The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-12-19
st. Cloud Folks Don't Want So
Much as They Did
FOR A COURT HOUSE
Granite City Newspaper Asserts That
100000 is Good Enough for
a New Building

ST. ClOuU HTSt move Was 10 ask Tie
county commissioners to call a
meeting for December 3 to consider
st. Clouds application that steps be
officially taken looking to the erection
of new court house for Stearns coun
ty.
While no sum was mentioned in the
application tc the commissioners, yet
it was openly talked about the Granite
City that 100000 was. in the esti-
NATION of the people Of that town,
about the right amount to expend for
a new court house.
Shortly after it became known that
st. Cloud had taken action, Albany
got busy with it's proposition to Sc
cure the removal of the county seat
to that town. st. Cloud at first
laughed, then "cussed," then had the
meeting postponed ''until after the
holidays" when the people would
he so busy.
ST. Clouds newspapers printed con-
siderable unreliable matter relative
to the proposition, then kept still for
tn hi fNr
open up again. The text for one of
the St. Cloud newspapers is the arti-
Gle that appeared in The Herald last
week calling attention to the fact
that ST. Cloud wanted a building
costing 100000. The Herald also
stated that Albany people believed a
good enough building could be erected
for half that sum. The Herald did
not state that the Albany people ask
ed for a $4,000 building nor have the
Albany people done so; that's mere
fiction of St. Cloud journalism.
The interesting part of the article
in one of the st. Cloud papers of last
Saturday, in which the above referenc.
es are made, is the statement that St.
Cloud wants only 100000 spent on
the proposed new building. The pa
per also states that it has heard of no
one in St. Cloud asking for a $500, 900
building. The article goes on to say
that the taxpayers of the county will
not consent to an expensive building.
That's one of the arguments the AL
bany people have used from the start
and why they propose to push the
campaign.
The st. Cloud paper calls on The
Herald 40 state that the Albany peo-
Pile want to spend more on court
house than does st. Cloud. The Her
aid cannot do it, for it has to confine
itself to facts.
The facts are that st. Cloud wanted
the commissioners to favor $500, 600
court house, and that ALBANY believ-
ed building good enough for the
next half century can beerected at AL
bany for half that sum or less. The
facts are that Albany comes to the
front with an offer of fine site and
cash bonus of $4,000. Further
facts are that Albany is centrally To-
Gated, easily accessible to five sixths
of the county, while st. Cloud is away
off to one side. Another fact, and a
very important one, is that the farm
ers are strongly in favor Of removal
of the county seat to Albany.
Commenting on the county seat re-
moyal project, the Paynesville Press
says: "The citizens of the village of
Albany are in dead earnest in this
fight and are going after the removal
of the court house from st. Cloud to
win. At present, as the train service
is, Albany is more accessible for peo-
pie on the 500 than is st. Cloud. Co
ing by the way of Brooten we would
have several more hours in which to
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