The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-03-05
A PLEASANT LETTER.
How 1t ImpresSes a Recent
Resident of the City.

Editor HERALD:
1 noted a paragraph of two OF
three lines in the Minneapolis
Journal the other evening, that
warmed my heart, the realization of
a hope deferred.
cannot refrain from offering my
congratulations to Sank Centre in
view of the great favor granted it
in the gift Of the "Carnegie Ii
brary building" When l saw that
the grant had been made to Alexan-
dria l could not see in what reason
it could longer be denied to Sank
Centre, situated as it is at almost
the geographical centre of the state
from east to west, in midst of a
large surrounding rural population
and being as important a town as
any we have in that region of north
ern Minnesota.
l have been too long resident
there not to be interested in what
concerns it for good.
If the library building, which of
course will be thing of stateliness
and architectural beauty, shall now
be located on or near the corner Of
Main and Fifth-st. it will be an ad
junct to the public school and per-
haps can be parked in with it and
with beautifully laid out grounds.
In such a case it will not only be
the pride of the town but will help
to make the educational feature
more and more prominent as a CEN
ter of interest in the best life of the
city.
With the new high school build
ing which will become a necessity
in the near future, located where it
is, taken into the same group Of
buildings you would have an almost
ideal arrangement. And it seems
to me it would be a wise and states
man-like thing fer the council and
board to anticipate this possibility
and secure a lot with that idea in
view now while it may be had.
Future generations will rise up to
call them blessed.
Sank Centre is favorably situated,
as l have always believed, to be an
educational center. 1t is at the
juncture of what are practically
three lines of railway; moreover the
slow growth of the town will come
largely from well to do people com
ing in and buying their homes witt
view to the education of then
children. Exceptionally fine schoo
privileges will be an attraction. L
small, quiet city in midst of rura
population is many ways preferabl,
as school of primary education, t.
a thronged city where the pupil
comes in contact with a more COM
pick life.
l now bespeak for Sauk Ceutre, if
not yet a normal, at least fine nor
NAL department.
The school bonds are eventually
to be paid off and there will be
room for this larger development.
Then you will have there kind of
New England city, clean and attract
i've, the schools to the front, and
bright young men and women going
out into the larger world to repre-
sent you and "bring your fame
abroad"
The churches and the schools and
the libraries (as the conservators o.
learning) in all the land are efflo
rescence of American civilization.
They aim at spiritual results. They
represent the moral and intellectual
ideals that we live by in any worthy
life. And money and sacrifice pus
into them is well spent, whether We
realize the Immediate results or not
AS time lapses, widening more
and more the distance between the
present and the time when I was
counted with you as a citizen, I SCI
you more as in the prospective.
Your little city is idealized before
me; see it in it's best features with
all else eliminated as unworthy OF
recollection.
I think of it's pretty lake, of its
beautiful park; it's fine walks, an
electric lights. I expect to sdd
some touches to this picture. &c
here and there variety of beauti. al
churches, protestant and Catholic ,
dwelling together in harmony. 4
stately building of pressed brick OIL
the corner of Main and Fifth; with
a large fine auditorium; refreshing
water in abundance from living
springs, flowing by force of gravity
from Birch or FairyIlake. A long,
beautiful shaded avenue, the pride
of the city, leading away to the