The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1937-01-07


ers were Mayor Melvin F. Hintzen,
and Aldermen Carl Eckberg and
Jos. Dirnberger, Of Sank Centre.
The last of the visitors called to
speak was Mr.. Frank Dahl, Of
Wykeham Township, Todd County,
an old friend of the POSTMASTER,
who responded by saying: you
have no license to call on me as
you know I cannot talk" Before he
concluded his talk the audience
knew that Rev. Dahle had not liv-
ed in Eagle Bend for ten years, not
to learn that Mr.. Dahl could really
talk. All of the speakers gave fine
tributes to the celebrants and ex-
pressed good wishes for the future.
Rev. DAZZLE in introducing Mr..
Hendrickson, paid glowing tribute
20 the honored couple. He compar-
eI the groom with Henrik Verge
land, the first man in Norway to
speak for the rights of the common
people, and pointed out what he
had done for the community during
his long life here. He stated that he
was always ready to help at any
time, and that he knew how and
had a memory which enabled him
to do so without carrying his law
library with him.
He continued that he had heard
people say, What would this COM
munity do without Hendrickson?"
He said he was q man known all
over and that he had friends
everywhere, and that he was sure
If our great governor, the late
Floyd Olson, had been alive at this
time, he would have been present
that day. He continued that Mr..
Hendrickson's friends feel that it is
too bad that he has not been given
a chance to spread out and help
out in wider sphere. In concluding
his remarks on the achievements
OF the groom he said: This high
way you have out here is the result
of the work of Mr.. Hendrickson,
for when highway authorities and
engineers said it was impossible, he
convinced them that all that was
needed was few scrapers to fill
in the narrows of Sank Lake, and
it will be, and is, one of the finest
stretches of highway in the state.
All that remains to be done, is to
erect a monument at each end of
the road, one at the Village of Long
Prairie, north of Lake Charlotte,
and one north of Sank Centre, with
the inscription thereon, The Hen
erickson Highway" The speaker
said of the bride that from his
long acquaintance with her, he
knew that she had been a great
help to her husband, always ready
and willing to help wherever she
could and where help was needed,
and he added that she was an out
standing woman in the community.
Mr.. Hendrickson responded by
thanking the people who had hon.
ored them, and said that as to his
achievements he did not know that
he had exerted himself to help
anyone. Yet he had read that a
man on this earth, who has not so
lived that the world is a little bet
ter because he was here, has lived
in vain. His maternal grandfather
(125 years ago) had written a poem,
still sung in Norway, which is en-
titled Good Neighbor." The occas-
ion for the writing of that poem
transpired when his grandfather
came to the place where it was
written, "a poor school teacher with
family and found a good neigh
borhood-poor but willing to help,
and so was he. Until twelve years
of age, when Mr.. Hendrickson came
to Kandota, he was raised under
those conditions. Here he found
that everyone had to be neighborly
regardless of creed or nationality.
In speaking about his political
inclinations, he said that his mo-
ther had taught him that there was
one God and one king, and that
God had given this king the power
to rule over us. When he was very
young and associated with child
rem who had seen the royal train,
and who had told him it took three
railroad coaches to carry the king,
and three locomotives to haul the
train, he was in doubt as to who
was the biggest, God or the king.
Until he had occasion to see the
king, a tall, well-built man, he
kept that doubt. However, he could
not see anything about the king
different from other men. He had
studied and knew the Constitution
of Norway by heart. He said 1t
stated that all laws for the King
dom Of Norway shall be made by
the Stothing (ParliamenD Of Nor
way, and all the king had to do was
to sanction 1t, which he under
stood was to sanctify 1t.
He continued that when he came
to this country he learned the Con-
stitution Of this nation verbatim,
before he knew an English word.
He found that the laws were made
here in the same manner as In
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