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Births Reported.

Leiehton L. and Amy A. Traceweil. girl.
EuRenio and Angela Elias boy.
walter q. and Bertha 3. Lsnham. boy.
Edmund r. and Marjorie A. Shea. boy.
Walter A. and Frances Taylor. boy.
James b. and Gladys Hawkins, BOY.
Roy and Helen Young, girl.
Leroy and Anna Branch. gtrl.
Isaac and Pauline BQAh. boy.
Samuel and Mary FfsSerick, boy.
Leonard r. and Hattfs \. Owens. girl.
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DAILY SHORT STORY
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You don't very often hear about
an automobile that stops too fast
for its own good, but that has
been true this year of one, ac-
cording to an automobile author
ity.. The liveliness of the 1896
Buick, with its sensational pick
up, has been accompanied by an
equally notable deceleration. In
fact, it stops 20 fast that when
allowed to come down suddenly
from very high speed it some
times choked itself. Engineers
said it was the carburetor, but
the car already had one of the
finest carburetors available. So
they had to get busy and work
out q still better
one, and 80 to- e,
day the tip is that
Buick for 1887 will
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Martyr to
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PIN Pies
For over 20 years

Read this remarkable, grateful tribute:
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gave relief. Then I bought Cuticura
and after using only one half box of
Cuticura Ointment along with Cuticura
Soap, my skin was clear again"
(Signed) Mrs. H. Simpson, 195-2nd
Ave, San Francisco, Calf.
You, too, can find in Cuticura treat
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ehahng, eczema irritation and other
skin and scalp conditions of external
origin. Soap 25c. Ointment 25c. All
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The Redwood gazette., 1936-12-24
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The table was decorated in hol-
iday trim and a turkey dinner
was served by Lauterbach Broth
The Redwood gazette., 1936-12-24
Lions Play StOrk
At Holiday Party

Father Dionne has nothing at
all on certain Lions whose
thoughtful fellow club members
presented them with more or less
appropriate gifts at their Christ
mas party luncheon Monday.
Members who already have
families generally receive gifts
bearing some significance in their
business, profession or hobby,
such things as a galloping race
horse, a cat and dog act, ring of
bologna, horn, building blocks,
a shotgun for the mayor, a bal
loon with goggles, fine tooth
comb for a prominent bald mem
ber, shimmy dolls and surprise
packages.
Before the fun began, members
authorized a committee to work
with the fair board toward the So
luton of its problems, members
including B. H. Clark, George A.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-12-24
LambertOn News
By Gazette Writer
BY Mrs. w. E. Schei

oy nx De W. Gs 0SA4C4
Lamberton-Mrs. r. II. Hick-
man of Chicago arrived Saturday
morning to spend a few days with
her mother, Mrs. w. H. Cooler
and her uncle, L. A. Cooler.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe c. johnson
were Westbrook visitors Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray johnson
spent the weekend with Mankato
friends.
Misses Lucille and Vivian
Grund, University students, ar
rived Sunday to spend the hoE-
days. Miss Vivian who has also
completed course in Beauty cul-
ture plans to remain and be with
her mother, Mrs. E. F. Grund in
their Beauty Shop.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. N. Skow drove
to Lake Park Wednesday to see
the destruction wrought by a fire
at the home of Mr.. Shows BROTH
er, Hans Skow. The Shows were
just completing a modern home
on their farm when it burned to
the ground.
Elwood MCGEE, a University
student arrived Sunday to spend
the holiday season.
Gordon Enemark drove to Min
neapolis Friday morning to bring
home his sister, Miss Marjorie and
several other Augsburg College
students including Miss Ardell
Albertson, Miss Claudia Urness,
Luther Strommen, Gerald Ben
son.
The Past Oracles were hosts at
a Christmas party following the
meeting of the Royal Neighbors
Wednesday.
Miss Elva Bakken, who teaches
at Jackson, arrived the first of the
week after spending a few days in
the Twin Cities.
Mr.. and Mrs. Moritz Timm re-
turned Saturday from a few days
visit with Mrs. Paul Timm at
New Ulm.
William Skow left here for CAL
ifornia with his family early Sat-
urday morning and reached Chey-
enne, Yyo. that night. A stop was
made at Grinager, Iowa where
Betty and Billy Skow, will remain
with their grandmother, Mrs.
Bondhus accompanying Mr.. and
Mrs. Skow is Mrs. c. N. Carver
who will visit her sister at Ar
cadia, California. Mr.. and Mrs.
Skow will visit their daughters,
Mrs. Carl Urness and family at
Wilmington, and Mrs. Robert
Woodbury. and MIR. Woodbury. at
Long Beach and Mr.. Shows bro
ther, John and family at Will
mington.
H. E. Swennes drove to Heron
Lake Monday morning to get his
sister, Miss Rosella Raddatz who
will remain here for a time. Mrs.
Swennes and daughter, Jean are
among the many who are i'll with
the flu.
Vernon Koenig, who attends
Manchester college arrived the lat
ter part of the week to spend his
vacation.
Kenneth Shelton is spending
few days with his aunt, Mrs. L. K.
Schultz and family at Walnut
Grove.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-12-24
North Redwood
BY Mrs. o. w. Simondet

BY Mrs. 0. w. Simondet
North Redwood-Mr. and Mrs.
William Hosken and family and
Mrs. Thomas Hosken Sr. left for
Ogilvie Sunday where they visit
ed Mrs. Hosken's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Suelter.
Miss Alice Simondet who teach
es near Morgan is spending her
vacation with her parents here.
Miss Viola Simondet who teach
es at Middle Creek closed her
school Friday for the holidays
with a Christmas program.
Guests at a turkey dinner at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. j. D. Ziegler
Sunday were Mr.. and Mrs. B. F.
Ziegler and son Stanley of Frank
lin, L. j. Ziegler, Miss Eloise
Richert, B. H. Kuenzli, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Ziegler of Belview,
Mrs. c. F. Johnson of Waverly
and Miss Dena Sampson.
Mrs. John thinner spent sew
eral days last week at the Monte
video hospital with her daughter,
Mrs. Martin Prodoehl, who un-
derwent an operation there.
Mrs. G. j. johnson of Waverly,
S. D. is visiting this week at the
B. H. Kuenzli and j. D. Ziegler
homes.
H. M. Hoepner of Redwood
Falls called Thursday on S. S.
Castle who has been i'll two
weeks.
Miss Emma Zwemke who teach
es at Gibbon is spending her va
cation with her sister, Mrs. Lilly
schroeder.
Mrs. Robert PedersUu and son
Leslie visited at the Richard
Scoates home Saturday.
Norman Peterson who attends
the University spent the weekend
here with his sister, Mrs. R.
ScoateS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Taubert
and sons, Mr.. apd Mrs. Elmer
Becker and sons and Mr.. and
Mrs. Alvin Becker and son were
Sunday dinner guests of MIR. and
Mrs. Harold Becker.
Miss Adeline Anderson who
teaches at Hutchinson is spend
ing her vacation with her mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Castle motor
ed to Minneapolis Saturday to get
Mrs. Otto Smith who has been a
patient at the University hospital
two months.
Mr.. and Mrs. I. w. Castle and
family visited relatives here Sun
day.
Leroy and Eva Castle enter
tanned the Junior Endeavor of
the Church of Christ at a Christ
mas party at their home Friday
evening.
Mrs. e. A. Mann was a caller
The Redwood gazette., 1936-12-24

Mr.. and Mrs. George Ogren and
family will arrive today from
Hutchinson to spend Christmas
with Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Baldwin.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-12-24
Morgan

Mrs. Glenn Haeny (Wilma
Ward) was painfully burned Fri
day evening at the Gus Haeny
home. Steam arising from water
thrown on live Goals sca1ded the
fingers and thumb on her right
hand.
Miss Alice Bertrand, a student
of Good Counsel Academy at
Mankato, came Tuesday to spend
the holiday vacation with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. B. F. Bertrand.
Eugene Pollard will arrive
Christmas day from Rolla, N. d.
where he teaches. Charles Whit
comb will meet him at Willmar.
He will return to Rolla New Years
day.
Misses Melva Dittbenner and
Muriel Ward, Ralph Whitcomb,
Mrs. c. L. Ward and son, Eugene
were New Ulm visitors Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Paape will
go to New Ulm Christmas day to
enjoy a family dinner and reunion
at the home of their daughter,
Mrs. Meta Schueller. Other fam
lilies to join them are, Mr.. and
Mrs. Clayton Ward and daughter,
Muriel and son, Eugene, Miss OF
telia Paape of Minneapolis with
MIR. and Mrs. William Bluhm and
daughters, Arlene and Barbara of
Redwood Falls.
Mrs. William Koehne entertain
ed IA friends at her home We'd
nesday evening. Part of the COM
pany tied comforters and others
played five hundred. A two cour-
Sc luncheon was served.
Mrs. Schultz (Lydia Bondo) of
Gilfillan is i'll at the Union hospi-
tai at New Ulm.
Misses Inez Root and Anna
Hanson attended special services
at the Danish Lutheran church at
Gilfillan Sunday. They were en-
tertained at dinner at the Victor
Hanson home.
DR.. and Mrs. c. Jorgensen will
60 to st. James Christmas morn
ing to spend the day at the home
of the latters parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Henning Anderson.
The City hall was packed with
children and their elders Saturday
afternoon to enjoy the Christmas
party and program which includ-
ed numbers from rural schools
near Morgan. The committee in
charge handed out 600 sacks of
candy.
Mrs. K. NJ. Jensen and daugh-
ter, Marie were Redwood Falls
visitors Saturday afternoon.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-12-24
CharlestOWn Friends
Attend Funeral For
Mrs. Code Saturday
BY Mrs. c.. L. Rockwell

Charlestown-The funeral of
Mrs. John Code was held Satur-
day at the Evangelical church at
Germantown. Those from a dis
tance who attended were MIR. and
Mrs. Fred Code Of st. Paul, Mr..
and Mrs. Lawrence Code of Man.
kato, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Juhnke
of Waseca, Herman Schiefbein
and Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Veg
ner of Milbank, S. D.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Foy, Donald
Allen and Mrs. E. j. Moody mo-
tored to Worthington Sunday and
spent the day at the Martin
Moody home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Wegner
were New Ulm callers Tuesday.
Mrs. Milton Werner entertained
her daughter Joan's Sunday
school class and teacher in honor
of her fourth birthday, Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emil Hubert ac-
companied by Mrs. E. j. Moody
were Springfield callers Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Rockwell,
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Hartwich
and little son, Mr.. and Mrs. Mil
ton Hartwich and son, Merlin and
Elmer Hartwich were Sunday
dinner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Ev-
erett Hartwich and family at Luz
can.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Kissner and
family were entertained Sunday
by Mr.. and Mrs. Minert Werner
and family.
Harvey, Ernest, Clarence and
Alice Greise, Mr.. and Mrs. Char
les Hurias, Stanley and Mary Ann
Kildner and Mr.. and Mrs. Claude
Rockwell were Sunday evening
visitors at the Reliance Code
home.
Robert Kissner of st. Paul is
spending Christmas vacation with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
KiSSner.
Mrs. Otto Werner who spent
last week at the bed side of her
husband at New Ulm returned
Tuesday. Mr.. Werner who was
operated on is doing well.
Miss Marie Hubin accompanied
Mr.. and Mrs. George Werner and
Doris and Leslie to Redwood Falls
Saturday.
Mrs. Amelia Boyer and son,
Ben Boyer and children Of Wa
basso visited at the Charles Wer-
ner home last week..
Miss Grace Archer is spending
the week with her sister, Mrs.
Everett Wilt.
Mr.. and Mrs. EolIance Code
and son spent Thursday evening
at the Albert Code home.
MIR. and Mrs. A. Sawyer and
son Hubert, motored to Janesville
Sunday and visited at the Melvin
Hartwich home.
Leonard Moody and mother and
Mrs. Fred Arnsdorf were Tracy
callers Tuesday.
MIR. and Mrs. Edward Redman,
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Werner and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Herman
Wegner and Harvey Griese spent
Saturday evening at the E. Veg
ner home in Lamberton.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Bor-
chardt and little daughter were
Sunday evening visitors at the
parental L. Kissner home.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Wog and
daughter were Redwood Falls
shoppers Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Busse
and Mrs. Melvin Busse and Mr..
and Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Brazel
were New Ulm visitors Thursday.
Lowell Kruger, Leonard
Moody and Lowell Code attended
the school program in the double
district Friday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Ogren and
family will arrive tOdav from
The Redwood gazette., 1936-12-24

at the Roy Castle home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Sundem and
family were weekend visitors in
Minneapolis, returning Monday.
Miss Loretta Dommer left We'd
nesday morning for Minneapolis
to spend Christmas with her sis
ter, Margaret Jane and her aunt,
Mrs. Rose Noble.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-12-24

Mrs. Knute Anderson who ex-
pected to leave Saturday for Ta-
coma, Wash. to spend the holidays
with her son, Rev. Norman An
derson was taken i'll with flu and
IS confined to her bed. Her small
grandson is also i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Swennes
and family Of Heron Lake were
callers at the II. E. Swennes
home. Sunday. They were driv-
ing to Willmar with Mrs. Sven
nes' sister, who took train from
there for her home in northern
Minnesota.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-12-24
BelvieW Woman,
IS Tuesday, Has
Birthday Guests
By Florence Lyslo

BelvieW-Mr. and Mrs. NelS
Orfeld and family and Mrs. Err
roll Wanamaker of Minneapolis,
Mr.. and Mrs. D. j. Schiltz and
son John of Austin, DR.. and Mrs.
R. A. Peterson and family of Yes
ia and Mr.. and Mrs. William Pet
erson and family helped Mrs.
Elizabeth Peterson celebrate her
ninety-fifth birthday at the Pet
erson home Tuesday.
MIR. and Mrs. j. c. Hellie of
Kasson were Sunday afternoon
callers of Mr.. and Mrs. j. H.
Johnson.
Luncheon guests of Mrs. Bennie
Sampson Thursday afternoon
were Mrs. Clarence Anderson and
daughter, Mrs. Jacob Olson and
son Talbert, Mrs, L. F. Hoppen-
rath and son Paul, Mrs. John
Seine and children, Norma and
Dale Mrs. Tyler Peterson and
son James, Mrs. L. C.. Gryting,
Mrs. o. c. Harang, Mrs. R. w.
Hoppenrath and Mrs. Anna Hag-
en-.
Gerhard Knutson of Minneapo-
lis came Friday night to spend
his Christmas vacation with his
mother, Mrs. Christ Knutson.
Arliss Emily, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Helmuth Hahn, was
baptized Friday evening by Rev.
o. c. Harang, sponsors being Mr..
and Mrs. Selmer Helgeson, Myrtle
and Halvor Helgeson.
MIR. and Mrs. w. F. Simpson
and son of Wabasso were Sunday
dinner guests of MIR. and Mrs. Ben
Simpson.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Sampson of
Wahpeton, N. D. visited from Fri
day until Sunday at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Sampson.
Mrs. J. S. Gunelson visited Mr..
and Mrs. A. A. Davidson at Rem
vile Monday.
Lena Zamzow and Glen Kline
of Morgan were Sunday evening
callers of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Duncan.
Miss Lola Olsen of Minneapolis
came Monday night to spend her
vacation at the L. l. Braafadt
home.
A. G.. Siam of Mellen, Wis.
visited Saturday and Sunday at
the Sam Sampson home.
Mr. and Mrs. j. j. Ziegler were
Sunday dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. D. Ziegler at North Red
wood.
Miss Margaret Gunelson arriv-
ed Saturday night to spend her
vacation with her parents.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Sampson and
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph Leonard
spent Saturday in Minneapolis on
business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Simpson
visited at the Charles Hatch and
Elmer Chapman homes in Echo
Sunday.
Miss Florence Sandager of
Garden City came Friday evening
to spend her vacation with her
mothers, Mrs. Emma Sandager.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Simpson
were business callers in Redwood
Falls Thursday.
Monday evening the Legion and
Auxiliary held its annual Christ
mas party at the hall. After a
short program Santa Claus ap-
peared and gave the children
bags of candy and nuts. Lunch
was served.
Oscar Gimmestad met with the
Seaforth Legion on business Mon
day evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Danielson
and children of Minneapolis at
tended the Legion and Auxiliary
party Monday evening.
Miss Dorothy Johnson and Otto
Cyrus Flom of Waldorf college
are spending their vacation with
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. H
Johnson and MIR. and Mrs. O.
Flom.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-12-24
CHURCH OF CHRIST

O44O4SSA1 OV S4xxb404
Bible School 1000 a. m,
Morning Worship ..-....-11:OO a. m.
Sermon-''The End of the Year,
AS a Man Soweth so Shall He also
Reap"
Christian Endeavor $3.50 p. m.
Evening Service ...7:30 p. m.
Sermon-"UnlesS the Lad go
with Me-"
There will be no choir this
week, nor meetings of the divi-
sions of the Industrial Society.
Let us make the last Lords day
Of the year one of the very best.
In our contest with Worthington
last Sunday we had 254 to their
215. We urge all to be present
next Sunday at 10 o'clock and
bring your friends. Stay for
church. Come to Christian Endea-
vor and the evening service. Let
us plan now to make 1887 our
very best year.
All WelcOme-Always
Oscar J0nesOn, Pastor
The Redwood gazette., 1936-12-24

CLOSED FOR HOLIDAYS
The National Unemployment
office will be closed from this
noon to Monday morning for the
Christmas holidays.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-12-24
NOTICE

An error was made in listing
clients name in commissioner
proceedings as George j. Ham
merschmidt when it should have
been George Hammerschmidt.-
Redwood County Welfare Office.
The Redwood gazette., 1936-12-24

Patton, Theo. Gandr,sd, George
Hanson and E. N. Tersteeg, and
ordered the purchase Of q Christ
mas seal bond.
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patented by a Georgetown. KY, genius.
1t was "a method for distilling alcohol
from Indian corn"
For Toothaches and Farms.
That same year one Samuel Pen
nington Of Mount Pleasant, Ohio, won
Immortality with patent on a
general specific for the cure OF
toothache to consist of whisky, French
brandy, turpentine and Indian turnip."
Mr.. Pennington failed to specify the
purpose of the turpentine and Indian
turnip.
A half dozen tooth extractors were
patented that year. In addition there
plows, hat-making devices, etc. = all
ministering to the immediate needs
of a scattered agricultural people.
Those were simple, bucolic days.
Times were beginning to change in
1859, with the Civil War on the
horizon, the pioneers pushing West
ward, steam power familiar to every
one. and even the possibilities Of
electricity being investigated. Crime
was beginning to be problem.
There were unbreakable locks, doors
and shutters that could not be pene-
trated either with pick or sledge
hammer. Whale Oil remained a vital
necessity, but the inventors were turn
ing their brains against leviathan.
There was a "harpoon that makes
the whale kill itself, the more he
pulls on the line the deeper penetrated
the blade" There was an electric
whaling apparatus by which the whale
is shocked to death"
Ice by Steam Creates Amazement.
But the editor of the Scientific
American was most amazed at what
Evening star., 1936-06-30
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

The American patent system Is
100 years old this week.
On July 4, 1886. all existing patent
laws were revoked and the Nation
started with a clean slate-on the
most remarkable era of mechanical
and material progress in human
history.
Previously, the patent law had
been almost worthless. Anybody could
patent anything-merely by submit
ting an outline of the idea. Then it
was up to the inventor to defend his
patent. The new system required the
submission of models and provided
for strict examination of the claims
TO determine whether the ideas really
were worthwhile and original
The intervening century has seen
a greater change in the way of life
of the average man or woman than
had taken place in thousand years
previously. 1t has seen the coming
of the telegraph, the telephone, the
railroad, the automobile, the air
plane, the radio. furnace heat, plumb
ing, machine manufacturing of all
kinds, mechanical farming, etc. Take
these out of the world and one has
a picture of the way Of life Of 1885.
Born of American Genius.
Most of these have been developed
in America. In many cases the
original inventions have been the
outcome of American ingenuity. In
cases where the invention was made
in Europe, its chief utilization and
development has been on this side
of the Atlantic. Without the patent
system established in 1886. giving in
ventors clear road to personal
profits from their ingenuity, the prog
ress probably would have been much
less notable.
The trainers of the 1886 patent law
could have had little concept of the
future of American invention. The
Nation was not yet mechanically
minded-except for the strangely i'm
practical New England Yankee put
tering over a perpetual motion de-
vice in his Woodshed or garret The
industrial revolution had started in
England In America it still was afar
off.
One of the earliest patents issued
by the Federal Government was also
one of the most revolutionary. 1t
was granted in 1894 to Joseph G.
Person of New York City for a nail
cutting machine. Through the
Colonial period, nails were hammered
out by hand on a forge. A skillful
workman could turn out one a minute
Persons machine enabled single
workman to make 100 nails a minute.
Since all were identical in shape
and size, they were easier for carpen-
ters to handle Thousands Of nail
makers were thrown out of jobs by
this invention.
Gunsmiths Feel Effects.
A few years later hundreds of gun
smiths all over the country were
thrown out of work when Thomas
Blanchard, of Springfield, Mass, in
vented lathe for making gun barrels.
When Congress, in 1928, passed an
act extending for Is years a patent
on planning machine for dressing
lumber, it was estimated that the
device saved $4,000, 900 a year, largely
in labor costs.
At first, apparently, there was no
great concern over the loss of jobs
through these chronological advances.
The great need of the country was
man power. More and cheaper nails