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June 27 .- The telegraph line was com- pleted to Sauk Centre yesterday and greet- ings were exchanged between the two cities.
July 18 .- A triple wedding occurred this morning at Little Falls, the home of the brides, the ceremony being performed by Father Buh. The contracting parties were Edwin M. Wright, of St. Cloud, and Josie V. Braun; Dr. Adelard Guernon, of St. Paul, and Sophie A. Braun; Albert M. Wright, of Dayton, and Miss Eugenie E. Braun. Two of these young ladies had been teachers in the St. Cloud schools.
The new Congregational church at Paynesville was dedicated June 30.
The great Dan Rice's circus exhibited its wonders in St. Cloud July 13, with the tent crowded both afternoon and evening.
July 25 .- The telegraph line from St. Cloud reached Alexandria last Thursday, and neighborly greetings passed between the two places.
August 29 .- With trains running into St. Cloud, and arriving at 1 p. m., the Minne- sota Stage Co. take their passengers at the depot and drive to St. Jo. for dinner. Passengers on the down stages dine at the same place, connecting with the after- noon train leaving St. Cloud at 2:50 for St. Paul.
September 5 .- The fall term of the Union school opened on Monday with 215
pupils. Seven teachers are now employed besides Supt. Sprague.
September 12 .- F. R. Delano, agent of the Sauk Rapids Water Power Company, advertises for sale seven first-class mill sites, out of a total of one hundred; also, a one-third interest in the entire water power property "at ground-floor figures."
Rev. J. Sherman, who has been supply- ing the Methodist charge at Brockway the past year, started this week for Eastford, Conn., expecting to return in about a year.
October 3 .- Maine Prairie is furnishing grapes in considerable quantities for this market.
Married, in St. Cloud, October 1, by the Rev. C. Picket, C. F. Davis and Mrs. H. M. Lambert, both of St. Cloud.
The sale of tickets during state fair week at the St. Cloud depot amounted to $774.40.
October 10 .- Considerable quantities of ginseng are being brought to town and marketed at 65 cents a pound.
The press of the old St. Cloud Anzeiger (Democratic) has been shipped to Lac qui Parle, where it will be used in publishing a Republican newspaper.
Z. H. Morse has been appointed a postal mail agent.
The census of the school children of the city shows 451 females and 418 males; total, 869.
The Congregational church at Sauk Centre has received a new bell, costing $150, which was entirely paid for by the young men of the church and congrega- tion.
Emma J. Stevenson died in St. Cloud October 8, in the 29th year of her age.
October 24 .- O. D. Webb has removed from Fair Haven to Paynesville, at which point he will go into the milling business.
A post office has been established at Holding's Ford, with special service from St. Cloud.
Knute Nelson has been appointed county attorney of Douglas county, vice J. S. Ran- dolph resigned.
November 14 .- W. H. Lamb and J. H. Rhodes have purchased the Times office. A change has also taken place in the Press office, G. W. Benedict retiring and M. E. N. Howell becoming general manager.
November 21 .- Louis Brink, owner of
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the brewery on Sauk river, six miles from St. Cloud, and the pioneer brewery of Stearns county, was arrested last Wednes- day for making "moonshine" whiskey. The still was found in operation, but despite Mr. Brink's declaration that he was only making vinegar, he was arrested and taken to St. Paul and bound over in the sum of $1,000 to appear at the next term of the U. S. district court. As this was his second offense it may go hard with him.
November 28 .- The partnership between Lamb & Rhodes, as publishers of the Times, has been dissolved, W. H. Lamb taking the entire interest. He has pur- chased new material for his paper.
December 12 .- Mrs. Elizabeth Cary Stan- ton lectured in St. Cloud Thursday even- ing, for the second time. Her subject was "The Coming Girl." She advised the girls to "stop lacing right off," to avoid cos- metics and take plenty of exercise; also to engage in some lucrative employment as a life work. Then she wanted the ballot for women, which she believed would do away with a multitude of evils.
On Saturday John Coates of Coates & Freeman started for Pittsburg with four hundred saddles of venison.
Married, at Clearwater, December 4, by the Rev. J. G. D. Stearns, C. T. Faucett, of St. Cloud, and Myra Fuller, of Lynden.
December 19 .- The Methodist church at Maine Prairie was dedicated last Sunday, by the Rev. J. F. Chaffee, of Minneapolis. The Rev. C. F. Garvin is the pastor. The sum of $440 was raised toward paying the debt.
December 26 .- Forty degrees below zero and thirty-three blossoms on one oleander plant at George I. Porter's offer a marked contrast.
The second lecture of the library course was delivered Thursday evening by Judge Hamlin on "The Crusades." The next lec- ture will be given by Dr. F. H. Atkins, his subject being "Popular Superstitions."
An association for reading and mutual entertainment and improvement was or- ganized Saturday evening at Mrs. Moore's residence.
A post office has been established at Eden Lake, with special service from Cold Spring.
1873.
January 2 .- Married, at St. Cloud, Jan- uary 1, Thomas J. Gray and Laura A. Free- man, both of this city. On the same day, John P. Hammerel, of Luxemburg and Kate Weber, of St. Cloud.
January 9 .- There has been shipped this season from the St. Cloud depot 193,920 pounds of venison. About one-third as much as has been shipped by express and consumed at home, bringing the total up to about 259,000 pounds from this place alone. It is safe to say that at least 5,000 have been killed in the vicinity and brought here.
One of the worst blizzards in the his- tory of Minnesota, which swept not only over this state but over a large part of the country, began Tuesday afternoon, and continued for more than two days. While no lives were lost in Stearns county, a large number of persons who were away from home were caught in the driving blinding storm and perished.
February 13 .- About fifty men are now at work on the water power at Sauk Rapids.
March 6 .- Dr. M. C. Tolman, a promi- nent citizen and professional man of St. Cloud, died Sunday, after a lingering ill- ness, aged 54 years.
March 13 .- The new elevator at the depot is in full operation. Its capacity is 15,000 bushels, and W. S. Gibbs is in charge.
R. A. White, of Sauk Centre, passed through town Tuesday, with eighteen horses, bought in Missouri, which he pro- poses using as livery stock.
The post office at Brockway has been discontinued, because no one is willing to be postmaster, and the mail matter will hereafter he sent to the St. Cloud office.
March 27 .- The last of the bonds issued by Stearns county during the war was burned by the county commissioners last Friday and $16,005.69 in county orders shared the same fate.
C. T. Stearns, formerly of St. Cloud, has been re-appointed register of the U. S. land office at Mobile, Ala.
John Hayward, Sr., father of Josiah E. Hayward, of St. Cloud, celebrated his ninety-fourth birthday Monday last.
The Sauk Rapids Sentinel, G. W. Bene-
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dict publisher, made its appearance again Tuesday.
Married, at Clearwater, March 25, by the Rev. J. G. D. Stearns, Mr. Charles H. Gibbs and Miss Emily J. Whittemore, all of Clearwater.
April 10 .- The work of tearing down the Methodist church, located in lower town, has begun. It is to be rebuilt above the ravine, on the lot where the old jail stood. The estimated cost, including the price of the lot, is $2,000. Until their own church is ready, the Methodists will worship with the Presbyterians, the Rev. Mr. Campbell and the Rev. Mr. Lewton occupying the pulpit alternately, morning and evening.
A movement is on foot to turn the water from Sauk river into one of the two ra- vines which run through the city to the Mississippi river. A very valuable water power could be obtained in this way.
The value of the venison shipped from St. Cloud the past season by the local buyers was $30,335.
Stearns county has four granges of the Patrons of Husbandry.
April 10 .- The stage left on runers on the third day of November, and started on wheels again last Thursday making 141 days of continuous sleighing.
M. Dunworth has the contract for carry- ing the mail from St. Jo. to Richmond via Cold Springs, tri-weekly.
N. P. Clarke, of this city, has the con- tract for furnishing the beef at Fort Lin- coln at 834 cents per pound.
The farmers of this county are carrying on an interesting discussion as to which variety of wheat is the better to sow, Scotch Fife or Odessa. There was much difference of opinion, the majority favor- ing the Fife.
Holmes & Tyler have secured twelve acres of ground adjoining the city, from Schwartz, for their nursery.
April 24 .- A new post office has been established at Spunk Brook, on the road from St. Jo. to Burnhamville.
Coates & Freeman have the contract for supplying the government with 650 head of beef cattle at Forts Randall and Sully, D. T.
D. S. Twitchell has the contract for carrying the mail from Paynesville to St. Jo. via Richmond, tri-weekly.
June 5 .- Clarke & McClure started thirty horse and mule teams Monday to transport supplies for the Boundary Com- missioner's survey. They go to Pembina and from there strike west.
Brockway has once more a post office, Appleton Webb being the citizen who is public-spirited enough to accept the duties and small salary of postmaster.
The new fire engine, made in Boston, has arrived and is quite a good-looking piece of apparatus. In front is painted "City of St. Cloud," and on each side "Little Giant," the name of the company. There are 600 feet of hose.
June 12 .- C. S. Benson, of Clearwater, and Jos. Thompson, of Minneapolis, are building a steamboat to ply on the Mis- sissippi river between St. Cloud and Min- neapolis.
J. F. Fuller has been appointed post- master at Clearwater vice Dr. Foote.
Butter is a drug on the market at 10 and 121/2 cents. (That was before the days of creameries.)
June 19 .- Yesterday, at Minneapolis, at the residence of J. W. Day, John Cooper and Mrs. Malinda Hayward, both of this city, were married.
Capt. Joe Anderson started Wednesday with 200 head of cattle for Forts Buford and Stevenson. These cattle were mostly purchased in the vicinity of St. Cloud, the average cost being $31.20 per head, making the total $6,240.
Twenty-four persons were baptised at Maine Prairie last week, six being received into the Baptist church, three into the Disciples and seventeen into the Metho- dist, all but four being baptised by im- mersion in Carnelian lake at the same time and place.
June 26 .- M. E. N. Howell has severed his connection with the St. Cloud Press and been succeeded by J. A. Berry, who comes from Iowa.
The old fort in lower town, constructed during the exciting days of 1862, when the Indians were on the war path, has entirely disappeared, the embankments having been leveled to the ground.
The exhibition at the close of the term of the German Catholic school under the charge of Prof. P. E. Kaiser, took place last evening in the basement of the Cath-
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olic church. There were four plays in Ger- man and one in English, besides declama- tions, singing, etc.
June 26 .- On Friday Father Pierz, a well known Catholic missionary in North- ern Minnesota, was in town on his way to Germany. Father Pierz is nearly 100 years old and has passed twenty of them in this state. He goes to the Fatherland to spend the remainder of his days at his old home.
July 3 .- The new Catholic church at New Munich was dedicated last Sunday, a spe- cial train of eight cars being chartered from St. Cloud, all of which were crowded. Fully two thousand people were on the grounds. The exercises were conducted by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Grace of St. Paul, as- sisted by a number of priests. The Rev, Meinulf Stukenkemper is in charge of the parish.
July 17 .- Last Saturday Charles R. Fry, agent of the Children's Aid Society, of New York, arrived in St. Cloud with eighteen boys, for whom good homes were secured in this city, at Maine Prairie, Sauk Rapids and Santiago.
D. B. Stanley, of Maine Prairie, informs us that he is shipping large quantities of butter from that place to Ashland, Wis.
The case of H. C. Burbank, of this city, vs. Hill, Griggs & Co., of St. Paul, involv- ing about $14,000, has just been decided in favor of Mr. Burbank.
August 14 .- John Kray has removed with his family from Shakopee to Cold Spring, where he will keep a hotel, called the Cen- tral House.
A grange of the Patrons of Husbandry was organized August 2 at the Fairy Lake school house, four miles from Sauk Centre, with thirty members, J. O. Milne being master.
August 21 .- Coates & Freeman have the contract for supplying beef cattle at Fort Garry. Two hundred head will be pur- chased and forwarded at once.
James H. Bonham, a leading citizen of Brockway, died Tuesday, aged eighty-six years.
Married, in St. Cloud, August 20, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. W. E. Stanley, S. L. Livingston, of Minneapolis, and Marion Owen, of St. Cloud.
The West House (original) has been sold to Mr. Laughton, of Clearwater; price, $5,000.
August 28 .- James M. McNair, a grad- uate of Cornell University, has been en- gaged as principal of the Union school, to succeed D. W. Sprague, who goes to Rushford.
The fall term of the Normal school opened Wednesday of last week with Prof. Ira Moore principal; Martha McCumber and Thomas J. Gray, assistants in the Nor- mal department; Anna A. Rice, principal of the model school.
September 11. - The new Methodist church building at St. Cloud was dedicated last Sunday. The debt on the building, about $1,000, was promptly subscribed, $300 being assumed by the Ladies' So- ciety, $100 subscribed by J. E. Hayward, $100 by J. F. Stevenson and $100 by Mrs. John Cooper.
Young & Bradford, who had removed from St. Cloud to Winona, have returned to this city and again engaged in the dry goods business. ,
Jacob Lahr, of the town of Le Sauk, has threshed eighty-six bushels of winter wheat raised on two and one-quarter acres of land, being over thirty-eight bushels per acre. John Schultheis, of the town of Brockway, raised 217 bushels of winter wheat on seven acres of land, being over thirty bushels per acre. It might pay our farmers to give more attention to raising winter wheat.
October 2 .- Reports from Minneapolis state that wheat is no longer quoted there as there is none offered. Several flouring mills have closed down and the rest will soon be forced to.
Lieut. Salter, of St. Wendel, raised some fine sweet potatoes this year.
October 16 .- Messrs. Ball, Bryan & Dick- inson shipped from here this week the ma- chinery for a saw mill and a stave factory which they propose to erect at Spunk lake, fifteen miles from here. This is the ma- chinery purchased recently from Capt. A. Libby's saw mill at Watab.
E. H. Atwood, of Maine Prairie, threshed 270 bushels of No. 1 Scotch Fife wheat, machine measure, raised on eight acres of land, or nearly thirty-four bushels per acre.
November 6 .- At the election Tuesday the proposition for a hotel bonus of $5,000
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was carried by a vote of 208 for to 96 against.
November 27. - The Sauk Rapids "dummy" now runs to the St. Cloud depot to connect with the regular trains to and from St. Paul, instead of the old depot on the east side as formerly.
Capt. J. E. West appeared before the city council Monday evening and proposed to erect a $30,000 hotel in consideration of being given the $5,000 bonus voted at the recent election. A committee was ap- pointed to consider the matter and report.
December 18 .- Several granges of the Patrons of Husbandry have been organ- ized in this county within the past few days. At Fair Haven, with Martin Coates, master and Alvin Coates, secretary; Pleas- ant Lake, Joshua Mayhew, master and A.
B, Leighton, secretary; Grove, John Wieber, master and John L. Kulzer, sec- retary-this grange is composed entirely of Germans.
The Kellogg flouring mill at Sauk Centre, having six run of stone and capable of manufacturing one hundred fifty barrels of flour per day, has been completed. It is run by steam power.
December 25 .- Prof. McNair having re- signed as principal of the Union school, Prof. Angus Haines has been elected to succeed him, with Ambrose Westover, as- sistant principal.
1874.
January 1 .- J. A. Barry's connection with the St. Cloud Press has ceased.
A memorial to congress, signed by one hundred forty-five of the citizens of St. Cloud, asking for an appropriation to im- prove the Mississippi river between this city and Minneapolis was sent last week to Senator Windom. Col. Farquhar, the government engineer under whose direc- tion the recent survey of the river was made, estimates that $43,000 will make this part of the river navigable, giving at all times three feet of water in a channel two hundred feet wide.
January 29 .- Wheat is now so high that our millers cannot manufacture- flour at any profit and the mills are now running short time. The advance in wheat is caused by foreign demand which does not proportionately effect the price of flour.
The elevator at the old depot on the
east side of the river has been put in oper- ation and is in charge of W. W. Wright, of this city.
March 5 .- The firm of J. Capser & Co., at Sauk Centre, was dissolved last week, Mr. Capser purchasing the interest of his partner, J. H. Linneman, of St. Jo. Mr. Capser will continue the business of mer- chandising with C. M. Sprague, the firm to be Capser & Sprague.
Arnold & Stanton, proprietors of the Sauk City flouring mill, have brought suit against the Sauk Rapids Water Power Company for $10,000 damages, claimed to have been caused by the "set back" of the water in the Mississippi resulting from the building of the dam. A temporary in- junction was granted.
Judge McKelvy has sold his Grand Lake farm to M. Weisman for $2,750, and has purchased H. C. Burbank's handsome brick residence in this city.
March 19 .- D. B. Stanley's stock of gen- eral merchandist at Maine Prairie has been purchased by D. A. Hoyt, of that place, and J. E. West, of this city, who will run a Grange store. The hardware firm of How- ard & Carpenter at Sauk Centre has dis- solved partnership, Mr. Carpenter retiring and Lieut. Howard continuing the busi- ness.
In the case of Arnold & Stanton vs. the Sauk Rapids Water Power Company the injunction was dissolved, both parties be- ing required to give bonds. This allows the work on the dam to be continued and also protects Arnold & Stanton against loss or damage from its construction.
A bill passed the last legislature author- izing St. Cloud to issue bonds in the sum of $10,000 for a hotel bonus, subject to a vote of the people.
April 2 .- Two new granges, P. L. H., were organized in this county last week, one at Eden Lake, with D. J. Hanscom master and Elihu Swisher secretary; the other at St. Jo., with John Payne master and Lieut. Fred Schilplin secretary.
Chas. R. McKenney, editor of the St. Cloud Press, and Miss Marie M. Sanger were maried March 30, at La Crosse, Wis- consin.
April 9 .- There were 144 days of con- tinuous sleighing, ending April 3, the pres- ent season. St. Croix county, Wisconsin, beat this with 162 days.
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April 30 .- The ferry between Sauk City and Sauk Rapids is in running order.
Wm. Cooper, of the firm of Grinols & Cooper, at Fair Haven, has been appointed postmaster at that place.
Dr. W. R. Hunter, of this city, located temporarily at Brownsdale, in this state, died Saturday, after a brief illness, aged 57 years.
St. Cloud has again two daily trains each day.
May 7 .- Nelson Wakefield caught a pike in the Mississippi Tuesday which brought the scales down at eighteen pounds. The same day a boy named Steffins caught two pike, one weighing fifteen and the other sixteen and a quarter pounds.
Married, at Allegheny City, Pa., April 21 Charles S. Schulten, of St. Cloud, and Vinie C. Mitchell, of Allegheny City.
May 14 .- The steamer Minneapolis made her second appearance Sunday afternoon at the lower levee, going back Monday. She arrived again today, taking on a load of wheat for Davis & Beal, of Clearwater. The fare from this place to Minneapolis is 75 cents.
May 21 .- The Rev. E. V. Campbell, pas- tor of the Presbyterian church at St. Cloud, has decided, from reasons of health to ac- cept a call from the Presbyterian church at Butler, Mo., and will leave next Mon- day for his new field of labor. Himself and wife will take the good wishes of the community with them.
June 4 .- The marriage of C. T. Stearns, at present register of the United States land office at Mobile, Ala., is announced. Married, in St. Cloud, June 1, John DeLeo and Hattie Chapman.
Ex-Governor Stephen Miller has declined the appointment of register of the Bis- marck, D. T., land office, recently tendered him.
June 18 .- Particulars have been received of the murder of James C. Shepley, one of the first settlers of St. Cloud, near Bu- chanan, Fresno county, Cal., May 25. He had located in that state a year before, en- gaging with others in sheep raising. His dead body was found at the sheep ranch, his neck being broken, and there were marks of violence about the throat. One of the Portuguese shepherds was arrested and held to answer to the charge of mur-
der. Mr. Shepley was a practicing lawyer in St. Cloud, but left here some fifteen years ago and returned to Maine, his na- tive state.
July 9 .- The glorious Fourth was cele- brated quite generally throughout the county, but Fair Haven took the palm with a grange picnic. The granges from Maine Prairie, Pleasant Lake, Forest Grange, Clearwater, Arcadia Grange from St. Cloud and Harmonia Grange from St. Augusta, as well as the Fair Haven Grange were present in full force with brass bands, and delega- tions from a number of other places. The procession was fully two miles long, S. F. Brown being chief marshal, with several assistants on horseback. The orator of the day was Lieut. Gov. A. Barto, of St. Cloud, and toasts were responded to by Bishop B. U. Watkins, E. H. Atwood, the Rev. Mr. Thresher, A. B. Coats and W. T. Rigby, the speaking being interspersed with vocal and instrumental music. It was a noteworthy occasion.
August 6 .- The Zion church, built by the Evangelical Association of Germans in Paynesville township, was dedicated on the 2nd inst. It is located near John Baitin- ger's, about three miles from the village of Paynesville. The church is all paid for. Bishop Escher, of Chicago, conducted the dedication services.
Eight years ago L. B. Raymond, with ten of his neighbors, left the soldiers in the stockade at Sauk Centre and located on what was then an unbroken, uninhabitable prairie, but what is now the township of Raymond. The town numbers over four hundred inhabitants, mostly Americans. There are two churches and four school- houses in the township.
August 13 .- A petition asking the mayor to strictly enforce section 6 of ordinance No. 8, which requires that all saloons and other places of business be kept closed on Sunday has been circulated and numer- ously signed.
An academy, called the Butler academy, has been established at Butler, Mo., with the Rev. E. V. Campbell, lately of this place, principal. Students of both sexes are admitted.
An organization of women, called the Cold Water League, is holding weekly meetings. Mrs. Hill is president and Miss Ada Dam superintendent.
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F. E. Levanseler and Louise Tobey, both of this city, were married in Minneapolis yesterday.
August 20 .- Colonel Farquhar, the gov- ernment engineer, has a force of men at work among the islands just below this city constructing wing dams, which are in- , tended to throw the water more into the main channel of the river, thus improving navigation. He will soon have a boat at work between this place and Coon rapids removing boulders and other obstructions from the channel. This will occupy the next three months and for this work con- gress has appropriated $25,000, which will scarcely be sufficient to do all that is needed.
August 27 .- Enough funds have been subscribed and reading matter contributed to warrant the opening of a free reading room. Two rooms in Mr. Hill's photo- graph gallery have been secured, which will be kept open every day until ten o'clock in the evening and on Sunday aft- ernoons.
Married, in this city, August 22, at the residence of the bride's cousin, Oscar Bent- ley, by the Rev. J. T. Lewton, Daniel S. Hayward and Virginia K. Moore, all of St. Cloud.
September 3 .- The first number of the Sauk Rapids Courier, of which Mrs. W. H. Wood is editor, and her son, A. DeLacy Wood, publisher, has been received.
September 10 .- The new Methodist church at Paynesville was dedicated on the 6th, Presiding Elder Cobb officiating. The people were asked to subscribe $1,000 to pay the debt on the church and parsonage, and the response was $1,103.50. In 1862 their church was burned by the Indians, and when the congregation began to build again the frame was wrecked by a wind storm. But they were not discour- aged and their present building is the result.
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