The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-09-09
COM. CLUB and FAIR
ASSOCIATION MEET
NEW ORLEANS BUSINESS MEN
WILL VISIT SAUK CENTRE
TUESDAY OCT. S
WILL BE ENTERTAINED
JAMES PLANT MAKES INTER.
ESTING TALK--RAIN INSUfR-
ANCE FOR FAIR, PROBLEM

The joint meeting of the Sank
Centre Community Club and the
Agricultural Society of SStearns
County at the Club rooms Thursday
evening was we'll attended in spite
of the bad weather.
President ;Sgurd ,Holme presided
over the deliberations of the Club. At
ter the reading of the minutes of the
previous meeting and the allowing OF
bills the Club appropriated $1,000
for the purchase of a loving cup
to be used as premium for the but
ter exhibit at the fair.
President Holme read a letter
from the Mayor of New Orleans IN
which he stated that lare delega-
ton of business and professional men
of that city would stop at Sank Cen
tire for lunch in this city Tuesday
Oct. 5. Sank Centre will be the only
city at which a lengthy stop will be
made on the return trip from Winni-
peg between Fargo and Minneapolis.
The New Orleans business and pro-
fessiona men are making this Pafm-
to-Pine tour to return the Pine
to-Palm visit made by Winnipeg and
Northern Minnesota business men
last winter.
Sank Centre will be distinctly
honored by having the opportunity
to entertain this distinguished party
for luncheon. The entertainment
committee of the Club will work IN
conjunction with Mayor Whitson an
working out the details Of the enter
tainment.
James Plant of LonAngeles, Cal,
father of Robert Plant of this city
was present and introduced by 3sres-
! ident Hoime. For AZ years Mr..
Plant was on the road and his Grav-
els took him into every county seat
town in the United States. He used
to visit Sank Centre regularly years
ago, making his first stop here IN
1884.
The main thought of Mr.. Plants
talk was that a Community Club in
a city the size of Sank Centre had an
importan work to do in welding the
entire community - bushes man
and farmer in a solid mass, as their
interests were interdependent.
Asa M. Wallace, chairman of the
Clubs Highway committee reported
on a conference held with Highway
Commissioner Babcack attended by
Ex-Mayor w. M. Parker, President
of the Club Sigurd Holme, County
Commissioner Bergman, and Mr..
Wallace, together with delegations
from Melrose and Freeport relative
to the paving between Albany and
Freeport this year.
President j. B.. Schoenhoff presi-
ded over the meeting of the Fair
Association Immediately following
the Community Club meeting.
Messrs Howard Bishop and II. j.
Krohm of the Pageant committee
stated that the entire county was
taking an active interest in the his
toric exhibition to be put on three
evenings during the fair, and that
several sections of the entertain
ment would be handled by groups in
outlying villages and cities. The
Perkins brothers of st. Paul, who
will direct the Pageant, were intro
duced. 4
The question of whether or not
the association should take out. rain
insurance again this year was dis
cussed. There appeared to be wide
divergence of opinion as to just what
the rain insurance covered, and the
matter was finally left with the Of
ficers of the Fair to handle in a
manner their judgment indicated at
a.. co,,of,,1 c,,n-vev o,f the stir afion