The Pine River Journal (Pine River, Minnesota), 1937-11-25

              PINE RIVER JOURNAL
VOLUME III NUMBTR 16
THE PINE RIVER JOURNAL, PINE RIVER,  CASS  COUNTY,  MINNESOTA.THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25,1937
SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 Per Year
NEWS BRIEFS OF
INTEREST FROM
'ROUND THE STATE
PUDDING   POISONS   FIVE
l MEMBERS   IN   ONE   FAMILY
FORTNIGHTLY CLUB MEETS
The Fortnightly Club met with
Mrs. H .A. Zigmund Monday evening.
A seven o'clock luncheon was served
'by the hostess after which contract
bridge was enjoyed with Mrs. L. W.
Isensee winning high score and Mrs.
C. R. Townsend low.
Sauk Centre.—Five persons were
seriously ill recently from food poisoning when members of the Henry
Voller family of Pleasant Valley community ate chocolate pudding. Acting quickly, they summoned medical
aid and nothing more than illness resulted. Origin of the trouble was
traced to a dish containing chocolate
pudding of which the family ate following a meal. In, a few minutes the
poison acted quickly and sent the
persons in pain to the floor. One
girl according to reports, was nearly
hysterical from pain. The pudding
had been kept in a metal dish and
was covered by an airtight lid. The
pumping of stomachs relieved the action of the poisons, and all victims
have apparently recovered.
MINNESOTA   CRANBERRIES
SHIPPED     EAST    IN     1849
Stillwater.—Minnesota cranberries
must have found their way to many
a Thanksgiving dinner table in the
east and south as early as 1849, for
by October 4 of that year, 3,000 barrels had been shipped from St Paul
and Mendota and probably more than
one half as many from other sections.
This Informtion about early Minnesota cranberry trade is given in a letter in the "Minnesota Pioneer.' the
first St Paul newspaper for December
12, 1849. The correspondent was a
passenger on a Mississippi river boat
and he wrote his letter to the newspaper "while they were rolling on
those barrels of cranberries." Cranberries were gathered by the Inflians
who brought them into the towns to
trade for goods. They sold for four
dollars a barrel The writer wno described this frontier industry asserted that Minnesota berries were
nearly twice as large and much more
delicious than those in the east.
NOVEMBER  SUN   IS CAUSE
OF    GASOLINE     EXPLOSION
Sleepy Eye-—Old sol was directly
responsible for an explosion and fire
on a farm near Springfield this week,
but old man sunshine won't pay the
damages. Side by side on the porch
of a farm home were a lantern and
a glass jug containing gasoline. The
rays of the sun struck the convex
lantern glass' throwing the heat directly on the jug of gasoline and causing the explosion. Flames shot high
in the air and ignited the siding of
the house before the fire was noticed
by one of the children. It was checked by members of the family.
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.
Richard Board, Pine River
Mrs. Tournier, Pine River
August Deshayes, Pine River
Theo.  Anderson,  Pine River
Mrs. Marie Gilbert, Pine River
SLAP OF COW'S TAIL CAUSES
HEMMORRHAGE     IN     MAN
Fosston.— Being slapped by a
cow's tail while milking resulted in a
hemorrhage of the brain for Mike
Hill, farm hand. He was rushed to
a New Ulm" hospital and physicians
reported the man's eyesight affected,
together with considerable pain.
M1NNEOTA SPEED LIMIT WAS
FORMERLY 8   MILES  PER   HOUR
Minneota.—The rapidity with which
changing conditions and customs invalidate laws may be a clue to the
question of why lawmakers work the
larger part of each year making new
measures. For nearly every law passed there is a former one abrogated,
as witness the 1910 traffic ordinance
for this village, a copy of which recently came to light. Many drivers
of today are perhaps not aware that
their cars can travel as slowly as
the maximum rate of speed was then
which was eight miles per hour. It
was also necessary for the village
council to remind operators of "steam
or gasoline propelled vehicles" just
how to meet and pass other vehifip^
and to have headlights visible for at
least 200 feet ahead. This ordinance
was later nullified by the passage in
1919 of a new one which raised the
village speed limit to ten miles per
hour and included detailed instructions regarding parking in the village
confines. The maximum rate of speea
on the highway at that time was only
25 miles per hour.
TWO LOCAL RESIDENTS ARE CALLED RECENTLY
OBITUARY
Mrs. Thomas W. Riley, a former; resident of this community for many
years, passed away at the University
hospital in Minneapolis on November
5, after an illness of more than a year.
Martha Alice Smith was born in
Sheffield, 111., on February 28, 1861
and was 76 years of age at the time
of her death. In 1879 she was united
in marriage to Thomas Riley. Two
years they moved to Iowa and later
to Minnesota. In 1920 they settled oh
a farm near Pine River, where they
resided until a year ago when they
moved to Minneapolis, where they
made their home with their eldest
daughter.
She is survived by her husband,
two sons Thomas and Clarence of
Pind River and three daughters, Het-
tie and Verona of Minneapolis and
Esther of Franklin, Minn. Also two
sisters, Mrs. L. C. Hale of Morton and
Mrs. Frank Fisher of Sheffield, 111.;
and one brother, John Smith of Superior, Wis. 17 grandchildren and 11
great-grand children.
Funeral services were conducted at
St Mathews Episcopal Church In
Minneapolis. Interment was made in
Hillside cemetery. Six grandsons,
Harold and Lawrence Loughrey, Del-
mer and Lloyd Riley, Harvey John-
sen and Peter Daun acted as pallbearers.
"Grandma Riley" as she was better
known to her neighbors and friends,
will be greatly missed by young as
well as old as she was a woman who
In her own quiet way, was ever ready
and willing to lend a hand to those
in need. The many beautiful floral
offerings were mute evidence of the
high esteem in which she was held
by friends and relatives.
OBITUARY
Mrs. Bennett, nee Elizabeth Gady,
was born on April 10, 1853, In Taylor County, Kentucky and passed
away November 16 in Pine River, at
the age of 84 years. Funeral services were held at the M. E. Church
with Rev. Peterson officiating.
■She was united In marriage to
Taylor L. Bennett on January 18,
1872. To this union nine children
were born.
She spent the biggest part of her
life in Kentucky, after which she
moved to South Dakota, where she
made her home for 25 years, moving
to Pine River in 1936.
She is survived by four sons, Ben
of Indianapolis, Indiana; George of
Ooatsville, Indiana; Jim of Ree Hts.,
South Dakota and Charles of Pine
River. Also surviving are twenty
grandchildren and eleven great-grand
children and a host of relatives and
friends.
ELSBERG   URGES   SCHOOL
TRAFFIC     POLICE     SQUADS
Sell It With A Want Ad
Superintendents of schools outside
of Minneapolis, St Paul and Duluth
who wish to establish school traffic
patrols need only to make a request
to N. W. Elsberg, state highway com
missioner, and the Minnesota Highway patrol will furnish patrolmen to
organize and train the school traffic
units.
At present there are sponsored and
supervised by the Minnesota Highway
patrol and Legion. All materials are
furnished such as badges, signs and
(other equipment. The state patrol
•lias eight men who instruct school
'police as an extra and unpaid duty.
PINE RIVER TAKES
MOTLEY BOYS INTO CAMP FRI.
The Pine River high school boys
started out the basketball season with
a bang last week when they defeated
Motley by a score of 50-7. Although
one-sided, the game was an interesting one and gave the fans a good display of team work. On Tuesday evening the squad motored, to Aitkin,
where the competition was a little
stronger and emerged on the short
by only two points, which proves that
the locals have a real team.
On December 3, Brainerd comos
here for the second home game of the
season—Be there and see the boys in
action.
HUNTERS REPORT
A SCARCITY OF
DEER THIS YEAR
BID  OR   BYE  CLUB  MEETS
The P. R. Lineup is as follows:
R. Haack Forward
Carlson! Forward
Gearheart Centet
Swift Guard
J. Haack 'Guard
Subs: Felton, Young and Brown
LIGHTENING     STRIKES     A
HOUSE    IN     NOVEMBER
Cloquet—Lightening has struck Clo-
quet homes before but it's a safe but
that it never happened before on November 1. Just 14 minutes after noon
that day a bolt of lightening truck the
chimney of the Thomas Price hoin >,
damaged the chimney and followe 1
electric wires into the house where
fuses were blown out. Occupants of
the house were not injured. The belated electrical storm also struck cities on the iron range and caused a
fire in Ely.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Houston spent
the week-end in Pine River with relatives.
STATE   HIGHWAY   ERECTING   900
MILES    OF    SNOW     FENCES
This Is snow fence time for the Minnesota highway department and the
maintenance crews over the state will
have set 4,500,000 feet of drift fence
before winter frost turns the earth to
rock.
The job of erecting and takin_
down the 900 miles of snow fence
each fall and spring is done by the
regular maintenance crews and no
extra men are hired for the job.
The fence is part of the department's snow control equipment and
saves thousands of dollars each year
in snow removal costs, the total of
which in the winter of 1936-'37 claimed $1,800,000 of the maintenance division's budget because of abnormally
heavy snowfall and strong winds.
For some reason or other the deer
season this year has brought more
hunters into northern Minnesota than
ever before. One hunter reported
that along a two-mile stretch near the
park it was Impossible tot even park
a car.
The number of deer brought down
this year, according to hunters, is far
below last year. A large number of
cars have gone through Pine River
with from three to five hunters and
only one deer. One theory advanced,
is that the CCC boys have droven a
jgreat number of deer into restricted
areas or forest preserves where no
hunnng is allowed. Several large i
bucks have been reported on the Long
ville road only a few miles from Pine
River but so far the number killed
has been small.
. Arvid Lundin left Monday morning
for Itaska Park, where he will join
some friends in a deer hunting trip.
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Brezinsky left
Wednesday afternoon for Minneapo
lis, and will spend Thanksgiving wicJ
the formers parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
L. Brezinsky.
The Bid or Bye Club met on Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Arvid Lundin, with Mrs. Ernest Robideau win-
u'ng high honors and Mrs. John Kater
Jr. low. Refreshments were -served
by the hostess at the close of the afternoon.
Science explains what makes "Food
Drunkards." It may be due to overactive stomach, careless parents, weather—and even unrequited love. An
informative article in the American
Weekly, the magazine distributed
with next Sunday's Chicago Herald
and Examiner. (adv.
Clifford Haugen of St Paul, was a
guest of his sister, Mrs. Frank Cromett for the opening of the deer season.
SCHOOL NOTES
WHITEFISH
A short program was presented by
the children on Armistice Day. A
number of posters showing peace ana
friendship between people and nations were made and posted.
Quite a number of pupils have been
and are at present ill with the mumps
within the last two  or three weeks.
Those receiving the greatest number
of gold stars in the Reading Contest
are: Bobby Heath, first grade; Phyllis Geary, second grade; Ronald Bowman, second grade and Virgil Hard}-,
third  grade.   .
The Junior Red Cross is collecting
funds to renew our monthly magazine.
The following have had perfect attendance so far this year: Anna White
Mary Heath, Leonard Hardy, Phyllis-
Geary, Lavonere Collins and Alwyn
Bowman.
Alvin and Steve McLean, August
May, Sonny Gosser all of Kimball,
and John Bryant and Jack McKinnon
of Minneapolis, arrived at the Wm.
McLean home Friday, to do so::ie
deer hunting In this country.
i   Mrs. Claude Gardner spent the fori;
part of the week in Minneapolis.
WPA TO START IMPROVEMENTS ON
BACKUS SCHOOL
The first unit of repair and improve
ment work on the Backus school will
start on November 29, according to
A. T. Gilbertson of Brainerd, who
authorized the assignment of 20 men
to the construction of a basement under the present school on receipt of
advice from Victor Christgau, state
administrator of the allotment of federal funds for labor costs. Funds
allocated for the complete project total $9,103; $7,136 by the federal government and $1,967 by the County
Board of Education for Unorganized
Territory,  sponsor  of  the work.
TABERNACLE   NEWS
Last Sunday night a capacity crowd
gathered at the new tabernacle to
hear Professor A. Saterlie, of Pillager, present the proofs of scientii'i':
accuracy of the Bible. He exposed
the follies of those pseudo-scientisis
who claim that man descended from
the monkey and quoted statements
from leading scientists to the effect
that the theory of evolution is still unproved and is not accepted by leaders
of modern scientific research.
Next Sunday night Paul J. MacKinney will give an illustrated lecture on
the beauty of snow flakes, showing 70
pictures of highly magnified snowfla-
kes. They are unbelievably delicate
and mathematically accurate and are
marked through and through with sevens. Do not fail to see these pictures next Sunday night at the Tabernacle.
On Sunday, December 6, the string
band from the Nevis Gospel Tabernacle will give an evening program of
music to which everyone is cordially
invited.
FUNCTIONS OF
PUBLIC WELFARE
BOARD IN CO.
Thanksgivings
By Albert T. Reid
BULLETIN:
ALL  FARM COMMODITY
PRICES   GOING   SKY-WARD
EMPLOYMENT OPErJlMG UP.
TEXTILE MILLS  BOOMING
Industries gojj
FULL BLAST
PRICE OF_OIL_Ap_VAi(
MOMEV BEGINNING
SEEK WVEST^fT
OPTIMISTIC
EVERYWHERE
*~^ A.UT a
CAtTCA
vX Merciful h&jvens r<5uSt-truts Awful !
Every one is gp\t\g to k_tye such-
a.-terrible- appetite for turkeys/'
Public welfare programs in the
counties are concentrated in one agency—the county welfare board,
which operates through its executive secretary and other staff. These
public welfare activities include old
age assistance, aid to dependent children, aid to the blind, WPA cerlf-
/Ications, direct relief and various
child  welfare services.
The state agency for all these aid3
and services with the exception ol
direct relief is the State Board of
Control. To further an integrated
administration of public welfare, the
State Board of Control several months
ago reorganized several of its divisions into a public assistance unit under a director of public assistance. In
the unit are the Children's bureau,
Ihe division of the blind, division of
old age assistance, and the division
of audit and finance, each headed by
a director. The first three are the
operating divisions.
An important part of the work has
to do with child welfare, In which
the State Board of Control through
the Children's Bureau, Is responsible for the enforcement of all laws
for the protection of defective, illegitimate, dependant, neglected and .le-
linquent children. The Children's Bureau has several departments where
much of this work is done since by
law certain functions are placed in
the state agency. The county repr- -
sentative of the Children's Bureau is
in all instances the county welfare
board, which in this field has taken
the place of the child welfare board.
DR. BUTTON AND
NORA BUTTON WED
Dr. A. J. Button and Nora DJButton
were re-united in marriage on Wednesday of last week, at the couct
house in Walker, by Judge A* B. Oliver. The ceremony was witnessed by
several friends of the couple.
Immediately following the ceremony
Dr. and Mrs. Button left for Bemidji, where they enjoyed a wedding dinner. Mrs. Button who is residing in
Walker, plans to come to Pine River
December 1,
WPA WORKERS TRY  FOR PRIVATE   JOBS   IN   MINNESOTA
More than 10,000 WPA workers in
Minnesota obtained other employment
during the last five and one-half
months. Of approximately 33,700
now employed, 3,032 are veterans. On
November 13, 33,712 were on the rolls.
These are high-lights of a summary
•of WPA employment in Minnesota
made public this week by Victor
Christgau.
On June 7, the policy of taking
back workers who obtained jobs in
private employment and who lost
such work through no fault of their
own and were still in need, was announced. Of that number 3,783 have
returned under this ruling.
With the advent of cold weather
there has been a gradual increase in
WPA employment under enlarged
quotas announced a month ago.
The law under which 1937 appropriations were made contains a clause which gives preference in employ
ment to veterans. For all practical
purposes such preference has been in
effect all during the program which
made it easy to comply with the new
ruling.
FEATURES YOU WILL LIKE
Irvin S. Cobb, popular columnist, talks about the law's injustice, aquatic novelties and oysters.
Pa Piffle learns the rudiments
of bookkeeping. "Mescal Ike"
and many other comic strips on
our funny page.
Chiang Kai-Shek decides to
take leadership of Chinese army
as troops flee Nanking. Story in
E. W. Pickard's "Weekly News
Review."
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