The Pine River Journal (Pine River, Minnesota), 1940-03-08

              IYER JOURNAL
VOLUME V NUMBER 2S
THE PINE ±uVER JOURNAL, PINE RIVER,  CASS  COUNTY,  MINNESOTA, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1940
SUB. $1.00 In County, $1.50 oufcslde
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OYSTER SUPPER
SERVED BY PTA
Pictures of the Tundra, Washington, 1). C-. and International Railway
systems were shown at the PTA on
Monday evening. The new screen
purchased by the PTA was used for
the pictures-
Aii oyster supper was enjoyed before the meeting, proceeds of which
will be used for necessities in the
school.
METHODIST   NEWS
Two Fireside Gatherings were held
this week, one at the Peters home
Monday and at the Caeson home in
Fifty Lakes Friday. On Saturday,
the Commandment Plaque effort was
continued. $4.6 has now been received in pledges and -cash- There is now
a move to put the Plaque business on
a foundation basis with no profits taken so that other counties besides
Cass and Crow Wing may receive
plaques at a nominal cost- Al on
such a committee would serve without cost and on an interdenominational basis.
i Sunday, the Minister preached on
"Our Temple," using as his text I
Cor. 3:17- He stated that there are
many ways to defile the body, explain
ing each as he went along. Roth mor
al and spiritual questions were discussed.
—Rev. Hopper
M.   E-   MISSION)   MEETINGS
Preaching missions will be held ill
the Methodist Church from March 17
to 24 and In Emily from March 10 to
17. Following is a schedule of the
Pine River meetings:
March 17: Sun-day-morning. Minister will preach on "Self; Churchward-" Afternoon vespers with choir
and  minister taking part.
March 18: Monday evening, Rev-
H. J. Locke, Pequot Lakes. Topic:
Understanding the Self-
March 19: Tuesday evening, Rev.
Hugo Bersell, Brainerd, Topic: Working and Living Our Best.
Mardh 30, Wednesday evening:
Rev. Wesley Johnson, Nisswa. Topic:
Understanding  Others.
March 21, Thursday ' evening. Rev-
W. E. Hammond, Walker. Topic:
Loving the Church.
March 22, Friday Evening, Miss Al-
zina Munger, Backus. Topic: Loving
the Christ. Communion, with the
minister officiating, assisted by Miss
Munger,   a   returned   missionary.
No service March 23, Saturday.
March 24, Easter Sunday morning:
Church school, Easter program with
Mesdames D. L. Triggs, B. Silbaugh.
E. E. Felton and Jones as program
committee. Minister will preach on
"Self; Ohristwnnl." Speciaf music,
reception of members and perhaps
baptisms.
There will be special music each
/evening. This is going to be a fine
week of heartsearching and consecration. There will be special call
• this passion week for the purpose of
building the Church for the Christ.
Keep this week open- The Church
should be filled each night and for
each service including Sundays.
—Rev. Hopper
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SERIALLY IN THIS PAPER
WHIST     SCORES
The boys under the hamp are furnishing a swell dinner for all the play
ers to be held at the lodge hall next
Monday evening—at one-buck per piece- The meal will be prepared by
members of the Rebeka'i Lodge.
Siefert-Downing      30—503
Zigmund-Haack.     22—4S7
■Schuster-Robideau     30--470
Rognlie-Rognlie     466
Siebel-Zigmund        30—447
Walton-McAllister     431
Sief ert-Kolb        30—432
Lundin-Bergstrom       30—424
Thompson-Fields       14—30—423
Carlson-Carlson       30—417
Klein-Lundrigan       15—30—394
Carlson-Kotka       16—30—397
Dubbs-Felthous   ....    27—27—30—378
Pattlnson-Westln       25—371
Allen-Brown       30—368
Hickel-Siefert       12—16—342
Skinner-White       30—30—366
Kladt-Van Dorn       0—14—233
NOTICE
Beginning  Monday  evening,  March
jLl. the fire siren will be blown at 6
p. m-, each week-day until further notice-
—Will C. Day, Fire Chief
Pine River Vol. Fire Dept.
RONALD   DENNIS ACKERMAN
DIES (AT  ROBBINSDALE TUES.
TOWNSHIPS TO HOLD
ELECTIONS TUESDAY
THREE-LEGGED   CHICK
Sleppy-Eye.—Kenneth Peterson, an
employee of the Snow Hatchery, is
displaying a freak of nature in the
form of a three-legged chick which
was hatched recently. He said it was
the first three-legged variety to make
its appearance at the hatchery.
Voters of the townships will elect
township officers and set tax levies
ofr the coming year at the annual
township elections to be held Tuesday
March 12. The law requires that all
township elections be held on the second Tuesday in March of each year.
This year the elections will be conducted under the so-called Australian
ballot system, where candidates for
offices are required to file at least
two weeks prior to election, or where
five voters have filed an application
to place the name on the ballot.
The clerk of each township • must
give ten days notice of election by
publishing such notice in a newspaper
having circulation within the township or by posting such notices within
the township, or by both, at the discretion of the voters, according to
law.
In addition to electing township officers, one of the important features
of these elections is the adoption of
a tax levy for town purposes. Voters
of townsbips have a right here that is
i ot given to other branches of government except schools, and it is an
inportant privilege that deserves the
most careful consideration or" citizens
in these districts. Township levies in
Minnesota have been on thQ increase
the past few years. It has juinpel
from $5,249,186 in 1934 to $6,066,383
in  1938.
A group of friends hrlped Shirley
Allan celebrate her fourteenth birthday Tuesday. Games and refreshments were enjoyed.
Ronny, the nine-month old son of
Mr. and Mrs- John Ackerman, died
suddenly at his home Tuesday morning, following a few days illness of
the flu and what was believed to have
been diabetic complications.
Ronald was the only son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ackerman, both of whom are
well known here-
Mr. and Mrs. Nick Ritchie, accompanied by Mrs: Joe Ackerman, drove
down Tuesday, and Mr. and Mrs- Ben
Ackerman and Herb Kline drove
down Thursday, accompanied by Ber-
nadine Kline who arrived here from
Iowa Tuesday. Funeral services
were held Wednesday morning at ten
o'clock. i
STUDENTS WILL
ATTEND FESTIVAL
Theatre, Printing  Office  and
Building Loss is $8,000
TEACHER'S   NOSE     BROKEN
Ortonville.—Beth Cummens, local
high school teacher, is nursing a broken nose, and in spite of tne quips of
her friends, she maintains that she
got it from a swinging door. For the
skeptics, she has a witess to corroborate her story. Mr. Brown, the
school superintendent, and Miss Cummens both approached the same swing
ing door at the same time, from opposite sides.    Mr. Brown got there first-
PEDALS   BICYCLE    42  MILES
TO     PAY     HIS     TAXES
Fairmont-—Henry Fox, 72, Emmet
County farmer, of Armstrong, pedaled 42 miles to Estherville and back to
pay his taxes. Although offered a
ride back, Fox refused, explaining
that he would make the entire trip
as he had planned on doing. On the
trip, Fox had to push his bike five
miles to get his tires inflated. The
other eighteen miles were smooth
sailing.
SCHOOL   NEWS
11,000   LAKES   IN   MINNESOTA
BUT 8 COUNTIES ARE  LAKELESS
Although Minnesota has more than
11,000 lakes, there are eight counties
in the state that have none.
Some of these counties are endeavoring to make up this deficiency by
creating artificial lakes, according to
the department of conservation,
Two small artificial lakes have
been created in Blue Mound County
which is one of the lakeless-
' Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Fuller and fam
ily of Long ville. and Miss Lois Fuller of Walker were Sunday dinner
' uests at the home of Mrs- Bangston
and Mrs. Fuller.
FIRST GRADE
Perfect attendance for this six
weeks include the following: Orla
Brandt, Robert Collins, Darlene Gardner, Katherine Geary, Alice Johnson,
Donna Lea, Ardy Lieske, Dale Sevesind, and Betty Jane Vance.
Elaine   Cronk   returned   to     school
last week.
I SECOND    GRADE
Perfect attendance for the last six-
weeks period, includes Marvin Claus-
sen, Joy Collins, Bernaid Downing,
Donald Fraser, James Harris, Patsy
Jost, Babe Kline, James McCullough,
John McCullough, Leo Sevesindi, Ver-
lon Trude, Joey Zigmund, Billy Zwart
r-'reddie Smith, Wayne Scott and Mavis Moser.
Robert Pattinson received a prize
for selling the most badges in the
"March of Dimes" in the school. Jt
was a lovely book for snapshots.
Robert Sherwood re-turned to
school Monday after a two-weeks absence.
Luverne  Long  is  a   new  pupil     in
our room.   He attended schoel at Mildred before coming here.
THIRD   GRADE
We have two new pupils in our
room.    They  are Marion    Anderson.
and Marjorie Long. Morion comes
from Federal Dam and Marjorie from
Sherbourne County-
We are working hard on our Dutch
Village and pictures. Wilbur Sevesind is in charge of the Dutch Village. Others are making booklets,
large posters and decorations.
Those who had perfect attendance
the last six weeks, were Donald Witt,
Lola McCullough, Wilbur Sevesind,
Leslie Johnson and Paul King.
SIXTH   GRADE
The boys and girls ba\e .been very
busy organizing clubs. Each club
will make its rules ami regulations.
The boys' club has been named "Hok-
Ie Chokle," and the girls' club is called  "Sunshine."
Several projects have been started
In art; soap carving, clzzorettes and
egg designing..
Harvey Cromett has made a thirty-
inch plane and has it flying in the
Bixth grade room. Donald Muster has
also made a plane, his being twenty-
four inches in size.
In checking over the work to be
done, the sixth graders find they will
be able to complete each course.
Due to illness, many students are
absent.
March 15, the Footlights Dramatic-
Club will present four one-act plays,
the culmination of their work for the
year. A splendid program of comedies and drama has been prepared
and is now being diligently rehearsed
for the big event.
The plays selected, with their casts
are as follows:
"Differential Kindness"
Phoenician   Agnes Chamberlain
Mrs. Elliot      Norma Thyr
Elaine Elliot ..:. Carol Kyllingstad
Cyril Elliot    Bill Crawford
Roger Dillon     Herbert Miller
Fred  Shannon  ..   Robert Anderson
"Winter Sunset"
Mrs. Andrews  Gertrude Ellis
Bill Andrews     Perry Burgett
Anita       Leona Hopke
Dr. Michaelson  .. Donald Peterson
'The House of Greed"
Letitia Roberts .. Eileen Heemstra
Carlotta Hendricks .  Marcella Carey
Marie Hield       Hilda Norman
Gwenda Lee     Naomi Stevens
Cedric  Roberts       Eari Heath
Jerry McArthur Duane Wilson
Detective Brooks .. Darrel Dennis-
ton
"His First  Shave"
Grandma Judson      Edith Velde
Mrs- Judson     Leone Flynn
Hannah  Lotz       Lillian  Wolds
Harry Hollister   ..   Elvin Leverington
Janey Judson  ..  Geraldine Sescher
Don Judson     Clayton Gearey
Betty  Kenyon   ....  Laura Johnson
Marion Hawley       Billy McLean
Miss Isaacson, assisted by Miss
Rasmuson and Miss Doty, is in charge of rehearsals. All the actors have
had previous experience In dramatics,
and  should  turn   out  some  excellent I evening.
New enrollments this week include
Marjorie Long, Marion Long and
Frances Anderson.
On Tuesday, an assembly program
consisting of the study of the Tundra,
Artie Coastal Border of Canada, was
held-
Friday noon (today) all of the student body interested in baseball will
be given a chance to see moving pictures o fthe world series. Anyone in
the community s invited to. attended
if they wish t° do so.
The geography students paid a visit to Washington, D. C-, andl the social science class studied social relations through moving pictures, taken
in various parts of South America.
Among various experiences the class
met the presidents of Brazil,, Uragu-
ay and Argentina, esides a number of
other international diplomats. The
on the large steamer was an interesting excursion, especially the experience of crossing the Equator when
King Neptune stepped in and initiated those crossing for the first time-
Speech  Festival  in Staples	
V Miss Hill, Miss Isaacson, G. E. Hen
derson and Leona Hopke. Bobby, Doty, Marvin Rognlie and Billy McLean
drove to Staples Tuesday, where the
students participated in the speech
activities-
Thirty-one schools took part, with
entries from Moorhead, Staples, Aitkin, Little Falls, Br-eckenridge, and
Alexandria. Seventy students were
active in the festival.
Leona Hopke who entered in Inter
pretlve reading with "Jean-Marie"
and Bobby Doty in oratory, .with
"Monster on the Public Square," won
grades of "very good"; while Billy
McLean with the "Execution of Sidney Carton" and Marvin Rognlie with
"cky Fodder" were rate as "good."
Your Journal comes to you this
weekin a rather depleted condition
this week and with a lot of eZort on
the part of the staZ
Fire which was discovered about
12:45 a. m., Wednesday night, swept
through the press room, completely
destroying the big press and other
equipment housed in the room. It is
only through the courtesy of Albert
Anderson, publisher of the Pillager
that this issue went to press at all as
our printing facilities at the present
are practically nil..
The fire was discovered by Harold
Jones and this writer, who had both
left the building only forty minutes
before the smoke was discovered billowing from the eves all aong the top
of the building. A quick attempt to
to discover the source of the fire proved fruitless as smoke was so thick it
was impossible to enter the building
at any point. The alarm was turned
ni by Harold Jones and the fire-laddies arrived in short order. The fire
was then discovered to be burning In
a garage next to the press-room, housing Major Skinner's car. How It
started nobody knows. The state fire
marshal spent all day Thursday going
through the building and the only possible theory that he could advance
was that of defective wiring.
The automobile, a large Buick, was
finally dragged out by a bunch of
men but by this time was a total
wreck. Quick accurate work on the
part of the fire fighters however, put
the blaze under control in a short
time but not until it had burned thru
the ceiling in the garage to the stage
of the theatre above, destroying the
projection screen, sound system, curtains, a number of seats and smoking
the auditorium up in general.
Damage to all parties concerned is
estimated at $8,000. Everything was
covered by insurance.
The oddity of the whole affair is
the fact that this writer was working
in the room next to where the blaze
was discovered, only forty minutes before the smoke was discovered pouring out of-the building. And in less
time than it takes to tell it, the blaze
broke out and was going merrily on
its way. The car which was garaged
there had not been driven since the
15th of January so it is doubtful that
the fire originated there.
Had not the local fire hoys been so
well versed in their business and arrived at their posts in short order,
the entire building and its contents
would have been a total loss. As it
is the loss is great but nothing like
what it might have been had the struc
ture burned to the ground.
And if you think it is any fun putting a newspaper together, wading
knee-deep in debris, and looking all
over the pace for stuff that has been
blown around by a high-pressure hose,
you have another guess coming. Any
way we have done the best we can
and with the aid of friends, got the
"rag" out for another week.
MISSIONARY   SERVICE
Rev. Oliver Cedar, a missionary to
South America for about ten years,
will be at the Whitefish Gospel Taber
nacle Sunday morning and evening,
March 10- He will tell of the great
needs and bis experiences as a missionary in that country. Sunday evening he will show slide pictures. Don't
miss this opportunity to hear this
wonderful man of God- Monday he
will be at the prayer conference of
the Wesleyan Mthodist Church at
Little River. Everyone is cordially
invited.
4-H   CLUB   REPORT
The Blind Lake 4-H Club met iat
the Blind Lake school on February
26, with both leaders, eleven members and 8 visitors present. There
being no business, tbe meeting was
turned over to the program committee who presented a very interesting
HOSPITAL  NEWS
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ted Johnson
of Backus, a boy Tuesday.
Victor Anton of Longville, suffered
a broken leg February 29, and is being cared for at the local hospital.
Dwight Riley, little son of Clarence Riley, is ill with pneumonia.
Other new patients at the hospital
this week, include Vera Peterson ef
Pine River, Grace Heatherington of
Backus, Mrs. Mary Boetcher of Hack
er.sack and Mrs- McMillan of Longville.
BEAVER   SCARES   FISHERMAN
Crosby.—An unusual incident took
place while Theodore Heglund, Crosby, was fishing in his fishhouse on
Portage Lake. A beaver jumped into the house through the fishing bole,
thoroughly freightening Mr. Heglund.
In his excitement, he was unable to
find the door but because of his loud
screams, tht- beaver turned around
and went down the hole again.
'HOPPERS   FOUND    IN    EARTH
performances. Don't fall to keep the
evening of March 15 free for this really  worthwhile entertainment.
Mrs. Vera Hardy of    Fifty    Lakes
visited with Mrs. R. C. Spencer Tues-[during the Easter vacation
day. _ _^  I —Lola  Hemmelman^Eleporter
Madison.—Just  for    the    sake    of
curiosity,   Frank   Roggenbuck,   Rosen
farmer, recently put a small quantity
of earth taken from his garden, into
a can which he placed near a stove
so it would become warm.   Soo young
grasshoppers began to move around in
the earth-   This test apparently prov-
The next meeting will be held April  e(J that the goi] in tha(. gection of the
1, because the regular date would fall  country, at least, Is    Infested    with
Following the program, games were
played after which refreshments were
served. A group of songs were sung
after the lunch hour.
.
grasshoppers, which may
threat in the spring.
become   a