The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-12-05
SMALL TOWN TALK

1t is stated that Mr.. Raskob will soon open
large bank. Here's hoping Republican times
will bring prosperity to him.
Royal visitors from Sweden think the Amer
leans a "magnificantly energetic people"
They never saw the sons of families struggling to
make themselves get out of bed at six a. m.
p*H
Every four years wonder why the nation
gets all upset about electing a president and
congress in November when they don't take office
until March. The agony might So easily be post
poned.
A New York girl married a man an hour
after she met him, only to find out that he was
a motor-cab bandit. She can't be said to have
married him to reform him and there just seems
to have been no reason at all. But that doesn't
keep the aftermath from being pretty serious
matter.
Minnesota will furnish 1900, 900 young pines
for the Christmas trade. Quite a forest-and
many feet of future lumber! Will as many
trees be planted to take the place of those cut is
problem of considerable concern to conserva-
tionists-or to any one else having a grain of
common sense.
However silent Senator Shipstead may have
been on the Great Lakes Waterway project before
November he is plenty loud enough in its IA
vor now, judging from the reports of the Missi-
ssippi Valley Association at St. Louis last week
Apparently the canal will have no better friend
nor more earnest pusher than the Gentleman
from Minnesota.
Thin ice has already claimed it's victims Two
boys in their early teens were drowned at Glen
wood while trying to cross the lake and two
others with them narrowly escaped death. There
isn't much to be said in way of warning-it has
all been said over and over again to children and
parents. About all that is left to us is just to
be sorry when the unheeded warning takes pre-
cious life here and there.
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The Baltimore bar association has refused to
admit four women lawyers to the association
even though they were proposed for membership
by four city judges. That sort of stick-tight.
chubby masculine exclusveness makes the men
of the association look little ridiculous-just
bit as though they were afraid of feminine COM
petition. There are still men so benighted that
they think because this has always been man.
made world it is always going to be one.
The Wadena Pioneer-Journal advises that
the county highway system be extended so as to
take in all rural roads. "Only in that way"
this paper declares, "can hope to get rural
highway system in Minnesota that will meet the
needs of this motor age. The present method of
having rural roads maintained by townships is
unsatisfactory and in many instances wasteful
Of time and money All road work should be
done under the supervision of practical road
builders. AS every county has county engin-
eer, such program would not involve any addi-
tional expense. Rather it would enable US to get
much more in return for the money we spend"
Tom Schall was guest at dinner at the
Nicollet hotel the other night and grasped the
opportunity to tell the guests that he would be
reelected senator two years from now. Wishing
to be polite and mention other honorable people
he just mentioned in passing that Governor Ted
Chrstanson would NOT be elected United
States senator. We have never heard Ted Chris
tianson connect the two elections-nor discon
meet them matter of fact. But we seldom
hear of Tom Schall doing anything else but. Be-
ing blind, Tom probably can't see that lot of
things can happen in two years, and lot of pro-
phecies go completely haywire. His early start
of hostilities and his loud talk has about the
same resemblance to real courage that the whis-
tie of a colored boy going past cemetery at
midnight has to the whistle of real happiness.
Down in Scott county there seems to be a
slight Democratic trend. At any rate that was
about the only spot in the state where democratic
state candidates got look in and they did fairly
well. The most of us hardly knew who Andrew
Nelson, Fred Pfaender and George Cahil were
But down in Scott they elected them as govern
or, lieutenant governor and attorney general and
did it all with beautiful seriousness. Why, they
almost put the skids" under julius Schmahl
giving him only eight votes over tie Democratic
William Just-and it's been many a-year that all
good Democrats have voted for Julius just as
though he were real Dem. himself. They also
elected Smith for president and cast the rest of
any spare votes they had for Shipstead since
they had no senatorial candidate of their own
Just perfect little Democratic landslide Scott
county had all by herself. They may be bit
off in judgment about which way the wind is