The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-04
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1915

even in midsummer, and advertise literally as was
frequently the case local merchants would stand by
with their hands in their pockets and see their GUS
toners dig up coolies of cash and go home loaded
down with goods-but enough of this lecturing
"The policy of the Herald under my management
differed little from other country papers; it aimed,
primarily, to be loyal to home interests and think
can justly say it was leader in many movements
for civic improvements 1t strongly advocated the
waterworks, bonds for an enlarged school building,
and against pretty stiff opposition in certain quar-
tiers, pushed sidewalk extension; largely
sponsble for the extension of Third street eastward
across the river and westward to Hoboken, of Main
street southwark the railroad tracks to the city
limits and that fight to the finish 1t fought the
stockyards from the residence part of the city, stood
stiffly for the city Hall and library buildings.
1t helped in the two railway schemes, the L. F. &
D., and the "Katy" branch, and after strenuous
fight lost out in the Duluth, Huron and Denver and
the $780, extension from Paynesvie up through
String Hill and Metres Grove. The Herald fought
hard for county division, which might have been
complished if the $780, branch had been built; adj
vocated the location of the Northern Insane Asylum
the site occupied by the Home School for
Girls, and the extension of Main street by bridge
across the Narrows highway into southern Todd
county.
"My career in Sank Centre was not eventful in
friends, most of whom have gone on before. My
attachment for the little city which 1 emerge
from swaddlng clothes into knickerbockers is deep
seated and sincere. There l buried my parents;
there were my children born, and there spent my
ifes meridian.
"No wonder it appeals to my affectionate remem
brance so strongly beyond all question it is, in many
respects, the best city of it's class in Minnesota.
"Joy to it and it's every resident, May you all live
long and prosper
"Sincerely
"chas. F. Hendryx"
In September 1908, the Herald was pur-
chased by Frank M. Eddy. w. l. Henshaw
ran it for him for time and August, 1904,
he assumed the management himself. He
purchased the Avalanche and consolidated it
with the Herald during his ownership, and
increased the prestige of the paper both in
literary and business way. His owner
ship is so recent that all the incidents con-
nected with the paper need neither comment
or recording.
Mr.. Eddy sold the plant to A. M. Welles,
former editor of the Redwood Reveiile, Red
wood Falls, Mimi, in April 1907, who con-
Quoted it up to August 1913, with the excep-
ton of period from June to October 1909,
during which period it was leased to Ed. H.
Pierce, former editor of the Grafton Record,
Grafton, n. D.
Mr. Welles declined to furnish picture
or statement for this ISSUE He was thor
ough going business man and was the first
to put the newspaper business in Sank Gen.
ire on purely business standing. He ran
a good paper and left in much better finan-
cial shape than when he assumed control. He
is now editor and publisher of the Worthing-
ton Globe, Worthington, Mimi.
It is entirely characteristic of every phase
of human life that the men and women 'Who
make the World go round" get little or no
credit for the invaluable and absolutely es-
sential services they perform. The real he
roes and heroines of terrestrial affairs go to
their graves "unwept, unhonored and un-
sung and no stately monuments are erected
to perpetuate their achievements.
The newspaper field is no exception to this