The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-12-28
SAUK CENTRE HERALD, Sank Centre, Mimi

and muscles in the face and head . . T. Then one day,
not long five after that day at ID years,
Buzz set off for the state board Of examiners At
eighteen years he becomes at least of the young
est registered BARRIERS in the state To pass his
examination Buzz took his pal George Conkey, gave
him the shave and haircut that passed the Board.
That's all over in barbering today In 1885 the
law called that student must attend year of
barber college, then apprentice two. Because
Buzz was registered student before the law,
his apprenticeship passed
How quickly and completely the homely little
implements that common hairpin
pass to the forgotten to return From a store
in Mitchell, South Dakota, w. D. Gallup rescued
strange looking implement that fifty ago rested
calously the counters of hardware stores
rounded nails do today. Yet the person who can
identify the item is The implement is called
fire lighter, and in the days before matches it
was one of the cumbersome necessities that accom-
panied the home life of earlier residents. Briefly,
it's handle is twisted wire about ten inches long.
In cage like fitting end is inserted a soft,
porous stone. It's function simple. The stone
dipped in talow fat its porous surface TAX
to bring fire from the ever-going brazer to other
stoves about the house. half century ago
household necessity; today reegated to the limbo of
the past
It's strange truth that Mnnesotans tired of the
eternal spring this fall and early winter long before
it broke. For a while it made good conversation
pieces Mosquitoes biting here and there few
robins pecking at meagre nothings on the ground,
the lake opened off and until December 18th,
shingling houses and finding live bees, but ones
that don't stng-it was all fun for a while. . . . But
it droned on, and the fall marched into winter,
without so much as a tremor from the north, the
novelty off. 1t more that the day to
day expectancy that morning would awake
to wntry world with the elements wild kept
buoyant 1t became a game: How long would it
last? Of course within earshot of Calforn-
addicts or Flowerida conscious souls Mnnesotans
chartered noisy about the grand weather. But that
be charged off to competition and the fact that
a direct blow at your competitor is the surest way
to cut him off The fact remains that Minnesota
does like it's elements wild and in the raw!
Either natives of the state are eternally over
stocked with heavy clothing that they're losing in
the fight against the moths, they particularly
for the Struggled depths of heavy raiment that
accounts for their apparent love of colder chimes
more subtle reasoning might conjure up the
fancy that stately pride is at stake. How often
have you across some out-of-sater only to point
out that often in Minnesota it gets to 40 degrees,
that snow banks high and winds exult-
ant song out of the north? You what
&. . Perhaps too it's because it just is
what it wasn't in the good old days" The days
when granddad cracked the whip the horses
and the snap resounded twenty miles down the
land the frosty air that carried it clearly
singing wires. Minnesotans revel in those tales
when being snowbound romanticists winter
when cracking fires barely STAYED off the encrcling
cold. And what's more they want white Christ
mas; not a tell tale gray one with few whisps of
smoke-polluted snow. Minnesotans don't want
their winters to be sssies!
In this day and age when your borrowing"
neghbor is the only you with the exception
of others you glimpse at hanging out the washing,
the neighborhood is collection of individual fam
lilies. But it rarely exists real neighborhood
today, closely knit unit whose social thought is
a unified force. But there is a stretch at the
south end of Main Street where increasing demands
individuals time haven't completely blotted out
the viaduct where the Grays, Mrs Segrin G. D.
Cass and others live, they haven't forfeited the
munal effort They have South Main Street
neghborhood club that is loose organization in that
it has officers, finances, other cumbersome
paraphernaa. But it's rooted in pretty solid foun
dalton: neghborliness Afternoon parties will find
the ladies together at some home slipping coffee,
doing sewing, observing someone's birthday ami
versary. Evening parties may find whole fam
lilies gathered for evenings chatting. It's bit
borrowed from the community's past that's stark
pattern today!
Epidemics of adoescent wit are one of the most
certain forces in high school, 1t bounds about the
classrooms in the Railways and is probably the real
key to the fact rarely a down-hearted stu
dent. The CUFF they hand out is only idle pun
merry. But it's refreshing a summers draught;
resounding to the jibed one slap in the face.
To this day it is established fact that one
exactly ferret the origin of these witty samplers
But one morning you come to school and there 1t is
Whispered and giggled about until the whole school
knows Then knows, little, where it
started Some of the latest have proceeded
in this vein. The questioner will suddenly, sober
Idceu, inquire, Are your knees coiu: mo mdlter
what you you'll get the jibe, They shouldn't
be. They have caps on them" Or there is the
that asks do your hands hurt You answer no, most
often. And right back comes, They should. There's
nails in them" Or they'll ask you to put your
hand the window. And when you do and look
quizZically at them, they spout, Feel the pane?"
All of which leaves you speeches. but it's typi-
cal. And in the morning the whole things
forgotten. Someone's started trend in the
play words.