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1867.
January 3 .- Murphy & Spencer, of this place, have exported over 7,000 muskrat pelts the past year more than any other city in the state.
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During the past year deeds for town lots were recorded as follows: St. Cloud, 230; Sauk Centre, 71; Fair Haven, 11; Cold Spring, 10; Clearwater, 9; Richmond, 5; St. Joseph, 3; Paynesville, 1.
It is a punishable offense to kill deer after January 1. Let hunters beware.
January 17 .- Married, on the 15th inst., at the residence of Capt. William Smith, near Sauk Rapids, by the Rev. Mr. Hall, Mr. Ezra Smith and Miss Mary A. Shepard.
January 24 .- The bell on the Catholic church at St. Cloud was the first bell hung in the state west of the Mississippi river.
The receipts of the firemen's ball last week were $214, netting $125.20.
A large Catholic college has been built within a few miles of St. Joe, in this coun- ty, which is a credit to the entire section. It is 46x50 feet, three stories high, and is built entirely of stone. The work was superintended by the Rev. Father Haindel.
Joseph Edelbrock has sold his frame dwelling house, on the same lot as his store, to John Rengel, Jr., who is moving it away. The "old court house" part has been sold to Mr. R.'s father and it is also being removed. We understand that Mr. Edelbrock intends erecting a large brick block on that corner next spring.
A supper for the benefit of the Rev. Noah Lathrop, at Broker's hall Friday, brought in net cash receipts of $130 and $50 in pro- visions.
The Sauk Valley News is the name of a paper established at Sauk Centre by George W .. Mclaughlin.
C. A. Gilman's saw mill on the east side has been rebuilt and is in operation.
January 31 .- A remonstrance against the proposed division of Stearns county is be- ing circulated and numerously signed.
Capt. C. Gould has been elected by the legislature surveyor of logs and lumber for this district.
A donation party held at the residence of D. A. Hoyt, Maine Prairie, Monday night for the benefit of the poor on the Prairie, brought in $116 in cash and provisions.
February 14 .- Wheat is now $1.50 per bushel; corn, $1.25; oats, 75c; potatoes, 30c; kerosene oil, $1 per gallon.
February 28 .- The large frame building in lower town, known as the "old Baptist church," has been purchased by Henry
and E. M. Tobey, William Thompson and Thomas Simonton.
A lecture for the benefit of the Library association, was delivered at the Presby- terian church Saturday evening by the Rev. Dr. McMasters, of St. Paul, on "The Peculiar Advantages of New Countries."
March 7 .- W. Wirtthe, lately of Hast- ings, passed through the city Monday on his way to Sauk Centre, where he will open a drug store.
Charles Sylvester, of Sauk Centre, has purchased the machinery of the Clark & Dam sash, door and blind factory and will take it to that place. H. Gager is building a block of stores at Sauk Centre. The Rev. A. K. Fox, pastor of the Congregational church at Sauk Centre, is about to open a drug store in that lively town.
March 14 .- John Denton has sold his en- tire stock of goods to S. W. Turner, of Cold Spring, to which place it will be taken.
H. C. Burbank has been appointed re- ceiver of the St. Cloud land office, vice C. A. Gilman.
A Good Templars lodge was organized in this city Friday evening.
March 21 .- Fair Haven boasts twins, thirteen years of age, whose united weight is 360 pounds.
William Dickinson, engineer, and A. E. Hussey, millwright, returned yesterday after completing and setting in motion Hicks & Cowing's large saw mill at Alex- andria.
March 28 .- The snow is from two to three feet on the level in this part of the state.
The grain market continues to advance; wheat is $2.00 and $2.15 at St. Cloud, and in some cases as high as $2.25 has been paid. Flour is quoted at $12 per barrel at St. Joe, and scarce at that. At Sauk Cen- tre the deliveries of wheat are so light that Moore's mill is running only a third of the time. Oats share in the high prices, bringing 95c to $1.00 per bushel.
Henry Gager, Sidney Irish, J. C. Bord- well, Jr., and George Salmond, with the pastor, have been elected trustees of the First Presbyterian church at Sauk Centre.
April 7 .- The first publication of the gen- eral laws of the state, in supplement form, by the papers of the state, is made at this time.
Carl Herberger & Brother will soon be-
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gin the erection of a large brewery, near their vinegar manufactory.
April 11 .- Joseph Simonton has pur- chased the Sauk Centre News of George W. McLaughlin and will continue its pub- lication.
May 2 .- Burglars effected an entrance to the court house Wednesday night, visiting most of the offices. They burst the lock off the safe in the treasurer's office, but found no money, Treasurer Schroeder hav- . ing taken the county cash home with him.
The prisoner Nelson made his escape from jail last night by prying open the door with a piece of scantling which he tore from the inside of his cell. He left a good-bye note for the sheriff.
May 9 .- The Maine Prairie Library asso- ciation received a case of standard works Monday from New York.
R. P. Edson has opened a real estate agency at Sauk Centre and J. E. Finch & Co., recently of Hastings, have opened a fine drug store in that lively town.
May 23 .- Burglars broke into S. S. Pin- ney's bank Monday night and forcing open the safe carried off the till containing $175.55, besides scrip and other papers. Fortunately, Mr. Pinney had taken the bulk of the money to his house the evening before.
H. L. Gordon has removed to St. Cloud and formed a law partnership with L. W. Collins.
L. A. Evans, who had resigned as judge of probate because of a question arising from the fact of his also being a member of the state senate, has been reappointed by Governor Marshall.
May 30 .- Workmen are engaged upon the new Congregational church to be built on Fifth street just below Dr. Hunter's resi- dence. Estimated cost, $3,500; W. T. Clark, contractor.
June 6 .- The Catholics of St. Augusta have just received a fine bell, weighing 1,600 pounds, for their church.
June 13 .- Capt. L. W. Collins, who is county attorney of Stearns county, has been appointed by the county commission- ers of Sherburne county attorney for that county also.
The contract for digging six wells for the city, to be used in case of fire, has been awarded to J. O. Crommett at $140 each.
The base ball mania has reached St.
Cloud, which got into the fashion by or- ganizing a club, to be known as the St. Cloud Base Ball club, and the constitution of the Empire club of New York was adopted.
June 27 .- On Saturday last D. Y. Smith shipped from this city $20,000 worth of furs. This is the largest shipment that ever went out of this place.
July 11 .- J. G. Smith & Co., of Jefferson county, New York, have begun the erec- tion of a fine brick building on St. Germain street, the lower story to be finished off for a bank and the upper into offices.
Two prisoners escaped from the Stearns county "jail" Friday night by tearing up the floor and digging their way out.
The long established and wealthy firm of J. C. Burbank & Co., comprising the Minnesota Stage Co., has been dissolved by the withdrawal of Mr. Burbank and Col. Merriam. A new firm consisting of Capt. R. Blakely and C. W. Carpenter has taken charge of the widely extended business. The important part this company has played in the development of Minnesota renders this an event of historical impor- tance.
July 18 .- Tenney & Mitchell, proprietors of the town of Rockville, have sold the hotel building and the block of lots on which it stands to Peter Lommel. Mr. Lommel intends putting up a new hotel, a store and a blacksmith shop.
July 25 .- The Rev. Rupert Seidenbush, O. S. B. Abbot, announces that St. John's college, under the charge of the Benedic- tine Fathers of the Abbey of St. Louis on the Lake, situated in the most healthy part of Minnesota, will begin its half-yearly course of studies September 2. The post- office address given is Clinton, Stearns county, Minn.
A post of the G. A. R. was organized in this place last night. Col. Charles L. Kerr was elected post commander; Capt. L. W. Collins, senior vice-commander; Mayor W. F. Morse, adjutant; Capt. J. E. West, quar- termaster.
Wheat is $1.20; oats, $1.00; corn, $1.40; rye, $1.00; barley, 90c, and $1.00; butter, 30c; eggs, 30c; pork, 8c to 81/2c; beef, 3c to 4c; kerosene oil, 90c per gallon.
September 12 .- E. P. Barnum, late sutler at Fort Abercrombie, has taken possession
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of the Sauk Centre hotel and will expend $3,000 in making improvements.
Burbank Bros. have the contract for transporting the Hudson Bay Company's goods the coming year.
Dr. A. E. Senkler returned last week from Canada with his bride.
The fire cisterns on St. Germain street are being dug. Water is obtained at an average depth of 26 feet.
The telegraph office at this place, the terminus of the Northwestern line, is doing a paying business. G. C. W. Richardson is in charge.
September 19 .- The Bank of St. Cloud, J. G. Smith, announces itself as ready for business.
The contract for the transportation of army goods and supplies throughout the district of Minnesota has been awarded to J. B. Mills & Co., of this city.
The death of Richard Crosby, one of the leading citizens of Winnebago Prairie, oc- curred last week.
September 26 .- The new Baptist church at Fair Haven was dedicated last Sunday. It is the first church building in the town.
October 3 .- The postoffice has been re- moved to the building lately occupied by Anton Smith as a shoe store on Washing- ton avenue above St. Germain street. The telegraph office has been removed to the same building.
Joseph Hill, a well-known photographer from St. Paul, has arrived in St. Cloud and will locate here permanently .. He has pur- chased A. Hull's gallery.
Jim Mckinney escaped from the county "jail" by crawling out under the eaves.
Mrs. George F. Brott died on the 25th ult. at Bay St. Louis, a watering place near New Orleans, of yellow fever.
October 10 .- The Little Giant Fire En- gine company went to St. Paul Tuesday to attend the annual parade of the city department there. The railroad company gave the boys a fare of only $1.00 each way.
October 17 .- The U. S. land office has been removed to Kindler's new brick block on Washington avenue, above St. Germain street, occupying second floor rooms.
The eleventh annual meeting of the Gen- eral Conference of the Congregational. churches of Minnesota was held in the Congregational church in this city last
week, opening with a sermon Thursday evening by the Rev. Mr. Hart, late of Andover, Mass. Sixty ministers and dele- gates were present.
Married, at Burbank, by the Rev. J. L. Whitla, Wesley Carter, of St. Cloud, and Martha D. Johnson, of Burbank. October 16, at the residence of the bride, by the Rev. J. H. Creighton, A. J. Whitney, of Maine Prairie, and Ella Clark, of St. Cloud.
October 31 .- F. H. Dam has begun work on a large planing mill and sash, door and blind factory on Washington avenue, north of the ravine bridge.
A postoffice called Brockway has been established at Winnebago Prairie.
George F. Winter, of Sauk Centre, has purchased of Alex. Moore a lot in that town for $1,200, on which he will erect a double store building.
There are 57 school districts in Stearns county, with 18 frame and 15 log school houses, 1,794 male and 1,784 female per- sons of school age, 30 male and 42 female teachers.
November 28 .- Services in the new Con- gregational church began last Sunday with the Rev. George J. Wood pastor pro tem.
The Congregational church at Sauk Cen- tre, the Rev. A. K. Fox pastor, was for- mally dedicated Sunday.
The Sauk Centre academy will open De- cember 2, under the care of the Rev. D. W. Evans, assisted by Miss R. Spencer, with Mrs. B. R. Palmer in charge of the music department.
December 12 .- A new school house has been completed at Richmond which is a credit to the place. It is of stone, 28x40, two stories high.
John Coates has inclosed on Lake George the largest skating rink in the state.
E. C. Smith is now selling ladies' buffalo shoes at $1 a pair.
December 19 .- The Rev. A. Gale, of St. Anthony, organized a Baptist church at Sauk Centre on the 8th inst., and preached the recognition sermon. There are now four Baptist churches in the Sauk valley.
Judge Hamlin is to deliver a lecture at Maine Prairie tomorrow evening, under the auspices of the Library association of that place. The next lecture will be delivered by Gen. C. C. Andrews, and others are to follow.
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1868.
January 16 .- The new flouring mill at Melrose, one of the best in the state, has been put in operation. Major Clark was in town this week to purchase plank with which to raise the dam three feet higher, giving a head of water twelve and a half feet. The mill has a capacity of seventy- five barrels per day. The proprietors, E. & W. H. Clark, intend putting up a saw mill in the spring.
A total of 137 marriage certificates and 581 naturalization certificates were issued in this county in the year 1867.
The First ward wants to secede from the incorporation and legislative action will be sought.
January 23 .- Albert Moffatt, of Hudson, Mich., arrived last week with his family to take the position of assistant cashier of the Bank of St. Cloud.
February 27 .- A snow storm which be- gan Saturday, continuing for over twenty- four hours, so blockaded the railroad that trains from St. Paul were unable to reach here until midnight of the following Wednesday. Another storm, the following week, resulted in another blockade, lasting for another four days.
March 5 .- A. J. Stanton, of Clearwater, has purchased the Sims Brothers' interest in the flouring mills at the mouth of Sauk river, two miles above this place.
A concert for the benefit of the Library association netted $94.65.
March 19 .- Messrs. McKelvy, Moore and Kerr have purchased of Jeremiah Russell, for $3,600, a tract of thirty-six acres on the east side of the river, extending from Wilson's to Wright's ferries. It is touched by the eastern end of the new wagon bridge.
Gorton & Burbank have sold their water power with what improvements are left remaining after the late fire to P. B. Thompson, of Cold Spring for $5,000. We understand that Mr. Thompson will put a first-class mill on this location.
March 26 .-- A. Montgomery has been ap- pointed deputy collector of internal reve- nue at this place, vice A. B. Curry resigned.
April 2 .- H. J. Fowler has rented E. M. Tobey's saw mill for the present year.
The contract for all the government transportation to the posts in Minnesota
and in the department of Dakota this side of the Missouri river has been awarded to J. C. Burbank & Co. The contract is a very heavy one. Burbank Bros., of this city, will have the principal charge of the business.
The first issue of the Sauk Rapids Sen- tinel made its appearance Saturday under the management of George W. Benedict.
The ice in the Mississippi began moving Monday, but did not start in earnest until Tuesday. The train from St. Paul had just arrived and the passengers for St. Cloud had started to cross the ice on foot when it began to heave and finally to move with them. It was a close call, as there was an open space of fifty feet between the ice and the shore, but a skiff was found and all reached land in safety.
The state and general fund apportion- ment for 1868 gave Stearns county $2,740.70 for its 3,544 scholars, being $0.771/3 each. There were sixty school districts in the county.
April 9 .- The new charter incorporating the city of St. Cloud, and repealing all acts of incorporation as a town, is published.
George H. Spencer is assignee of Deni- son & Fox and T. W. Denison, of St. Cloud, voluntary bankrupts, this being the first case of bankruptcy in Stearns county.
April 30 .- The government transporta- tion headquarters and depot for supplies have been definitely located at St. Cloud, with Major Robinson, quartermaster, and Major Walker, paymaster, in charge.
The Arctic Base Ball club held an elec- tion Friday evening with the following re- sult: Dr. A. E. Senkler, president; Wil- liam Mullikin, vice-president; Capt. L. W. Collins, secretary; Henry Lunkenheimer, treasurer; Dr. W. M. Burchard, E. M. Wright and J. B. Abbott, directors.
May 7 .- Tobey's saw mill has been rented by N. P. Clarke, who will run it during the season.
All who come from Sauk Centre speak encouragingly of its prosperity. New buildings are going up and the spirit of improvement seems to pervade the entire community. Among the comparatively new business houses opening up and pros- pering there are Philip Frank, clothing; Lamb & Myrick, dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes; Bennett & Cole, hardware ex- clusively.
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Dr. A. E. Senkler has been appointed pension examiner for this locality.
May 21 .- A half-breed who had been in- stalled in the county jail Friday night, at six o'clock the following morning forced the door open and walked off, carrying away on his shoulders the bed on which he had slept the night before-thus clearly rendering himself liable for rearrest on the charge of grand larceny.
Died, in St. Cloud, May 18, of typhoid pneumonia, Chester Waite, aged 62 years.
Over two hundred teams have left St. Cloud during the past fortnight loaded with government supplies and Hudson Bay Company goods. One train of forty-two ox and six mule teams started for Fort Wads- worth, Dakota Territory, carrying oats ex- clusively, each team taking 140 bushels.
June 18 .- George H. Spencer, who had already on hand 30,000 muskrat skins and 200 mink skins, received this week from Tanner, Briggs & Co., of Little Falls, in one lot, 46,000 muskrats, 680 mink, 45 otter, 25 bear and 70 beaver skins, amounting in value to $11,000.
J. C. Burbank & Co.'s train brought through from Georgetown 1,380 buffalo robes, valued at over $8,000, belonging to the Hudson Bay Company and shipped to England in bond.
July 23 .- A new post office has been es- tablished at Leedston, about eight miles above Richmond, on the stage road, with Jos. Zimmerman, who keeps the hotel, postmaster.
Charles Plunkett, manager of the opera house at St. Paul and Minneapolis, is giv- ing St. Cloud its first theatrical season, the plays being staged at the court house, with fifty cents general admission.
S. H. Parsons has been appointed agent of the American Express Company, vice A. N. Gilbert.
July 23 .- E. C. Carns started Tuesday morning for White Earth lake, in the Chip- pewa country. He goes as the agent of Messrs. Clarke & Burbank, of this city, to attend to the distribution of rations to the Indians, for which this firm has the contract.
Joseph Coyette has brought to St. Cloud for the benefit of the thirsty its first soda fountain.
August 20 .- Stearns county had its first circus in 1868, when Jones, Kitch & Co.'s
"Great Northwestern Circus, the Undi- vided, Unabridged and Most Complete Circus," with all the rest of the assort- ment of bewildering adjectives which pre- cede and accompany circuses, made its ap- pearance at St. Cloud August 14.
Peter Lommel, the mail contractor on the St. Cloud and Rockville route, adver- tises a passenger and express service be- tween the two places.
August 27 .- Waite & Clarke's new stone grist mill at Cold Spring, built at a cost of $30,000 will be ready to begin work next week. ,
Ostrander & Co., of Illinois, who recently located at Paynesville, have begun work on a new grist mill at that place.
Married, at Maine Prairie, August 22, by Elder B. U. Watkins, David B. Standley and Emma G. Allen, both of Maine Prairie. At Clearwater, August 24, by the Rev. J. D. G. Stearns, Samuel Whiting, Jr., and Anna M. Mayo, all of Clearwater.
S. B. Pinney, of St. Cloud, has received the contract for furnishing the government with 300,000 pounds of corn at 8734 cents per bushel.
Late advices state that the grasshoppers have completely destroyed the crops in the Red River settlements, and as the buf- falo hunt has been a total failure the peo- ple there are facing the prospect of severe want if not starvation.
James Cambell, of Clearwater, started last week for Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he is to take charge of the hotel depart- ment of Vassar College.
September 10 .- N. Richardson, of Little Falls, has purchased of the Messrs. Holes the ferry boat at the mouth of Sauk river. It will be hung on the Mississippi about half a mile above Little Falls for the ac- commodation of travel between that place and N. P. Clarke's mills at Little Elk.
Word has been received of the death in a hospital at Louisville, Ky., of "Presi- dent" (or "Live Forever") Leonard Jones, an eccentric character who was a familiar figure in and about St. Cloud during the late 50's. He always insisted that he was the lawfully elected president of the United States and was fond of writing letters to the members of the cabinet. One of his chief characteristics was personal vanity, or rather an inordinate love for con- spicuousness, and whenever opportunity
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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.
February 18 .- The First Minnesota regi- ment arrived in St. Paul Monday, and had. an enthusiastic reception. A number of the boys who enlisted from St. Cloud and vicinity are at their homes.
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.
The Methodists are having the lumber hauled for their new church, which is to 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. Jolin 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.
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