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

Small Town Talk
A physician has pronounced tina,
the Charleston is a cure for rheuma'
tism. So is death!
tft
The only person in the world who
really bores us is the person who
talks to us when we want to talk
to him.
Thin ice has claimed it's first vic
tim at Cleveland Minnesota. Let's
all make it our business to see that
the second victim does not live in
Redwood Falls.
Do your Christmas shopping early
starting it right now with a Red
Cross membership. No other dollar
you spend at Christmas time will buy
you as much satisfaction as the one
you spend thus.
tft
Some of the Minneapolis Eagles
flew too high. But now they have
alighted-in the Winona County Jail
and will stay lit for the next year.
Said Eagles are learning the differ
ence between having "lit" and having
ait up!"
Mr.. Volstead calls attention to the
fact that by the law the purchaser
of illicit liquor is subject to ninety
days imprisonment. Why not? The
purchasers are the ones that keep
the bootlegging business good.-Min-
neapolis Journal.
Mrs. Medill Mccormick is abroad
in the land attempting to arouse the
Republican women against the World
Court. We should say that Mrs. Nc
Cormick has about the same percent
age of success as has a horse doctor
in Detroit, Mich.
tft
"Man's First Food Was Dates" says
the Progressive Grocer. Which ac-
counts for the fact that the sons of
man 1--WE are now speaking of the
younger sons) are still content to
thrive mostly on these same things:
Of course there are dates and DATES!
tft
Goody! Redwood County politics
are beginning to glow little and it
looks as though there might be real
warming blaze within the next few
months. There's nothing that so fills
with satisfaction the heart of the
country editor as "goodly number"
of anxious candidates.
tft
We wish people would stop asking
us what sort of winter we are 60
| ing to have. 1t sounds too exactly as
though they think US near relative
of the notorious Montevideo mule.
Bv the way how is that mule prog
nosticating this fall any way?
tft
Banios are barred in San Quentin
prison by the warden who thinks
they might be used as weapons. We
can think of at least one more good
reason why, if he is man thought
| full of his comfort, he has placed
this ban.
Down in Martin County they put
on a contest in a mans cornfield to
see who could husk the fastest-and
incidentally the man who owned the
farm got his corn out in hurry
Someday we are going to put on
contest to see who can write the best
and the speediest news stories-and
we are going to hold said contest or
press day, early in the forenoon.
tft
The Hay and Nicholas movie house
at Fairmont (by the way that's the
handsomest and best conducted movie
house in that section OF the state
by a long way) put on the filmed
version of the Wizard of Oz Tor the
children Of the town. The kids de-
manded Tom Mix back again and HAY
and Nicholas went $135 in the hole
on lust that one film. Great is the
power of the kid and his dislikes.
tft
Men VINO spent their youth riding
cultivator are preferable to men wit
spent their youth stepping on the ga
Of a high-priced automobile. That:
the discovery that has been made by
railroad Arrangements in their search
for good men for the railroad servic'
according to Fred w. Sargent, presi
dent of the Northwestern system. HI
made the statement to q group O
prize-winners in farm boys and girls
club projects. From such groul
will come the civic and industrial
leaders of tomorrow.-Northfi
News.
tft
Rumors are atioat that the tw
newspapers at St. Peter may be con
solidated. Commenting thereon, tina
bright newspaperman, John e. Casey
publisher of the Jordan Independent
and for several years past highl,
efficient secretary of the Minnesot
Editorial Association, says: "Whil
St. Peter is a good sized burg, an
looks like a fair field for two news
papers, yet the city is not too larg
to apply the efficiency and econom
of service that would be obtained b
banishing the duplication OF expens
entailed in having two newspape
plants where one would do just q
we'll" When he wrote those word
Casey was not only at the bat bu
hit home run over right field fence
-Worthington Globe.
tf1
Hamlet has been shown in Nev
York with the Melancholy Dane wear
ing q ''Tux" and the lovely Opheli
gowned in a French model of muc
up-to-dateness. But even worse tina
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