The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1917-01-11
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HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK
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At the annual meeting of the First
State Bank of Swanville it was voted
to erect suitable bank building the
coming year.
Every workman in the mills of the
Watab Pulp and Paper company near
St. Cloud has received a raise IN
wages of Sc per month.
After a search covering nine years
officials of the state reformatOry at
St. Cloud have found John Maxi, a pa
role breaker, in the Manitoba peniten-
tiary at Stony Mountain.
Mrs. Wilhemenia Schleuter, resi-
dent of Farming township for 38
years, died Tuesday morning of last
week, aged IT years. The funeral was
held Thursday afternoon. Seven child
rem survive.
The date of the annual meeting of
the All Minnesota Development asso-
citation has been changed from Jan. .
and to Jan. 10 and 10, and the place
from University Farm to the old cap
itol at st. Paul.
Fire did considerable damage to the
Security State Bank building, the
Ideal theatre and the Masonic hall,
Paynesville, Friday evening of last
week. Fire started from anoverheat-
ed stove in the theatre.
A farmer living in South Haven
heard noise in the direction of his
chicken yard and fired a gun in the
air. Nothing more was thought of the
matter till morning when the body of
a man was found near the barn.
Peter Ritter, living alone near
.Aitkin, was forced to run over a
mile to a neighbours house when his
shack caught fire. 1t is thought that
he will recover from the effects of his
exposure and will not lose his feet.
Reappointment of C. /. McNair of
Clouquet on the state highway COM
mission has been announced by Gov
ernor Burnquist. There is one vacancy
annually on the commission, which is
composed of three members serving
three-year terms.
Beauty, high grade Holstein grade
cow, owned by an Otter Tail county
farmer near Fergus Falls, last week
sold at auction for $225. This is prob
ably the record price paid for grade
cow in the state. Last year Beauty
made her owner a net profit of SITS.
Minnesota ended its 1916 business
with $3,66O,O0O in the state treasury.
1t is the largest year end cash hal
ance in the history of the state. PC
cording to Retiriny Treasurer A. G.
Gooding, and, moreover, there are no
temporary loans to the state outstand-
ing now as at that time in former
years.
Witchcraft, socery and hypnotism
were blamed by Mrs. Mary Blanken-
burgh OF Albany for the death of her
husband, who succumbed to what were
called natural causes a few months
ago. The woman declares neighbors
were invoking evil spirits against her
and the family. She was sent to the
hospital for the insane at Fergus
Falls.
Representatives from nearly every
city in the Red River and Minnesota
valleys, in the Dakotas and Mime
sofa are expected to attend the meet
ing of the Tri-State Flood Control as
ISOLATION at New Ulm on Jan. 10. It
is expected the delegates will decide
upon some plan of flood control to be
presented to the legislatures Of the
three states.
John Sova, aged 81, of Sank Rapids,
imbibed too much of the substance
that intoxicates recently, and became
lost endeavoring to reach his home.
He was discovered about 10 o'clock at
night with his hands badly frozen. He
was taken to st. Raphael's hospital st.
Cloud where it was found necessary
to amputate all of his fingers and the
thumb on his right hand, only the
thumb on his left hand remaining.
The Indians on the Litchfield res
ervation have already commenced
fatting up four big, fat brindle dogs
so as to have them in good shape for
their dog-soup and grass dance pow
dow which is to come off sometime
during the third quarter of of the jan
uary moon. The bucks having the mat
ter in charge will meet at the tepee of
Chief Big Gopher Eater IN. D.
March) right after New Years, to
dry fresh scalps and complete the
rest of the program. Heap big time
Well, we should war whoop!
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