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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-08
Greyhound Bus Lines
Acquire Northland Co.
Coast-tO-COast Line to Cooperate
with Rail Schedules in Mime
sota-Pays 5 Million

st. Paul, Aug. 6-Sale of the
Northland Transportation Motor
Bus company to the Motor Transit
Corporation and Automotive In
vestment corporation, operators Of
the Greyhound coast to coast bus
line, was announced here today by
the officials of the Great Northern
railroad. The consideration involv-
ed in the sale of the Northland
company which operates more than
5000 miles of lines in Minnesota.
was announced as 100000.
The Northland company has OPP
Grated as subsidiary of the Great
Northern since it's organization in
1925. It now is said to operate
more than $500 miles of lines with
annual revenue of $2,50O,OOO. In an
nouncing the sale Ralph Budd.
president of the Great Northern.
said the railroad company would
continue to hold minority interest
in the company and that it would
be represented on the board of di-
rectors.
The Greyhound line which OBJ
crates buses from coast to coast
will direct the operations of the
Minnesota company, however, Budd
said.
Under the terms of the sale the
new company, which will be known
as the Northland-G Greyhound Lines,
will cooperate with the Great
NOrtheru S,1nnlav,, opf;rcr e-,,.;.
to the train service, Budd said.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-08
MACHINE GUN co.
HOME FROM CAMP
Sank Centre Unit of National
Guard Make Fine Showing
at Lake City
WIN SEVERAL MEDALS
Co. M. Recognized as Most Eff
ficient Machine Gun Co.
Unit Of Regiment

Co. M. 2O6th Regt., Minnesota
National Guards, returned to Sank
Centre Sunday noon after having
spent two weeks in camp at Lake
City.
The Sank Centre company is
generally recognized as the most
efficient machine gun unit in the
regiment. More men of Co. M. quail
flied as machine gun operators than
in any other similar organization.
Nineteen members were awarded
medals for expert, first class and
second class gunners.
Capt. Roy Scott stated to the
Herald that he was mighty proud
of the manner in which the per-
sonnet of Co. M. conducted them
selves during their sojourn in
camp. There were no injuries and
only minor cases of illness.
A large number of medals for
various activities were distributed
to the men of the various organi-
cations. Sank Centre carried off
their share as follows:
Medal for 10 years service
Capt Roy Scott.
Medal for five years service
Clifford (Mike) Parkinson and
George Green.
Good Conduct Medals-Harold
Dean, William Cummings and Ed
ward Peterson.
These annual encampments bring
together a choice bunch of young
Americans. Although they live un-
der strict military discipline many
OF the men re-enlist after their
terms expire because they appre-
cite the fine training they receive
in the Guard and enjoy the life at
camp.
Co. M. is distinct credit to Sank
Centre.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-08
Sank Centre Too Strong
for LifchfeH Golfers
Long Course, Grass Greens, Strange
Surroundings, Big Handicap
for Visitors

Nineteen splendid gentlemen,
members of the Litchfield Country
Club, came to Sank Centre Sunday
to play the first of two inter-city
golf tournaments for the 1929 sea-
son.
The visitors were handicapped
because the Sank Centre course is
700 yards longer than their home
course with sand greens. The
traps and grass greens on the local
course were difficult for the Itch
field players to fathom, and they
went down to defeat. The Nassau
system of scoring was used one
point for each nine and one point
for low total score.
Par on the nine holes is 81. Wal
ter Moynihan and H. A. Falk, of
Sank Centre, each shot a SO going
out, one below par. Moynihan was
still warm in the second nine and
came with a 35 low total medal
score of II, two under par. Mr..
Falk faltered bit in the second
nine and finished with the very
creditable total Of 70, three over
par.
Sank Centres margin of victory
was fourteen. The following tab
ulated score tells the details of the
tournament.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-08
RETURNS FROM JAPAN

Mr.. and Mrs. A. r. McKechnie
and three children, who have spent
the past five years at Toxic, ia
pan, where the gentleman taught
philosophy and English in st. Paul's
University, have returned to the
States. Mrs. McKechnie will be
remembered by many as Dorothy
Malvern, who, as a girl, spent sew
eral summers at the cottage of her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. M. P. NAL
vern at Little Birch Lake. At the
present time the Malverns and
Mrs. McKechnie and children are at
Little Birch. Mr.. McKechine has
completed his Japan service End is
spending the summer supplying as
rector in Episcopal Churches at
Great Neck, Long Island, near New
York City. He expects to receive
a regular pastorate in or near New
York. Randall, the eldest boy, and
the twins, Mary and Dorothy, were
born in Japan.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-08
Gopher Prairie Boys and
Girls Club Very Active
Arrangements for Achievement
Day and County Picnic Dis
cussed Saturday Evening

The Gopher Prairie 4-H Club
held it's monthly meeting Saturday
evening, Aug. 8. The meeting was
called to order by President Cliff
ford Domke The minutes of the
other meeting were read by Roman
Botz. Achievement Day will be
held on Aug. 81 at the fair grounds,
that day the winners will be pick
ed to go to the State Fair.
On Sept. 9Th a picnic for all MEM
bers of the All Club of Stearns
county will be held at Albany.
Governor Christianson and L. A..
Erickson will be the prominent
speakers on that day. There will
be amusements for all who come,
old and young.
Our next and last meeting will
be held on August % at the Com
munity Club rooms. Parents are
urged to attend. A lunch commit
tee was appointed. They are as
follows:~s Edwina Miller, Viola
Miller and Martha Minette.
Those on the entertainment COM
mittee are Roman Botz, Harold
Rogers, Verena Minette, and Flea
nor Winter
George Minette gave a very in
teresting talk on the purpose and
aim in club work. He presented
our club with Al charter which
we are all very proud Of Martha
Minette, Club Reporter:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-08
South St. Paul Cattle and
Hog Market Unchanged
Small Cattle Run Clears in Line
with Mondays Levels; Hog
Market Steady

South st. Paul, Aug. 6-Few
changes took place in the cattle
market, fed offerings selling from
$500 to $14.10 with the grass fat
quota mostly from $500 to $11.00.
She stock bulked at $500 to $3.50
for cows, heifers from $8.25 to $3.50,
better grades $1,000 and up. Cut
tiers were most numerous at $3.50
to $6.75 with bulls slow sellers from
$8.75 downward. Vealers were most
ly SOC higher within a range of
$500 to $3.50, bulk at $3.50 to
$14.O0.
After slow start the hog market
worked out mostly steady, very de-
sirable 100 to around 230 pound av-
erages selling from $11.75 to $11.85,
24O to 260 pound weights from
$10.25 to $11.50, heavier weights
$10.25 down. Packing sows bulked
at $9.25 to $9.35.
Scattered sales of medium to
choice native lambs were made at
$11.75 to $12.75 or Csc lower, heavy
selling largely at $1,000 with COM
mon throwouts from $3.50 to $500.
Fat ewes were most numerous at
$3.50 to $500.
Feeder and stocker steers cleared
largely at Mondays uneven up
turn, range of $500 to $10.25 TAX
ing most of the steer crop with
common kinds down to $500. Feed
er pigs bulked at SLIPS, this price
also taking most light lights while
few light pigs cleared at $1,000.
Native feeding lambs sold from So
to $11.00, mostly $1,000 and up,
with breeding ewes from $3.50 to
$3.50 or better.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-08
COULDN'T MAKE CORNER

Last week one day a Ford car,
laden with several tourists, drove
up the streets of Sank Centre at
a pretty fair clip. This in itself is
not an item of news. However.
when they arrived at the Palmer
House corner, they found that the
highway they were travelling on
turned to the west. They Just miss
ed the light post, swinging onto
the sidewalk, missing the drinking
fountain and car parked in front
of the Palmer House. They drove
down at a fast gate. OFFICER
Schiichte thinking they might be
intoxicated jumped to the running
board of another car and caught
them down on Third Street near
the Armory. After quite an argu-
ment the driver said: 'Ay tank ay
ban going too fast to max the
corner" They were not intoxicated
and We're permitted to resume
their journey in peace.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-08
FORMER RESIDENT DIES

Mrs. Ben Vogel and son, AL
phonse, and Mrs. Josephine Prasch
and daughter, Henrietta, went to
Iona, Mimi, last week where they
attended the funeral of Peter
Johannes, former resident of Sank
Centre, which was held Saturday
morning at nine o'clock from the
st. Columbo Catholic Church Mr..
Johannes was born in Burlington,
Wis, II years ago. He left Sank
Centre five years ago and has since
that time resided on a farm near
Iona. He died of blood poisoning.
His wife, two sons and three
daughters are left to mourn the
loss of a kind father. Mr.. johann
mes was life long friend of the
Frasch family.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-08
Thieves Work Successfully
in Large Funeral Crowd
Two Arrested After Farmers Re
port $1,000 Taken From Their
POckets-Total Loss $1,000

Buffalo, Aug. B. Acussed of
picking pockets among the thous-
ands who gathered here yesterday
at the funeral of Owen T. Haug-
land, Buffalo fier who was killed
in an endurance flight in Mime
apolis Monday, two men were held
in the Wright county Jail here to-
night.
They were captured by Sheriff
Carl A. Anderson after a short
chase and SOL was found in their
pockets.
A number of farmers reported
losses to Sheriff Anderson. Walter
Edner, Wright county, reported he
had been robbed of $500 George
Stump, another Wright county
man, claimed to have lost 1920. Sew
eral others turned in complaints,
bringing the total of losses to more
than $1,000, according to the sher-
if.
The sheriff with the aid of the
village mahshal, Charles Campbell,
began looking throIgh the crowd.
The two men held in Jail, noticing
they were being watched, started to
walk away, breaking into a run
when the sheriff and his aid start
ed after them. The men ran into
a 25-foot ravine between the bust
ness section and the courthouse
where they were captured. The
sheriff said he thought at least
four pickpockets were working in
the crowd, but fled when they saw
their activities had been discover
ed. Twin City authorities have
been asked to check the finger
prints of the two men held.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-08
14-Year.OM Boy Cured
of Gasoline Fume Habit
Discharged from State Hospital
on Parole After Several Weeks
Treatment

Willmar, Aug. GA IA year old
boy last night rejoined his parents,
his desire for gasoline fume jags"
cured at the state hospital for in
ebriates at Willmar.
He was discharged from the in
stitution on parole, after entering
the hospital several weeks ago, &C
cording to DR.. B. F. Smith, super
intendent of the asylum.
The boy, resident of Padua,
Stearns county contracted the habit
two years ago while working
around filling station and since
that time has become an addict.
His process of inhaling the fumes
was simple. Holding can filled
with gasoline to his nostrils for
about three minutes, he would
breathe deeply until he felt Jag
coming on.
The boy told officials at the
asylum the effect was the same as
that which followed several drinks
of strong whisky.
Minneapolis physicians and chem
lists explained that gasoline, which
is a acknowledgements COM
pound, vaporizes readily at low
temperature and the fumes from
it, like those of nitrous oxide
Laughing gas), ether and some
other fluids affected the nervous
system, at first stimulating the
person inhaling them, later causing
depression and paralysis of the
nerves, if inhaled in sufficient
quantities.
DR.. B. F. Smith said it was the
first case of it's kind in his eight
years with state hospitals, and that
he believes there is no previous
record of such case.
No specific treatment is known
to those who have been consulted,
DR.. Smith said.
"The only way we had of curing
the boy is to convince him that he
is morally wrong in doing such a
thing and that it would ruin his
health"
He was committed to the hospital
July "a and was confined to bed for
observation.
Because of the hold the fumes
were getting on the boy, the par
ents began to restrict him and keep
him away from gasoline. When
this was done the boy became I'M
ruly and hard to handle, DR.. Smith
pointed out.
Since he has been here, however,
he has not made request for gas
oline," DR.. Smith added. "This
is probably due to the fact he knew
he could not get it.
The boy will be kept under OBJ
servation for several months and
then will be placed on parole. If
he returns to his old habits, treat
ment will have to be devised.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-08
AUTOMOBILE RUNS AMUCK

Tuesday afternoon considerable
excitement was caused on Main
Street, near the Palmer House,
when a driverless automobile came
backing down the street. The car
had been parked near the corner
and having a poor emergency brake
was set in motion in some un-
known manner. It backed out in
to the street and made a perfect
rainbow for the curb at the rear
of the Palmer House. 1t missed a
perfectly new Packard and land
ed into the side of Attorney v. T.
Conklin's Pontiac, where it re-
manned parked. Luckily the dam
age was small. The owner Mr..
Dorman, from near Long Prairie,
made arrangements to settle.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-08
HIGHER SUGAR DUTY
URGED ASFARM AID
Editor Proposes Protection
Comparable to Europe's
Postwar Tariff Wall
EUROPE RAISES TARIFF
Beet and Cane Growers Sup.
ply the Sugar Needed for
American Consumption

Tariff protection to enable the
American farmer to rebuild his
beet, sugar industry on the same
scale that the industry was rebuilt
in Europe following the war was
asked by J. c. Morrison, editor of
the Morris Tribune, in the first of
a series of talks given over radio
station WCCO. The talks are spon-
sored by the Minnesota Plan of
Farm Relief.
e. r. Quackenbush, secretary of
the Twin Cities unit of the Nation
al Dairy Council, was the second
speaker. The talks are to be given
every two weeks.
Following the war in Europe,
enormous tariff walls were raised
against tropical sugar to enable
the beet farmers to get back on
their feet. Similar aid is asked for
the American farmer.
1--WE consume an average of 108
pounds of sugar per capita-of
which the American farmer pro-
duces about 16 pounds, the island
possessions supply 81 pounds, and
Cuba furnishes Is pounds. There
is no reason why we should not
produce all the sugar consumed in
the United States" Mr.. Morrison
declared. $50
American capital owns three
fourths of the sugar industry in
Cuba and production there has in
creased ten-fold since American
capital went in. am not unmind-
full of the fact that the United
States Sugar Association composed
of American companies interested
in the Cuban sugar industry, claims
that the sugar industry is in great
er distress in Cuba than in the
United States, but I do hold that
it is more important to employ
profitably the land, labor, and
capital of the United States at
home, than the capital of the
United States abroad" he declared
Pointing out that Minnesota has
a soil especially adapted to the
production or sugar beets of high
sucrose content, Mr.. Morrison de-
clared that if all the sugar now i'm
ported were raised on American
soil, a new investment of ST, 10000
would be added to local tax rolls,
and 100000 acres to 100000 acres
of land now employed in the pro-
duction of surplus crops would be
profitably employed.
He declared that the sponsors of
the Minnesota plan are interested
in building rural values, but stated
that it could not be done without
adequate farm protection. "Those
who are most strenuously opposed
to an adequate sugar tariff have
been building rural values in Cuba
and the Philippines. War-torn
Europe adopted almost prohibitive
sugar industry, and turned back
the sugar flood from the. tropics"
Mr. Morrison declared, asking why
as much could not be done for the
American farmer.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-08
Storage Outlook for Wheat
Appears Very Favorable
Drought in Minnesota, North Da-
kota and Canada Has Re
duced Expected Yield.

Circumstances indicate that it
may be good judgment to be DELHI
crate in marketing wheat this
year, since indications for a big
crop are steadily growing less, ac-
cording to Andrew Boss, vice-di-
rector of the Minnesota Agricul-
tural Experiment station and wide
ly known authority on Northwest
farm problems.
Continued drought throughout
the Dakotas, Montana, and the Ca
madam provinces has seriously di-
minished the chances for high
yields, Mr.. Boss says. Recent adj
vices indicates. that favored local
tiles may secure spring wheat
yields of eight to ten bushels per
acre, but in many others the yields
will not exceed five bushels.
Grain prices have been unsteady
but are increasing and farmers
who can provide storage would
probably do well to hold their
grain until market indications are
more clearly defined. There is lit
tie prospect that prices will go
lower and if the dry, hot weather
continues into August, may go con-
siderably higher.
According to reports from those
who have already threshed their
small grains in the Sank Centre
community, wheat and oats is of
a very high quality, and despite
the constant dry weather, many
of our farmers proclaim them
selves well satisfied with the re-
suits. Although we have not heard
how many bushels of grain are be-
ing taken from an acre, we have
heard several of our farmers re-
mark that they had received a fair
yield this year.
Farmers lacking granaries or
other storage facilities may find it
desirable to use moderate priced
metal storage tanks now on the
market or resort to the old-fash-
Toned custom of building temporal
ry bins Of fence rails lined with
straw. A newer idea is that of
making bins of two by six planks,
merely cribbing them up with two
inch spaces between, with out nail
ing. The weight of the wheat or
grain will hold the planks in place,
say advocates of this plan.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-08
ELECT ORTONVILLE
MAN COMMANDER
E. V. Cliff Selected American
Legion Head After Red
Hot Fight
NEW AUXILIARY HEAD
Mrs. A. E. Amundson, of Lit
tie Falls, Elected-Meet
at CrOOkstOn in 1880

Winona, Mimi, Aug. 7.-Climax-
ing one of the most hotly contested
elections in Minnesota American
Legion history, the annual state
department convention adjourned
here today after electing E. ".
Cliff, Ortonville attorney, state
commander.
Cliff was victorious in a three
cornered fight in which his oppon-
ents were A. B.. Kapplin of Duluth
and F. Ben Andreen of New Ulm.
The tide turned to Cliff in the mid
die of the third ballot, when Kapp-
lin withdrew. But it did not turn
without creating a maelstrom of
switching currents as delegation
after delegation changed it's votes,
not only from Kapplin to Andreen
or Cliff but from Cliff to Andreen
or Andreen to Cliff.
Cliff led in the first and second
ballots and appeared to be gaining
in the third ballot when Kapplin
dropped out. The third ballot was:
Cliff 331; Andreen, 2O9; Kapplin 6.
AS soon as the vote was an
nounced it was made unanimous
on motion of Andreen, seconded
by Kapplin. Cliff succeeds STAFF
ford King of st. Paul.
Mrs. A. E. Amundson, of Little
Falls, was elected president of the
Minnesota department of the AM
erican Legion Auxiliary at the
close of that bodys convention to-
day. She has been chairman of
the state auxiliary department ac-
tivities and community service
committee for the last five years.
She will take office in October.
Running without opposition, DR..
A. H. Maze, of Winona, was elected
first vice commander Of the Legion,
and DR.. c. c. Neidig of Aitkin, was
elected second vice commander.
Jerry Keohnen, Montgomery, de-
feated Elmer Olson, of the north
side post in Minneapolis, 210 votes
to 189, for third vice commander.
DR.. J. j. Morrow, Austin, was
elected national executive COM
mitteman when L. r. Zumwinkle,
Fergus Falls, his prediction OPP
ponent, seconded DR.. Morrow's
nomination and then blocked his
own nomination by making a sue
cessful motion that nominations,
be closed. The Rev. H. w. Bell.
Wadena, was elected chaplain
without OPPOSITION.
Stafford King and Fred c. Mel.
son, of st. Paul, and DR.. J. With
row, International Falls, were
elected as delegates at large to the
national convention at Louisville,
next fall.
Crookston had been selected as
the 1880 convention city for the
state department earlier in the day,
when Red Wing it's only oronent,
withdrew. A hot fight on the
convention city had been expected
today after the next convention
committee reported Tuesday that
it was deadlocked on a choice be-
tween the two places.
The committee reelected Edwin
L. Lindell as state legion adjutant,
reelected liver Danielson as treas
urer, and reelected Michael MUIR
ray, of st. Cloud as a member of
the Minnesota American Legion
board.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-08
FINED FOR WANTON WASTE

Federal Game Warden Shaver,
of st. Paul, and two deputies, ar
rested a young man at Elrosa
Tuesday on a charge of wanton
waste. The man has a small fur
farm near Elrosa and during the
summer has been killing protected
birds, such as Robins, etc., for feed
for his mink. He was brought to
this city and arraigned before
Judge r. r. Kells Tuesday eve
ming, where he was given the min
imum fine of $1,000 and costs.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-08
DRIVES 600 MILES
LAST week two middle aged folk

Last week two middle aged folks
motored into this city after a
continuous 500 mile drive that day.
Upon arriving in the city they ask
ed Night Policeman Frank
Schlichte to find a chiropractor for
them as the lady was badly stiffen-
ed up from the long ride. Their
wishes were granted and after
treatment they again resumed their
journey without rest.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-08
REDECoRATING BUILDINGS

The Sank Centre Public School
buildings are being given their
annual overhauling under the sup
ervision of building and grounds
superintendent, Chas. r. Gray. Six
rooms of the Junior High building
have been completed and the Aud
itorium is being redecorated at this
writing.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-08
Local Golfers Tied Up
Handicap Tournament
Thirty-Two Enthusiasts Are Doing
Their Derndest-Play Ends
This Week

The annual handicap golf tour.
nament of the Sank Centre Club
is being played this week. There
are four flights of eight players
each.
Bernard Robischon won his first
18-hole match with Julian Mark
son, SO. A. F. Strebel defeated Don
Hanson As. Both teams were in the
second flight.
The tournament will end this
week. The following are the en-
tries:
First Flight
Walter Moynihan
Frank O'Gara
D. B. Caughren
Norbert Frank
Paul Caughren
Ed Peterson
DR.. H. F. Henemann
H. A. Falk
Second Flight
Bernard Robischon
Julian Markson
Richard Schoenhoff
Roy Scott
A. F. Strebel
Don Hanson
j. McCracken
Bernard Schoenhoff
Third Flight
v. T. Conklin
Glen Sullivan
Asa Wallace
r. e. Hansen
Art Weisner
S. P. Hansen
Don Bishop
M. A. Nye
Fourth Flight
Percy Hansen
A. J. Lies
F. S. Cooper
F. w. Hanson
L. T. Lovick
DIR. P. 0. Peterson
H. S. Halverson
DR.. r. H. Sweetman