The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-09-20
Harvest Festival at Little
Sank Complete Success
Large Delegation From Sank Centre
Attended Community Booster
Celebration Friday

With the dawn of day, Friday,
Sept. 14th when Little Sank was put
ting on its first annual harvest fes-
tival, the weather man was off, and
threatened to give a little rain to
cripple the celebration. However
towards noon the sky began to clear,
and the sun came out for a short
period of time now and then. Owing
to the weather conditions the crowd
did not begin to arrive until around
noon and then the program had to
be condensed, owing to the full pro-
gram arranged for in advance.
The Legion boys and Mr.. Nelson,
wish to thank the people from Long
Prairie, Sank Centre and Osakis, and
other towns and also the local peo-
pie who turned out to make this day
a success, as there was considerable
work in getting such fine harvest
festival started and put over and by
cooperation of other towns this was
successful.
The program opened up at l p. m.
with band selection and Hon. A.
Vernon of Little Falls, gave a short
talk on the American Legion and its
purposes and this talk was appreciat-
ed very much. The Long Prairie
band rendered another selection and
Hon. Harold Knutson opened his adj
dress and talked for 40 minutes on
economic conditions dealing also with
the farmers conditions. He showed
there was a decrease in production of
manufactured articles yet with an
increase in wages, and other import
ant topics which were of interest to
his audience. 1t is generally conced-
ed this address of Mr.. Knutson's to
be one of the best addresses he has
ever made and the audience were
very much pleased.
The weather being little cool and
in order to give the audience lit
tie rest before the next address, the
pie eating contest was held, and Asa
Wallace Of the Ss.uE Centre Herald
was chosen chairman and C.. F. Mil
Ter and Rudolph Lee of Long Prairie,
as judges. There were five, in the
contest, two young boys and three
girls. The two young boys both fin.
ished first, so the judges decided to
divide the first and second prize equal
ly between the two boys and the s;irl
won third prize.
The band rendered another nice
selection and then Mayor Arthur E
Nelson of ST. Paul, spoke to the
audience for 40 minutes on different
topics of interest. Mayor Nelson told
of his being born and raised in the
country and moving to st: Paul II
years ago, and was elected Mayor by
a large majority and ran on the in.
dependent ticket, that is, was a rep
resentative of all the common people
He told about the different condi
tions existing in the Cities, as COM
pared with the country and also dealt
on the Ford project now being built
in the Cities and told how this would
help the Great Northwest and also
spoke about the possibilities Of the !
river navigation. The-addllrsesses Of /
Mayor Nelson was appreciated by
all, and we were fortunate in having
the Mayor with us. Following the
address of Mayor Nelson, County
Agent, Mr.. E. Roth Of Brainerd,
spoke few minutes on Mari and AL,
falfa. which was very interesting toi
the farmers and business men.
Little Sank has one of the finest
marl GeDoSlI UeuS III tne StdIe, anu
the farmers should. take advantage
and secure some of this mari and in
crease their crop productions. Land
upon which Mari has been used has
been tested by the University for the
past four years with most successful
results. The community around Lit
tie Sank should go into the alfalfa
end more to raise plenty of feed for
their cattle in place of buying so
much feed. ~
Owing to the lack Of time, Mr..
Roth did not go into details of the
Mari and Alfalfa, but arrangements
have been made to have him speak
at some of our monthly Community
Clubs night, to discuss it more fully
and also show the different expert