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The continuous newspaper record of Stearns county begins with the first number of the St. Cloud "Visitor," December 10, 1857. For this history a chronology has been prepared, beginning with that date.
1857.
December 10 .- We learn that Dr. Hunter of St. Cloud has made sugar and molasses sufficient for his family use for one year, out of Chinese sugar cane raised on his farm.
Marlatt & Kelley are to open next week
a drug store on the corner of First street and Jefferson avenue. This will be the first drug store in St. Cloud.
As we go to press we hear that the party of Indians encamped at Grand Lake are Sioux, and the successful hunters who are out on Long Prairie are Chippewas,
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that the Sioux encampment is a war party in pursuit of the Chippewas. They are watching each other for scalps, and a gen- eral engagement is every day expected. The Sioux at Grand Lake last week en- tered and robbed the cabin of a white set- tler in defiance of the owner.
The sound of the church going bell over prairies and woodlands was first heard on Sabbath last, when the new bell of the Catholic Chapel rang out its summons to worship.
December 17 .- The Sauk Rapids Fron- tiersman says several families and young men have gone out to live on and improve their claims. Some from St. Cloud have done likewise and more are going in the spring. There are also a goodly number of strangers here looking for claims; and some now held by non-residents will doubt- less be sold to actual settlers who will improve them. Six men, all bringing their families, were looking for claims at Grand Lake last week, some of them are likely to be suited there, where it was thought every acre was taken
December 24 .- To subscribers-Produce of any kind will be received in payment for subscription. We want potatoes, corn, turnips, hay, beef, game, firewood, furs, or anything good to eat or warm to wear or of use about the house.
Mr. Noel, county surveyor, and Mr. Freeman have killed and brought home 16 deer this season.
A Christmas Eve ball will be given at the American house this evening; M. Dow, superintendent. Wilson's hall is hand- somely fitted up.
The Everett school house is to be plastered and finished so that school can be opened.
1858.
January 14 .- The wickedness of city life manifested itself in this far-off place and in these early days. A news item reports that "during the absence of Mr. Monti from his store one day last week a re- spectably dressed woman entered, puzzled the attendant in having him take down a counter full of goods and succeeded in ap- propriating a quantity of fine artificial flowers. She will have a pleasant time wearing them, as she and they are likely to be recognized."
Mr. Beaupre's ferry boat at the upper landing, St. Cloud, was running until the 28th of December, when it was stopped because the ice bridge below made it un- necessary. The river is completely bridged at the lower ferry, while above and below it is still open.
February 12 .- One hundred thirty vol- umes of books have arrived in St. Cloud as a donation from the Hon. Edward Ever- ett to the Everett school, and are now held by L. Gorton for transportation charges.
N. N. Smith's grist mill is in operation. This is the first grist mill built and oper- ated in Stearns county.
The smaller parts of the machinery for the Breckenridge saw mill have arrived here. It is estimated that 45 teams will be required for its transportation, and the company has offered $5,000 for its safe delivery at its destination.
The old but ever new question of amuse- ments aroused a discussion between the press and the pulpit which divided the lit- tle community into two antagonistic camps. The Visitor criticised very se- verely the prevalence of kissing games at social entertainments among both old and young. "The idea of social etiquette," it said, "whose rules require a woman to kiss or be kissed by all the tobacco chewers in a room full of company is certainly in a very high degree revolting." As a sub- stitute the editor advocated dancing, quad- rilles and cotillions, but barring out "waltzes, polkas and schottishes or any other figure in which there is an encircling of waists with supporting arms." This drew forth a criticism from the Rev. T. E. Inman, pastor of the Baptist church, who, taking the paper into the pulpit and using the editorial article as a text, declared that dancing of any and every form, nature or kind should be abolished because of its indispensable accompaniments, drinking and fighting, and asserted that when a lady was led out on the floor for a dance she was "disgraced and dishonored." This elicited a reply from the Visitor, which in- sisted that dancing should be regulated, not abolished; there were more sermons and more rejoinders, both sides quoted scripture, and correspondents took up the cudgels; the matter finally ending, as such controversies usually end, just where it
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his son-in-law, Geo. F. Brott, is extensively engaged in business.
This afternoon a man named McDonald came to the Central house and without provocation drew a revolver and fired at J. E. Hayward, the proprietor. The ball struck Mr. Hayward in the center of his left hand and glanced from the ribs of the left side, without inflicting any serious in- jury. McDonald was arrested.
March 10 .- Treasurer Tenvoorde re- deemed Tuesday almost $1,000 of county orders with cash at par.
Wm. S. Moore leaves with a party of eighteen for the gold mines.
Dr. J. V. Wren has been appointed pen- sion examining surgeon.
A deputation of nineteen Chippewa In- dians arrived in town Monday, in charge of J. C. Ramsey, en route to Washington to ratify the treaty made last summer by the Hon. Alex Ramsey.
March 17 .- Capt. James M. McKelvy, Company I, Seventh Minnesota, is in St. Louis and has charge of the Military prison.
Lieut. Stephen C. Miller's appointment as commissary of subsistence with the rank of captain in the regular army has been confined. He reports for duty at St. Louis.
Frederick Scherfenberg, of this city, for- merly of Company D, First Minnesota, has been appointed by Gov. Miller as watch- man at the state capitol.
April 7 .- A party of Sioux Indian pris- cners, 91 in all, who were being taken to Fort Snelling, passed through town Tues- day.
April 7 .- Judge O. E. Hamlin has re- turned to St. Cloud and resumed the prac- tice of law. Judge Hamlin left last fall for Pennsylvania, intending to live there but he evidently soon became tired of the east.
April 14 .- Our contemporary has under- gone another change, appearing last week as the Times. Moore & Co. are the pub- lishers, R. Chaning Moore, Jr., a new comer, being the editor.
The steamer Enterprise is to be moved
below St. Anthony Falls and will be navi- gated on the Lower Mississippi. The build- ing of the railroad to St. Cloud has killed steamboating above the falls.
April 14 .- Gager & Mills and Harris & Bentley of this place have secured the con- tract for transporting the Hudson Bay Company's goods from St. Paul to Fort Garry, about 500 tons annually, the con- tract to be for five years.
February 18 .- The First Minnesota regi- The Methodists are having the lumber ment arrived in St. Paul Monday, and had . hauled for their new church, which is to an enthusiastic reception. A number of the boys who enlisted from St. Cloud and vicinity are at their homes. be on Fourth avenue. Lots 4, 5 and 6 in block 35 have been donated for the church and a parsonage and another lot has been given by J. L. Wilson.
April 21 .- A two-story frame building is being put up on Sisson street for F. H. Dam, formerly of Maine Prairie.
Jos. Linneman has almost completed a wind grist-mill at St. Joseph.
A. C. Gowdy and R. D. Bloomfield, of the Second Battery, have been ordered to this state on recruiting service. Sergeant J. E. West, of Company I, Seventh Regiment, has been promoted to be second lieutenant.
April 28 .- J. R. Clark received two houses at the upper levee this week which had been rafted from Little Falls.
At an Ecclesiastical council held at the Everett school house on the 27th, the or- ganization of the County Baptist church of St. Cloud was approved. The services were participated in by the Rev. Messrs. Willet, Baumis, Gale, Inman and Tice.
The Ladies' Soldiers' Aid Society of St. Cloud, organized at the outbreak of the war to furnish hospital supplies for the Union soldiers, resolved itself into an auxil- iary to the Minnesota State Board of the United States Sanitary Commission. The following officers were elected: Mrs. John Farwell, president; Mrs. H. Z. Mitchell, secretary; Mrs. C. Gould, treasurer.
May 12 .- The preliminary survey of the new cemetary grounds has been completed by J. H. Place and lots will be for sale in the course of a few weeks.
May 12 .- A business men's meeting was held May 6, at which it was resolved that after June 1, no form of currency would be received except legal tender notes and national currency.
Burbank & Co., will run a line of tri- weekly stages from St. Cloud to Sauk Centre, beginning Tuesday next.
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May 19-Notice is given of the dissolu- tion of the co-partnership between R. Channing Moore, Jr., Thomas Simonton and Joseph H. Simonton as publishers of the St. Cloud Times.
May 19 .- J. W. Tuttle has taken the Stearns House and will, we are confident, make it more popular than ever.
During the past week over forty Swedes have passed through town to settle on homesteads in this county.
May 26 .- E. B. Litchfield, of the St. Paul and Pacific railroad company, has offered to give the Baptist church of this place $500 to aid in finishing their church edifice and to loan them $1,000 additional, if de- sired.
May 26. - Wesley Carter is having erected on Jefferson street fronting the court house, a two-story building, the up- per story to be finished off into a Ma- sonic hall.
May 28 .- The following enrolled officers have been appointed for Stearns county: St. Cloud, B. F. Noel; Lynden, J. D. Harris; Fair Haven, O. D. Webb; Maine Prairie, Alexander Spaulding; St. Augusta, Jacob Woll; St. Joseph, Jacob Staples; Brockway, J. W. Getchell; Rock- ville, J. R. Weaver; Paynesville, D. S. Twitchell; St Martin, E. Pillsbury; Wake- field, Jos. Gibson; Munson, O. S. Freeman; Le Sauk, J. A. Upham; Oak, Hubert Rie- land; Sauk Centre, Henry Gager.
June 2 .- The draft took place during the past week. From St. Augusta 13 were drawn, St. Martin, 18; Munson, 22; Oak, 21; Rockville, 11; St. Joseph, 29; Wake- field, 23; Verdale, 5; Brockway, 1.
H. J. Fowler has a large number of men at work in his brickyard in lower town and expects to have 100,000 brick ready by July 4th.
June 9 .- A weekly mail route has been established from St. Cloud to Fair Haven; O. D. Webb, of Fair Haven, contractor.
A proclamation has been issued by Pres- ident Lincoln for the sale of certain gov- ernment lands in Stearns, Wright, Meeker and Monongalia counties, September 5, at the Minneapolis land office.
June 23 .- Wheat, $1.20 per bushel; oats, $1.10; potatoes, $1.00; corn, none to be had.
Information is brought from the Red . and is safely stowed away.
River settlement that the people of that
place will have to depend entirely on St. Cloud for their supplies, the dry weather and the grasshoppers having entirely ruined their crops.
Enderle & Co., lately of New Ulm, are engaged in building a large brewery by the creek above upper town.
Married, by the Rev. David Tice, at the parsonage in St. Cloud, June 15, Ambrose W. Tucker, of Fair Haven, and Emily J. Norris, of St. Cloud.
A supplementary draft has been made in this county to make good the de- ficiencies caused by exemptions.
July 7 .- Married, by the Rev. David Tice, July 4, at the parsonage, Alonso Spauld- ing, of Maine Prairie, and Christina Lang- don, of Clearwater.
By the same, on the same day, John W. Getchell, of Winnebago, and Celestia P. Gillette.
July 14 .- The register of deeds, county auditor, county treasurer and sheriff yes- terday removed their offices to the court house. The judge of probate will be in the same building soon.
The ceremonies of the laying of the cor- ner stone of the new Catholic church took place Sunday. Bishop Grace of St. Paul, the Rev. Mr. Mongna, of the same city, the Rev. Mr. Stukenkemper, of this city, and the Rev. O. Wirtz, prior at St. Jo, con- ducted the services.
Dr. A. T. Upham has begun the erection of a store-room on Washington avenue, two doors above Powell's, to be occupied by McConnell & Co.
Dr. W. R. Hunter and James W. White are completing fine two-story residences on opposite sides of Fifth avenue, where it joins Washington avenue at the bridge.
July 21 .- C. Bridgman has purchased the machinery belonging to the large saw mill at Industriana, six miles above Minneap- clis and is removing it to this place.
July 28 .- Messrs. Tenvoorde and Broker have begun the erection of a large hotel near the new Catholic church.
The contract for doing the brick work on the new Catholic church was let to Fuchs & Co., of St. Jo., at $2,600.
August 11 .- The St. Cloud Pioneer No. 1 with the hose cart arrived last week
The contract for furnishing 600 tons
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of hay at Fort Ripley has been awarded to J. E. Hayward, of this city.
August 25 .- Captain Stephen C. Miller, C. S., now at Little Rock, Arkansas, has been promoted to the rank of major.
Last Saturday a she-bear and two cubs were discovered prowling about the resi- dence of H. Z. Mitchell and after a short pursuit were killed. Bears are very plenty this season and have been seen and killed in different portions of the county.
A mail route has been established be- ginning at St. Cloud and running via Fort Abercrombie and Bannock, Idaho, to Fort Walla-Walla, Washington territory.
E. M. Tobey, H. J. Fowler and Charles Taylor returned from the St. Francis country with the carcasses of five bear. John Cossairt killed one in the same vi- cinity; Dr. Cooley and a friend killed four in the St. Francis country; L. Abell treed and killed a big one on the east side of the river, near the upper ferry; Geo. W. Sweet, while going from this place to Sauk Rapids, treed and shot a cub; and Master Eddie Tobey and a young son of Capt. Briggs, fourteen-year olders, killed a cub with their shot guns-all within a week's time.
September 1 .- Last Friday Gager & Co.'s teams returned from Fort Garry with 900 bales of buffalo robes, each bale contain- ing ten robes. They were bonded by the Hudson Bay Company through to Eng- land. This makes 15,000 robes that have arrived here this season (and is one reason why in this year of our Lord 1914 a buf- falo robe can scarcely be had for love or money.)
September 8 .- The dedicatory services of the new Methodist Episcopal church took place Sunday last. The services were in charge of Bishop Kingsley, of Cincinnati, assisted by the Rev. Messrs. Jabez Brooks, President Brooks, of Ham- lin University, David Tice, pastor of the church, David Lowry of the Presbyterian and John Scott of the Baptist church of this city.
September 15 .- Among the successful bidders for supplying the government with forage were the following: W. B. Luther, 25,000 bushels oats at $1.341%; J. A. Stan- ton, 4,000 bushels corn, $2.14; H. C. Bur- bank, 200 tons hay, $13.40, at Fort Ripley; N. P. Clarke, 4,000 bushels corn, $3.79, and
2,200 bushels oats, $2.49 at Fort Aber- crombie; H. Gager, 2,000 bushels oats, $1.95, 800 bushels corn, $2.95; 125 tons hay, $19, at Pomme de Terre; J. P. Wilson, 2,000 bushels oats, $1.59; H. Gager, 800 bushels corn, $2.35, 125 tons hay, $21.95, at Alexandria; J. P. Wilson, 2,000 bushels oats, $1.37; H. Gager, 800 bushels corn, $2.00; T. C. McClure, 125 tons hay, $8.24, at Sauk Centre.
Davis and Marble of Boston and Holes and Dunton of this place killed seven bears and two deer near Briggs lake. Messrs. Elwell and Abel killed four bears while on a trip to Granite City.
September 22 .- A new bell has been put on the Methodist church and on last Sab- bath for the first time called together the congregation of that church.
The Red river half breeds who come with their carts are good customers of our merchants.
October 6 .- J. E. Hayward is putting an- other addition, 50x28, to his hotel, the Cen. tral house.
T. C. McClure has received about $15,000 of the Sioux indemnity fund, which will be paid to those for whom he was acting as agent.
A bell has been received for the Episco- pal church in St. Cloud.
There is at present no minister of the Baptist church in this city. The Rev. James Thresher has accepted a call to preach at Fair Haven and Maine Prairie, torenoon and afternoon services.
October 13 .- On Sabbath evening the Rev. David Lowry, of the Presbyterian church, preached his farewell sermon from the pulpit of the Methodist church. He was, we believe, the pioneer minister of St. Cloud, and was much respected by all our citizens. He has gone to Iowa.
October 20 .- Dr. Weber, recently ap- pointed postmaster at St. Jo., vice J. H. Linneman, took possession of the office this week.
November 3 .- E. M. Tobey has pur- chased the large double store-room be- longing to Geo. F. Brott on First avenue, above the Ferry road, in lower town, and is removing it to court house square.
Saturday afternoon we observed a couple of "noble sons of the forest" walking down Washington avenue, dressed in breech-
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clouts and with blankets thrown over their shoulders.
November 24 .- Burbank & Co., have put on a daily express line between this city and St. Paul.
E. M. Tobey has purchased the machin- ery of the saw mill at Breckenridge and will have it transported to this place dur- ing the winter for his new mill at Stony Point.
Many families are locating at and near the pleasant little village of Paynesville. Better soil or a country more suitable for homesteads cannot be found in the state. Quite a number of families are preparing to emigrate to that locality from Illinois in the spring.
Michael Rieder, of St. Cloud, who is ninety-nine years old, deposited a vote, on the 8th, for president of the United States.
Dramatic entertainments are given from time to time to raise money for the benefit of the soldiers' hospital fund and soldiers' families. The leading parts are taken by well-known citizens, including A. B. Curry, R. C. Burdick, A. T. Whitman, Albert Wright and others, besides a number of the younger people.
December 22. - Governor Miller ap- pointed W. B. Mitchell and John Zapp, of St. Cloud, and Luke Marvin, of St. Louis county, a committee on Immigration for the Third representative district.
On Sabbath evening another lot of non- reporting drafted men were brought to this place by Capt. Slaughter, of Sauk Centre, and turned over to H. Z. Mitchell, deputy provost marshall. They were sent to St. Paul Tuesday. Large numbers of drafted men are now reporting voluntarily.
A limited quantity of wheat is offered at $1.50 a bushel. Corn brings $1.20 and oats, 90c per bushel. Hay sells from between $13 and $15 a ton; wood between $5 and $8 per cord; butter, 24 to 40 c; eggs, 25c. 1865.
January 5 .- The state treasurer makes the announcement that state orders will now be redeemed in cash, at par.
Peter Kramer is building a new brewery on the site of the one burned in November last.
The fair held at the court house Tues- day and Wednesday evenings for the bene- fit of the new Catholic church realized about $1,000.
January 12 .- C. A. Gilman has made ar- rangements for removing the saw mill owned by Leander Gorton to a location some 23 miles east of here on Elk river. Both pine and hardwood logs can be had in abundance.
January 19 .- The session of the Board of Enrollment, Capt. Kieth president, closed yesterday. About 700 persons ap- plied for examination, of whom 206 re- ceived exemption papers.
The Democrat boasts that every compos- itor who has ever been connected with that office has been or is now in the Union army, a record with which it challenges comparison anywhere.
February 9 .- A B. Curry has been ap- pointed deputy collector of internal rev- enue for this district vice S. B. Pinney.
February 23 .- A bounty of $300 will be paid to all volunteers enlisting from St. Cloud.
Coleman Bridgman has been elected by the legislature surveyor of logs and lum- ber for this (4th) district.
March 2 .- The town of Paynesville, with twenty-seven men enrolled, has a quota of nine to furnish. Yesterday eight of the best citizens of this plucky town went to St. Paul (one having previously gone), to clear Paynesville of the draft. Well done!
March 16 .- H. L. Gordon, of Wright county, and W. H. Wood, of Benton, have been appointed by the governor to take the Minnesota soldiers' votes in 1865 in the Mississippi river district.
The mail to Sauk Centre will be in- creased from a semi-weekly to a tri-weekly.
J. B. Lufkin, of Anoka, has purchased a 640-acre farm on Sauk river, abut eight miles from St. Cloud, and will occupy and cultivate it.
News is received of the fall of Richmond.
April 13 .- The board of supervisors re- ported at the town meeting Tuesday that town bounties amounting to $21,513.97 had been allowed to 78 recruits, being an av- erage of $275.82 each.
The news of the surrender of Lee's army and of the end of the war is received.
April 20 .- The report of President Lin- coln's assassination is received. The city is plunged in mourning and business is suspended on the day of his funeral.
Leander Gorton succeeds T. Elwell as
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assistant assessor of internal revenue for this district.
Capt. James M. McKelvy, of Co. I, Sev- enth regiment, is at home, having been honorably dismissed because of physical disability. Lieut. G. V. Mayhew becomes captain and Second Lieut. J. E. West first lieutenant.
May 4 .- Frank Kent has been appointed postmaster at Kennebec, vice James Buch- anan.
J. R. Weaver has resigned as postmaster at Rockville.
May 11 .- H. C. Waite is closing up his banking business preparatory to entering on his duties as register of the land office at this place.
A large bell came this week by express for the Catholic church at St. Martin, about forty miles from St. Cloud, near the Sauk river.
May 11 .- Dr. Marlatt, who recently dis- posed of his drug store, has gone into sheep raising with J. E. Wing on a farm in Winnebago Prairie.
May 18 .- T. C. McClure and C. A. Gilman have resigned as register and receiver of the land office to engage in the banking and milling business, respectively.
J. R. Clark advertises that he will supply customers with ice for the season at sixty cents per hundred pounds.
May 25 .- Gager & Co. are shipping from this place to Fort Garry five hundred bar- rels of Minnesota flour.
Capt. S. M. Bruce, who enlisted origi- nally in Company I, Third regiment, and has served over three years and a half, returned home last week and will settle down on his farm near Sauk Centre.
June 8 .- Union services, in accordance with the proclamations of the president and governor, were held in the Methodist church last Thursday, the sermon being delivered by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, of the Presbyterian church.
A continuous and steady stream of im- migration pours into this county, coming from the states as well as from European countries.
A German named John Steichner, just ar- rived from the old country, bought this week from Nicholas Rausch, living near Rockville, twelve miles from St. Cloud, his farm of 160 acres, paying for it $1,200 in gold and $1,200 in greenbacks.
Lieut. J. E. West has been promoted to a, captaincy.
Full details have been received of the "last battle of the war," which was fought near Brazos, Texas, by Col. T. H. Barrett, of St. Cloud, in command of the Sixty- second U. S. colored troops.
June 15 .- Bridgman's new saw mill started up last week.
H. Z. Mitchell, P. M., has received no- tice to be ready to issue money orders on July 3.
A donation party Tuesday for the Rev. David Tice, pastor of the Methodist church, realized $150.
A discussion at Maine Prairie on Sab- bath last between the Rev. Mr. Ballou, of this city, and Elder Watkins, of the Prairie, was largely attended by persons from the adjoining towns. The subject was "Uni- versalism," the first-named being pro and the latter con.
June 22 .- The transportation company, H. Gager & Co., has dissolved partnership, Henry Gager and L. R. Bentley retiring, while J. B. Mills continues the business. He holds the Hudson Bay Company con- tract.
Common lumber sells at $16 per thou- sand; other grades up to $30.
A handsome memorial window for the chancel of the Episcopal church has been received.
June 29 .- A bell intended for the Catho- lic church at Richmond passed through here Monday. It is said to be the largest bell in the state.
The Red River carts are just arriving on their spring trip in detachments of 50 to 100 at a time.
The contracts for furnishing oats for the government at Alexandria, Sauk Centre, Pomme de Terre and Fort Abercrombie were all obtained by H. C. Burbank, of this city.
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