The Pine River Journal (Pine River, Minnesota), 1936-09-24

              PINE RIVER JOURNAL
VOLUME II NUMBER 6
THE PINE RIVER JOURNAL, PINE RIVER, CASS COUNTY, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1936
SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 Per Year
V
NEWS BRIEFS OF
INTEREST FROM
'ROUND THE STATE
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE
FOR 10 YEAR OLD BOY
Sleepy Eye.—Ten year old
Dennis Reinharts, of Sigel town
ship miraculously escaped death
last week when his head became
caught and crushed between the
wall of a shed and a large truck,
which was being backed into a
shed by his father. The lad's
skull was not fractured.altbough
he received an ugly gash, some
eight inches long, across the top
of his head above both ears. The
wound required thirty stitches.
Dennis was cleaning up in the
shed when his father drove up,
and without noticing his son,
backed into the building. Rein-
harts says he heard a !oud crack
as though a board had been broken. He was horrified to find
the boys head caught between
the truck and the shed wall. Although seriously injured, Dennis was unoonsious only for a
short period, having fainted
from the terrible shock. He was
hurried to the hospital where
an x-ray revealed no broken
skull bones. He was able to
leave the hospital in a few
hours.
FAKE EYE DOCTOR IS
CAUGHT BY THE LAW
Lewiston.—Another swindler
has found Minnesota "bad medicine," as A. R. Chambers of Des
Moines, fake eye doctor, has
been apprehended by the law.
Chambers was sentenced to pay
a fine of $300 or spend: 60 days
in jail, and was no sooner out of
his trouble in Lewiston. than he
was taken back to Kandiyohi
county to .face a similar charge
there. At Wilmar, it is alleged
that he defrauded and elderly
couple out of $300 through the
sale of specticals to them. Chambers was arrested after the cash
ier of a bank at Lewiston, became suspicious when Chris
Stein applied for a loan to purchase a pair of glasses for his
wife. Questioning Stein, the
cashier became convinced that
the eye doctor was a fraud, and
a trap was laid when Chambers
returned for his money. Subsequently Chambers confessed to
the hoax
HUNGRY MAN. 69, IS
HEIR TO A LEGACY
Granite Falls.—A week ago,
Knute Bjorge, 69, appealed to
the relief office for aid. He had
hitch-hiked here from Oregon
and was about played out. The
man was taken to the Granite
Falls hospital. Investigation
disclosed that Bjorge had worked in this community a number
of years ago, his employer being
Ole Flatta of Renville county, he
was communicated with and it
was found that letters had arrived from a lawyer. A sister
had died in the old country and
left him a legacy. Now word as
to the exact amount of the legacy is awaited.
SMALL DUCK DRINKS
HIMSELF   TO   DEATH
Morris—Another story of the
drouth and the hardships it
brought on the wild duck population of this section is told by a
Morris farmer. While the drouth
was at its height, a little spoonbill wandered into the farmyard
and drank and drank, seeming to
be bone-dry. The duck finally
climbed out of the tank and wad
died away, but had gone only a
short distance when it fell over
and died.
EASY   MONEY   ARTIST
TRIES NOVEL GAME
Howard Lake.—An easy money artist gave a nice demonstration of his line of attack but
failed to obtain any loot in Ho
ward Lake last week. Mr. Dahlberg, manager of the stock shipping association had left town
to attend a funeral in Dakota. A
stranger called at his home during his absence, asking Mrs.
Dahlberg for $10, saying he had
shipped stock the Wednesday
before and that he needed money. Mrs. Dahlberg told him that
she did not have that much at
home, whereupon he asked for
what she had, but she sent him
to the secretary of the association, where he never turned up.
He had evidently hung around
town long enough to find ,out
who had left town recently and
then proceeded with his plan.
CASS COUNTY RURAL
SCHOOLS START MONDAY
The rural school system of
the county got off to a iflying
start as marv cf the schools
opened their doors on Monday of
this week. A few rural schools
have been operating the past
week or two and there are a few
openings delayed until the first
part of October.
County Superintendent Wicklund, is calling all rural teachers
together for a two-day Institute at Walker on Thursday and
Friday, October 1 and 2.
DATE SET FOR NEXT
YEAR'S STATE FAIR
Minnesota's State Fair will be
held from September 4 to 11 in
1937. Hardly had the gates closed on the 77th annual exposition, the most successful in history, before the management be-
%an laying plans for next year's
fair. Encouraged by the wonderful exhibits in all departments and by the marvelous sup
port given it by citizens, the
management has determined to
go ahead with a more pretentious program than ever before in
1937.
All attendance records were
broken at this year's fair, 636,
484 passing though the gates,
thu sbettering the mark of 581,
643 established in 1919, and exceeding the 1935 total by nearly
110,000.
From all angles the 1936 Fair
was the best in history Record
entries were received in virtually every department, quality
of displays was far above the
average, and the educational and
entertainment programs surpassed those of all other years.
The fair was a financial success also stated Raymond A. Lee
secretary. The exact profit of
the great exposition will not be
known for some time but it has
been conservatively estimated to
be in excess of $50,000.
Fair patrons were greatly pleased with the improvements
made for this year's fair. New
auto narking lots, new bleachers,
new Swine and Sheep barn, Paul
Bunyan Logging Camp and other improvements that were made
by the management in cooperation with the WPA and the State added greatly to the comfort
and enjoyment of all the fair
visitors.
MILDRED CHAPEL NEWS
Several of the choir members
and others attended theo missionary service at Jenkins Friday evening. Mr. Eveland took
the folks over in-his school bus.
Some of the Kcbi young people from Rochester, who have
been visiting relatives near Mildred oand Hackensack, were
present at the Sunday service,
Upon invitation, Rev. D. M.
Wagner, pastor of the Baptist
Church in Park Rapids, has promised to be here for a service on
Tuesday evening, September 29.
Everyone is especially invited to
attenod this service. We expect
to hear a good message.
J. D. Nelson of Pequot, purchased a new Chevrolet Town
Sedan from the Pine Motor Co.
this week.
CASS FED. AGEN1Y
REPRESENTED AT
BRAINERD MEET
Robert Gustafson, engineer,
and Westie Jenson, NRSkrepre-
sentative for Cass countf, both
attended a meeting in Bigrinerd
Tuesday, September 15, 'called
by A. T. Gilbertson, district WP
A director, for the purpose of set
ting up proceedures for newly
assigned duties. This meeting
was attended by representatives
of the Rural Resettlement Administration.
The Nation Re-employment
Service has been alloted "funds
by Washington for the reinter-
viewing of all WPA workers and
those certified and awaiting assignment to PWA projects. The
interview will be primarily to determine the worker's occupation
all possibilities for private industry and what chances he has to
get back into private work. The
young men will be re-inter dewed as to education and vocation
preferences and possibilities.
The staff of interviewers;' will
concentrate their efforts by
working in one county at a time.
Those project workers' in the
vicinity of the county seat will
come in on Friday or Saturday,
of the designated week, for they
do not have to work on those
days and they can then be re-
interviewed. Otherwise, the
rest of the workers will be tak-
en care of at the project location
without interfering wtih their
work. The records in the Co.
WPA offices will be used to determine WPA workers to be re-
interviewed and the Area Engineers will work in cooperation
with the NRS; Representatives
to speed the completion of the
task.
The Rural Resettlement Supervisors met with A. T. Gilbert-
son and Harry Atwood, Supervisor of Employment, ion the
drouth quota which has enabled
the WPA to expand its operations.
F-L CAVALCADE
IN PINE RIVER
MON. SEPT. 28
MORE AID GRANTED
NATIONAL YOUTH AD.
Following a meeting attended
by high school superintendents
of Cass county on Sepember 2,
at Milaca, for the purpose of
bringing action for additional
school aid, C. B. Lund of the N
YA informed Geo. Selke, state
director, that an additional quota has been allowed to meet the
increased need for aid among
young people of families in the
45 designated drouth counties in
the state.
This quota increase in Minnesota will give part-time work to
approximately 2,000 more students than received aid during
the past year. The National
Youth Administration has allocated $473,481 to cover thes projects for the next three months.
Those interested are to contact the superintendent of the
school or college they wish to
atten and they will receive appli
cation blanks to fill out.
HONOR ROLL
The following new and renewal subscriptions to the Journal
have been received the past
week:
Tom Ethridge, Pine River
I. J. Cottrell, Pine River
Don Lundrigan, Pine River
Mrs. Oscar Seaberg, Pine Riv-
ver.
Mrs. Henry Jokela, Pine   River.
Caroline Phipps, Pine River
Look at the date on your paper, if you are in arrears, stop in
and see us.
Another F-L Cavalcade meeting is scheduled for Pine River,
for Monday, September 28. The
meeting will be held at the armory at 4 p. m. Mr. Lundeen,
Farmer Labor candidate for U.
S.-Senator and Mr. Lindsten,F-L
candidate for Lieut. Governor
will be the speakers. These men
are both well known politically
and are well worth hearing.
Don't forget the date.
On Thursday of last week Dr.
Paul Hartig, Farmer-Labor candidate for sec. of state and C. A.
Halvorson addressed the people
of Pine River in a street meeting. Senator Benson was scheduled to speak here but was unable to get here as he was in attendance at the funeral of Magnus Johnson the previous day.
ATTEND ATHLETIC
MEETING MONDAY EVE
SURVEY   CREWS   TO
CHECK EVERY MILE OF
ROAD IN THE STATE
If you have anything to buy, sell
or exchange— Use a WANT AD
It Will Bring Results
Forty engineers have been assigned by the U. S. Bureau of
Public Roads and the Minnesota
highway department to drive on
every mile of rural highway in
the state and gather information for the statewide highway
planning survey now being conducted jointly by the two organizations.
This means that men will
have to cover approximately
115, 000 miles of township, county and state roads. Decemberl,
has been set as the completion
date for the work. Each engineer drives an automobile, and is
accompanied by a chainman. As
they proceed slowly over the
various roads, they record the
width, condition and type of
surface of the roadway and the
location, size and condition of
all bridges, large culverts and
other roiad structures. They
also check mileages and note on
maps the locations of school,
churches, dwellings, creameries,
•quarries, gravel pits and ail such
places which are served by a
particular road. Continual stops
must be made for the taking of
measurements and the making
of structure inspections
The accurate taking and recording of this information requires time, and on an average
each crew of two men cover 40
miles a day. Each car carries
two square yellow flags, one in
front and one behind, as a caution to passing traffic. 5
The crews are now working
in northern Minnesota. Within
a few weeks they will gradually
move into the southern half of
the state.
RECEPTION   HELD   FOR
TEACHERS ON FRIDAY
At a reception   sponsored   by
the Parent Teachers Association
at the high school auditorium a
large number of parents and patrons of the school gathered on
Friday evening to meet the new
members of the faculty and become    better    aquainted'.    The
meeting was called to order by
Rev. MacKinney, pres,. and   the
following program  was  given:
Music by the Pine River Players.
Vocal selections by the Male
Quartet.
Introduction to the new teachers by Supt. Haack.
Welcome to the new teachers:
For school Board, Mr. Kolb.
For the parents, Mrs. Bates
For Faculty, Mrs. Martin.
Response for new    teachers,
Miss Isaacson.
Songs by Mr. Jones,   accompanied by Miss Hill.
The Past Year of PTA, Mrs.
Dubbs.
How It Looks To .The Parents,
Mrs. D. L. Triggs
Music by the Orchestra
Rev. MacKinney then gave an
outline of plans for the coming
year, and named committees in
Supt. Otto Haack, Mr. Henderson, Chas. Matson and Heino
Matson attended a State High
School Athletic Meet at Brainerd Monday evening. They were
guests at a chicken dinner, after
which the district committee
was selected as delegates to the
state convention. The football
and basketball schedules were
also completed. The first local
game is scheduled for October
3.
BENSON SOUNDS
KEYNOTE AT
APPLETON MON.
M. E. CHURCH NEWS
There will be no preaching
service at the M. E. Church next
Sunday, as Rev. and Mrs. Milne
will be in Sauk Centre on that
day. This will be theJmly Sunday the pastor has not been in
his pulpit since he came December 1. The Sunday School classes will meet at the usual hour.
The annual election of officers
will be held.
OBITUARY
Victor, the infant son of Mr.
and Mrs. V. Mclnnis, passed
away Tuesday morning, shortly
after he was brought to the local hospital. Death was due to
pneumonia. He was about six
months old.
BANDIT TRIO FLEE
IN PINE RIVER CAR
While eating dinner at Kolb's
Cafe Saturday evening, Dr.
Dingle had his car, which was
parked at the curb, stolen. He
at once notified authorities and
began inquiring around. Tbe
■following dgy, Sunday, the car
was found unharmed in Brainerd, where i thad been abandoned. Upon ivestigation it was
found that a couple of men and
a woman had driven into Pine
River from the south with a bad'-
ly damaged V8. After stealing
Dr. Dingle's car they drove into
Fred Hamlin's farmyard and
transferred their baggage abandoning the wrecked car. They
continued on to Brainerd in the
Pontiac, where they accosted another man, taking his car to
make the pursuit harder.
The car in which they drove
to Pine River, was traced to Dr.
Walberg of Isle, Minn., who reported his car had been stolen
the previous Tuesday.
Rumor has it today that the
two men and woman were apprehended at Sioux City.
CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING TUESDAY EVENING
On Tuesday evening friends
of Mr. and Mrs. Schaub met at
the Gospel Hall in honor of the
completion of fifty years of
married life. Music was furnished by the Pine River Players
and others. During the evening
the wedding ceremony was re-
enacted with Mr. Wagner and
Mrs. Murray as bridesmaids and
Mr. Murray and Mr. Wagner as
best men. A purse of Silver was
presented them by the business
men and other friends, after
which a luncheon was served.
Speeches were made by Mr.
Wagner and Mr. Murray in the
secret of living in happy wedded
life for fifty years.
Speaking before a wildly demonstrative crowd in his home
town Monday night, Senator. Elmer A. Benson, Farmer- Labor
candidate for governor, delivered a keynote address in which he
ripped into his Republican opponent and pleaded for a continuation of state government.
Citing reforms advanced under the Farmer-Labor administration, Senator Benson attacked the record of the Republicans.
If elected he pledged submission of a program to bring tax relief to home owners and farmers, shifting the burden to those
with the means to pay.
In his program he planned increased taxes in the upper income brackets and a boost in
other taxes such as gift, inheritance, moneys and credits, railroad gross earnings etc.
He ridiculed the Republican
economy claims and took a definite stand against a sales tax.
Space does not permit us to
publish the speech in its entirea-
ty as it would take several pages to cover it completely.
COSTUME PARTY
The Birthdav Club met at the
home of Mrs. Ollie Dahl on Tues
day evening, to help her celebrate her birthday. Before dinner
each member was presented
a bundle which contained her
costume for the evening. Following the chicken dinner, a
stunt program was carried out
under the direction of Miss Martha Datzman, in the role of Prof.
Harris. Among the guests of
the evening were the Nord sisters, Uncle Sam, a newsy and
many other interesting characters. Mrs. Dahl was presented
with a gift and a shower of hand
kerchiefs.
DON LUNDRIGAN OPENS
LAW OFFICE IN PINE R.
Don Lundrigan, son of Ed
Lundrigan, attorney at Cass i
Lake, has purchased the practice
of the late Arthur Seekell and
opened his office on Tuesday of
this week, in the bank building.
Mr. Lundrigan graduated in
1935 from the University of
Minnesota, and has been associated with his father in Cass
Lake for the past year. He
comes here highly recommended
and is heartily welcomed by the
business men in Pine River.
KNOCK, KNOCK, WHO'S
THERE? MAN TRAPPED
IN   RUMBLE   SEAT
Mrs. Lewis Walton went to
Palisade Wednesday, where she
made an official visit at th Rebekah Lodge. She was accompanied by Mrs. Chas. Bates and
Mrs. Ollie Dahl.
charge.
The hojspitality committee
then took charge and a social
hour followed, when everyone
had a chance to meet and become
aquainted with the new teachers
After the social hour lunch was
served in the Home Economics
department.
The date of the October meeting will be determined by the
executive committee at a later
date.
Red Wing.—A worker from
the Red Wing dam chose the
rumble seat of a cae to take a
snooze on the island road but
when he awoke early in the morn
ing, he found tha tthe door of
the seat had been closed and had
automatically locked itself. Late
the previous night the worker
jumped into the seat where he
fell asleep. The owner of the
car closed the door to the rumble
unaware that there was anyone
in the seat. About five o'clock
in the morning the cries of the
man awoke the owner of the car
who had parked near his home.
After quite a search the man
was found pinned in the rumble
seat.
•Charles and Hieno Matson
spent the week end at their home
in Gilbert. They were accompanied by Misses Lavern Benson and Ruth Wicklund, who*
were guests at the home of Miss
Benson's sister at Grand Rapids, and Mr. Jones, who spent
the week end at Cass J-,ake.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Mattson of
Brainerd arrived Monday, and
will be employed at the Lake Re^
gion hotel.