The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-04-27


three years. These firms include such business
es as Proctor and Gamble, Eastman Kodak Com
pany, Colgate and Company, Cream of Wheat
Campbell Soup and others as well known and
reliable. Evidently these big firms have proved
to their own satisfaction that they can't "float
along" on a small ad. about once in six months.
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"Oh, what a dirty window shade"
is an expression as old as the hills. But
there is recent invention known as a
tontine window shade. You can turn thel
hose on it and wash it the same as one
| does a handkerchief or a shirt."-Ex
Turning a hose" shirt a handker-
chief may be the proper way to wash such arti-
cles but it seems bit strenuous to us.
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Clarence E. Flynn pays this tribute to The
Teacher as he and she presides in the common
schools the world over;
"The eyes of the ages toward him,
The love of the race is his own.
The heart of the world will reward him
With a name that is more than
| throne.
The life that he lives is unending,
| For he is the servant of youth.
Earth is lit by the flame he is tending
This priest of the altar of truth.
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One of the Gazettes readers sends into the
office an interesting auction bill for an auction
held Tuesday, February IA, 1885," The place
of the auction as "the farm u mile southeast of
the Greenwood Station on the Frisco R. r. We
have no idea where that was. The bill is just the
exact size of a medum-sized pocket handker-
chief and yet on it are listed thirty-seven head
of cattle with considerable detailed information
concerning them, and proportionate number of
horses, hogs and the usual list of farm machin-
cry. Certainly the present day farmer has be-
come educated, during the last forty years, to
the advisabilty of larger auction bills with space
enough to really display the articles for sale.
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Nlnety-flve per cent of automobile drivers
probably want to do the right thing. They really
want to live up to the traffic rules. But prob
ably not one per cent has taken the trouble and
time to read and digest the traffic rules either
of their state or their own municipality. Just
now there is a brand new set of rues-most of
them mighty good ones-laid before the public
by the Legislature before it left ST. Paul last
week. The rules and the penalties for their in
fringment designed to make motoring safer
for motorists and pedestrians alike. 1t is the
duty of everyone who drives a car to acquaint
himself with these rules as rapidly as he may
and profit thereby. promised bulletin from the
State Highway Department will be- of much as
sistance to the eager student of trafficology
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"Of the 100000 population of the
United States 100000 live in rural
America Of these, 100000 live on
farms There more children per
thousand of population in the country
districts than in the cities. Four mil
hon boys and girls in the rural districts
never go to church Sunday School.
Only one person in five of the rural popu-
lation goes to church. Seven out of ten
rural churches have only fraction of
pastor apiece. One third of all the
rural pastors have to supplement their
income by secular work. Two out of
five rural churches standing still or
going backwards. County after county
In the United States hasn't a single
Episcopal church"
The above, quoted from 'aThe Church at
Work" is probably the chiefest reason why
there is much present-day interest in the study
of the rural church and its puzzling problems.
The Episcopal church is making a nationwide
effort to grapple with this question and specific
study OF the rural church constitutes the very in
teresting study course of this year in one of the
Missionary societies of the Methodist church.
Rev. H. W. Foreman, in charge of the program of
the Episcopal church, says;
"The development of rural work
depends very largely upon the church's
knowledge of the agricultural life of
America, the economic, social and relig-
ious life of those dwelling in rural fields,
and the necessity, value and methods of
serving those who live in village and
country. The days when anyone who
wishes can be priest, preacher or pastor
IN village or country are past. Country
life is unique. Conditions are changing.
Methodist of preaching are forever be-
coming new. The problems national,
even international which involve modern
rural life, demand trained leadership.
The Church must contribute or lose
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