The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-02-22
NeuIt BrietrMm
AN Me State
Condensed Stories Of Happenings
Of The Week i Minnssota

Hibbing-Contra which totaled
more than $4,000 were let by the Hib.
bling board of education at a meeting
in the new high school here.
st. James-A gain of $19,937.6S in
business over 1921 was reported at the
annual meeting of the st. James Ship.
ping association. The association
shipped ia cars of livestock and hogs
to the South st. Paul market.
WiIlmar-A farmers cooperative
elevator will be erected at Lake Lillian
the new station on the Luce Electric
line in Kandiyohi county. A co-opera
tive association has been formed and
a committee of six men appointed to
solicit shares and draw up the articles
of incorporation.
Hibbing-Range druggists, after a
regular monthly meeting at the An
droy hotel, Endorsed Claude Mather OF
Eveleth, we'll known range druggist for
a place on the state board of phar
macy.
$3,500,000 Nicollet hotel is assured
according to Joseph Chapman, chair
man of the stock sales executive com
mittee which has been charged with
the task of directing the disposal OF
the $1,250,000 issue of per cent Gu
mulative preferred stock to complete
the financing of the undertaking.
FaribauIt-hugust Kolterman, a far
mer, % years old, died at his home
near Fox Lake following the alleged
drinking of liquor at a party. 1t is re
ported two neighbors of Kolterman
also partook of the liquor and were
made i'll, but recovered. The sheriff
and coroner are Investigating.
Fergus FaIIs-Ferd Hartvig, far
mer of Pine Island, was severely in
jured and his two horses were instant
ly killed when a Northern Pacific coast
train struck the team he was driving
at crossing in Perham. Hartvig was
thrown considerable distance, re
ceiving fractured skull and many
body bruises.
st. PauE-Minnesota, with So pei
cent of the urban population living in
'zoned municipalities, ranks third
centage of urban population zoned, &C
cording to a report made public by the
division of building and housing of the
department of commerce.
Fairbaut-With prospects for big
ger building season than ever before in
the history of the city, the second an
nual Builders show at Faribault will
be staged March s, 8 and 10. Thirty
five to 40 business firms will participate
in the show and several twin city job
bling firms in building materials and
house furnishings also will be repre-
scented. ....r
Austin-In the subdistrict high
school oratorical and defamation COLI
test here Louis Usem of Austin won
the oratorical division with the Grafton
"Americanization." Second place in
this division was won by John Mar
tinson of Adams, with "a Plea for
Cuba Mildred Lee Galbraith OF
Grand Meadow won the declamatory
division Katheryn Albertson. of Aus
tin, with "Pomance," was second.
Bemidji-An order denying the petit
ton for the improvement of the chan
mel of the Red Lake river, as requested
by the Red Lake Drainage and con-
servancy board, has been signed by
Judge Andrew Grindeland of Warren
and Judge c. w. Stanton of Bemidji
The Red Lake drainage and conserv
ancy project has been in progress for
several years and hearing was held
at Thief River Falls recently to deter
mine whether the work should begin
on the project as recommended by the
engineers.
CIoquet-Katherine Campbell OF
Cloquet won first place in the high
school defamation contest in the sub.
district meet here, reciting "The Fin.
ger of God" Ada Thompson of Bar
mum, with Madam Butterfly" was
second, and Evelyn Belander, of Du.
luth Denfield high, third, with "Pro
Patria" In the oratorical contest FL
lott Ingebretson of Denfeld high, Du.
luth, took first; Ben Hunter, Crosby,
second, and Donald Rich, Cloquet
third. Towns represented in the con.
test were Crosby, Barnum, Cloyerton
Sandstone, Denfield of Duluth, and
Cloquet.
Duluth-Tales Of the frozen north"
have little or nothing more strange to
tell than the story of how men of the
state highway department of Mime
sofa have plowed 5000 people out OF
five feet of snow for two winters-last
year and this. In the desolate country
along the shore of Lake Superior, in
Lake and Cook counties, 5000 persons
are dependent on roads for their COM
munication with the outside world
There is a railroad, but in winter it is
abandoned under several feet of snow.
This is why the state has provided
giant motor driven snowplows to keep
clear stretch of 100 miles of road
Luverne - At the annual meet
ing of the Hills Cooperative Creamery
association, the secretary's report
showed that more than $4,000 worth
of business was transacted last year.
More than $4,000 pounds of butter
were sold and the butter fat was sup.