The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-03-27

| Candidates for the different city
offices filed their petitions and
everything appears to be serene.
In the aldermanic field there is a
three-cornered fight on in the first
ward. Jos. Miller, the present in
cumbent, has filed his petition for
a reelection. John Boutell saws
he's had enough and will stay out.
L. w. Gingery and j. H. Jenkins
are each out for a place and their
petitions have been duly circulated.
In the second ward L. ]. Irish and
E. A. Richards retire. Their places
are sought by John Brown and
George O'Gara, both of whose petit
tions have been filed. DR.. j. A. Du-
Bots is the only candidate for
treasurer. For municipal judge
w. S. Dean is the only candidate,
w. A. Morse and D. Cleveland be-
ing in the field for associate judge
The January receipts for the Sank
Lake Cooperative Creamery assoc
iation were $1962.37. There were
1926 pounds of butter made. The
price per pound of butterfat was
33 cents.
C. Middlestedt, of Sank Centre,
sold his 800 acre farm in north Ash
lev last week to the Whitney Land
Co., of St. Cloud, for $4,000.
Last Sunday was Palm Sunday
and services appropriate to the oc-
casion were held in the churches
of this city.
A touch of midsummer was ex-
perienced in Sank Centre and vi
cinity Wednesday. Reliable Their
mometers registered 80 degrees
above zero during the afternoon.
There was a fierce south wind and
the dust filled every Granny and
made life miserable. The sprink-
ling wagon began its rounds for
the season. Thursday morning was
cooler with the wind in the north
west.
John Whitson has bought the
Childs house just east of the Erwin
home on Main Street and will move
in the first of April.
The annual school election OF
the independent school district OF
Sank Centre will be held on Satur,
day of this week in the Woodbury.
building. Three members of the
Board of Education are to be
chosen, two for three years each
and one for one year. The terms
of Lucas Kells and DR.. E. j. Lewis
expire and their successors are tC
be chosen for terms of three years
each. J. N. McGibbon was appoint
ed to take the place of M. F Wood
bury, resigned, and a successor
must be chosen to serve out that
term, for one year.
The committee named by the
local option convention held in st
Paul recently has announced the
names of the state committee
three from each congressional
district. Ed Young heads the
Ramsey County trio. The sixth
district members are: Rudolph Lee
Long Prairie; Prof. P. M. Magnus
son, st. Cloud; August Larson
Brainerd.
The Montreal Weekly Witness
of Feb. Is, announces that the
work of completing full margina
references for the Revised New
Testament has just been complet
ed after 81 years. DR.. Scrivenel
was one of the four original com
pliers but he has been dead some
wears. DR.. Scrivener was the father
of A. o. Scrivener of Sank Centre
J. w. Ward says the Northwest
ern Telephone Exchange Company
will begin work, very soon, on re
building the local plant. The mat
erial, says Mr.. Ward, has beer
bought, and all is in readiness tt
begin contraction work. He say:
he expects a force of men here
"any day now" to begin. The pre-
sent weather, he says, is prop
itiouS.
The Life of John Albert John
son., the biography of Minnesota:
late lamented governor, is out, ane
the subscribers in this vicinity
have received their copies. j. b
Schoenhoff had charge of the book