The Pine River Journal (Pine River, Minnesota), 1937-05-20

              PINE RIVER JOURNAL
VOLUME II NUMBER 40
THE PINE RIVER JOURNAL, PINE  RIVER,  CASS  COUNTY, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1937
SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 Per Year
NEWS BRIEFS OF
INTEREST FROM
'ROUND THE STATE
BOY   DROWNS    IN    OPEN
SILO  PIT WITH  4  FT. WATER
Long Prairie.—The two year old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Strom oi
Bruce township drowned last week
at their home In a six foot deep silo
pit which contained three or four
feet of water as a result of heavy
rains. Marvin, the lad, was playing
In the yard while his mother hung
out clothes, and during her absence
o fnot more than 15 minutes, he disappeared. Mrs. Strom's search for
him ended at the open pit, near the
edge of which Marvin had evidently
stopped and tumbled head first into the water. Falling to revive h<>r
son after taking him from the pit and
applying first aid, Mrs. Strom carried him to the Jake KedrowskI farm,
a half mile away. The neighbor was
on his way with the mother and son
to a doctor when Mr. Strom returned
from town. Nothing could be done
for the boy, who had no doubt, died
before being taken from the pit.
DITCH     DIGGER     STRIKES
GOLD   UNDER   OLD   WALK
Preston.—"Thar's gold in them
thar hills." At least that is what
Leslie McElrose thought when he
found a twenty dollar gold piece
while digging a ditch to lay water
pipes under what was formerly an
elevated walk in front of the old
Farmer's saloon building in Preston.
When passers-by stopped to ask lie
ditch diggers whether or not they
had found remnants of bye-gone days
the diggers began joshing about having dug up several old skeleton"*
and a bag of coins. Suddenly McElrose, who was digging ahead, exclaimed that he had just found one—
a fifty-cent piece. That's no half
(dollar," said the worker. ^'Didn't
you ever see a gold coin before."
Upon closer examination, the 50 cent
piece proved to be a twenty d^ll.r-
gold piece, dated 1873. It was almost as shiny as when it came frorn
the  mint.
P. R. BALL TEAM ORGANIZED; FIRST GAME SUN.
BRIDAL  SHOWER
Mrs. Cecil Carlson was pleasantlv
surprised at a miscellaneous bridal
shower at the A. J. Button home on
Thursday afternoon. A social hoi"-
was enjoyed, after which the hostess
Joan Button, served a delicious luncheon. The honored guest receiv*"1
many beautiful gifts.
RADIO   PICTURES  OF  CORONA-
TION   PRINTED   IN  THIS   ISSUE
Rushed from London by radio Immediately after King George and
Queen Elizabeth were crowned, unusual pictures of the English coro-
ntion last week are published in this
issue. The pictures were taken by
veteran news cameramen who constituted part of America's large, press
delegation covering the coronation.
Trans-Atlantic telephonic transmission of news photos was given its firnt
decisive test during the coronation.
The results, showing how this method of sending pictures by radio has
improved during recent months, are
shown In today's Issue.
TO BUILD NEW HOME
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hill moved to
a cottage on Norway Lake Tuesday,
where they will remain for the summer months. Their old home has
been purchased and will be moved
off their lot and a new residence will
be built on the same location. Thev
plan to have their new home completed by fall.
Several of the local fellows interested in baseball met at the Lake
Region hotel bunday afternoon, to
discuss plans for the coming season.
With Major Skinner acting as chairman, officers for the new year were
elected as follows: President and
General ..xgr., Bill Kotka • Coach, Win.
Biever; Assistant Coaches, Os^ir
Kolb and Mr. Hyberg; Sec. and Treas
D. L. Triggs. The Club gave a rising
vote of thanks to Bill Kotka, who
managed the team last year. Bill
hand again this year to do his share,
did a good job of it and will be   on
No league has been formed as
yet, but word from Walker today.
states that a meeting will be held
this week for the purpose of organizing a league.
The matter of finances was discussed and it was decided to solicit the
business men for funds. Interest was
running high and within a few minutes over $50.00 was raised among
those assembled. (A baseball team
is an asset to any town and in ordei
to have a good team they must have
the support they are entitled to —
Don't forget this when the season
opens—be there and help the boys
along.
The officers met Alonday evening,
and decided to start the ball rolling
next Sunday, when the married men
will play the single men at the loct»i
diamond. Show your colors Sunday,
by being there.
RITES FOR MRS.
LEANDER WILSON
HELD WEDNESDAY
THE   LITTLE   RED   POPPY
JAIL     RULES    OF     HALF
CENTURY     AGO     ON     DUTY
LOCALS
Ollie Dahl and Esther Conzet (ler
ve to Nevis Thursday, where th<*--
jspent the remainder of the week.
Geo.   Tozier   left   Tuesday  for   L>i
luth,  where  he  has  employment.
Harold Walton made a business
trip to Minneapolis Friday, returnm?
Saturday.
Hal Willis of Jenkins, stopped ir-
Pine  River  Tuesday.
Dr. and Mrs. J. B. Lambert of New
York City, spent several days last,
week with Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Ethridge.
Red Wing.—Prison rules promulga
ted by the Goodhue county board of
commissioners   and   the    sheriff    50
vears ago immediately after the pre-'
sent jail  building at Red Wing was,
f omnleted.   are   hanging   on   the   jail i
walls after an absence of several fle-
ades.    The framed set of rules   was
presented to the present sheriff, Len-
ns Olson, by Dr. F. E. Anderson, who
this relic of half a century ago among the possessions of his father, who
served   as   sheriff  in   the  80's.    The
• > -.',,(.,« of) rx.}(.-. which includes
the following: Any prisoner requiring any more exercise than he can
get in his cell may be allowed to
exercise in the corridor and return
to  his   cell.    He  must  walk  brlsklv
up and down the corridor when so
let out. No loud talking, no whistling
or attracting the attention of anyone
outside the jail by calls or motions.
Prisoner, when taken into custody,
must immediately take a bath and
exchange his clothes for jail clothes;
prisoners must bathe once a week.
Prisoners must not be permitted to
L,-i'- beds during the day
time—unless  sick.
HONOR  ROLL
The following new and re-newal
subscriptions to the Journal have
been received the past week.
Look at the label on your paper,
if yeu are in arrears, stop In and see
us.
Clara  Tollefsrud,   Pine River
Charles Harris, Pine River
Pine River Clothing Co.
Remember the little red poppy,
That grows on the fields of Francs.
Where our buddies marched so bravely,
When given the word to advance.
They kept up their tiresome journey.
All through the night and the day.
When   bullets    and    shrapnel    were
thickest,
So  tired  they could    scarce    keep
their way.
Let us gather the little red poppies,
That are made by  our buddies so
brave.
And show our love and devotion,
For the ones asleep in their grave.
And remember those same brave buddies,
Who rest in their hospital beds.
Were some of those same brave buddies,
Ancl wear the poppies they make.
Composed by Mrs. W. J. Kline, Pine
River.
t Mrs. Leander Wilson, pioneer resident of Walden .township, passed
away at her home Sunday morning;,
at 11 a. m., after being ill only three
days. She was 71 years of age at
the time of her death.
Funeral services were conducted at
the Wilson home in Walden Wednesday, with Rev. Mickelson officiating.
Interment was made in the Pine
Ridge cemetery.
Mrs. Wilson was born in Oulu, Finland, in 186G, and came to this country in 1882, settling at Brainerd. She
was united in marriage to Leander
Wilson on December 26, 1885. To
this union ten children were born, of
which seven survive. Mrs. Wilson
was an ardent Church worker and
had been a member . of the Finnish
Lutheran Church for over 40 years.
She was a kind and loving mother,
and her passing will be deeply felt
by all those who new her. Besides
her husband she leaves to mourn her
sudden death three daughters; Mrs.
Anna Burfield and xvirs .Fannie Sa.--
kiho of Pine River, and Mrs. Bessie
Young of Waleston, Mont. Also four
sons, Toivo, Walter, Arthur and Charles all of Pine River.
ERADELPHIAN STUDY CLUB
MET AT THE YORK HOME FRI.
Mrs. Effie Wareing of Brainerd,
spent Sunday with friends in Pine
River.
The Eradelphian Study Club met
at the home of Mrs. H. A. York on
Friday of last week. The hostess
served a delicious luncheon at one
o'clock, after which the guests enjoyed a social hour.
The business meeting was opened
at 3 o'clock, at which time reports
were given on the county convention
which was held at Walker on May 12.
Club members were urged to plant as
many Petunias as possible as this
was choosen as the county flower.
Plans were then discussed for the
Dist. Convention in Park Rapids, on
May 25 & 26. Two delegates were
appointed  to  attend.
The program consisted of a report,
by Mrs. Heuer on "Building ilia
World's Largest Eye," "The Lift of
Martha Ostenso" by Mrs. Paul Hen-
inger, and Mrs. York gave an interesting talk about her winter's travels
and showed pictures and . souvenirs
she had collected.
The next business meeting date
has been changed and will be held
on June 4, at the home of Mrs. Paul
Henninger,  at  White Pine  Point.
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Mr. and Mrs. H. A. York returned
last week, after a short stay in Minneapolis.
A Dangerous
u
nal
By Albert T. Reid
CAFE     MAN     CASHES     CHECK
WITH     ALL     PENNIES
South St. Paul.—Having complained frequently of getting his checks
cashed in one dollar bills, Jake New-
brand,   stockyards   employee,     found
■*■ himself equipped to match pennies
with John D. Rockefeller when a
Chutehouse restaurant man counted
out the number of coppers to the
amount of a thirty dollar check.
Newbrand was so choked with emotion at the sight of all the pennies
he carried away the coins without
speaking.     He   Is   determined,     how-
• ever, to spend a part of his supply
in the same cafe so that the opera-
•t)or may have another chance to
count them.
Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Francis are
visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Francis at Cloquet, this weefc.
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If the Court please,-Kesh3uia be
give*, the lintrtof the law, for a>
Targe percentage, of fatal accideit-ts
are due to his wilful disregard of others
MALE CHOROUS TO SING AT
MILDRED   CHAPEL   SUNDAY
A male chorous composed of seventeen male voices, from Mountain
Lake, will give a program at the Mildred Chapel on Sunday, May 23.
They will also give programs at
various other places in the neighborhood on Saturday and Sunday. Rev.
Wiens is pastor of the congregation
at Mildred, and extends a welcome
to everyone to attend.
LOCALS
Mrs. F. L. Hempstead and Mrs.
Rohr drove to Brainerd Monday,
where they visited with Helen Greenwood, who is a patient at St Josephs
hospital.
Mrs. Geo. Bell and son Bob and
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Bell drove to
Minneapolis Friday, returning Sunday.
■Bernice Hardin has resigned her
position at the Green Dragon Cafe,
and will leave Thursday for a position in Brainerd.
V. F. W. AND AUX.
TO CONDUCT BUDDY POPPY SALE
The annual "Buddy Poppy" sale of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars will
be conducted in Pine River on Saturday, May 22, by members of the local post of V. F..W. ancl the Ladies
Auxiliary.
Proceeds from. the sale are divided as follows: One cent for each
poppy to the veterans who made
them; One cent to the National Home
at Eaton Rapids, Michigan and the
balance to the state department an.n
local post for relief work.
The Buddy Poppies are all made
by disabled veterans in government
hospitals and the only ones made
that carry a U. S. patent office trade
mark.
This first poppy sold this year was
purchased by President Roosevelt in
the White House and was delivered
by Ruth Joyce Bradish, 4 year old
protege of the VFW National Home
at Eaton Rapids, Mich., and who lives with her mother and two brothers. She is the daughter of the late
Comrade B. E. Bradish who died in
1935, at Sioux City. The national
VFW home was founded in 1925, on
a tract of 470 acres, and has expanded at the present to 040 acres. Twenty beautiful individual residences have been erected on the grounds by
the department, and each one houses
a family of seven or eight children,
under the care of a 'House Mother,'
who in several cases is the mother
of one or more of her charges. All
the children attend the public schojls
In Eaton Rapids.
In 1933 a $35,000 hospital was built
by the National Ladies Auxiliary to
the VFW.
Members of the Ladies Auxiliary
will display articles from the World
War in conection with the Buddv
Poppy, sale, in a window of the Tom
Ethridge  store  Saturday.
BIRTHDAY   PARTY
On Sunday afternoon, about twel
ve friends and neighbors called at
the home of. Mrs. Melinda Anderson
to help her celebrate her 83 birthday
anniversary. A social hour was spent
after which a lunch was served.
Mrs Anderson was presented with a
gift wishing her many happy returns
of the day.
CASS CO GETS ADDITIONAL FUNDS
FROM GAS TAX
The one-cent increase in the gas
tax, voted by the last Legislature,
results in the largest allotment oi
funds since the law went into effect
in 1925. More than six and a half
million dollars in state money was
allotted to 87 Minnesota counties for
highway purposes in the form ot
state aid. Allocations were made
last week by the State Board of Allotment, consisting of State Treas.
urer C. A. Halverson, State Auditor
Stafford King and N. W. Elsberg,
highway   commissioner.
Cass county will receive $102,411
in its allotment.
The funds consisted of $12,411 of
the revenue from the one-mill road
and bridge levy, and $90,000 which
makes up the county's share of the
gasoline revenue.
For the first time in Minnesota
history, the $5,300,000 in gasoline
tax money allocated to the counties,
may be expended entirely upon county roads by the county governments,
or any part of it up to 50 per cent
may be re-allocated by the county
governments to the townships f>r
township roads. This, however, is a
matter left entirely to the county
boards. ,
This year the counties will- als?
share in the increased highway revenue made possible by the one-cent
additional gasoline tax enacted by
the last legislature. Their share ot
this additional revenue is estimated
at about $800,000, and with it most
of the counties can match the$550,000
in federal secondary and feeder
road money which, this year, for the
first time, is to be allotted to the
counties rather than the state for
secondary road construction. The
counties are required to match this
$550,000 federal money dollar for dollar, and in addition, provide necessary right of way, engineering and
supervision service, estimated cost to
them an additional cost to them ot
$250,000. *
PONTORIA
S'Matter Pop decides to buy
an organ, then regrets it! He's
only one of the many laughable
characters in today's funny page.
Irvin S. Cobb, famed humorist,
disagrees with efforts to cure
stuttering. Cites instance where
stuttering is an asset rather than
a liability.
Washington excited by charge
t>f U. S. ambassador to Germany
Williaw E. Dodd, that American
billionaire plots dictatorship.Read
E. W. Plckard's "Weekly News
Review."
Special Radio Pictures of the
English coronation in this issue.
Turn to our news photo section.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Snider spent Sunday at Akeley.
A large crowd attended services at
the Herder school  Sunday.
Ann Reynolds arrived last week
from St Paul, to open her cottage on
Island Lake,  this summer.
Ralph Mitchell and H. B. Kinne
spent Thursday evening at the Royal
home.
Noah Rambo of Blackberry, Minn.,
spent the week-end visiting old fiends  in  Ponorla.
Mrs. J. Royal and Mrs. S. Baker
visited with Mrs. V. Uhlig Saturday,
Mrs. A. Hansen was called to Walker Tuesday, by the illness of her sister, Miss Annette Starkweather.
Mrs. A. Reuch and Mrs. Paul Stahr.
called at the George Calvet home on.
Sunday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Snider called : at-
the Ora Siltman home Wednesday evening.
A. Hansen, May Hovey and Mrs.
Vera Dickson and children were callers in Walker Saturday.
Arlie Maloney is visiting at the
Uhlig home. He started school In
Backus  Monday.
Mr. Goldsmith and Mrs. Day tooc
Archie Siltman home Saturday nite.
after he had served on the Jury since
Wednesday.
On Friday evening, the Ponto Lake
F-L unit will meet at the Kerbie Siltman home. Free lunch will be served by the members. Everyone is
welcome.
Visitors at the Victor Uhlig home
Sunday were Mrs. Harvey Hinshaw,
and son Jim, Fred Shuller, Rev. and
Mrs. Kalk, and the Walter Meissner
family.    -
Don't forget the Townsend card
party at the Archie Siltman home on
Thursday evening, May 20. Everyone
is welcome to attend. Those that
don't play cards can enjoy Bunco.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Zaske, Mrs. O. .To-
hansen and Helen and Hubert Drinkall called at the A. Siltman home on
Tuesday evening, and Mr. and Mrs.
A. Siltman and Russel, Mrs. J. Royal, Mrs Stella Baker and Ralph
Mitchell visited with Mrs. Clara Day
near Walker.
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