The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-08-14

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New York. Jack Costello, who married Morris
| girl came back to the land Of the sky blue water
1 for his bride.
| From Camp HAN the rumors persist but the
Washington trip for which the lads were set to go
two hours notice. Is off and without official rea-
favorite gossip-say they will go to Alaska, the
| Hawaiians Camp Ripley. But soldier doesn't
/ know where he's going until he gets there. .
Latest piece of the camp is that of the boys
| has his eye the parachutsts troops in which
pay is 120 per-
We were recalling some of the days of the early
motion picture theatre the other day. OF course
at that time was just punk, but one thing lin
gers in my memory. The overripe scent of the
deodorant they used in those earlier places 1t
heady and strong and sickeningly sweet and
to adult nostrils it must have been cheap. But to
childish it fragrant enough to be
remembered and something at the moment to be
revealed in. That in the days when the
best pictures the mellodramas where the father
with beautiful daughters but fewer who have enough
william coveted each in a singular way and, poor,
fellow got neither That did give the father
something. After all, there plenty of fathers
with beautiful daughters but fewer who can enough
for plaster of that sort. Wei, you can see
what happens when youthful smeller is clicking
all right.
a car the other day whose license number he took.
g.. q. Next day he got bulletin subject of which
was: the is hot. For the Stearns Fair races
they had sixteen bosses entered early this week.
Looks like there'n be some heels flying
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met woman the other day whose story was
a bit different Perhaps it different but
there something refreshing in it, I re-
member her well because she had curious orna-
ment on her hat that traced repeatedly with my
tongue against the roof of my mouth But
I listened. 1t seems she is the mother of four.
She was of social aspirations, that is, she
did her share of entertaining and of being enter
tanned. Then not suddenly but after four
year lingering illness of her younger daughters
| died. The length of time gave her opportunity
to think. Somehow she said when it all
over the social life she had known was scant
flavoring anymore. :. She turned from it more
and more but not to the reclusive stage of avoid
ing people. In fact she became even more in
terested in people-as people Now she is in
volunteer work and church work. And finding,
she said great peace of mind that eradicates the
| sting, at least, of an irreparable loss.
have been walking along lately noting curious
little signs etched into the cement sidewalks One
will say &c. L. Newell" and another "Sauk Centre
Sidewalk Co." . And little questions began turn
ing their persistent heads upward. Who was E. L.
Newell? Who what the Sidewalk Co. :?
When did concrete sidewalks first into use in
Sank Centre? -. found the answers to the first
two more difficult to get and discovered they were
not important. To the last the answer is that
a certain night of May 1892 the common council
of the city of Sank Centre decreed by ordinance
that the rebuilding repairing of any wooden
walks prohibited of that date That
| did seem important. {. For Sank Centre, at the
turn of clustering century, had in rather sweep
ing act beat the termites out of portion Of their
| sustenance. And had literally began lacking itself
| out of the mud. 1t more than that 1t
reflected that the city, struggling since the late
middle half of the century to throw its roots deep
;foa1f o10 fho
shores of it's lake, had time to look at itself
What it community of board walks,
of muddied streets, but certain air that said this
town will stay in its buildings and homes. The
era of the temporary fading; it reflected an
air of permanence For there was time for
introspecton, time to improve that which had been
hastily put up to meet the pressing needs of the
moment. These things come more slowly in new
town. glance back shows peoples time was
occupied with building homes, providing living,
establishing those businesses necessary to sustain
the lifeline between this remote settlement and the
outside Then the new century hove into view
this town seemed permanent enough to throw up
| cement ramparts for the people who walk.
! There is a good deal Of character mirrored in a
| towns walks. Boom towns, in which men made
| quick grabs at money only to fit to something
| beckonngly new, never got their cement walks
down. Only where people are interested in making
homes neighbors and friends along with their living
| do the cement ribbons go prancing off down the
blocks
So E. L. Newell and the Sank Centre Sidewalk
Co. may go hand in hand down the whispering
! corridors of history, a throwback to a somewhat
ghostly past, and a link etched in their perman-
between the Gathering board walk of the
| days of this town and the more solid tread of a
community that's to stay where it was put.
There was in it than the signal that the town
was growing up. There was practicable sense
too. Many things happened to the old board walks
j. F. Cooper tore up trestle work in front of his
| home and of the stringers made their way
| into his cottage at Birch Lake. This week we
| noted something in the development. Al
| the Dr. A. F. Moynihan home you'll find two widths
of walk. Now outlawed by the city's specifications
! is the old wider, three lane walk in favor Of the
| lie citv rail