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


Sauk c. carries off the prize
for the girls industrial school The
site selected fully complies with al
requirements, is a beautiful tract OF
land commanding a view of the lake
and is we'll situated as to railway
facilities. Sauk Centre is to be con-
graduated. The removal of this in
stitution from Red Wing brings to a
close long struggle-a fight in which
the women off Minnesota were most
directly interested. Their argument
for 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 accomplishment 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 gels tie tltu,ion.-Pnnceton
Union
The board of fcontroi met last week
and selected Sauk Centre as the loca-
ton for the new state training school
for girls. Lltchfield, Therefore, with
the twenty or thirty other towns
that thought they were Ill It, can now
figure up how much wind and time
they wasted When the legislature
passed the bin leaving the location
to the board of control il was thought
thai would take il entirely cut Of poi
itIcs, but mark the result. Stearns
county, that now has two Of the most
important state nstitutions-tle nor
NAL school and iefoIma'oly at st,
Cloud-now gels tie tbird one at Sauk
Centre, for rne obvious reason tDal
StearUs IS the banner democratic coun
tv in the state and that this state
happens to be afflicted with IA demo
cratic administration. We cali at
temtIun to TINS f@cl 10 snow Ana.
champs TIC overwhelmingly republ'-
can Legislators made themselves by
thus GelegatiLg d power which they
mad in their own hands No blame
can attach to Stearns county for taxi
ing advantage of the situation, and
securing the plum If they could, and
Tie Ledger congratula'es the adjoln-
ing neishbors on the north on tner
exceedingly good fortune at the hands
Of the state-Lltchiield News Ledger.
Some criticism has been made on
the action of the board of locating
the school at Sauk Centre, on the
ground that Stearns county already
has two institutions, namely the nor
mai school and the refOfmatory. Tire
fact is Jhat The lefoImatoIy is IN Sher.
burne county, thtee miles below ST.
Cloud. While tie normal schoo! 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 and
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-
lis to St. Paul; st. Paul to Hastings,
Is miles; Hastings to Red Wing, 20
miles; Red Wing to Lake City, 10
miles; Lake City to Winona, 40 miles;
Winona to Rochester, 40 miles; Ro-
chester to Owatonna, 40 miles; Owa-
tonna to Mankato, 40 miles; MankatO
to st. Peter, IL miles; Owatonna to
Faribault, 16 miles; St. Paul to Still
water, 20 miles; Saltwater to Anoka,
80 miles; Minneapolis to Anoka. IS
miles; Saltwater to Hastings, %