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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-06-20
Park Township
Married 81 Years,

A large number of friends and rel
ativeS gathered at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Martinez, ST., Sunday
afternoon to help them celebrate their
5lSt wedding anniversary.
After having their picture taken,
Mr.. and Mrs. Martinez marched into
the house to the strains of wedding
march played by Miss Dorothy Berg
lund, after which Mrs. Billman sang
"Silver Threads Among the Gold"
Mr.. and Mrs. H. j. Berglund sang
"When You and Were Young Mag
gie," substituting Emma for Maggie"
They then played number of in
Strumental pieces. Lunch was served
by some of the ladies present, after
which the guests departed wishing
Mr.. and Mrs. Martinez many more
anniversaries.
The children were all present. The
boys are Frank, Otto and Fredolin of
Park township, and the girls, Mil
dred (Mrs. Stater) and Martha (Mrs.
Zabrasky) also of Park, and Mrs.
Rykel of st. Paul
Those from away who attended the
51st wedding anniversary of Mr.. and
Mrs. Martinek were Mr.. and Mrs
Rykel, Mr.. and Mrs. Moses, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lisue and family and John
Zabrasky, Jr., of st. Paul; Mrs. Swan
son and son of Askov, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Tom Waletzko and family and
Frank Mach of Norman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hart Lisue and family
are spending week at the Otto Mar
timex home. Monday they and the
Otto Martinek family made a trip
to Duluth.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. B. Thomson, Mr.
and Mrs. Ralph Matthes and son and
Miss Nola Cluett returned from Iowa
Monday accompanied by Mrs. Mar
garet Cluett who will spend the sum-
mer here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil Matsen and
Virginia and Mr. and Mrs. Eldred
Parker and Loreen visited relatives
in ST. Paul and Minneapolis Friday
and Saturday.
There was good attendance at
the Ladies' Aid meeting at the Chas
Southerton home Saturday.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-06-20
(FrOm Another Correspondent

Visitors at the H. E. Lewis home
Sunday were Mr.. and Mrs. L. j.
Nystrom and Dolores, a brother of
Mrs. Lewis, Mr.. and Mrs. A. w.
Breuninger and two daughters, Mr.
and Mrs. E. Nelson and son, all of
Minneapolis; a sister of Mr.. Lewis,
Mr.. and Mrs. McGarry and son, Bob,
of Carlton, and Mr.. and Mrs. Paul
Pangerl and son, Lawrence, of Rut-
ledge. A delicious dinner was served
to all and lunch was enjoyed in the
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Jules Palhemus
of Chicago, and Mr.. and Mrs. Albert
Anderson returned Sunday from a
weeks vacation and fishing at Lake
Kabetogame near International Falls.
Mr.. and Mrs. Palhemus left the same
day for their home in Chicago, Ill.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-06-20

Darling, 1 can read you just like
a book" said fellow while calling
on his girl. "Well, don't get the idea
that you're going to sit up all night
with me-" she replied.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-09-19
Parents of
Music Pupils
Meet Tonight
To Discuss School Band
And Orchestra Men,
berships And Plans

A meeting for parents of stu
dents interested in becoming men,
bers Of the Sank Centre public
school band and orchestra will be
held this evening, Thursday, in the
music room Of the senior high
school building. The meeting will
be held from 7:30 until $50 o'clock,
1t was announced by Ed j. Kitz-
berger, instrumental director.
Organization Of this years orch
estra is now under way, Mr.. Kitz-
berger said, and as a result Of mus
ical aptitude tests recently given to
pupils in grades four to ten, recon-
mendations for more musical activ-
ity are being made to parents of
those pupils who rate high in the
test.
Special arrangements have been
made, he said, with a reliable music
company to rent high grade instru-
ments to students. Parents are
asked to attend this meeting since
they will be able to confer with the
director concerning the instrument
best suited to the student.
At a low rental rate, a student
may try an instrument for three
months. At the end of that time
it may be returned without further
obligations; or it may be kept with
the rental already paid applying on
the purchase price of the instru-
ment, he said.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-09-19
Former Sank
Centre Lady
Passed Away
Mrs. G.. w. Jenkins,
83 Years Old, Buried
At Salem, Oregon

Mrs. G. w. Jenkins, nee Joseph
inc Bedell, early resident of Sank
Centre, passed away on August Is,
at Salem, Oregon, at the age Of SO
years. Death came to her at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Ches-
ter Horner.
After living in this community
for years, Mrs. Jenkins left for the
West in 1910. For many years she
resided on the farm known as the
John Allen place and later moved
into Sank Centre, where she resid-
ed in a home at the corner Of
Fourth and Pine Streets.
Surviving are six children as fol-
lows: Violet Jenkins, of Salem. Ore
gon; DR.. c. E. Jenkins, Palo Alto,
California; Olive Jenkins, of Sea-
side, Oregon; Mabel Jenkins, of Nc
MELVILLE, Oregon; Mildred Jenkins,
Of Roseburg, Oregon.
G. w. Jenkins, who preceded his
wife in death, was at one time en-
gagged in the cattle buying business
in this city as a partner of s. p.
Hansen, Sr.
Funeral services were conducted
at Salem, Oregon, with the Rev.
Math Corner. pastor of the First
Adventist Church, in charge. In.
torment was made in a Salem, Ore.
gon, cemetery.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-09-19
Hatchery To
Increase Egg
Capacity
(, New Brick Front and
Other Remodeling
Planned For Building

Extensive remodeling of the
building at 203 Main Street with
a new brick front and installation
of a new type all metal incubating
unit designed to increase capacity
to nearly 100000 eggs, were an
nounced this week for the Sank
Centre Hatchery by owners Donald
and Bernard Shrantz. Work Of
remodeling the building, owned by
G. G. Urness, was begun yesterday,
Wednesday.
Installation of the new $4,000 egg
incubating unit, in a move that
will simultaneously increase the
hatchery's brooding capacity to
100000, will be made in the spring,
Bernard Shrantz told the Herald
Wednesday. The unit, a revolu-
tionary idea in incubation that will
increase the capacity of the plant
to $4,000 eggs, will be added to two
others.
In addition to the brick front,
with modern design, that marks an
other replacement of the old type
wood front, a full basement will be
provided for the building. Re-
modelling and painting inside and
out will make complete job.
In an effort to attain highest
standards of sanitation, Shrantz
said, the owners will move incuba-
ton units to the basement that will
increase ground floor area. Forced
ventilation system will be installed
to completely ventilate the build
ing. The entire program is ex-
pected to be completed by next
spring, owners said.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-09-19
Three Homes
Change Hands
Early in Week
Important Property Sales
Completed Tuesday
Several Will Move

Several property deals in the
city were completed this week,
and the changes will have con-
siderable bearing on residence
changes during the next few
weeks.
G. Hillerud completed a deal
this week whereby he became
the owner of the Jos. Miller
home on Oak Street. Twenty
five years ago Mr.. Miller's faith
er built the home and the fam
lily has resided there since. Mr..
Miller purchased the Chris
Bjone property on Fifth Street
from Mrs. Bjone, and they will
move there as soon as possible.
F. L. Gettys, agent at the
Great Northern depot, on Tues
day completed a deal which
makes him owner of the T. L.
Mccormick property on Main
Street. This home is now oc-
cupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Victor
Nelson. Mr.. and Mrs. Gettys
will move into their new home
as soon as Mr.. and Mrs. Nelson
and family find place to move
to.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-09-19

ton will be ITO Serve the Present
Age" At PAS the address of well
come will be made by the Rev.
Thorley Johnson, pastor of the Cen
gregational Church, in this city.
Response will be made by presi-
dent Arthur Bluhm.
After Rev. Stickney's afternoon
address the group will be divided
into conference periods in which
the work of the Council with be-
ginners, primary, Junior, young
peoples, adult and leadership,
groups will be outlined. In charge
of these conferences will be: Miss
Ethel Graves, county superinten-
dent of children's work, Of St.
Cloud; Miss Elizabeth Hanson,
state superintendent of children's
work; Rev. and Mrs. Leroy Roesti,
Evangelical Church of st. Cloud;
and Professor John Talbot, of the
st. Cloud Teachers College.
Conference periods will continue
until $50 o'clock when the group
will adjourn for picnic supper
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-09-19

nOur.
Evening session will be recon-
vened at TOO, it was announced,
with a worship service conducted
by Rev. Johnson. The junior group
will conduct a short worship ser
vice as a part of the opening o.
the evening session.
Election Of officers at this an
nual meeting and business of the
Council will follow. After the bus
mess session Rev. Stickney will
deliver his evening address.
Work of the Council for Relig-
ious Education, set up in two coun-
ties, attempts to correlate work of
leadership with all other phases of
church education among children,
young people and adults, it was
pointed out. All churches in the
two counties have been invited to
the convention Sunday, and it was
certain that delegations from Sar-
tell, Paynesville, st. Cloud and
Ronneby would join Sank Centre
groups.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-09-19
Seventeen 4-H
Clubs Made
100 Percent
Forty Members
Enrolled In County
During 1910
MEETING
Arranged For
Carload of Western
Hereford Calves

Seventeen All club of Stearns
county have 1000 finish-up in club
work so far this year. The county
percentage of finish-up at the pre-
sent time is $685.. The final finish
up for Stearns county for 1899
was 1861. 1t seems very possible
that the county will exceed the re-
cord set by 1889. The state average
in 1889 was S8.4f6. Therefore,
Stearns county is very much above
the state average for Minnesota.
The seventeen clubs which have
1907 finish-up are as follows: AL
bany Boosters, Albany Sunnyside,
Belgrade, Gopher Prairie, Green
Valley, Lake George, LeSauk, Lux
emburg, Lynden, Padua, Pelican
Peak, Poppy Wildwood, Raymond
Ashley, Sank Valley, Springer Bon
mics, Rockville, and st. Martin.
The fine quality of club work is
result of the excellent volunteer
adult leadership that the organiza-
ton has in the local communities.
The adult leaders for these clubs
which have already finished 1909
are as follows: J. c. Schwinghamer,
Miss Rose Blenker, Ben Meier, AL
bany; Chester Quisberg and Mrs.
Lloyd Quisberg, Belgrade; Mrs. G.
F. Botz, Sank Centre; Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Terwey, Freeport; Err
vim Imdieke and Mrs. Herman
Schmitz, Belgrade; Martin Traut
and Mrs. Alfred Bromenschenkel,
st. Cloud; Carl Maus and Mrs.
Peter Koshiol, Luxembourg; Mrs.
Leonard Allen and Byron Barrett,
Clearwater; Mrs. Mike Essler and
Earl Killeen, Brooten; Mrs Theo.
Schultz and Alloys Hoppe, Freeport;
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Lair, Freeport;
Mrs. Art Domke, Sank Centre; Ar
mold Miller and Mrs. Henry Under
sander, st. Cloud; Miss Louise
Theisen, Cold Spring; Mrs. Henry
Haus and Lawrence Post, Rock
vile; Miss Marie Mimbach and Joe
Spanier, Roscoe.
During the past year forty All
club members were enrolled in the
baby beef project and of this group
% showed their calves at the
Stearns county fair at Sank Centre.
OF this group of %, according to
the county agents office, st. Cloud,
five will show their calves at the
Junior Livestock Show at South
st. Paul late in October. These in
dividuals making the Junior Live
CONTINUED on Page ~. Col. %
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-09-19
Council ReA9iaIA Education Convention S4vzAd41

nounced in stressing the interde.
nominational aspect of the Coun.
ellis work.
Arthur Bluhm, county president
of Sank Rapids, will respond to the
address of welcome in the after
noon and will preside at the eve
ming business meeting at which of.
ficers for the Council will be
elected.
Special addresses of the day
will be given by the Rev. Geo.
Sticlxney, of Minneapolis, direc-
tor of Christian Education Of
the Congregational Church Con-
ference. He will speak I'm the
afternoon at $50 on stewards
of Tomorrow's Church" and in
the evening on the child and his
needs of today and his relation
ship to the church Of tomorrow.
At 2:3O, after registration, a Wor-
ship and Meditation service will be
conducted by Rev. M. L. Brann
pastor of the Methodist Church OF
this city. Subject for the medita-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-09-19
Huge Catholic
Convention
At Melrose
Three-Day Event Will
Open On Sunday,
September 22nd
PARADE SUNDAY
Outdoor Program Will
Include Prominent
Speakers

Catholic Societies Of Minnesota
open a three-day convention at
Melrose with special church SER
vices, parade and speaking pro-
gram on Sunday, September 22nd.
The societies represented at the
convention of Minnesota, Central
Verein aad the state branch Of the
National Catholic Women's Union.
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Edward Maho-
valid will officiate at the solemn
high mass at the large st. Boniface
church at 10 o'clock a. m. Rt.
Rev. Joseph F. Busch, DID,, bishop
of ST. Cloud, will preach the SER
mon.
The Melrose parish will serve
dinner starting at 1870 o'clock and
supper will be at $50.
A mile-long parade will be the
feature attraction of Sundays cele-
bration. Bands and drum corps in
the parade will be: Paynesville
Legion drum corps, Melrose high
school band, Pierz band, Sank Cen.
ire band, st. Cloud drum corps
Metre Grove band, Freeport band
Albany band, st. Martin band, ST.
Agnes drum corps of st. Paul, Rich
mond band, Winsted band, st. Cloud
band and Melrose city band.
The American Legion posts OF
the county, All clubs, children in
flag formation, convention dele
gates, new society members and
members Of IS societies represent,
ing over so towns will march in the
parade. The parade will have thir-
teen divisions each led by four
marshals on horses.
tContinued on Page 10. Col ~
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-09-19
Fire DAMAGED
O'Gara
Home Sunday
Department Called By
Alarm At Noon
Did Fine Work
NO ONE AT HOME
Thought Fire Had
Smouldered Since
Early Morning

A fire of serious proportion,
which caused considerable damage
to the George O'Gara home, cor
ner of Pine and Fifth Streets, and
it's contents, was discovered about
noon Sunday. The family left at
eight o'clock that morning for Min
neapolis, and there was no one at
home when smoke emerging from
the building caused neighbors to
turn in the alarm.
1t is not known as to how the
fire originated, but 1t Is thought
that it started on the first floor
in a davenport, from spark of a
cigaret or cigar, and that the same
had smouldered for several hours
before being discovered.
The fire burned a hole through
the floor into the basement, and
then entered a ventilator and con-
tinued up into the attic. 1t was
a stubborn fire, and only the excel
lent work of the department saved
the house from complete ruin.
Terrific heat scorched and bis
tered woodwork throughout the
house and damaged practically all
of the furniture. The loss was
partially covered by insurance, but
the furniture cannot be replaced
by the value Of the policy, we are
informed.
Luckily the fire was discovered
in time, for if given just a little
more time the flames would have
been beyond control.
A parrot, a family pet, which was
kept in the living room where the
fire evidently started, was taken
from the house by Dewey O'Gara.
The bird was still alive, but very
much perturbed. That this bird
had been able to live in the smoke
filled room for several hours was
miracle.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-09-19
President
Signed Draft
Act Tuesday
Set October 10th
AS Registration
For 16,500,000
VOLUNTEER CALL
Men FL to IS
Inclusive Must
Register For Service

Under the draft law, all men
who have attained their twenty
first birthday and who have not
passed their seth birthday by
registration day October 10th,
are compelled to register. Draft
boards will be set up and all
men of the specified age must
be given time by their employ
ers to register. Members of the
National Guard are not requir-
ed to register under this law,
said Lieutenant Colonel Roy
Scott, Monday.
Washington, Sept. 16-President
Roosevelt signed the draft act
Tuesday, fixed October 16 as regis
tration day for 16,500,000 young
Americans now subject to compul-
sorry military training, and assert
ed that the United States was mar
shalling its strength to avert "the
terrible fate of nations whose weak
ness invited attack"
In addition, the chief executive
called upon the governors of the
states to provide suitable places for
the registration, urged local cleo
ton officials land other patriotic
citizens" to man the registration
boards and asked employers to give
their affected employees Sufficient
time Off to present themselves and
fill out the forms.
Mr.. Roosevelt, moreover, empha-
sized a section of the act and a
phase of the building up of the
army which received much discus
sion in congress-the voluntary en-
listment system. All between Is
and 35, inclusive, he said in for
NAL statement, will be offered an
opportunity to volunteer for a one
year period of service and training,
and those who offer themselves
provided they are suitable-are to
be accepted before any others are
selected.
Thus an influx of volunteers from
any particular area would reduce
the quota of men conscripted from
that area.
The new law itself requires that
all who on October 16 have at
tanned the twenty-first anniversary
Of their birth and have not passed
the thirty-sixth year must regis
ter. A national drawing by lot
will determine the order in which
questionnaires will be mailed to
the men. On the basis of the ques-
tionnaires, local boards will place
the men in various classifications-
those available for immediate serv-
ice, those deferred because of de-
pendents, etc.
The local boards will select suf-
ficient men from among those
available for immediate service to
fill the quota for the area. Those
SO selected will undergo physical
examinations and, if they pass, will
be indicted into service for one
year.
The bill went through both houses
by margins of almost two to one
Saturday, as Mr.. Roosevelt, antici-
pating congress action, dispatched
Continued on Page 10. Col. y
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-09-19
Tie Opened football Sea4on

stellar marks of quality on defense,
Sank Centre rolled out it's first bit
of an attack that really worked
in the second half. They put Ben
son in the hole several times, main
ly by virtue of Jim Cooper's superb
punting, rocketed for two first
downs of their own, and held Ben
SON to a single succession COM
pleted.
Twice Benson bored into scoring
territory and saw combining fact
ors Illustrate their attempts. Once
IN the first half, after several ex-
changes had benefited them, did
Benson, behind the twinkling legs
of Carl Knutsen, roll inside the 20
yard line. They completed a first
down on the IS and then with one
minute and forty-five seconds to go,
they begged when Sank Centres
defense rallied to it's first defensive
test, stopped them in the success
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-09-19
$50 Students In
Stearns and Todd
Served By Program

With a revamped program in
which state aid to schools for lib
rary use will revert this year to the
Bryant Library, the Sank Centre
institutions launched it's fifth an
nual rural library service to some
$50 students in % Stearns-Todd
counties district schools, it was an
nounced this week.
Loss Of one school from the "a
who opened last fall is compensat-
ed for by the addition of two new
districts-65 and 1T Stearns-to the
program.
Gaining momentum, the program,
with increasing costs to the local
institution, called for additional
revenue this year and the % schools
have agreed to turn over the state
aid, received for library use, to the
Bryant Library.
On the basis of last years
prOrated state aid, averaging
2.92 per school, 1t is estimated
the library viii have roughly
seventy dollars more with
which to work this year. This
aid is in addition to a ten dol
lar fee which each school pays,
Miss Bernice Finnegan, ibrar-
ian, pointed out.
The new fund will be used en-
tirely for the rural service, she said
1.-THE library has previously absorb
ed all costs of cataloging and main
tanning the supplies for the service.
The ten dollars from each school
went entirely for purchasing addi-
tional books for the collection" she
said.
She explained that the new mon
les will be expended for book poe
kets, catalog cards, and mendine
supplies for the rural collection OF
some 1900 volumes.
The collection of books for the
service is entirely separate from
the regular volumes of the library
Actually, she pointed out, the
schools are privileged to borrow
from their own circulating library
All records and books are kept en-.
tirely separate.
Each month. she explained, a
box of about fifty books goes to
each school. Besides the $50 that
circulate yearly to each school, the
district may borrow UP to ten fict.
ion books from the regularly shelly
ed volumes in the library, she said
Districts included in the program
this year are: from Todd county
81, c. Reisnen; 6, Mrs. Hultgren
5, Marie Hildebrand; 68, Mrs. Elda
Johnson; 4, Mrs. Kane; 142, Mrs
G. Larson; from Stearns-Todd dis.
tricts 12-113, Mary Wolkenberg; IS
60, Mrs. Werner Kampsen; from
Stearns county, districts 1876, Dols
Grundman; SO, Mary Gilney; 1873
Orvyle Johnson; 165, Dolores Lentz
157, Lora Fettig; 40, Grace Lamb
1T, Martha Minette; 26, Sylvia
Bromenshenkel; 81, Earl Kruse; IS
Mrs. Verding; 46, Mrs. L. Schlicht
100, Miss Prasch; 1876, Mrs. Kraker
IS, Mrs. Billman; 101, Josie Ander.
son.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-09-19
Call For Bids
For Bridge
On Hiway 4
To Be Built Over
Sank River For
Highway Extension
OCT. 4
Made Possible Through
Federal Secondary
Road Fund

Among a call for bids, issued by
M. J. Hoffman, state highway COM
missioner, is included a concrete
bridge across Sank River for the
extension of Highway No. 4 from
Metre Grove to the pavement, near
the overhead bridge on Highway 81
Included among new work, which
will cost in the neighborhood of
$225, 900, the proposed. project is
listed as follows in the Highway
Bulletin released for publication
Tuesday, September IT:
at. H. 4 GAS. Matched
Funds)-Bridge No. 5917, 2 con-
crete deck girder spans, total
length 126 feet, over Sank Riv-
er, miles west of MelrOse."
Release of Federal Secondary
road funds made the call for bids
possible, and although the extension
had been partially promised to resi-
dents Of Metre Grove and Sank
Centre, there was no possibility of
starting the same until secondary
funds were made available to the
State.
This extension will be a great
improvement in road service to vii
lagos and cities affected in this
community. Residents of Metre
Grove and Greenwald will have
ready access to both Melrose and
Sank Centre, and points east, west
and north on state highways, open
in winter, when this project is COM
pleted.
Bids on this project will be open
ed on October 4th.