The Pine River Journal (Pine River, Minnesota), 1940-02-23

              PINE
JOURNAL
VOLUME V NUMBER 27
THE PINE mVER JOURNAL, PINE RIVER.  CASS  COUNTY,  MINNESOTA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1940
SUB. $1.00 In County, $1.50 ousslde
Out of the.
Waste Basket
—By—
GRANT   BERGSTROM
WHIST     SCORES
More   Pussy-Willows  <
Hardly was  the ink dry    on    last
weeks Journal, when up popped Jen-
ora   Leef,   the   local    stamp-pounder,
1 Siefert-Downing       30—30—473
Rognlie-Rognlle       25—30—11—406
Ziginund-Haack    30—30—463
Schuster-Robideau     30—30—446
Walton-McAllister   3—30-^31
Slebel-Zigniund     30—417
Lundin-Bergstroin       30—27—402
Slefert-Kolb     30—30—402
Carlson-Carlson       30—11—387
Thompson-Fields   	
Carlson-Kotka      29-
Klein Lundrigan ....  16—26—21—349
with a bouquet of pussy-willows she pattinson-Westin     30—.8—346
had   been   watering   daily   since   she Allen-Brown     20—21—338
picked them during the mild weather Hkkel-Siefert     30—314
in -December.    So  now,  Mrs.   Stevens  Skinner-White     17—306
out Swanburg way has a   rival    for Dubbs-Felthous     18—294
her early blooms—which just goes to Kiadt-Van Dom    20—21!)
PINE RIVER WINS
TWO LAST GAMES
OF THIS SEASON
show  that
after all.
somebody  reads  the 'rag'
A New Service
Eleven railroad companies have
joined forces to Inaugurate what will
be known as train-auto service. The
plan will be put into service May 1,
in the west and south.
* * * *
The plan will work something like
this: If you wished to go to a spot in
a remote location from Denver, Colo-,
which is not serviced by rail, all you
would do is buy your railroad ticket
and pay a stipulated fee for the use
of the car to your destination. When
you arrive in Denver, the vehicle
willbe waiting for you at the station.
The railroad companies have purchased 2000 new automobiles and will
have them located In 150 .key-cities-
* * * *
The successful fellow shows the
world what he can do. The failure!
tells the world what he would do if
he were the other fellow.
* * * *
Plenty  Variety  Here
Temperatures here the past week
have ranged as much as 60 degrees
from one day to the next. One morning broke bright and early at almost
-20 below and before high-noon the
mercury was hovering around 40
above. Where else can you get a
variety like that—Red-flannels ana
sheep-skin one day, and straw hat tlie
next.
* » * *
As this Is put Into type (Thursday
morning) snow Is falling fast and has
reached a depth of about four-inches.
It is the good, soft snowball kind
that makes you plenty wet-
* * * *
Tell  Him  Now
If with pleasure you are viewing
Any work a man is doing,
If you like it or approve it, tell him
now-
Don't withhold your approbation,
Till the parson makes oration
And he lies with snowy lilies on his
• brow;
For no matter how you shout It,
He won't hear a word about it,
He don't know how many tear drops
you have shed.
If you think some praise is due him,
Now's the time to give it to him;
He can't read what's on    his    tombstone when he's dead-
More than    fame,    and    more    than
money
Is the comment, kind and sunny,
And the  hearty, warm approval of a
friend;
For it gives his life a savor,
And it makes him  stronger,    braver,
And it gives him  heart and spirit to
the end;
Now's the time to let Mm know it;
Let the words of true encouragement
be said;
Do not wait 'till life is over,
And he's underneath the clover;
He can't read what's on    his    tombstone when he's dead.
—Contributed
STATE FUR SALE
BRINGS LARGE
SUM OF MONEY
The     Pine     River-Crosby     Ironton
game Friday evening, resulted in    a
_379  33-20 victory for the Tigers. At the
3q g51 ' end of the first quarter the score was
10-4 for P- R-; 2nd-. 13-ti; 3rd'.,' 27-lu
for P. R. The Pine River "B" team
was also victorious by a seoiee of. 10-
11- This was one one of the finest
games the local boys have played all
season. Riley wits high man with 22
points.
The Hackensack game which was
played Saturday evening ended in a
38-27 victory for the Tigers. Pine Ri-
ver held a comfortable all through
the game with each man playing outstanding ball. The "B" team was also victorious 21-9-
Pine River has eleven wins and
five losses to their credit for the season- They will enter the tournament
at Wadena next week, playing the
winners of the Menagha-Pillager
game Wednesday, and if victorious,
they will play  the winners    of    the
The largest sale of confiscated and
trapped furs so far, held by the division of gam? and fish In the state de-.
. „      ,.      • ,    .   _.„„,,  Verndale-Backus game Fnaay
partment  of  conservation,  last week|
brought  a  total    of    $23,573.46    for
1S.026 pelts.
In the lot were 1S.740 muskrat pelts,
which sold for $22,259.56; 23 beaver
for $386.75; CG mink, $537; 56 racoon,
$178; 21 badger, 42.40; 45 skunk,
$80; 2 otter, $26; 57 weasel, $23; 5
red fox, $23; S grey fox, s-14-50, 1 bobcat, $2; and' 2 deer 'hides $1.25-
• The unusually large number of
muskrat pelts on sale at this time re-
Otto Haack Attends
Superintendent's Meet
At St. Louis, Missouri
Supt. Haack left on Friday of last
week for St. Louis, where he is spend-
i ing ten days at a  National Superln-
sulted from the necessity of trapping
tendent's  convention.    At a meeting
them because of low wafr conditions ot the NBA assembly held recently
in the southern part of the state Mr- Haack was appointed Council
where many of the muskrat marshes Legislative Chairman, and in this
either had dried up or frozen solid,
•ling to  game and fish  officials.
In advertising this sale, invitations
were sent out to all the licensed fur
buyers in the state. This resulted in
a large number of bidders and the
higher prices.
At the sa'e held January 2, 511
skins were sold for-$3,557-58; at the
August sale, 2,300 muskrat and 40t>
beaver sold for $6,270.
TABERNACLE   NEWS
Services at the Tabernacle Sunday,
were given over to a discussion of the
Gideons. Four members of the Gideon
organization from Brainerd were present and took part in the service.They
stated that they had placed their largest order in the history of the organization, for 250,000 Bibles. One of the
most Important features of their work
has been the distribution of Bibles in
schools. They have placed Bibles in
nearly every schoolroom in Crow
Wing County- Those present at the
meeting felt richly repaid for coming
to hear thfse things-
Rev. Brown will conduct a two
weeks meeting for the training of
teachers for Sunday school work. The
first week will be devoted to child
psychology and the seco-d week to
teaching methods. Anyone who is interested in Sunday school is welcome
to attend- The meetings will begin
at-7:45 p. m., each evening except
Saturday.
—Rev. Brown
capacity he has been investigating' the
advisability of federal aid for education-
Word was received this week from
St- Louis, that the advisory committee appointed by President Roosevelt.
was present at the convention and after hearing arguments pro and con.
unanimously reported that federal aid
was advisable.
Wh
Kind:
\@le can uou
-A SERIAL FULL OF CHUCKLES?
—A STORY TO FASCINATE YOU?
—REAL ROARING AMERICAN HUMOR?
—AT LEAST ONE LAUGH A MINUTE?
ou 11 'kind them all in
The
ORABL
CLE
LANCY
Ethel Hsseston's Great Blew Serial
"OVERY American—Democrat, Republican,
J Prohibitionist or what have you will get
the kick of a lifetime out of "The Honorable
Uncle Lancy." It's the gayest, craziest tale
of our American political nonsense that you
ever read. A chuckle to every line!
SBEIALLY IM THIS PAPER
SKATING RINK RE-FLOODED
With the assistance of Joe Neuberger and the creamery boys, John
Rohr re-flooded the skati."g pond with
1500 gallons of hot watei Tuesday,
filling all the cracks and crevises.
making a nice smooth surface- This
last treatment should  keep the rink
'clock luncheon was served, followed by bridge, with Mrs. John Kater
Jr. winning first prize and Mrs- Fred
Hempstead low. Mrs. D- 1. Triggs received the cut prize.
A party and s'hower was held at the
home of Mrs. Andy McAllister, honoring Mrs- Wayne Swift Saturday afternoon. Twenty-five guests enjoyed a
social hour and refreshments. The
honored guest was the recipient of
many beautiful gifts.
Mr. Stainbrook, the local Allis Chal-
'HONEYMOON IN
BALI' AT MARLOW
SUNDAY-MONDAY
in good condition for the balance of  mers dealer, announces a  free movie
the season.
Local Items
In keeping with the holiday, a
Washington birthday party was held
by Mrs. Ernest Robideau and Mrs.
Arvid  Lundin Monday  afternoon.    A
on tractors at the    Marlow,    coming
March 9- Read the ad in this issue.
A group of fourteen friends met at
the Claude Gardner 'home Tuesday
evening to help Lucille Gardner celebrate her eighteenth birthday, and also the birthday of Charles Van Dorn
On Friday and Saturday the Marlow offers you "Mutiny on the Black-
hawk" with Richard Arlen and Andy
Levine, a rip-roarin' picture that will
thrill you every minute.
"Honeymoon in Bali," with Fred
MacMurray, Allan Jones and Madeline Carroll, is a lively romantic comedy, which pokes fun at the modern
career girl who believes herself too
self-sufficient to find a place in her
life for love.    The picture will play
whose birthday was on Monday. Sunday and Monday at the Marlow,
games were played and lefreghinents with Helen Broderick, Osa Massen,
served, after which the guests of hon-  and  Carolyn Lee in  the    supporting
or opened their gifts.
MINNESOTA   NEAR   TOP   IN
AMOUNT  OF   AUTOMOBILES;
ONE   FOR   EVERY  3   PEOPLE
TWO  MEN  CONTEST MR.  ECK
FOR     OLDEST -  CAR     TITLE
Minnesota has one motor vehicle
for every three of its citizens, with
more than 875,000 motor vehicles registered for 2,627,000 people.
Its entire population could ride
comfortably, at one time, in the passenger cars they own.and have enough
trucks and buses to carry all of their
FIRST GRADE i pictures showing important events
The second grade invited the first  Minnesota history.
in
cast-
Miss Carroll is cast as a career gin
with an Important position in a Fifth
Avenue department store, and the
chief man in her life, Allan Jones, a«
opera singer, can't seem to marry her
on any terms. Fred, a carefree fellow,
inclined to a life of adventure, has
just returned from Bali at the start
TWO MUSKRAT
SEASONS TO OPEN
IN MINNESOTA
W. J. Biever, local fur buyer has
received confirmation that two musk-
rat seasons will be opened In Minnesota this year, one in the northern
counties from March 31 to April 14;
an din the southern counties from
March 16 to March 13-
Counties comprising the norther division are as follows:
Kittson, Rosseau.Lake of the Woods
Koochiching, St. Louis, Lake, Cook,
Carlton, Aitkin, Itasca, Oass, Crow
Wing, Wadena, Hubbard, Beltrami,
Clearwater, Mahnomen, Becker, Clay,
Norman, Polk, Red Lake. Pennington,
and Marshall.
Southern   Countias
Wilkin, Otter Tail, Todd, Morrison,
Mille Lacs, Kanebec, Pine, Chisago,
Isanti. Benton, Stearns, Douglas,
Grant, Traverse, Big Stone, Stevens,
Pope, Sherburne, Dakota, Anoka, Carver, Washington, Hennepin, Scott,
McLeod, Wright, Meeker, Kandiyohi.
Swift, Lac qui Parle, Chippewa, Yellow Medicine, Rendville, Sibley, Wabasha, Goodhue, Rice; LeSueur, Nicollet, Brown, Redwood, Lyon, Lincoln,
Pipestone, Murray, Cottonwood, Watonwan, Blue Earth, Waseca, Steele,
Dodge, Olmsted, Winona, Houston,
Fillmore, Mower, Freeborn, Faribault,
Martin. Jackson, Nobles find Rock-
PATROLMEN   LEARN   HOW   TO
BRING   PEOPLE   INTO  WORLD
AS WELL AS KEEP THEMi HERE
Just an example of the many things
Minnesota state highway patrolmen
are expected to do, and do, in an emergency—
A new page, sent out this week by
Chlfe Eldon Rowe for inclusion in the
loose-leaf notebook of instructions
and orders wWch every patrolman
carries, gives full emergency instructions as to "proper procedure to follow in the event a baby should be born
on the highway following an accident
or other emergency."
Patrolmen must t>e well-versed not
only in traffic laws and their administration but in automobile mechanics
(last year they made minor adjustments or repairs to 21, 972 cars that
were stranded on the road, and checked more than 100,000 vehicles for
illegal or unsafe equipment), safety
regulations and their instructions, directional and road information for
tourists, and first aid to the IU or injured—what to do until the doctor arrives.
grade to a Washington program on
Thursday afternoon. We enjoyed it
very much-
SECOND     GRADE ,|
Margaret Ann Downing was a visitor Monday afternoon.
We had a Washington program February 22. Everyone in tne room took
part In it. Grade I, came in to hear it
at three o'clock-
Robert Sherwood is still absent.
The others are all back that missed
part of last week-
THIRD   GRADE
Our Pioneer frieze is almost finish-
Eight boys and girls wrote poems of the picture. Everything gets mixed
up when Fred falls desperately in
love with Miss Carroll. Romantic
complications lead them to Bali and
then things begin to happen.
  | necessities of life.    That is, of course
Since Herman Eek of Wykoff, Minn- [n case 0f a general exodus—if people
esota, bought a 1910 license for his of Minnesota could find any bettet-
1917  model  car,   two  other  Minneso- j piace to go.
tans 'have contested his claim to own-      And all of the people in Minnesota,!
ing the state's oldest car-   John Kem- couia travel at the same time on the
pers, Preston farmer, owns    a    1918 lli400  miles  of trunk  highways and for a readInS and ^play table- Then
Reo which he has been driving Since j stlll ,have less than 77 vehicles to the we can have more books, pictures and
which we posted at the back of   our
room.
FIFTH GRADE
For our project to finish up the
southern states, we made product
maps-
We have completed our Elson Basic
Readers and are now having a spelldown on the meanings of the words
in the glossary.
During some of our language classes, we have been giving special reports on our favorite southern state-
We wrote originial plays last week
M. E. SOCIAL CLUB  MEETS
ed and we invite you to come and see f°r two of our language classes. Next
[■It
We have cleaned out and scrubbed
our sand-table.   We intend to use   it
late 1915, and H- L. McCullough of
Island Park drives the same "Green
Jewel" that he bought in 1915. Kemper does all the repair work on the
Reo himself. McCullough has had license number 152 for many years.
BIG    CHEESE
Aitkin—The big cheese in this town
is at Ziske's store. It was brought in
recently to occupy the place of honor
in the merchandise display—because
It weighs 529 pound3, is 36 Inches in
diameter and stands 4 feet high,
mile-a safe driving interval  at ido-,ott^;•_?____*_* **}?& for_°rn l00™
derate speeds.
Only six other states had higher
motor vehicle population ratios in
19.-3, and Minnesota has gained rapidly in motor registrations since, so t
can expect to rate close to the natl
on's top this year.
week we will dramatize two of    the
best ones.
SIXTH    GRADE
Miss Torske left for her home   at
Ada Thursday.
The  sixth  graders  were  sorry    to
We  exchanged   some    new    books hear of the illness of Katie Wynn who
with the second grade which we are had  an   operation.    They    presented
enjoying now. her with a box of candy and a birth-
Dr. Dingle gave us some little books day card,
about  teeth,  called   "Jimmy    Chew.":     We  are  starting  soap-carvln  after
The M. E. Ladies Social Club met
Wednesday afternoon at the church
with a good attendance. The meeting
opened with a roll call of current
events and hymn singing. Mrs. W. J.
Biever gave a talk on "The White
Basket," Mrs- Morris Cromett entertained with a piano solo and Mrs.
Ben Christian read the scripture lesson. Refreshments were served by the
hostesses, Mesdames Ernest Robideau
and Ben Christian.
The  newly organized Ladies    Club
of Fifty Lakes,  the  "Jolly    Twelve"
gave a kitchen shower for Mrs. Ho-
We like them very much and wish to which we will take up carving of plas-: ward Shepard and Margaret Hunt 0:E
FIFTY   LAKES   CLUB   MEETS
This means the thank Dr- DlnSle for -™ng them    to
world's top, because no c i.her country
in the world even approaches the motor-vehicle owner ration cf the U. S.
Eva Onken left Friday for Park Ra
nids, where she will do practice teach- her.
our room-
FOURTH    GRADE
We have completed three igloos in
our Eskimo village.
Ruth Horn has dropped out of
school for a few months. We will miss
Ing the next three weeks.
We have completed an exhibit    of
ter of parls-
A busload of students accompan
ied by Miss Isaacson, attended the
Speech Clinic held at Bralnerd Wednesday afternoon. Many of them remained to attend the play "You Can't
Take it With You" presented by the
Junior college dramatic club In
evening.
Longville  February    22-     A     goodly
number of ladles gathered at the Kot-
zenbeirg home for the occasion. Dinner was served at noon- The bride
received many useful gifts. Those
present from a distance, included
Mesdames Jim 9hepard, Charles In-
the graham and John Ingraham and chil-
|dr_n.
METHODIST   NEWS
Sunday the Minister preached on
"God Called Work" using as his text:
Phil- 3:14. He said there is an inward
search for work involving the body,
mind and soul. Then there is the out
ward search through word or speech
or both or even silence or inaction or
both. We should have an aim, whether it be an inward look, or outward
or even upward. All should center in
the Divine elements of lif-.- an upward
look both for life and for help. In
th& realm of work some occupations
Jesus doesn't want in, in others the
worker doesn't let him in, There
should always be room for Jesus whether it be on a part time basis >r on
a full time basis- In it all we should
all,have the christian motive in the
business of making a living, which
motive should be above the lesser motives of gain, fun and good; though
not bad in themselves, in fact worthy.
The sermon closed with a prayer for
guidance In our work of making ;t
living.
The Plaque movement seems to be
gathering momentum in Cass County,
especially in Pine River. Bronze
plaques will be placed in both the
Cass County and Crow Wing County
courthouses, containing the ten commandments and a New Testament
summary.
The campaign in Cass County is
making real progress. The proceeds
will go to the benefit of the Epworth
League. A total of $16.50 in cash, has
been solicited and pledges of 27-50
have been received- Oscar is treasurer of the fund and will also receive
donations.
—Rev. Hopper
Irvin Butler of Detroit Lakes, was
a week-end guest of Heino Mattson.
Dr. C. V- Williams who has been doing veterinary work at Blackduek.
the past few weeks, spent the weekend here.
Doone Andrus spent the week-end
with her mother at Verndale-