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September 17 .- The people of the Sixth school district in the town of Le Sauk have just completed a new school house, costing a little over $1,000.
A festival held at Fair Haven on the evening of the 10th inst. to raise funds for procuring a public library realized $45.
M. P. Noel is engaged in surveying the line for a canal on this side of the river from the foot of the rapids to the upper
levee. The fall in that distance is sixteen feet and would make an excellent water power.
There was a large attendance to witness the dedication of a new Catholic church at St. Augusta last week.
Married, September 24, at the residence of the bride's parents, William Louden and Kate Smith, all of the town of St. Cloud. October 1, at the Church of the Immacu- late Conception, St. Cloud, Henry J. Ro- senberger and Magdalena Schafer.
Maine Prairie is sending in grapes by the hundreds of pounds and just as nice grapes as one might wish to eat.
October 29 .- The union between the Con- gregational and the Presbyterian churches of this city has been fully completed. This united church will be independent. The Rev. Mr. Milton has been engaged as pas- tor with a salary of $1,200 a year.
November 5 .- The Sauk Rapids Courier has been removed to Little Falls, appear- ing as the Little Falls Courier.
Up to this time $30,000 has been paid to the farmers for flax marketed at Sauk Centre. It is estimated that the flax crop of Stearns county this year amounted to $84,000.
J. W. Metzroth has purchased H. C. Bur- bank's brick store building at the corner of St. Germain street and Jefferson avenue and will occupy it himself. Price, $6,000. December 3 .- The Mississippi river closed November 27, or about two weeks earlier than usual.
December 17 .- The new German paper in this city, Der Nordstern, will make its appearance today. Messrs. Brick and Kaiser are the editors and publishers.
Andrew J. Smith, of Sauk Centre, has purchased Moore's brick block at that place; price, $8,000.
1875.
January 14 .- S. B. Pinney has started his new mill at St. Augusta to grinding wheat into flour. The quality of the flour is said to be good.
C. F. Macdonald, lately a compositor in the St. Paul Pioneer office, has purchased the Times establishment. Mr. Macdonald is highly spoken of by his friends in St. Paul and he will receive a hearty welcome from the people of St. Cloud.
A county council of the Patrons of Hus-
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bandry y was organized Tuesday at the court house. Six granges were represented. The following officers were elected: A. B. Coates, president; John Payne, overseer; John Schaefer, secretary; R. L. Lovelace, gatekeeper; J. S. Boylan, deputy.
January 21 .- The court house investigat- ing committee adjourned Monday, but without finding, as we understand, any- thing even to the amount of five cents out of the way in the county auditor's or treas- urer's books. The committee will report to the grand jury at its next meeting Feb- ruary 2 .. The expenses of the investigation will foot up between $800 and $1,000.
H. C. Burbank has removed to St. Paul, where he will become a member of the recently organized firm of Campbell, Bur- bank & Co., wholesale dealers in clothing and furnishing goods. His departure from this city, where he has been one of its most valued and enterprising citizens, is deeply regretted.
January 28 .- Samuel Gilman, grandfather of the Hon. C. A. Gilman, of this city, died at Sauk Rapids Saturday, in his ninety- sixth year.
February 18 .- A cablegram from Rome announces that the Rt. Rev. Abbot Seiden- busch, O. S. B., of St. John's college, this county, has been appointed "Vicar Apos- talic for a part of Minnesota," which un- doubtedly refers to the new diocese cre- ated some time ago, including this part of the state. It is understood that his resi- dence will be at St. Cloud. The Rev. John Ireland, of St. Paul, has been appointed Vicar Apostolic of Nebraska. The duties of a Vicar Apostolic are the same as those of a bishop.
Married, in this city, February 16, at the residence of N. P. Clarke, the bride's uncle, by the Rev .. E. W. Stanley, Mary Elizabeth Clarke to D. B. Searle, all of this city.
March 18 .- The contract for carrying the mail from St. Cloud to Fair Haven has been let to H. Walkinshaw, of this city; from St. Cloud to Brainerd to Gravel & Racicot, of Little Falls; from the St. Cloud postoffice to the depot to J. E. Hayward.
The worst snow storm of the season blockaded the railroad this week, so that no trains arrived here for three days.
March 25 .- A bill passed by the legisla- ture divides St. Cloud into two school districts.
Bishop B. U. Watkins, of Maine Prairie, and Father Ireland, of St. Paul, are having a lively discussion on biblical subjects in the columns of the St. Paul Press.
April 1 .- The sleighing record this year was 112 continuous days.
Cold Spring has organized a singing so- ciety with Stephen Ethen, president; Ste- phen Ficker, secretary, and P. H. Schomer, director.
April 15 .- The steamer Minneapolis, which ran last summer between Minneapo- lis and this place, was almost entirely wrecked last week by the ice at St. An- thony Falls. It was owned by C. T. Hobart and Dr. D. M. Goodwin, was valued at $17,000 and was uninsured.
D. W. Coulthard, who lived in St. Cloud before he went into the army, has been elected chief justice of Shakopee, where he now lives.
Mrs. Jane G. Swisshelm's house at Zo- zonia, Pa., was consumed by fire on the night of the 13th. The fire was caused by a lamp being accidentally thrown from a table by Mrs. Swisshelm. Nothing was saved but a few articles of clothing.
May 6 .- Captain West now has thirty men at work on his new hotel and is mak- ing splendid progress. He expects to have it ready for business by October 1.
June 3 .- The consecration ceremonies of the Rt. Rev. Rupert Seidenbusch as bishop of this diocese took place last Sunday at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in this city. A large number of prelates and inferior clergy were present, including the Rt. Rev. Boniface Wimmer, abbot of St. Vincent, Pa .; the Rt. Rev. Bishop Krautbauer, of Green Bay, Wis .; the Rt. Rev. Bishop Mrack, of Marquette, Mich., and the Rt. Rev. Bishop Hennessey, of Du- buque, by whom the consecration sermon was delivered. Nineteen carloads of peo- Dle came from St. Paul, Minneapolis and the Sauk valley.
A farewell reception was given at nor- mal hall to Prof. Ira Moore, the retiring principal of the school, who left the next morning for California, where he becomes principal of the state normal school.
June 10 ..- A. Montgomery started yester- day, with a number of skilled workmen from this place, for Fort Berthold, on the Missouri river, to put up eight government
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buildings for Wilder & Clarke, the con- tractors.
June 17 .- The rates on the toll bridge have been still further reduced, the fare for double teams both ways is now 20 cents, single teams 15 cents. The bridge is to be double-planked its entire length at once.
At a meeting of the County Council Pa- trons of Husbandry in St. Cloud Wednes- day an executive committee consisting of Martin Greely, V. C. Lyman, C. Scherbing, F. A. Rinker, W. P. Bennett, George E. Warner, D. Cleveland, J. B. Getchell, John Payne, D. J. Hanscom, G. W. Duncan and J. W. Goodspeed was appointed. J. B. Getchell, John Payne and Joseph Martin were appointed a committee to secure a warehouse for storing grain.
C. Bach, of the town of Zion, has sold his farm of 320 acres to Joseph Amem for $5,400, being about $17 per acre, which indicates that Stearns county farms are considered good property.
July 1 .- The leading social event in the history of St. Joseph was the marriage June 29th of Miss Kate Linnemann, daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Linnemann, to Mr. Alphonse J. Demeules, clerk of the probate court of Ramsey county. The cere- mony took place at the Catholic church, at 9 o'clock a. m., and was performed by the Rev. Ulrich Northman, O. S. B., of St. John's College. There were many out-of- town guests, and the festivities continued during the entire day and evening.
July 8 .- Capt. J. E. West's hotel celebra- tion at the driving park, beginning on the 3rd inst. and continuing for three days, was a great affair. On the first day there were salutes, a grand procession from the city to the grounds, music, an address by . the Hon. W. S. King, member of congress from this district, races, and fireworks in the evening. On the last day was the drawing for prizes. W. Krugel got the "Scribner" farm, H. T. Daendels 80 acres of land, H. C. Burbank a gold watch, H. C. Waite a silver watch, James McLain a piano, N. Vanloon a store building and lot in Brainerd, D. A. Hoyt a sewing machine and C. A. Gilman a chamber suite-these being among the more valuable of the hundreds of prizes given to ticket holders in the hotel enterprise.
September 2 .- Mrs. Rhoda Z. Clark,
grandmother of Mr Lewis Clark, of this city, died at Auburn, Mass., August 22, at the remarkably advanced age of 100 years; 7 months and 8 days.
September 30 .- The new hotel, the West house, built by Capt. J. E. West at the corner of Washington avenue and Lake street, was opened to the public Monday. It is a handsome three-story structure. On Tuesday evening Col. Todd, the proprietor, gave a supper followed by dancing, about seventy-five couples being present, includ- ing many of our more prominent citizens. The music for dancing was furnished by Fuller & Abbott's quadrille band, six pieces.
Wm. Caughey succeeds A. Webb, re- signed, as postmaster at Brockway.
October 21 .- A union fair was held at the Sauk Centre driving park, October 13, 14 and 15. The officers in charge were J. D. Carr, president; J. R. Howard, sec- retary, and O. Matison, treasurer. Unfavor- able weather operated seriously against the success of the fair.
November 11 .- A lyceum was organized Friday evening at the Union school build- ing with the following-named officers: F. E. Searle, president; Jennie Owens, vice president; E. B. Smith, recording secre- tary; W. M. West, corresponding secre- tary; Minnie Tolman, treasurer.
November 18 .- The first annual Stearns County Sunday School convention was held in St. Cloud in the Congregational church November 12, extending through the fol- lowing Sunday. An organization was ef- fected by the election of the following of- ficers: Rev. J. W. Klepper, president; Rev. W. E. Stanley, secretary; Rev. George R. Milton, treasurer. Among those who took part in the exercises were D. H. Mason, of Alexandria, district missionary of the American Sunday School Union, and Henry Plant, superintendent of the Plymouth church Sunday school in Minneapolis. Be- fore the convention adjourned the follow- ing-named additional vice-presidents were elected: Rev. J. D. Stearns, Clearwater; Professor D. L. Kiehle, St. Cloud; Elder Green, Maine Prairie; Andrew Mead, Fair Haven; Elihu Swisher, Eden Lake; R. P. Gilbert, Paynesville; Rev. A. J. Pike, Sauk Centre.
December 2 .- Another reading club, called the St. Cloud Reading Club, was
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organized Friday evening, the officers be- ing: H. C. Waite, president; Mrs. A. T. Whitman, secretary; F. E. Searle, treas- urer. It will meet semi-monthly. St. Cloud is now pretty well off for clubs and things. A partial list includes this club; a Shakes- pearian club; a young folks reading club; the semi-monthly normal school recep- tions; a lyceum; a dramatic association; a library association; a free reading room; five sewing societies, with sociable attach- ments, etc., etc.
December 16 .- Delegates from the Good Templars lodges at Clearwater, Paynes- ville, Melrose, Maine Prairie, Fair Haven and St. Cloud met in this city Tuesday and organized a district lodge. A full list of officers was elected, who were installed by the Worthy Grand Chief Templar R. Cal- vert. The officers chosen were: P. W. C. T., A. H. Bennett, Paynesville; W. C. T., F. Tolman, St. Cloud; W. V. T., Mrs. A. B. Creeley, Maine Prairie; W. S., E. S. Hill, St. Cloud; W. F. S., R. E. Lyons, Clear- water; W. T., Mrs. A. Ayres, Melrose; W. M., E. Johnston, Fair Haven; W. C., Rev. J. G. Stanton, Paynesville; W. I. C., Miss A. Mulhollan, Clearwater; W. O. G., M. T. Adley, Melrose; W. R. S., Hattie Rich- mond, Melrose; W. A. S., Mary Rigby, Clearwater; W. D. M., Lizzie Davis, Maine Prairie.
The Rev. E. V. Campbell has returned to St. Cloud from Butler, Mo., and resumed his duties as pastor of the Presbyterian church, in response to a unanimous call ex- tended to him July 26 by the members of the church.
1876.
January 13 .- The annual convention of the State Firemen's Association was held in St. Cloud the 11th and 12th, the meet- ings being in the court house. Delega- tions were present from St. Paul, Minneap- olis, Red Wing, Faribault, Stillwater, Man- kato and a number of the other cities in the state. A supper was given the visitors at the West house.
Mrs. Julia E., wife of C. F. Macdonald, editor of the St. Cloud Times, died this afternoon, aged 31 years. She was a daugh- ter of Dr. C. H. Lord, of Shakopee, and her remains will be taken to that place for burial.
February 3 .- About $5,000 has been sub- ,
scribed for the erection of a residence for Bishop Seidenbush in this city. It is ex- pected to increase this amount by from $1,000 to $3,000.
C. F. Davis, assignee of Ball, Bryan & Dickinson, has sold the machinery, real estate, etc., of the Avon stave factory to N. P. Clarke and H. C. Waite for a little over $4,000, and the stock for $12,000.
The Rev. Wolfgang Northman, O. S. B. (better known as Father Wolfgang) was found dead in bed at Meier's Grove Tues- day morning. Dr. Campbell, of Melrose, gave it as his opinion that death resulted from heart disease and the verdict of the coroner's jury was to this effect.
March 2 .- Maine Prairie has a cheese factory, the first in the county. It was built by John Farwell, a number of people subscribing to a bonus.
Fair Haven grange P. of H. dedicated last Friday the first grange hall in the state. Col. Sam Adams, grand master of the state grange, conducted the exercises.
The Presbyterian society have purchased a site for their new church building, 88x132 feet fronting on Washington avenue.
F. H. Dam, returning home after three months spent in California, expresses the judgment that it is no place for a poor man.
April 20 .- The St. Paul & Pacific R. R. has decided that two trains daily do not pay during the summer months and the schedule will be the same as last winter.
The freight rate from Minneapolis to St. Cloud, a distance of sixty-four miles, is $1.50 per hundred.
May 4 .- Lake George is steadily drying up and in a few years will be little better than a reedy puddle. (Very happily, this doleful prognostication is, in this A. D. 1914, in small danger of being realized. Lake George is still a lovely little sheet of water.),
The Rev. W. E. Stanley preached his farewell sermon at the Baptist church Sun- day morning and the next day started for Red Wing to enter on his new field of labor.
The dam at S. B. Pinney's grist mill at St. Augusta was washed entirely away, to- gether with a part of the mill itself, Sunday night. The loss is a serious one to Mr. Pinney.
Raymond & Owen, of this city, have the
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contract for building the court house at Alexandria.
Andrew Anderson & Sons have begun the erection of a spoke factory near the Baptist church. They have on hand already material for 55,000 spokes. It is just such industries as this that St. Cloud needs and that help most to build up a town.
May 11 .- At the school election Monday afternoon, St. Cloud had, for the first time in its history, woman suffrage. Twenty- five ladies appeared at the poles, and it was remarked that "they were quite well behaved and created no disturbance."
May 18 .- J. A. Stanton's new "Eagle" flouring mill at Sauk Rapids is in success- ful operation, making the celebrated "Minnesota Patent Process Flour." The building is 50x80 feet, four stories above the basement.
May 25 .- The St. Cloud Press, which was first published February 22, 1872, was this week consolidated with the Journal, the paper bearing the name of the St. Cloud Journal-Press, W. B. Mitchell, editor and publisher.
June 1 .- The Rev. J. T. Chambers last Sunday closed his four years' service as rector of St. John's Episcopal church, and Monday started for LaPorte, Indiana, where he takes charge of a larger parish.
Peter Seberger, one of the oldest set- tlers of St. Cloud and proprietor of the Seberger house, died Monday night.
A number of people on both sides of the river are talking about uniting Stearns and Benton counties, making one county with two free bridges.
June 8 .- The first stock sale in the county was held Tuesday on the east side of Lake George. The display included 225 head of horses and over 300 head of cattle, sheep, pigs, etc. During the day 100 head of horses and cattle, 22 pigs and 4 sheep were sold.
Last Monday was "grasshopper day" and was observed in the usual manner by the Catholics of this place.
The adjustment of the railroad bonus bonds has reduced the debt of the city from $75,000 to $25,000.
June 15 .- Charles Benson of Clearwater has leased the Central house of J. E. Hay- ward and will take possession Monday.
June 22 .- The first cheese made in the Sauk Rapids cheese factory was cut in
the store of Boulter & Lufkin on Saturday last. It is of excellent flavor.
July 6 .- George W. Benedict, of Sauk Rapids, has been appointed deputy revenue assessor for this district, in place of John Cooper.
July 13 .- The Rev. G. H. Davis on Sun- day last entered on his duties as rector of St. John's church. The Rev. George R. Milton has tendered his resignation as pas- tor of the Congregational church, to take effect the latter part of the month.
August 10 .- By a consolidation and re- duction of offices at the depot Capt. Wright is now in entire charge, Judge Gregory re- tiring.
During the thunder storm Saturday afternoon the Congregational church at Sauk Rapids was struck by lightning, the front of the building being badly damaged. The dais on which the organ stood was splintered, but the organ was not injured.
August 17 .- Chas. Gravel, of Little Falls, has purchased the machinery in S. B. Pin- ney's grist mill at St. Augusta and taken it to Little Falls to be put in a mill there.
August 24 .- Grasshoppers have made their appearance in considerable numbers in various parts of the county, causing very great uneasiness among the farmers lest the eggs that are laid now will hatch out next season.
J. D. Lachance, county auditor of Mor- rison county, has purchased the newspaper material lately used in the St. Cloud Press office and taken it to Little Falls, where a, newspaper is to be started. It will be called the Little Falls Transcript and the first number will be issued September 7, with H. C. Stivers editor and publisher.
Two brothers of Peter Brick, of this city, recently arrived from Canada, have gone to Sauk Centre to build a brewery.
August 31 .- The public reading rooms have been discontinued; cause, lack of funds. The books, papers and furniture have been donated to the Good Templar's lodge.
Levanseler & Fawcett will move the Nov- elty works building from lower town to the lot on which their planing mill stands and use it as a warehouse.
B. Overbeck has taken away the frame addition to his hotel, the Minnesota house, and is putting in its place a brick addi- tion, 24x38, two stories high, this being
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the second brick addition he has made to his hotel.
September 14 .- The Rockville grist mill, built by O. Tenny of this city, began work Tuesday. It has three run of stone and is a good mill.
Yesterday about eighty members of the fire department of this city-the Little Giants under charge of Foreman Leagle, and the Hook and Ladder boys under charge of Assistant Foreman Griebler, and all under charge of Chief J. M. Rosen- berger, started for Minneapolis to take part in the annual state parade today.
While a threshing machine was at work on his farm in the town of Pierz yester- day C. B. Buckman jumped on the feed table and attempted to step across the cylinder, slipped, his left leg being caught and crushed half way to the knee. Had the horses not been stopped he would un- doubtedly have been killed. The leg was amputated just below the knee. Mr. Buck- man is very weak but hopes are enter- tained of his recovery. (Mr. Buckman has since served for two terms as member of congress from this district and is in active business life today.)
September 28 .- Samuel Holes, one of the early settlers of Stearns county, died in this city, last night, in the fifty-first year of his age.
There will be no "free 'bus to and from the cars" any longer. Hereafter the 'bus will be driven one day first to the West house and the next day first to the Cen- tral house and there will be no "running" for either.
October 12 .- The line of the American Express Company has been extended to Sauk Centre, with L. Kells agent.
B. Vossberg has sold the corner lot of the Broker block to M. Majerus, the amount being $1,400. We understand that Mr. Majerus intends to erect a building thereon. (Frank Fandel's present dry goods store.)
October 19 .- On Wednesday of last week a daughter of John Baitinger, of the town of Zion, was married. Although there were 138 persons at the wedding, there was not a glass, not a drop, of beer drunk. This is remarked as being something al- most unprecedented.
November 2 .- A change took place Tues- day in the management of the West house,
Col. Todd retiring and E. T. Tobey go- ing in.
Dr. Senkler and Messrs. Mulliken and Daendels shot eighteen wild geese Mon- day.
Married, at Maine Prairie, October 19, Ina Stickney to Adelbert Guptill.
November 9 .- Charles Buss, who came to St. Cloud about fifteen years ago and engaged in business here, afterwards re- moving to Cold Springs where he had a general store, died Thursday, in the 58th year of his age.
Milton B. Swisher, of Eden Lake, but eighteen years of age, shouldered his gun Monday after a light fall of snow and in three hours killed three large deer, which he disposed of at Cold Springs for $17 cash.
Married at Maine Prairie, at the resi- dence of the bride's father, M. A. Gregory to M. E. Shoemaker, both of Maine Prairie.
November 23 .- The second annual Stearns County Sunday school convention was held in the Methodist church Novem- ber 18 and 19. Officers elected for the ensuing year were: Prof. D. L. Kiehle, president; Prof. W. P. Burdick, vice-presi- dent; John E. Carver, secretary and treas- Irer.
Clarke & McClure of this city will cut on the upper Mississippi this winter 4,000, 000 feet of logs, T. C. McClure, 3,000,000 feet and H. L. Gordon 1,500,000 feet.
St. Cloud was represented at the Cen- tennial exhibition at Philadelphia by sev- enty-three of its citizens-a large repre- sentation for a place of its size and dis- tance away.
December 14 .- A number of Indians, ar- rayed in blankets and beads, have been in town this week making purchases (and picking up stubs of cigars) for the holi- days.
Tuesday a drove of about 1,000 Indian ponies passed through town bound for St. Paul, where they will be sold. They are what are left of the lot captured from the Sioux.
Mayo & Lamb shipped 400 saddles of venison from Sauk Centre Wednesday.
L. Robinson, Sr., of Robinson & Co., pro- prietors of the Sauk Rapids granite works, has left the country, owing $6,000, many of the workmen being in destitute circum- stances by reason of his actions. The Sen-
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tinel says the business will probably be discontinued.
1877.
January 4 .- The people of Sauk Rapids having voted "no license," liquor cannot now be sold in that village.
The Stearns County Grange P. of H. met at Fair Haven Wednesday and Thurs- day of last week. John W. Goodspeed was elected master, J. B. Swisher overseer, E. H. Atwood secretary and M. Greeley treas- urer, with the other officers. Seven sub- ordinate granges were represented.
February 1 .- Last Thursday evening Julia Ward Howe, author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," lectured at the Congregational church on "Men's Women and Women's Women." Speaking simply, and strictly from her varied experiences, her power over her hearers is complete without any attempts at oratorical effect which she entirely ignores. At the close of the lecture she recited two or three poems, closing with her stirring "Battle Hymn."
February 15 .- Senator Macdonald's bill making the paupers of this county a town charge has passed both houses of the legis- lature.
March 1 .- Mr. Macdonald introduced a bill in the senate yesterday for the con- solidation of the counties of Stearns and Benton. Mr. Mayo, senator from Benton, had it referred to himself, where it will probably remain.
March 15 .- Maj. George H. Smith, gen- eral superintendent of the L. S. & M. S. R. R., shipped to this place by yesterday's train some choice short horn heifers, pur- chased in Illinois, for his Sauk river farm, about three miles from St. Cloud. Our farmers should appreciate the importance of grading up their stock.
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