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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-26

can Legion of Minnesota, to see to it
that every store, factory, and office
building in your community is actual
ly solicited between now and the
state conference. That is the request
which your department executive COM
mittee, meeting last Sunday, directed
me to make of you. This will mean
that you and your faithful few will
have to sacrifice some time from your
business or your work. The time has
come to stop talking members, and to
go out and get them. Au revoir-I'm
closing up the office for the day to go
out and do my bit. Are you with
me 2"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-26

creamery, Blue Valley was the pio-
neer in buying cream direct from
each individual shipper, cutting out
the expensive cream agents and
giving the farmers the benefit of this
big saving.
These articles have shown you how
Blue Valley was also the pioneer in
paying cash to the cream shippers, in
establishing large creamery in Chi
cago and in other forward steps that
all have meant more money to Blue
Valley patrons and forced greater
efficiency on the whole creamery in
dustry of the Middle West.
Blue Valley has always been the
leader, the pioneer, in making dairy
ing more profitable and more salts
factory to every farmer in the parts
of the country where we have
creameries.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-26
DR.. R. H. SWEETMAN
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Hospital and X-Ray Laboratory
Office in Hilsdale Bldg.
Hours 1870 to 5
Mornings by appointment.
WHY SUFFER so?

Why suffer from a bad back, from
sharp, shooting twinges, headaches,
dizziness and distressing urinary ills =?
Sank Centre people recommend Doan's
Kidney Pills. Ask your >neighbor!
Could you ask for stronger proof of
merit?
Mrs. John Tombers, N. Main St.,
Cor. Second, Sank Centre, says:
"Many years ago my kidneys were in
such a miserable condition and my
health was SO broken I suffered all
the time. My kidneys caused lot of
annoyance. The pains in my kidneys
were intense and when l lay down to
rest, the soreness in my back was ac-
ute. My head panied constantly and
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-26
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Government Insurance

Comparative Cost of Term and
converted-Many ex-service men
and women hesitate to convert a
permanent form of insurance, or re-
instate and a convert, the insurance
they carried in the Army and Navy
because of the higher monthly
premium rates for the various forms
of converted insurance.
Mark you, l say ''higher monthly
premium rates not greater COST
The comparative cost of the Con-
verted insurance is considerably less
than that of the Term WAR time)
insurance. To appreciate this fact
one must analyze the value given
for the monthly premium he pays.
Let us assume a term policy tax
en- at age thirty and carried for
twenty years, the monthly premium
for the first year would be 69c per
thousand. This rate would increase
unit at age fifty the insured would
be paying LA per month per thous-
and. His average monthly premium
over the twenty years would amount
to 81 LIE per thousand. He would
receive the protection he was pay
ing for throughout the tweney years
but at the end of that time he would
have nothing in addition to the pro-
lection he purchased, which would
be the same as that which he would
have received under the term policy,
a cash surrender value. In other
words he could cash in his policy for
better than soc of the sum he paid
in through the twenty yers. The
premium in this life policy have
amounted to $3.50. Substracting
the cash surrender value of 258.64
leaves 94.16 as cost of the insurance,
which spread over twenty years
amounts to 39c per thousand against
81 Lie per thousand for the term
insurance. This without regard to
the annual cash dividends payable
on the life policy. This dividend if
taken into consideration reduce the
cost of the converted policy consid-
erably below 39c per thousand.
While it is not possible to car
ry Government term insurance al
ter March 3rd, 1876, the same rela-
tive proportion holds for the time
it can be carried.
A Message for the Gopher Gang
By National Commander Owsley
81 have ben travelling about the
country quite while now, in the SER
vice of the Legion. / want to tell
you, my Minnesota comrades, that
am surprised and delighted with the
great spirit of the Legion that |
have seen in action everywhere. /
served the Legion for two years at
National headquarters, and came to
consider it was the greatest organi-
cation in America. Now, since COW
.ering the country from Florida to
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-26

may or may not have movies of his
Minnesot trip, but you can bet we
will give him a royal welcome. Ev-
erywhere Commander Owsley goes he
is welcomed not only by Legionaires
but by the entire community. It will
be so when he comes again to the
land of the sky-blue waters.
a.
May Sc Are Red-Letter Dates
The annual state conference of
Minnesota Legion Post commanders
and adjutants is perhaps the most
popular gathering of Gopher Legion
aires. Great interest is being mani
tested and posts are asking if low
railroad rates will be available. They
have been requested and will probab-
ly be granted. Every live Legion
aire will be at the Curtis Hotel, Min
neapolis Saturday afternoon and
Sunday, May 9Th and 9th, when the
when the "get-together" meetings
will be held, and at the entertainment
and banquet Saturday evening May
9th, a So charge being made for this
'Cheer Up Buddies "
Whatever the situation in your To-
cal post" declares State Command.
er Gerald Baron of Cloquet ina let
ter to every post commander. "Don't
be downhearted, for the gang is be-
hind you, and the gang says: Cheer
up buddies, and try again. We want
every Skipper and his Top Kick to be
with us when we hold our state con.
ference in the Twin Cities about May
LIST. The Post Commanders and Ad.
jutants are the men upon whose
shoulders, in the final analysis, the
burden of the work must fall. 1t is
up to you, as leaders of The Ameri.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-26

mean anything. We would never live
up to it. 1t was done to fool the farm
ers. We couldn't live up to it because
the farmers would take unfair advan-
tage of it. 1t wouldn't be long before
we would cancel it. 1t was just bait.
1t was trick. There was trap in it
somewhere, loop-hole, a niger in
the woodpile.
All this and much more was said
and whispered in an effort to arouse
suspicion, poison the minds of the
farmers against Blue Valley and in
that way keep the farmers patronage
from being influenced by the Blue
Valley Guarantee.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-26
Competitors Sneered

When Blue Valley first published
it's Guarantee, competitors laughed
and sneered. .~e. .ss,s--,ssS'r
The Blue Valley Guarantee got the
same reception as all the other Blue
Valley pioneer steps like the
pioneer Blue Valley Sweet Cream
Creamery in Sank Centre is getting
from some people, who want to keep
the benefits of competition away
from the farmers here.
1t couldn't be done, the COMPETE
tors said. 1t was foolish. 1t didn't
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-26
A Blue Valley Principle

Those who sneered at the Blue VAL
ley Guarantee when it was first pub
lished, and said we couldn't live up
to it, knew neither the farmers nor
Blue Valley.
They thought it was a new thing
with Blue Valley. 1t really wasn't.
because from its very start Blue Val
ley saw to it that it's patrons were
satisfied. The Guarantee. was and is
simply Blue Valleys public pledge to
make good.
Blue Valley doesn't make good be-
cause of its Guarantee. The Guar
antee is made because Blue Valley
does make good.
Every step in the big business of
Blue Valley-and it has to be big for
the big purpose of rendering superior
service to American farmers is
taken in order to give satisfaction to
the Blue Valley patrons. Only when
they are satisfied can we hope for
fair return on the labor and capital
invested in the business. Only as they
prosper, can we hope to prosper.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-26
Minnesota, from Maine to California,
I find I was right.

Minnesota, from Maine to California,
/ find I was right.
81 want to tell you how great a
thing it is to have seen our organiza-
ton in the activities all over the
country, and to realize what the Leg
ion has come to mean in the home
town. The Legion has more than
1000 home towns, for there are
more than that many posts. In these
posts is where the true life of the
Legion lies and expresses itself in
close comradeship and admirable
community activities.
'This is what | wanted to tell you
that the posts of the Legion are the
Legion.
''Now the Legion is a good thing
and we can't have Zoo much of a
good thing. l want the posts of the
Legion to grow, for they are the
standard-bearers of the Legion
nesota, there are good fellows who
are prospective members of the Leg
ion. l want you to go out and get
these fellows. We need them. They
need us. It's fair bargain.
"The work of all of us lies nearest
our hands. l wish l could come per-
sonally to all of you with this mes
sage for mine of membership, but I
can't. 1 couldn't visit l. 900 posts in
SO years. But l can write you and
tell you how much l think of you, and
tell you what l think is the best thing
for you to do, for the upbuilding of
the Legion into the great wonderful
force that it must be.
"That thing, right now, is to bring
every man in your town who ought
to be a member and is not-bring
him into the Legion, into the Gopher
Gang.
81 am looking forward with great
pleasure to seing many of you when
| visit your great state in June, and
in August. Until then, good luck to
you, and my hearts best wishes"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-26

Every Blue Valley creamery must
satisfy every one of it's patrons.
That is what Blue Valley started
out to do twenty-three years ago.
That is the purpose of every step in
the business of Blue Valley. That is
our only means of holding and in
creasing our patronage.
That Blue Valley does satisfy it's
patrons is shown by the great number
of farmers who sell us their cream,
and the increase in that number
every year.
From the very beginning Blue Val
ley has been determined to give alb
solute satisfaction to it's farmer
friends. Years ago we put this de-
termination into words, which be-
came the standing Blue Valley
Guarantee. 1t reads:
We Guarantee
That our check in payment
for each and every can of cream
you send us will satisfy you.
We guarantee the safe return
of your empty cans.
If for any reason whatever
you are not satisfied we expect
to hear from you.
We guarantee to satisfy you
perfectly. ..~...m.
- -
This guarantee of Blue Valley is
given every patron. 1t is printed ON
every cream statement sent with our
cream checks, it is found in Blue Val
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-26

understandings will arise now and
then. We make mistakes. The farmer
makes mistakes. The railroad makes
them. Mistakes do occur-that's why
pencils are provided with erasers.
Prices and tests>and weights vary.
Ideas and opinions differ Thousands
of people do not all act alike and
think alike in every detail.
So far as the farmers business
with Blue Valley is concerned, the
Blue Valley Guarantee protects him
absolutely.
u
No Quibbling
The Blue Valley patron is always
right, so far as his dealings with Blue
Valley are concerned.
In any dispute or any sort of dis
satisfaction on the part of Blue
Valley patron, Blue Valley makes
good. Blue Valley never bubbles.
No Blue Valley manager ever
reads the Blue Valley Guarantee
before he settles claim by patron,
to see if the Guarantee covers it. He
simply settles it. He sees to it that
the patron is satisfied. The Blue Val
ley Guarantee of satisfaction is bred
into him. 1t is part of him. He knows
Blue Valley will stand back of him
every time.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-26
Guarantee Still In Force

That was a good many years ago.
The Blue Valley Guarantee is still in
force. We still publish it. The word
ing is the same as when it was first
issued. 1t is known to thousands and
thousands of farmers. 1t is given to
every new and old Blue Valley pat
ron. 1t has never been changed.
All these years the Blue Valley
Guarantee has protected the millions
of transactions that farmers have
had with Blue Valley. 1t has broken
down suspicion and distrust and
thereby helped farmers to find the
better Blue Valley cream market. Old
Blue Valley patrons never question
it. New Blue Valley patrons soon
find out what it means.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-26

American farmer is honest. Our long
experience has been ample proof that
if you treat him square, he will treat
you the same way.
Blue Valley patrons trust us. Why
shouldn't we trust them?
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-26

Blue Valley does, if it didn't live up
to its guarantee?
Do you think the farmers in those
parts of the country where Blue VAL
ley has done business for years,
would ever again sell their cream to
Blue Valley, if we didn't live up to
our public guarantee?
Doesn't the fact that thousands of
farmers sell their cream to Blue VAL
ley prove to you that we do live up
to it? Of course, you know it does.
And doesn't the fact that Blue VAL
ley has made good on it's Guarantee
to farmers these many years in a
large number of states prove to you,
not only that Blue Valley is honor
able and on the square, but that it is
efficient?
1t has to be efficient to live up to
its Guarantee. If it wasn't, it's own
Guarantee would have put it out of
business long ago.
Doesn't this record mean some
thing to you as cream producer,
now that the Blue Valley Sweet
Cream Creamery here in Sank Centre
will soon be ready for business?
Think it over. Read the Blue Val
ley Guarantee again:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-26

dizziness was a common occurrence.
I was nervous and irritable. I tried
several remedies without benefit until
relative told me to get Doan's Kid
ney Pills. The first few boxes helped
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-26
What Do You Think

Do you think that a company could
do business for many years under
this standing Blue Valley Guarantee
and enjoy the patronage of thousands
of farmers, and more every year, as
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-26
Another Pioneer Move

Another Pioneer Move
Issuing the Blue Valley guarantee
was pioneer move in the creamery
business, at the time we did so years
ago.
. Blue Valley was a pioneer and
leader in this as in many other things
that have meant more money and
better service to thousands of farm
erS.
You will remember from these
articles how Blue Valley was the
pioneer in cutting out the expensive
commission merchants, brokers and
spectators in the wholesale butter
markets and sell the butter in the
trad e-marked package direct to the
grocer, thereby getting better price
and SO being able to pay higher
price for cream.
You will also remember how, down
in the corn belt where no neighbor-
hood has cows enough for a local
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-26
About Blue Valley
The Blue Valley Guarantee

ley advertisements and is otherwise
published broadcast.
1t has been in force for many
years.
1t is no doubt the strongest and
broadcast guarantee ever given in any
business. At least, we have never
seen a stronger and broader one. If
the English language had words that
would make this guarantee to our
patrons still stronger and broader, we
would use them.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-26
No Quibbling
Blue VALLEY Trusts The Farmer

Blue Valley Trusts The Farmer
Many people have asked Blue Val
ley: GLOW can you do this? How can
you say that the Blue Valley patron
is always right? How can you always
make good and not be taken advan-
tage Off"
Blue Valleys answer is that the
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-26

The Blue Valley Guarantee means
everything it says.
1t means even more. The guarantee
Valley spirit of service and of de-
termination to satisfy can be put into
words. And this Blue Valley spirit is
much stronger than the words in the
Guarantee.
Read the Blue Valley Guarantee
again. Strong, isn't it? Broad enough,
isn't it, to cover every possible angle,
every misunderstanding, every mis-
take that might occur?
Blue Valley Lives Up To 1t
Blue Valley lives up to every word
of its Guarantee and, what is more,
to the spirit of it.
Blue Valley has done so for many
years. If we hadn't, we could not use
it today. A broken guarantee is as
bad for creamery as to pay for
cream with worthless checks. It would
kill its business.
We buy thousands of cans of
cream from thousands of farmers
every day. Each farmer ships his own
cream. Each can is shipment in it.
self. 1t has to be forwarded by a
railroad. Then it has to be transport
ed from the station to the Blue Val
ley creamery, then weighed and test
ed, then the amount figured out, then
the check mailed back, then the can
washed and sent on its way back to
the shipper. Finally the check and the
can must actually reach the patron
and he must be satisfied.
Naturally, in the course of millions
of these transactions and in spite of
every precaution, mistakes and mis-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-26
"Doug and Mary"

Doug and Mary"
When National Commander Alvin
Owsley visited Hollywood, Doug and
Mary" headed the reception COM
mittee, showed him through the stud
los, and enacted a short film with
Commander 'Owsley as co-star. We
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1923-04-26
We Guarantee

That our check in payment
for each and every can of cream
you send us will satisfy you.
We guarantee the safe return
OF your empty cans.
1t for any reason whatever
you are not satisfied we expect
to hear from you.
We guarantee to satisfy you
perfectly.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-13
DRILL FOR CUP
Twentieth Infantry VIII Compete for
Company Excellence.

Companies Of the Twentieth In
fantry, Fort Sam Houston, are bus
lily engaged in practicing different
forms of drill for a regimental drill
contest 10 be held March 20. The con-
test will determine the best drilled
company in the regiment, and all COM
panies are. striving hard to be capable
of carrying off the honor.
A big silver pitcher has been Of
fered by Col. Arthur Il. Conger, COM
mander of the regiment, to the win
ming company. This trophy will bc
held by the winning company until
some other company of the regiment
wins it in subsequent contests. 1t
has not been announced how often
these drill contests are 10 be held.
but it is understood the one ON Tues
day week will be the Inauguration of
series with an indefinite termina-
ton.
1t is probable that individual tro-
plies will be offered for excellency in
different kinds OF drill work.
All companies will enter all men on
drill status with the exception of five.
which will have to remain in barracks
TO do the necessary routine work. Any
company entering six squads or less
will form and drill as platoon.
Being graded on the basis of 100
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-13
MISSOURPS "RICE
KING" A PRISONER,
MAY GET A CHANCE
Forged Notes to Meet o.
characterization
Fauor Pardon.

Jefferson City, Mo-. March 49,
Three years ago George Begley Jr.,
was "rice king" of Southeast Mis-
souri,. Today he is commissary
clerk in the Missouri State peniten-
tiary. From one of the wealthiest
and most respected men in the south
east section of the state he fell to the
position of prisoner in the state
penitentiary.
He has lost all his worldly goods.
lost even his wife, for a year ago she
divorced him on the gorunds that he
was a convicted criminal. But he still
retains that which made him one of
the outstanding men of his portion
of the state, his initiative and self re-
spect.
Several years ago Begley conceived
the idea Of growing rice on the waste
swamp lands of Southeast Missouri.
People laughed. they called him crazy.
But he persisted and at the age of
IS owned approximately 1900 acres
in rice and a $40 acre stock farm.
His wealth was rated we'll into the
hundreds of thousands. He continued
to expand his holdings and to improve
them.
A bad year came and he lost money.
and finally in desperation he borrowed
large amount of money from st.
Louis bank on his personal note, to
which it was alleged he forged the
endorsements Of his mother-in-law
and father. When it came due he was
unable to pay and he was "sent up"
for ten years, charged with forgery.
lis property was all taken to pay his
debts.
But Begley may have another
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-13
HACKS MANS BODY
TO PIECES; THROWS
PARTS IN A CREEK
Brains Found at House;
Dismembered Parts
Scattered.

Collinsville, ILL.,, March 12.-What
authorities declared was one of the
most brutal crimes in police annals
was revealed here late yesterday with
an alleged confession By Felix Sac
newic, AZ, that Sunday night he shot
and killed Joe Pachtorius, 40, dis
membered his legs, head and arms,
put the parcels in sacks and threw
them into nearby creek. Police said
Sacnewic told tnem the killing followed
a quarrel over Mrs. Sacnewic, in
which Sacnewic accused Pachtorius Of
intimacy with his wife.
Pachtorius' brains were found on
the floor of Sacnewic's house. at
which he was a boardder. The legs
were found on the bank of the stream.
the arms about mile down stream,
and the torso about three miles down
stream. Two knives, said TO have been
used in dissecting the body, were
found in cistern.
According 10 the confession. Sac
newic declared dismem1ering of the
body occurred to him as means Of
disposing of the corpse. The authorN
ties expressed the belief that he was
mentally deranged.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-13

chance, prison officials said yesterday.
His application for parole was up for
consideration before the state board
Of pardons and paroles.
Hundreds of petitions have been
filed with the board of citizens of
Poplar Bluff. his former home, ask
ing for clemency. Even bankers who
are his creditors are here in his be-
half, claiming if Begley is set free.
"we know he will pay us all"
i, Begley has been model prisoner
and prison official are unanimously
of the opinion that he should be set
free. One official said. "if they set
that boy free he'll show 'em, he'll
likely go back home and in five years
will be back where he was in 1920,
before he made his mistake"
Citizens of Poplar Bluff claim that
Begley had done more for Southeast
Missouri than any other man.
"Why. when Begley started in" said
one. "there wasn't an acre of rice
planted in the state. Now there AZ"
more than 100000 acres of rice and
we are growing rich from it. All be-
cause of him."