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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-09-11
MAINE IS SWEPT
BY REPUBLICANS
All Republican Candidates for
Congress Maintain Advan-
tage From First.

Portland. Maine-A lead Of $685.
for Ralph o. Brewster, Republican
candidate for governor, was shown II
returns from the election from $50
precincts out Of 833 in the state
which gave Brewster 126.535 votes tc
93.993 for William r. Pattangall, De
mocrat.
Pattangall, from his home In Au
gusta, admitted his defeat.
Pattangan made the Ku Klux Khan
the leading issue Of his campaign TO,
governor. Because Brewster had the
Khan Endorsement in his primary cam
paign, the Democrats asserted tina,
Brewster represented the Khan. Brew
ster, who had previously denied that
he had sought Khan support, made nc
reference to the Khan in his election
campaign and his speeches dealt
chiefly with state issues, but Re
publican speakers sent into the state
by the national committee declared
that Endorsement Of the Coolidge ad.
ministration was involved in the cleo.
ton.
During the campaign General
Charles g. Dawes, Republican nominee
for vice president, delivered an ad.
dress in Maine in which he spoke
openly regarding the Khan, declaring
that he was opposed to its methods.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-09-11
WAR IS DECLARED ON PEKING
Chang Tso-L1n, War Lord, Out b
Wreck Government.

Shanghai Chang Tso-Lin, war lord
Of Manchuria, has declared war
against the Pekin government Of
China, according to advices received
here from Mukden.
This action may prove to be the
anti-climax of q movement that will
engulf all Of China in gigantic civil
war. Chang Tso-Lin has been hostile
towards Pekin for many months and
1t was an open secret that he was
merely awaiting an opportunity to
loosen his armed hordes and march
southwark to Gust the Tsao Kun
regime from Pekin.
Kiangsu and Chekiang, the two
provinces adjoining Shanghai, are in
open hostility for the control Of the
yast Chinese city of Shanghai, hous-
ing over 100000 Chinese inhabitants
and located around the international
settlement Of Shanghai, occupied by
foreign population Of S0.0G0
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-09-11
ASK A BUTTER DUTY RAISE
Increase to Legal Limit Declared
Necessary to Give Fair Return.


Necessary to Give Fair Return.
Minneapolis The butter tariff
must be raised the legal limit Of 4
cents a pound If dairy farmers are
to get fair return for their labor
and their feed, federal Investigations
will tell the tariff commission as a
result of their study Of production
costs on 200 Minnesota farms.
The study, one of series made by
investigators on orders from the tar
liz commission, ended with the return
to the University Farm of George A.
Pond, associate professor in farm
management, who worked with the
federal experts during the summer.
Other experts are working in Michi-
gan and Indiana, and another group is
in Denmark, studying costs there.
After a study Of the various reports,
the tariff commission Is to make rec
concentrations about November !.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-09-11

the facsimile signatures of the may
or and the city clerk, and which GER
tifcates shall be signed by the mayor
of said city, and countersigned by
the City Clerk and sealed with the
seal Of said city.
2. That the said certificates to be
issued on account of said improve
ments shall be in denominations of
five hundred dollars ($500) and One
Hundred Dollars ($10O) and there
shall be three (3) certificates of Five
Hundred Dollars ($500) each ma
turing and becoming due on Decem-
Der LIST, 1925 and three (3) certifi-
Gates of like denomination on the
LIST day of each December thereafter,
also there shall be five 90 of said
certificates in denomination of One
Hundred Dollars ($100) each which
shall mature and become due on De-
cember LIST, 1925 and a like number
of said certificates Of One Hundred
Dollar ($100) denomination falling
due on the LIST day Of each December
thereafter.
3. That said certificates as to
principal shall be made payable to
the order of the purchaser or pur-
chasers thereof and shall be regis
tered as to the names and addresses
of the owners and holders thereof, by
the city treasurer in a book kept for
that purpose and no subsequent
transfer of any such certificate shall
be valid, insofar as the city is con-
cerned, unless such transfer is in
dorsed upon the back of the certifi-
cate and sets forth the postoffice ad-
dress of the transferoe and is pre-
sented to the city treasurer for regis
tration and his countersignature
showing such registration is also in
dorsed on said certificate. Such reg
istration, however, shall not apply
to said coupons which shall be pay
able to bearer.
4. That such certificates of in
debtedness shall be payable on or
UOA0AO diCh 4CopCS1NC ludtuIlIlCo
upon the setting aside of fund by
the city treasurer equal to the
amount of the principal and interest
then accrued on such certificate and
by the deposit by said treasurer in
the post office at said city of Sank
Centre of notice properly enveloped
and with first class postage prepaid
thereon and setting forth that said
fund will be paid to the registered
owner of said certificate upon its
presentation and which notice shall
be addressed to the last registered
owner Thereof at the postoffice adj
dress appearing in said record of
the city treasurer. All interest ac-
cruing upon any such certificate
shall cease upon the setting aside of
such fund, and the deposit of such
notice in said postoffice shall be suf-
ficiently proven by the affidavit of
the city treasurer.
5. That the said certificates and
coupons shall be in substantially the
following form with the necessary
variations as to number, amount and
maturity, to-wit:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-09-11
Regular Meeting

Regular monthly meeting of the
Common Council held Wednesday,
Sept. Bird, 1924 at 500 o'clock P. M.
with all the members in attendance.
The minutes of the previous meet
ms were read and approved.
The Clerk reported having drawn
Orders No. 1854 to 1868 in payment
of the regular pay roll and fixed
charges.
The Clerk was directed to draw
orders in the sum Of $35.40 in pay
ment Of Special Police services dur
ing Fair time, and orders in the sum
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-09-11

Chicago-Weymouth Kirkland, Chi
cago attorney, was designated by the
United States department Of justice to
represent the railroad labor board in
its intended litigation for the recog-
milton Of its alleged right to compel
attendance and testimony Of certain
witnesses.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-09-11
:COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS:
Special Meeting

Special meeting of the Common
Council of the City of Sank Centre
held Tuesday, August 10th at 500
o'clock P. M. with all the members
present.
Alderman Cass offered the follow
ing resolution and moved it's adoption,
viz:
RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Proceedings have
been duly had and taken for the con-
struction of certain street improve
ments consisting of pavement, gut
ter and curb in the City of Sank
Centre, Stearns County, Minnesota
and the streets to be so improved are
Main Street in said city from it's in
tersection with the north line of the
Great Northern Railway Company's
right of way to the north line of
Third Street, also Third Street in
said city from its intersection with
the west line of Oak Street to the
east line of Main Street, and which
Improvement has been designated by
said city as Especial Paving Improve
ment No. 1" and
WHEREAS, A contract has been
entered into by said city for the
making Of said improvement, and
WHEREAS, The expense incurred
and to be incurred in the making of
said improvement is more than the
sum of Twenty-seven Thousand Dol
lars ($27,000y and there is not suf-
fictent money in the treasury of said
city to defray the expenses incurred
or to be incurred in making said i'm
provement,
NOW, THEREFORE, Be it Re-
solved by the City Council of the
City of Sank Centre, Stearns Coun-
ty, Minnesota, as follows, to-wit:
1. That it is necessary and exped-
lent for said city to issue, pursuant
to the provisions of Chapter IS of
the laws of Minnesota for 1919, as
amended, its certificates of indebted
ness in the aggregate sum of Twenty
seven Thousand Dollars ($7,00O) for
the purpose of defraying a portion
of the expenses incurred and to be in
CURED in making the said improve
ment, and which said certificates
shall be one hundred twenty (120)
in number and numbered from one
H1) to one hundred twenty (120),
both inclusive, and each of which
certificates shall be dated October
list, 1924, and which certificates
shall bear interest at the rate of six
per cent C per cent? per annum
from said date, payable on the 1st
day of June, 1925 and on the 1st day
of each December and June thereaf-
ter, and both the principal and inter-
est of which said certificates shall be
payable at the office of the City
Treasurer of said city Of Sank Cen
tire, and which interest shall be evil
denced by appropriate interest cou-
pons attached to said certificates and
(which coupons shall be executed with
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-09-11
Troops Close Gambling House.

Ell Paso-General Roman Lopez,
commander, Of the Jaurez Military
district, ordered out a detachment Of
troops to close up the Tivoli gambling
house, which reopened at Jaurez. The
games closed while the troops were
on their way into the city from the
fort. President Obregon has several
times endeavored to put an end to
open gambling in the border city by
closing the international bridges at
an early hour while gambling contin-
ned. but this is the first time troops
we're ever used.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-09-11
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY
OF STEARNS
CITY OF SAUK CENTRE
STREET IMPROVEMENT CERTIF-
ICATE OF INDEBTEDNESS
FOR SPECIAL PAVING IMPROVE
sMENT NO. 1

Know all men by these presents
that the City Of Sank Centre, in the
County of Stearns and State of Min
nesota certifies that it is indebted
and for value received promises to
pay to the order of. ...........
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-09-11
minneapolis Closfng Cash

Minneap0lis CIOgfng Cash Prices,
No. / dark northern S1.2S-14O; No.
! northern $1.26-LS0; No. ! dark hard
$L19:1.22i No. I hard $1.1S-1.20; No.
$1.14-1.17. Corn-No. yellow S1.1S.
Oats--No. . white Acc. Barley-Choice
to fancy $3.50. Rye No. 3 s6c. Flax
seed No. Il $2.26.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-09-11

City Clerk.
Alderman Holme seconded the mo-
ton to adopt this resolution and it
was carried by all voting Aye.
Meeting adjourned.
j. C. Cooper,
City Clerk.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-09-11

A petlClOn was presented asking
for light at the intersection Of Elm
and End street which was granted
and the Clerk was directed to notify
the Light Commission to cause such
|incandescent lamp placed, and also
to place one at the intersection of
Birch and 9th streets.
B. F. Ives presented his bond in
the sum of $2500.00 for excavating
in the streets which was approved by
the Council.
The meeting was adjourned to
meet Tuesday, Sept. 9th at 500
o'clock P. M.
j. F. Cooper,
City Clerk.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-09-11
U. S, MARKET REPORT
Washington, D. c., for week ending
Sept. s, 1924.

Wheat futures fractionally lower. for
week; Heavy Increment o,,M spring wheat
developments. Oats Arm on corn situa-
ton os,o and reports frost damage to Ca
Louis and Kansas City but one cent
lower at Minneapolis account heavy
receipts. Good demand for light re-
en- Quoted Sept. s: No. 1 dark north
ern spring Minneapolis s1.2e-l.s7. No
2 red winter wheat Kansas City $1.27-
No: 2 hard winter wheat Chicago
No: yellow corn Chicago sL1sH-
mixed corn raps ehicaso So g. lsS z1.1sN.
low, corn Chicago s11sh -1.a0, Mime
~. white oats chicago 4sh .47H,
! ss$iszS No. : T5iss corn Chicago
FEED: Feed prices fairly steady
wheatfeeds freely for future shipment.
markets and BEST bid ds on track for BRAN
ing s2S5O Heavy wheatfeeds Arm.
to make sales for deferred shipment
at 1913 under spot prices. Gluten and
hominy feed unchanged in price with
offerings fully ample to meet demand;
pasturage especially in southwest.
Quoted Sept. 8: Minneapolis spring
bran sss2s Pprr.ng tnsa s2 80
$4,000. white hominy feed SAL. so per
cent digester tankage in various mar
DAIRY PRODUCTS: Butter markets
continued unsettled during the week.
Trend of prices uncertain and subject
to influences of immediate supply and
do md INT ar ~ 100 mn mt q w
er as operators were less willing to as
sumo resulting risk. Firm foreign mar
kets permitting Of small export bust
on So score butter: New York s7R.
Cheese markets firm. Movement of
ap marsns to deefers
demand for September made cheese to-
gether with usual tendency Of prices
during month appear as supporting In
Wholesale prices at Wisconsin ,pri-
mary markets Sept. 9Th: Twins ish.
isH. longhorns 1sx. Square Prints
LIVESTOCK AND MEATS: Chicago
than a week ago. closing at 1886 for
medium and good beef steers 20 to SOC
ana sef e. to Iee ssnee
higher at $3.50 to 1928, light and me-
dunn weight veal calves 25c lower at
1878 to 1880. Fat lambs soc higher at
$12.25 to 1925, feeding lambs steady
at 81 to. 10. yearlings 25c higher at
ss s.sss to to it, It's and fat ewes steady at
Stocker and feeder shipments from
II important markets during the week
ending Aug. 90 were: Cattle and calves
1896, hogs 3,187, sheep 120,74s.
Sept. 8 prices good grade meats:
Beef SIS to II, veal SIC to 20, lamb
1oins $24 to %, heavy loins $13 to 20.
BUTTER - Creameries, extras, SEQ:
frsts, SIC; seconds, sic; packing stock,
fresh, sweet, 27c; grease. lie.
EGGS - All producers are warned
not to offer eggs for sale which are
not fresh and wholesome, and all deal.
ers who buy or deal In stale or rotten
eggs will be prosecuted; .. 8. No: /. per
dozen. sac. Must be clean. full and
weigh 45 lbs: net TO the case, and conn
recommendations: Shell clean ana
sound; air cell localized. well defined.
N inch depth or less. yolk visible,
white 6rm and clear. germ no develop
ment. size, uniform; o. s. seconds, per
dozen, 26c. VIII include stale. small,
dtrties, shrunken and checked eggs.
Eggs should not be washed. Quotations
IN eQRa inClu6e
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-09-11
CORN OF coUPoN)

=
On the first day Of -.
.............. 10. -, the City of
Sank Centre; Steearns County, Min
nesota, promises to pay to the bearer
-. =.
Dollars ($ at the office of
the City Treasurer of said City in
Sank Centre, Minnesota, being the
interest then due on its Street I'M
provement Certificate of Indebted
ness dated October 1st, 1924 No.
Mayor Of City of Sank Centre,
Stearns County, Minnesota.
Countersigned:
City Clerk.
6. Be it further resolved that the
Mayor Of the City of Sank Centre,
Stearns County, Minnesota and the
City Clerk are hereby authorized
and required to execute the said GER
tifcates Of indebtedness for and on
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-09-11

So. st. Paul livestock.
Steers 1910: cows and heifers $3.50
s.26; veal calves $4:25-il hogs $7.7b-
New Britain herald., 1924-12-17
COLD WAVE MOVES
 TOWARD THE EAST
Winter Weather Claims t. Lives ., in West

Chicago. Dec, 17.-Louer tenn peratures today heralded the move- ment eastward and southward of a cold wave that cost ten lives in the Rocky Mountain states and brought sub.zero blasts of ice and snow 10 the northwest,
 The far west and the regions of the rockies were hardest hit,
 Snow and low temperature pre- vailed along the Pacific coast from the Canadian border to the normally warm sections of California, Belling- ham, Washington, schools were closed because of the cold which lowered about the zero point and snow was falling on the Moiave des- ert in Southern California
 Drlfted snow blocked trains in tho northern rockies. where the mer- cury dropped as far as S2 below gel o at Great Falls, Mont. Elsewhere fin the region temperatures ranged from 12 to 2s below zero,
New Britain herald., 1924-12-17
CONVICT GROWS RICH
Harry snodgrass, Who Played Piano Over Radio, Will Be Released With 51.5o0 Given by Fans,

Jefferson City, Mo. Dec. 17-- Harry NJ snodgrass, convict of the Missouri state penitentiary who has gained nationwide fame as the King of the Ivories," by his piano playing from state radio station WOS at the state capital here, will leave the prison next month with a well filled purse. Officials of the radio station, who announced week ago that snodgrass would be released on January 16, said radio fans in all parts of the country sent the con- vict musician approximately $500 and more IS coming
 snodgrass recently won q natipn- wide contest as the most popular radio entertainer.
 He was sent to prison from St. Louis Tn June. 1923, to serve three years on conviction of taking part in an attempted holdup.
New Britain herald., 1924-12-17
STARTING FIGHT
 0N FREIGHT RATE
Iramc Bureau to Enlist Help Of
 Merchants

In an effort to save half d mil lion dollars annually to New Britain shippers. the traffic bureau ofthe chamber ofa commerce took steps last night to raise sl,00O, New Brit aims share of the money to be used In hiring cclirsel 10 fight the pro- posed freight rate increases from New England The increases will average IS per cent, and this in- crease. it was sad at the meeting. will raise prices Of New England products so much that western buy. CTS will be forced to look elsewhere for their goods.
 The manufacturing concerns in this city are alive to the sltuation, their traffic men last night express- ing themselves strongly against the increase, but 1t wss felt that the merchants. who will be affected as much as the manufacturers, should be interested In the fight
 Appeal To Be Broadcast
 A meeting of local merchants was suggested by Miss II. NJ. Hurley, act ing secretary of the chamber, and it was voted that this should be call cd for the morning of Monday, De- cember 20, The bureau voted that the following letter be sent to manu- featuring concerns in this city and that William S. Robinson. sssista nt traffic manager of the Stanley Works should draw up a similar one to be forwarded to the merchants:
 "The interstate commerce commits sion has ordered general investiga- ton into all class rates fin and out i of New England 70 the territory west of the Hudson river.
 The railroads have submitted to the shippers. rates that they pro- pose 10 put into effect. These rates will increase our transportation costs in and out of New Britain to ap- 1 proximatelv Is per cent.
 1 The effect of these proposed in. creases will be far reaching, and every shipper and receiver of goods, moving under class rates. will be ! directly effected. We estimate that it will represent 10 New Britain ship pers and receivers of freight, ap. proximatcly s50o,ooo. This Is a very serious matter-not alone 10 the manufacturers but to the merchants
 If these rates are permitted tc become effective, western consumers have informed Connecticut industries that they will be forced 10 look near CT at home for their source of sup ply, as the rates proposed would prohibit their purchasing goods 1T Connecticut,
 The New England Traffic league an organization of traffic repre-. sentatives of New England, largt shipping firms. chambers of com nnerce, and boards of trade, locatet in New England--cooperating witt similar organizations located in tn states of Pennsylvsnia, New York and New Jersey will employ coun gel and rate statisticians 10 attent the hearings. handle shippers wit nesses, and 10 prepare such infor nation as will be needed in protect ing the interests of the shippers an
New Britain herald., 1924-12-17
NILLERAND OPENS
 WAR ON HERRIOT
Comes Out Against French Pre-
 mier'S Policies

Paris, Dec l7.-Millerand has opened his campaign against the Herrlot government In earnest. At banquet of 1,20 covers attended by members of the National Republican league last evening the former presi- dent and premier delivered lengthy fighting speech, which was cheered 10 the echo, in which he outlined his plans and invited all republicans to join him in forming a center bloc with the object of controlling the French parliament.
 N. Millerand defended the policies which had been pursued under his administration. mantoining that, un- til the advent Of Premier Herriot. food had been cheaper. the franc vas worth more, taxes were lighter. and the policy toward Germany, though costly. vas about to bear fruit.
 The present government he haudl- ed without gloves, declaring f threatens the order finances and security of the country" 1t was dominated by the revolutionary SO. cialist party which had declined to assume an appearance of power but which possessed the substance.
 The government, he continued, had been confronted with the choice either of laying down its arms before Bolshevism or disappearing. It had chosen. Then, in the face of the strong public feeling aroused by the communist danger, it had coniured up the clerical bogey,
 Let us take off our hats. gentle men, 10 this ghost" Millerand ex- claimed satirically. Tt makes me feel twenty years younger"
New Britain herald., 1924-12-17
Montana had six deaths yesterday

Montana had six deaths yesterday indirectly attributable to the storm Four persons were killed when a tram car was struck by Great Northern passenger train in bhZ- zard. Two children were sutfocated in Q Are at Bozeman while their mother was Christmas shopping. An fec coated windshield was held re- spppsible for the deaths of two young women and two young men at Sterling Colo where a Burling- ton passenger train struck their au- tomobile as they speeded homeward after dance, F.z
 Rotary blows were used to clear tracks in the Glacier National Park region. where drifts ten feet deep blocked trains,
 The icy blasts extended into Utah, New Mexico and Colorado with snow falling or forecast for today
 The plains states were feeling tinses of sub.ze weather. Snow and sleet was general over Kansas and Missouri while Nebraska ther- mometers lowered about the zero point,
 Snow was forecast for today and tomorrow in Iowa. Des Moines had a fall Of 14 degrees in four hours last night,
 In the Great Lake region rains last night had frozen early today leaving an icy coating that was being covered by snow today. Colder weather with snow was forecast Wire communication In the mid west was not much affected by the sleet.
New Britain herald., 1924-12-17
SHORTAGE IN FUNDS
Woman Clerk in Gloucester Water Dept. Said To Have Confessed $2,. eeo En,beZzlement and Left City.

Gloucester, Mass, Dec. 17--A shortage of S26e0 in the funds Of the city water department was made known by the board of water com mtssioners today in 2 commun!ca- ton to the city council. Mrs. Lucy ID. O'Keete. an assistant clerk. was charged with enlbezzlement of the amount, and the communication sad she had confessed She has left the city, the commissioners reported
 The shortage. which was discov- cred last Friday in the course of an annual audit. Tas made known to- day because of the expected arrival of state auditors
New Britain herald., 1924-12-17
CoVIpJEC TO ENTER

Vancouver. B. C, Dec. 17-George Goulding of this city, holder of sev- eral worlds walking records which have stood for several years. an nouncAd today that he would enter the Millrose A 4. games to he held in Madison Square Garden. New York, late In January,