The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-01-04
NeiShborhood News
HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK
TERSELY TOLD FOR THE
BUSY READER

year of his publication of the Prince
ton Union, one Of Minnesotas foremost
newspapers.
w. E. Stoothoff, for time publisher
of the Pope County Times at Glen
wood, has purchased the Dassel An
Choir of Charles w. Hencke and will
issue his first paper this week.
Mr.. Henke, father Of Mrs. T. c,
Hudson, of Paynesville, formerly of
Sank Centre, died at Baldwin, Wis.
last week of cancer of the liver. De-
ceased had been i'll for some time.
Fire destroyed the farm home of
William Schulz of Synnes township
Stevens county, last week. Two child
rem, aged one and three years, were
burned to death. The third child was
rescued.
Louis Johnson, an Ottertail county
farmer, grew an acre of corn the past
season that yielded $40 bushels, OF
20 bushels of shelled corn. Still some
claim corn cannot be grown in Mime
sofa successfully.
Clay county will ship from 800 to
1000 fewer carloads of potatoes in
the spring Of 1917 than it did in the
spring of 1916. A survey of the po-
tato situation reveals this marked
shortage in teh supply.
One of the most extensive contracts
for thing farm lands in Minnesota has
been awarded to a St. Paul firm by
the authorities of Renville county.
Kircher Bros. will inaugurate work
on the $325,O00 project Feb. 1.
On Dec. 20 Miss Marie Kiefer,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Adam Kief-
er of North Fork township, became
the wife of Hans R. Norgaard, pros
porous young Lac qui Parle county
farmer residing near Dawson.
With rope taken from a Christmas
package, Gust Nelson, fifty-five years
old, hanged himself in the lobby of
Duluth hotel while five men stood by
waiting for the police to arrive. Had
they taken the initiative of cutting
him down they probably would have
saved his life, police say.
Robert Sisson, a farmer residing
near Princeton, last week, lost six
horses, death being caused by eating
poisoned ensilage A state veterinar-
ian was called and decided the ensilage
had becomed decomposed around the
edges of the silo. This caused fer
mentation and the formation of pois-
Onous gases.
Mike Butowski of St. Cloud was
carving beef at his home one day
last week. Other members of the
family endeavored to "show" Mike the
best way to do the job Mike became
enraged, started row, was hailed be-
fore the municipal court and given
6O-day work house sentence which has
been suspended during good behavior.
Mrs. Fred Brown, prominent Wa
dena woman, died at her home at that
city Tuesday from the effects IF an
anesthetic given by surgeons who
were setting broken limb received
in a fall on the steps CT her home. She
leaves her husband, who is connected
with the Dover Lumber company, and
three small children. 49,.
The residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Her
man Trick of Frozen Lake, burned to
the ground Christmas morning. Mrs.
Trick and her one week old -: i
were carried from the burning build
ing on a mattress and narrowly ,es. !
capped. When the party reached, the !
irbh hot
the baby had died, having either been
smothered by the smoke or frozen
to death while being taken to the
home of the neighbor.
j. D. Sorrel of Minneapolis, son
Of Mrs. r. B. Sorrel of Staples, was
asphyxiated at his home last week
when teakettle on the gas range
boiled over extinguishing the flame
of the gas burner on the stove while
he was asleep. The gas that fille6
the room rendered him unconscious
and when he was discovered his condi-
ton was so serious that physicians
were not able to revive him. He was
80 years old and is survived by wife
and small son.
According to the building edition of
the st. Cloud Journal-Press issued
last Saturday, public and private i'm
provements in this hustling city for
the year 1916 totaled over one
million and half dollars. Chief
among the improvements was the new
high school building costing $685. 900.
Seldom has a fortune been reaped
off 100 acres of land in single sea-
son, but William Brekke, of Neilsville,
is probably the only man in the state
of Minnesota who has performed that
feat. Brekke owns 100 acres adjoin-
ing the village of Neilsville. From
115 acres of the farm he harvested
10000 bushels of potatoes which ne
contracted at $1.15 bushel. Inc