The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-12-13
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20 Years Ago
M. F. Woodbury., for the past
quarter of a century ali honored
citizen of Sank Centre, left on
Monday for Hornell, N. Y, where
he will reside in the future. With
Mr.. Woodbury. went his younger
SON. Lawrence. Mrs. Woodbury.
and Miss Woodbury. will follow as
soon as Mr.. Woodbury's goods ar
rive at Hornell, and he has time
to fix up the new home. Mr.. Wood
bury makes the change in order
to take charge of the business at
fairs of his father, who is an aged
man and in feeble. health. He
reached this decision year ago,
and has been quietly making his
plans to move. =.
Two members Of the Board OF
Control, namely, P. M. Ringdahi
and S. w. Leavert, accompanied
by C. H. Johnston, architect, and
Mrs. George w. Stewart, of St.
Cloud, representing the State Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs, visited
Sank Centre last week in the in
terest of the girls industrial school
that was located here last year
Their visit was to look over the
ground thoroughly and secure the
necessary information for the To-
cation of the proposed buildings
Architect Johnston was much
pleased with the location and was
of the opinion that the grounds
could be made very attractive. He
will begin soon with the prepare
ton of plans:
Stealing Grain.-Charles Wat
son, special agent of the Minneso-
ia State Grain and Warehouse
Commission, visited Sank Centre
this week and rounded up a gang
of men who for some time past
have been engaged in the occupa-
ton of stealing grain from cars on
the railroad tracks and selling it.
Mr.. Watson came here as re-
suit of a letter received recently
by the commission calling atte1-
ton to the fact that some things
here needed investigating. He ar
rived on the Winnipeg Flyer Tues
day evening and took room at
the Palmer House. Wednesday
morning he started on his investi-
cations and after hours of hard
work and the conspiracy for
conspiracy it was -sifted to the
bottom.
Mr.. Watson ascertained that
there exists in =, Sank Centre
gang of men who for months past
have made it practice, not only
to sweep out grain cars-which is
forbidden by law-but who have
gone even further and opened cars
and stolen quantities of it. 1t has
occurred often that grain cars that
were loaded and securely sealed
have been found with the seals
broken. In some cases the per-
sons committing the depredations
have bored augur holes in the cars
and caught the grain as it has run
out.
While making his investigation
Wednesday morning Special Agent
Watson came across man who
was down on his knees sitting
some flax. He is not grain grow
er, but had ten bushels of flax and
some wheat. Mr.. Watson thus
caught him red handed and the
man was frightened. He was CIV
en- due warning.
Mr.. Watson ascertained who is
at the head of the gang of thieves.
He is a well known resident here.
The Herald is in possession of his
name as well as the names of 9TH
ers implicated but for obvious
reasons does not make them pub
lie. The ring leader, it seems
from what Mr.. Watson discover
ed, engineered the operations,
looked after the selling and di-
vided the swag with his confeder-
ates. He admitted to Mr.. Watson
that he was guilty.
At the last meeting of the Board
of Education, held Thursday even
ing of last week, M. F. Woodbury.
resigned his office as secretary and
Geo. C. Ingram was elected to fill
the vacancy. Mr.. Woodbury. de-
cided to retain his membership on
the board for a time, as it is pos
sible that he may return perma-
nently to Sank Centre.
The Stearns county district
court opened it's December term
at St. Cloud on Monday. The
grand jury organized by electing
Leonard Engel, of Rockville, fore
man and John Laurerman, of st.
Cloud clerk. The session of the
grand jury began in the afternoon.
Chas. Dix and P. Lamb, of Sank
Centre are on the grand jury.
Webster Benner is among those
subpoenaed to serve on the petit
jury. II
A change in the time card on the
Northern Pacific took effect on
Sunday. The south bound train
now leaves Sank Centre five min
utes, earlier, at Oils a. M, and
arrives at Little Falls at 1895 in
stead of at 10:45 as under the old
time card. The afternoon train
goes west at the same time as be-
fore, namely 4.28.
Judge w. A. Morse, of the