The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-04-11

His own clothes may make man, but his
wife's are apt to break him.
IT'S said Frank Ellsworth's name will not
appear on the primary ticket! Can such things
be!
Courtesy is the eye which overlooks a
friends broken gateway, but the rose which
blossoms in his garden.
Taxes are up bit according to Ray Chase's
report. But let's be thankful they are not up
to the extent they are in Koochiching county
where property owners have to pay 154.49 mills.
Beside that our 42.31 mills looks easy.
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citizen of Illinois has proudly figured out
that in the past thirty years he has spent time
amounting to three entire years at least, in play
ing solitaire and tabulating results in effort
to see what the chances are for beating the
game Is that science or just dunn foolishness?
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These are the days of diversification. Last
week group of hardware stores in Minneapolis
advertised 1.-TWO bottles of tomato catsup for 80
cents" along with their spading forks, screw
drivers and casting rods That sort of thing
doesn't seem quite fair to Sears-Roebuck and
Montgomery Ward.
The D. A. R. blacklist is a matter of serious
ness only to the D. A. R. itself. To those it has
thus listed the whole thing is huge joke. 1t is
unfortunate that so dignified and so we'll es-
tablished group as the d. A. R. should have per-
mitted itself to be led into such ungracious and
childish procedure. To have put the of
such person as William Allen White on list
of that sort is to have made farce of what pre-
tended to be a serious matter. The Daughters
have considerable explaining to do.
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An exchange says that gumshoe campaign
is being waged against Rep. Frank Clague and
a candidate may be brought out against him. So
far the gumshoe artists have failed to show up
in Truman and they may as well save them
selves the time and effort. Frank Clague
stands 100 percent with the people of Truman
and vicinity for they know that in him they
have a representative who devotes his entire
time and effort to properly represent his agri-
cultural district. No doubt this opposition
comes from the big boys who opposed to farm
relief egislaton.-Truman Tribune.
For more than a century and half the
savings bank has been conducted by men and
largely for men. Lately many of the conservative
directors of savings banks in the United States
awoke to the fact that more than half Of the
depositors in these institutions are women.
Up to that time, only half a decade ago, lit
tie or nothing had been done to cater to the
growing army of women patrons. Even today
only small percentage of our savings bank Of
ficials know the relative proportions of their
male and female depositors. The officials of one
of the largest savings banks in this country
having 100000 depositors, recently learned that
rs per cent of their accounts are handled by
women, either in their own right or for some
member of their family.-Thrift Magazine.
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We are not for an elaborate paving plan
which means bonding the State of Minnesota
but the following from the Little Falls Tran
script gives something to think about.
Here is concrete" evidence of the saw
ing to car owners with hard-surfaced roads
as compared with the dirt and graveled high
ways. On Friday of last week local
drove to Sank Center over highway %,
distance of 43 miles, The road was only
slightly rough, but very heavy. Returning
he drove via st. Cloud, an all paved road
from Sank Center to Little Falls, distance
of 82k miles recorded by his speedome-
ter. He kept an exact measurement of the
gas used and consumed over a gallon more
on the outward trip of 43 miles than he did
on the return journey home. In short, he
travelled nearly twice the distance with less
gas a paved road than on the dirt road.
While this condition may not be true in
midsummer with all roads properly dragged,
it will hold good about seven months out
of the year in Minnesota.
And since we are on the subject of good
roads and what they do for the common citizen
here is this from the typewriter Of Rudolph Lee
of the Long Prairie Leader.
More and more it is coming to be realiz-
ed that, in building roads, they must be
built for winter use as well as for summer
use. There is as much need for travel in win
ter as in summer. In fact, there is more
need, for winter travel is the more apt to be
the necessary travel while summer travel
runs much to joy and pleasure riding. The
past winter has shown again that the grad
ed road is the big money saver when it
comes to removing snow and keeping the
roads open. The roads that had good grades
with proper bitches at the sides were clear