The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-08-31

SAUK C
finds farmer. trodding YEARLY miles end, be-
hind pillow eating its way into thick fall Sod
The genesis Of another.
There are those yet who can remember the days
of the cradle before Mccormick, the young Cyrus,
came out with his new-fangled reaper. Our next
door neghbor, Matt Cowlthorp swung the old cradle,
laid the grain in windows as neat as two pins.
And Miss Kate Gray, in her younger years, had
harvested with the cradle in Canada. My own
questionable contacts with threshng shall remem-
Der long. I out to farm especially for the
threshing. The old steamer had rolled, like some
unstoppable giant, into the yard the night before
And lads of eight nine the farm boy and my
self tumbled into the hay early For threshing
indeed early business. I think it was $3.50 We
first popped, before the into wakefulness rubbed
sleep-sodden eyes-realized the great day was
at hand. 1t seven before the threshers as
sembled and started, though the engineer stuff
ing the hungry n'ards of the thresher with old straw
and bits of cordwood hours before. remember
yet the wheeling giant whose wheezes were so much
like human breaths. But how disallusioned I was
go threshing? Incredible Why knew in town
that went to work at seven. OF course now
quite realize that is indeed unearthly hour
and of those that ought by law, to be reserved
for sleep alone-or at the very least for waking
purposes only!
Passing Fancy-More motorcycles have blasted
the air in this peaceful hamlet this than
any other warm moon season I can remember That's
macnlneS
Gypsy tour; seems the two-wheelers gaining in
popularity. It's beautiful red model that is
putting the wide grin the face of Tony Proell.
who by day carries hunks of ice his broad back
The machine has a right side cowhide seat with the
hair and veddy pretty with its black and white.
Gadzooks! Holstein motorcycle. The ]. c. Pen
ney store gives only shiny new coppers as change.
Store policy prohibits their giving any old pennies
to customers, all are turned in at the bank .
President Roosevelts changing Thanksgiving Day,
causing ruckuses all the country disturbed not
the sleep of pleasant little hamlet. There is a
possibility that whose Puritan stock is upper
most might have cringed mite, but it was not felt
the public pulse Only thing here is that the
rmerturkeyraiser may have difficulty get
ting his turkeys ready in time. But you can look
for the good Oh American bird to be pushed at
CHRISTMAS 'niS year 09..:::
Of People-Latest pleasure to captivate Roy
Scott is antique hunting bug. Into his handmade
cottage on Sank Lake goes all sorts of nick
hacks that he picks up where'er he can. There
is something about cottage. Given one, a man
becomes obsessed with finding something to give it
atmosphere-for it is well conceded that a cottage
without atmosphere is indeed without personality
In this community are dozens of German and
Norwegian-stock families, who have brought car
red along items of unusual interest from the stand
point of age and association Just what it is
that makes seek for odd, old pieces of furniture
clocks lamps, all now outmoded, is one of those
escapable things. But it does exist 1t can be ex-
planned only that it has atmosphere, a musty, tang
of atmosphere-that the coStest of modernistic
cannot duplicate. Besides there is personal salts
faction, like that of the man who might suddenly
find the lost needle in the haystack, that comes in
being able to ferret out these priceless treasures.
shall long remember the day 1 stumbled onto an old
clock, dust-laden it's red plush sides attacked by
nothing less than termites I'm sure-yet might have
uncovered the buried treasures of Captain Kidd
None richer than at that moment. It's
great hobby. With it you bore more guests
than with dozen photograph albums given a long
enough time think it possible to go stark, raving
mad the ceaseless hunting But gosh, it's fun
And the west side of town Miss Leta
White had at time last year, I'm told, 70 cats
on the premises A few favorites were allowed in
the house mousers; the rest were bastilled In
barn. :. like the way Frank Bunkers daughter
waits his arrival down the street at noon, and then
in burst of childish glee comes running, at full
tilt to meet him. And Frank likes it too as you
can well tell by his gleesome chuckle.
A-Winchelling we will go-Kathryn Frank, the
ex-nurse wife of joe the Bahber, is a-walking the
board walks here with a 1--WE hate to do this) but
she has a mouse sinner, black eye, you know
Says brother Michael, Joe done it with his own
hand whilst he slept. And bicycling for two on
some types of cycles may be okay but when Waiy
Brisbane, Alverna Peterson, and Mike Graham Che
gets a quarter if put this in) tried trio on the
bars, they met with strict opposition from the
policeman (And I'd better get my share, Mike,
or elseJ
That there's something intangbly compelling
about this country Of ours-that the melting pot
isn't just good schoolbook phrase proved Tor
myself the other day. In this day of fraught
nerves in Europe 33yera-old English-born clergy
man told me his tale of coming to this country. He
was % when first he came, and that first visit
Just that, a years look at the Americas. He thot
then that he'd like to go back, to see his parents
and the thot and persisted that probably he'd
never leave home again. But, you know ne
told within nine months was SO restless Tor the
United States, I returned within year.. He's
never wanted to go back there to live in its stufy
tradition-bound economic and social setup, and the
reason? He doesn't know exactly. why. cant
say" he said, "Al know is am content to be mere.
That intangible compelling force that native
born know more Of than do the countless thous-
ands who migrate here. But there 1t Is; America
Harris now to take the rectorshp at the Church OF
the Good Samaritan.