The Sauk Centre herald., 1912-08-01
HOME HAPPENINGS

The city council this week finished
its work as board of equalization.
The best lightning rod Is t h 9
Dodd & Struthers. G. Hillerud &
Co. sell it. Buy of them and keep
the money at home.
The city council will hold its regu-
lar August meeting next Wednesday
evening.
Never mind what kind Of bait
you have, If you use our tackle
you can't help catching fish. G.
Hillerud & Co.
The Ladies of the Episcopal church
will give supper at the residence of
T. w. Mann, Thursday, August s,
from to 8.
The members OF, the Baptist church
are enjoying their annual picnic at
Fairy Lake today.
Drink Or. Shoup's Health Coffee
one and q half pounds for 25eents.
For Sale at the Golden Rule
Store. ){tf
Rev. P. ]. Larson will spea.il, On the
subject ''Is the Bible the Word of
Goa,' at the Baptist church Sunday
morning.
Watch our 5 and 10 cent counters
for bargaius. Golden Rule Store.
At a business meeting, held last
week, the people of h Baptist
church, voted to have the ordination
of Rev. Peter M. Larson as pastor of
the church held in August.
Swift's picnic hams, l3 cts pound.
Golden Rule Store.
Mrs. Robt. McCracken died at her
home in this city at 1910 p. m. Mon
day. Funeral services were held
from her late residence on Birch
street at 2 O'Clock Wednesday after
noon. The officiating clergyman was
Rev. r. " Duel. Interment was in
Greenwood cemetery.
Swift's bacon, Is cts pound. Gold
esl Rule Store.
Crop conditions are unusally tiue in
this vicinity where last year nothing
resulted and the year before only a
small crop on account of extreme dry
weather. Rye threshing is in pro-
gress, the yeild running all the way
up from 80 to 48 bushels to the acre.
Other grains are correspondingly
promising.
Swift's Silver Leaf Lard, 13 cts. a
pound at the Golden Rule Store.
N. j. Willard of Kirkhoven, Minn.,
came here Saturday evening and
closed a deal for the old Thomason
farm east of town, from Mr.. Barr.
Mr.. Willard is a practical dairyman
and will bring here in the neighbor-
hood of twenty cows and rnn a
d airy farm. Mr.. Willard began
right here by purchasing a season
ticket for the Stearns courty fair.
He expects to move on to his farm
about the first of November.
You can't afford to use any kind
Of fishing tackle but the best.
That's the kind we sell; 1t never
falls to land the fish. g. Hiilerud
& Co.
Surprise Boxes In Shark Stomachs.
Fishermen In the Caribbean sea re-
Gently 'ound in the stomach of a shark
which they had killed a good sized
bottle In which was a half-decipher-
able letter from a shipwrecked sailor.
Many such relics have been found. In
one case a lady's bracelet was found
In state of perfect preservation, to- :
gether with silver spoon and thou
sand Spanish reals in money. The
curious feature of the finding of the
money was that 1t was in an official
receptacle lost in the city of Spanish
Town (Jamaica) during q negro upris-
Ing in the seventeenth century. Where
had it been meantime? Surely not in
the sharks stomach, unless the shark
lives much longer time Cor some of
them) than science has any reason to
suppose possible. On the other hand,
II In the sea It would have been rem
dered unrecognizable in a few weeks
Had 1t been in the possession of some
one shipwrecked. why had it been left
intact? The conclusion was newt