The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1908-04-09
ADDITIONAL LOCALS


home this week from Mt. Clemens,
Mich, where she placed her daughter
Mrs. X. B. Allison in a sanitarium.
A telegram received Wednesday stated
that Mrs. Caughren would start home
soon.
1t is given out that the village of
Sebaka mas been made a divisionf
point on the Great Northern branch
line running north from Sank Centre.
Park Rapids has been the division
point but Sebaka is said to be more
convenient. The Great Northern will
lay side track and put in a round
house at Sebaka at once.
Dress shirts in all styles and
shades, SOC to $3.50. M. Nathe.
Street Commissioner Joe Miller was
out with force OF men Monday clean
ing the cutters of tn cir winters &C.
cum ulation of filth. Good progress
was made. During the night the
weather, which for several days had
been mild and springlike, grew much
colder and there was hard freeze,
operations had to be suspended tenn
porarily.
A. Scrivener OF this city has receiv-
ed word Of the death, at Lewes, Eng
land, Of his brother Henry Ambrose
Scrivener. The deceased joined the
English army at the age of seventeen
and gradually rose until he became
paymaster. At the age of IS lie was
paroled on half pay. Mr.. Scrivener
visited his brother here twenty years
ago. A number OF the old timers
doubtless remember him.
Monday mornings mail brought
letter from Mrs. E. B. Oakford of Tul-
are, Cal, former resident of Sank
Centre enclosing three dollars for tw o
years subscription to The Herald. Mrs.
Oakford writes that though her family
have been in California for a good
many years yet they still call Mimi
esota 0their home and are always glad
to welcome The Herald as weekly
visitor.
Nick Roerig through his attorney l..
l.. Barto has appealed to the district
court from decision rendered in the
municipal court of this city recently,
in an action in which the St. Paul's
Catholic church Of this city, was plain.
| tiff and in which Mr., Roerig was sued
for the amount of 500 and costs,
amounting in all to $114.25.
Mrs. Mary Manning died in Seattle,
Wash, April z, aged SO, Mrs. Mann
ing went to the coast last summer for
her health, she having been sick for
nearly a year. She was we'll known
in this part OF the country, having
lived in English Grove for forty years.
Her husband died two years ago last
June. She leaves three sons and four
daug hters. Her son Henry will bring
the remains back. They will probab-
ly arrive in Osakis next Sunday noon.
The time of the funeral cannot be
announced until they arrive. Mrs.
Manning was an earnest christian
woman and had many friends and
acquaintance hereabouts.
| j. A. Norris, agent at the Great
Northern station here, hah a narrow
escape from humiliation Saturday.
A number of large trunks stood on
the station platform near to the men S
waiting room. Between these trunks
and the edge of the platform stood a
truck with some trunks on it. Pas
senger:train..No.Il1 was backing down
and MIR. Norris, seeing that there was
but little room between the truck and
the edge OF the platform to permit
passengers to alight, thought to move
the truck. Just then the train struck
the truck, and: pushed it along the
edge Of the platform, demolishing it
and breaking open two OF the trunks
ION it. Mr.. Norris was thrown to the
platform and pushed and rolled along
some twenty feet before the train was
stopped. He was shaken up, his
right arm bruised and skinned in
places and a big lump raised on his
right leg. Fortunately he remained
on the platform. Had he been thrown
to the track he would probaly have
fallen under the wheels and been bad