Lögberg - 14.10.1937, Side 5

LÖGBHRG, FIMTUDAGINN 14. OKTÓBER, 1937
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WE’RE ALL NUTTY
HERE AND THERE
.By P. N. Britt.
BLACK cats have always seemed
to cut quite a figure in most peo-
ple’s lives. Not many folks seem
to want to catch up with or meet a
black cat. Boys and girls driving
cars notice a black cat cross the
street, and sometimes they just ease
up a shade on the gas and take a look
both ways for a while at an inter-
section. Mature persons have the
same habit. You may notice, even if
you are in the back seat. But, make
mention of the black caí you saw and
the driver probably won’t héar you
at all, or at least he tries not to no-
tice or hear. Everybody hates to
seem superstitious to anybody else,
but everybody is superstitious here
and there. Sorta nuts, most of the
time as you have likely noticed.
This is the storm-sash season. They
are up on ladders here and there and
everywhere, putting ’em on. It’s
hard to get around much, without
going under a ladder. That’s another
thing. Very few people want to go
under a ladder. Watch them and no-
tice how they get around ladders.
They are experts at it, but don’t ever
mention it to them. They wouldn’t
like it.
The black cat has got into the
storm-sash business. When the fel-
low across the street started out the
other morning to put on his sash, a
little black cat, from the next house,
came over playfully, as if to give the
man a hand. She got on his back
porch. As he wiped off the first sash,
she watched him. As he was bent
over, she hopped onto the back of his
black sweater. Then he shooed her
off. He picked her up and took her
over to her own porch. She followed
him back, and he took her home
again, but the cat came back right
on his heels. He went into his house,
but kitty sat at the door, listening
and waiting for him. He looked out
and saw she was still there. He had
to wait quite a while, until a big grev
cat came around the corner of the
house and took the little black cat
away. That let him get back to his
work. He didn’t seem to have fallen
off the ladder or to have broken any
storm-sash, up to the time he went
to the other side of the house and out
of view. But most people don’t like
to see a black cat around.
* * *
LAST year the price of coal went
high,
So we went back to wood;
This year wood’s limit is the sky,
Which makes it not so good.
If a fellow had a coal mine
And acres full of trees,
He’d have the finest little line
To make ’em sit and freeze.
* * *
SUNNY Alberta has a record
all right. They started out with
more sunshine than any place
else in Canada, so they said.
Then, they imported a rain-maker
from the south.
Went into irrigation for a while.
Took on Henry Wise Wood, to
make a killing.
Turned to the U.F.A. and Brown-
lee.
And, finally, hooked up with Aber-
hart.
They hold the record for going
goofy and staying goofy longer than
any other place on earth.
♦ * ♦
THE result of the Ontario election
must have been a great surprise
, to the Ontario people out here,
who had been reading “specials” fur-
nished to them while the election
campaign was in progress. The in-
formation in the “specials” was
shown by the result to have been a
lot of hogwash. Whether the erron-
eous information supplied was the
result of ignorance, incompetency or
just plain falsehood has not been ex-
plained, and no excuses will likely
be offered. About all it means is
that “specials” from Ontario or any-
where else are just about as reliable
as the war news from Spain or
China, upon which no reliance what-
ever is placed.
Three years ago, Premier Hepburn
captured the province from what ap-
peared to have been a very corrupt
administration, and for reforms and
the savings of millions he had made
the Ontario electors gave him a
sweeping renewal of confidence, well
deserved.
* * *
AND, now, tobacco chewing and
gum chewing are being boosted
as very beneficial. Dr. Apple-
ton, of the University of Penn-
sylvania, in an address, at Atlantic
City, said: “The old-timer who chew-
ed tobacco continually was unwit-
tingly making up for failure to brush
his teeth.” He added that the steno-
grapher or switch-board operator
who chews gum probably has less
bacteria in her mouth than the girl
who doesn’t.
* * *
IUSED to think that I did not be-
lieve in dreams. Now, I don’t
know whether I do or not. I don’t
often seem to dream, and when I do
I have only a disjointed recollection
of what I did dream about, and I do
not bother much about it. Some of
my dr'eams may have come true, or
they may all have been cock-eyed.
But, the other evening I was visit-
ing at a house, and in the course of
conversation, one of the ladies men-
tioned that she had a very odd dream
the night before. She dreamed that
she had gone out fishing, and across
the little creek she was fishing in
there was a little bridge. She was
standing on the bridge with a pole
in her hand and the line and hook
dropped into the stream below. She
felt a tug at the line, pulled it in
with considerable trouble. and there
were three mállard ducks on the
hook. She had only fished once on
such a little stream, on a creek down
in Ontario, one day, fifteen years
ago. There was a general laugh át
the idea of catching mallard ducks
on a fish-hook. The lady wondered
what it all meant. The matter drop-
ped.
Two days later, she called me on
the phone and asked me to come over
—she wanted to see me. That morn-
ing she had got three mallard ducks
by express from a friend out in the
country from whom she had not
heard in years.
That was a sort of ducky coinci-
dence.
* * *
THE bags were full ’most every
game,
A clean-up blow would turn
The fans into a frenzied frame
And make their blood to churn.
The batter came up to the plate,
Got set, to make the clout;
Thes,pitcher shot ’em over great—
Each slugger just went out.
That swat, to make a perfect kill, '
To put on ice the game,
To give the fans that wanted thrill—
That homer never came.
* * *
Shove a couple more blocks into
the furnace, to keep the fire from
going out.
sinu og Hallson kirkju mánudaginn
27. sept., og fylgdu honum ná-
grannar, vinir og ættingjar, til graf-
ar. Sóknarpresturinn, séra Harald-
ur Sigtnar jaí5söng.
Föstudaginn 8. okt. andaðist Mrs.
Tom Skaro á heimili sínu i grend
viÖ Hensel, N. D. Hún var islenzk
kona, en maÖur hennar er norskur.
Hún hét Kristín Kristjánsdóttir og
var úr Þingeyjarsýslu; fædd 18.
ágúst 1862. Kom hún til þessarar
bygÖar 1891. Hún á mörg börn á
lífi uppkomin og gift; og eiga þau
heimilisfang víðsvegar í landinu.
Góð kona og vel gefin; orðin mjög
biluÖ að líkamsheilsu síðustu árin.
Jarðarför hinnar látnu fór fram
sunnudaginn 10. október frá heim-
ili hennar og kirkju \ ídalínssafnað-
ar. Séra H. Sigmar jarðsöng.
Föstudagskvöldið 7. október and-
aðist Arnljótur Ólafsson á heimili
sinu vestur af Mountain. Hafði
hann lengi verið þjáður undanfarna
mánuði; eftirlætur ekkju, Sigurrós
Guðmundson og 3 dætur og einn
son, einnig 3 hálfsystkini. Foreldr-
ar hans Ólafur Jónsson og Björg
Ólafsdóttir skagfirzk að ætt.
Arnljótur hafði dvalið hér í bygð
52 ár. Hann var fæddur 12. júlí
í879 og kom til Ameríku með móð-
ur sinni 1883. Var hann fyrst um
sinn hjá móður sinni og stjúpföður,
Jóhannesi lækni Jónssyni, en giftist
og stofnaði bú 1902. Arnljótur var
hinn mætasti maður, prúðmenni
mikið og drengur góður, enda mjög
vinsæll. Gegndi hann löngum trún-
aðarstörfum í sinni sveit.
Jarðarförin fór fram mánudag-
inn xr. okt., frá kirkjunni á Moun-
tain. Var hinn látni og fjölskylda
hans meðlimir í þeim söfnuði. Séra
H. Sigmar jarðsöng.
bridge, Sask., ekkjan Kristín Árna-
dóttir Johnson, eftir langvarandi
veikindi. fíún var fædd að Hábæ
í Vogum í Gullbringusýslu 26. októ-
ber 1860. Hún skilur eftir þrjá syni:
Árna, Jón og Ólaf. Bróðir hennar
á lífi er Jón Árnason og Mrs. Ingi-
ójörg Joseph, uppeldissystir, bæði
til heimilis í Winnipeg.
Jarðarförin fór fram í grafreit
Konkordia safnaðar þann 10. þ. m.
að viðstöddum f jölda manns. Prest-
ur Konkordia safnaðar, S. S. Christ-
opherson söng yfir.
Grímur Scheving
1866 — 1937
Þann 6. þ. m. lézt við Church-
Fimtudagskveldið 16. sept. varð
Grímur Srheving að Gardar, N. D..
bráðkvaddur. Hafði hann verið að
vinnu sinni allan þann dag og dag-
ana á undan og ekki borið á lasleika
i honum venju fremur. En um
kvöldið hné hann niður andvana.
Grímur fæddist 29. sept. 1866 að
Hólalandi i Borgarfirði í Norður-
Múlasýslu; foreldrar hans voru Jón
Einarsson Stefánssonar prests á
Kolfreyjustað og Guðrún Eiríks-
dóttir úr Hjaltastaðaþinghá. Grím-
ur sál. ólst upp hjá foreldrum sín-
um og tók við búsforráðum fyrir
móður sína þegar faðir hans dó. En
tveim árum síðar (1891) flutti móð-
ir hans til Ameríku, en Grímur varð
eftir á íslandi, og 29. sept. það haust
giftist hann eftirlifandi eiginkonu
sinni, Guðrúnu Jónsdóttur. Voru
foreldrar hennar Jón Stefánsson og
Lára Þórðardóttir. Sumarið 1893
hurfu þau hjón einnig til Ameríku
og fluttust til Álftavatnsbygðarinn-
ar Manitoba, þar sem Grimur nam
land og dvöldu þar um 19 ára skeið,
en fluttust alfarin þaðan til Garðar
í Norður Dakota árið 1912. Hafa
þau síðan átt þar heima og löngum í
þorpinu sjálfu.
Þau Grímur og Guðrún eignuðust
6 börn. Dóu tvær dætur þeirra i
æsku en hin 4 systkinin lifa föður
sinn, 3 dætur og einn sonur. Eru
þau öll gift og búsett í Norður
Dakota, nema elsta dóttirin (Mrs.
H. J. Halldorson), sem býr í grend
við Leslie, Sask. Af systkinum
Gríms eru aðeins einn bróðir á lífi,
Eirikur, sem býr að Lundar, Man.
Stefán bróðir hans lézt fyrir
skömmu í Winnipeg, Man.
Grímur sál. Scheving var frábær
iðjumaður, og var svo fram á síð-
asta æfidag hans, þó hann væri tek-
inn að bila að líkamskröftum síð-
ustu árin. Hann var einnig með
afbrigðum hirðusamur maður, —
alt var fágað og prýtt kringum hann,
eftir því sem tök voru á; kom hirðu-
semi hans fram heima við og eins
hvar sem hann starfaði. Hann var
greindur maður og hafði mikla unun
af því að lesa; ekki sízt var hann
hneigður til að lesa ljóð og var enda
vel hagmæltur sjálfur, þó hann færi
fremur dult með það.
Heimili þeirra Grims og Guðrún-
ar hefir ávalt verið viðbrugðið fyr-
ir sérstaklega einlæga gestrisni og
góðvild og hjálpsemi. Þau hjón
voru samhent i því að veita öllum
góðan greiða, er að garði bar„og að
rétta mörgum hjálparhönd í bágind-
um og erfiðleikum. Hver sem hlut
átti að máli, var alúðin æfinlega hin
sama. Má því með sanni segja, að
þau hjón, ásamt með börnum sín-
um nytu mikilla vinsælda i sveit-
inni, og er því almennur söknuður
við fráfall hinS £Óða og hógværa
manns, sem svo sviplega er til graf-
ar genginn. En þyngstur er þó
harmur konu hans og barna, sem
elskuðu einlæglega kæran eiginmann
og föður. En þau kvöddu hann þó í
einlægri trú á lífið og þroskann fyr-
ir handan, og í bjartri von um
sæla samfundi á landi lífsins.
Jarðarförin fór fram mánudaginn
20. september frá heimilinu og
Garðar kirkju. Fjölmenni fylgdi
hinum látna til grafar. Sóknarprest-
urinn, séra H. Sigmar, jarðsöng.
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
“I really don’t mean to dictate to
you, dear, but isn’t that bill-board
coming at us awfully fast?”
Sunday School Teacher — “And
why did Noah take two of each kind
of animal into the ark?”
Bright Boy — “Because he didn’t
believe the story about the stork.”
Science Teacher—“Name a liquid
that won’t freeze.”
Bright—“Hot water.”
Napoleon said there was no such
word as “Can’t” but he never tried
to strike a match on a cake of soap.
A Western Canadian dealer sold a
car the other day The owner came
back later and said, “What makes
this car jerk so, when you put it
into gear?V Dealer replied: “Ah,
that proves it to be a real car—it’s
anxious to start.”
HARD BOILED
A hard boiled business man at last
fell in love. But did not change his
style of writing. One day he wrote to
the girl in this manner: “In regard
to my feelings for you, I refer you to
letter of the 15th inst.”
“My dear,” exclaimed the husband
when he arrived home late and
found his wife waiting for him,
“you’d never guess where I have
been tonight?”
“Oh, yes I can,” replied his wife,
“but go on with your story anyway.”
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