The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-07-14
REDWOOD FALLS NEWSPAPERS

THURSDAY, JULY IA, 1888
REDWOOD FALLS NEWSPAPERS
perhaps shouldn't expect mitch else after
supporting Hjalmar Petersen in opposition
to Governor Benson, but when condemnation
proceedings for road right-of-way are given
to paper far from the land being con-
demned and having practically no circula-
ton among the land owners affected, poll
tical and not a legal purpose is served.
MINNEAPOLIS EXPECTS $4,000
visitors from So towns for the jubilee cele-
bratifg the saving of the M and St. l. rail-
road from Acknowledgement. Most of them
will drive in or take the bus.
LIGHTS OUT AT MIDNIGHT" IS
the, rule over at jackson where the city
council and mayor disagreed OH the propos-
al, the council winning out We suspect the
regulation will be shortlived Lights after
midnight are more important than lights
before in the protection Of property. Every
city has some workers whose hotirs are UNI
Usual In that they go off duty late at night
AM and even the most well behaved party often
breaks up after midnight. The trip home
without lights is dangerous. Not fewer
lights but better lighting is the need in most
cities.
wANroN WASTE OF FISH is
against the law in Minnesota as several pro-
ninert Worthington men discovered to
their sorrow last week. Three discarded
strings of pike were traced to them and
fines of $25 and costs were assessed to the
offenders. Most sportsmen will agree they
got off easy.
NORTHERN N1TNrNEcoTA pEcbpTo
are crying bitterly over the failure of the
big tourist trade expected this summer to
arrive, despite the generous appropriation
by the state to entice visitors to our lakes.
Only those northern resorts which have
built up reputation for excellent accom-
modat1onS at reasonable rates and enjoy
considerable repeat business have escaped
the recession. Every business has a few
but the resort business seems to have at
tracted more than its share of extortionists.
If the state is to substitute the business by
paying for its advertising, it should exer-
else some regulation as to what constitutes
fair charge for facilities offered 49,
THE DEPOT AT SEARLES, MINNIE
sofa, on the M and st. L was sold the other
day and rnoved-by truck. And some peo-
pie wonder what's wrong with the railroads.
WE LAUGH AT THE WOMEN ABOUT
their clothes but they certainly have us out
smarted on the matter of dressing for sum-
rner comfort
SOMETHING WE DON'T UNDER
stand: Why they always cite as models of
democracy certain countries which still sup
port kings with all the trappings
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Boy shooting firecrackers for the fun of
making noise; holding hands over ears dur
ing each explosion.
NEARLY Is MILLION PERSONS RE-
presenting about third of the families in
the United States will receive federal checks
during the last half of 1888. Taxpayers
now know how third of the country lives
anyhow.
AN EDITOR CAN RUN COLUMNS
OF publicity for public project and the in
dlvidual who should be interested will never
see it, but put two unfavorable lines in the
paper at the bottom of the last page, and
that fellow will see it and squall his head
off about it.-Paynesville Press.
THE PARTISANS ARE GETTING
ready to slip back into their party harness
es again but the Independent voters who are
asking no favors or special privileges of any
administration except clean, honest, efficient
government, are sitting back, watching and
will make their minds up sometime between
September Is and the November election
RiOOrnirlU prairia Times