The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-07-31

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Quoted by Frank E. Kenney.
The Waseca Herald says that the
Chautauqua enterprise in that city
| fell behind expenses about 81 600.
The failure is partly attributed to
lack of early advertising, and neglect
to secure the sale Of a sufficient
number of season tickets in advance.
Granite Falls Tribune: Roy Kah-
Ter returned from Rochester early
in the week after a somewhat pro-
longed absence. He reportes nine
pound baby girl added to his house
hold, a welcome guest who will not
have to be called to make train
| for many moons.
Have you investigated the Twin
City and Lake Superior Railway
Company stock as an investment?
Read what they say on last page OF
this issue. It is a good opportunity
for the man of small means to place
small sum where it will develop
greater earning capacity than the
investor himself. Grading has be-
gun. There can be no delay. Con-
tractors are pushing the work, and
the new road will henceforth be
rushed TO completion.
The Minnesota Mascot has an
amusing story of one of the natives
of that town finding three of the
female performers in Barnum &
Bailey's circus walking the ties at
early dawn in scant attire. One of
them did the dip of death and the
other two were trapeze performers.
They had in some way fallen from
the train that was taking them from
Marshall to Watertown. West of
Gary the trains run very slowly on
account of the upgrade in the hills.
But how these ladies could have
fallen or been thrown from their
coaches, presumably thru the win
dows, is a mystery not fathomed.
In Gary the ladies obtained suitable
attire and went to Watertown on
/ the excursion that was run from
Candy.
Did you ever stop to think what
that phrase nothing IN the paper
today" means, asks the Carthage
Democrat? 1t means that during
the day or week just passed no mis-
fortune has befallen anyone in our
city; that the grim angel of death
has crossed no threshold of a friend;
that no man driven by liquor, hatred
or fear has taken the life of fellow
human; that no poor devil. haunted
by the past or misdeeds of some
other, has crossed the divide by his
own hand; that many things that
ought not to happen have not hap
pened. So the next time you pick
up paper that doesn't announce a
tragedy give little thanks instead
of grIlmbling because there is no
news.
Editor Day of the Sioux Falls Ar
gus-Leader takes sensible view of
the mail order problem, and says
that the thing for the local mer-
chant to do is to meet the competi-
ton of catalog houses. The local
merchants can afford to spend more
money in advertising in their local
territory than can the mail order
houses in the same territory. In
addition, the local merchant and
buyer have the advantage of per-
sonal inspection of the goods, of the
chance to satisfactorily right any
thing which is wrong, and of an
opportunity to meet any price which
the mail order house advertises. If,
therefore, the merchant will use his
local newspaper, and let his readers
know what he has to sell, and what
he will sell it for, he can increase his
business every year. and in addition
he will help to build up progressive
and helpful up-to-date newspapers
in his locality"