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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-07
Farmer-LabOrites
to Meet Tuesday

The county convention of the
Farmer-Labor association of Red
wood county will be held at the
village hall in Wabasso Tuesday,
January IL, at 8 p. m. Delegates
and alternates to the state con-
vention which opens January 20
at the St. Paul auditorium will be
elected and other business trans
acted.
All dues-paying members of the
association, according to Gundar
Holt of Belview, chairman, will be
delegates to the county conven-
ton. Delegates to the state con-
vention must be members of the
association either by direct affili-
alton with local or county units or
through membership in affiliated
labor or farm groups. Member
ship cards or other credentials
will entitle members to a vote and
voice at the county meeting.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-07
Foreclosures
Hit II Year
Low In 1886
SHERIFF'S OFFICE HAS
10 SALES COMPARED
TO 126 IN '32

The smallest number of mort
gage foreclosures in IL years were
made in Redwood county during
1886, according to Sheriff L. j.
Kise whose duty it is to conduct
sheriff sales at the front door of
the court house when creditors
take legal action to recover pro-
perry on which payments are past
due. 49,.
In the year just ended only
10 sales were conducted, proceeds
amounting to $164,448.69. This
marked a sharp decline from 1885
when 43 farms were sold for
$372,123
In 1925 a total of Is foreclos-
ures were effected, the property
being bid in at $266, 694. 85. Twen-
ty-seven tracts of land were sold
in 1926 for $214,524.2O. In 1927
the sheriff read AZ notices of fore
closure at the court house doors
and $243,674.85 was realized. In
1928 the figure dropped to 20 sales
for $3.50, 701.67 and 80 pieces of
property were sold for $271, 1852 .35
in 1929.
1880 marked another low year
in sheriff's sales, 20 sales being
made for $186,152.96 but there
were 43 sales in 1881 for S4O9,-
820.41. In 1882 when scared
creditors demanded payments
from farmers whose products
were bringing all time low prices
a IL year peak was reached with
126 sales whose proceeds amount
ed to $1,248,613.90. Ninety-one
sales took place the following
year for $733, 142.91 and in 1894
there were 43 sales for $372,123.-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-07
Mrs. Roberts
To be Buried
Here Sunday
GROCER'S WIFE DIED
TUESDAY AFTER
LONG ILLNESS

Mrs. w. R. Roberts, IS, wife of
a prominent Redwood Falls gro
Ger and resident Of Redwood Falls
for 81 years, died at her home
here at about 10 p. m. Tuesday
following an illness of many
months. A private funeral service
for the immediate family will be
held at 2:3O p. m. Sunday at the
home and other rites will be con-
Quoted at the Methodist Episco-
pal church at 3 p. m. Burial will
be in the Redwood Falls cemetery.
Surviving are her husband, a
daughter, Mrs. Vernon Worrall OF
Park Rapids and three sons, Ev-
erett, Charles and Donald of Red
wood Falls. A son, Vernon died
a year ago. Grandchildren are
David, Anna Louise and Vernon
Leslie Roberts, Marian, Dorothy.
Floyd and William Roberts and
Donalynn Ann Roberts. -
Two brothers, George D. Liv-
ingston of Anoka, Fred N. Living
ston of Seattle, Washington and
two sisters, Mrs. Calista Winson
of Anoka and Mrs. Eva Cuts of
St. Paul are also living.
Born at Castle Rock, Minnesota,
April IA, 1871 she got her early
education there, going to high
school at Northfield and later at
tending Parker college at Winnie
bago. She was married at Castle
Rock June 8, 1899 to w. R. Rob-
erts. The couple moved to Ar
lington in 1900 and in 1910 came
to Redwood Falls.
She was a member of the Meth
odist church which she joined
soon after coming here and of the
Eastern Star and Sorosis club.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-07
ZWACH AND AUNE
AT LAW SESSION

H. M. Aune left Redwood Falls
by bus Sunday night for his first
term as representative of the
county in the state legislature
which opened Tuesday.
Mrs. Aune and daughter, Hazel
left Monday to join him in St. Paul
where they will live at the Lans-
downe apartments, 81 North Lex
ington parkway during the ses-
sion. Miss Eleanor Aune who is
employed in Minneapolis will also
make her home with them.
John M. Zwach, representative
at large, went in Thursday and is
again living at the Ryan hotel in
st. Paul.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-07
City Council
Tables Milk
Regulations
TOO STRINGENT, NEW
MAYOR SAYS OF
ORDINANCE

Meeting for the last time in re-
gular session with Mayor c. L.
Lynn presiding, Monday night,
the city council tabled the milk
ordinance which it had passed be-
fore but which had never been
signed or published. Members of
the body, particularly J. F. Knud-
son, expressed the belief that pro-
visions of the law are too stringent
for the ordinary dairy farmer to
observe. Mayor Lynn strongly
urged the passage of the ordinan-
&c which would provide for the
grading and labelling of milk sold
in the city, and Councilman Geor-
&c Huhnerkoch agreed that the
city should have the best law pos
Sible even though enforcement
would be difficult and time would
be needed in which to make it
really efficient.
The council also authorized its
ways and means committee to ap-
pear before the county board to
ask $40 rent for the council room
which is used by WPA sewing
project women daytimes. It was
pointed out that extra heat and
light are required while the Wo-
men are there
Red painted signs will mark
the no parking zone in front of
the fire hall it was decided after
Judge T. F. Reed Jr. in his mum
icipal court report respectfully
suggested that application of the
paint, to be purchased with traf-
fic violation fines, would relieve
the city court of considerable en-
parrassment in enforcing the no
parking rule effective there.
Mayor Lynn reported that J. A.
Storts had asked the council to
pass an ordinance prohibiting cars
from travelling on the ice of Lake
Redwood and the river, believing
that the practice is extremely
dangerous. The council decided
against passing such an ordinance,
but ordered the street commits
sioner to publish warning
against the practice in Redwood
Falls papers. 1t was suggested if
such a law were made Mr.. Storts
would not be allowed to take his
ice trucks onto the lake.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-07
CARPENTERS WE'D
IS YEARS SUNDAY

Mr.. and Mrs. F. L. Carpenter
will celebrate their fifty-fifth
wedding anniversary Sunday.
Their son, Ernest Carpenter will
be a guest but their daughter,
Mrs. B. j. Becker of Toledo, Ohio,
will be unable to attend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carpenter were
married January 10, 1882 at
Centenary Methodist church,
Minneapolis and have made their
home here for more than 40 years.
They have lived in their present
home since 1901 and were in the
wallpaper business during their
entire residence until their retire
ment last spring.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-07
Candidates
Win Easily
STHCKER VOTE MOSTLY
TALK; J. F. KNUDSON
NEW MAYOR

Although rumors of sticker can
didates ran rife throughout the
city all during the day, only
third of Redwood Falls usual vot-
ers cast their ballots Tuesday and
only a few of those who visited
the polls wrote in names. There
were IT'S votes in the first ward,
181 in the second.
Filing one man to an office, all
candidates were elected. John F.
KnudSon, former alderman, will
take the oath of office as mayor
Tuesday afternoon to replace DR..
G. L. Lynn who sat at the head
of the council table for the last
time Wednesday when the body
acted as a canVaSSing board. In
the first ward, Knudson was Civ
en- 156 votes and nine persons
wrote H. D. Thorp'S name on the
ballot Knudson. received 1873
votes in the second ward to IA for
Thorp.
DR.. J. e. Budik, new council
man who takes Knudson'S place,
received 1853 votes from the first
ward. D. L. CrimminS was given
three. George A. Patton, second
ward representative, received l67
votes.
F. B. Forbes, city recorder was
reelected with Isl votes from the
first and TIA from the second. K.
J. McClurg received three votes
for recorder from the first ward
but no names were added to the
ballot in the second.
City treasurer F. w. Stanton
was returned to office with 155
from the first, 160 from the sec
ond. A lone vote was cast for M.
0. Hanson.
All officers elected this year
will take the oath of office Tues
day, as provided by the city coun-
Gil and a reorganization meeting
will be held that night.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-07
Ochs Takes Probate Office
Reins Released by Laudon
After rs Years in Office
FORMER JUDGE TO OPEN
LAW OFFICE AFTER
SOUTHERN TRIP

Counting the minutes" until
the p. m. closing hour struck the
the end of his rs year career as
Redwood county judge of probate,
A. r. A. Laudon spent his last day,
Monday, initiating his successor,
Judge r. V. Ochs, into the work
which he will be doing for the
next four years. The outgoing
Judge wound up his public bust
ness by hearing 18 cases with MIR.
Ochs, who became Judge Ochs
when he took the oath of office
early Tuesday morning.
Uppermost in his mind as he
left the courthouse room in which
he has worked so many years was
his gratitude to the people of
Redwood county who returned
him to office so many times.
"They have been very kind" he
said, "and my debt to them is one
I feel I never can repay"
He held office longer than any
other Redwood county official ex-
cept L. P. Larson who equalled his
record of 26 years before being
defeated for county auditor in
1880.
Remarking that his term had
been three times as long as that
of any former judge, he laughing
ly wished Ochs the same good for
tune. Previously he spent IL
years in private law practice here
and was municipal judge for nine
years.
Mr.. and Mrs. Laudon will leave
as soon as weather permits for
Tulsa, Oklahoma, where they will
visit for about 10 days with their
son, Lowell Laudon and family
and their daughter, Mrs. Richard
Jordan and MIR. Jordan. They will
travel to Texas and Mexico by the
new international highway, re-
turning to spend some time in the
Rio Grande valley and the Carls-
bad Caverns in New Mexico.
When they return to Redwood
Falls in March, Mr.. Laudon will
open a private law office.
"I'd like a partner" he stated,
zone who doesn't like golf, be-
cause I do; and one who likes
Minnesota winters, because 1
don't"
Although he expressed relief in
being rid of the responsibility in
volved in the office, he replied
when asked for interesting high
lights in his career, There has
been nothing which was not in
teresting. Every week brought
some new and different problem. +"
He added that he had performed
500 marriages during his tenure of
office, perhaps more weddings
than have been performed by any
one in the county.
Leaving the probate office with
Mr.. Laudon is Miss Isabelle Hatch
who has been his secretary for "a
years. She is replaced by Miss
Freda Knutson, blond young wo-
man who previously worked for
Judge Ole Hartwick, famous BIZ
cycling elder, of Granite Falls.
Judge Hartwick was defeated in
the November election after IA
years in office.
Friday afternoon courthouse of
flee holders gave party for Mr..
Laudon. c. D. Clipfell, acting for
the group, presented him with a
fountain pen and stand. Refresh
mentS were served.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-07
WPA WILL WRECK
OLD HIGH SCHOOL
ENTIRE BUILDING TO BE
TORN DOWN IN
NEW PLAN

The old high school, burned
in July, will be torn down to the
foundations and the brick and
other materials salvaged will be
sold by the school district, it was
decided when the school board
met Monday night A crew of
WPA workers under the direc-
ton of Joseph M. Corbett will be-
gin the razing Friday.
Previously it was planned to
leave the first floor walls in the
hope that the building could be
sold, perhaps for use as a county
hospital.
Bids on the superstructure of
the new high school will be OPEN
ed Tuesday.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-07

Morton-The village council at
its meeting Tuesday night appoin-
ted night police, Al Jorges, to
share the duties of village mar
shall w. w. Drury and planned a
strict law enforcement drive. Res
taurant and cafe owners were
called in and informed of the ac-
ton and police officers were in
structed to rigidly enforce cur
few laws.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-07
Birthday Ball To Be
Held January 80

Rud Stensvad has been appoint
ed chairman of the annual Presi-
dents birthday ball, to be held
January 80. Proceeds from the
affair will 60 to the Warm
Springs, Georgia foundation for
crippled children, charity in
which President Roosevelt is Wit
ally interested.
Last year although bitter wea-
Their cut down attendance S31 was
netted.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-07
Mrs. J. r. Hitchcock
Dies in Washington

Word has been received by
friends here that Mrs. Julius R.
Hitchcock, wife of a former Red
wood Falls pastor died in Tacoma,
Washington, December 7.
Rev. Hitchcock who died about
two years ago was the son of DR..
and Mrs. D. L. Hitchcock, pioneer
residents here and brother of H.
M. Hitchcock now of Minneapolis.
Their son, Melville makes his
home in Tacoma.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-07
New Councilman
Gets Fast Action


Constituents of DR.. j. c.
Budik, oe1Dly elected coun-
Gilman, lDere giUen q taste
of aDhdt it is to haze innme-
didte serUice from their re-
preventative. FiUe minutes
after the polls closed Tues
day night and his election
lDaS assured the city snoU
ploaD appeared in the RAM
seq park addition lDhere the
dentist makes his home. Re-
Sidents of the section haze
been complaining of drifts
for q Deek.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-07
HEADS CIVIC CLUB

Morton-Bert Greenslit was
elected president and N. M. NAH
lum, vice president, of the Nor
ton Commercial club Monday
night, succeeding c.. G. Jaehning
and Guy Simon who became viii
lage officers with the beginning of
the new year.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-07

Mrs. Harry, Beatty is visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Beatty in
Minneapolis.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-09-08

order and registry departments.
Lock Boxes Increased
Almost double the number of lock
boxes for patrons that were available
in the old post office Will be provid-
ed in the new structure, and these will
face the Garnett street lobby front and
extend down the corridor toward the
section of the building where the post
masters office formerly was located.
Room For Farm Offices
Office space on the second floor of
the building has been greatly increas-
ed, and a large portion of it will be
assigned for the county agricultural
agents and the quarters from which
the government crop control activities
are directed. There will be perhaps
five or six offices for this corps of
workers. All of them will be modern
ly fitted and conveniently arranged
for increased. efficiency.
In the basement, in addition to the
heating plant, showers for employees
and other conveniences that were in
the old building, several offices have
been fitted up for use of various Fede-
raj agencies.
The entire building will be utilized
throughout, and in the sum total it
will represent at least twice as much,
and probably more, floor space than
was available before.
With the growing volume of bust
ness handled in the office, there is a
hope and a feeling on the part of
many local interests that additional
clerks will be assigned to the per-
sonnet, thus providing faster mail
service. There has been no indica-
ton that this will be done, but de-
sire for it on the part of many citi-
zenS.
One increased service very much de-
sired by some people is longer night
service. It is felt that it ought to be
possible to post letters as late as mid
night with the knowledge that they
will be dispatched on trains that night.
The final hour for mailings for night
trains is now at 10 o'clock in the
evening.
Mr.. league ranks high among post
masters of North Carolina, having
been elected secretary treasurer of the
! State association last month. Post
master General James A. Farley
wrote him a letter of congratulations
on the distinction.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-09-08
Committees
Chosen For
Soil Group
Have General Super
vision of Govern
ment Conservation
Work in County

Cooperation of farmers in Vance
county with the Federal government
in the soil conservation program is
supervised in a broad way by a group
of committees. J. w. Sanders, county
farm agent, is director of the work,
but associated with him is a county
wide committee and also separate
committees one for each township.
These men function in the way of
hearing complaints and also in deter
mining amounts due to growers on the
basis of their compliance as to what
they proposed to do under the work
sheets taken out at the start of the
cropping year.
Some of the committee members are
more active and work during much of
the summer season with number of
college boys at home for the vacation
in checking and measuring acreages
planted to stated crops on individual
farms. All land cultivated by coope-
rating farmers is visited and checked
in this way during the summer, and
no payments are made until this has
been done and until the exact degree
of cooperation is determined.
The various township committees
were named at meetings in their sec
tons held at different times about the
middle of last June. The county
committee was chosen at a meeting
held on June 20 and consisting of the
chairmen Of the township groups, 9TH
erwise known as the county board of
directors.
The county officers are: T. B. Par
ham, Jr., president; r. B. Taylor, vice
president; M. T. Greenway, third
member; J. C. Kittrell, alternate; J.
w. Sanders, secretary; Miss Ruby
Smith, treasurer.
Township committeeman are as fol-
lows:
Dabney-I. D. Hart, M. D. Tillotson,
j. M. Caps; N. G. Crews, alternate
Henderson-W E. Hight, Ned
Workman, E. B. Virgins; c. B. Bas-
kett, alternate.
Kittrell-H. J. Parks, w. A. Kittrell,
G. L. Tilley; M. E. Pulley, alternate.
urg-Nutbush-F- H. Spain,
Henry 3. White, Jr, I. J. Jackson;
E. l.. Fleming, alternate.
Sandy Creek-C. E. Hoyle, G. T.
Robertson, B. D. Adcock; Julius T.
Adcock.
Townsville j. Matthews, Chas.
H. Howell, c. J. Sanford.
Watkins-H. L. Wright, r. G. Cav
thorne, L. r. Wright; w. H. Newton,
alternate.
WILLIAMSBURG. H Rice. H. H.
Averett, C. o. Tillotson; c. H. Sneed,
alternate.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-09-08

they are looking for. We have the I'M
usual in our Great Smoky Mountains
National Park, and other mountain
resort and recreational areas, and
then we have our world-renOwned
thermos belt recreational winter re-
sorts and sports areas, to which we
can add coastal areas unsurpassed in
the nation. And then to all of this we
offer to the nation territory as rich
or richer in history as possibly any
similar area in the world, especially
nearest the great centers of pOpula-
ton. All of these great natural re-
sources today remain undevelOped.
The surface has been barely scratched
It is true that in 1899 we are going
to have two strong attractions in the
metropolitan centers of America be-
ing the Worlds Fair in New York and
the San Francisco Exposition, also of
q world nature. But here in the Caro-
linas lies a country of scenic grandeur
that offers possibilities of great pro-
portions.
1t seems to me that if the people
of the Carolinas do not rise up and
take advantage OF THIS one OppOr-
tunity in a lifetime that we will have
no one to blame but ourselves for any
depression of the future.
Suggests Rowing Exposition"
There are many ways in which we
might fill in the gap that 1899 offers.
May 1 repeat the suggestion made in
1035-that we hold Carolinas Scenic
and historic Exposition-not an ex-
position of buildings and stone and
machinery as will be found in New
York and San Francisco, but let us
offer the worlds first travel exposi-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-09-08
BY COLEMAN w. ROBERTS

"The march of travel goes onward
and upward and in the next five years
will attain proportions undreamed of
in boom years.
Gravel promotional efforts put
forth now are going to pay huge di
vidends."-
This is the prediction of the
"Travel Agent magazine, published
for travel agents of America.
CarOlinas Coming into Own.
The Carolinas are just now coming
into their own and we are for the
first time realizing that it is possible
to make the travel industry mean as
much to the Carolinas as any other
industry we have, for the reason that
money expended by travel is distribut-
ed the fastest and the furtherest than
possibly any other. We are now, in
1887 experiencing travel business
that at the end of the year we believe
will exceed 1929 or any other year in
our history
But what about our opportunities
in 1888, and especially in 1899? We
learn that travel agents the nation
over are looking forward with ap-
prehension to the season of 1899 for
the reason that no European major
event or attraction appears on the
horizon to allure travellers. 1896 had
it's Olympics in Berlin, 1887 its Coro-
nation in England and 1888 will have
it's Eucharistic Congress in Budapest,
but what of 19S9?-ask the travel
agents.
Haven for Tourists.
What an opportunity this presents
to the Carolinas! A restless people all
over a restless world waiting to well
come some major event or attraction
to entice them in 1889. Surely we here
in the Carolinas have exactly what
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-09-08

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c. w. Roberts Suggests
''Roving Exposition" To
Be Held In North
Carolina Soon
1883 CAN BE BIG
SEASONS IN STATE
Tours Across State Would
Show Historic and Scenic
Spots; State Offers ALL
Year Season for Travellers,
With Its Many Kinds Of
Climate

(Note.-The author of this article
is president of the Carolina Motor
Club, but years ago he was secretary
of the Henderson Chamber of Com
merce at time when that organiza-
ton was most active. He is well
known to many Henderson people)