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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-09-29
M. E. Conference
At Minneapolis
Annual Meeting of Northern
Minnesota Will Open
Tuesday Evening, Sept. ~

The 44th session of the Northern
Minnesota Annual Conference will
be held in Wesley Church, Mime
apolis, beginning Tuesday evening,
September 9th, and closing Sun
day, October End.
The Conference comprises the
northern two thirds of the state, in
GLIDING four districts presided over
by superintendent. There will be
400 ministers and laymen in attend
ance. Frank Bunker is the local
delegate. Three years out of four
the Conference convenes in Mime
apolis, owing to the large number
who attend. The fourth year it
meets in Duluth.
Some twenty-five Boards and
Commissions care for the institu-
tional work of the Church, includ-
ing hospitals, homes, colleges, etc.
Five main Committees on Consid-
Grafton, each having on an average
of seven subcommittee discuss
and report on the following inter
ests of the church, namely: "Spir-
itual Life world Service and
Benevolence," FINANCE" Educa-
tion," Estate of the Church and So
cial Action"
The Conference opens with re-
ception and keynote address by Bis
hop Lester Smith, of Cincinnati,
followed by social hour and refresh
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-09-29
Contract For
Highway II Let
Last Stretch On High
way Between Elrosa
And Sank Centre

Grading on Highway II from
Sank Centre south for As miles
was included in highway construc-
ton contracts let this week by the
Minnesota State Highway Depart
ment. Eleven counties were assur-
ed Of construction work which will
total $859, 568.53. These awards were
from lettings Of August II, Septem-
Der 8 and 10th.
A description Of the award in
Stearns County follows: T. II. n,
grading, length As miles between
Sank Centre and As miles south,
to William Collins and Son, Moor
head, for Sc, 48298, out Of matched
federal aid. Work to start Octob-
er Bird.
Monolithic culverts-T. ii. II, five
on above stretch, to Nelson Broth
ers Construction Co., Willmar, for
$40. 46978 out Of matched federal
aid. Work to start October 3rd.
The letting Of this contrast as
sures completion Of Highway II, be-
tween Sank Centre and Elrosa,
where work Of grading is now un-
der way.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-09-29
Harry Hamilton
Injured In Wreck
Missed Turn on Highway
Between Sank Centre and
Brooten Friday Evening

Harry Hamilton, Jr., injured in
an accident early Friday evening
when his car left the highway at
turn, is confined to his home this
week, unable to be about.
The accident happened about z
o'clock Friday when he missed q
turn on the highway between Sank
Centre and Brooten. He was en-
route only several miles out Of this
city. The car, catapulting into the
ditch, was smashed seriously.
Mr.. Hamilton's injuries were at
tributed to the fact the steering
wheel was jammed against him by
the impact. Hitting him in the face,
1t dislodged several teeth. There
are bruises, and broken cartilage,
in the area Of the ribs. This week,
1t is reported, he is unable to help
himself out Of bed. Mr.. Hamilton
was unaccompanied in the car.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-09-29
Religious Motion
Picture At Church
Through the Centuries"
A Talking Motion Picture
Beginning With Christ's Life

Through the Centuries" is the
name of the talking motion picture
which will be presented at the
Church Of Our Lady of the Angels
next Tuesday afternoon and eve
ming.
This picture is an epic procession
of men and events and it's actual
scenes have been photographed
from life in many lands. Begin
ming with Christ's sojourn on earth
and continuing through the ages, is
shown the progress of the Church
as Christianity spreads from one
end of the globe to the other.
Everywhere the Word of God takes
root and in flourishing missions is
read the fulfillment of Christ's COM
mand to Teach Ye All Nations"
Among the highlights of this
stirring, religious picture are the
Crucifixion; the destruction of pag-
an Rome; the beauty spots of the
Vatican; art treasures Of the papal
palaces; Inauguration of the holy
year; various Eucharistic congress
es and the first papal broadcast.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-09-29
Mother ofLocal
Man Passed Away
Mrs. Henry Soltau
Buried At Duluth Monday
AfternO0n-81 Years Old

Death Of Mrs. Henry Soltau, 81
year-old Duluth resident, mother of
Vern Soltau of this city, marked the
first passing in the family in SO
years, when old age complicated
with stroke and paralysis of the
throat contributed to her death late
Saturday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Soltau, here, were
notified Saturday morning that she
was sinking. A later message an
nounced her death. They left for
Duluth Sunday to attend funeral
services, held from the johnson
funeral home, Monday afternoon.
At the funeral services six of her
sons were pallbearers. The seventh
surviving son, the Rev. Henry Sol
tau, assistant pastor of Wesley
Temple Methodist Church in Mime
apolis, assisted with the services,
spoke the eulogy over his departed
mother. Nine children, seven sons
and two daughters, with the aged
father survive her passing. The
family includes thirty-six grandchil-
dren, and fourteen great grandchil-
dren. Four of the younger sons,
Henry, Albert, Vern and Elmer,
are quite widely known throughout
this section.
Married to Henry Soltau at the
age of IT, Louise Theis went with
her husband into the virgin pine
country in the northern part of the
state where they pioneered. There
they reared large family, nine of
whom are living today. Mrs. Sol
tau was born in Wisconsin, near
Eau Claire, on October "a, 1857.
Fifty-nine years ago the death of
Mr.. and Mrs. Soltau's daughter,
Ann, in a dysentery epidemic that
swept through many families,
marked the last death in the fam
lily until Saturday claimed Mrs. Sol
tau.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-09-29
Catholic Clergy and
Laity Aid Scouting
Meeting In Sank Centre
Held To Strengthen
Scouting In District 20

Strength Of the Catholic Priest
hood and their laity Scouters was
thrown to the aid of Boy Scouting
in the Central Minnesota Council
when % met in this city last week
Wednesday evening at st. Paul's
Church.
Briefly the plan of the Catholic
Church, which now embraces a ma
tionwide movement, it was learned
at the meeting, is: where Boy
Scouting is established, cooperate
with it; where it does not exist,
establish it. In this Diocese the Boy
Scouting movement has, it was
pointed out, the complete coopera-
ton Of the Most Rev. Bishop Jos.
Busch.
In an opening address John D.
Virgins, Scout Executive of the
Central Minnesota Council, painted
the national and world picture of
the need for Scouting. Answering
his plea was Monsignor Edward
Mahowald, long active in Minneso-
ia Scouting, who pointed to the
Catholic program as one of accept
ance to the Boy Scout movement.
Organization and functions of the
Diocesan Catholic committee of
Scouting was explained by Victor
Fandel, chairman of the st. Cloud
Diocesan committee. He presented
the chaplains and laymen from the
districts of Central Minnesota
Council. John Griebler presented
the chaplains and laymen from the
districts of the Red River Valley
Council, which lies to the north.
In Sank Centre, it was pointed
out, Msgr. A. Plachta, chaplain OF
the Sank Valley district, and his
laity representative, S. G. Schwarz-
bauer, are working comparatively
with the city wide program of
Scouting.
A round table discussion of troop
problems finished the meeting.
Lunch was served to the group at
GAS by members of the local chap
ter of the Daughters Of Isabella.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-09-29
Waterfowl
Season Open
October LIST
Hunters Must Purchase
Licenses In County In
Which They Reside
LIMIT 10
Description of Birds
Limited Under New Law
Given For Hunters

Next Saturday, October 1, hunt
ers will be allowed to take water
fowl, with the season extending to
November IA. Shooting may be done
from z a. m. to p. m. each day.
All Minnesota sportsmen must
buy their licenses in the county in
which they reside, as county audi
tors of the state have been notified
that they and their agents may sell
licenses only to residents of their
county. Under no circumstances
are they to sell licenses to residents
Of any other county.
Daily bag limit on ducks is 10,
with a possession limit of 20. In
the daily bag limit may be includ-
ed not more than three of the for
merly protected species, such as
canvasback, ruddy, redhead, or buff
flehead ducks, or six of these may
be included in the 20 bird posses
sion limit. The wood duck is en-
tirely protected.
With four of the formerly protect
ed species of ducks permitted in
limited numbers in the daily bag,
and wood ducks entirely protected,
Harry E. Speakes, director of the
division of game and fish, offers a
description of the birds in order
that hunters may be able to dis
tinguish the species.
The protected wood duck is a
medium sized bird. brakes are
brilliantly colored and have an cas-
ily recognized crest. Females are
plain colored, have white eye ring,
a white line back Of the eye, dark
breast and light underparts. The
wing has a silvery outer edge and
a conspicuous white tip to the In
ner flight feathers. They have 9
squeaky, plantive call.
The four limited species, of which
three may be in the daily bag, or
six in the possession limit of 20, are
canvasback, rudy, redhead and
bufflehead.
The canvasback is large duck,
usually seen in migration in flocks.
brakes are grayish-white on back
and wings. Upper neck and head
are chestnut colored. Female is
plain brown, but during late fall
much of the body Is light gray
Head is wedge shaped, long and
sloping. The bill is nearly black
and is long and narrow.
The bufflehead is a small duck
The male appears largely white
with a black back. The head is al
so black with conspicuous white
area covering the side, back OF the
eyes. The lower breast and under
parts are all white. In flight the
wings are largely white. The fe.
male is dull colored with a small
white patch on the side of the head
and a small patch of white on the
wing. The underparts are light.
The rudy duck is a small, plump
bodied bird. The drake Is bright
rusty-red color in the spring, but
in the fall is grayish brown with
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-09-29
Kinzer Day at St.
Cloud October I
Event To Honor Native
Son Will Be Held In
County Seat-An Invited

Kinzer day will be the event OF
big rally to be staged by Stearns
county people at st. Cloud on We'd
nesday, October 5th. This rally Is
to be given in honor of their native
son, John ]. Kinzer, who has lived
all his life on a farm near Cold
Spring, and who now Is a candidate
for Lieutenant Governor on the
Farmer-Labor ticket.
The committee in charge extends
cordial invitation to every voter
to come to st. Cloud on October
5th to meet and to hear Mr.. Kin
ger. Mr.. Kinzer will also deliver
a radio address at Central Junior
High school, st. Cloud, on the eve
ming of the rally. This talk will be
broadcast over WCCO Minneapolis,
KHAN st. Cloud, KVOX Moorhead,
KROC Rochester, WNAX Yankton.
His subject will be Minnesota Plan
Farm Program"
Governor Benson and other can
didates will attend in honor Of Mr..
Kinzer, and will help to make 1t
the biggest rally in the state, next
to Governor Benson's keynote meet
ing in Appleton, said one of the
committee members. They ask that
Stearns County people give John
Kinzer 100 percent cooperation and
support.
Committee members in charge Of
arrangements are: Edwin MANI,
Paynesville; Math Fuchs, Lake
Henry; Math T. Mehr, Munson;
Carrot Jansen, Brooten; Math Gull
ley, Paynesville; Ed Norman, Rich
mond; Ben Mondloch, st. Martin;
Emil Krupke, Zion; Math Kotch-
var, Richmond; j. B. Schoenhoff,
Sank Centre; VIM. Bernard, Cold
Springs; Marcus Wenner, Cold
Springs; Alex Naegil, Albany; Pet
er Kost, Avon; x. J. Waller, st.
Cloud; M. ]. Kirsch, Roscoe; A. HI.
Kiffmeyer, Fair Haven; Henry
Braun, Fruitville; Joe Hortsch, st.
Cloud; Joe Hicks, st. Cloud; Phil
Thometz, st. Cloud.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-09-29
Attended Catholic
Societies Meeting
Special Bus Took Contingent
To Madison Sunday
Morning For Convention

Thirty-eight delegates, picked up
along the route from st. Cloud,
breakfasted here Sunday with the
Sank Centre contingent, when a
chartered bus speed them on to
Madison, scene of the State Fedora
ton of Catholic Societies meeting
which opened Sunday.
Delegation from st. Pauls Church
included Mrs. Henry Miller, Mrs. s.
G. Schwarzbauer, Ray Prasch and
s. G. Schwarzbauer. In charge of
the bus chartering was Mrs.
Schwarzbauer, and more than 30
delegates attended from Stearns
County.
Opening Of the convention was
laid with the celebration Of the Pom
tifical High Mass, with the Most
Rev. Bishop Francis M. Kelly, OF
Winona, the celebrant. Sundays
sessions closed with a parade. Bus
mess sessions opened Monday with
the fortieth annual convention OF
the Minneota Central Verein and
Fourteenth annual convention OF
the Minnesota section national
Catholic Women's Union. President
William Boerger, Of st. Cloud, OPP
ened the session Of Central Verein.
Tuesday, which closed the three
day session, marked the fifty eighth
annual convention Of the Catholic
Aid Association Of this state.
Delegations were picked up en-
route from st. Cloud to Sank Cen
tire included the towns OF Rock
Vile, Avon, st. Joseph, Albany, Mel
rose, Freeport and New Munich.
From this point they went south
through Metre Grove, Lake Henry
to Paynesville, the representation
swelling all the way.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-09-29
Glenmood Chosen For
Basketball Tourney
No Seeded Teams This
Year-All Obliged To Play
Sub District Games

Glenwood's gymnasium-auditor-
ium will be the scene Of district %
basketball tournament and region
6 playoff for the year 1938-39, 1t was
determined when coaches and
schoolmen met at the annual dis
trict meeting at the Tolena Club in
Alexandria last Thursday.
For the first time in several years
Bicycles Of the district, Alexandria,
Glenwood, Long Prairie and Sank
Centre, under an arrangement set
up last spring, lose their preferred
positions, lose the automatic seed
ing to the district event. Under the
setup all schools in district % will
be obliged to play sub-district ball.
From each Of the four sub-districts
winner and runnerup will go to
the district playoff, forming an 8
team playoff.
In this sub-district, to be played
at Swanville, contending will be
Melrose, Sank Centre, Grey Eagle,
Upsala and Swanville. The two
weakest LcdI1lS, pdoCu VA VIC SSeN
sons record, will be paired to deter
mine the fourth team in the play
off.
One weakness in the plan is
pointed out by some schoolmen, In
that a team, though defeated in the
sub-district, coming through as q
runnerup may go on to win the dis
trict tournament On the other
hand it immeasurably strengthens
the hand of the smaller school in
that the more play, the greater the
possibility of one Of the big boys
tripping up along the line.
A committee has been appointed,
Principal E. w. Olson said Monday,
comprised of speech teachers to de-
wise a plan for extemperaneous
speaking and reading. 1T will prob
ably lead to a speech festival as a
district event." he pointed out. It's
a new department which may
eventually replace defamation
which we already have dropped"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-09-29
Thos. Gallagher
Will Speak Here
Democratic Caravan Will
Also Convey Other Speakers
To Be Here October LIST

Thomas Gallagher, Democratic
Nominee for Governor, with other
Democratic speakers will visit Sank
Centre and make an address at 500
p. M, on Saturday of this week.
A trailer decorated in red and
white, and carrying powerful loud
speaking equipment will be used
from the central part of town to
carry the speeches to the crowd.
Gallagher visited Sank Centre in
1886 with the sound wagon furnish
ed by the National Administration,
and has many friends in this vic
unity. He is waging hard and ag-
gressive campaign, and will cover
over 400 towns on this Statewide
tour.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-09-29
Estimated Over 1000
In Attendance Splendid
Lighting System

Hitting the road for the sec
ond of the three games to be
played away from home, the
Harveymen travel to Morris
Friday to meet team that last
year gave away before them for
q win. Last year the Main
Streeters nOsed out victory 60.
A week ago Morris lost to Glen
wood 21-0. Last Friday they
rested with q blank In the
schedule. Harvey, despite some
injuries to his team, expects to
be at full strength he indicated
this week. The boys will be
back ON the home lot October Z
when Long Prairie meets the
Main Streeters.
With an attack that dripped pow.
er from the outset, the Johnny
Props, paced by shifty, co-captain
Bob johnson, crushed the Harvey.
men in the Inauguration Of Sauh
Centres new football field Friday
night, sent them down before ar
endless maze of running plays thai
swept the Collegeville lads into 9
victory that was apparent before
the first four minutes Of the bal
game were spent.
In a running series Of four plays
after the first Sank Centre success
sion had been checked with nc
semblance Of gain, the Johnnies
powered their way for forty yards
to score on the final play that de.
veloped from the % yard line. II
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-09-29
LAST CAST SNAGS
THE BIG'UN-

Clarence Nathe is all set to be-
come the first president Of a ris-
ing organization called the Last
Cast Club" Last Thursday eve
ming as Clarence reluctantly
threw out his line into Sank
Lake for what he termed the
'rlast cast Of the evening" up
bobbed the granddaddy Of the
bass-well, at least an uncle. The
prize weighed five pounds, is a
beautiful tribute to what Sank
Lake Is releasing now.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-09-29
Sank Centre Lost At M0Mg-
mrutiom of New Lighted Field

was fullback Blenker who steamed
over the goal, leaving in his wake
the last semblance Of a defensive
counter. All that happened before
the game was four minutes old; all
that broke the moral of a less
precisely timed Sank Centre team.
To an estimated crowd Of 1000
who rolled into the Fair Grounds
lot to "see the lights" shed their
cast over the surrounding area for
the first time, the 33 to defeat at
the hands of the smoothly-powered
Johnnies was disappointing inau-
gural.
Black as it all seemed and often
sively weak as the Harveymen were
against these boys, a spot Of light
doomed in the passing attack that
gave Sank Centre its only gains, its
lone touchdown, found them COM
pleting 6 out of 10 pass attempts,
It was a sleeper pass play, worn
thin by repeated misuse throughout
the game, that finally caught and
sent Kringen over the goal line in
the last minutes Of play to score.
In the preceding SUGGESTIONS 1t was
red-haired Cokeley, who, after game
little Ethun had been retired with
injuries, collected two first downs
by rushing, after another first had
been claimed by a penalty against
the Johnnies. The score came az
-, ,n-1o oavoaofo hod ,,$tIi1aH ~ oro
than half Of the A-men squad the
Johnnies brought for this game.
First development Of defensive
that was stubborn came for the
Sank Centre crew in the fourth
quarter when halfback Lehnen
hammered at the goal from the one
yard line. Twice he was stopped
cold. And It was a young sopho-
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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1938-09-29
PWA Grant
For School
Await Formal Offer
To Advertise For Bids
$114,523 Is Allotment
ACCEPT FIRST PLAN
Project To Be Entirely
Completed By
September 1, 1889

"A letter under date Of September
%, from r. A. Radford, Regional
Director of PWA at Omaha, Ne
braska, announced that the PWA
grant to the local school had been
approved at Washington, D. c. This
approval was made under the first
plan submitted by the Board of
Education, and the letter carried
with it the advisement to start pre-
liminary work.
Under relaxation Of regulations,
this plan which provides for the
construction of the gymnasium over
the auditorium, has been accepted
This project includes moving of the
Senior High school building to the
northwest corner of the lot and the
construction of an addition thereto
at the east end. Excavation, NOV
ing and laying of the foundation for
the Senior High building will be
under separate contract. The addi-
tional rooms to be built eastward,
revamping of the old building and
the erection Of the gymnasium and
auditorium also will be under one
contract.
For these contracts the PWA al
lotment totals $114, 523OO to match
$140yO00.00 of the local bond issue.
Mr.. Jacks, physical education
and health director of the State Ed
ucational Department, on a recent
visit here, said the dual purpose
gymnasium and auditorium was one
Of the finest plans he had seen, be-
cause of its dual service POSSIBLE
tiles, under which classes in mus
ic, physical education and pro-
grams, etc., all may be conducted
at the same time.
Tuesday evening, the Board Of
Education met with Architect Rein
ecke, of st. Paul. and approved the
plans for moving the building and
adopted resolution which provides
a minimum wage scale for the
work. The Board investigated SIM
liar scales at Brainerd and Hutch
inson, and accepted the Hutchinson
scale, which is only a trifle differ
ent than the Brainerd scale. This
wage scale includes unskilled and
skilled labor and the intervening
classes of labor.
Mr.. Kohl announced Wednesday
morning, that as soon as the formal
offer from Washington, ID. c., on
PWA is received, the Board will adj
vertise for bids. This formal offer
should be received within a few
days.
Plans and specifications Of the
school project are now being APP
proved at Omaha.
1t was announced that the build
ing program, when started, will
continue right through the winter,
and the Board plans to have the
entire project completed by Septem.
Der list, 1889.
During the process of moving
and the preparations therefore
classes will be held in the Junior
High school, the Congregational
Church, the Library and the Mason
10 Temple.
Price Reduction Asked
At the meeting Of the Board of
Education Tuesday evening, board
members discussed the telegram
from Washington, D. c., which asks
for a reduction in price for the
property on Main Street offered for
a site for the new postoffice.
This telegram addressed to the
Board of Education, Ben Dubois
Continued on Page 10 Col. ~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-12
FLEET THOUGHT
 TO BE JAPANESE

Manila, April 12.-(UP)-Some- thing of sensation was reported in the Southern Philippine Islands to- day because of the presence of a fleet of g vessels 16 miles of Davao, chief town of Mindanao Island and a center of Japanese colonization.
 Reports here were that the ships resembled Japanese" destroyers and alleged that there was widespread alarm in the southern islands.
 Radio dispatches from Davao said that the fleet was sighted Sunday afternoon off Calian Point, near Davao, and that the Philippine mo- torship Rizal radioed the ships ask ing for Identification, but was ignor- ed. This morning, it was said, the mysterious" fleet was anchored 1e miles off Davao.
 Authorities here, advised of the presence of the "flotilla" from sev- eral sources, decided to investigate.
 United States army officers sug- geSted that the mysterious" vessels were Japanese fishing ships, driven from their mandated island fishing grounds by storms last week.