The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-12-04
HIGH GRADE enter.
TAINMIEN1s BOOKED
COMMERCIAL. CLUB TO HANDLE
ATTRACTIONS FURNISED BY
STATE UNIVERSITY. Z,
Pres. VINCENT HEADLlNER
PUBLIC SHOULD PATRONIZE
SERIES LIBERALLY-BETT
THINGS IN FUTURE.

At largely attended meeting of
the Sank Centre Commercial Club
held Tuesday evening Mr.. Davis rep
resenting the Minnesota University
Extension Bureau appeared before
the body with proposition to place
a series of high-grade entertainments
in this city under the auspices Of the
Club at cost prices.
The proposition appealed to the
Club and a deal was closed with Mr..
Davis at once for series of five num-
bers.
The big feature and headliner will
be President Vincent Of the State
University. Of course the only
charge for Mr.. Vincent's services will
be his actual expenses. He will open
the series with an address at the
Grand Opera House on Thursday eve
mig, Dec. 18th. The gentleman has
appeared before in this city and
everybody who had the pleasure of
listening to him at that time will
want to hear him again.
The Carl Schuerer Trio are a very
expensive attraction, consisting of a
Violinist, pianist and soprano singer,
all artists. Mr.. Schuerer is concert
meister for the famous Symphony
Orchestra of Minneapolis.
Janet King is one of Americas
foremost Dramatic readers and will
appear in program consisting Of
selections Of that famous book 1.-THE
Winning of Barbara Worth" The
6avenys, high-grade chalk-ta,k and
musical artists and the Robley Male
quartet will complete the plogransr
Dates for the numbers other than
President Vincent will be announced
later, but they will come about three
weeks apart. III
F r a number of years the Wiscon-
sin University has carried on these
sort of entertainments and this year
they will supply several hundred diff
ferent towns with high-grade attrac-
tions. .-
Herald readers will do we'll not. to
confound this series with the ordinary
lyceum course features, as the State
University is back of each number,
which should be sufficient guarantee
of Their stability. =
The Commercial Club will push the
series and have placed the price of
season tickets at $1.0O, with 10 cents
additional charge for. reserved seats
for each entertainment. Single ad-
missions for the Vincent lecture and
the Schuerer Trio have been placed at
SO cents each and 80 cents each for
the balance. Should any residue re-
main from the series it will go into a
fund for like series next year.
The following are the members of
the ticket committee: E. A. Richards,
J. B. Schoenhoff, M. D. Aygarn, DIR.
H. L. Lamb, L. l.. Kells, Win Pischek,
Sidney Merryman, Fay Sprague, A.
F. Strebel and B. T. Dubois.
An advertising committee consist
ing of A. M. Wallace, ]. F. Cooper,
and w. F. Sanderson was appointed.
Every member present at the meet
ing signed the guarantee backing up
the officers of the club in booking this
splendid series. The season tickets
will be in the hands of the committee
Friday of this week and the citizens
are urged to buy literally as it means
much to the community.
: County Superintendent Berger was
at the meeting and made brief talk
in which he thanked the people of this
city and surrounding country for
program of agricultural education in
recent potato contest in which over
800 children participated, he said that
for the first time in its history
Stearns County had shipped potatoes
to outside markets quite extensively
the past year, the total amount reach
ing about $4,000 bushels, st. Cloud
led with 10 cars, then came Avon with
SO. Sank Centre contributed IA cars
to the 274 carloads shipped out. he
stated that the average yield last
year was about 200 bushels per acre.
Mr.. Berger urged the potato meetings
at Sank Centre and other points so
that the best results could be OBJ
tanned. The same quality of potatoes
can not be grown with profit IN all SEC