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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-02
.City's Need
of Postoffice
ToBe Studied
REDWOOD FALLS STILL
ON LIST, PURDUM
TELLS LUNDEEN

Although it is uncertain whether
Redwood Falls is nearer to get
ting a pertoffice from the fed
eral government than before,
members of the Civic and Com
merce association were somewhat
encouraged this week by a letter
from Senator Ernest Lundeen.
Redwood Falls is on the list of
projects eligible for construction
and the situation at this point will
be carefully studied in connection
with other eligible projects in
making allotment of funds for
public building construction UNI
der authorization contained in the
Third Deficiency BILL" said let
ter which Mr.. Lundeen received
from S. w. Purdum, fourth as
sistant postmaster general.
It was enclosed with a letter
from Mr.. Lundeen acknowledging
receipt of a telegram from the
Civic and Commerce association.
The message was sent two weeks
ago when Redwood Falls did not
appear on a list of cities and
towns eligible for new postoffices.
The city was on an earlier list
which apparently is the reason it
was not mentioned in the more
recent authorization act. Con-
gresham Paul Kvale also re-
sponded to wire from the COM
mittee.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-02
Ali Winners
Go To State
Fair by Bus
SEAFORTH CLUB WILL
HAVE BOOTH; 20
TO ATTEND

A special bus will take the
majority of Redwood county's %
All club representatives to the
state fair Saturday.
The youths will spend a week
there in competition with other
Alters from throughout the state
in demonstrations and exhibits.
They will return to this COM
munity the following Saturday.
Friday j. I. Swedberg, county
agent; Miss Lenore Golden, home
demonstration agent, Jane Vim
and Harriet Palmer of Seaforth
and Miss Alice Mcnamara will
leave for the fair with materials
for the Seaforth club booth which
will have a place there.
The booth is titled Products Of
our All Flocks" and features a
whimsical lamb in the center
with steps in canning lamb feat
ured on one side and steps in
carding wool for bats displayed
on the other.
:. Besides trip winners named in
county home economics contests
and at the annual Achievement
day in Lamberton last week, two
winners in the colt class who
were selected later will 60. They
are Richard Hoover of Paxton
and Kenneth Hemmingsen,4 OF
Clements. l71s
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-02
GASOLINE REFUND
INFRACTION GETS
NOTARY in MESS
LOSES COMMISSION AND
PAYS FINE AFTER
COMPOSING

Glencoe. P. Reimers of
Glencoe, a notary public and an
employee of an oil company,
pleaded guilty before Justice of
the Peace Ebert recently to char
ges Of acknowledging a claim for
refund of state gasoline tax for a
farmer at Plato, without the
claimants appearing in person.
The farmer in question signed
the refund blank ON his farm be-
fore it was filled out and the
claim was taken to Glencoe to be
acknowledged. It developed the
claim was there filled out for
more gasoline than the farmer
had intended to ask refund ON.
The refund due the farmer
amounted to $3.50 and it was
thought the larger claim was
made to stimulate business. Mr..
Reimers surrendered his notarial
commission and paid a small fine
and costs in justice court.
i The state oil inspection division
announced that it would prose-
cute vigorously all notary publics
who acknowledge signatures on
refund claims without claimants
appearing before them in person,
as well as all farmers who claim
refund of the state gasoline tax in
gasoline used in automobiles on
the highways.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-02
COUNTY PEOPLE
AMONG 80 WHOSE
TIRES WERE CUT

Henry Nickel of Sanborn,
Kratzke brothers of Lamberton,
Ed Flick of Revere and Walter
Moranston of Morton were among
number of persons whose car
tires were slashed and punctured
maliciously by a Gibbon farmer
during the Brown county fair re-
Gently.
Richard Kiecker, residing near
Gibbon, was arrested August %,
when caught in the act of jabbing
knife into a tire. The arresting
officers attention had been called
Kiecker's queer antics by a
stranger who had observed him
at work outside the fairgrounds.
He was charged with disorder
ly conduct and fined SIS plus SIS
costs. Police said he was under
the influence of liquor.
Over 30 car owners reported
their tires punctured, according to
Chief of Police Anton Groebner
who received the names Of the
car owners from Mike Holm, Sc
cretary of state, this week.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-02

Fort Ridgely heard the volleys
and a detachment of $40 men was
sent to their relief under the
command of Colonel Mac Phail,
founder of Redwood Falls. When
they had come within three miles
of Birch Coulee they were at
tackled by a large party of In
dams but an answer with artillery
forced them to retire. Reckoning
their number as large, Mac Phail
dispatched Lieutenant T. J. Shee-
han to the fort for more troops.
1t was a perilous ride as his
horse was MORALLY wounded but
he escaped unhurt and upon his
arrival the whole expeditionary
force was put on the march.
At daylight on the morning of
September 8 they joined Colonel
Continued on page eighty
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-02
Athletes Get
Insurance for
Year for 75c
25 REPORT FOR GRID
PRACTICE, ANOTHER
rs EXPECTED

Football players injured while
playing with Redwood Falls High
school teams will receive insur-
ance benefits covering their doc
tor bills under plan inaugural
ed here this year.
Seventy-five cents will cover
each applicant for football and
all other sports and Is cents is
the fee required of those engag-
ing in physical education, basket
ball, track and other school
sports.
The insurance covers injuries
sustained during scheduled
game, practice and for accidents
suffered going to and from games.
The school pays SIS toward the
insurance fund which is sponsor
ed by the state high school league.
This year a plan to make in
surance benefits as unnecessary
as possible calls for fast
whistle" from game officials. Re-
ferees are instructed to blow their
whistles as soon after a play has
ceased as possible to prevent in
juries from piling.
Coach Ben Tom expressed his
wish for more executives on his
squad following the initial prac-
tice Tuesday afternoon. Pooch
Lauterbach, veteran who was out
most of the last year with a
shoulder injury, will bear the
brunt of the quarterbacking, he
expects.
'Discher is going great guns"
he said as he reviewed prospects
among the Is men who turned
out. He expects to have Is more
suited for daily practices between
and 6 p. m.
His backfeld nucleus includes
Lauterbach, DiScher and Ross
Lussenhop and he expects to pull
a fourth from the line. Among
other men to whom he looks for
a repetition of last seasons sue
cess are Ted Kruger, Andy Smith,
George Steele and Ellis Long who
is considerably huskier than last
season. The three Aarthun boys,
Jergen, Donald and Lawrence who
moved here from Tracy and Herb
Bollum who has returned after a
years absence from the grid are
other strong candidates among
the early place seekers.
Tom is assisted by Wallace
Zimmerman, newcomer to the
coaching staff who is here now
and Eilif Miller who will be here
when school starts.
Zimmerman will have charge
of senior high basketball, Tom of
the junior squad, Miller of track
and Charles Walbloom, another
new faculty member, will have
physical education classes and
direct intermural sports.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-02
All Girl Will Pay College
Expenses With Hybrid Corn

Catherine VIM, all around All
club girl of Seaforth, will pay
part of her educational expenses
with proceeds from three acre
field of hybrid corn which she is
raising on her parents farm near
Seaforth.
She expects to harvest between
35 and so bushels of seed.
The picture shows Miss VIM
pulling the tassels from two
thirds of the rows so that the
crossing of two varieties of in
bred corn may be done properly.
She represented Minnesota in
canning judging at the national
All congress in Chicago last
year. This year she will repre-
sent the district in room furnish
ing competition at the state fair.
Her all around All program in
cludes registration in. stock
judging project.
Catherine plans to take home
economics at the University of
Minnesota this year. She was
graduated from Wabasso High
school in June.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-02
Fred Wegner
Of Lucan Dies
RESIDENT OF COUNTY
so YEARS BURIED
SUNDAY

Lucan-Funeral services were
held Sunday at the Lucan Trinity
Free church for Fred G. Wegner,
resident of this community for
more than so years, who died at
his home here early Friday NOR
ming at the age of 80.
MIR. Wegner had enjoyed good
health until four years ago when
he suffered slight stroke. He re-
gained his health but became i'll
again in May of this year and had
been failing since.
He was born August IL, 1855 in
Pomern, Germany and was bap-
tized and confirmed in the State
Lutheran church there. He came
to America at the age of 20 and
settled in Wisconsin fer IL years.
Then he came to Minnesota and
purchased a farm in Johnsonville
township where he lived until
1914 when he moved to Lucan.
Survivors are his wife and nine
children, Walter of Lucan, Mrs.
Clara Meme of Springfield, Mrs.
Mollie Glib of Lucan, Alfred of
Lucan, Henry of Ellsworth, Geo.
rye and Mrs. Erna Ahlness of
Milroy, Mrs. Alma Stanley of
Carlton and Mrs. Bertha Norcutt.
There are "a grandchildren and
II great grandchildren. An infant
child preceded him in death.
Rev. P. A. Strommen of Lam
berton and Rev. G. M. Tollefson
of Montevideo conducted the fun
eral services and burial was in
the Lucan cemetery. Mr.. Wegner
was an active church member
The pallbearers were Fred
Hausamann, Anton Kramer,
Philip Raveling, Louis Grams,
William Haag and George Meyer.
The flower girls were grand dau-
ghters, Evangeline Stanley, Hat
tie Metre, Dorothy, Elaine and
Bertha Wegner and Isabelle Glib.
Among those from a distance
who attended the funeral were:
Mr.. and Mrs. Alphonso Martinka,
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Martinka,
Mr.. and Mrs. Rynhold Schultz
and daughter, Mrs. Fred Radtke,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Westly Schnei-
der, all of New Ulm; Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Pantzke of Man.
kato, Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Neil
Ike of Sleepy Eye, Mr.. and Mrs.
Adolph Krebs, Mrs. Ferdinand
Herder, Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey
Eickholt and family, Mrs. Gustav
Sarbuck and William Rick and
Mrs Arthur KrebS of Golden,
Mrs. Flater of Wabasso; Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Ostrom and son of
Willmar; Mrs. John KonZen and
son of Montevideo; Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis Olson and Mr.. and Mrs.
William Eichten of Wanda; Mr..
and Mrs. liver Melting of Vesta;
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Schaffran and
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Just of Wood
Lake
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-02
State Husking
Contest Field
Sought Here
COMMITTEE NAMED TO
FIND SUITABLE
GROUNDS

A committee to promote Red
wood county as the scene of the
1887 state corn husking contest
has been appointed by J. I. Swed-
berg, county agent.
Members are hunting suitable
fields with plenty Of parking
space available and wagon scale
nearby. They are Frank McNam-
ara, chairman; Sherman Park
Jack Sexton, Emmett Garnhardt
and B. p. Kelly.
Berry Akers, editor of The Far
mer which sponsors the contest,
will visit Redwood county follow
ing the state fair to discuss the
selection of a husking contest
field with the county agent and
committee.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-02
Teachers to
Get Better
Pay IN 1887

Salaries of Redwood county
rural teachers will show an aver
age increase of about SO a month
this year, according to c. d.
Clipfell, county superintendent of
schools.
Salaries of teachers for the
coming school season range from
$50 to $105 a month.
When Mr.. Clipfen first became
superintendent in 1891 the aver
age wage was a little over $96 a
month. Then the depression began
eating away at the pedagogue's
incomes. In 1882 the average fell
to $50, in 1888 to SIS and in 1884
it hit low of $50. The next year
it was up to $61 and last year to
SOS. This year he expects it to be
around SIS.
This years increase is partly
attributable to a shortage of tea
cheers. The teachers. training de-
partment in Redwood Falls was
discontinued year ago, reducing
the number of new teachers by
IL.
''Then, too, I think the young
men in the county now have more
money and the girls are cooper
ating with then1," says Mr.. Clip
fell. -. T.,
Incorporation is Mr.. Clipfell's
word for MARRIAGE
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-02

CONS, numbering about 20, were
formed into a horseshoe with the
open end facing the valley and
the agency on the other side.
Ninety-six horses were tethered
outside the circle and officers
tents were pitched inside. Most
of the men flung themselves UNI
der the wagons to sleep, tired
from day of horror and sadness
during which some of them had
seen relatives hanging starkly
against the summer sky or mu-
tilated almost beyond recognition.
About 4 a. m. September 2 one
of the sentries saw what he
thought was an Indian moving in
the grass. He fired at the moving
object and instantly the camp was
encircled by fire and smoke from
the guns of 500.
Mistake Command
The captains command "fall
down" was mistaken for fall i'm
and some of the men gathered in
formation, only to be shot down.
Most Of the horses were killed in
the first attack and the men fell
behind them. Later they dug
trenches with bayonets and what
ever implements were available
and even piled up the bodies Of
their dead comrades for protec-
ton.
For over 80 hours they held of
the Indians, who, as was their
practice, failed to swarm the
camp. Some officers report that
the men had only an ounce of cab
bage and quarter of a hard
cracker apiece during that time
while others says they went en-
tirely without food and water.
Any attempt to reach a supply
wagon was the signal for shots
from the enemy.
At an early hour a picket at
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-02
All Youths So
Healthy, Doctors
Can't Pick Best

Redwood county Al club
members might well qualify
as the heaIthiest in the state.
Two physicians examining
four boys and Ii girls for
health h0n0rs at Lamberton
last week were stumped to
decide the healthiest of each
sex. Their scoring tied two
boys Paul KOhler of Redwood
Falls and Donald Bloedow of
Wanda and four girls, Fern
Coulter of Lamberton, Grace
BlOed0w of Wanda, Theresa
Brey of Wabasso and Edna
McNamara of Paxton.
A Redwood Falls physician
will examine the six today In
an attempt to break the tie.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-02
.SanbornDrops
Regional Tilt
OLIVIA STARTS PLAY
IN REGION MEET
SUNDAY

Redwood county's last chance
Of having a team in the state
baseball tournament faded Sum
day when Sanborn, B-W-R lea
que champion, was defeated by
Iona, champion of the New Deal
circuit, to at Window.
The state champion team of last
year, Window, trounced Heron
Lake, titlist of the Go-Hawk loop.
II to l to advance to the regional
finals. Window represented the
Gopher league after defeating the
strong Lamberton nine in the
playof.
Olivia, Double r league cham
pion after defeating Delhi in the
final tilt here last week "A to 8,
viii enter regional play at Mar
shall Sunday against Appleton.
Clarkfield and Ivanhoe are the
other region contenders.
Winthrop won the Tomahawk
circuit title Sunday by downing
New Ulm 3 to / while Gibbcn
won the first game Of playoff
series in the Western Minnesota
league from Fairfax 8 to 2.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-02
Birch Coulee Battle Took
Place rs Years Ago Today
% KILLED, As BADLY
WOUNDED DURING
ENCOUNTER

After the engagement at Red
wood Ferry in which Captain
John S. Marsh, his Interpreter
and "a men lost their lives, United
States troops were occupied in
fighting the Indians at New Ulm
and vicinity during the massacre
of 1862.
But August 81 of that year a
detail of 153 men was sent out
from Fort Ridgely to form a
burial party with instructions to
bury all bodies found, rescue
whatever settlers might have sur
vived the attack at the Lower
agency August Is, and if possible
ascertain the facts connected with
the death of Captain Marsh and
his men.
Major Joseph R. Brown, an ex-
perienced Indian trader, accom-
panied the troops, hoping to
rescue his wife, woman OF some
Sioux blood, and two children
who were being held captive near
Redwood Falls. Browns home on
the Minnesota bottoms road near
Sacred Heart was recently set
aside as state park site.
Captain Joe Anderson had
charge of a part of the company.
Bury 50 Settlers
The first day out they buried SO
settlers found along the river
bank where they had been shot
down. The first night spent near
Redwood ferry passed after a Wig
liant watch, and no harm came.
Early the next morning the bod
les of Captain Marsh's command
were found in the thicket along
the river bank. Nearly all had
been scalped.
After the services for the dead,
the command took up the march
from the bottom lands to the
prairie above.
While passing over the bluff
the Indians on their way to st.
Peter and Mankato saw the sold
iers and kept them In view all
day. The command went into
camp the second night near Birch
Coolee with the assurance of
Major Brown that they were as
safe as though they were in their
mothers house.
The site is at present about
conferred by the Birch Coulee
park flag pole with deep ravine
to the east, prairie to the north
and some timber to the west. Wa
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-02
new ULM, WITH 9
|LETTERMEN, WILL
TEST CARDINALS
SQUAD OF so POINTS
FOR OPENING TILT
SEPTEMBER 49,

While Redwood Falls High
school gridders began prepara-
tons this week for their opening
battle at New Ulm September Is,
the New Ulm football squad like
wise was pointing for that con-
test, which is likely to have i'm
portant bearing on the Little Ten
conference championship.
Nine lettermen and a host of
green reserves were included in
the squad of about so from which
the New Ulm machine of Coach
Joe Harmon will be constructed.
The nine lettermen are Dick
Eichten, Bill Landrum, Sam
Schmidt, Howard Korth, Leon
Ochs, Warren MART, Bob Bueng-
er, Jim Gerber, and Wilbur Lind
meier.
Among the more prominent re-
serves are Roy Krahn and Nor
man Schroek, who just missed
getting their letters last year.
Howard Pollei, Martin Thiede,
Dick Spelbrink and George Olson
are the more promising reserves.
Promise CT heavier line is
seen for the Harmonites, while
the backfield should be of good
calibre with Gerber, the mainstay,
and Schmidt, Ochs, and Martin
rounding it out. Harmon will miss
BRAD" Kusske who suffered a
broken ankle in baseball this
summer and will be out the great
er part of the coming season.
New Ulm home games are to be
played against Redwood Falls,
Sleepy Eye, Glencoe and Tracy
while out-of-town contests are
slated with Fairmont, Marshall,
Hutchinson and st. James.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-02
TO ATTEND CONFERENCE

j. w. Lauterbach and Irl Starr
of the National Unemployment
office will attend a tri-district
conference and school at Man
kato Friday and Saturday. Girls
working under the NYA will be
in charge of the office while they
are away. =
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-02
Closz Will Operate
Garage at lie Sueur

Harvey Closz who has had the
Pontiac agency at Morton for a
short time following the dissolv-
ing of the Closz- HoImberg part
nership in Redwood Falls, will
take an automobile agency in LIE
Sueur. -
Mr.. and Mrs. Closz will move
to their new home Wednesday.
LIE Sueur is the former home of
Mrs. CloSz.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-02
Judge Olsen Will
Live at New Ulm

Judge I. M. Olsen, former Red
wood Falls attorney and Judge in
this district for many years, re-
turned to New Ulm this week to
live in retirement.
Judge Olsen practiced law here
and at New Ulm and Sleepy Eye.
He retired as justice of the. state
supreme court last November af-
ter serving as member of Min
nesota's highest court since 1880.
He was judge in this district
from 1906 to 1918 and from 1920
until 1927, when he was appoint
ed commissioner of the state sup
RENE court.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-02
Relatives Located
Through KIND Call

When relatives were unable to
locate Henry Rocher to inform
him of the death of his father,
KIND with the cooperation of
the chief of police at Fairmont,
delivered the news to him.
KIND received a message from
KNFO at Storm Lake, Iowa at
1I.20 a M Wednesday, stating
that Rocher and his wife were
believed to be IN southern Min
nesota or northern Iowa.
At l:25 p. m. Fairmont au-
thorities reported that they had
contacted Rocher and he was on
his way home.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-02
Milroy Child
Suffers Burns
might Wire
SHIRLEY KREMIN SAVED
BY QUICK WORK
OF RESCUER

Milroy Little Shirley Mae
Kremin narrowly escaped being
electroeuted Monday when she
tripped and fell over electric
wires which were hanging near
the ground.
She lay across the wires until
rescued by Mr.. Parmentief who
put on rubbers to escape being
burned.
Shirley was unconscious for
sometime and received burns. She
is the daughter of MIR. and Mrs.
Harry Krenlin.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-02
McCausland's Success
Subject of Article

Kenneth McCausland, former
employee in the Gamble store in
Redwood Falls, was commended
in an article appearing on the
front page of The Farmer maya
zine for August Ia.
The article describes how Nc
CauSland started "Mac'S Tire
Shop" at Fairmont on a shoe
string January 1, 1886 and has
built it up to substantial bust
ness. Mrs. McCausland is book
keeper for the firm.