The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-08-04

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was appointed poundmaster. AL
derman E. A. Richards and City
Clerk ]. F. Cooper were appoint
ed delegates to attend the conven-
tion of the Municipal and Com
mercial League at Duluth July 20
to August 1, next.
Some improvements are being
made in the local telephone ex-
change.
The Lakeview Hotel at Willard
was burned to the ground last
Thursday afternoon.
The old frame building at the
southeast corner of Main and
Fourth streets has been fixed up
for police headquarters.
Base ball mines from Round
Prairie and Birchdale clashed last
Sunday and the latter team won
by score of IL to 8 in nine inn
ings.-
A sidewalk is being laid on the
west side of Getty street near the
Great Northern station and the
hill on the same street near the
Keller factory has been graded
down.
There was pleasant picnic held
on the Fourth on Sank Lake at
Casey's Grove. A dance took place
at Buckley's in the evening. All
present report very enjoyable
affair.
Only a few people went to the
circus at St. Cloud from Sank
Centre Thursday. The Great
Northern sold less than a dozen
tickets.
The demand for summer cot
tages this season has not been
very great. MIR. Ward at Ward
Springs has rented but one thus
far and no inquiries are being
made. Heretofore they have all
been taken and most of them oc-
cupied by this time. The camping
season will be short. It's due to
the weather.
"A crew of men has been at work
for some days past driving piles
for the 500 bridge over the Great
Northern tracks a short distance
west of Albany. Grading on the
500 line in Stearns county is well
under way and it is given out that
the road will be ready for bus
mess early in the Fall.
Last Friday, Merle Bush, the
clerk in III. F. Alden's Jewelry
store, asked his employer for a
day off, stating that he was mixed
up in a matrimonial affair. Horace
gladly granted the holiday, sup
posing the young man was going
to act as best man for a friend. On
the contrary, Mr.. Bush, in COM
pany with Miss Lillian Minette,
took the early train Saturday for
st. Cloud, where they secured a
marriage license, and a justice of
the peace tied the nuptial knot for
them. They returned to Sank Gen.
tire on the Sunday evening train.
Monday morning the bridegroom
appeared for his customary duties
as usual.
Twenty cans, containing one
hundred thousand pike arrived
from Glenwood Friday morning
and later in the day were taken
up the lake by Messrs. P. b.
Hanson and Sigurd Holme and
planted therein to grow and wax
juicy and toothsome for the cpl
cure who revels in a fish dinner.
A shipment of 10000 black bass
is expected little later on.
Sank Centre has decided to en-
ter the lists as a candidate for the
location of the Girls Industrial
School, and has appointed a COM
mittee of it's Commercial Club to
take charge of its interests, and
has served notice upon the Board
of Control.
FIFTY Years Ago
Occasional squads of immi-
grants, accompanied by droves of
cattle, continue to pass through
town in search of homes on the
beautiful prairies and woodlands
west and north of us.
A Pop Factory has been started
in Sank Centre by Charles M. Per-
kins. He makes a very good arti-
Gle, and will hereafter supply deal
ers and consumers with that bever-
age.
About ten o'clock Monday night
the Sank Centre House barn was
discovered to be on fire, and the
alarm resounded through the
streets. "a crowd of men armed
with buckets of water soon collect
ed and in a few minutes succeed
ed in mastering the flames.
String beans was one of the
seasonable dishes set before the
guests at the Long Prairie Hotel
last Monday.
The Sank Centre Brass Band has