The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-07-03

way through the mud where once a lake STOOD
by death to thousands of fish. For while these
older utilities have passed, the utility Of beauty
of rest, a quiet drive through the park, to watch
a trimming sunset splash its color through painted
waters These remain. There's every reason to
believe we are in the midst of wet cycle If one
will follow the theory about rainfall coming in cycles
Nature has strong methods of getting its balance
Wide apart extremes part OF her plan In
1884 this country sweltered under heat and dust,
drouth season that brought few sprinkles of rain
In steady upward flow since 1887 the rains have
come with greater volume, cmaxed in this year
Result is that lakes, once splashing in ilEftting
beds, have grown to groan in their now two small
resting places The countryside is filled with waterea
sloughs, creeks normally dry at this time are still
rushing on.
Herald headline on this best story of the
wear ran: "Cloudburst brings flood-threat to prop
erty DAM" Simply tack on an exclamation
point, put the emphasis on the final word and you
have the flood weekend sentiment OF TINS comnun
ity Mrs Gordon Morse called our attention
to it, . . Completely exhausted by Friday was the
Herald's supply of extra copies
Ann Pflpsen is the girl who last spring hauled
out of Swift and company offices here headed ner
compass for Florida, and pulled up at Pan American
Always offices. 1t was a strange bit OF GOMEZ
dence fascinating series of things that just happen
Ann had had thought of going to FLORIDA
sage came for her from girl she had met there
telling of Pan Americans position open In ono
of these decisions you never know how you arrived
at, Ann bound for Florida. Florloa Is ,, d
great place 1t hit Ann with soft moon ana now
to Willard Tull also of PA accounting dept she Is
engaged to be married in late July. Inese are
stories like. They are the ucklng arai,ar,
of the world around broken down to terms ordinary
beings can understand. And to Ann our per
sonai best wishes for happiness on the marriage
round
People
Cunther Eillerud's signature is breath out OF
the past. 1t is one of those penmanship pieces -
art so cherished in days before the typewriter cor
lectively ruined the hand of every writer In tne
country We notice where Sinclair Lewis has
bought additional farm land in North Dakota' .,ae
vicinity of Park River in the Red River valley sec
ton evils holdings are in the vicinity of those
where once the late John D. Rockefeller was soIns
n live Perhaps Sinclair, when the age comes
when he wants to pore quietly over his papers ana
dash off less stringent memoirs than MS sociaiiy
dramatized books, will reside there. Archie
Faulhaber said it cost a community ne once hseu
in $1,000 in typhoid. He remembered 1t from the
recent precautionary measures taken locally
The Scene Changes
The barbershop isn't what it used to be- But
it is a reasonable facsimile. There are less mugs
TODAY than there used to be. Was a time when any
| gentleman of consequence-in fact he was auto
| matically of consequence had he not one-haa
his own private, highly adorned mug on a sheii
! in the barber shop His method of serving notice
on his barber that his services were no longer re-
quired was yanking his mug off the shelf and stalk
greatly TODAY If you get mad at your barber it is
no longer necessary to remember your shaving mug
! or send around for it later. Simply DO not appear
He will miss you. 1t is still however high arr
| to know with whom and with whom not 10 con
verse while shaving 1t is childs play to be
able to pull across every beard and have
everyone come back.
Actually the entire business structure OF these
towns has changed. Because of its color associa-
! tion where the boys gathered in an atmosphere
that reaked masculinity only the barber shop is
fetish of those days past We think OF these
things in a mellow tone, now once safely past
| We have vanished them for safe keeping in our
yard for memories. We have varnshed away
much of the truth. 1t day of open cracker
J barrel merchandising. 1t day Of provincialsn
that was often narrow self-sufficent and SNUG. II
was dirt streets and blowing dust Horses clat
| tering over the roadways standing under not
| suns tethered to the curb. 1t spoke Of milk de
| livered, unpasteurized in open containers II
| was day of outdoor pumps, of breaking the water
| in the pan in the cold mornings 1t was day
| of few vegetables in winter when even the hen:
stopped laying It day when the small towr
| was scarcely a distant cousin of the city, wher
the country pumpkin spotted in the city a:
| readily sunburned nose.
|
| But it was a day that not sleeping. 1t wa:
| pregnant with things about to happen 1t lait
| the groundwork for bustling advancements.
| implying things to come 1t was day netor'
ceophane When any child could open simple
! package.
| -WDA1
| When the hayoft gang comes here for thu
Fourth celebration, in a cast Of rs people, are tw
| with relatives here. Texas Ranger Is a cousin
| of Morton Weeks, now in the west. Marjorie
| Moore the Annabella of the show, is relative o
the J. B. Schoenhoff family.