The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-02-06

have reported an unusual incident
which occurred near Pennington
recently. Suddenly noticing that
q box car had jumped the track
and was humping along the ties
behind the locomotive while the
train was in the act of switching,
he started running and waving his
arms frantically at the engineer
to stop. Before the engineer not
iced him, however, the car nimbly
hoped up on the rails again after
dragging for about a quarter Of a
mile.
Washer and Door Too
Much For Mrs. Axtell-
Williams-Mrs. Roy Axtell, Of
Williams, had two very unpleasant
experiences. one resulting from the
other, while doing her weekly wash
recently. First, she was partly ov-
ercome by the exhaust fumes Of
the gasoline motor-powered wash
er, but managed to struggle to the
head Of the basement stairs where
she collapsed. Her mother coming
in from outside, opened the door
which struck the exhausted woman
on the head. Combined, the two
incidents kept her unconscious for
over an hour but she is now fully
recovered.
Canine Chorus Aids
IL O'Clock whistle
Lindstrom Gaining notoriety
for its noontime canine chorus is
Lindstrom where it has been noted
recently more and more dogs are
joining to herald the arrival at IL
o'clock noon along with the village
siren. The mournful chorus of set
tiers, cockerels, pooches, mongrels,
collies, and lap hounds may be
heard almost any noon and has
reached the point where they con-
tinue their "yowling" for a full
minute after the siren has died
away.
Chauffeur Doesn't Need
A Memory For Numbers
Sanborn = Arthur Steinberg, of
Sanborn, won't have to fiddle
around" looking for slips of paper
or records when asked his car lie
ense, chauffeur's license, his cream
cry or home telephone numbers
and not because his memory Is I'M
usually good either. 1t so happens
that his two telephone numbers,
!73 for residence, and 1862 for his
creamery phone combined make up
in the right order his chauffeur
and car licenses which are identi-
cal, 1882.
Flyers Are Stranded
BY Curious Dog
Ely-Two Aurora men, airplane
pilots, We're stranded on Knife lake
on a recent Sunday when a dog
shifted too close to the whirling
propeller of their plane and snap
ped eight inches off one Of the
blades. The men were DR.. I. T..
Dahlin, flying physician, and Tony
Mishmach. Aside from a bruised
jaw, the dog was uninjured; two
days Of waiting and a good many
miles on Skis were involved, how
ever, before the men were able to
obtain another propeller from Ely,
IS miles distant.
Removes Elbow Grease
From Snow Shoveling-
Plainview-Ralph Edwards, of
Plainview, tired of shoveling snow
from his walks in the ordinary old
fashioned method, recently perfect
ed a small rotary snow pillow mod
eled somewhat after a lawn mower.
The business end of the plow is
powered by a two cylinder motor
cycle motor and has a reel sim
liar to the cutting reel of lawn
mower except that 1t has solid
blades and is shaped in an arc from
the center rather than from the
end of the reel as a lawn mower.
The snow is picked up and guided
into a chute covered by a hood
with sufficient force to throw it
two or three feet to either side of
the plow. Unlike many other such
labor saving devices which are per-
feet in theory, this one really works
and does a fine job of clearing the
walks in the vicinity of the Ed
wards machine shop.
Sport" A Collie Dog,
| Is Hero of Fire
Sleepy Eye-With almost human
intelligence, Sport, collie dog be-
longing to the Osward Harris fam
lily at Sleepy Eye, put out a blaze
on the dining room floor of the
new Harris home while members
Of the family were attending
church Sunday. Returning home,
the family found the dog lying on
the davenport nursing pair of
scorched front paws which he had
evidently used to put out the fire
which started from sparks from
the stove. Damage amounted to
about 800.
Too Anxious For Heat;
Boy Gets Hot Seat
Observation-Disclosures too close
to a lighted gas burner, little Bud
dy Paige, 5, was quite seriously
burned and thoroughly frightened
when the back of his mighty