The Pine River Journal (Pine River, Minnesota), 1938-02-24

              PINE RIVER JOURNAL
VOLUME III NUMBER 29
THE PINE RIVER JOURNAL, PINE  RIVER,  CASS  COUNTY,  MINNESOTA, THURSDAY.FEBRUARY 24, 1938
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NEWS BRIEFS OF
INTEREST FROM
'ROUND THE STATE
4-H  MEETING TO BE HELD IN
PINE   RIVER,  WED.,   MAR.
SELLS CARS OVER 30 YEARS
BUT HAS NEVER DRIVEN ONE
Blue Earth.—Believe It or not,
but William Merrick in the 35 years
fa. has been in the employ of a local
garage has never driven a car. But
at the same time he has sold hundreds of new and used cars to other
persons. Although Merrick's employer started to handle cars thirty years
ago when the first model T Fords
were offered on the market, he hn.
not driven a car of his own or one
belonging to anyone else. It is doubtful whether there is another man ii
the country who can beat or even
equal such a record.
A 4-H Leaders Training meeting
will be held Wednesday, March 2, at
Pine River, for 4-H Adult and Junior
Leaders.
Miss Amy Wessel, State Club Agent,
from University Farm, will discuss
club polisies and methods at this meet
ing.
PTA TO GIVE  HOME  TALENT
PLAY  ON   WED.   MARCH   16.
SWANBURG CHURCH
TO HOLD DEDICATION SERV. SUN.
WASHINGTON  DAY PROGRAM
HELD AT SCHOOL TUESDAY
Members of the local PTA are practicing diligently for their home talent comedy "Safety First,", which
will presented at the school auditor'
ran on Wednesday evening, March 1<*
ar 8 p. m. Admission will be 10 an<'
15e.
GOBBLER     BUMPS    OFF
BR'ER     FOX     IN     DUEL
Henning.—A thrilling battle between a vicious gobbler and a red-fox
was witnessed recently on the farm
of Andrew Hessel in Inman, according to a story told here by August T.
Olson, a neighbor. Mr. Hessel has
an unusually vicious gobbler which
had to be locked up because of its
belligerant tactics against visitors. It
appears that a hungry red-fox, bent
on getting a good meal, had gotten
into the wire enclosure which housed
Mr. Turkey. Although no one had a
ring-side seat a royal battle ensued.
This was seen when Hessel surveyed
the battle ground the following morning. There lay the dead fox and in a
corner was the live gobbler, bloody,
a bit groggy and minus only a few
tail feathers. In spite of all this, the
proud turkey has now recovered.
TOMATOES THRIVE  IN
A FURNACE ROOM IN WINTER
Buffalo Lake.—Tomatoes in January? Sure, even in February! Sound.
strange but it's true. Now don't
crowd because there aren't enough
to go around since they were grown
in only a flower pot with the nee. ss-
ary warmth furnished by a furnace.
Charlie Hammann, janitor of the local school, brought a flower pot fuil
of dirt from his home one day and
set it down in the boiler room. One-
day he noticed several sprouts coaling up. Interested in what might develop, Charlie faithfully watered and
cared for the green plant. It soon
began to look like a tomato plant, so
it was coaxed along until it blossomed. Now Mr. Hammann has a ripe
tomato in compensation for his efforts.
DANCE AND  PIE  SOCIAL
A Dance and Pie Social will be
held at the Blind Lake School on Saturday evening, Feb. 26. The Basore
Bros, orchestra will furnish the music.
Ladies are asked to bring pies. The
dance is sponsored by Mr. Hoff, teacher of the school, for the benefit of
the PTA.   Everyone Come!
The new Parish House of Faith Lutheran Church, Swanburg, will be dedicated at 11 a. m., Sunday, February
27, when Dr. P. H. Roth, president of
the Northwestern Theological Seminary, Minneapolis, will preach the sermon.
The Parish House has been completely set in order as a temporary
Chapel for the worship services of
Faith Congregation. The Lutheran
Ladies Aid has been busy preparing
new pulpit and altar hangings and
window-curtains graced with Christian Symbols in applique. The new
seats have also been completed and
everything in general put in readiness
foi  the dedication services.
A Washington Day program was
given at the local school Tuesday afternoon, sponsored by the Ladies Aux
iliary. The program opened with the
singing of the "Star Spangled Banner." Other numbers on the program
were as follows:
Music  in  George Washington's  time,
!    Violet Semmler
Reading "George Washington, by Ru-
sel | Johnson.
Song,   ...by the 1st and 2nd. graders
: Reading "Hats Off"..  2nd.&3rd grade
I Flag Drill   Fifth Grade
1 American Creed     Fourth Grade
Mt. Vernon Bells   Iris Peterson
and Dorothy  Schlager.
'Poem, "Our Washington" by four second graders
j Makers of the Flag  Muriel Huug
I Minuet       Sixth Graders
Song     Corwin Jones
The program  was  closed  by  singing
'America."
Cass County F-L
Ass'n. Hold Convention At Remer
BENSON  ACCUSES CHRISTGAU
OF DUPLICITY IN  REJECTING
WPA   WEED    ERAD.    PROJECT
THREE MEN ENTER
RACE FOR COUNTY
OFFICES THIS WK.
WHAT  A  PARTY!  EXCLAIM
A DOZEN CATS AFTER FEAST
Red Wing.—Little did one cat striding down an alley think that in a
•moment he, together with many,
cats would be having a party. Mr.
Puss strode down the alley. The early morning breezes (because the
clock struck three) ruffled his fur
and made him wl x he was inside
where it was war As he walked
along swishing his .ail and sniffing
the air he suddenly got a whiff that
made him tingle down to the end of
his tail. He stopped and sniffed again.
He was right the first time. He followed his nose, it taking him through
the open door of a store and right up
to a nice big box crammed with fish.
It didn't take him long to discover
that the box was open and to start
helping himself. Other night-wandering felines in the neighborhood must
also have sniffed the fishy tang in the
air, because before long, cats of <\V
sizes and shapes were crowding ci
and around the box. Just when the
party was at its height, there was .
heavy tread on the doorstep and th°re
stood a policeman. Some of th" i*ats
just automatically disappeared while
the officer had to usr> a littl extra , i
suasion on some of the others to part
them from their box of treats.
Within the past week, three man
have entered the race for election to
county offices. The coming election
of county officials promises to be
quite interesting this year, with all
offices with the exception of Judge of
robate, up for election. Within th"
next week or two a goodly number o*
candidates are expected to file, and
the presses will begin turning out
photos.
Iver Nystrom of Backus, has filed
for the office of County Treasurer,
which office is now held W. T .Mf-
Keown. Mr. Nystrom is a young man
of pleasing personality and has, f>r
the past year and a half, been employed in the Backus postoffice as assistant postmaster. Previous to this
he taught school for three years in
Webster, Minn. He has been a resident of Cass county for 19 years.
Anton Granby, who is a farmer residing in the southern section of the
county,, has filed for the office of Register of Deeds, which office is now
held by Leontrd Peterson. Mr. Granby is well known throughout the county having lived here for the past 40
years.
George Bonick, a well known farmer, of Boy River, has filed for the office of Clerk of Court, the office now
held by A. K. McPherson.
NOTICE
Caucus for the Township of Pine
River, will be held at the Mildred
school house on Tuesday, March 1,
1938, at 2 p. no.
C. M.  Swift, Clerk
NOTICE
Caucus will be held for the Township of Wilson on Tuesday, March 1,
1838, at 2 p. m., at the town hall.
John Deustermann
SUB-DIST. DECLAM
CONT. HELD THURS-
Auction Sale!
A Public Auction will be held
at the farm operated by Adams
and Wymore. formerly known as
the Martini place, 4 mil-s south
of Pine River on the old highway.
.on Saturday, March 5. Sale begins at 11 a. m.
Watch next weeks Journal for
a complete listing of Farm Machinery, Stock, Poultry and House
hold Articles.
The Sub-District Declamatory contest was held at the local school auditorium on Thursday evening of la3t
week. Students from Motley, Backus.
Pequot and Pine River took part.
Judges for the contest were D..
Sauer, Miss McKee and Mrs. A. C.
Clark, all of the Bemidji State Teachers college.
\\ inners in the various divisions
were as follows:
Oratorical, Robert Dubbs of Pln.
River, first, and Royal Gange of Pequot, second.
Dramatics: Audrey Doty of Pine
Hiver, first, and Lois Williams nt
Motley, second.
Humorous: Mnryln Christensen of
Pequot, first and Marjorie Collins or
Pine River, second.
After the decisions of the judges,
luncheon was served to those taking
'part.
vinners of this contest will ent.'r
the District contest at Sebeka.
PATRICK   MAGALEE
At 2:30 p. m. the Grace Lutheran
Church of Mildred will Join the Faith
Church in a Mission Service in the
new Chapel, at which time Mr. Patrick Magalee will speak. Mr. Maga-
lee Is a Hindu from this mission field
in British Guiana, South America, and
i* at present a student at Northwestern Seminary. A free-will offering
will be taken at this service to assist
him in his preparation to return as a
native pastor to his own people. The
Faith Lutheran Church invites everyone to be with them on Dedication
day.
Rev. J. E. Dehaan who is pastor of
Faith Lutheran Church, has spared
nothing to make this a banner day for
the Swanburg congregation.
NOTICE
The annual meeting of the Cass
County Fair Association will be held
on Friday evening, Feb. 25, at 8 p. m.,
ial the Farmers Supply Store.
L. W. Walton, Pres.
SECOND GROUP OF
CHECKS ARRIVE
FOR FARMERS
Another transmittal of Agricultural Conservation checks were received
Saturday, Feb. 19, at the County
Agent's office. This transmittal consisted of 176 checks tottling .$8,700.00.
Making a total of 1325 checks, amounting to $60,700.00. About seventy-
five checks are still expected and will
be here in a short time. A few have
been held up because of improper
signatures.
WHIST S:0RES FOR
SECOND ROUND
OF PLAY MON.
The second session of the annual
whist tournament, held Monday evening, proves that the card sharps are
really "out for blood. Following is a
list of the scores to date:
Lundin—T. E. Hill      75
Carlson—Meland       6-':
Rounds—Robideau    102
Downing—^F. A. Siefert 104
Shiffer—B. Robideau      98
Thompson—Fields       _•■')
Yancey—Kolb       Ill
Sherwood—Kater       120
Zigmund—Siebel    112
Offlidahl—Lien      11')
L. Carlson—C. Siefert 53
Schuster— Ritchie   120
Fred Carlson—Kotka    73
E.   Rovik—Seaton       12!)
Henderson—H.   Kline       11-
O.   Rovik—Triggs       10-!
D. McAllister—Bremkin     79
Dingle—Biever       101
Lundrigan—L.  Kline   ..,    low
Button—P. Hanson    9"
Haack—Fraser      9'.
Luscher—Way    64
Heemstra—Dubbs   9">
Hickle—Bud Kline      S5
Sherwood and Kater, Schuster and
Ritchie and Rovik and Seaton all /if
foi top honors with 120 points to their
credit.
P. R. PIRATES DEFEAT HACKENSACK
On Thursday evening of last week
the Pine River Pirates defeated the
Hackensack All-Stars at Hackensack
3,v33. The score indicates the close
ness of the game. Both teams weje
on a basket-shooting spree and it was
nobodys game until the fina' whistle
blew. Elmer Christensen of the Pirates was high-point man for the evening with 16 points to his credit.
NOTICE  OF   BIDS
The Board of Education of Independent District No. 19, will receive
bids for two (2) school bus bodies, on
Wednesday, March 9, 1938. One bus
t« be seventeen (17) feet long and
eight (8) feet wide. Center row seats
t be facing forward and lengthwise
side seats. One bus to be nineteen
(19) feet long and eight (8) feet wide,
with same style seating.
Both buses to conform with th-'
State Board of Education requirements for school bus transportation.
The board reserves the right to reject
any and all bids.
Supt. Otto Haack
The United States Department oi
Agriculture not only recommends a
WPA weed eradication project for
Minnesota farmers, which State Pub
lie Works Administrator,Victor Christ
gau rejected, but hold such a projec:
as desirable.
This  was revealed  this    week    b
Governor Benson, who made public a
letter  from  Paul  H.  Appleby,  assistant to Sec. of Agriculture, Henry A.
Wallace.
"The Appleby letter," Governoi
Benson said, "exposes Victor Christ
gau's duplicity in disapproving a WPA
weed eradication project for Minnesota, farmers. His objections to the
state project are thus completly exploded by the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture,
behind which he has tried to hide. Mr.
Christgau is unable to pass the buck
for knifing the project which, unlike
most WPA projects,, is for the direct
benefit to agriculture and to the farmers of this state."
Christgau, the Governor charged,
used as a ruse to defeat the project
the excuse that the U. S. Dept. of
Agriculture specializes in weed eradication. Appleby declared that the
iChristgau statement to that effect is
not correct, that the Dept. conducts a
"research in the field of weed eradication but does not engage in nay
•"action" program. Christgau was
aware of that fact at the time that
;he rejected the project, Gov. Benson
alleges.
The Governor stated that the fight
for a WPA weed eradication program
for Minnesota farmers is far from over and that he had confidence in its
ultimate approval by Washington regardless of Chrlstgau's efforts to
•block it.
Gov. Benson, it is known, has appealed direct to Washington to get
approval of the project.
Minnesota's delegation to Congress
this   week   also   became   active   and
•have gone to the front to get the project approved over Christgau's head.
—Dept. of Agriculture
HONOR  ROLL
The following new and re-newal
subscriptions to the Journal have
been received the past week.
Look at the label on your paper,
if you are in arrears, stop in and see
■ is.
T.  H.  Adamson, Mildred
John H. White, Pine River
Angelo Volk, Pine River
ABE PAJUMPA TO
ADDRESS FARM B.
|'<p a  Want Ad
Abe A. Pajumpa, Secretary of the
Pequot Creamery Association, and
prominent in various cooperative
movements and other farm organizations, will be the principle speaker
at the Pillager Farm Bureau meeting
to be held on Friday of this week.
Mr. Pajumpa will discuss "History
and Principles of the Cooperative
Movement." The meeting will be
held at the Woodman hall.
The Cass County Farmer-Labor
Association held their convention on
Saturday, February 19, at Remer,
with about 90 members present and
about 90 visitors. The meeting was
called to order by chairman Ed. Trombley of Remer, after which acting
chairman, Abe Pajumpa of Pine River took charge.
Senator McLeod of Grand Rapids
was present and spoke on his record
while in office. He declined to state
whether he would file for re-election
this year or not. Mr. McLeod also
gave an interesting explanation of the
purpose of the additional one cent gas
tax that was added last year. He stated that benefits of the additional revenue were derived In northern Minnesota road construction which explains the strenuous opposition given
the bill in the southern part of the
state, inasmuch as their road program had been completed. This additional one-cent tax kept hundreds of
men employed in the northern part
of the state this year.
Edward  Trombley   of  Remer,  past
chairman of the Cass County F-L Association, gave a short talk advocat-
I ing a change in county leadership and
j cited benefits that could be gained. He
also discussed matters of importance
\ concerning his tenure    in    office    as
I county  chairman  and commented  on
' decisions of the supreme court. He also  explained the  Mortgage Moratorium Law, citing the fact that Minnesota was the first state in the U. S.
to pass a law of this kind.
I    Short talks were    also    given    by
I Att.  Anderson of Grand Rapids, and
Mr.  Barnes,  Secretary of the Itaska
County    Farmer-Labor      Association,
who explained needs and benefits of
the   movement.   He   also   urged   that
delegates   from   Cass   County   attend
the itaska county convention    to   be
held on Saturday, March 5.
Members of the Unit also went on
record to endorse Elmer A. Benson
I for Governor; Mr. Lyons for State
! Auditor and Louis Herflndahl for
Railroad and Warehouse Commissioner. Several other endorsements were
also made for minor offices.
The following delegates and alternates were elected to attend the State
Convention to be held on Friday and
Saturday, March 25 and 26:
Sewell riritton, Pillager and Earl
Laporte, alternate.
Abe Pajumpa, I'ine River, and G. P.
Rognlie, alternate.
Ed. Trombley,    Remer,    and
Trombley, alternate.
Carl   Engstrand,   Brevlk,   and
Hanson, Cass Lake, alternate.
John Vangen, Longville, and
Anderson, Boy Lake,  alternate.
Mrs. A.  W. Siltman,    Poplar,
Paul Swehla, alternate.
Harry Paddock of Walker and Mr.
Crandall of Longville, were also nominated as candidates but declined
the nomination.
A Credential Committee composed
of John Royal of Pine River, Harry
Paddock of Walker and E. M. Granger of Leader, was appointed.
The Weed Eradication project that
has become more or less of a bone of
contention between Governor Benson
and Victor Christgau, was discussed
to some extent which is explained in
another article on this page.
Mrs
Mr.
Olaf
and
FEATURES YOU WILL LIKE
Lemuel F. Parton's "Who's
News This Week" discusses Pert-
inax, the brilliant French journalist who always dissents from
popular opinion—and is always
right.
Old Timer, S'matter Pop's
young hopefull, points to trouble
on the Funny Page. A whole barrage of laughs for all the family.
A thrill a minute In George Agnew Chamberlain's new serial story,  "Under  Pressure."
Henry Bostwick, who has spent
some time In Illinois, returned home
Friday.