The Pine River Journal (Pine River, Minnesota), 1937-01-21

              PINE RIVER JOURNAL
VOLUME II NUMBER 23
THE PINE RIVER JOURNAL. PINE RIVER, CASS COUNTY. MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1937
SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 Per Year
NEWS BRIEFS OF
INTEREST FROM
'ROUND THE STATE
FINDS NEW WAY TO
CATCH PROWLING RATS
McGregor.—John Garrity. Jr.
of McGrath, has discoveved a
new way to catch rats. Just entice them into your pants legs
and inside your underwear and
then have a friend hit them with
a club. This method mav ba a
little intimate, but it is m°re exciting than shooting sabre-tooth
tigers from the bacV of an elephant. It seems that Garrity
has been trving all summer to
catch a rat that has taken up
nfinr-t-ovt! in Tiis .store. He tried
ooinsoned che°se. rat t'aos.
buck shot an1! a cat borrowed
from a neighbor, but to no avail.
The other dav he got a break.
He if lushed the rat from its hoh'e
and the "o^pnt ran uo inside his
rants and shirt tr the ba-k of
Garity's neck Th me it scurried down inside his underwear
ne^t to Garity's quivering
flesh. Art Toeb* grt a club and
started beating awav at Garrity
more or less at random. One of
fWr^-, blows fina'lv connected
with the rat au^ the mangled
remains ,OTT|1 finally removed
and respectfully barried.
HORSE BITE OFF EAR OF
LOCAL
-'GALLOPING GOPHERS [HIGH SCHOOL 5
Nils Hoplin, well known local
farm-r, had the misfortune of
'dosing part of his ear whi1-
working abound th- b-rn thr
ether dav. He was working with
a horse when the animal reach0'''
over and uipn-d the bottom o'
his rar off. He was taken t*"
th° lo^al hosoital where th'
wound was taken car-3 cf and he
is none the worse for the experience.
CARH OF TH4NKS
We wish to express our most
sin«e-~ thanks to our manv kind
friends who 87 eiva"ionslv and
e-nprousbr evte"nr,'°'1 their svm-
r>a,thv ano" givffi tli-oir assistance
in so manv wavs  in onr time of
KOrrow o^P" th° l0Sa  of a. loving
mother and a dear father, and
a'so during the illness in our own
fami'v.
Mr. and M*«s. D. L. Triggs
and family
CHARLES RAY PASSED AWAY TUES.
Cg-rpr.- TT   Pav. wo1l ^0"rn i"
this community, passed away at
his home near Pine River, on
Tuesday momme January 19.
Death was due to flu and double
pneumonia.
George Ray was bom in
Marsha'ttown, Pa., on November 28. 1R«5. He was 72 years
of ag° at the time cf death. He
was raised on a farm, where he
remained until he was 18 vears
of acre, when ha enrolled in a
barb-r col'ege in Pittsburg. He
later moved to Minneapolis. Minnesota whe~p he ws united in
marriage to F0^^ WigiQn on
J^v 4. 1907. To thig union one
son was born. Les'i-. who survives. Hfl lat°v ]-fi- Minneaoo-
lis and located in willow River
and later moved his o^ce . of
business to Cavnna, In 1915. h°
purchased tne Billed eau farm
rea- Pin* River wher° he resided until th- time of his death.
Bes'des his bel,-"v0d wife and
son he leaves to mourn his death
two broth°rs and one sister, a1]
of Pennsylvania. b°«*Hes a host
of friends and relatives.
LOCALS
A daughter was bovn t" M~
and Mrs. Frod Smith of P~ouot
at the Wal  n<x>r>'tfll F-id-v
Sheriff C F. Merrv of Waiver, was in Pine River on business
Tuesday.
Chafes Ravnnido was a^nvM
ted to the loci n^qni+si f t med
cal treatment, Wedn°sdav.
Mr. and Mrg. ai Fownir'0* en.
t^rtaine^ Mr. an*? Mrs. C'vde
Townsend at a duck dinner Sun-
da'"' evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Helmer Jones
attended a wed dine shower for
Mr. and Mrs. Otto gravdahl of
p-^"o+   Su'-da" evening.
Ho-wo-rd   Stimuli   is   c.o"fin°d
t- t^« Foiman hospital with   a
broken ankle.
Cliffiord Aldrich of BovRfver.
underwent a minor operation at
the local hospital Monday.
p.-v. Mil"" con^ii^ed funeral
ft/tsrvj-y-"! in Ban1"'',c' Tve-da'"  for
Mr. Holden, a Civil War Veteran.
 Mr. and Mrs  A. J. Wa^on   of
(-"th^ia nram rr"«otq !*'f Wr. a"^
Mr<j Os"a.r Pn.^' Tn.»sd.av. M~
Wflldon io n"oci-'"nt of t,h°. lo^1
bank, pn^ ar*«n '-n* a meeting o^
th* board nf rii^o^tors.
Dr. and Mrs. C F!. Jnhns~u **>
poi'TTpr) vovH i-^ar th  ir danoht«-
jTildQ,T'a,'d/i. wb« V>as b°en _°*»c.h
\rtcr  in    Aitken    ^a"   acepr'trid
Tiooi+ion in  tha  n'Vh   SCnoo^s     r>*
Duluth. Her duties will begin
February 1.
MASONIC LODGE
HOLDS INSTALLATION
local Chapter No 296 of the
M*so_v» lodcr* ha1d their instal-
,ati'",ii Thursdav nipht.
rnv^ following offic-rs were installed :
■""orenmf^i Master_Warrori Hil1
Tr, Warden 0^ Foss
"•v. War.fl.on R"b't Paulson
^o-'.-rorarv Phi1 Palmer
Treasurer D. L. Trigrgs
Tr. Heacon K. D. Lawson
,"  ^eacon J. A   Brezinskv
Tylpr Mr. Murohv
A ft"r cbmnlflti^ij of thQ instal-
'qt.ion Vnnt>}\ w;is oor-r^fl by mem
bers of the committee.
JENKINS   !
Iris Ensrel .Correspondent
Mr. and Mr*. 011i~ Zeis called
on Mr. and Mrs. John Spencer
Sundav evening.
Norbert Femner    was    over-
ccmo bv carbon-monoxide    gas
while working on a cai in the
T~)un!ror>n Garaor-e Fnday.
L. T. Po'l-ck called on Ella
Sh""e Sundav afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. W S. Kiner were
dinner <m°sts at the J. Spencer
home Sunday.
Miss Caro'e Ann and Nancy
^line c_ Peouot, visited with
fheir Errandnnrori.ts Sunday.
Georo-o Smith is employed by
T eo Walton Sr.
Mr. T> youne1. who is emnloy-
ed in Detroit. Mi>h.. is snending
a f"w weeks at his home here.
Monday.
Mrs. -T. Park°r 0f Ideal, spent
Sunday in Jenkins.
PRES. BIRTHDAY
PARTYJAN. 30
The annual President's Birth-
"oir nar+TT- fof tbo b'n^fit >of th^
warm Soriuers Ponndation in
^eorfria and crinkled children
in onr own state will be held in
fne form of a wrA partv at the
T.av<> pterin.- Hotel ion Sa+urdav
evpnine. January 20. Tickets
at 7%?. ner nerson. which includes
ljir)"Vi and card rlavincr. are now
avai'abio F>nr\ r^q^r bo nnrchased
■From Mrs. T. E. Hill who heads
the committee on arrangements.
As in former years. 70 ner-
".ent of the n^t nr-cpeds will be
ietaih-d in the state for the
treatment and care of crinnled
"biichen. while th-3 remaining
"0 n°-rfonf wi1! be forwarded to
the National Association, who
in turn will rjr"S°nt it to the
^'finri Rnvjno-s Foundation. L.
v, 'Donqrhertv has again been appointed as general manager of
Lhe local party.
TO PLAY HERE ON    WINS 26-22
SUNDAY, JAN. 24
On Sunday night at8p.ni,
the Pine River Pirates will mee'
the husky Galloping Goobers o1"
the U. of Minnesota, at the High
School gvm. This promises tn
be one of the most interesting
and exciting games of the year
for local fans, and will be the
first chance to see these famous
stars in action. The siuad is
composed of Ed Widseth. A1!-
American guard, Jules Alphonse
Ray Antil. Tuffy Thompson and
Frank Earle.
Th* Garoning Goohers have
won 17 out 22 games this season
and the pirates have an eauallv
enviable record. On Tuesday of
•next week th-y will play a CCC |
camp from Walker.
HONOR ROLL
The following new and renew-
FROM WALKER
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
OF THE MUNICIFL LIQUOR
STORE   IN   THIS   ISSUE
Three fast games were played
,at the loca: gym Friday night,
jwith the Walker high school, the
j'Remer high school, and' the
Walker In depend mt team.
The first game was batween
.the Remer "A" team and the
aPine River "B" team, which
started off with Remer taking
the lead, when Pine River stepped out in front and remained
there until the last 15 seconds
of play, when Graham of Remer
^was driven out from the goal
area and with one hand tossed
the ball over his head for a
clean shot, which won the game
'"o- Remer 20-19.
In the game between Walker
and Pine River High schools,
[Walker lead at the half by a
score of 11-8. In the second
half coach Matson. with his B^r-
iuie Bierman  strategy,    caused
al subscriptions to the   Journal «tne bf)Vs to dron in 5 fieM jroals
have been   received    the   past
week:
Look at the date on your paper, if you are in arrears, stop in
and see us.
Ray Kinkel. Pine River.
Mrs. Seekell. New York
V. Lockwood   St Paul.
R. H. Schmelzer. Poplar
Fmery Dibble, Pequot
Father Crowe. Pine Piver
I. H. Aitkins, Pine River
—John Lembke, Pine River
Minn. Power &Light Co., Little Falls.
John H. White. Pine River
and three free shots. In the last
three seconds of play, Pine River
held a lead of 1 point, when one
of the local boys foiled a Walker nlaver. who made the sh"t
<?ood. tieing the score 22 a1!. In
the three minute over-time period the local boys scored four
r noints, the ?am° mding 26-22 in
favor of Pine River.
The Pine River. Pirates won
the independent e?ame bv a score
•?f 23-22. The 'first quarter en-
"ied with the Pirates leading- bv
sev°n points. Comp out Sundav
night and see the Pirates play
the famous jm'lrvniniy gophers.
A LETTER ABOUT
THE LIGHT QUESTION
MR. NOOELL CALLED
BY DEATH WED.
Mr. Nodell, aged father of Mrs.
Fred H^uer, passed away early
Wednesday morning. His death
was due to pneumonia. The obituary will be published next week.
Dear Editor:
I note in your columns that
the manager of the local light
company met with the visage
council alone, in the light co. office and out that old worn out
record "business is so poor that
we cannot rpduce rates."
This is just anoth°r instance
of th.' tyne of pie headedness
that has dominated the power
and light industry in the past,
•can't someone inform this g-n-
tleman that electric companies
where thev are fc-rc^d to do so,
bv publicly owned plants, are reducing th-ir rates and increasing their gross earnings and net
orofits. bv so dome? I have a
letter from Pairhanks Morse in
regard to a diesel olant in which
they say. "vour average consump
ticn is rather light, most probably du° to high rates." One
comnany increased their gross
earnings 17 oercent bv reducing
their rate 37 oercent ! !
This gentleman savs that
they must r-build their transmission line at a. cost of $25,000
and he doubts if the directors
will stand for it. Well LhQ fact
that the local comnanv has changed its name sev^ra1 t^mes in
the past t*n vears shows that
their main interest in it has
been for stocv oromotion puroo-
ses. Remember tb°se are the
Tontjemen. who refused to let
the Federal trad° Commission
<v>p their books. TVipy were probably so busv serine- stock and
collecting 12c per KWH that
they forgot to provide a fund
for takino- care of depreciation.
Awav with this sort of hamstringing of th° d^vlooment of
->ur community! It is out of
itvle, It is more "backwoodsy"
than we are.
The average consumption here
is 340 kilowatts per year. In
Minnesota the av°ra<re is over
"^0. In states where they have
rates it goes as high as 1500
Mv own familv hi* used 270 k.
w. h. in one month when w* g"t
a low rate, when rates go down
fotai bills go uo a"? a rule.
One wav to save monev is to
turn out vour lights for good—
and sleep on!
Paul J. MacKinney
SCHOOL    NOTES
Ted Hi'l has be°n confined tr
The board of Eduf-atrn has
installed eouir>ment for the music appreciation classes, which
tak^s care of the oresent c^ss of
seventy. Part of the unit is used as an auditorium sneaking
svstem and hereafter, no patron
of the district need be absent because of noor acoustics It was
used at the last basketball game
and worked out fine. This has
been a. much needed piece of
equipment as it can be put to
so manv uses.
Pine River has been selected
for the East District D-.lama-
tory contest, whi"h will be held
Wednesday evening, Februaury
17.
On Friday of this week   the
basketball team travels to River-
iton for a pame,
On Saturday evening. January
23. the dramatic club will present four- one act plavs. An
admission will bQ charged to defray expenses of the dramatic
department. Don't forget the
date.
On Fridav evening. January
30, Backus high school will olav
here. The Brainerd Franviin
high school will niav the "B"
team. This w'll be nevt to the
kct game the boys will play on
the hvme floor.
Mr. Udseth has been substituting f >r Jack Knu+son, who has
been ill. George Yancey, another bus driver is r-cunerating
from a recent operatifij. Ben
T>f\KioWin fc, a""ain on the iob assisting his brother with the building en°Tn'e°rin<?. after several
weeks of very serious illness.
A me^t/nor of youths w-rMnor
on the NVA oroeram »nd oth°r
youn-r fo^s interested in vocational gui'danc'i was call**' hv
Miss Pearl -Tohnson. Area Suoer-
visw for Cass and Fnh^a^d
counties, at the Pine River High
school.
H. L. Anderson. Consultant
in Education and Guidance and
a member of the St Paid NVA
office, sooke to th* frrouo which
eomprised about 200 persons
Mr. Anderson is well anuarnted
with the prob^ms of vouth in
adjusting itself to adult con^iri-
ons. One of the outstanding
ooints Mr. Anderson ma^e was
that the individual must dec'd°
the vocation he feels he would
like and could be most successful
and happv in. He emobasised
that on^e having chosen a voca-
The financial statement of
the Pine River Municipal Liquor
Store is published in this issue.
It shows a total s?b of oackage
liquor amounting to $13,837.17,
for the year ending January 1,
1937. Of this, a net profit of
^1.6/|0.93 was paid to the village
nf Pine River. Comolinr'nts are
due Mr. and Mrs. Fields for the
cine manner in whi-h the local
'ispensarv is conducted.
BIRTHDAY PARTY
Mrs. Arvid Lundin .-ntertained
a group of friends Monday evening, at a dinner partv in honor
if Arvid Lundin and Lewis Walton. Dinner was served at 7 o'
clock, after which two tables of
bridge were played, with high
scores going to Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis Walton. Those present
were Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Walton
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Rohideau
and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Siebel.
NEW SOIL CONSERVATION PROGRAM
FOR CASS COUNTY
MRS. C. HAUSER
CALLED EY DEATH
Mrs. Chavles Hauser passed
away on Monday evening of
this week. Death was caused by
cancer.
Funeral services will be _*«._
from the Char^l of the No-th
->nd Funeral Home    Thursday,
"vith Rev. MacKin~ev officiating
Lena Bevtha Moser was b~rn
;n Humeston. Iowa. NcvembT
°2, 1893. In 1917 sh° grave-b--
heaH to the T,oH and lat-r j-in-
ed the Baotist Church near her
home town.
She was united in marriage t~
Charles Hauser on Frbr"arv 2^.
1914. To th;s u^ion two children were born. Fazel and Raymond, who survive.
Mr. and Mrs. Falser move''
to Pine River in 1920, and have
Mved here since.
She leaves to m^um h r death
her husbmnd. ChaHes P^>us.r,
and two children. Hazel (M^s
4xel Norman) and Ra.vmond.
She' is also survived bv her riar.
ents. Mr. a^d Mrs. Trhn M-se?"
of Hum-ston Iowa; two sisters.
Mrs. Jennie Kentner of Weldon.
Iowa, and Erma of Humeston;
also two brothers. Farl Moser.
of Piano, Iowa, and Frvd Moser
of Weldon, Ia.
All who knew thi« woman recognized in h-r a choice soirit.
whose presence wi'l be missed,
will beckon her loved ones on
to the heavenly home.
HARRIET
Mrs.- Shepard, Correspondent
Mr. Olson halo*d Mark West-
fa]l haul hay Saturday.
Work was halted at the dam
Monday. b~cause of the severe
cold weather.
Dorothv Thiers and Heinie
Norman soent Sunday at the
Thiers home.
Genaidine Thi°rs visited at
the Pin° "River School, Monday
and Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs Jack Hundle^
and babv and Dale Johnson«nent
Saturday evening at the Thiers
home.
Mrs. Thiers came home Saturday evening. aft°r sn-'ndinqr the
oast two we-Vs ■■■"!+>> hQr daughter, Mrs. Jack Hundley.
Van => Jones 1-ft Tur-s^av for
Whioholt. where he is emnloyed.
his home the past week,   witfc  tion. nothing s^oul^ be snar-d in
the flu. getting the required knowledge.
In snite of severe weather an4
drifted roads, about 90 Percent
of those s^h^d-iVd in attendwere
r-resent. Following the meeting
Miss Johnson distributed booklets on vocational guidance
Miss Benson is confined to the
hcsoital in B'ack Duck, with a
broken shoulder.
Parents who have not registered their fi-vear old children in
the census h'st. a^e a^ked to re-
nort their names to the omce of
the Fi.gh schoo". so thov rnav be
•registered for the Spring Primary class.
Through the efforts of organized agriculture, a new 193^ Soil
Conservation Program has been
developed and will be offered to
farmers of the Nation in an effort to secure cooperation in the
conservation of the nation's grea
test natural resource, the soil.
County Agent. Oscar Nelson
states that the nrogram is es-
oeciallv w°ll ndahte-^ to nartici-
pation bv farmers of Cass countv and is a great imnrovement
over the cnleudid 19S6 urogram
that was just recently comnlet-
ed.
Countv agm+s and agricultural leaders from aevpra! counties
met recently at Bvainerd, where
the new prog^m wqj exolain-
ed by Farry MmV, Chairman of
the State S"il Conservation
'■ommitt.ee. and Frank J. Brown,
State Fducational Firector.
Mee^ing^ wi'l h- he'd at the
following olace1* for the pur-
nos-1 of exn'aining the program
to Cass countv farmers:
Woodman Hall. Pillager, 1 p.
m . Monday. Jan. 25.
Elis Hall, near Leader, 1 p.
m.. Tnesdav. Jan. 26.
Pine River School I p. m., on
Wednesday. Jan. 27.
Hackensack S"hr»ol,  1 p. m.,
Thursday. Jan. 28.
Remer Depot, 1 p. m., Friday,
Jan. 29.
Pabion School, in    Wilkinson
Twp., 1 p. m., Saturday, Jan.
30.
In addition to the evolanation
of the Soil Conservation program an election oif community
committeemen will be he'd.
All Cass countv farmers are
urafpd to attend ons of these
meetings.
MANY ATTEND ICE
CARNIVAL SUN.
Delegations from the Twin
Cities and Brainerd, together
with celebrants from other Min-
esota towns, made a crowd of
2500 neople who witnessed the
Paul Bunyan Sports Carnival at
Bemidii last week-end. A huge
Blue Ox, papier machie model of
the giant bovine, 15 feet in height was the main attraction of
the parade, which was followed
by a round of activities inc'uding
old time logging competition, a
dog derby, sp-ed skating, basket
ball, hockey. CCC contests and
pie-eating contests, with fireworks on the shores of I ave Bemidii, the Lumberjack Ball and
th" Ice Follies Show at the arena
fol'owing.. The Paul Bunyan
Playground Association dinner
at the "Cook Shack" concluding
the- the week-end of mid-winter
celebration.
PONTORIA
Harold Gooden socnt Sunday
at the Ora Siltman home.
Mr. and M^s. Robert Albretch
and daughter left Sunday for
ti-o state of Washington.
Miss Bemadino Summers soent
tho week-end at the Victor
Uh'ig home.
Mrs. Tom LaBoe returned
from Milwaukee last week, after a three-weeks visit.
Kenneth Sales soent the week
end with his cousin, Archie Siltman.
Several from here visited at
the Saul Whitted home in Wabedo, Sundav.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Clodfelter
and daughters, Mrs. Helen Hansen and Mae, spent Friday in
Pine River.
Mr. and Mrs. Alden Hansen
and Mae, visited at the Ella
Hetherington home Friday evening.
A mrtv was he'd at the Victor Uh'ig home Saturday nite,
bv Arh'ne Uhlig for some of her
school friends. Everyone had a
swell time.