The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1907-07-04
.SAUk CENTRE
in THE field
Wants the Girls Industrial School
Located Here
WORKING HARD FOR IT
This City Is Prepared To Offer the
Best Site In the State AppIi-
cation Already In

Sank Centre is candidate for the
location of the Girls Industrial
School provided for by the last
legislature.
A formal application has already
been filed with the Board of Control
and everything will be done that can
honorably be done to secure favorable
action on the part OF that body.
1t will be remembered that Red
Wing made hard fight to have the
girls school retained at that point.
The Goodhue county town lost out,
however, and the law passed pro-
viding that the institution should be
located in some other town.
In accordance with the terms of the
bill the school may be located in any
county in the state. The bill pro-
vides that suitable site of 100 acres
be provided and that the location of
the school shall be placed in the
hands of the Board of Control.
Some weeks ago the movement
started to secure the prize for Sank
Centre. At a meeting of the Com
mercial Club the matter was dis
cussed at length and it was unani-
mously voted to get into the field.
The president Of the club appointed
committee consisting of DR.. j. A.
Dubois, Hon. j. r. Howard, M. L.
Webb and A. NJ. Welles to take the
matter in charge and at the proper
time to lay the whole subject before
the Board of,Control. This committee
began work. at once and while other
towns we're hunting with brass bands
for the same prize, Sank Centre was
quietly but effectively working to
bring the school here.
Within the last ten days DR.. Dubois
hled written application with the
Board OF Control stating that Sank
Centre is an applicant. The board
will visit all the towns seeking the
honor of being selected as the one in
which the school shall be built. They
will, it is believed, visit Sank Centre
about the middle of the present
month.
Sank Centre has many advantages
as location for the institution. 1t
has excellent railroad facilities, is at
convenient distance from the points to
be reached by the institution and when
it comes to a site other towns
will have to "go some" to beat
it.
The site the committee has in mind
is at the north end of Main street on
the banks of Sank Lake. The city
owns some land fronting on the lake
in that vicinity and it is known that
enough more may be secured to make
the site sufficiently large to accommo-
date the needs OF the school. 1t is far
enough from the city to enable the
inmates to enjoy country life.
The water supply is excellent and
the city will, it is believed, extend its
own sewer system to connect with the
sewer from the proposed institution.
The land lies high and dry and
possesses all the requisites for suit
able site for such an institution.
The committee has received much
encouragement from the citizens of
Sank Centre in their work and believes
that everv man, woman and child will
do all they can to help it along.
The committee has assurances that
this matter will be decided wholly
upon its merits and not on account of
some political pull" This being
the case there is no earthly reason
why Sank Centre should not land the
prize.