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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1919-09-11
County Make Fine Sholuing---Au Horse Races
Called Off Because of Lack of Entries.

Inc voice OF the Dailyno Is nearQ Ii
the land, because the concessionaires
are in the city in droves endeavorine
to relieve, the wary ruralite of any
Of his spare change he can be inn
ploIed to part with.
The seventeenth annual Stearns
county fair is in full blast in Sank
Centre and win continue to do bust
ness at the old stand until Friday
! evening late, Sept. IL.
Only two horses showed up with
the result that all races advertised
will necessarily be cancelled. How
ever all of the free acts advertised
arrived in good season and gave
their first exhibitions as this story is
being written.
The plane came in from the north
SUNDAY from Aitkin and landed IN a
neld west OF the honic School. The
STARTING and landing heid will be at
this point as the fair grounds are too
small to do this work with safety.
Tne plane is in charge of Lieut..
Larabee and Lieut.. Malone. Both We're
former officers in the army and were
instructors in aviation at various
American fields. Neither was for
tunate enough to get overseas al
though they were in service for two
years.
The aeroplane on exhibition here
is what is known as a standard two
place machine. The wings are As
feet from tip to tip; the motive power
is supplied by a 10O-horse Hall
Scott engine, one of the very best
devised by American ingenuity. Some
of the best features in the famous
Liberty, motor were taken from the
Hall-Scott engine. The machine has
q speed Of about 70, miles an hour and
weighs about one ton.
Lieuts. sLarabee and Malone are
members OF the Safety Aircraft
company Of MINNEAPOLIS, and they
have. their home flying field at
Superior boulevard. The first flight
Wednesday afternoon was a splendid
success, the gentlemen pulling off all
the hair raising stunts known to the
day of the fair.
game. They will make a fight every
There will not be an extensive
speaking program ON any day of the
fair. Friday is Soldiers, Sailors and
Marines day and at $40 in the after
noon from the Judges stand in front
Of the grand stand Hugh E. Wallace
will make 20 minute talk to the
service men explaining the American
Legion, and urging them to become
members of this official organization
of the returned service men in time
to give Minnesota the representation
to which she is entitled at.the coming
National convention Of the organizes
ton to be held in Minneapolis, start
ing on ov.s11., 1919.
Y - 3
There promises to be strong rivalry
for baseball supremacy. Yesterday
afternoon Albany and Osakis crossed
bats. Today Osakis and Melrose will
meet and Friday afternoon Willard
will play the winner.
81 -
The exhibits in the different build
ings make a most creditable showing.
The Sank Centre public school build
ing has been entirely remodeled. Mrs.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1919-09-11

II. G. Borgeraing, C. Borgerding
Math Baner and A J. Borgerdine
have filed articles for the State Bank
of Elrosa, with q, capital stock oil
$4,000, and the highest amount Of
indebtedness permitted of $4,000. !
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1919-09-11
Steams County's Big Fair Opens with Fine
Croud and Enjoyable Amusement Program
SAUK LAKE CREAMERY PAYS
PATRONS So CENTS POUND.
FOR THEIR JULY BUTTERFAT

The Sank Lake creamery of Sank
Centre paid it's patrons So cents per
pound for July butterfat, or total of
$11,397 for the month, the largest
business in the history of the cream
-ery. The following is a list of the
patrons receiving cream checks of
over $3.50 for the month of July:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1919-09-11
1.25 gals.
AZ minis.
DIRT ROAD.
~ EIsI1EaIassilEEa =
2.03 gals.
DIRT ROAD.
2.03 gals.

"a MINIS.
IS. Below is comparison of the speed
of a loaded two-ton truck on gravel
road and one dirt road. On paved
road it made 1914 miles an hour, on
the gravele road 91a miles and on the
dirt road 4.6 miles.
Speed of loaded 2-yon truck, miles
per hour, Detroit, Mich, test:
PAVED ROAD.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1919-09-11

Nu' -. AySdiu Is III CsldrSe OF CnlS
40epartment.. Heretofore the agricul-
tural part of the school exhibit has
been in the agricultural building, but
i'm the rearranged quarters there is
sufficient room to care. for this ex-
hibit in the school building.
The domestic Arts, department
makes a satisfactory showing Of the
culinary art, sewing, etc, while the
| manuai training anu otter exhibits
are up to the schooIs usual high
standard and would 90 credit to any
city in the state.
There are around 100 different ex-
| hibitors in the Rural School building.
The work of the youngsters has been
painstaking and Supt. Boerger stated
to the Herald that when it is taken
into consideration that the flu greatly
:, lnterfer1ed with school work last fall
and winter, the showing is most cred
table.
The agricultural building looks
mighty inviting. The Farmers Pro-
gressive Club east or Sank Centre,
and ]. Wilderding, the Freeport
nurseryman have interesting ex-
hibits. The Home demonstration ex-
hibit in this building is attracting
considerable attention, showing what
can be done with cast off clothing,
etc.
The Domestic Art display in the for
mer st cloud building lis beyond
nele man description. we are not
quite sure what the proper descrip-
lon would be. There is host of
doodads and fancy work that the
iadres pronounce very fine and We
are glad to rely on their judgment.
The Red Cross exhibit in this build
ing, together with the Home Service
department is attracting much at
tention.
The poultry exhibit is not quite as
large as last year, but good judges
say that the high quality in this de-
partment has been maintained. The
swine exhibit is the largest in the
history of the fair. The Duroc-
Jerseys predominant and the entries
overflow the swine building and fill
nearly one-half Of the race horse
barns. The horses exhibited are
practically all Of the draft horse
variety.
The two cattle barns are filed. The
Holstein is not as numerous as year
ago, but the quality is vastly super
ior as a whole. The Stearns County
Guernsey association has a fine ex-
hibit, and the Brown Swiss attracted
much favorable comment. Supt. Du-
Bots Of the cattle division stated to
the Herald that while the Short Horn
exhibit was not as heavy as last year,
ON the whole the cattle exhibit was
one Of the very best in the fairs
! history. Il
Billy's Jazz band are making a big
hit with dance lovers at the City Hall
each evening, and large crowds are
enjoying the fine floor at Dreamland
pavilion. ~
If you haven't attended the fair
yet do so Friday. If you have, go
again Friday, anyway. ri.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1919-09-11

Miss Alvina Nathe arrived We'd
nesday from New Munich for a visit
with her cousin, Miss Adelaide Nathe'
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1919-09-11

Billy's Jazz band are making big
hit with dance lovers at the City Hall
each evening, and large crowds are
enjoying the fine floor at Dreamland
pavilion. xs
If you haven't attended the fair
yet do so Friday. If you have, go
again Friday, anyway. III
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1919-09-11
1.25 gals.

AZ Minis.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-09-27
DEATH FOLLOWS WoMAN's PLOT
Sophia Bass Entered Conspiracy With
Lover to SIay Planter.

Yazoo City, Miss, Sept. 12.-Miss
Sophia Bass, who Il few weeks ago
entered into n plot with Renzie Smith,
her sweetheart, TO accomplish the
death of William Jones, an aged plan
tation worker reputed to have money,
whispered her story of sorrow for par
ticipating in the crime to Defender
reporter, who iotted down the wom-
ans confession as she talked through
the iron bars of her cell in the county
Jail. Her recital of the crime was
jerky. She sobbed at the end of ev-
cry sentence as she poured out her
story of connection with the death plot.
81 must have been insane" she
moaned. "How did | become so fool
ish and let Renzie lead me into such
The Colorado statesman., 1919-09-27
DR.. MOTION DE-
N0UNCES LYNCHING

TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE, Ala, Sept.
19.-My position on the recent riots
was stated in the communication
which | sent to the New York World,
August 2nd. In that communication !
said:
THE time has come when thought
full white and Race people alike will
not tolerate wholesale mobbing of in
nocent Negroes because of the alleged
crime of one.
"The Negro has never instigated
riot by wholesale attacks on white peo-
pie. The very fact that in riots the
innocent have so frequently been
obliged to suffer with the guilty has
created in us an aggressive and vindic-
tive spirit which manifested itself in
the riots One of the most unfortun-
ate things about such occurrences is
that it frequently hurts the morale of
the conservative, law-abidins Race
The Colorado statesman., 1919-09-27
Liberian President
Extols African Re-
public Conditions

New York, n. Y.-C. ID. b. King
ton for Americas NEGRO problem, II
such there be. He is out with an invi'
tation to all dissatisfied Negroes in the
United States to go over to his African
republic and he happy.
In fact, he says, he came to America
from Paris, where he was the Llberlah
delegate to the Peace Conference, to
encourage Negro immigration to Ii
IBERIA. and incidentally obtain assist
ance from the United States.
The Negroes in your country seem
dissatisfied. he declared in an inter
view recently. ~ do not attach blame
to any one, but do know that tile op-
Dortunities for the American Negroes
in my country greatly exceed those in
the United States.
1--WE don't know what race riots are
in Liberia. My countrymen run the en-
fire government and are advancing in
Importance to the point where the
American government has lent us So
100000. We have "A country the size
of the state of Ohio, with population
of 100000, two colleges, banks and an
agricultural and industrial outlook that
cannot be surpassed anywhere.
"Liberians all talk English, as the
country was started in 1S4S by Ameri-
cans as colonization project. Our
constitution is almost identical with
the American constitution. Great Brit
ain has supervised our customs for
many years, following loan to Liber-
ia, but now we are asking for an Amer
lean protectorate, in effect, that will
give the United States commercial
foothold in Africa. if the American in
terests wish to take advantage of it.
King said that he hoped to arrange
with the American government for eX-
pert advisers in education, administra-
tion and the judicial branches of gov
ernment to be sent TO Liberia.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-09-27
Demand Federal
Government Con-
troll Lynching.

THE following resolutions, calling
for Federal intervention in states
where lynching is unpunished and un-
checked, were unanimously passed at
mass meeting of 1000 persons in the
meeting hall of the Society for Ethical
Culture . West 9th Street, New York
City. on the night of September 16:
We, citizens of the United States, as
sembled in the meeting hall of the So
ciety for Ethical Culture, , West Gath
Street. New York City, on the night of
Tuesday, September 16, submit that:
Whereas, John r. Shillady, Secretary
of the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of CclOred People, was
without provocation brutafly assaulted
in broad daylight on main street of
Austin Texas, on August %, 1919, the
mobbists being led in person by coun-
ty officer of the state of Texas;
Whereas, Governor w. p. Hobby of
Texas not only declined to remove
such officer but cOndoned the assault,
saying that the victim was "the only
offender: -
Whereas, Each week witnesses addi-
tional lynchings and mob Outrages in
the United States. eight persons hav-
ing been publicly burned since the be-
ginning of the year 1919 and forty
seven publicly murdered by mobs;
Whereas, Civilization in the United
States is gravely menaced by the per-
sistence. unchecked, of mob lawless-
ness and mob murder;
Whereas. Many states have wholly
failed to take action against lynchers,
Governor Bilbo of Mississippi having
confessed inability in June. 1919, to
prevent mob murder, the governor of
Texas having approved mob assault
in August. 1919:
BE it therefore, Resolved
That the Congress of the United
States he and is herewith asked to Gre
ate special federal commission or
congressional committee to investigate
lynchng and mob violence as a menace
to national security;
That the Congress investigate every
case of unpunished mob murder and
assault as II failure of the states to ac-
cord United States citizens the rights
and the protection guaranteed by the
federal constitution:
That the Congress devise means
whereby the federal government shall
guarantee the processes of law and
justice now denied where mob murders
and assaults are permitted to occur un-
checked and unpunished.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-09-27
IL thingI" the woman said.
Haunted by Crime.

She is haunted by the ghost of her
crime. The slim, stately woman who
stayed awake at midnight carefully
planning the murder of the old plan
tation worker is weakening under the
strain of her misdeeds. 1t is worry
that has caused her to become but a
shadOw of her former self; that has
made dark rings under here eyes and
that has changed her once fresh and
girlish complexion to one of CHASTITY
palIor. In the hour of her greatest
trial her sweetheart, Renzie Smith, is
unable to console her. He is occupying
an adjoining cell and facing a charge
of murder.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-09-27
RACE NEWS S.'ssss' S.s;ss: s..'ss. r,s~

man and puts him of necessity active
ly on the defensive.
"Those who make and execute the
laws owe it to themselves and to their
country as well as us to see that the
Race has protection along with other
citizens. 1t is hard for the average
Negro to understand how we can spend
millions of dollars and thousands of
lives to help protect the lives of weak
er people in foreign countries, yet fail
TO protect our own loyal, patriotic citi-
zens in this country"
The Colorado statesman., 1919-09-27
Plot Carried Out.

1t is said that Sophia Bass decoyed
Jones to her home for the purpose of
the murder one morning about 2
o'clock. Smith entered the house from
the rear door, and as Jones seated him
self at the table a shot rang out. The
aged man fell across the table. Smith
hastily tore two pages from maga-
zine lying on table in the room ana
craesmed the paper into the bleeding
wound. He then picked up the body
and carried it to Jones' own door
dropping it at the foot of the back
steps. The torn fragments stuffed III
the wound stopped the flow of blood
and left no crimson path for the Of
ficers to trail the murders. The two
magazine pages were the only tell-tale
evidences that led to a revelation OF
the crime.-Chicago Defender.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-09-27
Seeks To Abolish
Jim Crow Car

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.-Abolition
of the "Jim Crow" car in interstate
railroad traffic was urged to day be-
fore the House Interstate and Foreign
Commerce Committee. Representative
Madden Republican, illinois,, who has
introduced a bill, requiring equal
rights, accommodations and privileges
for both races on railway trains, urged
that it be made part of the Esch rail-
road bill. Several Negro spokesmen
appeared with him in behalf of his
plan.
"The government has no right" de-
clared Mr. Madden, 'to draft its citi-
zens in defense of its flag and at the
same time say to them that their rights
of the United States"
He added that Chinese and Japan
ese are allowed TO ride on trains on
equal conditions with the whites.
"You want TO force the Negroes to
ride in the cars with the white peo-
pie, when the Negroes themselves
would rather ride in separate cars
than to be mixed up with white peo-
ple," suggested Representative Rey-
burn democrat, TeXas.)
81 deny that the Negroes themselves
would rather be in separate car
said Mr.. Madden.
II deny that you understand the Ne
gro," Mr.. Reyburn said.
Representative Sanders Democrat,
Louisiana) said white men are prohib-
tied from riding in Negro coaches. 1--WE
of the SOUTH he added, contend that
the Negro prefers separate accommo-
knowing they are not welcome in the
white mans coach, don't go in. You
will admit that the great majority of
the Negroes of the country live in the
South"
eyes, but we think they should be
treated the same in the South as in
the North" Mr.. Madden declared.
''The Negroes are treated better in
my country than in your city of Chi
cago," continued Mr.. Sanders.
ut III NillNalSp was an
tunate situation that nobody can ex-
plain" Mr.. Madden said.
Lieut. Gregory of Howard Univer-
city complained because Negroes can
not have sleeping berths or meals on
the trains in the South.
you only have to walk to the Union
station here in Washington to see how
the Jim Crow car works." he said.
Every train going to Richmond car
ries one. Usually the baggage car is
divided in two and the Negroes must
ride in one half Half of that is given
over as smoking room. 1t is used as
an overflow for white people from
their smoking ear and by the crew of
the train. There is but one toilet for
both sexes and conditions are filthy
The Colorado statesman., 1919-09-27
THE RACE
PROBLEM

nit to this conference of Governors in
the earnest hope that this body of dis
tingushed leaders may lend its power
full influence towards making this pro-
gramme effective throughout the
union.
The programme is:
First, that the Negro should be lib
Grated from the blighting fear of in
justice and mob violence. To this end
it is imperatively urgent that lynching
be prevented:
l. By the enlistment of Negroes
themselves in preventing crimes that
provoke mob violence.
2. BY prompt trial and speedy exc
heinous crimes.
3. By legislation that will make it
unnecessary for woman who has
been assaulted to appear in court to
testify publicly.
4. BY legislation that will give the
Governor authority to dismiss sher-
iff for failure to protect a prisoner in
his charge.
Second, that the citizenship rights
of the Negro should be safeguarded,
particularly
L. BY securing proper travelling ac-
commodations.
.. BY providing better housing CON
ditions and by preventing extortionate
rents.
3. BY providing adequate educa-
tional and recreation facilities.
Third, that closer cooperation be-
tween white and colored citizens
should be promoted (without en-
couraging any violation of race inteS-
rity):
1. BY organizing local committees,
both white and colored, in as many
communities as possible for the CON
sideration of interracal problems.
.. BY the employment of Negro
physicians, nurses, and policemen as
far as practicable in work for santa
ton, public health, and law enforce
ment among their own people.
3. BY enlisting all agencies pos
sible in fostering justice, good WILL
and kindliness in all individual deal
ings of members of one race with
members of the other.
4. BY the appointment of stand
ing commission by the Governor Oh
each state for the purpose of making
a careful study of the causes under
living race friction, with the view OF
recommending proper means for their
removal.
Tn addition to the standing commits
sions proposed in the foregoing pro-
gramme there should be National
commission appointed by the Presl-
dent TO serve as a unifying body to CO.
ordinate the work of the several state
commissions here proposed. The work
of the National Commission should in
no way be permitted to conflict with the
state commissions and local commit
toes proposed in the programme of the
Southern Sociological Congress. The
National Commission should work
with and through the state comhls-
sions rather than as a supervising and
superior body.-The OUTLOOK.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-09-27

New York, Sept. 17.-Julius Rosen-
valid of Chicago has offered six schol-
arships of $1,000 each for Negro grad
yates of American medical schools who
desire to take postgraduate work in
pathology, bacteriology, physiology,
pharmacology or physiological chemis-
try, according to an announcement
here today by the general education
board. Appointments to be made in
1920, will be made by committee
comprising DIR. William III. Welch,
Johns Hopkins School of Public
Health, chairman DR. David l.. Edsall,
dean of the Harvard medical school,
and DR. Victor C. Vaughn, dean of the
medical department, University of
Michigan Abraham FleXner, secre-
tary of the general education board.
will act as secretary of the committee.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-09-27

1t is a problem of human re-
lationship and this human re-
lationship is reducible in the
final analysis to the one white man,
face to face with one Negro. The MAJ
tional race problem is really only 81
multiplication of the problem of this
individual relationship.
This is why the Outlook has always
insisted that the Negro problem OF
the South could be solved only by the
South. The North can advise and aid,
and that is all. Now that the North is
becoming acutely aware of the fact
that it possesses a race problem OF its
own. while the situation is reversed,
the principal still remains the same.
East st. Louis Gan Illinois, not a Mis-
souri,, city, we ask our readers to oD-
serve) and Chicago, Washington,
Knoxville, and Atlanta, to each its pc
cular problem, to each its own soiu-
ton. But the intensely local charac-
ter of the race problem should not pre-
vent the broadest National considera-
ton of its causes and effects. The
North can learn from the South ana
the South from the North. But upon
each section and locality must rest the
responsibility for putting into effect
the conclusions reached in general dis
cussion and study.
1t is this dual character of the prop
lem in it's local and National aspects
which lends peculiar interest to the
proposal recently put forward by the
Southern Sociological Congress, OF
which Bishop Theodore d. Bratton Is
President.
This proposal, at the suggestion OF
President Wilson, was laid before the
conference of the Governors OF the
several states recently in session ut
Salt Lake City, Utah. The Governors
conference broke all precedents Ill
permitting Bishop Bratton to speak ut
one of it's sessions. The resolution
which Bishop Bratton proposed was
made Il part of the official recorus VI
the conference, and received hiSh
praise from many of the Governors
present.
The resolution laid before the Gov
ernors' conference and the programme
called for therein are of such merit
and importance that we repupilsn
them here in full. The resolution
reads:
Recognizing that the Negro is per
manent and increasingly importah'
factor in the development OF our Ma
tional life, the Southern Soclologica'
Congress considers the solution Oh lhe
problem of race relations as the most
delicate and difficult single task tor
American Democracy. We believe that
no enduring basis of good Will Detweeh
the white and colored peoples in TINS
country can be developed except Oh
the fundamental principles of JUSTICE
cooperation, and race integrity. Inc
obligations of this generation TO pos
terity demand that we exert our ut
most endeavor to preserve the purity
of our democratic ideals expressed Ill
the American Constitution as well as
the purity of the blood of both races
With this belief the Southern Sociolo-
gical Congress has worked out Il pro-
gramme for the improvement OF race
relations which we respectfully sup-
The Colorado statesman., 1919-09-27

Raleigh, \. c., Sept. 19.-The oldest
man in North Carolina is said to be
Leonard Smith, 105 years old. Mr..
Smith has lived in St Matthews town
ship, Wake county, the larger part of
his life. He is father of eight children,
forty-two grandchildren, siNty-seven
grandchildren, and one great
great-grandchild.
The Colorado statesman., 1919-09-27

Houston, Tex, Sept. 19.-Willie
Whiting raised Harris county's first
bale of cotton this year on his farm at
Piney Point. The bale weighed 4S0
pounds and was graded as strict mid
ding and sold as such. A premium of
S25 was raised for the grower.