The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-07-14

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thern, Saskatchewan, Canada, are
planning to introduce camels into
Canada for agricultural work.
They must be looking for a dry
spell.
An editorial in the Wadena
Pioneer Journal was headed-"A
Blessing in Disguise" Wonder if
the editor was thinking of Bessy
while he was writing about the
blessings of the Bossy.
A fellow over in Argyle, Mir
nesota, likens life to a deck of
cards thusly: "When you are in
love it is hearts; when you are en-
gagged it is diamonds; when you
are married it is clubs; and when
you die it is spades. "-Eveleth
Clarion. ..I
The Bertha baseball team lost
it's second game of the season
when the Armour bunch of st.
Paul took them into camp on the
Fourth of July. These teams, ac-
cordlng to information received
at the exchange desk at this of
flee, have played four games and
split even. They will meet again
at Bertha on the oath of this
month to play off the tie.
Editor Frank A. Day of the
Fairmont Sentinel and state SEN
ator, was made a victim of the
law he helped to pass, when on
July 8, he was pinched for fishing
without a license. A six inch
perch was the senator's total
catch. 1t is rumored that
friends" framed the senator. His
only comment was that ''it's an
outrage" That's the way they
all feel when they are caught.
eight aces drawn in a pinochle
game caused the death of Frank
Frankenthal of New York City
last week. Frankenthal was play
ing with three of his friends and
had been dealt two aces. He drew
the remaining six. When he drew
the eighth ace he rose to his feet
with a shout and dropped dead.
Almost as deadly a game as pok-
er, but only four aces are required
in that to start the mortality" Yea
maybe so, but eight aces in a polk
er game are sure death. We have
heard of men being shot with only
five in possession.
Necessity is the mother of in
vention. An Iowa farmer, who
isn't lazy, figured he was walking
1852 miles year to his mail box.
He decided this was a waste of
time and hence put ran end to walk
ing by equipping his farm with a
travelling mail box. He took COM
mon telephone wire, rugged up a
circuit on pulleys from his farm
to the road, one-half mile distance,
where his mail is deposited in the
box. With the aid of a crank he
now gets his mail to the house in
three minutes, where before it
took him twenty minutes to walk
the distance. This information
ought to prove valuable to many
of our farmer friends.
The Clarissa Independent says
that hereafter fishermen must
catch their own fish. We have
known many lazy people, but have
yet to hear of a man too lazy to
fish. Nevertheless, it seems that
up at Cass Lake, Bemidji and other
points in the Indian country,
whenever fisherman was out of
luck, all he had to do was to pay
an Indian a small sum and the
fish would be Forthcoming. This,
however, is at an end because the
state game and fish commission
has issued an order to stop the
practice. We are with the COM
mission in this, for good fisher
man will go home skunked, before
hiring others to do his fishing, and,
if he wants to fool his wife he can
stop at the meat market and buy
Tuna fish.
Iowa is pulling itself out of
the mud and mire, for with the
license fee, gas tax and the large
amount of road bonds recently
voted by the people, that state
will soon be ahead of Minnesota
with paved road mileage. Fifteen
Iowa counties have voted $751;
$4,000 in highway bonds since
January L, 1927. Three more
counties voted this month, the
total amount being $2,580,O00.
Bremen county, noted for the poor
est roads the writer has ever driv-
en- over, voted 100000 bonds. and
the proposition carried by large
majority. The people of Iowa |
nave learned ia lesson and will now
cash I'M on one of the greatest |
road building programs ever att
tempted in the middle west. Iowa
has done comparatively little
graveling, the total mileage of sur
faced roads, state and local, being
n Q26 vryhi1o n .