The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-02-25

and Mrs. b. w. Stone, now OF Mel
rose, but formerly of Sank Centre un-
fortunately broke his leg one day last
week when his sled hit a post as he
was sliding down hill. At present the
little fellow is getting along fine, but
it is a rather hard job to keep him
from trying to use the injured men,
ber,g - =.
L/Mr. and Mrs. w. C. Rotert return
ed from Minneapolis Sunday evening,
where they had been to attend the Gel
ebration of the forty-second aniver-
sary of the marriage of the lady's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. S. Rhodes. The
occasion brought all children home
to properly celebrate the event and
the reunion was greatly enjoyed by
all present.
Harry Hoye, for the past several
months employed as a barber in Sank
Centre at both the Jesse Rose and
Geo. Butler barber shops, left Sum
day morning for the Twin Cities,
where he will be employed in the bar
Der shop at the Merchants Hotel. Mr..
Butler has a competent man, recent
ly from Winnipeg, holding down the
chair left vacant by Harry.
M. J. Willard, who recently moved
to this section from Kansas, living on
the McGibbon farm, received word
this Thursday morning that his aged
mother had died at Mayetta, Kan.
The word reached the gentleman too
late to attend the funeral, although he
says the message arrived in this city
at two o'clock Sunday morning. Nat
urally he is very much put out over
the delay in delivering the message.
WE WILL RECEIVE A SMALL
CAR OF MARQUIS WHEAT FOR
SEED PURPOSES AND REQUEST
THE FARMERS OF THIS SECTION
TO MAKE THEIR RESERVATIONS
EARLY AS WE Do NOT CARE TO
ORDER MORE THAN THERE is A
DEMAND FOR. CENTRAL MIN
NESOTA POWER & MILLING co.
A surprise party was given at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Brant, Jr.,
Saturday night. The evening was
spent in card playing and games.
Dainty refreshments were served at
midnight. Besides those from this
city attending the out of town guests
were Misses Florence Kircher and FL
sic Schaefer; VIM. and John Fisen-
burg of Long Prairie; Miss Emma
Ryan and Edw. Croy of Grey Eagle.
On Monday afternoon about thirty
ladies, laden down with good things
to eat, greatly surprised Mrs. J. F.
Coyle, it being the lady's birthday.
After the effects of the surprise were
over all enjoyed social afternoon,
and the "final" was a most delicious
lunch. Those present were: Mes
danes ]. Richardson, M. Mcintyre,
Anton Nelson, Frank Nelson, Geo.
Bowman, M. E. Bull, Bremen, Scott,
Reed, G. H. Vandesteeg, Geo. Ingals,
Chas. Brown, Geo. Butler, H. N. Car
penter, William Fox, J. H. Jenkins,
Chas. Gray, Matilda Meigs, Peter Or
war, Chas. Weymouth, Edwin Lager
gren, Frank T. Pangburn, Maud Bar
nard, William Pangburn; Miss Louise
Reed and Miss Lewis, neice of Mrs.
Vandesteeg.
Another meeting was called Sunday
of those who have manifested an in
terest in putting baseball team in
the field this season. Manager Du-
beau read the minutes of the last
meeting and appointed two commit
tees to take initiative action in the
matter of giving a dance in the near
future and as to the soliciting of
funds with which to purchase new
uniforms. 1t it to be hoped that those
who are interested in the sport will
cooperate with those who have start
ed the movement and help put Sank
Centre on the baseball map.
1.-THE new Rotary Automatic Fire
Alarm, which was recently purchased
by the city of Sank Centre, was in
stalled the latter part of last week
and test was made on Monday of
this week in the presence of several
members of the council, the Fire
Chief, and others interested in the ap-
paratus. The machine performed it's
duties without the least balk of any
kind and in a way that was satisfac-
tory to both the city officials and J.
A. Melin, the representative of the
company that installed the machine.
The inventor, L. A. Meyers, of this
city, was also very well pleased with
the performance of the new member
of the Sank Centre Volunteer Fire
Department. This system of alarm
is one of the most advanced and most
easily operated fire alarm on the
market and will revolutionize the
volunteer fire departments all over
the country. A city where the Ro-
tary Automatic Fire Alarm was re-
Gently installed, had record of twen-
ty minutes from the time the alarm
was turned in until they reached the
fire and thought that this was get
ting quick results but on the first
alarm sent in by means of the new