The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-03-28

the Sank Centre of today; but the growing bustling
pioneer town of years ago. She lives in the past
talked with her the day after her Goth birthday
Such vigor such youthful look should expect
to find in Of decade less than a century. II
knew about the Herald long before you did," she
said introduction. I allowed that she did. For
a while she sat, nestled beside the stove rocking
gently, then she got up suddenly with the announce
ment that she couldn't sit still another minute. She
paced energetically into the outer room, and back
Then seemed contented to sit again. Her vision is
not with the brightness it once was nor her hear
ing &. That is her foremost trouble. II wish
could hear what's being said," she said You
scarcely speak of Mrs. Carpenter without men,
tioning Mrs. Edward Smith Of Mrs. Smith with
out including Mrs. Carpenter. For the first day
that Mrs. Smith came, she became a fast friend of
the other. Down through "a historic years that
friendship has lowered to the longest this commun-
ity knows Today it's token is little handkerchief
other trinket, in whose birthday gift is dubbed
the whole of this communitys history.
And we have yet another to talk about. Irv
Dobbs. When he left, the town lost character
Not great perhaps but man with the hum
anness that made him a mellow figure. A figure
than individual. character that might
have been snatched from a nostalgia page of some
small town story. . Irv Dobbs, his erect carriage
his slight frame his curved stem pipe set him apart
His wit was KEEN The picture Of Irv, his blue
shirt sleeves elbowed, his striped cap fluttering in
the wind, his bespectacled, piercing eyes looking
ahead driving down the street in his Model T. deck
ed with fire engine red. No Irv wasn't great
man perhaps. But he had the faculty for making
people smile.
Smile: Dancing, ear and mouth close as
Chuckles - An announcement says that women
spend more on hose than on dresses. Which proves
there is less than meets the eye. You eat as
many 1000 meals year. That doesn't count your
mid-afternoon sestas.
There is something eternally intriguing in walk
ing through the woods. The dank small Of leaves
underfoot swshing carpet that downs your foot
falls. Trees that march past in broken lines and
the filtering lighted path through the shafts
And small brush clustered in corporaPs guard
about the aged, gnarled big fellows. Patches of
darkness that walk eerily deep in the woods sill
ence that is compelling. Where shout is out of
place as in church. There's freedom in the
woods A freedom from everything that is pushing
and compelling. The snap of twig is like a shot.
the futter of a small animal, a shadowy escape in
your approach. . :. Top that tramp with glowing
fire. that shoots leaping shafts Of light reaching in
to the darkness at days end. The glowing Goals
that lose their fight with the closing night. Mans
coming out of the woods and its protecting recesses
began the dawn of civilization. Tales of men who
lived free and unhampered in the woods have come
stirring yarns that replayed by youths every
summertime robin Hood" one of my favorite
books as a lad remember. His merry carousals
in the woods, his search for flashing deer, his
daring encounters with the Kings men in Sher-
wood where he knew every bCle Reenacted, such
a clash of wooden broadswords, such clatter of
pounding feet have never quite been recaptured in
these later years
While poultry is big business in this section,
don't discount the prominent part that eggs-the
by-product-pay. For in this community alone the
egg business in the poultry houses and creamery
into thousands of dollars of cash business.
Then add the trade in value in which eggs are bar
tered for merchandise, and the business gets
healthy aspect. The day when the farm house
wife raised brood of chicks for pin money is about
done Flocks of several hundred not uncommon.
Interesting is the angle that much advance has
been made in egg production. few years ago the
hen was a seasonal worker, who had long months
layoff in the winter. New methods Of have
raised her output to all year around basis.
With it has problems, fear of market
Cutting and the like. Now comes a national
campaign to increase consumption. Eat an extra
omeet to break your nights fast!
Walt GritZmacher snickeling over this one.
All winter his parked outside the garage,
with the recent snowbanks muffling it. Last week
he decided to get it tuned up just in case spring
slipped in schedule-which it didn't. So he
had it towed in, asked that the battery be charged
Phoned the garage back, there is no battery The
payoff in this. The boys took battery worth
maybe fifty cents Inside the car, accessible, were
golf clubs, fishing reels and paraphernaa
touched.
Easter aftermath: Put your Easter bonnet,
with the warm muffs on it. Or you'll be the
coolest lady in the Easter parade. To parody
the song.
Walker were their guests at din