The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1931-04-02

Holmberg whose reappointment by former Governor
senate after lengthy debate. Governor Olson work.
ed steadily for his removal to carry out his cam
paign pledges of naming former farmer who had
the support of agricultural organizations to the po
sition.
Trovatten is married and has two daughters.
HOLMES CITY-Peter O. Fahlin, well known
citizen of Holmes City township committed suicide
Tuesday morning about $3.50 o'clock at his home near
Mill Lake. Death was caused by shot through
the heart with % calbre rifle. Mr.. Fahlin was
alone in the house at the time. his son, John, and
the hired man having gone out to do the chores. He
still alive when they came in and found him. but
he died few minutes later
Mr.. Fahlin was living alone with his son. his wife
having died 16 years ago. For some time past he
had been invalid, confined to wheel chair as
the result of having suffered paraytic strokes which
left him partly paralyzed. Dependency his
condition led him to take his life.
Coroner ]. A. McCabe called to the home
Tuesday and found it a plain case of suicide. The
body brought in to the Engstrom undertaking
rooms and the funeral will be held from there at 80
o'clock Saturday afternoon. Interment will in
White Garden cemetery. Fred Johnson, Enoch An
derson, Martin Oberg, Oscar Hamren, Edward Ellef-
son and Frank Danielson will act as pallbearers
Peter o. Fahlin was born in Oberberg, Sveg
Sweden, on July 81 1872. He to this country in
1882 and located near Holmes City. He lived there
until in 1900 when he moved to Kttson county, re-
turning here in 1913. In 1899 he married to
this union: John, who lives at home and Oscar who
is in the aviation division of the U. s. Army. Mrs
Fahln died in 1915.
ST. PAUL-State Treasurer Julius A. Schmahl
has asked the legislature for appropriation of
$101 1874 to replace money taken from the permanent
swamp land trust fund of the state between 1917
and 1921
The 1917 legislature created a revolving fund by
authorizing transfer of 100000 from the swamp land
trust fund for the purpose of improving a certain
acreage selected tracts of school swamp lands
Between September, 1917 and December, 1921
transfers from the land fund totaled SOL 1874
Mr.. Schmahl, in a letter to Representative r. w.
Hitchcock Hibbing, chairman of the house appro-
priations committee and Senator A. J. Rockne Zum-
brota chairman of the senate finance committee
said it is evident that proceeds will reimburse
the swamp land fund from which the transfers were
sion of the permanent trust fund of the state.
ST. PETER-Nicollet county creamery associa-
tions last week showed their spirit of benevolence
and willingness to cooperate in behalf of suffering
humanity, when they joined together in making a
shipment of 2470 pounds of first class creamery but
ter to the American Red Cross Society at Little Rock
Ark for the relief of the destitute Placed in terms
of dollars and cents value, the gift is Of the most
outstanding yet made in this section, it is be-
Heved and the donors entitled to special credit
for their deed. The shipment was gathered at Mic
olett and shipped from that point through coopera-
ton of the creamery there. Creameries taking part
in the enterprise and the amounts donated by each
follows: Nicolet creamery, 400 lbs; Court
land creamery, $50 lbs; Klossncr creamery 400 lbs
Traverse and Norseland creameries, 300 lbs; New