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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-03-15
THURSDAY, MARCH IS, 1923

thereto on the subscriber hereto at
his office in the City of Sank Centre.
Stearns County, Minnesota, within
twenty (20) days after the service OF
the day of such service; and If you
fail to answer the complaint herein
within the time aforesaid. the plaint1n
will apply to the Court for the relief
demanded therein.
Victor T. Conklin,
Attorney for Plaintiff,
Sank Centre, Minnesota.
Notice of Lis Pendens
State of Minnesota, County of Stearns
In District Court-Seventh Judicial
District.
Joseph Jenc, PLAINTIFF
Mary Jenc, Edwin Jenc. Harry Jenc,
an infant, by Anna Jenc, his general
guardian, The Merchants National
Bank of Sank Centre, corpora ton,
The First State Bank of Sank Cen
tire, a corporation, David B. Caugh-
rem, and all other persons unknown
having or claiming an interest in
the property described in the COM
Defendants.
Notice is hereby given that an action
has been commenced in the above
named court by the above named plain
tiff against the above named defendants;
that the plaintiff is interested as
tenant in common with the defendants
in the premises hereinafter described
and that the object of this action is
for a partition of said land according
to the respective rights and interests
of the parties interested therein, and
for a sale of such property, or part
thereof, if it appears that partition
cannot be had without great prejudice
to the owners.
That the lands involved in said &C
ton are situate in the County OF
Stearns, State of Minnesota and des.
cribed as follows:
The Southwest quarter of the North
west quarter (SWA) of NV ~. Sec
ton Eleven 11), Township One hum
bred twenty five 125), Range Thirty
Victory T. Conklin.
Attorney for Plaintiff,
Sank Centre. Minnesota
Published March 1-S-15 1923.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-03-15
U. S. NAVAL EXAMINATIONS

The Civil Service Commission will
hold examinations in the post office
building at Bemidji, Brainerd, and
st. Cloud on March 81, 1923 at 9
o'clock for the purpose of securing
an eligible list from which to select
candidates for the two vacancies now
existing at the U. S. Naval Academy
at Annapolis for the Sixth Congress
sional district. This examination is
open to all young men who are over
16 years Of age and who will not have
passed their Goth birthday on April
1, 1923. Candidates must have a
high school education or it's equiva-
lent.
Any young man desiring to take
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-03-15
THE WHOLE ROAD STORY
(From the st. Paul Dispatch)

(From the st. Paul Dispatch)
Commissioner Babcock has submit
ted to the Legislature complete and
convincing statement of the need of
a $20,000,000 bond issue for state
highway construction. There is no
reason why any person who has CIV
en- the subject study, until he under
stands it fully, should oppose it, but
1T is natural that some who have not
done so should be slow in accepting
it. When the project is made entire
1y clear to all, the sentiment for it
should be unanimous. Doubtless with
that end in mind, Mr.. Babcock has
gone into the matter exhaustively,
discussing it from every angle, for
the benefit not only of the Legisla-
ture, but of all the people of Mime
sofa, in order that the prejudices of
the uniformed should not influence
others.
Mr.. Babcock has given one illustra-
tive case of the waste of money in the
so-called pay-as-you-go system. On
the southern portion of Trunk High
way No. 1, in Washington and CHS
ago counties, the cost of mainten-
ance is $2,145 a year, with unsatis-
factory results. In wet years it is
more and will increase further as
travel increases. If a new gravel
surface is put on, the cost in one
year will run to $4,000. The cost of
a pavement would be $4,000 a year
for twenty years, plus an average of
$l27 for maintenance. There is no
room for comparison at all. There
are many similar cases all over the
state.
If the money is largely used up in
repairs, there will not be enough cur
rent funds to purchase right-of- way,
clearing, grading, drainage and sur
racing of roads to keep up with the
growing traffic and population of the
state. We are falling behind other
states in road building, in spite of
the great progress of the past two
years. VIE must catch up and keep
UP with them.
The money is needed for graveled
as well as hard-surfaced roads. Only
those roads carrying heavy traffic re-
qulre pavement, but all the 1000
miles of trunk highway need to be
made fit for the amount of travel
there is on them.
How many churches, schools, pub
lie buildings and homes could be built
under the pay-as-you-go policy? The
same principal applies to roads. There
is still another. Good roads are pro.
ducers commercially, while the other
institutions are not. Safe and sound
highways save money to the farmers,
to the motor vehicle owners, to ev-
erybody. They mean more people,
more wages for the wage earners.
All the expense of road building
falls on the motor vehicle owners.
They will save, in car maintenance
and running expenses, three times
as much from good roads as the good
roads will cost.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-03-15

this examination should Immediately
communicate with Representative
Harold Knutson, House Office Build
ing, Washington, D. c., for the neces-
sary permission to take the examines
ton.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-03-15

The total road mileage of the State
is 107,103 miles, as compared with
93,517 miles in 1914, and during the
seven-year period from 1914 the
graded and drained mileage has in
creased from 1878 to 65,755 and
the surfaced and paved roads from
1893 to 1904.
The total revenue i'm 1921 amount
ed to $40,357,925, or $499 for each
square mile of area, $377 for each
, mile of road, or 1851 per capita.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-03-15
ROAD CENSUS OF MINNEsoT.

Minnesota now has 82,660 miles Of
improved road not including that add
ed during last season, according to
the Bureau of Public Roads, United
States Department of Agriculture,
which has made complete census in
the State. The improved road mile
age at the beginning of 1922 was as
The Washington times., 1923-03-04

A husky bunch Of
ambitious 20 lrlgsters
and seas oned { vets Z
60 south every year
about this time to
: get IN trim Z for their
business Of playing
major league ball.
And they We got to
keep . on their toes =
every minute or
better men displace
them.
In your b,lsiness-if you're
going to be regarded as "a
regular" you need spring
training also to ward off 5
o'clock fatigue. .-s \. !: a !
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-17
AUTHORIZATION
Head Says Sentiment
FavOrs Wine and Beer

Washington. Jan. 16-"Every day in
every way" prospects for modification
of the dry laws are becoming better
and better" w. II. Stayton, founder
and executive head of the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment,
declared in a statement issued tonight
on the eve of the birthday of so
called prohibition in this country"
After three years of unsteady reign.
old King Prohibition ais fast tottering
to a fall he said. and there are most
encouraging evidences of a change in
sentiment
Election figures in eight states. Cap
tam Stayton declared. point to vot-
ing majority of approXimat $780,
600 in the country in favor of the man.
ufacture and sale of beer and light
wines. In four states comprising Is
per cent. of the population where tho
wet and dry issue was directly before
the voters November Z. he explained,
a prohibition majority of nearly goo
600 was returned in Ohio and of $4,000
in California, while Massachusetts vot-
ed wet by $4,000 majority. and ILL.,
nois by $4,000. leaving met wet ma
jority" of $4,000. In the other four
states. comprising another IS per cent.
of the population where prohibition
was an indirect issue. he added. the
vets won by 10000 in New York, by
10000 in New Jersey. by 10000 in Ma
ryland and by 10000 in Missouri. The
latter group of states. he pointed out.
have Il representatives in Congress,
and the former group 76. of whom the
two states voting dry have SO.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-17

Washington. Jan. 16.-Declaring that
prohibition had utterly failed to pro-
hibit," Representative Bourke Cock
ran. Democrat. New York. told the
House today that if the president
should call into the enforcement serv-
War to enforce the 14th and 18th
amendments the result would be the
sa:lc-a dead letter in many states"
That the dry act had proved failure,
Mr.. Cochran declared, had been shown
so completely as to call forth the ex-
traordinary statement of President
Harding that disregard of the laws
provisions is so widespread as to con-
sttutc q great national scandal.
"NVho shall be permitted to Judge
morality for me?" he asked. We might
just as well come along with a consti-
tutiOnal amendment regulating what
we shall eat and how long we shall
sleep. Or VIC might. by that means,
regulate the length of a skirt and the
degree to which a lady might expose
her shoulder to a friend.
Every attempt to enforce morality
is attended by disorder and there are
localities in this country where the
18th amendment cannot be enforced"
Referring to the shocking revela-
tons at Mcr Rouge" Mr.. Cochran de-
clared that "a man was killed because
he was a bootlegger. and girl deport-
cd because her moral standard was not
what mob believed they should be-.
This he said. was an example of ''regu-
lation gone mad"
representative Tramton, Republican,
Michigan. replying to Mr.. Cochran. re-
minded the House that the United
States was closing today its third year
under national prohibition.
What was there in the speech of Mr..
Upshaw Of Georgia that so aroused the
opponents of that law" he asked.
simply that law and order should
prevail. and that you and l. as members
of this House, and government Off
Gals who have taken oath, should OBJ
serve the law"
Thereafter. he said, Representative
Hill, Republican. Maryland. whom he
cha "a terZcd as the spokesman for the
Association opposed to Prohibition,
wanted the Upshaw charges investi-
gated.
1.-THE gentleman from Maryland" Mr.
Cramton said, Ought to include in his
resolution a speech he made two years
ago in st. Louis in which he said
there was nothing so thirsty as a dry
congressman. and that he had been
forced to stop keeping liquor in his
office because so many prohibitionists
went to see him he had none left for
his wet friends
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-17
Lynch to Assume
Office as Head of
Bay State Dry Force

Worcester. Mass. Jan. 16-Albert
J. Lynch of Boston, assistant state
prohibition director, will assume
office tomorrow as head of the pro-
flbition field force in Massachusetts,
succeeding James Z. Roberts, who
has been transferred to the estates
tax branch Of the internal revenue
service of the treasury department.
The change was officially made public
tonight by Elmer c. Potter, state
prohibition director.
Reports from Washington nearly a
month ago, minated that for per-
sonal reasons Mr.. Roberts had
asked to be transferred to the estates
tax branch, with which he was con-
ncctcd prior to his assuming the
prohibition enforcement duties. 1t
had become known since that his
Successor would be Mr.. Lynch, but
no date had been assigned to the lat
ter's appointment.
The new enforcement head has
been with the internal revenue SER
vice since 1898 as clerk, deputy COL
lcctor, revenue inspector and pro-
hibtion official.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-17
President Suffers
From Slight Cold

washington. Jan. 16- President
Harding. because of 4 cold which In s
aifllcted him for several DAYS. went
70 the White House proper today.
soon after tho regular cabinet meet :
ing and spent the afternoon in Sc
ciuslon resting. He retired for the
night early. Brigadier General Saw
Yer. the Presidents personal physi-
clan. emphasized. however. that
there was nothing serious in Mr..
Harding'S condition.
Tho first intimation that the
President was indisposcd was given
at the usual Tuesday conference with
neWspapermon. After answering
some questions on international and
domestic problems he indicated his
wish that the conference be pro-
longed no further than necessary and
1t was at once terminated.
The President. it was said caught
cold last week, and on Monday after
q busy morning at the executive
offices, felt it best to spend the aft
ernoOn at the White House in his
study. He sent for his stenographer,
however. and disposed of mass of
papers that had accumulated.
Mr.. Harding has engagements FIR
tomorrow covering the entire morn
ing. but none for tho afternoon.
Some may be cancelled, if he still
desires to remain in seclusion.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-17
Customs Officials
Capture Fisherman
With Liquor, Boston

Boston, Jan. 1.-THE Dorothy NJ,
a o6-ton vessel geared as fisherman
and hailing from Newport, r. l.. was
captured in Dorchester Bay today by
the customs launch Dreamer and
taken to the appraisers stores here.
Collector Lufkin will decide tomor-
row whether the vessel will be for
mally seized as rum runner.
Deputy Surveyor Finnegan, cruis-
ing about in quest Of suspicious
craft, saw a fishing boat sailing
farther up the bay than such vessels
usually go and overhauled the
Dorothy, which was then in the vi
cinity of several yacht club premises.
Captain White of the fishing boat
said he, had put in for repairs.
The skipper and his five men were
detained and guards were placed on
the vessel. which customs men ad-
mitted had liquor on board. The
Dorothy M, was built last year at
Friendship, Me.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-17
AUDITORS REPORT

An increasing number of loans is
being considered by the Farm Loans
Commission of Maine, according to
the report Of State Auditor Gilbert
ID. IIayford, given to the Senate,
Tuesday, and placed on file. The
commission is on record as favoring
the lowering OF the interest rate
from seven to five per cent and for
granting loans up to 60 per cent of
the value of the land and 20 per
cent of the value OF the buildings.
Several applications have been
made to take advantage of the SOL
diers' Settlement act, passed in 1919.
These applications are from former
soldiers of the World War who de-
sire to take up farming in Maine.
The act contemplated cooperation
on the part of the United States,
but to date the Federal government
has not enacted legislation authoriz-
ing cooperation with this State. The
pending Smith McNary act if passed
may, however, result in such co-op-
Grafton. The report of the auditor
in full follows:
STATE OF MAINE.
Ottlce of State Auditor.
Augusta, Dee. 81, 1922.
70 inc Honorable Senate and
House Of Representatives Of the
Eighty-first Legislatures
l submit herewith my report cover
CONTINUED on Page II, Col. 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-17
Fight to Increase
Appropriations for
Rivers and Harb0rs

washington, Jan. 1G-The fight
OF the rivers and harbors bloc TO
Increase the waterways appropria-
tlon IN the army bill broke in the
rouse late today when Chairman
dempsey, of the rivers and harbors
COMMITTEE announced he would offer
an amendment increasing the item,
from $37.OO0,OO to $50. $50 90 This
ne said. had been recommended by,
the army engineers.
Basing his plea on the needs of
transportation, Mr.. Dempsey urged
the necessity of immediate improve
1nent OF the inland waterways and
the coast harbOrS in order to make
them aVal!abi for transportation to
felleNe the congestion o. freight
movement and to take care of what
he described as national crisis"
fraught with grave danger to the
agricultural and industrial interests
OF the country.
Mr.. Dempsey said "handful" of
EoNernmcnt-OWned boats operating
on the Mississippi river carried over
G0o,No tons of freight last year at
an average saving of SD; per ton
to the shipper and consumer and
showed clear profit over deprecia-
ton and operating cost to the gov
eminent.
Mr.. Dempsey cited the congestion
in the New York district where he
said. the port authorities ought to
eXpcnd JOO.OOO,OOO so that freight
may pass under and around the city
THE wholly insufficient amount
proposed by the bill" he said.
would only take care of main
tenance charges and sea coast har-
bors, leaving inland rivers OF such
vital importance to the transporta-
ton needs of the nation. practically
without funds to proceed with exist
ing improvement projects"
Chairmany Anthony, of the ap-
preparation subcommittee. which
framed the bill. said the committee
had increased the budget figures by
$1O.0OO,OOO and that with $4,000. 600
on hand, all necessary work could
be done. He said. estimating the
working years at 30 days. the APP
! preparation carried by the bill was
all that the engineers advantageous
! ly could eXpcnd.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-17
Shoots Woman and
Then Self After
Quarrel at Sanford

Sanford. Me. Jan. 16.-Mrs.
Annie Mason and Warren Brown,
each of KennebunkH each married,
each separated from their legal mate,
and each parent of two children,
were tonight in hospital here suf-
fering from bullet wounds in their
heads.
Sheriff Taven \. Roberts said that
Brown shot Mrs. Mason tonight after
Il quarrel in their lodging house. He
said that Brown fired five shots into
the womans head and then turned
his revolver to his own temple and
fired two shots.
They had been living in a lodging
house here for two weeks. Brown
having secured employment in a
lumber yard and Mrs. Mason being
employed in n restaurant.
At the hospital tonight it was said
that the woman had n chance for
recovery but that the mans wounds
would probably prove fatal Three
doctors were in constant attend
CNcC,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-17
IN THE LEGISLATURE

The presentation of the Budget
Committee report together with an
accompanying message from Cover
nor Baxter was the principal matter
in the Tuesday afternoon proceed
ings of the House of Representatives,.
The essential features Of the COM
mittee's report had previ ouS!y been
published in the newspapers. ao-
pearing first in 4 Portland morni. 6
publica lion, and Governor Baxter in
his message calls attention that this
is the only instance in his long ex-
perience when a report OF this sort
given in advance to the newspapers
was published before the time spoci-
fed.
Pictures of all former speakers Of
the House will be procured and
placed in the room Of the Speaker.
according to an order Introduced by
Rep. Ellis T.. Baker of Stcuann and
Continued on Page 8, Col. ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-17
THREE CHILDREN
BURNED TO DEATH
AT H|bbERT'S GORE

Washington, Me-, Jan. 16-(Spec-
ial to Kennebec Journal-The three
children of Mr.. and Mrs. Winfield
Savage. Edward, aged four, Annie,
aged three and a ycar-old baby, Mil
ton, lost their lives by being burned
to death, about 10 o'clock Tuesday
TO. enoon. when the Savage camp, To-
Gated at Charles Roes' lumber mill,
burned fiat to the ground. The moth
err had left the camp, about half
hour before, to go to the brook to get
some water. She had stopped at
neighbours house during the trip and
returned to find the home in flames
When discovered the camp was a
mass of flames and could not be en-
tered. The frantic mother attempted
to so into the burning house and only
the combined efforts of neiShbors
kept her out. Mr. Roes also made a
brave effort to get into the camp.
| The burned bodies were found. 1t
is thought that the children might
have gotten hold of a match which
was ignited. with the five-gallon can
of kerosene which stood in the
kitchen.
| The only door Of the camp is in
the front and the bodies of the chill
dren were found in the bed room
which is in the extreme rear q the
camp. 1t was a three-rOom camp
| made Of soft wood.
| The Roes camp is located at 'Hib-
bert's Gore. between Washington and
Palermo and near Bog Bridge. The
father of the children is employed by
Roes in the lumber camp. The family
has no enemies that they know of
| and they know of no motive on the
part of any one. in such terrible
catastrophe. The concensus appears
TO be that the children set the blaze.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-17

Pressure was low Tuesday night
off the North Atlantic coast and over
the Canadian maritime provinces,
high over a wide belt extending from
Hudson Bay southwark to the Gulf
of Mexico and low and falling in the
far Vest and northwest. A distur-
bance of marked intensity was cen
trail Tuesday night over New Found
land. Another of great magnitude
and intensity was approaching the
North Pacific coast. The former dis
turbance has been attended by light
SHOWS in the Middle Atlantic and
New England states, and under the
influence of a Polar current that is
flowint southwark over these regions
the weather has become much colder
In the Middle Atlantic and New
England states the weather will be
fair and considerably colder We'd
nesday and fair with slowly rising
temperature on Thursday. Cold wave
warnings were displayed Tuesday
morning in New England and the in
terror of New York.
Winds: North of Sandy Hook
strong northwest generally fair
Wednesday,.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-17
Cutter Tampa Towing
LIQUOR Laden Dorm

Boston, Jan. 16.-The coast guard
cutter Tampa was on her way to
Providence tonight towing the dis
abled British schooner Dorm picked
up southeast of Nantucket on Sun
day with a cargo of 5000 cases of
liquor. The cargo. the cutter re-
ported by radio. was shipped from
st. Pierre. Miquelon, and was des-
tined for New York.
The Tampa reported earlier in the
day that she would take her prize
to Newport. but later it was an
nounced that the destination had
been changed. The reason given was
that there were no facilities at New
port for handling the DORM and her
cargo. 1t was expected early tonight
that the cutter would anchor in Mar
ragansett Bay and make Providence
in the morning. An armed guard
had been placed over the schooner,
her cargo. and crew.
The Tampa picked up her prize
when she responded to distress calls
from the Dorm, which was adrift off
Nantucket with sails blown away,
and auxiliary motor disabled. The
schooner had previously been in tow
of the British freighter Chagness I'M
til a tow line parted.