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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-23
Novel InnOtafi0n
For Winter 7rdneI
Mccormick Lake Farmer
Bucked Drifts With
Homemade Tractor

Novel innovation in winter travel
was introduced to Sank Centre for
the first time Monday when Carl
Pauly, 44-year-old Mccormick Lake
farmer, bucked snow banks in a
three hour battle to bring his home
made tractor to town. This all
purpose vehicle cost him just for
ty-five dollars.
Monday, after he had owned the
continuance for four years, he
brought it to town for the first
time. He lives three miles from
town; battled snowdrifts with the
vehicle for three hours to travel
the near-impassable roads. On the
way back he took a load of coal.
Tuesday he was back again, this
time with a load Of grain to be
ground, and cream for the cream
cry.
Four years ago, Mr.. Pauly start
ed building his strengthening
contrivance in this day Of modern
travel. From junk heaps he sal
vaged parts to go with some he
had. In his spare time he assem-
bled the vehicle. Powered with a
Model T motor, which he terms
the best car ever, it has an extra
low gear, the rear wheels Of a truck.
II wouldn't be afraid to load it with
two tons of COAL" he announced
Tuesday.
Speaking Of the heavy SHOWS, he
said, II used to get through all
right, when I had horses. Now
with work a little slack I don't
keep horses But this does the
work."
But it is no. fitted alone for
winter. In summer it serves as a
general purpose utility contractor
Down the field it runs errands; OF
it drags a mower; or is enlisted to
haul hay. Much Of the time Mr.
Pauly's son operates it, But Mon
day was the gala day when the
vehicle proved its mettle against
the snow and for the first time
came to town.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-23
Safety Council
Elected Officers
Considered Additional Pre-
cautionary Measures For
Third Street Crossing

All officers were reelected at the
annual meeting Of the Sank Centre
Safety Council held in the Com
munity Club rooms Friday evening,
February 18th.
The officers are: s. G. Schwarz-
bauer, chairman; 8. f. Bonaime,
vice chairman; F. e. Bunker, Sec
rotary.
Members Of the Council voted to
request the local department to in
struct visitors and others to refrain
from turning in false alarms during
the state convention next June. Sew
eral other propositions Of local pub
lie safety were considered, includ-
ing additional precautionary meas
ures at the Third Street railroad
crossing, said F. e. Bunker, secre-
tary.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-23
Legion Band To
Present Concert
March 10th Has Been
Selected As Date For Event,
Said w. ID. Gallup

March 18th has been selected as
the date for a late winter concert
to be presented to the public by
the American Legion band, mana
ger w. D. Gallup announced this
week. DR.. p. w. Hanson is the
director now drilling the band on
concert numbers.
The concert will be presented
without charge to the public that
evening in the Junior high school
auditorium. Since the band will
have a busy summer attending con-
ventions and other activities, Mr..
Gallup pointed out this would be
a fine chance to display what the
band has early in the season. In
this city alone will be four events
for them to play. In June Is the
Firemen's convention, the Catholic
Societies convention, rural mail car
riers convention, and the West Gen.
trail Minnesota band tournament In
July.
Rehearsals, conducted each week
on Thursday, are moving along
rapidly on concert selections, Mr..
Gallup said. Attendance in spite
Of weather conditions has been
holding up fine" he pointed out.
Stating that the full complement
Of the band Is twenty-eight men,
bers, he said that attendance all
winter has not fallen below twenty.
Enthusiastic were members this
week over a ten-man reed section
at the latest rehearsal.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-23
Adopt Plan to
Help Young
Chick Raisers
Will Present rs Chicks
Free To Farm Boys
And Girls
WILL FORM CLUB
Will Select Partici-
pants-Must Exhibit
At Fall Show

Members of the Merchants As
ISOLATION, in session Tuesday noon,
adopted a plan to improve poultry
focks in this community, at the
suggestion of Bernard Schranz,
local hatchery man. Thirty-three
merchants were in attendance at
this meeting.
This plan which entails the Or
ganization Of a Boys and Girls
World Poultry Club, originated in
Columbus, Kansas, where 1t met
with huge success. Mr.. Schrantz
suggested this plan as a means Of
increasing the poultry business in
this community to par with that
Of other communities.
This idea involves the gift of Is
chicks each to a selected group of
farm boys and girls in the trade
territory. The merchants of the
city will purchase these chicks and
presentation will be made through
a committee to be appointed dur
ing this week. Each merchant
may purchase the chicks from one
Of the city's hatchery men.
Each child selected agrees to
raise these chicks and to exhibit
the birds comparatively at a boys
and girls fall poultry show. Lib
eral cash prizes are awarded for
this show and the exhibited birds
are then to be auctioned off.
Records Of feed costs, etc., must
be kept and reports on items nee
essary in raising the chicks must
be made at intervals. This pro-
vides to the child knowledge of
business methods, not always pro-
vided 80 early in their life.
A chairman and members Of the
committee to take charge Of this
event will be selected and as soon
thereafter as possible the plan will
be set in motion. These chicks
are given absolutely free to a num-
Der Of boys and girls, who will be
selected under a special provision
by the committee.
This plan stimulates interest in
better poultry and greater flocks,
said L. T. Lovik, at the meeting.
It will provide growth to the poul-
try business, which Is not as large
as 1t should be In this community.
In next weeks Herald, further
announcement as to registration Of
boys and girls who desire to enter.
committee annoinfnnenfs and nlace
Of registration will be made.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-23
LOCAL MEN IN
DAMAGE SUIT
Oyde Thomas and r. 8.
Parker Defendants In
Birch Lake Dam Case


G. 8. Thomas and +. 8. Parker,
Of this city, attended court in St.
Cloud on Monday and Tuesday as
defendants In the Birch Lake dam
damage suit. There are twenty
I'VE defendants in this case, who
have been sued for damages of
$4,000. which three plaintiffs claim
developed when their lands were
flooded az the result Of building a
dam at the lower end Of the Birch
lake chain. Gordon Morse was In
court Tuesday and Wednesday as
a witness for the plaintiffs. pre-
senting evidence as to the value Of
lands which It is claimed have been
damaged.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-23
Sank Centre
Defeated In
Two Games
Seasons End Proved
Disastrous To Local
Basketeers
WON
Long Prairie Nosed
Out Victory By
Score of 33 to 81
Wadena 26; Sank Centre 20

Wadena 26; Sank Centre ~
Winding up a two-day jaunt on
the road, that incidentally cleaned
the slate Of scheduled games for the
season, Sank Centre dropped its
second game in two nights Satur-
day when Wadena flashed over
them 26 to ~.
Sank Centre stands now on the
threshold Of defending its errant
title Of the district, that came af-
ter a 13-year drouth. First game
of their tourney race will be a
qualifying round with Grey Eagle
next Monday evening at Swanville.
Retaining a slight lead all the
way Wadena STAYED Off last min
ute charge that might have tied.
Pangburn, who had retired on fouls,
was replaced by Jackson who be-
gan working from the hole posi-
ton. Brown went in with explicit
orders to shoot to attempt to close
the 8-point gap in the score. With
two baskets, one long and one a
driving shot underneath, Brown
rippled through the defensive to
close the tally to four point lead.
But after that only Conkey's free
throw could be gained. And Wa
dena was safely victorious.
Ethun took the scoring jump
with a long shot, and followed it
with a free throw. But Wadena's
Browne, Lewis, Felland and Frost
threw up scoring barrage Of buc-
kets and free losses that drove
them on to 9 points. Ethun alone
scored again, to solo on the Sank
Centre club, and left the local tally
at 5.
Kringen, Pangburn, with free
throws, and Larson, side shot
from the floor, cleaned out the lead
before Wadena could score in the
second. But momentarily and Hol-
per had converted free throw
and Frost had scored from a short
pivot position. Again Ethun came
to the rescue with long shot. Hol-
per drove under to tally. Pang-
burn scratched out two free throws
to edge the score along. Felland,
closing the halftime books, dump
ed a long to lead 16 to Is.
Both attacks begged in the third
quarter with floor play moving
from court to court without much
scoring. Only Frost, Wadena high
scoring star, scored from the field.
Helper aided him with free throw.
Ethun scored one free throw, and
Jackson converted three out Of six
tries, and the quarter ended with
Wadena still holding the spare, 1s
to II.
In the fourth Wadena spurted
again to take a more commanding
lead, a lead that definitely put
them in the victory lane. Felland
converted a short goal. Frost on
a breakaway scored. Thomson let
drive for a shot under the basket.
Browns two shots, and his con-
slant barrage at the basket, closed
the lead, but couldn't overcome the
distance.
CONTINUED on Page 10 Col. -
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-23
Glad Pump
Didn't Freeze
Says In,q,1iyjng Reporter

s. e. Reed, who has surveyed
the scene for fifty winters Of the
piling snow and the lowering tenn
peratures that encompass Hoboken
Hill, didn't go out to his pump
Tuesday morning when 1t was 80
degrees, and pfft went reporters
story.
You know the angle: thawing the
pump on frosty morning with a
tea kettle Of steaming water, and
juggling the handle until it snapped
loose from its icy grip. And the
clear flow Of water as the ice loses
before the onslaught of the kettle.
For thawing the pump, one Of those
homely scenes that was a pattern
Of rural Americana, is now most
a memory Of the past.
So hot on the trail of frozen
pump on this, one Of the coolest
days, a Herald reporter called Mr..
Reed, longtime resident of Hoboken
who with Mrs. Reed has occupied
the same home in that community
for forty years.
do you have an outside pump"
he was asked.
Silly question he may have
thought, but nonetheless replied,
politely, Eyes, we do" Cab, here
was the lead)
do you use 1t in winter" The
reporter awaited the reply, fiddling
with the pencil.
Eyes, everyday" he rejoined from
his own telephone. (The story gets
warmer-or is it colder?)
well, did it freezer" The angle
seemed closer now, and the report
er was getting breathless.
Then came, IT don't know. I
haven't been out there yet" eek
ploded the story-or did it?) "Our
wells one Of those deep ones. It
hasn't frozen all winter" He an
nounced that in the voice Of man
who might proudly be displaying q
fine piece of horse flesh. So may
be there was an angle.
you ought to see the snow up
here" he continued. II manage to
get to town about once a week.
Twice the snowplow has helped me
out and the neighbors have been
helpful"
Thanks so much" said the re-
porter, hanging up. And then he
thought that's q better story any
way.
The Herald is glad your pump
didn't freeze, Mr.. Reed.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-23
800 Sign-Up
In Soil Project
In Three Days
Expect To Reach
New Peak In
Participation
TO CONTINUE 10 DAYS
Edwin MANI, of
Paynesville, Honored
February 18th

The sign-up for participation in
the soils conservation program for
1889 began in Stearns county on
February 16. During the first three
days close to 800 farmers In the
county signed their applications. If
sign-up continues at this rate for
the next ten days while sign-up
meetings are in progress, q new
peak will be reached as far as
participation in this national farm
program is concerned. During the
years 1936-1937-1938 the average
sign-up was approximately $500
farmers in the county. The sign
up work is in charge Of the county
agents office, st. Cloud, and al
most all communities Of the coun-
ty will be visited by the staff from
that Office to carry out the sign-up
work.
At the annual meeting Of the
Minnesota Farm Bureau Service
Company held at the Lowry Hotel
on February IL, Edwin MANI, OF
Paynesville township, was elected
to the board Of directors Of that Or
ganization. This company Ia q
statewide cooperative dealing in
various farm supplies and the cleo
ton of Mr.. MANI represents q sig
nal honor for Stearns county.
Mr.. MANI Is q leader In a num-
Der Of organizations within Stearns
county. Since its organization in
1881, Mr.. MANI has served as sec
retary-treasurer Of the Stearns
County Farm Bureau. In addition
to that he has been president Of the
Paynesville Cooperative Creamery
for a long number Of years. This
election of Central Minnesota will
be represented on the board of the
Minnesota Farm Bureau Service
Company for the first time with
the election Of Mr.. MANI to the
board.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-23
Lightning,
Thunder, Rain
Freak Storm
Roads Snow Blocked
Sundays Traffic Tied
Up BY Blizzard
THERMOMETER DROP
Temperatures Declined
To Low Record
Mark Tuesday

A freakish storm, followed by an
extreme drop in temperature, which
ragged early Sunday morning and
continued until mid-afternoon, tied
up highway travel and blocked
rural roads. Temperatures dropped
to twenty below Monday morning
and continued on the downward
trip to around thirty below Tues
day morning.
Saturdays beautiful weather was
shattered at about 500 a. m. Sum
day morning when lightning, thun-
der and rain, opened the scene for
one Of the winters severest biz
yards. Rain turned to sleet, then
to snow, and with high winds Wis
Utility was almost zero during the
morning.
Practically all motor travel was
suspended Sunday and remained
idle until Monday morning when
snow plows cleared main highways
first. Mail carriers were unable to
make their entire routes out Of
this city Monday, although some Of
them were enabled to cover half
or slightly more Of their rural pat
ronage line. At least two of the
carriers made two trips. Return
ing to the postoffice for their sec
ond batch Of mail they decided to
give service to as many Of the rural
patrons as possible.
Farmers, who came to the city
Monday, found north and south
roads open to travel without much
difficulty-east and west roads,
however, were bad, and 1t was nee
essary to shovel out at intervals.
Despite that handicap a large num-
Der Of farmers came to the city
Monday afternoon to attend the
John Deere picture show, sponsor
ed by the Borgmann Implement Co.,
at the Oxford Theatre.
The snow train, scheduled to pass
through Sank Centre for Glenwood
Sunday, was cancelled at Little
Falls. The Glenwood ski tourna-
ment was postponed to next Sum
day. t.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-23
Lenten Season
Period Of Self
Denial--fra yer
Yesterday, Ash We'd
nesday, Began 40-Day
Lenten Period
SPECIAL SERVICES
Churches This Week
Announce Observance
Of Season

Opening the Lenten Season were
special services at several Of the
churches Of the community yester-
day morning, Ash Wednesday. This
season has been set aside as q
time for self-denial, prayer and
preparation among Christian peo-
pies, and the special church SER
vices will continue throughout the
forty-day period.
Rev. John Bettendorf, pastor of
The Church Of Our Lady of the
Angels, this week announced len
ten services and occasional special
devotions during the week. Sta
tons Of the Cross and Benediction
will be services for Friday evening
and Sunday evening at 1880 o'clock
Msgr. A. Plachta, pastor Of St
PauPs Catholic Church, announced
as Lenten services the Way of the
Cross and Benediction each Friday
afternoon at $3.50 O'clock. Services
Sunday afternoon at three o'clock
will include q sermon in English
and the Way Of the Cross and Bene-
diction.
Mid-week lenten services at Zion
Lutheran Church will be held We'd
nesday, March /, at eight o'clock
The topic will be the Second Word
of the Saviour on the Cross: ITO.
day Shalt Thou Be With Me Ir
Paradise"
Union Vesper services will be
conducted jointly by the Congre-
gational and Methodist Churches
each Sunday afternoon at five
o'clock. The first Of these services
will be held next Sunday Afternoon
at the Congregational church, with
Rev. M. L. Brann. pastor Of thu
Methodist church. as speaker.
Wednesday evenings, through the
six weeks Of the Lenten season
will be observed with a more in
formal type Of devotions at the
Church of the Good Samaritan, thu
Rector r. J. Mott said. Each eve
nIng service will be accompanied
by definitely Institutional talks or
fundamental points Of the Apos
tolic faith, he said. Additions
Continued on Page 10 Col. -
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-23
Mother of
Local Ladies
Passed Away
Funeral Service Held
Friday Afternoon At
Long Prairie
WAS 90 YEARS OLD
Taken To Hospital
Two Weeks Ago
Death Caused By Cancer

Mrs. William Stark, mother Of
Mrs. c. D. Paquin and Mrs. STAN
ley B. Gardner, Of this city, passed
away last week Wednesday at q
hospital in Long Prairie, death be-
ing caused by cancer. Mrs. Stark
came to this city about October 1,
1888, and was taken to the Long
Prairie hospital two weeks ago.
Her age at death was So years.
Evangeline Boorman Stark was
born August 16, 1875, in CASTLE,
Wyoming county, New York, the
daughter of William and Harriet
Boorman. At the age of five years
she moved with her parents to
Mansion, Wis, where they lived
for three years, then moving to
Minneapolis. After seven years
residence in Minneapolis they NOV
ed to st. Paul Park. She received
her education in the Minneapolis
and st. Paul Park Schools. In-1896
the family moved to Little Sank
in this county.
She was married September rs,
1898, to Jesse McKellip, of Round
Prairie. To this union three chill
dren were born, namely Elsie, Hazel
and Mildred. Mr.. McKellip passed
away May Is, 1909.
In 1911 she was married to w.
Ernest Reese and to this union
two children were born, namely
William and Mary Ellen. Mr..
Reese passed away in 1916.
Later she was married to Will
liam Stark, Of Mckenzie, N. D.,
who with the following children
survive: Mrs. Elsie Gardner, Mrs.
Mildred Paquin, of Sank Centre;
Miss Hazel McKellip, Of Minneapol-
is; William Reese, Of Steilacoom,
Wash; Mrs. Mary Ellen Clizbe, OF
Mt. Vernon, Wash. She Is also sur
vived by IL grandchildren and the
following brothers and sisters: Ben
Boorman, of Leonard; Bert Boor-
man, of st. Paul; Mrs. Verna Mac
Carahan, Of Seattle, WASH; Mrs.
Maggie MacCarahan, Of Mt. Yer
non, Wash, and Mrs. c. o. Du-
Frene, Of Long Prairie. Mr.. and
Mrs. Gardner and Mr.. and Mrs.
Paquin, of this city, attended the
service.
Funeral services were held Fri
day afternoon at LAS o'clock at the
Olson Funeral Parlors and at two
o'clock at the Long Prairie Pres
byterian Church. Rev. L. A. Mar
quardt conducted the service. The
pallbearers were two cousins and
four nephews: Charles and William
McKellip, Kenneth, Phillip and
Earle DuFrene and Homer Paquin.
Out-of-town relatives and friends
in attendance at the service in
Long Prairie were: Mr.. and Mrs.
Orland Shelton, Mr.. and Mrs. HON.
err Paquin, and Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Paquin, all Of Lamberton, Mimi;
Miss Hazel McKellip, of Mime
apolis; Miss Verlie Roy, Mrs. Ward
Christensen and Mrs. j. Dargis, of
Minneapolis; Mrs. Fred Schwartz,
Mrs. Henry F. Bastien, Mrs. VIM.
Pollock, and Mrs. Loretta Fish, of
this city; Mrs. Mary Ellen Clizbe,
Of Mount Vernon, Washington. One
son, William Reese, Of Steilcoom,
Washington, was unable to be pres
ent, as was her husband, Mr.. Stark,
who was i'll at Mckenzie, N. D.
Mr.. Stark had spent a couple of
weeks with his wife during the
forepart of February.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-23

Sharp ornaments on automobiles
have been condemned by the
Pan-American Medical association.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1939-02-23

In England q motor car is reg
istered when sold, and carries the
same license throughout its car
eer.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-08-18
A NEW BIGGEST SHIP

Next year the British Cunard- White
Star Line will celebrate its Tooth anniver-
sary by putting into TRANSATLANTIC service
the superliner Queen Elizabeth, which will
be the largest ship afloat.
1t was on July A, 1910, that the oldest
regular passenger line between England
and America sent its first vessel, the
Britannia, from Liverpool on her maiden
westward voyage. The Cunard name was
adopted later, however, after the merger
of two older lines.
About five years ago the White Star
Line, established in 1869, was merged
with Cunard under the present name,
Cunard-White Star. This line owns the
Queen Mary, which is the fastest liner in
the world, and only slightly less in tonnage
than the French Normandie.
The Queen Elizabeth is to have a
registered tonnage of $4,000, as against
the Normandie's $4,000 and the Queen
Mary's $1,000, in round numbers. The
Queen Elizabeth will be 1,019 feet in
length, as against the Normandie's 981 and
the. Queen Mary's 975. These are the
lengths between stem and rudder post, the
overall lengths being several feet
greater.
These vessels cross the Atlantic in
less than four days, an amazing speed as
compared with that of the Britannia of a
century ago, whose crossing time was IA
days hours.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-08-18
PRACTICAL WPA PROJECTS

It takes all kinds of facilities to make
resort city. 1t is not enough to have
good hotels, roominghouses and apart
ments to have plenty of fresh drinking
water; to have good restaurants and cafes;
to have sanitary and other modern con-
veniences. Key West has plenty of that
type of facility, mainland knockers to the
contrary notwithstanding.
What must be added are recreational
facilities. The average resident does not
think of these as being essential nor are
they essential in community depending
upon a thriving industry for prosperity.
They are essential, however, in a COM
munity that has lost virtually all her in
dustries and must rebuild to cater to
tourists and vacationists.
So it is gratifying to note that our
public and civic officials are at long last
making some forward strides toward the
attainment of recreational facilities. With
in the last few days they have given close
attention tc plans for a municipal bathing
beach, fishing pier for those who cannot
afford gamier sport off shore, a recre-
ational center where oldsters may play
SWITCHBOARD, checkers and other games, a
yacht basin and boat anchorage at CARR
son Blight, sports field and a tree-plant-
ing program.
Tn that comprehensive array of facili-
ties you have the answer to vacationists
prayer. He may swim, he may fish, he
may play quiet games or baseball, he may
tie up his boat or he may feast eyes upon
the Gever-ending beauty of trees while
soaking up our sunshine and salt, tangy
air and covering himself with deep coat
Of tan to carry back home.
Much of this renewed activity for
community improvement for the benefit of
the visitor appears to be due to the fine
spirit of helpfulness and cooperation at
area headquarters of WPA. Both Rex Will
son, state field engineer, and Wallace
Thomas, new area supervisor, have demon
strated their willingness to work up plans
and specifications for these projects to fit
the community purse and the community
need. They are going the limit permitted
them by the rigid regulations of WPA.
The Citizen wishes to congratulate
our civic organizations and our city and
county officials for their new activity in
behalf of such projects. In this kind of &C
ton for such improvements may be found
hope for the future prosperity of Key
West.