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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-03-29
Husbands Letter Home
Tells of Great Tragedy
Ray Rising Relates to Parents
Drowning of Wife and Three
Children
PAGE FOUR

Relatives in Clarsiisa commun-
ity have been further advised about
the tragic death of Mrs. Ray Rls-
ing and three children, mention OF
which we made last week.
They were drowned when the
big dam broke near Los Angeles
causing the death of $50 people
and doing a property damage estl-
mated all the way from Is million
to 80 millions of dollars.
1t seems that Ray Rising was
not away from home the night of
the tragedy as first reported. When
he first went to San Animos he
was employed as night Waterman,
but had been advanced to a posi-
ton in the power plant and so was
not doing night work.
Joseph Rising, of Iona, has re-
ceived the following letter from his
son, Ray, written March IA. In
the letter he says:
"Dear Father and Mother: |
feel a lot better tonight so will try
and tell you about our terrible dis
aSter.
at seems like a bad nightmare.
Monday night about 1915 o'clock
the dam broke. 1t was 21O feet
high and full of water to the top,
so YOU can see what a wall of
water suddenly came down.
eve were all asleep when the
dam broke and the roar of the
water woke me up. | ran to the
door to see what was the matter
and saw water coming over the
ground, so knew what had hap
pened.
81 then ran back to the bed
room and grabbed Eleanor and
Dolores and Julia (Mrs. Rising)
took the baby. When we got to
the door we found we could not
get out. The house had been wash
ed off it's foundation and was trav-
cling fast. All at once it seemed
to burst to pieces and threw us all
out. Julia and the babies got lost
and how I got out God only knows.
"There were 81 people at Power
House No. 2 and only three of US
got out. The other two who es-
capped were a lady and her young
child who lived next to US. She
was awake and heard the water
coming. She woke her family, took
the child and started to climb a
mountain. She beat the water,
but her husband and two other chill
dren We're drowned.
owe were in the mountains sew
en- hours with about less than 10th
ing on before relief got 20 us.
according to the list of bodies
found, Julia and the babies have
been found. l am going to town
tomorrow to see the bodies then
will know for sure. The last two
days have been a fright. 1t seems
like very long time to me-"
The rest of the letter is about
family matters and not in regard
to the tragedy and accident-Long
Prairie Leader.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-03-29

Pillsbury dancing pavilion was a
favorite with the young people of
this section of the state, and en-
joyed large patronage. The pa
vilion vas struck by lightning late
last summer and entirely de-
stroyed, and it was Mr.. Stroman's
intention to build an even larger
and better one this spring.
Mr.. Stroman was a man of like
able personality and had wide
circle of friends. He was men,
Der of the Little Falls Elks lodge
and active in the work of the
lodge, through his efforts and So
licitation many of the Long Prai-
rie5 members of that order having
been added to it's membership.
Mr.. Stroman is survived by his
wife and by two brothers and one
sister, as follows: Falk Stroman, of
Burtrum; Charles Stroman, of
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-03-29
April 1914 Legion Leaders
Meet for Conference

Every August Minnesota Legion
and Auxiliary members hold their
state legislative sessions and elect
officers, returning home to work
hard during the fall and winter.
Almost spontaneously, they gather
in the Spring, not for legislative
purposes, but to discuss in friend
lly fashion the problems of the
year and participate in good fell
lowship and entertainment, so that
they may return home with re-
newed enthusiasm, ready to con-
tinue the good work during the
spring and summer months.
This year post officers of the e.
gion and unit leaders of the Aux
iliary meet as guests Of Saint
Paul members April 1914. The
twin conference starts Friday af-
ternoon and continues Saturday,
concluding with banquet, enter
tainment and dance at the ST. Paul
Athletic Club. The business SEES
sions will be held at Hotel Lowry.
At the rally National Commander
Edward E. Spafford of New York
City will be a guest and speaker.
During the conference, various
district leaders and department
committee heads will report out
standing achievements and explain
new ideas. Those posts and units
which have won signal honors since
the Hibbing state convention will
receive their awards. Noted ma
tional Legion and Auxiliary lead
ers will speak. st. Paul buddies
will furnish wonderful entertain
ment. Titus Reuther, Hamm Build
irg, is arrangements chairman. A
special low rate of one and one
half fares for the round trip is av-
aiiable from all Minnesota points
t. the Twin Cities. The Saturday
banquet starts at e P. M. sharp
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-03-29

The season of the peddler nuisance is fast ap-
preaching Every summer the housewife is pest
cred with bell ringers, male and female, who have
something to sell. A plausible story of being man
ufacturer representatives college students or 9TH
err bunk extracts the dollars from the regular chan
nels of trade. Few are those who have not at
some tune been victimzed by the bell ringing ped
dler. .r~
In the city of the size of Sank Centre there
is nothing the peddler has to sell that cannot be
purchased here it doesn't matter whether it is silk
hosiery, lingerie, aluminium, magazines, or what not
The local merchant is always on hand to make
his promises good, but-the peddler has departed
for greener fields. The following editorial on the
peddler situation taken from the Bemidji Sentinel
is so representative of the situation in every fair
sized community that the Herald gladly reporduces
it herewith:
'Good morning, madam! Do you remember
me-"
It is an old song, nauseating melody that
is played by the old house-to-house artist in
his annual invasion of the American home
every summer. They come alone, or in bunch
es or in streams following the other.
The pediler is pleasant fellow, happy-go-
lucky carefree and at in any situation.
He is good looking He fourishes smile that
cracks his whole face from to Per-
haps he is the most efficient of salesman.
But good salesmanship does not excuse H.
legitimacy. The housewives are few in num-
Der VINO nave never Deen TAKEN III NY Souie
"skin-game" of these individuals. Nor is at
the invariable hypothesis here that there are no
honest men among the people who knock on
your front door with the little leather un-
der the ann. But the rule is general, that the
quality of the merchandise they have to offer
is inferior to say the least, that intimacies with
them are dangerous, that the products they
have to sell are often misrepresented, and that
purchases from them unadvsaible.
The work in which peddlers engage is not
pleasant. They do not enjoy. it themselves
hive Iory &c nhohl xy no
least cordial person in the world. But the
solicitor has no choice. He must produce,
like everyone else, or go the way of all flesh
He is keen student of human psychology
and if he is real artist in his business, he
never fails to make the correct approach at
every call. He has several methods of gaining
an audience. The first of these is called the
old remember me- canvass. He portrays
himself as an old friend, relative acquaint-
ance. His subject unaware that she is to re-
ceive caller is taken aback as to just how to
accept the situation of the moment He intro
duces himself She replies, squirting to get
better view of his face, that she doesn't re-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-03-29
and Mrs. Alma Madi-

Swanville, and Mrs. Alma Madi-
son, of Minneapolis.
Funeral services were held on
Sunday, from his late home at 1
P. M. and from the Congregation
al church in Swanville at 2 P. M.
Rev. H. T. Krousey, pastor of
the church, officiated, and inter-
ment followed in the Spring Brook
cemetery, north of Swanvilie. The
large attendance and the wealth of
floral offerings attested to the pop
ularity of Mr.. Stroman and to the
regret of his many friends at his
passing .-Long Prairie Leader.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-03-29
American Legion

Four Vet Bodies Unite in Seeking
Beds for Buddies
When Fred &C. Nelson of St.
Paul, Fourth District Legion Com
mander, accompanied by State
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championship fight. Tom Heeney,
careful with his money, need never
work again after getting the cut of
that fight and imagination doesn't
have to be stretched to picture him
as a possible new champion and a
million a year.
Features Charley Harvey
Heeney's story is not only ro-
mantle to the point of fiction, but
it features another character almost
as romantic, good old Charley
Harvey, his manager.
Where Heeney advanced from a
dime to a fortune in a little over a
year, poor Charley Harvey has been
battling adverse fortune for twenty
years. He always figured that his
break would come, but he was al
most broken beyond repair, physical
ly and financially, before the fates
changed for him.
Heeney and Harvey can tell the
most interesting story that has been
related in many, many days and
there isn't any junk to it. Theirs is
the story of two hard working fell
lows just trying to get along for
years and who finally landed.
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LOAN LIMIT URGED
Cutter Would Restrict
Lending to Latin-AmeriCa.

BB UHitCd Press
BOSTON, April 10.-United States
capital should go only to Latin
American countries in which north
ern industrial companies and devel-
opment are welcome, in the view of
victor M. Cutter, president Of the
United Fruit Company.
In an interview with the United
Press Cutter expressed the opinion
that loans should not go "Where
cur industrial and utility companies
are not allowed on equal terms, be-
cause in this case our capital will
aid in developing for European
countries a market which is natural
ly ours"
Otherwise. he went on, as soon
as Euorpe has money to lend the
banking business of the United
States will diminish.
Our preoccupation with the de-
velopment of our own country and
resources has been so great that
we still are provincial" Cutter said
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DIVORCED WIFE WINS
$500 IN INSURANCE

By Times Special
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, April 10.
The woman once the wife of a
divorced man can collect his acct
dent insurance when he fails to
eliminate her as a beneficiary, Judge
Harry L. Crumpacker held in La
Porte Superior Court here.
The case ruled upon is that OF
DR.. Charles Seymour, killed in an
auto accident. He carried $4,000 in
surance in two policies, each naming
his wife beneficiary. His wife OBJ
tanned q divorce several months be-
fore the tragedy, but the policies
had not been changed. Following
Judge Crumpacker's ruling, the in
surance Was paid.
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With Amateur and
Semi-Pro Mines

Hoosier A. B. c will be in the field
again this season with a fast Negro road
club. The first meeting will be held
Northwestern Ave. at O'Clock. All Of last
years players and those desiring tTyoutS
are requested to attend.
Riverside AS will meet Wednesday
night at Bill O,Haver's poolroom. All
ing game is desired for April 2. with either
the Acme A AS i. NJ. S., or Indianapolis
Cubs. Call Smitty Davis, Harrison 4444W.
Leo ,Lentz is requested to call the above
number.
Bridgeport has organized a 17-1s-year-
be played at Bridgeport. Write Fred
Brandt. Bridgeport. Ind.
indianapolis Big Four team will practice
Wednesday. Thursday and Friday of this
week in Pennsy PARK. Manager Anterior
has called practices for ! p. m. each day
cruits are requested t to report iu p rom
The first game viii be played with Van
Vert, Ohio. Saturday
Robert Palmer has organized a team of
players who have had Negro league ex-
p PEREZ . The team will 60 under the
cams write Robert Palmer. 1898 McDouga
81, Stars will hold an important meeting
Friday night at the managers home. All
p4aSClS aAC uABtu 70 attend
Indianapolis Midways have strengthened
their lineup with the addition Of several
new PLAYERS and desire games with city
ana State teams. Call Drexel 6020-W or
write Paul Gray. 1925 S State St Mid
ways will hold a meeting Wednesday at
Bill Persons, 1882 Spruce st.
- OHara Sans will meet at Engine House
No. n, at 8 Wednesday night. All of last
years players and those desiring tryouts
please attend For information call
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MIDDLE WEST
ORATORS WILL
CLASH FRIDAY
Interstate Contest to Be
Held at Wabash
College.

BIZ Times Special
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind, April
10.-Oratorical representatives Of
the Middle Western States will
gather at Wabash College here Fri
day for the outstanding forensic
event Of the year. the Interstate
Oratorical Contest of the Central
Division.
From Wisconsin will come Man
uel EScarrilla, representing Beloit
College. Escarilla is a Filipino, and
a graduate Of the Iloilo High School,
PHILIPPINE Islands. He was cham
pion speaker of the islands in 1922.
From Illinois Will come John Mat
thems of Monmouth College, and
from Missouri, D. Rush Seabaugh,
Central College. The Kansas rep
resentative has not yet been named.
Against these State winners will
appear Indiana's contestants, Ray
Ehrensperger, of Wabash College,
speaking on THE King Can Do No
Wrong" which is an indictment of
the present court system. Ehren-
Sperger won the right to represent
Indiana Feb. II at the Indiana
State Oratorical contest.
Wabash College hold an oratorical
record perhaps unequalled at any
time by any college. Seven times
in the past nine years her orators
have won the State contest. Six
times in eight years her orators
have won at the divisional inter
state contest.
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Hee1ey Soon to Leaze for U.s.; VIII Train i'm ~ Y.
1. IT, GrappLers
Star in TryoutS
By Times Special

By Times Special
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, April 10
Indiana University wrestlers today
began preparations for the final
Olympic tryouts at Grand Rapids,
Mich, July and 6. The squad of
Crimson grapplers which competed
in the Indiana-Kentucky- Ohio try
outs at Ohio State University last
weekend was one of the most sue
ceSsful entrants.
Burl Brannan was the winner of
the 134-pound division, Charles
Swain was the winner in the 145-
pound and John Reed victor over
the 158-pounders.
A. B. Scott won second honorS in
the 174-pound class as did Ralph
Wilson in the 191 pound division.
Walter WaraSka was second in the
heavyweight class. Coach w. H.
Thorn accompanied the team to Co
lumbus.
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BY HENRY L. FARRELL
NEA Service Sports Written

" A MERICA, the Land of Oppor-
IN tunity," has been discovered
so many times in real life, plotted
so often in fiction and moralized
so much from the pulpit and the
teachers desk that the barefoot kid
in the sticks and the hard-boiled
little egg on the sidewalks of New
York think it is a lot of junk.
Much of the real romance of sue
cess today, to the kids notion, is
wrapped around the rise of Babe
Ruth from an orphanage, the climb
of Jack Dempsey from the rods I'M
der box car, and the graduation of
Earl Sande from half-mile tracks in
the pasture country where the roof
of every barn leaked. And to the
fathers of these hero loving little
hard-boiled eggs, the stories of these
romanceS have almost as much ap-
peal.
The Latest One
It seemed then there couldn't be
any more extremities in romance,
but another story. a parallel almost
to the punctuation. popped up a few
days ago when Tex Richard an
nounced that Tom Heeney, a black
smith from New Zealand, had been
selected as the opponent for Gene
Tunney in the next fight for the
heavyweight championship of the
world
Richard didn't announce what the
challenger would get in purse money
for fighting the champion. but the
sport fan knows what the challeng-
ers share means in any heavyweight
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CHICAGO April 1O.-Defeat at
the hands of youthful Earl Looka-
baugh, Chicago, cost the veteran
Willie Hoppe, New York, the lead
III the national three-cuShion
billiard tournament today.
Lookabaugh defeated Hoppe. SO
to 80 in f1fty-three innings and
pulled the New Yorker back into a
tie with Johnny Layton of st.
Louis for the lead 1t was Hopes
first defeat in his five games of the
tournament.
Gus Copulos. Detroit, defeated
Allen Hall, st. Louis, so to 45 in
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to Hold Dinner

The Indianapolis District Golf
Association will hold its annual
dinner Thursday night at $50 at
the Columbia Club Merchant mem
bers of the organization, eight in
number, will give exhibits of latest
golf goods and supplies.
In addition to the display enter
tainment will be provided. Bernie
Lehman is president of the district
golf body.
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final habits, or the refusal of vari-
Gus internal organs to eliminate
poiSonS that gather in the system.
Konjola is a medicine that helps
the bowels, kidneys, liver and stom-
ach, to more healthy, normal &C
ton, thereby relieving suffering hui
mainly of diseases of the inner sys-
tenn and restores glorious health to
them.
AS an example, Mr.. Frank Henry,
well-known citizen of Indianapolis,
living at PSI Bakemeyer St., made
the following statement to the Kon-
jola Man who is at the Hook Drug
Store, Illinois and Washington SITS,
where he is explaining the merits
of this medicine to large crowds
every day:
'I am so thankful for the way
Konjola relieved the stomach and
kidney trouble I suffered for many
years" said Mr. Henry, that will
always recommend this medicine to
others.
my stomach caused me the most
trouble and because of this ailnent
I suffered from other disorders OF
my inner system. 1t seemed that
everything I ate would form a hard
knot in the pit of my stomach.
did not have much appetite and only
ate the lightest of foods. Sometimes
would suffer from severe head
aches that lasted for weeks at a
time. My kidneys also gave me quit
a bit of trouble. They we're so weak
was forced to rise five and Six
times during the night. OF course
this broke up my rest so that I felt
tired and worn-out in the morn
ing. During the day I was subject
to pains across the small of M
back that made it almost impossible
for me to bend over. My whole sys
tenn was disordered and I felt sicl;
most all the time.
II had been reading about th
wonderful results other people wer-
getting from Konjola and I decided
would try this medicine. The frs,
few bottles convinced me that this
was the only thing that would eve
help me. have only taken a small
quantity Of Konjola but truthfully
say that my food agrees with me
and all the gas bloating is gone. 1t is
a real pleasure to eat my meals
knowing 1 won't suffer afterward.
do not have any more headaches
and for that reason this medicine Is
worth its weight in gold to me. Tho
results gained from kidney trouble
is remarkable. I seldom have to get
up during the night and that terrible
aching across my back never comes
over me.
"Konjola is the only medicine
that ever helped me and I am Ger
tainly glad to recommend it to any.
one who suffers"
The Konjola Man is at the Hook
Drug Store, Illinois and Washington
Sts., indianapolis, where he is daily
meeting the public and introducing
and explaining the merits of this
remedy. Konjola is sold at all the
Hook drug stores in Indianapolis and
other good druggists throughout this
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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FOUR GAMES SCHEDULED

Indiana Meldon Club Is making
up its schedule for the season and
will be represented by one of the
strongest nine the club has had in
recent years.
The club will open its season April
20 at Kokomo. The schedule fol
the first four games follows:
April 90. Kokomo Boosters May 6, Bed
ford Champs; May II and 10. Anderson
Remys; May 20. Louisville (Ky) White
SoX.
R. J. Stehlin, manager, 918 Olive
St, is in charge of the booking.
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W1th local BOWleTS
Z1U1EFTY LEE

alleys. the Indians. st. Paul Reformed.
First Owls. Emmanuel. First Tigers and
Baracas taking the Trinity Second Re
formed, Carrollton Cubs Trinity Specials,
Carrolton Bears and Eighth Reformed
over this route. Collier was high with
$50 on games of 205. 234 and oil E
Schmidt had COG. Pritchard. 648; Guntz.
626, and Shaffer 6l4. Pritchard had high
The Sky Pilots took three from the
from the Models in The Lions Cl1b Iesgme
games at the Capitol alleys. George Har-
gift rolled high total with a count of 600
on games of 200. 233 and 176.
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Bad for Majors

WASHINGTON. April 1O.-Bad
weather is in store for most of
Wednesdays opening major league
baseball games, the weather bureau
announced today. 1t seemed prob
able that in some instances the
games must be postponed because
of rain. The forecast follows:
American League
Washington at Boston-Cloudy. raw dav.
probably rain.
New York at Philadelphia-Rain to-
night may continue into Wednesday after
noon.
Cleveland at Chicago-Fair, slightly
warmer.
St. Louis at Detroit-Fair. slightly
warmer.
National League
Pittsburgh at st. Louis-Far, slightly
Boston at New York-Rain tonight NAV
continue into Wednesday afternoon; stiff
winds
Philadelphia at Brooklyn-same as New
York.
Chicago at ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
cloudiness and warmer
STARTS 18TH SEASON
w. B. Carpenter will umpire for
the eighteenth consecutive season
in the International League this
year.
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Hoppe Falls Into Tie for Lead
in National Three-Cushion Meet
Lo0kabaugh Downs Veteran CueiSt; Layton Moves Into
Deadlock; WiIe'S First Defeat.

sixty-one innings; Len Kcnney,
Chicago, defeated Arthur Thurn-
blad, Chicago, SO to SO in fifty-three
innings; Charles Weston, Pitts
burgh, defeated Augie Kieckhefer,
Chicago, so to AZ in sixty-fve in
ningS.
Todays pairings: Weston VS..
Thurnblad; Copulos VS.. Kieckhefer;
Lookabaugh VS.. Kenney; Hoppe VS..
Reiselt. The standing.
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Uses Snake to Clear Traffic
BU UHifGd Press

IN IHUCd PrCSs
VINCENNES, Ind, April 1O.-A
new method of obtaining the right
of way in sidewalk traffic was
demonstrated by William Bosstick,
who recently paraded down the
main street here with a fiVe-foot
cow-snake coiled about his arm.
Bostick was given all the room he
renuired
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That
1t Is Wonderful
For the Stomach
New Konjola Benefited
Him in Every Way;
Feeling Fine Again.

Many of the ailments that human
ity is heir to today are due to I'M
sound habits rather than unsoun6
bodies. Modern scientists and doc
tors agree that many Of the minor
diseases contracted by people are
the result of irregularity in mites
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Church Body in Session

IN IlMCS special
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, April 10
The Indiana Christian FuLda-
mentals Association convened here
Monday for a session to continue
through Saturday. The Poplar
Street Baptist church is host for
the sessions. The Rev. H. H. Drake,
association president, is presiding.