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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-06
ROCK, With 44.2l,
HEADS STATE LIST
FOR Low TAX RATE
REDWOOD'S AVERAGE
is 59.46; TWELFTH
IN STATE IN 1887

Z Redwood county fell to eigh-
teenth place among Minnesota's
81 counties in average tax rate
for 1888, an abstract released this
week by State Auditor Stafford
King, reveals.
The average rate of taxation
here last year was 1916. as COM
pared to 5709 in 1887 when the
county ranked twelfth lowest in
the state; 52.51 in 1896 when Red
wood was sixth and 544 in 1885
when the county was ninth low
est.
Rock county had the lowest
1888 rate. 4421 mills and Murray
was second low in county stand
ings with a 4945 mill rate. In
Cook county, again the highest
tax rate division in the state, the
rate is 282.81 mills. Koochiching
is second high with 1868 mills.
A total of $685., 1920 was lev
led on all taxable property in
Redwood county in 1888. VAL
uation Of the property taxed was
$13, 1873, 265, decrease of $122,-
426 from 1887.
The average value of county
land, exclusive of town lots, was
$13.08 per acre, drop of 81 cents
an acre from 1887 when value
was set at $18.35. In 1886 aver
age value was 1884; in 1885,
$18.06 and in 1884, $18.
In Renville county, the average
value per acre last year was
$15.78 and in Brown county, value
was $19.16 per acre. Renville
ccunty's average rate was 60.72
and its total tax levy $911, 229.51
on property valued at $13, 1885,, sos.
Exclusive of town lots, the
Redwood county acres taxed total
ed SIS, 30522, their value with
structures thereon being listed at
$1G,003,828.
Town and city lots and build
ings were evaluated at 81, 1894 ,43O,
an increase, of $35,O63 over the
1887 value.
Taxable personal property had
a valuation of 81, 450,007, a drop
of Sc, 148 from that of 1887.
From the total tax collection,
$106,676.84 was apportioned for
soldiers relief, state road and
bridge and other funds This
marked a decrease of $6,597 .26
from 1887 when the apportion-
ment was $113,274.1O. The state
school ard university fund re-
ceived $13,881.19 from Redwood
county and $2,595.67 went into the
teachers retirement fund.
Under county taxes, the rev.
enuc fund received S62: 954.04
and the road ard bridge fund got
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-06
LAMBERTON POST
SPONSORS JUNIOR
BASEBALL TEAM
H. KANE HEADS COM.
MITTEE; OTHER NEWS
ITEMS OF VICINITY
BY Mrs. o. c. Koenie

Lamberton-The Andrew Pet
erson post of the American Le-
gion will sponsor a junior base
ball club again this summer and
cooperate with the town ball
club. H. B. Kane heads the junior
baseball committee.
The John Marben family NOV
ed Saturday into the John Roth
home. Earle Bolles have moved
into the Marben house monday.
Mrs. Ralph Dow (Rose Gallery
of Minneapolis visited her sister
Mrs. E. ]. Bellig from Thursday
to Saturday.
Neva Engesvick of Park Rapids
is visiting her mother and other
relatives this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Bauer and
family visited Mr.. Bauer's father
at New Ulm Sunday.
( Oscar NeSterud accompanied
his daughter Mrs. Alfred Johnson
to Minneapolis Monday where she
entered the University hospital
for medical attention.
- WIS. dix udCf1IIIluI Is VISIT
ing her parents Mr.. and Mrs. John
Koenig.
Dorothy Haberman of West
brook is visiting Lois Larson for
a week.
Mrs. George Shelton returned
Friday after visiting her son at
Cambridge.
Mi. and Mrs. Roy Johnson
visited Mr.. Johnson's father who
is i'll at Balaton Sunday.
Mrs. Phil Moots visited Mrs.
Ed Ristou at New Ulm Saturday.
Members of the school faculty
left Friday for their homes for the
spring holidays.
Mrs. r. w. Kuehl and infant
son returned from a New Ulm
hospital Wednesday.
Luther Strommen and Claudia
Urness, students at Augsburg coll
lege Minneapolis, have been
selected as members of the college
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-06
WALNUT GROVE, ECHO
AND MORGAN ENTER;
CLEMENTS OUT

The opening date of the Red
wood County Baseball league
season has been set as Sunday,
April 80.
This was determined at a meet
ing of 80 representatives, includ-
ing the managers. from the eight
towns which will comprise the
league, Redwood Falls, Delhi
(last years WINERY, Wanda, Wa
basso and Seaforth, all members
in 1888 and walnut Grove, Nor
gan and Echo, newcomers in the
league this year. Clements will
not have team in the association
this year.
Clark Sponaugle was reelected
president for the 1899 season.
George Matson was elected secre-
tary-treasurer, replacing Everett
Roberts and Arthur Egge of Wal
nut Grove was made vice presi-
dent, taking the place of Leroy
Brandt of Clements.
Other business decided at the
meeting was that the league will
join the Minnesota Amateur
Ba5eball association, that the sea-
son will be a double round robin
affair and the top four in the
standings at the close of the sea-
son will enter a play-off to de-
termine the championship and the
team to represent the league in
the state baseball association
tourney.
1t was also voted to use the
Lowe-Campbell ball and rule
book. The constitution and by
laws of the last two years were
accepted without change.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-06
Merchant Loses
Eve in Fist Fight

Luverne-Henry Vande Velde,
hardware and implement dealer
at Kenneth, near Luverne, lost
his left eye in an alteration with
Sigmund Severtson, mayor of
Kenneth.
Severtson allegedly struck Van
der Velde while the latter was
wearing glasses.
Witnesses said the argument
started when Severtson told VAN
der Velde that the latter's son had
broken an electric sign. Fists be-
gan to fly and the fight did not
stop until Wander Velde's son
shouted that his fathers eye was
hurt. Bystanders then separat-
ed the men.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-06
County Eighteenth in Average Rate

$130,06884, an increase of $685.
140.41 over that of 1887.
To the poor fund went $80,012-
.02. Other taxes amounted to
$131 ,448.42.
Redwood county paid no inter-
est or principal on state loans, a
fund which received $3,545.11 in
1897. The space for bonds and in
terest other than state loans was
also blank in this weeks release.
From city and village assess
ments, 41,354.31 was allocated to
revenue funds; $7,740.37 to road
and bridge funds and S3,790.25 for
interest and principal en- state
loans. Local assessments totalled
1889 and other taxes $14,513-
10.
No funds were set aside for
poor relief, funds for which
amounted to $101.30 in cities and
villages in 1887.
Township taxes contributed
$11,764.77 for revenue and $82,-
06262 for roads and bridges. In
terest and principal on state loans
totaled $15061 and other taxes
were $226.04.
School districts collected $13,-
1928 with the local one mill tax
and paid $6,856.19 interest and
principal on state loans. Their
other special taxes amounted to
S167, 219.70, an increase of 81 ,038.-
38 over the year before.
The total value of reported
money ard credits in Redwood
county in 1888 was 1891, TAO, a
rise of $65,373 from the 1887.
Tax returns on such assess
ments aggregated $4,l75.18 divid-
ed one-sixth to the state; one
i sixth to the county; one third to
the school district and one third
to the township, city or village.
Yellow Medicines average rate
was 1922, its levy $500 1886 on
property value at $9,795, 1856.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-06
Fat Dutchmen to
Play for Police
Benefit April IL

The Six Fat Dutchmen will
play at benefit dance sponsored
by the Redwood Falls police de-
partment at the armory here
Tuesday night, April IL.
Policemen plan to buy uniforms
with the proceeds and other
equipment, should funds go far
enough.
$50 far we have had an excel
lent response to our tickets sales, I"
Chief C. E. Johnson said, "And
we appreciate the public support
very much
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-06
Hire Grant County
Welfare Worker as
Investigator Here

Marian Lee who has been doir G
welfare work in Grant county
has been employed by Redwood
county az relief and old age as
sistancc investigator. She will
come here within two weeks to
begin work.
A graduate of the University of
Minnesota where she took up
social work. Miss Lee has been
working at Elbow Lake for a year
and a hall.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-06
Bob HallOran Back
To Direct All Work

Robert Halloran arrived Friday
from Browerville to take up work
as Redwood county All club
leader for the second year.
He worked as car salesman in
his home town last winter but
plans to return to the University
of Minnesota when he is through
with All club work here the last
of September.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-06

calves will be appraised and
weighed again. Boys who have
entered the contest are: James
and Paul Kohler, Gerald Sward
and Herbert Winn Jr., Redwood
Falls; Rudolph Noack and Lloyd
Wandersee, Morgan; Jack Moses,
Tracy; Conrad Freeburg, Walnut
Grove; Harvey Behrends, Del
mar Coulter and Louis Behrends,
Lamberton; Allen Brake, Mil
roy; Sidney Boushek, Belview;
Ray and Marlin Bredvold, San
born; James and Leonard Thors-
ton, Springfield; Harold Schmies-
ing, Lucan and Valarus Sell,
Clements.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-06
Murray County Agent
Resigns Position

c. H. Schrader, county agent Of
Murray county for IL years, re-
signed his position effective
March 81. A. B. Hagen, who for
three years served as assistant
county agent Immediately took
over. Schrader has accepted a
position as extension agronomist
in weed. control work, co-opera-
lively employed by the University
Agricultural Extension division
and the Minnesota Department of
Agriculture. E%f
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-06
20 in All BEEF
FEEDING CONTEST
CLOSE ACCOUNT TO BE
KEPT OF COST OF
MAKING GAINS

Twenty Redwood County All
baby beef members have entered
a special feeding contest this
year. Getting at the actual cost
of producing beef is the purpose
of the contest which will take
into account the amount and cost
of feed consumed and the gain in
pounds and dollars from the feed.
Appraisal of the calves for
market price was made by Earl
Bliss, manager of the Redwood
Falls Shipping association, who
was accompanied by Robert Hal
loran, county club leader.
AT the close of the contest the
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-06
DEALERS SEE MOVIE

Texaco dealers of the Redwood
Falls and Winthrop areas saw a
full length motion picture at a
gathering in the city hall here
Tuesday evening. F. E. Perrizo,
bulk agent here, assisted company
officials in arranging the affair.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-06
Oppose Legislation

Threatened with a partial loss
of state aid through an act to
come before the legislature, sup
erintendents and school board
members from throughout the
state met at Hotel Lowry in St.
Paul Monday and appointed a
committee to interview legisla-
tors. Reede Gray and c. A. Hill
Zig represented Redwood Falls
schools.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-06
Starts New Home

E. E. Lang. is building a new
house at Second and Swain street
in the east addition of the city.
There are no other homes in the
immediate vicinity. Mr.. Lang
plans to sell the house, which was
staked out this week, and live in
the one which he is now build
ing on East Second street.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-06
Secretary Ahrens Is
Now Vice President

Ted Ahrens, former secretary
of the Redwood Falls Civic and
Commerce association, carried his
office-winning personality along
with him to the Williams Institute
of Mortuary Science in Kansas
City. He is vice-president of his
class of 80 students.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-06
Wanda Car Stolen

A 1929 Chevrolet coach owned
by A. j. Struckman of Wanda was
stolen at Lamberton about IL p.
m Tuesday. KIND is broadcast
ing its license number in an effort
to recover it.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-06
Assessors Meet

Redwood county's AZ assessors
came to the court house for their
annual school of instruction this
afternoon. The session began at
2 p. m. They will receive in
formation on their work which
begins May l.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-04-06
GET LICENSE TO WED

Fred Wegner of Walnut Grove
and Hilda Siedschlag of Grarite
Rock applied for marriage
license at the clerk of courts of
flee this week.,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-26
Editorials and Comment
SUNDAY MARCH rs, 1899
ON BEING
WELL OFF WELL
The Rotalian)

Life seems to like tough-minded peo-
pie who. as the saying goes, can take
t" You remember kipling's story OF the
young man who was sent directly from
the sheltered home in which he was
brought up to join the army in India.
Thrust for the first time into rough bar
rack room surroundings among men
who didn't mind if they hurt his feel
ings. he brooded and nursed his inward
hurts. At last, unable to stand it any
longer. he committed suicide,
Tough -mindedness is usually prod
uct of youthful victory over adversely.
famous automobile manufactures III
an unusually frank and communicative
mood one day was reflecting on his chill
dren. He agreed that they were being
brought up with every advantage. To
obtain manifold material blessings they
need scarcely turn a hand
''They don't have the opportunity |
had" he said He. at the age of 9, was
selling papers and battling for a living
on one of the toughest city streets III the
world.
In an address to teachers we'll
known educator recently said: i m COM
ing to believe that one of our main prob
lens is the overprivileged, not the under
privileged, child He cited his wealthy
suburb. you would be surprised he
said. ito learn how many of our children
can't walk two blocks to school. Many
of them come from homes where maids
wait on them, battle them, pick up their
dirty clothes. They grow up irrespon-
sible'
Should we expect any other result?
Is there any privilege really worth more
than the chance TO learn early to fight
ones own battles-and 10 fight them?
Many readers Of this magazine have al
ready answered these questions in let
ters to DR. Walter B. Pitkin, who quoted
their stories of the plight of the poor
little rich boy in a recent issue of this
publication.
Rotarians and other men of mature
social conscience everywhere give gen.
erously to help boys and girls who are
growing up desperately underpriVileged
as we call it. That's splendid. At the
same time should we not sometimes ask
questions about our own sons and daugh-
ters? Are they perhaps given too much !
Do we save them from too much? Are
they too "well-offo? Certainly the bite
of real difficulty or the taste of rea
trouble comes to many youngsters as 8
far greater privilege" than say, new
car or painless college education
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-26
MAKING 4 BUSINESS
OUT OF HUMAN MISERY

Kansas industry must be pretty hard
up if il needs the shot in the arm legls-
lators Of that state propose to give 1t.
Eclpsing all other short-term divorce
law proposals is the sunflower states
new project of a one-day divorce law.
The only reason those kansans who sup
port the bill don't propose issuing di-
vorces by mail order, one is justified IN
believing, is because in that case the
person seeking a divorce would not have
to go To Kansas.
To the credit of most Kansans it
must be admitted that the new law is
proposed and supported by a compar-
atively small group. 1t is hard to believe
that residents Of the state, as whole,
would support such a bill
If the Kansas Legislature passes the
bill, it might as we'll do away with mar
riage laws entirely. Marriage, already
so easy to get into, would be made so
easy to get out of that in the minds OF
many it would become nothing more
than a temporary convenience.
Such a one-day divorce law would be
little better than Russia's system, where
a divorce becomes a fact by mere agree
ment between husband and wife that
their marriage is over.
Marriage should not give one person
the right to lnfllct perpetual misery up
on another Almost everyone has known
of marriages which never should have
been consummated in the first place, and
in which separation is the only logical
alternative It may we'll be, however,
that if marriage were harder to get out
of, there would be fewer such tragic
mistakes If divorce laws are made
ridiculously easy, on the other hand,
such marriages undoubtedly will in
crease.
The person who regards marriage as
a lifelong institution as rule chooses
his partner far more carefully than the
one who regards it as something that
can be discarded at will, and with
minimum of trouble. 1t should not be
the aim of the law, in whatever state
it may be, to encourage the laxity which
naturally follows when responsibility is
too easily shuffled off.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-26
REVISION FOR SOCIAL
SECURITY LEGISLATION

Now even the New Deal, Wnlcn mas
SO hotly defended it, admits that revi-
sion is needed to make social security
legislation just and equitable-and to
prevent it from being an economic men
ace to the nation.
The trouble with social security, as
now in effect, is briefly:
That funds collected by means of
taxes supposedly only for social security
are used to defray regular governmental
expenses from day to day, leaving very
little cash to meet payments under the
social security system when they fall
due.
AS long as these funds are used to pay
running expenses which have no rela-
ton to social security, the danger will
remain.
When % or 80 or so cents is taken
out of your pay check each week, it is
presumably still your money. The gov
ernment holds it in trust, to pay to you
when you need it because of unemploy-
ment. or because of old age. If the gov
ernment spends the money without pro-
viding for an adequate return, It IS 60
ing to have to tax somebody else to pay
you-after it has already taxed you for
the same purpose.
Social security legislation is extreme
ly beneficial-but not when it works
that way.
Revision is needed, and that speedily,
or somebody is going to suffer-and the
somebody most probably will be the fel-
low who now expects that, sooner or
later, he'll get his money back.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-26
AGE WINS RECOGNITION
Red Wing, Mimi, Republican,

(Red wing, Mlnn., kepuDllcan)
Experience counts. This is the con-
sensus of the opinion of industriallsts
and business men as reflected in the lat
est report of the National Association
of Manufacturers, which indicates that
the time has gone by when young blood
was the first demand and when oldsters
were relegated to. the shelf.
A decline in industrial discrimination
against the worker more than 40 years
old is evidenced in the associations re-
port. On the basis of a survey OF en-
ployers, the association concludes that
the proportion of older workers in 1898
was nearly 20 per cent higher than it
was in the previous year.
Less than one per cent Of companies
reported giving preference to younger
workers when it is necessary to make
layoffs; 80 per cent of the companies
have no maximum hiring age limit. The
value of the older worker is made up
partly by experience and partly be-
cause one Of the most cherishable I'M
ponderabes of business is the loyalty
of workers who have spent their adult
lives in service to a concern.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-26
Willis Thornton's Editorial On
Al Last the Cards are Down in Europe

mind of a 10-year- child.
When Hitler said at Munich that
he had no more territorial ampl-
tions in Europe, and when he JOIN
ed in guaranteeing the borders Oh
the dissected Czech state, some
people doubted the validity of his
words. Now everyone knows just
how valid they were.
No one can have any patience
with a quibble about the pro
tectorate" status of the Bohemian
Moravian state. Anyone can see
how much independence and auto
nomy is left to state IN which a
foreign power can arrest thousands
op people, deprive all except min
ority Germans of citizenship, ap-
point a foreign governor and I'M
nose foreign laws, conduct the
areas foreign and economic affairs,
maintain military garrisons OF
foreign troops, supervise all COM
munications and money. And that
is Hitlers program for his new
territory.
No country directly concerned
has seen fit to act, or even to pro-
test. Britain has merely Wrung
its hands. France has maintained
a shocked silence Russia has said
merely, Huh! Better not come toe
close to MEL" The United States
infinitely farther removed than anl
of these countries, can scarcely ot
expected to be more active in the
matter.
But the implications must not
be missed. AS good an excuse foi
seizing any country in the worlo
can be made by Adolf Hitler as ht
gave for the conquest of Czechoslo'
yakia.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-26

made. But the doctor was diff
cult He had ideas of his own.
Mr.. Garstang secured an intro
duction to the doctor, and finally
was allowed to call II was a big
moment for Mr. GarStang. His
most important prospect! His whole
career might turn on this interview.
He gave the doctor his ideas. The
doctor listened attentively, but gave
no indication of what he was think
ing.
Al last the doctor told him to
call him up in two or three days,
Mr.. Garstangs heart went down.
The way out The old some other
time" dismissal.
Later Mr.. Garstang heard that
the doctor had called in an older
and much better established ar
chitect. But one whose reputation
was a bit on the shady side. The
other architect was a convincing
talker. He could make an Egyptian
mummy think he needed a suit OF
clothesi
Then after a few days, Mr. Gar
stang's telephone rang. The doctor
wanted TO see him.
Mr.. Garstang hurried there as
fast as he could. Good newsi
But it wasn't good news after
all. The doctor said he hadn't
arrived at a decision, just want
ed a little more information. H
mentioned the name OF Mr.. Gar
stang's rival. Not once, but three
or four times. He paved the way
for Mr.. Garstang to reflect on hi'
competitor. Mr. Garstang coulC
have torn the hide off his competi'
tor, but instead he merely said tha
he knew him. making no commen
one way or the other. AT last, TIN
mysterious conference was over ant
Mr. Garstang left.
A week passed. Not word; no
a Jingle on the telephone.
Finally call came. Come ant
see me-" said the doctor.
When ne arrived the doctor wa
more affable than he previously ha'
been. AT last he said, I'm giyin
the contract to you. And I'm pay
ing you exactly one-quarter NOR
than your competitor asked!"
Naturally, Mr.. Garstang asked tn
reason.
when the contract was hang
ing in the balance. I gave you op
portunity after opportunity to ru
your competitor down. had hear
things about him. I suspected yo
had. too. But you said nothin
whatever against him. That ism
the only reason why I am givin
you the contract; but that did max
me admire you. You have charaC
ter and that is one of the reasoI
have decided III your favor"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-26

The conquest Git is nothing else)
of CzechoSlovakia has at least this
merit: The world now understands
quite clearly that Adolf Hitler,
backed by all the military might
of Germany, is prepared to seize
anything he wants without a sha-
dow of regard for right.
Many have believed this all along
but the taking over OF the Sudeten
areas of Czechoslovakia had Ger
tain amount of reasonableness IN
its favor. After all, the SudetenS,
a large majority of the people OF
the area, were German and were
at least willing, perhaps eager TO
join the Reich.
II would be useless to pretend
that the CzechS of Bohemia ana
Moravia are German, SO a new
phrase is invented by Hitler to
cover them: their lands are part
of the living space of the German
people Such a phrase means MOTH
ing, or if it means anything. 1t
would include Yorkville, Cincin-
natl and Milwaukee.
So now we have the picture OF
a small neighboring country, in
habited by a people entirely out
side Hitler's racial orbit, who are
overwhelmed and taken into the
Reich without shadow of warm
ing or any appeal to the rights OF
the case that would register In the