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The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-27

@OLORED residents of the city or
New Bern, n. c.. whose homes
were burned in the recent diSas-
irons fire. are fighting an attempt by
white citizens to prevent their rebuild
ing their homes through condemnation
proceedings which would turn the col
ored section into a cemetery and park,
according to announcement today by
the National Association for the Ad-
yancement of Colored People, 20 Fifth
avenue, New York.
Reports from New Bern state that
the colored residents have not been
permitted to rebuild their homes. A
statement sent to the Advancement
Association by competent investiga-
tor asserts:
"The city of New Bern is deter
mined the burnt area shall not be
rebuilt by or for Negroes. 1t Is
proposed to condemn the land, as
tensibly for cemetery and park
purposes, but this is openly
winked at as a subterfuge to get
rid of the Negro property owner
In the meanwhile no building Is
nermitted in the burned district,
and no provision is being made for
a suitable location elsewhefe' III
many cases all they have is tied
nm in this real estate, which Will
be long time in litigation in the
condemnation proceedings"
If is asserted that the city of New
Bern lacks the necessary funds 1or
condemnation proceedings, thus prov
ing the measure to be a subterfuge to
preyent the colored residents rebuild
ing their homes. Appeals to the white
community having failed the colored
citizens have employed lawyers ana
are attempting by injunction to pre-
vent the condemnation and seizure OF
their land.
The report further states that the
Negro districts that were not in the
fire area are neglected and have no
improvements whatever in the way OF
paving, lighting, sewerage, water sup
DIV and street car service. These ais-
tricts 1t is asserted, into which the
Nepro' sufferers from the fire are 10
he forced. have surface toilets and the
pumps for drinking water are in close
proximity, the water coming within
few feet of the surface.
The report censures the attitude OIL
the white citizens of New Bern In the
following terms:
of Now Perm in
this crisis do not seem to feel any
sense of duty in providing for the
housing of their Negro citizens ana
are blind TO their economic value. New
BERN has no white labor and herein Is
the only way out that lies in the Ne
gro himself quietly organize ana
leave New Bern. This has been nint-
ed. but the white people do not take 1t
seriously. The only other way Is FOR
New Bern to be brought to realiza-
tion of the injury it will do itself in
the eyes of the country if it carries on
its present policy"
In the caurse of the fight by col
ored residents to retain their property
and home sites, resolutions were
passed and published in local news
paper on the anniversary of the Eman-
cipation Proclamation, protesting
against the injustice being done New
Bern colored citizens, and stating:
"The proposed condemnation for
park and cemeteries will work griev-
GUS hardship and injustice upon the
The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-27
Washington County
Is Becoming an
Empire of Wealth
Prosperous Farming Com
munity Shows Rapid
Growth.
farming possibilities

~ OLORADO farming POSSIBILITIES
are not as fully known by a
- large portion of our city bred
folk, and it is only when such pros
porous farmers and stock growers as
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Newsom Of
Akron come into our midst that we
pause and give thought to the country
side of life. We become so self-cen-
tered in our local environments that
we fail to give heed to those who are
solving the economic problems of life
by tilling the soil. Washington coun-
ty, of which Akron is the county seat,
lies in the northeastern part of the
state. Only n very small section -
it is in the irrigated valley of the
Platte river, and yet in 1922 the coun-
ty ranked first in acreage and produc-
ton of wheat, third in corn, second in
rye and fourth in total acreage in cul-
tivation.
Few counties in the state have
more uniform surface than Washing
ton. The valley of the Platte river
crosses he extreme northwestern cor
l
ner. The remainder is level or roll
ing prairie, with fertile soil, well
adopted to cultivation. In the north
the soil is Il sandy loan with mix
ture of adobe and other harder ele-
ments.
The population of the county in 1910
was 6OO2 In 1920 it had increased to
1,20S, the increase being S67 per
cent. This increase is much larger
than the percentage of increase for
the state as whole, which was only
1T.6 per cent for the decade.
Corn and wheat are the principal
crops and average yields in this coun-
ty are among the best obtained in any
of the non-irrigated' districts of the
state. The total acreage of wheat
grown in the county in 1922 was 23l,-
$50 acres, compared with only 160,419
in 1919 and 11,45S acres in 1909.
These figures illustrate the rapid de-
velopment of agriculture in the coun-
ty in recent years.
The Newsom family are pioneer
citizens in this prosperous county ana
their holdings are said to total many
thousand dollars. They share the es-
teen and respect of all classes of peo-
pie and are regarded as being among
the countys most substantial citizens.
They would like to see many more OF
our group take advantage of the spe-
cial opportunities offered.
There is perhaps 100000 acres OF
arabic land in this county which has
never been broken. The government
experiment farm, near Akron, is
equipped to furnish newcomers in TINS
locality with the most desirable infor-
nation about suitable crops and prop
er methods of farming. Dairying has
been developed very rapidly in the
territory adjacent to the Burlington
railroad in the past decade and dairy
farmers have generally made excellent
profits. This industry has been rapid
ly extended into the districts more re-
mote from railroads and promises
within a few years to become the
basis of farming operations in most all
sections of the county.
While we do not anticipate any
great "back to the land'' rush as re-
suit of this article. still we do think
it both timely and proper to bring to
mind that all of living is not in a
great city and beneath the bright
lights.
The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-27
new BERN, N. c., NEGROES FIGHT
LOSS OF HOMES AND PROPERTY
Whites Preventing Rebuilding of Colored District De-
stroyed by Fire.

colored people, making it impossible
for many o! them ever to build again
in improved and sanitary localities ac-
cessible to the conveniences enjoyed
by the average white taxpayer"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-03-08

ture will give you clear picture.
Look:
What Cow Census Shows
Minnesota has 6.SS cows per farm
and dairy cows on 81.2 per cent of it's
farms.
Nebraska has only 1852 cows per
farm, and dairy cows on only 64.7 per
cent of its farms.
Indiana has only 2.96 cows per
farm, and dairy cows on 1873 per cent
of its farms.
Missouri has only 2.51 cows per
farm, and dairy cows on only 64.3
per cent of its farms.
Kentucky has only 1.63 cows per
farm, with dairy cows on 76.1 per
cent of the farms.
The Difference in a Nut Shell
Could anybody, private or cooper
ative, run creamery at Sank Centre
OIL the cream produced within hauling
distance, if the farmers here kept on
ly about 12 cow each, as in Ken
lucky, CT 2 IL each, as in Missouri,
and on top of that only three-fourths
of the farmers kept dairy cows?
Ard could that creamery, co-opera-
tive or private, pay the same price for
butterfat as say, the creamery at Long
Prairie, where a greater percentage of
TIE farmers keep dairy COWS and
more dairy cows per farm than the
average census figures for Ill of Min
nesota show?
Of course, it couldn't.
Here you have the reason, that ac-
counts for the difference in butterfat
prices. IL the different states, in a
Eu- shell.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-03-08

more cars. It is contended that this
bill, if enacted into law, will cost the
railroads operating in Minnesota, ST.
512, $500 per year in additional wages.
A few days ago the Herald editor
was talking with one of the better in
formed railroad men of Sank Centre
about the proposed railroad legisla-
ton, and he~was asked what was to
be gained by the enactment of the
Full Crew Bill. He stated that the
only object that he could see was to
give more men employment. Upon
being asked as to whether it would
make working conditions any safer for
the men on the through freights, he
said he did not think so. For the
past dozen or Is years the popular
indoor sport in the Legislature has
been to harass the railroad companies
operating in this State. The Herald
is friendly to organized labor, but it
also believes that there should be a
limit to their demands as in all cases
the public finally pays the increased
price that they receive.
The Full Crew bill will not increase
the wages of the workers now en-
ployed but will simply increase the
cost of operation by the addition of
needless overhead expense by the en-
ployment of more men. The Car Shed
Bill, the Vestibule Cab Bill, the Extra
Section Crew Bills, and the Extra
Night Operator Bill; together with the
Full Crew Bill would cost the rail-
roads of Minnesota nearly $2O,OOO,-
900 in the next IL months, if all of
the bills should be enacted into law.
At the Sterilization Conference held
in st. Paul last week, to relieve con-
ditions of the Agriculturist, and the
stabilizing of the price of his product,
there appeared to be desire of those
in charge of the program to cooper
ate to the end that the tiller of the
soil can grow and market his products
at profit. If the sort of legislation
as proposed in the five bills mentioned
above, which harass the railroad COM
panies, and increase the operating
costs, become effective, the work
started by the Sterilization Congress
can not be successfully carried out.
There is a pretty general feeling
throughout the country that all
branches of railroad service are, even
with the slight reduction in their wage
scale, fairly well paid for the service
rendered. The average small bust
nessman and farmer is carrying
heavy burden, and every additional
cent added to the freight rate makes
his burden that much heavier, and it
is not surprising that the proposed
railroad employees legislation now be-
fore the Minnesota Legislature does
not make much Of a hit with the av-
erage citizen.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-03-08

year than those of some of Minneso-
ta's private and cooperative cream
cries.
You would then also understand
that Une service Blue Valley hopes to
render in it's new Sweet Cream Cream
cry at Sank Centre cannot be meas
ured by Blue Valley prices in Nebras-
ka or any other state with like agricul-
tural conditions. These prices are
consistently the highest that are paid
there and can be paid, or Blue Val
ley would not be patronized by more
and more farmers every year.
1t is not the kind of ownership of
a creamery-private or cooperative
that determines the butterfat prices,
but the type of agriculture and den
sity Of the cow population per square
mile, and after that, the efficiency of
the creamery to make and sell but
ter and to meet the needs of the
farming conditions under which it
operates.
Blue Valley butterfat prices are
based on the price Blue Valley but
ter sells for. That price is determined
largely by the quality of the butter
and that again depends largely on the
quality of the cream.
Farming Conditions Largest Factor
In turn, the cream quality at the
creamery door depends on the dis
lance from producer to creamery, on
transportation conditions and on care
and age of the cream. These factors
are governed entirely by the type of
agriculture the farmers follow and
that again is dictated by soil, eli
mate and the natural inclinations of
the people.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-03-08
About Blue Valley
Production and Butferfat Prices

That Blue Valley butterfat prices
are consistently higher in a given ter
ritory than those of other cream ship
ping systems, simply proves that the
Blue Valley Creamery System and
Blue Valley butter marketing are
more efficient.
Service and efficiency, and not the
kind of ownership, determine who
can pay the highest price in certain
territory. .
If the cream shipping system is the
wrong thing for Nebraska, for in
stance, and is responsible for lower
butterfat prices there, and co-opera-
tive ownership insures high price
as is sometimes contended here in
Minnesota, why are there two large
cooperative central plants in that
state and why don't those co-opera-
tive plants pay the same prices as
good cooperative creameries in Min
nesota?
Cow Population Here and There
We cannot take you on visit to a
thousand Blue Valley patrons and
show you the difference between their
farming conditions and yours, and
so make you see just why their prices
for butterfat of necessity must be
lower than yours, and why neither
private nor cooperative local cream
cries can be operated in many of
these states, and just why the type
of ownership-private or cooperative
has nothing to do with the prices
secured, unless the service rendered
By either type is more efficient.
But glance at the COW population
as given by the latest census flgures
of the u. S. Department of Agricul-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-03-08

farmers in Stearns County, because
the prices were so much less than
those paid by Stearns County cream
cries =? According to some people who
jump at conclusions, the cooperative
system certainly must be a bad one
for the farmers anywhere if based
solely on the following prices found
in the same official statistics:
Clearwater County, according ia
these official statistics, has cream
cries, every one cooperative. Still
these creameries paid only 1929 cents
or ga cents less than Stearns County
for the whole year. What was the
matter?
Norman County, also in the Red
River Valley, has creameries, all
cooperative. They paid only 37.16
cents, or almost cents less than
Stearns County! Bear in mind, all CO.
operative too. Then, what was the
matter?
Comes now Murray County, down
in the southwest corner of the state.
where the people take no back seat
when it comes to farming. There are
a creameries, all cooperative. The
butterfat price for the whole year
was $3.50 cents or over 8 IA cents
less than Stearns County!
According to the reasoning of some
people, that price should condemn the
cooperative system and resolutions
should be passed against it. Think OF
it. the cooperative creameries ir
Murray County, Minnesota, paid over
8 IA cents less than the farmers ir
Stearns County were paid! If the
farmers here were strangers to the
cooperative system, just as they are
as yet to Blue Valley, it would be easy
to paint the cooperative system prettv
black by lust talking Murray County
cooperative prices!
What Two Co-operatives Paid
Then there is Traverse County
only about 70 miles straight west
from Sank Centre, but still in Min
nesota, the county's cooperative
creameries benefited and fostered by
all the good work that has been done
for the cooperative creamery system
in the state
According to the official statistics
there were 2 cooperative creameries
in Traverse County in 1921. There.
were no other kinds of creemeries
They paid-whisper it-32.69 cents!
Over il IA cents less than the farm
ers in Stearns County received! About
IA ga cents less than the Carver
County price!
Now, if Traverse County had been
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-03-08

per farm or per square mile there Is
much less than it is around Sank Cen
ire
Knowing all these things and rec
ognizi~g the difference in agricul-
tural and dairy conditions, they do not
blame the cooperative system for the
lower prices paid. Cream station
competition may have held these
creameries down to some extent, too.
However, nobody is forced to patron
ize cream station unless it suits him,
if there is a local creamery in town.
All these conditions will be con-
sidered by any fair-minded man in
judging the cooperative creamery
systems prices in these four counties.
Every fair-minded man will conclude
that the general farming conditions
and the scarcity of dairy cows in these
four counties in a general way de-
termined the price the cooperative
creameries in these counties paid
No man having a general knowledge
of the four counties would blame the
cooperative creamery system for the
prices, paid.
The Real Reason
But, if it was the difference In
farming conditions and the difference
in the density of cow population that
to a large extent was the reason for
the difference between the butterfat
price of Stearns County and the price
paid in the other four Minnesota
counties, what about the difference
between Minnesota farming and dairy
ing and the agricultural conditions in
Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas and
other states? Doesn't that difference
have anything to do with the differ
ence in price? Of course it has. 0
Just as there is good reason for
difference between butterfat prices
paid by different Minnesota counties,
so is there good reason for the differ.
ence in butterfat prices between diff
ferent states. The main reason is not
at ell the type of ownership of the
creameries, but the general agricul-
tural conditions and the density of the
cow population, as so well shown by
the Minnesota facts brought out here.
Next to that, the efficiency of the
creamery service employed is factor
in the price.
That has been Blue Valleys ex-
perience for twenty three wears under
different agricultural conditions in q
number of states. That, evidently, is
also Minnesota's own experience.
That, too, will be the main reason
for the prices the Blue Valley Sweet
Creamery in Sank Centre will be able
to pay, and continue to pay.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-03-08
Eathers2 Mkt

In the holiday seasons, when the
toy shop windows are glittering with
all sorts Of splendors, nothing is more
pathetic than group of middle-aged
and white-headed folk who elbow the
children aside to obtain a glimpse of
the railways. the dolls, the boats, and
all the other delights of the world in
miniature. The sentimentalist re-
marks: poor things, they are wishing
they had enough money to buy that
doll for little Annie or that pony cart
Tor little Alec" Bosh! They are
wishing they had had enough courage
to buy them for themselves and play
with them brazenly before the whole
family Of amateur alienists !-Harper's
Magazine.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-03-08
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURES SALE

Notice is hereby given that default
has been made in the conditions of a
mortgage executed by Bernard Heying,
widower, Mortgagor, to American
State Bank of Richmond, corporation
under the laws of the State of Mime
sofa, Mortgage. dated on the goth day
of September, 1920, and duly recorded
in the office of the Register of Deeds
in and for the County of Stearns, Min
nesota. on the 25th day Of July. A. D.
1921, at o'clock A. M. in Book 80 of
Mortgages on page 474 thereof That
the amount claimed to be due on SAID
mortgage on this date is the sum of
$342200
That the premises described in and
covered by said mortgage are situated
in the County of Stearns in the State
of Minnesota, described as follows: to-
wit:
The Southwest Quarter of the South
east Quarter (SW of SEQ of Section
Northeast Quarter (Wk of NE). and
the East Half of the East Half of the
Northwest Quarter (Ek of Eh of
NV and the Northeast Quarter Of the
Southeast Quarter one of SEQ of Sec
ton Eighteen qS) all in Township
Range Thirty (30).
That no action or proceeding has
been instituted at law or otherwise to
recover said mortgage debt or any
part thereof.
That by virtue Of the power of sale
contained in said mortgage and pur-
suant to the statute in such case made
and provided, said mortgage will be
foreclosed by the sale Of said premises
at public vendue to the highest bidder
for cash by the Sheriff of Stearns
County, Minnesota, at the front door
of the Courthouse, which is the door
of said Courthouse facing st, Ger
main Street, in the City of st. Cloud in
said county of Stearns and State of
Minnesota. on Friday, the 18th day of
April 1928 at 10 o'clock in the fore
noon of said day. to satisfy the amount
then due on said mortgage, to-wit, the
sum Of Three Thousand ($3000.00)
Dollars, with interest thereon at the
rate of per cent per annuln from and
since the goth day Of September, 1920.
less Ninety Dollars paid on interest on
December II, 1921. together with the
costs of said sale and Seventy five
($75 .00) Dollars attorneys fees as stlp
ulated in and by said mortgage. and
taxes. if any.
1928.
american State Bank of Richmond,
Mimi.
BY Fridolin Wurst. President.
By Anton B. IRELAND, Cashier.
Donohue & Quigley,
Attorneys for Mortgagee.
X. C.-Sherman Theatre Bldg,
st. Cloud, MINI.
Published Mar. 1-8-15-22-29 and April
s. 1928.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-03-08

in Kansas or Missouri or Texas, IN
stead of right in Minnesota and the
two creameries had been privately
owned instead of cooperative, now
we'll these prices could have been
used to show what happens to GER
ritory when the private creamerles
"kill off, all competitors, "c"ntrol'
everything and do as they ease, ac-
cording to lively imaginations.
Would Make Bad Showing
Just quoting these prices and giving
no other information, certainly would
make out a bad case for the co-opera-
tive creamery system, if used in that
way, say down in Kentucky.
IF those two Traverse County
creameries were taken as the only
examples of the efficiency of the CO.
operative creamery system and moth
ing was said about farming conditions
in that county, it would be easy to
make out a bad showing for the CO.
operative creamery system to people
who didn't know all the conditions.
Again, if the Sank Centre COM
munity knew nothing about the CO
operative creamery, how easy it would
be to get up and condemn it by simply
pointing to the Traverse County prices
and compare them with those of
Stearns County and then ask: "What
can the cooperative creamery system
do for Sank Centre?"
False Reasoning
According to the same kind of
reasoning the cooperative creamery
system in Traverse, Murray, Norman
and Clearwater-and other Mime
sofa counties that could be mentioned
must be a bad trust, controlling"
the territory. killing the dairv in
dustry and holding the farmers absol-
utely helpless in the hollow of lis
grasping hand! Just look at the price
shey paid! So much lower than Stearns
County!
Fortunately, the people of the Sank
Centre community know their Mime
sofa counties pretty well. They know
very well indeed that the low prices
in these counties We're not caused
especially by the cooperative cream
cry system, and so they know that
these low prices should not condemn
hat system.
Difference In Farming
They know that the farmers in
;hese counties do not dairy as do the
farmers around Sank Centre, but fol-
ow other kinds of farming. They
Know, too, that the COW population
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-03-08
DANGEROUS LEGISLATION

The fight for lower freight rates by
business men and farmers cannot pro-
gress very rapidly if the labor organi-
zatlons which control the railroad sit
nation succeed in having legislation
sponsored by them now before the
Minnesota legislature enacted into
law. The one bill upon which the
union lobbyists are working hardest is
known as the Full Crew Bill. If the
Herald understands this bill correctly,
1t provides for an additional brake
man on freights made up of thirty or
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-03-08

Great Northern Railway. The de-
livery of this new rolling stock, which
is set for September LIST, will make
the greatest addition to motive power
made by any Northwest railroad this
year.
These new locomotives will be haul
ing trains when the heavy harvest
traffic rush is on next fall, reducing to
a minimum the possibility of any car
shortage danger.