The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-11-14
The COMMONPLACE
-By Chuck Rattle
Main Street Bulletin Board

Main Street Bulletin Board
Lynn Wilson's curly haired dog was deathly i'll
months ago. When all seemed lost Lynn nursed
him through terrible siege. Result is the
purp is favorite of Lynn's. But the illness left
the dog with bark that sounds more like the
whooping cough The poor dog tries so hard, too.
Just two days after the piece appeared in this
column about Val Schoenhofs singular hobby of
collecting mechanical pencils, splotched with adv,
he picked up five on the route from people who
read 1t.
Kids too go for the unusual and the modern in
science gets it's play At the Halloween party
farsighted youngster bedeck himself out in box
es to simulate robot. 1t was unique One fellow
with car, too anxious to see the parade of kids
that night came barreling to the intersection In
stead Of waiting did most cars. until the parade
had passed. he scooted onto the street going against
the grain of the traffic. One bystander reported
that he came upon group of kids so fast they
stood almost paralyzed. A guy like that has
no business driving car.
One mother was really frantic after the Hal
loween party. Her son, second grader, didn't
come home She made the rounds of all the par
ties but he was nowhere to be found. Just as
she despaired finding him, there he was in drug
store, sitting in the corner reading the comic mags
And happy and unworried a lark.
Sight about town: The Model r sedan ancient
of vintage equipped with new-fangled car radio.
Like bringing the hustle and the swing skirt into
the same ensemble.
The only really amazing thing about this simple
life is it's completely. Hollywood's idea of humor
is sy-to-the- pont-ofdisgust repetition. 1t didn't
take long to quip the draft Just two days
after the great lottery, in which everybody is win
ner sooner or later one radio comedian, winding
up in unseemly predicament, moaned why
wasn't my number 1853" You may take that as
indicating that the draft is in for the high spot
in radio humor for the What this country
really needs is less bridge and more people actually
crossing them!
Telephone operettas of this town will shortly
uniform told 1t is not general company
practice but the girls to catch up their sewing
are designing uniforms in the Bell System blue Of
the traffic department They to be completed
with the system emblem They'll be worn prim-
arily for occasions of state. Which is odd come
to think of 1t. We well remember the time
not so long ago when two women, with even the
slightest resemblance of hats, would not speak to
each other for two years. You what
has happened to this country. People want to uni
form. Girls, Of the high school and college variety,
dress much alike these days the only way you
tell one from the other is by comparing telephone
numbers. Most persistent leanings toward uni
forming exhibited by league bowlers. There the
lads and lasses, too, uniform persstently that
suspect the fellows of having identically paired
socks 1t is obviously the military influence. d. E.
1t won't be long before fellow in civies will be
conspicuous. That is a bad thing for a male. He
likes conformity of dress. He is not very brave
when it comes to dressing different from the rest
But we are surprised at the obvious loss of
courage SHOWN by the lauleS
Ed Polipnck is scouting around for good hat
but cheap. The other night Chips White sauntered
into his place. Ed took his hat stuffed it into the
stove where its heat fried the pork chops. Then
the deal was if the election went it ultimately
did, Ed would buy Chips new hat. Which brings
the price of pork chops up considerably. An
election bet beref local lady, doubling bet
of ten bucks for permanent, the story goes
ssss
Dewey O'Gara bit worried the other day
Great Lakes freighter late docking 48 hours
during which period all communications with the
boat were out. Dewey had one on the craft.
Similar deal happened year ago when the
Great Lakes dashed in the most storm
those waters had had. That time it Bill Otto
whose swept overheard And aboard the
freighter was Kenneth Robinson, Sank Centre, now
for long in Great Lakes shipping. -.
Draft Vignettes-He's young fellow and farm.
hand His draft number doesn't make him immediate