The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-04-27
MAKES A BIG TIT
Gee R. Borgmaaa Plays Hest to
Several Hundred Farmers s
has SPRING OPENING
Well KNOWN and Popslar MaChiassy
Dealer fntertains the Public
in Great Style

Geo. r. Rorgmann had a spring
opening Saturday.
He had on exhibition at his ware
house on Main street the latest
| spring styles in plows, cultivatOrs,
| separators, feed mills, carriages. bug
gies, gasoline engines and farm ma
chinery generally AS trimming for
| this goodly display Mr.. Bergman fur
nished sauer kraut. wiener wurst,
| fre bread made of Gem -four, pick
els and coffee. The trimmings"
were served on the second floor of
| the warehouse by that experienced
caterer, Geo. O'Gara, the smiling ard
good-natured alderman from the Sec
ond ward, assisted by II. G. Borg
mann and several others experienced
| in that line.
As efficient lieutenants and body
guards Nh Bergman had Oh hand
W. A. Mcgowan and VIM. Thomas of
the Deere-Weber Company; W. c.
Thompson and H. r. Halverson Of
the De Laval Separator Co.; M.
Could, general manager, JOS Baker,
blockman and A W. Goodrich of the
Acme Harvester Co.; and Geo. Tom
pers of the NJ Rumely Thresher Co.
What got away from this able and
efficient corps wasn't worth mention
ing
There was something doing everyy
minute Ii you have any doubts on.
that score YOU should have been pres
ent and they would have soon been
completely dispelled.
Mr. Borgmann. fully approaching
the value of printers ink. had taken
The Herald into his confidence and
through the medium of a four column
advertisement and large number of
posters printed therefrom, had told
everybody within a radius of a good
many miles of Sank Centre what wei
going ITO happen Saturday ResuIa.
something like four hundred farm
ers, their wives, daughters and sons,
visited Sank Centre Saturday and
headquarters They had busy day
of it By they" is meant. not only
Mr. Borgmann and his efficient corps
of lieutenants. but the farmers and
their families. The former had their
hands full and so did the latter, who
also had their mouths full about the
noon hour when lunch was served.
1t was a jolly, good natured crowd
that thronged the BorgmaDn place of
business. The visitors to town touch
ed elbows, exchanged ideas and eX-
periences, looked at Mr.. Borgmann's
stock of goods, ate his luncheon,
made purchases and went home hap
Ply and singing the praises Of their
host
That Mr.. Bergman had good
day in the way of business is wit
messed by the fact that his books
show that he sold goods to the
amount of s3,3G5.OO between sun-up
and shutdown Saturday. This in
cludes a thresher sale.
AS special inducements to those
who came to town to trade with him
MIR. H0rguarn offered three prizes,
these to go to the three farmers who
made the three largest purchases dur
ing the day. An accurate record was
kept and tickets issued. The prize
winners were as follows:
First prize, II inch Deere Walking
Piow. value $500, Fred Kubicek,
winner: second prize, Minute
Washing Machine, value $1,000, win
ner. Frank Unger; third prize, Deere
1--WE shove. cultivator, winner. Eu-
gene Taylor
S. T. Merryman, manager of the
Central Minnesota Power & Milling
Company, furnished three barrels of
bread baked by seven Sank Centre
housewives from Gem" -four. The
bread was fine, snowy white and
made hit with the many who lunch
ed on the second floor of the Borg.
mann warehouse
AS if the entertainment furnished
by Mr. Bergman was not enough to.
make life one glad, sweet song for
the hundreds of visitors to Sank
Centre Saturday, U. S. Senator Moses
e. Clapp contributed materially to
the festivity of the occasion. On
train No. IL on the Great Northern
road at 1:10 p. m. came large mail
sack filled with vegetable seeds from
the Agricultural Department at
Washington. These seeds were sent
to the publisher of The Herald with
a request from Senator Clapp that
they be given free distribution. Mr..
Borgmann was at once informed of
1.-THE fact and the sack was thereupon
taken to his warehouse and the con-
tents distributed among farmers and