The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-07-11
HOME HAPPENINGS

A new STOCK OF groceries: try them
Phone 231.
A daughter was born, July 3, to
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry E. Tobey OF
Osakis.
Brick work on the new school is
practically completed and the roof is
being put on.
The Dand concert at the city park
will be given Friday night of this
week instead of Thursday.
The Rebekah Lodge will install
their officers Friday night of this
woek and a good attendance of mem
bers is desired.
The trotting of Brown Bros. colt
at the fair grounds the afternoon of
the Fourth was one of the attractions
of the celebration.
We want every family to try our
groceries. Sank Centre Meat & Mer-
camille Co.
Last Sunday evening union religious
services of the Protestant churches
were held in the city park. These
services will be held there every Sun
day evening until further notice.
Street Commissioner Geo. NJ. Rice
this morning began the work of lay
ing new planking on the bridge over
the Sank river on North Main street.
The planking is four inch tamarack
Rye harvest began on Monday.
There is large amount of rye this
year in Stearns county and the quail
ity is fine. Barley is beginning to
turn and wheat is coming along in
good style.
Have YOU bought the Hammock yet?
Just look at those in our window
Grover & Wedge Co.
Cards announcing the marriage OF
Miss Mable Spencer to Mr.. Clarence
Dokken of Temple, n. D., have been
received here. The bride is niece of
Mrs. Geo. NJ. Rice and a graduate of
the Sank Centre high school.
The Sank Centre Mercantile Com
paDy has full page advertisement on
page 3 of this issue which makes in
teresting reading. Seekers for bar
gains should read this announcement.
The concern believes in a liberal use
of printers ink.
We handle the we'll known Foot
Schultz shoes for ladies and children
Every pair new and the latest styles
Sank Centre Meat & Mercantile Co.
The rain on the Fourth and the
day following did thousands of dollars
worth of good in this vicinity. The
crops were at critical stage and the
moisture came just in time to save
them. The outlook is now excellent
for crops of all kinds.
Sank Centres shop windows were
handsomely decorated for the Fourth
of July celebration. Sank Centre
merchants have way of fixing up
their windows that is highly credit
able. The work of local window dec
orators compares favorably with that
of city artists.
Work on the nine buildings at the
Minnesota Home School for Girls,
now under course OF construction, is
progressing. Contractor kooglun
has been delayed by the lack of ar
rival of material and by shortage of
help, but he expects to have all the
buildings completed on time as called
for in the contract.
Phone 231 for your groceries.
At meeting of the Board of Di-
rectors of the Commercial Club We'd
nesday evening, the Fourth of July
committee presented its report and
was discharged. Geo. Fish, chairman
of the committee to look after the
Grand Army encampment: also re-
ported and was discharged. A batch
of routine business was disposed of.
A heavy rain accompanied by a
high wind which uprooteda few trees,
struck Sank Centre between one and
two O'Clock Tuesday morning. The
storm was SO severe that many peo-
pie were awakened and got out of
bed. The barn of Peter Nelson in
Kandota township was struck by
lightning and burned during the
storm.