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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-02-11
THE LEGISLATIVE
DOINGS OF 4 WEEK
Continued from first page
the ball." he said. "They were accus-
toned to chasing highballs."

Early in this session Senator E. E.
Lobeck, the Prohibition leader, said
that Stearns county was one of those
he feared would fight temperance lee
turers. He was right. Both Sena-
tors Peirre Hilbert and ]. D. Sullivan
voted against the measure. Of course
the people will decide the matter for
themselves, but these were two of the
senators that would deny the people
the privilege.
The present legislative session bids
fair to keep up the record of~former
sessions in the number of new laws 1t
will place on the statute books. On an
average there are 1000 bills each two
years. About 500 of them become law.
Five weeks have passed since the
thirty-ninth session opened. Close to
TOO bills have been placed before the
two bodies.
r Under the present Legislative sys-
tenn there is no way to curb the prac-
tiee except BY Individual members
coming to the realization that it
would be better to concentrate on a
few bills.
Asked not long ago if he were pre-
pairing any bills, Senator F. E. Put
man replied: ."Not many. l have got
over the bill craze. When I first came
to the Legislature l thought l must
introduce a lot of bills or l would not
be doing my duty"
One great trouble that makes for q
multiplicity of bills is that of specia
legislation.
Samuel D. Works, insurance com
missioner, is an advocate of more
stringent laws covering the making
of fire Insurance rates. He got right
into the. collar upon taking office ane
began studying this big problem
What is wanted is more power by the
state over the rate making bureaus
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-02-11
NEPTUNE'S DAUGHTER
Greatest Motion Picture Films in Elk
istence Will be Shown at the
Caughren Theatre.

"Neptune's Daughter" which will
be shown in seven reels at the Caugh-
rem theatre tomorrow, Friday eve
ming features Miss Annette Kel-
herman, the worlds most noted ard
daring lady diver, and tine pictures
were taken off the shores of Bermuda
Every picture of this great produc-
ton is thrill. These pictures have
not yet been shown at any of the mo-
ton picture theatres of st. Paul or
Minneapolis, but few weeks ago
were shown to crowded houses at the
Metropolitan theatres in both cities
at 75c and a dollar.
Mr.. Dubeau in booking this attrac-
ton is simply carrying out his policy
"that nothing is too good for Sank
Centre people,"
The Herald hopes that the theatre
will be packed from pit to foyer at
the price he is compelled to charge,
rs cents for children and so cents for
adults. 1t will take a full house for
him to break even on this venture.
Miss Kellerman, besides being
queen of the water, is wonderfully
handsome and perfectly formed wom-
an. Among other things the pictures
show a fight under water with a
monster creature of the sea. This
conflict so exhausted her that she was
compelled to keep in her room for a
period of three weeks before she was
able to 60 on with the completion of
the series. For many years Miss Kel-
lerman has been the big headliner on
the Orpheum circuit and las a world
wide reputation.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-02-11
LIVE STOCK

1 gary Mare 5 yrs old, W.T. 1850
1 gray Mare yrs old, W.T. 1850
1 bay Mare IL yrs old, W.T. 1850
1 bay Horse yrs old, W.T. 1900
1 Horse Colt, coming yrs old
yearling Colt
10 good Mich Cows, some fresh and
others to be fresh soon.
2 Heifers 2 yrs old, coming fresh
1 yearling Heifer; Bull 10 mos old.
5 small Calves; l single Harness.
2 sets of Double Harness
100 fence posts; mo. Range
Scotch Collie Dog
Household goods and other articles
too numerous to mention.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-02-11
Tuesday, February e
SALE TO COMMENCE AT HOO A. M.
MACHINERY

MACHlNE
1 Mccormick Binder
1 Mccormick Mower, nearly new.
1 Mccormick Hay Rake, almost new
l McCherry Shoe Drill.
John Deere Sulky Plow, nearly new
1 John Deere Riding Cultivator.
John Deere Potato Plow
1 Hand Cultivator
3-Horse Harrow; 1 Bob Sleigh
wide tire Wagon, double box
wide tire Wagon with Hay Rack.
1 John Deere Top Buggy, nearly new
Owens Tanning Mill
set Dump Boards
Galvanized Iron Water Trough.
Grind Stone; 1 Iron Kettle
1 Sharples Cream Separator, new
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-02-11

the Bands property belonging to the
City and to turn it over to the City
Clerk.
There being no further business to
come before this meeting it was adj
journed.
Attest: J. F. Cooper, City Clerk.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-02-11
Regular Meeting


Regular Meeting
Regular meeting of the Common
Council held Wednesday, February 3,
1915, at 1880 p. m.
The Council convened in regular
session with all the members in at
tendance save Alderman Jenkins.
The minutes of the previous meet
ing were read and approved.
The Rest Room Committee filed its
regular monthly report, which showed
among other things, a monthly at
tendance of 480 with the largest sim
gle days attendance of 81, and bal
ance on hand of $7.O5. Same was &C
copied and ordered filed.
Schwartz & Wruck presented their
Liquor License Bond in the sum of
$4,000, with Joseph Klemm and Math
Vanish as sureties and same was un-
animously approved and ordered plac-
ed on file.
William Vollmer, having sold his
Pool & Billiard business to William
Simmer and having assigned his pool
and billiard License No. 143 to said
Simmer, William Simmer filed his ap-
plication in writing, asking the appro-
val of the Common Council to such
assignment, and same was unanl-
mously granted.
The Street committee asked further
time on matter of Alley through
Block IL, and same was granted.
The Light committee was also
granted further time on petition for
light at 4th and Birch streets.
The matter of adjusting difference
between AL. Fish and the City on
Band instrument was referred to the
Property Committee with power to
act.
The City Attorney and Clerk were
instructed to prepare bill and pre-
sent same to Legislature to confer
upon the City Council the power to
pave or sprinkle the streets.
The representative of the Standard
Oil Co., was present and offered to
contract with the City for $4,000 gals.
No. 4 road oil at and 29-1OO cents
per gal, F. o. B. Sank Centre for de-
livery on or before July LIST, 1915,
with a guarantee of less rate if oil
shall sell for less that A and 29-1OO
cents when ordered shipped. Also
granting privilege to cancel the order
in case the city should not use such
oil. Such cancellation to be made on
or before June 18th. And the Clerk
was directed to execute such condi-
tional order on behalf of the city.
The following bills were audited al
lowed and ordered paid in full, viz:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-02-11

See our new stock of three apron
ginghams in light and dark prints.
Golden Rule Store. adv
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-02-11
Public Sale

will sell Public Auction miles of Sank Centre,
miles southeast of West Union; and ~ miles northeast of
Stiles Station the followina property on
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-09
A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT

90 many big things are being ac-
y complished now by the engineers
of the world that any achievement
to attract public attention must be of
the most unusual character. In this
age of reinforced concrete we are ac-
customed to seeing dreams come true
which are sometimes startling in their
reality. Such dream was the great
viaduct on the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western railroad between Scran-
ton and Binghamton which was dedi-
Gated on Saturday. This work has at
tracted the attention of engineers the
world over and the massive character
of the project and the millions of dol
lars involved have been the subject of
discussion in engineering circles for
the last two or three years.
This Viaduct carries the double
tracks of the Lackawanna railroad for
miles and miles across the valley. It
is constructed entirely of reinforced
concrete and consists of ten spans of
feet each. 1t is termed the ninth Won
der of the world contains approx
mately 4,509,000 cubic feet of concrete
and 2,2S0,000 pounds of reinforcing
STEEL All of the foundations were car
ried to solid rock. Two of the piers
required an excavation of 95 feet in
depth from the ground surface, while
the excavation for the piers at the bot
tom of the valley was carried through
sand, gravel and boulders to a depth
of so feet below the water level. The
magnitude of this performance can
hardly be realized by the mere use of
figures and illustrations. 1t must be
seen to be thoroughly appreciated in
all it's colossal immensity and is cer-
tain to become one of the great objects
of interest to all tourists.
Governor Brumbaugh very properly
referred to the achievement as an
exhibition of corporate integrity and
high-class public service. More and
more the people are beginning to un-
derstand that these great railroad cor
porations are the advance agents of
the prosperity of the country; that
without them there can be no real
Development; that they carve out the
channels of trade and growth and op-
portunity for all the people. Courage
and vision and skill are the predomi-
nant qualities which make such
achievements possible.
President Truesdale and his asso-
ciates of the Lackawanna system are
keeping step with the spirit which has
signalized the progress of this mighty
nation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-09
SOME SANE Policies

n HAYOR-ELECT EZRA S. MEALS
lVI is recuperating in Virginia from
his more or less strenuous cam
paigning of the last few months, but
before leaving for the South he sub
mitted through the Telegraph some of
his views concerning the sort of ad-
ministration which he thinks Harris
burg should have during the term COM
mencing about the first of January
next. Some of these views are of more
than usual interest and indicate sane
and practical consideration of certain
problems which are now giving the
average citizen more or less concern.
Nobody will doubt the wisdom of
his suggestion that the traffic con-
ditions in the business district must be
improved. 1t is obvious that the in
tolerable situation in Market street and
in Third and Fourth streets, between
Walnut and Market. and in other sec
tions of the business district cannot be
permitted to continue His idea of
one-way regulation for Third and
Fourth streets, between Walnut and
Market, is absolutely correct, as is
also his proposition that the jitneys
must be subject to reasonable regu-
lation and control.
Most people also agree with the
Mayor r-elect in his emphatic decla-
ration that the speed fiends must be
suppressed even though the motorcycle
officers are given a tip to bore the tires
of oil s,,ob .oaaAa arS with a bulIat or
two. This may be drastic way to bring
about a reform in the outrageous dis
regard of these offenders of the ordt-
nary traffic rules and regulations, but
the nuisance has become so serious
that there is general protest among
the people. Also, the Mayor-elect is
opposed to the rather elaborate scheme
of police organization which was
broached a few days ago. He evil
IDENTIFY feels that a police force need
not consist entirely of officers with
hifalutin' titles and that there is more
need for practical conservators of the
peace than for goldlace officials who
may look impressive and imposing, but
who will not patrol the streets and the
haunts of the violators of law.
Let us hope that the Mayor-elect is
not talking only for publication, but
is preparing to aid so far as one-fifth
of the commission can in the working
out of practical and common-sense
traffic regulations to the end that the
lives of the people may not be menaced
and the rights of all may be conserved.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-09
COMPENSATION INSURANCE


n MANUFACTURERS all over the
Wl State are now intensely inter-
ested in the working out of
plans for the insurance provision of
the Workmens Compensation law.
Whether the State insurance arrange
ment shall prove satisfactory to the
manufacturers will depend largely
upon what kind of plan is developed.
BY the same token, the success OF the
various mutual insurance schemes
will also rest upon the practical
character of the plans now under dis
cussion.
Conferences OF manufacturers are
being held in different parts of the
State and those Of Dauphin, Lebanon,
Cumberland, Franklin, Perry and
Juniata counties will meet in this city
tonight to consider a subject in
which all are so vitality interested.
Just now the business community
is endeavoring to comply in every
proper way with the spirit and letter
of the several enactments of the last
Legislature which particularly affect
manufacturers and other employers
of labor. There is no disposition any
where to sidestep or ignore these
laws. On the contrary the spirit of
cooperation is widely manifest and
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-09
THE sCHUYIKILL WAY

CCHUYLKILL county stands among
the first ten counties of the State
in number of votes polled. Yet it
was one of the first five in the sixty
seven to file complete official returns
of the election. Friday, the third day
after the election, the official results
were on file in the office of the Secre-
tary of the Commonwealth at the State
Capitol.
There is a lesson in this prompt
filing of returns. Schuylkill polled in
the neighborhood of $4,000 votes on
Tuesday. The official count was fin
ished Friday before dawn, within
eighteen hours of the time it was
started in the presence of the court. 1t
will be days before the official returns
of counties having considerably less
votes than Schuylkill have entered
their returns at the Capitol.
In Pottsville it is the custom to have
the returns all ready at noon on Thurs
day, the second day after election, as
they are required to be in all other
counties. But the difference is that
the Schuylkill men making the count
keep on working until they finish.
They do not stop for the night when
the sun sets. They keep on counting.
And in e few days there is an official
return ready in the time that the law
contemplated. Thaas men are paid
for the 700. EsA >, - day. They
compute the results and get results.
Exactly why the same system can
not be followed in other counties
passes comprehension. If it could be
done. the State would have its official
returns inside of a week. Instead of not
for a fortnight or even worse. Pos
sibly the laws which have been so
much blamed are not as responsible as
the persons who are charged to carry
them out.
The Schuylkill way could be fol-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-09
VISITING THE WAR BRIDES
V.-Hopewell
By Frederic J. Haskin

snort and squawk of jitneys that are
always bringing more. the tattoo of a
thousand hammers building houses to
hold them, and the mighty, murmurous
undercurrent of sound which is the
whirr and roar of the great mills that
brought it. all into being.
Hard on AristOcracy
Hopewell has naturally Scandalized
spectablity. Richmond and Petersburg,
and perhaps she has made them bit
envious. She is not, however, the den
of vice and disorder she has been rep
resented, and that she well might be,
considering her population and her gov
ernment by common consent. Wine,
women and song are here. to be sure,
but with the assistance of the strong
are gradually cutting out the wine and
women and confining themselves to
song-chiefly of the mechanical va
riety
Hopewell is split in two by wide
and busy railroad yard where 1T seems
to be a miracle that men are not killed
every day. ON the one side is the re-
tail and residential section. and on the
other side the powder plant, city in
itself. The casual visitor is not well
The fact is delicately intimated by the
presence of ten-foot wire fence and a
large force of armed men.
Back of this fence $4,000 laborers are
powder for the European War. This
is the largest gun cotton plant in the
world, and also the largest nitrate and
sulphuric acid factory. 1T has every
appearance of being built with perma-
nence. 1t is universally believed the
plant was located here by advice of the
government at Washington, because of
the strategic advantage of having a
CONTINUED on Page g.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-09
TELEORAPH'S PERIScOPE

How time does fly. Last ApriPs
Spring chickens are full grown hens
and the kittens that frolicked so glee-
somely in May are full grown cats
yowling in the backyard at night.
Manufacturers are learning that the
compensation act has ramifications far
beyond the mere paying of benefits to
injured workmen. Let the lawyers
smile.
Some men who are credited with
good judgment in emergencies mere
ly chance to fall off on the right side
of the fence.
The railroads of the country spent
100000 on newspaper advertising
last year. All, ha, my dear Watson.
now we arrive at an understanding of
all this railroad prosperity of recent
months
Georgia hanged three men yester-
day. No, Maude, remarkable as it
may seem, it was not a lynching.
1t requires rich vocabulary to ex-
press ones poor opinion of another.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-09

X|OU approach the new city of
Y Hopewell through a waste of
L timber and broom hedge. You
are amazed to see this wilderness eX-
boulevards, designated by. freshly paint
ed signs. There is not house in ght
1t looks as though someone had PLAN
ned q large city and then neglected to
erect sa much as a chicken coop.
Suddenly the mystery is explained.
A tremendous battery of hundred foot
chimneys, belching smoke. looms above
the pine trees to your right, while to
your left is whole city of paper and
wood and corrugated iron steadily
army of hammers. The next minute
you are in the midst of Americas new
est mushroom town, the city of thirty
thousand that grew in a year from the
El Dorado, which is nowhere west of the
Mississippi, but right here in the Old
Dominion, home of first families and
conservative traditions.
The first families of Hopewell will
afford considerable bewilderment to the
future genealogist. Greeks and 1tal-
ians seem to have a strong grip on the
feed house and shining business, and a
good many signs are in Greek: Jews
are as ever the merchants. Negroes
swarm everywhere, while among the
workers in the powder mills are prob
ably samples of every race. that comes
by way of Ellis Island.
Hopewell is a muddled network of
mud, lined with painless wooden
shacks which house every trade and
traffic known to man, but with an as
founding preponderance of dance halls,
taurants and hotels. Throngs of eN cry
tongue and color pour through the
streets. The place resounds with their
babble of chatter and shouting, the
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-09
GIVING THE CITY A BLACK EYE
1.-TWO self-styled detectives" and

1.-TWO self-Styled detectives ana
"reformers'' are in Harrisburg
telling whomsoever they can per-
suade to listen that Harrisburg is vice
ridden and that commercialized i'm
morality is as prevalent here as lin
Pittsburgh or Chicago"
If these men have the proof of what
they charge, it is their duty to lay the
matter before the district attorney,
who has shown no hesitancy in the
past in prosecuting when conditions of
the kind came to his notice. The
police under Colonel Hutchison were
very energetic in blotting out the red
light" district and in raiding disorderly
places as rapidly as they appeared.
No doubt they will act just as vigor-
ously now as in the past.
No good is accomplished by telling
lurid tales of vice conditions before
mixed audiences. Indeed, there is a
distinct evil in the methods taken by
these so-called reformers, for talk of
the kind in which they have INDUCED
is not good for young and innocent
ears. The place for recitals of the
kind is in the district attorneys office.
The Telegraph doubts very much
the truth of the broad generalities
in which these two visitors have in
dulged. This newspaper has been a
leader in the cause of sex purity in
Harrisburg and it will continue TO be
so with all the energy and ability it
possesses, but it is too jealous of the
good name of Harrisburg to permit
anybody unchallenged to spread broad
cast a lot Of charges of the most vile
character which it believes cannot be
sustained. If the detectives" have
the evidence let them produce it. If
they haven't the proof, let them keep
quiet. We have no time for profess
sional reformers who make their living
at the expense of the fair regulations
of the towns they chance to visit
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-09
EDITORIAL cOTENT

Mr.. Bryan says if he had lived two
centuries ago he would have been
hanged. AS he mentions no details,
the hanging would evidently have been
done on general principles.-Baltimor
American.
Unless Greece and Rumania enter
the war pretty soon there will be no
Rumania or Greece. - Philadelphia
Public Ledger. .-
Is the issue to be grape juice versus
grape shot?-New York Sun.
Since those Russians have come out
from behind the barbed-wire entangle-
ments, and are trusting more to their
boards, they seem to be doing better
New York Evening Sum-
Perhaps Mr.. Asquith has adopted
Bismarck's maxim that the best way
to deceive your opponents is to tell the
truth.-Kansas City Times.
However satisfactory it may be to
the Republican party that the Demo-
Gratis will have a working majority of
only twenty-five in the next House, ii
is more satisfactory to the country. A
topheavy majority is license to do
the unwarrantable thing, while con-
troll by small margin often insures
good egislation.-New York Sun.