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July 6 .- Burbank & Co.'s transportation train of 190 teams arrived Monday from Fort Wadsworth, having made the round trip of over 450 miles in about three weeks. This with oxen we would call a quick trip, and the credit is due in great measure to the energy of N. P. Clarke, who had charge of the train.
The Fourth of July was celebrated in fine style at Maine Prairie, a number from this city attending. The exercises opened
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with prayer by the Rev. Mr. Watkins. The Maine Prairie choir sang a national an- them and sang it well. The Declaration of Independence was read by the Rev. Mr. Thresher, followed by the singing of the "Star Spangled Banner" by the Maine Prairie and Fair Haven choirs. The ora- tion was delivered by A. B. Curry, of St. Cloud, "Sherman's March to the Sea," well sung by the Fair Haven choir, closing the exercises. Capt. T. E. Inman was the mar- shal of the day. A delicious picnic dinner was served. The proceeds, from the spe- cial sales, amounting to $90, went to the benefit of the Maine Prairie library.
July 13 .- Last week five families came from Illinois and settled at Maine Prairie.
Burbank & Co. started this week another train of two hundred teams loaded with supplies for Fort Wadsworth.
Maj. Edwin Clark, agent of the Chippewa Indians, was in the city Saturday with his family on his way to the agency. He re- ports the Chippewas as being quiet and contented.
July 27 .- N. Lahr is building a block of stores on St. Germain street, corner of Richmond avenue, and James Edelbrock is having an elegant brick residence erected on St. Germain street, near the bank of the Mississippi.
August 3 .- A number of teams belonging to Fisk's expedition to the Yellowstone are encamped on the east side of the river. There are about fifty men in the party.
August 10 .- J. L. Wait has been ap- pointed postmaster at Paynesville vice D. S. Twitchell, resigned.
August 24 .- Capt. J. E. West, Lieut. A. E. Hussey, John Dressler, Edwin Hart and other members of Co. I, Seventh Minne- sota, have returned home.
September 14 .- Maj .- Gen. C. C. Andrews returned to this place after an absence of nearly four years.
J. C. & H. C. Burbank & Co. and N. P. Clarke's train for Fort Wadsworth left on the 9th and is composed of 200 teams. This is the fourth train this season and each train has averaged 220 teams.
D. A. Hoyt, of Maine Prairie, reports 7187/8 bushels of oats threshed from nine acres, or 797/8 bushels per acre.
Dr. A. E. Senkler, a graduate of McGill University, Toronto, Canada, has arrived to locate in St. Cloud.
September 21 .- Col. C. D. Kerr, of the Sixteenth Illinois Veteran Infantry, a late resident of Jacksonville, Ill., arrived in St. Cloud Saturday and will locate here for the practice of law.
The Rev. George Chase, who has been residing at Anoka, becomes rector of St. John's church, relieving the Rev. George Stewart, who goes south for the benefit of his health.
Over 200 Red river carts have arrived within the past ten days and as the grass- hoppers destroyed the crops in many dis- tricts in that part of the country, these carts will take back large supplies of flour and other provisions. They brought furs valued at over $80,000.
September 28 .- The new bridge over the ravine connecting Upper and Lower Town has been completed. It is 132 feet in length and 24 feet wide and is supported by five trusses and stone abutments at each end. The contractors were Gorton & Pray; cost, $700.
October 5 .- The Rev. C. Griswold has been appointed pastor of the Methodist church at St. Cloud, and the Rev. B. A. Kemp at Sauk Centre.
W. B. Luther, of Sauk Rapids, has pur- chased from O. D. Webb, of Fair Haven, the flouring mill at Rockville.
October 12 .- Married, October 11, by the Rev. J. H. Ballou, P. Lamb and Louise T. Tobey, both of St. Cloud.
October 19 .- The new
Presbyterian church located about two squares back of the Fletcher House is rapidly nearing com- pletion. The building is 30x50 feet. Much credit is due to the pastor, the Rev. E. V. Campbell, for his exertions in securing the construction of this building ..
Carpenters are now receiving $3 a day in St. Cloud, with more work than they can do.
Contracts for supplying 7,500 bushels of oats at Fort Ripley have been let to H. C. Burbank at 53 cents in sack and 7,500 in bulk at 43 cents per bushel, and to J. P. Wilson for 20,000 bushels at Fort Aber- crombie, $1.35 in sacks.
Small game, such as ducks and geese, were never known to be so plenty. One Nimrod at Maine Prairie killed ten ducks at one shot.
November 2 .- The Rev. W. W. Keep, who will be the pastor of the Baptist
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church the coming year, will preach in the Everett school house.
Three important cases affecting land ad- joining St. Cloud have been decided by the secretary of the interior. In the case of George F. Brott vs. James Bowes (being Bowes addition), the decision of the gen- eral land office in favor of Bowes is af- firmed. In the case of Benedict Heindle as administrator of Berno Muckenthaler, in- volving the right to enter the S. E. 14 of S. E. 14, Sec. 23, Township 124, Range 28, the decision was favorable to Brott. The third case, that of Joseph F. Noel vs. George F. Brott, was decided in favor of Brott, who was given the right to enter the S. W. 14 of S. W. 14, Section 13, Township 124, Range 28, for the reason that Mr. Noel was at the time the owner of 320 acres of land.
November 9 .- A portion of the power at John L. Wilson's mill at St. Augusta is used for crushing sorghum cane. An evap- orator has been constructed near by.
Lieut. J. R. Howard, A. Q. M. at Sauk Centre, was in town After leaving the service he intends opening a stock farm near Sauk Centre
Milton P. Noel who has been for the past two years in the army returned to St. Cloud last week.
Married, at Maine Prairie, on the 9th inst., by the Rev. T. E. Inman, Ezra G. Hicks, of Sauk Rapids, and Luella A. Greely, of Maine Prairie.
Green apples are selling here at $10 per barrel.
November 23 .- The Fire Engine com- pany met at the court house Monday, adopted a constitution and by-laws and elected the following officers: J. R. Clark, foreman; Henry Lunkenheimer, first as- sistant; Geo. Herberger, second assistant; J, M. Rosenberger, secretary and treas- urer; M. Lauerman, steward.
The Rev. S. H. Norris, for a number of years pastor of the Methodist church in this city, and an early instructor in the schools, died Friday of hemorrhage of the lungs.
November 30 .- Thanksgiving union serv- ices will be held at the Presbyterian church, December 7; sermon by the Rev. W. W. Keep.
Stearns county with a population of 7,367
of whom 3,881 were males, furnished 688 soldiers during the war.
December 14 .- The three-days' fair at the Catholic church realized $1,011. A supper at the Presbyterian church Thanks- giving evening netted $175.
Married, in this city, by the Rev. W. B. Dada, Mr. Henry H. Herbert and Miss Fidie C. Corbett.
December 21 .- The ice in the Mississippi river was strong enough December 7 for foot passengers, and teams are now cross- ing.
The first printing from German type ever done in Stearns county was a handbill gotten out at the Democrat office this week.
Jolın P. Hammerel has been appointed postmaster at West St. Augusta. The name of the office has been changed to Luxemburg and the location from John Kraus's to St. Wendelin's church.
Gen. S. B. Lowry died suddenly this morning of heart disease, at his home in this city.
December 28 .- Venison is very plenty in the market, being offered for sale on the streets. S. Holes brought to town a few days ago eleven deer which he had killed inside of sixteen days in the neighborhood of Neenah, ten miles from St. Cloud.
John Marshall, formerly a police officer in St. Paul, has been appointed by the city council a night patrol.
1866.
January 18 .- A meeting was held at the court house to take steps to secure the opening by the government of a mail and emigrant route to Montana.
J. R. Clark received the contract for building the sidewalks on Washington ave- nue and St. Germain street.
W. M. Hooper has reopened the Stearns house.
January 25 .- St. Joe, eight miles from St. Cloud, is having a good growth. It has three stores, the two larger being owned by J. H. Linneman and Dr. C. S. Weber (who is postmaster) while Joseph Zimmer- man has a grocery store. Mr. Linneman has a grist-mill, now operated by steam, and about half a mile distant are a saw mill and a grist mill owned by Peter Loso, all three being in active operation. There is a fine Catholic church, and a number
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of the Sisters of the Order of St. Benedict have established a seminary there.
O. A. Pray has disposed of his one-quar- ter interest in the Union flouring mills for $5,000, to Burbank Bros., the business be- ing continued under the name of L. Gorton & Co.
The supper given at Tenvoorde's hall last evening by the ladies of the Universa- list society brought in $239.50. The sup- per was followed by a dance, Fuller's Clear- water band furnishing the music.
On account of the snow drifts no mails were received from St. Paul from Thurs- day evening until Tuesday evening.
O. E. Garrison has received from the lithographers a supply of the large county maps on which he has been engaged for a year or more. The fifteen townships in the county are handsomely colored, and in the lower left-hand corner is a map of St. Cloud. A number of portraits and views are given as a border.
M. Gaspard yesterday caught at Lake George twenty-two nice pickerel. He cut a hole in the ice, near the outlet, and caught the fish with his hands as they came toward the opening.
Yesterday morning as a large flock of prairie chickens were passing over town four or five lit on the trees near the Metho- dist church.
Benjamin F. Noel returned home last week, having served three years in the old Minnesota First and one year in Hancock's Veteran corps.
February 1 .- The cars are running to Elk River and the mails arrive here regu- larly each evening.
H. J. Fowler, of this place, has been elected by the legislature surveyor of logs and lumber for the Fourth district.
Four Chippewa Indians of the Lake Ver- million bands, passed through town on Tuesday for Washington. They go to form a treaty with the government by which the latter shall obtain the new gold districts.
The Hon. N. F. Barnes, of this city, has been appointed one of the directors of the state normal school.
February 8 .- The Maine Prairie Lyceum gave an exhibition Friday, to raise funds for the library association. Cora Greeley, a five-year-old miss, opened the exercises with a song. George Allen and Fred Strout recited a juvenile dialogue. Declamations
were given by Fred Greeley, A. Coates, J. C. Winslow, John B. Inman and others. "Keeping Bad Company" introduced some funny characters, B. H. Winslow and broth- ers, E. H. Atwood and others. Among those who took part were Mrs. Roberts, Mrs. D. Spaulding, Miss Adley, Mrs. At- wood, Miss Field, Mr. Adley, C. W. West, S. F. Brown and Jud Whitney.
A donation supper for the Rev. Mr. Gris- wold, pastor of the Methodist church, given at Tenvoorde's hall, realized $240.
Stearns county has 2,210 scholars and receives $508.30 from the apportionment of the state school fund.
March 8 .- George Schaefer has sold his hotel to Nicholas Schaefer and has asso- ciated himself with Peter Kramer in the brewery business conducted by the latter.
Prices for furs are: Mink, $5.00@5.50; otter, $6.00@7.00; muskrat, 20@22c; coon, 60@80c; red fox, $2.00@2.25; timber wolf, $2.50; bear, $10.00 to $12.00; deer skins, 30c to 40c per pound.
Married, February 22, at the residence of E. M. Tobey, St. Cloud, by the Rev. George L. Chase, Lieutenant John R. How- ard, of Sauk Centre, and Carrie P., eldest daughter of Capt. and Mrs. Joshua Briggs, of Briggs Lake.
Fair Haven congratulates itself on hav- ing a grist mill, a saw mill, a store, a ho- tel, several mechanics' shops and schools -all without a saloon. One local nimrod has killed fifty deer and several others from twenty to thirty. There is a tri- weekly mail.
John Farwell has sold his farm on Maine Prairie to Michael Cossairt for $3,500, and will go to the Montana gold fields in the spring.
Tuesday night some one entered Dr. S. Marlatt's store and took $2,147 from the safe. The thief took a coat belonging to J. M. Garlington (until that day a member of the firm of S. Marlatt & Co., and hav- ing still the keys of the store and safe), who had laid it on a chair while playing billiards at Robber's hall, and with these keys he secured entrance to the store and safe. The coat was found the next morn- ing lying back on the saloon. The stolen money, with the exception of $127 which belonged to Dr. Marlatt, had been left on deposit by John Hayward.
March 22 .- The firm of J. C. & H. C.
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Burbank & Co. has dissolved and the busi- ness will now be conducted by J. C. & H. C. Burbank under the firm name of Bur- bank Bros.
April 5 .- Gen. C. C. Andrews having of- fered to give the Library Association $100 in case an equal amount was raised, a supper was held at the court house last evening at which $115 was realized.
April 19 .- Wright's ferry at the upper levee was hung Saturday. Fowler's ferry has not yet been hung.
A portion of the bridge across Sauk river at Cold Spring was swept away Thursday. Workmen are busily engaged repairing it.
A new post route has been established by the department from St. Cloud to Fort Ripley on the west side of the Mississippi.
May 10 .- O. Farwell, of Maine Prairie, last year cut a wheat crop from a piece of land that had been sowed or planted each year for ten successive years without hav- ing been manured. This tenth crop yielded over 20 bushels to the acre. We would call that good land.
Baker & Thompson, the former of this city, the latter of Clearwater, have begun the erection of a large grist and merchant mill at Cold Spring, with three run of stone, to be completed by the first of Sep- tember next.
Three stages now arrive and depart daily from this place for the cars at Elk River. Daily stages are now run from St. Cloud to Sauk Centre.
Mr. Kelley, who purchased the Fletcher house, has arrived and taken possession.
May 17 .- O. Tenney, of Fabius, N. Y. ar- rived Friday in St. Cloud, which he in- tends making his future home. Mr. Ten- ney is the principal proprietor of the town- site of Rockville.
L. Gorton & Co. are shipping large quantities of flour to Chicago,
Maple molasses is offered for sale in the city by farmers at $1.50 to $2.00 per gal- lon.
May 31 .- A gentleman from Faribault says that a colony of twenty families will leave Rice county in a few weeks to settle on homesteads in the vicinity of Sauk Centre.
The cars on the St. Paul and Pacific railroad began running Monday to Big
Lake. This lessens the stage travel by ten miles.
Married, at Fair Haven, May 22, by the Rev. T. C. Partridge, James B. Vander- voort and Velno M. Partridge. May 24, by the Rev. J. N. Thresher, Richard Van- dervoort and Alma C. Webb.
R. Thomas & Co., of Sauk Centre, have purchased a stock of goods and will open a store in that flourishing town.
June 7 .- N. P. Clarke's train of forty- three teams returned from Georgetown Tuesday and started next day for Big Lake fully loaded with wheat.
Over seventy sheep have been killed and a large number wounded at Maine Prairie by wolves or dogs.
Lieut. J. R. Howard has now a flock of 400 fine sheep on his farm at Sauk Centre and continues to make additions by pur- chase. Sauk Centre can soon boast of hav- ing one of the largest and best flocks of sheep in Northern Minnesota. Nothing pays better.
Among those going from this neighbor- hood with Capt. Fisk's expedition to the Montana gold mines are E. W. and C. F. Sims, H. B. Steele, P. Beaupre, R. Leech; John Farwell, of Maine Prairie; B. F. But- ler, Fair Haven; George Mayhew and W. Fletcher, Sauk Rapids; W. A. Watson, Thomas Van Etten, Ed and James Gar- lington, these with others taking 100 teams and all purchased their supplies in St. Cloud.
The city council is considering the mat- ter of requiring saloonkeepers to pay a license. There are now 22 saloons in St. Cloud.
There are five brothers in the Holes fam- ily, four of whom live at the mouth of Sauk river, two miles above St. Cloud. The tallest, William, measures six feet six inches in height in his stocking feet; the shortest, Samuel, six feet two inches, while their combined weight is 1,160 pounds. We call that "going some."
June 14 .- O. Tenney has been appointed postmaster at Rockville vice J. R. Weaver, resigned.
Joseph Zimmerman, of St. Jo., returned last week from Germany, accompanied by twenty-one settlers, who will locate in the neighborhood of St. Jo. The immigration to this part of the state has not been ex- ceeded during any previous season. The
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St. Paul Press estimates that 1,000 fam- ilies have moved into the Sauk Valley country this year, and this is believed to be conservative.
June 21 .- Amos Robideau has a contract for regularly sprinkling Washington ave- nue and St. Germain street-St. Cloud's first sprinkling contract.
H. C. Waite and N. P. Clarke have each purchased a one-third interest in the Cold Spring flouring mill, now in course of erec- tion, which will have four run of stone, P. B. Thompson has the other one-third interest. Another run of stone with addi- tional machinery is being put in the Union mills, near St. Cloud. Arnold & Sim's mill at the mouth of Sauk river, is to have two new run of four-foot stone, and an addition, 25x50, is under construction.
June 28 .- L. W. Collins and Seagrave Smith have opened a law office in this city.
Henry Broker is putting up a large store room at Richmond.
A well-behaved young buffalo passed through town last week with the Red river train.
During the past week the price of wheat has fluctuated greatly, declining from $1.25 to $1.05.
J. K. Noyes, of Fair Haven, has the con- tract for carrying the mail from St. Cloud to Fair Haven and H. H. Herbert, of this city, a contract on the route from St. Cloud via Alexandria to Pembina.
July 5 .- The Red River Brigade consist- ing this season of about 1,200 carts passed through town last week. They are loaded principally with buffalo-robes and other furs.
An artillery company was organized Fri- day evening with C. D. Kerr, captain; A. C. Gowdy, first lieutenant; M. Obert, sec- ond lieutenant; C. Lueg, third lieutenant; H. Lunkenheimer, ensign; M. Mickley, or- derly sergeant.
July 19 .- H. C. Burbank, of this city, has received the contract for furnishing 3,000 barrels of flour for troops in this state, at $10.17 per barrel.
August 2 .- Governor Marshall has ap- pointed Capt. James M. McKelvy, of St. Cloud, judge of the new judicial district, the 7th.
All incomes above $600 are taxed by the general government. Those paying taxes on incomes exceeding $1,000 are H. C. Bur-
bank, tax $220; N. P. Clarke, $140; T. C. McClure, $95.35; W. B. Mitchell, $86.80; H. C. Waite, $77.25; J. P. Wilson, $100.95; Jos. Linneman, St. Jo., $50.
August 16 .- Peter Loso has sold his saw and grist mill at St. Jo. to Ferdinand Danzl and George Dalmyer for $4,000.
Common frame store-rooms are now rent- ing at $50 and $75 per month, owing to the scarcity of such buildings.
Sauk Centre has a handsome location and one highly favorable for building a town. It has every indication of being a thriving place. Alexander Moore, the pro- prietor of the town-site, has a saw mill and a grist mill, both driven by an excel- lent water power on Sauk river. Both run night and day. On the main street Mr. Moore has also a large store, and just across the street the firm of Linnemann & Capser does a thriving business. S. Pen- dergast has a store and is the postmaster. R. Thomas & Co., are a new firm, but are building up a good business. There are two hotels, the principal one being kept by P. T. Safford. The town has a cabinet factory, blacksmith, wagon and cooper shops, a tailor shop and other trades are represented. George Grover & Co. are building a brewery. M. Ladd, of St. Cloud, is making brick. There are three lawyers, N. H. Miner, O. W. James, and A. W. La- throp, and Dr. B. R. Palmer, formerly of St. Cloud, is the practicing physician. More than fifty families, having for the most part comfortable homes, make up the population of this growing and prosperous young town.
August 23 .- T. C. McClure, of this city, has purchased a half interest in the saw and grist mills and water power at Sauk Centre.
A flock of 460 sheep, brought by Rock- well and Smith from Missouri, was taken through town Tuesday bound for Rich- mond.
A. J. Reed, lately of the Winona Demo- crat, has purchased the St. Cloud Times and taken possession.
Buffalo have been killed this year in the Big Stone lake region, within 150 miles of St. Cloud, the first time in many years that these shaggy monsters have been so near us.
J. R. Weaver, of Rockville, raised on one acre of land this year four tons of
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timothy and clover hay. This settles the question as to whether timothy and clover can be successfully grown in this climate.
September 6 .- The first train over the St. Paul and Pacific railroad to reach St. Cloud arrived at the depot on the east side Saturday.
The coach line to Minneapolis has been discontinued and the coaches will be used on lines in the southern part of the state.
September 13 .- The formal celebration of the completion of the railroad to St .. Cloud took place today, with appropriate ceremonies.
With today's issue the Democrat became the St. Cloud Journal, enlarged to nine columns to the page and printed on a cylinder press-St. Cloud thus having the first power press to be used in Northern Minnesota.
September 27 .- R. M. Richardson has re- ceived his commission as postmaster at St. Cloud and will take possession next week.
Middendorf & Brunning, of Richmond, have just shipped to the east 8,000 pounds of butter, 300 dozen eggs, 600 pairs of country-knit socks and other articles taken in at their store.
The Rev. Noah Lathrop has been ap- pointed by the annual conference of the Methodist church pastor at St. Cloud; Sauk Centre to be supplied by the Rev. G. W. McComber. The Rev. C. G. Griswold was appointed presiding elder of the district and will retain his home in St. Cloud.
October 4 .- Two trains daily are now run between St. Cloud and St. Paul, one ar- riving here at 12:15 noon and the other at 6:55 p. m. The morning train makes the run from St. Paul in four hours and fifteen minutes and the other in four hours and fifty-five minutes; distance 75 miles.
C. A. Gilman has been appointed receiver of the St. Cloud land office to succeed W. B. Mitchell.
The post office has been removed to B. Overbeck's building on Richmond avenue, next door to the Minnesota house. J. M. Rosenberger will be postmaster Richard- son's deputy.
October 18 .- T. C. Partridge has sold his saw mill at Fair Haven to O. D. Webb for $3,000. Mr. Webb is repairing the mill and putting in machinery for the manufacture of staves.
J. J. Hill's advertisement as "General
Transportation Agent" at St. Paul appears in the columns of the Journal.
November 8 .- The telegraph line from St. Paul to St. Cloud was completed last last week and we are now in electric com- munication with the rest of the world.
T. B. Stanley, of Maine Prairie, brought in a bear weighing 250 pounds net, which had been killed by his son.
Many deer are being killed. D. A. Hoyt, of Maine Prairie, has shot fifty thus far this fall. John B. Inman, a boy of eighteen, killed three last week near Maine Prairie.
John Moore's store at Paynesville was entered on the night of the 2nd and a quantity of goods stolen. The post office, which was in the same building, was robbed.
November 22 .- The Northwestern Ex- press Company, which has an office at St. Cloud, has been sold by J. C. Burbank & Co., to the American Express company. It was founded in 1851 by J. C. Burbank. N. Gilbert remains as agent at St. Cloud.
J. S. Randolph, of Faribault, has pur- chased a tract of land near Paynesville on which he will open a large stock farm in the spring.
The first sale of school lands in Stearns county took place at the court house in this city, beginning November 9, and was conducted by State Auditor McIlrath. The sales amounted to 2,253 acres, for $15,657, being an average of $6.96 per acre. The greatest portion of the school lands in Sauk Centre township was withdrawn from sale for the present.
Married, at Clearwater, at the residence of the bride's father by the Rev. W. B. Dada, George T. Cambell and Mattie Whit- temore.
December 6 .- Jacob Rieder, of Watab river, seven miles from St. Cloud, died at the advanced age of one hundred years and ten days.
Capt. H. Tilden and R. L. Scott have leased the Stearns house.
A supper Thanksgiving evening for the benefit of the Rev. E. V. Campbell realized $200.
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