The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-02-03

the school, the editors have become
genuine friends of the institution and
will give loyal support to every move
ment to further it's interests.
The sentiment of the editors in this
matter were plainly evidenced at the
smoker in the evening when the edl-
tors cheered Bob Dunn to the echo
when he announced that the school
would have one friend at the next se ;,-
sion of the legislature who would talk
and fight for the institution.
Before the party left the Home
School they were given a dellghtful
buffet luncheon and three rouslns
cheers were given for Mrs. Morse and
for her assistants.
Friday evening complimentary
banquet was given in honor of the
visiting newspapermen at the Palmer
House. The banquet was big affair,
splendidly served and thoroughly en-
joyed by the visitors as well as by To-
eel business men.
After the banquet an informal smok-
er was given at the Commercial Club
was given which did not close till at
ter one o'clock. No one realized the
lateness of the hour till it was over.
POSTMASTER Wallace had assembled a
group of after dinner speakers who
would have graced any function. L. A.
Rossman of the Grand Rapids Herald
Review. DR., J. A. Dubois. Fred Schil-
plin of St. Cloud. Harry DeFoe of the
Knutson of st. Cloud. ]. c. Morrison, A.
G. Rutledge. Farley Dare Will Wilke
and Bob" Dunn were all headliners
and responded very cleverly to their
did form and gave their audience a
treat which will not soon be forgotten.
Towards the conclusion Of the even
ing's program George Ericsson. who
had travelled 1862 miles to attend the
convention brought the house down by
presenting Asa Wallace with consider
able ceremony, an ink-besmeared ink
cup as token Of the esteem in which
he is held by the members of the as
ISOLATION. A little later, however, and
with more seriousness Mr.. Ericsson pro-
duced q beautiful silver loving cup and
in presenting that to the retiring pres
ident voiced the real sentiments of the
members of the association.
That the Sank Centre Commercial
Club is made up of red FLOODED, ener-
getic, hospitable boosters was demon
editors who were strang-
Osakix ers within their gates
Review last Friday and Saturday.
Asa M. Wallace, the poo
bah of the Herald, is the retiring pres
ident of the Scribes, and he has also
ingratiated himself into the hearts OF
the good people of his city and butted
so deeply into the public life of his
community that all he has to do when
he wants anything is to grab it off,
This winter meeting of the Northern
Minnesota Editorial Association was
profitable as well as pleasant. The ad-
dresses were as good or better than
anything ever handed out at the State
School for Girls was the first opportun-
ity most of the editors have had or
getting an idea of the really wonder
full work Mrs. F: F. Morse and her able
assistants are doing for these delin-
quent charges. The homelike methods
employed, the splendid discipline, the
comforts and care, and the truly re-
markable results obtained have placed
the Sank Centre School at the head or
institutions of it's kind in this coun-
The banquet at the Palmer House
and the smoker that followed at the
Club rooms gave the newspaper men men
an opportunity to touch elbows with
the business men of the city, and the
cordial greeting made the visitors feel
that the pleasure was mutual Asa
Wallace, the popular retiring presl0ent
was fittingly remembered with silver
loving cup presented by the associa-
ton.
The members of the Northern Min
nesota Editorial Association were en-
tertained at Sank Centre on Friday and
Saturday of last week, for the annual
business meeting of the
Grey Eagle association. Besides the
Gazette usual entertainment fur
nished for such gather
ings the newspaper men were given an
opportunity to visit the state Home
School for Girls, one of the latest or
The visit of the editors was certainly
the most productive first-hand 1nfor-
nation they had received of the school
and the excellent results obtained by
the State Board of Control. with the
assist nce of Mrs. F. F. Morse. Super
intendent of the school The school
has found many new friends since the
visit of the editors and it is more than
likely that generous support will be
given by the newspaper fraternity in
were presented at the meeting; excel
lent feeds given the editors and an en-
joyable smoker and lmpromptu pro-
gram completed well spent two days
dent, Asa M. Wallace. of the Sank Cen
tire Herald was presented with low
ing cup, the gift Of the Association in
dicating the high regard with which
he is held by the members of the fra
ternity.
Forty gangsters convened at Sank
Centre last week at the annual mid
winter meeting or the Northern Min
nesota Editorial Association, and had
one of the pleasantest
WheelOck's times of their lives, the
Weekly fraternal quality of
Fergus Falls which was well illus
trated by the parting
ceremony, when q circle was formed
and everybody who could sing, and
some that couldn't, Joined in Aud
Lang Syne." They talked shops and
machines, labor cost and overhead.
Roosevelt and Wilson, good roads and
board of control, prohibition and wom-
an suffrage. They gathered around bit
of hideous hotel printing in the Palmer
house (evidently the work of a fifteen
cent per hour artist) and made Asa
Wallace swear in open meeting that it
wasn't his doing. After their visit to
the state school for girls they put in
most of their spare time talking about
methods and aims, and assuring each
other that they could not have told the
girls from any other bunch of the same
age-which of course they couldn't be-
cause those were just the same sort of
girls that any bunch would consist of
only environment, or temptation, or
training had been different. That girls
school was an eye opener to most of
them.
They listened to Bob Dunn make one
of his off hand, serio- comic, wholly
aggressive speeches. and cheered him
to the echo. They made him and AL
yah Eastman life members of the as
ISOLATION. They had one of the snap
pieSt and brightest sessions in the