The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-09-05
sAUK CENTRE HERALD, Sank Centre, MINI.

Nathe and his family return, Norb will have made
convert to the cause Of the northern most u. s.
possession. Besides that Rod may become the
third from this hamlet to leave directly from here
| After Norb was Evan Wruck, now in Juneau. This
| spring at Anchorage Ben Allen arrived. Alaska,
in midst of BOOM is short of skilled hands, there is
Charles Gray, Of the best organsts this
| town ever brought up, back here for visit from
Portland And going to great peals of laughter
when reminded of the time not many years ago,
when he backed over the potato salad with his car
at an Episcopal picnic. And Clarence Swift ar
irving for the holiday with his bride of March
ssss
Best angle those "just married" signs they
hang nuptial events the
that went through town the other day. 1t said:
Just married Pa said could. Dolores MCGEE
just nine weeks ago Sunday broke her leg in auto
| accident Now goodie she walk Which is
nothing comparatively speaking. The real enjoy
ment is 81 dance now Come Labor Day
and it collidcd with the first bit of activity build
ing the postoffice.
It's rather pertinent in the light of another
school term opening that of the graduating class
of S3 in the Sank Centre high school five still live
The class totaed eight with the topheavy ratio
of five girls. The item comes to light in the
recent visit of Mrs Mohs to this city from Webster
South Dakota She is the former Mamie Grundman
and with Mrs. Minnie Mullen, of this city, reunited
for short time two of the remaining members of
that third graduating class. Others surviving the
sweeping tide of those fftyseven since formal
education closed Mrs Sawyer, the former Luela
Stabler; Louis Lofgren the only surviving boy of
the class Mrs. Mullen believes too that Jessie Miner
still lives. 1t speaks rather Interestingly Of the
longevity of early graduates of the school,. We
chatted with Mrs Mullen briefly the other day about
it in her home. The school was interested entirely
in cultural and academic subjects such. Latin
was taught as the only foreign language. There was
no commercial, home economics nor manual train
ing departments, of course. There were higher
mathematics classes, astronomy, chemistry. Mrs
Mullen remembers with what pieces Of equip
ment the group worked in chemistry, and is
wonderngly amazed, after all these years, that any
of them passed. I'VE had experiments throughout
the entire year." she said In all the the
group took state examinations. In all she did
best in her exams in astronomy. For some time
in those years Mrs. Mullen entertained ideas Of
becoming teacher. Then rudely she shocked
out Of that dream for the future. For one week
when was in high school taught" she said,
pointing out she had relieved another teacher. II
learned then and there cut out to be
teacher" And she never taught after that.
Among Mrs Mulens priced possessions col
lection of the commencement programs of the now
sixty classes that have been ushered through the
local school. 1t constituted probably the only COM
plete record of the personnel of those classes
assembled For school records the earliest classes
were burned in the fire that DESTROYED the old high
| school building Not long ago the assembled
programs were lost when she loaned them out.
Interesting part of these rambling comments,
too fragmentary be of any real historic value is
that Mrs. Mullen, her classmates and relatively
few today like her stand not only people but
| symbols. Symbols Of age that changed little
the heel of sweeping advancement we call It,
They remain the true revealing link with past
that Is quite dead in itself but has yet those nostalgia
qualities that part of America and its growth
:. When they pass the link is broken. It
! lives completely in the printed page in the
mirrored reflection in the minds Of those who saw
and knew 1t.
His attention called to it in the item this paper
carried about the abundant growth Of squash In
Jenc Sorenson's garden that bltzkreged his potato
| patch unto death, w. E. DeIaurier showed the
| other day what happened after he planted seed
or two Not only has 1t been prolific to the point
of super abundance the vine at its uppermost point
is 20 feet off the earth It ran to fence, hoped
its height, and crawled to a tree and now Is run
ming into the thin air out of the upper leaves.
Strange thing Is that squash dangle in mid-ar half
unusual growths from the garden of Alex
Dryden.
This can't confirm a report that has per-
sisted here. The rumor has it that DR.. T. E. Walsh
sister in England Is sending her children to his
home here refugees. They reported week
ago aboard a vessel. Dr. Walsh some Of you know
spends his time here summers vacation and his
wife is the former Octavia Mcnamara. Check
ing with relatives here gives truth to the rumor
| But it is possible. :.
Here's odd Merlyn Wolfe, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Elwynn Wolfe, of Minneapolis, and
| granddaughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Myron Taylor and
Mr. and Mrs D. r. Wolfe, Of this city, is not yet
eight years old The oddity is that in the span
ferent times! . . Reason is that she has ear trouble
and they say a major mastoid cannot be performed
| in children that young. She's due again at the
hospital next month which will make the 10Th.
Ter car. Apple Tree Blossoms Twice in