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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-10-20

Mrs. Pete T. Kach, Mrs. Leroy
Albertson and Lois Jean spent
Saturday afternoon with their
sister Mrs. Ed Addison at Walnut
Grove.
Kathryn Flick spent Thursday
night with her cousin Beverly
Ann Steinle at Lamberton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Larson
of Walnut Grove and Mr.. and
Mrs. Nels Trudson were Tuesday
callers at the Fred Hartwig home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter T. Kach of
Minneapolis spent the weekend
with Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy Albert
son.
Mrs. Fred Hartwig and Mrs.
Jerry Behrens visited friends at
Walnut Grove Friday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy Albertson
and Lois Jean were Saturday
evening dinner guests of MIR. and
Mrs. Andy Amdahl.
Martha EvenSon of Minneapolis
and Leonard Johnson were din
ner guests at the Louis Flick
home Sunday.
MFR. and Mrs. Conrad Benson
and family were Sunday visitors
at the Herman Bonner home near
Lucan.
MIR. and Mrs. Schreck's restaur-
ant has opened for business.
Alvin Nielsen and Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Nielsen of st. Paul were
weekend hunting guests at the
Chris Nielsen home.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Hines and
daughters Patricia and Donna
Mae of Owatonna and Mr.. and
Mrs. E. T. Killaran and son Billy
of Austin were guests at the E. T.
Ebbesen home over the weekend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll Milbrath
of Judson visited friends in Re-
we're Sunday.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-10-20
MILROY

Mr.. Fulton and sons Harold,
Floyd and Russell of Cloquet
were callers at the John Solseth
home Saturday.
Friends of Mrs. H. T. Christen-
sen gathered at her home Friday
in observance of her birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Schmidt
are the parents of a daughter
born Thursday, October Is.
Mr.. and Mrs Emil Nelson and
family attended a shower in
honor of Mrs. Robert Nelson at
the Peter Nelson home at Spring.
field Sunday evening.
The Presbyterian Ladies Aid
will have a bazaar and their an
nual chicken supper Tuesday eve
ming.
Mrs. Levi Fraser of Worthing-
ton and Mrs. Clarence Metz of
Fulda visited Mrs. Julia Murphy
Thursday.
Rev. Orcutt, Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Christopherson, Jens Scott, Wes-
ley Morgan and Mrs. Edna Nor
gan were dinner guests at the
Peter Scott home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George FIesner
and family enjoyed a pheasant
dinner at the Martin Grunden
home in Gales township Sunday.
Grant, Alfred and Alvira Mum
of Seaforth and Mrs. Pauline
Leach were dinner guests of Mr..
and Mrs. John Mum Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Michigan
of Minneapolis and Mr.. and Mrs.
Joe Filipek and son Joe of Red
wood Falls spent Saturday and
Sunday at the Peter Soupir and
Novak homes.
Friends gathered at the ".
Edwards home Tuesday in honor
of Mrs. Edwards birthday.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-10-20
Weekly Letter of
CharlestOwn News
By Mrs. G.. L. Rockwell

CharlestoWn - Alger Redman
accompanied by his mother, Fred
Redman and Raymond Juhnke
spent last week at Fairmont with
relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Foy, Mrs. E.
Moody AID Mrs. G. L. Rockwell
were Redwood Falls shoppers
Friday.
Mrs. Louis Matter was surpris-
ed on her birthday Sunday after
noon when a large group of rela-
tives and friends came to her
home with we'll filled lunch bas-
kets. Mrs. Matter received many
useful gifts.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allen Dumke and
children Lyle and Lorraine spent
Sunday at the Arthur zimmerman
home at Buffalo Lake.
Ruth Tesch of Mayer spent
Monday at the Charles Schwanke
home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Johnson
who have lived at the A. Leopold
farm have moved into the house
recently vS~ated by Mrs. Herman
Hanson and family.
Donald Burent was guest of
honor at a birthday dinner given
by his grandmother Mrs. E.
Moody Sunday.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-10-20
WALNUT GROVE

Marie Phyll1pS OF BIRD island IS
spending a few days at the Fred
Prail home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd Picht of
Saltwater spent the weekend with
relatives here. -
Mrs. George Wilkinson spent
from Friday until Sunday with
her mother, Mrs. Thomas Nelson.
DR.. Wilkinson came for her Sun
day.
A party was held at the Trinity
Lutheran church Sunday observ-
ing S. j. Bergblom's eighty-fifth
birthday.
A. J. Danielson left Thursday
for st. Cloud where he is employ
ed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Newell, Mrs.
Elwood Guyer and Caroline Gull
lifer of st. Louis Park and Mr..
and Mrs. Ray Hoover of st. Paul
spent the weekend at the Victor
Anderson home.
MIR. and Mrs. Dick Pratt and
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack GWinn of
Minneapolis spent the weekend at
the Ed Putte home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth HaenSel
of st. Paul spent the weekend at
the parental Ed Haensel home.
Harry Schultz of Minneapolis
came Friday to spend the week.
end at the Gust Schultz home, He
left Monday for Sioux Falls where
he will be employed by the Rey-
nolds Tobacco company.
Mrs. Paul Schumacher spent
the weekend with relatives at
Tracy.
William Biswell returned Tues
day from a visit at Grand Ledge,
Mich, Chicago and Fennimore,
Wis.
Bernice Peterson is attending
Mankato Business college.
A son was born October 10 to
Mrs. Alfred Gunderson of Walker.
Mrs. Gunderson was formerly
Marie Magelssen of Walnut
Grove.
Mrs. w. J. Mcdonald left
Thursday to visit her sons M. B.
Mcdonald and family in Mime
apolis and Stewart Mcdonald of
New York City who is also there.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. S. Tyler and
son and Mrs. E. w. Swoffer were
business callers at New Ulm
Thursday.
Ed and Gust Schultz left
Thursday for Denver, Colo. to
visit their brother, Charles
Schultz.
Mrs. Myrtle Cantine spent Sat-
urday at Redwood Falls. Mrs.
Paul Childers returned with her.
Mrs. Clyde Kennedy of Detroit,
Mich. came Wednesday for a few
weeks visit at the parental Will
liam Bondeson home.
Earl ZieSke of Robbinsdale
spent the weekend at the E. w.
Zieske home.
Jack Weeks attended the Min
nesota- Michigan game Saturday.
Mr.. ard Mrs. w. S. Lusk and
family of Owatonna attended the
silver wedding of Mr.. and Mrs.
Hjalmer Wahlin at Garvin Sum
day and visited at the Mabel
Boelke home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Daniel
owski sold their cafe to Chick
Doyle of Tracy who took posses
sion Wednesday.
Mrs. Cody Patwell of st. Paul
came Saturday to visit with her
mother Mrs. Thomas Nelson.
Clifford Jones of Minot, N. d.
who has been visiting his sisters
Mrs. Hazel Jameson and Flora
Jones returned Monday accom-
panied by his mother, Mrs. julia
Jones.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-10-20

Thursday evening from Mankato.
Emma Fennern and Raymond
Fenger of New Ulm called at the
Walter Fenger home Thursday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Kruse
and Elsie and Mr.. and Mrs.
George Kruse and Louis drove to
Germantown, Iowa Saturday and
returned Monday.
Two yearling cows belonging to
George Kruse died of blaekleg
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hubert Schroeder
announce the birth of a daughter
Wednesday morning.
Victor and Earl Bengston, Ed
die Stroush, Lawrence Fredricks,
Fred, Phillip and Sybil Gossard,
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Haenel and
amily, MIR. and Mrs. Bert Heyn
and son all of Mankato and MIR.
and Mrs. George Nick of Lam
berton were guests at the John
Benson home Sunday.
Mrs. August Radel and chill
dren, Mrs. Carl Timm, Mrs. Rob-
ert Fenger and daughters, Mrs.
Louis Fenger, Mrs. Ben Foelster
and children and Gustie Fennern
of Vesta visited at the Walter
Fenger home Sunday afternoon.
Albert Foelster of Mankato
spent the weekend at the Louis
Fenger home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Timm and
family of New Avon and Gustie
Fennern of Vesta were dinner
guests at the Christian Fennern
home Sunday.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-10-20
Mrs. Charles Schmidt
Funeral at MilrOy

Milroy-A requiem high mass
was said last Tuesday by Rev.
Pfeiffer assisted by Rev. Carlin
CT Marshall at st. Michaels
church for Mrs. Charles j. Sch
m,.it, "a, who died very sudden
ly at her home October z.
Veronica Andres was born at
Earl Park, Ind. January 25, 1874.
She was married to Charles
Schmidt April %, 1895. They
lived in Indiana until 1906 when
they moved to a farm near Mil
roy. They resided in Marshall s
years and later moved back to the
farm. They had IL children. Sur
viving are her husband; three
daughters, Susie Of San Fernando,
Calf, Mrs. Charles De Ruyck of
Marshall and Mae of Milroy; six
sens, John, Frank, Wilbur, Ed
ward and Kenneth all of Milroy
and Charles of MARSHALL; Is
grandchildren, one sister and
three brothers.
Among those from a distance
who attended the rites were: Mrs.
L. H. Reifel, Arthur Reifel, Mrs.
Ed Hasser, Genevieve Andres and
Louis Andres all of Earl Park,
Ind, Peter F. Lenertz, Leonard
Lenertz, Clara Lenertz, Charles
Lerertz and Marilyn Lenertz all
of Wheaton, ILL.,, Mrs. Gertrude
Smith of Aitkin, MINI. and Mr..
and Mrs. A. Andres and family of
Russell, MINI.
Pail bearers were P. J. Dolan,
John Hengel, P. H. Kelly, H. E..
Regnier, John Pape and Joe
Zwach. Interment was in the
cemetery south of Milroy.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-10-20
New Avon Events
In Weekly Letter

New Avon = Mr.. and Mrs.
James lima accompanied Mrs.
John Stewig Saturday night from
Loretto hospital, New Ulm to her
home. Mrs. Stewig is greatly i'm
proved after being seriously ill a
month. Mr.. and Mrs. lima re-
turned to their home in Mime
apolis Sunday night.
Floyd Stewig of Mankato and
Loretto Schell of Faribault spent
Sunday with Mrs. Ben Stewig.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hauptli
and Mrs. Ben Stewig visited Mr..
and Mrs. Ernest Overmeyer Tues
day night at Springfield.
Mrs. Adolph Steinhaus and
daughters Jean and Lois visited
Mrs. Archie Jensen at Morgan
Saturday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Johnson of
Hopkins Park spent Saturday
with Mr.. and Mrs. William Park
er near Clements.
Mrs. H. B. Bacon, Helen Bacon
and Mrs. Roy Davis and daugh-
ter of st. Paul spent Sunday visit
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-10-20
North Redwood News
BY Gazette Reporter
BY Mrs. o. w. SimOndet

North Redwood-Mr. and Mrs.
Elmer Taubert of st. Paul spent
the weekend here pheasant hunt
ing and visiting relatives.
Mrs. Ted Tibbets of Montevid-
60 visited her sister Mrs. John
Eastman several days this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Ganske
and daughters of New Ulm were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. E. w.
Henze Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Johnson,
James Sowder, Mrs. Mary Teich
and Richard. visited at the John
Arnett home at Delhi Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. AL Hegerle of
Window were callers Monday at
the Roy Castle home.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. w. Mann and
daughter Marienne, w. c. Mann
and Clarence visited Sunday at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce
Morehouse at Montevideo.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Wietz-
stein and daughter of Waseca,
Luella Prodoehl of Milwaukee,
Mrs. Amelia Prodoehl and Mari
Ign of Olivia were dinner guests
of MIR. and Mrs. William Prodoehl
Thursday.
The Citizens league held a
meeting at school Friday. After
the business session, a short pro-
gram on Columbus Day was Civ
en-. Those in charge were Milton
Zielsdorf, Palmer Hanson and
Norman Simondet.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark Sponaugle
attended a district WPA recrea-
ton supervisors meeting at New
Ulm Thursday. Mr.. SHETLAND of
Hutchinson accompanied them
here and was an overnight guest
at their home.
Henry Winterheld and Law
renee Zweber were Sunday eve
ming dinner guests at the Alva
Gaffney home. They were enroute
to Tracy where they are employed
by the Zweber Construction COM
pany. >>4lu
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolph Chal-
strom and son Jimmy and Mr..
and Mrs. Eddie Erickson and
daughter Julianne of Dalbo spent
Sunday visiting the j. P. and Al
va Gaffney families and the V. L.
Holt family at Redwood Falls.
Shirley Stancer spent the week.
end with Merle Cliff at Redwood
Falls.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alva Gaffney
were business visitors at Walnut
Grove.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. M. Hepner of
Redwood Falls were guests Sum
day of MIR. and Mrs. Roy Castle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nick thinner of
Renville and Mrs. Lester Davis
and children of st. Paul were
guests at the John thinner home
Saturday.
MIR. and Mrs. John thinner
visited at the Clifford thinner
home in Renville Sunday.
Quite crowd from here at
tended the county Sunday school
convention at Morgan Sunday.
Glenrae Scheunert, Leroy Cas-
tie and Douglas Simondet were
among the high school pupils who
went to Willmar Tuesday to hear
the United States Navy band.
DR.. and Mrs. H. O. McPheeters
of Minneapolis were weekend
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Kuenzh.
Jasper Simondet, Ed Heise and
Mary Harris visited at the Ar
thur Kuenzli home Sunday after
noon.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-10-20

ing relatives near Clements and
at the home of Mrs. Bacon's bro
theirs, William and Joseph Park
er.
Helen Eusey has returned home
after spending six months at Cow
er Dalene, Idaho.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Kuck of
Redwood Falls were callers Mon
day afternoon of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Stewig.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Ford of
Minneapolis were visitors of Mrs.
John Stewig Sunday.
Marion Stewig has been i'll with
flu at her home the last week.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-10-20
Interesting Items
From BrOOkville
By Mrs. o. Bloemke

Brool1ville-Mr and Mrs. F. J.
Sheffield had as their dinner
guests Sunday Mr.. and Mrs. Alex
James and Leslie of st. Paul, Mr..
and Mrs. Frank James of Mime
apolis, Clifford James and Alden
Sheffield of Redwood Falls.
MIR. and Mrs Robert Richert
went to Sleepy Eye Thursday to
attend the funeral of John Gesch-
Windt.
Walter, John and Howard
Shanks of Minneapolis and Allen
Nelson of Princeton were guests
at the Robert Richert home Sat-
urday and Sunday. They also en-
joyed hunting.
F. j. Sheffield marketed a truck
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-10-20
WILLOW LAKE
By Zerelda Fennern

By ZereIda Fennern
Willow Lake - Gust Fennern
and sons, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Werner and son, Mr.. and Mrs.
Christian Fennern and daughter
visited at the Louis Fenger home
Sunday evening.
Mrs. John Benson returned
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-10-20
NEW PIANO LINE

The Music Store. has added
Wurlitzers to its piano stock, now
having three lines including Gull
bransons and Story and Clarks.
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The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-06
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
WITH DUE REGARD FOR THE
CONSTITUTION

An attempt by the President to control the
choice of the senators of state, and if success
full in one state to do so in other states is utterly
of the senate, and also with its peculiar functions
The plan and the object of the senate in the con-
stituton is to make each state itself constituent
element and factor in the federal government. y :
Any interference upon the part of the executive
of the union in the election of senators is plain,
palpable nfraction of the express guaranty of the
constitution (artcle W, which declares that "no
state without it's consent shall be deprived of equal
suffrage in the senate" If the President, with the
power and patronage of the general government
at his back is to choose interfere in the choice
of senator from Maryland he violates the cOnsti-
tuition.
Every man in this country, and none better than
you yourself knows that the President has abso-
lutely not a shred of right to do this The
federal government can show authority to con-
troll voters or influence elections in the states 1t
is not only not delegated power, but it is incapa-
therefore, under the ninth and tenth amendments
to the constitution, the power is reserved to the
states respectively, to the people.
Thus wrote the attorney general of Maryland
to the President of the United States. The attOr-
ney general was Isaac Loeb Straus and the letter
to replace Senator John Walter Smith with Will
liam L. Marbury although he did not come out
openly against Smith.-GreenSboro News
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-06

one person in another developed
trustworthiness in the other.
Generally you should not, | be-
lieve, confide to another that
which would cause him to look
down on you. No human being is
your Judge. If something you have
done weighs on your conscience,
talk it out with your Creator. You
are not required to make your
fellows think less of you. And
perhaps should you make your
pitiful confession, it would be to
someone no better than you, #
as good, and who might use the
information to tear you down.
And, too. the very fact that you
knew that he knew might tend to
pull you down.
And if you have wronged an
other and he does not know it,
why plague him by telling him OF
it? Make amends, if you can. But
let your guilt be a matter be-
tween yourself and your God.
We all sin; every one of us.
But we are not called on to
broadcast information about our
frailties, which will make our up
ward climb more difficult. If our
sins have been covered. we caa
thank God for it, and try to show
becoming gratitude.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-06
TALKING ABOUT LAWYERS

The organized lawyers of this country do some
queer things, says the Chicago Tribune ABUSES
abound in the courts, every one knows. In most
of these abuses lawyers concerned directly. In
the heat of controversy sharp practice is frequent
~ resorted to. Trials are delayed needeSSly Wit
nesseS are deliberately befuddled. Suits are filed
all often for purposes scarcely diStingushable
from backmail. The conduct Of lawyer criminals is
stencil in mems nostrils.'
The Tribune would have the organized lawyers
correct their abuses before they devote energy
to such efforts as those in Los Angeles where the
organized lawyers do not like editorial expressions
in The Times. The Tribune holds that it is the
duty of newspapers to watch the courts and report
on them. In the United States courts are the peo-
pies, not the kings, and the people should be
warned when court abuses are occurring.
Not all lawyers guilty of the offences charg-
ed by The Tribune In American towns are many
lawyers whose practices correct and who agree
with The Tribune about lawyers who are party to
abuses. 1t is no business Of lawyers in Los Angeles
anywhere else in this country to try to influ-
ence newspaper XpresSOns.-Charleston News and
Courier
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-06
RECALLS HARDING's ADMINISTRATION

In the Harding administration nothing more
scandalouS alleged, short of penitentiary crimes
than this scandal about James Roosevelt, secretary
to the president, in the sale of insurance AS The
Columbia State says, it should not be ignored by
those persons most concerned. If Mr. James Roose-
welt sold insurance by the of political influ-
ence it was scandalous, and if corporations bought
his insurance policies in order to obtain govern
ments favor it scandaous If The Saturday
Evening Post and its writer, Alva Johnson, printed
and wrote untruths that was scandalous. As the
case stands, The American Telegraph and Tee-
phone company, which bought no insurance poll
cies from Mr. James Roosevelt when solicited, is
not scandaized
President Franklin Roosevelt is an innocent vic
tim of this scandal.
The scandal may be cleared up. Until it is clear
ed up, a sense of the common propretes requires
Mr. James Roosevelt to retire from government
Standardization News and Courier.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-06
RIGHT NOW, NO WAITING

Because her mother postponed buying pair of
shoes, l5-year-old Guilford county girl shot her
self one day last week. The girl wanted the shoes
for some unnamed occasion Thursday, and her
mother postponed buying them until Saturday The
girl couldn't wait, ended it all with shotgun.
Thus see fruits of the ever growing lack of
selfrestraint on the part of the young generation
good tme-a new DRESS an automobile, dance
no wating-rght now. Anything price, but
waiting, effort at sef-restraint. That seems
to be the feeling of many youths these days. And
that very trait is filling our prisons 'wrecking
health and blasting lives by the thousands. Isn't
it high time parents were beginning training their
young children against such influences? child
had far better never to have been born, than grow
up with the idea that he is entitled to have any
thing he wants and have it right now, and with
that "et the future go hanged if l get what
want right Now" philosophy of life.--Mocks-
Vile Enterprise.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-06

Editor, The Timcs-News:
Please allow me space in your
paper, in the defense Of the Rev.
j. Harold Smith, who is holding a
great revival in our midst. My
husband, daughters and self have
been there several nights and on
SUNDAYS. we've found nothing
wrong with any thing he has said,
but we're not intelligent, thank
God, especially, if its the kind
that won't listen to the gospel.
He's told nothing but the gospel
truth, and if he should preach all
night; could sit and listen all
night.
As for him making SO much
money, as Mrs. Helen Rowland
says. the books and bills are there.
for open inspection by her or any
one, find out what he is doing
with it. He only lives. 1t takes
money to carry on Gods work.
Find out what ne does with the
money God gives him to carry ON
His work, Mrs. Rowland. If you
don't like to support the gospel
Of Christ why do you grumblc
when the really intelligent people
of Henderson county do support
him so literally.
We Christian people know he
was surely sent by tn" Saviour in
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-07-06
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
nv RODNEY BUTCHER

and merchandising inventories m
creased by about two billion dol
lars in 1896 and three billions in
1887
GOVERNMENT EXP EN- D l.
~ TURES: Here came the big
gest, quickest drop of all among
factors tending to Increase ma
tional income. Net excess Of ac-
tivity-creating federal eXpendi-
lures over and above tax collec-
tons was four billion dollars in
1886. This excess dropped from
about 1885, 100000 mon 18th
through 1886 to less than 500
100000 monthly from March to
December, 1887. Bonus payment
swelled the total in 1886 and COL
lection of a billion social security
taxes shrank the 1887 figure.
OTHER FACTORS: The specu-
lative movement had to subside
sooner or later: this one ended in
April of last year. Pressure of in
ventories began to be felt and in
duStries began to sell from ac-
Cumulated stock instead of new
production. Increased reserve re-
quirements and Mr.. Roosevelts
warning against certain high
prices dampened infiationary sem
timent-"may have" says Curriee,
The labor situation became
more stabilized after the u. 5.
Steel and General Motors agree
ments with c. l. o., discountin&
another speculative factor. Sta
tistics began to show that install
ment credit had been extended
dangerously. Residential building
began to fall off after April, 1887,
apparently because OF cost and
price advances. Industry was
sufficiently confident to 60 on in
creasAg new plant and equip
ment expenditures through the
third quarter of the year, total
such expenditure being seven BILL
lion dollars in 1887 as compared
with five billions in 1886. But
adverse factors eventually flat
tened out that factor, too, and
everybody knows the rest.
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