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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 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 and is safely stowed away.
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 lie 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.
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. 1/4 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.
John 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.
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