The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-01-18

thing to do; keeping it perambulating in your
own community is wiser.
49,
About the most futile and fugitive set of
people we know are included in this bunch of
men and women advocating all sorts of expert
mental marriages. The erudite Boston Trans
cript assures us that there other kinds
of marriages mean!
If any stranger comes into your shop, stating
that you must have an engineers license to run
your steam heating plant, send him down to take
bath in the lake. Some business men 'bit" on
this and lost money, the Jeffer's Review says
paying money to unidentified strangers for any
purpose is the bunk, and worse. Don't do it,
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There is no such thing as an old woman.
Recently maiden of 104 years had her hair
bobbed and says she likes it. Last week Miss
Sarah Stark of Virginia (Minn.) took out the
first Leap Year marriage license, having per-
suaded John P. MEATS to marry her. The bride
is sixty years old and her husband-to be is fifty
eight. There is no such thing an old woman
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Representative Clague of this district holds
most important post in Congress on the COM
mittee appropriations, which is considered the
most important committee of the house. Mr..
Clague is worthy of the position. This district
should be proud of him. The fact that he had
no opposition in the last election would at least
indicate that his constituents are at least salts
fled with him.-Cottonwood County Citizen.
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We are not an admirer, really, of Governor
Alfred Smith of New York and we shall not vote
for him if he becomes the Democratic nominee
for president this year. But we do like him for
the common sense and practical way in which he
kept paid aliensts and psychiatrists out of the
Snyder-Gray case when it was brought to him as
a last resort. Like lot of us ordinary mortals
Governor Smith has little enough patience with
the alleged findings Of these scientists in the
case of murder such as these two committed
and his refusal to be persuaded by learned talk
of men hired to prove these two were not re-
sponsible meets with the approval of the major
ity. That the case didn't degenerate into another
Leob-Leopold farce is due largely to the good
sense of Smith.
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Jim Landy criticized our recent definition of
tact-says that what we said it was is just moth
ing but old-fashioned blarney. So for Jim's
benefit we pass on this definition said to be Civ
en- by professor to a college freshman: eff you
tell girl that time stands still when you look
into her eyes, that's tact But if you tell her that
her face would stop clock you have taken your
self out of the tactful class" We guess Jim is
rights all barney or less.
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Now that we are far enough away from the
last Christmas season to look at things safely
and sanely and without undue sentimentality, it
is we'll for US to consider the Christmas tree
problem again. Rudolph Lee has so presented it
for the readers of his Long Prairie Leader
and these are his findings in the matter.
"The time honored custom of having
christmas Tree" may be only a men,
DRY with the next generation if warn
ings being sounded by those in po-
sition to know are not needed. The
destruction of these trees is ruthless and
has been carried on for years. The fol-
lowing from the Eveleth Clarion tells
of the inroads in the tree supply that
just this past Christmas season made
"How long will the trees last? APP
proxmately 100000 Christmas trees
have been shipped from northern Mime
sofa during the last six weeks to be sold
in all parts of the middle west and
south. Woodsmen have been busy at
work since early in November chopping
markets. Railroads, alone, have handled
the movements of 286 carloads of trees
from various points in the state rang
ing from Aitkin on the east to Bemidji,
Cass Lake and Park Rapids. 1t is esti-
mated that cities and towns in Mime
sofa alone will require nearly half the
number of trees cut in the state this
winter. Shipments to Minneapolis have
totaled $4,000 trees with st. Paul requr-
ing $1,000 and Duluth 1900. Mankato
New Ulm Austin, Winona, Red Wing,
Albert Lea and Rochester required ship
ments totaling $4,000 trees"
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/ If all deferred payment plans" were abol-
ished from the earth, this northwest of ours
would possibly get and keep the financial balance
| it seems somehow to have lost. Young people
on meagre salaries are furnishing their homes
on this plan, sometimes the payments so taking
up the salaries that there is next to nothing for
| the living expenses in the interval between two