The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-08-18

offering $500 for the return of
her husband, who disappeared a
week ago or so. Most women do
not believe their husbands to be
worth 15c. At. least so we infer
from their conversation.
One of our exchanges says, that
Lady Linda, an Arkansas hen, has
reason to cackle because she got
her name in the papers. She did
something worthy of notice. In
LAP consecutive days she laid 142
eggs. Evidently Lady Linda lays
an egg day to keep the axe away.
The big ones do not always get
away. We are not referring to
Suckers" but muskelunge. a.
Chicago man recently landed a
forty-seven pound muskie near
Nestor Falls. Fishermen living
near the same lake state that one
of the largest muskies ever seen in
that vicinity was swimming around
the falls, but fishermen were un-
able to lure him to their hooks.
Those who saw him claim he must
have weighed well over fifty
pounds.
The safe that resisted the at.
tack of Jesse James and the
Younger Bros, at Mortified,
more than half a century ago, is
still doing duty in the office of an
elevator company at Castle Rock,
MINI. The safe was in the First
National Bank at Mortified when
the historic raid was made in 1876
A time lock in the inner cabinet
baffled the robbers, who obtained
only a sum of money left about
the building. The owner has had
several opportunities to sell the
safe.
Two maintenance men who were
operating a caterpillar tractor or
Highway No. 18, few miles south
of Milaca, ran into swarm OF
bees recently. The noise of the
tractor seemed to be sweet music
to them and they kept following
and flying around the tractor tC
the discomfort of the operators
They tried in vain to get the bees
away by throwing sand into the
air. Finally another man came
along and told them he could ge
rid of these little industrious in
truders. He took a white cloth
tied it to a post and underneath
placed a box, then he threw sane
in the air attracting the bees at
tention to the cloth. They al
settled there and gradually made
their way to the box, in which the!
We're taken to the mans home
The bees were said to be yer!
friendly as neither of the me1
were stung.
Jerome Vitola, age 21a years
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Vito
La, who reside at Tudor, a section
on the Great Northern, near KEEL
sey, was drowned when he fel
through hole in a deep we'll neal
the section house. George Healy
and Ray McDermott, deputy sher
ifs of Hibbing, arrived home late
last night after recovering the
body. According to the account
of the accident brought here, the
child had been playing near the
well. A platform covered the wei
at the ground level and a hole
made it possible to draw watel
from it with a pail. The child go
too near the hole and fell in. The
water in the well was almost to the
level of the ground and according
to the sheriff was more than 81
feet deep. 1t was necessary to ust
a long rope before the body coult
be recovered. According to thu
story brought here, the mother Of
the child missed the boy. Her only
clue to his whereabouts was thu
fact that the child had been las
seen near the well. Small mark.
and prints in the ground near tht
hole told the story TO her.-Hib
bling Daily News.
Beaver are given credit for be
ing very sagacious animals, wei
aware of how to conduct them
selves so that they can live il