The Pine River Journal (Pine River, Minnesota), 1937-03-18

              PINE
JOURNAL
VOLUME II NUMBER 31
THE PINE RIVER JOURNAL, PINE RIVER, CASS COUNTY. MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, MABCH 18, 1937
SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 Per Year
NEWS BRIEFS OF
INTEREST FROM
'ROUND THE STATE
MAN'S LIFE SAVED BY
ANOTHER'S CURIOSITY
44 DRIVERS LICENSES
REVOKED IN FE1RUARY
Belgrade.— "Curiosity one:
killed a cat," but this tima it
saved a man's life. Joe R^ese,
driver of a bus which rur.s from
Minneapolis to Glenwood via
Belgrade, owes his life to the
fact that Oliver Medalen, clerk
in the Belgrade postoffice, was
curious to know where the bus
driver was when he saw a bus
on Belgrade's street. That curiosity prompted him to look inside the bus, where he saw Mr.
Reese on an improvised bed, his
eyes wide ooen, but unable to
speak. He had been overcome
by monoxide gas. having gone
to sleen on a pile of cushions
while the motor was running.
Six hours later rescuers found
him and aoolied artificial res-
peration until a nhvsician arrived. Because Mr. Re«sQ had
been unable to get through to
go to Glenwood from Belgrade,
he had returned to Belgrade,
the only place where a garage
had a large enough door to permit a bus to enter.
Arriving at two o'clock in
the morning, he found no one
up, so decided to go to sleep.
He will not sleep again in the I
bus—at least without turning
off the motor.
Forty-four drivers licenses
were revoked in February, as
compared to thirty a year ago,
according to a report to N. W.
Elsberg, state highway commissioner, by Gil Carmichael,
director of the Driver's License
bureau. There were 27 licenses
suspended in February of this
year and 21 a year ago.
TRUCK SMASHES
WINDOW IN BARBER SHOP MON.
PIRATES PLACE
THIRD IN TOURNAMENT SUNDAY
ERADELFHIAN STUDY
CLUB MET ON FRIDAY
The Eradelphian Study Club
met Friday at the home of Mrs.
Germain.   Roll call was respon-
-1 ' o bv giving happenings in
the Minnesota Legislature. Mrs.
Germain reported on the "Romance of Coal Tar." Mrs. Triggs
reported on "The Milestones of
American Geniuses." The next
meeting will be held with Mrs.
Elias Rovik March 26.
WPA QUOTAS FOR
APRIL AND MAY
ARE ANNOUNCED
OVERSHOE DANCE HELD
AT THIEF RIVER FALLS
Thief River Falls.—An overshoe dance held on the arena
skating rink at Thief River
Falls recently, was attended by
400 persons, including dancers
and spectators. While the dancers had difficulty during the
early part of the evening retaining surface, this hazard
was reduced when members of
the hockey team roughened the
ice. Proceeds of this novel event sponsored jointly by the
drum corps and the hockey team, reached a substantial sum
CHICKENS FOR WINNERS:
BEANS FOR THE LOSERS
Hopkins.—When the ice breaks at lake Minnetonka Mound's
guessers on the date of breakup will dine together. Th- winners will eat a chicken dinner
at the expense of .the losers, win
will sit across the table and eat
beans. Jackpot guessing contests are staged in several places. Records show Marc'-1 24 as
the earliest date the ic- ha? 1ft
Wayzata bay in the la- thi ty
years.   The latest  April 25
CLOUGH LAKE 1
Mrs. H. Schoon, Corresnonden.t
Mr. and Mrs. Harrv Burk and!
son Bobbv, Mrs. Herb Just and i
daughter Joan and C. J. Johnson
were Brainerd visitors    Saturday. I
Mr. and Mrs. Adry Johnson
and daughter Maz^ll. spent Sunday at te Herb Just home.
Carlton Tollefsrud visited at
the Adry Johnson home Friday,
evening.
Herb Just's sister of Glen
Lake, spent the week end at his
home.
Miss Lillian Scvoo~ sp~nt the
week end with the Kline girls. I
■ Several from he1^ attended
the dance at the Clough Lake
school Saturday evening. Everyone had an enjoyable evening.
Miss Geraldine Thiers visited
the Pine River school last Tues-.
day.
Miss Lillian Schoon visited
the Pine River school Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Heihms
spent Wednesday evening at the
Frank Engel home.
WPA employment in Minne-t
sota will be on a somewhat steadier basis from now until June
30, as a result of definite quota
adjustments that were announced this week by Victor Christgau, state administrator.
Original quotas for th© state
were first proposed last January, when Harry L. Hopkins,
federal administrator, appeared before the house committee
to submit data upon which the
recently enacted deficiency appropriation bill was drafted and
passed. At that time, he proposed for Minnesota an April
quota of 41,000 and 39,000 for
May, contingent on expected
pick-up in private employment;
After these figures were made public, Mr. Christgau called
to the attention of Washington
and regional officials, the unusual need that prevails in Minnesota as a result of the drought
and asked that special consideration be given the state.
As a result, the quotas announced this week were established. The new quotas are 43,
000 for April and 39,000 for
May. These quotas, Mr. Chtist-
gau said, together with the expected pick-up in seasonal private employment this spring,
will enable WPA to carry on
without any appreciable reduction in the number of jobs available for those in need.
It became known this week
that while the quota for Minnesota for March was 44,000 it
has been possible to employ 45,
000 or 1,500 more' than originally was intended for the state.
Few people would 'appreciate
having a truck load of personal
property and Pigs, breaking
through their front window
about 5 a. m., but this is exactly
what happened at Fieli's baber
shop about 5 a. m. Monday morn
ing, when a heavilv load°d truck
driven by Mr. Schillman of Ak-
ley, failed to get straightened
out after rounding the hotel corner. They skidded int„ the barber shop, tearing down th" barber pole and overturned, smashing the large plate glass window, and it was only by some
odd coincidence the storm win
dows which are on the inside,
remained intact. Dashing out
to view the cause of the confusion, Lon decided that he nreded immediafe assistance so h?
rushed over and blew tbr fir'.
siren which soon dre-v a good
crowd. Neither of th- occu
pants of the truck were injured.,
The truck was o ne * b" Mr-
Hoskins, Recreational Supervisor for Cass county, whose
household goods were enroute
to Litchfield.
Damage to the barber   shop (
amounted to $100.
TABERNACLE NEWS
Pictures again next Sunday
night. Mr. MacKinney will
show pictures of the Holv L.'ind,
emphasizing especia'lv the fulfillment of Old Testament prophesies which are dailv ta'dn?
place in and nea^ Jerusalem and
on the site of other ancient cities.
Hackensack carried home the
winner's trophy from the Gold
Medal basketball tournament
last Saturday and Sunday, by
defeating Cass Lake in the cham
pionship game 41-31.
Cass Lake defeated Pine River 40-29, which gave them second place. The Pirates . were
awarded third honors by virtue
of defeating Backus 57-24.
 Brainerd was disqualified because they failed to comply with
the rules. It was agreed unon
before their game with Cass
Lake, that they could use two
players from the Bunyanite
team and they used four, playing three men that were not
listed.
Elmer Christenson of the Pirates was high point man, with
52 points for the tournament.
Don Lundrigan and Corwin
Jones acted as judg-s for Pine
River, awarding th- sportsmanship medal and choosing the all
star team.
Two of the, local squad, Elmer
Christenson and Heino Matson,
were placed on the 1st All ^tar
team, together with Patzke of
Cass Lake, Wen z^l f Hackensack and Sycks of Backus.
FOUR SISTERS ALL MEET
SUNDAY; FOR FIRST TIME
IN THIRTY THREE YRS.
For 33 years, the four sisters,
Mrs. Jim Lyons, Mrs. S. P. Hanson, Mrs. Henry Oberbillig and
Mrs. S. E. Felton had not gather)
ed ait any one place at the same
time.
Sunday, unknown to all of
them, each family drove out
to the Oberbillig home on White
Fish Lake. Needless to say all
had a joyous time. Mr. and.
Mrs. Jim Lyons moved here recently from Ohio. |
Later in the afternoon Mr.
and Mrs. Arnold Hanson and
baby also arrived for a visit.    |
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THINGS THAT ARE
TAKING PLACE IN
THE LEGISLATURE
By V. Lockwood
There has been some demand
by county officials of Cass county asking for slight raises. I
informed those making the demand that I would introduce a
bill only on request of the Taxpayers Association of Cass county. The association considered
the matter and approved the
raises, asking me to introduce
the bill, which I have done. It
will increase the total amount
paid county officials in salaries
by a total of $1500 a year. In
referring this to the Taxpayers
Association I thought that it
was the most representative association to act upon it.
BOND QUESTION
EXPLAINED BY DELURY THURS. NITE
JUNIORS TO PRESENT PLAY FRI.
Mrs. Joe Schultz.  Mrs.    Joe!
Breitbach and Mrs  John Beit-1
bach left Monday for a short
visit in Sauk Center, before returning to their homes in Circle
Montana.
TWO B!G PICTURES
AT THE MARLON
STATE ASKS SAFETY
SURVEY IN S HOOLS;
URGES MORE PATROLS
NOTICE
The annual business meeting
of the Pine River Gospel Tabernacle will be held at the Gospel
Hall tonight (Thursdav). All
members are urged to be present.
In a letter to every county
superintendent of schoolls in
Minnesota, Chief Arnoldy of
the highway patrol, has asked
that a survey of every school
in the state be taken to determine the number of children
killed or injured annually since
1930, especially in schools that
have patrols operated under the
sponsorship of the American
Legion, with the assistance of
the highway patrol.
"We hope to show." Mr. Arnoldy said, "that accident. have
been fewer under the school patrol system and I have asked
for a report by years, since
1930. The American Legion is
doing a wonderful job in organizing school patrols and the
highway department is glad to
assist in any way they can."
Adapted to the screen from
Helen Hunt Jackson's immortal
love idyll, "Ramona," Twentieth
Century Fox picture produced
in the new perfected Technicolor, opens Sunday at the Marlow Theatre in Pine River.
Loretta Young and Don Ameche head the cast of screen favorites including Kent Taylor,
Pauline Frederick, Jane Dar-
well, Katherine De Mille, and
John Carradine, wi h supporting players running into the
thousands.
• "The Gay Desperado," in
which Nino MarLini, famous
opera, radij and film tenor, is
currently starring at the Marlow Theatre, is the first motion
picture to be ti led by the public.
Mary Pickford and Jesse L.
Lasky, producers of the film,
conducted a nationwide poll of
film.fans to choose a title.
Ballots were distributed to
25,000 persons through the the -
tres. 21,000 voted for "The
viay Desperado."
The film, in which Ida Lupino
and Leo Carrillo are featured,
is released through United Artists and will be shown at the
Marlow on Friday and Saturday.
NEVER SATISFIED
The Junior Class Pla , "Romance In A Boarding House"
will b epresented Friday evening, March 19, at the high school
auditorium. The play has a
oast of eleven players and is
under the directitn of Miss Ruth
Hill.
This play was chosen after
much deliberation and is typical
of any small town in the scenes
it portrays The~e is plenty of
comedy to give you a good
laugh between the serious moments. The father, Jimmy Evans, insists on taking off his
shoes in high class company,
and Iris Engel, the girl, w^o has
one lover too many, and Dorothy Schleiger, the old maid, who
wants her man, are onl a few
of the amusing charact-rs to be
portrayed. Th? admission is
15c and 25c. Read the a' 0"
another page of this issue, and
don't miss this evening of good
entertainment.
About twenty five taxpayers
from this district met with the
school board after their regular
j meeting to discuss    the    bond
'question.   Dan Delury of Walk-
jer was present and    explained
several  similar conditions that
he had settled in    neighboring
communities making a considerable saving for them.
He also stated, that contrary
to the publication of last we~k
there was no law that would
i permit the bondholders, after
they had received a judgment
against the district, to confiscate any piece of property in
the district.
He also outlined a . plan to
purchase the bonds for a percentage of the amount which he
saved the district.
| No decision was at this meeting either to accept the proposed plan or to continue working
on the original plan of retiring
the bonds.
SCHOOL NOTES
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to our neighbors
and friends who assisted us during the illness and at the time
of the death of our beloved son,
nephew and grandson, Lyle
Clinton.
Thanks also f-r the beautiful
floral offerings.
Mr. and Mrs. Lvte Stevens
and relatives
We always want what we
don't have. Magazines circulating in the New England states
advertise dandelion seed for
sale, and in northern Minnesota
settlers dig beautiful fir trees
out of their front yards to plant
box elders. Farmers look forward to the dav when they can
leave the farm, move to town
and take things easv. O^o"
workers wish thev h^d a chick-
Jen ranch so t>ev could labor in
the great out-of doovs. Fortunate is he who likes his work and
surroundings and makes the
most of them.
BACKUS
W. W. Pomplun, Correspondent
Lawrence Miller spent last
Tuesday in Park Rapids.
Vern Waller made a business
trip to Brainerd Tuesday.
The Hartey Coffland family
arrived home last Monday, after spending the winter in Ark.
Mr. and Mrs. Harve Krucker
of Bemidji, spent a few days
last week visiting at the T. H.
Francis home.
Mrs. T. H. Francis left Friday for Minneapolis, where she
will enter the University hospital for treatment.
John Spillane, who was operated on at St Johns hospital in
St Paul, returned home last
week. Mrs. Spillane drove to
St Paul and brought him home.
The spring primary classes
opened Monday, with 21 youngsters enrolled. Mrs. Morris
Cromett is assisting in the   de-
j partment.
On Friday, March 12, the
Milne family presented a vari-
I 2ty program to the general assembly.    The Backus and Mil-
Jdred high school students were
also present. Rev. Milne acted
as master of ceremonies    and
j Mrs. Milne constructed an art
'rag picture. They also ?ave
several musical selections.
I Rev. Milnle, Don, and Supt.
Haack illustrated certain musical instruments to the Musical
i Appreciation classes.   They will
continue this work next Friday.
The senior class has survived
a very difficult college aptitude
test.
The 5th grade has completed
the field of study in long division and have taken dia<gnostic
tests.
A matinee of the Junior Class
play will be presented Friday
afternoon for 10c and 20c.
The Senior Class is endeavoring to publish a new, different,
and REAL Year-Bojok, and
would appreciate the support of
the business men in advertising
on its pages.
The notorious state dispensary bill was passed out of the
Liquor Control Committee with
recommendations to pass, by
a vote of 17 to 12. It was re-
referred to the Committee on
Appropriations, where it will
probably rest for the remainder
of the session. The bill a3 it
left the committee provided
that local municipalities have
the privilege of voting as to
whether or not they wished to
have a municipal liquor store or
a private store, provided for
county option now in the law,
compulsory teaching of temperance in the schools, an excellent
search and seizure feature which
would aid in its strict enforcement and also a state monopoly
as to wholesale liquor operations
within the state. This feature
it was hoped, would provide for
better enforcement and besides
bring in considerable revenue
to the state of Minnesota.
—L—
It appears that no civil service bill will be enacted at this
session because of division of
opinion as to what constitute a
good civil service bill.
This week was an exceptionally busy week because1 of the
Land O'Lakes Creameries annual convention. Between sessions, committee meetings and
Land O'Lakes meetings, I was
pretty busy.
CELEBRATE WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
On Sunday evening, a large
group of friends gathered at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Shepard to help them celebrate
fheir 20th wedding anniversary.
The honored couple were presented with a beautiful gift from
those present, by Francis Siefert, after which three tables
of cards were played. A delicious lunch was served later in
the evening, by the guests. The
anniversary cake was baked by
Mrs. Francis Siefert.
HONOR ROLL
LOCALS
Ellen Hiles is assisting at the
Clifford Gardiner home.
Dorothy Cromett sP^nt the
week end at her home.
Lou Harmon left Fri "ay for
his home at Bena.
Jim Hinshaw stopped in Pine
River Monday. He was enroute
to Minneapolis, where he is attending Dunwoody institute.
Mrs. Ray Cline and Mrs, Ole
Hoff of Pequot, attended the
show at th° Marlow Sundav
Irene Shiffer and Mrs. Whitney drove to Brainerd Wednesday.
Paul Gardiner and Lewis Farnam drove to Brainerd Wednesday.
Elnora Rode of Backus, snent
I the weekend with her mother,
I Mrs. Mabel Rode.
Helen Farnam was a we-k--nd
guest of Iris Engel, at Jenkins
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Thorpe
'spent Friday with Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Aamot.
Levina Dahl, Paul Hamlin Nadine and Lewis Farnam attended the annual auto show at Park
Rapids Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Carpenter
left Tuesday for Minneapolis,
They will return Thursday.
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.
Jim Murray, Pine River
J. W. Wicklund, Walker
Mrs. Elmer Bark, Grand Rapids
Mrs..G. Cahill is a pari°n* at
the Holman hospital, suffering
(from a severe attack of pneumonia.
Tom Arvig and son Leonard
of Melrose, are spending., a few
days with friends in Pine River.
Mr. Arvig is a former business
man of Pine River.
Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Mayo
and Arthur Holman of Brainerd
! spent Sunday afternoon at the
Morris Cromett home.
Sheriff C. E. Merry of Walker,
was in Pine River on business
Monday.