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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-06-19

Ton Litter Contest Gets a Great
Start-Farmers in 80 counties of
Minnesota have enrolled exactly 200
filters of spring pigs in the ton lit
ter contest started by the Minnesota
Livestock Breeders association, the
Minnesota Swine Growers. associa-
ton, and the agricultural extension
service of the university. Swine
growers in Al counties will take
part, and the entries from the two
counties not yet reported will bring
the total number of filters to 215 or
220. The contest is for old and
young farmers, and many club boys
and girls are raising litters.
H. G. Zavoral, livestock specialist
with the university extension service,
is in charge of the organization work.
Assisting him are E. F. Ferrin of the
animal husbandry division, Univer-
sity of Minnesota, and H. A Deren-
thai of Wykoff, Mimi, a leading
swine breeder of the state. One
thousand dollars or more will be di-
vided into purses for owners of the
heaviest filters and medal will also
be presented every person having a
litter in the contest which will run for
$50 days-from May 1 until Novem-
Der 1.
All the breeds are represented in
the 200 filters so far reported to the
headquarters at University Farm.
The Tamworths, Yorkshires, Hamp-
shires, and Berkshires will be in the
contest, as we'll as the Durocs, Po-
lands, Spotted Polands, and Chester
Whites.
The ton litter contest is demon
strating the Importance of efficiency
in production-the definite returns
to be secured from good care and
feed and sanitary surroundings for
the young pigs. One farmer writes
to headquarters at University Farm
that he is willing to wager he will
have more pounds of pork from his
ton litter sow in six months than
many farmers will have from a half
a dozen filters in the same space of
time.
Juniors Will Spend 3 Days In
Lake Camp-Livestock tours in the
counties of Stevens, sTraverse, and
Lac qui Parle will usher in the boys
and girls club encampment which
tn, extension people of the three
counties will hold at Bonanza PARK
on upper Big Stone lake near Be ards.
ley. Big Stone county, June %, "a,
AID %. Juniors in other western
Minnesota counties desiring to attend
will also be made ,xeicome, says <.
Fl. Gilberson, state club agent, wEo
will be in charge of the camp. Spe-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-06-19

allowed as the last will and testament
administration with the will annexed
be issued thereon to Ray whitcomb.
Now Therefore. You. and Each Of
You. are hereby cited and required to
show cause, If any you have, before
this court, at the Probate Court Rooms
in the Court House, in the City of st
Cloud. County Of Stearns, State OF
Minnesota, on the 9th day of June,
prayer of said petition should not be
granted.
Witness the Honorable J. B. Himsl
said court, this 18th day of May
1924.
Court SeaD
]. B. HIMSL,
vn,,s Judge
Attorney for Petitioner.
D,,hEcbod Tuna 6-10
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-06-19

Order Limiting Time to File Claims
Within Three Months, and for
Hearing Thereon
State of Minnesota, County of Stearns
SIS.
Estate Of Albert E. Erwin also
called A. e. Erwin, Deceased.
IN PROBATE COURT
In the Matter of the Estate of AL
bert E. Erwin also called A. E. Erwin,
Decedent.
Letters Testamentary this day hav-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-06-19
BLUE VALLEY FARM SERVICE
BY M. A. Nye.
Hunting Boarders

A good live COW testing Association
should be part of every dairy COM
hfanity.
Members take more interest in
dairying. Boarder cows are eliminat-
ed. Feeding is done better. More
business is put into the work of
dairying.
Communities as whole profit by
the work of a COW testing association.
The average pounds; of butterfat per
cow produced in a year will be in
creased. More pure bred bulls will
be used. More alfalfa will be grown.
Improbable cows will be sold. Many
rich dairy communities can be traced
to the work of cow testing associa-
ton.
The tester is the important item
with a cow testing association. A
little money is cheap investment for
the right man.
Cow testing associations should be
for the small man as well as the large
producer A member should have a
right to quietly belong for his own
good. He. knows that he has poor
cows that he does not care to adver-
tise to the world. For this reason
the best method of publishing COW
testing reports is thought to be re-
port listing high cows for the month,
say over 40 pounds. This does not do
any one an injustice.
Like any organization, member
gets his moneys worth according to
what interest he takes and what he
does with the facts which are found
about his herd. Associations be-
come more interesting and valuable
with every years testing.
Mr.. Hudson, Sec. Chickasaw, Iowa
Association says "When we were try
ing to organize no one wanted to
test, but now every one wants to
test -
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Citation for Hearing ON Petition for
| Probate of VIII
Estate Of Charles T. Whitcomb, De-

Estate Of Charles T. Whitcomb, De-
ceased.
State of Minnesota. County Of Stearns
IN PROBATE COURT
In the Matter of the Estate of
Charles T. Whitcomb Decedent.
The State of Minnesota to and all
persons Interested in the allowance
and probate Of the will of said deced.
emit: The petition Of Sarah Whitcomb
being duly filed in this court, repre-
senting that Charles T. Whitcomb
then residents of the County OF
Stearns, State Of Minnesota. died on
the 18th day of February 1924, leaving
last will and testament which is pre-
sented to this court with said petition
and praying that said instrument be
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-06-19
The Spirit Of Service

Below are paragraphs from the report of the President the
$4,000 shareholders Of Northern States Power Company
These purchases have further materially strengthened the
physical and strategic position of your Company and the
time will towards dschargng broad obligations public
servant furnishing vital services adequate quantity and quality at
the lowest reasonable cost--
The transmission lines tied -the whole now be-
ing conspicuous example of neconnected and steam power
sources by which the public will be increasingly benefited
in the future
Measured terms of public service the construction,
part enabled the rendering of service to - additional communities
1T is the intention of the Company proceed with water
the wishes Of the Federal Water Power Commission and well adj
Of the requirements of the public for additional power
Towards the further development Of diversified and profitable
farming few steps have been taken with greater possibilities tor
practical assistance than the progress made the establishment OF
experimental rural lines.
Northern States Power Company
IS s. FIFTH STREET. MINNEAPOLIS
Great Service Company OlDned by The Public
a~~occ~~~cc-~-~~~~~~~~~~c>~
INQUIRY WITHOUT OBLIGATION
Norher States owerco
IS Fifth Minneapolis.
Pleas. send me your nve..men. inform
Street
sound Invests is Spending
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-06-19
L. L. KELLs,

Attorney for Petitioner
Published June 5-12-19,
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falo creek, 10 miles south of Hell
ena, where he lived until after the
death of his wife in 1906, when he
returned to Helena. He was taken
sick on March IS of this year and
was taken to Butte in September,
at which place he submitted to two
operations. Mr.. Beach is now we'll
on the way to recovery, appearing
as strong and active as man in his
fifties or sixties. He expects to re-
turn to his home very shortly.
The doctors at the Murray hospi-
tai attribute his remarkable recov-
cry and physical condition to the
healthful outdoor life he led as a
young man and his lifelong observ-
ance of clean habits.
The pioneer never tires of telling
of the great horses he owned in the
days gone by and of their triumphs
on the race track. In Helena he has
a huge collection of prize ribbons
won by his horses during the many
years he raced them at the fair. "If
were millionaire now" he said,
would buy a beautiful team of
horses like some l have had before.
And then I'd spend most of my time
travelling about the country Just
looking over the best horses I could
find. That would be the greatest
pleasure I could find in the world.
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weighed only I25 pounds Upon re
joining his company, Mr.. Page was
promoted to first sergeant and was
later given a second lieutenancy. He
received his honorable discharge on
June rs, 1865. He then entered the
Eastern Business College in Chicago
and was graduated in 1866.
Arrives in Montana In 1866.
In the spring of 1866 Mr.. Page
went to Leavenworth, Kansas, from
across the Plains to Montana, and ar
rived in Virginia City on June 20.
His party encountered a band of
Sioux Indians not far from Bridger,
Utah, and though a conflict seemed
imminent, it was averted without
bloodshed. In the fall of 1865, Mr..
Page turned his attentions to farm
ing in the Madison valley, associat-
ing himself with o. B. Varney, in
breaking 80 acres, the land being the
portion of the valley then known as
Sodom. They paid s cents a pound
in gold for seed wheat and Mr. Page
invested his entire capital in this
way. Grasshoppers destroyed the
crop the following spring, but Mr.
Page continued farming until 1869
when he went to Utah and purchas
ed horses, which he brought through
to the Beaver head valley to Madison
county. Before the civil war, Mr..
Page was connected with public sur
veys in Minnesota and in 1873 he
again took up his profession of civil
engineer and was employed in gov
eminent surveys of the Majority of
the Montana counties.
In 1875, Mr.. Page was elected the
county surveyor for Madison county,
and in 1882 joint representative of
Madison and Beaverhead counties in
the territorial legislature He was
reelected in 1884. In 1895 he re-
ceiyed from Governor Richards the
appointment of state land agent, and
served until 1897.
Besides his ranching interests, Mr..
Page invested in mining property and |
was the owner of valuable mines in
Madison county
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FATHER PIERRE JEAN DE SMET---A GLIMPSE
AT THE STORY OF THE CHILDHOOD AND
YOUTH OF THE FAMOUS MONTANA PIONEER

| says of the Walloons that they "art
| descended from the ancient Gallo
Belgi, with an admixture of Roman
elements
When Peter attended the Semin-
airy of Mechlin, he was said to have
been popular with his classmates,
and others, who knew him. 1t was
then he began to consider what
should be his future vocation, and
almost decided to become Trappist,
when, through the eloquence of a
visiting priest, Father Nerenckx, he,
and eight others, were persuaded to
go to America, and become mem
bers of the Society of, Jesus.
BY the advice of the priest, they
left Belgium secretly, as their par
ents would not consent to their going
They were to take a ship at Amster
dam, and it was necessary for them
to exercise the greatest caution, in
passing through Protestant Holland.
With this in view, they alighted
from the omnibus or stage before
reaching a city, entering it as pc
destrians.
While waiting for the ship, Peters
brother Charles arrived in the city,
for the purpose of pursuading him to
give up mis- project of being a mis-
sionary. Charles looked everywhere
for him, and might have given up the
search, when on the street one day,
he came face to face with his long
sought brother. Peter took Charles
to his room, where the latter told
how his family grieved because Peter
had left the country without bidding
them farewell. His father was old, |
and would not live long, and it was
Peters duty to remain with him to |
the end.
Then Peter presented his side of |
The question, doing it so effectively, |
that Charles was moved to tears, and |
before returning home, gave his
brother large sum of money.
Arrived in America, Peter began |
MS novitiate at Whitemarsh. The
Master of Novices there was Father
Van Quickenbourne, who gave a
part of his time to instructing and en-
the negroes, in whose
,ause he was interested. Peters
MOTTO while at Whitemarsh, and al
ways was that of Bossouet: ''Woe, to
sterile knowledge that leads not to
owe, and betrays itself"
Father Van Quickenbourne having
,een made Superior at the new Mis-
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sion TO the Indian tribes in what wa
then known as Missouri, Peter d
Smet was one of those chosen to ac
company him. Little money coult
be raised to defray their expenses
but Father Van Quickenbourne sale
to those who would have gladly help
ed him, DON'T worry, we will go OF
foot and beg our food"
Some wagons were bought to carry
their baggage, and one for any who
CHANGED to be sick, and then began
their long journey. They were eight
cen days in reaching Wheeling, where
they tried to get boat but were I'M
successful Instead they purchased
two scows and dashed them together.
On one went the negroes and bag
gage; on the other the missionaries
The descent of the Ohio was not with
out danger from wind-storms, fall
ing trees, hidden snags, and the
steamboats, it was necessary to avoid
At the falls of the Ohio, all but one
went ashore, and the baggage was
forwarded in carts.
The baggage was later sent by
steamboat to St. Louis, while the
missionaries went across country on
foot, $50 miles. often through
marshes where they sank in water
and mire to their waists. 1t was not
often that they were entertained at
farm houses, but spent the nights in
stables, where they could not sleep
because of the mosquitoes that har-
raised them.
ST. Louis at that time was village
of four or five thousand inhabitants.
From there they continued their
journey to the Mission, which was
about half mile from Florissant, a
town near St. Louis. The house was
of logs. plastered with mud; a wood
en- latch lifted by a string, fastened
the door; and the windows were
simply holes in the wall. The attic
served as the dormitory, and what
formerly were chicken house and pig
pen, became the study and refectory.
There was a farm of three hundred
acres. With funds exhausted it was
to work this and await
The harvest. Their clothing was in
sad need of repairing, and their food
consisted chiefly of bacon and corn. |
The Ladies of the Sacred Heart took |
3ity on them; mended their clothes |
f mendable, or made them new gar
nents. and denied themselves to aid |
he missionaries. >
In letter written at this time,
Father DeSmet says, Thank God l
I'm wonderfully well. I have suf-
cred with the heat, it is true, but
We have other advantages of which
you are deprived. In Flanders l had |
often to be bled-a custom of the
and an operation which |
here required a doctor. 1t is done
1ere, gratis, by gnats, mosquitoes,
leas, ticks and flies. They are so
,bligingi 1t is far easier to kill them
han to try to dissuade them from
edering this service"
Here in this rude Mission House,
father DeSmet, the former athlete;
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Dan Beach, Pioneer. and Famous
Horsenaan of The Territorial Days,
Is Recovering From Operations

drivers were lnVeterate bOOZerS
"Most of them were drunk all day
long, though they worked every
day" he said.
After leaving the stage company
Mr. Beach for time conducted a
stable in Omaha He was enthus-
iastic about a wonderful team of
horses he bought there for $75
apiece and later sold to a prominent
Chicago banker for $4,000 when the
bankers wife insisted upon the pur-
chase. "Just a short time after
that" the old man said somewhat
ruefully, that banker sold them to
a wealthy New York man for
$4,000"
When the lure of the West called
him again, Mr.. Beach went to Salt
Lake and started hack line 81
paid one-tenth of my possessions as
a tithing, too, before 1 started out, :"
he said. "A man couldn't do bust
ness there unless he did 1.-THE to the
Mormon church." 1t was while there
that on request of Brigham Young,
he bought and sold beautiful team
of horses to the Mormon leader for
$4,000.
"He ordered the best there was in
the country" Mr.. Beach said, land
he got them"
There, too, he met and married
his wife, who proved his faithful
companion and helpmate until her
death in 1906 on their ranch near.
Helena. In 1872, the same year he
was married, the noted horseman
moved to Helena and started Hv-
cry business. That same year, he
was burned out by the great fire
that completely destroyed the bust
mes section of the mining camp. Dur
ing his many years residence in the
capital city, his livery stables were
burned down a number of times, but
he always started new stable in
which he kept the best horses to be
obtained in the territory.
Brought Blooded Horses.
There were no real good horses
n Montana when first located in
Helena" Mr.. Beach said, "and so
vent back east and bought two stall
ions at jamestown, N. Y, and Alex
lndria, Va, and brought them to
Helena in 1882"
For years he won prizes at the Il
erritorial fair with the colts of
hese stations, which he drove per-
ionally in competition with the best
in the territory.
SIN those days, we always called
he people of Butte the Butte saw
ges, the old man chuckled, land
hey called us the Helena hogs be-
ause we'd clean up every time they
ent horses over to enter in the
aces" He told of winning a $4,000 Il
COL on an investment of $3.50 on
ne occasion.
Trading his livery business for a
erd of cattle on the Musselshell ri
or in1878, Mr.. Beach stayed with
le COW business until the terrible
inter of 1886-87 wiped out all but Il
s OF his 1000 head of cattle. The III
previous fall he had refused an Of II
r Of $50 head for his cattle from
Helena banker. II
Many prominent stockmen of II
e state went broke that winter" II
} remarked. 1.-THE snow was five II
Id six feet deep on the level II
Aries and whole herds starved to II
.ath." Hi
With the remnants of his cattle II
r. Beach took up a ranch on Buff L
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Like Christmas ahead of time,
checks for $594, 627 are in process
OF distribution TO the sugar beet
growers of the Billings-LovelI dis
trict, which includes Sidney, and
Sun River and Milk River sections,
also, from the Great Western SUI
gar company, the distribution
including the final bonus, $1.01
a ton ON the beet crop OF 1923 and
the initial payment ON the beet
deliveries of the 1924 harvest.
The bonus brings the price paid
on the 1923 crop up to 1901 ton.
slightly more than paid in any other
district, as the price is paid on the
highest sugar content of the Mon
tana beets.
The total of the bonus checks
foots up s245,549, and the initial
payment will be s349,07S.
With this last bonus paid, the to-
tai payments made growers from the
billings factory of the company, will
aggregate $2,167,066 for 1923.
The extra payment made on the
1928 crop in Colorado, Nebraska
and the Billings-Lovell districts to
tails s1,779,4SS.46.
Last year there were 9S5 growers
their beets at the Billings
factory. These cultivated an acreage
of PIP acres per grower, for which
they were paid $105.57 per acre, or
an average of $2,200.06 each. The
total crop for 1928 was 243,118 tons.
The 1928 crop was unusually low
In sugar content due to the heavy
rains and the warm growing wealth
er of October, according to w. P. Ho-
garty, manager Of the Billings-Lovell
who declared that the SUI
gar content this year is much high
Or and that the growers may look for
a substantial increase over the in
tial price of Sc per ton.
While the growers of the Billings
Lowell district, which includes the
)ther portions of Montana growing
,eets, received $101 as the final bon
is due to the greater sugar content
If their beets, the Colorado district
'eceived but SO cents a ton, addi-
ional, and Nebraska 68 cents. The
otal of payments per ton were re-
pectively $8.1,9 1919 and 1901.
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mates. notwithstanding this, he of
ten changed schools, on account OF
his rowing disposition, and possibly
his fighting proclivities. On the ath-
letic field he was a leader.
1t is told of him, that while at
tending school at Alost, he was in
suited by a Walloon, VINO was both
older and larger than himself. Peter
downed his opponent, and doubling
him up took him to a pool nearby.
"The bully shouted and kicked, but
Sampson held him with muscles of
steel, nor did he let go until he had
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BY MARTHA e. PLAssMANN

by NafSlftA Il. PLASSNiaNN
" HERE is no name more intimate
ly connected with the early his
= tory of Montana, than that O.
the missionary priest, Father Pierre
Jean DeSmet, of the Society of Jesus
But while much has been written OF
his activities here, few are familiar
with the story of his childhood and
youth, that enables us to understand
the man of after years.
We are apt to think those who de-
vote themselves to the teachings OF
religion, as radically different from
the rest of humanity, not withstand
ing the testimony of the apostles,
1--WE also are men of like passions
with you," and it is necessary for us
to know them before they entered
upon their life work, in order to dis
burse our minds of this belief.
The subject OF this brief sketch,
was one of sixteen children, and him
self had a twin sister. His father
seems to have been man of stand
| ing in the town of Termonde, Bel
GUM, the birthplace of Pierre Jean.
This town, situated at the conflu-
ence Of the Bender and Scheldt, has
| it was invested by the French army,
under Louis Fourteenth, who was
celebrating at night the sure victory
of the morrow, when the defenders
of the town opened the sluices of the
Bender and the dykes of the Scheldt
flooding the surrounding country
and causing the French to flee.
Louis warned by miller, barely es-
capped, exclaiming as he did so:
Cursed city-would that I could
take you with an army of ducks.
History repeated itself, when,
September 1914, the town defended
by 5000 Belgian troops, was beseiged
by 10000 Germans. After six hours
fighting against hopeless odds, the
dykes of the Scheldt were pierced,
putting the Germans to flight.
In this city, on January thirtieth,
1901 Pierre, or Peter DeSmet was
born. His sister says of his school |
days, "He was sort of Hercules, the
terror of his class, high-spirited, a |
fighter, and always in trouble" His
strives to qualify this by
that while Peter undoubt-
eddy fought, it was generally on the
right side, and then cites an instance
when he did not. War was then rag
ing and his youthful imagination pic
turing the inhabitants of neighboring
villages as Russians" he lead COM
pany of boys against one of these,
and in the encounter was badly
beaten, being forced to retreat to Ter
monde. His father learning of Pet
er's escapade, stopped the boys al
Iowance, which resulted in keeping
him in the house for ten days. He
the time by finding his
mothers scissors and cutting all the
pockets out of his coats. On being
asked why he did so, he answered,
What need have I for pockets when
have nothing to put in them?"
He was not remarkable scholar, Is
'xcelling in nothing but mathemat-
cs, but studied conscientiously, and {
was always writing" according to ]
he testimony of one of his class