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The first teachers' institute held in Stearns county met in the normal school building in St. Cloud, August 30, 1869, continuing in session five days. It was under the direct charge of Prof. Ira Moore and Prof. J. Tenney.
September 23 .- A convention of home- opathic physicians met in St. Cloud on the 15th to form a society for Stearns and adjoining counties. C. S. Weber, of St. Cloud, was chosen president; W. Hinner, of St. Augusta, vice-president; Wm. Prosch, of Fair Haven, secretary; and Adolph Hoggeman, of St. Cloud, treasurer. Dr. Weber was elected a delegate to attend the state Homeopathic convention.
October 7 .- D. J. Hanscom, of Eden Lake, was in town last week purchasing lumber, a stove, etc., for a new schoolhouse in that town.
October 14 .- It is a creditable fact that at the two best hotels in St. Cloud-the Central and Fletcher-no liquor is sold. We wish we could say the same for all the rest.
The Rev. Noah Lathrop, of Paynesville, succeeds the Rev. C. Griswold as presiding elder of the Methodist church of this dis- trict.
Contracts have been awarded by the government to E. C. Carns for 2,000 bushels of corn in the ear deliverable at Fort Ransom, D. T., at $3.61 per sack; and to E. & W. H. Clark, Melrose, to deliver 29,400 lbs. flour at Fort Abercrombie, D. T., at $8.60, and the same quantity at Fort Wadsworth, D. T., at $9.15 per sack of 196 lbs.
October 28 .- Messrs. Waite, Clarke & McClure, of this city, have purchased of Alex. Moore, of Sauk Centre, his interest in the late firm of Moore & McClure. This purchase includes the saw and grist mills, store, pine lands, etc., and amounts to almost $100,000.
November 11 .- Married, at Clearwater, November 9, by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, Richard D. Bloomfield, of St. Cloud, and Miss Nellie Whittemore, of Clearwater.
December 2 .- J. F. Hayward has pur- chased the entire interest of his partner, P. B. Thompson, in the flouring mill on Sauk river, and in the feed store in this city.
General M. T. Thomas will return in the spring to complete the stone dam across the Mississippi river, near the mouth of Sauk river, extending across to Sauk Rapids.
The Maine Prairie lyceum will hold its first meeting for the season on the 17th inst., when there will be a debate between the protectionists and free traders. The protectionist side will be maintained by Samuel Young and the free trade by E. H. Atwood, although there may be other speakers.
December 16 .- There has been a flurry in the pork market the past week, prices ranging from 9 to 11 cents. During the week the sum of $10,400 has been paid by St. Cloud buyers for dressed pork, Coates & Freeman leading with twenty- five tons.
December 23 .- The old Baptist church in lower town, which was begun on an immense scale some ten years ago, has been bought by Jos. Steurer, who is tearing it down intending to use the lumber in building a barn. He afterwards sold it to Paynesville parties to be used in the erec- tion of a Methodist church at that place.
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January 13 .- T. C. McClure has been appointed receiver of the U. S. land office at this place, vice H. C. Burbank, resigned.
A fine frame schoolhouse has been com- pleted in the town of Paynesville and will be ready for the opening of school in about a week.
February 10 .- A party of surveyors are now surveying the country between here and Superior for the Northern Pacific R. R.
L. B. Raymond has been appointed post- master at the new office of Nuey City, in the township of Raymond.
The Congregational church at Sauk Cen- tre received a silver-plated communion service from the Rev. G. D. Pike, of New
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York, brother of the pastor, the Rev. A. J. Pike.
February 24 .- H. C. Burbank has re- ceived the contract for all government sup- plies for the forts in Minnesota and Da- kota north and east of the Missouri river.
The bill incorporating the German Read- ing society at St. Cloud passed the house Monday.
Bishop Watkins preached a sermon Sun- day morning at Maine Prairie on "The Proper Organization of the Church of Christ," after which he organized a church. Services were held in the afternoon by Elder Thresher and in the evening by Elder Parker.
H. C. Burbank, of this city, and A. H. Wilder, of St. Paul, have secured the contract to transport all the government supplies to all forts in Minnesota and Da- kota. This will entail an unusual amount of business, most of which will pass through St. Cloud.
March 3 .- The house has passed the sen- ate bill authorizing the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad company to extend its branch line from St. Cloud to Sauk Centre and Alex- andria to the Red river.
George W. Sweet has been engaged by the Northern Pacific R. R. to explore and deliver supplies on the extreme northern line of their surveys.
About 75 tons of supplies for the North- ern Pacific R. R. have been received at this place so far and forwarded to Gull lake. Clarke & Waite are attending to the transportation of the goods.
March 24 .- C. Bridgman has sold the boilers in his upper mill-to make room fore new ones-to Clemens Kost, of Rich- mond, who will put them into a saw mill there.
April 7 .- The dam at the Union mills, on Sauk river, about three miles from St. Cloud, was carried out Saturday by a large accumulation of ice. J. E. Hayward, the owner of the mill, will rebuild the dam.
When the ice in the Mississippi went out Tuesday it damaged Bridgman's mill to the extent of $1,200.
The Anzeiger suspended publication this week.
April 21 .- Mrs. Jane G. Swisshelm and daughter arrived in the city Friday from Pittsburgh to remain during the summer.
Married, at Sauk Centre, at the resi-
dence of the bride's father, by the Rev. George Stewart, J. H. Simonton and Jen- nie M. Stabler.
May 26 .- Arnold & Stanton have received a contract for supplying the government with 15,000 pounds of flour at St. Paul, at $2.07 per cwt., and 16,000 pounds at this place at $1.87 per cwt.
Lancaster & Carr have started a new sash factory at Sauk Centre.
Paynesville displayed its temperance sentiment by casting 23 votes against 12 for license.
June 16 .- A train of 85 Red river carts arrived here Tuesday, 60 of which were loaded with valuable furs belonging to the Hudson Bay Company, which were being shipped in bond to London. There were 274 bales of fine robes, 150 bales of buffalo robes being left at Georgetown. Among the furs shipped were fifty of the finest silver-gray fox skins, valued at $8,000. These carts came from the Saskatchewan country, some 400 miles beyond Fort Garry, and this is their first trip to the United States, six weeks being consumed in the journey. They made large purchases in St. Cloud.
Contracts for carrying the mails from St. Cloud have been let as follows: To Princeton and Fort Ripley, O. F. Bentley, St. Cloud; to St. Augusta, Henry Siefert, of St. Augusta; to Fort Abercrombie, W. D. Bronson, of Stillwater; to Fair Haven, John Cooper, of St. Cloud; to Rockville, Alois Lommel, of Rockville; to Crow Wing, W. J. Gridley, of Superior.
June 23 .- Work has been begun on the extension of the telegraph line from this city to Crow Wing, which will be the terminus for the present.
General Phil Sheridan was in St. Cloud this morning, on his way from Fort Ste- vens, coming via Forts Totten and Aber- crombie. He was met here by General Hancock and members of his staff, all going to St. Paul this afternoon.
July 21 .- The stages now leave Sauk Centre at four o'clock in the morning, stopping for breakfast at New Munich, and reaching here in time for the afternoon train for St. Paul.
While John Clark, a resident of Sauk Centre, was bathing Sunday in Sauk Lake, he got into a deep hole and, not being a swimmer, was drowned.
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Dr. W. R. Hunter will move his shingle mill from Manannah to Lake Karonis, near Paynesville.
St. Cloud pays the principal of her pub- lic school as much as St. Anthony does, and the other teachers about fifty per cent more. As a result we can count on having better teachers.
Married, in St. Cloud, July 17, by the Rev. W. W. Satterlee, Daniel H. Freeman and Clara H. Hayward, both of St. Cloud.
August 11 .- D. B. Stanley, of Maine Prairie, has purchased C. F. Earnfight's stock of goods, and the latter has left the Prairie.
John R. Clark started Monday for Pen- bina with twenty-five carpenters to put up the buildings, twelve in number, at the new fort, George H. Thomas, for which he has the contract.
Wright & Parker have leased the Sauk Centre Hotel from E. P. Barnum.
John Becker shipped Tuesday to Geo. L. Becker, president of the St. Paul and Pa- cific railroad, two watermelons raised on his farm which weighed forty-eight pounds. Who says that Stearns county can't raise big fruit?
The first birth thus far recorded with the city clerk was on Monday, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. George H. Spencer, July 30. There is a fine of $20 for neglect to register births and deaths.
September 1 .- John Hayward, Jr., who came to Minnesota in 1854, settling at Win- nebago Prairie, where he remained until 1861, when he removed to St. Cloud, which became subsequently his home, died in this city August 26, aged 42 years and 3 months.
L. Robbers found Saturday $50 in green- backs which the mice had purloined and used in making a nest.
A. W. Chase has sold his hotel in Sauk Rapids, the Russell House, to Messrs. Ira Cushman and Justus Carpenter, of Ann Arbor, Mich., who will take possession in about a month.
September 15. - The new Methodist church at Sauk Rapids will be dedicated this evening, the Rev. Noah Lathrop, P. E., conducting the services.
October 6 .- William H. Wood, who came to Sauk Rapids nineteen years ago and was one of the best known citizens of
this part of the state, died at his home in that place September 27, aged 53 years.
The Germans of this place have sub- scribed $150 (and the amount is being daily added to) for the relief of the widows and orphans of their old-world countrymen, re- sulting from the Franco-Prussian war.
The apportionment of state school funds gave $1.23 2-5 to each of the 5,020 scholars in Stearns county.
Melrose is reported as making good growth. Noah Freeman, Stilman Ayres, Louis Montbrind and D. B. McDonald are among those who have put up attractive new houses; Jos. Moritz has almost com- pleted a large hotel; while the mills, stores and residences of the Messrs. Clark and Alley make Melrose a place that cannot be hidden.
October 20 .- Married, at Paynesville, Oc- tober 10, by the Rev. Robert Hoover, Ed- ward D. Gale and Mary Boylan.
November 17 .- John Milligan, of Pitts- burgh, is here buying all the saddles of venison he can get and shipping them direct to Philadelphia. (Couldn't do that now.)
The formal dedication of the new Con- gregational church took place Sunday even- ing. The first Congregational church of St. Cloud was organized at the Everett schoolhouse, February 16, 1864, by the Rev. W. B. Dada, then pastor of the Congre- gational church at Clearwater, and con- sisted of eleven members. The first pastor was the Rev. Geo. I. Wood, of Connecticut, who preached the regular sermon of the church, November 18, 1867, in the new church, concluding his pastorate June 20, 1869. The Rev. James Tompkins, of Lom- bard, Ill., assumed charge of the church July 18, 1869, continuing one year, when he was succeeded by the present pastor, the Rev. Henry Mills, late of Independence, Iowa. A debt of $3,000 was cleared off before the dedication.
November 24 .- S. B. Pinney, of this city, has the contract for supplying the ties for the Northern Pacific railroad from the east line of Detroit Woods, in Becker county, to the Red river, a distance of seventy miles. About 200,000 ties will be required.
Married, at Fair Haven, November 14, by the Rev. Levi Gleason, Henry Bliler and Lucy Boobar, both of Fair Haven. At Maine Prairie, November 23, by the
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same, Harle A. Bickford and Loie E. Adley, all of Maine Prairie.
December 15 .- At a special election Sat- urday to elect an alderman for the First ward, only nine votes were cast. John H. Owen received them all.
E. Hosmer, of Fayette, Iowa, who had been hunting in Todd county, brought to St. Cloud, Tuesday, thirty-two saddles of venison and four bears. The latter com- prised a family, the old bear and three good-sized cubs. Mr. Hosmer had found them under the root of a tree, and shot each one in the head as it came out. The whole lot was purchased by Cross & Plattes.
December 22 .- The Mississippi river was frozen over last night.
A supper and fair by the ladies of the Presbyterian church at Schwartz & Theis's hall Thursday evening brought in $236.
The total indebtedness of Stearns county consists of three bonds of $880 each, mak- ing a total of $2,640, due in 1873. County orders are cashed by the treasurer when- ever presented.
December 29 .- Last Friday evening a number of friends called on Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Spicer, that being the fifteenth an- niversary of their wedding. Special inter- est was felt from the fact that Mr. and Mrs. Spicer were the first couple married in St. Cloud.
Arrangements have been completed by the Union Library association for a course of six lectures. The first will be the even- ing of January 10th, by Judge Hamlin, on "Joan of Arc." The others will be by the Revs. Mills, Campbell and Satterlee, Prof. Ira Moore and Col. C. D. Kerr.
1871.
January 26 .- The number of reported births in the county in 1870 was 375; deaths, 121. Of the deaths the largest number, 17, were from consumption, the cases of people who had come to Minne- sota from other states with the hope of recovery, but coming too late.
Daniel Spaulding, of Maine Prairie, brought to market an eighteen-months porker weighing 650 pounds dressed.
March 2 .- The course of home lectures, seven in number, concluded last week. Of the lecturers four were ministers, two were lawyers and one a school professor.
At nearly all the lectures the attendance was large. The Library association, under whose auspices they were given, netted about $140 from the course.
March 30 .- Col. Samuel L. Hays, a for- mer receiver of the St. Cloud land office, died at his home in Sauk Rapids on the 25th inst., aged 76 years.
Married, at Fair Haven, March 19, by the Rev. J. K. Thresher, G. W. Dean and Mary E. Vandervoort, both of Fair Haven. At Maine Prairie, March 30, by the Rev. Levi Gleason, Thomas Spaulding and Ida Nelson, both of Maine Prairie.
April 13 .- J. F. Stevenson has purchased of S. B. Pinney the large warehouse on Washington avenue, above St. Germain street, and the old Seminary building in lower town is being taken down and the material used for an addition to the ware- house. The foundry buildings will be in the rear. Wm. Dickinson is associated with Mr. Stevenson, who came here re- cently from Mckeesport, Pa.
Within the past two weeks fifty tons of groceries have gone forward from here to Fergus Falls and Otter Tail county. Five years ago a pair of saddle-bags would have held nearly enough provisions to feed the whole county for a week.
April 13 .- Some of our Holland citizens met last evening and organized a society called the "Onderons." The following offi- cers were elected: H. T. Daendels, presi- dent; John Vandersluis, vice-president; G. A. Vandersluis, secretary.
Davis & Clark, of this city, and Davis, Beal & Co., of Clearwater, have consoli- dated as Davis, Beal & Co. They will continue to operate the Union mills at St. Cloud and the Clearwater mills, as also the two flour and feed stores here.
Henry Hoepner, a prominent business man of St. Cloud, died April 10, aged 38 years.
May 18 .- L. A. Evans has sold the St. Cloud Times to R. W. DeLane, of St. Paul.
A steamboat called the "Betsy Jane" has been put on Sauk lake, and is making regu- lar trips between Sauk Centre and Little Sauk.
June 1 .- John Zapp, county register, placed on record Monday a trust deed from the St. Paul & St. Cloud R. R. for $3,000,- 000. The revenue stamps on this document amounted to $3,001.
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June 8 .- Married, at the Sherman house, Chicago, June 2, by the Rev. W. W. King, the Hon. L. A. Evans and Mrs. Elizabeth W. Libby, all of St. Cloud.
G. R. Fuller, who opened the first black- smith shop in Clearwater sixteen years ago, has removed to St. Cloud.
June 22 .- The fare on the railroad from this place to St. Paul has been reduced to $3.50.
J. H. Linnemann, of St. Joseph, has just completed a fine new grist mill at that place. The machinery was put in by Ste- venson & Co., of this city.
Davis, Beal & Co., of this city, are shipping large quantities of flour to Chi- cago, St. Louis, New York and Philadel- phia. Clarke & Waite are making heavy shipments, mostly to New York, as are also Arnold & Stanton, who are sending theirs to both New York and Chicago. St. Cloud flour stands No. 1 in all these markets, as well as at home.
July 6 .- St. Cloud had its first golden wedding July 4, when Mr. and Mrs. Almer Smith celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Smith were among the first settlers in St. Cloud. The occasion was made a very pleasant one by the many friends who called to offer their congratulations.
The marriage of Wm. Schroeder, of Paynesville, and Tinna Schultz, of Zion, took place June 21, the Rev. Daniel Bel- mont officiating.
July 20 .- A sportsman's club has been organized in this city with the following officers: Dr. C. Schulten, president; R. W. DeLano, vice president; Wm. Mulliken, secretary; B. McCarthy, treasurer. Per- sons having knowledge of any violations of the game laws are requested to report the same to the president of the club.
The "first heat" was run off at the St. Cloud Foundry last Friday.
July 27 .- Dr. J. M. McMasters, of Sauk Centre, has been appointed examining sur- geon for pensions.
Sisson street has been opened through from Second avenue to the Mississippi.
T. C. McClure, of this city, has received a contract for furnishing 500 barrels of flour, at $10.71, per barrel, at Devils' Lake, Dakota, to be made into pan-cakes for the Indians who cluster around that post to
absorb the rations provided for them by their Great Father.
August 3 .- The St. Cloud Rifle Company, with a membership of 101, met Monday and elected the following officers: L. W. Collins, captain; H. W. Van Rensaeler, first lieutenant; Andrew Larson, second lieu- tenant.
A gymnastic club was organized Tues- day evening with the following officers: Dr. A. E. Senkler, president; Prof. D. W. Sprague, vice-president; Richard Smith, secretary; Chas. Fillmore, treasurer.
August 17 .- Two half-breed prisoners, Fred Sherro and Peter Spiritt, after a des- perate struggle with Jailer Gaspard, made their escape from the county jail Sunday morning. A reward of $50 was offered by Sheriff Alden, and a couple of Chippewa Indians who had taken the track found the fugitives near St. Joseph. Both half- breeds took to the brush, the Indians firing and wounding Sherro, who was recaptured and brought back to jail. Spiritt made good his escape.
August 31 .- Burglars entered E. C. Smith & Co.'s store Saturday night and stole $250 worth of boots and shoes. The same night a horse belonging to G. W. Benedict, of Sauk Rapids, and a buggy owned by R. Cronk, of the same place, were stolen. Pursuit was made and Mon- day the horse, buggy and goods were found in the brush near Big Lake. When the parties who made the discovery were about to drive off with the property two men emerged from their concealment near by and coolly ordered them to keep hands off. Not being armed, Pullman and Put- nam, who had made the pursuit, were not prepared to arrest the thieves but re- tained possession of the horse, buggy and goods.
Deacon Leland Cram, who was one of the earliest settlers of Stearns county, died at his home in this city, August 27, in his seventieth year. Coming here from Illinois he entered under the preemption law eighty acres of land, adjoining the original townsite, a part of which he platted as "Cram's addition," and on which he made his home.
September 28. - The new Catholic church at Sauk Centre has been completed and was opened for public worship Thurs-
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day. A fine bell has been purchased for the building.
J. F. Stevenson has removed with his family from Winnebago Prairie to this city.
A new bridge has been built across the ravine near Lake George. It is the best bridge that has yet been built at that place.
Virginia Mason, of this city, and Evelyn A. McKenney, of Maine Prairie, members of the first graduating class of the St. Cloud Normal school, have been engaged for the Sauk Centre school, the winter term of which will begin next week, and Lizzie Barnes will teach in the Maine Prairie schools. The majority of the grad- uating class have already begun work as teachers in the public schools of Northern Minnesota.
November 16 .- George S. Spencer, of Corning, N. Y., and J. H. Rhodes, of Gro- ton, N. Y., have purchased Allen & Rus- sell's stock of drugs, medicines, etc.
A. Moore, of Sauk Centre, has a con- tract for furnishing 100,000 ties along the line of the St. Cloud and Pembina railroad, between Sauk Centre and Osakis.
Col. John Emerson, one of the oldest set- tlers in Northern Minnesota, died suddenly yesterday at his home in this city, aged seventy-five years.
Married, at Minneapolis, November 14, by the Rev. Wm. Wilder, Francis Talcott, of St. Cloud, and Rhoda M. Dewey, of Minneapolis.
December 14 .- A lively business is now being done in the venison trade. Coates & Freeman shipped 400 saddles to Pitts- burgh on Tuesday, and Cross & Plattes shipped 175 on the same day to St. Paul. The total shipments by rail for the past ten days have been 2,000 saddles or about 50 tons, and there are nearly 1,000 sad- dles more awaiting shipment.
Miss Kate Elliott, who has been in charge of the primary model room at the Normal school since its opening has ac- cepted an offer of the position of assistant principal of the Nebraska Normal school, and is succeeded by Miss Ada Dam, at present a teacher in the Union school.
1872.
February 1 .- H. C. Waite has purchased N. P. Clarke's interest in the Cold Spring
flouring mills, the change to take effect next June.
By a decision of the supreme court in the case of the Town of Sauk Centre vs. Alexander Moore, the school board in that town is from $1,200 to $1,500 the gainer.
Arrangements have been made for a course of lectures by the Hon. J. B. Bris- bin, of St. Paul, the Rev. Geo. L. Chase, St. Anthony; the Hon. Ignatius Donnelly, Hast- ings; Prof. H. B. Wilson, superintendent of public instruction, St. Paul; Judge At- water, of Minneapolis, and the Rev. T. F. Brown, D. D., St. Paul.
M. Hansen, Sr., died at the residence of his son near Rockville on the 21st ult., aged 85 years. His remains were buried at Jacobs Prairie, beside those of Mr. Pick, who died recently at the age of 82 years. These two veterans had been fel- low-soldiers in the French army, serving together five years under the first Na- poleon, and it was very fitting that, so far away from their early campaigning, they should be laid to rest side by side.
Capt. L. W. Collins of this place has been commissioned lieutenant colonel of the Second regiment Minnesota National Guards.
April 4 .- The Minnesota Stage Company began running their stages on runners from this city to Fort Garry, November 17, 1871, and continued to do so until Tues- day of this week, making 138 days of con- tinuous sleighing.
Brick are selling at $10 per thousand, a high figure.
May 23 .- John Cooper, of this city, has the contract for carrying the mail from St. Cloud to Litchfield via Maine Prairie and Fair Haven, tri-weekly; and from Alexandria to Glenwood and return.
May 30 .- The Rev. Mr. Stukenkemper (Father Meinulf) will preach his farewell sermon at the Catholic church next Sun- day. He goes to New Munich.
A half dozen new pianos have been re- ceived by different parties in town within the past few weeks, Judge Evans, Dr. Senkler, F. C. Mercer and Lewis Clark being among the purchasers. Not bad, that, for a new western town.
An effort is being made to have the Bap- tist State Educational Institution now at Wasioja, established at Fair Haven. We understand that property, money, etc., to
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the amount of $3,000 has been pledged by the citizens.
June 13 .- The first freight put aboard a train of cars in St. Cloud was shipped today by H. W. Weary. It consisted of four tie-wagons for DeGraff & Co., at New Ulm.
Married, in St. Cloud, June 11, by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, Mr. Alexander D. Ross, of Chicago, and Miss Libbie M. Becker, of St. Cloud.
June 20 .- Davis, Beal & Co. made on Tuesday the first shipment of freight (di- rect) outside the state, being a car load of flour for Chicago.
Capt. Chas. Lueg, one of the old settlers of St. Cloud, died Tuesday, after a linger- ing illness.
The St. Cloud Rifle Company, Second Regiment M. N. G., met Friday evening and elected the following officers: E. C. Carns, captain; Andrew Larson, first lieutenant; John J. Dorr, second lieutenant.
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