The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-11-18

Of the world put ON at the New York
theaters. But if this is that way they
do things down there we'll satisfy our
longing for the dramatic by going
to Redwood Falls home talent pro-
auctions.
One thousand persons attended the
annual meeting of the Watonwan
County Fair board at St. James last
week. If our Fair officers saw even
hundred walking in at the annual
meeting of the Redwood County As
ISOLATION held here soon they'd all die
of apoplexy. Trouble started, too,
from all this vast mass of persons
getting together and now there is a
charge made that steamroller tactics
were used in electing the officials and
that the election will be contested in
court. Sometimes there is safety in
numbers and sometimes it is some
thing else that is there.
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Mayor Arthur Nelson of Saint Paul
has been deluged with kilograms ever
since he got out his famous edition
of the Saint Paul Dispatch, these
kilograms congratulating him on hav-
ing produced a CLEAN newspaper.
Merciful goodness! Here are more
than six hundred country weeklies in
Minnesota each one of them producing
CLEAN paper, both editorially,
newsally and advertisingly every
week and nobody even drops in the
various and sundry six hundred Of
fees and mentions the fact to any
of them. We can see perfectly good
reasons occasionally for the country
editor asking himself whats the
useW
"You can get along with a wooden
leg, but you can't get along with
wooden head. 1t is the brain that
counts, but in order that your brain
may be kept clear you must keep the
body fit and we'll. That cannot be
done if one drinks liquor. A man
who has to drag around habit that
is a danger and menace to society
ought to go off to the wilds and live
alone."-Dr. Charles Mayo.
Says Fred Hadley in the Fairmont
Sentinel:
Isn't it strange that when
some men enter the political
arena they think it essential to
plaster their opponents with
slime and mud? Such tactics
are always repulsive and nau-
seating, but politicians will
never learn that mudslinging
does not make votes, and they
continue putting out stuff that
is so putrid that it would drive
a turkey buzzard off the back
of a garbage cart.
Now Fred is a mighty nice boy
but he got his political education in
the worst part of Minnesota. Had
he been reared politically in Red
wood County he would know that su-
perior politicians (and that is the only
kind this County ever produces)
never indulge in any of this slippery,
Shiny, slithery stuff. In fact good old
Redwood produces only statesmen of
high class. But Fred got his learn
in in the science down in Frank Days
section and of course he is just ma
turally ruined to the extent of be-
ing a cynic. It's a shame.
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Down at st. James bootleg car
ran into another car and killed one
of the women riding in the later. as
we'll as injuring several others. When
the bootleg car was picked up after
the wreck, it was discovered that it
contained more than forty pints Of
LIQUOR and that it's driver and his
companion were both intoxicated.
The case was tried in st. James, the
driver of the bootleg car who had a
record of three liquor-law convictions
behind him was given sentence OF
ninety days and fine OF three hun
dred dollars while his companion was
given sixty days and fine of two
hundred dollars. A joint fine of five
hundred dollars and joint sentence
of five months! And the newspaper
report of the trial starts out thus:
"SEVERE SENTENCE WAS MET
ED OUT etc. Severe sentence! Just
how much is a dead woman and a
ruined home worth in st. James any
way? Possibly that is the limit OF
sentence to be given for this type of
charge. Then our suggestion is that
the limit should be raised. The least
that can be done is that that driver
should never be permitted to drive a
car again.
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Let every merchant in the terri
tory covered by the Gazette take un-
to himself the words of wisdom found
herein. The man making this amaz-
ing statement is Edward G. Weir,
merchandise manager of the Round
Oak Stove Company.
"There is an old saying to the
effect that if you live in the
heart of the wilderness and
make a better mousetrap than
anyone else, people will make
a beaten path to your door," he
said.
/ "That is colossal lie. If
you made the best mousetrap
that could be imagined, or the
best anything else, and lived in
the heart of the wilderness, un-
less you went out and broad
i cast the fact that you made that
thing, no one would ever even
break a twig in the dense un-
derbrush about your howell.
"Several thousands of years
ago Solomon said, Gain wisdom
as wisdom gains understanding
Wisdom, he meant, is person
al knowledge of the rules of
living. But, you know, there is
such thing as an educated fool,
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