The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-07-21
Pioneer To
Be HOnOred
Next Sunday
A. H. HendrickSon Has Been
Resident of Kandota Town
ship 60 Years
GOVERNOR TO SPEAK
C. M. Babcock On Program
Sank Centre Will Be
Represented
GOVERNOR TO SPEAK

An event of unusual interest to
the older residents particularly,
will be the celebration of the Goth
anniversary of the residence of A.
H. Hendrickson, in Kandota town.
ship, Todd county, Sunday, July a.
Mr.. HendrickSon was a mere lad
of II years when his parents SET
tied on the farm, five miles west of
Sank Centre, on what is now High
way No. 4, where the celebration
will be held.
No man has taken a more active
interest in the development of Kan
dota township than Mr.. Hendrick-
son and it is highly proper that his
friends should gather Sunday to do
him honor.
When the writer came to this city
nearly 20 years at one of the first
meetings of the old Commercial
Club we attended, there was a dis
cussion of a better roads plan in
the mind of Mr.. Hendrickson
which would bring desirable ter
ritory tributary to this city.
The idea was welcomed but it
was thought to be very fantastic.
With the passing of Highway
Amendment No. and the develop
ment of State Highways a move
ment was started, with Mr.. Hend-
rickson in the fore front, to have
No. laid out along a route which
pretty colsely followed the G. N,
open I'D a new territory for this
city, and shorten the distance be-
tween Sank Centre and Long Prai-
RE.
Many of the citizens of Long
Prairie did not take kindly to this
move.
Mr.. Hendrickson secured much of
the right of way for the proposed
highway without cost to the state.
The answer is the fines piece of
highway between this city and
Long Prairie. Andrew Hendrick-
son is probably more responsible
tnan any other one man for this
particular highway which is cred
it to the Highway department, and
Mr.. Hendrickson.
One of the principal speakers at
Sundays celebration will be Com
missioner Babcock who will pay
tribute to Mr.. Hendrickson and ex-
plain some things about the work
ings of the highway department
and the payment of the highway
bonds that perhaps the average
citizen does not know.
Mr.. Hendrickson has long been a
warm personal friend of Gov.
FLOYD B. Olson. The governor will
be the principal speaker on the
program. He is billed to start his
address at 2:30 P. M.
The program proper will start
at loo P. M. A loud speaker Of
sufficient capacity to carry per
sons voice for long distance, will
be on the grounds SO that every one
of the large crowd expected can
hear and enjoy the talks.
The Sank Centre band will go
out to the farm shortly afternoon
and will play at various times dur
ing the afternoon.
Rev. M. B. Milne, of Little Falls,
a son of one of the early settlers
of Kandota township, will deliver
the invocation. The gentleman is
pastor of the Baptist church at Lit
tie Falls. In the event that Rev.
Milne cannot be present, Rev. Bell
pastor of the Long Prairie M. Z.
church, will deliver the invocation
C. F. Gaarstrom, Fairmont, Mimi,
former county attorney for Martin
county and former chairman OF the
Rural Cr-dit Bureau, one OF the
Farmer-Labor candidates for Con-
gress, will deliver a non-political
address
Torger Sincess, of Lamoure, N.
D.. who came to America when ne
was about 10 years of age with
high school diploma in his posses
sion, first located in Kandota. He
is the only pupil of Mr.. Hendrick-
son who has taken law as a profes-
sion. Mr.. Hendrickson taught
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