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The Glenwood post., 1923-06-28
CROPS FOR EARLY PLANTING
Radishes and Spinach Are Two Old
standbys Of Gardener-Hardy
and Mature Rapidly.

Radishes and spinach are two Of the
gardeners old standbys for early plant
ing on ground where at least two crops
In single season are to be grown on
the same plot. They are not only
hardy, but mature early enough to be
out Of the way for another crop.
The Glenwood post., 1923-06-28
BILLS ALLOWED
BY tho Board Of Commissioners Of
Garfield County 1t Their June
Session, 1928
Ordinary Fund

G C. Merrill, field assessor. s. 42.V
Tom Simpson, field assessor. $500
Alex s. Simpson, salary and
expense county assessor. 21l.S0
Lester NJ. Mechau, salary treas
urer's office ............ $500
c. E. Hubbard, salary deputy
treasurer ........ I1o.oo
c. ]. s. Hoover, salary deputy
assessor .....-.... ISo'Vo
E. w. R. Morelock, profession
al service ..... 2o.oo
G. A. Hopkins, professional
service ........... ...... lo.uV
W. W. Crook, professional SER
M. J. Mayes, legal service -. 1000
c. W. Taylor, legal service... 1000
L. R. Carson, professional
Walter J. Frost, salary coun-
Geo. L. Winters salary sher-
iff ....... 49,. 233,s5
Geo o. l.. winters, expenses. 1925
z. b. Higgins, salary and ex-
penses .....''... .....': 'S'oo
May G. Hadsell, salary county
clerks office ............ $500
Erma o. Hubbard, salary coun-
ty clerks office ......... 1900
j. NJ Shultz, salary court
stenographer ...... 49,. l0S.331
D. W. Shores, salary clerk dis
trict court ...........,... l5o.oo
Mt. States T. & T. Co., phone
service ............ ...... oH'eo
e vaneed d . ." eo.7s
]. j. Bell, expense .......... 1855
County Clerk Fee Fund, clerk
Of board ........ 500. 5000
VIM. Crissman, salary ...... 5000
L. O. Rater, bailiff fees ...... 1000
The Glenwood post., 1923-06-28
SOME CROPS MATURE SLOWLY
Sweet Potatoes, Pumpkins and
squashes Unsuitable Where Two
Crops Are Grown In Season.

Never plant sweet potatoes, pump
kins or squashes in the garden where
you expect to grow two crops in a
single season. All of these crops re-
Quire from 100 to $50 days to mature
The bush squash. however. natures in
from GO to so days. but the vine squash
utilizes the full season.
The Glenwood post., 1923-06-28

Smallest Baby on Record.
The smallest baby ut birth knowr
weighed two pounds and one ounce.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-05-24

81 caught cold, which settled on my
kidneys. My kidneys got so weak, l
had to pass the secretions every little
while and they weren't of healthy
nature and at times, they burned in
passage. I had dull ache in the small
of my back. which hung on all the
time and tired me easily. Mornings
when I got up, my back felt stiff and
lame and bothered me a lot until l
got stirring around. If I bent sudden
ly or lifted anything heavy, 1 had a
sharp kink in my back. l was soon
able to correct this trouble, however,
by using Doan's Kidney Pills. bought
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-05-24

Blue Valley. buys all its cream in
competition with other creameries.
Much the greatest part of it so far
has come from farmers in territory
where the number of dairy cattle per
square mile is too small to support
local creameries.
In all such territory scores of cen
trail creameries with thousands of
cream station agents compete with
Blue Valley for the farmers cream.
Blue Valley has no cream agents.
The farmers ship their cream to Blue
Valley only because of the better
Blue Valley prices and service.
Blue Valley holds and increases its
patronage only by the same means.
1t has no strings on its thousands of
cream shippers.
Competition gives the farmer a
free choice every time he sells cream.
He knows what the price of Compel
ing creameries is. He finds their quo
tations in his mail. The local cream
station agents tell him their prices
and constantly solicit his business.
1t is all up to him. He has the
choice. He does as he pleases. He is
tied to nobody. He can switch at any
time, when things don't go to his lik-
ing.
Every time he sells his cream to
Blue Valley, he puts us on probation.
Blue Valley must make good today
to get his cream again tomorrow.
The Blue Valley Sweet Cream
Creamery here will do business Oh
the same principle. The farmer who
sells us a can of cream will be paid
cash in full and the deal closed right
there and then. If he finds our prices
and service more satisfactory than
elsewhere, he will sell us again. If
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-05-24

Blue Valley butter has its largest
sale in the cities in which we have
creameries and in New York City
where we have a sales branch. But
Blue Valley butter also has a big
sale in over a hundred other cities.
However, let us just examine the but
ter consumption in the cities where
we have creameries and in New York
City.
At the rate of It's pounds per
capita, these cities alone consumed
over 225 million pounds of butter in
1922. Just how could the Blue Valley
sales control" this market or any
part of it? Of course, it couldn't.
New York City alone consumed
SO million pounds, Chicago AT mil
lion, Detroit II million, Cleveland
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-05-24

butter markets. After all, that is the
only way in which both cream pro-
ducers and butter consumers are
sure of getting square deal and the
best possible price and service.
A few figures will show the story
Of Blue Valley control of butter
markets to be as unfounded and
ridiculous as the story of Blue Valley
control" of cream territory. In the
case of the latter we had to use 1921
figures, those being the latest issued
by U. S. Department of Agriculture.
In discussing butter markets, we can
use 1922 figures.
II
Butter Consumption and Blue Valley
Sales
According to statistics compiled
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-05-24
About Blue Valley
Competition in Cream Shipping Territory

mile. Instead of each of the 81 cream
cries in the county averaging 1872
milk cows, they would average only
264. Most of them would go out of
business for they couldn't run on
that. Instead of each creamery now
covering on an average of 1913
square miles, five or six of them
would then have to cover over 200
square miles in order to get the
cream from 1872 cows.
In other words, the cream haul
would be too long for the farmer with
his small amount of cream, and it
would not pay him to make as fire.
quent deliveries as he does now. It
would be much easier for him to take
his cream to the nearest town, ship
it himself or sell it to a cream station
agent who would then ship it.
All this cream would not go to one
creamery. Many creameries would at
once complete for the business-the
ten or twelve in the Twin Cities, those
at St. Cloud, Paynesville, Willmar,
Morris, Alexandria, Moorhead, Fargo,
Bemidji, Little Falls and many
others, private or cooperative. The
competition would at once give
the Stearns County farmer a choice
OF outlets between creameries bid
ding against each other, all according
to their butter marketing and manu-
featuring ability, transportation rates
on cream, etc.
While all these creameries would
have this competition in common in
Stearns County, each one would have
new competition in other territory,
those in the Twin Cities in the south
ern and western part of the state,
those in Fargo in the northern part
OF the state, and so it would go all
over the country.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-05-24
Competition Gives Farmers Highest Market

Is, St. Louis 10, Milwaukee 8, Indi-
annapolis 5, Kansas City 5, Louisville
4, Columbus 4 million and so on down
the line in all the cities where Blue
Valley and creameries in 1921
without considering hundred other
cities where Blue Valley butter was
sold.
Best Known Brand Among Many
Blue Valley butter is the best
known brand of butter in America
today. But there are a thousand other
brands, to say nothing of the millions
OF pounds of unlabeled butter sold
right out of the tub.
Blue Valley butter is never sold
in bulk and is never sold or traded
in on the butter exchanges or boards.
For these reasons Blue Valley butter
sales have nothing whatever to do
with the wholesale quotations. Blue
Valley butter is sold only direct to
the retailer and usually at a higher
price than other butter.
Anybody who thinks he can "con-
troll the butter market of big city,
should try it. He might as we'll 60
down to the lake a block from the
Blue Valley Sweet Cream Creamery,
stick his hand in the water and try
to keep it from running under the
bridge.
n
Competition Benefits You
Just as Blue Valley is in COMPETE
ton with many others wherever
farmers sell it cream and consumers
buy Blue Valley butter, so will the
Blue Valley Sweet Cream Creamery
here be in competition with others.
And as is always the case where
there is free and open competition,
the cream producer will benefit in
higher prices and better service. He
gets chance to choose and to COM
pare. He judges for himself. He is
free and Independent to take advan-
tage of the highest market and the
best service.
Watch for the opening of the Blue
Valley Sweet Cream Creamery. Get
in shape to sell sweet cream. The
cows give sweet milk and there is
more money in selling sweet cream
when the butter made from it is sold
direct to the retailers and goes in it's
own brand right to the individual
consumer-Blue Valley; the best
known brand in America.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-05-24

and issued by the National Dairy
Council, the average consumption of
butter by every man, woman and
child in the whole country was 17.5
pounds in 1922.
In 1922 there was sold $685. TIT
packages of Blue Valley butter, an
increase of over Ten Million over the
sales of 1921, showing increased ap-
proval of the Blue Valley Creamery
System by both cream producers and
butter consumers.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-05-24

These are the actual conditions in
Nebraska, Illustrated by transferring
Nebraska conditions to Minnesota
and Stearns County. The same
conditions exist wherever the number
of cows per square mile is too small
to support local creameries, and
where farmers sell cream to Blue
Valley.
Under such conditions there is no
way for any one creamery to gain
control, especially not Blue VAL
ley Creamery which, having no cream
stations, must pay the same price to
all according to the grade of cream
and so cannot manipulate prices at
any one local point to drive out or
"kill' competition, and then do as it
pleases. Statements to that effect
are the result of fear of competition
with the Blue Valley Sweet Cream
Creamery here. Ask yourself why
anybody should fear competition.
~
What Cold Figures Show
The tale OF Blue Valley control"
of territory is also disproven by cold
figures.
In 1921 there was sold 48,272,986
packages of Blue Valley butter. In
that year there were Blue Valley
creameries in nine Missouri,
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio,
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Ken
lucky.
According to stastics, published
by U. S. Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. c., there was produc-
ed in 1921 (Which is the latest re-
port) in those nine states 493,792,-
900 pounds of creamery butter.
Bearing in mind the Blue Valley
sales figures, you will readily see
that Blue Valley has no more "con-
trol'' in those states than all the
centralizers in Minnesota have "con-
troll" of the cream here.
Why, Nebraska alone produced
over sc million pounds of creamery
butter, Ohio over78 million, Iowa LOG
million, Michigan 55, Illinois 48, Mis-
souri, AZ million, and so on down the
line!
No Control" of Butter Markets
Either
In order to prejudice cream pro-
ducers against the Blue Valley Sweet
Cream Creamery here, an effort has
also been made to show that Blue
Valley controls" certain butter
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-05-24


according to his own judgment.
~
Competition Protects Farmers
Competition in the cream markets
protects the interests of the farmers
and gives them a chance to compare
prices and service. Real competition
in this part of the country will do
the same.
Competition has been called the
life of trade. 1t is. 1t is of greatest
Importance to the farmer who has
cream and other products to sell. 1t
forces prices up and keeps them up.
1t makes everybody hustle 1t gets
him service. And it gives him a sure
way of checking up and finding out
if he is really getting what he should,
both in price and service.
Where real competition exists in
cream market, the creameries have
to be up and doing. Competition
sharpens their manufacturing eff
ficiency and forces them to market
their butter in the very best way they
can find-all for the purpose of pay
ing the highest possible price for the
cream. So far as Blue Valley is con-
cerned, we have built up our own
direct butter marketing system and
there is only one Blue Valley brand
of butter-the best known brand in
America today. That's why Blue Val
ley cream prices attract and hold so
many shippers, in spite of all kinds
of competition.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-05-24

markets. Evidently, some people can
not imagine themselves successful in
open competition, but must have
control" and so they imagine other
people can only be successful in the
same manner.
However, Blue Valley has been
successful and grown to be the
largest exclusive manufacturers of
creamery butter in the world in free
and open competition and without
control, of either cream territory or
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-05-24
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AMERICAN LEGION

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Memorial Day
A holiday but more than that,
A HOLY day.
1t is a day of reflection,
A day of consideration,
A day of devotion and of thanks
giving;
Sacred to the memories of the dead
Consecreated to the service of the
living,
1t is a day not of weeping nor of
mourning,
But of sweet remembrance;
A day not of regret nor of longing,
But of loving devotion;
A day of sincere tribute and of SOL
temn purpose.
Born of the sacrifices of our COM
rades,
1t has come to us thru the sacred
years,
A challenge of faithfulness,
A duty of patriotism,
A reward of virtue.
From The Grand Army of the Rep
nblic.
1t has come to The American Legion,
A soldiers gift to a soldier,
His creed of loyalty;
And the Legion will carry on.
seeds of devotion to ideals.
And of brotherly love,
The seeds of sacrificial service,
Were well sown on the battlefields
of France,
Just as were they sown
In the blood of those who fell
Along the whispering reaches of
Bull Run
Or on the fertile fields of Appomat-
tox.
The blood of all these hero dead,
Blood of the North and of the South,
Of the East and of the West,
Blood of an hundred conflicts
In dozen lands, has fallen
And in falling has intermingled
The life blood of America.
1t has hallowed the soil it fell upon
And the harvest shall be unity of
thot and of purpose;
1t shall be righteousness;
1t shall be democracy;
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-05-24
THAT DULL ACHING

Don't worry and complain about a
bad back. Get rid of it! For weak kid
neys, lame and achy backs, your
neighbors recommend Doan's Kidney
Pills. Ask your neighbor! Read this
statement:
Andrew Wicklund, retired former,
Box number sos, Sank Centre, says:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-05-24

lated here as part of the campaign to
prejudice the cream producers
against the Blue Valley Sweet Cream
Creamery, evidently by those who
fear competition and so do not want
the farmers to get the benefit of it.
Their idea of creamery success is to
have control of the business and
force all farmers to sell to them.
There is no such thing as control"
on the part of any one creamery in
cream shipping territory. Every town
has cream station agents and every
city has several creameries. The
whole country is criss-crossed with
competition. No creamery, not even
Blue Valley, gets all the business,
just as no merchant in Sank Centre,
however efficient he may be, gets all
the trade in his line.
Difference in ideas, personal con-
venience, solicitations, habits, tempo
rary and local price wars-all these
and many other reasons prevent one
creamery from getting all the cream
in cream shipping territory, no mat
ter how outstanding its merits.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-05-24

mail them to 3O5 Old Capital, st.
Paul, MINI.
Out On The Waters
1t. Col. Theodore Roosevelt has
promised cooperation of the Amer
lean Navy in carrying out the sug-
gestion of Lemuel Bolles, Legion
National Adjutant, that the memory
of hundreds of Americans who per-
ished at sea be remembered by ships
approaching the submarine zone on
Memorial Day. Mr.. Bolles' letter asks
that American ships in that zone May
30th mark the event with simple
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-05-24

ceremonies as a tribute to the I'M
known resting places of these Amer
leans.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-05-24
If Minnesota Had Nebraska
Conditions

10 Illustrate
Suppose the farmers of Minnesota
found that they could raise more
profitable crops than butterfat. AS
a result their number of dairy cattle
per square mile probably would drop
to that of Nebraska.
Instead of ST. head of dairy cat
tie per square mile, there would then
be only 1914 in Stearns County. In
stead of 34.S7 milk cows per square
mile as at present, there would then
be only 6.64 milk cows per square
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-05-24
Who Knows Best i?

Who knows Valley-the sold
of the farmers who have sold their Blue
Hey for years?
Here is what of them writes. entirely unsolicited
May T. 1923.
Blue Valley Creamery Company,
Grand Rapids, Michigan
1t is a pleasure o do business with the Blue Valley
Creamery Company In shipping them about hundred
loyal in Is but few
red, and they have been promptly rectified
Hardly a week passes that l do not shipping
and inducements ship other creamery
but have learned to let them aone.
Long live the Blue Valley Creamery Company!
Yours respectfully,
A. A. Miner,
Luther, Michigan
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-05-24

a box at Hanson & Emerson's Drug
Store and they fixed me up in great
shape"
Coo. at all dealers. Foster Milburn
Co., Mfrs, Buffalo, N. Y.-adv.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-05-24
Blue Valley Has Competition
Everywhere

Blue Valley has competition every
where, Notwithstanding statements to
the contrary.
These statements have been circu-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-05-24

not, he won't. He can go and come
according to his own judgment.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-10
MOVIES

There is a quality about Kisses" the Maxwell Karger production for Metro, in which Alice Lake is starred, at the Empress Theater tonight which appeals to all kinds of motion picture fans.
 It is a fresh and new version of a theme which has many possibilities for pathos, humor and romance. Kisses shows one phase of the strug- gle of the younger generation to pay it's debt to past; in this case the ef- fort of a young and attractive girl to pay off the creditors of her dead fath- CT. Betty Estabrook, the role played by Miss Lake, goes into business for herself, and becomes involved in struggle which puts her at grips with an interruptions business competitor and which incidentally enables her if nally to outwit him.
 In the supporting cast are Harry Myers, Edward Connolly, Edward Job son, Dana Todd Mignon Anderson, John Mackinnon and Eugene Pouyet. Kisses" is based in story by May Fully from the scenario by June Mathis.
 Doubling for Romeo" the new Gold wyn picture, starring Will Rogers, which will be shown at the Empress Theater Sunday night, is a delightful parody of Shakespeare. The hero tries to emulate the love-making of Romeo, but finds that his cowboy training is too great a handicap. Will Rogers, as the bashful cowboy lover, gives the best performance of his screen career.
 The titles, which were written by Will Rogers himself, are funny enough to make up an entire vaudeville act alone. They bring Shakespeare down to date through the eyes of love- sick cowboy. But Rogers isn't the only comic spirit in the story. Will liam Oramund, as the movie" direc tor of the studio to which the cowboy turns for instruction in love-making, gives perfect travesty of the popu- lar idea of a director. Lefty" Flynn has several delightful comic scenes with Will Rogers; and Sylvia Breamer, one of the most beautiful girls on the screen, is the heroine with a taste for movie" lovers.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-10

working alone. The men would open an attack in one part of the town and then suddenly close in and speed in their car to another section of the town, opening a new attack, and per haps stopping en route to sprinkle little petrol and attempt a fire or two.
 But Dublin is the hub of Ireland. It is to be expected that the Irregular movement would be squelched there first. In the provinces the outrages and attacks are numerous and ire ouent. but there are indications that they are the work of small rowing bands, who do not center their actiVl- ties but would flee after one outrage to new fields of endeavor.
 Small Ambushes Most Frequent
 During the Autumn and early Winter months there were frequent reports of battles between large bodies Of Free Staters and Irregulars. These reports of late have not been frequent, instead there has been an increase III the number of reports of small am- bushes by small bodies of lrregulars upon small bodies of Free Staters. This would all seem to point to the fact that the Irregulars have been dis rupted as a united body, and that those who are still continuing the war fare are in very small groups. The warfare has changed from mass at tack to guerilla warfare. In accom- plishing this at least the Free Staters can claim a modicum of victory.
 Ten men with a machine gun and a few rifles and revolvers can make a terrible fuss and it appears that this is just what is happening all over Ire land today-small bands of rowing IT, regulars are creating disturbances far out of proportion to their actual nu- merical strength.
The Cordova daily times., 1923-03-10
By DAVID M. CHURCH

DUBLIN, March 10.-Ireland's daily atrocities-its campaign of ambushes, arson and attacks-are the work of decidedly few men. This fact is vouched for by those who have gone the length and breadth of Ireland and have studied conditions.
 The Irregular movement is not heav- ily manned. It has been fairly well es- tablished that at the present time there are hardly more than twenty five Irregulars who are actively caus- ing trouble in Dublin. This was evl- denced a short time ago when Dublin had a series of lively nights. Machine gun and revolver fire kept the town awake all night long. There were heavy bombing attacks. Arson was attempted. Then one night there was a battle between a party of 1rregu- lars and the Free Staters. When the smoke had cleared a bullet-riddled car was found, covered with blood. It was learned that four occupants of the car had been seriously wounded.
 Work of One Small Band
 The nightly outrages ceased for some time, and Government lntelll- gence agents believe they have accu- rate proof that Dublin's quiet had been disturbed by this small band,