The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-07-03
SERVICE
CASE Is UNSETTLED
0. P. B. JACOBSON TAKES Pc.
Triton OF SAUK CENTRE
UNDER ADJUSTMENT
CITY HAS A GOOD CASE
GREAT NORTHERN OFFERS RE-
SISTNCE AGAINST COMPLY
ING WITH ORDER

Monday morning at II 100 o'clock,
Railroad and Warehouse Commits
sioner 0. P. B. jacobson took tes-
timony at hearing on the complaint
of the Sank Centre City Council and
Community Club of Sank Centre, with
the Great Northern Railroad Com
pany as respondent, relative to the
stopping of passenger trains Nos. l
and 29 westbound, at Sank Centre.
City Attorney l.. L. Kells very ably
handled the case on behalf of Sank
Centre while Alex L. James, legal adj
visor for the Great Northern, ac-
companied by Mr.. Bell, general man
ager and District Supt. r. L. Lands,
represented the railroad company.
Mayor William Parker was the first
witness called zy the City attorney
and he quite fully outlined the just
ness of the city's petition for the
stopping of these trains to the Rail-
road and Warehouse Commissioner.
Asa M. Wallace was next called
and gave a short resume of the ma
tionwide standing of the Original
Main Street" as the result of the
publicity following the publication of
Sinclair Lewis famous novel.
DR.. Lena Beach, superintendent
of the State Home School for girls,
testified as to the advantage it would
be to the officers of the school if the
two trains in question would stop in
Sank Centre, making it much easier
to transport girls to and from the
institution.
Miss Holden, general parole agent
of the school, stated that the Great
Northern had assisted her many times
in stopping trains here but a numb
er of her agents had had difficulty in
securing Accommodations.
Manager l.. P. Krebs of the Blue
Valley Creamery Company, stated
that the officers of his organization
whose headquarters were at Chicago,
were put to great inconvenience
many times because No. 1, which
leaves Minneapolis shortly before
noon, does not stop at Sank Centre,
either compelling them to go on to
Alexandria and be met by auto or
wait for the evening train.
P. B. Hanson's testimony was
largely given over to the inadequacy
and ineficiency of the express ser
vice between Sank Centre and the
Twin Cities.
H. S. Halverson reviewed several
instances where he had been greatly
disconnected and had been compelled
to travel over other roads because it
was impossible to have No. or 20
stop in this city.
F. P. Minette of the Farview Dairy
Stock Farm, told how, on several oc-
casions he had been compelled to lay
over in Minneapolis from Saturday
until Sunday evening because he
could not take No. 20, which leaves
Minneapolis about 1900 P. M. to
Sank Centre, as there are no Sunday
trains travelling over the Great
Northern in the day time Sunday.
City Attorney Kells asked to be
sworn and he reviewed several in
stances that had come under his per-
sonal observation as well as his own
personal experience, which went on
to prove that. Sank Centre was en-
titled to as good service as any town
of like size, connected with the
Great Northern system.
C. M. Sprague who is connected
with large number of banks in
North Dakota, stated that it was nee
essary for him to visit these banks
frequently and that it was a severe
Inconvenience for him to be compelled
leave Sank Centre on No. II and
transfer to a fast train at point
further west
This concluded the case on behalf
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