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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-10-17
The Beautiful New
Hotel was Auspi-
ciousIy Launched
Upon the Sea
of Public
Favor.

The COMPILING ntary banquet and re-
ception given by the business men OF
Sank Centre to Mr.. and Mrs X. l..
Palmer, on Friday evening in express
sion of their appreciation Of the enter
prise shown in the erection OF our
handsome hotel, the Palmer House,
was an occasion long to be remember.
ed by all who were so fortunate al to
be present. At nine O'Clock the
guests beg an to arrive and before ten
O'Clock two hundred of them had been
cordially greeted by the genial land
lord and his wife, who were assisted by
Mr.. and Mrs. c. NJ. Sprague, Nj.
and Mrs. j. 81 Law, Mr.. and Mrs. W
II. Blake and others.
The hotel office was brilliant scene.
The richly colored electric lights
illuminated gay throng of handsome
ly attlred ladies adding additi onal
beauty to their elaborate toilets.
There were in attendance a large
number of ladies and gentlemen from
out of the city, who were made to fee
at home.
The old symphony orchestra O.
Sank Centre had been assembled for
the purpose of furnishing the music.
w. I. Henshaw of st Cloud coming ur
for the purpose. The music wa
stationed in the ladies' reception room
separated from the main Office by c
low glass partition only, and all dur
ing the evening it discoursed music O.
a high order.
The formal reception over and before
the dining room was opened, there
was dancing in the Office participated
in by the younger guests.
About half past ten o'clock the din
ing room, elegantly decorated for the
occasion, and the long tables, accom-
modating about seventy persons, waS
thrown open and the tables laden with
good things, were speedily filed. A
dainty supper was provided, and the
service was perfect. Only one-thiro
of the guests could be served at ONE
time and it was past midnight before
the last of the three relays could be
seated.
Following the supper there were
a half dozen toasts responded to anG
all of them deeply enjoyed. Judge L
r. Barto was master of ceremonies
and after brief and cordial welcome
announced with appropriate intro
duction, the several speakers.S Chas
F.. Hendryx responded to Our New
Hotel the Palmer House, expressing
the appreciation of the enterprise o
the proprietor, by the citizens of Saul
Centre and the travelling public.
w. w. Rooms of St. Cloud, a vet
eran travelling man, as we'll known il
Sank Centre as most of our residents
was introduced to respond to 9Th
Knights of the Grip" Mr.. Koon
very pleasantly rehearsed the typica
experiences of the travelling man, ex
pressed his keen appreciation of thi
hotel which was so we'll calculated tt
tighten his burdens and make his lif
endurable. He concluded with reel
tation of descriptive piece of poetry
well delivered-''TheT Travelling Man,
and was heartily applauded.
DR.. Dubois responded to "Sauk Cen
tre." He delivered pleasant address
full of humor, and Astounding in sharl
points and illusions. He briefly re-
cited the advantages of the city as
place of present residence and fore
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-10-17

Tasmania's government does not per-
NIT any land to be sold by private con-
tract within five miles of Hobart or
Launceston.
White pine, when green, weighs "a. g.
pounds to the cubic foot; when season.
ed. 1856.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-10-17
Good Appointment Made.

Gov. -VanSant has appointed Alva
Eastman, editor of the St. Cloud
Journal Press, as a member of the
normal school board to succeed W. B.
Mitchell, resigned.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-10-17
THE PALMER HOUSE OPENING.
Brilliant Social Event PartiCi.
pated in by 200 People.

Swallowed its future possibilities.
Henry Keller in response to The
Landlord" pictured out in char
acteristic style, which was was good,
the ideal landlord and landlady, and
was emphatic in his assertion that the
palmer house had both.
To Judge D B. Searle was assigned
the topic Franklin County. The re-
spouse was witty, eloquent and full of
good things. He paid an exalted tri-
cute to Sank Centre and western
Stearns, and spoke of the future posi-
bilities Of the country tributary to
Sank Centre-Franklin county. His
address was replete with matter sug-
gestive of serious thought, and he took
his seat amid a whirl of hearty
applause.
To Joseph D. F Calhoun was assign
ed The ladies' His address was
clearly the solid one of the evening
while there were no Oratorical flights.
vet his delineatiOns of the sphere OF
woman in the normal condition of so
ciety was superb. He paid an exalted
tribute to woman, and emphasized the
TACT that it is the good old-fashioned
woman, not the new one, who ever had
ind ever would exercise benefcent in
huence. IL was fine,
At the close of the addresses the din
ing room was closed, and the merry
iancers held the floor until a late
lOur.
All things considered the reception
was the most brilliant social event OF
he season, and Mr.. and Mrs. Palmer
aave reason to be proud Of it in its
very feature.
They won scores Of friends by their
.oriality and the city is satisfied mo-
only tina it has a model hotel, but tha'
1. is in model hands.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-10-17

Byron b. Carr left for Walker on
Tuesday to look after c. 81. McClure's
land interests.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1901-10-17

See Billy Bennett. ....
Miss Mildred Siminton will com
nence term of school at Englist
Grove on Monday next.
WANTED-A girl for general hous>
work. Apply to Mrs. W. V. Whipple
Commissioner Smith went to St
loud on Monday to attend meeting
Of the Board of County Commission
RS.
Cioaks and Furs! Reliable goods
and styles: You may find cheaper
goods elsewhere but you can not fin,
good goods anywhere as cheap as W.
sell them. Mel. Billed.
The ladies of Episcopal church will
hold rummage sale beginning October
"A. It will be hummer.
Get reserved seats for Billy Bennett
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-27
MAYOR HUGHES PIG PEN.

The discovery that a pen of pigs was
kept in Mayor Hughes coal yard is
only another example Of overlooking
the beam in thine own eye"
1t has been less than a month since
the edict was announced that the city
was to be thoroughly secured: that
every residence property in the city
was to be inspected in the search for
disease germs. Undoubtedly this ae-
ton had the sanction of Mayor
Hughes, and he probably entered into
the spirit of the reform with all the
enthusiasm of his military nature
Long before Mayor Hughes was a
citizen of Topeka the people of the
city were harassed by the foul odors
from their neighbors' pig sites, and the
city council and board of health
awakened and wiped out the city pig
pen There is nothing that is more
conducive to unsanitary conditions
than hogs in city. The city council
realized that fact when the sanitary
board was ordered to eradicate them
But Mayor Hughes sanitary men in
their search for unsanitary spots in the
city overlooked a pig pen in one OF the
thicl5ly settled portions of the city.
near the business center. The fact
that it was in Mayor Hughes coal
yard probably had something to do
with their bad eyesight. and inactive
olfactory organs, but that did not alter
the fact that it was there. And now
the people of the Second ward in that
vicinity demand that the sty and its
occupants shall be moved, and they
ought to be-
The city is no place for a. pig pen.
but Mayor Hughes should not be
blamed too strongly for the violation
Of the city health laws, for he has
been a citizen of Topeka only two
years, and perhaps is not entirely
familiar with the ways of big clean
place like Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-27
PRoTEcT TIE PUBLIC.

The bloody and fiendish acts of Mike
Kelly. at Leavenworth, in which an
innocent and respected citizen lost his
life and others We're badly hurt, indi-
Gates something radically wrong with
the manner in which insane persons
are cured at the Kansas insane
asylums-
According to the statements Of the
superintendent at Topeka, Kelly was
discharged from the asylum as cured.
and was sent among the people of
Leavenworth with certificate that he
was sound mentally. but with the
threat upon his tongue that he would
murder the people who were instru-
mental in sending him to. the asylum.
Kelly carried out his treat William
Thompson, ex-deputy warden of the
penitentiary. knew Kelly at Leaven-
worth. He says that Kelly was never
sane. and that every in Iaaven-
worth who knew him considered him a
lunatic, and a dangerous man. It
seems that the superintendent OF the
insane asylum stretched a point. maybe
several points, in discharging Kelly.
Perhaps he did it in order to make a
record for himself and his party as
running an institution that turns cut
a large grist of cures. The people
would prefer TO have less record and
less cures and feel safer from inmates
Of the institution turned loose on the
public The asylums are provided to
protect the public as wen as to care
for the insane.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-27
rAYHAWKER. TOrs

Weary Of paying damage suits Smith
Center viii have no more board walks.
Mrs. Nation broke into jail and then
into print The latter seemed unneces-
sary.
Mrs. Showers has reached Smith, Cen
ter-from Emporia, however. and not
the clouds.
Fort Scott is to build new Masonic
hall but the laying of the walls won t
be free masonry.
The highest insult in Topeka these
days is to ask a citizen how'd you like
to be the ice MANI"
A Jewell City man has shipped his
cattle to pasturage in the Red river
valleys of Canada.
The sole man in Phillfpsburg that
could cash a 500 draft for a travelling
man was a crap shooter.
The most fnquisitive of Chanute small
boys never browl around the vicinity of
the nitro glycerine magazine.
An ice and a milk wagon collideda at
Fort Scott and the small boys of the
neighborhood enjoyed ice cream.
The water in the Solomon is so low
that the fish can't hide and the boys
are scooping them out by the hundreds.
A Fort Scott man who still thinks
Kansas is a good place to live in sleeps
on the roof in an imDrovised hammock
cot.
How beautifully appropriate that the
Ct Leavenworth should be named
Dickens
A. dog went flying down the streets
of Newton recently with a tin can to
his tail Was this a case of rushing
the growler2'
The smallest Kansas baby reached
Concordia the other day. It weighed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-27
I.ErrER Is rHE IcE rRusr.

Ny Dear Old lee Trust:-I see by the
papers that you are getting q good grip
on Topeka Allow me to congratulate
you. for I recognize you as one OF my
relatives, though believe I have not
the pleasure Of a personal acquaint-
ance.
1t really does my old heart good to
see our family growing so rapidly in
size and strength. The bigger we get,
the faster we grow. Don't forget that,
my dear Topeka ice trust. You may
ind it necessary to be half way decent
to the people of your city for a few
months, and make them think that you
are willing to do whatever the public
demands. But before long you viii be
able to snap your fingers in the faces
Of the dear people. and politely tell the
city council to 20 to.
Who is this man Dfckey that You
have hired to serve as a doormate 1t is
really amusing to read the abuse the
papers heap on Dickey. when he is
nothing but a pay-envelope clerk Cor
yourself. I wonder if people think they
hurt the trust by bowling at Dickey 2
How does Dickey take it2 I suppose
you don't allow him to get q foolish
notion of sympathy into his head. do
you? Every time I find one of my hired
men getting sympathetic for the peO-
pie, drop him It's the only safe way.
Raise Diclzey's pay as often as may be
necessary to keep him, If he is the kind
of a slave you want, but don't let him
be afflicted BY this sympathy racket.
Take the advice of us old trusts. ana
don't let this antitrust legislation
bother you They have been passing
antitrust laws ever since [ was
youngster, and in the words of the
poet I can say, They never touched
me" The older you get, the less you
win fear antitrust legislation. 1t is
the most harmless thing in the world.
This business of raising prices is
rather a puzzling proposition, and has
to be handled judiciously 1 see that
you are going at it in the right way.
Freeze out the little fellows that have
been trying to compete with you, and
keep telling the people how you love
them. and how sorry you are to have
to make the small dealers pay more for
their ice. Then when you get your OPP
position out Of the way, it is dead easy
to get your own price from the people,
in spite OF their screams.
don't like to hear this talk about a
rival concern to be started there in
Topeka next year. Keep your eye on
such things, and try to explode the
project before it gets started
Money will smash anything. you
know, and you have always got more
money than the other fellow.
With Ixin1ast rac-or7e
THE COAL TRUST.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-27

21k pounds and could nicely wear its
sisters doll clothes.
Census returns show that there are
more men than women in this state.
This is one of the points of difference
between Kansas and heaven
The Coffeyville man who has return
ed from Washington state Where he
was in a snowstorm three dlmerenI
June days IS the envy of the town
A Mcpherson farmer passing up the
streets with a fresh green load of hay
was nearly mobbed in the mad rush to
secure it by q gang of town people
Wamego citizens do not claim that
the eighty-seven drops of rain that Tell
there this week viii save the corn crop
but they think the sweet potatoes VIII
pull through
The enhancing strains of the Cnllocco
Indian band caused the street car mules
at Arkansas city to run away the otner
day, the first time they have moved
out of a walk since the line was estao-
lished.
A Lawrence man who has been mar
ried several times advertised for wire
No. A. She came with five children ana
several unpaid bills. This was two
months ago Today the honeymoon IS
ended and the divorce mill IS grinding
Rain fell at Strong City, and Cotton
wood Falls mile away never got a
drop. 1t would now take an 1ron-clad
argument to make the county seat peo-
pie believe that the rain falls aioke on
the just and the unjust.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-27
GLoBE SIGHTS
IFrom the Atchison Globe.l

IF'rom the Atchison Globe.1
1t is surprising how many people
call it "overhet."
This is the worst ever, with few
shovels full thrown in
How we all hate to listen to the per
son who talks like a book!
You wouldn't think there was
enough cold now to catch, but Drake
Watson managed to catch one
There is another case in town where
friends of both parties are blaming
themselves for their lack of nerve TO
cry Whoa.
Water is becoming so scarce that
people are advised not to become con-
verified to the Baptist faith until there
has been a rain.
You are always hearing Of people
who don't know enough to get in out
of the wet This town will be fun OF
that kind of people If it ever rains.
You are a thin old thing" man
said to a woman this morning, and
have no right to grumble about the
heat. I am fat, and have a right
Don't kiss the babies. If you really
think they need affection, put their
cheeks up against a hot tea KETTLE, and
the effect win be the same, and easier
on you.
Fasten the hose to the hydrant, and
prop it up several feet in the air Sit
on a chair under this, and you can al
most recally the good old days when it
rained-
An Atchison county farmer says he
pulled a lot of pursley lately, and that
it remained green six weeks, lying on
top of a plank. How the weeds thrive
in spite of dry weather.
You viii hear Of q good many men
''resigning'' their jobs: every surplus
man Will be cut off, owing to the hard
times. The poorest men viii go first.
How are you doing your work?
The martyrs crown the women wear
because Of the corset, should be double
turreted; they also wear a hustle, made
of a pad of heavy goods, and worn to
keep the small Of the back warm.
When someone repeats to you some
think mean. that has been said about
you, don't fiatter yourself it is done for
love of you. The real reason for re-
peating it is to injure the person who
made the remark.
1t is told Of an Atchison woman who
left her husband. that she took all the
household furniture with her, the pic
ture mouIdings from the walls and the
woodshed, leaving him nothing but the
children.
to her family that she has left off an
other garment on account of the heat.
but she continues to look the same. For
heavens sake, how many things does a
woman wear, anyhow?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-27
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
from the Chicago News.l


Sometimes a man gains by losing.
Laughter is the sunny side of a mans
existence.
You can always tell the shortcake by
its strawberry mark.
It's easy for the man who suffers no
pain to talk of patience.
Occasions do not make a man; they
only show what there is in him.
You can't reason a man out of any
thing he hasn't been reasoned into.
Adam wasn't famous as a sprinter,
yet he was first in the human race.
It sometimes happens that a wo-
mans hair is a bit of fiction founded
on fact
A Chinese philosopher says there Is
an ounce of wisdom at the root of
every gray hair.
The imprudent man reflects on what
he has said, and the prudent man on
what he is going to say.
The man who boasts of being able to
spell every word correctly may not be
much good at anything else.
What a mother lacks in skill she
makes up in enthusiasm when she at
tempts to cut ner boys hair
Figures may not lie, but there is al
ways more or less doubt about the
veracity of the figures on a gas meter.
At the age Of 16 a girl imagines the
average man is all soul. but at the age
Of 80 she knows he is mostly stomach
When a boy begins to wash his face
without being told he is passing
through the ordeal of his first love
affair."
1t is far more heroic to suffer great
misfortunes in silence than it is to ac-
complish great things to bass drum
accompaniment.
I'D die for you'll the lover cried
She shook her dainty head
why cannot you the maid replied,
Just live for me, instead2"
An Irishman, in speaking of an ac-
quaintance, said he was condemned to
be hanged, but saved his life by dying
the day before he was executed
A West side business man is 50 scru-
pulously exact in all his transactions
that every time he pays a visit he in
sists upon taking a receipt for it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-27
KANSAS SPIRIT OF PROGRESS.

The indomitable spirit of courage that
prevails in Kansas is aptly shown by
the citizens Of Cnfton,a town ofless than
1000 inhabitants in Washington county.
Right in the face of the drouth when
money may naturally be expected to
become shy Of investment for some
time the citizens are going to bond
themselves to build waterworls.
The council has decided the fire pro-
lection of the town is inadequate and
that IS sufficient. There is no thought
Of the cost. Every man viii place his
shoulder to the wheel and push the
good work along. Besides the taxpay-
ers remember that the city is free from
debt with $1,000 in the treasury
1t is such a spirit as this that pre-
walls al over Kansas. That has made
the desert blossom as rose and re-
deemed the land from the prairie dog,
and the gopher. Surely the spirit OF
progress has been granted to Kansas
people in a greater measure than on
the surface would seem. Crasshoppe1
raids and droUths are looked upon as a
mysterious visitation; a sort of a hum
bic Christening rod. TO tone down our
lives when prosperity becomes so vast
that the enthusiasm becomes effer-
yescent. kansas laughs at the drouth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-27
ouAKER REFLEor1oNs.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Even a train of thought may be be-
hind time.
In the eyes of the lawyer all suits are
suitable.
Some people seem to think it's a vir-
tue to do nothing
The most difficult thing for some peo-
pie to remen Der is the poor.
No Maude. dear; ear muffs do not
count as errors in q ball game
When a poet writes a sonnet to his
lady love, should she be ayerse to
him2
The fellow who doesn't have to be in
the sun has a shade the better of it.
Wigg-'9e is a stocking manufae-
turer'' Wagg-.sThe man with the
hose. eh?''
Just because a man is a clockmaker
it doesn't follow that he would make
a good Waterman.
This must be a cold wave" re-
the bartender tagged him.
Blobbs-'.What did you do to the
painless dentist when he broke your
Jaw 81 Slobbs-'I threw him out of a
paneless window
Hoax-.'Poor Sandy Mcpherson died
of grief" Joax-'.Why, I thought ne
took carbolic acid Hoax-'So he did,
but he thought it was Scotch whisky.
Said the waiter with the ripple
OF a smile upon his lips:
ITS the man that takes his tipple
Who is generous with his tips"
Hungry Hawkins onct answered
a want ad" Tatterdon Torn-'seswan!
Wot was de 5ob2'' Hungry Hawkins
1T was all a mistake A printer ad-
yertised fer a good feeder"
The summer girls a tickle Jade:
Beware the one you court.
She doesn't keep q lover long;
She jilts him when he's short
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-27
REFLEoTIoNs OF A BACHELOR

TFrom the New York Press.1
Man stands between the devil and
the deep sea or between one of them
and woman.
Once in a long while some man does
a good deed without thinking how the
public win applaud him.
The devil laughs out loud every time
he sees some old fellow edging over
toward religion because some young
woman wants him to-
A pair of low shoes and pretty n
kles in open-work stockings win carry
a girl several thousand miles further in
to a mans esteem than all the brains
she can borrow from somebody else.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-27

(From Francis Wilson's opera ''Ermine"
and made over to suit the situation IN
Iopeka-l


(Tune-NVhat the Dickey Birds Say.)
L m not a free agent like many of you,
There's them that looks after my fate
1 ask the high chieftain If you shall have
Ice
And have It laid down at your gate.
When want to leave ice at your house
in the morn
Tor use through the hot summer day,
have to ask Lyle just what I shall do,
And see what the DlcSey birds say
No no. no, no in a believing tone,
No no, no, no this ice is my own
They can't be cool without double pay
I m after their dollars, don't care for
their health.
And that's what the Diclzey birds say
Brought before his 5udgeship. trial to
I'm sure he's in dreadful state;
Ought to then be sentenced TO a warmer
He surely deserving the fate.
Says he's got the freezers, the ice is all
And people can take if they pay
He'll take his trust with him yet out Of
Ana that's what the Dicley birds say.
No. no. no, no in a believing tone,
No no no, no this ice is my own.
They can't be cool without double pay.
I'm after their dollars, don care Tor
their health.
And that's what the Diclxey birds say.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-27
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
nzUay during the Summer may haze
HE paper mailed regularly each day
10 any address at the rate Of thirty
cents n month ADDRESS changed as
often as desired. TJ7HfIe ont Of t0zCgf
The State journal zCf1 be to JOzt like q
daf7y letter from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-27

Heat stories are beginning to eclipse
the old-time grasshopper stories. At
one place Il fire was started in a show
window by the sun. resulting in the
destruction of the property. At an
other point a mans umbrella while he
held it in his nand was ignited by the
srIas- l-..a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-27

The superintendent Of two western
bureaus of charity have announced
that they believe the unusual amount
Of desertion OF families by husbands
is caused by abominable cooking by
wives. Why don't these husbands try
hiring a professional cook, as a
remedy?