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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-11
REAApproves
$7o,oOOGrant
forLinesH Here
RURAL ELECTRICITY TO
REACH IT'S FARMS
IN SUMMER

Official Washington approval of
the $4,000 REA application for
Redwood county was given in a
telegram received by L. B. Fred
rickson of Morgan, county presi-
dent of the association, Monday.
Alexander Seifert, city attorney
at Springfield, where the munich
pal plant will furnish the power,
also received a wire confirming
the grant and Adrian M. Wilson,
Redwood county agent who is Wit
ally interested in the project, was
Immediately informed.
The allotment will pay for 70
miles of rural electric lines which
will be strung over parts of
Brookville, Shutdown, Three
Lakes, Morgan, Sherman and
Charlestown townships in this
county and North Star and Burns
town in Brown county.
Farm work in barns as well as
homes will be made easier for
IT'S families when the circuit is
completed. 1t is expected that
poles will be put in as soon as
frost is out of the ground and the
project will be finished by late
summer.
The board of directors will
meet Friday morning in Clements
to lay plans for the letting of
contracts and arrange for getting
the work underway. Members
are Mr.. Fredrickson, William
Kirschtein and Anton Prokosch of
Morgan, A. p Rams of Springfield,
G. E. Luscher of Redwood Falls,
George Gales of Seaforth, Albert
Hanson of Lucan and Henry
FLETCHER of Vesta.
Another application for addi-
tional rural electrifcation in the
county will be prepared soon and
farmers interested are asked to
contact members of the board or
Mr.. Wilson.
The approved rate calls for one
and three quarters cents per kilo-
watt for the first hundred hours.
A charge of cent and a half per
kilowatt will be made for the sec
ond hundred hours and current
in excess of that will cost one and
a quarter cents. From 10 p. m.
until z p. m. the rate will be one
cent per kilowatt hour.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-11
Juliann Schmahl is
California Bride

In the Wee Kirk of the Heather,
in Forest Lawn Memorial, Glen
dale, California, Miss Juliann
Schmahl. daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Julius A. Schmahl of St.
Paul. was married Monday eve
ming to Frederic J. Trump, of Los
Angeles. Mr.. Trump is the son of
Mrs. Myrtle Trump Of st. Paul.
Rev. Wesley A. Havermale of
st. Luke's Episcopal Church of the
Mountains offciated at the cere-
mony in the presence of members
of the immediate families and
close friends. Mr. and Mrs. Sch
mahl went to California for the
ceremony. For the ceremony the
bride chose a dressy afternoon
suit of soft blue wool with fox
trimmings and dubornet accessor-
les. Mr.. and Mrs. Schmahl gave
the wedding dinner Immediately
after the service.
Mr.. and Mrs. Trump will make
their home in Los Angeles.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-11
RITES HELD FOR
MRS. EMMA CESKE
RESIDENT OF NEW AVON
DIED AT PARENTS
HOME MONDAY

Wabasso-Mrs. Emma GeSke of
New Avon township was buried
in the Willow Lake cemetery Fri
day afternoon following services
at the Willow Lake Lutheran
church and at the home of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Hoff-
man in Springfield, where she
died Monday afternoon.
Emma Marie Elizabeth Hoff-
man was born March 9, 1888 in
Willow Lake township where she
was baptized April 2, 1888 by Rev.
j. Bauer, now of Fort Ridgely.
Emil Hoffman, Alvina Fenger and
Augusta HIM were the sponsors.
March 81, 1901 she was con-
firmed in the Zion Lutheran
church at Sanborn by Rev. w. ].
Schulze, now of Hutchinson, and
November 2, 1919 she was mar
ried to William Albert Geske who
died in 1881. She had been in
poor health for several years and
became seriously i'll January %
when she was taken to her par
ent's home. The cause of her
death was chronic mycarditis.
She leaves one daughter, Sylvia
Elvira, Is and son, Alvin Will
liam, IL; her parents, two sisters,
Mrs. Ben Schwartz of Springfield
and Mrs. George Schultz of San
born and three brothers, August
OF New Avon and Herman and
Walter Hoffman of Willow Lake.
Rev. c. Mack, pastor of the
church, conducted the last rites
and pallbearers were Herman
Beckman and Theodore Hoffman
of New Avon, Herman Hoffman,
Edward Kruse and Henry Gug-
gisberg of Willow Lake and MIR.
Prechel of Springfield.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-11
PEA Reports
l936Progress
NET EARNINGS AMOUNT
TO S4,4O4; MEMBERS
INCREASE

Progress in cooperative credit
reported at the annual meeting of
the Redwood Falls. Production
Credit association here Friday in
cludes larger membership and
increased earnings for 1886 as
compared with 1885.
The association covers Redwood
and Renville counties and part of
Yellow Medicine county, and has
1863 members. Farmer-memberS
now own S14,055 class B stock of
the association, which is Is per
cent of the total stock outstand-.
ing. The rest of the capital stock,
class A, is held by the Production
Credit corporation of st. Paul,
which supervises the associations.
The volume of loans outstand-
ing December 81, 1886 was $685.
883, The membership increased
from $50 to 1853 during the year.
Net earnings for 1886 amounted
to $4,404 and are made up of in
terest on loans, interest on invest
ments and inspection fees. Stress
ing the need for making sound
loans and conducting the associa-
tons business so as to insure its
weathering any financial storm of
the future, the board of directors
set aside all the earnings above
expenses in reserve funds to take
care of any possible losses and
provide for other contingencies.
When proper reserves have
been established and guarantee
fund built up equals Is per cent
of the capital stock outstanding,
the association will face the ques-
ton of what to do with the addi-
tlonal earnings. Whether to re-
duce interest rates at that time,
or to declare a dividend will be
decided upon by the association
In cooperation with the produc-
ton credit corporation.
That the association is making
steady progress towards that time
is indicated by its income of
S4,404 for 1886 compared with
that OF 1894 for 1885.
In addition to considering the
financial report on the business
for the year and comparisons with
the previous year the members
elected directors to fill expiring
terms. Directors reelected were:
Charles E. Dahlgren of Bird Is
land and Forrest Croker of Nor
gan.
After the stockholders meeting
the board members chose Otto
Flom president, and MIR. Dahlgren
vice president. They also selected
w. M. Smith as secretary-reas-
urer to handle the association
business for another year.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-11
Where County is Landlord

tanned by wrecking the old Tur-
rell house in the park addition
which housed several relief fam
lies until it was damaged beyond
repair by fire. 1t helped relieve
housing shortage in Redwood
Falls ard while rent checks have
seldom been forthcoming, the
county is still well ahead on the
venture.
Blankets suffice for garages for
the battered cars which are par
allel parked outside the doors and
teakettles of hot water help get
them started. Atop the house in
the foreground of the picture
above the tenant has rugged a
wind-charger which is used to
charge car batteries.
One we'll supplies water for the
six homes and other plumbing is
likewise outdoors. Kerosene is the
favorite fuel for lamps as no cleo
tricity is provided.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-11
Girl in Flood Area Tells
of Tragedies, Relief Work

Refugees huddled in churches,
smiling, although the only posses
sionS left were the clothes they
were wearing, children sliding
down ropes of bed sheets from the
second stories of their homes to
rescue boats below and the hard
ships imposed by the flood were
among the tragic pictures drawn
by Miss Charlotte Martin of Red
wood Falls in a recent letter to
the Gazette. Miss Martin, the
daughter of Rev. and Mrs. C. E.
Martin, is student at Miami uni
versity, Oxford, Ohio.
Miss Martin says, Being but %
miles from the severe crisis which
is facing the country at the pre-
sent time, thought might give
you a few facts of interest.
'The Ohio river stage at Gin
cinnati at the present time is
above rs feet, which is some %
feet above flood level. 1t has been
truthfully called the raging
Ohio. AT the present time there
is about an eight mile an hour
current. I do not want to tell
you the things with which you
may be acquainted but rather
some things not so well known.
'In the flood district around
here some 100000 persons have
left their homes. 1 might mention
that people in the flood district
were reluctant to leave their
homes. They continually told
rescue workers that in previous
floods the water had not submerg-
ed their homes and would not at
this time. For this reason people
stayed in their homes till water
had reached the second floors.
Various means of rescue were
taken. One time saw a family
Continued on page seven)
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-11
KNHDReturns
Runaway Girl
To Her Home
GIRL, 16, STOPS HERE
ON WAY TO WEDDING
AT LAKEFIELD

Darlene Hayes, 16 year old Rus
sell runaway, was sheltered by
two Redwood Falls families while
stranded here for several days
this week. She was returned to
her parents by Lyon county de-
putty sheriff who came here to get
her Tuesday afternoon.
The girl arrived Friday night,
Juggling huge suitcase. She stay
ed at the Ramsey hotel, paying
for her room and left Saturday
morning with 25 cents in her
pocket. While waiting at the
WNAX station on Mill street to
pick up ride to her destination
at Lakefield, she got into a con-
yersation with Joe French who
invited her to his family'S home
to spend the night.
The next day she returned to
the station to wait for a ride and
r. c. Panitzke whose sympathies
were aroused at her plight, asked
her to his home for supper. She
stayed there until Tom Arnett Jr.,
police officer and Deputy Sheriff
Harry Beatty went to get her for
the Lyon county official.
KIND was responsible for her
apprehension. M. R. Myers visit
ed the station Sunday to inform
operators that he understood a
runaway girl was in Redwood
Falls. Operators called the sheriff
at Marshall and Tuesday received
the information that she was
wanted. The deputy came with a
warrant for her arrest on charges
of juvenile delinquency.
She told persons here that she
was going to Lakefield to be mar
ried.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-11
Oklaho1nan
Held in Theft
BILL MISSED AT FORD
GARAGE LEADS TO
ARREST

Lester Worthington, "a year old
Oklahoman, waived preliminary
examination before Judge T. F.
Reed Jr. and expressed his lnten-
ton to plead guilty to a charge
of stealing $40 from the till of the
Redwood Falls Motor company
when he appeared in municipal
court Saturday. He was bound
over to district court and return
ed to the Redwood county Jail to
await trial.
1t is charged that Worthington
took a ten dollar bill from the
motor company'S cash register
January 26. With c. E. Johnson,
chief of police, he was in the Of
flee of the building listening to
radio news reports of the flood in
Kentucky where he claimed to
have relatives.
johnson left and Worthington
remained for a short time. Later
an employee at the garage found
that a fraudulent two dollar sale
had been rung up and ten dol
lar bill which he knew to have
been there, was gone. A little
later the same night Worthington
changed a ten dollar bill in To-
cal restaurant. He had claimed
to be without funds earlier that
evening and had borrowed a dol
lar from a friend.
Worthington came here from
Oklahoma a few weeks ago and
stayed for short time at the Tom
Hosken home in North Redwood
where he was employed last year.
A rumor that he spent a few days
at the Redwood hotel and left
without paying his bill was de-
MED to the Gazette by Miss
Louise Coleman, manager of the
place.
Emil Becker of Morgan who is
charged with issuing several bad
checks in Redwood Falls recently
appeared before Judge Reed the
same day and waived preliminary
hearing. He was bound over to
district court and his bonds reset
at $3.50. Failing to furnish them,
he was returned to Jail.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-11
DriftsDelay
Mail;;Mercury
Drops to -l8
STORMS AND COLD FALL
FAR SHORT OF LAST
YEARS MARK

Although not approXimating
the 1886 blizzard, storm severe
enough to tie up mail and traffic
for a few days swept over Red
wood county this week.
Snow which fell to the extent of
five inches packed back into cuts
as fast as Redwood county'S two
new rotary ploWS could remove it
Sunday and Monday but Wednes-
day night roads between towns
were open and secondary roads
will be cleared the rest of the
week.
Wind blown snow also hamper
ed trains and automobile mail
carriers, Redwood Falls residents
received little mail Friday or Sat-
urday. Sunday morning mail was
sorted and then the city had slight
contact by correspondence with
the outside world until Wednes-
day. The messenger route from
Morgan came through every day
this week and the Winthrop Star
route carrier missed only Monday:
Rural carriers out of Redwood
Falls were driving 100 miles on
their usual so mile routes.
The weather was not as bitterly
cold as that of February of last
year. the thermometer falling to
is below Wednesday morning for
the lowest mark. That afternoon
it Ieaped AZ degrees to "a above
zero. 80.
Travellers from the Twin Cities
had difficulty in getting here Sun
day and Monday. Mr.. and Mrs.
Percy Nelson, Miss Elsie Som
merfeld and Frank Forbes were
forced to take a round about way
and required seven hours for the
trip Sunday. Monday Mr.. and
Mrs. M. V. Kurschner and Miss
Mildred Barnum were forced to
stay in Glencoe overnight.
At Delhi Sleds were the only
means of travel from Saturday
night until Monday noon. There
was only a so per cent attendance
in the village school.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-11
Aune Seeks to Get
New Seed Loan Fund

Drouth stricken farmers unable
to buy seed this spring will be
aided if a bill of which Repre-
sentative H. M. Aune of Redwood
Falls is a joint author becomes a
law and there is every prospect of
its becoming so. The measure re-
news the system of loaning money
to farmers for seed that has been
previously in effect and makes
81 100000 available for the pur-
pose.
Under the system the town
boards will pass upon and recon-
mend the loans which are then
approved by the county board
that issues the warrants for the
purpose. If there are losses at
the end of the season the county
is reimbursed from the state ap-
preparation. Under the terms of
the act borrowing farmer is per-
mltted to pay back his seed loan
IN kind, that is, instead of a cash
payment he can if he so desires
return one and one-half bushels
OF the grain for each bushel of
seed furnished The loan is secur-
ed by a first mortgage on the crop.
Several thousand farmers thro-
ughout the state have awaited
themselves during the drouth
period of these loans and except
In cases where succeeding drouth
has completely ruined the crop,
state officials report that the Dor
rowing farmers have made very
good record as to repayments. The
law will apply only to 1887. The
Dill was introduced early in or
der that the necessary machinery
could be perfected for advancing
the loans in time for planting.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-11
3O6 NOW GETTING
OLD AGE PENSIONS

February checks to 306 Red
wood county persons who are re-
ceiving old age assistance amount
ed to S5,244.50, it was announced
this week.
Three persons were granted as
siStance at hearings before the
County commissioners Friday.
Seven new hearings and one old
hearing were scheduled but two
persons failed to appear before
the board. Three were refused
aid.
Seven persons were removed
from the roles by death in Janu-
airy and five persons were denied
further assistance by order of a
federal auditor.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-11
What HO? Banquet For
Dog Winner In Derby

A dog banquet to which every
canine entered in Saturdays dog
derby and mutt show is invited.
will be served Immediately fol-
lowing the race. A counter will
be installed at the finish line and
each dog will be given the can :.
one of "Pard," a scientifically
prepared dog food.
The winner of the derby, run
ner-up and third musher will be
awarded several cans of the food
by the manufacturer Swift and
Company, sponsor of the banquet.
Other prizes of Pard will 60 to the
largest and smallest dogs, the
best-mannered and trickiest pets
and the animals having the longest
and the shortest tails. No toast
master or banquet speaker has
been announced but entertain
ment is assured, for spectators as
well as dogs.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-11
International Day
of Prayer, Friday

Held each year in the first week
in Lent, the International Day of
Prayer will be observed here FRI
day when the Methodist, Presby-
terrain, English Lutheran, Christ
ian, Episcopal and Nazarene
churches will unite in a hour of
prayer and scripture at p. m. at
the Presbyterian church.
Mrs. A. M. Dennistoun, presi-
dent OF st. Veronica's guild and
the auxiliary of the Episcopal
church, will preside and the topic
for discussion will be ''Thou Art
the Christ, the Son of the Living
God" There will be special mus
ic and an offering for interdenom-
national work among women and
children will be taken.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-11
Saturday Will
BeDog in
RedwoodFalls
DERBY AND MUTT SHOW
PROGRAM WILL BE
SHORT, SNAPPY

With crisp weather probable in
the middle of February, the dog
derby program and mutt show in
Redwood Falls Saturday after
noon will be short and snappy but
probably spirited and exciting
while it lasts, Clark Sponaugle,
WPA recreational director who
has charge of the event, stated
this week.
He plans to start the program
with mutt parade through the
business section promptly at / p.
m. and to run off the race as soon
as the NUTS have been judged
which probably will not take
more than Is or 20 minutes, par
ade and all.
The race will start at the RAM
sey hotel corner where a downhill
slope on Washington street to
Fourth should give all the youth
full drivers and their huskies a
good start before they turn east
on Fourth to Jefferson, then
around a corner of the courthouse
square and back on Third to the
starting point after which they
will get the benefit of the same
slope to the finish line which will
be at the hospital corner.
A So cash prize awaits the win
ner with So for the second place
musher and small cash prizes for
all others who finish. In the mutt
show there will be prizes for the
homeliest, largest and smallest
dog and for the dog from the
greatest distance, with ST. as the
award in each case. Members of
the Redwood Falls Lions club.
sponsor of the event, will select
the mutt prizes and act as race
judges and timers.
Five youngsters have already
entered and others will be accept
ed up to starting time. The en-
tries include: Arnold Trepanier,
Lucan; Gene Swenson, Belview
and John Lauterbach, Clarence
Trefry and Bobby Wood of Red
wood Falls
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-11
Youth Movement Has
Hand in Band Vote

The youth movement apparent
ly Influenced members of the
Scenic City band when they met
Monday night and elected youn-
ger officers to replace those of last
year.
Gertrude Smith was selected
secretary and treasurer, an office
formerly held by M. o. Hanson.
and members of the board of dir
ectors will be Curtis Miller, Her
tina Hagen and Donald Duea.
Former directors are Mayo Fisch-
er, Mike Lauterbach and Russell
Whiting.
Rev. w. Henry Westby was
named manager of the organiza-
ton in place of Aage Schou. S. w.
Limburg is director.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-11
Sub-District
Includes IL Teams
GallOping GOphers
to be Here Friday

With Ed Widseth and Julie AL
phonse, co-captains of the 1886
Minnesota football team, Ray An
til, fluffy Thompson and Frank
Barle in the lineup, the Gallop-
ing Gophers will clash with an
all-star basketball team made up
of coaches and former college
stars at the armory here Friday
night.
Hardy Bronson's orchestra will
play for a dance following the
game
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-11
REDWOOD SPRINGFIELD
MEET IN DISTRICT
FIRST ROUND

A radical change in the district
basketball setup will bring Nor
ton and Winthrop, former class B
teams and Walnut Grove, a new
addition to district basketball
circles, here for the sub-district
playoff which this year will select
two entrants instead of one for
district tournament the following
week.
The class A tournament thus
becomes an II team event with
games three evenings instead of
two while the district meet is cut
to an eight team playoff. The sub
district meet is to be held here
Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
February 25, 26 and 81 while the
district meet will be at Spring
field, March 4, 5 and 6.
The smaller schools are diVid-
ed in two brackets, one of six
teams and the other of five, for
play in the meet here and the
winners in each bracket will go
to the district meet without en-
gaging in a final match.
Drawings Made
Drawings for the district meet
pit New Ulm's hopefuls against
the winner of the "B" bracket at
7 p. m. March 4, followed by a
game between Fairfax and the
"A' bracket winner at 8 p. m. An
hour later Redwood Falls plays
Springfield and at 10 p. m, Sleepy
Eye and Lamberton battle for the
right to return the following eve
ming. March 5 games match the
winners of the first two games at
8 p. m. and the second two at 8
p. m. while the finals and conso-
lation game will be played the
evening of March 6.
Class A tourney drawings are
more complicated with five teams
drawing Dyes the first night. In
the "a" bracket, Wabasso plays
Belview at 7:3O p. m. February
Is while Delhi meets Morgan an
hour later. The winner of the
first game plays Walnut Grove at
z p. m. the next night and Win
throp meets the winner of the
second game at p. m. The
bracket winner, eligible for the
district meet, will be decided Sat-
urday night.
GibbOn VS. Morton
In the "B" bracket, Gibbon and
Morton play at $50 p. m. Thurs
day while Friday night games
match the winner with Franklin
at 9 p. m. and Gaylord is to play
Echo at 10 p. m. The winners
meet to chose the "B" bracket
winner Saturday night.
w. R. Smith and Carl Nordly of
the University of Minnesota have
been chosen to referee the sub
district while Fahay and Nelson
of the st. Paul public schools win
run the district meet.
Advance dope on the sub-meet
gives Winthrop and Delhi the
edge in the upper bracket with
Gibbon, Gaylord and Echo on the
favored list in the "B" bracket
Eight quite evenly matched teams
will battle for district honors UNI
der the new arrangement with
New Ulm and Redwood favored
to reach the finals on the basis of
game results during the season.
Drawings for the two meets
were made Saturday when it was
decided to give trophies to both
bracket winners in the sub-dis-
trict. The district champ plays in
the regional meet at Glencoe the
following week.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-11
County ''Over Top"
Ii Times i'm Red
Cross Flood Drive

Redwood county subscribed Is
times its quota in the Red Cross
drive for flood relief funds which
closed officially Monday. The
county committee announced a
total donation of $2,251.61.
Redwood Falls and North Red
wood residents contributed ST.
1854 and other towns through
out the county accounted for the
remainder Donations will still
be received by members of local
committees.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-11
Pastor HOnOred

Rev. Oscar Joneson attended
the Mid-winter Ministers Con-
ference of Churches of Christ in
Minneapolis Wednesday and
Thursday of last week. Rev.
Joneson was elected President of
the conference for next year.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-11
Meeting Postponed

The annual meeting of the Wa
basSo Cooperative Creamery
which was scheduled for Satur-
day has been postponed because
of uncertain weather conditions
and roads.