The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-07-28

never mace
come on with his old stone!
TIT
It would be sort of nice if every man in Red
wood Falls had to keep house for just a week
during the very hottest part of the summer and
had to deal with the garbage problem which con-
fronts housekeepers here and in every other
small town in Minnesota. After PA" had trail
ed around the back yard with dripping sink
strainer in one hand and a spade in the other,
trying to find garbage cemetery" that had
not already been used for sixteen different gar
bage funerals, he would know what "Ma' is talk
ing about when she wants to know why the heck
this town can't have a garbage collector. Sani-
tation as well as convenience demands that there
be some sort of collection system and yet we
never have had it. 1t is perfectly right and prop
er that the individual householder should pay for
such service, but whether it should be done
through the slight additional tax necessary or
done by direct payment is something for great
er minds than ours to ponder and decide. But
there should be some such service, it should COW
er every home in the city and it should be con-
trolled by certain definite and obligatory and
strictly enforced rules. Having spent good fiji
teen minutes this morning trying to find va
cant spot to bury two cantaloupe shells and dis
reams on this garbage question. There is small
use of any "swat the fly campaign" that doesn't
give Mr.. Fly the first swat by removing his be-
loved garbage heap. And the sanitation involv-
ed is not slight matter but consideration of
the city's welfare. But we'll just bet our best
pink felt hat that nothing will be done about it!
Women have raved about it before and been
laughed at We expect the same fate!
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Sometimes, just once in long, long while,
rose is given to the living. Such rose was
handed to A. C. Burmester at the annual school
election held here last week. Since 1889 when
Mr. Burmeister came to make his home in Red
wood Falls he has worked for his town and COM
munity. Much of his service has been of the
quiet, transformations sort that few people knew
about; for the benefit of the city ITSELF for the
church of his choice and for the public schools,
this man has always labored, often sacrificing
his cwn interests to the interests of his commun-
ity. Few have thanked him for t-probably few
have thought of the many things he has done
probably only comparatively few have known
about many of these things. And yet out of four
hundred and eighty seven votes at the election,
this received the amazing majority of four
hundred fifty-one, and that in face of the fact
men of whom the city highly approves and that
both of them number their friends by hundreds
1t not that the other two candidates were
! ignored by the voters; it was simply that the
vote was practically unit for Burr no matter
how it may have been divided on the other two
Such vote could not but be considered vote
of confidence. While place on the Board of Edu-
cation is considered by many to be more or less in
1oou IL
sion, tie people Of the district proved that the name
"Burmeister' meant something for which they
wished to stand and they stood for it! It was
splendid recognition of Mr.. Burmesters value as
a citizen and proof that sometimes public
does rouse itself to recognize such worth. Sec
ond Recognition Of this same worth came last
Friday when Mr.. Burmeister was made president
Of the State Bank of Redwood Falls, one Of the
biggest banking institutions in this section of the
state. Sometimes rose to the living is more
than whole sheaf laid upon casket-Redwood
Falls may be glad that she has recognized this
and given his due to at least one of her worth
while citizens.
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We think tax payers are a strange race
They growl and growl and growl about taxes and
then pay not the least attention in the world as
to how they are spent! F'rinstance, last year the
Board Of Education handled, going and coming,
almost one hundred thousand dollars of the
School Districts money. Being member of that
worthy body the Gazette editor of course modest
| ly admits that this was handled with ex-
ceedng great wisdom. But the public didn't
know how it was handled and apparently they
took mighty little interest in finding out. At the
annual meeting, when fairly large number of
voters were in the room, the acting president
of thesBoard suggested that the reports of secre-
tary and treasurer be read so that an accounting
of this money might be made to those who had
paid it and for the benefit of whom it had been
spent Did the citizens agree to this suggestion
and sit down to quietly and thoughtfully listen to
this report, to ask questions about it, and to con-
slider the wisdom of the policy followed by the
Board of Education. They did NOT! They pro-
; tested, with much emphasis, that they wanted
NO reports, that they had come to vote, that
they wanted to vote, and get away P D. O. Sc
they voted and went, and when, in order to com
ply with the law, the reports were finally read
there were not more than dozen people count
ing the election judges and clerks who had tt
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