The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-08-09

An exciting baseball game be-
tween teams from the Detroit and
Chicago symphony orchestras on
recent forenoon demonstrated that
these great musical organizations
have members who can WELD
bat as well as fiddle bow. After
allowing the Detroiters an to 10
lead early in the game, Chicago
came from behind to win Is to IL.
Both orchestras are playing en-
gagements at the Century of Pro
igress.
Better sorghum syrup is promised
as a result of new process of
manufacture developed by govern
ment chemists, which will also en-
able syrup makers to turn out & a
more uniformly good product. At
present the difference in quality
between the highest and lowest
grades is very great, the best bring
ing about three times as much as
the poorest. The new process may
also increase the turnover in the
fapjack industry r.. >....
Saying it with flowers brought
its reward to Miss Julia Porter Of
Bolivar, Mo. For several years she
attended every funeral in the town
and carried flowers. A local I'M
dertaker suggested that she run
for city treasurer on "posy plat
form" which she did, and was
elected as a Democrat, although
Bolivar is normally Republican.
When an indignant taxpayer of
Trenton, N. j., complained of f!nd-
ing tadpoles in his bath water,
Commissioner Swan suggested that
the objects complained of might
have been pieces of rubber washers.
Nader than ever, the taxpayer
reared: 'Pieces of rubber don't
swim, and they don't dart away
when you try to catch them" Mr.
Swan promised to investigate.
Buddhists of Tibet believe that
when a ruling Grand Lama dies his
soul Immediately enters the body
of a child born at that instant
Since the death of the former
Grand Lama on December IT, 1888
search has been made for success.
sor. It is reported that child has
been found in the interior of the
country who was born at the exact
minute that the Grand Lama died
If the abbots and regents are salts.
fed with the date of birth, this I'm.
known baby will become the head
of three million Tibetan Buddhists
Diving in New Jersey lake, Har
ry Robson, %, found a bracelet
on the bottom. When he showed
{ it to his wife she said it had beer
given her by a former sweetheart
10 years ago, but when they had g
} spat while canoeing she threw il
in the lake. AS the bracelet ha6
no further sentimental value fol
, either of the Robeson's it was sole
to an old gold dealer.
Among the less startling of re
cent Associated Press dispatches il
one announcing the selection of in
dustry members of the executive
committee of the blue crab division
1 of the fish industry and the approx
2 al of the gentlemen so named, after
e a careful scrutiny of their qualifi
/ cations by the MIRA.
4 Miss Linday Richards, America.
first trained nurse, died in Boston
l at the age of SO. She was a FRIEND
of the famed Florence Nightingale
Miss Sarah Maybee, of Hunting
, ton, N. Y, has retired after teach
ing school continuously for 81
years during which she was absent
from duty only one day.
Countess Giacinti Bommartni is
the first woman to receive an air
= plane pilots license in Italy.
Mrs. Anna Patchen, Of New York
totally blind, sets type in Braille
characters for a widely circulated
magazine for blind children.
Miss Illah Marion Kibbey, of the
Kansas City Art Institute, is ex
hibiting in New York a number OF
paintings of Western scenes which
eshe made in an airplane.
Three-year-old Alan Zeleny, Of
East Orange, N. j., due to digestive
= ailments, has subsisted for the last
4 two years on diet of only bananas
: and water.
Mary Lee, Of st. Louis, aged Is
recently won harmonica-playine
contest against $50 competitors be.
, fore a great crowd in the city hall
Peggy Scriven, famous British
| girl tennis star, is regarded as the
: worlds greatest left-handed racquet
/ wielder. IT,. r.
Florence Maxine Leisure, OF
Windfall, Ind, recently won the
: state prize in the eleventh annual
meat story contest of the National
Live Stock and Meat Board for her
/ essay, 'The Nutritional Value OF
Meat"
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