The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1907-02-07
st. Paul, Mimi, Feb. 1907.
GREETING

Dear Editor-In a sunny committee
room in the big house built of Georgia
tombstone material, take my pen in
hand to inform you that l am suffer
ing from grip, rheumatic, pneumonia,
loss of appetite-satisfying material.
and a mild attack of varioloid, and
hope these few lines will find you en-
ioying the some great blessings.
NOTHING DOING
note what you say in regard to the
scarcity of news in my last letter.
Can woman spank baby if she
hasn't baby to spank? Can a man
write news when there is no news to
write?
On Jan. LIST, 1906, l bought my
grandson a diary, promised him a
bicycle if he would each day make a
note of something that actually hap
pened. On December 31st he brought
the book to me, and what do you
think the rascally cub had done? He
had bought rubber stamp like this:
Got up
Had breakfast
Eft dinner .
Swalered supper .
Went to bed .
and had stamped this under every
date in the hook.
/ give below correct transcript OF
the Legislative poceedings since my
lat letter:
-. -. .ss. -. .-..%. -. .S-. =
= Thursday, Jan. 3l--Met, introduced
bills, spouted, adjourned.
Friday-Ditto, ditto.
Saturday-Ditto, ditto, until Tues.
day {.
Tuesday-DittO, ditto. &.
Wednesday ditto. {.
However, the time has not been
wasted. There must be a lot of work
done in committees before the real
legislative work begins. This work
is being done There seems to be a
commendable desire on the part Of
the legislator to do something. They
don't know, as yet, just what they
want to do or how to do it, but every
man wants to make record, and
when the Legislature fairly swings into
its stride there will be fireworks to
burn.
STILL GovERNoRlNG
Governor Johnson is still governing
all right. 1t even comes easier for
him to do the imitation statesman act
than it did two years ago. When he
is unavoidably absent Frank Day
does the governing stunt, and does it
we'll. Frank hopes to get permanent
job managing the state house Maybe
he will. Worse things have happened,
but not often.
Governor Johnson is very busy just
now preparing his annual message to
the state Editorial association which
meets Feb. 14-15. l. is not expected
that the attendance at this association
will be as large as in former years,
because the extraordinarily heavy
snow fall has made the walking bad.
There are five or six things in the
realm of thought that Governor John
son forgot to mention in his message
to the legislature, and it is expected
he will elucidate them to the editors.
1t is even rumored that the governor
has discovered some new evils in our
body polite. He is genius IN that
line He has discovered more evils
and cured fewer than any governor we
ever had. The statement has been
made that John A. would rather talk
to editors than Legislators. So would
most anybody.
ELECTION CONTESTS
The Senate and House have each
RECENTLY settled an election contest.
Much testimony was introduced and
many eloquent speeches we're made
pro. and con. No one listened to the
evidence, paid any attention to the
addresses, or made any effort to find
our who was in the right. The re-
publicans shut their eyes and opened
their mouths and voted for the re-
publican and the democrats voted for
the democrat without even taking the