The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1933-03-16
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SAUK RAPIDS

SAUK RAPIDS+Seventy-seven families of Sank
Rapids fed and clothed at a remarkably small
sum OF money by the Community chest organization
there acting in conjunction with the county COM
missioners it disclosed at the March meeting of
the Benton county board at Foley.
1t will be recalled that early last winter the board
purchased good lot. The unemployed OF the COM
munity cut 40 cords of wood, and sawed and split
these valued at SIS per cord total of $2G5O.
The expenditures for the families in groceries, wood
hauling and saving, amounted to 81, 42553. At the
present time IT'S cords of wood remain, valued held
at $55O53.
The Community chest group in reporting to the
board voiced complete satisfaction with this
ment. Carried out in this manner, the relief work
saved the county large amount of money it is esti-
mated.
SANDSTONE-Fire believed started by an over
heated furnace destroyed the Sandstone cooperative
mercantile company building in the heart of the bus
mess section of the village Thursday with the loss
stock and fixtures of four business which
occupied the structure estimated at more than
$4,000.
The Sandstone Mercantile company the
hardest hit by the blaze. Other losses to the
Larson drug store, ]. Gammitz hardware store and
Rudsuhi tire and auto repair shop.
Senator Adolph Larson was the principal owner
of the mercantile company.
ST. PAUL. March 9-Haldor P. Nygaard chair
of the Minnesota rural credit bureau, recon-
mended the continuation of the board loaning
agency in outlining the departments policies before
a senate investigating committee Wednesday night.
The bureau chairman, appointed July 1, 1882,
recommended that stateowned farms be sold to bona
fide farmers in emphasizing that operating loss
is being sustained by the state.
1--WE sustaining an operating loss in keeping
the and this could be avoided if the lands
sold," Nygaard said. There are many state-owned
farms and it works hardship the remaining
farmers who owned their farms to pay the taxes be-
the lands owned by the bureau tax exempt.
I'm some localities the state owns one-third of
that land that is off the tax list Let's put them back
the tax rolls and not burden the other farmers
with heavy taxation"
Had it not been for the depression and the de-
cline of so per cent farm values in the past de-
cade Nygaard asserted, the bureau could be operat-
ing at profit.
CHANDLER-Three young bandits who decided
the bank holiday did not apply to them robbed the
State bank of Chandler, open only to make change
for townspeople, of approximately $4,000 Thursday.
Chandler is in Murray county, about 20 miles
southeast of Pipestone.
Well dressed and appearing to be between % and
rs years old, two of the trio rushed into the bank
whipped out pistols and ordered K. E. McGlashen,
cashier and E. Jelgerhurs, customer, to stick
up quick"
After the two forced to lie the floor,
McGlashen told to "get up in a hurry and open
that SAFE" Opening the safe where the bank kept
money to make change during the holiday, McGlash-
surrendered all the currency.
The bank opened Thursday under regulation
of the secretary of the treasury that it could do
to make change ~