The Pine River Journal (Pine River, Minnesota), 1937-04-01

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PINE RIVER JOURNAL
VOLUME II NUMBER 33
THE PINE RIVER JOURNAL, PINE RIVER, CASS COUNTY. MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1937
SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 Per Yeai
>'   NEWS BRIEFS OF
INTEREST FROM
'ROUND THE STATE
WOMEN ENTER BUILDING;
BEGIN BREAKING EGGS
Rochester.—Two women deliberately walked into a Rochester baker last week and began
breaking several cases of fresh
eggs intended for cakes, cookirs
and custards! They had bee.i
sent there by the National Reemployment office in response
to an order from the superintendent of the bakery, and ha '
been selected on the basis o:
their qualifications to brea.
eggs-
COUPLE RETURNS MONEY
BORROWED FOR GASOLIN'
Sauk Centre.—Honesty i no
a discarded policy; it is not necessary to take the proverbial
Diogenes lantern to find honest persons, according to th° local mayor. This fact was proved to him quite conclusively
following a recent occurranee
which brought him a letter and
money which he advanced to
tourists some time ago for gasoline- A man and a woman
driving through Sauk Centre,
in more or less destitute circumstances, found .themselves
unable to proceed to their destination because of lack of funds
with which to purchase gasoline and oil. They looked up
the mayor, who helped them
out of their difficulty. They promised to return the money as
soon as they could earn it. Together with a expression of gratitude, the couple mailed the
amount expended for gas and
oil to the mayor.
THIS WEEK
Our riotously funny comic characters perform
more antics in today's
Funny Page—laughs for
the entire family.
Irvin S- Cobb, inimitable humorist, describes
the quaint antics of a
talking whitefish in a Chicago restaurant.
No jobless days ahead
for winners of Academy
awards. ' Other interest-
ting gossip by Virginia
Vale in her lively "Star
Dust" column.
E. W. Pickard in his
"Weekly News ■ Review"
discusses new difficulties1
involving Italy, France
and Great Britain in the
Spanish civil war situation.
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RITES FOR CHAS.
PERSON TODAY
lrue
BY THE
Charles Dudley Person, father of Mrs. H. C. Skinner, passed away at 11:20 p. m. Tuesday night, after an illness of
about four months Funeral
services will be conducted at
the home of.Major and Mrs. H.
C. Skinner Thursday afternoon,
(today) at 3 p. m.. with Rev
Milne officiating- Interment■ will
be made in Acacia Park in St
Paul. ■
Mr. Person has made hi.s
home in Pine River ..for the past
two years, with Major and Mrs.
Skinner, and during his stay
here bas made many   friends,
Charles Dun ley Person was
born in Runnells, Iowa, July 29.
1870, where he greW" 'to ' manhood. He was united in marriage to May Frew in 1896, To
this union one daughter wrs
Kom, Mrs- H. C. Sk'nner of Pin?
River. Mr. Person was 66 years
of age at the time of his death
T-Te was preceded in dea'h by
his wife in 1934.
Mr. Person leaves .'to mourn
his nntimo1v death one daughter, Mrs. H- C. Skinner of Pine
River; two brothers, C. E. Per
«i"n of Estherville. Ia., and A. A
Person of Des Moines. Ia : also
two sisters, Nellie •■Person -^f
Des Moines, la., and Mrs. C- B.
Osborne of Runnells, lai
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ENTERTAINS   SUNDAY
i SCHOOL   CLASS WED.
A NEW SERIAL
FROM THE PEN OF
[mo**
• Ha was tha unlucky
gclon of wealth who lost
•verythtag and became a
gardenerl She was the
daughter of wealth on
whose estate he worked
. . . and a carefree existence led this gay young
couple on a aeries of
adventures that neither
would forget!
Here is romance at Its
best In a happy-go-lucky
story about the late
lamented depression. Here
Is a tale of hearts that
would not be stilled by
bad luck ... of venturesome youth that came out
on top while all the world
was weeping.
It's a typical Llda
Larrlmore story . . . filled
with gaiety, novel incidents and an Individual
spirit that wins readers by
the thousands. Watch for
"True By the Sun" in this
paperl
READ EVERY
INSTALLMENT
Mrs. D. L. Triggs entertained her class of 12 children at an
Easter party last Wednesday afternoon. Decorations were done
v/ith pink and, yellow Easter
bunnies, chickens and candies,
providing a very colorful effect
Games were enjp-ed by the
young guests, after which th"1
hostess served a. very tasty lunch.
WPA TOURNAMENT
AT BRAINERD FRI.
THINGS THAT ARE
TAKING PLACE IN
THE LEGISLATURE
By V. Lockwood
The final struggle is on, only
20 legislative da/s left in which
to pass bills, with many import: -
ant bills still in committee, and
many passed by the House or
Senate, not passed by other legislative body, which means con
ference committees will be ap
pointed by the House and Senate and these committees will
endeavor to compromise so that
the bills, will be acceptable to
both branches of the Legislature.
NEW NON RELIEF
WPA REGULATI-
TIONS EFFECTIVE
The biggest problem before
us is just how to balance the
budget. The Appropriation committee is slashing appropriations right and left and the Tax
committee is working overtime
trying to raise enough revenue
to keep the State out of the red
and if possible, lower property
taxes after these appropriations
have been cut to the core.
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Practically every state institution has more inmates than
•the buildings were intended for,
and many are.oh the waiting
list- For example, the home fir
feeble-minded at Faribault, was
built to accomodate 2200 children; 112 extra children have
been crowded in, and 1318 feeble-minded children are waiting
to be admitted. Money was appropriated in 1935 fbr a small
addition, which when finished
will take care of,200 additional
children.
Effective April 15, not more
than 5 per cent of all persons
on WPA projects may have non-
relief status. Heretofo:e, the
maximum non-relief that could
be carried was 10 per cent. Ia
the state as a whole, the number always has been well below
the total allowable, due to the
policy of conserving funds as
much as possible for] those mosi
in need. On March 20, the per
cent of those not on relief in
this state was 3%, according to
information obtained from WPA
officials.
The. new regulations mean
that where projects have 10
workers or less, all must be
from the relief rolls and projects with more than 10 must
be operated en the basis of not
more than one non-relief employee foj. each 20 relief workers. This may require seme readjustments on projects in each
locality, according to local WPA
representatives.
The new regulations wer"
promulgated in Wa hingtrn as a
further step to conserve fund;
that have been voted by Congress for the operation of the relief program- They we~e designed especially to correct situations on some projects wher?,
the per cent of non-relief labo -.
was above the maximum allow
ed.
Kansas City Bank
Teller Nabbed in
Pine River Cabin
FIELD'S BARBER AND
BEAUTY   SHOP   COMPLETELY REMODELED
Remodeling of Lon Field's
barber and beauty shop was
completed this week. The work
was done by Jim Corey, Everett
Evans and R. C. Spencer- The
appearance of the entire interior has been changed, with new
cases, new fixtures, new beauty
booth and new individual mirrors. The cases have a gunme-
tal finish with chromium trim,
with individual back    mirrors.
The shop, is without a doubt
one of the finest in the northwest with all modern equipment. Lon has been in the bar-
bering business 31 years, of
which 23 have been spent in
Pine River.
Saturday, April 3, will be the
grand opening, with a gift for
everyone that visits the Elite
Barber and Beauty Shop. Read
the ad on another page of this
issue.
ADMITS EMBEZZELMENT OF
$7,500    FROM    KANSAS
CITY   NAT'L.   BANK
TABERNACLE NEWS
One state institution   has   a
smoke stack that is badly cracked and unsafe, another has    a
well that is caving in. while th"
portion of a building on another has been condemned by   th'-
State Fire Marshall as a    fir*
hazard, and so on,    On an   inmate per.capita basis per year
fhese institution- co«t the "'tat-
from from practically    nothin?!
at Stillwater, where the prison ;
is supported by the   manufacture of twine, machinery   etc.
and on un in oth^r institutions
from $1?5 to $500,  depending.:
on the amount of car* and hos-i
oitalizatibn needed.    The average running a little over $200
per capita per year.
SEED GRAINS TO BE
DISTRIBUTED HERE
The Recreational Division of
WPA has scheduled a    district
basketball   tournament   to   be |
held at Brainerd, April 2nd. and,
3rd., according to word receiv-j
ed from the office-Of A: T.:;Gil*j
I bertson-    Eight teams from six
' counties have been entered.
Returns from the county tournaments indicate that the foil-.
Owing teams will compete at
Brainerd: Pine City and .Willow River for Pine county; Cass
Lake for Cass county; Menahga
for Hubbard and Wadena counties. The WPA and Y's men
and Crosby-Ironton for Crow
Wine county.. The Aitkin team
is still to b& determined.
The tournament will open on
Friday evening at 6:30. Four
games will.be played Friday evening. Two ars scheduled fc
Saturday afternoon, the firs'
being played at 2:30 p- m. Th??
finals will be played Saturday
evening,
Starts In Our Next Issue!
Multiply 17,463, the number
of inmates in all institutions as
of June 30. 1936, by $200, and
you have the vast sum of about
31/4 million dollars per year
without anvthing added for repairs, upkeep and addition-^
buildines to care for those o1-
the waiting list, needing institutional care and supervision-
Almost $5,000,000 per year is
needed by the state to pay its
one-third of old age assistance;
and if th- bill wh'O passed th**
House, passes t*ei Senate, which
nrovido t^at the State pay th«>
county's sbar^ of old ag* assh-
tance, it will be necessary to
raise tvis appropriation by one
third. This move ivcmld reliev
property taxes to some ■evten*
is Cass Countv.. It nrighf< be interesting to notea that with the
exception of the three counties
containing cities of the first
class, more persons were admitted to state institutions from
Cass county in 1936 (105) than
from anv other countv in th^
State. Stearns was second ,with
86.
'Arrangements are being made
by County Agent Oscar Nelson.
to enable farmers to purchase
seed grain from the Surplus
Commodity Corporation. The
grains will be handled by someone who is responsible for the
shipment. This will probablv
be done through local elevator
men and f-ed men who are equio
ped to handle, it. It is hoped to
have this grain at three or four
points in the, county for the convenience of farmers. Farmers
are advised to contact local feed
stores or your County Agent regarding these seed grains. More
information will be available at
a later date.
Mystery of the killer of Kings
bury Run who has committed
eight perfect murders, a true
detective mystery story in The
American Weekly, the magazine
distributed with Next Sunday'?
Chicago Herald and Examiner-
(adv)
Dorothy and Verna Cromett
and Gloria Evans were Brainerd shoppers Friday.
CROW WING R. ELEC
COMMITTEE FRIDAY
The above i- iu~t a roue1'
outline of tV needs of one Department of the State. Wha"
the session is ended I am nDt
sure that t^-° budget Hll bal
ance; but I am sure of this-
That about 50 per cent of th'
money asked for from vario"u
parts of the State, as w*-U a"
Departments of State will be
appropriated. It's a tough proposition-
Major Skinner, Arvid Lundin,
Ted Hill and Francis Siefert attended a meeting Friday of
the Crow Wing County Rural
Electrification committee to determine whether ior not Pine
River could be included in the
circuit. They have received a
grant of $1,000,000 to service 1
sections in this territory, and
work will be started in tine very
near future. The information
that we have is that current can
be furnished Pine River thru
this circuit.providing Pine River furnishes its own distribution system.
On Sunday evening, Rev- MacKinney will give another illustrated sermon on "Jesus and
the Jordan." He will show with
pictures how the water-system
of Palestine, is a colossal testimony to the riches of the mercv
of God, as seen in the birth, life,
Death, Resurrection and Return of the Lord Jesus. Music
by the choir and orchestra will
combine to make-an interesting
evening. Be free to come and
enjoy it.
SPECIAL MEETINGS    •
A series of special meetings
will be heldat the Tabernacle
April 4, to April 11, by Rev. R.
W- Miller of the Crosby-Ironton
Gospel Tabernacle. Eight days
only. Special music bv the choir and orchestra will feature.
the meetings, which will be held
at 7:45 each evening, except,
Saturday. Rev. Miller is a man
of broad experience and dee])
earnestness. He is a fluerJ
speaker and much profit will attend this gospel effort.
BIG PROGRAM AT
MARLOW THIS WK.
HONOR ROLL
Arvid Lundin made a business
trip to Walker Monday.
Clarence Gravdahl of Pequot
is visiting at the Helmer Jones
home thig week.
The following new and renewal subscriptions to the Journal
have been received the past
week:
Look at the date on your paper, if you are in arrears, stop in
and see us.
Harry Burk, Pine River
Leona Dahl, Pine River
Bert Wideman, Pin© River
"That Girl From Paris" playing Sun., Mon., and Tue; at the
Marlow Theatre, is one of the
grandest musicals of the year,
with music, comedy and tragedy air wrapped up in one- The
clever cast includes Gene Raymond, Lily Pons, Jack Oakie,
Mischa Auer and Frank Jenks,
all talented musicians, Lily Pons
being one of the world's greatest singing stars of the stage
and screen- It's a laugh from
start to finish. Don't miss
this feature starting Sunday.
Tonite (Thursday) is the last
showing of "The Case of the
Velvet ' Claws." Don't forget
the special price—Two adult admissions for the price of one—
and the program is cf the best!
On Friday and Saturday Jack
Holt comes to you again in
"North of Nome." . A real story
of a real country. The supporting cast includes Evelyn Vena-
ble, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams,
John Miljan, and Roger Imhoff-
Next Wed. and Thurs., another Double Feature awaits you.
Jean Arthur and Geo. Brent,
two of the most favorite players
head the cast in "More Than a
Sescretary," a comedy drama.
A new favorite of the screen
in Western roles is Robert Allen, and by all reports you will
enjoy his first appearance in
"The Unknown Ranger." This
is the second feature of tfhe pi?
double program- Come as late
as 8:30 and see both feature *
and comedy. First show begins
at 7:30.
The following article was taken from the Brainerd Dispatch,
concerning a man living in a
cabin owned by Oscar Norman
on Blackwater Lake. He has
occupied the cabin since last
August-
"I just wanted to spend a few
months up here in your land of
lakes and pines," Harrison B.
Wills, Kansas City bank teller,
who admitted the embezzelment
of $7,500 from the City National Bank early last summer, stated in the Crow Wing county
jail.
A story of a low-paid bank
teller who handled from$200,000
to $500,000 daily in his cage at
:the Kansas City bank was unfolded by Wills, who was arrested by U. S. government investigators in his cabin north of
Pine River this week
His Losses Mounted
Wills told . authorities    here ■<
that he worked in the bank for
nine years before he started taking money little by little, ebv-,
ering the losses with .his book-,
keeping knowledge.    I intended
to pay it back, he said, and.star-
; ted gambling-    Several times I
j was within $75 of being able to
do it and then my luck would
change.
Left fatherless on .his   farm .
home near North Platte, Kansas, at birth, Wills got his job
in the' Kansas City    bank,   ten
years ago..    He worked for    a
iow wage for seven years   ani
then .at a slightly higher   rate
for .two more years before   he.
started gradually   to    augmen' .
his income by taking the bank's
money.
One day early last summer,
seeing it was hopeless to repay
the debt which had risen to
$7,500, he remembered the good
times he had had in Northern .
Minnesota. He took a train to
this country and lived in a cabin near Pine River for over six
months before the long arm of
the law caught up to him.
"Ready To Go Back"
Now, he said, I'm ready to
go back and serve my sentence
to pay for the theft- "I want'
to go back and see my sister and
her children and start' serving •'■
my term. They told m© they
would take me back home this '■
week-end."
"I didn't try to hide," he said.
"I knew they would get me in
a few months, but, in the meantime, I could live up here where
I wanted to and have, for one.
time in my life at least, the
freedom to do as I wanted."
ERADELPHIAN STUDY
CLUB   MET   FRIDAY
The Eradelphian Clug was
entertained by Mrs. Elias Rovik
Friday afternoon. Members responded to roll call by giving
the name of a favorite movie
star. During the business meeting the Club voted $5.00 to aid
in financing a county nurse. Mrs
Rovik gave an interesting report on "A Trip To Movieland'
and "The Science of Movie Weather." The next meeting will be
held at the home of Mrs- C. E.
Johnson April 9.
PTA TO MEET MONDAY
EVENING, APRIL 5, 8 P- M.
The local PTA will hold their
next meeting Monday evening,
April ■ 5th. Selection of the
nominating committee will be
made at that time. The program will consist of a play by
the students of the Dramatic
Club, under the supervision cf
Miss Isaacson.
Mr. and Mrs- Charles Bye and
Dale Hedley of Pequot, attended the show here Sunday.
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