The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-08-02
Asa Wallace, Herald Editor;
Passed A1vay Friday Morn.
Funeral Services We're Held
In Minneapolis Sunday
Afternoon at 3 o'clock
SHOCK TO COMMUNITY
Interment Made in Family
Lot at Chatfeld, Mimi,
Monday Afternoon

ASA M. Wallace has been sum-
moned from our midst. His earth
ly career is ended. At the know
ledge Of his sudden death a wave
of genuine sorrow stirred the
hearts OF the people among whom
he had made his home for twenty
one years. For Asa Wallace was a
likeable man. His cordial manner,
his cheerfulness and the informal
friendliness of his disposition
found him friends even with those
who were unfriendly to his attitude
upon many important questions.
He was born in 1858 in the lit
tie town of Marble Rock, Iowa. He
was one Of a family Of II children
and he was obliged while still
young to resort to odd jobs with
no inhibition of Child Labor laws
to prevent. His circumstances be-
ing thus meagre, and having had
small chance to receive instruction,
only to the most limited degree,
from the school system in opera
ton in those days in rural COM
munities, he began at the early age
Of II his systematic struggle with
the world for an existence. He en-
tered the office of the Marble Rock
Weekly as a printers devil" thus
starting at the very foundation of
newspaperdom in the avocation he
was destined to pursue to the end
of his life. Then followed his ex-
perience as apprentice printer with
the Minneapolis Tribune and Min,
neapolis Journal, his apprentice
ship terminating in 1885 when he
became a full-fiedged journeyman
printer. He remained with the
Journal as compositor until 1891.
He then served as foreman in a
weekly newspaper at Macon, Mis-
souri, until the following year when
he established in Minnesota the
Preston Courier which in 1893 he
combined with the Chatfield News.
In 1902 he edited, later purchasing,
the Fairfax Standard, with which
he was connected until 1911 when
for political service rendered, he
received State appointment as
Chief Assistant in the Fire Mar
shall's office. But the lure of the
newspaper had grown too strong
upon him, he was unable to resist
it, and after 3 years he relinquish-
ed his position and purchased the
Sank Centre Herald, the oldest
weekly in Minnesota West and
North of st. Cloud.
For more than a score Of years
now he was an integral part Of our
community. From the start he
seemed to regard 1t as really and
truly his home town, and it is to
be wondered If any locality in
which he had previously resided,
awakened in him this sentiment to
an equal degree. He united with
those of our citizens who were in
tent to make Of this little city what
it should be, and it is certain that
his services were valuable. The
outside contact, which at times Is
advantageous in this process, he
was efficient in bringing about
Sank Centre is not ashamed but
proud of having been designated as
the original Main Street." and the
JlLte OF E}QlLOr Oh mdlu SIrSSI given
Asa Wallace in New York City
was considered an honor well be-
slowed.
A review Of the life Of Asa Wal
lace is worth ones while. Faults
it is admitted he had many, for this
little sketch Is not intended to be
one of fulsome fiattery. But his
determination to override obsta-
cles, to turn the disadvantageous
to advantage deserves our common
dation. His disappointments were
many. He possessed but little OF
that philosophical trend which Is
exhibited by certain ones OF his
chosen profession in our proximity,
who, though scions Of none OF our
collegiate institutions, have kite
like by the very force Of the adj
verse winds gained attitudes IN
dealing with the human problem,
that inperatively demand our con-
sideration. It is to be regretted
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