The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-12-23
State News Briefs
Turns In $1,000 Pennies At Bank
Pipestone. thousand

Observation-Disclosures thousand pennies
$270 worth and enough to fill IA quart milk pals and
tip the scales at ZIG pounds were turned in at local
bank by Arnt Johnson rural mail carrier from Verdi
who brought them to the bank in two milk pals. The
pennies, saved period of more than five years.
will go to pay for a snow-moble which Johnson has
purchased for this winter He says the coppers
cumulated at surprising rate. Beginning by filling
tobacco he filled another and another and soon
was well on his way toward the purchase Of the
snowmoble, an auto equipped with skis and crawer
treads Bank officials declared that the heap of 1900
pennies made one of the largest piles of one-cent
pieces they have encountered. If a man were to
take the time to count them slowly, at time, it
would require the better part of day. they pointed
out Even johnson did not know how many pennies
he had when he brought them to the bank.
Firemen Confused, Two Fires At Once
Ortonville.-Local fire laddies were put in a dith-
recently by two fire alarms which came in at
CURED simultaneously was unusual occurrence in
itself, but with some of the firemen wanting to go
way and the others insisting another direction,
the misunderstanding was complete The fires were
at the Joe Mathews residence and at the disposal
plant, although damage small at both places The
confusion came about when a hurry up call put
in to Fire Chief Harlan Parker informing of fire at
the disposal plant. Thinking it to be nothing more
than the straw in back of the building, Parker
thought it could easily be taken care of with few
men, and off he went to the fire hall and other
firemen preparing to answer call that had just
come in from the Joe Mathews residence. The chief
was mistake had been made and continued to
not They didn't know of the plant fire and
went off in the other truck. In the meantime both
fires were extinguished.
Adventurous Cat Rides Miles On Brake-Rods
Luverne.-Since an adventurous cat rode two
miles on the brake-rods of automobile, F. ]. Nor
ton who previously had six cats of his own has
an extra cat on his hands The tabby Is the heroine
Of most unusual cat yarn attaching herself to the
Nortons while they were here shopping Miss May
Norton, daughter of F. j. Norton, had parked her
in front of grocery store When she returned she
heard faint meow" but thought nothing of it and
drove down the street to pick up her father He too
heard the meowing and looked all around the car but
could not find the cat After having driven miles
the Nortons again heard a meow" but this time
loud and woeful that they stopped to investigate.
Crawling under the car, MI Norton found the tabby
almost frozen calmly sitting on the brake rod.
Pays For Tie Stolen Eight Years Ago
Ppestone.-Payment for a twenty-five sent neck
tie stolen eight years received last week by
local clothing store from man who had been both
cred by guilty conscience ever since the theft
cured The tie stolen when the man purchased a
suit at the clohiers and the theft went unnotced
the time. Returning to Pipestone last week. follow
ing long absence, the man entered the store and
paid for it.
Warming House Really Warm"
st. Cloud-Well, we had warming house that
was really warm, anyway" remarked local young
sters as they saw their warming house going down
in flames. Meanwhile. the St. Cloud fire department
building. It a warming house rudely constructed
by youngsters from old boards and located on the
west side of the river town. Despite their loss
the youngsters were proud of the warm" warming
house.
Celebration Marks Centenarian Birth
Farmington.-To celebrate the Tooth birthday an
niversary Of Levi E. Day. only person here to
become centenaran, four-day celebration took
place last week. beginning Sunday with family
union which included children cousins nieces and
nephews. Wednesday was Steel county day with re-
ception in the afternoon. Friday Pennington day
when everyone from this village invited and the