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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-01-18
The Great Pyramid

The Great Pyramid was erected
in the reign of Khufu or Cheops,
probably about 300 B. G. Its base
covers Is acres. 1t Is 451 feet high
Cts original height having been 4S1
feet. The length of each side is
TAG feet. It has been estimated
to contain about 100000 stone
blocks of an average volume of 40
chic feet, and to weigh over 6,OOO,-
900 tons. According to Heredotus,
1t must have taken 100000 men 20
years to construct. The pyramid was
built with a sepulchral chamber
to contain the body Of Cheops. It
is probable that this body, with the
royal jewels, was stolen centuries
ago. The stone for the pyramids
was taken from the Mokattam and
sTura hills on the opposite side Of
the Nile, and traces Of the road by
which it was conveyed is still Wis
ible. The methods Of construction
and reasons for its location can
only be conjectured. According to
some writer's, its purpose was to
give employment to the numerous
captives as much as to immortalize
!, the ruler.
Indian reservations are found In
Arizona, California, Kansas, Michi-
gan. Minnesota, Montana. Nebraska,
Nevada. New Mexico, New York,
North Dakota, North Carolina, Okla
honia, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah,
Washington. Wisconsin and Wy.
oming.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-01-18

taxes are being paid in time to
avoid further penalties.
Wisconsin farmers to the num-
Der of 2,104 have also been relieved
of immediate payment of $267, 900
in taxes on farms which are having
their loans reamortized, and of
penalties by the banks prompt &C
ton.
In Michigan similar action was
taken in October and Michigan bor-
rowers were saved about $4,000 in
penalties, the total on re-
amortized loans in that state having
amounted to $175,O00. These pay
ments were made within a period
of 2 days, when it was learned this
would be necessary in order to save
heavy additional cost to- the farmer
borrowers.
The $2.375,0O0 in tax payments adj
vanced by the bank in the 4 states
has benefited 1854 borrowers who
will later repay the amount. Mean
time this total sum would not have
reached county treasures in many
instances for months to come,
while further penalties would have
accrued against the already over
burdened farmers.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-01-18
Names Are Authors Bane
In Choosing Characters

The difficulty of inventing the
name for a character In a story
which does not belong to at least
one person out Of the 122 millions
in the United States is almost in
superable, writes Arthur Train In
the Saturday Evening Post.
There is hardly any combination
Of appellations so seemingly gro
tesque or preposterous that it has
not a lawful owner who is almost
certain to protest II his name has
been taken in vain. It Is by no
means always enough to satisfy him
either that (a) the story is purely
imaginary or that (b) In any case,
he is not the person referred to.
You may demonstrate mathemati.
cally that nobody could possibly as
sociate him with the character in
question, since they differ diametri-
cally in age, profession or business,
as well as appearance; a smolder-
AA8 ACSCuLuCAI 10 dpL " LChoAh
due to his feeling that, even If he
personally has not been brought in
to ridicule, the glory Of the name
itself-in which he has a sort of
community interest along with all
others similarly baptized-has some
how become furnished.
Usually. the author must blame
his own lack of experience for sup
posing certain names to be unusual.
I remember thinking "Swackham.
mer" highly individual appella'
ton and used it as such, only to
discover presently that the United
States is composed largely of
"Swackhammers." So it was with
"Tutt"-the woods proved to be full
of 'em. Some named Ephriam!
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-01-18
Job Inspectors Names as CWA
Safety Aids

To insure the physical welfare of
all workers on CWA projects
throughout the state, safety inspec-
tors will be appointed for all coun-
tiles on projects requiring manual
labor and employing more than 10
men, "a V. Rohweder, director of
the division of safety, state civil
works administration, announces.
The men will make daily inspec-
tons of the work and conditions
under which men are employed and
report to Mr.. Rohweder, thus af-
fording close supervision of work
ing conditions of the nearly $1,000
persns employed on CWA projects
in Minnesota.
First aid supervisors for various
territories are: DR.. J. G. Miller,
Minneapolis territory; DR.. Floyd A.
Thompson, st. Paul; DR.. Gar J.
Lund, south Minnesota; DIR. F. I.
Sabo, north Minnesota; DR.. G. w.
Krause, Duluth territory.
Safety inspectors appointed are:
c. e. Cunningham, district LIB
Northeast Minnesota; E. H. Strom-
well, District 2, northwest Mime
sofa; George II. Quigley, District 3,
central-western Minnesota. Arvid
Nygren, District 4-B, western Min
nesota; Edward Spitzmuller, Dis
trict 5-A, southwestern Minnesota,
David Henderson, District GA,
southeastern Minnesota.
Assistant safety inspectors are:
B. II. Miller, Hibbing, w. e. Hast
ings, Two Harbors; J. J. Kost, st.
Cloud; I. c. Brown, Mankato; J.
w. Teller, Rochester; C. A. Ross.
Winona; Robert Zengerle, st. Paul.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-01-18
Federal Land Bank
Taxes Will Help Schools
1889 Farmers Loans Reamortized
Were Unable to Pay Taxes
Owing to Low Prices

Paying Of taxes by the Federal
Land Bank of st. Paul on farms
on which it holds mortgages has
poured $2,375,0O0 into the county
treasures of many counties in all
4 states of the 7th Farm Credit dis
trict, eliciting many letters of
thanks from county treasurers. who
in some cases stated this was the
first cash they had seen for months.
It is believed this will enable
many schools that had closed to
reopen and others to remain open,
and that it may pay the salaries of
many teachers, whose warrants
have been difficult to cash in re-
cent months. Loans are being re-
amortized and taxes paid only in
cases approved by National Farm
Loan associations.
In Minnesota there were 1889
farmers whose loans were being
reamortized, who had been unable
to pay their taxes because of low
prices and the recent depression,
and who were saved payment of
approximately $4,000 in penalties
because the Land Bank paid these
taxes before the end of the year.
Scores of letters have come from
grateful borrowers expressing their
appreciation. In all the Minnie
sofa tax payments were approx
mately $4,000.
North Dakota mortgagors numb
ering 5,346, whose loans are being
reamortized are having $1,094, 900 in
taxes paid by the bank, it is an
nounced, the tax payments in this
state having been heavier than in
any Of the others. All Of these
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-01-18
Agricultural Notes
Industrial Revival is the Basic
Farm Need

Farm Need
So far as permanent recovery is
concerned, agriculture stands to
gain much more from a revival of
production in other lines, than from
the cutting down of its own pro-
DIR. Jsnss pintd out tina hHoma
in agricultural economics, Univer-
sity Farm told a Farmers and
Homemakers Short Course aud
fence this week. Therefore, farm
ers are vitality concerned with any
program looking to the recovery of
business activity generally, he said.
DIR. Jesness pointed out that the
AA-A is strictly an emergency re-
covery program which should not
be expected to accomplish perma-
nent adjustments in agriculture. He
feels that permanent curtailment
OF production. generally, meaning
industrial as well as agricultural
commodities, is neither necessary
nor desirable. He said, I'VE may
produce more of some particular
product and, temporarily, may
seem to produce more of every
thing than can be consumed, but TO
say that we can continually pro-
duce more of everything than we
can use is absurd. Mans wants al
ways keep ahead of the means of
satisfying those wants.
''To the extent permanent cur
tailment may be needed for some
specific farm product, that curtail-
ment should come through the
elimination Of the less efficient pro-
ducers and of areas not well adapt
ed to that product, rather than to
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-01-18
Winter Spawning Satisfactory at
State HatcherieS

Winter stripping streams and
lake trout and whitef1sh at Mime
sofa fish hatcheries is now past
the peak, according to- DR.. Thad-
deus Surber, superintendent of
fish propagation for the state Di-
vision of Game and Fish. Spawn
ing operations are being continued
at the st. Paul, st. Peter, Lanes
boro and Glenwood hatcheries.
AS result of fall and early
winter operations the Division of
Game and Fish has on hand at the
six state-owned fish hatcheries a
total of 19,4SS,987 eggs and fry.
Whitefish head the list with 12,177,-
1853 stream trout are next with S.
349, $50, consisting of browns,
brooks, rainbows, and Loeb Levens,
then lake trout to the number of
1861 ,544. Further operations will
increase the total by one and one
half million potential game fishes,
DR.. Surber states.
To improve stream and lake
trout fishing in the state a guam
tity of brook trout eggs have been
purchased in Montana and in east
ern Pennsylvania and arrange
ments have been made to exchange
half million rainbow trout eggs
with the state of Michigan for a
similar number of lake trout eggs.
Equipment is being repaired dur
ing the winter months. Includ-
ed are trucks, cases, trays and the
like. Ice is being cut, roads re-
graveled, wood cut, painting done
where needed together with the
routine work of caring for eggs and
fry.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-01-18

Final arrangements for the pre-
sentation of Belfae's bohemian
Girl" on Feb. 9th, were completed
last week when L. S. Harbo, of
Osakis was secured to play the
part of Count Arneheim.
The operetta, which will be CIV
en- under the direction of H. w.
Arentson, Supervisor of Music in
the Alexandria schools, will be Civ
en- in the new high school auditor
ium. Rehearsals are being held
daily in preparation for the event
which will be the first time this
operetta has been presented in this
section of the state. The cast of
the operetta in addition to L. S.
Harbo, who plays the part of Count
Arnheim, is as follows: Airline,
Minerva Pepinsky; Gypsey Queen,
Pearl Oberg; Thaddeus, Theodore
Ording; Devilshoof, Clifford Ryk-
ken. Florestein, Lynn Bauman; Lit
tie Airline, Betty Jane Landers.
The costumes to7be used by the
cast are the same ones used by the
Twin City Civic Opera Company in
the production of the bohemian
Girl" given there last fall One
hundred and twenty-five costumes
are necessary to clothe the cast.
Miss Donna DuBeau. of this city,
will give two special dance numb
ers in the operetta. She has re-
Gently returned from Chicago,
where she took special instruction
in the dances as used in the Chica-
go production of {. the bohemian
Girl" "a 40 cesorchestra, direct
ed by Professor Abe Pepinsky, con-
cert master of the University of
Minnesota Symphony Orchestra,
will accompany the singers. Mr..
Pepinsky will bring the members
of the University of Minnesota
Orchestra with him, among whom
will be Helen Jensen, celloist of
this city. Mr.. Harbo, of the School
of Music, of st. Cloud Teachers
College will also be a member of
the orchestra. Three changes of
scenery are required for the pro-
duction and are being prepared with
lighting effects by Gordon B. Mel
by and members of his staff. Cos
tunes changes will be in charge of
Miss Alice Kobe and dramatics
will be in charge of DR.. L. w.
Lyons. It is expected that a large
crowd will be in attendance for this
production.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-01-18

ers and sportsmen to use greater
effort to conserve our game birds
through consistent feeding and pro-
viding of necessary shelters.
In his appeal, Mr.. McFarlane said
that valuable cooperation in win
ter game bird feeding has been CIV
en- by those interested during past
winters and such activities are
again vital if good brood stock
is to be available this spring."
= "Well-fed game birds will not
die from exposure and they will
not live in terror of their natural
enemies if given proper food and
cover. Winter feeding of game
birds is the first most important
factor in the natural propagation
of wild birds wholly by game man
agement the appeal says.
"Pheasants propagated by the
state game farm at Madelia prior
to release cost approximately $1.6s
per bird. This cost is much lower
than that of many game farms. The
usual cost is over $500 per bird.
The small game hunting license in
Minnesota costs $1.OO. To the
hunter this license fee is less than
the cost Of planting one single bird
and since the hunter may take
during the open season 30 upland
game birds in the aggregate, to-
gether with other small game ami
mails, it is not. difficult to conjec-
ture, together with other small
game animals, it is not difficult to
conjecture what the cost of artific-
tally propagated birds would be to
the hunter"
1.-THE solvency of the Divisions
of Game and Fish is, therefore, en-
tirely dependent upon the natural
increase of the birds released. It
is very apparent that this winter,
a feeding program is essential for
the preservation of a healthy brood
stock so that they may multiply
and increase in numbers"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-01-18
New Oats Bulletin Lists Best
Varieties

What varieties of oats do best in
different sections of the state, is
explained in Minnesota Special
Bulletin 165 "Oats in Minnesota"
just published by the Agricultural
Extension Division, University of
Minnesota. II. K. Hayes, II. K.
Wilson, and r. F. Grim, of the di-
vision of agronomy and plant ge-
netics, Minnesota Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Station, are the authors.
For the northern two-thirds Of
the state, says the bulletin, Anth-
ony has proved a suitable variety
of oats, and Minrus and Rainbow
have yielded nearly as well. Yield
trials were made from 1928 to 1882
at Morris, Crookston, Grand Rap
ids, and Duluth.
For southern Minnesota, data are
available, both on yield trials con-
Quoted at the experiment stations
at University Farm, Waseca, and
Morris for the years 1928 to 1882,
and on extensive Varietal trials
conducted on farms in cooperation
Will IlC 4O1 III OWIICIS. 4ACSC
began in 1929 and continued thru
1882 on farms in Fillmore, Blue
Earth, Martin, Jackson, Brown,
Cottonwood, Watonwan, Lyon,
Redwood, Murray, Mobiles, Yellow
Medicine and Lincoln counties. log
old gave the highest yield, follow
ed closely by Gopher, Minrus, Iowa
los and Rainbow also yielded well.
On heavier soils subject to lodg-
ing, Gopher will probably prove
the more desirable variety, says the
bulletin. Results from the expert
ment station trials agreed closely
with those obtained on the farms.
Anyone wanting more details
about these trials may obtain a
copy of Special Bulletin 1855 from
county agents, high school Ag. men
or by writing the Bulletin Room,
University Farm, st. Paul.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-01-18

IN the pre-war period (1910-14) the
: farm price of $7.24 per hundred
weight and the fair exchange value
were one and the same. When prices
at the farm are again high enough
to give live hogs the same purchas.
ing power they had In the pre-war
period. then they will be equal to the
fair exchange value Of hogs. Fair
exchange value at any given time
Is the amount Represented in the
cartoon by black pigs) which repre-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-01-18
LOST 20 LBS. OF FAT
In JUST FOUR WEEKS

Mrs. Mae West, of st. Louis, Mo-,
writes, I'm only % years old and
weighed ITO lbs. until taking one
box of your Kruschen Salts just 4
weeks ago, now weigh $50 lbs. I
also have more energy and further
more I've never had a hungry mo-
ment."
Fat folks should take one half
teaspoonful of Kruschen Salts in
la glass of hot water every morn
ing before breakfast-an IS cent
bottle lasts weeks you can get
Kruschen at o. w. Dowswell's or
any drug store in America IF not
joyfully Satisfied after the first bot
tle-money back.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-01-18

ham pointed out The same germ
that causes Bangs abortion disease
in cattle may cause undulant fever
in man, a very distressing disease
that often incapaciates the person
affected for weeks, months, or even
years. Most undulant fever cases
are due to direct contact with di-
seased animals, but some have been
shown to result from drinking raw
milk from diseased cows, and dairy
men can no longer ignore the eff
feet this is having on the market
for dairy products.
A recent survey of Minnesota cat
tie indicates that about rs per
cent of the animals are definitely
diseased with contagious abortion,
8.5 per cent are suspicious, and 81
per cent are apparently free from
the disease. The survey indicates
that fewer cows are diseased than
had previously been estimated and
suggests that control by eradica-
ton methods is possible, says DR..
Donham. Testing the animals and
either getting rid of the diseased
cows or separating them from the
rest of the herd is the recon-
mended control.
DR.. Donham strongly emphasized
that there is no medicinal cure for
this disease, though so-called cures
often do seem to work. Bangs di-
sease travels in cycles in herd.
Individual animals usually abort
only once or twice. Since the
"cure" is usually given during or
after "a storm of the disease, it
seems to work because the herd
has less trouble than it had the pre-
vious year. This would have oc-
Cured naturally without the
cure"
Vaccination methods for Bangs
disease are still in the experiment.
al state, DR.. Donham said, and
should not be generally used at
present.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-01-18
Minnesota Retains Big Lead in
Iron Ore Shipped

Minnesota supplied better than
80 per cent last year of all the
iron ore shipped from the mines
of the entire country, retaining a
wide margin over other states Of
the Union in iron ore production,
according to F. A. Wildes, director
of the Division of Lands and Min
erals, state Department of Conser-
walton. The total shipment of iron
ore from Minnesota in 1888 was
14,SO3,O00 tons which includes the
$3.50 tons of manganiferous ore
from the Guyana range containing
more than five per cent manganese.
I'm 1882 Minnesota shipped q
25O,O74 tons of iron ore, of which
635, 1865 tons or % per cent came
from state-owned Mines" Mr..
Wildes stated. "Tast year the
state owned mines supplied $751;
356 tons of the states total ship
ments or 24k per cent"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-01-18

sents what hogs have to bring in
order to give them the pre-war pur-
chasing power with respect to prices
of commodities farmers buy.
Largely because Of lack of bal
ance between supply and demand,
hog prices since the World War
have averaged the fair exchange
value only In one year 1926 when
1t happened that the size OF the hog
crop was considerably decreased. In
1882 the farm price Of hogs averaged
only $s.47 per hundredweight. but
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-01-18

as the prices Of commodities farm
ers buy averaged a little higher
than their pre-war level, the fair
exchange value in 1882 was proper
tionately higher, or SITE per hun
dredweight. The disparity. there
fore, was s4.28 per hundredweight.
Adjustment Of hog production
under the Agricultural Adjustment
Act In 1884 viii help wipe out this
disparity and again restore hog
prices to the fair exchange Yalue. q
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-01-18
May Control, But Can't Cure,
Bangs Disease

Bangs disease, or contagious
abortion, in cattle can be controlled
as easily, if not more easily, than
tuberculosis. But it cannot be
Cured" That is what DR.. c. r.
Donham, a University Farm veter-
marian, told Farmehs and Home
makers Short Course visitors this
week.
The very severe losses due to
breeding troubles and abortion, that
this disease causes in a cattle herd
are not the only damage. DR.. DON
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-01-18
State Highway Expenses
Cut In Half In 1888
Elsberg Reports Reduction o
Eighteen Million Compared
With 1882

Expenditures of the Minnesota
highway department were reduced
more than so per cent in 1888 as
compared with 1882, according to
a statement by N. w. Elsberg, high
way commissioner.
Disbursements of the highway
department for the past year to-
tailed $17,0OO,0O0 in round numb
ers, compared with more than $780,
100000 in 1892, making reduction
of $18,OOO,OOO. The total spent by
the department in 1888 was less
than half as much as was expend-
ed in either 1881 or 1880.
Considering only state funds and
regular Federal aid carried over
from 1882, the highway department
spent less in 1888 than in any year
since 1923, Mr.. Elsberg said. In
clusion of emergency National Re
covery Act funds from the Federal
government brings the total to ST.
100000, the smallest spent since
1928. State funds and regular fed
eral aid amounted to only $14,400,-
900.
The total of 1888 disbursements
was nearly 100000 less than the
average spent by the department
each year from 1921 to 1882 inclu-
sive. The average expenditures in
this twelve-year period were nearly
$19,OO0,000 a year
Following are highway depart
ment expenditures, in round num-
bers, for the past five years:
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-01-18

Answering a separation suit
brought against him by his wife,
DR.. Adolph E. Citron, of Brooklyn,
N. z, charged that his mother-in-
law not only accompanied him and
his wife on their honeymoon but
also slept in the same bed.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-01-18
Outdoors
Winter Feeding of Gan

Winter Feeding of Game Birds
With the most severe winter
weather yet to come, the state Di-
vision of Game and Fish, through
Charles McFarlane, deputy director
has issued another appeal to farm
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1934-01-18

Included in the 1888 total is ST.
100000 of MIRA federal funds from
the $1O600,OO0 allotted to Minneso-
ia highways in the fall of the year.
Another 100000 of this money
has been obligated, leaving a So
100000 carry over for 1884.
The department laid 96 miles of
concrete pavement in 1888, did 176
miles of grading, 243 miles of grav-
cling and put in Is miles of bitumi-
nous surfacing. It built 18 new
bridges, rebuilt bridges and re-
paired 100. In addition there was
a large amount of miscellaneous
work, besides such fixed charges as
maintenance of the entire trunk
system, payment of interest and
principal on bonds and purchase
of right-of-way and equipment. La
Dor and construction costs in 1888
were considerably higher than in
1882.