The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-04-28
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4 BY Chuck Raths
It becomes increasingly harder to
get q piece Of land In this mans
country. A few years ago a bolt OF
calico, a few beads, some shiny
trinkets. and the trusty musket un,
der your arm was all the aInmuni-
ton one needed to pick out q nice
farm In the verdant underground
-. Now the boys find 1t increas-
ingly difficult to get hunk Of good
Of terra firma Take Manhattan
Island, for instance. Once the Indian
roamed on it planted q smattering
of maize and some other stuff, then
he sold 1t for twenty-four dollars
worth Of junk Now IL you plant
anything on the blooming Island
except your foot they will have the
MALTA out for you !. Well, 1t isn't
quite that bad Out here. We can
still stand in the middle Of the
square on Main Street and look
through broad avenues to point
three miles out in the country
We country cousins like things wide
open But you go to take piece
OF land in this town to put some
thing on, and well, you may run in
to difficulty Take the problem
of the school beard right now.
For q while It looked like the
thing might develop into one of
those clandestine meetings at
dawn with rackets and baseball
bats at ten or twelve PAGES,
now 1t looks cooled off bit :.
!. 1T seems the kittenballers, or
gained freshly, have begun q
series of games on the play
grounds and they are to be de-
voted partly to tennis courts =.
And the kttenbalIers are object
ing or at least they were. On the
one hand 1t does seem too bad
to spoil the only kittenball dia-
m0nd In the town. But the
board b more or less bound TO
put up tennis courts as q re-
suit Of the dismantling OF the
library court And I have it
rather straight that there viii
be tennis courts and right down
town here, too.
But even as the fight was gener-
.ating the kittenballers showed their
fine sporting blood and backed down
on the proposition. Pressure win
he exerted to have the diamond
completed up near the lake. It was
begun once, you know And it
is an open secret that baseballers
of the town will proceed for a fix
in of that same spot on the lake
front, 1t now develops. So perhaps
the thing will be all ironed out !.
In the meantime the diamond at the
Fair Grounds is completed. can't,
for the love Of Ezra, discern where
in the objection lies in the Fair
Grounds diamond. But mayhap the
dislike for the outpost of civiliza-
ton is with foundation.
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The Great White Signal These
Boy Scouts and their outings can't
wait for the dilly-dally spring Of
Minnesota. So with chills blowing
off Sank Lake that dispel any
thoughts Of the good oil summer
heat waiver, the Scouts betook
themselves to a place they could go
swimming. Saturday morning bus
load went st. Cloud hiked into
Eastman hall at the Teachers Col
lege, and jumped In the pool !.
They had merry time splashing
around for time. It seems that
for one patrol Of Troop Is, which
takes in that gang like Dick O'Gara
Junior Schmidt. Doug Kohl, John
Cotton, Chick Otto, Bob Rattle and
there may be others, the swim was
a prize won in troop contest. !.
The rest of the gang went via
the pay route. -.
It's all over now item: Be
heve 1t or not, with apologies
to Mr.. Ripley, there was slxat-
ing on Sank Lake three weeks
ago Sunday In spite Of unsea-
sOnably balmy weather >. And
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Bullman, all
weather cottagers, were the
skaters. And they are claiming
the distinction of skating last
before the ice break up. And
/ wouldn't be surprised 49,.