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PAGE SIX. COUNTRY THIEVES WILL BE HUNTED FARM BUREAU OF FARIBAULT COUNTY TO "GET" THE NIGHT PROWLER. CREATE PROTECTIVE BRANCH TO COMBAT PILFERING ON THE FARMS. By GORDON C. CURRAN The farm bureau of Faribault coun ty, Minn, is going to "get" the nigrt prowler who robs the farmer's hen coops, steals his best cow, carts off his butchered hog hung up to cool, or makes way with live hogs when they are ready to market. Often the granary, too, has yielded up its share of harvest treasure to some com temptible law-breaker. The Faribau County Farm Bureau has organized a protective branch. Men who are familiar with the workings of this newly formed organization predict its adop tion all over the country. Working by day and watching by night is by far too strenuous a program for most farmers. Long hours of labor in the open air induce deep slumber. This has left farmers and their posses sions exposed to the depredations of wily night prowlers. Wheat Thief Caught. However, some farmers for years have stood guard over their property by night. A few years ago a farmer living near Good Thunder, Minn., suc cessfully drove off a thief who was stealing his wheat. For a long time this farmer had known that some one was taking his grain. He determined to catch the culprit. One night his watchful waiting was rewarded by the almost noiseless approach of someone with a team and wagon. The driver backed his wagon to the gianary door and commenced loading. With the loading of the first sack of stolen wheat the vigilant farmer emptied his shot gun just as the thief was setting the sack in place on his wagon. With the report of the gun the horses took fright and headed for the road, taking with them a much surprised thief who was carrying a heavy charge of bird shot. The following day a village doctor treated a well-known man in the community for gun-shot wounds. The arrest and conviction of the man soon followed. It was revealed at the trial that he had freqeuntly muffled the feet of his horses and the wheels of his wagon with burlap in order to carry on his illegal operations. Farmer is Originator. The inception of the Protective Branch of the Faribault County Farm Bureau is as interesting as the organi zation is unique. Roy Woolery, a farmer, is the originator of the idea Like many of his neighbors, he had noticed that thefts of various kinds had been going on for many years in his locality. Mr. Woolery says "Thieves have stolen my chickens seven years the fourteen I have been farming. Two of my best steers have been butchered by thieves at night and carted away. On a neighbor's farm, two fat hogs, just ready for market, were stolen from the fattening pen One farmer near me lost a valuable Shorthorn cow which was loaded onto a truck and hauled away at night Another's hogs have been butchered and shipped out of the country under cover of darkness." Sleuths Unearth Evidence. The theft which marked the be ginning of real action on the part of Mr. Woolery occurred in December, 1917. A fat steer was stolen from his pasture. Evidences were found which lead him to believe that the steer had been butchered at night and the car cass hauled away. In an effort to locate the guilty party, Mr. Woolery engaged the services of a detective agency of St. Paul. The investigation of this theft unearthed a mass of evi dence, which could have been used for the arrest and conviction of several local citizens for other acts of lawless ness. At a conference with the detective in connection with the steer-stealing case, Mr. Woolery said: "Why can't we form a co-operatrve farmer's asso ciation, with detective service, to rtn down some of these thieves? We ought to get the goods on some of these low-down crooks and send them over the road and in that way put a stop to some of this stealing." A. C. Dick hudt, superintendent of The 3. Oswald Jones Detective Agency, encouraged the idea and offered the services of his agency in working out plans for an or ganization. Thus encouraged, Mr. Woolery started out to organize his association. He experienced difficulty in getting other people interested in his plan. It was' apparently too novel. His neighbors agreed that the plan seemed plausible, that it looked work able but because it was new and different, they were slow to accept it. Another Steer Stolen. 1 A year passed by and in September, 1918, while Mr. Woolery was at the State Fair, another of his steers was stolen. The steer was fat and weighed 1,100 pounds. It had been butchered right in Woolery's own pasture. This served as an impelling stimulus and during that fall he talked with many farmers at county fairs and found that they were suffering the same or similar losses. During the spring of 1919 Mr. Woolery interested F. 'E. Krause, county agent of Faribault county, in his idea of forming a protective as sociation. At first it was planned to have it entirely separate from the farm b-ireau, but finally it was decided to make it an auxiliary organization of the bureau. $ .„ On October 3, 1919, a big farm bureau meeting was held at Blue Earth, the county-seat of Faribault county. J. Oswald Jones had been invited by Mr. Krause and Mr Woolery to address the meeting. He explained how a protective association could be formed, and pointed out the benefits that would result from an organization of this nature. At this meeting a committee was appointed to work out the details of an organization and to draw up a constitution. At a later meeting the constitution was adopted and Mr. Woolery's or ganization came into actual being. Every member of the Faribault Coun ty Farm Bureau is automatically a member of its protective branch. This protective branch has been a big draw ing card in the recent drive for in creased faim bureau .membership in this county. Scope is Large. Its constitution provides that the general business of the Protective Branch of the Faribault County Farm Bureau is to discover and recover stolen property, to detect and appre hend thieves, and in general to afford protection to the property of the Fari bault County Farm Bureau members. The same protection and assistance is extended to the property of widows of deceased farm bureau members, and to any other unprotected women, who have neither fathei, brother, nor son residing with them of suitable age to become farm bureau members or perform the duties required by the as sociation. When any property has been stolen from a farm bureau member the matter is at once reported by him to the execu tive committed of three members. This committee is empowered by the con stitution to employ such paid de tectives as may be deemed necessary to help in the capturing of the thief or thieves, and to recover and restore stolen property. Committee in Action. The executive committee is the alarm of the organization. By telephone, or telegraph, they may notify adjacent communities of depredations. They may print posters containing the de scription of stolen property or the de scription of the lawbreaker. A reward, the amount of which is determined by the executive committee may also be offered. Compensation is given for time spent in pursuit of thief or property, by any member, detective or agency, when regularly employed by the executive committee. Employees can not lay claim to a reward. The reward is intended to widen the group of searchers for the thief. Any person or persons not employed by the asso ciation who uncover clues which bring about the arrest and conviction, shall be entitled to share the reward that has been offered. The farm bureau in its budget pro vides ample funds for the efficient operation of the Protective Branch. The constitution provides that in an emergency additional funds may be secured through a loan, provided that the loan does not exceed $5 for «ach member of the farm bureau. Under ordinary conditions a loan would never be necessary, except in rare cases of crime epidemic. Thief Depletes Auto. The Protective Branch, as organized, is operating to the satisfaction of its originators and is meeting with the thorough approval of county law-en forcing officials. Soon after the for mation of this protective association a case was brought to the attention of the executive committee. A farm bureau member, Tobias Peterson, re ported the stealing of accessories to his automobile. The theft occurred at night, right in his own yard, almost at his very door. Mr. Peterson reported that this was1 not the first time acces sories had been stolen. This was the third time and he wanted it to be the last. First the thief had taken electric light bulbs, an inner tube, a tractor wrench, and a crescent wrench. The second time the thief took a five-gallon can of gasoline, two spark-plugs and the light bulbs from the headlights of his car. The third time the thief visited Peterson's premises he stole a five-gallon can partially filled with lubricating oil, a pair of tractor pliers, the bulbs from the headlights of the automobile, and to make the. job more complete removed and carried away with him the storage battery of Peter son's new car. Fingerprints on Headlight Lens. Peterson was rightly worried. He felt that a fourth trip of the thief would leave him auto-less. The Protective Branch was in this manner confronted witn a real problem. It was not in existence when the first two thefts oc curred, but the last offense against a member could not go unchallenged. The executive committee went into action. A. C. Dickhudt, superinten dent was called in and placed in charge, A greasy finger-primV left by the thief on the glass lens of the headlight, was photographed. Finger prints of the suspect were secured by the detective. These prints were com pared and were found to be identical. The thief was arrested on this evidence. He confessed, and paid a heavy fine. He also paid the expenses incurred by the Protective Branch in bringing him to justice. The stolen property was recovered and returned tathe owner. MThis case just cited is but one ex ample of how a smooth runriing or ganization has made it very unsafe for robbers and crooks to ply their trade/ in Faribault county. Other cases havh been successfully handled, and still^ others are in the process of investiga^ tion. The thing works simply. An expert detective is employed to secure the necessary evidence, the sheriff arrests, the county attorney prosecutes, the judge and the jury distribute Justice. Much of the success of the organiza tion is due to the splendid co-operation between the Protective Branch of the Farm Bureau and the office of the county attorney, Henry J. Frundt, who is a strong supporter of the plan ad vanced by Woolery for co-operative protection. During the establishment of the Association Mr. Frundt assisted by contributing valuable* legal advice and services. No story of the success of the Pro tective Association would be complete without mentioning the splendid work of the agricultural agent, F. E. Krause, who has worked untiringly for its es tablishment and the accomplishments of the association thus far are in a measure a direct reflection of his efforts. Good Roads Aid Bandits, The campaign being waged against thieves by the Protective Branch of the Farm Bureau of Faribault county was started none too soon. The passage of a good roads amendment to the state constitution in Minnesota last fall, will bring about the building of a system of hard&urfaced highways between, all the principal towns and cities in the state. Thus the bandit by the use of the automobjle will find it easier than ever to makp his presence felt in the rural communities. In counties where a protective association is in operation the increased danger will be amply guarded against. Counties where no co-operative protective association js functioning will be forced to organize one in order to prevent themselves from being overrun with thieves.« NOV. SETTLEMENT IN RECORD TIME (Continued from page 1.) 0 Mulligan 1,840.80 North Star 1,379.62 Praineville _i 1,601.36 Sigel JL 2,823.25 Stark 1,728.81 Stately 2,042.47 Total $74,303.47 Dist. No. 1 2 3 4 5i__. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13.._. 1 4 15 16 17... 18 19 20 21..._ 22 23____ 24 25 26 27..._ 28 29 30 31 32 3 3 34 3fr_._ *. 37___ 8 8 39._„ 40___ 41. 42 43 Dist. No. 4 4 4 5 4 6 47.. 48.. 50... 5 1 .. 5 2 5 3 5 4 55.. 66... 57— 58... 59.._ 60.. 6 1 .. 6 2 63___ 6 4 65_._ 65_._ 67.. 6 8 69.J-.* 70___ 7 73 7 4 75..._ 76 77____ 78 »r Amount $26,837.18 218.60 236.96 326.84 315.19 183.62 492.90 278.21 347.59 267.77 197.78 208.19 373.47 209.43 354.70 188.40 332.27 161.73 279.84 218.89 301.08" 177.69 341.28 6,"834.68 238.64 208.65 274.31 396.39 217.24 265.11 287.92 143.60 264.46 180.29 237.67 294.00 192.08 175.93 326.75 307.72 226.40 222.76 206.83 **ify& W Amount $365.04 Ul7.22 /394.49 366.6& 206.18 261.48 367.18 291.53 172.50 281.12 190.70 277.21 403.29 377.36 41.34 215.83 280.36 178.58 496.84 6,162.76 254.21 169.24 424.00 3J8.29 260.22 246.71 «7.98 321.64 351.05 410.36 307.58 312.00 218.22 176.43 1,245.44 20841 103.45 127.78 4,857.93 fA 35.$5 81 82 *r *&-—£ Goshen 49 Con. 49 Att. Total $66,535.43 WORLD WAR COSTS TO 52.2 PER CENf OF frtifi THE BUDGET* A mi delegation from*"1 IvanKdl?: ii ii ot a I a id Commanded, Knights Templar, of Utat health. annual inspection of DeMolay COUK mandery, No. 2 of this City, Wednea-Tl If day evening. The members of ©rleW Chapter, O. JD. S,, served a bajiguejt at 6 o'clock at the Masonic Hall and later the ceremonies of inspectiofrtook place* Those from St* Peter5- -who were present were: Max Kretschmer, Gus. Johnson, H. J. Easier, Alhton Carlander, Otto Miller, Oliver Bolstad, F. R. Emmings, Senius Nelson, George Olsen, C. A* Brandt, Floyd Johnson, George Schneider, Archie Parsons, Clarence Wettergren, Otto Olson, J. B. Alleman, J. B. Summers, H. J. Schmidt, E. C. Davis, Philip E. Dick, Roy Miller, Walter Lampros and Sam Haughdahl. About 90 Knights Temp la* were present^ -, Subscribe for the New TJlm Eevlew. Big army and navy advocates are much disturbed because the facts re garding government expenditures have at last*reached the public. The citi zens of the country have learned with alarm that 88.4 per cent of the total appropriations of the United States government for the fiscal year 1921 went to pay the costs of past wars a'nd to prepare for future wars. 808* Hiding Important Facts. J|\ It is necessary7- to cover up these disturbingfacts somehow s:o the army propagandists are regrouping the year's figures and spreading them over the country in an effort to hide the im portant facts/ 'The costs of the World War, comprising $5.2 per. cent of the whole budget are grouped together conspicuously ks though .they were an entirely separate item. Beside them are placed the amounts of the current appropriations5 foi the Army and Navy by way of contrast, butr not with the idea that they should be considered together. They are to be taken separately there is to be no relation in ^he leader's mind between war costs and costs for maintenance and en largement of the military machine. Misplacing Emphasis. All empWsis is laid on the $450, 000,00G appropriated for the Navy and the $418,000,000 for the Army, which together amount to 18.3 per cent of the whole expenditures of the government. ''The public is to think the only Important fact is that the services get so small an amount of the whole. It is not pointed out that even this 18.3 per cent is more than half again as much As the entire amount that was spent for constructive pur poses£for the wmSte year. Less than $12 o"ut of everV $HTO spent by the government in the fiscal year 1921 went for construction. The balance went to pay the 'costs of past destruc tion and to prepare for more, or, in other words, to j^lty'war costs. 1 Protests"Pouring In. I, That is the^a&fctbe'militarists would cover up and1 trtat *is what the tax payer has tfoundI§ut. Having learned Where over thrdtif-fourths of his taxes go, no amount'b# whitewashing of the Mcts is going to1 silence his protests. Tlhose'protests are pouring into Wash ington from alf sides/ He is demand ing results irom^he conference about to meet in that^ cityf results whidh shall mean a refal reduction in the armament burden of the world.,. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Eckert visited with Gibbon relatives and friends, last Tuesday. vc^S^j iL V-- Mrs. Erwin Spelbrink, who removed to Miltona, lijtinn., with her family about a month ago, suffered an acute attack of appendicitis, Monday of last week, and was taken to the hospital at Alexandria, where she submitted to an operation, Friday, according to advices receiyed^by local friends. Mrs. Spelbri^'s.mother, Mrs. Henry Knees, of Essig, has gone to Alexandria to be at her daughter's bedside. Latest re ports state that the patient is getting along nicely and will soon be able to leave the hospital again. This will be good news for Mrs. Spelbrink's many friends in New Ulm and vicinity, TTmmff you are not perfect Impetus given the dairy industry in the northwest by the National Dairy show- is reflected in the inquir ies now being received at University JParm regarding ^the various short .courses of the?t annual dairy school. The different courses and the dates fixed for them are as follows: Ad vanced creamery operators, Novem ber 14 to 26 ice cream plant opera torsi November 28 to December 3 milk plant operators, December 5 to 10 creamery operators, January 2 to February 11 cheese plant operators, February 13'to March 11. The inr structional force will comprise Prof. J. R. Keithley, in charge of dairy short courses Dr. L. S. Palmer and Profs. Harold Macy, William Boss, J. G. Dent, and P. L. Miller. Alex Johnson and E. J. Holmers will' in struct in creamery management and creamery buttermaking, respectively. J. B. Baumgartner will instruct the cheese plant operators. Special lec tures will be delivered by Chris. Heen, James Sorenson, A. J. Mc- Guire and Dr. R. W. Archibald* "", The dairy extension section of the Universtiy of Minnesota is also work ing out plans for a series of dairy schools to be held in communities de siring Assistance. Such objects as feeding-dor production, the value of better «res, how to operate, and the value 1o^' 1 well,sr #f-invite, j4u,to personally in vestigate l,nl ^F*«*$*& Chiropractic. Visit us and let us tell you. more about-thid wonderful new science. jfifc INTERRUPTLESS X-RAY AND SPINOGRAPH *&* DRS. PAUL & PAUL CHIROPRACTORS Farmers & Merchants State 4P* **£k P.uilding 201 N I Phone 181 the "c&w testing-* association will be discussed. At evening sessions pictures wijl be shown to illustrate the value of dairy products as food and to compare different breeding types. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Evers spent Sun day with the August Havemeier family at Courtland. Christ L. Kranz of Nicollet was a guest at the home of his parents-in law, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Schwartz, North Broadway, Saturday. ^4 Miss Frieda Schwartz is visiting at the home of her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Bode, in Courtland township this week. She went there Friday. -43* J& PA 3 to ryO* a, ti?'Zr GOO W±* ^l^f •M?: w~ THIS i&. i,f^ rrsv, 3R@N Keep?the Man GoingfWho Keefe Indtfctrf Going $ Do it with Christmas Seals. Christmas Se **,$ ir %'wr*t* What oil is to the machine, health is to the worker. The efficiency of both is essential to good business. An average of 1 years ot productivity would, be added to the life of every individual who reaches the age of 17, if there were no fatal eases of tubercu losis. The ecbnoraic loss .to America due to tuber culosis is more' than $500,000,000 annually!' j'JO It is your responsibility to combat this human fafld economic waste, The National, State and Local Tuberculosis Associations'of the United States This Space Donated by the New Ulm Review ing! seasonflKuppenheimef .^K^»Good Clothes give you everything—fine style, perfect fit, excellent fabrics,V at prices one third less thac&last year. A real investment in fit good appearance. See these fine styles and fabrics fe^l the good fit and value of a realiav^stmentjin good ap these splencSxo^Vujt and oyejrcoat pearance 4get values here at H5 E r^He House of Kuppfnhmer Gob% Cllihes. -V &x> %X% MU vomers at $2§\and rtfav.^ff^ j** hristmas Mail 'O -U ^1 0 0 *,*•« A *Ii ifi&t&S v^? 1 -rt v^»-a. 9 .to *H -Ht*" tn it •J V&. df & VST* ±s 5 -J&