The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-05-11

SAUK
ness during the traitor for Drums With the
pictures gone, the sound kept coming, and Of a
sudden doomed out from behind the screen, Turn
on the lights" Sidewalk Saes They say If
you live in town, you never come down."
Down on our own south Pine we find oddities
apenty. F'rinstance on the porch stoop facing a
westerly direction, Of the r. ]. Malloy home is a
light globe that for S5 years has shed it's light
hesitates only briefly in its senity before respond
ing to the touch of the light switch. And Cliff
Gandrud responding to bit of the summertime
lethargy that attacks all in May bobbing up with
Boy, I'd rather be fishin'." . AS who wouldn't
Cliff! -.
Our next neighbor is spry, busy-as-a-bee, W. D.
Cowlthorpe who is SO years young if my memory
serves me well. Never without a hearty greeting
pass, he likes to rock in his easterly lawn
shaded from the sun when summers heat comes
His comments go bounding about the neighborhood
den, at which art he is usually right among the
first in little colony OF Monday morning
he will be discovered industriously hanging out the
weekly wash at which he helps the Mrs, who is with
in handling the washing detail He hold his
in this clothes-hanging art with the most pro-
fcient lady in the neighborhood. 1 seem to dis
cover him every place. The other day as passed
along the street there he rested the fender of
parked car, eating ice cream Just rest
ing" said he. AS scrambled to work the other
morning he was already about trimming box elder
tree" said he, and chuckling went The kind OF
apple tree Simple Simon picked from
A few additional notes my way the DR.
and Mrs Moynihan home after they had enjoyed the
coumnar remarks of this correspondent two week:
ago. In fact Mrs. Moynihan said she would make
me pie. 1 must search out others homes or
which to do pieces if such rewards the results
of so small an effort. The house, of brick was
built by the early Pangburns here and is erected
Sank Centremade brick. Later it owned by
Trcyr ,xx-hn Cd oS,fa no
is just south of the junior high school building
1t his efforts that gave the interior thing
a bit distinctive. OF the oak that passed through
his mill, all that without knot blemish he
laid aside. Result is that the entire home is fin
ished with knotless solid oak-a beautiful pattern
with wearever qualities.
Speaking of bricks and mortar one can scarcely
pass the Pangburns. Their work has marked
epic in Sank Centre-and indeed this vicinity
building construction. Last week to work the new
Ed Pangburn who today mark what is left of
ce-prosperous local industry. Scarcely notable
building, of this vicinity in which commandment
bricks and mortar, has escaped the hands of the
Pangburns. They represent more than just brick
layers and tradesmen They tell of at least three
generations who made large contributions in this
communal building program. 1t was the earlier
David who fostered industry since gone but
whose vestiges have been carried over by these
brck-laying descendants. On the shores of Sauk
Lake his brick works rose and today nearly every
more-anclent brlck building In the community bears
bricks that on the side branded David Pang
burn Sank Centre" Today out there the lake
shore the brickyard is a landmark-it represents
as clearly part of this community Hoboken
Stone Arch and hundred other places that are
legendary in the community's life. Yes, legenc
is what it is today For the once-smouderine
kilns are deserted, its clay deposits nearly done
weeds and scraggly rocks litter the scene. i
will be years before traces of that industry are
wiped from this community, for next to the brick
yards is an entire farm constructed of brick; count
less other buildings, including Herald build
ing of the Pangburn variety. But like others
who saw the small town dwindle to insignifcancs
In the years when the great rush to larger center
was on the brickyards here ceased. The barges thai
floated down Sank Lake bearing brick and making
this inland dabbe of water industrial way hauled
in at the piers for the last time-and the wagons
heavy-aden that worked out toward other directions
no longer hauled the bricks And the industrial
light of this community flickered momentarily and
was DINNER.
And talking to Carl Pauly the other day who
il a 44-year-old Mccormick Lake farmer and who
is bit of carpenter the side as well. He i:
the who with ingenuity and forty dollars as
sembled tractor that is al-season utility or
MS farm You must come out to it work
during the haying season." he invited to me. And
shall surely do it. But he had something else
10 say thought important: mainly that his end OF
Mccormick Lake has about ten inches of water in
this year. Now it is odd that it's dryness has been
for a sx-year period and each year more and more
or the Lake disappears. Oddly it is his obser.
Vatlons-and his mothers well-that the scarcity
or abundance of water in that lake has paced sumps
and rises in crop farming there. He used to raise
nay and enough to spare in the when the lake
was flied; but the lean years came in these when
the lake was without water. These last few
years in that area have been tough. In fact he
doesn't remember any that have been quite 50 hard
as these last five or six, does his mother, now
nearing seventy.