The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-12-22

AzErTE, REDWOOD FALLS, MINNEsoT.
Senator Copeland contends that four per cent
beer wouldn't be intoxicating. Why bother with
it at all then?
August Erickson is pessimist In his
last issue of the Springfield Advance he prognos-
ticated that cit takes more than one short biz
bard to keep the Christmas shopper from his line
of duty. He may be delayed but he isn't
stopped"
Impossible and improbable it may seem
the Gazette made mistake! Of course it new
er will again. We listed the office of municipal
Judge as of the city Offices to be filled at the
January election. C. v. Everett was elected to
this office last January and his term is for four
years. So that's one less thing for us to worry
about Chuck will be right on the job for the
coming three years.
We sure were glad to see those snow drifts
taken away from the business section Of Red
wood Falls. If there is anything that makes a
thriving little town look backwoodsy it's drifts
several feet high lining each side of it's main
thoroughfares. The City did a good job that
time. Therell probably be plenty of opportunity
SOON
the winter if the record of these first few weeks
is maintained.
IT
One of the Gazette readers seems to have
sort of guessed, from something we have said
at one time or another, that we were not es-
pecially fond of saxaphone. So this friend
hands us the following little story, to which we
most happily respond "Me too
"What you got there, GeOrge?" de-
manded the man above, sticking his
head out of the window.
"Saxaphone. Got it on trial"
II vote guilty"
TTf
The popular impression is that burglar is
often rather harmless person who would do
nobody injury unless he were driven to it in self
defense. A story that comes from Hutchinson
shows that sometimes the man who goes out af-
ter another's property very often holds human
life far too lightly. E. T. Johnson, manager of
"a creamery at that place, struck blow on
the head and after the thieves had ransacked
the place they set fire to the building, leaving
him lying there to be cremated. We don't know
what the courts would do with two such men but
we do know that they were, to all intents, MUIR
derers, even though the found in time
to save his life.-Windom Citizen.
ftf
Having appointed two Democrats to
office in Blue Earth county, Governor
Christensen might now consider that
his party supporters entitled to any
thing left-"all other things being
equal" Sounds very much like the "due
consideration" stuff the congressman
write back home.-Lake Crystal Trib-
If these two Democrats were better fitted
for these jobs than any two Republicans of Blue
Earth County Ted absolutely right in ap
pointing them and the Tribune editor knows it.
We can imagine cases where Democrat would
be just as good as real man-even bit bet
ter, perhaps.
I + I
Down in Estherville, Iowa, they have four
busted banks. And yet the editor of the Esther
vile indicator Republican, with a good cheer
that has Pollyanna backed up against the wall
and fighting to hold her place says: "There is no
great loss without small gain. AS long
as Esthervlle is without a bank the merchants
will not be bothered a great deal with fraudu-
lent checks" And Peter Refsell, who was at one
time connected with bank at Emmetsburg, Iowa,
and is now editor of Worthngton paper,
gives us another and very thought-nspirlng
slant on present day banking. He says: Zone
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depositors' meet in Sheldon, Iowa, keeps bobbing
up before us, and leave it to you if there isn't
something in it. He said: "a bank which car
ries enough cash on hand to pay all of its deposit
tors is not loaning enough to insure its making
enough to stay in business, and fails in its duty
to furnish money for the needs of the commun-
ity.' Think it over"
IT.
| We have heard the moving picture industry
so much discussed and cussed and so maigned
and so many other things that it really
quite restfu to find exchange saying the fol-
lowing understanding word about the movies and
| their usefulness.
Figures have just been given out
by the government, based its war
revenue collections, showing that the
people of this country spend one bill
lion dollars a year moving pictures.
This is vast amount, especially when
one reflects that it is paid out in small
sums, and yet know of no other
luxury which gives any more in re-
turn. While much that is flashed on