The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-09-17

j The McKanlass show on Saturday
j was fairly well attended. Although
i there was much in it which could have
been abbreviated to advantage, yet it
was, as whole, a very enjoyable enter
| tainment.
| The Wilson theatrical company is at
! the Opera House this week, doing great
business. The company is strong one
| his many friends here, and at the popu-
lar prices have good audiences. 1t will
remain the balance of the week.
&C. M. Sprague will go Saturday to
ST. Louis to attend the sovereign grand
lodge of Odd Fellows and will be absent
two weeks. He is one of the grand rep
resentatives from this state. The last
of this month he will attend the golden
wedding of an aunt at La Crosse.
Fall and winter underwear, an end
less variety, at Jacob Bros.
Frank w. Hawley of Milwaukee, an
old time resident of this city is here on
visit and looking after the threshing
on his farm south Of the city. He is ira
yelling for a manufacturing hardware
company of the Cream City. His son
Charles is in his sophomore year at the
State University at Madison Wis, and
is a close student.
Hansen on the Little Falls & Dakota
road is booming. Ole Scow from Wis
consin has just opened large general
store, furniture store is almost COM
plete, drug store will soon be opened
and a number of residences, some of them
really excellent, have been erected this
seaton and men on going up Nye Has
kins is plotting forty acre addition put
east of the depot.
The Bryant Literary and Historical
Association is the name adopted by the
library society organized on Mondaylast
at the Municipal Court room, A con-
stitution was adopted and the following
officers elected for the ensuing year:
Pres. o. J. WooDLEY
Vice Pres. n H. MINER.
Recording. Secy. L. r. 9ARTo
Corresponding Secy. and Treas. R. T.
GREENE.
Executive Committee /
R. T, GREENE
M. G. KELSEY
c. F. HENDRIX.
The meetings will be held the first and
third Monday evenings in the month, the |
first meeting will be on Monday evening |
next at the municipal court room, when |
alt who desire to join should be present.
Membership flee for gentlemen is fifty |
cents, ladies will be admitted to member
ship without fee. On Monday evening |
there will be discussion of some live
topic. When the association gets we'll
under way its meetings will be instruct
i've and entertaining, and it is hoped
there will be large membership. |
Bernard Tyrell, colored theological
student of the seminary at Yale deliver
ed two lectures in the city, on Sunday
afternoon at the Congregational church
and on Monday evening at the Method
list Church. He spoke on the New South
on Sunday and on Monday on the Race
problem. He is a fluent and forcible
speaker, and presents a stroag plea for
his race. He dwelt upon the wonderful
advances made by the negro during the
past twenty-five years, and believes that |
education and morality are the powers
now actually at work, which will event
ually lead his people out of the depths. |
They are making rapid strides. He
gave numerous specimens of the religious
songs of the negroes which were well
rendered. He is raising money to COM
plcte his3 course in the divinity school.
and fitting himself for work among his |
OWN people. He presented some very
striking figures and statistics of the
material advancement made by his race
both in acquiring property and educa-
ton. He sees no other solution of the
race problem than the slow and tedious
one of workingi it out through the school
house and the church.