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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-11-26

Il
Hello Everybody:
You are all probably engaged in
Thanksgiving festivities so won't
be expecting a long epistle from
Sal this week. In fact, the femmes
are busy running down mince pie
recipes while the men are busy
ducking creditors.
Notes from the Minnesota-Iowa
Juniors, the latest and most prom
Using club of the Twin Cities: This
club has some of the best educa-
tional and social features Of any
club we know. The members?
Well, they have some of the most
popular young folks in town. If
you promise not to tell a soul, I'll
let you peep into the clubs last
meeting. Saw popular DICK
MANN (who, by the way, is the
president) welcoming new mem
bers into the club. H. A. w. was
around somewhere in the room
watching her love light. (You
don't know who her 81. l." is? Just
come to the clubs next meeting
Nov. 10th and you'll see for your
self.) And you should have heard
the plans for the Christmas holt
days. Just let US see some more
of you popular and non-popular
folks out Nov. 10th. The Mime
sota-Iowa Juniors guarantee you
good time.
What Minneapolis gal is crazy
about a rawther handsome boy who
rooms at ALICE SHORTS home?
NORM Light would like US
to check the rumor that is going
around that he's planning to take
trip to the altar with a certain st.
Paul gal. Norm says he doesn't
intend being a sour old bachelor all
his life by any means, but, at the
present time, marriage is sorta out
of the question.
Did you know: JUNE HAW-
KINS, our popular young singer, is
going to have her tonsils taken out
soon? What Minneapolis gal
says she is keeping her B. F. on
the string until after Christmas
cause she wants that Bulova? g.
What St. Paul gal about town says
she is afraid she will soon be tried
for homicide for every time she
sets eyes on a certain young man
she is afraid she will hug him to
death?
Highlights on the College Won
ems Tea last Sunday at the Ster-
ling Club: The tea was really de-
ightful. 1t wasn't one of those
boring affairs. Everyone seemed
to be enjoying himself, whether it
was slipping tea, talking with
friends, or listening to music. Saw
MIL BOHANON who looked so
well that had to look at her twice.
Say, Mildred, / want to see your
young son one Of these days. !
know he's dear. Il can hear Leo
sayin' now, "a dear? OF course he
is. He's the spittin' image of his
old many The happy
ADOLPH THOMAS came in just
as l was leavin'. The PAUL
CURRYS seem to be quite happy
these days. Did you notice?
RACHEL JAMES looked very
sweet in a blue outfit. :. Charming
FRANCES BROWN was sOrta the
official greeter at the door.
Saw STERLING DOVER giving
the guests the once over. ! can't
imagine whom he was looking for,
can you? BENETA Ed
WARDS rendered a swell piano
solo. r.. THERESA JAMES looked
sophisticated in her swanky fur
coat. LOUISE CARMICHAEL
looked stunning in brown velvet
>. Smiling ANN HORRIS was at
tractive in a black velvet trimmed
in white lace. EDWARD
STALLINGs, the young man with
that too mellow voice, sang two
songs for the guests. Saw
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Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-11-26
Twin Town Talk


My Newspaper
II find her weekly at my doors,
This Haunting, haunting hussy-
welcome guest in idle hours,
A bore when one is fussy.
"She prizes and peers, she sobs and sneers,
She has an ear for tattle,
She pirates of petty offerings
Or tells tall tales of battle.
"You court her favors and she sulks,
You fee her and she follows,
Her faith is weak when truth you speak,
The lies she always swallows
~ sometimes try to put her by,
But yet Il must confess it)
l grumble with, pine without,
My newspaper. God bless it,"
Keith Preston in The st. Louis
Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1937-11-26

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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-05-20
MEMORIAL PLANS
/ HERE COMPLETED
TOM MOSS TO SPEAK;
STORES TO CLOSE
FOR DAY

Memorial day will be observed
in Redwood Falls Monday, May
81, with appropriate ceremonies
at Lake Redwood, the armory and
the cemetery.
A parade of war veterans,
school children and other organ
izations will form at the Lincoln
building at 9 a. m. and march to
the lake. There will be music by
the Scenic City band, decoration
of the waters, prayers and SAL
ute and taps by members Of
Company L.
Captain Tom Moss will be the
main speaker at armory exercis-
es. The procession will then 60 to
the cemetery in cars and cere-
monies similar to those of former
years will be conducted.
1t was decided at a recent Civic
and Commerce association meet
ing that all stores be closed that
day.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-05-20
PAFFRATH SETS
CONFERENCE AND
DISTRICT RECORD
FIVE TRACK MEN WILL
ENTER REGION MEET
AT NEW ULM

With a powerful throw of 46
feet, inches, Bob Paffrath of
Redwood Falls broke his own
record of 1886 at the Little Ten
track meet in New Ulm Tuesday
night.
The event was the first to be
staged under lights in the state
and proved very successful, a
large crowd attending. The
weights, discus and javelins were
painted white for visibility under
the fioodlights.
Redwood Falls won third place,
New Ulm placing first and Hut
Crimson second. Leon PeaSe and
Russell Kotval placed second and
third in the half mile, winning
high praise from Track Coach
EiIif Miller for their form, espe-
cially in the final sprint.
Ross Lussenhop was second In
the 22O dash, second in the low
hurdles and fifth in the high
Jump. Paffrath added to his GIN
der laurels with second In the
broad Jump and second in the
100 yard dash, fourth in the dis
Gus with 81 feet and fifth in the
javelin. The former district shot
put mark, set by Paffrath last
year was AZ feet, 10 inches.
Noble Starr placed fourth in
three events, the high hurdles,
low hurdles and high jump and
George Steele ran fifth in the
quarter mile Elmer Dickmeler
tied for fifth place in the pole
vault.
Coach Miller has announced
that the following team members
will receive their high school let
tiers for track this year: Dick
meier, Charles Young, Harold
Foreman, Paffrath, Clarence Dis
cher, Russell Lauterbach, Lussen-
hop, Grover Wiltshire, Pease, Kot-
val and Steele. Letters were
awarded men making points in
either the Little Ten or district
meets.
Saturday, May 20, Paffrath,
Lussenhop, Pease, Foreman and
Lauterbach will go to the region
al meet at New Ulm which also
will be run off at night.
At the district contest in New
Ulm Saturday, Paffrath broke the
district record of 43 feet, 6 inches
in the shot put with a heave of
As feet, z inches. The former
mark was set by Webster of Win
throp in 1886.
The star trackster also placed
second in the broad jump at 10
feet, 6 inches and second in the
hundred yard dash, losing by in
ches. The Redwood relay team
also lost first place to New Ulm
by very short margin.
Discher threw the shot 80 feet,
CONTINUED on Page Six)
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-05-20
Circus Color
Adds to Prom,
ANNUAL JUNIOR-SENIOR
BANQUET SERVED IN
CIRCUS TENT

Circus Day with all the fanfare
and trappings of parade, side
shows and clown acts, was the
theme of the Junior Senior ban
quet and prom Saturday evening
in the school auditorium.
Long tables, decorated with
miniature merry-go-roundS, in
dividual animal cages as nut
cups and colored circus tents
serving as place cards and pro-
grams were placed beneath the
billoWing folds of a cleverly SIM
ulated big-top. The four course
dinner, prepared by mothers of
members of the junior class, was
served by a group of sophomore
girls wearing colorful costumes
of yellow and green.
Attending were the seniors and
juniors, Superintendent and Mrs.
Reede Gray and the high school
faculty, Miss THETA Aske, Miss
Daisy Vittum of the junior high
school, Miss Muriel~ Anderson,
school secretary; Miss Irene Hell
land, librarian; DR.. and Mrs. AL
bert Asleson, Mr.. and Mrs. L. A
Cheney, Mr.. and Mrs. Parker D.
Sanders, Mrs. c. A Lauterbach
and Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Hillig of
the board of education and Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Parker, Mr.. and
Mrs. R. w. Whyte and Richard
Jueneman.
Decorated with flying pennants
and balloons, the stage included a
large animal cage where must
clans sat and a box office from
Continued on Page 12)
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-05-20
STOCKYARDS ON
'MAURSTAD FARM
GRANTED PERMIT
BLACKTOP HEARING SET
ON GROVE, WYOMING
PROJECTS

AT a special meeting Tuesday
night, the Redwood Falls coun-
cilmen granted a special excep-
ton to the zoning ordinance per-
hitting John Dahl of Window to
build livestock concentration
camp on the former c. L. Maur-
stad place.
They also passed a resolution
setting the grade and width of
Grove street, entrance to Ramsey
state park and set the hearing on
a petition for blacktop surfacing
on Grove street from Bridge to
Middle and on Wyoming from
Washington to Minnesota. The
hearing will be held June Z.
The execution for an easement
for an outlet for future storm
sewers in subdivision undertake
en- by Clarence Cobleigh, was also
authorized.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-05-20
3 School BOYS
Selected For
Safety Camp
FIFTH GRADERS CHOSEN
SO TRAINING WILL
BE VALUABLE

Three fifth graders of the Red
wood Falls schools have been sell
ected to attend the second Ameri-
can Legion camp for the training
of school police patrols this sum-
n1er, probably in the northern
part of the state.
They are Russell Bovee, 10, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Nate H. Bovee;
Erwin Hermann, IL, son of Mr..
and Mrs. John Hermann and
Wayne Muetzel, 10, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Franz Muetzel.
The boys have had excellent
records in the school safety pa
troll and fifth graders were select
ed so that they may use the
training acquired at the camp
during their sixth grade year.
Their expenses will be paid by
the Melvin Daskam post of the
American Legion which last year
sent Cletus Zitzmann, Dean Muet-
eel and Maurice Katzenberger to
the camp at Big Lake in Beltrami
county.
The exact date and place of
this years camp have not yet
been selected but three CCC
camps fully equipped are under
consideration. 1t is planned that
200 boys between the ages of 10
and Is will attend.
Ernest M. Hanson, superintend-
ent of New Ulm schools, will be
in charge at the camp which will
have athletics, swimming, nature
study, handicraft and instruction
in safety patrol work, general
safety practices, conservation and
essentials of good citizenship.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-05-20
Disappointed With
Support; Team Quits

Walnut Groves baseball team
opened and closed its season on
the same Sunday.
The team took an 18 to z lick
ing from Currie and decided to
drop out of the Southwestern
Minnesota league. The reason was
lack of support. AS a result of
withdrawing from the league,
Walnut Grove will not be given
a chance to join it next year,
league officials said.
In the first game Walnut Grove
led 4 to 0 at the end of the
fourth inning. Then their hurting
department fell down and Currie
scored 18 times before the end of
the game.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-05-20
Cupid Has Busy
Week in Sanborn

Dan Cupid has been spend
ing the last ,Deek in Sdnborn,
according to his social secre-
tary, Clerk of Court Frank
Baldwin. ..
Sdnborn residents named in
marriage license applications
are Elmer NJ. Moody and
Lunetta Weber, both of ,phom
gaze their address as the oil
ldge; George A. Stern Dho
plans to marry Ruth M.
Parker of Clements; and
Vaneld Radtke Uho Uill be
married to EdUdrd Schaper
of Mason City, IoDd.
Other license applications
made this ,peek pere by
Glenn E. Timgren of VeSta
and Ellen Thompson of Mil
roy and Anna ArendS and
William PreusS of Lamber-
ton.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-05-20
Social Science
Class to Dine
With Governor

Governor Elmer A. Benson will
take lunch with about SO Red
wood Falls High school seniors
when they make their annual So
cial science field trip to st. Paul
Friday. Both the governor and
Robert D. Berry of the state
banking department have accept
ed an invitation to lunch at the
Capitol cafe, according to Ben c..
Tom, social science instructor
who will accompany the group.
The class will leave in 10 cars
to be at the state capitol building
at 10 a. m. After visiting the
capitol they will see the state
historical building and the ST.
Paul Art Institute.
Groups will also inspect the
Ford plant, the Minneapolis Tri-
bune and Journal and radio sta
ton WCCO.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-05-20
OUTDOOR HONOR
COURT PLANNED
SCOUTS WILL RECEIVE
PROMOTIONS WE'D
NESDAY NIGHT

For the first time in Redwood
Falls, Boy Scout Court of Hon
or will be held in the open with
a campfire setting. The ceremon-
les will take place in Ramsey
State park Wednesday night.
Leo Joe Lauterbach will re-
ceive his Life Scout rank and
Star badges will be awarded
George Barnes Jr., John Bovee,
Donald Gold Jr., Everett Lynn
and Kenneth Parsons.S John Lau-
terbach III and Dean Muetzel will
be named Second Class scouts
and about 80 merit badges will be
presented. Investiture ceremon-
les for nine Tenderfoot scouts
will also be held.
w. G. Fulton, Mankato, area
executive win be present and the
councillors and Redwood Falls
board Of review will make up the
court and award certificates and
merit badges. All advancements
made since the last Court of Hon
or, held February 16, will be re-
cognized.
Scouts and their families will
picnic in the park preceding the
affair, to which the public Is IN
vited.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-05-20
Car With II
Passengers
Rolls Over
DRIVER, TEN CHILDREN
ESCAPE SERIOUS
INJURIES

Five families residing in the
neighborhood of the district 46
school house were grateful Tues
day morning that their children
received no fatal injuries in an
automobile accident which occur
red while the pupils were being
taken to school.
A model A Ford driven by Mrs.
William Herring got out of con-
troll on the spongy Wabasso road
five miles west and four miles
south of Redwood Falls. The car,
containing 10 young children,
careened over a seven foot grade,
rolled over once through an ex-
panse of water and stopped on its
side on dry ground.
All of the children were able
to get out and go to the John
Morley farm nearby from which
medical aid was summoned. Mrs.
Herring was left in the automo-
bile and taken out by neighbors
who saw the water spray up as
they were working in fields near
the scene. Her only injuries were
bruises and decorations of the
knuckleS, suffered when the chill
dren became excited and shut the
door on her hand.
Most seriously hurt was Will
liam Christensen, son of Mrs.
Emma Christensen, who received
a fractured left elbow. His broth
er Donald suffered sprained
neck and his sister Alice, severe
cut on the left thigh and ankle.
William Herring Jr. sustained a
sprained back and his sister Mar
garet was unhurt.
Minor cuts and bruises were
sustained by Lyle Shining, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry SHINING,
Jerome, Gloria and Ramona Egle,
children of Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer
Egle and Everett Poulsen, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. William PoulSen.
The fact that the youngsters
were so closely packed into the
car probably saved them from
serious injury. The accident oc-
CURED just south of the school
house at which Miss Marcella
Siegfried is teacher.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-05-20
BARNEY LAWN BADLY
BEATEN BY 4 MEN
AT MORTON

Four as yet unidentified asSail-
ants severely beat Barney LAWN
Of Redwood Falls when he stop
ped his automobile at the stop
sign on the main street of Morton
about 1880 p. m. Sunday.
Two carloads of persons had
followed LAWN from Redwood
Falls, yelling at him and attempt
ing to crowd him from the road
twice, once near the fairgrounds
and again at the curve at the foot
of the Morton hill.
AT the stop sign, one car pulled
ahead of him and the other drew
up to the side of his car, pocket
ing him. Two men then stepped
out and got into his car, one on
each side of him. They hit him
about the face, head and should
ers, infiicting broken cheek
bone and decorations of the
face and backing both his eyes.
Two of their companions assisted
them in the smuggling, he said.
Then, according to LAWN, they
took new cap he was wearing
and new pair of trousers
which he had in a package in the
back seat. He said they forced
him to take off new shirt and
give it to them, although FORUM
ately he had another shirt with
him.
Although dazed, LAWN was able
to start up his car and head for
Franklin. He stopped at an oil
station at the west edge of town
and the group which followed
stopped at the Birch Coulee Inn
just across the paving. After an
hour they left.
BY that time LAWN was so ter
rorized that he took the bottoms
road back to Redwood Falls.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-05-20
TraceStation
Thug in Deal
at Hatchery
WHITTET FOILS ROBBER
HERE: HATCHERY MAN
< SLUGGED, ROBBED

Although descriptions are Sket-
chy, it is believed that man who
slugged the attendant at the Da-
Wis hatchery in Sleepy Eye Tues
day and robbed him of 5000 is the
same bandit who attempted to
hold up the Whittet service sta
ion on highway 10 in Redwood
Falls early Monday morning.
Don Whittet averted a hold-up
when he slammed a door in the
face of the bandit who levelled
a gun at him.
Whittet heard a man approach
ing the station on foot from the
west at about 2 a. m. Monday. He
went to the door of the station
where the stranger asked for
can of gasoline. When Whittet
replied that he had no gasoline
container the stranger snapped
''Never mind the gas, buddy, this
is a stick-up."
AS he pointed a gun at the
station attendant, Whittet slam
med the door in his face and the
bandit fled, running down the
pavement in the direction of Nor
ton. Whittet closed the door so
hard that one of the window
paneS broke.
Sheriff L. J. KiSe was called
Immediately and with G. E. John
son, police chief, searched Nor
ton, North Redwood and Red
wood Falls but could find no trace
of the man. Kise says that it is
possible he had car parked near
by as bandits are now employing
similar methods to prevent station
attendants from obtaining their
license numbers.
The hoodlum was described by
Whittet as being about Is years
old, 5 feet 10 inches tall with a
sharp featured face and promin-
ent nose. He wore a dark hat,
suit and shirt.
At Sleepy Eye, the bandit took
available cash in the hatchery
after knocking the attendant I'M
conscious sometime between
1870 and l p. m. Tuesday. He
had visited the establishment pre-
viously to inquire about baby
chicks.
There were no witnesses found
at Sleepy Eye who had seen car
which might have been used by
the robber, although school chill
dren walked through the alley
near the place previous to and af-
ter the hold-up.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-05-20
Annual School Art Exhibit
To be Held Monday Evening

Combining the art work of all
pupils in the Redwood Falls grade
and high schools, the annual art
exhibit will be given at p. m.
Monday in the school auditorium
under the supervision of Miss
Daisy Vittum, art instructor.
Using the theme "Art as the
Work Shop of Life" the program
will include demonstrations as
well as exhibits of the years
work in art, industrial art and
manual training by pupils from
the first grade through the senior
year. Demonstrations will in
clude cartooning, pastel and spat-
ter work. costuming, water color,
pen and ink work, home decora-
ton, civic beauty and flower ar
rangement. Featured will be
talks on art education by Junior
and senior high school students,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-05-20

Heavy onLyon
CountyFarms
TRACY AND MARSHALL
IN AREA OF HAIL
AND HIGH WIND

More than a score of farms near
Marshall suffered severe damage
Monday night as tornado wind
accompanied hard electrical
storm that swept the area just be-
fore midnight.
No one was seriously injured,
but at some places livestock was
killed, numerous barns were
wrecked, houses damaged by
wind and hail, windmills, silos
and small buildings destroyed,
machinery damaged, and small
grain crops f1attened. Many tele-
phone poles and trees were blown
down.
The storm entered Lyon county
at the northwest corner, passed a
short distance north of Marshall
then swung southeast past Tracy,
where severe damage was also re-
ported.
Another section of the storm
passed just west and to the south
of Marshall. In Marshall there
was no damage, though a hard
rain and hail fell for a few min
uteS.
Because they attended a dance
at Montevideo instead of going to
bed, a crew of seven insurance
company carpenters working on
the John Engels farm north of
Client, escaped almost certain
death in the storm. The barn
roof smashed down to the hay
NOW floor where their beds were
located. A steel hay carrier
track pierced one of the mattress
eS.
Three persons were slightly in
jured in the Client region. Louis
Brewers and Henry Engels were
sitting in the latter's car watching
the Brewers barn burn down
when the twister struck, blowing
cinders with terrific force against
the car and showing a timber
through the windshield. The men
were slightly cut and bruised.
The third person to suffer in
juries was Mrs. Arthur Verstraete
who was cut on the left arm when
the windows crashed in the house
and flying glass few everywhere.
The Verstraete farm is two miles
out of Marshall on the Clarkfield
road.
In many cases where the barns
were almost completely wrecked,
livestock escaped by miracles.
The shed on the C.. II. Giles farm
was badly wrecked, but SO sheep
and Is horses escaped untouched.
On the Cyril Muelbroeck farm
five miles southwest Of Client,
where the barn was wrecked, a
bull was killed but IL horses in
the same building were uninjur-
ed.
Damages to farm buildings
were also reported in the region
around Candy and Hazel Run.
About Is telephone poles car
rying three tiers of toll lines were
uprooted on the county highway
running from the five mile corner
on highway 10 towards Client.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-05-20
DepositorsGet
FullSettlement
100 PER CENT PAID TO
CREDITORS OF CLOSED
INSTITUTION

Checks for five per cent of the
deposits in the State Bank and
Trust company of Redwood Falls
were received in the mail this
morning completing settlement
with depositors in the institution
which closed during the financial
storm, the bitter cold morning of
February 6, 1888.
Seven dividends have been paid
in the four year liquidation per-
iod, totalling 100 per cent of de-
posts. It is understood that there
are still some assets on which the
stockholders will receive returns.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-05-20
anBeaten,C Clothes
Stolenon Highway
COOKING SCHOOL
SEEN BY LOO

New recipes are being tried out
on skeptical husbands following
the completion Wednesday after
noon of the three day movie
cooking school sponsored by The
Gazette in cooperation with Red
wood Falls merchants.
Many new tricks of the culin-
airy art were learned by the LOO
women who attended the matinee
sessions, approximately 500 the
first day and 600 Tuesday and
Wednesday. Different divisions of
the domestic science classes at
school were guests at the Tuesday
and Wednesday showings.
Prizes donated by merchants
were distributed at each of the
sessions.