The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-12-14
sAUK CENTRE HERALD, Sank Centre, MINI.

"wel-heeled" for several days last week but didn't
know it. Early last week, Byrne discovered the loss
of an unset diamond which was reported valued at
approximately $500. He reported the loss to police
and advertised for it. Saturday, Byrne his feet
propped footstool, sat reading paper. A son
seated across the room suddenly asked us the re-
ward for that diamond still open Dad" Surely was
the reply Then take off your Shoe" the youngster
said. Doing he was told, Byrne found the dia-
mond jammed into nail-hoe in the rubber heel.
Need Excit1nent Knock Down 26 Rural Mail Boxes
JACKSON-It lot of fun while it last
ed, but three Jackson county young men will have
little time to think things over following their sem
tence to the county Jail for knocking down and
smashing 26 government mail boxes. Returning
from dance in Round Lake. Alvin and William
Larenz and MILFORD Hanson needed little excite
men to stimulate the evening, and they proceeded
to into every mail box they could find from Her
on Lake to Worthngton with their car, stopping to
pound several with blunt instrument so that they
unfit for The Larenz boys were fined $l5
and costs and given 20 days, while Hanson was fined
$50 and given 60day sentence. Tampering with
mail boxes is government offence.
Tops Off Turkey With HOhme Grown Watermelon
FOLEY-B E. Eldredge had a nice turkey for
Thanksgiving dinner, with cranberry sauce and all
the fxin's. And then, to top it OF, he had large
lucious slice of watermelon! Not only then, but Ed
redge has enjoyed the melons all fall, and has given
many to neighbors. Christmas melon and Irish Gray
the names of the remarkable melons which he
raised for the first time this year. They noted
for their extraordinary keeping qualities.
Found Guilty of Murder Committed Years Ago
FERGUS FALLS-The government never stops
looking for those who violate its laws and George
Nolan, sometimes known 'Godie", found
guilty last week of numbering Devils Lake post
office night-watchman- crime committed nine
years ago. Although Nolan suspected at the
time it not until recently that the government
had collected enough evidence to feel justified in
bringing him to trial. Nolan was found in bed fully
dressed shortly after the murder, but there in
sufficient evidence to hold him at that time.
Boy Saves Comrades Life Second Time
CFIASKA-For the second time in six months,
Leander Litfin, Chaska saved the life of boy
rade last week, pulling Milton Van Eyll from the icy
water of the clay hole in the Third ward. The Van
Eyn youth ventured out on the thin ice and sud-
denly broke through. In order to the struggling
the thin ice bringing him safely to shore. During
the past summer he performed similar act when
he saved Chaska youth, who had been swimming
with other boys, from drowning.
Boar, Buried In Straw Four Months. Out Alive
SLEEPY EYE-Buried in a straw shed without
food or water for period of four months boar on
the farm of Edmund Lebert, Sleepy Eye, came
minus about 300 pounds Of flesh and fat but still
fighting last week. The boar buried by accident
when Lebert threshed on his farm July 20. At that
time it thought the animal had strayed away
and had become lost, Lebert never thinking that it
might have been buried in the straw shed. When
opening cleared to the shed last week the
boar came out fighting with the same ornery spirit
of old, but only shadow of it's former SELF having
weighed 400 pounds last July and being reduced to
100 pounds. With careful feeding the boar is regain
ing it's weight.
Boa Constructor Is Pet of Eleven Year Old Girl
ROCHESTER, boa constructor snake which
nonchalanty wraps around her is the pet of IL
year-old Marian Magath, daughter of DR.. and Mrs.
T. B. Magath, Rochester. The boa, captured last
December in bunch of bananas, now measures 80
inches, having grown IL inches, inch a month.
Until at few weeks ago, no one touched the snake.
Then Miss Grace Wiley Minneapolis public library
curator of snakes. visiting Rochester taught Marian
to pick up the snake and let curl up hands
eating, it curs up stick and goes to sleep. Dur
ing the sleep the reptile grows and when it wakes up
the skin is very tight. Balboa-Marian's name for
the snake-rubs his head in the sand to break the
skin and then wraps around the stick and craws out
of the skin At first the snake awkward, but
now it rarely breaks the skin when it sheds it.