The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-05-12
The
COmnOn-tater
BY Chuck Rattle

Tooters-In the approved fashion,
up here on Main Street knoll we
rotate our crops-and our enthus-
iasm. And the newest crop is a
bumper edition of musicians. These
horn spielers are rising from every
corner of the woods, literally des-
cending on an unsuspecting world
in music When these boys get
in shape they will toss out as mean
a melody as ever oggled an ear
drum, and they'll be in shape ere
long :. Granddaddy of them all is
Charley Miller. Now Charley isn't
actually old, but he has worlds OF
band experience behind him that
puts him in the No. 1 position in
the band . ''This is going to be
fun" he said, with a grin and
wound up to give the bass drum an
extra slap. Charley did good deal
of bandwork in his day, and for the
past several years, ruled out of the
picture with a younger band, he's
been itching to get back into it :. :.
Take Fay Cooper into any band,
and it's a pleasure to any director.
Fay does the 'pah" part of the loom
pah pah." The after beat man, he
finishes the rhythm count. If you
don't think Fay was away last
week, well, you just weren't there
Enthusiasm? They got it
=. Now there's Baker Nelson. Once
a clarinet player, he up and bought
one of the squeak sticks for the eff
fort Comes Barber Vern Sol
tau, and a baseballer too, barging
out with a baritone under his arm
after "a years away from the
mouthpiece Claude Gilbertson-
you didn't know he played either?
Didn't say anything. He just
went ahead and slipped that old
slide around a couple of turns and
there was the music :. And Res
taurateur Allan Meigs is slipping
around the slip horn section, as well
And then there are us young
punks, but we'll have an awful time
getting the supreme kick out of it
that these older boys get They
got the memories We're just
making them -.
Put 25-year-old oil man Jim F.
(Franklin) Benson in the luckier
bracket. He is the envy Of every
male in town. His rather hand
some visage is almost free Of whis-
kers, in fact he has only two or
three more than freshly-plucked
peach. While all the rest of the
guys are using time to shave each
day, Jim can use that to make
few extra nickels -.
Observation-Disclosures to your Spring
and rains have brought out bevy
of the fawnciest-oh veddy-um-
brellas. All prettied up with a bum
mershoot o'erhead the gals are a
neat picture Oiled silk and
crinkly, they are light in color with
q dash of brightness here and there.
I'm glad. It makes a CHEEKY and
bizarre picture out of an otherwise
drab day :. And what Is so dreary
looking as that horrible black UNI
brella. If were dictator one of
the first steps would take would
be f. to one side Of approaching
umbrellas f. to abolish the black
one =. suppose, tho, that one of
these pretty ones will stick you in
the eye as fast as another Ho
hum! >. And add those cellophane
whatchamahoomadi (ain't he
wonderful, coins words 'nevery-
thing the gals wear for rain pro-
lection as spinorty -.
Bee misunderstanding Is the
study Of bees. Manipulators Of
one of the most complex civiliza-
lions in the animal world, bees long |
have been a source of study to the |
culturalist. Padua farmer, A. E.
Rodgers, beekeeper for some years
now, dropped a little info into your
columnist's ear can't keep 1t,
SO give 1t to you. He has TWEEN
ty hives and they're humming in
side already lying In wait for the
fruit blossoms 20 hives could
easily become 60 in single season
he said by letting them swarm :.
But it's not always desirable. Of
ten It IL true that fewer hives make