The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-12-28

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Mexican woman aged one hundred eighteen
has just been vacinated for smallpox. And we'll
wager she insisted upon having it done on her
lower extremity
One of the exchanges puts it thus: "If
young Lindbergh keeps cruising around among
these foreigners the first thing you know old
Uncle Sam won't have an enemy on earth except
in the United States"
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Redwood Falls is to be congratulated upon
the reappointment of H. w. Ward as the city's
postmaster for the next term of four years. The
reappointment which came in December was one
of the City's best Christmas gifts. Mr.. Ward
has conducted the office in way pleasing both
to the government inspectors and to the public
which the office serves. He and his force are a
rare combination of efficiency and courtesy, and
it is good to know that they are all to continue
on the job.
Frank Day insists that eff you want to
grow men, men who dare and do and damn, YOU
must live in country where they have to brave
billiards." Minnesota has had wonderful op-
portunty to sprout just that kind during the last
few weeks of our autumn" Since winter did
not set in until December twenty first, our first
real day of winter began last Wednesday. Up
to that time all those little happenings in tenn
perature and atmosphere were merely the whims
of Minnesota fall ,However-Spring and seed
ing are just around the corner of 1925
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To keep our mental and spiritual pose-our
faith in short-in the face of the dastardly MUIR
H. oh; AZ
edy of the submarine on the eastern coast, re-
quires all the forttude most of us can muster
1t is well for us if we remind ourselves that
these are just dark and tangled knots on the web
of Life which the Fates weaving. Take it
all in all the fabric is woven straight and true
with strong wool and lustrous warp. The knots
are of human making and have no part in the
plan of the Divine Weaver. To become morbid
and cynical and bitter over happenings such as
these is human, but is neither wise nor just.
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The U. S. Department of Agriculture in
quires "What becomes of your dismantled Christ
mas tree after the holidays? ?" and then suggests
"Do not burn it in the fire place, even if partial
ly cut up. The dry brittle evergreen will start
roaring fire and possibly set fire to the CHM
ney, endangering the house. Have the tree drag
ged away to safe place for bonfire, and use
it as nucleus to get rid of any other rubbish
that can be burned up. The same precautions
apply to any other sort of Christmas green's"
Good and timely advice; but usually these greens
are left standing long as they look fairly
respectable, and then they are dragged out into
the back yard where they look like a wreck of
Eugene Fields tin soldier, for the rest of the
winter.-Nobles County Times
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After all, that it is all over, wouldn't
you rather have lived in 1927 than any other
year of your life? Wouldn't you rather have
lived to the world bound into one tight little
ball through the efforts of Lindbergh than to
have lived through any other national or inter-
national event of your lifetime? Wouldn't you
rather have seen the propaganda for Peace
spread and spread it has during the past
twelve months than to have lived through any
other propaganda period of your life? You may
have lost money, you may have met grief, you
may have grown year older along with the
rest of humanity, but the years big events have
been factors in the progress of civilizaton-and
it is that sort of thing which makes every year
better than the year before it. 1928 is bound to
be even better and more progressive than 1927
Let's be ready for it. .--..-~y-