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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-28
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PRESIDENTS ABDICATE
PELL NELL; AHRENS
UNEASY

The Civic and Commerce club
presidency was tossed from hand
to hand down the official line this
week following the resignation OF
T. 0. Johnson who was elected
head of the organization at the
January meeting.
Mr.. johnson who was out of
town at the time of his selection
stated in a letter to the club that
his business takes too much time
to allow his accepting the position.
In a statement to the Gazette he
declared that the work involved
demands the services of paid
part time worker who would be
Independent of criticism and able
to take care of the voluminous
correspondence contingent on the
office.
N. r. Ryerson, attorney, first
vice-president, stated that he
would not accept the responsible
ity which automatically fell tc
him on Mr.. Johnson's resignation.
81 feel" said Mr.. Ryerson
"That the merchants themselves
should take charge of primarily
commercial organization" He
went on to state that he feels
there is deplorable lack of CO.
operation on the part of the Red
wood Falls businessmen.
Third to cast aside the proffer-
ed crown was J. L. Parson, sec
ond vice president, who reminded
friends that he had stated at the
meeting that he did not wish the
office in the first place. He added
that he, too, feels that a merchant
should hold the office.
According to the rules of the
club, Ted Ahrens, present secre-
tary would be next in line for the
chiefs position. "I'm contempla-
ting resigning," Mr.. Ahrens said
Wednesday. "The recent dissen-
sion on the 9 p. m. Saturday clos
ing hour after it has been unani-
mously accepted at the last meet
ing is embarrassing, to say the
least. What this town needs is
not Civic and Commerce secre-
tary but a dictator"
He added that the appointment
of a paid part or full time secre-
tary who is independent of local
friction would be an ideal solu-
ton to the present problem.
Consensus seems to be that a
new election should be held. If
it is not, the presidency will fall
to Percy Nelson, treasurer and if
he does not accept, to M. v. Kur-
schner, chairman of the board. of
directors.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-28
Ed. AHRENS RITES
Held HERE SUNDAY
OLIVIA MAN, 50, DIED
JANUARY 20 IN
MINNEAPOLIS

Funeral services for Ed Ahrens,
So. of Olivia, who died last We'd
nesday in University hospital,
Minneapolis, of diabetes after be-
ing a patient there for two
months, were held Sunday at the
home of his sister, Mrs. R. F. By
ram of Redwood Falls. Rev. Oscar
Joneson conducted the rites and
burial was in the Redwood Falls
cemetery.
Born March Is, 1884 in Beaver
Falls, he lived there until he was
27 years of age when he moved
to California. He returned to
Redwood Falls after two years
and lived here for some time. He
then moved to Wisconsin. return
ing to Minnesota in 1881.
He is survived by seven broth
ers, William. Henry and Ted OF
Redwood Falls: Charles of North
Redwood; Fred of Morton; John
of Chicago and George of Dell
Rapids, South Dakota. Three sis
tiers, Mrs. Byram, Mrs. Henry
Storch of Minneapolis and Mrs.
Theo De Kock of Kimberly, Wis
consin. All but Mrs. De Kock
were present for the funeral.
Pail bearers were Gilbert Car
ruth, E. H. Bollum, Lloyd Bobzin,
Wallace Carruth, L. w. Hassinger
and William Starr.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-28
MOVIES TO SHOW
WPA men AT WORK
PUBLIC INVITED TO SEE
SOUND PICTURES OF
PROJECTS

Three films, one of them a
sound picture. will be presented
at Redwood Falls Wednesday I'M
der the auspices of the Works
Progress administration in an eff
fort to educate the public in the
work being done by the agency
and to stimulate communities to
sponsor appropriate projects. Vic
tor Christgau, state WPA admin
istrator, is expected to be present
The movies will be free to the
public which is urged to attend
and will be shown in the court
room of the court house begin
ming at %. m.
A sound picture running over
25 minutes will show projects
throughout the nation and a shor-
ter one will depict WPA building
activities in Minnesota. A third
picture is entitled "a Better Min
nesota."
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-28
Will Observe
Birthday
ARMORY DANCE PLAN
NED WITH OVERFLOW
AT LEGION HALL

Ticket sales for the Presidents
ball to be held Saturday night in
the Redwood Falls armory are 60
ing well throughout the county
according to Rud Stensvad, chair
man of the affair.
Colonel Sowder and his orches-
ira will play old time and modern
music at the armory and if an ov-
erfioW crowd attends, arrange
ments have been made to procure
the Legion hall and another Or
cheStra.
The committee which includes
Mr.. Stensvad, L. r. Ewart and T
F. Reed Jr., has arranged to have a
radio in both halls for the recep-
ton of the presidents speech that
night.
Another tribute to Franklin D.
Roosevelt will be the birthday
greetings to be sent by Western
Union which has offered its facil-
tiles free of charge. Persons wish
ing to sign their name to the mes
sage to be sent from Redwood
Falls may do so at the Citizens
State bank before Friday night.
The proceeds from the Is cent
charge will go to the fund for the
aid of paralytics.
The dance is a part of a national
event for the benefit of the Warm
Springs Georgia foundation for
cripples. Thirty per cent will be
spent there and 70 per cent for
paralysis sufferers in Minnesota
The charge will be so cents for
men, Is cents for women.
A similar event will take place
at Lamberton the same evening.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-28
.Lucan Litter
Places Fourth
IA HOGS WEIGH 2,945
POUNDS AFTER SIX
MONTHS GROWTH

Lowell Schmiesing of Lucan
placed fourth in the state All
club ton litter contest which clos
ed in December, according to az
announcement this week.
The North Star club member
will receive a cash prize and gold
medal as awards for raising a
grade Hampshire litter of ID pigs
which weighed 2945 pounds, or
an average of 210.3 per pig.
The litter was the only one al
lowed to enter the Junior livestock
show in ST. Paul this year. There
Schmiesirg received a check of
$390.22 for them. The weight
which won him his place in the
litter contest was that of the pigs
at the age of six months, the limit
set by the rules. When they were
sold at the junior show their
weight had reached 1926 pounds.
There were three other Ped
wood county entries. all unsuc-
cessful in the contest which was
won by Clifford Hirst of Warren
who raised IL Duroc Jerseys to a
weight of 3.406 pounds or an av-
erage of 1888 pounds per pig.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-28
Debris at Old School
Cleared; Board Finds
2 Interested in Site

The interior of the high school
building, demolished by fire in
July, was cleared of wreckage by
a WPA crew this week and they
began razing the building to its
foundations.
Members of the school board
have received tentative, offers for
the foundations and grounds of
the structure which will be left by
the workers when they have COM
pleted their three months job.
One man is reported by mem
bers to have offered $4,000 for the
building through a local real es-
tate salesman who would not di-
vsIlee the identity of the pros
pective purchaser or the purpose
for which he would use the site
Another local man has expressed
an interest in buying the founda-
tons upon which to build an
apartment house.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-28
Boy,5,Phones
Father While
Flames Rage
SON OF PEARL HENNING
is HERO OF FIRE AT
SLEEPY EYE

Sleepy Eye-Home alone when
a disastrous fire broke out, Mer-
vim, five-year old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Pearl Henning, sounded the
alarm which saved the Jake Hau-
ser residence here from total ruin
Thursday afternoon. The Hen
nings who formerly lived in Red
wood Falls, occupied an upstairs
apartment.
Mrs. Henning had gone to the
Floyd Gregg home next door, while
Mervin remained in the house to
play. It was while she was away
that the youngster noticed smoke
coming from the kitchen. With
rare presence of mind, the tot
ran to the telephone to call his
father who is employed at the
First National bank. AS he held
the receiver, the smoke became so
dense that he was unable to wait
until his call was answered.
MIR. Henning realized that
something was amiss for when he
answered he heard the youngster
screaming. Immediately he rush
ed out of the bank and with Pete
Wins drove to the Henning
home. PEARLS fears for the safe
ty of his son were increased when
within two blocks of the place he
saw smoke coming from the up
stairs rooms. Fearing that the boy
might be trapped, he rushed up
stairs, but was driven back by
smoke. AS he did so, someone
yelled that the boy had made his
escape.
MIR. HauSer, who occupies the
downstairs rooms, heard a COM
motion and was of the belief that
Mervin had fallen on the stairs
He Investigated, but paid no fur
Their attention after seeing the lad
run from the house. Mr.. HauSer
was in his living room when MIR.
Wins notified him his home was
afre.
Flames were shooting from the
roof and the fire was spreading to
all parts of the apartment when
firemen arrived. Streams of water
were directed through windows
and canvas was spread over Mr..
Hauser's household effects to save
them from being ruined by water.
Considerable water seeped through
the ceiling and caused some dam
age, although the owner was able
to move back into the house the
following day.
The Henning family carried
$4,000 insurance on their house
hold goods which were practically
all consumed. Recovered after
the fire was $31 in currency which
Mr.. Henning had left in the cloth
es closet. How the money was
not destroyed is inconceivable.
since almost everything else in the
closet was burned to crisp. The
entire loss, it is believed, will be
between $4,000 and $4,000. Mr.
Hauser carried $4,000 insurance
on the house and $500 on his
household goods. The fires origin
is unknown.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-28
REA Gets Another
Revision on Rates

A revised schedule of REA
rates for Redwood county was
sent Tuesday to Washington D. c.
by Alexander Seifert, Springfield
city attorney, after the council
met there Monday night.
The new rates which the
Springfield municipal electric
plant will ask of Redwood coun-
ty farmers under the rural cleo
IRRIGATION project which has re-
ceived practical approval, calls for
one and three quarters cents per
kilowatt for the first hundred
hours. A charge of cent and a
half per kilowatt will be made for
the second hundred hours and
current in excess of that will cost
one and quarter cents. From
10 p. m. until Z p. m. the rate
will be one cent per kilowatt
hour.
1t is expected that official APP
proval will be received here soon.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-28
Peace Orators
Win inDeclanl
JOHN LAIR, JEAN LAU-
TERBACH, DOLORES
NEALE WIN

John Lair, with his oratorical
essay "The Enemy of Peace"
placed first in his division at the
junior high school declamatory
contest held Wednesday evening
in the auditorium and Robert
Bunge, reciting "a Vision of War
and a Vision of the Future" was
second.
In the dramatic group, Jean
Lauterbach giving "a Forgotten
Witness" won first honors and
second place went to Margaret
Dryer who gave GLORY For
Sale" Dolores Neale placed first
with her selection "The Chill
dren's Program" in the humorous
division while two contestants,
Everett Lynn and Charles Jone-
son tied for second place. Their
recitations were "At The SWIM
ming POOL and Amateur Hour"
Judges of the contest were Miss
Ada Harris, Miss Mere Reynolds
and Miss Jane Ryan of the Nor
gan High school faculty.
Opening with two selections,
March Militaire" and Tango
Serenade" by the high school or
chestra, S. w. Limburg, directing,
the program included a group of
songs by the Junior girls glee
club directed by Miss Hazel
Dornfeld and German Aire"
played by a brass quartet, Doro-
thy Johnson, Billie Tiffany,
Clarke Thomson and Florence
Kramer.
The three first place winners
will enter the senior high school
contest, Wednesday evening, Feb
ruary 8, in the auditorium.
Representing the higher school
in the oratorical division will be
Harold Lindeman and Sidney
Alexander; Geraldine Kemnitz
and Airline Warner are in the
dramatic group and Mary Ortiz
and Katherine Treu compete in
the humorous division.
One winner in each class viii
be chosen by three judges, teach
ers in the Franklin school, to re-
present the school in the sub
district contest February "a or 25
at Morton.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-28
Lakefeld Girl and
Carl Metzke Wed

The marriage of Miss Mary Ba-
kalyar of Lakefeld and Carl Met
IKE of Clements took place at
Lakefield last Wednesday NOR
ming, Rev. Prokosch performing
the ceremony. The bride is the
daughter of Mrs. John Bakalyar
of Lakefeld and the groom the
son of Mrs. Emelie Metzke of
Morgan.
After the ceremony at which
Miss Gladys Bakalyar and Leon
ard Bakalyar, sister and brother
of the bride acted as attendants
a wedding dinner was served and
the couple left for their new home
at Clements.
Mrs. Metzke is a graduate of
Jackson High school and Mankato
Teachers college and Mr.. Metzke
is the proprietor of a food store
at Clements where they will &C
cupy an apartment in the same
building.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-28
COUNTY'S QUOTA TO BE-
OVERSIGHT BY LARGE
AMOUNT

Contributions of Redwood Falls
and North Redwood residents to
the Red eros fund for relief in the
Ohio and Mississippi valley flood
area had reached the $214 mark
by Wednesday afternoon to top
the county quota of $170.
North Redwood gave generously
to the extent of $50 and city res
idents donated $161.
Working on the intensive drive
to provide food, clothing and
medical supplies for sufferers in
the greatest flood disaster in his
tory, the local committee includes
George M. Hanson, Oscar Rand
gard, M. o. Hanson and R. ".
Ochs.
The original quota for the en-
tire county was $85. The amount,
however, was doubled by the ma
tional committee from which w.
N. Svenning of Milroy, county Red
Cross chairman, received wire
Monday. Mr.. Svenning was urg-
ed to procure funds as far beyond
the doubled figure as possible.
The telegram read in part, eve
are using million dollars from ma
tional fund. Three hundred Red
Cross relief workers now in flood
area giving emergency relief to
flood refugees. Three hundred Red
Cross nurses in field engaged in
battle against feared epidemic.
Food, clothing and medical sup
plies being rushed by train, truck
and boat. Please intensity your
campaign efforts. Feel confident
your people will not fail in this
great national disaster"
1t is believed that contributions
from other towns in the county
and from Redwood Falls and
North Redwood residents who
have not yet donated will swell
the fund to $500. The county con-
tributed $500 for Pittsburgh flood
sufferers last year.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-28
Former Residents
Observe 20 Years
of Married Life

A picture of Mr.. and Mrs.
Cyrus D. Chapman, former
Redwood Falls residents aDho
recently celebrated an un-
usual eUent, their SeUentieth
Dedding anniversary, has
been received IN Redwood
Falls.
The aged couple a1ho form
erly operated a truck farm at
the present AL Drogosch place
IN the bailey near the golf
course noaD live at the Iona
Linda SeUenth Day Adventist
colony in California. Mr..
Chapman, q Civil War DETER
an, is noaD 81 and Mrs. Chap
man is 80 gears of age. They
aDere married here and liued
here for several gears.
The picture 1UaS sent to Mr..
and Mrs. E. w. Hart from
Cecil Hart 1Dho clipped it
from an Alton, Illinois, neDs-
paper.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-28
Production Credit
Meeting February 5

The annual meeting of the Red
wood Falls Production Credit as
ISOLATION will be held in the arm
Dry at Redwood Falls at 10 a. m.
Friday, February 5. A free din
ner will follow the morning bust
ness session at which two direct
ors will be elected and the group
will hear Joe Montgomery, secre-
tary of the Production Credit
corporation, st. Paul, discuss the
purpose and operation of the
farm credit act. The local asso-
citation has approximately $780,
600 loaned to farmers of the COM
munity at five per cent.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-28
Cards,L Lambs
Meet Friday
RETURN GAME LIKELY
TO BE SPIRITED
BATTLE

Still undefeated in district play,
the Redwood Falls Cardinals will
risk their record Friday night in
a game with Lamberton on the
Lamberton High floor. The Jun
iors will engage the Lamberton
second string.
Redwood Falls defeated the
Lambs % to IA here before
Christmas but were given plenty
of opposition even with the adj
vantage of their home floor. Red
wood Falls has improved greatly
since that game and the outcome
of the return tilt is likely to de-
pend on which of the fives have
developed most during January
Next Friday the teams go to
Sleepy Eye and the following
week to New Ulm.
The team will be without the
services of Russ Lauterbach, star
guard, who injured his ankle in
practice Tuesday evening. 1t is
to be x-rayed today to determine
whether it is a Sprain or a more
serious injury. In either case he
will not be used against Lamber-
ton. Thomson will be shifted to
guard and Farver will start at
forward.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-28
Soil Conservation
Men Meet Friday

Redwood county township COM
mittees for the 1887 soil conserva-
ton program will meet at the Wa
basso city hall Friday.
Township chairmen will meet at
10 a. m. to elect the county allot-
ment committee and all committee
members are requested to attend
the afternoon session which be-
gins at D. m. At that time a dis
cussion of the program for the year
will be given by one of the district
soil conservation leaders.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-28
INJURIES FOREHEAD

Five stitches were required to
close cash in the forehead sus-
tanned by Donald j. Peterson
manager of the Redwood theatre,
when he bumped into a door
while running through the dark
ened theatre to answer the tele-
phone Monday.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-28
AGENTS DISCUSS Pea

The final session in a series of
four meetings of county agents
from throughout southern Mime
sofa was held Tuesday evening at
Hotel Ramsey. The group discus
sed the Pea to wind up their con-
sideration of problems of farm
finance.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-28
Oil Business Gains

An increase in gross sales of
SIT ,356.30 will be reported to
stockholders of the Scenic City
Cooperative Oil at their twelfth
annual meeting to be held in the
Redwood Falls armory Monday at
/ p. m. The report will show
gross sales of SIPS, 619.73 but new
taxes are expected to reduce the
net earnings.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-28
BANK DIVIDEND PAID

Another five per cent dividend
was paid by the former State
Bank and Trust company now in
receivership Saturday. The pay
ment brings the total returns to
former depositors to 95 per cent.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-28

Myrland Lang who has been
employed at the Montgomery
Ward store in Redwood Falls left
Saturday to take a position with
the circulation department Of the
Minneapolis Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-28

Gilbert Dennistoun who was
seriously i'll Wednesday is now
able to be out.
The Washington times., 1937-05-01
Architects Ask
Wagner Act
Passage
Federal Aid Claimed
Remedy for Poor
Housing

Among other organizations ia
vorins passage of the Wagner
Steagall low-rent housing bill j
the housing committee of tn
American Institute of Architects
which has advanced six reason
for approving the measure in
letter to Senator Hugo L. Black
chairman of the Senate Commit
tee on Education and Labor.
The message stated:
First, we feel that no real
advance in housing will be made
until some centralized authority
such as set up in the bill is Gre
ated, which will be in position
to make the proper research and
to encourage the formation of
housing authorities throughout
the United States. Those inter
ested in housing will then have
a group with authority to whom
they can go with constructive
suggestions.
POOR HOUSING
Second, we do not believe
that the United States can much
longer defer an attack on the
question of Sub-Standard dwell
ings for the millions of people
in America who are not prop
erIy housed.
"The country cannot afford to
have any great percentage Of its
population living in quarters I'M
fit for habitatiOn and many gov
ernmentS have fallen because
they have neglected the welfare
Of a large number of their citi-
ZenS.
Third, the present housing
bill decentralizes housing and
places it in the hands of reSpOn-
sibIe local groups where 1t
rightly belongs.
CITES SUBSIDY
Fourth, capital subsidy has
been eliminated, a fact which
we believe will bring about,
LnEOuSH LIlC SuDSAuJ POPOoS~S
a much better control of rents.
Fifth, from reliable infOrma-
ton we find that there are so
many families with incomes be-
low $1,000 who cannot, there
fore, afford to pay a rental above
SIS per month, that we do not
believe the housing act will in
any way interfere with private
industry. In fact, we believe it
will eventually act as a stimu
liant to private capital by Settine
up q definite line of demarca
ton between public and privat'
housing.
sixth, we believe that ther
will be great advantage in
centralized authority which has
power to carry out extended
research in all the fields which
are interrelated in housing"
The Washington times., 1937-05-01
Good Building
Encouraged
ByFHA
Inspectors Aid Work
of Saving Money
and Materials

Activity Of architectural inspec.
tors, who make periodic checks
on new construction projects
financed under terms Of the in.
sured mortgage system, has q
definite influence in encouraging
better workmanship and the use
of proper materials, according to
Miles Colean, director Of the
technical division, Federal Hous-
ing Administration.
Citing several specific conStruc-
ton details that have been en-
couraged by the work Of the archi-
tectural inspectors, Cole a n
pointed out that these require
ments on builders are not such as
to materially increase the cost of
construction. He said:
CITES COST
at has been our observation
that workmanship in general
has shown q definite improve
ment under our inspection sys-
tenn. Our objective is to make
every effort to insure . sound
structure that will stand up
and meet all mortgage eligibil-
ity requirements. We are con-
stantIy on the lookout for little
details that do not cost much
money but have q great i'm
pOrtance in relation to the dur
ability of the structure.
I'VE are also making an ef-
fort to help operative builders
coordinate their activities. 1t is
a general condition l. the
building business that some
builders will devote much time
to determining how to save a
2x4 here, or a pound Of nails
there, when he could realize
better results and greater
profit by improving work eff
cheney and reducing idle hours
on construction jobs by paying
more attention to the delivery
of materials and similar de-
tails.
GET RESULTS
"Our method is, to . large
extent, an effort to place en-
phaSis where 1t belongs. In re-
cent years, merchandising Of
residential property has placed
too much stress On gadgets and
novel appliances and too little
on the actual house itself. 1t
is art of our task to see
that builders pay n.Ore atten-
ton to those elements behind
the plaster and shingles
things that a prospective pur'
chaser cannot inspect. Re-
suits since this system began
have been very gratifying"