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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-01-21
West Union Twp.
Pioneer Buried
Oliver ID. Haslxins Succumbs to
Heart Failure While Working
About Farm

Brief mention was made in the
Review last week Of the sudden
passing of Oliver d. Haskins who
was one of the pioneer residents
of West Union township. His
death came without warning as he
was performing his usual duties
about the place and is attributed
to heart failure.
Oliver Delos Haskins was born
in Wisconsin on May 6, 1858, and
died January, 1882, at the age Of
70 years, 8 months and 1 day.
He came from Steele county,
Minnesota, to Osalxis with his par
ents, Horace and Nancy Haskins,
at the age of ten years. He attended
the public, schools of this village.
With the exception of one summer
in 1881 spent IN railroad construc-
ton work at Miles City, Mont. and
six years residence in California
after he had retired from active
farming, he has spent his entire
life on the farm taken by his faith
er in West Union township.
In the year 1883 he was united
in marriage to Mary Miliiron of
Osakis. She lived about two years.
To this union one son WAS born,
who also passed on at the age OF
nine months.
On February 10, 1895, Mr.. Has
kins was married to Della inger-
soil of Alexandria, who after 80
years of companionship, Is left to
mourn his loss. One sister, Mrs.
Olive Grove of osalxis, also sur
wives.
About eight years ago Mr.. Has
kins joined the I. o. O.. r. lodge at
Osakis and attended whenever his
health would permit.
While at no time confined to the
home he had been in failing health
for some time. On January Z he
had gone to the stable to attend to
his stock as usual. When ne did
not return to the house at noon
his wife became anxious and
searched for him about the build
ings. She found him where he had
fallen, almost lifeless. Mrs. Has
kins summoned help Immediately,
but the spark of life had fled.
Mr.. Haskins was a quiet and
unassuming man and interfered
with no ONES business. He was
highly respected by friends and
neighbors for his honesty and In
tegrity and his passing has
brought forth many sincere re
grets.
Funeral services were heldefrom
the Methodist church here Sunday
at 2 o'clock and interment was
made in Lakeside cemetery-Osa-
kis Review.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-01-21
Blackboard Glance of 7wenty
Years Shoes Interesting Facts

report was not in the best Of con-
dition and was soon relegated to
the Junk heap. The annual business
from the sale of butter and Ice
cream amounted to approximately
$49, 737.14.
!, During the twenty years in
question there was no great change
in the manufacture of butter, but
the growth and development OF the
dairy industry was phenomenal
until today the annual income OF
the creamery totals around $215,-
422.OO. Pasteurization and the manu-
facture Of sweet cream butter was
already in vogue. However, it took
a long educational program to bring
the industry up to today's high
standard.
Today the creamery's machinery
consists of two large churns, and
four watts, three Of which have a
capacity of 400 and one Of 900 gal
Ions besides the weighing and test
ing apparatus. The force OF men
needed to operate has been increased
and at present there are five men
employed. These consist of the but
termaker, and two assistants and
the secretary and his assistant.
During the summer months anoth-
err man is added to the crew. The
power used to operate the cream
cry twenty years ago was steam,
and no doubt, following the inaug-
uratfon of all day electric power,
which was installed in the spring
of 1912, the creamery Immediately
prepared to electrify its plant.
The Herald of twenty years ago
was edited, composed and printed
by a crew. Of five, the writer being
one Of the staff. The type was all
set by hand and the power used TO
drive the presses was derived from
gasoline engine. These presses
have long been disposed Of for
more modern machinery. In 1912
when all day electric power was
available the Herald was the first
to take advantage Of It. This power
proved to be the forerunner of Inn
provement and developed greater
speed in the work OF printing.
In comparison Of issues Of an
eight page paper Tor january 49,
tcontinued on Page Four, -:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-01-21
Survey of Sank Centres Two
Oldest Industries Indicate
City's Development
(By Ed L. Rathe)

The phrase, "out of the past and
into the present" brings forth the
oder of musty books and records,
from which may be CLEANED infor-
nation and data of interest on
events and things which have long
been forgotten. While rambling
through the old files Of The Her
aid, the writer found a personal
property tax list Of twenty years
ago, which proved very interesting
in comparison with the list publish
ed in this weeks Herald.
Twenty years ago, however, Is
not a long time, yet in the progress
of two Of Sank Centres industries
it signifies almost lifetime Of sue
cessful Improvement.
The two industries concerned are
the Sank Lake Cooperative Cream
cry and The Sank Centre Herald,
the oldest manufacturing plants in
the city in continuous operation,
and the comparison of the 1912 per-
sonal tax with that Of 1882 brought
forth conjectures Of their growth
and success.
In 1912 the personal tax Of the
creamery was $3.50, today 1t has
to $134.22. The Herald of
twenty years ago paid a personal
tax Of 1885, and this year will pay
$121.55 Hence, It might be inter-
esting TO learn why the tax has
raised in that proportion.
In the first place these concerns
have enjoyed a steady growth of
business during the past twenty
years, and new machinery has had
to be. added from time to time to
care for this increase. The year of
1912 found the creamery operating
with a buttermaker, helper and a
secretary who only gave part of his
time to the work. One churn and
two watts comprised its entire ma
chine strength. The watts were
small, each being of 300 gallon cap
acity. This machinery according to
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-01-21
CLUB MEETING

The Gopher Prairie Club held its
regular meeting Wednesday eve
ming. -,-...
The meeting was called to order
by the president. The minutes
were read by the secretary.
The Club voted on who they were
to have for leader. Mr.. G. H. Van
desteeg was appointed as leader for
the coming year. The Club selected
the fourth Tuesday of each month
for their regular meeting.
The lunch and entertainment
committees for January will func-
ton at the next meeting.-Eleanor
Winter, Club Reporter.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-01-21
Jr. Chamber
Scores With
Fine Dinner
Walter Schriver Presented
With Distinguished Ser
vice Medal
A DESERVED TRIBUTE
Co. Attorney James Quigley
Makes Splendid Talk
Dinner and Program

Last evening the Junior Cham
Der of Commerce were hosts to
their ladies, Asst. Dairy and Food
Commissioner Ted Ahrens, St.
Paul, County Attorney James
Quigley and James Sharp, st.
Cloud, and several invited guests
from the city at a splendid dinner
served at the Palmer House.
President DR.. Wilfred Johnson
very ably presided as master Of
ceremonies. In his Introductory re-
marks the doctor explained that
the prime mission the Junior
Chamber of Commerce was to
stand for the development of the
communities in which they were
located. This evening was the 18th
anniversary of the organization of
the first Junior Chamber of COM
merce. Wherever they were locat-
ed the anniversary was being cele-
brated this evening.
DR.. johnson then introduced Mr..
Ahrens. The gentleman, by the
way, Is the son-in-law of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Borgmann, Of this city.
He is graduate of the dairy de-
partment of the MINI esotas Farm
School, and the Herald is not
violating any confidence when 1t
states that Mr.. Ahrens is generally
recognized as being the one really
practical man in the dairy and
food department of the state.
Mr.. Ahrens started his talk in a
modest manner, but soon impressed
those who heard him that he knew
the dairy industry of the state. He
referred to the Herald story of last
week in which 1t stated that when
Walter Schriver, buttermaker of
the Sank Lake Cooperative
Creamery, was selected as cham
pion buttermaker of Minnesota he
was. in fact, the champion butter
maker Of the world. Mr.. Ahrens
said this statement was more than
likely correct because Minnesota
makes more and better butter than
anv state In the union.
partment had kept close tab upon
Mr.. Schriver; that they had check
ed and rechecked his record. He
said he was. beyond doubt entitled
to the honor conferred upon him,
but that he desired TO discuss Walt
Schriver as a man, showing that
he was well worthy to receive his
niche in the dairy industry of the
nation.
The speaker called attention to
the fact that Minnesota manufac-
lures 2S5,000,000 pounds of butter
yearly. Meeting all competition
this butter at present low prices
brings $100,000.000 yearly into the
Golfers Of the dairymen Of the
state. Mr.. Ahrens called attention
to the fact that in spite of the tar
lift of IA cents per pound on butter,
Transportation and commission
charges foreign butter had been
shipped into the United States in
the past year and sold for Az
cents per pound under the price of
Minnesota made sweet cream but
ter. This foreign competition had
cost the Minnesota farmer $1,000
600: and the dairymen Of Sank
Centre community at least $50
each yearly.
Mr.. Ahrens said that Mr.. Schrfv.
er was entitled to more than pas
sing credit. He explained how the
state law provided for an overrun
of "a pounds on every. 100 pounds
OF butterfat manufactured; he said
that Isl creameries in the state in
the past year had illegal overruns;
CONTINUED on Page -Four,
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-01-21
HOME TALENT PLAY

The Catholic Ladies' Guild of the
Church Of Our Lady Of the Angels.
announce the coming production of
"Henry's Wedding, which viii be
presented at the Oxford theatre
Feb; rs. This will be home tall
emit production In which LIS people
will be used.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-01-21

Designed for restaurant and ho-
tel use. machine has been perfec-
ted to bake hot cakes automatical-
ly at a speed Of three a minute.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-01-21

Because he sent IN false fire
alarms while on his way home
from visiting his sweetheart, Yaro
Novotny landed in Jail in Chicago.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-01-21
"The Rivals"
Operetta Tonight
High School Girls Glee Club Will
BE Sure to Acknowledge In
Sparkling OpeEetta

1.-THE Rivals" a comic operetta in
two acts, will be presented by the
Sank Centre High School Girls
Glee Club tonight at S:15 in the
Junior High Auditorium. Admis-
sion will be twenty and thirty
cents.
The cast of characters is as fol-
lows:
Phyllis Fairchild 100000. Valerie Rose
Caroline Carson-.-...--Ruby Guishard
Friends of Phyllis
Dolly .-.........-.....--... Marian Butler
Mabel ....... Mercedes Crippen
Rose .-.-..-..-..........-..... Harriet Pacey
Maud ..-.--...........-...-.. Susan Sprague
Satellites of Caroline
Violet ---------------------.-- Adam LoVesee
Ada .--............-. MAYA Shanahan
Mrs. Goodhart . Mildred LeSuer
Chorus-Prudence Arndt, Mary
Austin, Rita Book, Lauretta botz
Grace Clark, Laura Dubois,
Sarah Egan, Margaret Engle,
Fay Evans, Glenayre Key, Dor
othy MCGEE, Irma Mahigan, Dor
othy Matthiesen, Gerda Miller,
Mabie Miller, Dorothy Schwartz,
Alvina Sukke, Mary Vandesteeg.
Children's Chorus - Billy Arndt,
Junior Schmidt, Vernice Golden,
Bobby Rattle, Douglas Kohl,
James Cooper, Jack Svenneby,
Franklin Koterba.
Act IL
Scene la Woodland Glade.
Scene Pine-Woods Caves at
Midnight. -
Act H.
Scene Club Room.
Scene 2-Same.
There will be special numbers by
the Ninetette and by members OF
the Boys Band, Reservations fol-
seats may be made at the Corner
Drug store on Monday, Jan. 1S.
Evening star., 1932-02-23
Poverty Party and Two Games
BY LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER.

and at the same time asks the answer
to some conundrum or amusing ques-
ton. This must be answered and as
many more riddles as will be required to
fill in the time during which the fagots
flame. Each player in turn does this
same thing.
The player who has had to ask the
fewest questions may be awarded a prize,
and the one who had to ask the most
may be required to pay forfeit and
redeem it by doing whatever the hostess
requests. The fewest questions indi-
cate that they were the best, as it took
the longest time to find the answers,
hence the queStioner deserves the prize
1t is assumed that the heat from the
burning fagots helps to warm and cheer
the guests, which would be the case
were they poor
A good game to play at proverty party
is progressive jack straws played with
real straws or beverage straws such
as can be bought in packages. Cut the
strawS in half. On each table for four
persons have a handful of these straws
and an invisible hairpin bent straight
and then curved to make a hook at one
end.
Each person in turn takes the straws,
holds them inches approximate
ly) above the table and drops them.
With the improvised hook he proceeds
to lift out as many as possible without
jarring any but the one being pulled
straw is moved. Each straw taken out
counts one. Matching numbered StrawS
secures partners. A bundle of beverage
straWs is suggested for a prize.
(Copyright, 1922
Evening star., 1932-02-23
A WASHINGTON DAYBOOK
BY HERBERT PLUMMER.

colleagues name into the discussion.
McL3urin, abSen5 from th0 chamber at
the time. heard of it Rushing into the
Senate, he threw the lie in Tillman's
face.
"Pitchfork Ben" was at him instantly
Teller of Colorado was between the two
and until this day no one knows how
Tillman ever got past him to McLaurin.
The two were separated, later censured
by the Senate. and given an opportu-
nifty to purge" themselves publicly.
Money of Mississippi and wellington
Of Maryland provided the Senate tense
moment once in their careers. Money
had the reputation of being hot-tem-
pered. At committee hearing he be-
came SO enraged that he hurled a big
cut-glass inkweI across the room at
some one who had irked him.
One day Money and Wellington were
debating conditions in Cuba. WORDS
flew so fast that soon both were at fe-
yer heat. Money climaxed the Situa-
tiOn BY shouting;
Come out into the hall! Come on!"
But the facetious observation of an
other Senator, that 1t would be neces-
sary for the Senate to pass a declara-
ton of war before the encounter turned
the prospective fight into a laugh.
No such things these days. With the
death Of Senator Caraway Of Arkansas
the Senate lost perhaps its last member
who was quick to avenge when he
thought he had been insulted Cara
way was out looking for Cramton Of
Michigan, member of the House, the
last session, for things Cramton said
about him on the House floor.
However they never met
Evening star., 1932-02-23

door and seems to say, Enter, madam" !"
He stands at his front doors, keeps out
intruderS and will not permit his bride
to leave until she has placed all the
tiny pearl-like eggs in the home. He
has no more interest in her and she
sWinS away.
He courts another and escorts her
to his nursery. Each time wife leaves
he goes in and covers the eggs with a
blanket of milt and goes out to court
again. Sometimes the place will over
flow with eggs and the devoted father
will push them gently back into the
home After the last egg is in the
nursery, the watchful protector fans
the water so it will few over the eggs.
Should an intruder try to interfere with
his duties he flies at him in fury.
When the hundreds of baby stickle-
backs swim from their cradle they hold
on to the plants with their wee mouths,
and soon they are able to go about
the aquarium.
With his craving for fatherhood sat
iSfled and his duties as family man
over, the stickleback is again gaily
swimming hither and yon in most en-
gaging manner.
Copyright, 1922
Evening star., 1932-02-23
Robbers ShreWd Guess.

Two of them! Two Owls in this
barn!" exclaimed Robber the Rat under
his breath. mo wonder the members
Of my tribe have been disappearing
One would be bad enough, but two is
Just twice as bad I didn't dream that
there were two. 1 wonder how 1t hap
pens that there are two"
Robber kept perfectly still in his
hiding place ana waited and watched.
Presently the moonlight began to steal
through the gable window and shone
full on the open side of that great box
up on the rafters. He could see clearly
now the form which had at first been
so shadoWy on the edge of that box. 1t
leaned forward and for the first time he
saw the strangeSt face he ever had
seen. He knew that 1t was the face OF
an Owl, but what facei 1t seemed to
be heart-shaped, made up of two great
feathered disks in which were set two
round staring eyes above hooked bill
partly hidden in feathers. He felt q
cold shiver run all over him. 1t seemed
as if those eyes were staring straight
at him and must see him. For a mo-
ment he actually held his breath.
Then that big form leaned forward
sway from side to side In the funniest
way. There was a faint noise at the
window and in came another great bird
with just as strange face and alighted
on the edge of that box. In his bill
was a Mouse which he at once passed
to the other, who disappeared with it
in the great box which was like a small
room. At once there were queer sounds
from in there, sounds that sent more
shivers over Robber. He didn't have to
see into that dark box to know what
they meant. They could mean but one
thing. He could guess what that was
Babies A nest Of young Owls" he
exclaimed under his breath. Yes, in
deed, it was very much under his
breath. Not for the world would he
have made the faintest sound. He
knew how wonderful are the ears Of all
Owls, and there only little way from
him were two pairs capable of hearing
the faintest sound, the scratch of o
claw on wood or the rustic Of bit OF
hay carelessly moved. So it was that
Robber saw for the first time Monkey
face and Mrs. Monkey-face and Barn
Owls
Monkey-face remained only a few
minutes Then he left by the gable
window, and once more Mrs. Monkey
face came to the edge of the box and
waited. 1t seemed almost no time at
all before Monkey-face returned, and
this time he carried a Shrew. AS be-
fore, he passed it to Mrs Monkey-face
and as before, she disappeared with it
| and the same hungry little cries sent
shivers all over Robber again.
Monkey-face once more departed, and
this time Mrs. Monkey-face followed
him. Robber knew that this probably
meant that there were several hungry
babies to be fed. He didn't wait to see
the parents return. This was his
Evening star., 1932-02-23

"OR his size he is the most ag-
l. greSsive little fish in the Worlo'
Net over an inch long, he has
4 shiny, keen eyes, which gaze dV
you in a most disconcertmg man
ner. They are like lovely gems the
golden brown iris circles the black
pupils. and he moves them up ana
down in a most fasc mating way as II
to assure himself that you are harmless
He is slender and graceful. Along the
ridge of his back are five sharp splnes
which he manipulates at will. Wheh
resting on the surface OF the Sano' nc
looks greenish or mottled, and When
he wishes to hide, he sticks his head III
the sand and whirlS around and arouho
until he has hidirG place HIS Nus
are graceful and efficient.
He has a one-track mind, ana WIen
he decides to go somewhere, nothing
short of a cyclone will deter him
Should he find minnoW in his way ne
gives her a side-swipe which takes on
some of her scales. He does not hesl-
tate to attack a fish much larger tnah
himself and nipS pieces from the ms
He shakes his wee prey as Fido does
rat, and were he large as a Whaie,
there would not be many 1Sh lett III
the sea.
Sometimes a sinner or other smaI
fish will lose all sense OF dlScreIloH anu
try to swallow a stickleback tail hrsV'
1t is the only way you can eaten Ihe
swift swimmer. The sharp spines cut
and rip the throat and stomach OF the
fish and he has in truth committed
suicide by catching the stickleback I'M
aWareS.
AS a marine builder he excels: In
the early Spring he makes a cozy home
of fine green algae called frog-splttle'
This fragile material is fastened TO-
gether with cement which the builder
manufactures. The dainty home is las
tened to the stems of reeds and grass,
and while it is under construction tne
stem platform has been known to be
held in position by grains of sand. the
builder fastens the filny mass together
with a glue that is spun like threads.
The glue is waterproof and strong
enough to hold the walls together.
When completed it is hollow sphere
about the size Of a glass marble ana
often has a front and back entrance.
When it is completed, the young gal
liant stands before his home. He Is
seeking not one bride, but several, ana
he wishes to fill his nursery. Father
hood now is his obsession. likely
young stickleback damsel swims leisure
ly by and young Mr.. Stickleback rllSheS
toward her and seems to convince her
at once that he is the right one for her.
He proudly leads her to the circular
Evening star., 1932-02-23

IN what Is sometimes described as
'the good old days" Senators practiced
less sen-restraint than they seem to do
nov. Then they sometimes sought sat-
tsfaction with their fists for what they
construed insults. Such a thing
today is a rare occurrence.
There is, for example, what is re-
ferred to "on the hill" now as the Till
man McLaurin incident Both were
Senators from South Carolina
One day during debate the charge
was made that President Mckinley
could get votes on the Democratic side
of the Senate when needed. "PitcfHoyk
Ben Tillman in some way brought his
Evening star., 1932-02-23
SPRINGTIME
BY d. C. PEATTIE.

Why does Spring come sooner in the
florists window than anywhere else, in
field or garden? Perhaps because the
first flowers Of the year in the native
fora are so modest-maple and alder
and elm, and in the lawns on the Mall
chickweed and Speedwell, dandelion,
Jill-over- -the-ground, and Whitlow grass
that most of us don't see them.
There is a reason why pussy-willows
and forsythia and jasmine burst joy
fully into flowers behind glass. Your
florist simply cut the twigs, and with
water and radiator forced them into
early bloom. The price is excessive,
you say? Then why not do as the
florist does yourself? And while you
are down near the marsh, hunting for
pussy willow, you will see Spring
coming, as 1t really does come and not
as poets imagine it.
Already the weird hoods of skunk
cabbage have pushed back to disclose
those primitive flowers, and in some
places the first SulphurouS green of
false hellebore leaves is shoWins. There
is an odor of returning life rising from
the loan; there is a mist of Towering
in the tops of the high marsh trees.
There are high doings among the red
wing blackbirds and, by schedule, the
sora and the coot and Wilson's snipe
(ln case you believe in these bookish-
sounding BIRDS are supposed to begin
to arrive. But you will see much more
of little Winter birds fitting before you
as, poor clumsy mortal, you plod nois-
lily through the undercover. And
though they have no joyful dress to
put on for Spring, they let fall the
hrst bars of their Spring songs Nov
ing more dangerously than in the cold,
cruel weather when hunger was on
them. they fiirt with you, pretending
to wait for you, escaping you in little
flurries. The first frogs trill, the first
fragile but harsh shoots of Equisitum
pierce the softened earth, the leaves of
the wild leek show pale green in the
pale sunlight falling through them.
And it is Spring.