The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-08-06
HEARD ABOUT TOWN

TRUTH" remarked a we'll known
Sauk Centre woman to The Listener
the other day.
1 looked blank and surprised and
few other things like that, and mildly
inquired what the matter might be.
"Oh, well, if you get within four
hundred and twenty-five miles of the
truth, 1 suppose that's doing pretty
we'll"
"Sure", said with an idiotic grin
engulfing my classic features; but for
the life of me l couldn't tell what she
was driving at.
Finally an explanation was forth
coming in very gracious manner,
and without endeavoring to mitigate
the offense or explain why the error
occurred, spoke up boldly: "I'll tell
you what I'll do. I'll turn the plant
over to you for one week. You run it
to suit yourself; get out the paper,
read the proof, hustle for advs., rub
the fur on the subscriber the right
way; and if there are no mistakes,
errors, misprints, typographical
blunders or misstatements of any
kind in the edition, you can have the
gross receipts and in addition I'll pay
your four hundred twenty-five dollars
cash. Is it bargain?"
She hesitated a moment, smiled,
and then replied sweetly: "Really,
Mr.. Listener; 1 wouldn't know what to
do with the money.
And yet, how ready people are to
throw rocks at the editor. Dear read
er, did you ever make mistake in
life? Now, honor bright, did you?
If you never did, the above offer is
open to you. Don't all speak at once;
it might cause confusion.
There is one young lady in Sauk
Centre who does not let her "oppor-
tunities like the sunbeams pass her
by", as was evidenced by the unique
manner in which she made twentieth
century proposal at the Great North
ern station one evening not so very
long ago.
A newly welded couple left the city
on the Winnipeg Flyer. for their
future home IN another state, and, as
is the usual thing, a number of their
friends were in waiting to give them a
glorious send-off. As the crowd was
anxiously waiting for the arrival of
their guest, one young lady was heard
to exclaim: "Oh, Henry, don't, or
they'll think it's us.''
The Listener s advice to this young
gentleman is, to not let lawn-mowing
time come again until this charming
young woman diplomat understands
that she is to be the future Mrs.
Strange things transpire out at the
brand new summer resort yclept
Spring Park.
For instance, the wind blew there
Sunday night. 1t blew everywhere
around these diggings that night, but
at Spring Park it was worst yet heard
of. Why, so fiercely did it howl
around among the trees and the cot
tages that-well, they do say that it
pulled the earthen piping out of one
of the springs and scattered it around
over the landscape in minute pieces.
It is also related-one of the cottagers
told me with his hand ON mis- heart
that one property owner had to tie
his buildings to tree to keep it from
being blown away.
And you should have seen Friend
Hilsdale's garden the morning after.
My, but there was difference. His
corn and potatoes and other ''garden
sass" looked as though it had been
through tbrashing machine. And
Hilsdale had blistered his hands
hoeing that patch, too. Austin says
it was judgment on the we'll known
clothier for trying to establish mon
opoly on corn and beans and that
kind of stuff.
There's another thing, too, that l
heard. "They say" that some of the