The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-04-01
State News Briefs

State News Briefs
Candy Bank Has Work For Jimmy Valentine
Canby-Jimmy Valentine the gentleman
who sandpapered his finger tips and opened safes for
dishonest living, could have obtained honest job
at the National Citizens bank here last week. Be-
cause bank officials expected to cash hundreds of
soil conservation checks, large sum of money
placed the previous evening in safe. ordinarily not
used for that purpose that it would be handy. In
the morning employees were dsmayed to discover
that they could not open the electrically operated
safe Upon wiring the manufacturers that expert
be sent at once to open the vault telegram arrived
the following day with directions for opening the
SAFE
Buys Baggage Car For Modern Home
Granite Falls.-Selmer Hildahl will have one of
the ''travelingest" homes in Granite Falls when he
completes the new house he plans. The main
part of the structure will be of the Great North
railroads baggage cars, 9x70 feet being sold
by the company for 500 and up. The will be cut
into two pieces Moving from the railroad tracks to
the location it is to occupy as a modern residence
proved in itself task. The car well constructed and
insulated is of those which the railroad is
placing with those of steel construction.
20 Tons Clam Shells Loaded At Bayport
Bayport.-Twenty tons Of the same clam shells
which made Bayport's own button factory busy
left town recently, bound for Musatine, Iowa. where
they will fulfill their allotted destiny in the button
making factories of that city, The twenty tons which
left were half of the forty tons gathered by the ship
pers in the St Croix last year. The live clans were
gathered last summer either by hand or with the
aid of drag and stored in saltwater. The bypro-
ducts of the operation the little rough pearl like
secretions made by the clans, finding ready mar
ket by the ounce The shells, after they are cleaned
separated into two grades. They sell at $55 ton
rise of ten dollars from the prices of last fall The
shipment from Bayport was made by man and his
two from Cannon Falls In the winter they
spend great deal Of time trapping
Nonstop Foot Race Scheduled
Foley-The biggest foot race in the history of
Benton county will take place April when Andy
Kreger, of the Hauck Hardware firm will make
nonstop foot to st. Cloud, ten miles from Foley
He is accepting wagers that he will make it in less
than two and one-half hours, all of which started
when he and another Foley citizen got into friendly
discussion to how we'll and effectively Andy could
hot foot it to places in the shortest time possible
Andy thinking he is quite trackman, lost no time
in boasng that it would be nothing for him to race
to st. Cloud some morning. The turn was called and
the race is with the two and one-haf hour time
limit and Andy is willing to accept all bets he can
get on himself.
mysterious PrOwer" Has Citizens Dodging Shadows
Hastings-1ts getting you can't say boo" to
your best friend in this neck of the woods and get
away with it. An assortment of wild rumors hive
been floating around concerning supposedly dan
gerous character who is menacing citizens on the
streets at night, but seems to be able to give
description OF the fellow In one instance he's
escaped lunatic from the ST. Peter asylum and when
he pops up repeatedly in another neighborhood he's
a six-foot bandit with bushy eyebrows and mean
hasn't ANYTHING
more alarming than to brighten few citizens he is
certainly making the back streets rather unpopular
with night pedestrians One local citizen carrying
pistol for self defense no doubt Is reported to have
shot up neighboring night club on the possibility
that the mysterious prowler might be lurking there
Another near-victm of the epidemic of "jtters"-so
the story goes-was woman who seized on her
way home at night. Thus far of these incidents
have furnished any definite clues the identity of
the supposed marauder
Engineer Stops Train To Save Childs Pet
Halock.-A happy little school boy still has his
pet and the thoughtful engineer who is responsible is
receiving thanks from the entire community When
the engineer saw dog crossing the tracks in front
OF the train he was unaware Of the fact that 1t
the faithful animal that pulls Johnny Sopewinik
and from the school bus depot every day, but in an
effort to avoid running the dog the engineer
skidded the wheels Of the engine The maneuver
successful and the animal oafed in safety He
was harnessed to a sleigh, his way to meet the
bus Perhaps the intelligent canine engrossed
with the task of meeting his master that he forgot
all safety measures and crossed directly in the path
of the oncoming train.
Hermit Comes To Town To Buy Lamp Chimney
Fairmont.-The S1-year-od hermit Of Center
Creek, who thinks 1t is too dang much trouble to
take clothes off to take BATH" is stranger to
bed again because he doesn't like to take off his
clothes and who used to skunks for pets after
quite spell" deserted his solitary farm home re
Gently to come to town in quest Of lamp
chimney. It required an hours tour Of Fairmont
hardware stores to locate the odd size. odtmer lamp
chimney Arch Handy needed. Arch Is a Rip Van
Winklsh sort of fellow-the kind you never expect
to see-flowing gray beard like unto the patriarchs
OF old, timeworn leather cap, worn bandana at the
neck wrapped-around leather jacket under
threadbare overcoat worn ragged at the hens and
tied at the waist by belt tattered denim trousers
and rubber overshoes His mode OF living Is strictly
his own He shuns baths hain't had a bath for
more'n two months, and don't aim to have another
unless God Almighty gives me one If get caught in
the rain" He doesn't go to bed. II Jest SET mebbe
read, and mebbe jest set til get tired o. that and
then shuttle around until / set again."
fire Having y of the owners as they have been
the upper-hand doing in sit-down strikes