The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-09-25

walks, and Keller factory and radiator works. .
1t is the foresight of Joe Simonton turning ou
this newspaper nearly IS years ago by hand-t
chronicle not the unusual the startling but tn
quietly typical events. 1t is great three-stor
wood building whose lumber was brought by O.
team. 1t is the will of Mrs. Edward Smith,
Mrs. H. N. Carpenter. 1t is Solomon Pendergas
walking, his dog and his gun companions from
Pennsylvania 1t is Leroy Working horsetradeI
1t is miniature of Joe Capser's store. It
breath is out of the past.
It's heart is its churches. The changing bell
that vibrate the town, that begin the queue
threading their way to churches 1t is majesti
st. Pauls with its old world churchness AM
little houses, glancing at its spire spreading tn
cross over the city, genufecting at its feet
is history-bathed Episcopal quaint vine-covered
English flavored-its oaken beams, its shephar,
window. The towns heart is Zion Lutheran will
its great rural family. 1t is the green-toppet
Methodist 1t is red brick Conversational
Lutheran and Seventh Day Adventist and Gospe
Tabernacle. 1t is red capped Our Lady Of thu
Angels its tile roof shimmerng back at the sun
Organisms Of mans faith.
It-our towns an economic bazaar where cor
of the world are bundled into a block TIVE
like snatchng the four corners of a blanket from
the grass. It has not the noise nor the bargain
ing of eastern bazaar, but it is as colorful, i
more quietly efficient. 1t is thick cream from
the farms and meat. And peaches from Colora
do A card of buttons, strip Of celophane,
mans suit. Ladies hose and furniture, eggs ant
apples It is the axis around which the rural revove
in orbit. center surrounded by people wht
live by the soil. 1t is at times quiet and inef
ficient and again businesslike and bustling.
1t is roaring at times and strangely gawky in tn,
indecision of being small town a grown up city
Its Saturday night-a hand me DOWNS legent
the street It is leg-trotting clerks and puff
ing enterprisers Chatting customers and
package of flakes. 1t is clerks like Doroth,
Dobbs: and Ruby Paeey and Marg Taylor and doz
ems of others. 1t is business men like Perc!
Hansen, Win Gallup and Fred Walker and Verr
Nicholson and yet several score The street
the business the urban serving the rural and thu
exchange of produce. The towns lifeblood it is
coursing feeby running temperature.
1t is Johnny Browns" farm and the river bot
TOM And small boys with noses snubbed agans
fascinating windows. 1t is ten miles to Melrose
1t is dogs barking at drunk. 1t is fir
engine red oil trucks 1t is even fire engines
It is golf widows and army ditto. . It il
Mondays wash. And the boys settling down fo
cards at Johns. 1t is the OAR history-steepet
with essence of Mayflower and Bunker Hill. I
is the WRC, survivor alone of the once Grand Army
1t is Gradatim and Niblick and bridge foursomes-
even in the morning. 1t is ladies church societies
1t is church suppers with flavor typica
it is like memory caught up with the present
1t is child lost on the street. It is the Law
stern and unbending.
1t is a far flung empire. It is the senti
mentally satrical pen of Sinclair Lewis. . TIL,
outdoor adventure writing of Jim Hendryx. . .
1t is a Henry johnson, professor at Columbia Uni
versity. 1t is a Fred Carpenter and a secretar,
to the late President Taft. :. 1t is this long arm
of the small town. 1t is hundred men in thu
armed forces of the United States from Florida t.
California 1t is student in China. :. 1t il
the lure of Alaska, the long trek of Norb Nathe
an Evan Wruck. Their romances by remote contro
of nearly four thousand miles with their girls bacl
home. 1t is the mellow voice of Jack Cos
tello-wafted on the air waves of nation.
1t is a retired school teacher, Annabel Morris.
1t is the colorful career of a George OGara or
Gunther Hillerud The lovable gruffness of ont
time immigrant boy, S. p Hansen. It is thu
draw strings and the release for all the world
The center to which immigrants from many lands
came And then the pot from which the yount
jumped to spread out again. Our town. /.
1t is-our town is-the infinite patience ant
unfaltering courage of Mrs Kramer, blind and bed
ridden, but with her Rosary in her hand.
is the young friendship-but long one-of Buz
here and in college elsewhere. Youth bungling
arrogant-but lovaby carefree and surprisingly
Know Age grown crotchety or refreshing
back and forth to his office. . . It is the meliowet
age Of Mrs. Lockead. 1t is juke boxes anc
tavern dancing. -.
1t is the old and the new the young and tn
modern 1t Is panes of glass and bricks an,
wood. 1t is bleak in a blizzard. 1t is warn
in summer color its trees arbored it's walks
But 1t writhes in summers heat and stand
open at the throat. 1t is to the east-across tn
rivers chiseed channel-a grove of trees and it'll
green plots and resting place. It Is in any hom
the first cry Of baby, a new father It is a mai
damning the government. A young man fearful
OF the army. Bare-legged young girls. :.
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1t is-our town-griped at, sworn about, tori
apart, and in turn sworn by, praised and awed al
1t is the proud display at once of person
or all the people. It Is sometimes SNUG self
centered and satisfied intolerant and irritable.
1t is, you see, people, This mile long Main Stree
Is the work of hands It's school straddlinp
block Is hand-fashioned It's library and pos
office, links with the outer world. It is-thi
town-an people like Allan Meigs, DR.. Moynihar
Ernie Wilson, Bill Benger, but not all men bu
housewives and club presidents and sewers
1t is the boys in this shop, the patient clerks tn
plodding workmen. Fay Domke getting hi
wings in the Marine Air Corps . i. It Is housewife
and parsons 1t Is Dick Schoenhoff and Pau
Forsberg, two Sank Centre boys, who went to Roch
ester each to marry Rochester girl named Esther
1t is even curious columnist who thinks h