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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-01-26
Car Hits Man
Changing Tire,
Seriously Hurt
BECHYN FARMER TAX
EN- TO HOSPITAL WITH
SKULL, BACK WOUNDS

Joseph SerbuS, 46, of Bechyn is
in the Redwood Falls hospital with
a broken back and fractured skull
sustained when he was struck by
a passing car as he was changing
a tire on his auto on the Danube
read nine miles north of Redwood
Falls about 7:30 p. m. Friday.
His condition remains "about
the same" nurses reported this
morning. At times he reaches
Semi-conSciousneSs.
Sheriff Henry Heaney of Rem
vile county who conducted an in
veStigation of the accident said
this morning it was apparently
unavoidable as visibility was
poor.
Orrin Lueck of Middle Creek
was driver of the car which hit
Serbus and continued on, the oc-
cupants unaware that they had
struck him.
With SerbuS at the time of the
accident were Mrs. Serbus. who
was holding the flashlight while
he worked and their daughter
Marie, II, who was holding tire
bolts.
Lueck with several young COM
panions was on his way to the
senior class play at Danube.
Grace Fischer, Evangeline Kurtz,
Marian Steinkamp and Percy
Brandt were passengers.
Stops Passing Car
Serious was thrown Is feet by
the impact. Mrs. Serbus rushed
to hold him, telling her daughter
to run to the Fred Kuglin farm
nearby for help.
81 told her four times before
she could move" Mrs. Serbus
said describing their shock fol-
lowing the accident.
While the girl went for aid,
Mrs. SerbuS saw another car APP
preaching and ran to the middle
of the road waving the fiashlight.
Harold Lueck, brother of Orrin
and William Kraft were in the
machine and they took Mrs. Ser
bus and the injured man to the
hospital.
Lueck reported that he felt a
bump, but looked back and could
see nothing but what appeared to
be the lights of the car as it NOV
ed south, the direction in which
it was headed. Lueck was travel
ing north. A heavy fog made
visibility poor.
Reports to Sheriff
Later that night he learned that
his brother had taken Serbus to
the hospital and found the scene
of the accident was where he had
noticed the bump. He reported
to Sheriff L. j. Kise and Renville
county authorities were notified.
Mr.. and Mrs. Serbus were on
their way to visit at the Henry
Schneider home. The accident
occurred near the driveway to
their own farm.
They are the parents of nine
children, the youngest two months
old.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-01-26
Hearing Today
On Ditch lO9
SHERMAN, MORGAN
TOWNSHIP DITCH is
BEING CONSIDERED

Preliminary hearing on deep
/, ening, widening and extending
Redwood county ditch 100 began
at $50 a. m. today before the
board of county commissioners.
A part of the huge county
drainage program, the project
would require approximately
$4,000. Forty-five per cent of
the amount is available in PWA
funds granted this winter.
Should the matter pass, pros
poets for low bids are good, as the
contract for similar work on ditch
106 let recently went for about
$4,000. The estimate had been
$50, 900.
The ditch under constellation
is about Is miles in length, run
ming through Sherman and Nor
gan townships from southwest of
Morgan toward the village and
then northeast into Crow Creek.
Twenty-nine property owners
in the section signed the petition
for extension.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-01-26
St. Patriick's
Day Selected
For Institute
COUNTY AGENT, C & C
ARRANGING PROGRAM
OF GOOD SPEAKERS

st. Patrick's day has been sell
ected as the date of a one-day
Farmers Institute to be held in
Redwood Falls under the spon-
sorship of the Civic and Com
merce association.
Speakers, furnished by the ex-
tension division of the University
of Minnesota, will probably in
clude R. F. Grim, crop specialist
who will discuss hybrid corn; E.
M. Hunt, who will have fruits
and berries as his subject; S. H.
Rutford who will talk on 1.-THE
Farmers Stake In Foreign Trade
and E. j. Falvey who will talk
on farm business to women,
many of whom have requested
such topic.
Mr.. Falvey is the only person
on this years program who was
here last year, and his topic will
be new.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-01-26
WOrthingtOn Sheriff
Heads Crime Bureau

Eldon Rowe of Worthington,
one of the sheriffs of southwest
tern Minnesota who has cooper
ated LIlly with KIND, state
crime bureau radio station here,
was appointed by Governor Har-
old Stassen Wednesday as chiefs
of the state crime bureau. He will
also head the state highway pa
troll which has two men stationli
here.
Rowe has been sheriff of No
bles county 16 years. He was a
regimental sergeant-major in the
seth infantry at Camp Cody dur
ing the war, serving with several
Redwood Falls men. He has been
president of the state sheriffs as
ISOLATION twice.
At the same time Governor
Stassen announced, 81 am oppos-
ed to increasing the powers of the
highway patrol (Whose police
powers are limited) and l am
against increasing the size of the
patrol at this session. Until a con-
stitutional amendment is adopted
forbidding participation of the
states police agencies in labor
disputes such enlargement of
powers or personnel would not
get public support"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-01-26
Everything You'd Like to
Whisper to Her is Put Up
Fancy on 1899 Valentines

st. Valentine little dreamed
that one day, in his name, you
could purchase printed greetings
especially for your grandmother,
your sweetheart, your pop, your
teacher, and hundreds of other
specific friends, relatives and &C
quaintances.
At least, it's practical certain
ty that the Christian martyr Of
the third century, in whose honor
tender missives are exchanged
each February ID, could rot for
see the lengths to which twentieth
century merchandising would
carry the custom.
Redwood Falls stores handling
the bright cards have these sin
dividualized" valentines available:
"a Valentine For Grandma"
"ro Grandpa" ga Valentine For
Teacher" and "For Nom" among
hundreds of others.
ITO My Girl Friend" "To The
Boy Friend" ITO A Very Good
Friends" ito My Pail" "To A
Special Friend" ITO A Little
Friend" and "To A Good Friend"
are variations on the friend
theme. Most of them reveal sub
lie touch of romance.
No hint of love, however, is con-
tanned in the one which reads on
the outside, eli Chum," and
opens to reveal letter "p" on the
end of the Chum.
In the real spirit Of the day,
ruffled greetings; "For Someone
Dear" ITO My Beloved" ITO My
Sweetheart" ITO One ] Love-"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-01-26

"To Someone Sweet" and to just
Darling" are displayed in the
four stores which carry Valen-
tines here.
Redwood Falls husbands feel
ing particularly adoring can send
a Valentine ITO The Dearest Wife
In The World" The more reser-
we'd can chose one which reads,
with Love To My Wife,"
valentine Greetings to That
Hubby O'Mine," is offered women
buyers here.
Carrying the Valentine idea to
some lengths are the ones design
ed particularly for "My Sweet
hearts Mother" Greetings On
Your Valentine Birthday" and
"a Valentine Fer Youse."
If you sustain crush on a
Continued on page Sky
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-01-26
Birthday Ball
Here Monday
SCHOOL CHILDREN GET
BEHIND MARCH OF
DIMES, GET RESULTS

School children and Boy Scouts
were highly commended Wednes-
day for their aggressive work in
the "March of Dimes" campaign
and the drive to sell tickets to the
Presidents Birthday ball.
Leroy Flore, county chairman
of the move to secure funds to
fight infantile paralysis, said the
youngsters "are going to town."
Activities of the campaign in
Redwood Falls will eliminate in
the dance at the armory Monday
night. Music will be furnished by
Nick st. Marie's Filipinos, high
ly popular orchestra.
Fifty per cent of funds raised
will remain in the communities
which contribute them and the
other half will go to the National
Foundation to fight the disease.
If sufficient money can be raised
here an ''iron lung will be pur-
chased.
Smaller towns throughout the
county will all hold birthday
dances, some of them scheduled
as late as the second week in
February.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-01-26
ANNOUNCE FARM
AUCTION PLANS
MRS. MOORHEAD, PET.
Frs SALES ON LIST;
OTHERS COMING

One of the earliest signs of
spring, the farm auction season
will get underway next week in
the Redwood Falls area.
Booked for Monday is the sale
of property belonging to Mrs.
Mile Moorhead who has sold
her farm, located between Red
wood Falls and Wabasso. Live
stock, machinery and some house.
hold goods are listed.
Charles Peters auction is book
ed for February l, with a COM
plete line of machinery including
a nearly new tractor advertised.
Horses, cattle, hogs and grain will
be Sold The farm is west and
south of Redwood Falls.
H. c. Emmerick, four miles
south of Seaforth, will hold sale
February Is. Mr.. Emmerick is
selling a complete set of power
farm equipment, his household
goods and livestock.
Paul r. Current of Comfrey is
advertising a Duroc bred sow sale
for February 7. S. L. Park of
Redwood Falls will hold his an
nual Hampshire sale later in the
month.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-01-26
Troops March
Into Barcelona
CHEERED BY CROWDS
EXPECTING FOOD AS
BOMBING STOPS

Hendaye, France, at the Span
ish frontier-(P)-Insurgent Cen
eral Francois Spanish, Moorish
and Italian troops marched into
Barcelona at noon today with
flags flying and bands playing,
formally taking over Spain's larg-
est city after two and one-half
years of civil war.
The government defense had
collapsed. Insurgent dispatches
said there was little or no resist
ance at the end. At last reports
the government army was form
ing a new defense line somewhere
to the north.
Insurgent accounts of the en-
try said people flocked from their
houses to greet the victorious ar
my whose planes had rained
death among them.
Today it was another thing.
Dispatches said the Barcelonians
cheered wildly as the troops par
AIDED through the palm lined
streets. To them Francois vic
tory meant something more than
triumph for the insurgent cause.
1t meant food and an end to the
borobipo
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-01-26
BankDeposits
Gain in 1888
RECESSION FAILS TO
REDUCE FUNDS IN
COUNTY BANKS

Despite the recession" low
prices of farm products and slow
retail buying due to unusual
weather last spring, summer and
this winter, bank deposits in Red
wood county gained in 1888 above
those in 1887.
A summary based on sworn
statements of the banks at the
time of answering the federal
bank call as of December 81, 1888
shows that county banks closed
the year with 1886, 1920 on de-
post.
The total 1888 figure compares
with $3,248, 1880 on hand Dec
ember 81, 1887 and represents an
increase of $1O8, 5483O.
Five of the county's nine banks
showed increased deposits over a
year ago, The State Bank of Red
wood Falls making 1.-THE largest
gain-from SOL ,212.l9 at the end
of 1887 to $156,634.43 at the close
of 1888. The bank was establish
ed early in August 1887 and year.
SllS loot ySOl oSSoSiitSo
for only five months of business.
The Citizens State bank of
Redwood Falls not only remained
the largest but continued its
steady growth, deposits showing
a gain of $50, 02193 over a year
ago. Together the Redwood Falls
banks do slightly over 38 per cent
of the county's banking business.
The State Bank of Morgan is
second in size with $560,898.39 in
deposits while the Farmers and
Merchants bank of Lamberton is
third with $473,622.90. Both had
substantial gains in deposits dur
ing 1888.
Other banks in the county and
the amount on deposit December
81 are:
State Bank of Lucan$ 81,044 .6S
Sanborn State bank 49, 245 1859. 78
Wabasso State Bark - 288, 612.85
Citizens State Bank,
Walnut Grove ---.. 202 1865 .65
Wanda State Bank .-..-. 221, 104.71
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-01-26
Rasmussen Accuses
Governor of Playing
Politics With Budget
DRASTIC REDUCTION
FROM LAST BIENNIAL
BUDGET SOUGHT

st. Paul-(P) - Governor Stas-
sen today announced he would
deliver his biennial budget mes
sage to a joint session of the legis-
lature next Wednesday noon.
He said he had set no definite
maximum figures to cover state
expenses but he was aiming at "a
substantial reduction from the
budget of two years ago"
That budget called for ~ mil
lion dollars to run the state in
1937-1938.
AS he made his announcement,
Paul A. Rasmussen, former state
budget commissioner, charged the
governor had ''miSrepresented"
the states financial status and
challenged the governor to debate
the subject.
Rasmussen charged in a letter
to the governor that StaSSen'S an
alysis of the states financial con-
dition is more concerned with
political expediency than with the
actual needs of the state"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-01-26
Farm Bureau
Resolutions
Ask Reforms
CIVIL SERVICE, LOWER
REAL ESTATE TAXES
ASKED BY DELEGATES

Frank w. White, president and
all other officers of the Mime
sofa Farm Bureau Federation
were reelected at the twentieth
annual meeting of the Minnesota
Farm Bureau held last week in
st. Paul.
Attendance exceeding $500
farmers and farm home makers
crowded sessions and hundreds
were turned away from the an
nual banquet after the main ball
room and smaller dining rooms OF
the Lowry hotel were filled.
Governor Harold Stassen, ban
quet speaker, was given an ova-
ton at the close of his half-hour
talk in which he promised to give
Minnesota fair and economical
government.
Seventy-five affiliated county
Farm Bureaus, represented by 80
official delegates, expressed the
views of agriculture in resolu-
tons bearing on national, state
and local farm problems.
The soil conservation program
was again Endorsed as the most
direct method of controlling
farm SURPRISES and raising farm
prices to parity levels. Tax re-
form through removal of exces-
sively high real estate taxes, a
strong state civil service bill, re-
duction in costs of transportation,
monetary reform and other points
dealing with financial or social
phases>of farm life were voiced in
the rs resolutions adopted.
The home and community con-
ference brought out a strong re-
solution, later confirmed by the
general convention, demanding
that saloons and beer parlorS be
forbidden in rural areas not under
police protection.
The last state legislative session
passed a law increasing the state
gas tax from three to four cents
for a tWo-year period which ends
in June. The convention asked
that the legislature continue the
four cent tax, that there be no di-
version of gas tax funds to any
other purpose than road building
and that there be a $3.50 division
of these funds between the prim-
airy and secondary road systems.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-01-26
Combs, BrOokins
On Barley School
Program Saturday

A. B. Combs of the u. S. de-
partment of agriculture and W.
w. Brookins of University Farm
will headline the program at the
second annual barley school to be
held at the Wabasso village hall
Saturday.
County elevators are financing
noon lunch and offer prizes on
the five best samples of barley.
These prizes will be limited to the
samples that have already been
sent in by the elevators.
What it takes to make mailing
barley will be one of the subjects
discussed Other topics will be
growing of mailing barley and
barley diseases. Barley and flax
as cash crops will also be on the
program.
The program will be directed
by H. c. Lau, chairman of the
Crop Improvement committee. All
growers of barley and elevator
managers are invited.
Barley samples will be examin-
and returned from $50 until IL
a. M, when the program will be-
gin.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-01-26
Hybrid Corn Picture
70 Be Shown Friday

1.-THE agricultural department of
Redwood Falls High school will
sponsor a free talking motion pic
ture on the growing and breeding
of hybrid corn at the Lincoln
school auditorium Friday evening
at p. m.
The picture, which has been
secured from the Pioneer Hi-Bred
Corn company, comes highly re-
commended. as very educational
and all farmers in this vicinity are
invited to see it.
The Paxton Farmers club will
hold its meeting at the Lincoln
auditorium, with the picture one
of the events on the program,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-01-26
Credit Union Elects;
Business Increases

Officers of the Scenic City
Credit Union were reelected at
the third annual meeting of stock
holders in the Redwood Falls city
hall Monday night.
c. E. Goodyear of Paxton is
president; j. F. Knudson of Red
wood Falls, vice president; A. M
Dennistoun of Wabasso, treasurer
and Clifford James of Redwood
Falls, secretary. R. V. Ochs OF
Redwood Falls was renamed a
director.
H. D. Thorp, August Kraemer
and Sam Boyle form the new sup
ervisory committee.
An increase in business was
reported, total of $1,000, in
small loans being handled in 1898
Net earnings last year exceeded
four per cent.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-01-26
Firemen Spare That
Wall; Company Has
New Attachment

II fire starts inside the walls
of your home, just relax.
The Redwood Falls fire depart
ment isn't going to hack away
the lathe and plaster with axes
to put it out.
A new 'puncture tip" hose at
tachment, designed and made by
Joseph NJ. Corbett, department
chief, makes it possible to punch
a one inch hole in the wall to put
out the blaze. Such small open
ing can be patched easily.
The sharp pointed steel tip has
spray holes in it and rope is
wound around the handle of the
instrument TO make the grip firm.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-01-26
France Warns Italy
To Keep Hands Off

Paris-(PD - Foreign Minister
Georges Bonnet gave Italy a SOL
emn warning today to keep hands
eff the French Colonial empire
while south of Frances Spanish
frontier, Italian troops were aid
ing the insurgent conquest of Bar
celona.
France cannot permit anyone
to touch the empire she founded
with her blood" Bonnet declared
in crowded, cheering chamber
of deputies.
His speech concluded the for
eign affairs debate just after the
government called 10000 young
men six months ahead of schedule
for service during the coming
months when Italy's demands for
share in the FRENCH empire are
expected to reach a climax.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-01-26
DEMAND FOR FLAX
SEED TO INCREASE
NON-DEPLETING WHEN
USED AS NURSE CROP
IN 1889 PROGRAM

If flax is used as a nurse crop
it will be considered as monde
pleting, according to A. R. Karr,
of Fairmont, fieldman for the
AAA in southwestern Minnesota.
There will be no limit on the
use of flax this year, but evidence
that the seed used was adapted
will be required. Purchasers will
have to obtain an affidavit from
seed dealers, growers and thresh-
ermen.
Farmers of Redwood county are
receiving this information at
educational meetings on the 1889
soil conservation program, being
conducted by County Agent j. l.
SWedberg.
'Seed flax will be up to So a
bushel before seeding time" one
farmer predicted at a conserva-
ton meeting in Redwood Falls
Wednesday.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-01-26
MRS. ZUMWINKLE
FUNERAL TODAY
RENVILLE PIONEER, 70,
DIED MONDAY NIGHT
AT MORTON HOME

The Morton Methodist church
was the scene of funeral services
this afternoon for Mrs. Henry
Zumwinkle, 70, who died Monday
night at her home there. She
had been i'll two weeks.
Martha Ann Carruth was born
June l, 1864 at Trowbridge, Can
ada. The family later moved to
farm in Renville county, north
of Beaver Falls.
September II, 1882 she was
married to Henry Zumwinkle at
Beaver Falls and they lived there
for Sc years, moving to Morton
in October 1887.
She is survived by her husband
and eight children, all of whom
were present at the funeral.
They are Mrs. Bert Brown and
Mrs. Harry Hale of Beaver Falls;
Mrs. William Schablin and Mrs.
Blanche Bliss of Morton; James
Zumwinkle of Olivia; Mrs. Tom
Hewerdine of Fisher, Illinois; Mrs.
George Pregler of Franklin and
Theodore Zumwinkle of Baudette.
A son, Ed, died in 1888 at the age
of A.
There are three sisters, Mrs.
Louis Brown of Morton, Mrs.
Margaret Zumwinkle of Redwood
Falls and Mrs. Rose Seabeck of
st. Paul and six brothers, Parker
Carruth and William of Beaver
Falls; Albert of Danvers; Joe OF
Morton; Arthur of Clear Lake,
Wisconsin and Wallace of Red
wood Falls.
Also surviving are 81 grand
children and 10 great grandchil-
dren.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-01-26
athletic Field Work
Will be Completed
PROJECTS UNDERWAY
TO BE PUSHED; WPA
CASH HELPS 35

With a program for 1889 more
extensive and interesting than the
half dozen stockholders in at
tendance at its annual meeting
might indicate, the directors OF
the Redwood Falls recreation as
ISOLATION reported Tuesday night
and having heard no dissent. will
proceed to carry out their plans.
Mainly the program for the
year is to complete work already
we'll along. The association has
about $4,000 available in WPA
funds, about equally divided be-
tween the stadium project and
another for the track, Softball
field and landscaping. Principal
worry is funds for sponsor con-
tributions.
Trees from hogsback near the
powerhouse will be dug up in the
early spring and transplanted to
beautify the property. Some OF
the grounds have been seeded and
more Identification work is plan
ned.
crew is Quarrylmg
A crew varying from % to 81
men has been employed on the
project. They would otherwise
be on direct relief, it was pointed
out. At present they are working
at the quarry, getting stone ready
for laying next summer.
Besides the stadium project
stone is being used in a Softball
amphi-theatre which will seat zoe
spectators. Car parking space is
available above the bleachers AND
when baseball games likely to at
tract larger crowds are brought
here, temporary bleacherS can be
erected there.
The outfeld has been tiled, lev
eled, bladed, disked, seeded and
rolled. The track also is nearly
ready for spring use.
At a recent meeting of the re-
creation board with members OF
the three other organizations in
terested in the project, a commit
tee WIS appointed to prepare g
plan of procedure, including fin
ancing. In this group are Mayor
J. c. Budik, c. A. Hillig of the
school board, E. A. Johnson OF
the high school alumni associa-
ton ard j. L. Parsons, president
of the recreation association.
At present the well lighted
skating rink at the field is getting
considerable use.
Cole Reelected
DR.. j. Gordon Cole was re-
elected for four year term as di-
rector and the financial statement
of the organization was read by
Reede Gray, secretary.
1t shows receipts of $40 from
sale of certificates, $50.55 refund
of gas tax, $3.50 from sale of
stadium tickets, $1,000 advanced
by the school district and $500
from the city. With $125.51 on
hand from 1887, receipts totaled
$3,346.06.
Main expense items were for
cement, gravel, lumber, reinforc-
ing iron, fencing and gas and oil.
The board paid out So, 344.66, has
a balance of $1.40 on hand and
obligations of $3.50.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-01-26
APPLETON CASE
POSTPONED; NEW
TO LEGAL STAFF

The case of the State of Min
nesota by William S. Erwin, at
torney general, versus Elsie APP
pleton, the county of Redwood,
George A. Alexander, Elite Alex
ander, M. L. Lobb, H, G. Werder,
A. j. White and S. B. Duea on
trunk highway land condemnation
scheduled for hearing in district
court here Saturday, was post
poned until March 81.
Members of the state legal staff
and highway department new
since the Republican regime, are
not familiar enough with the case
to try it, according to court au-
thoritieS.
The hearing is expected to fin
ish legal activities started when
the rev Redwood river bridge
was put in.