The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-09-01
State News Briefs


Pound waleye Caught without Hook or Line
Verndale-Hubert Hamlet of Verndale made an
extraordinary catch when he got pound walleye
without benefit of hook line He was swimming
not far out from shore and the drifted in near
him three times. Every time Ham" would get near
it and make pass for said fish it would come to
and hit out for deep water But after its third
fourth or fifth appearance of this nature Ham had
in the meantime gone back to the cottage and OBJ
tanned landing net which he succeeded in making
the catch with The fish evidentally had been hooked
previously and broken lose from the line which like
ly left it in weakened conditon-nevertheless
Ham" has fish story that was witnessed and one
he can match with good number of the fishermen's
tales.
You Should See One of His Big Ones
Luverne F'rakes of Magnolia is displaying
cucumber which measures than foot in length
surprisingly the cucumber is comparatively small in
diameter, about an inch and half which garden.
ers say indicates that it is good eating Mr. Frakes
friends say that this foot cucumber is just midget
compared to others in his garden but that "he didn't
want to go to the trouble of hiring truck to bring
one of his big ones up town."
Corn For Whiskey-Barley For Beer
Gibbon-Heres for the famous Ripley col
umn, Believe 1t Or Not" Mr.. Walter Schmidt has
been displaying freak Of corn during the pas,
week. The cob perfectly formed and very nicely
developed had interspersed between kernel rows
several inches from the tip almost perfect kernes
of barley. The speciman proved quite a novelty of
interest as well many expressions of opinion now
the barley termination took place. The latter still
a matter undecided. walt" says, Corn For Wis
key Barley For Beer" all on stalk.
Is Varieties On Same Apple Tree
Sleepy Eye-When the Percy Scobie family here
tires of eating one kind of apple they simply ca.
another but they need not to another tree Anyone
of the ID varieties they may choose come from the
same tree. Readers who inclined to be skeptical
have been invited to take walk to the Scobe place
md fho Spnhio xryi1l
ieties come about through successful grating opera
tons in which Mr.. Scobie has experimental In rec
ent years. He's had number of varieties for sew
eral years and each year keeps adding few more
Now it's the exception rather than the rule when
one of the experiments flops. The tree which
Mr.. Scobie has been operating these many years
hybrid of some sort and is about 20 years old. ALI
of the ID varieties bearing fruit this in
generous quantities. The different kinds are Heral-
son, Northwest Greening, Patten Greening, Straw
berry Crab Minnehaha Crab Minnesota 1907, Min
nesota 500, Perkins Delicious, Jonathan Macintosh
and Folwell. In addition the original tree is also
bearing apples.
Sisters Have First Reunion In 40 Years
st. Cloud-At a reunion held last Sunday at the
Big Lake summer home of Mrs. w. H. easier, four
sisters met for the first time in 40 years Present
were Mrs CASTER, of Minneapolis; Mrs. c. j. Milling
ton Jacksonville, Florida; Mrs d. A. Murdoch New
York City; and Mrs. J. H. Bryan, Lubbock, Texas
The dinner served was in keeping with the
sion of the first reunion in 40 years for four sisters
from our different states.
Freak Vegetables Make Appearance
Mahnomen-A Siamese twin cucumber and a
rot wearing band initiated ring two freak
vegetables found by local residents week ago. The
cucumber which discovered by Ted Wold was
large in size and perfectly formed. On the bottom
of it was smaller specimen of the vegetable While
pulling carrots from her garden Mrs. A. o. Pierson
was surprised to gold ring bearing the initials
ems around of the carrots. 1t Is believed that
the ring belonged to Mrs. w. w. Phillips whose
maiden name Cynthia Marie Seaman The ring
may have been lost by her time in the past
while the Phillips family resided in the house the
Persons now occupy.
Girl, 49, Born In 10 Has Birthday on 10th
Detroit Lakes-A local girl, Mabel Knutson, feels
certain that 10 is her lucky number because 1t play
ed such important role in her life this year. When
she celebrated her birthday last Friday she 10
years DID, having been born in 1919 Her birthday
was on the 18th of August.
Hobo Hand-Out Is Appreciated
Ortonvile-Not one in a million-but surely in
a hundred to make such offer the man who
came here last week and wanted to to repay
times the ten cent hand-out given him earlier
in the summer. Day after day, throughout the last
months local policemen gave out to transients tick
cts good for ten cents at any store restaurant.
Recently transient from Ohio approached Jack Is
ler night watshman He dug down in hts overan
pockets and pulled out change. Here" he said,
II want to pay you what owe you! I want you to
know that I appreciate very, very much the help
you gave me two weeks ago. have since founo
work in the harvest fields and have earned liz
tie money" He was informed the offer could NOT
be accepted.