The coming week will bring southerly winds, blue skies, and temperatures that will feel more like August than the middle of May. By next week, conditions should return nearer to normal, accompanied by increasing cloud cover. These warm days will hasten the swelling of buds and the bursting forth of leaves across the county. The feeling of spring is plainly in the air.
In local happenings, Miss Fjell and I joined the Eighth Grade in surprising Mrs. Blackwell this past week. A gallon of ice cream and three excellent cakes were served for luncheon. Tomorrow evening we intend to attend the Class of 1926’s presentation of Booth Tarkington’s The Intimate Stranger. We hope many from town will do likewise.
In exciting news, citizens from Winnipeg have organized a motor caravan through Duluth, Fort William, and Port Arthur, with plans to stop in Grand Marais for luncheon on May 18. Organizers expect visitors not only from Manitoba, but also from Northern Minnesota and the Dakotas. Such undertakings do not always proceed exactly as intended. As Robert Burns wisely observed, “The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley.” Even so, I look forward to the sight of so many automobiles arriving in town at once.
Finally, to whomever submitted the title “weather prophet” to the newspaper office as a proposed new designation for my duties, I must respectfully decline. I have no intention of predicting locust plagues, nor of wandering barefoot through town issuing warnings. The present title seems entirely sufficient for all concerned.