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The Republican., 1937-03-11
Members of st. Peters Parish
Plan to RedecOrate Church

Members of st. Peters Catholic
church in Oakland are planning to re-
decorate and beautify anew the inter-
ior of their church. 1t has been twenty
four years since the church was deco
rated, and this was done when the
late Rev. James E. Connell was pastor,
in 1918. A Baltimore firm will do the
decorating-the same firm obtained by
Rev. FIR. Connell.
The work will begin on March 80,
and it is expected it will be completed
in time for the homecoming celebration
which is to take place in early sum-
mer. When the painting and frescoing
of the walls, affairs and statues are
completed, there will be erected in the
church bronze tablet upon which will
appear the names of those in whose
memory contributions were made for
the work.
Many persons living outside of Oak
land have sent in donations in order
to have names of their deceased par
ents and other relatives placed on the
tablet, according to Rev. FIR. W. F..
Sauer, pastor. Those on the Memorial
Fund Decoration committee include NJ.
w. Pendergast, Edward R. O'Donnell,
James Garrett, Thomas Garrett, Mrs.
Rose Frazee, William R. Browning,
Miss Mary Joe Tamburini, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Treacy, Miss Zaidee
Browning, Mrs. Sarah Hughes, Miss
Mary Carney, Mrs. Patrick Garrett,
Michael Maroney, Matthew Canty, Mr..
and Mrs. Owen T. Treacy, Mr.. and
Mrs. William Pendergast, Edward
Shaffer, Frank Dodaro, Mrs. Emma
Lawton, Edward Helbig, and Mrs.
Mary Stanton.
The Republican., 1937-03-11
MRS. ANNIE CONDRON

Mrs. Annie Condron, aged 78, wife
of ]. C. Condron, died February %,
1887, at her home near Snicksburg,
Pa. Mrs. Condron lived at Swanton,
this county, for about 30 years. She
moved to Pennsylvania about 10 years
ago.
Funeral services were conducted
Tuesday, March 2, in the Lutheran
church at Glade Run, Pa.
Surviving are her husband and the
following children: Mrs. Zula Site
Ter, Snicksburg; Mrs. Floda Thompson,
Dayton, Pa; Mrs. Verna Bray, of Mt.
Lake Park; and Wade Condron, of
Keyser, W. Va; also 26 grandchildren
and great grandchildren.
The Republican., 1937-03-11
WILLIAM E. McCLINTOCK

William E. McClintock, aged 72
years, died at his home in Friendsville
on February "a. He was born in Somer-
set county, Pa, December %, 1864, and
came to Maryland more than forty
years ago. He was united in marriage
with Miss Elizabeth Evelyn Friend,
daughter of Isaiah Friend, who pre-
ceded him in death nearly eight years
ago. He was a faithful member of the
Chrirtian church.
Three children survive, Mrs. Irene
Gress, of Pittsburgh; Mrs. Iva Frazee,
Selbysport, and w. Edwin McClin-
took, of Pittsburgh; also one sister,
The Republican., 1937-03-11
JOHN PLASKETT

John Plaskett, a former resident of
Selbysport, 80 years of age, died at
the home of his daughter-in-law, Mrs.
Grace Plaskett, at Friendsville, on
Wednesday evening, March 8, 1887.
Funeral services were held from the
home on Friday afternoon with Rev.
v. R. Gillum, pastor of the M. E.
church, Mill Run, in charge. Interment
was made in the Addison cemetery.
The Republican., 1937-03-11

Ter. Other Kitzmiller players were J.
Paugh, Pratt, Cough, Dine, Clark, N.
Paugh, B. Paugh and Sewers
The Republican., 1937-03-11

Centrals combination of Morton and
Doolan scored "a points, while Mary
Orbin collected II points for Kitzmil
The Republican., 1937-03-11

rett girls outscored the Allegany coun-
ty champions, Is to II, to trail at
1920 as the quarter closed.
The Republican., 1937-03-11
MISS ELLA SHAFFER

Miss Ella Shaffer, aged 76 years,
7 months and "a days, died last Thurs
day evening, March 4, at the home of
her nephew, Leon Smouse, near Noun
tain Lake Park. Miss Shaffer was a
daughter of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Shaffer, whose home was To-
Gated one mile west of Oakland.
Funeral services were conducted on
Monday morning at ten o'clock from
st. Peters Catholic church, Oakland,
with Rev. FIR. William F. Sauer off
ciating. Interment was made in the
cemetery located on the Shaffer home
farm, west of Oakland, where other
members of the family are inferred.
Surviving are two sisters, Miss Mar
garet Shaffer, of near the Park, and
Mrs. Edward Walsch, of Oakland; also
a number of nieces and nephews.
The Republican., 1937-03-11

Mrs. Florence Barnett, of Pittsburgh.
Funeral services were held in the
Friendsville Christian church on Sat-
urday, February 81, Rev. H. Knoell, of
Confluence, Pa, officiating. Interment
was in the family lot at Addison, Pa.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-10-28
British Constitution Is
for Most Part Unwritten

Although the British Constitution
is for the most part unwritten and
result Of custom, its development is
marked by certain fundamental
written laws, says writer in Lon
don Tit-Bits Magazine.
It was Magma Charta, signed in
1915, that secured for the nation the
system Of annual parliaments, and
the free and unfettered administra-
ton Of justice. The habeas corpus
act Of 1879 secured to the people
the liberty of the person-no longer
could a man be imprisoned at the
whim of feudal lord or sovereign;
q magistrates warrant was re-
quired.
In 1701 the act Of settlement pro-
vided for the Protestant succession
to the throne, which later became
hereditary in the British house Of
Windsor. The sons Of the sovereign
and their descendants have prece.
dence over daughters; the daugh.
tiers and their descendants having
preference over all lateral lives.
Other notable landmarks in the
development of the British consti.
tuition are the act of union with
Scotland u70O; the government Of
Ireland act Q92O; and the statute
of Westminster, passed in 1881.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-10-28


According to the popular notion.
insects are physically unable to
penetrate the human skin no mat.
ter how hard they may ply their
singers. because the pores are
then closed. notes a writer in the
Indianapolis News. The United States
bureau Of entomology investigated
and reported that the belief has
no foundation in fact. The singer
Of bee does enter the skin through
the pores, and these tiny openings
may be slightly affected by breath
ing, but the difference is not sui
fcient to interfere with the opera
ton of the bees singer. II bees
do not sting a person while he holds
his breath or clenches his fists it
is not because they can not sting
under such conditions, but because
the person is then likely to be more
quiet.
Bees seem to be able to detect
the slightest sign of fear in hui
man being and are stimulated to
sting by any quick, nervous move
ments. A person who remains quiet
and who shows no fear is not in
great danger of being stung. Bees,
however, are repealed by certain
body odors, and some persons dc
not excite and anger bees as others
do.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-10-28
Source of Great Lakes Water


The supply of water in the Great
Lakes is maintained by drainage
from the area comprising the lake
basin, about 300. 900 square miles, of
which 60 per cent is in this country
and 40 per cent in Canada. The
, amount of water fed into the lakes
by the hundreds of small rivers,
streams and springs varies with the
season; in April and May it has
been estimated to average more
than $4,000 cubic feet per second,
and in November less than 10000
cubic feet per second. The level Of
the lakes is determined by the bal
ance between inflow and outflow; ar
tificial outflow and evaporation from
the surface Of nearly 100, 900 square
miles. In the natural state each
lake was an individual reservoir,
maintaining it's own level by natural
dams at the outlets, but with blast
ing and digging to assist transport
tation, these have been modified and
the artificial outlets such as the Chi
cago drainage canal, Welland canal.
New York state barge canal, etc.,
also affect lake levels.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-10-28
The TELESCOPE

The invention of the telescope
usually attributed to Calico, who
first exhibited it, in its completed
form, in 1609-aroused new interest
in communication by visible signals.
BY the end Of the Seventeenth GEN.
fury, these instruments were fair
ly common throughout Europe, and
several signal systems, based on
their use, had been suggested. About
1890, Amontons, member Of the
French academy. devised system,
the simplest form Of which consist
ed merely Of hosting flags or plac-
ards bearing large letters, to be
read by telescope and relayed from
station to station. He demonstrate
ed his system before the Dauphin in
the Luxembourg gardens, Paris.
Shortly before this. Hooke, an Eng
lish physicist, had invented a sys-
ITEM made up Of a line Of high tow
ers, each holding a frame on which
twenty-six figures representing the
letters Of the alphabet were to be
hung and the message spelled out.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-10-28
Only Unhealthy Oysters
Are Producers Of Pearls


Oriental poets used to say that
pearls grew from dew-drops swal.
lowed by the oysters. Actual fact
proves that only unhealthy oysters
produce pearls; essentially those
with crumpled shells, writes Edward
Samuel in the Illustrated Weekly Of
India. The growth Is the result Of
grit. sand grains or splinters being
driven into the mantle or flap Of skin
in the oyster. The foreign substance
becomes coated with mother-of-
pearl.
The pearling industry is a double
headed one, pearls and shells-with
: shell as the main item and pearls as
subsidiary. The first shell in Aus
tralia was gathered by natives at
low tide, and when this supply was
exhausted, they waded and dived for
It. Still later, they dived from boats
In two or three fathoms of water,
and early profits were enormous.
Forty or fifty feet was the limit
for native divers, but the shell went
much deeper. The Japs adopted
close-fitting goggles, but over fifty
years ago regular diving dress was
adopted. Fully clad in this suit,
with glass-fronted helmet and air.
pipe, down goes the diver. On ar
rival at the bottom the Safe Down"
signal is jerked on the guide rope.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-10-28
Falconry as Recreation
in Many Parts of World

Hawking was introduced into Eu-
rope from the East in the Twelfth
century, but its history goes back
much farther than that. In the Old
Testament there is a mention Of
hunting with trained birds" Ho-
mer, Aristotle and Pliny all speak
Of the sport. The Chinese and Japa-
nese were passionately devoted to
hunting with hawks and falconry is
practiced in their countries, as well
as in India and in North Africa by
natives, relates correspondent in
the New York Times.
All medieval European aristocra-
cies played with hooded birds Of
prey. The sport persisted into mod
ern times in Hungary and in Eng
land and sporadically in various 9TH
er continental countries.
Falconry is probably the most
highly formalized recreation in the
world. It's methods and customs are
by immemorial custom rigidly pre-
scribed, and it has vernacular all
its own. How completely this old
Technology is lost to the public is
illustrated in the very name Of the
sport; the average person is quite
sure that a falcon is a species Of
bird, while actually the word mere
ly denotes the female Of any Of
number of breeds. The female hawk
Is about one-third larger and heav-
Ter than the male, and is superior
hunter.
Persons who may care to take up
hawking must do some work on the
venerable lexicon pertaining to it,
as well as learn how to handle and
use the birds. A falcon does not
have wings, for example; they are
sails" And one must know what
''haggards" and "cadgers" are, as
well as what it means when the
hawk towers, stoops, pounces and
jouks.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-10-28
Sank Centre Route ;

Joe Schloegle and son, Julian
and Bonnie were callers at the Bill
Schloegle home Sunday.
Joe Schloegle, Jr., and Norbert
Schloegle were callers at the Ray
Bromenshenkel home Tuesday.
Ben and Edward Bieringer were
callers at the Bill Schloegle home
Friday.
Tony Essler was a caller at the
Bill Schloegle home Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Schloegle were
callers at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman Boknokan Sunday.
Leo and Tony Schloegle were Wis
itors at the home of Nick Bromen-
shenkel and Joe Schloegle, ST., on
Sunday.
Art Quade was a caller at the
Bill Schloegle home Sunday.
Ralph and Joe Schloegle were
callers on Ralph Veeder Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bill Schloegle were
visitors in Little Falls with theil
daughter, Miss Rose, Sunday.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-10-28
When Indian, White Said Adieu

Not infrequently an Ohio Indian
tribe would permit an adopted white
man or woman to say adieu to the
tribe if the person, upon reaching
adulthood, found life with the red
skins unbearable. The departures
differed, states a writer in the Cleve-
land Plain Dealer, but they were
generally something like the one
which is recorded about William
Wells. Kidnapped when a boy of
twelve, he lived with the tribe until
manhood. Then walking with Chief
Little Turtle to clearing on the
Maumee, Wells said: II now leave
your nation for my own people. We
have long been friends. We are
friends yet-until the sun reaches
a certain height he indicat-
ed by pointing to the sky-"From
that time on, we are enemies. Then,
If you want to kill me, you may.
and If I want to kill you. I may"
Wells became the chief of Gen.
mad" Anthony Wayne's scouts.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-10-28
Bathtub in White House
in Isl. National Scandal

When Willard Fillmore installed a
bathtub in the White House in 1851
1t was a national scandal, observes
q writer in the Washington Star.
Red-blooded Americans every
where protested that the President
was sissy. He had introduced
from Europe an abominable ''mon-
archial luxury" If he felt he must
take baths-an un-American prac-
tice, anyway-the White House
bathtub was good enough for any
man. Thomas jefferson and An
drew jackson hadn't had bathtubs.
This is one Of the striking exam
Piles Of the conservatism Of the pub
Lie mind and its resistance to tech
biological improvements whic h
makes the future Of any new idea
unpredictable, cited by the National
Resources committee in report on
chronological trends.
Less than ten years before, &C.
cording to Bernhard J. Stern Of the
National Resources committee, the
Philadelphia Common council had
come within two votes Of passing
an ordinance against bathing of any
sort between November l and
March IS. The allegedly growing
practice was sapping the vitality Of
the citizenry. It was denounced as
q menace to public health and de-
ycency.
At about the same time the de-
grading habit was getting a foothold
in Virginia. Several Old Dominion
towns imposed tax Of $50 on every
bathtub in an effort to discourage
the vile things.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-10-28
Pole Dances Stir Indian
Braves of Mexican Towns

OF those age-old rites which sur
vive among the Indians Of remote
villages in Mexico, one Of the most
interesting and spectacular is the
strange dance Of the flying pole.
In symbolism centuries old, the
performers dance at the top Of a
tree trunk as tall as ships mast,
then Fly" to earth on long, unwind
ing ropes.
When the Otomi Indians per-
formed the dance at Pahuatla, says
a correspondent in the Detroit
News, they wore bright-red cos
tunes, and two bandannas crossed
in the back gave vague resemblance
to wings. Five were dressed as
men and the sixth as woman.
In the center Of the busting plaza
lowered the flying pole, almost 70
feet high. A thick vine had been
twisted around the pole to afford a
foothold. One by one they climbed
to the lofty height, the woman"
somewhat hindered by the long
skirts fiuttering in the wind. Once
on top, they sat down in frame
and supported their bodies by
thrusting their feet against the pole.
Then one after another they
danced on the platform. One step
misplaced, one slight loss Of bal.
ance, and nothing could have saved
them from plunging to sudden
death.
After the pole-top dances all tied
the ends Of the ropes around their
waists and with a piercing cry
launched into space. For one
breathless moment they hung along
the pole, five Of them head down,
for only the woman flies with her
head up. Then down they came in
steady crescendo Of overwhelming
circles.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-10-28
PAGE NINE

Mr.. and Mrs. Gertrude Lardy,
Mr.. Marcus Lardy and Loyola
Gardner were Sunday dinner guests
and spent the day with Mr.. and
Mrs. Leo Lardy.
Joe Schloegle and sons, Bennie
and Julian, called at the Anton
Bieringer home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Eibensteiner
and son, Roman, called at the An
ton Bieringer home Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bieringer
were Sunday evening visitors at the
Leo Lardy home.
Norbert Schloegle was caller at
the Anton Bieringer home Satur-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Lynch and
family spent Sunday afternoon and
were supper guests at the John
Bieringer home.
Miss Kunda Lardy, Hank and
Ben Laumeier were Sunday visitors
at the Leo Lardy home.
Miss Louise Bieringer called at
the Carl Bierniger home Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Cowlthorpe
called at the Leo Lardy home on
Friday.
Herman Doege was a caller at
the Anton Bieringer home Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Eibensteiner
and family were dinner guests and
spent Sunday afternoon at the An
ton Bieringer home.
Henry Voller was a business call
er at the Anton Bieringer home on
Monday.
Anton Bieringer and Ed Eiben-
teiner called at the Carl Bieringers
| home Sunday.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-10-28
Old Measurement Units
a. Remodeled by French

The English units Of measurement
have evolved gradually from the
simple standards used by the Eng
lish peasants and artisans thou
sand years ago. Prior to the French
revolution, In fact, the standards OF
all nations were based on the rude
units developed by primitive peo-
pies, writes DR.. Thomas M. Beck In
the Chicago Tribune.
In 1870 the French government ap-
pointed a commission to place the
weights and measures Of France on
a decimal basis. This step involved
the discarding Of the old units and
the adoption Of new ones. AS there
was nothing sacred about the toise
and the livre and the rest Of the old
units, the commission could arbi-
trarily have chosen any stick and
stone in France to be the new stand
ards Of length and weight. In &C
tual practice, however, it Is desira-
BILE to have such standards based
on certain known and indestructible
quantities, so that II all yardsticks
and weights in the land were de-
stroyed in some catastrophe, they
could soon be reproduced.
For the measurement Of length
the commission chose the most in
destructible thing available, the
earth. The unit Of length, the meter,
was defined as one ten-millionth OF
the distance from the equator to the
north pole along the meridian pass
ing through Paris. Ten meters were
defined as a decameter, 100 meters
as hectometer, and 1000 meters
as a kilometer. Among the SUBJ
multiples, a meter was defined as
10 decimeters, 100 centimeters, and
1000 milimeters. The new units OF
area and volume were the squares
and cubes Of these lengths.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-10-28

In the wild, its food consists Of rats,
mice and gophers, fish, birds, and
even an occasional skunk. It likes
to feed on chickens in settled areas.
To Offset this damaging evidence as
far as man is concerned, the great
horned owl is an avowed enemy Of
crows and grackles. The crows
themselves recognize this by gang
ing up on an owl whenever they
find one in the woods.
The young of this bird sometimes
feed on night-hying insects. Since
the young are said to begin hooting
when they are about four months
old, the insect-hawking owls will ut
ter screaming cry. When this is
heard in the dark, the cry is often
puzzling to listeners.
Despite its general disfavor
among men, the owls deserve high
praise in their devotion to eggs and
young at nesting time, asserts a
writer in the Detroit Free Press.
Sometimes, they begin nesting as
early as February, when they may
be exposed to fierce storms and low
temperatures, often for days at a
time. It is marvel how the eggs
are kept from freezing in a nest ex-
posed, as it usually is, in the top Of
a tall, bare tree. Only the most
devoted, answering attention to
duty can save them. In defense Of
their young, these owls will attack
almost any intruders. After spend
ing about month in the nest, the
young begin to fly, but accompany
their parents for time only until
they learn to forage for themselves.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-10-28
Northwest Ashley

Miss Arvilla Uphus spent Sunday
with friends in West Union.
Mrs. Paul Bentfield spent Thurs
day and Friday attending teachers
institute in st. Cloud.
Glenn Uphus spent Sunday after.
noon visiting relatives in Melrose.
Miss Alvina Marthaler Is working
at the Henry Deters home.
Anton Bentfield and son, Norbert
spent Sunday afternoon with rela
tives at New Munich.
A large number from this vicinity
attended the Miller-Hansen sale or
Tuesday.
Bob Orth, of st. Paul, was a call.
er at the Anton Bentfield home
Friday.
Clarence johnson Is assisting
Casper Pick with his work.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-10-28
Natures Writing Found
ON Lake Erie Limestone

One Of the most notable exam.
pies Of natures handwriting Is to
be found at Kelley Island, in Lake
Erie, not Tar from the Ohio city Of
Sandusky. Here every crag tells
to the initiated in natures hand
writing what took place in the Ice
age, says q writer in the New York
Times.
A number Of years ago, while
blasting the limestone Of which the
island is composed, workmen no
ticed that the surface Of the rock
uncovered was oddly carved. Over
the limestone there is twenty-foot
layer Of unstratified rock, sand and
gravel. Biologists examined the
grooves and carvings on the lime
stone taken from beneath this COW
ering and reported them to be re-
markable imprints left by glaciers.
The grooves are from four to six
feet deep. The limestone contains
shells Of marine creatures, and the
shells have been polished until they
resemble inlay work.
The ancient Egyptians wrote on
the leaf Of the papyrus plant; the
American Indians on birch bark;
but nature in leaving her written
message to man compressed mil
lions of animal organisms into q
tablet Of limestone, and inscribed
it with a stylus Of granite and
fingers Of ice perhaps miles in thick
ness.
Strewn over the northern part Of
Ohio are granite boulders Of all
sizes. Their place Of origin was
in Canada, north Of the Great Lakes.
It is concluded that they were
transported by moving ice, and the
grooves on Kelley island limestone
shows some Of the work they did
on their passage south.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-10-28
'The Lady With the Lamp"

Parental objections to nursing as
an occupation almost prevented the
start of a career that has never
since been equalled in that profess
sion. Annette Fiske tells Of Flor
ence Nightingale. the Lady with the
Lamp" In Hygeia, the Health
Magazine. The objections were
based on the conditions then exist
ing which were not at for a lady.
Years were to pass before the fam
fly prejudice finally weakened
enough for her to obtain her wish.
During the intervening years. how
ever, her view Of life and people
became widened. and this laid
broad foundation for her future
work. BY her work with the army,
Miss Nightingale opened career to
women and proved their right to
place in military hospitals. All her
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-10-28

efforts were exerted to make nurs-
ing trained profession and to i'm
prove the medical administration In
the army. Her notes on the hos
pital administration in the British
army led to many reforms.