The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-09-19
GIVE GLAD HAND
Sank Centre Business Men En-
tertain Distinguished Guest
AT COMMERCIAL CLUB
Informal Reception and Smoker to
u. S. Senator Miles P0index-
ter of Washington

AT the rooms of the Commercial Club
last Saturday evening, the business
and professional men of Sank Centre
held an informal reception and smok.
er in honor Of L. S. Senator Miles
Poindexter of Washington. Senator
Poindexter was brought here by the
management of the Agricultural So
ciety of Stearns County to speak at
the fair Saturday afternoon. After
delivering his address, Senator Poin-
dexter visited the Home School for
Girls and inspected the institution.
The plans for the evening affair were
hurriedly made by the Commercial
Club and notice was sent around as
far as possible. Some forty business
and professional men responded to the
call at the Club rooms where a very
pleasant evening was passed.
In response to general request,
made through the president of the
Club DR.. HI. f. Hennemann, Senator
Poindexter gave an informal talk,
touching on questions pertaining to
business matters. This was the first
visit the senator had made to Mime
sofa and he expressed himself as much
interested in all that he had seen ard
heard. He spoke at the Mower coun-
ty fair at Austin the day before and
there had an opportunity to study
conditions in southern Minnesota.
Senator PoindeXter said he was
greatly interested in the state and
felt that his own state, being young
er than Minnesota, had much to learn
from it. He emphasized the benefits
resulting from the meeting of practi-
cal business men to touch elbows, ex-
change experiences and compare notes.
He told of conditions in Washington
where fruit raising is one of the great
industries. He expressed much sur
prise that such fine fruit as he had
seen at the fair in the afternoon could
be grown in Minnesota.
The senator spoke at some length
of what he had seen at the Girls
school. That institution interested
him greatly, inasmuch as he had had
some experience in dealing with juve-
nile delinquents in the courts. He
was convinced that the system and
methods in vogue in the Minnesota
institution were the right ones. Con-
servation of the country's natural re-
sources, he said, was important, but
of far greater Importance was the con-
servation of the human race. This
work was being done, he thought,
successfully, in the Minnesota Home
School for Girls. He said Minnesota
is far ahead of Washington in this
line of work, and he felt that he
could return to his home state with
message of value to those interest
ed in the proper training of delin-
quent youth. The senator was en-
thusiastic over the location of the
Home school and it's buildings SO far
as they have been constructed, and
he was convinced that when the orig
inal plans are carried out the state
will have the finest institution of its
kind in the country.
Senator Poindexter was listened to
intently and applauded at intervals
while speaking and after he had fin
ished. Brief talks were made by DR..
]. A. Dubois, Mayor McGibbon and
A. NJ. Welles, all of whom were call
ed upon by the president of the Club.
DR.. Dubois elected much applause by
the statement that he was glad to
see that Sank Centre business men
could meet and touch elbows with
men who hold different political opin-
ions from themselves, and that il
augured well for the community that
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