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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-03-23

SO going to be pig growing contest
for the boys and girls of Stearns
county.
Any boy or girl 10 to 10 years old
may enter this contest. You must
grow at Least one pig. A litter is
preferred.
Each contestant must keep a feed
record Of the pig or pigs for at least
four months; contest to close Sept. /.
1916. He must also keep an accurate
record of all items of expense, re-
celpts and other points of interest in
connection with the care and man.
agement of his pig. Finally he must
give written account "How l Grew
My Pig"
The State Fair management has
appropriated 5000 as prizes and ex-
penses for this project. Several
breeders have already offered pigs as
prizes. Complete announcements of
prizes will be made later.
Mr.. Stephl will have charge of both
the pig and corn growing contests and
is ready to help all those who are in
tereSted.
Circulars and bulletins giving rules
and plans for organizing and conduct
ing each project may be had by ad-
dressing the Agricultural Extension
Division, University Farm, St. Paul,
or by calling at the High School.
Harold Bemis of Long Prairie en-
tered the pig growing contest last
year and won one of the prizes. He
started May % with a pig weighing
IS pounds. By careful feeding, he
made the pig weigh 2251a pounds by
Aug. %, gain of 2 pounds per day.
He received a prize of $50. He also
made big profit on his pig because
it cost him only about &c a pound to
grow his pork and he sold the pig for
8 cents a pound.
This pig consumed 424 pounds
ground corn, 40 pounds oil meal, 200
pounds shorts, CSC pounds skim milk.
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Joe Koterba spent Sunday at home.
Born to Mr.. and Mrsr. Eugene Tay-
lor, Jr., March 18th, a son.
Miss Tillie Ripka, who was en-
ployed at Henry Miller's for the past
three months, returned home Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Veeder, Sarah
Tessendorf and Bert and Jimmie Nor
gan spent Sunday evening at Jager's.
Mildred Taylor is spending a few
days with her grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed. Morgan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tony Miller and
daughter, Gertie, spent Friday even
ing at the home of Mat lager.
Rose and Teckla Miller and brother
Paul, and John and Mike Morris spent
Monday evening at the Morgan home.
George Sieben and Mr.. Sanderson
from Sank Centre are doing some
carpenter work for Tony Miller at the
present time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Stier, who
spent the past week at the home of
Ed. Morgan, returned to their home
in Belgrade Saturday.
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The farmers are busy cleaning their
grain and hauling hay.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Jardine and
family were Sunday visitors at the
S. Jones' home.
Mrs. johnson will return this Sat-
urday to finish her school. There are
two months left.
Mat Cowlthorp drove to Sank Cen
tire Monday. The roads were very bad
and he experienced some difficulty in
getting home.
Mrs. A. Davis and family spent Sat-
urday evening at Carl Kraft's. Mr..
Davis drove on to Grove Lake to at
tend lodge.
The old friends and neighbors gath
cred at the Henry Judes home Sunday
evening and held a farewell party for
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Lent.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Swift's little
boy met with an accident last week.
He fell into a pail of water and burn
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Bruce Elliott spent Sunday after
noon in Sank Centre.
Mr.. MAZE was in Sank Centre on
business on Tuesday.
A. L. Heuzel, the Rawleigh man,
spent Sunday at home.
Miss Rose Lent spent Saturday af-
ternoon in Sank Centre.
Herbert Norgorden visited at the
Lent farm Friday evening.
Craig Wilcox and Frank Knox were
visitors in Melrose Sunday.
Fred Walker assisted Geo. Rubsam
with his farm work last week.
Jack Casey made brief visit at the
Lake View farm on Monday last.
Joseph Willard of Sank Centre was
seen on our streets Thursday last.
Henry Anderson spent couple of
days in the Twin Cities this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Madsen visited with
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Lloyd on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. M. Madsen visited
with friends in Sank Centre Saturday.
4 Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph Lent were Wis
fitors at the o. Lent home few days
this week.
E. Elliott delivered quantity of
wood to the o. S. Cass farm south of
town Saturday.
Mrs. Truax returned to her home in
Sank Centre Monday after weeks
visit at the lake.
John Rue attended the party given
at the Kruger home north of town on
Thursday evening.
Leo Weber and Max Schlicht have
been engaged this week hauling straw
from the Wolfe farm.
R. Elliott assisted Herman Hager
in loading car of stock for South
st. Paul, on Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. H. Doolittle visited
with Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Hansen in
Sank Centre Friday evening. I
John Rue was business visitor at
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-03-23

Rogers Hutchinson and Leon In
gram are the champion corn growers
OF Stearns county. They are entitled
to a free trip to the State Fair for
1916 as members of the Boys Camp.
They will remain all week and see the
sights free of charge.
This year there will be another
corn contest. All boys from ten to
eighteen years old are eligible. All a
boy must do is to get permission from
his parents to use from one to four
acres of ground for the purpose of
growing corn. He must keep an &C
curate record of all the costs and do
all the work himself unless he is too
young, when the heavier work may be
done by some one else. The basis of
award will be:
Yield of dry corn counts so.
Financial statement showing econ
omy of products 25.
Exhibit of ten ears of corn Is.
Story of "How I Raised My Crop of
Corn" 10.
Besides the free trip to the State
Fair there will be other prizes offered,
some of which are:
The State Fair offers $500 in prizes
to boys exhibiting ten ears of corn.
P. R. Thielman of st. Cloud has Of
fered 500 for prizes for exhibits of
corn as follows: Best bushel, $25; Sec
ond best, SIS, and other lesser awards.
Other prizes will also be offered
which will be announced later.
Circulars and bulletins giving rules
and plans for organization and con-
Quoting each project may be had by
addressing The Agricultural Extern
ion Division, Club Work, University
Farm, St. Paul, or by seeing Mr..
Stephl at the High School, who will
help all he can toward making the
contest success.
Pig Growing Contest.
Besides the corn contest there is al
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-03-23

hand and he was taken Immediately
to a doctor who dressed the injured
member.
Henry Hartung and sister, Ida, left
last week for Montana where they will
visit with their sister for a month or
so.
Edwin BOsshart from Nerstrand ar
of household goods, etc., and moved
onto the farm he purchased last fall,
known as the Dryden farm.
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Pig Growing Contest.
Besides the corn contest there is al
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Mrs. Theo. Weiner is on the sick
list.
Leo Miller was seen on our streets
Wednesday.
Frank Weiner visited with Ed.
Schlicht Sunday.
Bernard Wiener is employed at the
home of Tony Beste for a few days.
Ed. Schlicht visited Sunday after
noon at the home of Mrs. John Wien
err.
DR.. A. F. Moynihan made a profess
sional visit in this vicinity last Mon
day.
John Minette, Jr., is employed at
the home of Joe Michaels for some
time.
Aaron Breher, Edward Schlicht and
Leo Unger were city callers Saturday
evening.
Leo Miller, who teaches in Dist. 1873,
had Joe Schloegel as visitor Monday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Botz of Spalding
called at the home of John Gritzmach-
er Saturday.
Mrs. Frank Minette and son AL
phonse, visited at the Frank Unger
home Friday.
John Bromenschenkel and Frank
Unger were business callers in Sank
Centre Tuesday.
George and Barney Minette visited
at the home of ]. Bromenschenkel on
Sunday evening.
Miss Mary Meyers, who has been
spending the last few weeks at the
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Boost for Westport!
Miss Ada Miller is assisting Mrs.
Veeder.
VIM. Bush went to Sank Centre on
Thursday last.
Mrs. Jasper Gray went to Sank
Centre Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Parker spent Sunday
with home folks.
Nal Frederick shipped a car of po-
tatoes this week.
Mr.. Lantz has moved his family to
the Burrow farm.
Nal and Ben Frederick went to
Minneapolis Monday.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. NJ.
Frederick is quite i'll.
Bert Honold of St. Cloud spent
Sunday with his father.
The dance Friday night was at
tended by a large crowd.
Joe Cook returned from San Benito,
Texas, Thursday evening.
]. Erwin attended I. o. o. F. lodge
in Sank Centre last Thursday.
Mrs. Peter Smith went to st. Paul
Saturday to visit her daughter.
Everett Jameson spent Sunday
with home folks in Sank Centre.
Mrs. Geo. Bodiker and her mother,
Mrs. Scott were Sank Centre visitors
Monday.
Mrs. Frank Beal of Glenwood spent
several days of last week with her
parents.
A card party was given at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. O. E. Kruger
Saturday night.
Chas. Frederick returned home
from the cities Monday evening bring
ing a piano to his daughters.
Among the passengers to Sank
Centre Saturday morning were Miss
Nygaard, Miss Nellie and J. R. Fred
erick.
]. Kinsella and his brother Frank
went to Glenwood Saturday to consult
DR.. Alexandria about the latter's
health.
Mr.. and Mrs. Slindee went to Frs
kline last week after spending some
time with her brother, Mr.. Lantz and
family.
Frank Beal came down Saturday
from Glenwood Saturday morning to
spend the day with his parents and
accompany his wife home.
Mr.. and Mrs. O'Brien left Wednes-
day morning for the cities after
spending a part of the winter with
Mrs. O'Brien's brother and wife, Mr..
and Mrs. C. C. Thoen.
believe in my town. l believe in
her people, in her boys and girls. l
will make of myself a committee of
one to make of this a good place in
which to live and mighty hard place
to leave. l believe in her school, in
her church and in her stores. l be-
lieve in the paint pot and clean up
day. l believe in ne'er an empty can
on a vacant lot but many full one
in the larder. Never again will l
throw waste paper in the street or al
ley. l believe in grass instead of ash
heaps, and flowers instead of weeds.
May God bless the tongue that gives
honest praise and commentator, and
may he doubly bless the ear that is
deaf to scandal and gossip. If I can
not speak good of my neighbors, I
will hold my peace. When possible I
will spend my money here and by so
doing leave a part of the purchase
price to circulate in the channel where
it's equivalent in wealth was originally
created, to do good among the folks
who are part of the community of
which l am a part in the place that /
call sweet home.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-03-23

M. P. Stadtherr is buying potatoes.
Have you any to sell? adv
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-03-23

Simply marvellous pain-no cut
ting-no aches-corns vanish. Yo,
never saw anything like it in your Who'll
life. Why suffer another minute-wh,
limp around and act like an old cripple
Comfort Corn Plasters will make yoi
romp around like 2-year-old. TIL
old, hard, stubborn corn goes -withou
paint simply vanishes over night
lust ask for Comfort Corn Plasteys
Remember Comfort Corn Plaster;
are guaranteed to give absolute salts
faction or money back. Only 25c the
package.
Hanson & Emerson,
The Corner Drug Store
Sank Centre, MINI.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-03-23

ed himself severely. The little fellow
has sympathy of all friends. At pres
ent he seems to be getting along nice
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-06-02
FOUR KILLED IN AN
IOWA COLLEGE FIRE
Other Students Are Injured In Trying
to Save Valuable Art Collection
in the Chapel.

{ Oskaloosa, Iowa.-Fire which Satur-
day destroyed the administration build
ing Of Penn college here took toll of
four lives. The bodies of Robert H.
Williams, 35, regent of the college and
state secretary of the prohibition par
ty, and Harry Oakley, %, freshman,
were recovered.
According to the chief of police the
two additional dead are George Raber,
a railroad fireman, and an unidentified
man. They were in party of half
dozen who were carrying books from
the library when the four-ton bell in
the cupola fell through the building,
splitting and collapsing its front wall.
George Minear and Howard Kelley
students, are in the hospital and may
die.
The fire broke out in the biological
laboratory on the second floor of the
building and reached a 40-gallon tank
of alcohol which exploded, scattering
liquid fire in all directions. Insuffi-
cient water pressure hampered the eff
forts of the fire department.
Williams and Oakley were killed
"hiAO alIOihP1mS W odFS Ihe cOlleSe
records. The fire reached the cupola
and the four-ton college bell crashed
down through the building, wrecking
the front wall and burying the victims
under tons of debris.
Minear and Kelly were cut and
bruised and are believed to have suf-
fered internal injuries. They were
hurt while reScuing the s H M Rvers
art collection which was hung in the
chapel hall. The collection is said to
be worth $4,000
Defective electric wiring is believed
to have started the fire.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-06-02
MINING NOTES

William Watkins, fire boss in the
B. North mine near Fernie, B. c., was
caught under cavein recently and
fatally crushed.
e. G. Mellander has placed on rec
ord at Libby, Mont, an option to pur-
chase all the property owned by the
Libby Placer Mining company for
$150000, with an initial payment of
$4,000 due September /. The claims
extend for three miles along Libby
creek, about 25 miles south of there,
and embrace 1,12O acres.
The Rambler-Cariboo Mining com
pany will pay it's second dividend in
1916, it's first regular bimonthly dis
tribution of profits, June Is, to share
holders of record June 5. The dis
bursement will be 2 cents a share, OF
$4,000 in all, making the total OF
profit distributions so far for 1916 $52,
500 and increasing the grand total OF
dividends to s472,500.
New York Metal Market.
The metal exchange quotes lead
$7.15@7.35; spelter, quiet.
Copper, firm; electrolytic, nearby
nominal; August and later, $2s.5Oq
5000.
Bar silver, 7115s.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-06-02
PACIFIC COAST NEWS

An over loaded wharf at Port Or
ford, Ore, collapsed recently, injuring
five men, of whom two may die.
At San Diego, Cal, May %, five per-
sons were injured, two probably IA
tally. and boy was killed in two au-
tomobile accidents.
Fire of unknown origin swept
through the upper stories of four
buildings in the business district Of
North Bend, Ore, Sunday. Loss $780,
000
After shooting and killing his wife
and baby daughter. William l.. Pater-
son turned his revolver upon himself
at his home at Salem, Ore, Saturday.
An amendment is proposed to the
prohibition law of Oregon to permit
brewers to manufacture beer of 4 per
cent alcohol and sell it direct to the
consumer.
At Pendleton. Ore, recently Joseph
Roth, president of the Hermiston
Light & Power Co., slew James Ralph,
its vice president and general man
ager, and then killed himself. Both
men left families.
At San Diego, Cal, May %, James l..
Miller, 20 years old, of Seattle, water
tender on the cruiser Pittsburg, shot
and killed his sweetheart, Beatrice
Sherwin, aged II, and then sent a
bullet into his head, dying several
hours later. She had refused to marry
him.
M. c. Smithson of McMinnville (Or.)
college won first place in the Pacific
coast intercollegiate oratorical contest
over Representatives of the University
of Redlands, Stanford university and
Whitman college of Walla Walla, Wn.
His victory makes him the represent
alive of the colleges of the Pacific
coast at the national oratorical con-
test at Lexington, KY, in December.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-06-02
In a Commercial Way.

]. A. Patock of Spokane has opened
a bakery at Spirit Lake.
j. c. Hanzen has purchased the
Rasmussen grocery store at Idaho
Falls.
Hobart-Brown company, hardware
and implement dealers at Ashton, have
Incorporated.
Mccormick Bros, bakers and con-
fectioners at Moscow, suffered slight
damage by fire last week.
The general store at Springton was
entered one night last week and
goods to the value of about s175
taken.
The Shamrock cigar store at Bon.
ners Ferry was entered Monday night
and small amount of goods and
money taken.
The Stevens Mercantile company OF
Winchester has bought the stock OF
H. l.. Clovis at Forest, and Henry
Stevens will manage the business.
Five places of business in one night
was the record of burglars at Rath.
drum last week, who appropriated
goods to the value of about S25 and
IS or Sc in money. The Red Cross
pharmacy and the Rathdrum Grain &
Supply company were among the
places entered.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-06-02
SUMMARY OF THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEMi-
SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO
LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED FOR BUSY READERS
Brief Notes Covering Happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Are of Legitimate interest
to All the People.

Ignatius Timothy Trebich Lincoln,
confessed German spy, sailed from
New York for England Sunday.
The Vermont delegation to the ma
tional republican convention will go to
Chicago instructed for Justice Charles
e. Hughes.
The emergency stamp tax will con-
tinue in force until the end of 1916,
despite rumors from Washington to
the contrary.
Former President Taft was guest
at lawn party given May 81 by Pres
ident and Mrs. Wilson on the White
House grounds.
According to dispatch from Rome
the Athens correspondent of the Agen-
zia Nationales reports that the Greek
cabinet has resigned
Authorization of a campaign to raise
100000 for the pension fund for
retired Methodist ministers and their
widows was given by the general con-
ference.
The rumor in circulation abroad that
Prince Won Buelow, former German
chancellor, is going on special mis-
sion to Washington, is officially de-
MED at Berlin.
1t was victory for the administers
ton in its fight to make Louis D..
Brandeis an associate justice of the
~ 10
to vote on the nomination June 1.
Adjutant General H. T. Herring Of
the New Mexico national guard, In
the name of honor and dignity" has
called upon the citizens of the state to
help place the state militia on a war
footing.
peals has upheld the lower court hold
ing that Joseph Letter could not be
compelled to pay notes for s257 $3.50 be-
cause they were, under the statutes,
gambling debts.
Franz Won Rintelen, the German
agent who has figured in several al
legged German bomb plots and Is now
detained in England, was indicted by
the federal grand jury at New York as
basis for obtaining his extradition
to this country.
Combination rates on lumber from
points in Eastern Oregon on the Ore
gon-Washington Railroad and Naviga
ton company to Montana, South Da
kOta. North Dakota Minnesota and
Nebraska have been found by the in
terstate commerce commission to be
unreasonable and prejudicial. The
railroad was given until September
to establish lower rates.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-06-02
SPORTING ITEMS

Horse racing is to be revived at Ia
coma
Cornell won the intercollegiate track
and field championship on the Harvard
stadium.
The University of Washington won
the college tennis championship of the
northwest, defeating Oregon
The Fulton Willard match is quite a
real joke the Minnesota heavyweight
is not entitled to chance at the cham
pionship crown.
Washington state college emerged
the victor over the Spokane Amateur
Athletic club in their first track and
field meet Saturday at Spokane, score
II to 60.
University of Washington track and
field athletes were no match for the
Oregon Agricultural men Saturday and
Oregon Agricultural college won the
annual dual meet 1914 points to 511h.
Individual playing of two Cleveland
start, Iris Speaker and John Graney,
has contributed in no small way to the
success of the Indians. Speaker leads
the batters of the American league
with a percentage of 1861 and has scor-
ed more runs than any other player,
having crossed the plate 25 times. Ora
ney leads the league in home runs with
four and in total bases with "a.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-06-02
BRITISH COMPULSlON BILL o. X.
More Than 100000 Men Have Been
Enlisted So Far.

London-The signature of King
George was recently affixed to the
military bill passed by parliament.
In giving royal sanction to the bill,
King George issued the following mes
sage to the nation:
ITO enable our country to organ
ize more effectively it's military re-
sources in the present great struggle
for the cause of civilization, l, having
acted on the advice of my ministers,
deemed it necessary to enroll every
able-bodied man between the ages of
Is and Al
81 desire to take this opportunity
OF expressing to my people my recog-
milton and appreciation of the splen-
did patriotism and self-sacrifice they
displayed in raising by voluntary en-
listment since the commencement of
the war no less than 5,041,000 men
an effort far surprising that of any
other nation in similar circumstances
recorded in history and one which
will be a lasting source of pride to
future generations"
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-06-02
NOTED PERSONS DIE

Paris.-General Joseph c. Gallieni,
former minister of war, died at Yer
sailles Saturday.
New Haven, Conn.-The Rev. DR..
Timothy Dwight, former president of
Yale university.
Sag Harbor. l.. Lieutenant Clar-
ence Alvin Richards, commander of
the United States destroyer Tanning,
killed by an electric shock.
Paris.-Madame Jane Dieulafoy,. au-
thor, explorer, chevalier of the Legion
of Honor and possessor of the unique
privilege accorded by the French gov
eminent of wearing male apparel.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-06-02

opportunity to do SO, he included pro-
vision for absolute freedom of the seas,
a contention which has been the key
stone of all the diplomatic discussions
with Germany and Great Britain, and
virtual guarantees of territorial integ-
rity and political independence.
Officials interpreted the presidents
address as a preliminary feeler for
peace in Europe. He outlined the con-
ditions on which the United States
would move If it made a formal me-
diatory offer with the idea, it was I'M
derstood, Of learning how such sug-
gestions would be received abroad.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-06-02
cIemmer's Added Attraction.

Miss Pauline Turner, who made a
distinct musical triumph during the
last year at the San Francisco exposi-
ton, where she appeared repeatedly as
soloist with Cassassa's band, Sousas
band and the Philippine constabulary
band, in musical programs of high or
der, opened limited engagement at
the Clemmer theater, Spokane, Sun
day. During her engagement at the
Clemmer, she will entertain the pat
rons with old-time popular songs.