The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-05-09
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they can't take any more.
Spring Feud-It's the martens all right. But
their old rivals the Coys aren't in this :. In
stead armed with their fowling pieces the spar
They're feuding right in Walt Gritzmach-
ers back yard and possession of dwelling
place. The house is for the martens who by day
forragng about. That's when the sparrows move in
dragging their litter with them. At night fall when
the martens streak back, things really fly in all
directions. Each night the sparrows get routed.
That is until they learn that they aren't so very
welcome 1t takes while to impress sparrows.
They're terribly difficult to insult. At the Model
family insisted, in spite of parking signs, on
settling in the sign. Day after day Lyle Ethun
marched out with long pole and obtrusively made
they were back. Several days of this exhausted
the patience of neither until finally the sparrows
got the idea.
Somehow you don't expect that blonde young
school teachers be pioneers Especially when
they're small. They just don't look the part prov
ing again that pioneering is unobtrusive thing
not sweetly planned. Mounting the platform the
other night, waving her baton every one of some
fifty students before her clearly under her direction
was Lillian Krogh What came out of that gown
CARRIED group of student voices, something en-
tirely new to this town in public school music. New
because the mixed chorus is only this year Old New
because they sing songs entirely religious in nature
Minister'S daughter, member of st. Olafs second
choir Miss Krogh borrows heavily from the technical
grace of the master chorister F. Melus Christensen
But more important she says than directorial abil-
ty or borrowed technique is student enthusiasm.
That's new too. For years here boys and girls
glee clubs such batted for place in the school
But each in itself is incomplete unit. Tnis
year the mixed chorus blended the far spread of
bass and soprano tones, it gained its momentum.
Students wanted to get into it. Singing religious
themes has injected entirely angle in this
schools music. There is a tremendous swing toward
it today Reason technically is that religious music
offers better arrangements, is more adaptable to
group singing Less technically but important
to music production is that religious music offers
certain inspiration loftness that is felt in the
he art nanf wi
its instrumental and vocal groups, comprises
than a hundred students-more individual students
commanded than in any other single activity of the
school year. have chosen to speak of the chorus
because in its unqueness to this town it the hit
of the show last week. 1t does not detract from the
accepted work of Ed Kitzberger and the orches-
ira. Rather it enlarges the department to a fulness
that to detract either would be dangerous loss.
But not only day by day benefit Genes to these stu
dents. 1t has a carry over value that becomes the
later culture of the community . 4. From these
groups come the future musicians. If they become
less than that they still have the informal groups
singing than which there is no better pastime
But newest note of this newest organization is that
from this chorus rises the chors to come.
There is something about tree planting that is
an awenspring ceremony in itself 1t needs not the
establishment of prepared programs, yet carefully
selected ones add to the loftiness. There is
jestic wonder brown lifeless looking
stick into the ground. Waiting for growth. Then
extreme joy when the Drowned twig takes root
shoots out the green of life . saw an Arbor Day
that was impressive. The students presented the
tree to the school, sturdy little elm that will live
as a monument to certain consciousness of con-
servation and new life. once planted three
trees There's little else that grows in which
can develop such fatherly interest. nurtured
those saplings through one hard year. From then
on like young animals in the forest they forraged
for themselves Yet when spring comes I
scarcely keep from stopping to look and in
the yardstick of my minds eye measure the years
growth. So when those kids come back in twenty
years they'll look at that tree a sapng. See
ing its growth they'll say Look, helped plant that
Best development of the Arbor Day exercises
it's mean of me to tell this-was the Governors
proclamation. On the day of the program, it turned
up missing. Undaunted, teacher Pearl Swope wrote
a new one.
Burning these and the prairies sweeping to the
west is the background for burning grass and
meadows It's borrowed from old Indian
custom that was designated to make the next years
grass come sweeter and tenderer. The better
to feed the buffalo herds:
Addendum-Vic Nelson is a quick change artist
(using the artist reservedlyO The garrumph emmi-
mating from his home not his efforts to help in
house cleaning. He's practicing the bass horn. And
recently he switched from the clarinet, one of the
smallest instruments in the band, to the bass, the
biggest That's an eye filling treat the white ex-
panse on the Joe Dirnberger building. DR.. Moy-
nhan detective mag reader, is off the library board.
Members regret it, for the Doctor was an active
booster for the institution. Orchids to him a
fine bit of service For downright coziness you
can't top the new cottage Sank Lake that is
Miss Clifford Everharts heart appeal. It's
knotty pine interior; it's neat white exterior; it's
suitably matched furnishings; its warm fire place
all are what you'd want It's so completely equipped,
she has even new rake and a hoe. Governor
Stassen, pictured in one of the Rosamond Parker
wedding plates, blinKed. He'll have to get more
used to the camera for presidential preference.
He had just walked up to pay for his lunch.
For the fun of it, he laid down half dollar he
knew was counterfeit. Laughngly, he retrieved it
from the cashier. Just then tapped him
on the shoulder, We're looking for guys like you"
he said 1t took some quick trigger explaining
to convince the govt. man that he carried it only
for a charm and not for harm! young fellow
here came home downcast. Inquiry into his case,
revealed he had been asked simply to join the Boy
Scouts. Il don't want to join the Scouts" he
planned Il just want to stay home"
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