The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-10-20
SAIL TOWN TALK

| Fried Sweet Potatoes"-Headlne just folks
like us, isn't she? But can it be possible that
there is any human who WOULDN'T enjoy them
TIT
One of the eastern papers thinks that we
have now gotten even with England for giving
us the English sparrow-we have sent her a
fine grist of American jazz!
TIT
The world is full of handsome men but judg-
ing from the campaign pictures not many of
them are running for office-at least not in Red
wood County.
The Wadena News is the latest Farmer
Labor paper to suspend publication. The plant
has been taken by the Pioneer-Journal and
it is said that the farmers in that section not
only have sunk about $4,000 in the project dur
ing the last few years, but may still face an
assessment. Somehow it is hard for some people
to learn that politics and business is perilous
combination.-Duuth Herald
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Fred w. Sergeant, president of the Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad says this: "To over
come the forces that are retarding the progress
of the Northwest, this territory needs to herald
its advantages and not its grouches!" What's
true of the Northwest IN general is true of many
small towns in particular-and some of them are
pretty close home.
Fred Hadley says 'that if one acquires ten
friends in the journey from the cradle to the
grave he is indeed a fortunate man. We think
Fred has put the number just twice too high
anyone who has five real friends out of all the
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is the goal we set for ourselves long ago, and we
don't feel that we have yet arrived
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DR.. Riley has started another little hurri-
cane-not quite so sweeping as the recent Flor
ida disaster but of quite as much Importance to
DR.. Riley! He charges Carleton College with
all sorts of anti-reigious teachings. The investi-
cations and controversy promises much of inter-
est to the innocent bystanders, but not so much
as if it didn't appear palpably to be another of
the Honorable Doctors schemes for publicity.
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The time is about ripe for some church-dir-
ectory-advertising man to hit Redwood Falls and
make his annual killing And the first fellow
to pay five dollars or so to have two inch ad.
put on fifty sheets of cardboard and hung up in
various places where it will never be noticed, is
the individual who thinks the local printers are
away high in their prices. Suckers are born
every minute-and Redwood Falls has her quota
of settlers from among this tribe.
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We can't imagine anything more superbly
idotic than the action of school authorities at
Port Fulton, Ind. when they decided that nine
year-od girl could not come into the school
room wearing knicker play suit. A teacher
or superintendent or Board of Education who sees
anything immodest in such dress has wrong
angle on what constitutes modesty. On the 9TH
er hand down at Genoa, Nebr., the Board of Edu-
cation ruled that skirts must be long enough
to cover the knees when either standing or sit
ting. That sounds sensible. But We gods! what
furry it would cause in the local school!
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In one Minnesota town, the name of which
has escaped us just this minute, the Commercial
Club has volunteered to sell one thousand tickets
for single day for the next County Fair. That
is, the Commercial Club is to sponsor day for
it's town and is going to show that it is sponsor
ing it by bringing in the crowd. What if the
sizable towns in Redwood County would do
thing like that? We'd have the most tremend-
iously successful fair we have ever had but we'd
nave to elect whole new Falr b0afQ-Che Ola
one would drop dead from the shock of such CO.
operation.
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"What has become of the old-fashioned wo-
man who used to be sorry for her husband because
he had to work so hard" inquiries busy-body,
nquisitive stck-your-n peoples
ness columnist. The answer is easy. This wife
has, for the past quarter of century or so been
doing the same work her husband used to do
and has found that it isn't half as hard as her
own job of rearing and bringing up the children
and keeping the home. The tired-business- man
bluff has been called by women long ago-too
many of them are in business themselves these
days to be fooled by it any longer.
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| We haven't bit of doubt that lot of vot-
ers will refrain from voting on the Constitutional
Amendments the plea Of ignorance And that
in the face of the fact that every newspaper in
the state publishes these Amendments for three
consecutive times during the month of October
and every newspaper has also carried columns
| of editorial matter concerning them. There is no
excuse for any one who can read the English
language not knowing what the text of these
amendments is and what it means. In case they
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