The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-07-26


sprayer entered the wound, however, and Torkelson
is expected to without the loss of his eye
sight.
Brush Is Shot From Hand of Painter
ORTONVILLE- apparently ricocheting from out
of nowhere, stray bullet Friday afternoon whizzed
past the of a painter Warren Johnson, while he
daubing the walls of barn the Bill George
farm east of Ortonve clipped the paint brush out of
Johnsons appraised hand pierced the ladder on which
he was standing, and imbedded itself in the wall of
the barn. The bullet which identified upon ex-
animation a steel-jacketed u s. Springfield cart
ridge, .3Ocalibre O6 had evidently come from con-
siderable distance. Neither Johnson any of the
five other men working the painting and repair
ing with him at the time, heard the crack of
the rifle from which it came.
Sick Horse Finds Office Of Veterinarian too Late
WORTEMNGTON- horse, owner unknown, be-
i'll early recent morning and set out to find
veterinarian It little early and it laid down
in front of the office of DR.. V. B. Kinsman on Third
avenue. Before the doctor had arrived to open his
office the horse dead. Apparently had escaped
form it's owner and started wandering around the
streets in it's search for medical attention. Officer
Roy Fitch notified and he started search. By
the time the horse was located it was dead. The
cause is not known.
APPLETON Apparently expert in the handling
of live electric wires, thief climbed poles and cut
out about 800 feet of copper wire carrying high
voltage of electricity from the power line near Apple
ton last week. The wires carried such high charge
that inexperienced electrician might have found
them too hot to handle and been left dangling The
power company is offering 500 reward for the ar
rest and conviction of the culprt and another 500
for the result for damage to insuators at the
light plant.
HASTINGS Worried because his son might fall
from the spiral bridge at Hastings which he had
been sitting that day. Frank Zanmiller got up and
walked in his sleep that night falling over balus-
trade in his home and breaking four ribs. zanmiler
had brought his nneyear old to Hastings for the
day, and the youngster had amused himself by
watching the boats pass under the bridge over the
Mississippi. The father worried much about the
possibilities of his SON falling that he spent tfu
night of Sleep resulting in the accident when he got
up and moved about the house while asleep Besides
breaking his ribs, Zanmiller severely injured his
shoulder and received body bruises which kept him
in bed for a week.
CFIASNA-An old police theory holds that a
criminal always returns to the scene of his crime
but new kind of criminal found in Young
America last week when a burglar stayed on the
of his crime! Quietly slipping into the base
ment of a refreshnent place in the dead of night,
the robber surveyed his Kingdom" which was his
for the time being. Much like child he many
things he wanted, and took them. His pockets bug-
ing with tobacco, candy cigaretts peanuts and bot
tied beer, he slipped back to the basement-and went
to seep Weakening the next morning the thief found
himself confronted with Today Jail sentence.
BROWNS VAILEY-The hog-calng contest held
in Browns Valley recently was complete success
so complete in fact that Frank Dougherty has put
in claim to the Fair Board for the price Of one
300 pound hog which was so entranced by the mus
pen and Daugherty has not been able to find the
animal sincei The Fair Board has responded by de-
fence that all owners Of hogs had been warned OF
the contest through proper publicity and should have
kept close watch their swine, and that anyway,
it was unlawful for anyone to keep hog within the
city limits. Daugherty has answered this argument
by maintaining that emergency exists which per-
mits the laxity of many laws the statute books,
and that ordinary fence could be built which
would be strong enough to hold 300 pound hog
from breaking through and responding to the sentor-
ian tones of the champion hog caller Of 9he county
LANESBORO-There apple tree the Tom
ertson North Prairie that is both persistent
and ambitious. Like all good apple trees, this one
bloomed and began to bear fruit at the proper per-
iod this year, but it may have examined its con-
science some time during June and decided that 1t
had been remss in its duty. So, July ], the old
tree began to blossom again, and it Is possible that
it will bear crop Of late well as early apples The
tree is greening and has behaved in this un-
orthodox way before
Hold Unique Contest for Oldest Cigar Box
WEILSLA unique contest for the oldest cigar
box in Wells closed last week, with the prize being
awarded to N. T. Nelson for box 40 years old, which
contained at time Belle Of Wells cigars. Second
prize went to Sturgeon Nent for Cuban Seal box.
which was made after the Spanish American war,
while 30year old box having Longfellow seal
won third place for Andrew Schultz