The Sauk Centre herald., 1908-03-05
tions.- Eagle Gazette.

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Sauk CT carries off the prize
for the girls industrial school The
site selected fully complies with all
requirements, is a beautiful tract of
land commanding view of the lake
and is well situated as to railway
facilities. Sank Centre is to be con-
graduated. The removal of this in
stitution from Red Wing brings to a
close long struggle fight in which
the women off Minnesota were most
directly interested. Their argument
for a complete separation from the
boys industrial school at Red Wing
has finally won. The merits of that
argument will be determined by the
future conduct of the school and the
results accomplished.-Al Post
News.
| One member of the state board of
control, S. w. Leavett, voted to locate
the girls training school at Cam
bridge, but Messrs. Rosing and Ring
dahl favored Sank Centre and that
town gets the nstitution.-Princeton
/ Union.
The board of fcontrol met last week
and selected Sauk Centre as the loca-
ton for the new state training school
for girls. Litchfield, therefore, with
the twenty or thirty other towns
that thought they were i'll it, can now
figure UP how much wind and time
they wasted. When the legislature
passed the bill leaving the location
| to the board of control it was thought
| that would take it entirely cut OF poi
itics, but mark the result. steafns
| county, that now has two Of the most
| important state institutions-the nor
! NAL school and ieformatory at St
| Cloud--now gels the third one at Sauk
Centre. for the obvious reason thaL
Stearns is the banner democratic coun
ty in the state and that this state
t,happens to be afflicted with a demo-
cratic administration. We cal at
lteritIon to TINS fact 10 snow ailal
chumps the Overwhelmingly repubii-
can legislators made themselves by
thus Gelegating a power which they
had in their own hands. No blame
can attach to Stearns county for TAX
ing advantage of the situation, and
securing the plum if they could, and
the Ledger congratulates the adJoin-
ing neighbors on the north on their
exceedingly good fortune at the hands
Of the state.-Litchfield News Ledger.
Some criticism has been made on
the action of the board of locating
the school at Sank Centre, on the
ground that Stearns county already
has two institutions, namely the nor
nal school and the reformatory. The
fact is that the reformatory is in Sher,
burne county, three miles below st,
Cloud. While the normal school and
the new girls training school are
both in Stearns county, yet the dis
tance between the two is greater than
the distance between many other cities
that have state institutions.
/ st. Paul has the capital; Minneapo-
lis the university; AnOka, Hastings
st. Peter and Rochester, hospitals for
the insane; Faribault, schools for. the
deaf and dumb, blind, and feeble
minded; Owatonna the schools for In
digent children; Winona, Mankato ant
st. Cloud have normal schools; Still
! water has the penitentiary; the re-
formatory is three miles below st
Cloud in Sherburne county; Red Wing
has the boys training school; Lake
City the state militia encampment.
! It is but ten miles from Minneapo.
4 lis to st. Paul; st. Paul to Hastings
l1S miles; Hastings to Red Wing, x
miles; Red Wing to Lake City, 1;
miles; Lake City to Winona, 40 miles;
Winona to Rochester, 40 miles; Ro
chester to Owatonna, 40 miles; Owa
tonna to Mankato, 40 miles; Mankatt
!, to st. Peter, IL miles; Owatonna tt
Faribault. 16 miles; st. Paul to Still
, water, 20 miles; Saltwater to Anoka
|s0 miles; Minneapolis to Anoka, Il
miles: saltwater to Hastings, 2.