The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-08-11

what these women have done the fruit of years
of self denial, of clean living and of other char
acter-building attributes. No one can affair
bodily endurance and physical skill without these
things. Swimming the English channel is JUS
an outward symbol of right living. In speak
! ing of the first woman, the who successfully
failed, Arthur Brisbane says; "Miss Clarabelle
Barrett, public school teacher Of New Rochelle
N. Y, honors her country. She didn't swim the
English channel, but she did keep on swimming
| for twenty-one hours, covering forty miles, fail
ing in her attempt by only two miles, She swan
on through fog and swan after the boat accom-.
panying her had got lost in the fog. Try to i'm
agine twenty-one hours swimming against
heavy current, waves breaking in your face con-
stantly, fog bewidering you, the guiding boat
lost to sight But for the fog Miss Barrett un-
doubtedly would have been the first woman to
swim the English channel
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France has twice as many bicycles as auto
mobiles. We don't know that that is any advan-
tage-wed just about soon be run down by
Ford as by shrilly whistling boy.
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Some Redwood Falls youths seem to have the
notion that the curfew hour has been changed
I. "A.
heard that the City Council has no ordained.
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Louis XIV of France once potato
flower in his buttonhole hoping thus to make the
fruit more popular. If the PRICE on tubers
keeps increasing Americans are likely to be
wearing them as scarf pins; just to show the
world that they have money.
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DR.. Brady says that during the hot weather
you should cut out at least one article of food
that you like. We have gone Doc one better,
having cut out two. Lmburger cheese and
chewing tobacco have both been put on our taboo
list
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Why do we growl! Taxes in the United
States are SIS per person per year. Great Brit
ain charges her citizens SIS per year, France
$35 and Germany $26. And just look at what
WE get in comparison to what they have to show
for their money! Us for America Incidentally
it looks as though America is for US-if by Gus"
we mean the average taxpayer.
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No longer can Frank Day brag to us about
Fairmont and get away with it. All the Cyan
kee Doodles" Of Minnesota's National Guard
went down to camp" at Fort Smelling. Redwood
Falls Company L was rated 967 in the sanitary
inspection; the FIRST of the whole big gang of
nineteen companies And there, away down next
to the last, Number Is, was Frank Days much
touted Company with rating of TIP. No
town is good town that isn't clean town-and
since these companies are their towns representa-
tives in the huge assembly of the State, it ap-
pears that Farmont is NOT clean. Now, just
how does Frank account for that.
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The Hills Crescent of last week carried the
following "ad" which strikes us as being frank
rather than pleasing Certainly it is original.
Wanted-about 500 people to give
some insurance to WRITE about half
that many to buy FARMS and few peo-
pie to make farm loans for, and then l
will be going good When you feel that
you cannot get skinned anywhere else
you might just as well come and let me
try it. If don't do it complete and sat-
isfactory, your money refunded Sprang-
er's Insurance Agency, by the boss him
self,
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Redwood Falls knows few things more gen.
uine, steadfast and more loyal than the
love H. NJ. Hitchcock, now of Minneapolis, still
holds for Ramsey State Park and other lovely
spots in this vicinity. Within the week two
hundred bulbs of the giant trillium, a flower be-
coming rare in Minnesota, have been dug by Mr..
Hitchcock from the heavy timber of Lake Min
netonka, transported to Redwood Falls and low
ngy put into the soil in the Park Truly la
Dor of love! When man will take his own
time and his money and his own strength
to make spot lovelier for his fellow men, then
we say that is truly a lover both of nature
and of human beings. Some day we hope Mr..
Htchcock's dream of making the Park a real
wild flower preserve may be realized Thus far
he has worked e. this task almost single handed.
Now, in the face of this last bit of good work
which he has quietly and unostentatiously done,
it is time some of the rest of the people of this
community buckled in and helped. The call goes
out for volunteers. Anyone who loves old Ram
sey and wild flowers is sufficiently qualified.
We have heard many rumors to the effect
that the Sesqi-Centennal exposition at Philadel-
phia is an awful FLOP Carl Eastman the
president of the Minnesota Editorial Associa-
ton, recently visited it and what Carl says rath-
er verifies this "flop" rumor.
&c. N. Cosgrove and the editor of
| this paper spent day at the Sesquicen-
| tenial at Philadelphia July 21st. We
had been apprized that the centennial