The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-11-10
THE REDWOOD GAZETTE.
BY AIKEN & sCHMAHL.
THURSDAY, NOV. 1O,l 1898.
HOME PRODUCTS.
The Big Exhibition In St. paul-The
DyspeptiC Pill.

The Big Exhibition in St. paul-The
Dyspeptlc Pill.
There has recently been held in this
city an exposition of the goods and
merchandise manufactured here, and
the extent and variety of the exhibit
surprised even those who were sup
posed to be the best informed regard
ing the city's manufactures. Market
hall was crowded from top to bottom
with exhibits which embraced almost
every thing in the way of necessities
or luxuries used by the human family.
The exhibits, tastefully arranged, were
viewed by throngs of admiring::people
who came from curiosity, but who
went away with their devotion to home
industries thoroughly aroused. The
enterprise was fathered by the Com
mercial Club but the program was
carried out almost wholly by ladies
who worked with a will (such will as
is only given to women) to make the
affair success. The object was to
stimulate desire and habit among
the residents of the city to show their
devotion to this city by buying for
their consumption and use the goods
which the city manufactures.
Speaking of the Commercial club, it
is doubtful if any other city of the
Union possesses an organization OF
greater practical benefit. It is one of
the organizations which goes right
about the business.which it was organ
lied to perform. Anything which will
benefit the city or State this club
takes hold of with cheerful vigor and
pushes it to grand, final success.
1t donated the use of it's spacious and
elegant rooms for cooking. schools,
hired experts to come and lecture to
the mothers, wives, sisters and daugh-
ters, and permitted them to illustrate
their methods then and there by bak-
ing, stewing, broiling and roasting
right before their very eyes-and all
this without money and without price.
1t organized itself into mighty COM
missary body and fed sumptuously
every body of soldiers which left or
returned to the city during the late
war. 1t welcomes with pleasing cere-
mony and generous hospitality every
distinguished visitor to the city, and
holds receptions on a gigantic scale,
when such occasions are fitting, for
our own distinguished sons or daugh-
ters. Neither time, task nor expense
is considered where the object to be
attained can be of practical benefit.
Whatever of increased life, vigor or
growth, in any capacity, the city shall
experience in the years Immediate
ly before it, may be traced, more
than to any other agency, to this be-
nifcent body with it's enterprising and
broad minded officers.
***
1t recalls memories of times long
gone to walk about the streets of
Minneapolis and see in the windows
the picture of the irrepressible Doc.
Ames. The genial doctor has nomi-
mated himself for mayor by petition
and he is now in the heat of cam
paign which he is conducting on the
same plan. No one who retains mem
cries of his former administration as
mayor need speculate as to what his
policy would be in case he were again
elected, for there is only zone Doc
Ames and he never changes. He has
grown old in appearance and fact dur
ing the last decade, but so far as bis
vitality and endurance willlpermit be
is the same old "speak-easv." In bis
interviews and addresses The states
with frequency and emphasis that We
have too many laws;Jthat people are
governed too much; that social indul.
gences should be restricted as little az
possible and sumptuary laws enacted
with conservatism. Now no...one will
deny the truth of this as an abstract
proposition, but every one knows that
, when Doc. Ames says it he means