davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-18
LOCAL MAN GOES HIGHER UP
Federal Government Selects o. E.
Gibson for Important Position
in Dairy. Extension Dept.

O. E. Gibson, head of the Agricul-
tural department of the Sank Centre
public schools, received word this
Thursday morning of his appointment
to the Dairy Extension department
of the United States Agricultural de-
partment, at salary of $4,000 per
year to start with.
The position came unsought as far
as Mr.. Gibson was concerned and the
first intimation that he had that he
was being considered was when he
received letter few days ago ask
ing if he would accept a position if
rendered him. During the Is months
he has had charge of the local school
work he has accomplished wonders.
and the board have considered them
selves mighty fortunate in securing a
man of his ability. The government
informed Mr.. Gibson that they would
let him know when to report. Of
course he is under contract with the
local school until Aug. LIST, but the
board should, and no doubt will, re-
lease him under the circumstances at
such time as he desires to let go. The
Gibsons have made a host of friends
in Sank Centre during their residence
in this city.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-18

sum in the treasury of the department
relief association for sick and injury
benefits which had accumulated from
various entertainments and from an
allowance from the state. The result
was the purchase of the new auto
combination truck toward the cost of
which the department paid $4,000. It
is now up to the boys to build that
fund up again and right there is
where every citizen of Sank Centre
can show to the fire boys material ap-
probation of their efforts toward pro-
lection against fire. On Thanksgiv-
ing night the department will give it's
annual ball. In few days they will
place their tickets on sale. Every
ticket sold means a dollar toward re-
establishment of their own insurance
fund which they gave cherfully to
provide Sank Centre with the most
modern fire apparatus obtainable.
Mr.. Citizen, buy ticket when the
boys call on you whether you dance
or believe in dancing. They are more
deserving this year than ever before
and you will never aid better cause.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-18
IGNORE WEATHER MAN; STUNG
Charlie Johnson and Reynold Gam
radt Caught By Ice in Sank
Lake Saturday Afternoon. -

Charlie Johnson and Reynold Gam
radt are nimrods and woodsmen of
wide reputation and sagacity, but evil
IDENTIFY they both forgot to wet fin,
ger and hoist it up into the wind be-
fore they started up the lake late last
Saturday afternoon in Charles mo-
torboat. Their purpose was to pass
the night at Charles new "shack" at
the head of the big lake and devote
Sunday to matching wits with the
finny tribe. All went we'll; they arriv-
ed at the "shack" at 9 p. m. But the
morning broke gray, dreary and cold.
Waves were choppy; spray froze
where it fell on solid objects; the
wind was bitterly biting. But Char
lie and Reynold were not to be denied.
They bravely turned their backs on
the comfy Shack" hitched up their
motorboat and departed on the mis-
sion on which they hade come. Along
toward mid-afternoon their fish box
contained two lonely pickerel. 1t was
growing grayer and drearier and
colder. AS if inspired, both had the
same idea at the same time-te pull
up anchor and go home. The steady
chug-chug of the engine was merry
music to the half-frozen duo as the
boat ploughed through the rapidly
rising waves townwards. AS the Home
School was reached, strange vista
presented itself ahead. The lake was
as smooth as a billiard table. A few
more chugs and both shouted 'Ice" as
Charlie shut off the gas. The CLASSY
covering choked the lake from shore
to shore. The consultation was short,
but to the point. Charlie gave his en-
CINE another start, Reynold threw ov-.
er the rudder and headed back for the
brickyard. There the boat was safe
ly locked for the night and Charlie
and Reynold with a pickerel each
started on the weary trudge to the
city. Charlie sent team and crew
of men after the boat Monday. Both
the nimrods quickly take on a far
away look when their adventure is
mentioned to them.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-18

tuesday evening, in honor of Frank
Kinsella, who is to be married soon.
The guests were served with an elab
crate supper at 1880 after which they
singly and collectively offered the near
groom an abundance of advice, and
presented him with number of useful
articles. The evening was very en-
joyably spent, the guests leaving for
their homes about one o'clock. The
condition of the roads prevented
many of the young men invited from
attending. Those present were: Louis
Sittko, Harold Bishop Clark Kinsella,
Billy Otto, Hugh Wallace, Steve Kin
sella, Frank Kinsella, Clark Brown
and "Jim" Kinsella. Frank left Sank
Centre this Thursday noon for Oh
vein, Ia, where he will be married to
Miss Vernetta McDonough on Tues
day, Nov. 23d, at the home of the
brides parents. The happy couple will
spend their honeymoon at Independ
ence, Kan, and will be at home to
their friends on the Steve Kinsella
farmstead 51s miles southwest of
Sank Centre after Dec. 10th.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-18
PARALYTIC STROKE FATAL

Chris. Kevett, one of the old tim
5ers of Sank Centre, passed away at
his home in this city on Thursday,
Nov. 18th, 1915, at 1880 p. m. Mr..
Kevett was born in Germany on Oct.
81, 1853, and therefore was 81 years
and FL days Of age at the time of his
demise. Mr.. Kevett had suffered a
stroke of paralysis short time ago
and this caused his death after con-
siderable suffering. The funeral SER
vices were held at the house at 2:2O
o'clock Saturday afternoon, conducted
by the German Lutheran minister
from Swanvilie. Interment was made
in Greenwood cemetery. The wife and
several children are left to mourn. A
son by the name of Chris came up
from his home in Minneapolis to at
tend the funeral and after selling the
family residence took his mother to
Minneapolis Tuesday morning to
make her home with him.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-18
A PIONEER WOMAN PASSES
Mrs. George Herberger Died at Fam.
lily Home on Birch Street Mon
day, After Short Illness.

Monday of this week the community
was shocked by the news that Mrs.
George Herberger had died at 500
a. M, of diabetic coma.
Up to a very few days prior to her
death she seemed in her usual health
and on the Sunday preceding she, as
usual, attended services at the church
of Our Lady Of the Angels. i"
Katherine Schuermann was born in
Westphalia, Ger, in 1887, coming to
this country in 1855 and locating at
St. Cloud. She married Conrad Geo.
Herberger at St. Cloud, on Oct.
list, 1857. The family was prominent
in the frontier life of Northern Min
nesota. They were conducting a stage
station at Pomme de Terre, Mimi, at
the time of the Indian outbreak in
1862, but miraculously escaped mas
sacre and reached st. Cloud.
In 1877 Mr.. and Mrs. Herberger To-
Gated on a farm between West Union
and Osakis, where they continued to
reside until in 1901 when they sold the
farm and moved to Sank Centre
where they have resided ever since.
Twelve children were born Of this un-
ion, only four of whom are living.
Frank, who is in the real estate bust
ness in Seattle, Wash; George, the
we'll known merchant of Osakis; Ed,
of Minneapolis, and Rose, Mrs. S. A.
Johnson, of Buffalo, MINI.
The immediate members of the
family who were present at the fun
eral services were Frank Herberger,
Of Seattle, Wash, and son Joseph;
George Herberger and family, Osa-
kis; Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Herberger, son
and daughter, of Minneapolis; Mr..
and Mrs. S. A. Johnson, of Buffalo,
MINI.
Funeral services were held in St.
Paul's church this Thursday morning
at nine o'clock, conducted by Rev. FIR.
Art, and were largely attended. In
terment was made in St. PauPs ceme-
terry.
Mrs. Herberger was a typical Ger
man hausfrau. Her home, her church
and her children were her life and
outside of them she had no ambitions.
Her life was we'll rounded and COM
plete. She performed her every duty,
and has gone to her reward.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-18
LIKES THIS LOCATION

DIR. H. A. Kinnan of Marshaltown,
Iowa, spent several days in Sank
Centre this week looking over three
farms near this city, comprising a
little over a section of land which he
and several other Marshaltown gen
tlemen recently purchased from the
Investors Security Association. The
Doctor expressed himself as highly
pleased over the outlook for this Sec
ton. Speaking of his own country,
he said that less than 10 years
ago land around Marshaltown could
be purchased for from $50 to $65 per
acre. Today it is valued at from $500
to $3.50, and he did not see why any
land in Minnesota which grew such
corn as they raised in this section
should not advance to the $3.50 or
5000 mark very rapidly. The Herald
agrees with the Doctor.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-18
HINTS ACTION HAS BEEN TARDY
Hon. F. E. Minette Believes the Rail
road and Warehouse Commits
sion are Sailing.

Declaring that the railroad and
warehouse commission has been de-
cid lg lax in enforcing the provisions
of the Minette telephone bill passed at
the last session of the legislature and
predicting that unless action is taken
in the near future that the next legis-
lature will seek to have the board put
back on the old appointive basis in
stead of being elective, F E. Minette
of Sank Centre, author of the bill, dis
cussed the lack of progress. at some
length to day, says Fridays St. Cloud
Journal Press.
Though the bill is clear and clean
cut in its provisions, which are left
to the railroad and warehouse COM
mission to enforce there has been prac-
tically nothing done," said Mr.. Min
cite. eff the referendum clause had
been left in we might be getting some
action, but personally am almost de-
spairing of seeing anything done. l
always favored placing the enforce
ment in the law of the hands of the
tax commission but at the request of
my colleagues I sanctioned the
change"
That the appointive commissions in
the state have shown far more effici-
ency than the elective one was the
opinion Of Mr.. Minette expressed in
no uncertain language. ......
Look at the board of control and
the tax commission" both splendid
boards and both appointive,' he said.
"The railroad and warehouse commits
sion is elective and l think that they
have to pay too much attention to
politics. l think I can safely predict
that unless some action is taken
quickly that the next legislature will
favor putting the railroad commission
back on the appointive basis"
Mr.. Minette asserts that the meas
ure was in such shape that it could
have been put in force without delay
and can see no reason for the long
wait.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-18
ANNUAL Meeting
; FAIR assn. FRIDAY
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY WILL
HOLD SESSION AT CONNER
CIAL CLUB ROOMS
1915 FAIR WILL SHOW PROFIT
NEW OFFICERS WILL BE ELECT
ED--MORE STOCKHOLDERS
ARE NEEDED

The annual meeting of the Agricul-
tural Society of Stearns County will
be held at the Commercial Club rooms
Sank Centre, Friday evening, Nov.
10, 1915, at 8 o'clock and all stock
holders of the association are urgent
ly requested to be present.
Secretary Strebel will make his an
nual statement of the receipts and
disbursements for the fiscal yea 1t
will be impossible to tell just how the
fair will end the year until the money
for premiums is received from the
state. The last legislature slightly
reduced the appropriation for county
fairs. They also made the require
nents to receive state aid more strin-
gent and it is barely possible that the
Stearns County Fair will receive as
much as they did in 1914. If they re-
ceive around $1,000 from the state
the 1915 fair will have cleared about
s$4OO.
Of course the matter of officers for
question to settle at this meeting.
President Hillerud and Secretary
Strebel conducted the affairs of the
association in a very efficient manner
the past year, and with their exper-
fence thus gained they will make
more valuable officers another year.
There is unanimous sentiment
among the stockholders and exhibit
tors that they serve another year. 1t
is admitted that the officers serve
at sacrifice but the fair means much
to this section and Sank Centre. 1t is
a vigorous and growing institution
and tits big handicap to the assoc
citation to be compelled to select new
officers each year. Both the gentle
men in question are live ones, and the
Herald trusts that they will see their
way clear. to serve for another year at
least.
In this connection there should be
a large number of individual stock
holders in the Association. There are
still good number of business men
and farmers in this locality who have
not yet subscribed for stock No
other agency is doing as much to de-
velop the agricultural and stock rails
ing industry in this section as the
county fair, and that being the case,
every farmer and business man
should purchase at least one share of
stock, as the price is very nominal.
1t is hoped that every stakeholder
will be present at Friday evenings
meeting.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-18
ARE NEARING MILLION MARK
Deposits of Sank Centre Banks Indi-
cate the Prosperity of This Sec
ton Very Definitely.

The best barometer of the prosper
ity of any community is the deposits
and assets of the banking institutions
of that community. The Federal and
State Banking departments have this
week issued call for statements of
condition from all of the banks doing
business in Minnesota and the state
ments of the three local banks are
published elsewhere in this issue of
the Herald.
The statements show combined de-
posts of 1851 ,O93.0S, and combined
total assets of 1921 ,823.48. The Sank
Centre institutions are equipped to
furnish every facility for safe bank
ing, and the public have unbounded
confidence in their stability.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-18
GREAT NEGRO EDUCATOR DIES
Booker T. Washington, Founder of
Institute to Educate Members of
His Race, Passes Away.

Tuskegee, Ala, Nov. 15.-Booker T.
Washington, foremost teacher and
leader of the negro race, died at his
home here near the Tuskegee insti-
tute, of which he was founder and
president. Hardening of the arteries,
following a nervous breakdown, caus-
ed death four hours after DR.. Wash
ington arrived from New York.
Although he had been in failing
health for several months the negro
leaders condition became serious only
last week while he was in the East
He then realized the end was near,
but was determined to make the last
long trip south. He had said often,
II was born in the South, have lived
all my life in the South and expect to
die and be buried in the South"
A widow, three children and four
grandchildren survive. John W. Wash
ington, a brother, is superintendent of
industries at Tuskegee institute.
DIR. Washington was born in slavery
near Hale's Ford, Va, in 1857 or 1855.
After the emancipation of his race he
moved with his family to West Vir-
ginia. He was an ambitious boy and
saved his money for an education.
When he was able to scrope together
sufficient money to pay his stage
coach fare to Hampton, Va, he enter
ed General Armstrong; school for ne
groes there and worked his way
through an academic course, gradual
ing in 1875.
Later he became teacher in the
Hampton institute, where he remain
ed until 1881, when he organized the
industrial school for negroes at Tusk-
egee, to which he devoted most of his
attention during the remaining years
of his life. ~
The institute started in a rented
shanty church and today it owns
$500 acres of land in Alabama and
has nearly a hundred buildings, val
ued at half million dollars.
Washington won the sympathy and
support of leading Southerners by a
speech in behalf of his, race at the
Cotton States exposition in Alabama
in 1895. In addition to his prominence
as an educator he gained considerable
fame as an author. An honorable de
gree of master of arts was conferred
upon him by Harvard university in
1896 and in 1901 he was given ar
honorary degree of doctor of laws by
Dartmouth college.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-18
WEDDING GARMENTS BE-
COME YOUNG MANS STROUD
Theodore Krebsbach Buried Day Set for His Marriage
Black Diphtheria Fatal---Deceased Was
Highly Respected Padua Farmer.

farm near Padua and prepared COM
Portable home for his bride-to-be. The
wedding was to have taken place
Tuesday morning. About ten days ago
the young couple attended dance at
the home of neighbors. The young
man contracted a severe cold but his
condition did not become dangerous
until Wednesday of last week. He
had gone to the home of his brother,
Michael, at Spring Hill. A physician
was summoned and pronounced it
malignant diphtheria. Everything
possible was done to stay the ravages
of the disease but the young man pas
sed away Monday night. AS stated
above the funeral was held the fol-
lowing morning and the young man
was buried in the garments he had
procured for his wedding set for that
same morning. The shock was terri
fic one to the young bride-to-be, but
she has borne up under the ordeal
bravely.
The deceased is survived by his mo-
ther, six brothers and three sisters.
The mother resides with one of the
sons, John, at Padua. Two brothers,
William and George, live in North
Dakota. Michael resides at Spring
Hill and the other brother, J. P, at
St. Cloud. The sisters are Mrs. Grace
Schrader, Stearns county; Mrs. Mag
giel Bleser, White Earth, Mimi; and
Mrs. Katie Stadther, Melrose.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-18

Instead of happily leading Miss
Susie Spaeth as bride to the altar
of the Spring Hill Catholic church
Tuesday morning of this week as he
had joyously planned, Theodore
Krebsbach, a young German farmer
of Padua, was that same morning
consigned with scant ceremony to a
grave in the Spring Hill cemetery. On
ly the priest and necessary attendants
were witnesses to the obsequies. The
afflicted bride-to-be, the aged mother
of the deceased, brothers, sisters and
friends mourned silently at their
homes. Malignant diptheria had
reached out it's hand and claimed for
itself the young man in his full bloom
of youth, health and ambition. Be-
cause of the nature of the disease and
danger of contagion, health authori-
ties would not permit a public funeral
or services.
1t was one of those inexplicable
tragedies that flash unexpectedly
athwart the horizon of human life and
shock with the suddenness of their
coming. Theodore Krebsbach was "a
years of age and one of the most pop
ular, prosperous and ambitious young
men of the Padua region. He had
wooed and won Susie Spaeth, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Spaeth,
of Padua. Their engagement had ex-
tended over two years. Recently the
young groom-to-be had rented a
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-18
VERY sNAPPY SCHOOL WORK
Tots in Fourth Grade Give Splendid
Arithmetic Demonstration Direct
ed by Normal Training Girls

In company with President John
McGibbon, w. o. P. Hilsdale and l..
w. Gingery, the Herald editor spent
pleasant half hour visiting the
Fourth grade of the Sank Centre
public schools Tuesday morning.
There are 40 pupils in this grade and
they are CHARTERED in the basement of
the high school building. Miss Sever
ance of Willmar is the teacher, but at
the present time she is being very
materially assisted by the girls in the
Normal training department under
the supervision .of, Miss Chelgren.
Tuesday morning the children were
divided into several groups and We're
doing arithmtic demonstration work.
Various devices, arranged by the Nor
NAL girls were in use. the object Of
which was to quicken the mental cali
ibre of the children. The II Normal
girls were setting the youngsters
rapid pace but they responded in a
manner that was amazing. The drills
lasted for 40 minutes and while the
recitation rooms were a perfect Bed
lam of noises, the little folks were so
intensely concentrated on their exer-
else that they were not molested in
the least. They fairly "ate up" addi-
ton, satisfaction, multiplication and
division of numbers. The demonstra-
ton was revelation to the grown
ms and was a snappy piece of mental
work as one could wish to see. After
this week the Herald understands the
children's attention will be directed
toward reading, and later geography.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-18
INDORsEs THE FIREMEN's BALL
Sank Centres Mayor to Support En-
tertainment to Raise Fund for
Relief Association.
By Mayor John N. McGibbon.

1t is so well known that property
owners, business men and residents of
Sank Centre generally are proud of
our volunteer fire department and ap-
preciate the high state of efficiency
which the organization has always
maintained that would not make
mention of it except to introduce my
subject.
Not only do the fire laddies re-
peatedly risk their lives and limbs for
the general community but they pro-
vide the equipment with mhich they
do their fire fighting. In recent years
Sank Centre has grown and expand
ed until it outgrew the old hand-drawn
apparatus which. had done service for
80 years.
The fire boys realized the need of
modern apparatus better than the av-
erage property owner. They had tidy
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-18

IS. K. Challman and son Russell,
who have been here most of the sum-
mer engaged in the acetelyn light
business, left for their home in In
diana, Tuesday night. Mr.. Challman
expects to return next summer.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-18
ENJoYABLE STAG PARTY.

A "stag" party was given by Mr..
aud Mrs. Jim Kinsella, assisted by
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark Brown, Glenwood
at the Kinsella home near Westport
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-18

Civil service examination for fourth
class postmaster at Round Prairie
was held by HI. Wiclxlud Saturday.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-18

Continued on page four)
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-18

Do not be surprised if the present
state insurance commissioner makes
showing in the coming contest for
representation at the next Democratic
national convention. No one would
be surprised if s. d. Works kicked
into the game next year for big hon.
ors and carried them away. As the