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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07
MAILTlME CHANGED
WITH new ROUTE
MAIL ARRIVES, LEAVES
LATER; SERVICE TO
NORTH IMPROVED

Redwood Falls mail service was
on a new schedule this week as
the Winthrop Star route was dis
continued and a star route from
Olivia offers better service to
Renville county points.
Brought by the Olivia carrier
to Morton and transferred there
to the carrier on the Norton
Hazel Run trip, the westbound
mail arrives here at r.: 80 p. IN,
more than a half-hour later than
previously. Closing time for the
eastbound mail, formerly p. M,
is now 4:30 p. m. This system
leaves only two-hour difference
between dispatch of the eastbound
star route mail and the M and ST.
L mail which is prepared for
sending at $3.50 p. m.
Since the new schedule went
into effect, the carrier has been
arriving here at Sis p. m. with
mail from points east to Hazel
Run.
A pouch for Echo is made up
at noon each day.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07
Council Gets
Petition for
Charter Today
JUDGES TO APPOINT
COMMISSION TO
DRAFT CHARTER

A petition to obtain a new city
charter for Redwood Falls will be
presented the city council tonight
as proceedings are speeded to
bring the matter to a vote at the
Janr,,ry 1910 election.
1t bears names of more than 250
voters who ask that Judges Albert
Emerson and A. B. Gislason OF
ninth district court appoint a
board of free-holders to form a
commission for drawing up a new
charter.
When the charter is completed
it will be presented to residents
of the city for balloting.
That the present charter, drawn
up in 1891 is "antiquated, Obso-
lete and cumbersome" as stated
in the petition, has been recog-
nized for some years. But it re-
manned for DR.. j. c. Budik, may
or, to do something about it. He
circulated the documents COM
paratively easy job, he says, as
practically everyone approached
was willing to sign.
Changes contemplated in the
charter would include the advanc-
ing of the mayors term to two
years and aldermen's to four; re-
,districting of the city into three
wards to facilitate voting ano
ballot-counting; establishment OF
boards of non-elective officials to
supervise appraisal, building
equalization and health problems
and substitution of a September
election every other year for the
annual January election.
The council is expected to APP
prove the petition tonight and il
will be filed with the district
court Immediately.
Adjourned at its regular ses-
sion Tuesday evening because a
quorom was not present, the
council will hold hearings at 8
p. m. today on Mill street curb
and gutter Improvement, install
lation of a block of sewer and two
blocks of water main on east
Fifth street.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07
OchsUpheldIn
Salary Matter
GISLASON FINDS sos
PER MONTH is NOT
EXCESSIVE WAGE

"The court finds that the rea-
Sonable worth of the services of
Freda Knutson as deputy of the
probate judge is and will not be
less than sos per month";" said
Judge Al B. Gislason in granting
an appeal of Judge R. v. Ochs of
Redwood county for additional
clerk hire in his office. The de-
cision was announced this week,
following "A hearing before the
district judge last Thursday.
Ochs appealed from an order
of the board of county commits
sioners, granting his deputy $85
a month. Miss Knutson had been
receiving SIS. Ochs asked sos
and the board compromised.
Considering salaries paid de-
puties of probate judges in other
counties of similar population, the
salary paid in this county is lower
than average" the decision read.
"The local deputy is woman of
over eight years experience in her
present work and undisputed
testimony shows she is very eff
cient, able and trustworthy. For
a woman of her ability sos n
month does not seem to be ex-
cessive.
"The county board should be
commended for its efforts in try
ing to hold down expenses" the
judge said in his memorandum,
"But salaries have to be adjusted
from time to- time as work in
creases and the duties become
more burdenSome.
'The work of the office of pro-
bate judge in the county is now
SO heavy it cannot be properly
handled by one deputy, unless
such deputy is person of ability
and experience"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07
WALNUT GROVE
MAN SEVERELY
INJURED IN CRASH
CARS CRASH AT CORNER
NEAR VILLAGE; OTHER
PASSENGERS ESCAPE

Walnut Grove - Alfred "Pat''
Wagner was critically injured
Monday afternoon when his car
and a machine driven by Elmer
Willie of Lamberton crashed at {,
corner two miles north of Walnut
Grove.
He is at Tracy hospital with in
ternal injuries, four broken ribs
and a possible fracture of the hip.
On their way to Box Car festi-
vities at Tracy, Mr. and Mrs.
Wagner and their son Donald
were driving south and Willie was
travelling west. A long row of
trees obstructs vision at the cross
roads, reports said.
All other occupants of the cars
escaped without injury, although
the Wagner auto was demolished.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07
County Girls Awarded
Grand Championships
LONG LIST OF LESSER
PRIZES RECEIVED
AT STATE FAIR

grand championships were
brought to Redwood county from
the state fair this week, Ards
Hemmingsen winning the covet-
ed All plaque in thrift COMPETE
ton and Jane VIM taking first
place in room furnishing exhibits.
Ards, 16, member of the
Clements Crusaders, was awarded
her prize for a sports dress and
slack outfit of burlap sacking,
dyed mulberry, which she con-
structed at a cost of SO cents. At
PENDANTS at the fair said her dis
play attracted more attention
than any other in the new All
building.
One of the Sheridan Sharp
shooters, Jane. 18, re-finished and
upholstered an antique walnut
platform rocking chair, exhibited
1t with a refinished walnut table,
bookends made from walnut
scraps, a lamp of her own manu-
facture and a hand-tooled leather
book cover.
Blue ribbons were won by Lynn
Brake of Milroy for his Angus
beef heifer and Marian Allan of
Paxton on her quilt.
Redwood county All exhibitors
who received red ribbons were:
Loretta Waterman of Sanborn for
good workmanship in sewing;
Ival Hanske of Lucan in canning;
Vonnie Wiberg of Lamberton in
the styla revue.
White ribbons were awarded
the Clements Crusaders club
booth, Eunice FrederickSon of
Morgan in sewing and Lois earn
haral of Redwood Falls in can
ming.
Kenneth Hemmingsen of the
Crusaders placed second with his
two-year-old colt and Alvin An
derson of Lamberton second with
his yearling colt. A pig exhibited
by Roger Tompkins OF Redwood
Falls was judged third in its
class.
In the poultry division, June
Rose Zimmerli's pen placed
fourth. She is a member of the
Wabasso White Rabbits.
Eugenia Heildselman of Wal
nut Grove was fourth in canning
judging and the general livestock
Judging team, Allen Brake of
Mllroy, James Kohler of Red
wood Falls and Lauren Beran Of
Clements, placed eleventh.
A purebred Holstein calf own
ed by Virgil Dahmes of Clements
won fifth prize.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07
4 INJURED WHEN
CARS CRASH ON IA
FULDA WOMAN, DUN
DEE FARMER, 2 RE-
WERE MEN GET CUTS

Six persons escaped serious in
jury when two cars in which they
were riding crashed at the Lucan
corner two miles west of Revere
about 2 a. m. Tuesday.
John Krogman, So, Dundee
farmer travelling on the Lucaff
road, made a left turn onto high
way IA placing his car in the
path of machine driven by Ell
mer Horning Of Revere.
He received decorations of the
face and body and body bruises.
His companion, Mrs. Mabel En-
lers, So, of Fulda sustained a
broken nose, cut elbow and knee
and body bruises. Both were
taken to Tracy hospital and were
released Wednesday.
Mr.. Horning, 38, suffered cut
finger and a passenger Ray Iver-
son, 35, also of Revere, a cash
on the head. Their wives in the
rear seat were uninjured.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07
Parents Wait Hours for Neus of
= Daughters Aboard s. S. Athena
FORMER MORTON GIRLS
SAFE; EXPECTED BACK
EARLY NEXT WEEK

It's a long way from Morton to
the British Isles but happiness
bridged the distance this week as
Charles Mcclure learned that his
two daughters, Margaret, rs and
Kathryn, %, were safe there after
the torpedoing of the liner Athe-
MIA on which they were sailing
for home.
Only children of Mr.. and Mr..
Mcclure, they cabled their par
ents from Scotland Saturday that
they had booked passage on the
ship. First news of the attack on
the Athena Sunday night came
to the McGuireS by radio at their
home in Minneapolis. Anxiety
and grief followed as the parents
waited IA hours for information
of their safety.
Strict wartime censorship has
made any direct communication
with the girls impossible, but Mr..
and Mrs. Mcclure learned
through the Associated Press
Tuesday that Margaret and Kath-
ryn are safe and will arrive in
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Saturday on
The City of Flint. The port and
the liner may not be the ones
named in the message-war CEN
sorship might affect that informa-
tion-but they are expected in
Minneapolis Monday or Tuesday.
Born at Morton
A conductors on the M and st
L from Minneapolis to Morton
Mr.. Mcclure spends every other
night in the Renville county viii
large. Both daughters were born
at Morton and attended school
there until the family moved t.
Minneapolis about Isl years ago.
Morton relatives shared Mr.. and
Mrs. McGuire's joy in their dau-
ghters' escape. Some of them are
Continued on page six)
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07

oIlly HIdltillS DdIley Is quOleQ
above.
Few farmers were taking adj
antage of the rising market In
selling grain. Only enough sales
to provide living expenses were
the general rule at elevators here.
Far Above 1888 Marks
Today's grain returns mark a
happy contrast to those of Feb
ruary 1888 the low of recent years.
Figures furnished by j. J. Christ
ensen of the National Atlas eleva-
tor reveal that wheat was bring
ing SO cents busheI late in that
dark month, oats were quoted at
seven cents, barley at l6 cents,
yellow corn at nine cents. One
elevator account shows that 487
bushels of number four corn went
at seven cents. Smelling took
$3.50, leaving the producer a
check for $21.55.
In the same month fax was at
81 cents, later going as low as SO.
Rye, at 30, was to fall to II cents
a bushel at the bottom.
1914-17 Period Similar
One of the high points of recent
grain markets was reached April
z, 1887 when quotations were:
wheat, SLAB; fax, $2O2 and corn,
$1.l9. On that day oats were at
Al, later to rise to SO; barley
stood at 80 cents, later advanced
to $1.20. Rye at $1.02 also had
later increase.
/ The market report of year ago
Saturday was wheat SO, fax 1.6O,
corn 80, oats 10, rye % and bar
ley 20-43.
A comparison with price reac-
tons during the stages of the
World war is most interesting.
When Germany invaded France
in August 1914, prices were COM
parable to the early war-levels
now in effect. And when Ameri-
ca entered the war in April 1917,
farm commodities skyrocketed.
Wheat went to nearly SO before
the government pegged it at S2.25
and commodity prices not limited
under the law went way over the
top. Some producers remember
when flax sold for $3.50 bushel.
nonino y,oriaIo If xx,or folIo1ty.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07
China War Pictures
Will Be Shown Here

An authentic talking motion
picture of the Japanese invasion
of China, 'The 400 Million" will
be shown at the Methodist church
Saturday afternoon and evening
under the auspices of the missiory.
airy group of the congregation.
The matinee will begin at 3, the
first of two evening showings at
s.
A full length feature, it was
filmed on the battlefields of China
and in the interior to reveal not
only the struggles of war but
scenes from the lives of Orientals
today.
Bombings of Chinese cities are
included in the film.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07
Market Today
Varies Widely
STEADYING AT NOON;
DEALERS REPLY TO
HOUSEWIVES KICK

Minneapolis - up Options by
directors of grain exchanges yes
terday influenced opening mar
kets here today, bringing in a
flood of buying orders that adj
vanced initial prices.
The jam of the markets was
broken by doubling of limits for
enc day fluctuation and wheat
prices swung wildly in early hours
but were steadying at noon at
levels about one cent under We'd
nesday's close.
September wheat here opened
at 92A to 80 compared with We'd
nesday's close of 87A and slipped
to Sc " early.
Similar fluctuations were chalk
ed up in Chicago but prices level
ed off at one to two cents under.
The stock market was stabiliz-
ed generally but buying continued
as most active issues were up
about two points above Wednes-
day levels by noon.
Livestock prices also moved
back toward an even keel after
two days of rapid advances that
lifted hogs as much as $2.75 a
hundred.
Housewives throughout the
country felt the European war in
rising prices of food end clothes
They complained, and mayors,
state and national officials rushed
to promise protection against
''profiteering." boarding. and
speculation" raising the prices OF
necessities.
Many wholesalers and store ex-
ecutiveS were quick to counter
with an allegation that most of the
price rises have been caused by
housewives themselves, in a sud-
den rush to buy, beginning last
weekend, of more than normal
requirements because of the fear
of price increases. There was a
temporary shortages in some
staples, especially sugar.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07
'DailyAdvance
Gives Farmers
Bin Profits
NO RUSH OF GRAIN TO
MARKET DESPITE
RAPID ADVANCES

Reminiscent of World war
days, prices of farm produce
doomed suddenly this week
as guns again doomed in
Europe - giving Redwood
county farmers book or bin
profits, compared with last
weeks figures, of hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
Not I'M the last decade has
such a sudden interest been
taken in the produce of the
nations farms. Prices rose
the legal limit day after day
with a consistency which
brought wheat quotations at the
local elevators from SO. last We'd
neSday to 81 today while other
grains and livestock have follow
ed the leader with varying con-
SiStency.
War Responsible
Obviously war and wartime
hysteria have caused the advance,
although some have felt for some
time that prices of agricultural
products were lower than was
warranted by supplies. Predic-
tons on the trend even for the
next few days vary and today, al
though closing prices were not
available at press time, the wheat
market was reported to have
fallen slightly and this morning
the Kansas hog market declined
sharply.
Today's quotations here, how
ever, show wheat and corn up
four cents from Wednesday. Oats
and rye declined while fax held
steady and barley moved up a
cent.
Friday, only hours after Hitler's
forces advanced into Poland,
wheat advanced seven cents from
Thursday on the cash market, flax
went up nine cents per bushel,
rye seven cents, corn five cents,
oats three, mailing barley two
and feed barley two.
The rise in prices is indicated
by the weeks daily market re-
norris.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07

no reason why they should buy
more than their normal require
mentS.
Meanwhile, customers remem-
bered the 35 cents sugar of the
World War, rushed to store up
cheap sugar without studying the
situation. Some grocers here
found it necessary to limit buyers
to 10 pounds, some were out of
the staple for full day. In some
stores the price changed three and
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07
Farm ProduceP ricesB oomas WarStari
Sugar Sugar Why theSudden Demand for Sugar?

When My Sugar Walks Down
the Street." was the theme song
OF Redwood Falls grocers this
week.
Victims of war hysteria, en-
Dattled customers advanced on
staples counters, buying out mer-
chants here time after time in
strategy designed to defeat what
they believed would be rising
prices in the sweet commodity.
Certain that there is plenty of
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07
TRINA JOHNSON
OF DELHI DIED
THIS MORNING

Irma johnson who underwent
major operation at the hospital
here last Thursday morning died
at 7:45 a.. m. today.
Funeral services will be held at
8 a. m. Saturday at the English
Lutheran church, preceded by 4
short prayer service at $3.50, at
the Odlaug and Hoepner chapel
Burial will. be at the old home at
Leland, Illinois.
Miss johnson came here from
Illinois 13 years ago with her
brother, Kermit Johnson and they
have lived ON a farm near Delhi.
She has been closely associated
with the work of the English Lu-
theran church and has been its
organist for ten years.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07
FSA Office Moves
To Duea Building

The Farm Security office of
which L. w. Postage is head,
moved Friday to two offices in the
second floor of the Duea building
from quarters in the Budik build
ing.
D. w. Gold who occupied one
of the offices has moved into adj
joining rooms which DR.. w. A.
Heintzen previously occupied.
The dentist now has suite of
three rooms.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07

four times day. Five and one
half tons were trucked into one
store Wednesday.
Even with the heavy demand,
sugar is still relatively cheap. The
price has increased by $1.25 a
hundred since Thursday when the
big buying began. Wednesday it
was selling at S6.40 a hundred
Flour, too, was the victim of
customer Onslaughts here. There
also is no shortage of flour.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07

ulating vast supplies of basic food
commodities.
"Wild consumer demand evid-
ent in many communities is due
to large extent to propaganda
about markets"
Another company wrote, There
is more sugar in the country than
in recent years"
n /. asked that the grocer urge
customers to be patient and SEN
sible, to inform them that there is
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07
Faribault Youth
Killed At MankatO

Mankato-(P)-George Berg, 49,
of Faribault was killed at / a. m
today when coupe in which he
and John Raul, Is, Faribault
were riding missed a turn on
highway IA, II miles northwest
of here and rolled over in the
ditch.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07

sugar in the United States"
wholesale houses cautioned their
grocer customers here to be calm
with buyers, explain to them
quietly that the cupply is suffic-
lent.
But only shrieks accompanied
by menacing gestures answered
press inquiries on the subject of
sugar in one grocery here today
Orders for 100 pound sacks
were coming SO fast from this
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07

the most hectic in our business
experience, not even excepting the
last war;" one company wrote.
There is no shortage of basic
commodities in the country today.
When we can supply consumers
with all the merchandise they
want, hysteria will vanish quickly
and there will be decided re-
action in commodities prices.
"MOst of the belligerent nations
have prepared for war by accuni-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07
Emmett Garnhardt
Injured On Tractor

Paxton = Caught between his
tractor and pillow as he was run
ming it through a ditch while
blowing Friday morning Emmett
Garnhardt's leg was hurt. X-rays
at Redwood Falls hospital showed
no fractures, doctors describing it
as a crushing injury" Mr.. earn
hardt is up and around.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07

community and others affected
like it, that an estimated nine
tenths of wholesale houses serving
the city were unable to fill orders.
The only trouble, though, was in
shipping from supply points.
There is plenty of sugar in the
United States.
Letters from wholesalers to
grocers here Indicated that they
too are harried.
"The last few days have been
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-07
New CCC Call

Applications for enlistment in
the October group of the Civilian
Conservation corps are being re-
ceived at the Redwood county
welfare office.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-24

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 After they got into the car, Bar ney said, How about driving around for awhile2"
 q don't care" Janet said numb ly Talk to me, Barney Just talk to me about anything"
 All right. You asked for it." Barney said as he turned the car out upon the broad moonlit high way along the river. "rhe man doesn't live who needs any more excuse than that to talk about himself. How about this for a start-I've got swell new job"
 "A new jobP" Janet echoed, sur- prised for the moment out of her. self. But I thought you liked working for the News"
 q should have said Q special as- signment :. You remember told you the other day that l had the lowdown on the Skidmore kill ing? That Is, know wnat's back of 1t. but I can't prove 1t yet, That's my assignment Young Billings is going to keep the priae-ring angle and some others which will bring me in touch with . lot of the sort of people need to know to get my other story, I'm to have three months to work on 1t. If l break 1t, it may show up the whole city government, and incidentally mean whole new field for me If I don't-well l may not eat for awhile"
 But, Barney 1t sounds danger ous,"
 Not necessarily. No one but the boss and l will suspect what I'm up to till It's oil in tho bag. No ono expects sports reporter to have eyes for anything but fouls md knockoutS,"
 So Barney talked quietly on and Janet listened, steadied and qucted by the listening To Janet's surprise, she learned that he had been writing on current events for some time, and had even had seVer- nl articles published in current mag n2Incs.
 It was almost Ave when they fin- ally drove home, Lance was sitting in the living room, white and rigid while Aunt Mary knitted quietly in her low chair by the fireplace,
 Well, must say, Mcknight Lance began, his voice tight with anger, you and Janet have put mo in q pretty spot, Can't you imagine how I felt, after hunting all over the hotel for you, Janet to be told that you'd gone out hours ago, with another manp And your aunt has been frantic with worry,
 "I have not" contradloted Aunt Mary hatly, been at nll frantic - especially after iearned that Janet was with Barney"
 Janet, who knew this was Q high -handcd prevarication, almost smiled. Lance flushed with an- noyance and turned back to Janet,
 q thought" he began Jelly "thNt we agreed it was best just now Co be seen together aS much