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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1919-02-13
Citation for Hearing on Final Account
and for Distribution.

Estate of Samuel somerville, De
ceased.
State of Minnesota, County of Stearns
In Probate Court.
In the matter of the estate of Samuel
Somerville, Decedent.
The State of Minnesota, to all per-
sons interested in the final account
and distribution Of the estate Of said
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1919-02-13

The Secretary Of the Water, Liz
& Power Commission filed the regular
quarterly statement Of the plant for
the quarter ending January LIST, 1919,
and same was ordered placed on file.
The meeting then adjourned.
J. F. COOPER,
City Clerk.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-10-10
purohaslng and lnstaIlIng the entire

purchasing and installing the entire
plant equipment.
At the time the armistice was Sign-
ed the organization was at work on
bomb loading plant at Wilmington,
Del, a picric acid plant for the But
terworth & Judson, Brunswick, Ca,
and the enlargement Of many indus
trial plants which were engaged h
work to win the war.
Owing to their wonderful record in
building concrete structures, the gov
eminent awarded a contract to the
Ley Company for building shipways,
and the construction of three cncrete
ships of $500 ton lightweight at Mo-
bile, Alabama. Two Of these wonder
full ships have already been launched
and soon will be completely equipped
for service.
The Ley company has not built its
reputation on war work alone, as is
shown by the long list of buildings Of
reinforced concrete, structural steel,
mill construction, bridges, dams, tun-
nels, water works, power plants, and
high power electrical transmission,
underground conduits, road construc-
ton and sewer gas distribution.
To maintain an organization and to
accomplish almost unbelievable re-
suits is one thing, but to build up by
painstaking effort organization that
is ready at all times to undertake the
most difficult problems is another.
From the mere building of buildings
to the planning and equipment Of
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-10-10
Great Industrial Plants and
Communities Are. Spec
iaIty With Them.

Just at the beginning Of the indus
trial development of the United
States there was formed in Spring
fieldy ssachusetts, contracting
company which was destined to be-
come one OF the great building organi
zations of the present decade. Early
n 1898 Fred T. Ley organized the
contracting firm known as Fred 7.
Ley e Company, Inc, and started
building In comparatively small way,
He Is still the directing genius and
present head Of the company. This
IS the company which has been given
the contract for the great Fairmont
construction project.
81 the early history Of the COM
pany the trolley system Of New Eng
land xperienced great expansion, and
Erred n Ley was factor in the con-
struction of many such systems. From
That he branched into railroad con-
struction, gradings, tunnels, bridges
and dams.
The Identification Of the Heosac
tunnel was an outstanding achieve
nlent of the early days, from which
tie development OF hydro electric and
high power transmission lines was a
natural sequence. Many of the high
tension lines through New England
were installed and maintained by this
organization. The success attained
brought other developments and the
end 81 the first fifteen years saw the
Branching out in the construction Of
some Dc the finest types of industrial
and nonume entail architecture in cast
err states. Some of the large indus
trial developments have included;
Complete plant of the Fisk Rubber
Company, Chicago Falls, Mass, Com
piete plant of the w. H. McElwain
Company, shoe manufacturers of
Manchester, N. a. Willys-Overland
Company, Jencks Spinning Company,
Tanarack Company, Mount Hope Fin
ishing Company.
From then on the business has
shown the most remarkable progress,
expanding from strictly New England
enterprise to a national organization.
Il has been able to maintain even in
the dui1est building year, an organi-
zation Of from three to five thousand
men. and during the last three years
= has jumped to as high as fifteen
thousand men.
the beginning Of the world war
one DC the first army environments de-
cided on by the government was at
Aver Mass and because of the com.
handing position and resources Of
the Ley company the contract was
awarded to the on June 10, 1917. On
September 4 "a 918, only eleven weeks
latet the original contract was COM
pieted and the cantonment ready for
the training and housing of troops. 1t
was the first cantonment to be finish
Cd within the contract period, and
received high praise from the Com
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-10-10
CONTRACTORS FOR FAIRN00IHIF BUILDING
PRllECT HAVE Done SOME BIG THINGS

hmanding officer. When it is consid-
cred that 5000 men were employed In
this one undertaking alone, it is real
lied that environments resemble mod
ern cities, constructed along the ,ost
scientific lines, for health and com
fort.
One thousand, three hundred and
seventy one permanent building were
constructed besides the water supply
and sewage disposal systems, light
and power plants, railroads and
streets, at a cost of over nine million
dollars. While this tremendous I'M
dertaking was in progress other con-
tracts were in full swing for Indus
trial concerns until the government
required practically all OF the efforts
of this wonderful organization which
had now grown to over ten thousand
men exclusive Of laborers.
Other contracts which were started
and finished in record time were the
enlargement Of the U. S. Government
Arsenal at Watervliet, N. Y, Iddi-
tions to the Arsenal at Springfield,
Mass, Naval Dispensary at Newport,
R. l., Groton Shipbuilding plant at
Groton, Conn.,, Merchant Shipbuilding
Corporation at Hartman, Pa, which
consisted of Mold Loft for Fabricated
Ships, and complete town to house
over three thousand people. This
work was started and completed dur
ing one of the most difficult winters
this country has ever seen, the winter
of 1917-1918. Weeks and months of
temperature around the zero mark,
with the ground frozen to a depth of
over six feet, made one of the most
difficult construction problems mag
Unable. Not alone the town of Harri-
man but many other government I'M
dertakings were constructed during
this trying and unusual winter.
The shipbuilding plant of the vir-
ginia Shipbuilding company at Alex
andra, Va, Marlin C Rockwell Cor
poration, New Haven, Conn, engaged
in making rifles: International Mo-
tor Company, Plainfield, N. j.; the
Springfield Aircraft Company, Spring
field, Mass, Staten Island Shipbuild-
ing Corporation, Staten Island, N. Y.
and the Atlas Powder Company's am
monium Nitrate plant and village to
house its employees at Perryville,
Nd.
In addition to the actual building
contracts for the Atlas, Powder Com
pany, the Ley Company performed a
most difficult engineering service in
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-10-10

large industrial plants with their
housing and community problems, rep
resents an investment of one-half mill
million dollars, and its invested cap
ital over three millions.
The farsighted policy Of the found
er Of Fred T. Ley s. Company, Inc,
has brought it to the front rank as q
construction and engineering organt-
cation and its experience in the solv.
ing of large problems has kept pace
with the steady progress of Industrial
America, and its wonderful ,possibili-
ties for the future.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
IMPRISONED IN BANK VAULT
Over Institution When Child
Closed Door.

Tulsa, Okla-C. T. Everett, an as
sistant cashier of the First National
bank, took his wife and small child
and his father and mother down to the
bank on a Saturday night to see where
he worked. He showed them over the
safety deposit vault. The child closed
the door to the vault, locking his par
ents and grandparents in. After de-
batting for some time whether to call
the fire department or the cashier, the
bank employee called the latter, and
Mr.. Everett and his party were let out,
none the worse for their experience.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
Kitchen Maids of Sultan of Morocco
Entitled to Neither Garments
of Expensive Stuff.

The sultan of Morocco wis always
an absolute monarch, and In that ca
pacity the revenues of the country
were his. There had never been any
distinction between public funds and
private funds-all belonged to the sui
tan. 1t was therefore no easy task
to arrive at an agreement as to which
were state and which private debts, SO
inextricablye mixed had they been In
the past. There was, for instance, a
bill for some hundreds of yards of
very expensive and very fine crimson
cloth. Naturally the protectorate au-
thorities scheduled this among the pri-
vate debts. The sultan protested. The
cloth, he said, had been purchased for
governmental purposes-in fact for
the trousers of the imperial kitchen
maids; for there are several hundred
slave-women employed In preparing the
palace food. The protectorate govern
ment refused to be responsible for
this debt. The ex-sultan drew up a
historical treatise to prove that inn
perial kitchen maids were part and
parcel Of the state, and passed, like
the palace itself, from sultan to sui
tan. The principle was accepted, but
the debt was disallowed on the ground
that these good ladies did not require
such expensive stuff for their neither
garments. A cotton material, they ar
gued, would have equally well served
the purpose. The sultan's reply was
unanswerable and crushing. 'In Eu-
rope" he said, at may be the custom
for the imperial kitchen maids to wear
cotton trousers, but in Morocco we
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
CHAPTER II.

Another citizen said an eloquent
thing about Miss Isabel Amberson's
looks. This was Mrs. Henry Franklin
Foster, the foremost literary authority
and intellectual leader of the COM
munity-for both the daily newspa-
pers thNs described Mrs. Foster when
she founded the Women's Tennyson
club; and her word upon art, letters
and the drama was accepted more as
law than as opinion. Naturally when
"Hazel Kirke' finally reached town,
after its long triumph in larger places,
many people waited to hear what
Mrs. Henry Franklin Foster thought
of It before they felt warranted in ex-
pressing any estimate of the play. In
fact, some of them waitedin the lobby
of the theater as they came out and
formed an inquiring group about her.
81 didn't see the play" she in.
formed them.
what. Why, we saw you, right in
the middle of the fourth row"
EYES," she said, smiling, ''but was
sitting just behind Isabel Anderson.
couldn't look at anything except her
wavy brown hair and the wonderful
back of her neck"
The ineligible young men of the
town (they were all inelfgible) were
unable to content themselves with the
view that had so charmed Mrs. Henry
Franklin Foster; they spent their time
struggling to keep Miss Amberson's
face turned toward them. She turned
it most often, observers said, toward
two: one excelling in the general
struggle by his sparkle, and the other
by that winning If not winsome old
trait, persistence. The sparkling gen.
tleman '1ed germans" with her, and
sent sonnets to her with his bou-
quets-sonnets lacking neither music
nor wit. He was generous, poor, we'll
dressed, and his amazing persuasive
ness was one reason why he was al
ways in debt. No one doubted that
he would be able to persuade Isabel,
but he unfortunately joined too merry
a party one night, and during a moon
light serenade upol the lawn before
the Anderson mansion, was easily
identified from the windows as the
person who stepped through the bass
VOL and had to be assisted to wait
ing carriage. One of Miss Amberson's
brothers was among the serenaders,
and when the party had dispersed re-
manned propped against the front
door in state of helpless nveliness
the Major going down in dressing
gown and slippers to bring him in, and
scolding mildly, while imperfectly con-
cealing strong impulses to laughter.
Miss Anderson also laughed at this
brother the next day, but for the
sutton it was a different matter: she
refused to see him when he called to
apologize. You seem to care great
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
"You Think You Own This TOWN."


breeches, for the Fauntleroy period
had set in, and Georges mother had
so poor an eye for appropriate things,
where George was concerned, that
she dressed him according to the doc
trine Of that school in boy decoration.
Except upon the surface (Which was
not his own work but his mother's)
George bore no vivid resemblance to
the fabulous little Cedric. The sto-
ried boys famous Lean on me, grand
father" would have been difficult to
imagine upon the lips of George. A
month after his ninth birthday ami
versary, when the Major gave him his
pony, he had already become acquaint-
ed with the toughest boys in various
distant parts Of the town, and had
convinced them that the toughness Of
a rich little boy with long curls might
be considered in many respects SUI
perior to their own. He fought them,
learning how to go baresark at GER
tears Of anger, reaching for rocks, ut
tering walled threats of murder, and
attempting to fulfill them. Fights
often led to intimacies, and he ac-
quired the art of saying things more
exciting than "Don't hat to" and
Doctor says it amt healthy" Thus
on summer afternoon strange boy,
sitting bored upon the gatepost of the
Rev. Malloch Smith. beheld George
Anderson Minafer rapidly approach.
ing on his white pony and was Inn
PEELED by bitterness to shout: "Shoot
the ole jackass! Look at the girly
curls! Say, bub, where'd you steal
your mothers ole sashp p
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
Human FraiIties-

Our structure, both external and in
ternal, is full of imperfection; yet
there is nothing In nature but what is
of use, not even inutility itself.
There is nothing in this universe
which has not some proper place 1t 1t,
Our being is eemented with certain
mean qualities; ambition, Jealousy,
envy, revenge, superstition, despair,
have so natural Judgment In us that
the image of them is discerned in the
brute beasts; nay cruelty itself, vice
SO much out Of nature; for even In
the midst of compassion we feel within
US an unaccountable bitter-sweet it'll.
lation of ill-natured pleasure In seeing
another suffer; and even children are
sensible of it.-Montaigne.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
By
Booth Harrington


pony straight through a pile of sand
the man was sieving. 81 will when
l grow up" the undisturbed child re-
piled. IT guess my grandpa owns it
now, you bet!" And the baffied work
man, having no means to cOntrovert
what seemed mere exaggeration of
the facts, could only mutter, "Oh, pull
down your vest"
Don't hat to! Doctor says it ain,
healthyr the boy returned promptly.
''But tell you what I'll do: I'll pull
down my vest if you'll wipe off your
chin 70
This was stock and stencil: the ac-
customed argot of street badinage of
the period; and in such matters Geor-
gle was an expert. He had no vest
to pull down; the ineongruous fact
was that fringed sash girdled the
juncture of his velvet blouse and
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12

washstands in every bedroom in the
place! Their sideboard's built right
into the house and goes all the way
across one end of the dining room. 1t
isn't walnut, it's solid mahogany
Not veneering-solid mahogany Well,
sir, presume the president of the
United States would be tiekled to
swap the White House for the new
ANDERSON mansion. if the Major'd
give him the chance-but by the Al
mighty Dollar, you bet your sweet
life the Major Wouldn't"
The visitor to the town was certain
to receive further enlightenment, for
there was one form of entertainment
never omitted: he was always patri-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
The "Amen corner.D

The phrase "amen corner" Is said to
have originated in London, where, at
the end Of Paternoster row, the monks
at one time finished their recitation of
the "Pater Noster" as they went in
procession on Corpus Christi day to
st. Paui's cathedral. They began in
Paternoster row with the Lords PRAYER
in Latin, continuing 1t to the end OF
the street, and then said "amen" at
the corner of the row. AS used in this
country the phrase described the cor
ner Of a church where the elderly mem
bers sit and pronounce to xrrd
"amen" at intervals. s E.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12

otically taken for ga little drive round
our city," even if his host had to hire
hack, and the climax of the display
was the Anderson mansion. "LooR
at that greenhouse they've put uI
there in the side yard" the escort
would continue. "And hook at that
brick stable! Most folks would think
that stable plenty big enough and
good enough to live in; it's got run
ming water and four rooms upstairs
for two hired men and one Of 'em's
family to live in. They keep one hired
man loafin' in the house, and they got
married hired man out in the stable
and his wife does the washing. This
town never did see so much style as
Ambersons are putting on these days
and I guess it's going to be expensive
because lot of other folks'Il try to
keep up with 'em. The Majors wife
and the daughters been to Europe
and my wife tells me since they got
back they make tea there every after
noon about five o'clock and drink it
Seems to me it would go against q
persons stomach, just before supper
like that, and anyway tea isn't fit fol
much-not unless you're sick or some
thing. Looks to me like some people
in this city'd be willing to go crazy
if they thought that would help 'em to
be as heightened as Ambersons. Old
Aleck Minafer-he's about the closest
old codger we got-he come in my OF.
fee the other day, and he pretty near
had a stroke tellin' me about his
daughter Fanny. Seems Miss Isabel
Amberson's got some kind Of dog
they call it st. Bernard-and Fanny
was bound to have one, too. Well
old Aleck told her he didn't like dogs
except rat terriers, because rat ter
rier cleans up the mice, but she kept
on at him, and finally he said all right
she could have one. Then, by George
she says Amberson's bought theil
dog, and you don't get one without
paying for it: they cost from fifty to
a hundred dollars up! Old Aleck
wanted to know If I ever heard OF
anybody's buyin' dog before, be.
cause, even a Newfoundland or set
ter, you can usually get somebody to
give you one. He says he saw some
sense in payin' a niger dime, OF
even a quarter, to drown dog fol
you, but to pay out fifty dollars and
maybe more-well, sir, he like to
choked himself to death, right there
in my office! OF course everybody
realizes that Major Anderson is fine
business man, but what with THROWN
money around for dogs, and every
which and what, some think all this
styles bound to break him up, If his
family don't quit!"
One citizen, having thus discoursed
to a visitor, came to thoughtful
pause, and then added, 'Does seem
pretty much like squandering, vel
when you see that dog out walking
with this Miss Isabel, he seems worth
the money"
whats she look 1ike?"
swell, SIR" said the citizen, "she's
not more than just about eighteen OF
maybe nineteen years old, and I DOM
know as I know just how to put it
but she's kind of delightful lookin
Young ladyi"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
Farmer Is Victim of Own
Dynamite Thief Trap

Winsted, Conn.-When Henry
Koehler, fifty-eight, farmer of
West Cornwall, discovered that
his barn was being systematical-
~ looted, he fastened dynamite
over the barn door so that if a
thief came at night he would ex-
plode it and be blown up. Last
night he forgot his trap and
opened the door without taking
precautions. The dynamite ex-
ploded, and Koehler is now in
hospital suffering with pain
full cuts on the legs and thighs.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
"Paraded Around That Pole for Two
Mortal Hours"


edge of the road about 300 yards
away, I thought I'd better take the
gun along with me. Left the gun at
the foot of the pole and climbed up to
make some repairs. Just as / heard
roar my glance met the biggest
black bear I ever saw in these parts
or anywhere else, charging down on
me. He was far enough away for me
to slip down the pole and get my gun.
AS 1 started to climb up again in
hurry, old Bruin reared on his
launches and swiped at me with his
paw. He just missed me and went
up to the top and he after me. ] must
have been excited, for I shot all my
cartridges at him as he was climbing
the pole.
"He got up about ten feet, began to
slip, and down he went. He reared
paraded around that pole for two
mortal hours. When I saw I had
missed him was so mad that threw
my gun at him.
81 was some scared, I'll tell the
world, when that big black fellow
started up the pole after me. took
my field telephone and connected as
quick as I could with central at
Stroudsburg and told her to send help
quick as / had been freed by bear.
"After waiting for me until he got
tired the bear turned and ambled Off
.x~k1 4l< dc I
had gone, I Skinned down the pole,
got my motorcycle and beat 1t for
home"
"What gets me-" said Titman, sis
that am a first-class telephone trou-
BILE shooter for my company, and
couldn't shoot my own troubles even
when I had gum"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
"THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERsoNs:".A MAGNIFICENT NOVEL

The literary critics and book reviewers continually
asking When shall we have the Great American Novel, by
the Great American Noveist?" Perhaps never in the sense
which the question asked for this country is too big and
its people differ too greatly by localities to make the "Grea
American Novel" possible.
Nevertheless, "The Magnificent Ambersons" great
American novel, Booth Harrington an American of sturdy
native stock He knows American life and character only
native American with generations of American orbears
know them. Moreover he has charm of style and power
of expression which have endeared him to the reading public
"The Magnificent Ambersons" is so great novel that
Booth Harrington has been awarded the Joseph Pulitzer prize
of ST 900 for the American novel published during the year
which shall best present the wholesome atmosphere of Ame
can manners and manhood" The judges making the award
are Robert Grant, William Morton Payne and William Lyon
Phelps.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
BEAR STORY TOLD
By TROUBLE MAN
Says Bruin Chased Him Up Pole
and Then Fell Ten Feet
From Top.

Hardwick, N. 1.-THE story of being
"poled' by the biggest black bear rang
ing the Blue mountains, was told
here by Joseph Titman, a trouble
shooter of the American Telegraph
and Telephone company of Strouds-
burg, Pa. Titman was repairing wires
on the top of a telegraph pole when he
saw huge black bear charging upon
him from a clump of trees about 10t
yards away.
ST had taken my gun along" said
Titman, 'to shoot some ground hogs,
and when I left my motorcycle on the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
Church OUGHT to Be Popular

MERGED, Cal.-"Rev. Freeze, pastor:
Mrs. Jack Frost, Organist. Come to
church and be COOL" is the adver-
tisement local church is carrying in
papers to stir up attendance during
the hot spell.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
George ANDERSON Minafer
begins to grow up and meets
the beautiful Miss Lucy Nor
gan.
''NOTHING DOING" in COTTON

have more appreciation of the dignity
of their position There was nothing
more to be said The debt was paid
by the protectorate government
From 'The Liquidation of Sultanate,"
by w. B. Harris, in "Asia" magazine.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-09-12
NAV Win hx Nose

Oakland, Calm hard fight for
riches, Oscar Gradenigo expects to
win by nose. His job is to prove
that his huge nasal appendage shows
his relationship to missing heirs seek
ing a $3,OOO,OOO estate.