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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-04-18
Member Of Advisory
Board of Minnesota
Restaurant Associate,
Allan T.. Meigs viii
Attend Convention At St. Paul
Hotel April 20 and 80

Allan T. Meigs, of Sank Cen
ire, is taking an active part in
formulating the program for the
1910 Minnesota Restaurant Conven-
ton. He is a member Of the Ad-
visory Board of Minnesota Rest
aurant Association, which is taking
part in planning arrangements for
this important event to be held at
the st. Paul Hotel on April 20
and 30.
The theme Of the convention will
be Where do we go from here?"
This is a question all businessmen
are facing today and it is only ma
tural that the restaurant industry
should likewise consider current
problems.
In speaking Of the convention,
Mr.. Meigs said 1.-THE dissemination
Of ideas and information at the
Restaurant Convention has always
been of interest to me, and from
this point Of view alone, feel
well repaid for the time spend
at the conventio.i present
indications a record breaking at
tendance is anticipated"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-04-18
Stassen
Chosen AS
keynOter
Youngest Man Ever
Honored By Selection
To Role, Says Press
SIGNAL HONOR
w. M. Parker Announces
Vigorous Campaign In
Behalf of Vandenberg

Governor Stassen was chosen on
Tuesday to deliver the keynote ad-
dress at the Republican national
convention in Philadelphia on June
oath. This selection was unani-
mously made by the party's ar
engagements committee in Philadel-
phia. Governor Stassen is the
youngest man ever selected to this
role and it is the first time this
signal honor has come to Mime
sofa.
simultaneously, w. M. Parker,
manager of the Vandenberg for
president campaign in Minnesota,
claimed at least eighteen Of the %
delegates to the Republican con-
vention for Arthur H. Vandenberg
in an announcement to the daily
press Tuesday. The following was
taken from The Star Journal:
Far from folding up because
Thomas e. Dewey had prevailed
over Vandenberg in recent presi-
Dental primaries, Parker said the
drive for the Michigan senator is
just getting started.
I'VE will extend the Vandenberg
headquarters from Main Street to
the Twin Cities and get going" said
the Sank Centre man.
why, up to this time Senator
Vandenberg has not made single
solicitation for a delegate in Min
nesota or anywhere else while
others have been making extensive
campaigns.
"Yet the Gallup poll in March
showed him steadily increasing in
strength as a presidential candi-
date all over the country.
"Vandenberg was Endorsed by Al
per cent of the Republicans in Wis
consin and by As per cent in Ne
braska, though he made no per-
sonal campaign in either state"
Parker said he has not been
asleep at the switch. Has been
doing some statewide surveying
Continued on Page 10. Col. ~
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-04-18

time Of service Of the notices here
in, but the necessity for proceeding
in such manner is Of little NOM
ent in view Of the fact that the
court has no jurisdiction to enter
tain the proceeding. The fact that
one case was heard by our supreme
court which involved the counting
Of ballots on q school election con-
test in which no jurisdictional is
sue was raised and the fact that
our supreme court passes upon
questions involving the issuance of
bonds by school districts under
Section 488, does not establish a
precedent to support the claim now
made by this contestant, that this
court has jurisdiction to entertain
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-04-18
GAAOf Seven
Schools Will
Gather Here
Invitational Meet For
Physical Ed To Be
Held May 4th

Girls will take their place in the
physical education sun when the
Girls Athletic Association of the
Sank Centre schools is hostess
group to GAA groups of some sew
en- schools in an invitational meet
to be held here Saturday, May 4th,
it was announced by Miss June
Ellis, physical education director.
Paynesville and Brooten have al
ready indicated acceptance of the
invitation to attend the day-long
program that will utilize both the
schools gymnasiums. Others invit-
ed include Melrose, st. Cloud, AL
bany, Holdingford and Belgrade.
The plan is something new, Miss
Ellis said, is designed to be slim
ulator and affords the first inter-
school competition in a girls ply
steal education program in many
years. 1t was the suggestion of
Harold X. Jack, state supervisor of
physical education for Minnesota.
1t was announced that Adeline
Nelson and Alberta Scanlon have
been named co-chairmen of ar
rangements, representing the GAA,
Of the school. A group Of girls
from the Home School are to put
on a demonstration as a part OF the
days program.
Tentative plans for the days
plans include division Of girls into
groups that will include represent
atives from several schools in each,
Miss Ellis said. Group competitive
games such as volleyball, shuttle
board, basket shooting, bean bag
toss will occupy part Of the morn
ing after the program opens at nine
o'clock. In the afternoon the time
will be given over to archery, ping
pong, social dancing and badmin-
ton, in which groups will be- dis
missed and individuals may play
at will.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-04-18

the proposed contest. The Board
of Education Of the Town Of Sank
Centre is body corporate, but it is
not municipality. It was created
by organic act, Chapter 90 Special
Laws 1859, and operates under that
act and the amendments thereto.
Its elections are not those Of a
School elections are
expressly excluded from the pur-
view of Chapter 345 Laws Of 1889
by Section thereof. The election
in question was not a municipal
office. No right Of contest is given
by Section of the 1889 act. This
court is therefore without jurisdic-
ton to entertain the contest. Byron
r. Wilson, District Judge"
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-04-18
94aA No 1ssl4dlcAo~ in School election CONTEXT

ed 800 votes and his opponent, DR..
j. F. Dubois, received 401 votes.
Judge Wilson held that the petit
ton Of contest had no foundation
in law and he denied the recount
because the court has no jurisdic-
ton in the matter. This decision
was handed down Friday, April IL,
and so far as the District Court
is concerned this closes the case,
we understand.
In note to the action, Judge
Wilson explains the courts posi-
ton as follows:
mo service appears to have been
made upon the municipality in
question and no order Of court was
obtained directing the manner or
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-04-18
Senior Class
Play Will Be
May 10
Week of Rehearsals
For poor Dear
Edgar" Completed
CAST ANNOUNCED
Roles In Comedy
Offering For Twelve
Student Players

With the cast complete and a
week OF rehearsals behind them,
the l2-member cast for Poor Dear
Edgar" the senior class spring
presentation, may be historical
from more than one angle.
The play, comedy by William
Davidson, that was Originally
SHOWN in st. Paul last November
with Bunny Markson in the oriei.
nal cast, will be given Friday eve
ming, May 10th, it was announces
oy director Miss Dorothy Wilson.
It's probable that the pIay
that opens the new 838-seat
auditorium at school to dra-
matte effort will be given only
with cyclOrama-a neat hist.
rionic term for the stages
back drop.
Although furniture and other
portions of the set will be defin-
itely used, it was not definitely as
sured that the scenic set to bacl,
up the props would be available.
reason for this unseemly bit of
adVlce Is that the sets for the old
stage are now outgrown in the
newer, larger arrangement.
This lack of setting is not with
out precedent dramatically. For
Frank Craven's Our Town" was
a smash hit with no more than a
board across two chairs to denote
a soda fountain. It marked some
thing new in play presentation
when they wiped all props from
the stage. Miss Wilson isn't anx.
ious to go that far, and is not at all
certain that the rear sets may be
absent but it's a possibility.
With Phyllis Pangburn in the
role of Buggins Bates, the entire
cast was announced complete this
week. One week Of walk-through.
their-parts rehearsals is out of the
way and the next three will take
on the earnest aspect of a play get
ting into shape.
Cheered with the prospect of the
presentation in the new auditor
AtAAAt &uioo "hSOh ANNOUNCED Indt
she found "the acoustics are per.
feet"
The entire cast and auxiliary
workers in the production follow:
Margaret Markson, as Miggs; Carl
iildebrand as Coky Bradford; Dor.
othy Peterson as Betty Carlyle;
Ray Berggreen as Ed Coleman
Grace Chandler as Beatrice Byron
Phyllis Pangburn as Buggins
Bates; Billy Kaufman as Dean
Thomas; Dorothy Hansen as Miss
Forepaugh; John Strauss as Edgar
Applethwaite; Shirley Carpenter as
Arabella Smith; Joyce Kane as
Diana Dana; and Donald Lamb as
Skoozie Skillman. Prompter is AL
berta Prasch; in charge Of lights,
Joey Jackson; stage manager, Cy-
ril Carpenter; and sound effects,
Rosemary Morse.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-04-18
iron Lung"
Baby2Months
Old Saturday
Now At Home With
Mrs. Henry Besser-
"Contented, Happy"

Medicines miracle baby, born to
iron lung" mother, Mrs. Elmer
Volkman, infantile paralysis VIC
tim, celebrated the second month OF
her birthday anniversary happy
and contented" in this community
With the 24-year-old Clinton
housewife, the former Grace Clark
Of this community, able to be out
Of the iron lung that has sustained
life at the University hospital for
part of each day, daughter, Joan
Carol, arrived here last Friday and
Is at the home Of Mrs. Volkman's
sister, Mrs. Henry Besser.
Joan Carol isn't behaving I'm
the temperamental manner one
might expect from miracle bah
les. Two months old SATURDAY.,
April 18th, she Is described by
Mrs. Besser as "contented and
just as good as she can be-"
She weighed eight and q half
pounds when they left the hos
pitaL
Ill recently, Mrs. volkman was
described as feeling better, Mrs
Besser said she learned in a letter
Tuesday morning. Though it's re-
ported that she'll probably soon
leave the hospital with the periods
outside the lung sustained each
day, Mrs. Gesser said there was nc
announcement when Mrs. Volkman
will leave for her home. "Indef.
initely is all we can say about it,
she said to the Herald Tuesday.
When Joan Carol was born, in
Caesarian delivery during a brief
period when Mrs. Volkman was re-
moved from the lung, medical
science hailed the birth of the nor
NAL girl as nearly without precedent
Twin Cities newspapers, on the day
the daughter left, pointed to the
strong contrast between Europe's
fighting inventions and medical
sciences victory in a life gained.
Mrs. Besser said the baby Is as
healthy as can be. In the meantime
Mrs. Clark, Of this community, is
in Minneapolis with daughter, Mrs
Volkman. Mrs. Besser will keep
the infant until Mrs. Volkman re-
turns home.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-04-18
Donkey Ball Is
School Booking

D'ja ever see donkeys wearing
tennis shoes?
Well, you'll see them next Tues
day evening, and a lot more per-
haps, when at the Junioh High gym
in the school they'll play game
Of donkey basketball, which If not
the newest thing under the sun, is
definitely different.
The game, scheduled for
Tuesday, April 23rd, at 8:15
o'clock is going to be played
between a team of farmers and
a team Of the school faculty
and businessmen, 1t was an
nounced by Supt. e. w. Olson,
this week.
According to preliminary dope
the game is played with five play.
ers on each team, each man astride
one Of the stubborn mounts. That
makes the game really exciting
Certain rules, such as out of bounds
are waived in this procedure, but
the whole thing threatens to be q
laugh riot. Proceeds are to be us
ed for the schools athletic fund
Continued on Page 10. Col. 81
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-04-18
Local People, Born in Norge,
Rue Disaster TO BirthblaceS
Nazi Invasion Brings
Unhappy Feeling To
Many In This Vicinity

On a rain-soaked pavement mid
way between the boyhood home
and the birthplace of Sinclair Lew
is dozens of Norwegian-born resi-
dents of Sank Centre were jubilant.
1t was last June the unsched-
uled brief stop Of Crown Prince
Olav and Crown Princess Martha,
Norwegian royalty. To these par
ticular Sank Centre residents it
brought memories splashed nostal-
gically in the SAVIOR of early years
in the lands of the fjords.
Today that jubilation was gone.
Now is feeling of personal loss.
Norway is invaded. The heir ap-
parent to the throne Of Norway
may never reign with his consort.
Native born Norwegians, some of
them now long years from native
soil, found that the German invas-
ion of Norway didn't startle them
too much. After the first stun
ming news, they had quieter react
ions, passive acceptance, and tho
thought they had feared it all
along.
Most recent visitor to Nor
way in this community, Mrs.
Sam Erickson, showed deep
feeling. I'm SO unhappy I
could cry all day." she said
Monday. She had been TO her
native land three years ago..
Her concern is for her sister with
a family Of four children who lived
in Bremen. She reported that a
radio report Sunday had stated
Bremen taken, and supposed that
her sister and family had fled. On
ly three weeks ago Mrs. Erickson
had heard from her sister who
wrote they feared at that time in
vasion from Germany.
Her regard for her relatives sums
up the immediate concern Of 9TH
ers in the community. Donald Han
son has relatives in Bergen, a town
now captured and under lombard
ment. He showed an aerial view
of the town taken during bomb
ing raid, and placed neat x on
the site where his relatives lived.
Gunther Hillerud has brothers
and sisters in Kristiansund, anoth-
er town taken under the advance.
Others expressed concern over
the probable loss of Norwegian Gull
ture, as one put it, "the things
they've spent so many hundreds Of
years building" Others watched
in panied departure one of the
youngest monarchies in Europe.
Most native born residents here
had lived under Oscar, monarch of
the dual arrangement between Nor
way and Sweden.
For others there were shattered
dreams. Mrs. A. N. Forsberg, who
left rural Norway 50 years ago;
Mrs. s. F. Bonaime, who came here
AZ years ago; and Mrs. Jette Stub
skin, resident Of Trondheim as a
girl, all felt losses. Mrs. Stubskin
CONTINUED on Page 10. Col. u
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-04-18
Attended Physical Edu-
cation Conference At
Minnesota University

q. D. Harvey, physical education
director, was appointed to com
mittee Of instructors in this section
of the state to arrange a program
setup for summer recreation, II
was announced this week after he
and Miss June Ellis, physical edu-
cation director for girls, had at
tended a physical education confer
ence at the University of Minnesota
last Friday and Saturday. The two
are directors for the Sank Centre
public schools.
Mr.. Harvey will meet with
the committee tomorrow, Fri
day, I'm st. Cloud when the pro-
gram for summer recreation
will be mapped completely.
June 10, the program will be
presented to all leaders Of this
district, for the benefit Of all
communities interested In sum-
mer work. The meeting Is one
Of several throughout various
sections Of the state.
Highly important to all directors
was the talk Of DR.. Gaylord An
head Of the Department of
Medicine at the Uni
versity, who said that complete
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-04-18
Telephone MObieS
Sho>pn Before Firemen
Firemen Enjoyed Program
OF Educational Features
OF Telephone Service

Robert LATERAL, manager Of the
local telephone exchange, present
ed an interesting group of moving
pictures at a regular meeting Of the
Volunteer Fire Department Mon
day evening.
This group Of pictures included
scenes Of various parts of telephone
service, storm damage and tele-
phone habits. Communication to
all parts of the world and various
CONTINUED on Page 10, Col 81
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-04-18
Latest Ice
Break In
Ten Years?
April 20 In 1886
Was Latest Date
OF Decade

Small breaks about the edges
were the only patches Of blue wat
err on Sank Lake this week as the
ice sheet, that finally reached a
depth Of 26 inches in mid-winter,
threatened the latest breakup in
nearly decade.
The same kind Of dallying that
stalled the freezeup til late in Dec
ember and the latest freeze in the
memory Of most here, is throwing
monkey wrenches into the works
on the breakup, records Of H. F.
Bastien showed.
Attention puller to the lakes
perennial clearance was the warm
Sunday that brought strollers and
car riders out in profusion. The
day brought dozens to the Park
where they viewed the ice-locked
lake wonderingly, and by far the
best attraction on the stem was
the foamy spill Of water over the
dam.
It'll have to really get
warm" Bastien observed this
week, aif the breakup Is going
to beat the Goth Saturday."
II it doesn't beat the 10th, the
1910 crackup will be latest since
at least 1881. Latest up to now
came In 1886 on the 10th of
April.
Edges were breaking off this
week and a warm sun was doing
its work, but no definite assures
were appearing in the sheet. Only
last week people were still going
across the lower lake, 1t was OBJ
served. Open water, always earl
fer, appeared at the Narrows.
Average date for the lower Lake
clearance, according to ardent OBJ
CONTINUED on Page 10. Col. -
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-04-18
MRS. ADAM WENGERT
PASSED AWAY SUNDAY

Word reached this city Monday
that Mrs. Adam Wengert has pass
ed away at University Hospital,
Minneapolis Sunday night. Efforts
to contact Mr.. Wengert were un-
fruitful, and it Is believed that he
had left for the City early Monday
morning. Up to the time Of going
to press, no information to that
effect had been received, however,
and no information Of arrange
ment for funeral services were
available.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-04-18
SPEAKER AT DEDICATION

At the dedication of the new stage
equipment Of the Swanville public
schools, held Friday evening, April
9Th, Mrs. Robert Plant, Of this city,
was the speaker Of the evening.
Mrs. Plant was the first superinten-
dent of the Swanville Consolidated
School, and in her talk she review
ed the history Of the consolidated
school during the year Of 1918, and
the successful operation in the
years which followed.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-04-18
Judge Bryon Wilson
Presented His Ruling
Friday, April IL

Judge Bryon Wilson, in District
Court, who refused to go further
in the contest Of the school cleo
ton, did so because there is no
right of contest, in Section of
the 1889 election act, and that such
action is not supported by law.
Petition for contest and recount
was made by attorneys for DR.. w.
johnson, following the recent
school election in which he receiv-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-10-25
PRESIDENT PLANS
FOUR SPEECHES

Washington, d. president Roose-
welt will launch counter ''blitzkrieg"
against his Republican opponent, Wen
dell L. Willkie, with four major po-
litical speeches in the final two weeks
of the presidential campaign. He will
top his campaign with final plea
from his Hyde Park home on the eve
of the election, November a.
At Democratic headquarters in New
York, Edward j. Flynn, chairman, an
nounced the President would make his
"all-political speeches" as follows:
October 28-At Madison Square
Garden in New York.
October 30-At Constitution Hall,
Washington.
November 2-At Public Auditorium,
Cleveland.
Mr.. Roosevelt has been urged by his
political advisers to drop his mon
political" campaign strategy for out
right campaigning, as result of in
formation that Willkie not only threat
ened to win the election but to swing
the House from Democratic to Repub-
lican control.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-10-25
READY FOR LIQUOR
DEALERS BANQUET

Middletown, Ohio.-Robert Lubbers,
chairman of the forthcoming dealer
banquet, dance and floor show to be
given in conjunction with the state
Butler County Liquor Dealers Asso-
citation meeting at the local Manches-
ter Hotel, Monday, October %, has
requested all dealers who expect to
attend to make their reservation as
early as possible. This will facilitate
the preparation of the correct number
of dinners by the hotel, Lubbers stated
Prominent state liquor department
officials will be on hand for the ban
quet, with city officials of both Mid
dletown and Hamilton also in attend
ance. Martin Coffey will be toast
master.
The dinner will begin promptly at
6:30 p. M, in the main ballroom of the
Manchester Hotel, with an invocation.
A popular 13-piece orchestra will pro-
vide dance music from 10 p. m. to
a. M
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-10-25

unionized distillery. The letter was
received.
A communication was read from
Charles Stelzle, of New York City,
in which he stated that in these try
ing times everybody is asking where
labor stands regarding problems fac
ing America. In special wrapper
he also sent poster which he titles
the phrase Labor Speaks for All"
1t was ordered by motion that the
poster be received and hung in the
hail.
The trustees were instructed to take
out the necessary insurance on the
boiler.
William Utrecht, local A. F. of L..
organizer, reported the organizing
work being done for the retail clerks
and the meat-cutters. He requested
that assistance was needed by all
trades unionists to organize four small
groceries who are opposed to COM
ing in.
Charles Butts, delegate from the
local Stationery Firemen's Union, an
nounced that his organization is spon-
soring an open meeting, Thursday,
November 7th, and extended an invi-
tation to all delegates to attend. A
good speaker has been secured for
the meeting.
Mr.. J. H. Coleman and James Rus
sell of Oxford, Ohio, Local No. 375,
American Federation of Teachers,
were seated as visitors to the meeting.
They were supplied with. credentials
and the names of three delegates from
that organization will be presented to
the council at the next meeting.
The next meeting will be held on
election night, Tuesday, November 5.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-10-25
Financial Aid Is Lacking
For Campaign, Weir Says

New York, N. Y-Ernest T. Weir,
chairman of the Republican National
Finance Committee, says businessmen
who wanted Wilkie" and "long be-
fore the Philadelphia convention gave
assurances of financial support to his
campaign, have not made good their
promises"
AS result, Weir added, the cam
paign of the Republican presidential
candidate, who came from behind to
capture the nomination, "is being ham
dicapped by lack of funds. Not one
activity is being properly supported
with money. 1t has been difficult
thing right along to get money to run
this campaign and has been difficult
for me-"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1940-10-25
RUPTURE
Shield Expert Here Again


E. ]. MEINHARDI, widely known
Expert of Chicago, will personally be
in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the Gibson Ho-
tel, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday,
Oct. 28th, 29th, and 30th, from / p. m.
to p. m. and p. m. to p. m. daily.
MR.. MEINHARDI says: The Mein-
hardi Shield is tremendous improve
ment-well known for producing i'm
mediate results. 1t prevents the Rup-
ture from protruding in 10 days on
the verage-regardles of size or To-
cation of Rupture and no matter how
hard you work or strain. 1t has no leg
straps or cumbersome arrangements.
(No Surgery or Injection Treatments
used.) Mr.. Meinhardi has been coming
here for Is years.
Caution: If eglected-Rupture may
cause weakness, backache, constipa-
tion, nervousness, stomach pains, etc.,
or sudden death from strangulation.
Men having large Ruptures which
have returned after Surgical Opera
tions or Injection Treatments are also
invited. When all others fail-see
MEINHARDI. He will be pleased to
demonstrate to you privately without
charge. (Only men invited) White
only.