The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-08-28
fine Community
PROGRAM STARTED
Farmers Shipping Associa-
ton Have Taken Over
Milling Co. Plant
WILL HANDLE GRAINS
Market Will Be Stabilized
Feed Grinding, Flour and
Coal, Principal Business

A community project of great
value to the agriculturists of West
ern Stearns County and the city of
Sank Centre has been practically
contaminated.
For several weeks negotiations
have been pending between the di-
rectors of the Sank Centre Farm
ers Shipping Association and the
owners of the Central MINI. Power
& Milling Co., to take over the
plant.
The Herald knows positively that
the Central MINI. Power & Milling
Co. owners had an opportunity to
dispose of their plant, but to do so
would have left the city without a
competing grain market.
The owners of the milling prop
erty, having the interest of Sank
Centre at heart, opened negotia-
tions with the Sank Centre Farm
ers Shipping Association with the
idea in mind of having this organ
ization take over the property and
operate it.
The owners had faith in the
community and made a proposition
to the directors of the Shipping
Association to take the property
over and operate it until the an
nual meeting of the association,
which will be held January 1881.
Negotiations have progressed
sufficiently for the Shipping Asso-
citation to take the property over.
Manager VIM. Rattle has moved
his office to the mill where they
are grinding feed and buying
grain.
h The handling of grain is a new
venture for the association. Like
all dealers they receive card
daily, quoting the market upon
which grain can be bought with
safety. The association will pur-
chase grain on this basis. Patrons
will receive additional recompense
with dividend checks at the end of
the year.
Manager Rattle impressed upon
the Herald editor Monday after
noon that it was not the purpose
of the association to force the
grain market above the prescribed
price. His suggestion is that if
any buyer in Sank Centre has an
ambition to pay more for grain
than the prescribed price, to sell it
to him. He quite naturally figures
that in that event the farmer has
reaped an additional profit.
The directors of the Farmers
Shipping Association, F. J. Min
cite, president; Henry H. Parker,
vice president; A. J. Orth, secre-
tary-treasurer, and Otto Sukke,
Emil Gamradt, Joseph Beste, and
Charles Kortan, directors, with w.
H. Rattle, as manager, believe they
have an opportunity to render the
farmers in the territory adjacent
to Sank Centre and the business
men of this city, real commun-
ity service.
While the main office has been
moved to the mill, the plant on the
G. N. right-of-way is still func-
tioning. The patron can have his
feed ground, purchase feed or flour
at either place. This plan of oper-
alton will be continued, at least,
until after the annual meeting of
the stockholders next January.
It is not contemplated by the di-
rectors to sell additional stock. We
are reliably informed that there is
sufficient capital available to carry
ON the project at an interest rate
which will permit the association
to paw the stockholders and pat
rons a dividend which will be sat-
isfactory.
The shipping Of live stock will be
continued under the management
of the efficient shipper, Adam
Orth.