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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-09-02
$4,000 AUTOS IN MINNESOTA
Hennepin, Ramsey and st. Louis Lead
Stearns County in Gasoline Wa
CONS, Says Sec. of State.

Julius A. Schmahl, Secretary of
State, and his staff of assistants,
have just completed the work of card
indexing all of the licensed automo-
bile owners in Minnesota. This index
system is arranged by counties and
each county is sub-divided into the
postoffice addresses of the owners,
under which heading the names of the
of the owners are arranged alphabet
ically.
There are, according to this system,
practically $4,000 automobiles in Min
nesota, and recent issue of the Wall
street Journal states that the average
price of car is now about $3.50, over
half the cars produced selling for less
than $500. On the basis Of the Jour
nal, the automobiles in Minnesota are
now valued at $s4,280,000, while the
accessories and other appliances will
increase this amount materially. In
addition, the annual consumption of
gasoline and lubricating oil will run
into four or five millions of dollars.
The number of machines in each
county at the close of business on the
night of August 26th, when the index
ing was completed after four months
of work, is as follows:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-09-02
BABY is SENT BY u. S. MAIL
Boy Weighed, Tagged and Forwarded
By Parcel Post Arrives at His
Destination Safe.

Fargo, N. D., Aug. 23-Railroad of
fcials here are glad that the limit of
dimensions and weight for parcel post
packages are not great enough to in
clude adult human beings, and while
they are not worrying they are, new
ertheless, wondering when the prac-
tice of sending children in the state
is going to stop.
Recently several children have been
sent by parcel post from homes on ru-
raj routes to persons in towns out of
which the routes run, but probably the
first instance of sending child from
one town to another by mail occurred
here when Freddie Colby, a 2-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Colby, was
shipped to the home of his grandpar-
ents at Valley City from Fargo.
The mother was unable to accom-
pany the boy to Valley City and as
Freddie came within the limit in
weight and dimensions for parcel post
packages she took him to the post of
flee, weighed and tagged him and he
went through without accident.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-09-02
d WILLARD

lone Peterson had tonsils and adj
noids removed in the hospital in Sank
Centre on Wednesday. DR.. Girvin
performed the operation and was as
sisted by DIR. Lamb. She came home
in the afternoon and is getting along
nicely.
Ed. Kurth and wife, and c. B. Corn
well and wife motored to Sank Centre
last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. B. Cornwell and
Seth, Mr.. and Mrs. E.. Kurth and Le-
ona, and Cecil Mcmillan motored to
Sank Centre on Wednesday.
DIR. Girvin is removing tonsils and
adnoids for Byron Angel to day at
the Lamb hospital in Sank Centre.
B. A. Angel and C. F. Angel and
family spent Wednesday afternoon in
Sank Centre.
Fern Bush is making an extended
visit in Sank Centre.
John Hopkins of Westport traded
his threshing machine to George
Borgmann of Sank Centre for Stud
abaker car.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-09-02
GENERAL PROSPERITY

Mr.. Sprague, Of the First National
Bank, had the following to say on bus
mess and crop conditions at the be-
ginning of September:
"A billion bushels of wheat, a bill
lion bushels and some more of OATS
and the prospects still for three bill
lion corn production despite the back
wardness of the season can mean nos
thing else but that prosperity is going
to be distributed all around. There
will be greater buying power to slim
ulate retail trade, there will be great
er tonnage for the railroads to haul in
the way of grain from the interior and
a greater tonnage for the return haul
in the larger distribution of merchan-
disc. Moreover, the great demands
on the railroads will necessitate great
er expenditures in equipment which
should cause further and more per-
manent boom to the iron and steel in
dustries, now at or near capacity OPP
erations on war orders"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-09-02
OSAKIS
From the Review

Mike and Tommy Gibbons, of St.
Paul, the champion middleweight box
ers of the Northwest, while at Lin
wood this week, closed a deal for the
purchase of the Bassford lakeshore
cottage and lot, together with three
lots adjoining the Linwood hotel prop
erty, three miles northeast of Osakis,
for consideration of $4,000. The
transfer was made through Landlord
Jas. Norris who owned the lots adjoin-
ing the Bassford property. To a Re-
view representative, Monday, the Glib
bons brothers stated that they had ac-
quired this very desirable property
with the intention of making their
summer home at the Linwood and
would bring their families here dur
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-09-02
MINNESOTA AT ILLINOIS FAIR
State Bureau of immigration From
North Star State Shows Pro-
ducts of Her Soil.

One of the most interesting places
at the Galesburg District Fair, is the
Minnesota State Exhibit, which is To-
Gated just south of the Educational
Building. Housed in a large tent, is
complete display of products from
Minnesota farms. All kinds of grain
in the sheaf, wheat, oats, rye, barley,
clover, timothy, alfalfa and wild
grasses, are neatly arranged on the
walls of the tent, and the large dis
play of fruit and vegetables, corn,
threshed grains of all kinds are also
on display.
The exhibit is placed on the grounds
under the direction of the Minnesota
State Bureau of immigration, consist
ing of the Governor, State Auditor
and Secretary of State. The exhibit is
in charge of Fred D. Sherman, Mime
nesota Commissioner of immigration,
and Col. w. C. King, Exhibit expert.
Visitors at the Minnesota tent are not
only showed the products of Mime
sofa soil, but are provided with maps
and literature, telling all about the
state.
81 hope the people of Galesburg
and this part of Illinois will not mis-
understand the purpose of our visit to
their Fair" said Mr.. Sherman this
morning. eve do not come down here
with any land-selling scheme, because
we have no land to sell, neither are
we trying to induce the farmers of
Illinois to sell their good Illinois
farms and move to Minnesota, but we
do believe that there are many farm
renters in this state who have a few
thousand dollars layed by, which is
not sufficient capital to purchase the
high priced lands of Illinois, but will
be sufficient to make a substantial
payment on cheaper lands of Min
nesota. We have in Minnesota about
IL, 100000 acres of good, rich, agricul-
tural land that has never been touched
We are spending our money advertis-
ing this land with the hope of securing
more settlers. Good wild land can be
bought in Minnesota at from $500 to
$500 per acre; good improved farms
at from $500 to $125.00 per acre, and
if there is anybody in this part of
Illinois who wishes to engage in farm
ing ond does not have the money to
purchase the high-priced lands of Hi
nois, we would like to have them
come and see what we have to offer in
Minnesota"
The Minnesota Exhibit will be NOV
ed from this place to LaPorte, Ind, at
the close of this fair and they will
also visit a number of other Fairs in
Illinois and Indiana during the next
two Notwithstanding Republican,
Register.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-09-02
ODD BITS OF NEWS

Altoona, Pa.-Rocco Masta, 7-years
playing hide-and-seek, crawled into a
big ice-cream freezer in front of a
store. Rocco was wedged in so tightly
he could not escape, and when rescued
was almost frozen as the freezer was
surrounded with ice and brine.
Rices Landing, Pa.-James Black,
mine superintendent, the father of 18
children, has five boys at the front
with the British army. Two others
have been killed. John, the third son,
is home with a poisoned knee, but will
soon return to the trenches.
Plattsburg, N. Y.-Students study
ing the effect of alcohol on longevity,
have brought to light the case of
Thomas Wilmington, who died at Hill
lington, Middlesex, in 1904, aged 104,
who for years drank pint and half
of gin as his minimum daily allow
ance He retained his faculties to the
last and walked three miles day be-
fore his death. Another was George
Kirtno of Oxcrop Hall, Yorks, who
drank abnormally all his days, yet
hunted in his Tooth year and died in
1852, aged 125 years.
New Bedford, Mass.-When boy
Charles Lawrence inserted cherry
stone in his ear which remained there
for thirty years until recently remoy-
ed the other day.
Eureka, Cal.-Angus Olafson, a
homesteader of South Humboldt county
when he wendell his way out of his
lonely camp recently, heard for the
first time of the European war.
Martinsborough, New Zealand.-A
small embroidered flag sold at auction
brought $4,000 for the Belgian relief
fund. It was sold ten times to the
highest bidder, who in turn gave it
back. Finally it was presented to the
school.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-09-02

The Minnesota State Fair, Septem-
Der 6 to II. is planning to turn its mil
Eon-dollar livestock show into great
public market place this fall, to assist
In the introduction of more purebred
farm animals in the Northwest Indi-
cations are that the movement will
meet with complete success.
The European war has created such
a demand for good horses throughout
the country that it is probable that
more horses will be raised in the near
future than ever before. Especially is
this true Of the Northwest, where good
brood mares are employed to such an
extent in doing the farm work Breed
'ers OF good horses all over America
are being urged to visit the Mime
sofa State Fair this fall, and not only
compete for the generous premiums of
fered, but actually interest the buying
public in their sale of animals. AS
1925 in cash is offered for horses,
an exceptional entry list is expected
by August IL, when entries close.
Good Bargains.
Farmers are being advised to attend
the Minnesota State Fair for the pur-
pose Of buying good pure-bred stations
and mares. As practically all the lead
ing stables are to be represented, good
bargains ought to be possible Atten-
tion is being called to the excellent OPP
portunity afforded of studying the best
types so that it may be easier to pick
q good stallion in the raising of colts
No effort is being spared to stimulate
the production of good horses In this
part of the country.
The public markets for cattle, swine
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-09-02

and sheep will be emphasized as much
for more sheep in the Northwest to
turn waste pasture land into wool and
mutton, and aid farmers in clearing up
their raw farms and keeping weeds un-
der control. Last year over zoo sheep
were sold at private sale at the Minne-
sofa State Fair, but it is probable that
a much larger number will be disposed
of this year.
A Record Show.
The twenty-three nominations for
the Poland-China futurity show insure
one of the largest swine shows ever
held at Hamline, despite the fact that
each successive year has been rec
ord-breaking one. Sheep and swine
entries do not close until August rs,
so that ample opportunity is given
breeders to enter their stock within
ten days Of the fair Hundreds Of
hogs will be disposed of at the fair.
The cattle show has been one of the
features of the livestock show for
many years. In several instances
more dairy cattle of special breeds
have been shown at the Minnesota
State Fair than at any other show in
the country. There is no reason for
believing that q similar entry list Of
dairy and beef cattle will not be made
this year. Premiums aggregating
$13,S65 are offered for cattle, entries
closing August -.
AS formerly, all stock will be judged
at the opening of the fair, which makes
visit during the first part of fair
week more valuable than one during
the latter part.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-09-02
JUDGE FOR YOURSELF
Which is Better-Try an Experiment
or Profit by Sank Centre Cit
liens Experience.

Something new is an experiment.
Must be proved to be as represent
ed.
The statement of manufacturer is
not convincing proof of merit.
But the endorsement of friends is.
Now supposing you had bad back,
A lame weak and aching one,
Would you experiment on it?
You will read of many so-called
cures.
Endorsed by strangers from far
away places.
It's different when the endorsement
comes from home.
Easy to prove local testimony.
Read this Sank Centre case:
Mrs. O. E. Olsen, Elm street, Sank
Centre, says:
81 had dull nagging backaches
and pains through my loins. I
didn't rest well at night and in
the morning, felt tired and Ian
guild. Two boxes of Doan's Kid
ney Pills gave me prompt relief.
l have been feeling much strong
er and better in every way since"
Price SOC, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mrs. Olsen had. Foster Millburn Co.,
Props, Buffalo, N. Y. adv
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-09-02
Neighboring News
II THIS SECTION GARNERED
"n THE HERALD'S
GACHANGES
MELRoSE
(From the Beacon.)

Because Fred Zitur would have to
lose the sight of his one good eye to
have the other restored to working or
der and in consequence must go
through life either without one eye or
with one good eye and one that re-
fuses to perform duty, Judge Roes-
er on Tuesday ruled that Zithr had
been permanently injured and order
ed that he receive compensation from
the Melrose Granite Company and the
Travellers Insurance company for a
period of 80 weeks. Zitur was injured
on November 10, 1913, while employ
ed by the Melrose Granite company
in its local plant. A granite chip
struck him in the eye while he was
holding tools for another workman en-
gagged in facing stone. The young
man received Sc week for ten weeks,
the compensation due him for temper
airy disability. Zitur signed a release,
believing at the time that the injury
was of temporary sort. 1t was af
forwards discovered that color pig
ment from the iris had passed into
the lens of the eye through the cut
made by the stone, and as result the
eye is clouded. While eye specialists
differed as to methods of treating the
injured eye they were agreed that af-
ter any treatment it would fail to per-
form a duty unless the uninjured eye
were removed. Judge Roeser was UNI
able to see how the right eye is a
good eye if the perfect left eye must
be lost to restore the right eye to
working condition. Accordingly he
ordered that Zitur be paid Sc week
for. 100 weeks. Account is taken of
the ten weeks compensation already
paid for temporary disability this re-
ducing the period for payment to 80
weeks. A stay of 20 days is granted.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-09-02

ing the heated term. They will erect
another large cottage on their lots
and will build a bath house and make
other improvements. Mike Gibbons
leaves for the East in short time
where on Sept. IL, in New York, he
will box Packey Mcfarland for the
largest purse ever hung up for ten
round contest. After this contest the
Gibbons brothers will be back to Osa-
kis to look after the work of improv-
ing their new summer quarters.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-09-02
GREY EAGLE
(From Long Prairie Leader)

(From Long Prairie Leader)
Grey Eagle voted $16500 bonds Sat-
urday night for new school building
There were 214 votes cast and the
bonds carried by 16 majority. The
majority was close but the large num-
Der of votes cast indicates that with
this general expression on the part OF
all the people, the citizens want the
best there is to be had for school pur-
poses. Grey Eagle is making a large
of advances the past summer
and when the Luce line is built giving
summer tourists more convenient ac-
cess to the village, there is no doubt
but that the town as well as the COM
munity will see rapid growth. The
handsome new school house, modern
and well equipped, will step in the
direction of making Grey Eagle more
attractive to those desiring. village
in which to live.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-09-02
ALBANY
(From the Enterprise

The rural letter carriers of Stearns.
Benton and Sherburne counties will
meet Labor day at Sank Centre. The
meeting will be in the form of big
picnic at which there will be automo-
bile races and other sports. Officers
are to be elected and delegates chos-
en- for the state meeting. The local
carriers expect to attend.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-09-02

Topeka, Kas.-A. c. Bartell, police
court reporter, had tip that some.
persons had buried beer in their back
yard. He obtained a grave digger's
spade, and stealthily entered the yard.
After much labor in what appeared to-
to be newly made grave, he dug up,
three chickens which the people that
day had buried.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-09-02

st. Joseph, Illinois. Mary S.
White has in her possession a teach
er's certificate 100 years old. 1t be-
longed to her father Lewis A. Aver
son. Mrs. White recently presented
Mrs. Feely, her daughter, with pair
of white silk stockings in which Mrs.
Whites mother was married, and
which are ga years old.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-01-21
Labor Saving.

The use of l~abor-saving appliances
and methods presents another angle
which is worth considering. In many
cases it enables the manager to be-
come Independent of experienced
helpers, since he is able to personally
look after the more important mat
tiers requiring skill and judgment,
and delegate the rest of the work to
ordinary laborers. Now this ques-
ton naturally arises: Will the indi-
vidual fowl or growing youngster do
as well when handled in this whole
sale way? Is there not a loss of eff
ficiency as compared with more
painstaking methods? This point
may be open to debate. But admit
ting it for the purpose of argument,
there is this to be said: The best
policy is that which secures the great
est net returns from the business as
a whole, not merely from the indi-
vidual productive units.-Baltimore
American.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-01-21
Exhibition Birds VS.. Mongrels

BY G. L.. WOOD. POULTRY EDITOR.
TROM the advent of the first trap
nest there has been more or less
indiscriminate trap-nesting, and
the records have had every degree
OF variation. When a mongrel hen
made a good record there has been a
big noise made that thoroughbred
STOCK was not necessary to get eggs.
But there have been a number of
mongrel pens entered in the Eastern
egg-laying contests and SO far they
have not made very enviable records
for their owners, neither have they
given the mongrel hen any prestige as
a layer.
There has been the other class of
entries who are proclaiming a spe-
cific egg laying type different from
the standard of perfection in many
details. These promoters are OBJ
jected to by the fancier from the one
standpoint that nearly all OF the ex-
hibition qualities are sacrificed in
getting their layers.
MOngrel VS.. Show Bird.
It has taken years to develop the
exhibition bird to his particular type
and color, and as a rule she has not
been a bad layer. Sometimes she
has gone into the contests and come
out at the top of the list. The fancier
will not eventually object to length
ening her body If it is found that she
can lay more eggs with the additional
length. But he does object to sacri-
ficing her other qualities. which it
has taken time and patience to de-
velop, turning his favorite fowl into
a mongrel.
Not all the egg-strains of the coun-
try are sacrificing their breed, but
many are, and l would war; the man
who invests his money In any par
ticular %egg-laying strain to learn
whether the breeder has stock that
still has its exhibition qualities in,
tact. The bird as described in the
Standard of Perfection will survive.
and that authority will be revised to
meet conditions when necessary.
Future Development.
There will be an interesting strug-
gle for business between the man
who sells layers of every shape and
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1915-01-21

color and the n who has developed
or is breeding a laying strain of a
standard variety. and who can go
into the show room and walk away
with the honors. The biggest win
in any exhibition of the future will
be with the layer who can land the
blue ribbon.
Expert breeders are not behind the
times in this respect and it is hardly
reasonable to suppose that the ones
who have developed the poultry in
dustry are going to let others come
in and get the ear of the business.
Their theory for the exhibition hen as
a layer has received a high endorse
ment from no less an authority than
Professor T. E. Qu%eensberry. director
Of the Missouri State Experiment
Station, Mountain Grove, Missouri,
under whose charge the best data of
the laying hen have been developed.
He says In part:
Show Bird Good Layer.
1T does not mean that you have to
entirely disregard shape and color to
breed a good laying strain of any
variety. One Of our contestants in
the Buff Leghorn class from Michigan
entered his birds in a good poultry
show two weeks before our contest
began last year. We now find that
some Of his highest scoring pullets
and some of those which have won
the highest honors in the show ROOM.
are also those which have made the
highest records in the contest by lay
ing the greatest number Of eggs.
His pen Is fine in color and shape
as well as leading when 1t comes to
the egg basket. OF course. we all
know that after a pullet or hen has
laid a large number Of eggs, 1t tells
on their appearance for the time be-
ing, at least. but that does not neces-
sarily mean that these birds will never
be in show condition again. or that
their progeny will not be birds good
enough to go into the show room. We
have been impressed with the show
qualities and the beautiful shape n
color of one of the New Zealand pens
of White Leghorns. This pen comes
from a breeder who has won in the
contests of that country and is now
also making good records here. We
are quite certain of one thing, /. e..
1t Is not necessary to breed a flock of
mongrels for them to prove to be satis-
factory layers"