The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-08-07
SAUK CENTRE HERALD. Sank Centre, MINI

hotel was being built" said Mrs Lewis that several
of my boarders laughingly suggested that attempt
such feat OF course they took it more or less as
joke but was firmly decided on making a large
ball so began one day by winding a small amount
Of string about my fingers. Day by day and year
by year continued to save string and wind it about
the ball until today it has taken on quite large pro-
portions"
Mrs Lewis is very proud of her huge ball of
string and it is placed pedestal in the lobby
of her hotel. She is still adding on to it almost
daily and expects to have it much larger in the fu-
ture. Stories of the novelty have appeared in all
papers for which Ripley cartoons and also NUMBER
of Chicago papers
WHEATON-Clford Soheim of Wheaton, ma
terials inspector for the state highway
was found in a wrecked car early today after be-
ing knocked unconscious by assalants who took $25
and some blankets.
solheim was enroute from Wheaton to Ashby
late Thursday when he came to automobile park
ed across the road Four men and two girls were
in it, he said.
Two men entered his and forced him to drive
it for a distance. He said he was struck by a re-
vover, welded by one of the men.
MILAcA-Nine thousand three hundred dollars
insurance was carried on the oldest creamery in
Mile Laos county, the building of the West Branch
Cooperative association, which destroyed in a
fire here recently The fire started after the struc-
ture was hit by bolt of lightning.
WALKER-Burial rites were conducted at Walk
er for AL Trettel pilot of the Inflated launch, Lets
Co." which burned and sank In Leecn lake d WEEK
ago with six people aboard
The body was found Wednesday by James King
John Day. two Indians, who found it at the wat
ers edge, about half mile from where the craft
caught fire. The body taken to Walker for in
quest.
True to the Indian habits, they refused to even
touch the body. Looking only long enough to make
sure that it was the body of the young man for
been conducted, they went to their home in Ongum,
nearby, and from there called officials
The finding of the body ended long search and
set at rest reports that Trette had not persisted.
Twice during the week hopes of relatives were re-
vved by rumors that the missing man had been seen,
first in the brush the scene of the accident and
later from a train going to Bemidji.
The accident due to overheated motor
and resulted in the loss of the craft the death of
Mr.. Trettel, it's pilot and a narrow escape of six
tourists three of whom sustained painful but not
serious burns
PIERZ-A halfdine, minted in 1857, dis
covered by Mrs Val Meyer while working her garden
She exhumed the coin apparently long lost. The 70
year old half-dime of the silver the pres
ent dime, but is one half the size.
The smallness of the haf-dme failed to give it
popularity and it is now relegated to the class of
keepsake 1t is worth the present Nickel but it is
much difficult to trace in the average pocket.
ST. PAUL-St. Louis county wolf hunters led
those in other parts of the state by wide margin,
it disclosed bounty checks were mailed out
from the office of the state auditor.
Hunters in the north county collected a total Of
$751; representing determination of ST. full grown
wolves and 81 cubs. Cass county poor second,
accounting for "a full grown wolves and 81 cubs in
its $2352 worth of bounes while Swift county railed
the lis of paymn with Sc for lone cub. Somebody
bagged two cubs in Hennepn county
NEW LONDON-When the dam built for
the Isaak Walton league bass pond here is complet-
ed it will represent actual investment of $500
in money, but more than $4,000 in labor.
The league has built larger and better bass
pond for it's 1881 project because it wishes Mime
sofa to be better place to spend vacation. Ito
date the New London conservationists have restock
ed four lakes in which black bass extinct.
The bass pond project has grown annually and
last year the league released thousands of bass ng-
erngs into adjacent lakes If this development pro-
gram is followed the resorts in the neghborhood
of New London need never fear for 1t tourist trade
PAYNESVILLE-Thousand of game fish in the
river below the dam at Lake Koronis have been
Ed Erickson, of New London, and John r. HUT
gren, of Willmar Erickson expects that these fish
should more than fulfill the demands of all fishermen
the lake within the next two years. Clarence
Richmann and Edward Essig assisted the game war
dens with the work.
ALEXANDRIA-The big pike catch of the sea-
fell to Ed Prather of Dallas Texas who brought
into the city for exhibition wall-eyed pike weighing
nine and three quarters pounds and measuring %
inches in length.
Art Johnson, of this city, brought in bass weigh
ing five pounds and two ounces. It measured 10
inches Another bass weighing five and one-half
pounds and measuring Is and one-half inches in
length, was brought in by DR.. W. Eugene King, of
Kansas City, resorter Lake Mary. The bass
however, caught in Mill lake. Dr. King, on the
following day. caught a seven-pound Northern pike