The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-06-23
SMALL TOWN TALK

The Brown County Journal is running a
"Beauty's Corner" The Gazette is running an
"American Legion Corner" Bout the same
thing, don't you think?
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One of our Redwood Falls men is having his
annual session with carbuncle and seeing him
thus caused US to recall Mark Twain's remark
that "The dictionary says a carbuncle is a jewel.
Humor is out of place in dictionary"
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"Reed BUSHES into Senate Collarless" states
a Washington headline last week in describing
the Senator's informal and unconventional haste.
Suppose the old war horse thought that was one
way of showing that he wears no mans collar
not even his own.
Don't expect repeal of prohibition to do
away with bootlegging, for bootleggers existed
before prohibition, even here in Steele County.
And don't expect such repeal to do away with
crime, it will simply divert the criminals now
engaged in peddling illicit booze to some other
field of crime.-Owatonna Journal-C Chronicle.
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Frank Day is still carrying on his campaign,
through the editorial colemns of his Fairmont
Sentinel, to get everyone to go to church twice
on Sunday. In the advertising columns of the
Sentinel we find advertising for Sunday night
dance. Just how anyone can be at church and a
dance at the same time is bit beyond us. Frank
is his usual charmngy inconsistent self.
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Diogenes went all through his life carrying
a lantern and looking for entirely honest man..
Needless to say he never found But some
where in his long search he found something that
made him say, "It is better to have one friend Of
great value than many friends who are good for
nothing" And that is great truth.
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The village orator burst into the Gazette Of
flee the other day aflame with ardor and elo-
quence. 1t raining and he said Cali Red
wood County needs to make it paradise is good
people and water" We didn't remind him that
joker had once made similar remark about
Hades. We didn't spoil his exuberance by any
such remark, but we wanted to-
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Henry Van Dyke is a member of the clergy,
a@poet and writer. But he has conception of
business that is given to few people At any
rate he appreciates the value of business man S
time when he says: Call upon business man
in business hours. State your business in a
business way. When done with business mat
tiers, go about your business and leave the bust
ness man to attend to his business"
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+ And now the "bloody boomin'" statisticans
who find out all of humanity's dearest secrets
have sent forth the word that 100000 men use
face powder and rouge. Good for the boys!
You'll almost always find the men following the
lead of the women if they are only given time
enough. But we understand in this instance
they doing it secretly applying the cosmetics
in their boudoirs or the barber shops instead of
openly carrying vanity cases. But they will get
over this little matter of reticence after while.
Springfield womens organization spon-
sored an automobile drive for the inmates of the
Old Folks Home at St. Johns hospital, and fol
lowing the ride served refreshments to the old
people. Acts of this kind never ere forgotten
by those who passing down the sunset side
of lifes journey, and the spirit that prompted
such acts of kindness are commendable In this
life of busy activity the little things which real
ly make living worth while are too often forgot
ten. Stop once in awhile and do an act of char
ity-it is good for the soul.-Brown County Jour-
nal.