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


Gund Brewing Co.
Geo. r. Borgmann & Co.
Sank Centre Granite Co.
Central Minnesota Power & MilliT
Co.
Sank Centre Herald
McCracken & Burgess
Farmers Co operative Creamery.
Chas. Fiesler
T. w. Mann
Mrs. Je sic Wallace
Golden Rule Store
Following the parade the Grafton OF
the day was delivered by Rev. II. v
Adams of Des Moines, Iowa, former
resident of Sank Centre. This part
of the program was given in the City
Park, large number of people being
present. Mr.. Adams entertained the
audience with a fine address.
Then came bunch of street sports.
The first was tug of war between
teams of farmers representing dis
tricts east and west of the city. The
west team won two out of three pulls
and carried off the cash prize of ten
dollars. There were ten men on each
team. Later there was second tug
between a town team and farmers
team from the south district. The
town team was heavier and won with
ease in three straight pulls. These
two events created much interest and
amused the crowd greatly.
The potato race was won by Chas.
Hughes, A. E. Breher being second
and VIM. Benson third.
A pie-eating contest furnished fun
in large gobs. About dozen kids
participated. Theo. Gaspard wo n
with Leo Book second and E. Short
ri G, third.
A dispute arose over the mile bicy'
Gle race, run on the streets, so
the prize money of six dollars was di
yided equally between Carl Gingery
Walter Kells and Marion Lyman.
At 3 O'Clock at the fair grounds &C.
Cured the base ball game between
Melrose and Osakis. 1t was a fine
exhibition of the national sport and
witnessed by something like 1,5O0 or
more people. The grand stand was
packed and the grounds crowded.
Melrose won, the score being 3 to L.
Geo. R. Bouton of St: Cloud, an old
professional player, umpired to the
satisfaction of all.
The green horse race was won by
Ardeola, Jim second, Nobby third,
Refina fourth, Tony fifth.
The Smile motorcycle race was a
good attraction and was won by
Dolye, with Anderson second and
Moore third.
At 7;3O, on Sank Lake in front of
the park, the log-rolling contest be-
tween two expert river drivers from
Little Falls, furnished amusement
lasting half an hour. This was a
novel number, and many amusing
stunts were performed.
A hard rain began shortly after
eight o'clock, ctically breaking up
the illuminated auto parade. Some
thing like dozen cars were out, how
ever, handsomely decorated and ILL
animated. J. A. Schoenhoff led and
he said the following morning that
had the rain not come there would
have been fifty machines in the pa
rade. Part of the fireworks were
used before the rain fell. The evening
was spent in dancing at the city hall
and i'm bowery on Main street. In
addition to the program furnished by
the committee, there were merry
go-round and large number of other
street concessions which did their
part towards keeping the crowds in a
happy frame of mind.
The crowd, though record break
er, was orderly, and no arrests were
made during the day. Plenty of
special policeman were on duty but
they devoted their attention mainly
to holding the crowds back so that
the sports could be pulled off satisfac-
torily. There were no accidents DUR