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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-15
Locker Plant
Installed At
Willard
Work On Local
Enterprise To Be
Commenced Soon
GROVE LAKE ALSO
Three Hundred and
Fifty Lockers Included
In Local Plant

Erection Of a new building for
a locker system and processing
plant in this city, to be built by
J. w. Kerr and Harold Hunter, of
Willard, who have purchased prop
erty on Second Street, will be start
ed in the near future. Completion
of a plant in Willard, owned by
these same men, was announced in
the Glenwood Herald Of last week,
as follows:
A very valuable addition to the
business interests in Willard has
just been completed in that village
in the erection Of new building
in which have been installed a
locker system of $50 lockers. The
man responsible for this enterprise
in our sister village to the east is
Mr.. J. w. Kerr with the assistance
and cooperation Of Harold Hunter.
These lockers are already in OPP
Grafton and 80 per cent of the lock-
ers have already been rented. It
is expected that in a short time
the lockers will all be rented. Ma
hinery Of the most modern kind
has been installed and an exper-
fenced man has been on the place
already to help in the opening of
the business.
It is the intention of these two
men to install these systems also
in other places. According to plans
there will be plant Of 100 lockers
installed in Grove Lake, another
of $50 lockers at Sank Centre with
a branch at Elrosa and process
ing plant will be placed in Carlos
Machines will be installed in all
these plants so that everything will
be vacuum packed and everything
placed in the lockers will be pro-
cessed by the plant. In order that
the articles that are stored here
may be kept, it is necessary that
they are handled in the proper way
and therefore, nothing can be plac-
ed in the lockers unless they are
properly processed.
Besides meats there will be stor-
ed in the lockers all kinds of ber-
ries and certain vegetables, such as
peas, beans, asparagus, also cher
ries and plums. These will all be
handled in such a manner that they
will be entirely fresh when they
are taken out.
The plant in Grove Lake will be
in operation in about 60 days and
in about 80 days these plants will
all be in operation according to the
statements of the two sponsors of
this enterprise.
Lockers are being rented under
plan similar to that used in other
places. The plant in Willard is a
very interesting place to visit and
Mr.. Kerr is very anxious to have
visitors and is glad to show the
visitors how the plant operates
Elk.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-15
Expect Larger
Enrolment In
Junior College
Will Open Doors For
Second Year On
September 9Th

Expectation for a much larger
enrolment as the Junior Extension
College of Sank Centre prepares to
open it's doors for the second year
was indicated this week by Ira L.
Plummer, dean. The school will
open September 9th.
Fully accredited the school, hous-
ed in the west wing of the Sank
Centre senior high school building,
is affiliated with the University of
Minnesota, he said.
In charge Of arrangements
for housing students from out
of town Is A. e. Nelson, men,
Der Of the faculty. Any resi-
dents here who have accom-
modations for students are ask
ed to contact MIR. Nelson.
This week Mr.. Plummer Is con-
tinuing his work in the field, con-
tacting prospective students from
the several towns in this area. He
announced that Harold Rasmussen
is to be coach for Junior Extension
on College athletics. Football sched-
ule besides including st. Cloud
Teachers, Morris Aggies, st. Johns
University, opponents Of the first
team a year ago, will also bring
games with Rochester Junior Col
lege. II
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-15
Raise Fund For
Injured Youth
Julian Sykes Directed Col
lectiOns-Set Goal For 500
MAY Exceed That Amount

This town was rallying to sup
port this week for 24-year-old Jul
ian Hoffman, of this city, whose
Inflated trip to the coast ended at
Moorhead when he fell beneath the
wheels of a westbound Northern
Pacific freight and lost both his
legs. He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Hoffman.
Julian Sykes, friends of the young
man, is directing collections Of a
fund to be turned over to Julian.
Anyone who wishes still to contri-
butte may call Julian at telephone
$40.
Sykes said this week, 1.-THE money
is to be turned directly over to
Julian. He can use it as he sees
fit" Tuesday Sykes went to Moor
head accompanying Mr.. and Mrs.
Hoffman. With a goal Of one hun
dred dollars set, Sykes said that he
had virtually reached it by Tues
day.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-15
Robberies At
Two Places
P. NJ.
Cash Register At Otto
Bros. Garage Emptied
BY Unknown Man
LEFT NO CLUES
Thief Poured Glue
Into Adding Machine
Did Other Damage

Two Sank Centre business places
We're robbed Sunday afternoon,
both robberies being peculiar in
aspect, and neither provided a
great sum of money to the perpe-
traitors.
Four men walked into the Otto
Bros. garage at about $3.50 D. m.
and asked to see a used truck, as
they were in the market for one.
Two Of the men went to the dis
play room with William Otto, who
was in the place alone at the time,
one Of them stood in the door be-
tween the display room and mer-
chandising department and the
third remained near the cash reg
lister.
Some time after the men left, Mr..
Otto noticed that the cash register
was empty, and it was then that he
realized that the money from the
cash till had been pilfered, most
likely by the group of men who
stated they wished to purchase a
truck, using that as a ruse to get
Mr.. Otto into another part of the
garage.
Mr.. Otto stated that the men, all
well-dressed, worked cleverly, and
that he did not have the slightest
suspicion Of their intention, nor did
he mistrust them. They got away
with fair sized amount.
During the same afternoon, some
one entered the Sank Lake cream
cry and made away with about
$500 in cash. Besides ransacking
the cash register and drawers in
the desk, the thief poured glue into
the adding machine and on the
desk, loosened bolts on the ammonia
machine. Had the robbery not been
discovered late Sunday afternoon,
the creamery employees would
have been unable to work until
Monday noon, because of escaping
ammonia.
Because of the cleverness of the
perpetrator in opening the cash
register the police and creamery
officials do not believe this crime
was committed by young boys, but
rather by some older person with
grudge or some one who was
drunk
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-15
Broke Race
Track Record
at Stearns Fair
Horse Races Best
Ever In Two
Day Showing
MANY ENTRIES
All Events Interesting
And Fast-Accident
Caused Excitement

Horse race enthusiasts and visit
ors at the Stearns County fair
Tuesday afternoon, saw all track
records broken, when entries in
the 2:18 pace came In with tim
inEs Of 2:10, 2:11 and 2:11A, in
order of heats one, two and three
The former record on the local
track was 2:12, hence 1t was broken
in all three heats in one Of the
best races ever seen here.
Events on both days, Monday and
Tuesday, proved to be good races
with fast time In all events. In
cluded in the program, however,
unexpected, was an accident. uni
que's First" driven by Rg5 Perk-
inson, wheeled about and the sullxy
turned over. The driver was in
jured, when his hip was dislocated.
Taken to the hospital where the
hip was put in place, he was up
and about again almost Immediate
ly. The horse continued around
the track for several times. When
the animal wheeled Foster o., an
other horse was thrown and the
sull<y turned over. Nine horses
were entered in the race.
Walter Elguy, owned by B. J.
Bentfield, of Morris, and driven by
George Loomis, colorful driver,
took first place in the 2.24 pace
Continued on Page 10. Col. 81
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-15
Will Apply To State
For Information
And Cooperation

Meeting with the City Council
last week Wednesday, members of
the Community Club committee, ap-
pointed to investigate the POSSIBLE
ity Of Strengthening Sank River
from the dam eastward and south
to a point in the Brown pasture,
and to get information on the con-
struction and operation of fish rear
ing beds, were assured the support
Of the council. Members were in
structed by vote to make applica-
ton for a rearing bed and to get
further information concerning the
entire project.
The possibility of securing state
engineering service for the project
was discussed and the committee
and City Clerk Jos. Schoenhoff were
instructed to contact the proper
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-15
Council No1ea Backing ton RIuer
Sh0l9h1e|st>s9 and Roaming Pond

action to secure a W.P.A. project to
carry out this work to completion
during the coming year.
Committee members are elated at
the complete cooperation offered by
the members Of the City Council,
and through this cooperation have
received the necessary enthusiasm
to continue investigation and pre-
liminary work.
Within a very short time the
local committee should be able to
announce the findings Of the state
department of conservation, and
should know how much coopera-
ton can be expected from the state.
This plan will be sponsored by
the Water, Light e. Power Commits
sion, with cooperation of the City
Council, through whom a W.P.A.
project must be petitioned for. The
Community Club has voted its COM
plete support to this project and
attempts will be made to get 1t
through and start work as soon as
possible under he setup.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-15

state departments for that service.
Sometime ago, Harold Gray,
member of the committee to secure
a pike rearing bed, received a petit
ton from the state with the re-
quest that 1t be filled out as soon
as possible. This will now be done,
with the backing Of the City Coun-
Gil.
Ed Shave, tourist editor Of the
Minneapolis Journal, while making
a tour Of the state, called at the
Herald office Saturday afternoon.
He is seeking information on fish
ing, and incidentally stated that he
is investigating the success Of pike
rearing beds in this state. He stat
ed that Hackensack and Alexandria
had been successful ventures and
said he believed that to be the
only way to restock our lakes.
AS soon as necessary information
regarding the entire project, which
includes Identification, can be Sc
cured, and as soon as details can
be worked out, it Is possible that
the Council may take favorable
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-15

OF [. O. O. F.
Transferred
Moved To Swanville
On July 1st-Charter
Dated 1889
ARRANGEMENTS
Governor StaSsen Will
Be Among Large
Class August 10Th

OF more than passing interest to
the older residents of Sank Centre
and community is the transfer Of
Crescent Encampment, No. 81, I. o.
o. F., from this city to Swanville.
The transfer was made on July
LIST, of this year. The charter,
dated March 10, 1889, bears the
names Of many Sank Centre men,
who were prominent in local az
fairs. Lack Of membership mater
ial necessitated the transfer.
Also Of interest Is the announce
ment that Governor Harold E. Stas-
sen will receive the three Encamp-
ment degrees in the Independent
Order of Odd Fellows on the eve
ming of August 26th, along with a
large class Of other petitioners. The
degrees will be conferred in the
Odd Fellow Temple at 156 West 9th
Street, st. Paul, by three crack de-
gree staffs, two Of which hail from
Minneapolis and one from Roches-
ter.
Governor Stassen has been a
member of the Odd Fellow Lodge
in South st. Paul for a number
Of years, and his initiation into the
Encampment will be his first adj
vancement into the higher degrees
Of the Order.
Large delegations Of Odd Fellows
from all over the state are expected
to travel to st. Paul for this meet
ing, and they will bring with them
other members seeking advance
ment into the Encampment along
with Governor Stassen.
Another feature of the evening
will be the comforting on Erwin
A. Schendel, Of Minneapolis, Grand
Patriarch of Minnesota, Of the mer-
itorious service pin for outstand-
ing work in the Order. This pin
will be presented by the Grand
Sire. Mr.. Schendel is the first
member in Minnesota to be ward
ed service pin for work in the
Encampment.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-15
Gleua1m Doe4 zine Bu1tneh
Excellent Growing Sea-
son Produced High
Quality Grains
YIELDS VERY GOOD
Not Bumper Crop
But Better Than
Average-Need Price

This countryside is busy as
blazes" taking from the land thous-
ands Of bushels Of small grain in
what is looked upon as the best
crop-"bumper" so far as quality is
concerned-in at least ten years.
Linking the intense activity on
the farm with that of the city here
is the Farmers Cooperative Ele-
vator company with its $4,000 bus
hel capacity structure rearing its
shining head to a new skyline for
the town, meeting its first harvest
season test.
Built in year when two of the
city's oldest elevators fell before
razing and general longtime
shriveling Of the local market I'M
der the pressure of centralized mill
ing, presumably the shining new
elevator, under the management of
Clarence Enright, is meeting the
robust nature of the test admirably.
This week it was facing the
peak of the grain movement
that got over its first trickling
gyratiOns two Mondays ago,
and is expected the main bulk
of the movement will continue
for six weeks. In the first
week of the movement, the
plant had shipped six cars
some over 1000 bushels-was
receiving 5000 bushels daily and
expected to double that amount
at the peak of the rush.
And the movement is expected
to be intensified this season. While
in isolated instances the yield may
be bumper the larger picture is
that the take is about one-third
above average years, will not reach
probably the volume of a year ago.
But So far as quality is concern
ed, it's bumper" "It's the best
quality crop in several years." Mr..
Enright said, Gin fact it's the best
I've seen since I left North Da-
kota. Nearly all our wheat is run
ming number 1 dark northern. No,
it's not a bumper crop, but the
boys seem more than satisfied"
One farmer, to point out the
abnormal run, wasn't satisfied
with topnOtch quality; he
claimed bumper yield as well.
"My land produced more grain
this year than the land has ev-
er produced here twice over"
he told this newspaper.
There's an intense picture of
speed and heavy work enacted each
day at the elevator that is the
citified counterpart of the work
of harvesting on the farm.
Employees putting in long hours,
sometimes from 4 a. m. to light
burning hours at night. A steady
stream of trucks, trailers-but all
motorized-to the elevator. Trucks
(Cont on Page 10. Col -
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-15
Plan Rural
Telephone
Development
Twenty-Six Lines
Serve 269 Farm
Homes, Says Manager

One new rural telephone line
that brought the total lines served
out Of this community to twenty
six and expansion and improvement
programs set to go on two other
lines continue to prod rural tele-
phone development that got its
start two years ago, it was an
nounced by Robert LATERAL, man.
ager Of the Sank Centre exchange
of the Northwestern Bell Telephone
company. The twenty-six lines, he
said, serve a total Of 263 farm
homes in this area.
Most notable achievement Of the
new line that serves five subscrib-
ers along the west shore of Sank
Lake, was promptly outlawing the
phrase Sank Valley in its company
name. Subscribers, who own the
line, at once named it the Spring
Park Rural Telephone company,
thereby keeping the list Of rural
companies who have adopted the
stock "Sauk Valley" somewhere in
their title to seven.
With two others, the 2OF
Sank Valley Telephone COM
pany, that serves to the north
end Of the lake, and the IF
Mccormick Lake company,
plotting advancements that viii
facilitate service, the summer
marks continuation Of q re-
turn to service program first
accelerated when REA's power
lines rolled up over the coun-
tryside two years ago, gave I'm
some instances the final blow
to the then none too perfect
rural service.
The Spring Park line has laid a
one-wire, or grounded, circuit, for
four miles up the lake to Spring
Park. There it serves two cottages,
one resort, one farmer. It was cut
Continued on Page 10. Col. y
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-15
SELECTED FOR TRAINING
AT FORTRESS MONROE

Lieutenant Donald r. Cole, Reg
mental Headquarters Battery,
217th Regiment CA-AA, will go in
to training at Fortress Monroe, in
Virginia, next month, it was an
nounced by Captain Carl S. Fisch-
er this week. Lieutenant Cole, ad-
vanced during recent camp to first
lieutenant, will be one of five to
enter the artillery school at the
Fortress from this regiment. His
training period is expected to be
from September IL to November
23rd. With Congress still rolling
over the idea of mobilizing the Ma
tional Guard, units are busy school
ing officers and men. OF the place
where the local battery will be sent
in the event Of mobilization, that
now seems imminent, Fischer coud
make no announcement.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-15
Mrs. P. Essler
Buried August
8 at Kennnare
Born February, 1901,
In the Sank Centre
Community

Funeral services were held
Thursday morning, August 8, at
$3.50 o'clock from the temporary
st. Agnes Church, Kenmare, N. D.,
for Mrs. Peter Essler, who passed
away Monday evening, August 5th,
at the Deaconess hospital. Mrs.
Essler, rural Kenmare resident, was
admitted to the hospital on the
preceding Friday and death came
after brief illness. The Reverend
Father A. Capini read the Requiem
Mass and interment was made in
the Catholic cemetery.
Mrs. Essler was born February
1, 1901, in the Sank Centre COM
munity, the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs Jos. Traeger. She was unit
ed in marriage to Peter Essler at
Padua on September 6, 1921. Mr..
and Mrs. Essler moved from this
community twelve years ago, and
since have made their home on a
farm north Of Kenmare, N. d.
Left to mourn are her husband
and three children, Gertrude, IA,
Lucille, Is, and Allan, 4. Other sur
viving relatives are her father who
resides at Clarissa, Minnesota, and
eight brothers and one sister. The
brothers and sister are: Joseph, Jr.,
and Leo, Of Sank Centre; Frank,
Of Hibbing; Mike, Of Detroit, Mich;
Libert, Of Minneapolis; Peter, Of
Melrose; and Alphonse, Of Ken
mare, and Mrs. Joe Winsor, Of Hib-
bling. Her mother and one sister
preceded her in death.
The Kenmare News said that
Mrs. Essler was an ardent worker
Of the st. Agnes Altar Society and
took a great deal Of interest in
community activities. Hundreds Of
friends join in extending sympathy
to the bereaved family.
Attending the service from q dis
lance were: Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Win
sor, and Frank Traeger, Of Hib-
bling; Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Traeger,
Of Detroit, Mich; Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Essler, Mr.. and Mrs. Jos.
Essler, Mrs. Hubert Rouslang, Joe
Traeger, George Essler, Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Nugent, and Mrs. Mike
Essler, Of Sank Centre and Padua.
Relatives Of Kenmare are: Mr. and
Mrs. Steve Schommer and family,
Mrs. Jake Huber and family, Mr..
and Mrs. Mike Franks, Mr.. and
Mrs. Matt Schooner, Mr.. and Mrs.
Alphonse Traeger and Mr.. and Mrs.
Alphonse Huber. A large number
Of friends from Bowbells, Minot
and Kenmare, N. D., were in at
tendance at the last sad rites,
which were largely attended.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-15
Enjoyed Trip
To West Coast
Highlights Of Tour
Seen At Salt Lake City
Worlds Fair Visit

Buying oranges for ten cents a
peck but conversely paying forty
cents for a dozEn ears of sweet
corn on the west coast is the re-
port brought to this city by Mr..
and Mrs. G.. Hillerud and their
daughter, Mrs. Sophie Austin, and
three sons, Gunther, Dean and Rod
ney, after a months tour. They
returned to this city last Friday.
One of the high points of the
tour was a two-day stop at Salt
Lake City where they saw the FAM
ed Utah capitol with its gold room,
used for state occasions, furnished
at a cost of $65,0OO. They heard
the noon recital at the Tabernacle
for the Latter Day Saints. They
report little WPA in that city since
the Mormons believe in taking care
of themselves.
To the boys, who were promised
swim in Salt Lake, the body was
disappointing. They never got pass
ed the shore and the great salt
beds along the water. They saw
the lone tree that was on the spot
when the Mormons came in the
last century, now Salt Lake City
is virtually a city of trees"
They crossed the desert and
came to Boulder dam the first of
series of. such structures they
would see that included later the
dams at Coulee and Bonneville. In
Los Angeles they saw the Mexican
and Chinese sections of the city,
made the usual rounds looking at
the homes of the stars, saw Forest
Lawn cemetery, and the footprints
of Shirley Temple in front of the
Chinese theatre. In San Francisco
they saw the Golden Gate EXPOSE
ton, and the take off Of the China
Clipper.
Oddly on the trip was their con-
tinual meeting of Sank Centre resi-
dents and those formerly Of this
city. Just after they had viewed
the Redwoods in California and
were settled in cabin at Arcadia,
a knock at the door aroused them.
Continued on Page 10. Col. 81
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1940-08-15
Stearns County Fair Reported
Successful in All Departments
4-H Exhibits
At the Fair

With exhibits running higher
than in any year since the pro-
gram first became part Of the
Stearns Fair, an estimated 500 Al
youths, from all parts Of the coun-
ty, put on the big show that is
the climax Of a year long back
ground Of hard work as exhibits
climbed well over the TOO mark
and the department made history
making advances.
With nearly 500 exhibitors at the
fair out of the entire county enroll
ment of 643, county leaders, Miss
Ellen Moline, home demonstration
agent, and Everill A. Smith, coun-
ty All leader, pointed to percent
ages of entry as unusually high
They pointed too to the fact that
107 exhibited out of 1876 clothing
exhibits; 80 out of 33 canning pro
jects showed at the fair; 81 out OF
IA cake entries.
Out of the entire 100 pro-
jects underway In the county
program for the year, the Of
fetal entry list at the depart
ment Tuesday showed a total
of 778 entries In the home eco
Monies, crops and gardening,
and livestock branches of the
work.
Biggest single gain in any depart
ment was made in the livestock
group with a total Of 222 entries
Smith pointed out. The department
showed 148 year ago. There were
IS dairy calves, 70 poultry exhibits,
20 sheep, 30 baby beef, 18 hogs, and
20 colts in the classification.
Crops and gardening showed on
ly mild gains over year ago with
145 entries this year with potatoes
40, tobacco 4, fruit II, corn %, and
garden SO, in the breakdown Of the
entries.
Spinning the total heavily up
wards, and topping in great
shape the entry of q year ago is
the home economies depart
ment with All entries, Miss Mo
line reported. The department
had totaled 372 in 1899. Includ-
ed i'm the exhibit this year were
81 cake entries, 1O7 clothing, rs
thrift, 81 bread, 4 game kits,
IL meal planning, 80 canning, 8
health, "a home Identification,
8 room furnishing, 8 handicraft,
10 conservation, 8 Junior lead
CONTINUED on Page 10. Col. 81