The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-04-03
SMALL TOWN TALK

A Kansas City girl is just old-fashioned
enough to wear a hat pin and to know how to
use it, The result is one punctured Kansas City
masher
Quick, now,-and without peeking in your
book-who's the new postmaster general and
who are his co-workers? Well bet you can't
Neither can wa
"a civilization is no better than it's juries
some wise person has said. And the jury is no
better than the weakest person on it which is
something for the "jury -pickers" to think about
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Dear old Frank Day didn't leave a whole
lot of money when he left this world last Christ
mas but he left enough for his children and their
entirely too much.
When father telephones that he will be late
for supper don't get sympathetic about the poor
dear having to put in so much time at the office
Or store. It only means he is going out on the
golf course and wants to stay there until dark.
go
We don't mind the second or third car back
should be going forward, but when the seventh
one starts its little bleat get pretty dern
warm. 1t doesn't do us any good however, and
neither is the honker benefited.
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When the senate reconvenes on April 49,
Senator Henrik Shipstead, will have new chair.
1t will be the that has been occupied by Vice
President Charles Curtis as senator from Kansas
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lican side at the rear of the center aisle which
separates the two major parties He has always
been listed as an independent even on the print
ing committee of which he is chairman-St.
Peter Herald.
And now along comes DR.. Copeland and
says that pie is perfectly good food, that the
lard and flour Of the crust of the fruit in the
filling make it a most admirable source of bodily
energy. The only argument he finds against
pie eating is that the piece of pie is served at
the close of meal which in all probability was
more than any one stomach should be asked to
handle without any desert added. So if you
are bound to have your pie eat the rest of your
dinner accordingly.
couple of cracking good editors are
galavanting over South Dakota telling
the farmers how to farm. Next we will
hear of Heine Mitchell and John Casey
cavorting over North Dakota telling the
preachers how to preach. We are all
'long" on telling the other fellow how
to do business but mighty slow in pick
ing up the frayed corners Of our own
affairs.-Le Sueur Herald.
That's all right. We are for just as many
this sort of thing. Think of all the years every
body felt at liberty to tell all of US guys how
to run papers. By all means let the boys
get even if they have chance.
Minneapolis police used a seventeen year old
boy, found guilty of drunkness, as decoy in
bootlegging raid last week-and suspended
his sentence for the service he rendered in tack
ing crime onto some one else. We wonder just
what that boys idea of the supremacy of law is
it certainly must be badly twisted First he
is charged with crime, found guilty and then
let free condition that he will help the police
in their work. The ends may have justified the
means in the eyes of the police, but we can't
see that such treatment is designed to establish
either confidence or respect on the part of the
boy who is potential citizen of these law-abid-
ing and justice-loving United States. It APP.
pears the police overstepped the grounds of
decent procedure instead of turning clever
trick