The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-22

comes it dawns that they quoted veterans of the
unemployed, the cause of humanity, other high
sounding meaningless phrases The nckelS fall
better for the musician he strolls along singing
God Bless America telling me the
series u S. Presidents, challenged his patriotism
when he refused to buy. The sentiment is here.
So is the sediment.
National defense reaches into every Granny of
the country. Dean Ira L. Plummer, of the Sank
Centre Junior Extension College, sees his advance
enrolment shrinking under the program. He'll
lose about ten in the National Guard mobilization
act. Five from Long Prairie alone and already
to attend. Three others in little village down
the line will be lost with one going to st. Louis
industry. Aid is available for of that sort
of thing :. In spite of those Clouds the over
all picture, for the college, he reports, is brighter
with an enrolment bigger than year ago.
Rumors that the local headquarters battery for
the PIT CA-AA would go to Camp Bliss in Texas
seem unfounded in the light of recent published
report. Sunday it learned that the 101st
brigade of which the local unit is part is scheduled
in the mobilization to Marshfield, California.
Fischer, the captain, has no information here
yet
When librarian Bernce Finnegan vacation
ing in July in Colorado she was among some thous-
dency, Wendell Willkie. She said he was affable,
personable, and extremely informal. He's noun
tain of man, seems to be gaining in strength in
For long in the larger centers the more blatant
forms of advertising have been stock. Screaming
banners walking sandwich men, oddities that trek
up and down the street These smaller hamlets,
like everything else they do have the tang of con-
servatism. Sandwich men never moved into the
rural precincts Carrying display banners is done
only in the pressure of parades not for individual
commercial practices. But conservatism is tossed
to the four winds with the advent Of radio and its
offspring loud speaking systems. Almost daily
throughout the summer cars, trucks and the like
wander amlessly about the town, sound system
blaring out the latest in popular tunes. The driver
intermittently shouts message to housewives
shutting in and out of their houses. 1t may
advertise anything from double dip ice cream
cone to a three ring circus.
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These stories are the grin provoking ones that
have come recently out Of the grocers shops: A
young fellow came in to a store and said, 81 want
a can Of kidley beans" Kidney beans?" asked
the clerk. That's what said. didlt I?'' .
Coffee grinders equipped with all the conven-
fences Of home now of course, with distinct grinding
facilities pot percoator and drip coffee makers
quizically surveyed the fellow who ordered coffee
with this: I'D like two pounds OF coffee, drip"
Meanest trick Of the week dept: swiping glads
from Carl Fischers garden by flashlight! With
school merrily it's way to the fall opening, the
marts putting out their school supply depart
ments. And already besieged with young hopefuls
for supplies-two weeks in advance! They must
be anxious to get into the cloister than kids
used to
When the G. H. Vandesteegs left a recent
trip to Yellowstone, sons Bob and David stayed be-
hind AS Is the custom a penciled list Of things
to do was left behind including: feeding the dogs,
every third day. keep the shades pulled. Pick the
pums if they get ripe. -.