The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-10-02

were mindful of the fact that here was the begin
ming fssure that will widen with resoundng crash
until the gang, held in the adhesion of high school
days, will disintegrate into many individuals.
There is really little to equal the comradery of high
school days; it is free for so long of the newt
able: the break up But 1t comes. The first
breakup in the palship of school days gangdom.
Only at briefly snatched intervals will fragments
of the crowd reassemble to chew over delicious
days. . But it won't be the same. For foreign
interests will intrude, divide the once close knit
unity.
Gerald (Ganner) vandesteeg, Jr, is one of thirty
students at Dunwoody who have been singled out
by govt. representatives to wind up eventually at
Northern Pump He goes to Dunwoody for
another ten months, though. They come from all
to the cities and the latest find of Juniors
is lad from Kentucky who honestly did not wear
shoes until recently He found him one morning
the steps of the school, lost alone and for the
first time away from his native haunts Junior
took him to his rooming house, and now the lad Is
really catching quick. What interests Junior
most about him is that he is hunter and thereby
speaks his language.
Fighter
Charley I'm going to Hawaii" he said. And
cold and the wind sneaking around the
corner and tearing at our coat tails. And Min
nesota seemed so unattractve And the hula
and the palm trees So stopped in for cup
of coffee. That was a winters day in '3S; and
in February 1887, Fay Domke, a roundish, young
fellow, his way. 1t seemed as effortless
that. / suppose stood there and tnougnt
there goes another one. Fay and had been school
mates, band members together had eaten ice cream
at thir home. He's back this week. trim,
tanned, fighting man of Uncle Sans Marine Air
Corps-one of select 500 of these sea-gong
soldiers. 1t may seem long hop from milking
stool cultivator seat to the cockpit of fast
fighter ship; but it's been "Dly's" dream since he
first rode the cultivator and imagined the lever
ahead was the stick of plane. And it was
long way around. But he's got what he wants.
When I first him, flashes of those other days
I'll, IL, ,ninr nA1la0 fpnot
The day in h. math class he fell out of his seat
with a resounding thud. The night he came
two miles to band practice, whipped his case,
and clarinet inside. His ambition in this
flying game: later, perhaps permanent commission
with the Marines or Pan American Anyways.
-Neighborhood
We have lived on Ash-forsaking good old South
Pine-long enough for to give brief report
the neighborhood 1t is a great adventure
moving to a new neghborhood You are at
your moved in furnishings; they welcome you into
unnamed fraternity with informal visits and
shouts across the way. guess most everyone
about has called and including Barbara Hansen
and Bobby Shulze, who live across the alley. am
not whether they were more propelled to visit
us for ourselves alone for Sandy our dog.
Just across the great expanse of garden to the
north live the Tony Kleins real neighbors from the
outset. The other day the 9th wedding ami
versary of the folks Annie Klein brought a
surprise cake all decked out with congratulations
the. street are the Bill Wrucks and up the block
is ire Brown farm and beyond that you
the hf across the river And Mrs. Hildebrand
comes down across two backwards to talk. On
the day moved in the Emil Hierls moved
out. The next day Jack Litchy broke his arm
and well you can't blame all of it on us. 1t is
a swell alley have One of the best. Neatly
graveled So walk down the alley mostly past
Russ Shulzes the Percy Hansens, and s. P. Hansens
and the Vic Nelson's, where Mrs. Nelson waves from
the clothes line occasionally and the M w. Ltchys
on the one side. And the Jeppesen's have moved
out too since coming 1t couldn't be-no, it
couldn't could it? It is such a swell alley
that know every barn in the dark and am on
speaking acquaintance with every alley cat of which
there not many since with addition
there upwards of two-thirds of dozen dogs
in the block. And directly at the mouth of the
alley and the street the Ed Nathes where
Pearl has arranged the most intriguing glass Shelves
laden with gadgets, in the front windows thanking
the door. 1t is hard to shake the dust of Pine
from ones shoes. 1t great neghborhood
But think will like Ash. :.