The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-04-18
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Excerpts from The Herald of
Thursday, April Is, 1909

Excerpts from l he Herald or
Thursday, April Is, 1909
The management of the Sank
Centre Cold Storage has changed
again, Mr.. Holman, who was here
some weeks, having returned to
St. Paul. Bruce Elliott is now in
charge.
The Northern Pacific is to put on
a permanent night train between
St. Paul and international Falls
soon.
Easter services were held in all
the Sank Centre churches in ac-
cordance to the programs pub
lished in the Herald. There were
fine floral displays and the special
music provided at all churches was
heartily appreciated. Easter Sun
day was a raw, dark, disagreeable
day but this fact did not interfere
materially with the attendance.
The ST. Cloud Journal Press is
authority for the statement that
the proposed state road from AL
bany to Sank Centre is not to be
built this year. The matter, says
the county seat paper, will be
definitely decided at the next meet
ing of the county commissioners.
The annual meeting of the
Church of the Good Samaritan was
held on Monday evening with good
attendance. A. T. Watson was
elected Senior Warden and w. IS.
Dean, Junior Warden. Vestrymen
were chosen as follows: Alex JAM
ieson, o. H. Doolittle, A. E. Err
win, F. w. Sprague, John Wlhitson,
c.. A. Morse, R. r. Kells, "A. T.
Watson was elected treasurer and
F. w. Sprague, secretary.
Chas. w. Spooner, of ST. Cloud,
has leased the Adams Hotel of this
city and will open it to the public
in about three weeks. Mr.. Spooner
expects to have the entire interior
of the house repainted and pa
pered and furnished with new and
up-to-date hotel furnishing goods.
The house will be known as the
Empire Hotel and bus line meet
ing all trains will be in connection.
1t is reported that Mr.. Spooner's
brother, F. C. Spooner, who has
had about twelve years experience
in hotel business, will take charge
as manager.
John Richardson is reported to
be harboring the automobile mi
crobe, having recently disposed of
his horse. People living in this
vicinity are anXiously awaiting the
'Honk, Honk," of the gas wagon.
The machinery for the radiator
factory arrived last week and has
all been put in place. 1t is the
intention of the management to
start up the factory full blast in
the course of a few days.
The graduating exercises of the
Sank Centre High School will be
held Friday evening, June 4. Hon
Frank M. Eddy will deliver the
address. Miss Joyce Eddy wins
the valedictory honor with a per-
centage of 96.348 per cent, Miss
Alta Cass winning the salutatory
with a percentage of 93.6SS. The
class now numbers 81.
Apropos of the demolition of
the old Central House, j. H. ST.
monitor remarked Tuesday after
noon as he looked that way: 81
rather hate to see the old building
go, for | partook of the first meal
that was ever served in the house.
That was way back in 1867, when
Sank Centre did not amount to
very much. 1t was in the early
days and a man was glad to get
anything he could to eat. A fell
low who had been running a board
ing house soon had more boarders
than he could accommodate and
opened this house, and l was one
of the men who sat down at the
first meal that was served. !"
County superintendent Paul
Ahles has just completed reading
the papers of the eighth grade
pupils who took the examinations
held recently in the schools of the
county. Four hundred fifty pupils
took the examinations, submitting
1866 papers. Of these 1,145
passed the required marks and the
same number of certificates We're
issued. There were 221 failures
Sixty-six schools took the exami-
nation.
C. D. Marshall is tearing down
the east end of the old Central
House, which was badly damaged
by fire recently, and will build
two modern houses instead. The
west half of the house was not