The Pine River Journal (Pine River, Minnesota), 1938-01-20

              PINE RIVER JOURNAL
VOLUME III NUMBER 24
THE PINE RIVER JOURNAL, PINE RIVER,  CASS  COUNTY,  MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 193S
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NEWS BRIEFS OF
INTEREST FROM
'ROUND THE STATE
AGENCY REPORTS 69 ROAD
DEATHS DURING NOVEMBER
TRADES  CAR  FOR  A
! CUP OF COFFEE
Redwood Falls.—Steve Zeug of Lu-
ean, traded his 193G Chevrolet for a
cup of coffee when his car disappeared while he was in a restaurant. Whether or not the trade wi.l stick depends upon law enforcement agencies
who set out immediaely to look for
the car. Zeug, together with friends,
had attended a midnight mass in Marshall' and went into a restaurant for
lunch before returning home. The car,
full of gas and oil, was left Idling outside. When tne group left the cafe
they founu the automobile had been
stolen.
TABLES    ARE    TURNED
ON     A     POLICEMAN
Throughout Minnesota In November, there were 949 traffic accidents,
the first monthly report of the State
Highway department's traffic accident recording bureau revealed.
The report was based on Indvid-
ual reports of accidents sent to the
accident recording bureau by motorists Involved in mishaps where personal Injury or damage exceeding
$50 occurred, said W. F. Rosenwald,
traffic engineer of the Minnesota
highway department.
Of the 949 accidents, 69 resulted in
■death and 477 in non-fatal injuries.
Property damage inexcess of $50 was
done to 585 cars during the month.
Fatal accidents ,were most prevelant
in the age group from 25 to 64 years,
in which category 37 persons died and
210 suffered injuries.
Of persons over 65 years of age,
15 were killed according to the) chart,
and of this number eight were fatally injured while afoot on streets
and highways.
MCKINLEY MAN
DIES SUDDENLY
TUESDAY A. M.
■ St Cloud.—The tables were turned
o: a policeman. Consequently, 30 odd
occupants of a local hotel were awak-
enek by the sound of the alarm, and
one guest, a fur salesman, came bound
ing down the stairs, his pajamas fluttering in his wake. An officer was covering his beat in the wee small hours
just before dawn one morning. In the
routine of trying alley doors, chatting
with late stragglers, and poking his
night stick into dark corners, he came
upon an automobile parked strangely
enough, in the recession back of a
store. "Hmm," mused the officer, "1
wonder what this can be?" And so
the investigation began,one door handle gave way to the hand of the lew.
For about one minute nothing happened—then an unearthly wail shattered
the unearthly silence—and the sleep
of the 30 hotel guests. The car, belonging to the fur salesman who came
running' into the street, was equipped
with a siren to ward off prowlers.
CARD  OF  THANKS
AVe wish to express our sincere
thanks and appreciation to our many
friends and neighbors, who so kindly
assissted us during the illness and
death] of our beloved wife and mother.
Mr. John Ruhl Sr. and family
STATE DOF OFFICERS TO BE INSTALLED SAT.
FARM     BOASTS    ITS    OWN
"OLD    OAKEN    BUCKET"
Long Prairie.—The old oaken bucket, so famed in song.has a counterpart
in Todd county. In service for more
than fifty years, an old, oaken bucket
hangs in the well at the Thomas May
farm in Iona Township, where it has
been used dally for more than 55
years. Discovery that the bucket hau
ibeen In use for that length of time
,was made by H. W. Reineke, president of the Todd County Historical
(Society. Mr. May died several months
jago at the age of 86 years. A son is
now operating the farm and the relic
Is in use daily. The well Is one of the
old timers' with 15 or 20 feet to the
water line. The bucket is badly worn
.from being dropped into the water
thousands' of times.
LOCALS
day, Thursday and Frida?. All parents are invited to be present on
these days.
The PTA is sponsoring visiting days
at the school this week on Wednes-
Dr. A. J. Button made a business
trip to St Paul Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Sawyer of
Backus, are the parents of a son, born
Saturday, at the local hospital.
Earl Thomas of Walker, was in
Pine River on official business Wednesday.
James O'Brien of Pequot was taken to the local hospital this week, suffering with a severe case of blood
poisoning.
The largest and most colorful Oddfellow installation of officers ever staged in Minnesota will be held in the
Minneapolis auditorium Saturday evening, Jan. 22, when 1000 offiplals from
more than 200 communities are inducted into office before an estimated attendance of 10,000 spectators.
These officers will be installed by
the Grand Encampment officers of
Minnesota and will hear talks by the
Grand Sire of the Independent Order
o> Oddfellows, Thomas G. Andrews of
Oklahoma City, Okla., and by the General Conimandlng of the Patriarchs
Militant from New York City, Arthur
(5. Adams.
Two exhibition drills by the Ladies
Auxiliary and the Iola Rebekah Colonial drill staff will be presented. A
grand march and ball will follow with
music by a 25-piece orcnestra.
The installation Is open to the general public, A. W. Markley, deputy or
'district No. 7, general managements
chairman, said.
Clifford Gjertson,'24 year old resident of McKinley Township, died, suddenly at the home of his sister, Mis.
Emil Paul, Tuesday morning. Cause
of death has not as yet been determined.
The young man had attended the
show in Pine River the previous night
and returned home and retired about
11 p. M. At about 4; a. m. he became
violently ill, awakening tho household.
A doctor was called immediately bur
Mr. Gjertson died about 5 a. m., before any help arrived. Coroner l..rl
Thomas of Walker, was called and an
autopsy was conducted Wednesday by
Drs. Button and Johnson of Pine River to determine the direct cause of
death. As no contributing causes
were found, it was decided to send
the stomach and contents to the University for a chemical analysis.
Funeral services will be held from
the McKinley Church with Rev. Peterson officiting, on Friday of this week.
PIRATES DEFEAT
HACKENSACK ON
THURSDAY EVE.
The Pine River Pirates played the
Hackensack All Stars last Thursday
oa their home floor. The Piratea
played a very fast and exciting game,
(with a score at the half of 16-14 in
I favor of Hackensack. In the last
! half the Pirates rallied and defeated
the AID Stars with a score of 40-2$,
(Leonard Carlson was top man with
15 points to his credit.
This winning game puts the Plratea
on the top of the Cass County League,
list. The local boys play at Reiner
next Thursday.
BANK OFFICERS
MEET TUES. P. M.
HIGHWAY PATROLMEN  GO  BACK
TO SCHOOu,  FOR  NEW  METHOD
The Bid or Bye Club met at the
home of Mrs. John Kater Tuesday afternoon. Awards went to Mrs. Robideau and Mrs. Harris Zigmund. Refreshments were served by the hostess after the games.
One-half of the Highway patrol ' of
the Minnesota Highway department.
will finish a 10-day "post gradual-'"
course on their highway duties at
Camp Ripley, near Little Falls, this
week and will oe followed by the remainder of the patrol, which will also
undergo the 10-day brushing up school.
The new uniform traffic code laws
receive considerable study by the! patrolmen and advanced courses in; first
aid will be taught, according to Bert
Morton, assistant chief of the patrol.
In addition, Officer Morton said that
patrolmen will be instructed in investigation methods to highway fatalities so' as to be able to prosecute accident cases from coroner's jury thru
the grand jury and into district court
He also stated that members of the
four patrol aistricts in the state will
be taught a uniform procedure in prosecutions and uniform interpretations
or state traffic laws so as to eliminate
any differences ir. understanding that
may now exist.
( It is the plan of the highway department to keep the patrolmen con
stantly informed on new. methods and
developments in the future through
"refresher schools
A meeting of the stockholders and
board of directors of the Pine River
State Bank was held In Pine River on
Tuesday. Election of the new board
for the coming year was held, after
which a special director's meeting
was held. Members of the new board
include, Oscar Dahl, A. J. Walden of
Guthrie, T. T. Hill, F. L. Hill and L.
M. Severeid.
OBITUARY
Wm. Marsh passed away at his
home in Hackensack, on Monday of
this week, at the age of 90 years. Mr.
Marsh had been ill for some time.
Funeral services will be conducted
from the Chapel of the Northland
funeral Home today (Thursday) at 2
p. m., with Rev. H. E. Peterson officiating. Interment will be made at the
Hackensack cemetery.
I00F AND REBEKAHS HOLD JOINT
INSTALLA'N. TUES.
Gertrude Norman, daughter of John
'Norman, is seriously 111 at the local
hospital.
MOOSE LAKE
A number of friends gathered ar
the Teicher home Tuesday evening, to
honor Beatrice on her birthday. Monopoly was played, with prizes going
to Mrs. Harold Walton and Mrs. Jim
Geary. Refreshments were served by
Mrs. Teicher at the close* of the even-
Mrs. C. J. Lawrence, Corres.
Robert Fairly returned last week
from Elk River, where he has been
employed by the Vargo brothers.
Mrs. C. N. Skow accompanied her
son Henry, on a visit to the Hojem
home Sunday.
Helen Lawrence installed an oil
(burner in her teacherage at Stony
Brook last week.
Those who are not on the sick list
in this vicinity, are making good use
hay and wood
oi! the sleighing, by hauling their ice,
Miss Grace Hojem who recently had
a., attack of appendicitis, has recover-
and is attending college In Minneapolis.
Little Sammy Allan Salfisberg was
taken to the Pine River hospital Sunday, suffering with pneumonia. We
are all hoping for an early recovery.f
Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Flategraff and
Mrs. Clarence Luther of Nisswa, visited at the E. H. Flategraff home Sunday.
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SWEDENBORG WAS A PIONEER
IN MANY REALMS OF SCIENCE
Marking the 250th Anniversary of His Birth, Plans Are
Made to Commemorate His Contributions to
Science and Philosophy
SUMMARY OF BUSINESS IN CO. OFFICE
NEWS ITEM CONCERNING P.R. RESIDENTS IN WASH.
BLIND  LAKE
Vernon Erickson and Ernest Peterson cut ice on Hay Lake last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Morrison culled at the
Ben Schoen home Monday evening.
Several neighbors helped Mrs. Beals
and Mrs. Hildebran saw wood Saturday and Monday afternoons.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Mayer spent Sunday afternoon at the Julius Erickson
home.
Visitors at the Eva Beals home on
Sundav. included Mr. and Mrs. Morrison, Leslie Beals and family and Edison and Violet Mayer.
Mrs. Leslie rseals' parents, Mr. and
Mrs. A. D. Morrison, left for their
home  at  Barnesville  Tuesday.
Raymond Hildebran injured his
hand last week, between two logs.
Leslie Beals barely escaped crushing
his hand while working with a gasoline engine.
The following is a clipping taken
from the Yakima Daily Republic. Yakima, Wash., where Mr. and Mrs. H.
A. York of Pine River are spending
the winter months:
Mrs. H. A. York of Pine River, was
honor guest at a social and card party given at her temporary home in
Yakima, Washington January 12, 1938
Mrs. York has been a member of the
Mead Corps No. 9, Department of
Washington and Alaska W.R.B. for
four years. She has made a number
of trips to the western coast and has
spent much of her time at Yakima-
\Bands were played front 2 to 5 P.M.
after which delicious refreshments
were served by the hostess, Mrs. Eva
(Clark) Bloomer, sister of the guest
of honor.
Those in attendance were Mesdames Herman Berg, C. E. Watzdorf, Fran
cis Nash, A. C. E. Bronson, O. O.
Beardsley, L. J. McKiney, Hulda Cle-
vin, Mae Ecklin, Rose Mansfield Chas
Welgel, Ida Ross, Grace Thurman,
Eva (Clark) Bloomer and Sopha H.
^ ork.
Mr. and Mrs. York have made many
friends during their visit to that city.
They plan to leave fof California in
the near future.
Following is a summary of the
work
that was  transacted in  the office  of
A   K.  McPherson,  Clerk  of  the
Dis-
itrlct Court of Cass  County,  for
the
year of 1937.
Civil Action
588
Criminal Action
35
Default Judgements
18
Personal Property Tax Judge
ments
400
Other Judgements
34
Confessions of Judgement
74
Real Estate Tax Judgements
2750
Notary  Commissions
9
Adoptions
1
Divorces
32
Marriage Licenses
179
12 Women under 18
9 men under 21
Declarations  of  Intention
5
Petitions for  Citizenship
4
Certificates  of Citizenship
7
Medical Licenses
6
Basic  Sciences Certificates
6
Coroner Reports
9
Criminal Bonds Filed
13
Civil Cases tried by jury
4
Civil Cases tried by Court
8
Number sent to St Cloud
10
Days of Court
17
Births (1916)
43b
Deaths  (1936
259
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.
Ferdie Houston, Centralla, Wash.
John Ingraham, Pine River
Harold Hill, Pine River
John Kulla, Pine River
A. H. Edwards, Pine River
Elmer Christenson, Pine River
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG, the
250th anniversary of whose birth
will be observed on January 29. 1938,
was one ot the great scientific pioneers
of his day. Part of his life was devoted
to a science almost unknown in his
time, psychology.
Though he lived and died before the
American Revolution, Swedenborg
evolved a psychological system astonishingly modern in its views of the Individual's relation to society, and in its
completeness, answering many questions only partially dealt with by psychologists of today.
Two centuries ago thinking on the
subject of the nature of the mind was
almost entirely confined to the philosophers, who produced dead and abstract
theories; they did noi. base their
psychology on any practical observation of nature. Swedenborg began his
study of the mind and its relation to
the body by thorough research in physiology, and in these studies was the
first to arrive at certain modern conceptions of the functions and activity
of the brain and the nervous system.
This physiological approach is now
taken as a matter of course by modern
psychologists, who study exhaustively
the mechanisms of mental life and the
machinery which underlies our thinking. Swedenborg, with his training as
a philosopher, was not satisfied to stop
at this point, but carried his Investigations into the nature of mind or spirit
in its relation to the body. He came
to regard the body as the region in
which mind or spirit functioned. In his
earlier work he wrote of the actions
of the body in their effect on states of
mind; one volume he published treated
of the Interaction of various states of
mind.
Freud and other modern psychologists have developed similar views
to Swedenborg's, that ihe mind Is made
up of different forces and Impulses and
functions on different levels of consciousness; Swedenborg held the view
200 years ago that the mind functions
on different planes and that we are
usually unconscious of most of its activities. He neld that the practical
problem of life for each human being
is to evolve -larmony out of th.se conflicting mental forces, and states that
this can be achieved by mental growth
on the spiritual plane.
Unlike   the   idealistic   philosophers
who preceded  him  he  believed- that
The Oddfellow and Rebekah lodges
of Pine River, held their joint installation on Tuesday evening at the lodsra
hall. In the absence of the District
Deputy Grand Master, Lewis Walton
had charge of the Installation of the
Oddfellows, and Flora Bates had charge of the Rebekahs. Lon Fields and
Fern Lundin assisted as floor mar-
shalls. Following is a list of the officers installed:
Rebekah Lodge
P.  G. Mattie Teagarden
N. G., Ethel Kolb
V. G-. Dorothy Dubbs
Warden, Lucille Bergstrom
Conductress, Martha Yancey
ChaplIn.Oleo Zigmund
I. G., Betty Carlson
O. G., Josephine Wolfrank
Musician, Birdie Walton
Secretary       Io Brezinsky
Treasurer, Mollie Robideau
Oddfellow) Lodge
N. G., Oscar Kolb
V. G., Dale Dubbs
Secretary, Dave Triggs
Treasurer, Fred Carlson
Warden, Geo. Yancey
Conductor, Ben Robideau
In. G., R. C. Spencer
O. G. Lewis Walton
R. S. W. C. Cromett
L. S. Jim Murray
R. S. Harris Zigmund
L. S. Ben Shiffer
Chaplain, Charles Siebel
Emanuel Swedenborg
spiritual growth cannot be achieved
in withdrawal from everyday life. The
"natural" Is the servant and expres
sion of the spiritual, and natural things
have a correspondence with spiritual
things. The "soul's" salvation or men
tal health depends on a practical life
of usefulness in the natural world,
with acknowledgment of a divine pow
er which is greater than the individual
and operates through him for good.
According to Swedenborg, the
earlier Christian ideal of withdrawal
from the world and complete self-
abnegation was psychologically unsound. In the ordinary business and
pleasures of life the personality finds
expression and growth in usefulness
to society, and In recognition of the
divine harmony that operates through
all things.
Information regarding the life and
achievements of Swedenborg will be
sent without charge by application to
the Swedenborg Foundation, New
York City.
MAPLE HILL
Edith   Erickson,   Correspondent
Mr. and Mrs. Hess of Brainerd.spent
Sunday at the Hedlund home.
Edwin Johnson and Wm. Montgomery made a business trip to Brainerd Tuesday.
John Velsvaag, George Olson, A. W.
Erickson and Arnold Erickson made
a business trip to Pine River Monday.
Clifford Peterson and Harvey Mills
called on Carl Lervlk Thursday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Ast and family were
dinner guests at the George Olson
nome Sunday.
The Axel Olson family visited at
the Marie Peterson home Friday evening.
The Maple Hill Ladles Aid will
meet at the Axel Olson home Thursday, February 3. Everyone is invited
to. attend.
Sunday dinner guests at the Montgomery home, were Mr. and Mrs. Leo
Peterson and Birdie and Clifford, Mr.
and Mrs. C. Perry and Ardyce.Mr. and
Mrs. E. A. Erickson and Arnold and
Edith, and A. W. Erickson.
NEW SKATING POND
NOW COMPLETED
Swedenborg's Contribution to Physiology
By MAX NEUBERGER, M. D.
Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Vienna
Everybody that has even made a slight acquaintance with the two chief
anatomical-physiological works ot the Swedish Aristotle knows that there Is
scarcely a chapter in them but surprises us with brilliant anticipations of
modern science. Wherever we penetrate Into the mine of Swedenborg's
physiology we strike a vein of metal so rich that the united strenuous efforts
of several savants will be needed to raise the whole of it
The skating pond across the street
from the Tom Ethride home, is being
whipped into shape for a first class
•skating rink. A warming house has
been built and lights installed around
the park. Music will be furnished on
•Sunday afternoons by the amplifying
system of the Marlow thearte. The
work is being done by Tom Ethridge,
John Rohr, Harold Jones, Lewis Farnam and Enoch Mayer.
Everyone is cordially invited to enjoy
this new rink. No charges will be
•made as those in charge of the work
have absorbed the entire expense.
FEATURES YOU WILL LIKE
American aviation suffers severe setback as two crashes in
one week take 17 lives. Story in
E. W. Pickard's "Weekly News
Review."
Irvin S. Cobb says the Italian
army officer who praises war must
be confusing that occupation with
foot racing, having participated
in the Spanish retreat.
Finney of the Force frolics thru
another gay adventure on the funny page.
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