The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-09-26
SMALL TOWN. TALK

III not quite right to expect the solid south
to become liquid just because there is president
to be elected.
There seventy-five passenger buses op-
Grating in Minnesota now. It's no use trying to
pass one for there is always one just ahead that
, insists upon having even more of the road.
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Why doesn't someone invent grass-cutting
costume, a system of scoring and also system
of membership fees so that Father would become
as much interested in lawn cutting as in golf?
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"Select your own skins" says the sign in
furrier's window. If we only could What a
lovely time some of US would have exchanging
dreary sallow outsides for 'the skin you love to
touch"
This from the nimble brain and typewriter
of the Mnneota Mascot Jester, eff all the ex-
haust gas from all the automobiles in the country
was released at one time and weighted down
with dust of all the highways, it would be Sun
day afternoon"
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Watch your pocketbooks this week. The
Slayton Herald reports that fifteen fair visitors
at the Rock county event were looted Of amounts
from $500 to $500. 1t is just possible pro-
fessonal pickpocket or two is making the rounds
of county fairs If so they will probably be on
the grounds today.
For the vast sum of eighty-three cents a
letter mailed in London was received in San
Francisco just one week from the day it was
mailed. And yet there are folks who say air.
planes are not benefit to the human race, nor
a mark of progress, indication of facilit-
ated civilization.
girl writes to DR.. Arthur Dean who advis-
es Your Boy and Your Girl. She wants to know
all in one short paragraph-"How late should
stay at a dance when go with my boy friend"
and "How can l get out of taking gymnasium
work in school this year." There seems to be a
distinction in the young ladys mind between
exercise and EXERCISE.
One of the best of arguments for big Red
wood County Red Cross roll call this fall was
presented by the great diasters in Florida. AS
long as there is disaster with it's train of suffer-
ing there will be need for your dollar and mine
to keep ready an organization that can get into
the stricken territory short notice Its little
we CAN do-let us do that little cheerfully. Also
annually!
1t would be of vast benefit to this country
right if about thousand men who know
the constitution well as Judge Haycraft OF
Fairmont knows it, could go out over the lane
and tell the folks just what this government is
founded on anyway. There seems to be lot OF
us who awfully mixed up on the fundamentals
although we think we are awfully smart on the
non-essentials.
Why worry about the money that is being
spent on either or both of the presidential cam.
paigns Most of it is contributed by millionaires
who have very much more than is good for them
Campaigns afford just one more way of getting
it into circulation. Most of US who raising
our hands over it are just mad and sad that we
aren't brainy enough important enough tt
cash I'M on any of it.
]. Adam Bede has turned Democrat agar
for the steenth time. It's all right only poor
old Jadam is having an awfully hard time con
vincing some of his neighbors in northern Min
nesota that he is for who stands for the
Great Lakes Waterway. They confident hi:
candidate is for deep, wet way all right, but
they not sure it is the kind that will help tc
reduce freight rates.
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Speaking of two North Dakota papers that
are slambanging away at each other over poll.
tics the Duluth Herald says "When they get al
through neither will have accomplished anything
except to have convinced their friends that they
are both too clever and too able to expend Sc
much energy calling names. The is true
of individuals engaging in such futities-onl!
we would omit the "clever and able' in CLASH
flying them.
By fluke of Frank Day who went to st
Paul one day and left the office of the Fairmon
Sentinel unprotected that Democratic organ wa
an honest-to-gosh Republican sheet for on
whole issue. Joe Reynolds came along and tool
possession and wrote some rousing Hoover edi
: torial which all but melted the Sentinel presse
which had turned nothing but Democrati
} propaganda for the past century less
Frank surprised-and were his readers
The thanks of all of Martin county should be Civ
en- Joe for giving them the truth for at least on
\ day.
IF we could inst corral all the eperov that i