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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.
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.
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