The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-05-12
Small Town Talk


cept behind steering wheel.
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No, Celestine, an absentee is NOT
something one finds on the golf
course!
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A Nebraska man has cow with
wooden leg. What a nice way to as
sure ones self of a good supply of
planked steaks!
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In our estimation the most out-of-
luck of all the clever young things is
he or she who has good line"-but
no place to hang it!
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It's all right to question the other
fellows right to more than half the
road, providing he isn't driving either
truck or bus. If he is, discretion
is greater virtue than valor.
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"Poker chips" may sound like the
name of something to be used for
kindling wood but we are informed
by the man at our elbow that they
are not so used.
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Billy Sunday, when asked to roast
the tar out Of Catholics, replied:
Wherever l go I get such requests
and I tell 'em all there is entirely too
much rot and muck in our own yards"
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The Tyler Journal says "It is claim
ed that thousands of acres must be
reseeded in the vicinity of Redwood
{. Falls" Who claims it, we'd like to
know!
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:. 1t is all right of course to buy
fuel for the car today. But be sure
/. you are not doing it with money that
/ should be used to pay for fuel for
the body or fuel for the furnace
bought months or weeks ago.
A medal has been proposed for the
: man who first said "Say it with
i flowers" And now somebody wants
Y to know what is to be done by way of
/ recognition for the man who invent
i, ed that trite phase "When do we eat p
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d A week ago Vim Weber of the Stay
ton Herald was complaining because
o Murray county land was drifting owe,
t. into Iowa. This week Vim is com
: planning because it is drifting back
r again. Some of these folks just won
l. be satisfied.
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Judge Lady's Court" is the wa!
y the Renville County Journal speak
20 of Jim Landy's Hall of Justice. I'll.
the first time we ever heard Jim call
ed perfect lady-although we hav
heard frequently of his being more O
less a courier of them.
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er We don't know much about tn
e men on the State Democratic Commit
W tee but they've put some blame,
+? brainy women on it. 1t will be a
% well to look after that bunch-the,
~ are capable of putting lot of thing
II over.
IS Spring has finally came! Da
'e Atkinson of the Hibbing News report
lie that the trailing arbutus, "the sweet
lie est flower that blows" is about t
ct bloom in the north woods. Now TO
b. a word or two from Frank Day con
ir corning the Fairmont petunia!
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I'd The American Legionaire quote
~ SOMEBODY or other as saying "Wor
IN is all right if you have enough spar
re time for it." Which is just revise
y. version of that old statement, 81
lie business interferes with pleasure, Gu
t. out the business"
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a The Federation of Women's Club
ne OF Minnesota is on record as agains
OF the unsightly signs that greet you O
e, every hand as you motor along GU
ce state highways. We are with til
of ladies on this abolition of these bi
lie boards. "Swat the sign and saw
the scenery" would be good sloga
Tor Minnesota as we'll as Florida
Hennepin County Review.
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A woman is supposed to have n
r sense of humor. But here's one {
nd least who got quite chuckle whe
of she read that movie house manage
oil had advertised "a special children
e; matinee for that great animal pi
nd ture, Black Oxen" The "anim
IS. picture" is not so bad characterize
h. ton at that but we found the "chi
is dren's matinee" part a bit inapt.
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ng TT
There IS an old proverb from Ind
he which is now being handed abol
es, with more or less comment bein
ct made thereon. 1t seems to us tt
proverb is mighty wise-so wise TIL
cd comment is unnecessary. Crude
of translated it is make your heart
to soft as wax to sympathize with otl
Or ers; but make it hard as a rock
ers bear the blows that fall upon it fro
he without"
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Or Every time we hear some old du
WI fer, who has forgotten that he or 81
ice was ever young, fussing about the.
petting parties, we think of the o
et- time sofas that had to take the brul
IN. of it a generation ago. But the be
RI solution thus far offered, if it mu