The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-06-01


the girls doing much Of the planning and the work
| done by Mr. Markson himself. Light papers, q
| removable shelf for books and knick knacks filled
| a corner of the living room they knew not what to
do with. The pin lamps that back the davenport
thought most novel innovation into lighting scheme
Yes, must do that one day, too
Portnitures From The Curb
Athletic, bit more robust that his age pictures
Dr. l. A Johnson one of the citys newest residents
takes his place here as one of the most widely trav-
eled of the local ctzenry. He's crossed the Atlantic
thirteen times the first time to this country from his
native Sweden in 1904. He's toured about the Con-
tinent with peeks into Denmark Holland, Belgium
France, Germany, Italy Switzerland, England, be-
sides his own Scandinavia. He's whisked about
this American continent in 33 states eight times
from coast to coast has seen Mexico, Canada. It
was about 1922 when he decided chiropractory was
the profession for him. Following his completion of
courses in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1925 he embarked
for Europe. In Sweden he practiced two years. then
set out on his tour of famed European spots There
were the boulevards in Paris, the Tower of London
the Folies Bergere (tickets $50 francs) Inter den
Linten in Berln-a hundred others. AS he talked
DR.. johnson without consulting notes. ratified off
quotations from the guides like this from the French
guide who stood on the Boulevards, Here is the
place where Louis XIV and Marie Antonette
executed along with zoos others" Then in 1927,
he boarded the Majestic in England and sailed for
New York. It's interesting that after he practced
in Sweden he went to England with the thought that
he would stay in London. He stayed just four weeks
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to Sweden for the experience" he said. But when
you know a country well and like it, you tire Of their
STYLE their ways Of doing things" So with the
Old World methods rancid taste over this country,
he left for the United States the country liked best
Today, DR.. Johnson after his travels, his var
led career, has settled in this small md-western
town. His carriage erect athletic spring to his
walk-he's older than you think he is. Married he's
also a naturalized citizen of this country. He's
a non-user of either liquor tobacco and he's
staunch in the belief its adds to his robustness.
world traveller.
Alex Benson who with a gun his shoulder
booted feet, dog to swing along at his side can still
walk the legs off the most robust of his given
the range of prairie a sweep of the Big Woods
His wellpreserved figure swings up the every
day-each hunting season finds him the prairie
for pheasants the winter for rabbits, the for
trot with his dog, the fall in the woods for deer.
Last week he was ~ years old and he ate straw
berry shortcake And there's a story behind that
shortcake in which Mrs Benson fits into the niche
of the wifey woman she is, and mother of ten.
That shortcake is now annual affair his
niversary-and for 81 years Mrs. Benson has
to it that he gets it. steaming from her
Mr.. Benson is tailor by trade, and his craftsmanship
and his pleasures form odd contrast. For many's
the fall he's climbed from that squatting position
aboard the table that taiors after his fingers
have flown the work he has to be done, pack
his duffle and his gun and is off hunting trip.
. Characteristic his Stetson hats. He's worn
them for years, favorng two models. One with dents
around the crown with wide brim the other a
more oblong type-but always Stetson. The debut
of his blue touring each spring, after winters
Information, is now almost tradition.
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Dr. Gus Henneman is a practicing dentist-turned-
farmer. Six miles out of Becker he operates $50
acre farm .. And the angle of the whole thing is
he makes many of his tools. It's gotten to be
a hobby with him. Some years ago he left dentistry;
a while back he went to this farm where he and
wife reside. He's built peeled oak log cabin that
is dream, his friends say. His tool shop is COM
pete with varieties of instruments for all kinds of
includes a turning
:. . With this array Of tools he makes more tools
and gadgets. He made harrow for his farm work,
a cultivator that will hitch underneath tractor,
facilitating his cultivang. Right he's building
a threshing machine for his soy bean crop. He
comes here frequently on business now but he used
to live here The awes that go up from friends who
have his layout are audible from afar.
Our family has had more than uncommon fun
lately, taking keen interest in the family of robins
that have taken one of our front yard trees for the
season. OF course they didn't consult about rent,
but since it wasn't being used, and believe that
occupancy is better for dwelling than to leave it
vacant-dont you've objected not at all when we
found the family there one day. Oddly enough
the nest is not eight feet above the sidewalk
where all passersby cape shamelessly into Mrs
Robins uncurtained windows. Within were three
youngsters which fed by the satisfactory system
if not dainty-of literally thrusting the worms
and food down their necks. The food passed, without
a morse wasted from Mothers mouth to fledglings.
All day long her trips from some supply base 10
the suuawng youngsters uninterrupted At first
their small beaks, unsteady necks, barely cleared
the rim of the nest Then they grew. And the heads
appeared above. Then night it rained. Next
morning mother and two were gone. lone robin,
his young feathers ruffed remained nearly all day.
There was quite real concern around the family
table that perhaps they had been washed out in the
rain but it follows rather logically that they
had learned to fly and were away-aduits In worlo
of their own . . . Now the nest is empty Our tree
house is for rent again.
Short shots-Highway department estimates traf-
fic will up five times the now-completed II in
a year, and double So. They both swing through
s. C. >. City Council cracked down reliefers
who drive cars. They ordered direct relief clients
to deposit their license plates with the clerk not
later than May 29th Laugh point in that hstori-
cal group of pictures at the library is the show
ing the Bruce building. On the sidewalk, board,
is tbe Tufts Pills" DOpgOne,