The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-12-26
SMALL TOWN TALK

| Down in the state department in Saint Paul
they say Redwood Falls has fewer children out
of school when they should be in, than almost
any other city in the state; that when the beet
growers children should be in school they are
there; that cases of children who absent re-
peatedly Investigated and the causes of
those absences removed whenever possible
They don't hesitate to say, down there in the
! state department, that Redwood Falls has re-
markably active and thorough superintendent of
schools-which is really very nice thing for
this community to have come to its ears
It's nice thing to know too, that the state
department of hotel inspection thinks Redwood
Falls hotels, and eating places clean and
sanitary and well cared for. Its common talk
about town that when the inspector finished up
with one place, not more than just next door to
! the Gazette, he said "The cleanest place have
j seen on this trip and the cleanest fountain /
have SEEN" Modern conveniences have
something to do with it of course and Lauterbach
Bros. who were thus praised have spared no ex-
pense in modern equipment. But back of this
there is an mate love of cleanliness, desire to
| play fair with their customers and that pride
which will let them serve nothing but what is
| 100 percent fit And cleanliness is big factor
| in that fitness. Mike and Joe to be con-
| graduated upon the compliment received and the
town is to be congratulated upon having their
eating place among the several fine "food dis
pensares" of Redwood Falls. There are lot
of things the old town can be stuck-up about if
we'll just look for them and the many good
places serving food and drinks land daring to
show where it is prepared) is among them. Let's
| find some more!
Mankato believes in being "out of the
trenches by Christmas"-so had its special cleo
ton to settle the school district fuss last
Wednesday night. That little family argument
had been going on several months.
The potato growers and the bread bakers
complain that their trades have suffered be-
cause women SO intent upon gaining syphlike
lines that they refuse to eat starches. Its hard
on the boys-but there is nothing to be done
about it until fashion DEGREES return to mid
Victorian curves
Fire of undetermined origin destroyed
the main plant of large sauerkraut
manufacturing concern at Phelps, N.
Y, last Tuesday. Tanks containing 49,
900 barrels of the finished product were
lost.-News item in New York World.
Isn't it lucky that Springfield grows her
own! This part of the world has nothing to
worry about. Once more has the West showed
it's independence of the East.
Michigan and Minnesota are in much the
same fix according to this
eff the slaughter of deer continues as
it has been during the past few years,
Michigan will have nothing to worry
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ties few years hence The deer will
have been wiped out and deer hunters
will have gone to other territories in
quest of their game."-Ironwood Globe.
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The headlines last week made Henry Ford
say that "Youth should spend money" And i'm
mediately all the professional wise-crackers got
busy. The majority of them got funny" (ol
thought they did, along the line of youth spend
ing money to buy Ford's cars. They all read into
Mr.. Ford's remarks something he didn't say
What he did say had much common sense in il
and here it is, in part:
"a boys job is not to accumulate dol
. lars but to use them to prepare himself
with the training, knowledge and exper-
fence which every leader needs. If
boy saves it should be with some such
expenditure in view.
"The last thing boy needs is idea
of boarding money. The one great thing
he does need is to learn how to spend
money-all the money. he can get-for
e self-improvement.
ITO know how to spend money is one
of the qualifications of any business
man. don't see how anyone can learn
. how to spend money wisely except by
spending it. No man ever built pro-
: ductive institution of any kind by saw
ing money. That is done by knowing
how to spend money wisely. Invest in
: yourself until you are forty. 1t is time
enough to save when you can earn more
than You can spend wisely. But you
will never get to that point by saw
) ing"