The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-06-23
sAUK CENTRE HERALD
Sixth Annual Historic Tour
Minnesota Historical Society
(ISt. Cloud Times)

(St. Cloud Times)
On Thursday, June 16, the sixth
annual 'fhistoric tour" of the Min
nesota Historical Society will start
from the Twin Cities, with twenty
automobiles and a chartered bus to
accommodate the tourists, whose OBJ
jective is the two-day state his
torical convention ait st. Cloud and
Wdllmar on the sixteenth and sew
enteenth.
The first stop will be made at
Anoka, where local citizens have
arranged a brief program centering
about the historical backgrounds
of the Anoka community.
At st. Cloud a picnic luncheon
will be served at 1890 P. M. by
the st. Cloud Reading Room So
ciety, and conference on the or
ganization of local history work in
Minnesota will follow with Mr.. w.
B. Mitchell of st. Cloud, presid-
ing. An address of welcome by
j. Arthur Bensen, mayor of st.
Cloud will be answered by Fred
erick G. Ingersoll president of the
Minnesota Historical society. DR..
Scion j. Buick, superintendent of
the Minnesota Historical society,
will open the general discussion
with talk on "The Possibilities of
local history work in Minnesota, "
and among those who will partici.
pate in the discussion that follows
will be the Reverend Charles Grun-
enwald and Mr.. R. B. Brewer of
st. Cloud, DIR. j. A. Dubois of
Sank Centre, and Mr.. William
Sartell of Sartell. Possible organ
ization of a Stearns County His
torical Society is looked forward
to by those who are promoting
the conference.
Following this conference an
automobile tour will be made to
places of special interest in the
vicinity of st. Cloud, beginning
with the new athletic field of the
State Teachers College, where the
st. Cloud Chapter of the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution
will unveil bronze marker on the
site of stockade built at the time
of the Sioux War, with Mrs. Darius
Steward, regent of the chapter, as
the speaker. After this ceremony
visits will me made to st. Bene-
diets college at iSt. Joseph and
st. Johns University at College
vile.
One of the features of the con-
vention, both at st. Cloud on
Thursday and at Willmar on Fri
day, will be the local historical ex-
hibits displayed in the show win
dows of local merchants. The st.
Cloud exhibits have been assemb-
led under the direction of the st.
Cloud chapter of the Daughters of
the American Revolution and the
Willmar displays have been as
sembled under supervision of the
Kandiyohi County Old Settlers as
ISOLATION and the committee on
local arrangements headed by Sem
ator Victor E. Lawson. The ex-
hibits reveal many phases of pion-
eer life in. Minnesota and have
been brought together from homes
where they have been preserved
from pioneer days.
The evening session at st. Cloud
on Thursday will be held in the
auditorium of the State Teachers
college, with President Frederick
G. Ingersoll of the state society
presiding. Monte Casino, Metten,
and Minnesota" is the title of the
evening address, to be given by
DR.. August C. Key, Professor Of
History in the University of Min
nesota, who will trace connections
between the cradle of the Benedic-
tine Order, a German monastery,
and the State of Minnesota. After
DR.. Grey's address a motion pic
ture, 'The Chronicle of Time: The
Story of Stearns County. It's His
tory and Industry" will be pre-
scented through the courtesy of
the st. Cloud Daily Times, Fred
Schiplin, editor.
The 'shistoric tour" will be con-
tinued from st. Cloud to Willmar
on the morning of Friday, June II.
AT Paynesville the tour will be
met by a delegation of approx
mately one hundred automobiles
from Willmar, New London, and
other parts of Kandiyohi county.
For the tour from this point the
Kandiyohi county committee has
had special signs posted all along
the route calling attention to spec
ial historical connections and
backgrounds. "A stop will be made
at Mount Tom in Sibley State
Park at 10:45 a. M, a brief pro-
gram will be held at New London,
and after tour around the shores
of Green Lake, a complimentary
luncheon will be served by the
Willmar Commercial Club at the
Green Lake Country club at
Spicer. From Spicer the tour will
proceed early in the afternoon to
Willmar.
A great meeting will be held
jointly with the Kandiyohi County
Old Settlers Association at the
fair grounds in Willmar at 300 p.
M, with Ray P. Chase, state audit
or, as the chief speaker. He will
give an address on Estate Parks
and Memorials and State History"
An interesting feature of the pro-
gram will be the dedication of the
Pioneer Memorial Cabin erected
by the Kandiyohi County Old Set
tiers Association on the fair