The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-04-20

Willard is to have moving picture
shows twice a week.
Twelve of the faculty Of the ST..
Cloud public schools have declined to
sign contracts to return next year.
Miss Anna Daniels of Kimball and
Clifford Van Vleet of Paynesville
were married at st. Cloud last Fri
day.
Little Falls will spend $1,000 for its
Fourth of July celebration this year.
Officers and committees have been
appointed to take charge of arrange
ments.
John Cielinsk, one of the old and
respected citizens of the village of
Foley, died at his home last week. He
had been a resident of Benton coun-
ty many years.
Mayor Fortier of Little Falls has
vetoed an ordinance amending the Ii
cense ordinance to permit of a chau-
tauqua showing in the city without
paying a license.
Mrs. M. E. Cole of Long Prairie,
formerly Miss Minnie Korff, daugh-
ter of one of the old families of Todd
county, died last week of tuberculosis
at the Battle Lake sanitarium.
A temporary Injunction restraining
the Little Falls Power Company from
shutting off the power used by the
Little Falls Milling Company has
been granted by Judge Roeser.
The Benton County Agricultural
Society has offered $3.50 in cash prizes
to boys and girls under 10 who take
part in corn, potato, garden, pig and
poultry growing contests this sum-
mer.
An ordinance granting franchise
to the Little Falls Power Company to
build it's line into the village to sup
ply electric current was passed last
Thursday by the Verndale village
council. Long Prairie has already
granted a franchise.
Posing as a minister and carrying
a grip full of bibles, 'Rev." Hels
Horstad was arrested Friday at
Crookston in company with Anna
Arnstad. Violation of the Mann act
was charged. Horstad gave the Off
Ger who arrested him bible.
Up at Bemidji they are heating the
court house by burning the captured
bar fixtures taken from the places
that had been engaged in the illegal
sale of liquors. Judge Stanton direct
ed that the destruction should do SER
vice in saving the county part of its
coal bill.
St. Cloud school board will soon call
for bids for the remodeling OF the
Union building to conform with de-
mands made by the state school Of
ficials. The cost is expected to be
about $4,000. 1t is announced st.
Cloud contractors will be given every
advantage possible.
April IA marked the thirtieth ami
versary of the cyclone which swept
St. Cloud and Sank Rapids, causing
20 deaths in St. Cloud, Sc in Sank
Rapids, II at Rice and 2 at Buchanan,
besides injuring more than 200 more.
The property loss was upwards OF
100000.
The Brainerd Gas and Electric Co.
has been incorporated for 100000 by
St. Cloud capitalists with Brainerd as
it's principal place of business and st.
Cloud as it's principal branch office. A.
G. Whitney is president of the new
concern and active head. 1t is ex-
pected a big gas manufacturing and
distributing plant will be erected this
summer.
The show business is seemingly not
all roses even when the troupe trav-
els on Especial" The Albany En-
terprise says: "a special brought a
show troupe of fifteen people to Avon
on Monday. They gave two perform
ances entitled The Man From Swed-
en-" and departed yesterday on the
local passenger. Their receipts were
insufficient so they disposed of some
of their personal effects"