The Pine River Journal (Pine River, Minnesota), 1936-03-05

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PINE RIVER JOURNAL
VOLUME I NUMBER XXIX
THE PINE RIVER JOURNAL, PINE RIVER, CASS COUNTY. MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 193«
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MRS KENSER WRITES
FROM MANTANUSKA
Following is a letter received
by one of our subscribers from
a friend that is living in the Man
tanuska Valley, which should be
of considerable interest to the
readers as the writer is a former
resident of Pine River, and is
well known here:
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Rohr:
Everyone seems to think that
we can't like it here, but ther's
something about this Mantan-
uska Valley that gets into your
blood.
We found that our agents didn't lie any about the mosquitoes
as the men had to wear head
nets, jackets and gloves in order
to protect themselves "rhile working in the woods. The tents
being pitched in an open field,
we were only bothered there in
the evening.
The wind certainly knows how
to blow. It also rains quite a lot
here also; we have had more
rain than snow this winter and
consequently plenty of ice. The
weather has been delightf ul.with
the coldest only 22 below and
most of the time the mercury is
above zero. It has been from 32
to 46 above most of the time for
the oast two weeks.
There are very few lakes here
and the fishing consists of trout
and salmon. Most of the game
is in the mountains. This consists chiefly of mountain sheep,
bear, moose and goats. The men
would have had to buy a non-resi
dent license this vear so they did
n't try their luck except to get
bears that came too close to the
cabins. Thpr° are a f»w soruce
hens (like Minnesota prairie chickens) rabbits and squirrels in
the valley.
Timber is chiefly spruce, and
birch. Our soil is about six feet
deep but on some farms it is
much less.
Corn, Cucumbers and tomatoes are not grown with much
success but we have hones that
when more land is cleared that it
will be easier to raise v^or°tqbles.
Curing and drying is another
major problem here because of
the fact that this is the rainiest
season. A Man here has invested in a $10,000 drying machine
and when the hay comes through
this it is chopped up and then it
has to be sacked as any ground
feed. It sold for about $45 per
ton. Most of the farmers raise
a mixture of peas and oats and
cut it before the oats are rine to
supply their own hay. Milk is
worth 25c per qt. ,
_ We are surrounded on three
sides bv mountains. ThQ closest
of which is five miles. On bright
mornings it seems as iust a
sho^t walk from the camp.
The transients sent uo here
proved to be from everv walk
of life, but verv few carnenters
so thev had to hire Alaskan labor Which made the cost of iour
homes much higher as the transients were to b° oaid by the
state of nn'if^r-ia
Living conditions are made as
easv as "possible. Woman fo^s
will have gasoline irons and washing machines, also b"ilt in
cupboards, good floors and sinks
The stump puUinfr and breaking
will be done bv caterpiFars. The
corporation has a number of
trucks, pickups and cat°rnillars.
also a counle of buz? saws so the
wood won't have to be sawed by
hand. Several-saw mills were
put into use this summer and a
large oercontage of the houses
are built of logs sawed on three
sides. Our home is made o_
round logs.
Radio receotion is very uncertain, as one may be em'oving a
good program and then have it
die away or it may be good for a
few hours and then be gone for
the rest of the nitrht.
The food supply is nlentvful
and of good quality. Each fami
ly is given a generous monthlv
allowance, according to the size
of the family. There is no need
of any one wearing ragged clothes as we are well supnlied.
Our community center is getting to be quite a town.   There
is a building housing the trading
post and some of the offices,   a
warehouse, power house barber
shop shoe shop, garage and No-
mans office for exchanging and
selling home made   articles   m.
Other buildings underconstruc
tion are a   hospital,   recreation
hall, schooi house, depot, dormitory, doctor's house, manager's
house and several other homes.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Grant Kenser
(GertrudeJames)
IND. B. B. TOURNA-
MEN AT PINE RIVER
The Cass County Men's Athle-
tion ass'n are planning for a
basketball tournament to be held
in Pine River. The tentative dates for the tournament are Mar.
13-14 and will either be played in
the high school gym or at the ar
mory The uncertainty being due
to the fact that the balcony at
the high school gym is under
construction and not yet complet
ed.
The Tournament will be composed of teams from Backus,
Boy River, Cass Lake, Federal
Dam, Hackensack, Pillager. Pine
River, Remer and Walker. Bena
may also enter a team. Most of
these teams have been playing re
gularly and are very evenly
matehed which should make the
tournament plenty interesting.
The tournament is somewhat
late this year due to inclement
weather, bad roads, and the late
start of the recreational department. It will no doubt be a very
fine tournament so plan to attend. The winner of the district
tournament will play in the regional tournaemnt to be held in
Brainerd on March 20 and 21.
More complete details of the
regional and district tournaments will be published in this
paper next week. Plans are also being made for a Women's
tournament to be held in the
near future. A more definite
date will be given later as plans
are not yet completed.
HARPIST ENTERTAINS
AT SCHOOL FRIDAY
The Brown-Meneley Duo ofthe
Northwest Assemblies, who were
tc entertain at the High School
Auditorium on Friday morning
failed to appear. But fortunately
Don Milne, an accomplished Harpist had arrived in Pine River on
the nreoeeding day and consented to fill their place with the
assistance rf his Barents, Rev.
and Mrs. Milne. The program
consisted of solos on the harpand
beautiful art numbers by Mrs.
Milne. Everyone present was
more than satisfied with the sub
stitution. After the program
Mr. Milne met with the music
classes and gave a very interesting talk on the construction of
the haro and demonstrated how
it was nlaved.
Don Milne is harpist with the
Waterhouse Orchestra at Kansas City, Mo.
PROGRAM   TO   SAVE
LAKES    LAUNCHED
WITH  WPA  LABOR
A water conservation program
of far reaching imortance to all
of Northern Minnesota, especially centers interested in the
tourist business, was launched
this week. As a result of cooperation between the state Depart
ment of Conservation and the of
fice of Victor Christgau, WPA
administrator, actual construction of three dams has been start
ed and before the program is fin
ished this summer, 46 others
at the outlets of as many reser-
voiro in the major watrsheds ot
the lake area, will have been
completed. The construction is
under the direction of J. H.
Downs, a prominent hydraulics
onerineer in the office of Walter
Olson, in charge of the state's
water conservation program.
DON DAVID MILNE, CONCERT HARPIST
Don David Milne, Radio and
Concert Harpist, who is visiting
with his parents, Rev. and Mrs.
M. B. Milne of Pine River, began
his playing career sixteen years
ago as the 'Boy Harpist.' He
has appeared professionally in
more than twenty states. This
winter he has been broadcasting
from KFH Witchita, and has often been featured over WEBC,
Duluth and also several southern
stations.
The people of Pine River will
have an opportunity to hear this
talented harpist at a recital in
Pine River at an early date.
SUNDAY NIGHT DINNER
CLUB MET AT T. E. HILLS
LOCALS WIN TWO
DROP ONE AT
TOURNAMENT
Pine River   Wins   Two   Games
Lose To Verndale Saturday
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Hill entertained the Sunday Night Dinner
Club at their home Sunday evening at 6 o'clock. Covers were
laid for twelve. Following the
delicious meal contract was
played with Mrs. Clyde Town-
send leading the ladies and John
Kater leading the men.
FORTNIGHTLY CLUB MEETS
The regular meeting of the
Fortnightly Club was held at the
home of Mrs. T. E. Hill at the
usual seven o'clock supper hour
on Monday evening. Cards followed the supper with Mrs.Louis
Isensee finishing with high score
and Mrs. Harris Zigmund second.
ERADELPHIAN CLUB MET
WITH MRS. CHAS.   SIEBEL
A very interesting meeting of
the Eradelphian Club was held at
the home of Mrs. Chas. Siebel
on Friday afternoon. Mrs. Otto
Haack gave an excellent paper on
Minnesota authors. The next
meeting will be held at the home
of Mrs. D. L. Triggs on March 16
The topic will be 'Film Production and Movies.' After the program there will be a supper followed by a theatre party at the
Marlow, when members of the
club will see Will Rogers in his
last picture, Tn Old Kentucky.'
4H CLUB MEETING
The Pine River 4H Hub will
hold a meeting in the school house Saturday, March 7, at 2:00 P.
M.
> Officers will be elected at this
time and all old members with
all the boys and girls who desire
to enroll for the coming year are
requested to be present.
Plans for a music contest and
also for a one act play will be
discussed.
It is hoped that conditions will
allow a large number to be present.
The Sub-District basketball
tournament held at Wadena last
week drew a large crowd from
Pine River, as well as from other towns participating. Two lar
ge school busses besides several
private cars with about 100 fans
motored to Wadena each evening
and witnessed the games.
The first two games the locals
were going strong winning the
(first game from Backus by a
score of 34-17. On Friday evening they .drew the fast playing
Hewitt quint and again emerged
victorious with a score of 29-16
The Winnig of the Hewitt
game placed Pine River in the
finals Saturday evening with
Verndale as the opposing team.
They played a close game and also a very interesting game but
wereunable to get over the hump
The Hewitt boys winning the
game by a score of 24-18. ' The
local boys played good basketball and deserve much credit for
the showing they made and no
Coach Matson should received
congratulations also for turning
out a team of this calibre.
Both'the Verndale and Pine
River teams will take part in the
District tournament this week
end according to Coach Matson.
The District tournament will
be held in Brainerd.
WHIST TOURNAMENT
To date Zigmund and Triggs
lead in the Whist tournament
that is being held weekly at the
I. O. O. F. Hall. The scores to
date are as follows:
Downing - Ackerman 222
Carpenter - Christian 137
Ritchie - Schuster 246
Rovick - Rovick 244
Fraser - VanKempen 227
Walton - McAllister 261
Shepard - McAllister 155
Robideau - Bremken     __193
Townsend - Fields 171
Triggs - Zigmund 278
Shiffer - Luscher 224
Kolb - Yancey 189
A Dancing Class, consisting of
tap dancing, toe dancing acrobatics etc., will be started in Pine
River on Wed., Mar. 11. Any
one interested call 60 for an appointment.
BLAKELEY - BOWMAN
George Bowman of Hackensack and Mrs. W. E. Blakeley of
Turtle Lake were united in marriage at the Methodist parson-
ag at Bemidji, on Tuesday, February 25. Mr. Bowman is well
known in this vicinity having
conducted a meat market in Pine
River for several years. Mr. and
Mrs. Bowman will make their
home at Turtle Lake.
ARMORY PROPOSED
FOR CITY HALL TUES.
The Pine River Commercial
Club was invited to attend the
regular meeting of the village
council on Tuesday evening of
this week for the purpose of discussing the acceptance of the
Armory building as a City Hall.
Dr. Button and Lon Fields, reported that they had spoke to
Adjt. Walsh at Brainerd about
purchasing the Armory and Mr.
Walsh informed them that they
would give the Armory to the
village without any cost whatsoever and that all that was necessary was to inform our Senator
an Representative of the matter
and have a bill introduced at the
next legislature and the village
would receive the deed.
It was also planned to house
all the fire equipment in the armory and oossiblv to build a
ramp on the south side for entrance to the basement.
Those present felt that if enough civic organizations could be
induced to use the building as a
club hall and etc to make the
building self supporting, the
building should be accepted.
A Manner was then discussed ot
advertising Pine River together
with the Paul Bunyon Playground. Dave Triggs, pres., then
suggested that letterheads bearing the Paul Bunyon insignia
and the names of members on
one side and a map of Pine River and its resort districts on the
other be printed and used aa sta
tionary by the local firms. The
suggestion seemed to be unanimously favored by all those present and a committee consisting
of Otto Haack, L. E. Dougherty,
Harve Cromett and Grant Bergstrom were appointed to gather
additional information concerning the possibility o'f this.
PTA WILL MEET ON
MONDAY, MAR. 9
Calling your attention to the
March meeting of the PTAorgan
ization, the program committee
announces the following program:
'The Pine River Players'There
have been so many requests for
this orchestra to appear again
that they have consented to plav
a couple of numbers at this meeting.
Talk, by Dr. Kaufman on Tn-
flamatory Rheumatism in Children.' This will be both instructive and interesting to all parents.   /
"The Auto Age," a ten minute
sketch that was announced for
the last meeting of the PTA but
due to the illness of one of the
players, was omitted and will be
presented at this meeting. The
cast includes Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Walton, Mrs. Lon Fields, Mrs
Ernest Robideau and Mr. Harris
Zigmund.
'ANNIE OAKLEY" FIGURE
Among- the interesting figures
in American history brought to
the screen in Barbara Stanwycks
new picture, 'Annie Oakley,' is
Ned Buntline, who handled much
of Buffalo Bill's publicity, and
was once considered the most
prolific dime novelist in America
Photographs owned bv Ed Phillips, who was with Buffalo Bill
for fourteen years, were used by
the RKO Radio studio to authen
ticate the scenes in the picture,
in which Preston Foster and Mel
vyn Douglas are featured.
NEWS BRIEFS FROM
AROUND OUR STATE
MODERN   VEHICLE   HAS
ALL LATE IMPROVEMENTS
Worthington—A new vehicle
has made its appearance in Nobles county which is strictly up-
to date, with knee action, floating power, a miser on as mileage, practically steers itself, and
with flat tires unknown. It is
fully equipped with a heater and
a full sedan body. Arnold Schul-
tz, farmer near Worthington, ad
mits it is a little slow, with a
crusing speed of only five miles
per hour, but offsets this advantage by the fact that it can
get into town without getting
stuck, which is more than some
of these eighty mile an hourbeau
ties can do until the snow plows
have gotten in their work. Seriously, the novel outfit is strictly a home-made affair, consisting of a sturdy bob sled powered
by a phegmatic farm team, the
novelty lying in it being equipped with an old sedan body purchased from the junk heap of a
garage. Schultz has removed
the lid of the cowl ventilator.and
drives the team by drawing the
lines through the opening. Heat
is furnished by a coal oil heater
in the lear compartment.
EMPTY   CAR   DOES   A
RUN-AWAY      STUNT
Perham—In the old days runaway horses furnished a good
deal of entertainment for villagers. Now runaways of that sort
are unusual, but last week a new
feature was added to the possible thrills at Perham, a runaway
car. Math Schmitz was working
on a car in the front part of the
garage, which had just been
brought in and parked near the
front door. In order to test the
engine, Math aoplied the crank.
The driver had left the car in reverse gear. There was a spluttering roar, and the car jumped
back. It crashed the door open,
shattering the glass, and turning obliquely, shot across the
street. It missed a parked car
by inches, bolted over the sidewalk, crashed open the gate of a
monument yard, ran about 15
feet into the yard and stalled in
the snow. Very little damage
was done to the car considering
its wild charge.
TRAIN   KILLS   HORSE   IN
A   FREAK   ACCIDENT
Benson—Death swooped down
on two Benson farmers at the
rate of seventy miles per hour
recently, only to be cheatedwhen
a horse was stripped of his harness and carried 100 feet down
the track, leaving the other horse, the sleigh, and two men unharmed. L. Riehsen and otto
Pulchulski were driving their
sleih into town and did not see
the fast mail train, three hours
behind schedule and trying to
make up time. With the train al
most on top of them, they swerved the team to the right and a-
way from the train. This move
brought the sleigh and its occupants out of danger, but the engine struck the horse on the left
side. The animal was instantly
killed, and was hurled completely out of his harness 100 feet
down the track. The remaining
horse escaped injury, and no appreciable damage was done to
the sleigh or the two men, who
leaped to safety.
HARPIST ENTERTAINS AT
VARIETY   SHOW
You will be entertained by the
following listed attractions at
the Variety Show which will be
presented in the very near future. Final arrangements have
not yet been made as to the date
and place but next week full details will be published in this paper- watch for it! In the meantime read over the numbers that
are ready.
'Little Oscar,' a one act comedy.
'Spanish Dance, Las Marianas'
by La Rojita.
'George Abraham Dupont Jones' a harlem specialty.