The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-09-27
Hawk Pilfers BAN; Golfer Gets Birdie

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Hawk PLIERS Ban; Golfer Gets Birdie
LUyERNE-Literally speaking Lamar Sleeves
scored birdie the Luverne links last week in a
most unusual fashion lamar made his second shot
to number five; the ball landed the green and
rolled slowly toward big bird perched the sand
Rather than being frightened by the ball. the bird
nonchalantly picked it up and few away. Returning
to golf parlance Lamar was penalzed stroke on
the hole because of the hawks thievng tendencies
Again speaking literally it's too bad the eagles don't
fly in Luverne
Youthful Victim Loses Fast Race With Death
BRICELYN-In an 80 mile-an-hour race with
death, Austrid Peterson age 18, of Rake, taken
versty hospital Minneapolis distance of ITO miles
in two hours and ten minutes. He was suffering
with infantile paralysis. The stricken was &C
companied by nurse who administered artificial
respiration on the way. The ambulance assisted
in passing through the traffic of intervening cities
by the state highway patrol. Peterson improved un-
til late evening, but died at II p.
Pitcher Breaks Arm In Unusual Accident
CROWN-Pitching game between Nowthen and
Crown, Albn Johnson of Anoka. the mound for
Nowthen, suffered broken arm in most unusual
accident last week. The count was two balls and a
strike when johnson determined to shoot fast
across the plate. AS he swung his after the
wind-up, there was responding crack that was
heard all the field The pitchers arm dropped
Imply to his side he writhed in pain. Dr. Page
stated that it is the first time he heard of
pitchers arm cracking as he was throwing the ball
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RenviIle Couple Holds Consecutive Twins Record
ANOKA-Attorney Lawrence Carlson and his
brothers and sisters living reputation of the
statement of the Ohio professor that Bremen Ohio
family boasts the only consecutive sets of twins
Mr.. and Mrs. C. r. Carlson who liver in Renve
the parents of three consecutive sets of twins, all
born within three years. Mr.. Carlson died in 1880
and Mrs Carlson two years ago, but many residents
of Renvile vouch for the fact that the three sets
were consecutive. The names of the three sets
Carl ]. editor at Valley N d. and Clarence o.
MinneapOlis ed in \
s. (died while child) and Lawrence Melvin (Anoka
attorney; TIda S. (school teacher in Scranton, N
d. and Hilma o. (nurse in Minneapolis).
Turtle Makes Two Miles In Is Days
WINHIROP-How long does it take green
turtle to walk two miles Aesops fable hasn't a
thing turtle that found in the streets of
Winthrop last summer. Lambert Osberg, of the
local sportsmen discovered a turtle walking
the pavement near the school grounds on the 7th
day of July, this year. Fearing that passing
truck might crush it, he decided to HE it onits
to safety In fonding the reptile he struck upon
the idea of carving his name on the she'll On July
Goth, William Braun, residing two miles to the north
of Winthrop, found the turtle his farm
Of the date of release to the date of discovery
means nothing in to the question of the tur
ties speed But it did arouse Mr.. Braun's curiosity
to find out the date Mr.. Osberg had carved his
on the shell of the tortoise.
Acrobat Falls 40 Feet; Wants to Repeat Act
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS FranZelon, performing
act slim pole without net 80 feet above the
ground, fell forty feet at the Lyon County Fair
Gently Early in the afternoon Franzelon struck
the head by collapsible ladder He regarded it
merely as bump and thought nothing of it. Later
in the afternoon however, when standing his
head atop the 90foot pole everything suddenly went
>black-he grabbed the pole and dropped Forty feet
down the pole he caught guy wire and nstinctvely
gripped 1t, holding until his head cleared. He
turned to the top of the pole to finish the act, but
on finally reaching the ground he fell in dead faint
and had to be carried to his tent. The Fair manage
ment forbade him from going up again that night,
and Fraction actually cried because he could not per-
form for the last show of the fair. :
Holdup Victim Gets Cum Shoes Hat From Bandit
ANNANDALE-A Minneapolis gun wielder pick
ed the wrong victim when he tackled Joe Lankinen,
restaurant operator the east shore of Cedar Lake
Lankinen confronted by the bandit when he
went to inspect his delivery truck. When he was
ordered to stick em up" he did so,. bringing 'en
down on the bandits head and knocking him to the
ground. Lankinen said in explanation ST grabbed
him." Then he put the gun right against my chin.
That was bad. never had gun like that against
me before. grabbed his hands and twisted them.
Then he bit me and the gun dropped. Believe me
got that gun. He and chased him and IL
grabbed him by the shoe. The shoe came off. His
hat fell off too. got the shoe and the hat and the
gun but he got away" Lankinens only hope the
police searched for the bandit that they would
give him the gun as souvenir.
Vault Refuses to Open-Bank Can't Get Its Cash
LONG PRAIRIE-The Long Prairie bank recent
ly found itself in the embarrassing position Of not
being able to do any business with vault full of
cash. The bank closed in the usual manner for the
noon hour employees storing all records, notes. books
and cash in the vault. When the officials returned
after dinner, they discovered that the 5000 pound
vault door stubbornly resisted all their efforts to
open it. Experts called from the twin cities to
open the vault. and in the meantime the bank took
the character of borrower rather than lender, in
order that they might cash checks and make change
for customers. All other business was suspended
while experts worked the vault door. It was
feared for time that hole would have to be drilled
in the vault before the door could be opened but af
ter more than a days work the barrier gave way
had r1xnd andi
while the door could be closed it could not be opened
Di0genes Misses Man BY Twenty Odd Centuries
ONAMIA-From Onamia this week comes the /
story Of the man who would have ended Diogenesl
quest He wouldn't have needed lantern to |
find this honest man. Peter Nelson of Opstead went
to Onamia on Labor Day to take bus to Wisconsin.
Finding that the buses holiday schedule, and
that he would be late if he waited, Opstead found a