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

thing to you.
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| CONGRATULATIONS!
The officers and members of the Woman's
Club Of Ortonville are to be congratulated upon
their stand against itinerant merchants who con-
stantly harass them from morning until night
offering to "let them in" on a special article
handled only by agents" These itinerant mer-
chants are entire strangers and the quality of
the goods they offer is in question, the down pay
ment in exchange for a receipt to apply on the
purchase price generally the commission of the
agent, binds the housewife to accept the goods
when they arrive to lose the payment made.
Inferior goods are palmed off on unsuspecting
housewives. The merchant who pays taxes in
Ortonville, educates his family here and is re-
sponsible citizen who must "make good" any
sale that is unsatisfactory is not given an op-
Iportunty to compare quality and prices and is
kept from making many sales and profits to
which he is justly entitled.
The movement of the Womans Club should
receive the hearty endorsement and cooperation
of every housewife in the city. Many house.
wives have been robbed of valuable time and
money by "slvsr tongued strangers" who ring
their door bells and gain entrance We call to
mind one lady who one time stated, in speaking
of her experience with canvassers, 81 am like
the small boy who ate the green apples-chuck
full of inside information Ortonville indie
pendent.
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INDEPENDENCE"
Nobody can get gay with me.
l know my rights, and get 'em too;
amt no slave-not me, I'm free
And just as good, by heck, as you!
When people tread upon my toes,
Why, me and them, we hit the mat
None of their monkey-business goes,
| l tell 'em where to get off at.
Where did get this dark blue eye?
| Well, admit it's quite sight,
But you should see the other guy!
He's in the hospital all right!
I've averaged one fight day,
. I've broken arm, a nose, Stat.
But just the same when folks get gay
I tell em where to get off at.
lot of ginks I've run across
Amt got spirit, not bit.
They have run-in with the boss
And always get the worst of it,
I've had two jobs, or maybe three,
Within month, less than that;
The bosses don't get brash with me
tell 'em where to get off at.
I'm independent, that's my style
(Er-say, my pocketbook is flat
Lend me ten dollars for awhile)-
tell 'em where to get off at!-Berton Brad
ley
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We who are prone to worry may we'll read
with intent and attention this bit of philosophy
of the French Poilu, evolved while he was a part
of the great World War;
"Of two things, one is certain; Either
you're mobolized or you're not moboliz-
IF you're not mobolized, there is
no need to worry; if you are mobolized,
of two things one is certain: Either
you're behind the lines or you're at the
front.
IF you're behind the lines there is
no need to worry; if you're at the front,
OF two things one is certain: Either
you're resting in a safe place or you're
exposed to danger.
IF you're resting in a safe place
there is no need to worry; if you're ex-
posed to danger, of two things one is
certain: Either you're wounded or you're
not wounded.
"If you're not wounded there is no
need to worry; if you are wounded, of
two things one is certain: Either you're
wounded seriously or you're wounded
slightly. /
eff you're wounded slightly there is
no need to worry; if you're wounded SER
iously, of two things one is certain;
Either you recover or you die.
IF you recover there is no need to
worry; if you die you cannot worry"
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We suppose the introduction of the bill to |
reduce the Governors salary was only horse
play but it was pretty coarse at that. 1t prob |
ably didn't do any great amount of harm but |
neither did it put the men backing it into any
greater favor with the people of the State. The |
Pioneer Press of Saint Paul sizes the matter up
pretty well in these words, published in its issue
of last Wednesday.
IF the Governor of this state is to
be penalized 81 900 year because of an
effort to hold down the states expendi-
lures, it is about time for the /elimina-
ton of all salaries paid to members of