The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-01-09
ALBANY AS HOST
Guests are Country Publishers
of Stearns County
DELIGHTFUL AFFAIR
SERIES From the Rural Districts
Banquetted By Commercial
GLIB Of the Town

VJ0O OJ Inc IOW0
The Commercial Club of the thriv-
ing village of Albany kept open
house last Friday afternoon and eve
ming for the publishers of the country
newspapers of Stearns county.
The scribes, in turn, had no hesitaa
ton in announcing that as enter
tanners the hustling business men Of
Albany were as hospitable hosts IS It
had ever been their good fortune to
meet.
The visiting publishers arrived at
Albany during the afternoon, frater-
nized, "talked shop and organized a
publishers association for the county,
and when o'clock arrived were open
to a prolonged engagement around
the banquet board. T he banquet
was served in the lower room of the
cityhall. The good housewives of the
thriving village d i d the cooking,
while members of the Commercial
Club attended to the serving. 1t was
bounteous repast, beginning with a
luscious oyster stew and extending
down through several courses in
which spring chicken was prominent,
as we'll as other toothsome morseis.
At the head of the table sat Adam
Winter, the new president of the Com
mercial club; at the other end were
Peter Kraker ST.. and his son, while
ranged along the sides were the visit
Ing newspaper men aad laembers OF
the club. Il was an exceedingly In
teresting session nd conversation
Jagged considerably while each man
at table looked after the wants of his
interior department. During the
banquet an orchestra of six pieces
rendered excellent music.
Following the banquet the diners
adjourned to the hall above and an
informal hour followed. Then the
visiting newspaper men were invited
to take seats on the stage. Along
with them went Hon. Frank E.
Minette of Sank Centre, who was also
guest; S. P. WINNER and DR.. T.
Watson, both of Albany, DR.. Watson
having been selected as master OF.
ceremonies.
DR.. Watson Immediately got busy
with bunch of facetious remarks
and wound up with introducing Mr..
Minette, who gave an entertaining
talk for fifteen minutes or so. Fol-
lowing Mr.. Minette, each of the
scribes was called on and each man
responded to the best of his ability.
Geo. A. Hanna, publisher of t h e
Paynesville Press, and #. O. Nelson,
publisher of the Holdingford Adver-
tiser. were particularly happy in their
remarks, keeping the audience well
entertained . n d smiling. Between
talks the orchestra offlciated very ac-
ceptably.
s, p. WINNER made the last speech
OF the evening, his topic being county
seat removal. Mr.. WINNER told OF
his experiences at St. Cloud recently
and expressed the opinion that Al
bany stands good chance of winning
its fight If conducted along right
linee.
The function ended shortly after 10
o'clock and the publlshers from the
y ~
western part Of the county remained
until the late train arrived, when
they boarded it for home.
There are eleven country news
papers in Stearns county and the pub
fishers Of seven were present. They
were: A. F. Sleffsn, Melrose Beacon;
A. e. Anderberg, Freeport Inform
ant; +. o. Nelson, Holdingford Adj
yertiser; WI. Collin, Breetsn Re-
view: Geo. A. Hanna, Paynssville
Press; A. N. Welles, Sank Centre
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