The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-08-03


may lot too large, hid its unattractiveness, it's
drab faded green, behind evergreen Of pipestem
straightness. Then about two summers ago the
little house burst into light and life. New coats Of
paint sent it to shimmering whiteness New sod,
grass seed, and shrubs came tumblng in to the lot.
For while 1t did serve as residence. But then Bob
Malloy decided to make his refrigerator door
gasket. Machinery came and bundles of goods. Now
inside on the stock shelves three millions
of feet Of thread. Machines that will turn out SO
feet of heavy duty gasket in minute. Another
that whrs 500 feet of finished product onto reels in
similar length Of time. Then product and mas
ter go chasing up and down the land. From Ply
mouth Rock to Puget Sound!
Back from the north countree last week were
Mr.. and Mrs. Pete Michels. The North Shore, the
Arrowhead the deep woods-al these were theirs on
scenic eleven days. Blue berries thick patches
of them looked like Towering flax. One morning
they early suspect picked blue berries. Came
back and canned the quantity, found they had q
quarts! Then got in five hours fishing That's
Gods country" emphasized Pete. Fishing may
not have been good if the wooden specie he sent
to Harold Gray is all he got.
There is a practical and entertaining way for
cleaning bureau drawers discovered quite by acct
dent. I drew out too far dumped it. Being
of practical turn of mind, deduced that such
clumsiness could be turned from naught to good
So pass it onto you, that you too may have this
new modern convenience at cost to yourselves.
Without contemplating your move-often I believe
it is mental block obstruction that makes such
necessary tasks so menial-pull the drawer out too
far. Thereby you invariably dump every item on the
floor. IT, however, two refuse to fall from
wrench of the drawer will often do the trick If
not, enlist the services Of the baby He will throw
it out OF course once it is the floor, it must be
put someplace unless you just don't give a hang
1t follows that obviously it is much easier to go
through it piece by piece discardng into the waste
basket that which is unnecessary than to arrange
it all in the drawer again. 1t is necessary to have
placed at hand a waste basket, perhaps day
before the accident" So gain dOuby:
by cleaning the drawer and Kidding it of accumulat
ed junk. The obvious advantage is in the nonchal
ance of the whole procedure And tinkering through
the accumulatons is often good for reminiscing.
feel sometimes there are too many plans today too
much obvious going about doing things. OF course
there is some attending mess-easily remedied.
I personally, found it amazing what variety one
bureau drawer hide within.
few years ago down on the second street flats
across from the palatial Hedin home-J Webb
Hedin bought little house. remember its sicky vel
low, its squating among shaggy trees the uues
tionable lawn. Mr.. and Mrs Hedin are Minneapolis
people but often visit here. When they do they
have a place of their Now neat and white
attractive ever inside I'm tod-its their vacation
nome. Only stones throw from the lake too
smudge little printers ink on a kids nose
and invariably he follows the smell forever Some
say it gets in the blood. There is an opinion tho
that by the time guy gets all his shirts dirty with
It, and by that time he's found it's no song and
NoiiSe hS SdH Apply IOr anOtner job IN a dirty
shirt Anyway I'm going to stay in the shop for
an item or two this week. Clyde Silver our floor
man. is today the Herald's oldest employee from a
standpoint of service He's spent % of his IS wears
in this plant He was black-haired kid of twelve
when first he grabbed stick, and setting heads
on the kenmare North Dakota weekly. Clydes
not only printer tho He's something of a cook.
His recipe for spaghetti chile is good-his wife
refuses to make it. Then there's Editor Ed, of the
Rattle clan. He twelve too when he went to get
his first job on Waverly, Iowa, paper that was
nfo1 in %DlI
put shoes on, substitute shirt and
overalls and come back the next day. Our bust
manager Mike Fleming. He was a pressman
kid tho don't know how old. Back in the days
when pressman hadda make his own ink out of
lamp black and attending fodder, and his own roll
ers. Harry sherwood, our linotype operator,
whose father is publisher in Sebeka, reared in
print shop that anything that doesn't smell of
printers ink st well, it's odiferous. Even
as lad of five used to sit behind my fathers press
up in Bertha and straghten the papers as they came
tumbling out. And my mother was a reporter
in Charles City, Iowa so long that anyone she sees
with sachel she asks them where they're going.
Only Peglow, our second linotype man, was schooed
from youth in the lore of printers ink Now that
you've met our crew, come up and see us sometime
To coin phrase.
Gone now from many county fairs is horse rae
ing. The bounding sulkes, sleek-coated animals rhy-
thmic cater of hoofs flutter of satin in the wind
It's a picture Stock in this countys racing
several men. Jack Crawford was one, who for
months in advance scampered his horses about the
track each day, hauled them from fair to fair Jacks
pipe was as much part of his face as his nose.
Up in the judges stand, where the wind fluttered,
and megaphones bellered drivers to reassembe at
the starting WIRE were constants Bill Parker, oscar
Klonne and Alex Benson. . . . Too mild today I sup
pose for a hysteria-mad thrl-crazy crowd of spec
tators too horsey then for those who cared lit
tie for But to lovers of horse flesh 1t was
entertainment tops
In the weeks mail: From California a postal
from Bernice Finnegan, who has been getting away
from her books in the west. short note from
Jack Benshoof, columnst with the Detroit Lakes
Record, whom shall longer call "bub." He
signs his pieces Bib. But, Jack why trust col
umnist with such exclusive information It's busting
within :. . From New York friend Jack Costello
the NBC announcer, who is proud father and loving
husband first let me tell YOU Mrs. c. and son, Dennis
Sean, vacationing at her home in Morris, Mime
sofa. Jack tells me his apartment was burgled
the other night. Thefs messed things up thorough
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