The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-04-22

fur on their heads The fifth takes after the papa
Jensen. OF the Union Taxi company and his brother
H. L. Jensen, caretaker at the cemetery is the owner
Of the cat
Runaway Car Breaks Hole In Residence
Mankato-The Oscar j. Carlson family here
thought that earthquake had broken loose short
ly before midnight night last week when driv-
erless car belonging to Clarence E. carlstrom trav-
cling in crashed into the house and smashed
hole In the concrete block foundation. Carlstroms
parked on the street when its owner started
to crank it The gears were in and when the
started it "looped the loop and then plunged at
the Carlson house Carlstrom, meanwhile was cling
ing to the front bumper of the in vain effort to
drag the runaway to halt. He suffered bruises and
decorations of the face, legs and arms.
Looks Too Long At Welding Arc
Benson.-'Never look at welding flame arc
without proper protective glasses Is the warning
Jasper Ladd Of this city will give his friends Jasper
recently constructed electric welding outfit and
the machine worked fine. Its brilliant rays however
were injurious to his eyes. After having attended
movie in the evening he could see. and his wife
practically led him home Jasper is recovering slow
ly but said that he would hate to go through the ex
perence again.
Lighted Pipe Makes Torch OF Automobile
South st. Paul.-Dr. ]. E. Bingham has found n
way to get baked enamel finish his withou.
calling in the services of painter Stopping at fill
ing station to order gas, he walked around the
attendant and continued to smoke his pipe vigorous
w. The air was suddenly filled with flames and the
vent the tank became a torcn, baking the enamel
on the back of the The pump and hose were en-
veloped in a sheet of sudden flame and everyone
leaped back to safety boy scout passing by SCOOP
ed up double handful of sand and ran to the baz-
ing and dribbled it in to the tank through the
distance and threw a cloth the gas tank and
smothered the flames while the radio played "A
Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
School Torture Seat" Used To Get Through Trap
Winona-The mystery Of the alleged torture
seat" discovered recently at abandoned Koscusko
CLAIR hv Mart N PrZllh
he had heard people talking about what AN awfui
thing it that kids should be tied up" Indignant
ly denying that any children were ever tied up or
even forced to sit on the seat mounted on top OF
narrow platform under the roof of the building
Przlbsk said he knew the platform seats history
from to q" and that it was an innocent one Inc
seat on the platform constructed to make 1t cas-
Ter for the janitor climb onto the roof through the
trap door when 1t was necessary every day to take
down the U. S. flag which waved over the school.
Lad Starts Out To Learn Newspaper Job
Robbinsdale.-One boy is setting out early in life
to learn trade About nine years of age, and giving
his name Billy" he provided a minor mystery Tor
school authorities and the Robb.nsdale Enterprise
staff when stroled into the newspaper office and
announced that he had to watch 1.-The mach
ines make the papers, He admitted that he had
played truant from his class BIB in a Robbinsdale
school Upon investigation it learned that no
child by the name given by Billy was registered in
either school.
Youth Burned, Clothes In Vat Remain Unframed
Mora--A peculiar circumstance of the explosion
which occurred at the local dry cleaning establish
ment was the fact that vat containing clothes In
gasoline failed to ignite, although Richard Nelson
who was cleaning a hat badly burned about the
face neck and hands. The hat was the only loss IN
the clothing line
Cat Returns To It's Owners At New Home
Blue Earth.-J. j. Lanon, who recently moved
here from Murdoch, has found that there IS more
truth than poetry in the song, THE Cat Came Back
in which the harrassed hero of the lyric bemoaned
the fact that matter what steps he took to eim-
mate his feline pet puss kept showing up ready Tor
more For years Lannon owned u large cat OF unoe-
termined pedigree but with excellent mouse-catch-
ing propensities At his Murdoch produce station tne
cat kept vernin of the neighborhood IN constaht
state Of fear of sudden DEATH but when the Lannon
family moved to Benson there was no longer room
for mouse-catcher Puss was provided with an ex.
cellent home on the Terry Murphy farm north OF
BENSON where he remained for two weeks and then
became qosensome for the Lannon's One morning ne
showed up meowng a cheerful good morning az
the front door He had found Ills way back not 10
his old home at Murdoch, which might not DC
strange but to the new home IN Benson.