The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-03-01
NeulJ BrietrMn
All M State
Condensed Stories Of Happenings
Of the Week in Minnesota

Medical society will have a one day
convention here June IL.
WilImar-The board of county COM
missioners have laid out program for
70 miles of crawling for the summer.
costing $4,000.
Grand Rapids-Between 400 and 500
fathers and sons were to gather here
at the second annual Father and Son
banquet sponsored by the local Lions
club.
Two Harbors-M. H. Brickley, Du-
luth and Iron Range telephone man.
ager, will head the independent voters
ticket at the spring election, as the
candidate at caucus of citizens.
Thief River FalIs-Ralph e. Thomp-
son of st. Paul was appointed as engi-
neer to make survey Of the dam
property here. The council holds an
option on the purchase of the property
for $4,000.
Hibbing- S. v. Saxby Of
the Duluth Commercial club extended
an invitation to the Lions club of Hib-
bling to attend the "Over the Top"
chamber of commerce banquet at Du-
luth.
Hihbing-Five persons indicted by
the grand jury on charges Of violating
the prohibition law, were arraigned
in district court here and pleaded not
guilty. Their bail was fixed at $50e
each.
Rochester-According to a ruling
made by the city council, farmers along
the right of way in Olmsted and Wa
basha counties will hereafter be able
to get electric light and power from
the Rochester plant.
East Grand Forks+Galusha Purcell
was elected city treasurer by the coun-
Gil, to succeed the late James Nell
raith, who died last week. Mr.. Pur-
cell was born and raised here and has
been in the real estate business.
Red Wing-The Busch garage, op-,
Grated in this city by William F.
Busch, has been sold to the Mccoy,
Curran company of Cloquet, who have
filed articles of incorporation with the
register of deeds for $4,000 corpora
ton.
Wadena-Bob Newman brought his
team in first in the Glass l Central
Minnesota dog derby. under the ar
spices of the Lions club. About 5000
persons watched the tC)y. In the
same event, Paul Koch came in second
and Cyril Hensler third.
st. PauI-Minnesota, with 81 per
cent of the urban population living in
Eoned municipalities, ranks third
among the states on the basis Of per-
centage of urban population zoned, &C
cording to report made public by the
division of building and housing OF the
department of commerce.
Ear;5auit-August Kolterman, a far.
mer, % years old, died at his home
near Fox Lake following the alleged
drinking of liquor at party. It 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.
International FalIs---Raymond Bel.
ton, alias Raymond Arlington, who
was taken in custody here by customs
officials on the charge that he entered
this country without the proper pro-
cedure, is being held in the county
Jail. Bolton will be held here pending
the disposition of his case by the Sec
rotary of labor.
Mankato-John N. Van der Vries of
the Chicago office of the Chamber Of
Commerce of the United States of
America, will speak at the March
membership meeting of the Mankato
Civic and Commerce association, We'd
nesday, March Z. In the week that he
appears in Mankato, Mr.. Van der Vries
is also to speak before the civic COM
mercial organizations in Albert Lea,
Fairbault and Rochester.
MapIeton-The campaign to place
purebred sire on every farm in the
state was given hearty support at
massmeeting here attended by 800
farmers, bankers and business men.
Representatives of Mapleton banks
pledged financial aid to farmers in
building up their livestock herds after
details of the drive were outlined to
those attending the meeting. Several
farmers signed up for sires following
The session.
crookston-With only one defeat on
it's home floor, the Crookston Company
M basketball team, champions of
Northwestern Minnesota. has closed
its 1923 season with victories over ev.
cry team played. In the thirty games
played, Crookston won twenty-five and
lost eight, with grand total of S29
points against their opponents 583.
Altho the local Gunners lost seven
games away from home return games
played resulted in victory for the To-
cal quint. The only visiting team to
win was the Two Harbors All Stars,
who won the first game of three
played here and two played at Two
Harbors.
Fergus FaIls-G. o. Dahl, aged 70,
pioneer merchant of this city and a
former commissioner, is dead of pneu-
monia.
Fairmont-Despite the low prices
received for farm products last fall.
only fourteen persons in Martin coun.
ty who had mortgaged real estate
failed IN redeem 1t before expiration