The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-11-01
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of 20 Years Ago
20 Years Ago

At the Methodist chufcn mex
morning the pastor, Rev.
J. T. B. Smith, will preach. IN
the evening the district superin.
tendent. Rev. E. K. Cooper, OF
Braineri, will preach and hold the
regular conference.
A meeting of the Sank Centre
band was held "Wednesday evening
and the band was, reorganlzed
A bunch of new members were
taken in giving the organization
a total membership of %. Prof.
Townsend of Starbuck, who start
ed the band here two years ago,
has been selected as leader ana
will begin his work next week. =.
At a meeting of the directors OF
the Merchants National Bank, hei9
last week, A. F. Strebel was elected
to the position of cashier mace
vacant by the resignation OF "A W..
Austin who has rented the Palmer
House. Mr.. Strebel has been with
the hank for some time as assls,
tant cashier and has demonstrated
his ability to fill the position TO
which he has been promoted. Inc
directors chose Ben Dubois ASSIST
ant cashier. Mr.. Dubois has the
experience to fill the position salts
factorily. The two young men as.
sumo their new positions the hrst
of the month. =
At the Congregational church
on Sunday evening a local branch
of the Congregational Brotherhood
was organized. The committee on
constitution, appointed the pre-
ceeding Sunday, submitted a draft
on a constitution, that was adopt
ed. Officers were then elected as
follows: Jas. A. Norris, president;
James Ingram, vice president; P.
B. Hanson, secretary; Thos. Suli-
van, treasurer. The constitution
provides for a bible study class and
a teacher to be elected by the
Brotherhood. 1t was thought ad-
visable to refer the matter OF the
choice of teacher to the executive
committee for recommendation at
the first regular meeting Of the
Brotherhood, which takes place on
Monday evening, Nov. 2. The reg
ular business meetings occur on
the first Monday evening of each
month. Officers serve for one
year and the annual election is
fixed for the first Monday in Octob-
er.
As announced on the first page
of this issue, The Herald has Sc
cured the city hall for election
night and will there be host to the
public and will furnish full and
complete returns from the state
and national elections. The Her.
aid has an arrangement with the
Minnesota Central Telephone Com
pany, The American Telephone and
Telegraphy Company and the
Northwestern Telephone Exchange
Company for the service on that
night. Manager ]. W. Ward, OF
the local exchange, has agreed te
furnish The Herald with two wire;
. for the night Ole to be used ex
clusively for long distance work
the other for collecting county re-
turns. The Herald will be GA
Home" at the city hall from 6 P
NJ. Tuesday until 6 A. M. Wednes
day and cordially invites the pub
lie to gather at that place and en-
JOY its hospitality. If there be
any who cannot conveniently &c
to the city hall for the returns they
can call up The Herald and re
turns will be gladly furnished.
The Herald is on earth to serve
the public to the best of its abil
ity, and hope to be host to a big
crowd next Tuesday night.
The national election on Tues
day resulted in the election o.
William H. Taft for president. Mr.
Taft will have pol votes, sure, il
the electoral college, with posi-
bility of a few more.
The states carried by Taft wer'
California, Connecticut, Delaware
Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kan
sas, Maine, Massachusetts,, Michi
gan, Minnesota, New Hampshire
New York, North Dakota, Ohio
Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Is
land, South Dakota, Utah, Yer
mont, Washington, Wisconsin
Wyoming.
The states in doubt at thi
writing are Maryland, West Virgin
ia, and Missouri, though Taft
likely to get the last named.
Bryan carries the rest. For tn
first time Byran carries his hom
state, Nebraska, where his major
ity is about 10000. He also car
ried his home precinct in the cit,
of Lincoln. In his other two cam
paigns he lost this.
Taft was particularly strong il
the east. He carried New Yor
by larger vote than did Roosevelt
in 1904. He also carried Create
New York by $4,000 or more, tn
first time that a republican nomi
nee for president has accomplish
ed this feat. His plurality in Ney
York is in the neighborhood o
100000.
Bryan made considerable inroa
upon his opponent in the west. L
Minnesota he made quite a show
ing. Taft's plurality in Minnesot
is about 100000. The prohibitio
and socialist vote was not as larg
as anticipated. The Hisgen candi
dacy in New York did not hav
any appreciable effect upon tn
general result. The labor vote di
not show up as strong for Bryal
-as Compers had predicted.