The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1912-04-23

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trance to make it safe refuge and
port OF call for any amount of ship
ping. The inner bay extends for
several miles in the direction Of Santa
Ana, and one of the projects talked
of, is the acquisition by Santa Ana
of a seven mile shoestring strip con
Meeting that city with the future
harbor. This would seem more
feasible than the shrewd move of
Los Angeles in getting on the m ap
as a seaport. with harbor twenty
miles distant. Since Lew Wallace
captured the government appropria-
ton by a journey to Washington,
some of his grateful friends in this
Legislative district have been nomin-
ating him for both Senator and rep
resentative at the state capital, but
Lew had rather sell real estate and
hold his job of president of the
Orange county bankers association
than monkey with the political buzz
saw In any manner.
To return to other Redwood county
people in California, our folks were
lately reminded how small our little
world is, when Give Aiken came
home from Whittier, where he has
found most congenial position in
the News job printing office, and re-
ported that he was greeted by Rev.
&c. S. Nook in the postoffice soon
after his arrival where the Mooks
have gained in health and reputation
their parish increasing rapidly at
Whittier. Later Give heard a
young man in the News office talk
about the way certain things were
done in Redwood Falls. The young
man was no other than Hugh Drury,
who left Redwood Falls with his par
ents and family a year ago last fall
and is now improving his opportuni-
ties and enjoying them, while learn
ing the printers art in the News
Office. The last of Gives discover
les at Whittier. was after he had en-
gagged desirable rooms for lodgings,
to find that his landlord was an older
brother of Urn Bergen, the latter
once Redwood Falls business man
but now prospecting in central Cali
fornia, with grown children who
call Dave Whittet grandpa. Dear
me. how Tempus does Puget.
Lastly, am privileged to write
that Mr.. and Mrs. I'll. N. Bell ac-
cepted an invitation to dine at the
Aiken ranch last Sunday, and by the
same car came Aline Drury as the
guest of her former classmate, June
Aiken, and Give on his usual Sun
day homecoming. The Redwood
Falls combination made our Easter
Sunday. most enjoyable. Of course,
old times in Redwood Falls were
much in evidence, friend Bell i'm
proving an opportunity to read up
home happenings in a number of
our later Redwood papers and TAX
ing away the last Gazette for more
leisurely perusal. We were pleased
to find that California had been good
to the Bells, even though it had not
landed them for permanent resi-
dents.
At this writing almost everything
out of doors is growing nicely, under
the impetus of frequent showers in
terspersed with sunshiny days. Every
farmer is busy these days, cultivat-
ing the soil or putting in seeds, and
the optimistic spirit prevails in all
lines of activity, especially real es-
tate transfers.
This modest little tract is settling
up rapidly, the fact that it touches
the future harbor of Newport help
ing somewhat. The block of forty
acres adjoining ours, was recently
sold for $28. 5000 for sanitarium and
school for colony calling themselves
disciples of the New Thought. 1t
ought to be good school for train
ing newspaper men. j. A.
Cresthope, CAL,
April 10, 1912.