Roboinsdale and several Minnea-
polls and St. Paul schools re-
Gently built.
Meanwhile arrangements are
being made to use the Episcopal
Guild hall near the Lincoln school
for commercial classes. The IL
brary will be used for study morn
ings and other classes will occu-
py Lincoln school rooms under
schedule worked out by Mr.. Gray.
A settlement on the damages 20
the old high school by fire July
IL has not yet been reached but
the matter is likely to be settled
this week.
The chances of getting PWA help
for the building appeared some
what DINNER Wednesday when
new list of projects approved at
Washington included only two
from Minnesota. One theory was
that the curtailment was due to
scarcity of unemployed skilled
laborers in the state but this
was denied in other quarters.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-30
Farmers Cash Income
Shows Marked Increase

Cash income of farmers for the
first six months of 1886 aggregat-
ed So ,291 ,0O, 900, an increase of
$685., 100000 over the same period
in 1885, when cash income totaled
So, ,956, 900, 900, according to esti-
mates announced by the bureau of
agricultural economics.
The total for the first six months
this year included $171, ,000,0 900 in
AAA payments compared with
$3.50, 100000 in similar payments
in the same period last year. The
total cash income of farmers in
June, including rental and bene-
fit payments, was $639, ,000, 900
compared with $585, 100000 in
May and $46S,000,00O in June
1885.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-30
Drouth
DamagesCornl
PROSPECTS, WITH RAIN,
UNDER Is BUSHELS
PER ACRE

Although cool nights have help
ed, Redwood county corn is badly
hurt by drouth and even an i'm
mediate rain will produce only
part of a crop, farmers said this
week.
A 25 bushel per acre yield will
be a good if not an exceptional
yield this fall, even with rain and
favorable weather from now on, it
is believed. Early corn has suf-
fered more serious damage than
late corn in most localities.
Pastures also have suffered from
the hot dry weather, excepting
some sweet clover. pasture, and a
bulletin from the University farm
urges farmers to feed hay, pre-
ferably legume hay, and ensilage
where available to maintain the
production of dairy herds. County
Agent Adrian M. Wilson said some
Redwood county farmers are al
ready feeding hay where pastures
are short or dry.
Small grain yields are the most
pleasant surprise in the farm pic
ture. AS threshing was nearing
completion on most runs this
week, 40 to so bushels per acre
was considered the average yield
of oats while occasional fields ran
So and SIS bushels. Thirty-five bu-
shell barley was considered excel
lent with 80 bushels good yield
this year.
Flax was not running as well,
with 10 bushels yields exception
al and the majority four or five
bushels per acre. A conservative
average on wheat yields was said
to be around ten bushels. The
greater share of the grain is of
good quality.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-30
3 Critically
. Hurt,l Killed
In Accidents
CARS INVOLVED IN TWO
MISHAPS IN NEARBY
COUNTIES

A farmer was killed and three
persons were critically injured IN
three weekend accidents, two of
which involved automobiles, in
neighboring counties.
Fred WIttenberg, 38, of Sibley
county, died at a New Ulm hos
pitaI Monday from a crushed
chest and other injuries inflicted
by his herd bull Sunday evening
while doing chores. Mrs. Witten-
berg suffered a badly bruised left
arm trying to save her husband
from the animals attacks. Their
two sons, Ellsworth, IA, and
Oliver, 10, also witnessed the trag-
edy. Funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon.
Very Rev. Monsignor Humphrey
Moynihan, pastor of Church OF
the Incarnation is reported slight
ly better at a Minneapolis hospi-
tai where he was taken fol-
lowing an automobile accident
near Olivia, in which the well
known churchman suffered frac-
tured pelyis-
Because of the monslgnor's ad-
vanced age, doctors said recovery
would be retarded.
Monsignor Moynihan was riding
with Rev. Henry Pomije, pastor
of the Olivia Catholic church, ON
his way home from a vacation In
Itasca park, when Rev. PomiJe's
car plunged off the road into a
ditch. Monsignor Moynihan Tor
merly was rector of the College OF
st. Thomas and of st. Paul Sem
mary.
Alois Stueber, Is, of Lafayette
was reported near death, while
Anton Dubro, "a, of Huron, South
Dakota, also is in serious condition
at a New Ulm hospital, both suf-
fering skull fractures and other
injuries sustained Sunday night
when a car owned and driven
by Raymond Schmitz, 22, of Mil
ford township, crashed into the
rear of a truck. The mishap oc-
Cured four miles west of VIM
tnrop, while the party was re-
turning to New Ulm from a
dance at Gibbon. Schmitz suff-
cred fracture of his right leg.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-30
All Quiet, Report
On Wedding Front

Blame it on the drouth, cup
ids vacation or the fact that
Frank Dragged a bit about
June's brisk marriage license
business-any solution you
wish-but the truth is the
wedding business is at a
standstill this month.
With only two days and a
half left Wednesday, Mr..
Baldwin, clerk of court, had
issued but three honeymoon
tickets in all of July and one
of those was to an Iowa cou-
pie, Allen III. Carr and Hilda
E. Merry of Fostoria, issued
July 6. The other two per-
mits were to John p. Ravel-
ing and DeLoras Rue, July /
and Edwin Grotto and Metallic
A. Jarvis, July 8.
Since then there hasn't even
been an inquiry
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-30
Unbeaten SOftban
Teams Meet Match

Upset for the first time in
league play, the Model Dairy
softball team was defeated by the
North Redwood aggregation Ia to
Z Tuesday evening. Errors on the
part of the creamery men account
ed for several of the North Red
wood scores.
Two Redwood Falls softball
teanss, male and female, with hi
therto perfect records were defeat
ed Monday evening. Lucan beat
the powerful Model Dairy team 6
to l on the Lucan field and the
Flying Horsemen, hard-hitting
girls organization was beaten by
Johnsonville to 5. The Red ROD
ins forfeited to Tiffanys at the
Lincoln school grounds.
Bruins, pitching for Lucan, struck
out II and pitched a no hit en-
counter, Redwood's only score be-
ing made on three errors. Proud
of it's triumph, Lucan fans sug-
gested Redwood should select the
stars from all its league teams
and play them a second game.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-30
North Redwood Flax
Sets Market Record

The first car of new flax receiv-
ed at the Minneapolis grain mar
ket this year came from North
Redwood, leaving the station Fri
day night and arriving in Minnea-
polls Saturday. The North Red
wood Farmers Elevator consigned
the car which was sold Monday to
go to Duluth.
The flax graded number one
with II per cent of dockage. Test
weight was 504 pounds and mois-
ture content 6.2 per cent. Its ripen-
ing FASTENED by hot, dry weather,
the movement of new flax was the
earliest on record at the Mill
City market.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-30
City Orders Test
Wells; Start Today

To begin work today, Tom Ar
nett Sr. was authorized to sink
several test wells at the springs
above the pump house when the
city council met in special session
Monday evening.
With the water supply danger
ously low during drouth years. the
council believes it necessary to
maintain wells in the future.
Water is furnished the city
through springs which run by
gravity into the pump house re-
servoir. Should enough water be
struck in the pipe-sinking, pumps
will be installed to function dur
ing periods of water shortage.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-30
WANDA
GET OPPORTUNITY
TO SPILL RIVALS
Lambert0n, Wabasso Need
Wins Sunday to Hold
League Lead

Old rivals will play in two
games of Importance in the Twin
county league Sunday, Redwood
Falls having an opportunity to
upset Wabasso here while Wanda
goes to Lamberton with the same
intention. Lamberton and Wabas-
SO are tied for the second half
lead and go into the final games
of the schedule Sunday facing the
necessity of winning to have a
chance at the title.
Lamberton staged a track meet
at Leavenworth Sunday, running
up the tremendous score Of rs to
20. Hurias allowed 16 hits in six
innings when Posi- relieved him
and gave seven in the final cantos.
Wabasso meanwhile was content
to beat Morgan IL to 9. Leaven-
worth plays at Morgan this week
in a game which cannot affect the
title.
Although they touched Eichten
for IL hits while Bevan allowed
but seven, Redwood Falls dropped
another game Sunday, to Wanda
10 to 6, and crowded closer to Nor
gan in the Twin county league eel
lar.
Redwood Falls got the first two
runs, the first in the second in
ming when Kickul and Bevan sin
gled and the second in the fourth
when Worsech singled and scored
after an error and a wild pitch.
Wanda passed the Reds In its
half of the fourth when v. Eich-
ten reached first on an error and
scored on Berberick's triple. B.
Eichten drove out home run for
two scores and w. Eichten scored,
after getting ON through an error,
when D. Eichten drove out q three
base clout.
Johnson poled another homer IN
the fifth for Wanda's fifth score
and five runs came IN during the
sixth on single by w. Eichten
and triples by Jenniges and
|Struckman, combined with q series
of costly errors.
tContinred on page 12l
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-30
McC Cuskey to Direct
.NYA in A Counties

Everett McCuskey, NYA super
visor for Redwood Falls, has been
appointed project supervisor of the
National Youth Administration for
Redwood, Murray, Mobiles and
Rock counties, to take over the po-
sition Immediately. Headquarter-
ing in Redwood Falls, he will
direct a four-county program SIM
liar to that carried on here for
several months.
The purpose of the NYA is to
develop recreation, community SER
vice and conservation through the
employment and enlistment of
young people.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-30
Thomas To Improve
IF. G. Kumm Building

II. A. Thomas, proprietor Of the
Thomas Glass shop, purchased the
Third street building in which he
has been located since 1928 from
F. G. Kumm Saturday. As soon
as the deal has been definitely
completed Mr.. Thomas will put in
a new floor and remodel the struc-
ture.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-30
Hill Buys Station

Walter o. Hin completed the
entire purchase Of the Sinclair
service station on Bridge street
Friday when he bought ont the
half interest Of Leo Ruder. Rud-
er, who had been financially inter-
ested IN the station since Decem-
Der, has not announced his plans
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-30

Sam Bradley of Amiret has
three fractured ribs as the result
of a peculiar accident. Bradley was
lying on the lawn of his home
when an automobile came around
the corner of his house and ran
into him.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-30
New Postmaster

Echo-Alvin Mock assumed the
position of postmaster at Echo
last week, succeeding Miss Cora
Thorsen who is remaining as as
sistant.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-30

Mr.. and Mrs. R. B. Macarthur of
Hancock came Sunday to spend
the day with their daughters, Mrs.
George Stebbins and Mrs. Robert
Fleming and their families.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-30
WEEKS SOFTBALL SCORES

Rockbusters 16, Tiffanys A.
Flying Horsemen 80, Nitwits IL.
Lucan 6, Model Dairy 1.
Red Robins forfeited to Tiffanys.
Silver Dime 8, North Redwood
Model Dairy z, Silver Dime 6.
Lamberton 13, Sanborn 0.
Johnsonville Girls 8, Flying
5.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-07-30

Miss Mary Orth returned Mon
day morning from Minneapolis
where she had visited relatives for
a week.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-05
S32,4OO,OO to Be
Spent on Olympics

BERLIN, March 5. (UR) - Ger
many will spend $32 100000 to stage
the 1886 Olympics in Berlin. Most
of this staggering amount is being
used to construct stadia, and athle-
tic fields.
In one vast project, Germany is
simultaneously building the Olym-
pic stadium, which will seat 100000,
a swimming stadium, polo field,
tennis courts, football, hockey and
baseball fields.
Guido Won Mengden, press chief
of Germany's Sportage, the state
sport governing organization. eX-
planned the reasons for Germany'S
huge outlay of funds.
We believe it is better to spend
lavishly and intelligently on athle-
tics projects now than to expend
a similar amount for hospitals and
sanitariums during the next 10 or
20 years.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-05

the write race, and a quick meet
ing with as determined a customer
as The Knight may be the straw
to lead Lopez into the limbo Of
past champions.
The champion took plenty Of
punishment Wednesday night and
he has more in store fer him to-
night. Fans who have seen The
Black Knight in action know he
goes completely "haywire' when
in a tough spot. And what a spot
for The Knight to pull fast one
and upset the dope! A few of his
we'll known blows. a punch or two
when the referees looking at the
stars. and it'll be curtains.
In the curtain raiser Thursday
night two more rough and tough
grapplers will be brought together,
Gunda Singh, new sensation on
the coast, and Tony Felice, a rug
ged mauler.
The second main event on the
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1936-03-05
ARAB CAGERS
WILL LEAVE
FOR PHOENIX

Coach R. r. Taylor's Arab cagers
will Journey to Phoenix Friday
morning to meet the Phoenix Jun
ior college in two game series Fri
day and Saturday nights.
These two games will close the
jaycee basketball season and the
Arabs hope to end the year with a
double win over the Bear quintet.
Dutchie Van Nostrand will not be
seen in the Nomad lineup in the
final tits against the Arabs tradi-
tiCnal rival from Arizona as Van
has dropped out of school. The J.
G. team will be greatly handicapped
by the absence of the diminutive
fordward, as Dutch has been a great
scorer and a valuable defensive
man all year.
Captain Don WithroW may not
be able TO make the trip to Phoenix
either, and the absence of WithroW
would make the jaycee cause an
almost hopess one.
Taylor plans to take seven men
to Phoenix: Dave RyerSon Archie
Drennen, Jack Delozier, Marvin
Ship, Roy Templeton, Leonard
Moore, George Gilliland, and posi-
bly, WithrOW.