The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-07-26

ELECTRIC LIGHT IN PERIL.-DelOS JAG
obus, president and general manager of
the Crookston water power, electric
light and water-works company was in
town on Wednesday figuring with Henry
Keller relative to the removal of our
electric light plant to that city. Crooks
ton knows good thing when it sees #,
and shows its appreciation by liberal
patronage The city has population of
about five thousand, and it pays the
company of which Mr.. Jocobus is presi-
dent 81 900 year for 40 hydrants, add
$1S9S year for eight electric arc lights,
and the citizens are especially liberal in
their support of these important enter
prises. The city has no gas plant, and
Mr.. Jacobus is preparing to put in a
system of incandescent lighting-assured
that it would prove profitable from the
first, and to that end negotiations have
been opened with Mr.. Keller. The fol-
lowingis an extract from the ordinance
OF Crookston on this subject:
Section 9. The said city of Crookston
hereby agrees and obligates itself for the
period of 80 years from and after the
passage of this ordinance to use eight
electric arc lamps, or greater number if
desired of 2, 900 candle power each, to
be lighted at the same times and cared
for in the same manner as the gas lights
above mentioned. That the price paid
by said city for lighting, extinguishing,
cleaning, and repairing said eight electric
arc lamps, and for furnishing the electric
ity for the same, shall be at the rate of
sixty-five cents each per night, payable
semi-annually.
Sank Centre cannot afford to lose it's
electric light plant and if the village
authorities will deal literally with Mr..
Keller there will be no occasion for it's
removal. If the village wonld grant a
reasonable franchise and take enough
street lights to make it an object, Mr..
Keller would dismiss the idea of aban-
doning the business here, as he very nat
nrally prefers combining his capital and
energies to this place. But he cannot be
expected to conduct a business for the
benefit of the public at personal loss.
A WHEAT MARKET.-Must Sank Cen
tire again submit to the humiliation and
financial losses attendant upon having a
wheat-market which is pretty generally
Disseminated against by the farmers. 1t
| is no secret that for some reason not sat-
isfactorly explained other villages offer
| superior inducements either in price or
grade, or both. This condition of market
has diverted tens of thousands of bushels
of wheat from us, and with the wheat
has gone the money to be expended else
where. 1t is not enough that the board
of trade annually assemble and resolve.
Resolutions will not buy wheat. Either
let us do one of two things-say nothing
at all about it but quietly submit, or else
| take hold OF the matter in dead earnest,
and buy the wheat for what it is worth
| in the open market! There is no occasion
for paying more-or the HERALD has
| been misinformed by one thoroughly
competent TO know by long experience
as wheat-buyer. It is q well known
fact that when combinations have beer
formed or individuals have been interest
ed in advancing the price ofwheat in this
market that no money has been lost il
the enterprise. Ali that seems necessary
is little nerve and some one to give il
the time required.
1t may be urged that this is the talk o
one who knows nothing of wheat buying
Granted-but the writer knows, as doe:
every one else in this vicinity, that Saul
Centre is not good wheat market, ant
that buyers elsewhere who have bought
in opposition to us and at higher prices
have fourished and made money, ant
have contributed not little to the pros
perity of the villages where they Sc
bought. ........
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granted to citizens of Minnesota durin.
the past week. Reported expressly TO
this paper:
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| T. ]. Simson, Worthington, wind pro
PEELED swing.
| M. Myre, and c. Christofferson, Wi
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| The best spring medicine o'cod puri
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i Patrick's Pills. They cost 25 cents
box and will. accomplish more good thar
] $1.00 invested ia !any other medicine
Guaranteed and sold by N. "a. Freeman