The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-02
The Common-tater
Chuck Rattle
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By Chuck Rattle

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That New York Times editoritem about Main
Street and Sinclair Lewis a-patYn' together reach
ed nearly two million people in the metropolitan area
and scattered throughout the country. =. Min
neapolis chain theatre man, reported to take
the Oxford after the Parsons evacuation booked
for passage on that Clipper, forced down in mid
Pacific not so long ago. But cancelled out at the
last moment If he has-or does-take over the
local house, it will be his 18th theatre! -.
Not many months ago Dr. w. Johnson opened
a package addressed to him from New Jersey, and
gazed wonderingly at piece Of black, diry-looking
CLOTH On 1t were printed figures in groesque shapes
Puzzled he search for some Identification. There
was none. So the cloth taken to his office
where even now it graces, runner, of the
tables. Later a letter came from the Far East.
The cloth had been sent by an engineer friend
with whom the doctor had had reunions since COL
lege days-now in the Dutch East Indies. Worn
almost entirely by native Javanese, the cloth is
finely-almost densely-woven long wearing and
hard of finish. Twenty-Five years ago out in
Padua young contractor did ditching work.
Sank Centre business houses furnished him with
materials for which accounts remained outstanding
Not so many weeks ago, A. G. VAIL to this
city from ST. Cloud, calmly his search for
such dissolved firms Lee and Gngery Albert
Butcher and others. Reason: he wanted to pay those
quarter century old accounts
They do back-In war-torn France now
more than 20 years ago, local resident Elmer Hyla-
man was stretcher bearer for man who was wound
ed badly. So badly in fact little hope held
for him. Field doctors went to work, then to base
hospital-how many hospitals since knows.
But about year ago. Elmer the man again
the man he thought dead. His whole frame
is studded with silver plates that help hold him
gether Apparently he is getting well for he's
been doing farm work.
Cub-Visiting at his grandmothers Mrs George
Browns home, during Christmas vacation, young
Mike Graham sent out to shovel the sidewalk.
Gone reasonable length of time, he came in,
announcing, There, did my good turn for today"
Looking out the window his grandmother Won
dered at the snow still on her walk inquired whose
walk he had shoveled THE Episcopal Church
steps," was the reply. "Us Cub Scouts supposed
to help the Churches" Reverse action in educa-
ton.
Stranger tales do not arise, there any
more mysterious than those tales of death and eter
nifty that flutter about the wings of whispered
comment For several years Norway born
farmer, Peter Hanson, had lived with his son near
this city, He had said many times that death would
overtake him in 1889. About Christmas time he
was away from home visiting Suddenly without
apparent reason, he announced his return to his
home Urged to stay, he declined with, mo, I'm
going to die. want to be home" The man was
in apparent sound health, but home he went.
And die he did, he had predicted, January Z,
1882 And it is told that Mrs. Robert Gritz-
macher had repeated she would die of Christmas
Day. It came about. Perhaps it is that as age
comes, things more clearly. Or perhaps fear
of passing at certain time, wanting to- becomes
so ingrained that the time appointed is inevitable
The course of the mind. How-no say
And into the limbo OF forgotten mysteries that sur
rounds in spite Of boasted wide learning, much
of this life
Frosting- Sometime ago bakery goods sales
man gave Gus Otto cake. But it wasn't really
cake. No, it was tin frame covered with frosting
and decorated, for display purposes. Gus sold
the fancy-ookng dish to Mr.. Oldham, who taking it
to his daughters home discovered his dollar had
hQpn v inXyac cd 1Ja in fyrr sold for
like amount to Little Sank man. Sometime
later Gus had occasion to buy potatoes from this
same Mr. Oldham. Came the delivery and Gus dis
covered each potato had been cored neatly. Each
was filled with sand
With egg market prices smashingly low, we
learn that egg production is II percent higher than
year ago. Early winter warmth is blamed partially.
Said Louis Lovik Weather has the hen all crossed
up" In spite Of the fact this is her low point
of production, she cackles merrily producing
eggs. Now don't for the Identification of
economics that make supply and demand work coun-
terwise to each other. But some Of these observa-
tons are interesting Ten years ago-as late
that-January and February found storage eggs
sold in the stores in this town. Now care and feed
ing Of BIRDS new warmth and light in their housing,
has stepped production up to year round basis.
And the steps toward making the hen an all
year around production machine have been farreach
ing. And you can set this down: Coming thing
in poultry dressed for the is frozen fresh.
Even now large firms are working on processes
that will bring chickens to you frozen, at low tenn
peratures quickly that will keep for longer periods
And it may not be long before vegetables and
fruits will be sold here that way. Vegetable pro-
ducers first in the field with the dea-and they
say the flavor is better than the shippedbeforerpe
variety now get.
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Stranger-Strange figures that every day come
strolling into the town, stay few days, and then
are lost relieve the humdrum for the boys the
street. For every now and then really colorful
fgure-aone, destitute-makes street talk for a few
days Latest to excite the fancy of the lads was
Phil the Fiddler, apty named for his questionable
ability the violin . When where he slept
during his soJourn ate one could tell. He
talked with drawl not too inteigenty about things
And seemingly the connection he had with any
thing in this world his violin. He played-in
vaguely familiar tunes-almost necessarily A
by nature he had left home at the age of Is,
not his parents since then How many years?
Who knows &. +. Once he had sustained himself on