The Pine River Journal (Pine River, Minnesota), 1935-09-19

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VOLUME I, NUMBER  V. THE PINE RIVER JOURNAL, PINE RIVER, CASS COUNTY, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1935.
SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 Per Year
NEWS BRIEFS FROM
AROUND THE STATE
HE HAS AN INTERESTING OLD RAZOR
Isle-D. H. Kennedy, Isle barber, is displaying to his patrons
a razor that has shaved William
Mckinley and Theodore Roosevelt, long since retired from
use because honing has worn it
too narrow to hold lather, Mr.
Kennedy treasures the old blade
as a keepsake. It was when Mr.
Kennedy was proprietor of an
eight-chair shop in Superior,
Wis., about thirty five years
ago that he shaved Roosevelt,
who was in the city campaigning for the presidency. Five
years later he used it in smoothing the handsome features of
Mckinjey, also in Superior on
a presidential campaign. Mr.
Kennedy purchased the razor in
Chicago about forty two years
ago.
HERE'S PROSPECT FOR
1955 GOPHER FOOTBALL
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Thief River Falls-Bernie Bier-
man, football coach at the University of Minesota, has a new
name to add to his future list
of prospects for members of the
Maroon and Gold team,provi-
ded he is willing to look ahead to
theyear 1955 or thereabouts.
The sustance of the matter is a
baby boy weighing nine pounds
four ounces which was born
Friday night to Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Oen Ror, who won wide
fame as captain of the Gopher
team in 1933, who will leave
shortly for Oberlin, Ohio, to assume the post of assistant football coach of Oberling college.
120 CHICKENS STOIEN
THEN BROUGHT BACK
Fairmont-One hundred and
twenty chickens stolen from
the farm of Paul Kasal in Mower
county, came back home to roost
and officers are puzzled. The
thieves took all but a few chickens on the place. Sheriff Ira
Syck was called. He and his deputy scoured the neighborhood
and questioned several people in
the hope of finding clues. The
next day Mrs. Kasel was surprised to se the chickens walking around in the farmyard.
It is thought the thieves became
frightened by possible apprehension, and brought back the poultry and turned them loose near
the farm.
REBEKAH    LODGE
On Tuesday evening, The Re-
bekah Lodge, Rosebud Chapter
No. 19, of Pine River, celebrated
a commemoration date of the
Odd Fellows Lodge with a party.
All members of the lodge attended, each one bringing a guest.
Bridge provided the entertainment for the evening, and' a buffet lunch was served. Mrs. Olive
Dahl received a huge bouquet of
cut flowers and Lewis Walton a
handsome cigarette case for
carrying high score in the bridge
contests, and Mr. and Mrs. C. R.
Townsend carried off the low
score awards.
Boy Suffers Broken Arm
While Playing At   School
OBITUARY
Arlo Knutson of Moose Lake,
passed away at his home Sep. 9,
1935. He was eleven days old at
the time of his death. Funeral
services were conducted at the
Moose Lake school. Interment
was made in the Moose Lake
cemetery.
CASS COUNTY'S
W P A ALLOTME'T
A broken oirm was the injury
sustained by Kenneth Grist, 9
years old, in a freak accident on
the Pine River school grounds
Tuesday afternoon. Kenneth
was swinging with his brother,
Ivan ,12, when the chain-slung
swing broke. The boys fell only
a few feet to the ground, but
Ivan landed on the younger boy's
arm with sufficient force to
break it. The boys were taken
to the Holman Hospital by Mr.
Haack, Superintendent, where
Kenneth's arm was treated by
Dr. Kaufman. The boys are
sons of Mr. and Mrs. Evert Crist
who live 3V_ miles west of Pine
River.
Minnesota was assured of its
full share of WPA funds last
week as Victor Christgau, state
Works Progress administrator
approved more thaw $18,400,000
in projects to swell the total of
Minnesota work proposals nowin
Washington for allocation of
funds to $50,528,000.
Among the 835 projects in the
latest group were seventeen projects for Cass county. They included :
Gould Twp.- Improving township roads.federal funds   $2,511
Torrey twp.- Improve roads,
federal funds$3,438.
Remer Twp.- Improve roads,
federal funds$l,118; graveling
and surfacing, federal funds
$4,424, sponsor $1,556; curbs
and gutter, federal funds $3,169
sponsor $785
Road 13-Clear, grub and gra-
vel,federal funds $8,430, sponsor $50.
Motely- Roadwork, federal
funds $3596, sponsor $200.
Walker-Contacting tuberculosis families in county, federal
funds $2,292; clearing county
aid road no. 36, federal funds
$3,764, sponsor $375.; clearing
state aid road No. 4, federal
funds $10,230, sponsor $875;
cut canal through swamp, federal funds $8,435, sponsor $800..
Cass Lake-Construct breakwater, "federal funds $5,031.
Rogers Twp.-Road improve-
ment,federal funds $2,076, sponsor $80.
Loon Lake Twp.-Construct
new road, federal funds $870.,
sponsor $40.
Bull Moose Twp.-Improve telephone lines, federal funds $365.;
road improvements, federal
funds $2,604.; county aid road
No. 42 roadwork, federal funds
$11,561., sponsor $648.
County Wide-Gravelirigcounty
aid road No. 28, federal funds
$8,500, sponsor $1,114.; Road
No. 14, federal funds $9,776.
sponsor $875.; County aid road
No. 11, roadwork, federal funds
$24,404., sponsor $1,903.
The group submitted this
week will furnish jobs for a year
to about 22,000 persons, it is
estimated. Altogether, the
Minnesota work proposals will
give steady employment during
the coming year to approximately 58,400 persons now on   relief.
Largest among the weeks
approved projects were two
statewide enterprises, $2,130,000
education and recreation program to give employment to 2,-
150 "white collar" workers; and
a $2,541,381 proposal which
would make possible $20,000 to
$30,000 in improvements and
new facilities at each of the
county fair grounds in the state.
"We have every reason to believe," Mr. Chrisgau stated,
"that the program will be in full
swing by November 1. It usually takes about thirty days
from the time of submitting
projects to Washington to get
the release of funds. Once this
money is made available to us
the work will start immediately."
Lloyd O'Connor returned this
week from New Ulm, Minnesota,
after several weeks visit there.
Former High School Principal
A Visitor   In   Pine   River
Mr. and Mrs. Merlin Heilig,
accompanied by Mr. Heilig's
mother and brother, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, were Pine River
visitors on Monday. Mr. Heilig
is a former resident of Pine
River, having been principal of
the Pine River schools in 1915
and 1916. He is now sales
manager for the Equitable Life
Insurance Co. in Milwaukee. Mr.
Heilig called omi several old
friends and' wished to be remembered to former aquaintences
here.
CONSTITUTION DAY
CELEBRATED AT SCHOOL
Interesting Program Given
The   Constitution,    Mr.
Seekel   Gives    Talk
On
Constitution Day provided
the highlight of the week at
the Pine River school.
The first general assembly ot-
the year was held on Tuesday
afternoon im> observance of the
day. A special program, presented in the gymnasium, was opened with group singing under
the direction of Mr. Corwin
Jones. There followed a solo,
"Sylvia," by Miss; Eunice Mc-
Cart; an address, " Historical
Setting of the Constitution," by
Mr. Henderson; A solo by Mr.
Jones, and an address by Mr.
Seekel on "The Coonstitution--
What it Means to High School
Students."
Hereafter the regular weekly
assembly will be held in the
gymnasium on Friday afternoon except when the occurance
of some special holiday makes a
change in the program appropriate and advisable.
Aside from the special assembly, the week has been quiet at
the school. Mrs. Otto Haack
substituted on Wednesday in Mr
Jones classes, while Mr. Jones
was absent.
New supplies, including recitation desks and text books for
the first, second and third grades have arrived and are already in use.
Mr. Haack announces that the
Shiffer bus route has been extended, and now reaches patrons
at a distance of 28 mles from
Pine River.
The schedule for Thursday
will be somewhat altered, due
to the meeting of the State H. S.
Athletic Association, District 24,
at Staples, at which Mr. Haack,
Mr. Henderson, Mr. Matson, Mr.
Rosen and Mr. Jones must be
present. Busines of the district
association, and the schedules of
basket-ball games and other athletic contests will be discussed
at the meeting. Those in atten-
dence will meet at the Grayson
Hotel in Staples, for a dinner at
the conclusion of the meeting.
Miss Oden, head of the Home
Economics Department, states
that little activity is possible in
the cooking classes, since the
stoves required are not yet available but will be installed in the
very near future. The sewing
classes are chiefly occupied with
theory to date, although the
sophomore sewing classes are
now busy with the remodeling of
clothes.
Mr. Matson of the industrial
arts department, requests that
townspeople who have furniture
in need of glueing, lawn moow-
ers in 'need of sharpening, simple electrical appliances to be repaired, small soldering jobs or
any other similar odd jobs, to report to Mr. Haack, Superintendent, or to Mr. • Matson himself.
It is felt that-such practical experience would be of great value
tc the Junior High School classes in the department, since there
is no surplus of materials for
laboratory use.
AND NOTHING  CAN BE
DONE ABOUT THIS
The Manufacture's news in its
current issue mentions the recent eightieth anniversary of
one of the big department stores
in Chicago. Rules for employees
at the time the first store was
opened in 1855 are printed as
follows:
"Store must be ooen from
6:00 A. M. to 9:00 P. M. the year
around.
Store must be swept, counters,
base shelves and showcases dusted. Lamps trimmed, filled and
chimneys cleaned; pens made;
doors and windows opened; a
pail of water, also a bucket of
coal brought in before breakfast (if there is time to do so)
and attend to customers who
call.
''Store must not be opened on
the Sabbath   unless   necessary,
and then only for a few minutes.
"The employee who is in the
habit of smoking Spanish cigars,
being shaved at the barber shop,
going to dances and other places of ammusement, will surely
give his employer reason to be
suspicious of his integrity and
honesty.
"Each employee must pay not
less than$5.00 per year to the
church and must attend Sunday
School regularly.
"Men employees are given one
evening a week for courting and
two if they go to prayer meeting.
"After fourteen hours of work
in the store, the leisure hours
should be spent mostly in reading."
Well, gentlemen, these were
the horse and buggy days. It
is difficult to see how the United
States Supreme Court could
have put us back in this era by
abolising the NRA. It is our
opinion: that it is beyond the
very great power of the Supreme
Court to relegate us to the good
old horse and buggy days, even
if it had the support of the
President, Chairman Farley,
Chairman Fletcher, both branches of Congress ,all the ministers and statesmen in the coun-
ry, the Kiwanis, the D. A. R.,
the Knights of Columbus, the
Masons and the Elks. The fact
is we have done some progressing in the past eighty years.
Well no matter if we have made
progress or not we have gone
some place.
SHIRLEY TEMPLE COMING TO   THE  MARLOWE
One of the problems of life
not contained in the case of
Shirley Temple is that of matrimony.
The screen's smallest star already has decided upon her man.
She calmly told Judith Allen
the other day thatwhen she
grows up she's going to marry
James Dunn.
Dunn has the principal male
role in "Bright Eyes," Shirley's
new picture, which comes to
the Marlow Theatre on Sun:.,
Mon., and Tues., of next week,
and the red-haired Miss Allen
is the object of his affections
in the story.
USED CAR SALE TO BE
HELD HERE NEXT WEEK
A used car sale sponsored by
the Scharf Chevrolet Co. of Staples, Minn., will start next Tues.
at Ben Shiffer's Garage. The
sale will continue until all the-
cars are sold. They have a very
fine selection of late model cars
and will offer some rea ^bargains
in used cars. These cars have
all been re-conditioned and are
in first class shape.
The Scharf Chevrolet Co.,
has conducted several similar
sales in this territory before.
Their ad appears on another
page of this issue.
BETTER HOUSING FILM
AT MARLOW TO-NIGHT
The second release of "Better
Housing News Flashes,"- a short
subject dealing with the Better
Housing Movement and pointing out the advantages of the
National Housing Act, will be
shown at the Marlow Theatre
to-nite (Thursday.)
This series of pictures is being
produced and released by the
Federal Housing Administration in order to illustrate to
home owners and others how
they may take advantage of the
National Housing Act.
According to reports received
in Washington, these pictures
are proving very popular thru-
out the country and have arous-
sed a large amount of additional
interest in the work of the Federal Housing Administration
and the Better Housing Move-
ment/
OBITUARY
Raymond L. Fisher of Backus,
passed away at the age of three
days. Funeral services were
conducted by the Northland
Funeral Home Monday, September 16 at Pine River. Interment was made in the Pine
River cemetery.
NEW PROGRAM FOR
THE DIRECT RELIEF
St. Paul, Sep. 15. County
governments will be given a
direct voice in the administration: of   relief   activities   under     _ r _.___._ c, 	
the SERA decentralization   plan tinue to manage for a while
which will be effective throughout the state by Oct. 1.
In announcing the details of
this new program of handling
direct relief L. P. Zimmerman,
SERA administrator, said that
it provides for a cooperative ad
ministration of relief by
county welfare boards and the
SERA, these boards will have
full responsibility and   authori
Mr. Gardiner, who has been
anxious for some time to locate
in Pine River, has many friends
here, having spent considerable
time here in the past. He first
visited Pine River a number ot
years ago as a guest of the late
the | George Wareing. Since his residence in Brainerd, he has been
seeking a business opportunity
in Pine River, and feels that the
ty   in   administering   relief   in [jGamble store offers a good pros-
Miss Evelyn Evensta returned
to her home at Pillager for the
week-end.
their counties removing that
burden from any state or federal agency. The SERA will function to see that its' rules
and regulations are carried out
and to provide what supervisory
assistance may be necessary Mr.
Zimmerman explained.
Under the county welfare
board's will be delegated with
powers similar in the counties to
that of the SERA in the state
under the present system. Temporarily the county relief committees serve as the welfare
boards until they can be officially organized. The memberships of the welfare boards will
be comprised of:
Two    county    commissioners
named by the county board ot
commissioners.
Two members of   the   county
child welfare board named by
that group.
One or three members of   the
county board to be named by
the first for members with the
approval of the SERA.
The plan is first being put into operation in rural Hennepin
county, a township system coun-
ty,and Olmsted county, where
the form of county government
exists, to work out details of the
program under each form of
local government.
In counties having the township system of government, it is
anticipated that the SERA, with
the board of county commissioners concurring, will name the
present relief committees as the
county welfare boards which
will be clothed with full legal
responsibility for the administration of relief. These boards
will have authority to employ
necessary help to be carried on
county payrolls. Such appointments will be subject to SERA
approval.
The plan! provides that the
SERA will employ technical
county relief workers whose duties will be to see that relief is
administered according to SERA
regulations and, to certify expenditures made out of local
funds so that the state will receive credit for such expenditures as part of the state participation in relief.
"The welfare boards will determine standard's for administering relief based on local standards of living," Mr. Zimmerman
said, ' 'and with the minimum
standards as determined by the
SERA policies.
All relief activities in the
counties will be the responsibility of the county welfare boards,
including such maters as the determination of relief eligibility,
the amount of budget deficiencies to the relief client, etc.
"Area administrators representing the SERA will have no
jurisdiction over ERA employees
and will serve chiefly in an advisory capacity to see that SERA
policies are carried out."
This plan of decentralizing
relief administration recently
was proposed by Mr. Zimmerman to the state executive council and approved by it. It is expected to be effective in many
counties before Oct. 1.
GAMBLE STORE
CHANGES HANDS
Mr. Gardiner Of Brainerd,   Purchases Local Gamble   Store
Harris Zigmund announced
the sale of the local Gamble
store on Monday, to Virgil Gardiner, formerly of Ree Heights,
and recently a resident of Brainerd. Mr. Gardiner will take over
the proprietorship of the store
at once, although B. F.Christian,
manager of the.store und'er Mr.
Zigmund's ownership, will   con-
pectj^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Mr. Gardiner has rented the
house occupied until recently by
Euclid Fraser,, aijdwill move his
family here sometime within) the
next week or ten days.
Local Bridge Club Has First
Meeting Of    The   Season
Wednesday evening was the
occasion for the first regular
session of the Bridge Club for
this year. The Club met at the
home of Mrs. Frank Anderson,
who served delightful refreshments at the close of the evenings play. Hereafter the , club
will meet regularity every two
weeks, having been inactive during the summer months.
$100,000 IN ROAD   M
JOBS ON OCTOBER 4
HIGHWAY LETTING
Bids on three highway jobs
estimated to cost approximately
$100,000 have been called for
October 4, by the Minnesota
highway department. The projects are in Meeker, Nicollet and
Waseca counties, work is to begin on all three immediately
after the award of contracts.
Following are the jobs for
which bids are asked: Paving
trunk highway No. 13 located
in Waseca; length .4 miles;
comprising 6056 square yards of
concrete pavement. Completion
expected this fall.
Grading T. H. No. 14 located
between Courtland andtwo miles
south of junction with T. H. No.
15; length 4.8 miles; comprising 110,925 cubic yards of excavation.
HIGHWAY PATROL
REPORTS DRIVERS
SLOWING DOWN
Members of the state highway
patrol report a noticeable tendency away from excessive
speeds on the trunk highwa/s
since the patrol began making
arrests for speeding recently,
says a highway department
bulletin.
The patrol is not enforcing
any absolute limit, but is making
arrests where the speed is obviously iangerous to other traffic. One of the first arrests
made was of a Mineapolis man
who drove through the village
of Moose Lake at 80 miles an
hour.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hudson
and family, former residents of
this community, departed by
motor for their home at Red
Oak, Iowa, Saturday, after a visit at the home of Mrs. Hudson's
brother, Mr. Charles Ingraham.
Miss Esther Conzet, Mrs. W.
G. Stewart and Mrs. Olive Dahl
motored to Dorset on Wednesday, to spend the day with Mrs.
Paul Schwartz and Mrs. Hilert
Schwartz.   '
John Allen, accompanied by
Paul Schartz and. Hilbert Schwartz, left Pine River Monday
morning on a weeks fishing trip
to Crow Lake, across the Canadian border.