The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-10-06

the fair grounds this year!
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We don't mind losing an honest nickel on
horse race now and then but we certainly do hate
Ito see our turtle get licked!
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Redwood County just naturally couldn't have
a fair without the Borgs and sure enough they
rolled in Tuesday morning prepared to make a
week Of it. They sure looked good to their old
friends and neighbors
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If anyone thought Redwood County isn't
in the banana bet-or mighty close to tive
hope he saw those pears and grapes displayed
at the fair last week. They were most convinc-
ling
| It must be that people are living longer.
| We have noticed at least a half dozen accounts
lately of people who have celebrated their one
hundredth birthday, and some older than
that. 1t seems to us that only ten fifteen
years ago it was most rare to hear of person
who had lived a century. We are beginning to
have hopes that we have a long time let to live.
Wells Mirror.
Martin County had eleven farm club booths
yet Redwood County has pioneered in the farm
club field and has the finest bunch of such clubs
of any county in the state Too bad, folks, too
bad. But the two we did have were certainly
RUNNERS. And Gales township had to come
clean across the county with hers-if that means
anything to some of the clubs close by!
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Here's bit of good philosophy which we
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column in the Duluth Herald
Young Col. Roosevelt is right when
he assails our national habit of going to
extremes. We suffer from intemper-
ance in trying to do good. We see
evil, and instead of attacking it sensibly
and with care we try to cure it by some
extreme measure which throws us into
worse state than we were in before.
Mistakes cannot be cured by mistakes.
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1.-Two years ago, Nung Wong, 12-
year-old Chinese boy, admitted to
the Los Angeles General hospital, suf-
fering from leprosy of the right arm,
left knee, face and head Two years
treatment with Chaulmoogra oil has
ed him absolutely. 1t is the first cure of
leprosy this continent
1t takes. one back to the days of Ben Hur,
doesn't it? And who shall say that this cure,
accredited to science" is not just as much of
miracle and worked by the Hand were
those marvellous cures before the first Palm Sun
day.
Human nature is still human nature! While
the Red Cross and other organizations, and many
individuals as well, making every effort
to raise money to help the hurricane victims of
Florida, vandals in the stricken districts
Irobbing the wrecked homes and office buildings of
everything movable. It's pty-but on the
other hand isn't it fine that still have the
good to offset the evil? 1t is not so hopeless
Jas it first appears since the people who
helping far out number the folks who were him
dering. incidentally the Red Cross is still asking
for funds to be used in the work of rescue and
rehabilitation.
We were told by one who has had
years of experience in road building
that that dashboard surface on gravel
roads is absolutely unnecessary and due
to ignorance. His remedy is to set the
grader blade at decided angle and work
the gravel in from the outer edge of the \
road, against traffic This latter per-
Torrance is what does the work.-Win
nebago City Enterprise
If you don't believe washboards are unnec-
essary, go out six miles or so west of Redwood
Falls on the road which Sherman Payne has
kept in shape-Sherman has never had wash
bdard-we don't believe he even permits his
wife to have one for Monday morning. I'm
necessary is right!
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This week is fire prevention week. Does
that mean anything to you? It should, since
from the State Fire Department comes the state
ment that the money lost by fires in the U. S.
each year would keep more than TWO MILLION
children in school. Maybe should cease
growing about school taxes and learn what we
can do toward reducing them by just this one
single item of conservation. One way the de-
partment suggests by which this conservation
may be brought about is by exercising little
precauton-that is, when building buildings, see
that thew are erected So that thew won't h1rn