The Pine River Journal (Pine River, Minnesota), 1937-10-21

              PINE RIVER JOURNAL
VOLUME III NUMBER 11.
THE PINE RIVER JOURNAL, PINE RIVER,  CASS  COUNTY,  MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1937
SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 Per Year
NEWS BRIEFS OF
INTEREST FROM
'ROUND THE STATE
BOY     LOSES     BET     AFTER
/       EATING      25      HAMBURGERS
Sleepy Eye.—A telephone call asking him to come home just as he war
downing his twenty-fifth hamburgei
in a local shop cost Roy Neal Jr. at
the Sleepy Eye public school, exact
ly $2.75. Roy hail made a wager with
Bruce Patterson that he could eat 3C
hamburgers In an hour and a half and
if he failed to do so, would pay Bruce
1.50 and also stand the expense of
the sandwiches. When an hour and
five minutes had elapsed, Roy had
consumed twenty-five hamburgers,
which had been washed down with
three glasses of root beer and two
{(lasses of watiV. (Spectators said
that Roy would have reached his
goal, had he not been called home in
the midst of his meal.
DOG
DIES     AND     LIVES
AGAIN     ON     SAME     DAY
Hastings.—It is said that the Irish
die hard and Stanley Meeker found
It to be true of his dog, Pat, who
who died and came to life again all
In one day. Pat, a black Labrador
setter, In a playful mood swallowed
his hard ball one day. When the ball
lodged in Pat's throat he fought to
get rid of it, but it stuck tight and
while on the way to the doctor the
dog died. The doctor removed the
ball with an instrument and after examining the animal's tongue and observing that the heart beat had stopped, pronounced the dog dead. Kenneth Meeker,, who had accompanied
his brother on his sad mission, began
giving artificial respiration treatments to Pat. A short time later,
with the doctor's help, Pat's heart
began to beat and he was soon able
to get to his feet. Ten minutes later he was again romping with his
ball, so his master is thinking of getting him a football.
P. R. HIGH SCHOOL
CARNIVAL TO BE I
HELD FRI. OCT. 29
An Albino garter snake which was
found by K. P. Coswell of Hokah, has
been turned, over to the* U. of M. for
examination.
SCHOOL TAX LEVY
REDUCED TWO
MILLS THIS YR.
MAN   DRIVES  TWENTY   MILES
WITH CASTING PLUG IN  HIS EYE
Mahnomen.—Ted Wold is congra^
tulating himself this week upon retaining his eyesight following an unusual experience which made it necessary for him to go twenty miles to
a physician to have a casting plug
removed from his eye. Pishing recently at White Earth Lake, one
member of the fishing party in making a cast, swung his line so that the
wooden plug, containing a gang of
three hooks came in contact with
Wold's eye, while he was leaning over his tackle box. The hook passed
through the eyelid and became imbedded in the bone directly above the
eye. The men set off for shore immediately and drove twenty miles to
Mahnomen, where a physician removed the hook.
COUNTY AG. EX.
MEETING IN PINE R.
A county agricultural extension
planning meeting was held in Pine River recently, at which time a very
good representative group of farmers and their wives met to outline
a program of extension work for the
coming year and to select committees
to help further outline the methods
and procedures for carrying out .various projects.
MAGIC  TRICK   BOOKS  TO
BE    GIVEN    AWAY    FREE
The Pine River Journal is cooperating with the local merchants and the
Quaker Oats Co., in making available
FREE Trick Books to the children of
this community. These trick books
offer a world of entertainment and
will prove a real source of enjoyment
to everyone getting one.
To get them you simply cut the
trade mark (the picture of the Quaker man) from one large or two small
packages of Quaker Oats and bring
them to the office of the Pint; River
Journal and you will receive your
copy of the Trick Book absolutely
FREE.
1 Mrs. Cecil Carlson spent Sunday
at the home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Swan Ness.
The tax mill levy for the local
school was set on Wednesday evening
of last week by the local board. The
levy for the coming year for school
purposes will be 82 mills, which is
2 mills less than last year's levy. In
spite of the fact that school operating
and maintenance expenses have been
increased some $4,000.00 this year due
to added attendance and other necessary costs, the Board, together with
Superintendent Haack, have' been able
through state aids and tuitions paid
into the school treasury, to reduce
the mill levy 2 mills which in the
aggregate amounts to a sizeable sum
to local taxpayers.
RUSSELL'S CR'Y.
TRUCK WRECKED
TUESDAY EVE.
The annual Pine River High School
Carnival will be held at the local armory on Friday evening, October 29.
Indications are that this will be the;
biggest and best Carnival ever staged;
by the local school. Members of the|
'faculty are in charge of the various'
attractions, with Mr. Henderson heading the group, and are spareing nothing in the line of entertainment. A
lot of beautiful and useful prizes will-
also be given away at the Carnival
to the lucky persons—be there to
get yours.
A complete vaudeville show will be
given on the main floor which no one
can afford to miss. After the show
is over a Jitney Dance will be held
with Larry Mengen's well-known orchestra furnishing the music. FREE
novelty hats will be given away at the
check room.
The basement will be lined with
booths of all sorts; hot dog stand,
tea garden, shooting gallery and many
other places of interest you just
can't afford to miss. Don't forget
the corn game—try your luck and'
win a beautiful blanket, table spread,
tea set, electric percolator, toaster,
lamp or any of a dozen other prizes
that will go to the winners.
The local business men have donated very generously to make this
Carnival a huge success. Practically
every business place in town is represented on the prize list.
General admission is only 10c—
watch for the posters which are being
printed this week.
Activity tickets are good for tha
carnival—buy yours now ! Don't forget the date and the place.
LONG AND SHORT OF EDUCATION
BIRTHDAY  CLUB   MEETS
The Birthday Club met on Monday,
ac the home of Mrs. Ollie Dahl on
Norway Lake. A delicious one o'clock dinner was served, after which
the honored guest was presented with
a gift in remembrance of the dav.
PICTURES   TAKEN   OF   OLD
SCHOOL   AND   STUDENTS   FRI,
LAKES CLOSED
FOR NETTING
LISTED BELOW
' A goodly number of students who
attended school in the old building,
which is being razed, gathered Friday
and had pictures taken in front of the
old school building. The entire crowd
were guests at the Paul Bunyan Cafe
where they enjoyed a lunch and talked over old times, after their pho-
graphic adventure.
ACTIVITY  TICKETS  ON  SALE
BY  PINE   RIVER  STUDENTS
Joe Muller, who drives the Russel
Creamery truck throuhg Pine River,
met with a serious accident near
Hackensack Tuesday evening. The
accident occurred about 8 p. m., as
Muller was enroute home after making his daily run. It seems that a
car started across the highway in
front of the truc_ and in trying to
avoid a direct smashup, Muller swerved to one side to miss the car. In
so doing he hit the ditch, turning over
three times. Mr. Muller was quite
seriously injured in the legs and received several serious cuts about the
body and face. He was rushed immediately to the Walker hospital,
*whre it was stated he will recover.
Supt. Haack informed us this week
that Activity Tickets, taking care of
school entertainments and athletics
are now on sale. The ticket will entitle the holder to admission to all
athletic game* "id other school entertainment features. Adult tickets
are priced at 1.50 and student tickets
at 1.00. A considerable saving can
be made by purchasing these tickets
now rather than paying a separate admission to school functions.
Perpendicularly its a long way be
tween freshmen of the N. D. Ag. College. At left is Clement Erickson of
Donybrook, who is an;even 7 feet, and
at right is Olger Huss of Aneta, who
is only 4 ft. 10 in. i tall.
MARLOW OFFERS
SPECIAL FEATURES
THIS WEEK-END
6 MEN FINED FOR
HUNTING VIOLATION
Mr. and Mrs. H. A. York left on
Tuesday for Iowa, where they will
visit at their old home before continuing their trip to the west coast,
where they will spend the winter
months.
Local Game Warden Heuer reports
the apprehension of six game law violators in this localty so far this year.
Five men were taken for shooting after hours and one for hunting without a license. The five men shooting
after hours were taken before Justice
W. G. Stewart and paid fines and
costs totalling .$67. The gentleman
shooting without a license was taken
before the justice in Backus and received a suspended fine of $10., and
his gun was taken.
Warden Heuer states that although
there has been some after hour shooting he has found no one exceeding,
the bag limit as yet.
Fun and thrills for the whole family is promised by "Penrod and Sam,"
the comedy-drama screened from the
famous novel by Booth Tarkington,
which plays at the Marlow theatre on
Friday and Saturday of this week.
Those two adventuresome youngsters, who are of the Huckleberry
Finn-Tom Sawyer type, have long
been favorites in literature, and their
exploits on the screen are expected to
win  them millions  of new  admirers.
They are regular American small-
t ;wn boys, heads of a "gang" about
which they are very mysterious. But
it isn't really a gang in the evil sense of the word. As a matted of fact
they are "Junior G Men of America,"
and they right wrongs and capture
some bad bank bandits in real G-Man
manner.
The cast Includes Billy Maueh and
Harry Watson, both 12 years old. The
part of the parents is taken by Frank
Craven and  Spring Byngton.
On Sunday Monday and Tuesday,
the Marlow brings you "50 Roads To
Town," with Don Ameche, Ann Soth-
ern, Slim Summerville and a host of
supporting characters. The story
takes place after Don Ameche and
Ann Sothern, in separate automobiles
are chased by Paul Hurst, a speed
cop. After completing the thrill actir
on the picture settles down to a farce
comedy of mistaken identity and love.
Don Ameche leaves town to get away
from a divorce mess and Miss Sothern
leaves on an elopement date. Later
the two are brought together in a
mountain cabin, From then on things
begin to happen. They finally find
out the truth about each other which
brings the story to a happy close.
For a lot of fun and. excitement,
don't fail to miss this thrilling story
and screen play with a supporting
cast including Allan Lane Jane Dar-
well and Stepin Fetchit.
Thursday nite brings you another
double feature—two full lenghth pictures for the price of one.
BI-DISTRICT TOUCH  FOOTBALL
LEAGUE     STANDINGS
Due to the inaccuracy of the reports that have come in concerning
the scores of games played and standings of teams, the 'following list ia
being published:
Marihuana cigarets and making s seized by police in < Twin Cities
Pequot
5
0
1000
Pine   River
3
2
600
Backus
2
3
400
Motley
0
5
000
South | half
!
School
Won
Lost
Perc.
Walker
3
tied
800
Hackensack
3
tied
600
NOTICE
COLLISION WITH
HORSE OCCURS
THURSDAY EVE.
■ Mr. and Mrs. James Skinner met
'with an unfortunate accident Thurs-
turday, about three and one half mi>-
les east of Pine River. They unavoidably _it a horse, killing the animal
and damaged their car considerably.
Mrs. Skinner received several bad
cuts about the face and hands. They
were returning home after a visit with
relatives.
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
us.
Wm. Kotka, Pine River
Homer Fraser, Pine River
Lon Fields,  Pine River
Don Lundrigan, Pine River
Ben Hourigan, Pine River
;   Verne MacKinney, Zion City, 111.
Geo. Briley, Pine River
N. D.  Sherwood, Pine River
Andrew  Gish,   Pequot
Francis  Siefert, Pine RiVer
Mrs. John Kater, Pine River
Tom Ethridge, Pine River
Dr. Johnson,   Pine  River
Crometts Cafe, Pine River
Bernice Teicher, Pine River
Minn. Utilities Co. Pine River
NEW SOIL CONSER.
PROGRAM STARTED
' The Mildred Cooperative Poultry
'and Berry Association will hold its
'annual meeting at the Mildred school
'on Saturday, October 23, at 1:30 p.
in. All members should be present.
Clarence Lesher, Sec.
New   Soil   Conser.   Prog,   start   	
. At a recent meeting of committeemen and farm reporters, a few features of the 1938 Soil Conservation
Program were presented as well as
preliminary procedure for carrying
out the program. This program is
similar to the procedure of the others. "The same principles are involved," says county agent, Oscar Nelson.
"The program will be much simpler
for farmers to understand in that
soil depleting limits are used instead
of soil depleting bases and soil conserving controls are simply the difference between soil depleting limits and total crop -acres. Very little
(information can be given out on the
program as some of the details have
not been worked out."
» Good farm management practices
will be considered a major point in
the extension of soil depleting limits
under the program. Farm reporters
are now busy scoring the fields of
every farm in the county with regard
to slope of land, degree of erosion,
inherent productivity, and present
productivity of the soil. This information will be used in determining
soil depleting limits and soil depleting controls for each farm in the
county by the county committeemen
in the near future. Committer! meetings will be held for the purpose of
explaining the program to farmers
end electing committeemen to represent them in carrying out the program. Getting the work under way
in the fall of the year enables the
committee to inform farmers of their
soil depleting limits and any procedure that needs to be carried out under the program
Work on the 1937 program is progressing rapidly but it is not known
how soon applications for raynient
may be available for the farmer's
signatures.
Mrs. Joe Dagen and son of Morton,
Minn., spent Sunday at the Herb
Kline home.
The following waters are closed to
the taking of Whitefish, Tullibees,
and Herring by means of nets during the season of 1937 in the counties
of Cass and Crow Wing, viz:
Cass County
■ Little Boy. Mule, Pine Mountain,
Big Thunder Ten Mile, Wabedo, Cass,
Pleasant or Little Whitefish, Woman
Lake, and connecting waters, Lake
tieorge and Washburn Lake and connecting waters to Mitchell Lake,
Leech lake closed Except: The waters
comprised within the area bounded by
a line drawn from Cedar Point north
to Squaw Point and from Ottertail
Point south to Stony Point. All ot
the area east of a line drawn from
Five Mile Point south by Bear Island
to Diamond Point.
Cassl and Crow Wing Counties
Bay,  Upper  Gull,  Mayo,  Margaret,
Sibley, Wilson, Gull (Except nets may
be set and lifted only between hours
of 7 a. m. and 5 p. m.)
Crow Wing County
Bertha, Mud or Arrowhead, Black
Bear Sec. 31, T 135, R. 39, Camp
(Crooked) Clamshell, Clearwater,
Cross, Dagget, Eagle, Goodrich, Lower
Hay, Upper Hay, Kenny, Long (2) SE.
of Brainerd, Loon, Miller Sec. 31-135-
29, Mitchell, Nokay, O'Brien, Ox, Big
Pelican, Little Pelican, Lower Pine,
Upper Pine, Pickerel (Cross Lake
itefuge), Pig, Platte, Rush, Big Trout,
Big Whitefish and Little Whitefish.
For a complete list of closed lakes
in the state see your local game Warden.
From a ruling by the Attorney General it is illegal to use an ordinary
row boat when hunting wild ducks or
other migratory waterfowl if a moor, is in the boat even though it may
be removed from actual possible operation. A motor may be used to go
to and from the hunting grounds but
the motor must be removed and placed on shore before any shooting is
done.
NO MOTOR IN BOATS
DEER SEASON
There will be a deer season from
November 20 to 25, both dates inclusive. Hunting will be allowed in the
following counties from sunrise to
sunset: Cook, Lake, St Louis, Carlton, Pine, Aitkin, Koochiching, Hubbard, Clearwater, Beltrami, Lake or
the Woods, Rosseau, all of that portion of Kittson and Marshall counties
lying east of the Minneapolis and St
Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railroaa
line from the northern boundary of
Kittson county to the southern boundary of Marshall county, and all or
that portion of Cass county lying
north of the line between townships
138 and 139 (Not including any portion of Townships 138) and that portion of Kanabec county lying north ot
the line between Townships 40 and
41. All other counties closed.
Limit
One deer of either sex or of any
age. Deer taken must be removed
from point taken and transported to
final destination within TWO days after the close of the open season.
BIRTHDAY CLUB  GOES TO
BRAINERD ON WEDNESDAY
1 The Birthday Club Journeyed to
Brainerd Wednesday.where they were
the guests of Mrs. Harve Cromett. A
gift was presented Mrs. Cromett, after which a lovely luncheon was enjoyed.
FEATURES YOU WILL LIKE
Radio can't displace the newspaper any more than milk tickets
can displace milk, Irvin S. Cobb
avers.
Felix Featherhead mixes it up
with a prowler on the funny page
—You'll also enjoy the antics of
Mescal Ike and Finney, the lovable Irish copper.
Washing again becomes nation's
focal point as legislators prepare
for special session next month.
E. W. Pickard's "Weekly News/
Review" examines the prospects^.
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