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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-11-27

Estate of Eliza B. Perkins Pike, also
known as Eliza B. Pike. Decedent.
State OF Minnesota, County Of Stearns.
IN PROBATE COURT
In the Matter of the Estate of Eliza
B. Perkins Pike, also known as Eliza
B. Pike, Decedent.
TIL State Of Minnesota to and all per-
sons interested in the allowance and
probate of the will Of said decedent:
The petition of Minnie Esther p.
Griffin being duly filed in this court,
representing that Eliza B. Perkins
Pike, also known as Eliza B. Pike, De-
ceased, then resident of the County of
King: State Of Washington died on the
last will and testament which is pre-.
sented to this court with said petition,
and praying that said instrument be
allowed as the last will and testament
of said decedent, and that letters
said Minnie Esther p. Griffin. 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
.ne Court House. in the City Of st
Minnesota, on the 18th day of Decem-
Der 1924, at nine o'clock A. M. why
the prayer of said petition should not
be granted.
Witness the Honorable J. B. Himsl.
Judge of said court, and the seal Of
said court, this 18th day of November
1924.
court seal) J.B. HIMsI.,
L. L. KELLS Judge
Attorney for Petitioner.
Published Nov. 20-27 Dec 4. 1924.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-11-27

date including said taxes is Sixty-Ffvo
hundred rorIy- Eight Dollars and
Twenty four Cents (6548.24); that the
premises described in and covered by
said mortgage are the Northeast
Quarter of the Southwest Quarter
CNEA SWA) and the Northwest Quart
er of the Southeast Quarter INV Il
SEA) of Section numbered Thirty-one
CID in Township numbered One hum
dred twentyseyen (127) North OF
Range numbered Thirty-four (34) West
containing Eighty acres, more or less.
according to Government Survey there
of, situate in Stearns County. Mime
sofa; that by virtue of the power OF
sale contained in said mortgage and
pursuant to the statute in such case
made and provide, said mortgage will
be foreclosed by the sale of said prem
ises, at public vendue, to the highest
bidder for cash, by the sheriff OF
Stearns County, Minnesota, at the front
(nOrth) door of the Postoffice in the
city of Sank Centre, in said county and
state, on Friday the 26th day of De-
cember, 1924 at 1000 o'clock in the
forenoon Of said day, to satisfy the
amount then due on said mortgage
including said taxes, together with the
costs of such sale and One Hundred
Dollars attorneys fees stipulated in
said mortgage.
Dated November 9Th, 1924
Isabella j. Anderson,
L L. Kells, Mortgages.
Attorney for Mortgage,
Sank Centre Minnesota.
Published Nov. 13-20-27. Dec. 4-11-
18, 1924.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-11-27
Motor Vehicles In Mime
sofa Make Total of 100000
Each 81 of Average Auto Tax Now
Produces More Than $500, 900 for.
Needed Highway Betterments

More than 100000 motor vehicles
now are registered in Minnesota, says
an official report from the capitol
this week, and each dollar in the av-
erage tax on cars and trucks is
yielding 100000 for needed high
way work.
The increase in the number of au-
tomobiles has added about tenth to
the income of the trunk highway
fund, but the demands on the trunk
routes went up more than a fourth.
Commenting on the official figures,
a highway bulletin submits that 81
of tax Saving" will cost the average
auto owner the use of half million
do'lo~s of good roads, and directly,
much lrager savings coming from bet
ter highways in car depreciation and
repairs, gasoline consumption, tire
wear, and like expenses. 1t contin-
ues:
Minnesota people made good
roads pact with the state in 1920 by
adopting the Babcock plan and obi
eating the state to improve and main
tain the main highway system, total
ing 1000 miles, touching nearly every
town for more than 1000 population
and serving fouor out of every five
road users.
"The people pledged more oner-
Gus tax on motor vehicles than on
other personal property. Nearly SO
a year was collected then on the av.
erage motor vehicle-more than SIT
in personal property taxes and near
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-11-27
Order Limiting Time to File Claims
Whiting Three Months, and for
Hearing Thereon

State of Minnesota, County of Stearns,
SIS.
Estate of Wilhelmine Zuelke, also
known as Minnie Zuelke, deceased.
IN PROBATE COURT
In the Matter of the Estate of Will
helmine Zuelke, also known as Minnie
Zuelke, Decedent.
Letters of Administration with Will
annxed this day having been granted
to H. G. Lembke. and it appearing by
the affidavit of said representative
that there are no debts of said de-
cdent:
1t is Ordered. That the time within
which all creditors of the above named
decedent may present claims against
her estate in this Court, be, and the
same hereby is, limited to three months
from and after the date hereof; and
that Friday the Goth day of February
1925, at 500 o'clock A. M, in the Pro-
bate Court Rooms at the Court House
at the City of st. Cloud in said County
be, and the same hereby is, fixed and
appointed as the time and place for
hearing upon and the examination, ad-
justment and allowance of such claims
as shall be presented within the time
aforesaid.
Let notice hreof be given by the
publication of this order in The Sank
Centre Herald as provided by law
Dated November 18th, 1924.
(SeaD J. B. HIMSL.
Judge of Probate.
L. L. KELLS, Esq,
Attorney for Petitioner.
Published Nov. 20-27. Dec. 4.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-11-27
BY M. A. Nye,
Blue Valley Farm Service
Alfalfa Seed Short this year

Aifaifa Seed Short this year
In Minnesota
The following letters were re-
ceived in reply to inquiries regarding
the alfalfa crop this year at Starbuck
and Wendell, Mimi.
Starbuck, Mimi, Nov. ID, 1924
Dear SIR
Replying to above: According to
my best information at the present
time the Grimm Alfalfa seed crop
this year will be not over one-half of
what it was last year, the quality
seems to be good.
Yours truly,
Edward Englebretson, Sec'y,
Pope County Seed Growers Assn.
Wendell, Mimi, Nov. 16, 1924
Dear Sir:
have about 800 pounds of Mime
sofa Certified Grimm Alfalfa seed
this fall. The crop is very small this
year.
My brother has about 1000 pounds
in all. There is approximately 1O,-
600 pounds of Grimm seed in this
neighborhood this year.
The quality of seed this year is
good but the price is bound to be
higher than last year due to the short
age of seed this year.
Very truly yours,
N. S. Skinnemoen.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-11-27
Financial Statistics of
Government of Minnesota
Federal Department of Commerce
Complies Some Very Interesting
Statistics-Assessed Valuation

Washington, D. c.. Nov. 10, 1924
The Department of Commerce an
nounces that the total payments for
expenses, interest, and OUTLAWS for
the state government of Minnesota
for the fiscal year ending June 80,
1928, amounted to $43,012,306, or
$17.32 per capita. Of this total
$50, 358,846 represents the expenses
of operating the general departments
of the state government; $862,185,
interest on debt; and s8,791,2 75, out
lay for permanent improvements. In
1922 the total payments for the
state were 1923, GIG, and in 1917,
SO, 802,4230, per capital of $17.O6
and $500, respectively. The totals
include all payments for the year,
whether made from current revenues
or from the proceeds of bond issues.
The total revenue receipts of Min
nesota for 1923 were $41,848,338,
or $16.85 per capita. This was ST.
627,3O7 more than the total pay
ments of the year exclusive of the
payments for permanent improve
ments, but $1,163,968 less than the
total payments includig those for per-
manent improvements. These pay
ments in excess of revenue receipts
were met from the proceeds of debt
obligations.
In Minnesota property and special
taxes represented 1854 per cent of
the total revenue for 1923, 26.9 per
cent for 1922, and 1874 per cent for
1917. The increase in the amount of
property and special taxes collected
L
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-11-27


ly So of license fee. Under the new
plan, however, the average tax has
been less than $3.50 a year-ac-
tually decreased, instead of made
more onerous' as agreed.
''The annual saving of less than
So for average car owners, it must be
cycc-:bc-cd, has cost tie road users
of the state more than $3,500,000 of
needed highway improvements to
date. This should bring home the
fact that we cannot eat our pudding
and have it too"
The facts are submitted for public
consideration in advance of the COM
ing session of the state legislature at
which gasoline tax law will be
passed and the proceeds put into the
highway fund following adoption of
No. 1.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-11-27
"U" Farm Expert Presents
High Prices for Swine
Swine Feeders Are Told Two Litters
Year Can Be Raised Very
Proftably

Speaking to the swine feeders of
Minnesota at the second annual Swine
Feeders day at the University of
Minnesota farm recently Gilbert
Gushler, formerly of the University
of Illinois and now maintaining a
market service in Chicago, predicted
that the 1925 pig crop will be one of
the most profitable in the history of
hog raising in this country.
"After the winter run has been ex-
hausted at the packing markets." Mr..
Gusler said, cit will not surprise me
to see s12 top in the hog market at
Chicago"
J. M. Fargo of the Wisconsin agri-
cultural experiment station also adj
dressed the feeders and he advised
the raising of two filters of hogs a
year to avoid the expense of maintain
ing brood sows during the long un-
productive period. He advised the
use of corn, tankage, chopped alfalfa
hay and linseed meal as the most eff
fective feed, and stressed the import
ance of linseed meal in that ration.
The use of rye, now one of the
leading crops of Minnesota, as hog
feed, was discussed by E. F. Ferrin,
who is in charge of swine work at
the Minnesota experiment station. He
said that two-thirds ground rye and
one-third ground oats, with tankage
and minerals, or equal parts of
ground rye and ground barley with
tankage and minerals, made a ration
about IT per cent as efficient as corn,
tankage and minerals in dry lot feed
ing. Mr.. Ferrin exhibited different
groups of hogs which have been und-
er test on the various rations in
which rye was part.
Mr.. Ferrin also discussed the
uses of wheat byproducts-standa
wheat middlings, flour middlings, and
red dog four-and substitutes for
corn in hog rations, and the profits
in fall versus spring pigs. M. A. Nc
Corty, also of the animal husbandry
division at University farm, told OF
the results of experiments in the use
of protein supplements for weaving
pigs, problem which has never be.
fore been given great deal of at
tention. He also outlined results OF
experiment in the use of buttermilk
and buttermilk products for growing
pigs.
w. H. Peters, head of the animal
husbandry division at University
farm, announced that details of re-
suits of the experiments resulting in
Swine Feeders day would be furn-
ished swine feeders of the state on
application.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-11-27

per capita net debt for 1922 was
$7.95, and for 1917, SOL.
For 1923 the assessed valuation of
property in Minnesota subject to ad
valorem taxation was $2,353,527,-
264, the amount of taxes levied was
$8,371,O 16; and the per capita levy,
1897.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-11-27
MORTGAGE FORECLOSURE SALE

has occurred in and under the terms
and conditions of a certain mortgage
made by Fred j Botz and Rose F.
Botz. husband and wife, as mortgagors
to Isabella ]. Anderson, as MORTGAGE,
dated November LIST, 1920 and record
ed in the office of the Register Of
Deeds within and for Stearns County,
Minnesota on November 3rd, 1920 at
1880 o'clock A. M. in Book 80 of Mort
cages on Page 324 thereof; that said
mortgage has paid the taxes assessed
against said premises for the year
EightyTwo Dollars Thirty Cents
($82.30) with interest thereon from
August Goth 1924 are included as a
part of the Indebtedness secured by
said mortgage; that the amount claim
ed to be due on said mortgage at this
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-11-27

erty taxes on cars and trucks in
amounts equalling the Minnesota IL
cense tax and then an additional
state license totaling $7,00O,OOO on
a smaller number of cars than are
registered in this state.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-11-27
Introduce Hin,

Surprising l decide to let you
have the money, how do l know that
l shall get it back at the time you
mention?
b. promise it, my boy, on the
word of gentleman.
"Ah, in that case 1 may consider
1t. Come round this evening and
bring him with YOU"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1924-11-27
a Reform Method

Aunt Elisa-Have you heard of the
new theory for reforming humanity?
Uncle JOsh-NO, what's it like?
Aunt Elisa-All mothers are to ex-
change children on the grounds that
each mother knows to perfection how
the others children should be brought
up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-18
PLAN FAKE VICE
 DENIS FOR 'HICKS
Gotham To Provide Mock Opium Joints For Its Rural
 Visitors -

NEW YORK, Feb. 17.-As though New York weren't bad enough without trying, the police soon will be com pelled to divert some of their attention from legitimate pickpockets, bob-haired bandits and cocaine peddlers and ad- dress themselves to a condition of mock badness.
 Joints, in which philosophic Chinese laundry men are to loll on the divans, smoking harmless fuel in old-fashioned opium pipes; peep-shows, in which naughty young women are to be re- vealed in their crepe-de-chines; and cabarets with property tough-guys lounging about in sweaters and caps, are reported to be among the plans of the mock-vice promoters. The idea seems to be that people who have never been any closer to New York, than the movie 'drammers," at the elite theater back in Titasville, will not leave town, until they have exposed themselves to iniquity, by frequenting at least one hop-joint, gay resort or gun-men' s hangout.
 It is the contention of the police department that such things do not exist in New York at all, or, if they do exist, are kept in such obscure secrecy as to defy discovery by the out-of-towners. Therefore, still quoting the police theory, it has occurred to a certain school of enterprising young men, along Broadway, ever eager to show the visitor wonderful time, to display spurious vice, which will look like the real thing to those who don't know,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-18
ROUTED IN MANY AREAS
Tuxpam, Most Important City Now Held, Is Goal Of The
 Federal Forces

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 17.--(By the Associated Press. Military activities have been conducted upon the yera Cruz oil region with the purpose of recapturing. Tuxpam, the most impor- tant city,of all held by the rebels. Pa pantla, which is considered the key to the capture of Tuxpam, fell into the hands of the federal forces after five days of fighting.
 The rebels fortified. the hills surround- ing Papantla and had been successful in holding off the federal troops since last Monday. The federals, however, carried out fanking movement and forced the rebels to abandon the town and to withdraw toward Tuxpam. An intercepted wireless dispatch from the Tuxpam rebels to General Enrique Estrada reports that all the rebel groups are marching against Tampico, which the dispatch asserts will be cap tured within three days. In official circles here it is stated that the cap ture of Tampico will be impossible, as 6,OOO federal troops have been concen- trated in that region.
 After the capture of Morelia, the next important battle in the west is ex- pected to take place at Sayula, to which place Salvador Alvarado withdrew af- ter his defeat.
 Railroad headquarters here reports that Tierra Blanca was occupied by the federals at 5 o'clock Saturday after noon. The rebels withdrew without fighting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-18
RICE ASSOCIATION
 PROBE IS RENEWED
Grand Jury Convenes Tomorrow
 In Arkansas Trouble

STUTTGART, Ark. Feb. 17.-In- vestigation of conditions in the rice belt and particularly the affairs of the Arkansas rice growers cooperative as sociation, suspended with the adjourn ment of special grand jury January 5, will be resumed with the convening of the regular term of circuit court here tomorrow. Members of the special grand jury which spent nearly month investigating the rice situation thave been summoned for duty as members of the regular grand Jury to be organ ized tomorrow #
 Court action in the controversy be- tween members of the association and independent growers, in which numer- ous charges of theft of rice from mills operated by the association were made, followed an attack upon the editors and plant of the Free Press, local week ly newspaper, early in December. The newspaper plant was badly damaged and the editors, R.. A. Barry and T. w. Lawson were beaten by mob of unmasked men. Eleven men later pleaded guilty to, participation in the riot and were fined.
 In its final report the special grand jury criticized certain officials of the cooperative association \ and recom- mended that the investigation be re- sumed at the regular term of the court.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-18
INVESTIGATE FIRE
 AT FLAT TOP MINE
Jefferson County Officials Have Busy Week Ahead For
 Court Matters

Considerable interest as been aroused by the announcement, Saturday that the Jefferson county grand jury under tie direction of Solicitor Jim Davis, would begin an investigation Monday into the fire at Flat Top con. vict camp, in which four negro convicts were burned to death. The grand jury is expected to make a preliminary re. port will not be made for several days Full cooperation has been promised by Gov. wv Brandon in the investi. gation of the Flat Top fire; and Roy A. Nolan of the convict board has also offered to place the facilities of his de- partmerit at the service of the investi- gators. A deputy fire marshal and rep resentative of the state convict depart ment will arrive in Birmingham Mon day morning from Montgomery to assist the grand jury.
 Murder Suspects
 Several negroes have been arrested within the past two weeks on charges of implication in the series of ax at Jacks from which twenty-four Birming- ham people died; and grand jury in- dictments are expected to result during the present week.
 Members of the board of revenue have announced that several bids had been made on the old courthouse and site at Twenty-frst street and Third avenue; and the property will be dis posed of, officials says, as soon as pros pectiye purchasers increase their bids to an amount which they would feel jus tifed in accepting. Construction of the new county administration building must wait on its sale, as present county funds are not sufficient to pay for it without the proceeds from the sale.
 Legal opinion regarding Jefferson county's claim to the property now oc- cupied by, the Birmingham Country club is also expected sometime during the week. The case has been referred to the county attorney, who is expected to make his report at Tuesday or Fri days meeting of the board of revenue. Interest in the matter was first aroused by the announcement that the county would claim this property on the ground that it should automatically revert to the county upon it's ceasing to be used as public amusement park.
 Fred Glover, negro, convicted of hay ing made an attack upon MT. and Mrs. Edwin Sparks early in December, probably will be sentenced next Satur- day. He was to have been sentenced last Saturday, but his case was post poned.
 Judge George Shoot will be in Bir- mingham this week trying city appeal cases, being temporarily transferred from the Nineteenth circuit. He suc- ceeds Judge Ernest Lacey of the Four teenth circuit and will be followed next week by Judge Oceola Kyle of Decatur.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-18
INVOLVES HIGHER
 UPS IN PLOT
Alleged Counterfeiter Charges Federal Reserve Officials
 Aided Him

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-Although they place little credence in tho story, secret service officials are Investigating statements made by A. c. Habbicht, arrested in the recent counterfeiting roundup that reserve bank officials and other prominent men were parties to a gigantic counterfeiting ring.
 Habbicht was arrested in New York Friday, and is held with three others in what secret service officials describ- ed today as crude effort to put out counterfeit federal reserve notes. He said the ring" was well organized and was formed for the purpose of substi- tuting counterfeit federal reserve notes for genuine bills of one thousand dol lar denomination which had been stolen from the vaults of a federal reserve bank. He declined to name the bank.
 Secret service officials declared to- day that the counterfeit notes involved are so imprefect that they would have gotten nowhere"
 / Chief Moran said operatives were tracing Habbicht's statements, but he could see no indications that the eff forts would bear fruit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-18
GLEE CLUB BACK
 FROM ROAD TRIP
Birmingham-Southern Boys Visit
 \ North Alabama

Birmingham-Southern College Glee club returned to the city Saturday morning, from it's first concert tour of the season, which took it to Annis- ton, Gadsden and Attalla, as well as several other places in north Alabama.
 The student manager of the club, George Stuart, Jr., stated that the organization was we'll received at all communities in which it appeared, and that the comments concerning the programs of the club were encouraging. He stated that forty-two men made the trip, part of these belonging to the college orchestra, which went with the club.
 It has been announced by the man ager that rehearsals will begin at once for the concert which is to be given at the Jefferson theatre the latter part of this month. He said that this will be the big concert of the season for the students, and that the club expects to put on one of the finest and most ambitious programs of which it is capable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-18
THE OLD SOAK
 OPENS SHOWING
Engagement Begins At Jefferson With Raymond Hitchcock
 In Leading Part

Theatregoers who like their enter. tainment spiced with thick layers of laughter may surely count on one reg. ular treat this season, for no less a purveyor of genuine mirth than Ray. mond Hitchcock is coming to the lief. ferson tonight for four performances in the first stage output of that ia. nous humorist, Don Marquis, entitled '"The Old Soak"
 Don Marquis fame rests on the quaint philosophy and sparkling wit long a feature of the editorial page of the New York Sun, and now he must be reckoned with as a capable creator of delicious stage diversion. The comedy was produced August 2, 1922, at Ar thur Hopkins Plymouth theatre in New York, and entertained New York CTS and visitors to the metropolis con- tinuously until June 10, 1923, record for pure comedy seldom equalled Charm and whimsicality are two ele- ments it is said to possess in a meas ure eclipsing all contemporaneous of ferings, and that the characters are every day human beings, indigenous to American life, should arouse the same keen anticipation in ythe minds of theatregoers that caused Rip Van Wrinkle to live on the stage for half a century. The central figure of ''The Old Soak" is a type similar to the adorable Rip, and in the talented hands of Raymond Hitchcock should occupy al niche in the hall of theatrical fame quite as conspicuous as that allotted to the lamented Joe Jefferson.
 Of plot there is said to be dramatic sufficiency, intertwined with whole souled comedy, but to disclose the story in advance is opposed to the policy of the management, the contention being that audineces prefer to be present at the unfolding of their stage plots.