The Pine River Journal (Pine River, Minnesota), 1940-03-15

              VOLUME V NUMBER 28
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E RIVER JOURNAL
THE PINE KiVER JOURNAL, PINE  RIVER,   CASS  COUNTY,   MINNESOTA, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1940
SUB. $1.00 In County, $1.50 outside
Out of the. .
Waste Basket
—By—
4
GRANT   BERGSTROM
"Sprig Has Cub"
That's what everyone thought until
Monday morning when snow began
t'n-^ng and winter was with us once
more, and as this is written Tuesday
evening,   the  thermometer    says    20
above and snow is still falling.
* * * *
And speaking of cold weather, heating the print-shop this week has been
about as easy as thawing out the froz-
eremussians in Finland. With half the
windows knocked out and the big
doors hanging askew there's nothing
to stop the old nor'easter from parading right through the place. But this
will all soon be changed. It is our
misfortune that the weather man had
to push on the storm-button at a time
like this when things are all more or
less topsy-turvy.
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A Champ is Born
L<Last week the Pine River cagers
trotteqt through the sub-district tourney like as if it was all in a days
work and the village dopsters having
been laying odds ever since. Anyway
tlfe Mattson basketeers created something of a sensation Friday evening of
laj^t we i\ when they outsmarted Hie
Sebeka boys of last year's championship f? me, moving about the floor
like we 1-oiled robots, never taking a
false turn.
* * * *
The school was in a bedlam Friday
afternoon as 'buses-lined up to take
students to the district tournament at
Staples, where the Tigers met C-I.
Anyway, everyone was keyed to a
fever pitch and by the looks of things
nothing this side of the Atlantic could
h'ave kept them from the tournament.
* * * *
It isn't every year that an honor
of this kind is brought to a village of
this size but when it does the lid is
off and you hear nothing but basket-
l^ anil tournaments at every turn.
llTIen the school board was aroused to
its loyalty and conducted their meeting enroute to the games Tuesday evening so as not to miss a single play,
■y * * * *
* Thanks
Students have George Mahood and
Arvid Lundin to thank for their free
trip to the tournament Tuesday evening. These two gentlemen spent a day
soliciting funds from local businessmen to finance the trip and make it
possible for all of them to attend.
^ * * * *
It's a tough job writing a column
, when all you can thing of is mopping
t,w derbis in a fire swept print shop
and polishing off corroded and rusty
machinery. Hope we' can get it out
of our mind soon and can turn around
without   seeing   something   that   has
heen relegated to the ashpile.
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"Confucius Say"
No typee, no pressee, no printee.
.OCALS
U-
Psne River Toasts Its Cage CliampiSons
Local Items
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, Pine River was turned over to these oVemy. :,t, clean-limbed boys and their coach, H. Matson, today
»fter they copped the championship of the 24th sub-district tournament at Wadena last night by beating
Sebeka 37-24 in the finals. In the picture, the starting five is shown in the rear row with Coach Matson
while the reserves are in front. Bach row, left to right: Donald Kline, Floyd Stanley, John Kiley, Don
Young, Paul McKinney, Coach H. Matson. Front row, left to right: Vernon Basore, Marvin Zigmund,
Bill Riley, James Bogart and Leland Freeman. The championship trophy Is in the foreground.
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ine River
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Tigers
Wadena
in Sub-District
Friday
Harris Zigmund is spending a week
in Wenatchee, Wash., on business.
Mrs. Alice Amy visited with Mrs.
C. F. Peters Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Hyland of Minneapolis were weeke-eiul guests oi
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Brezinsky.
Darlene Gardner has been seriously
ill suffering from an attack of flu
and appendicitus.
Mr. and Mrs. Art Zigmund and Mrs.
Harris Zigmund drove to the Cities
on business Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Mast and sons
were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Tom Sloan.
Mr. arid Mrs. Ford Rowell and Mr.
Frank Rowell of St. Paul spent the
week-end here.
Mrs. Joe Jelan of Tabique drove
down Sunday and will spend a week
with her daughter, Mrs. Earl Bell.
A baby girl was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Earl Bell Saturday evening. The
little Miss was named Joan Francis.
Mrs. Eva Benson left Friday evening for Warren, 111., where she will
visit her mother who is seriously ill.
Mrs. Ben Robideau spent the last
week in Pine River on business returning   to Walker  Sunday.
Bernard Downing of Pierz spent
Saturday and Sunday here. Mr. Downing has purchased the car formerly
belonging to Ben Robideau.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Jorgenson have
moved from the Gardner Johnson
home into the house recently vacated by Mr. and Mrs. Dan Mast.
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Carlson, Evelyn
and   Shorty   Carlson   visited   at   the-
Fire Dammge
Repaired Fast
as possible
Fire damage caused at the Marlow
Theatre and the Journal office early
Thursday morning of last week, is
well on the road to repair. Work was
started in both establishments as
soon as insurance adjustments were
made. Final adjustments are expected
to be completed on the building this
week, and Major Skinner states that
work on remodeling will be started
at once.
Several changes will be made in the
office of the Pine River Journal. The
entire width of the building will be
occupied after alterations are made,
with all mechanical equipment being
housed in the back office and the
front will be used for stock display,
cabinet room and office space. The
rooms will be lined with cellotex
which will add greatly to the appearance. The auditorium will also be lined with the same material according
to present plans, new draperies will
he hung and the stage remodeled.
An expert machinist has been working on the printing equipment all
week, putting it in first class condition. A new press and other equipment has been ordered and unless
complications arise, we expect to operate on our own steam by next week.
The friendly Pillager publisher is
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ again loaning his press for this weeks'
Bertel Carlson home at Detroit Lakes | puDiicati0n, which, although considerably smaller than our usual pages of
Baseball
I
Announcement of a special showing
of "The First Century of Baseball,"
produced in celebration of the games
centennial, the official League sound
film for 1939 which will be exhibited
in the Pine River High School gymnasium Friday, March 15, at 12:20,
was made today by Otto Haack.
This picture is the fifth of a series
sponsored by the Fisher Body Division of General Motors, the four previous pictures having been viewed by
more than 15,000,000 persons.
The picture traces the course of the
game from its -rudementary forms to
the present highly developed type of
play in the Major Leagues.
The cast includes such nationally
known figures as Judge Kenesaw
"Mountain Landis, Connie Mack, Babe
Ruth, Joe McCarthy and Gabby Hart-
nett.
This is a talking picture with Ted
Musing in charge of the announcing.
Admission Free — the public is welcome.
Ruth Olson  spent the week-end at
ler home  near Pequot.
1 Mrs.   Vinton   Reed     of     Ah-Gwah-
tlhing  spent  Saturday  at home  with
|er  family.
Mesdames L. Walton and Lee Isen-
»e entertained a group of friends at
Fireside Meeting Friday evening.
Mrs. Mable Collins ol' Gull Lake was
guest   at   the  VanDorn   home  last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Teets of Backus were Friday evening supper guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Rolland Carpenter.
Mr. and Mrs. Brezinsky and Mr. and
Mrs. F. P. Hyland were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Olen
at Brainerd. ,
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Claude  Gardner  and
Bonnie and  Donald  drove  to  Willow
liver Sunday where they visited relives.
Mrs.   Otto   Haack   entertained   the
fsewing club at her home Tuesday afternoon. A social hour and lunch was
""enjoyed.
Jim Riley returned Friday from a
weeks visit in the Cities. Mary Riley
left Thursday for St. Paul where she
is visiting a few days.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fruch reserved
a card from Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Hill
Monday stating that they are now in
Oklahoma City visiting with Mr. and
•Mrs. Hy Leef for a few weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Haack spent the
week-end in the Cities. Mr. Haack attended a Legislative Committee meeting while Mrs. Haack visited relatives.
The Octogan club met at the home
of Mrr.. Fred Hempstead Monday evening vith Miss Golz acting as assistant hostess. Honors went to Mrs.
.Elias I eovik and Mrs. Frank Finch.
Mr. ind Mrs. Herb Kline returned
Friday evening from Robbinsdale,
where [hey had attended the funeral
Concluding the five-day tournament
held at Wadena last week, Pine River came to the fore, by winning each,
of its three games with almost perfect playing precission. In the game
Wednesday with Menagha, Pine River won 44 to 27 at the finals. In Thursdays game with Verndale, the scores
by quarters were 7 to 4 in favor of
Verndale at the end of the first qiuir-
ter; 16 to 10 in favor of Pine River at
the half; 25 to 10 at the third and
34 to 21 at the finals. Verndale had
been a popular bet for the championship this year.
In Friday's, game with Sebeka, who
held the championship last year,  the
North  R-'ne  Rivrr
Mrs.   B.   Heemstra,   Cor.
Air. and Mrs. T. H. Adamson and
Jean Ann Evans visited Saturday af-
Icriiooii with Mr. und Mrs. Levi Nelson and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Levi Nelson visited
Saturday evening with Mr. and Mrs.
John Maegher.
Mrs. Lily Whitney spent Thursday
afternoon' with Mrs. L.evi Nelson.
.Mr. and Mrs. Louis Magen, Mr. and
Mrs. T. H. Adamson, Mr. and Mrs.
Chris Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Lester
Picolet, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Evans
and Mr. and Mrs.; Bert Meemstra had
scores were 12~ to 4, 13 to 9," 24 to 14 ; a farwell birthday party for  Mr. and
and 37 to 24 all in favor of Pine River. | Mrs- Levi Nelson last Wednesday ev-
Riley, MacKinney, Kline and Young   enin-g.
Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Kline for a day
before returning home.
A group of friends held a party and
shower in honor of Mrs. J. A. Brezinsky at her home Tuesday afternoon.
3" social hours and lunch were enjoyed and the guest of honor received
many lovely gifts.
Mrs. L. Isensee entertained at two
tables of bridge at her home Wednesday evening. Prizes were won by Mrs.
Oscar Kolb and Mrs. Frank Finch.
Refreshments were served at the
close of the evening.
Don Sherwood of Bemidji spent Sunday at home. On Sunday afternoon,
Mr. and Mrs. N. D. Sherwood, Don
Sherwood and Vinetta Backman drove
to Brainerd where they attended the
concert at the High School auditorium
at 3:00 o'clock and at the Episcopal
church at 5:00. The girls chorus under the direction of Dwight Sherwood
sang at the school and the mixed
chorus also under his direction sang
at the church. This was the first public appearance of the new high school
orchestra. The Brainerd Mens Swedish Chorus also gave a number of
selections.
were outstanding in the games they
played and Stanley was excellent off
the defensive.
John Riley, dubbed the "Lucky
Irishman,"' who played at the pivot
position, scored a total of J56 points
during Ihe tournament.
Pine River's zone defense was especially well lined up and thru'out all
games made throwing necessary tor
their adversaries, which gave them an
outstanding advantage.
The first evening of the tournament
found but a small handful of Pine
Riverites present to boost coach Mattson and his boys, however, the last
two evenings interest grew until more
than 200 spectators besides the be,ml
and cheer leaders drove down by bus
or car to back the boys up. George
Mahood's efforts 'round about town
eiided the financial status of the "looker-oners" by providing means of transportation.
Tuesday evening Pine River entered the district tournament at Si:
and whether they win or lose in these
finals a word of congratulations and
a pat on the back go to Coach Mattson and the boys.
Pine River was awarded the trophy
at Wadena and Sebeka as runner-up
were presented with the basketball.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rowell of St.
Paul were week end guests of Mr. and
Mrs. W. H. Evans and family.
Mrs. Harvey Hooved and  daughter
Ella   spent   Tuesday   afternoon   with
Mrs. George- Johnson.
Pine  River
NOTICE
Whist   Dinner
The Rebekah lodge served a sump-
tous dinner at. the Lodge hall Monday
ing foi' the losers of the whist
tournament, who treated the winners
to the "eats" as has been the custom
in previous tournaments.
Toastmasters were Arvid Lundin
for the winners and Don Lundrigan
for tlie losers. After everyone had an
opportunity to make a few witty remarks, pro and con ahout the tournament, A. J. Linden challenged the
winning teams to a game for an oyster supper which seemed very favorably accepted. After the dinner the
"Whist players" hied upstairs for a
few more games of the sport that has
kept them busy on Monday evenings
the past two months.
The Pine River Volunteer Fire Department wishes to thank all those
who assisted at the fire in the Memorial Hall Theatre on March 7.
The Department also wishes to call-
to the attention of all motorists the
following paragraphs of the Minneso-
to Highway Traffic Regulation Act:
—2720-225 The driver of-any vehicle
other than one on official business
shall not follow any fire apparatus
traveling in response to,a fire alarm
closer than 500 feet, or ;drive into or
park such vehicle within the block
where fire apparatus has stopped in
answer to a fire alarm, j
hose of a fire department when laid
down on any street, private driveway,
or street car track, to be used at any
fire or alarm of fire, without the consent of the fire department official in
command.
These regulations were passed tor
the purpose of assisting the fire department in the performance of their
duties   and  will -be  enforced  to    the
■ >f our ability.
—Pine River Volunteer Fire Dept.
W. C. Day, Chief
The date of the school play festival has been changed to March 19.
Word was received this week by
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Isensee of the
death of J. L. Collins of McMinnville,
Oregon.    Death was caused by an op-
HOSPITAL   NEWS
New admittances to the Hospital
this  week included:
Mrs. Erwin Rubitsching of Springfield, who is a house guest of Mrs.
Clarence Riley.
Alfred Anderson of Backus.
Dale Peterson of Boy River.
Bernice Brunett of Backus.
John Lembke who is suffering with
erysipleas and Carl Gardner of Back-
Sunday
Theo. Farnum and Mr. and Mrs.
Geo. Snooks drove to Park Rapids
Sunday where they visited with Mrs.
Farnum at the LaBonte home.
A group of friends held a farewell
party in honor of Mrs. Tournier and
daughters at the Tabernacle Friday
evening. A social visit and refreshments were enjoyed.
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Meyer and Peter
Lillemo of Cass Lake were visitors at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Lembke. Mrs. Meyer is a niece of Mr.
Lembke.
Mrs. Bertha Robideau of Walker
spent Friday in Pine River. She and
Mrs. Pat O'Shea were Sunday evening supper guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Wynn  Robideau.
Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Triggs, Mr. and
Mrs. Oscar Kalh, Mr. and Mrs. Homer
Fraser, Bob Lant, Maria Upton, Mrs.
Mary Jones drove to St. Cloud Sunday where they attended at the sivth
district convention of the V. F. W.
-and Auxiliary.
Mrs. L. E. Dougherty entertained
the Bridge Luncheon club at her home
Thursday afternoon. A 1:30 luncheon
was served after which the guests
played Bridge. Prizes goint to Mrs.
Glenn Houston and Mrs. Marion Sherwood.
Mrs. Dwight Francis and baby ot
Cloquet who have been visiting in
Pequot Lakes were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Aamot the fore part of
the week. Mr. Francis wha had been
visiting here returned to Cloquet Saturday.
Dr. Buress of Duluth gave a talk at
the Methodist church Sunday. In
keeping with Education day Mrs. Eva
Emerson Wold gave a talk on Education and Religion. Mr. Henderson
gave a response and Corwin Jones
sang a solo.
Mrs. Ruth Tournier and children
left Saturday for Cloquet where they
will make their home. James Tournier who had visited here a few days
accompanied them for the week-end
before returning to the CC's at Walker. Mr. and MrsT J. Martin have purchased the Tournier home.
Among those from here who attended the basketball games at Wadena
were Mr. and Mrs. Elias Ronik, Homer Fraser, G. P. Rognlie, Mr. and Mrs.
Lou Fields, E. Howard, Marion Sherwood, Mr. and Mrs. Patterson, Arvid
Lundin, Geo. Mahood, Mr. and Mrs.
Otto Hoard, Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Henderson, Miss Benson, Arnold Rognlie,
Bob Mast, Ethel Biener, Audrey Doty,
Doris Cromett, Mr. and Mrs. Art Zigmund and Mrs. Harris Zigmund.
news, continues our record of never
a miss since the birth of the paper.
We ask that you be indugent this one
week and am certain that you all
understand the handicap we are under in printing the paper with our
presses at a standstill, and our typ-
setting machine coughing its last late
Wednesday of last week. However, by
next week we expect to be back on
schedule again and bring you the regular pages of news as per usual. The
greater part of the damage was centered in the newspaper press and the
typsetting machine with other equipment being only partially damaged.
Mr. Rohr announces that programs
at the theatre will continue throughout this week and until further announcement. A short shut-down may
be necessitated by re-modeling.
MRS  E.  O. GRAVDAHL
FETED AT  BIRTHDAY
About 25 friends and relatives sur
prised Mrs. E. O. Gravdahl at her
home   Sunday   afternoon.   Guests   in
  jcluded Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Gravdahl
Appendectomies were performed on ] and children, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Grav
eration.    The Collins family left Pine j Monday.
Robert Cook, J. A. Tuday and Elvira
Maegher.
Babies were born to:
Mrs. Clifford Hong, a boy, on Friday.
Mrs. Paul Aultman of Longville, a
girl, Sunday.
Mrs. Fred Lambert of Hackensack,
a girl  weighing 12 pounds  6  ounces,
River about a year ago.
Mr.   and   Mrs.   Frank   Rowell   and
Ford Rowell of St. Paul and Mrs. W.
2720-226  No  street-car    or    vehicle h.  Evans  visited  with  Mr. and  Mrs.
of theer grandson. They visited with shall be driven over any unprotected Leo Shafer Sunday P. M.
Twins    to   Mrs   Gilmore   of   Longville, Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Heemstra spent
Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey Hoover,
dahl and children, Mr. and Mts. Helmer Jones and children, Mr. and Mrs.
Vane Jones and Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Gravdahl of Brainerd. Refreshments
were enjoyed by all.
Classified  Ads
FOR SALE!—Stumpage.birch and jack
pine, popple and tamraek. Geo- Ros-
coe, Pine River. 3tc26
Answer to questional
Group 6:    (e)
SUMMONS
IN   DISTRICT COURT
FIFTEENTH   JUDICIAL    DISTRICT
Don  D.  Lundrigan, Plaintiff
-vs-
N .P. Clark, C. A- Gilman,)
Wayne Morrison, Mrs.)
Laurel C- Kilpatrick, Mrs.)
Airs. L. A. Fisher also)
known as Myrtle Fisher.)
also the unknown heirs of)
Lottie L. Fisher, and all)
other persons unknown) Summons
claiming any right, title,)
estate, interest or lien in)
the real estate described)
in the complaint herein,)
Defendants )
The State of Minnesota to the above
named defendants:
You and each of you are hereby
summoned and required to answer
the complaint in the above entitled
action which has been filed in the office of the clerk of said court and to
serve a copy of your answer thereto
upon the subscriber at has office in
the village of Pine River, Cass County, Minnesota, within twenty days after the service of this summons upon
you. exclusive of the day of such
service.
If you fail to answer the complaint
within such time the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded  therein.
DON D. LUNtDRIGAN, Plaintiff
Pine   River,   Minnesota
Same parties as in summons immediately preceding this Notice:
Notice is hereby given, that the
above entitled action has been commenced and the complaint therein is
now on file in the office of the Clerk
of the District Court above named;
that the names of the parties to said
action are as above stated; that the
real property affected, involved, and
brought into question by said action
is the tract of land in the County of
Cass and State of Minnesota, described as follows, to wit: That portion of
Government Lot 4, Section 20, Township 140, Range 28 West of the 5th.
P. M., described as follows: Beginning at a point where the North line
of said Lot intersects with the East
shore of Woman Lake at low water
mark; thence running Southwesterly
along the shore of Woman Lake for a
distance of 250 feet; thence running
Southeasterly to a point on the East
line of said Lot forty (40) rods South
of the Northeast corner of said Lot;
thence running North to the Northeast corner of said lot; thence running West to the place of beginning;
Notice is further given that the object of said action is to obtain a
judgement that said plaintiff is the
owners in fee of the above described
real property and that the said defendants and each of them have no estate interest or lien thereon.
Dated February 21st, 1940
DON D. LUNDRIGAN, Plaintiff
Pine   River,   Minnesota
Published: Feb. 23, March 1-8