The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-02-20

The MelrOse high school basket ball
team beat the Little Falls high school
team on Saturday, by a core Of 70 to
g..
A freight wreck near Avon last week
delayed traffic several hours. Three
car loads of potatoes were in the
ditch.
The saloon and public hall owned
by Valentine Herman at Holdingford
was burned last week. Loss, 50. 800;
insurance, 81, 100.
Bids have been received for a large
assembly hall to be added to the state
Normal scdool building at st. Cloud,
at an estimated cost of $50, 600.
Farmers r holding mass meetings
in some of the towns in the eastern
part of the county to discuss the pend
ing tax law. Public sentiment is
against the law as reported by the
commission.
The st. Cloud and Fergus Falls high
schools will OF March 7, publicly de-
bate the question: RESOLVED that cap
ital punishment should be abolished u
The debate will be held at Fergus
Falls, ST. Cloud taking the afirma-
tive.
Chris. Block, a Fair Haven farmer,
has purchased 1,600 acres of land in
the Edmonton district of Alberta,
Northwest Territory, Canada, for
S2.75 IN acre. He recently sold his
farm of 240 acres for SIS, 100.
The friends of H. G. Waite of st.
Cloud, who has been i'll several weeks
with rheumatism, will be glad to learn
that he is able to go up town, making
the trip with the aid of a crutch
Mrs. Gertrude Meyer of Albany, has
sold her homestead in section 2, Zion
township, to Mrs. Maggie Meyer OF
Albany and c. w. Meyer of Hastings
for S., 900. The farm contains 100
acres and is one of the best in Stearns
county.
D. 81. Freeman of St. Cloud, last
week shipped six cars. of fat sheep
from his Eastside farm to Chicago.
WE. Freeman had charge of the ami
mails which were so fat that the two
mile drive from the farm nearly ex-
hausted them.
Mr.. Zapp, in looking oyer the tax
book found the Drake quarry in ST.
Cloud township assessed last year for
$50. The original purchase price OF
this quarry was 81, 600 and the owners
two years ago refused an offer of &c.,
600 for the property by two St. Cloud
business men.
Sheriff Schilplin on Friday took
VIM. Walkly from Great Northern
train No. 2. He is wanted at Walker
for the theft of a gold watch and chain
and a gray suit of clothes. The prop
erty stolen was found on his person.
He is 10 years of age and says he a
wcodsman.
Several days ago a young man ap-
peared in the Office of Clerk OF Court
Mueller and asked for aImarriage Ii
cense. He gave his age as % years
and of the girl as 10. The couple were
married and now it is stated that he is
IL and the bride a little less than Is.
They will make their home in this
county.
John w. Bayles, of Melrose, has be-
gun ar action for divorce against his
wife, Minnie Bayles. The husband
says he and his wife r of n age, q
years. and that they wer married on
May II, 1895. His wife deserted him
in November Of the same year and has
since refused to reside with him. He
asks for an absolute divorce.
Some time ago Jacob Hartman com.
menced an action for divorce from his
wife, Sarah Hartman, claiming tina,
she had deserted him. The wife has
made answer to the complaint. She
says that she did not desert him blu,
that he deserted her, and asks tha-
he be denied a divorce and that it b.
granted to her.
T. J. Anderson, the Belgrade mer
chant, farmer, etc., vas a Glenwooi
visitor one day this week. His specia
mission appeared to be the looking
oyer OF that section of the country
with the view Of organizing a mer
chants or independent telephone com
pany, to enter into competition will
the Minnesota Central, which corpor
alton he seemed to think is not doing
exactly the square and proper thing
by It's stockholders in the towns Of this
section.
G. G.. Graves, thescommission man,
has purchased OF T. A. Nelson Of Ca
BILE, one of the finest Aberdesn-Anguf
bulls ever brought into the country
The animal weighs 1000 pounds and
has a record as q desirable sire. Mr.,
Ovavoo ufll INIT fha animal On hic 6ne