The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-05-01
FARMERS, BUSINESS
MEN ENJOY PARTY
Community Clubs Plan to Get
Better Acquainted with
NeighbOr, Success
SEVERAL HAPPY TALKS
Dean Rundlett, Game and Fish
Commission, Shows Neces-
sity of Wild Life

The meeting of the Sank Centre
Community Club Friday evening
was one of the most satisfactory
ever held by the organization.
The farmers of the territory ad-
iacent to Sank Centre had been in
vited to be the guests of the Club
and a goodly number accepted.
President Howard Bishop opened
the meeting by extending a most
cordial and wholesome welcome to
the guests. He said the business
men needed the farmers and the
farmers needed the business men.
By meeting with each other on oc-
casions like this they would have
an opportunity to know each other
better and understand each others
problems.
A male quartet consisting of Os-
car Dowswell, Bob Schwalen, Fay
Cooper and George Berggreen sang
a number of delightful songs dur
ing the evening.
After the minutes of the previous
meeting were read and approved,
Dean Rundlett, attorney for the
Minnesota Game and Fish Com
mission, and editor of Fins, Furs
and Feathers, occupied a full hour
in giving motion picture showing
of fish and wild life.
This part of the program was
greatly enjoyed. Mr.. Rundlett is
a keen student of fish and their
characteristics and wild life. He
criticised winter fishing because
the great percentage of the fish
caught in the winter time are 1e-
males. He said a few years ago
the ratio of the fish caught in the
winter was one male to four fe-
males. At the present time the ra-
ito is one male to ten females. de
showed where, if the practice was
continued indefinitely, the lakes OF
Minnesota would be barren OF hsh.
In discussing the deer situation
of Minnesota he said there were
probably more deer in Minnesota
at the present time than for many
wears. According to the records In
the Game and Fish department H.
SGT deer were shot in the last open
season, 1928. The season Will be
open again this fall.
A milk drinking contest between
six farmers and six business men
supervised by Ven Wedge, proved
to be a very enjoyable stunt for
the audience.
Fred Mossman, Birch Lake dairy
man, thanked the Community Club
for the hospitality extended. He
said Sank Centre was a beautiful
and progressive city because OF
the thriving community surround
ing it.
Rev. Earle B. Jewell made hap
by, snappy talk in which he said
that he and his family were ex-
tremely happy because their lot
was cast with the good people of
Sank Centre.
Oscar Lying, president of the
Sank Lake Creamery Association,
made a very appropriate talk in
which he dwelt upon the advan-
tages to be gained by the business
man and farmer by cooperation.
Rev. Frederick Stillwell, of the
CONGREGATIONAL Church, made a
talk brim full of philosophy and
humor. While having lived in this
city only seven months he was de-
lighted with his environment. This
was the first opportunity many
present had had to hear Mr.. Still
well talk.
Mayor Sigurd Holme made his
first public address since becoming
the city's chief executive. His grasp
of the conditions confronting the
city and country proved that the
voters made no mistake when they
elevated him to the head of the
city government.
Frank Minette, president of the
Farmers Shipping Association, ex-
pressed his appreciation of the CO.
operation of the business men of
Sank Centre with the farmers of
the community.
Short talks were also made by
Leslie Gray, ]. L. Drinker, Law
renee Herzog, L. L. Kells, Capt.
Roy Scott and o. F. Ilgen.
The meeting lasted until well
past midnight and there was not a
dull moment from the time Presi-
dent Bishop called the gathering
to order shortly after eight until
the close.
Dean Rundlett gave the Herald
editor the following interesting in
terview on wild life of the North
west, before he left the city:
In an interview with the Herald
editor Friday Mr.. Rundlett made
the following statement:
Conservation and the Farmer
"The farmer has a greater natur-
al interest in the game and fish life
of a community than any other cit
izen. He is in a close and intimate
contact with every phase of the life
of the game bird or animal. The
prairie chicken nests on his back
forty and the ducks rear their brood
in the swamp behind the hill. He
knows the number of young part
ridges that were Matched in the