The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-06-04
VOLUME LXvII.

This is the legend that appears i
the upper left hand corner of the It'll
page of the Herald this week. In a.
human probability it would have pas
sed unnoticed if we had not called at
tention to it, yet it contains within it
self story more wonderful than an.
found within the covers of any fic
tional work. 1t means that At year
ago the Herald was started in mod
est way which makes it the oldes
continuous business in the city ant
places it among the very oldest in tn
state 1t means that 2,444 contin
uous issues Of the Herald have beer
issued. If one copy Oh each week were
placed singly, one above the other
they would make a volume IA feet
high; in 81 years the entire number
of papers printed would make pile
728 feet high, and if spread out one
beside the other would carpet an area
twice the size of Stearns county. All
the material and machinery was
freighted from St. Cloud by team and
al the work performed upon the pa
per was done by hand.
The edmonton boys" Joe and Sam,
who started the paper, are both lN-
ing, past three scores and ten and
good for score of years more.
When the Herald started Hon. C..
NJ. Sprague, now the dignified and
portly president of the First National
Bank, was a slim young soldier boy
clerking for the Hon. Joseph Capser
in the old Regulator" L. Kells also
fresh from the wars, gay young
bachelor, divided his time between
clerking for P. Frank and "specula-
ting" It used to be said in those
days that "Lucie" would "buy any
thing you wanted to sell; sell any
thing you wanted to buy; lend all the
money you wanted TO borrow or boz
row all the money you wanted to
lend" In those days Clark Case was
winning fame for himself and ducats
for his hackers in every foot race he
was permitted to enter. Mrs. c.. &.
Tobey, now a staid and dignified
grandmother, was one of the village
bellies and was singing the "Gipsy's
Warning" at social gatherings to the
great delight of enthusiastic audien-
ces.
o. B. Boobar, our present postmas-
ter, then a lad of fifteen, used to
come down and "roll the press" for
fun, much to the disgust of his esti-
mable mother who had to scrub the
ink out of his garments that they aD--
sorbed in the rolling" operations.
The Hon. Joseph Capser is the only
remaining citizen who was in active
independent business at that time and
he has long since retired.
At that time they had only began
to talk of "velocipides;" automobiles
were yet undreamed of. There was
not an electric light, an electric car or
a telephone in existence, and the wo-
men wore hoop skirts so wide that
they had to be compressed to pass
through an ordinary door. Indians
were on the war path $50 miles west
of the town, buffalo were being Kill
led two days journey distant. 1t was
a common thing for Byron Carr, the
mighty hunter of that day, to Shout
der his rifle after dinner, go into the
woods east of town and return with a
deer on his shoulders before sunset.
Those were the brave old days.
Sturdy men and women, empire build-
ers, and they left an impress on this
community that remains to this day.
They placed Sank Centre con the
map" and it has remained there ever
since.
For At years the Herald has been
a mirror reflecting the history of this
Faithfully has it re-
corded the joys the sorrows, the fun,
the pathos of this community. Sor-
rowfully has it chronicled the deaths,
joyously noted the birsas and mar
riages of its citizens. Some of the
persons whose weddings were noted
are great-grandparents now. Some of
the parties whose births were noted
have taken prominent parts in the
worlds affairs.
The Herald has always been strong
editorially and it has been an i'm
portant factor in shaping the destines
of the state. The Herald was never
as well equipped in every department
than it is at the present time and It
is the ambition of the present owner
not only to maintain the high stand
ard it has set in the past, but
to increase it's efficiency and useful
ness.
ALL THERE is TO 1T.
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