The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-01-26
Looking Back
Through Time
Excerpts From The Herald Janu-
airy 20, 1918, Relating Incidents
of Twenty Years Ago

J. F. Costello, the efficient chief
of police of Sank Centre, has been
appointed a deputy sheriff for this
end of Stearns county, the appoint
ment coming from Sheriff B. E.
Schooner. Chief Costello has made
an excellent record as chief of po-
lice for the past several years and
will fill the position of deputy equal
ly well.
Cashier A. F. Strebel and Assis-
tant Cashier D. 5. Caughren of the
Merchants National Bank are re-
joicing over the fact that coat of
varnish has recently been applied
to the floor back of the counter.
They say they do not propose to
let any other bank outstrip them in
the matter of improvements.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sydney Mann are
rejoicing in a fine daughter which
arrived in their home Monday. All
are doing well.
A daughter was born, last week
Thursday, to Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Botz. All are doing well.
Work on the new buildings at
the Home School for Girls is near
ly completed. By the first of Feb
ruary nearly everything will have
been done. The hospital building
is now occupied.
Matt Nathe has purchased the
house in which John Kerneghan
now lives and will occupy it as soon
as Mr.. Kerneghan moves into his
new house near the public school
building.
Commenting upon the report, re-
Gently published, relative to condi-
tons on the White Earth Indian
reservation, Attorney M. c. Kelsey,
who was there for over year and
who recently returned to this city,
says the report is not exaggerated
in the least. The Indians have
been robbed Of their land, 1T 70
barely exist in their filthy huts and
are afflicted with tuberculosis and
other diseases. Mr.. Kelsey enter
tains grave doubts as to the ability
of the Indians to become and re-
main self-supporting. They are ir-
responsible and have SO little idea
of the value of money that it is
not safe to trust them with it. He
believes the government will al
ways have to treat them as chill
dren. Contrary to the popular be-
lief that the Indians are dying off,
they are increasing, says Mr.. KEEL
sey, the number now on the White
Earth reservation constantly grow
ing larger.
Miss Florence Stegner, whose
home is a few miles from Sank
Centre, is the champion girl corn
grower in Minnesota. She is the
winner in a corn contest in which
1000 Minnesota boys and girls
started last Spring and in which
only 600 finished. Miss Stegner ac-
cording to official returns, raised
97.5 bushels of corn on an acre and
thus stands head and shoulders
above all other Minnesota girls as
a corn grower. She received a
prize Of $1,000 for her efforts.
w. A. Boeger, superintendent Of
the Stearns County Schools, has
been informed by Arthur German,
private secretary to Congressman c.
A. Lindberg, that the latter has
succeeded in obtaining for the
Stearns County schools a number Of
agricultural publications. and that
same have already been forwarded
to the teachers.
Miss Kittie Coyle left last week
for the cities where she viii get the
new spring styles in millinery.
Harry Hooper, who has been Wis
iting with his parents in Gladbrook,
Iowa, has returned home.