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to the temptation, at least to selectiv-
ity. But, though his convictions are
! monotonous, his style is not. His book
can be read. One expects it to rouse
enthusiasm among those Of his own
predictions.
! OSCAR WILDE DISCOVERS AMER
| ICA; 1882. BY Lloyd Lewis and
Henry Justin Smith. New York:
Harcourt, Brace &, Co.
WHETHER or not you like Oscar
Wilde, and it seems to be one of
those things one does or does not with
never a middle -grounder to be found,
you probably will like the America he
discovered in 1882. AS Lloyd Lewis
and Henry Justin Smith drag it out
Of the shadows, one sees it as self
conscious adolescent, alternately be-
witched and bewildered by its own
vitality.
If Wilde put on a show for America
and if Wilde had anything, it was a
sound dramatic sense-America more
than returned the compliment. Un-
ruffled in the rufles of knee e-breeches
and cape which he affected to attract
attention, the invulnerable Oscar chal-
lenged the boots and jeers and cat
calls Of the mob and found them
waiting for him everywhere. Cul-
ture's emiSsary, SO he conceived him
self, he never forgot the dignity of
his calling when a goodly portion of
his audiences sought to engulf him in
indignities.
1t was a game they played, Oscar
and the Americans he discovered, each
determined to show the other that
theirs was the better way Of life As
reported in its dramatic detail by
Messrs. Lewis and Smith, as fine a
pair of reporters as one could assign to
such story, the game ended in a tie.
1t is not to be inferred that Wilde
was rejected universally by the Amer
lea he toured so thoroughly and so
grandly. In cultures citadelS, he was
accepted as wise and witty darling,
man capable of a deep artistic ap-
probation of values which elude mere
mortals. Even in those centers where
low estimate was placed upon this
aspect Of his character, he won a COM
plete, If grudgingly given, admiration
for his capacity as three-bottle man.
In this type Of encounter. and several
were staged with the deliberate intent
to see what Wilde was like in his cups,
the visitor humbled the hosts who
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in the dust on the back, / to keep on
taking it in part exchange. 2 to salute
at cross roads, Is TO lean their bicycles
against it at traffic stops, and 1 TO
fail to understand what's come over
everybody nowadays"
And the book Is dedicated to the
proposition that driving by the
people through the people and over
the people may shortly perish from
the earth" taken from the writings
Of 'Straight-Eight Lincoln"
You had better read it. Difficult as
it may seem for anything TO be funny
for 14l pages the text by "Off1cer Nc
Cullough" does accomplish it, while
the pictures by Judge Fougasse" are
equally good, or better You cannot
read it without laugh. Does that
tempt you?
TWO WORLDS. BY Lester Cohen.
New York: Coyici Friede.
THIS large book is the story Of Mr..
and Mrs. Cohen's trip around the
world. The reviewer, who has read a
great many Of these literary Journeys
and found them generally unremark-
able, but who suffers, too, from an
unfortunate disease called conScien-
tiousness, took the present odyssey in
hand with bored but unf!nching de-
termination. However, it really is not
half bad.
1t is little nervous and twitchy and
Mr.. Cohen betrays an anxiety at all
times TO plunge into social questions
and see social issues. But he has a
Hollywood writer's sense of the pic
turesque and so keeps his sociology
lively and moving along-no mean
accomplishment. His book is sufi-
GENTLY above the average to make
the average reader feel that he is
getting something fairly profound.
He went to France, Russia Turkey,
Greece, Palestine, India, China and
Japan
In Paris he found the Monet sun
filtering through the Monet leaves"
His writing habit Is to tell day by
day the human incident" and any
body who has ever tried writing
good story knows what temptation
to invention lies there and, as Mr..
Cohen's human incidents seem monot-
onously pointed at demonstrating the
superiority Of communism over other
governments, why, one can only con-
clude that, having communistic SYM
pathies, he has succumbed if not
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this in current maRazine-or, for
that matter, anywhere, today.
I TNDER a typically MseFadden title,
Are the Movies Playing With
Fire?", Kirtley Baskette writes about
movie censorship in the current Lib
erty. His article. however, is not con-
cerned with the official, acknowledged
censorship, which in the past has
aroused indignation in many quar-
ters, but with that unofhcial variety
which, he says, is exercised by ma
tional prejudices.
Says Mr.. Baskette, every picture
filmed on the studio lots of Holly
wood is the concern Of every civilized
government in the world. And every
civilized government in the world
is the concern of every Hollywood
producer.
The first is because governments
recognize the power Of the screen in
molding public thought, feeling and
action. The second is because big
pictures look to foreign markets 10
return the profits"
For these reasons, says the article,
1t is possible for foreign governments
to exercise what amounts to dictator
ship over American picture production.
He quotes a number Of incidents to
prove this rather startling claim. The
Spanish government demanded de-
struction of THE Devil Is a Woman, ="
on threat Of excluding all future Para
mount pictures from Spain: Turkey
stopped plans for filming THE Forty
Days of Musa Dagh": France quashed
the prospects Of picturizing Paths
Of Glory" and, giving the needed
note Of complete imbecility, Germany
refuses to allow the latest Chaplin
picture to be shown within its bor-
ders-because Charles little whisker
makes them think of their own
Adolphl Or thus says Mr.. Baskette.
Two periodicals are devoting space
to the T. v. A.-the Nation, which
has run a series of four articles by
Stuart Chase called ct. v. A: The
New Deals Best Asset" and the July
Harper's, which publishes an article
by william 1. Nichols called Teach
ing Grandmother to Spin: The T
V. A. and the Private Utilities" Mr.
Chase closes his series in the Nation s
current issue.
He has been. as his title indicates,
enthusiastic over the Tennessee prof.
ect. Indeed, at times his articles have
been almost evangelical in tone, which
Is not like him. In his concluding
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VETERAN NEWSMAN LOOKS BACK OVER CHANGING WORLD
I'm THE CURRENT MAGAZINES
The Critics Come for Some Crcism-Poey Emerges Neatly
Defined in the Atlanic-the Movies and Their Foreign
Markets-Langston Hughes Verse;

piece he rhapsodi1es somewhat, al
though in less lyric vein, He says,
after describing his thrills over the
project: Here, struggling in embryo.
is perhaps the promise Of what all
America may some day be"
THE Harper's piece also looks into
the future. but confines itself to
prophecies about electrihcation meth
DDS and avoids sociology. The chief
result Of the experiment as Mr..
Nichols sees it will be TO spur the
privately -owned companies TO meth
DDS by which they can meet the Gov
ernment underselling. He describes
the devices by which certain more
up-and- coming private companies
have already undertaken to compete.
Some Of them are very funny.
IF there is any conclusion to be
drawn from experience in the Ten
nessee Valley, it is one which will be
equally unpalatable to the special
pleaderS for both Government owner
ship and private ownership. II is not
a question Of mutually exclusive sys-
TENS. Neither side has any corner
on virtue or ability.
1T is not a question Of conquest
and annihilation. but rather matter
Of strenuous emulation and rivalry
toward a common goal There is a
clear and single objective-the cleo
trification OF the South as an Incl
dent in the electriication Of America. "
Langston Hughes, Negro poet,
writes q dirge in the current Spec
tator called Broadcast on Ethiopia"
Some of it is as follows:
The little fox is still.
The dogs of war have made their
kill.
Adds Ababa
Across the headlines all year long.
Ethiopia
Tragi-song for the news reels.
Halle
With his slaves, his dusky wiles.
His secondhand planes Like a
childs.
But he has no gas-so he cannot
last.
Poor little joker with no poison
gasl
Thus his people now may learn
How II Duce makes butter from an
empty churn
To butter the bread
IF bread there be-,
OF civilizations misery.
1t is a pretty good poem.
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sought to teach him the humility that
comes with hangover.
II Wilde never lost his temper, and
he did not, his words carried barbS
which frequently stung his auditors
to wrath. He missed few opportunities
as, for instance, his estimate of a sign
in a saloon in Leadville, Colo, as the
most artistic thing he had found in
America.
Don't shoot the piano player, he's
doing his best" read the sign.
Why did Wilde come to America
Lewis suggests that he came at the
behest Of the willy D'Oyly Carte who
selected him as an advance man for the
Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. If that
Is the reason, the London music man
must be given credit for one Of the
most effective press agent stunts of
all time.
Authors Lewis and Smith have done
an interesting piece of work in de-
scribing the America Of 1882, its
psychology (if there is such a thing,
its journalism, its cities and their RI
valry, its class consciousness, and its
first inclinationS to question itself
The only reasonable criticism that
one could make is that they have been
a bit too thorough with the result
that their book, like Wildes visit, is
bit too long. F. J. C.
JAMAICA INN. BY Daphne du Maui
rier. Garden City: Doubleday Do
ran & Co.
IN THIS best-selling novel the reader
will encounter once more all the old
familiar props of the Stevenson ad-
venture tale. The lonely inn, the snug
glers, the wreckers, the wicked uncle,
the wild folk Of the moor, the marshes
where nameleSs horrid doings always
seem to get done-they are here. each
and every one of them. But Miss du
not, indeed, attempt to combine them
with StevenSonian beauty. She does
not indeed attempt to combine them
at all. She simply mixes them in. Her
story is a series of arbitrary events
in what she evidently considers ro-
mantle surroundings. If it had liv-
ing characters, it might survive her
rough-and-ready treatment, but 1t
lacks in human life. too; it has hero
inc and arch villain, a host OF lesser
villains and a hero. They are stock
figures. No circumstance but that the
tale borders on sadism and contains
scenes Of violence would seem to ex-
plain its popularity.
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TELLS HIS STORY
Finds Common Touch of Frustrated Nobility" in Tragic Men
Who Rule Our Tmes-Ridcule for the New Deal Drips
From Moore's Pen-Other Books Reviewed.

boar after Staying Adonis,' which I
thought rather an ambitious under
taking, and it did not seem to me that
her rendering of a remorseful boar was
particularly realistic, graceful as 1t
undoubtedly was
Il was introduced to her afterward,
and my recollection of her is that of
slight and rather prim girl, with q
touch of the typical American school
marm' She told us how she based her
dancing on a careful study Of the
Greek vases at the British Museum,
and before she left she offered to come
early some morning and dance bare
footed on the lawn for Holman Hunt s
sole benefit-a proposal which he
gently discountenanced.
There was nothing In the ISadora
Duncan Of that period to indicate the
brilliant temperamental artist, who
was to lead so adventurous and so
unhappy a life"
Thus the book runs along, mellow
and polite. Without being in any
sense an exciting biography, it is a
highly readable one, and one which,
it can be predicted, will improve with
keeping.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARMED BY
FougaSse and Mccullough. New
York: E. P. Dutton & Co.
GAYS the introduction of this really
very funny burlesque on driving
habits According to statistics, there
is in Great Britain l car to every 33
persons-that is to say, l to drive it,
to give advice from the back seat,
to oil and grease thoroughly and re-
move all tools, to step in front Of it
and l TO visit them and eat their
grapes, l to devise means for speed
ing it up and 4 to devise means for
slowing it down, / to draw pictures
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NOn-Fction.

THE CONSTITUTION AND THE
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA. BY George
Dursnt Proctor. Designed and Illus
trated by Samuel Nisenson. New
York; Grosset and Dunlap. A brief
illustrated history Of the founding Of
our country and of the Supreme
Court. Contains photographs and
biographies Of the pTesent Justices.
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Bp NJ. 6. r.
THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR,
.nA l..lI...n - ,,nrIndirnl Y,,th-

that indignant periodical, pub
fishes in its July issue some
Il sharp remarks about the cur
rent state of literary criticism. They
appear in an editorial called "A Plague
of Sweet Reasonableness,"
SAYS this piece, "+ 1t is consid-
cred almost vulgar to repeat dis
senting opinion or even express ones
original dissent in phrases that might
possibly be construed to be impolite.
The weasel word has become badge
of critical maturity. ."
And further on, THE same sort OF
charity which has been displayed
toward Father Divine, DR.. Townsend
and their clubs is being displayed
toward the obviously second-rate works
of Sinclair Lewis C'It Can't Happen
HereD, Robert Briffault cEuropaD 4,
George Santayana ('The Last Puri-
TAM and others. Apparently what
motivates such critical timidity toward
such works is the fear of factionaliSm
and Of offending influential authors,
who might some day be of use in the
struggle against wsr and fascism.
Some of the hypocritical re-
viewers of 1T Can't Happen Here
argued in private that they knew the
book was poor job, but that they
boosted ii because they wished to
spread the anti-Fascist ideas in it,
Whether one agrees with this dag
nosis or not, one can subscribe to the
editorial in its insistence that the
disease Of critical "reasonableness'
does exist. And one can find little
fault with its concluding comment,
which Is as follows:
American literature and American
culture IN general fourished best when
there were street brawls over opinions.
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Brief Reviews of Books on Various Topics

Bobbs-Merrill Co. Murder in the
bizarre setting of Mississippi River
food. Colloquially told. Satisfactory.
THE F1VE-MINUTE GIRL. BY
Mary Hastings Bradley. New York:
D. Appleton Century Co. A collection
Of short stories Of the Saturday Eve
ming Post type.
THE FAR HORIZON. BY Polan
Banks. New York: Green Circle
Books. Romance among the Million
aires. Marrying and uiinarryins,
And % 90.
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NORWAY's RELATION TO SCAN
DINAvIAN UNIoNIsM. BY Theo-
dore Jorgenson. Mortified, MINI. /:
st. Olaf College Press. A carefully
detailed history of the professor Of
Norwegian history ana literature at
st. Olaf's.
A PREFACE TO LIFE. BY Father
James, o. M. Cap. Milwaukee: The
Bruce Publishing Co. A guide for
Christian living in the present time.
THE scHoLEs MUSIC HAND
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BOOK. BY Percy A. Scholes. New
York: M. Witmark 81 Sons. The
meaning and pronunciation Of mu-
sical terms Compact and Small.
SENTENCE PARAGRAPH THEME.
BY John 3. Opdycke. New York:
Thomas Y. CrowelI Co. Composition
for those beyond secondary school
education. Highly competent.
Fiction.
THE JIG-TnAE MURDERS. BY
Charles q. GaYens. SndiAnapots;
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UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOR
BUSINESS; a Study of Existing
Needs and Practices, by ]. S. Bos-
sard and ]. F.mDewhurst. 1891.
Xix .3B6.
An investigation, made for the
Wharton School Of Finance and Com
merce, into college training for busi-
ness and problems Of eurricula and
teaching methods.
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GOING TO CoLLEGEP


~ ferred their decisions until
4 n the close Of school are weigh
ing the question of a college educa-
tion-whether to go, where to go and
how to finance the added years OF
education. For those who want Ia
know more about what college edu-
cation will mean to them, the respon-
sibilities it brings and what the various
| types Of colleges and universities offer
/ the Public Library presents the fol-
/ lowing selected list. Many more books
may be found in the sociology divi-
sion at the Central Library, and much
! suggestive material may be located
/ in magazines through the aid Of peri
odical index. Ask the readers adviser
in the sociology division for further
/ assistance.
American College Education.
UNIVERSITIES: AMERICAN. ENG
LISH, GERMAN, by Abraham
Flexner. 1880. IxF64.
A critical examination of the OBJ
jectives and accomplishments Of uni
versities.
RECENT TRENDS IN AMERICAN
COLLEGE EDUCATION, edited
by w. S. Gray, 1881. Ixs3. .G7sr.
On the reorganization of junior and
senior colleges, and examinations and
tests.
THE AMERICAN COLLEGE AND
UNIVERSITY; A HUMAN FEL-
LOWSHIP. by c. F. Thwing. 1885.
kiss .T423ac.
DR.. Thwing, president emeritus Of
Western Reserve University, analyzes
the organization and work of the COL
leges, emphasizing the need for CO.
operation and fellowship.
THE COLLEGE AND SOCIETY; Pro-
posals for Changes in the American
Plan of Higher Education, by 4. H.
wilkins. 1892. IXs3.W65co.
A proposal that the college course
be better adapted to the task Of fit-
ting students for social living.
Selecting a College.
COLLEGE AND LIFE, by M. E. Ben
nett. 1888. IXB436
The goals and problems of the stu
dent presented in such a way as to
better orient him to college life.
LIFE IN COLLEGE, by Christian
Gauss. 1880. IXs3 .G237L.
Chapters on starting out as fresh
man, college problems and the prob
lens Of parents.
WHICH COLLEGE? BY Mrs. r. S.
Halle. 1884. Ixs3 .H153w2.
A readable book telling the advan-
tages and disadvantages Of going to
college, stating admission require
mentS and information about q large
number of schools.
THE COST OF GOING TO COL
LEGE, by w. j. Greenleaf. 1884.
IX83. .GS4c.
A summary of the expenses of
year at college and a list of the
charges made at various institutions.
MAKE YOURSELF A JOB; student
employment handbook, by M. D.
Hockenbury. 1896. IX.H65.
Suggestions on possibilities for earn
ing in college and ways Of attacking
the problem of securing funds.
WHAT KIND OF COLLEGE is
BEST? A Guide Of Boys and
Their Parents, by NJ. M. Stearns.
1882. IXs3. .St32.
A guide for boys planning to go to
college which compares the merits Of
State universities, small colleges,
technical institutes and large private
institutions.
Special Aspects of College
Education.
UNIVERSITY EDUCATION FOR
BUSINESS; a Study of Existing
Needs and Practices, by j. S. Bos-
sard and ]. F.mDewhurst. 1891.
Xix .3B6.
An investigation, made for the
Wharton School of Finance and Com
merce, into college training Cor busi-
ness and problems Of curricula and
teaching nethocG
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The Public Library

! CLEVELAND STUDENT LIFE IN
THE ALLIED EDUCATIONAL IN
STTTUTIONS, published by Cleve-
and Conference for Educational
Cooperation. 1880. IK592 .C58.
This book sets forth the advan-
tages Of Cleveland as an environment
for complete education"
THE HISTORY OF MUNICIPAL
UNIVERSITY IN THE UNITEI
STATES, by R. H. Eckelberr.
1882. IX93 Ec5.
An examination of the origin
several city colleges and the gene.
value of the movement.
GRADUATE STUDY IN UNIVEr
SITES AND COLLEGES IN TE.
UNITED STATES, by w. c. JOIN
1898. IXe3. .J6l6g.
A survey Of requirements and stand
ards for advanced degrees In thi
country.
COURSES ON INTERNATIONAL
AFFAIRS IN AMERICAN COL
LEGES, 1ss0-1s31, by Farrell
Symons. 1881. JxSy66.
To-Day there are over 3,To0
semester courses in undergraduate in
struction dealing with international
affairs in some Of their multiform as
pects."
Examinations.
QUESTIONS SET AT THE Ex-
ANIINATIONS, 1901-1s35, pub
lished by College Entrance Exam
ination Board. 24v. IX83 .C6e7q.
Library files are incomplete, but in
clude those for 1s32-ls35.
COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATIONS
IN AMERICAN COLLEGES, by E.
S. Jones. 1888. IXs3.J72.
A review of the origin, philosophy
and use of comprehensive examina-
tions in American colleges,
Woman's Education.
wOMAN'S EDUCATION BEGINS;
the rise of the women's colleges,
by L. S. Boas. 1885. IXS3. .B63.
A general history of higher educa-
ton for women.
THE AMERICAN COLLEGE GIRL:
Her College and Her Ideals, by 10
American college girls; foreword
by A. L. Constock. 1880. EXs3.
Am373.
The colleges represented are Bryn
Mawr, Goucher, Mount Holyoke, Rad
cliffe, Rockford, Scripps, Simmons,
Smith, Vassar and Wellesley.
THE STORY OF WELLESLEY, by
Florence Converse. 1915. Ixs3
WE.C76.
VAssAR, by J. M. Taylor and Z. H.
Haight. 1915. IXs3V.T2l.
Some Famous Universities.
The reference department Of the
library has a collection Of college and
university catalogues which may be
consulted in the reference room at the
central building. There are also cat
alogueS of local private and special
lied schools. The larger branches
Georgetown, Mount Pleasant and
Northeastern-have small collections
of the catalogues of the outstanding
universities.
CHICAGO COLLEGE PLAN, by C. s.
Boucher. 1885. IX83CH. .B662.
A description of the plan of or
ganization for the first two years of
study at the University OF Chicago
and the success Of the course.
HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY
OF VIRGINIA, 1s19-1sle; the
Heightened Shadow Of One Man. by
P. A. Bruce. 1s2o-22. Ixs3Vi.Bs5
AMHERST, THE STORY OF A NEW
ENGLAND COLLEGE, by c. M,
Fuess. 1885. Ixs3AFe5.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, 1922
1892, ed. by F. ?. Jones. 1es3.
IX83NH.J72.
COLUMBIA, by P. P. Keppel. 1914
IX83COLK4.
OFFICIAL GUIDE TO HARVARD
UNIVERSITY, ed. by Stewart
Mitchell. 1929. Ixs3H.of2.
THE STORY OF PRINCETON hvr
M. Norris. 1917. IXssPr N7o4
OF GEoRcErowO
ls34-ls34; Tercentennial causerts.
by Coleman Nevils. 1885. Ixsscss
N414.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-10-15
Getty Grove

Quade brothers shipped a load of
stock to South St. Paul Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Math Jennissen
and Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Jennissen
and children were Melrose callers
Wednesday evening, where they
visited with Marie Jennissen, who
was a patient in the Melrose hos
pital.
Virginia Jennissen visited with
Mrs. Joe Jennissen and children on
Thursday forenoon while Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Jennissen and Irene
were Sank Centre callers.
Mrs. Emil Ripka and Erwin and
Donald were visitors at the Jonas
Ripka home Sunday.
Jonas Ripka and Kenneth and
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ritter were Wis
itors at the Walter Hummer home
Sunday.
Mrs. Joe Jennissen and children
visited with Mrs. Ritter and Mar
garet Warner Thursday.
Alloys Rouslang was a caller at
the Joe Jennissen home Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Jennissen
and children were dinner guests at
the Joe Jennissen home Thursday.
Mrs. Margaret Warner visited
with Mrs. Tillie Ritter and family
Thursday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Hummer
and Lester were visitors at the
Emil Ripka home Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Matthiesen
y;c;+
liam Gritzmacher home Sunday.
George Sence and Mrs. Walter
Wiener and children were visitors
at the Herman Wiener home Mon
day. ..
Quite a few people attended the
picnic which was held at Padua on
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Nelson and
Mrs. Eleanore Plant, of st. Paul,
were week end visitors at the Mike
Essler home.
Miss Katherine Essler called at
the Hubert Rouslang home Monday.
Mrs. Susan Nathe spent a few
days with Mrs. Frank, Essler and
Mrs. Mike Jung last week.
Mrs. Frank Essler and Mrs.
Mike Jung helped Kathryn Essler
with her work Saturday.
Lawrence Cole and children, of
Canada, and Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell,
of North Dakota, spent Sunday at
the Frank Essler home. Mrs. Mike
Jung will return home with the
Mitchell's to North Dakota.
Mrs, Math JennisSen. Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Jennissen and children