The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-09-19
SAUK CENTRE HERALD, Sank Centre. MINI.

roads, crawling like yellowed reptiles the hills.
and stretching in one great yawn from crest to
crest Goldenrod like musty old gold tramps
up the highways edges There's no lag in the
deceivng softness in the coppery haze dust-laden.
A swirl of fallen leaves runs across the road,
with hop skip and jump fops on the opposite side
out of breath Underfoot in the woods they
are a carpet that sounds like sloshing through
rumpled paper So quietly does summer slip
by like tip toer in the night that we're scarcely
until suddenly, with the swiftness of dusk winter
moves in. :. The frogs taking their last fling,
set up afternoon chorus like crowd at foot
ball game. Crickets say their las. adieu over
again. Fall, immodest disorder Of summers
fnery, the burlesque of the Prelude
to the nakedness of winter.
Most unusual sign in the neighborhood-The mot
for rent" poster the home of the late Alice Fran
celia Henshaw And the billboard. at the north
outskirt of the city, showing Uncle SAM his coat
removed, his muscled forearm barred for business,
entreating enlistments in the army-priclng you
back to reality.
We once thought that only morbid curiosity drew
those crowds to fire. And it is true that the
human is aroused exctedly by the sight of leaping
flames dancing defiantly all over that which man
has built, and a building gulpng out huge belches
of smoke. But that's not all we found Sunday
when fire broke out in the George oGara home
There genuine concern among the peoples gath
cred. Not for the pieces of furniture in them
selves, but the chance of loss to those things that
family collects in the years or Its aSSemDlage
The things that make a house home, that rekindle
memories that a patchwork of living that
placement can't recapture. We thought OF those
things :. The big rocker, hideous by new
furniture standards but it's dads It's his and he
rocked the youngsters there, and he sat in it with
his slippers and his pipe An old book, tattered now
but in it the birthdays of the children The
date perhaps of the marriage, and but peek at
those prosaic dates and memories crowd in to be
heard. The first high chair crammed now to
some remote spot in the attic. The first pair
MILL slim A hnrn ora mr.
those sugar cookies. plate, the last of the
first set. hundred and one knck knacks-
every home has them which money can never
replace.
And conversely the things that begin a family.
For in that house Sunday was the hope chest of
Edith O'Gara-whose marriage is plotted for this fall
Bob Dowswel just back from Chicago and
Milwaukee, hobs up with a new job in Minneapolis.
He got it the day after he came back from the
Windy City. And that day Friday the 18th.
"Whoinell says I'm not lucky" quoth Bob like
the one that DR.. George Mecklenberg the Mime
three dates man must remember: 1892, 1776,
and his wife's birthday. Humby, we might
recommend the Doctor is short just one. For how
much less pleasant is living for the man who has
forgotten the wedding anniversary?
No clear image of the future is formed, it has
been said, unless alongside the present stands
neatly framed photo of the past. These tintypes
linking the past to the present often homely
little bundles that shoot the imagination setting up
entire design for living past. For instance
out at the Sank Lake home of DR.. and Mrs. Paul
W. Hanson are some trnkets. Back in 1862 or
Whereabouts the lady's grandfather, Blackwell by
name, came through this section enroute to Douglas
county where he became of the first surveyors.
Reminiscent of that trip is an old copper kettle
used in the Sank Centre stockade for cooking And
it is in the collection Of the Hansons But from
that one kettle one can see the ramparts of the
old log shelter-the forerunner of this town. The
bleak. now obliterated road to Fort Abercrombie
in the west. The unknown prairie. The rumbng
transportation by stage. The kettle and fire
places. And cookery going on over open fires.
The pattern for living approaches the quilting stages
and fork set. It's collapsibity speaks of of
travellers and the days when knives and forks were
so rare that one must come prepared. The
set belonged to forebearer of Pauls He a
when Sweden first rate power, and knights
clashed in the late feudal period. And the church
pushed to frontiers in the faith of these
Lloyd Blycker finds that hs-and it's partly Mrs
BIS too he admits-wedding anniversary falls on the
same date as that of Mr. and Mrs; Art MacDermond
od sas hs
cant have anything exclusive"
Best one happened the other day when English
instructor Dorothy Wilson, switched this year to
teaching bit Of math announced to her first class
that "math was her first love-" And the
of the guffawing students upset than the
routine
Fall has exclusive lease on color. The
new red the gals wearing in skirts puts hydrants
to shame. Hasn't been so much red since the
Chicago fire.
Home Is home once again, Irv Nelson confided in
this columnist. His wife is the mumps.