The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-12-28
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$45 and the ingenuity of Carl
Pauly, 44-year-old Mccormick
Lake farmer, brought to Sank
Centre something new in winter
travel Monday after the farmers
had battled three hours on the
three mile stretch to town.
Mrs. William Stark, mother of Mrs.
Paquin and Mrs. Stanley Gard
ner, of this city, died at Long
Prairie Wednesday.
G. s. Thomas and F. s. Parker,
Of this city, were named among
Is defendants in a $4,000 dam
age claim to three plaintiffs, who
claim lands were flooded in a
Birch Lake dam project.
Lightning, thunder, rain, followed
by a drop in temperature to 20
was the freakish winter prank
played on the community this
week.
Merchants Association will foster
| a plan to aid improvement of
| poultry flocks in this community,
1t was decided Tuesday noon.
s. G. Schwarzbauer was named
chairman of the Safety Council
at it's annual meeting Friday eve
ming.
A winter punctuated by frequent
illness, flu and colds, and throat
infection, with some pneumonia,
found Sank Centre a fortunate
spot with only two infectious
cases in quarantine.
A snapped telephone wire, hooked
to a barbed wire fence, relayed
| a call from San Francisco TO the
Robert Plant farm Monday.
Week Of March D
Sank Centres New Main Street
theatre, bearing the name of the
famous street over which it rises,
will open March 7th, Manager
F. L. Parsons announced. The
new house seats $50.
Mrs. M. E. Hines, Westport, passed
away at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Lee Hamilton, Sunday
evening.
Well-rounded recreational center
will be Company Ms armory
when a present WPA project,
now insulating ceiling and in
| SIdliiIS Tile range anu Otner
improvements, Is finished.
Ray Remster, assistant to the OPP
orator at the Sank Lake Cream
cry, was accepted Wednesday as
operator for the Belle River plant,
it was announced today.
Jos. Norman, employed with Cakes
construction company since the
bridge building job here in 1886,
was severely injured Thursday in
was reported fractured when his
head was crushed between two
pieces Of steel sheeting.
John Wruck, SO, passed away sud-
denly Wednesday afternoon from
q heart ailment.
First movies were shown in this
city as early as thirty years ago,
| George OGara, who operated the
first movie house, was reminded
this week.
A ten-mile chase over drifted snow
brought Gus Otto, his hounds,
and hunting party to the end of
the chase Sunday. They bagged
a red fox.
Week of March g.
Sank Centres basketball titlists
had weathered the first Of the
storms, emerged as bus-district
winner over Melrose and Swan
vile last weekend.
With a youth motive in mind, Sank
| Centre women are set to organize
a civic club, it was announced
by Mrs. w. A. Kohl this week.
Union seaman, Virgil Sieben, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. George Sieben,
returned to his home town from
San Francisco and told of world
travels with the u. S. merchant
marine.
Registrations Of boys and girls in
to the Merchants Association
poultry club, were announced OPP
en- this week. Each entry is
sponsored by a business firm.
James B. Hendryx, the other Sank
Centre-born author of the Con-
ME Morgan tales, broke a long
silence with his home town, end
ed a chase since 1937-presented
the Bryant Library with two au-
tographed volumes of his works.
Carl Lewis, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Lewis, has been appointed
as first assistant to operator A.
N. Cordell at the Sank Lake
creamery.
Week of March 16-
George Grundman, south Of town
farmer, died Tuesday afternoon
while he was driving his car.
Charles Harrison, a former resi-
dent, died at Appleton, Wisconsin,
March 18th.
Harry l. Veeder, born in Getty,
died at his home in this city
March 9th.
A fire of unnamed origin brought
the fire department to the Philip
Bailey home where his garage
burned to the ground.
Sank Centre hatchery, with install
lation Of a $4,000 egg Matching
unit, has increased its total ca
pacity Of $1,000 eggs, Shrantz
brothers, owners, announced.
For the second time in fourteen
years, Sank Centre won the dis
trict % basketball title, took their
second title Friday downing Alex
andria 35-17.
Sank Centres $4,000 volume BRYANT
Library may rank top in the state
in circulation, it was believed, as
librarian Bernice Finnegan an
nounced 60521 circulation for
1888.
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