The Pine River Journal (Pine River, Minnesota), 1938-03-24

              PINE RIVER JOURNAL
VOLUME III NUMBER 33
THE PINE RIVER JOURNAL,  PINS  RIVER,   CASS  COUNTY,  MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 193S
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Largest  Crowd
In History At Fiddlers Contest Sat.
Perhaps one of the finest "get to-
gethers" of the Gth district was held
Saturday night at the armory, honoring all past VFW commanders in the
6th. district at a banquet, followed
by the Old Time Fiddlers contest and
dance.
The afternoon was spent in a!
round-table discussion under the leadership of Mrs. Margaret Butler for
the Auxiliary, and a district business
meeting for delegates from the various posts, with Mr. Fleisher in char-,
ge.
The VFW and their Auxiliaries, also the Daughters of the VFW representing their orders (frora Staples,
Little Falls, Brainerd, Onamia, Mlla-
ca, Hackensack, For: Ripley, Aitkin.
Longville, Crookston, St Paul, Minneapolis, jMora, Mankato, St Cloud, H'll-,
man and Walker were present.
The Roy Lee VFW and Auxiliary
were very proud to haver'.fite followi ig !
national department and district o i
cers present: Past Dept. Com. A?-
chie Niemans, Sr. Dept. Vice Com. i.
A. Riesch, Dept. Sr. Vice Com. in
Chief Andrew Hawkins, Dept. Poppy
Chairman W. C. Goerner Dept. Insp.
E. G. Burdick, Dept. Officer of the
Day L. F. Holmes, Grand Com. of
the M. O. O, Rollo Mudge, Depl Chief j
of Staff Margaret Butler, Past _jept.:
Pres. Mrs. Archie Niemans, Editor
A. A. Dietrich Don Findely, R. W
Swan, also A. O. Anderson of Amputation Post, all of Minneapolis;
Chair, of Fort Snoring hospital Ann
Williams, 4th Dist. Com. Frank It
Williams of St Paul, Dept. __u}ir. of
Jr. Activities A. P. Qni-n and 01S1
Com    (!hn ' of  Brainerd :
_th   Dist    Com     O.   C   Norlieel;   and
I   • ' ' • of of C ■
ston,  2nd   DiSf.   C    i.   F a  k   i'>  rs* ;
of Mankato and Supreme Commander
Gust Annis  of the    Seam    Squirrels,
Minnesota  order   of  Coaties  from  St
Cloud.
A Delicious turkey dinner was served to about ISO people, including
such honorary guests as Maj. H. C.
Skinner, members of the village council, the judges and also the winners
in the recent essay   contest.
Many fine compliments circulated'
around the banquet tables on the fine
culinary ability of Mesdames Bert'ia
Robideau, Vane Jones, and Peter Hanson who had charge of preparing the
meal; also on the splendid manna;-
in which Miss Sorum's Home Eco.
class waited on tables.
John Galarneault of Aitkin, acted
as toastmaster and Margaret Butler
of Minneapolis as toastmistress. After-dinner speeches were in order by
many distinguished guests. Harry F.
Ames of Onamia, rendered several of
his famous "Dutch readings" between
courses.
Special honors were accorded Kate
Nelson and Mary Jones, two gold star
mothers.
Mrs. Wolfrank presented the priz >
winners in the recant essay contest
on the "Constitution" sponsored by
the Aux., with the awards as follows:
Doris Lantz, $1.00, James Boyce 50c.
The Auxiliary wishes to thank the
judges, Mr. Henuerson, Mr. Jones and
Mrs. Austin for their fine cooperation.
The Minn. VFW trophy which wil'
be presented to the champion soft ball
team at the state convention in Man
kato was on display.
Following the    banquet,    everyone
joined the crowd on the    first    floo"
where   the   Fiddler's   contest  was   in
progress.    Prize  winn ts in  this con
test  were  as  follows:   Violin, 1st.  to
Dorothy   Scleiger,   _:id   James   Ware
3rd. was a tie between Roy Mitchell
A. E. Ellestad and Kenneth  Burfield
Accordian,  1st.  Lawrence   Pulse,  2nd
Frances Bredson, 3rd Geo. Swartz. A
total  of  thirty  dollars  was award.d
the contestants.    The door prize was ;
won by Lloyd Wade of Backus. After
the contest, dancing was enjoyed .wit')
music furnished by the winners.
The Lndies .Mix. served lunch thru-
out the evening. Tha candy and fan
cy work booths were attractive and
netted a nice bit of change. The table
cloth was won bv .>Irs. Ted Hill and
the fancy pillow bv Mrs. B. L. Shiffer
The VFW and Aux wish to extend
their thanks to th" public for thei"
patronac"   fl    ' ••■ii',.    to    Tom
Ethridge   Toe N r'      : (If     g" "
who waited on tables, for the splen
did assistance they rendered.
The evening was a success in everyway and those in charge should be
highly complimented for their untiring efforts.
LOAD   RESTRICTIONS  GUARD
ROADS  IN  SPRING  BREAK-UP
GRASSHOPPER CONTROL  MEETING   HELD     LAST     FRIDAY
A very interesting Grasshopper control meeting was held on Friday of
last week at the court house in Walk-
ei, at which time H. L .Parton, Extension Entomologist of the University Farm, spoke to1 a groupv of about
40 farmers who were interested in
learning of what steps could be taken in combatting an infestation.
Mr. Parten outlined the type of
organization that should be set up
and the duties of the various mem
bers, emphasizing the importance of
getting started on the work at an early date.
The life history, habits, life cycle
and kinds of grasshoppers were discussed. Mr. Parten also discussed
the mixing of bait and proper mech i
ods of scattering. He stated that
there is very little danger of poisoning livestock when the bait is properly scattered.
It is fortunate that this meeting
could be held so early in the season
as there are indications that there
will be a more severe infestation of
grasshoppers during the coming sea
son than that of last year.
Load and weight restriction warnings were being posted this week on
gravel and lighter surfaced routes in
preparation against the inevitable
•'spring break-nii" that annually causes trouble on hundreds of miles of
trunk highways.
This spring, according to N. W. Elsberg, the highway department is offering an expanded road information
service which will give greater protection to highways in danger of
breaking up, yet which will, at the
same time guard highway users
against  inconvenience.
Under the new set-up, the central
office of the highway department in
St Paul has available 24 hours in advance the highways which are to be
posted against load limits. Anyone
may call the office after 10 a. m. for
information.
EDUCATIONAL   MEETINGS   IN
CASS  COUNTY  THIS   WEEK
"YELLOW SHADOW" TOBE PRESENTED FRIDAY
GOV. BENSON TO
SPEAK OVER RA-
HOOK-UPFRI.
Gov. Benson to speak oin conv hook..
State-wide hook-ups will carry two
radio broadcasts by Governor Elmer
A. Benson, during the state Farmer-
Labor convention in Duluth.
Gov. Benson, speaking to the convention assembled in the armory, will
be on the air from B:15 to 4 p. m. on
Friday, March 25. Stations carrying
the broadcasts will be WEBC, Duluth,
KDAL Duluth, WNLB Virginia, WMF-
G Hibbing, KSTP Minneapolis-St Paul
WMIN, Minneapolis-St Paul, WDAY
Fargo, KROC Rochester and KGDE
Fergus Falls.
The Minnesota Chief Executive will
again be on the air for a 15 minute
period, when he addresses a banquet
of the Minnesota Farmer Labor Women's Federation at the ball room,
New Duluth hotel, from 7:15 to 7:30
p. m. on the same day. WEBC Duluth and WCCO Minneapolis, will carry the broadcast.
WHIST SCORES
Whist Scores	
Carlson—McLane    ,.   264
Lundin—Hill    261
Robideau—Rounds    <    401
Downing—Siefert       382
Shiffer—Robideau       305
Thompson—Fields     338
Yancey—Kolb      390
Sherwood—Kater  _ 338
Zigmund—Siebel     390
Oftedahl—Lien   -    106
L.  Carlson—C. Siefert     300
Schuster—Ritchie       39 i
F.  Carlson—Kotka    271
E.  Rovik—Seaton       413
Butler—H.  Kline    328
O    Rovik—Triggs       342
McAllister—Bremkin  320
Dingle Biever      350
Lundrigan—L. Klein  , 337
Luscher—Way     278
Heemstra—Dubbs       338
F.ickle—Kline      274
Haack—Fraser      35 I
Button—Hanson     339
HONOR   ROLL
The following new and re-newal
ijnhscfiplions to the Journal have
! een  received the past week.
I.mil; nt the label on your paper,
•■'• i" Mvrejn-.. stnp in and se^
lis,
H. B. Schenck, Hackensack
Preparations and costumes for ihe
Junior class play "The Yellow Sna-
dow" are being completed and everything will be in readiness Friday afternoon when the class will give the
first performance at the school auditorium. They will also give the play
Friday evening at 8 p. m. Admission
is 15c and 35c.
The students have put in many long
hours of practice and assure you of
an excellent performance. It is a
comedy-mystery play and promises to
be of interest to both young and old.
Following is a list of characters:
Mildred Marvin  . ..  Gwendolyn Engel
Gilbert Wright     Oscar Fisher
Herbert   Marvin       Bill   Cromett
Jed Travis    Orlo Trude
Alice Perkins    Rose Evans
Hazel Wayne  Edna Shiffer
&heri:'f Macklin      Floyd Stanley
Jennie   Steele   ..   Margaret  Robideau
Nel  Tra"t-is       Joyce Read
Wong Son   Fred Silbough
Auction
A public Auction Sale will be
held at the Elias Carey Farm,
1 1-2 miles South and 1 1-2 miles
West of Pine River, on Thurs-
March   24,   beginning   at   1   p.   m.
The sale includes 4 Head of
Good Work Horses, some cattle,
and a complete line of farm machinery.- W. A. Seaton of Pine
River will cry the auction. Look
over the ad on another page of
this issue.
Nineteen educational meetings are
being held throughout the county during the week of March 21. at which
time the new Agricultural Conservation Program will be explained to
farmers. Crop rotation systems will
also be discussed at the meetings. By
holding a large number of meetings
it is hoped to reach a large majority
of farmers with the program explanation which in turn should result in a
high percentage of participation as
the program fits in well with this type
of farming. A new method of educational work on the program was tried
this year in sending each farmer of
the county a seven page explanation
of the main features of the program
as it pertains to the county. It is
hoped that this letter will be used to
good advantage by farmers for reference.
It is estimated that individual soil
depleting allotments will be made up
and a notice sent to each farmer by
April 15.
Commercial Club
Re-organized At
Banquet Tues. Eve
WPA TO  REPAIR TELE.  LINES
IN  CROOKED  LAKE TOWNSHIP
Telephone service in Crooked Lake
Township, Cass county, will be greatly improved when the WPA project
now in operation is completed. A
.crew of fifteen workers were assigned March 14, by the Brainerd office
of A. T. Gilbertson to the work of re
placing and resetting poles,cross arms
and insulators.
The project is to continue as relief
labor and federal work relief funds
are available, according to Mr. Christgau, state administrator, who approv-
e<.; its operation after limiting the
funds to be expended to approximate-
$1,900.
NEWS BRIEFS OF
INTEREST FROM
'ROUND THE STATE
MAN
IN    A
CARDS
HURRY,
AT     A
MAILS
FIRE   BOX
EASY  WINTER
COST     OF
LOWERS THE
SNOW     REMOVA-
Nature, the earler part of this winter, has been kind to the taxpayers'
pocketbooks by with-holding the fierce storms that tore across Minnesota a year ago and caused the Minnesota Highway department's snow
removal fleet to burn up dollars to
keep the trunk highways open.
' In November, December and January, this winter, snow removal costs
totaled $231,018.02, as against some
$327,460.70 for the same period last
year.
One storm in April alone, last year
post the department's maintenaace
division $191,115.91 in snow removal
costs. ,
The safety division of the Highway
department points out, however, that
in Minnesota as a whole, the pedestrian death rate will run lower than
in Minneapolis, as traffic, both foot
and motorized, is lighter in the rural
districts.
Moorhead.—He was in a hurry and
the route from Iowa to North Dakota
i; long. This courist had a couple
o* postcaids he wanted to mail, so
he stopped his car in the local business district, ran to a box on the corner and deposited the cards. Then
he drove on, little knowing what excitement he had caused. Within a
few minutes a fire truck siren scream
ing, dashed to the corner. P. N. Pederson, local fireman, had heard all
about it, however, and walked nonchalantly to the box, pull out the
cards, closed the door, and the fire
truck returned home. Thanks to the
fireman who took the cards to the
postoffice, the traveler's wife in Iowa will hear that her husband Is
is fine and nearing the end of his jour
ney, but she won't know the messages
were mailed in a fire alarm box.
REMER COUPLE ARE  MARRIED
IN     A     HOSPITAL     ROOM
Grand Rapids.—Being confined to a
bed is not enough reason to keep one
young man from being married and
his wedding in a local hospital caused so much excitement that the priest
departed for home wearing the best
man's hat.' The unusual wedding took
place here when Miss Lillian McGlade
of Remer, became the bride of J.
Ward Ozbun also of Remer. The ceremony was performed in the Itaska
hospital with the groom in the bed
to which he has been confined for
the past two months suffering from
severe burns. The couple planned
first to be married in January, but
the event was postponed because of
the accidental burns suffered by the
bridegroom. An effort to have the
marriage on the date first selected
but in the hospital, was prevented because of Mr. Ozbun's serious condition. Now that he is recovering from
his injuries, it was decided no more
time should be lost. So with Mr. and
Mrs. Swentkoske of Remer as attendants and the Rev. Father Spellman
of Federal Dam reading the ceremony
the two were wed.
Some thirty four business men of
Pine River gathered at the Lake Region hotel Tuesday evening, where
they enjoyed a dinner and reorganized the club.
The meeting was called to order
oy pres. Grant Bergstrom immediately after the dinner was completed.
Short talks were given by A. J. Linden, Maj. H. C. Skinner, Arthur
Thompson, the new depot agent, J.
W. King, who operates a new grocery
store, Rev. Father Crowe, Rev. H. E.
Peterson and Supt. Haack. Suggestions were made by these gentlemen a3
to the functions of the club and ways
i and means of keeping the organization active at all times.
It was decided to hold a dinner and
•meeting similar to the one Tuesday
evening, the third Tuesday in every
month at the Lake Region hotel.
A
Harris Zigmund, local director of
the Paul Bunyan Association, gave a
short talk explaining that the fund for
contribution to the Association from
Pine River was short the sum of six
dollars and asked what steps could
be taking to raise this amount and
whether or not Pine River wished to
be included this year. Upon motion,
the hat was passed and a sufficient
sum to take care of this was raised
immediately.
The following officers were then
elected" to head the club for the coming year:
President    Don Lundrigan
..Vice President .. Arthur Thompson
Secretary Grant Bergstrom
Treasurer ..;.    J. O. Brezinsky
Paul Bunyan Dir., Dr. A. N. Meland
Upon'motion made by Arvid Lundin, it was decided that no dues would
be levied.
S. W. Johnson, a prominent farmer
from Ansel township was present to
explain the road situation from nis
district. He stated that the road
from Ansel township, connecting
with "No. 64, was in such a deplorable
state that it is practically impossible
for farmers living out there to get'
to Pine River, especially during the
winter and spring. Wadena county
has built a fine road to the Cass co.
line and is making a strong bid for
business in this territory, making it
very pleasant for these farmers to
do their trading in Staples, Sebeka
or any of the other' towns. However,
these farmers have made known their
desire to trade in Pine River and ire
asking the cooperation of the village
in repairing and putting six miles of I
road from their township to No. 64
in condition for travel. Their is also
a good possibility of this road being
taking over by the state providing it
is sufficiently improved to warrant
acceptance. This would relieve the
county of all maintenance on this
road and in due time give us a good
highway. This would furnish the
west side of the county with a good
road into Pine River. Co. Com. John
Olson was invited to be present at
the meeting to discuss this matter,
but for some reason was unable to
attend. It was decided to appoint a
committee to investigate the situation
and do everything possible to bring
about this improvement.
The next meeting will be held on
Tuesday evening, April 19, at the
Lake Region hotel.
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