History of Stearns County, Minnesota, Volume II, Part 63

Author: Mitchell, William Bell, 1843-
Publication date: 1915
Publisher: Chicago : H. S. Cooper
Number of Pages: 1110


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A "special" post office has been estab- lished at Maine Grove, with Michael Good- ner postmaster.


A bill passed by the last legislature authorized Stearns county to vote bonds to an amount not exceeding $1,500 per mile to four lines of railroad-the first from St. Cloud to Mankato; the second from St. Cloud via Cold Springs to the southern or western boundary of the county; the third from some point on the northern boundary


of the county running via Sauk Centre to- ward the western line of the county; the fourth from Minneapolis on the west side of the Mississippi river to St. Cloud and thence via Holding to some point on the Northern Pacific railway.


April 3 .- The burglars, three of them, who raided Haines's store at Paynesville recently, carrying off most of the goods in a two-horse wagon, were arrested Friday. At the house of Thomas Marshall, a farmer, living on Diamond lake, near At- water, was found a large part of the stolen goods stored in all conceivable places, even down to the pig pen. Marshall was ar- rested, as was also another of the gang, George Hockenberry, who was sleeping in the house at the time. The leader of the party, John Morris, a prison bird from Wisconsin, was in jail at Atwater for threatening to shoot the marshal and he was brought with the other two to the Stearns county jail Saturday, to be held for trial at the June term of court on the charge of burglary.


April 10 .- A decree of foreclosure and sale of the Sauk Rapids water power was filed with the clerk of the district court of Benton county Friday. The judgment is for $159,361.15, the decree being in favor of Greenleaf Clark, trustee. The property to be sold includes the dam, canals, break- waters, etc.


May 1 .- The marriage of Mary M. Scheutz to John M. Emmel took place this morning at the Catholic cathedral in this city.


May 8 .- Rush City has issued $4,000 in bonds to aid in the building of the Grants- burg, Rush City and St. Cloud railroad.


May 22 .- The cheese factory at Maine Prairie has passed into the hands of N. P. Clarke, C. F. & W. Powell and A. T. Whitman, of this city. A. C. Thurber will be in charge. The patrons of the factory have organized a corporation called the Maine Prairie Dairymen's association, with T. L. Stickney, president; M. Greeley, D. A. Hoyt and A. Guptill, directors; A. F. Perkins, treasurer.


A private park is to be established by residents of St. Cloud on the shores of Pearl lake, in the town of Maine Prairie, on land owned by John Cooper.


June 12 .- C. Bridgman has made a con- tract with Clarke & McClure to saw for


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them 4,000,000 to 6,000,000 feet of lumber this season as may be required. A drive of between 40,000,000 and 50,000,000 feet of logs has passed this city this week. The crew in charge numbered sixty men and all were very orderly.


A new depot is in course of erection about one mile north of St. John's college in the town of St. Joseph, and is to be called Collegeville. The officers of the col- lege have made arrangements for a post office at this place and a line of telegraph will connect the college with the station.


June 12 .- Twenty-five years ago Tuesday John Schwartz crossed the Mississippi river and located on the farm where he now lives, just outside the borders of this city. He celebrated the occasion by enter- taining a large number of old settlers and friends on that day in the grove near his house.


James and Isaac Bailey, the burglars who had entered Boyd's store and the Sauk Valley House, pleaded guilty to burglary and were sentenced each to three years in state prison.


Indictments were found by the grand jury against John Morris, George Hocken- berry, Henry Williams, Thos. Marshall, Thomas Wheeler and Frederick Mayward for the burglary at Haines Bros.' store at Paynesville. Moore and Hockenberry pleaded guilty and were sentenced to two years each in state prison. Marshall pleaded not guilty. Williams gave his true name as Henry McKelvy.


June 3 .- The law passed by the last leg- islature changing the legal rate of interest from 12 to 10 per cent went into effect July 1.


Fifteen years ago yesterday Capt. W. W. Wright, of this city, took the position of station agent on the St. Paul and Pa- cific railroad at Anoka. He has acted in that capacity at Elk River, Big Lake, East St. Cloud, and at the depot on this side of the river as the road was completed to these different points. During this time, he informs us, he has not been above this place or below St. Paul or ridden a mile on any other road.


The Pearl Lake Park Association or- ganized Monday by electing the following officers: Wm. Powell, president; H. P. Bennett, vice-president; C. W. Kingsbury, secretary; J. G. Smith, treasurer; John


Cooper, John Coates and J. F. Bradford, executive committee.


July 10 .- At the adjourned term of the district court yesterday Henry McKelvy was discharged as not having been engaged in the Paynesville robbery. Thomas Mar- shall was tried and found guilty.


July 17 .- The board of education Tues- day issued $2,100 new bonds bearing eight per cent interest to take up old bonds bear- ing twelve per cent interest which became due that day.


The new Baptist church at Maine Prairie was dedicated last Sunday, the Rev. J. E. Wood, of this city, preaching the dedi- catory sermon.


Rosenberger & Co. have begun the erec- tion of a machine shop, 28x50, two stories high, immediately in front of their foundry.


D. T. Calhoun, late of the law firm of Barto & Calhoun, of Sauk Centre, has formed a copartnership with Oscar Taylor, of this city.


The locomotive which is now running be- tween St. Cloud and Alexandria, on Con- ductor Dodge's train, was the first locomo- tive ever run in the state. It was for- merly the Wm. Crooks, but since the rail- road company adopted the system of num- bering it is known as No. 1.


August 7 .- We understand that C. F. Hendryx, lately connected with the Minne- apolis Tribune, has purchased the office of the Sauk Centre Herald and will soon take charge.


F. B. VanHoesen, cashier of the Bank of Alexandria, and Mary C. Gunderson, of the same place, formerly a member of the faculty of the St. Cloud Normal school, were married this morning by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, at the residence of Mrs. W. R. Hunter, in this city.


There are only fourteen Saints among the more than nine hundred and sixty or- ganized townships in Minnesota. Five of these are in Stearns county, viz .: St. Cloud, St. Joseph, St. Wendel, St. Augusta, and St. Martin.


September 11 .- Wm. McNeal, of North Prairie, one of the oldest and best-known settlers in Stearns county, died this morn- ing, aged about fifty years.


A post office has been established at Col- legeville with Henry Broker postmaster.


September 25 .- A law partnership has been formed between L. W. Collins and


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Theo. Bruener. Mr. Bruener is a new comer but has strong endorsements from men eminent in the bar and on the bench.


The returns to the collector of internal revenue show that during the past month, N. Kramer of this city manufactured 2,200 cigars and Joseph Mark 3,200.


Jeremiah Russell, of Sauk Rapids, has laid out the land on this side of the river, opposite the Rapids, which he owns, into town lots.


October 16 .- T. C. Alden has purchased the "Sisson" place, eighty acres, corner- ing on Brown's addition to the south and west; consideration, $1,775.


By the consolidation of the Mobile U. S. land office with another in Alabama C. T. Stearns, formerly of this city, for many years the registrar, has been dropped from the service.


Waite, Batz & Rueth is the name of a new firm going extensively into the mer- cantile business at Cold Spring.


J. E. Hayward is shipping seven hundred barrels of flour each week to Philadelphia.


October 30 .- About five hundred persons went to Avon Sunday on the special train to attend the dedication services of the new Catholic church at that place.


November 6 .- S. H. Parsons has been ap- pointed agent in charge of the new elevator at this place.


Fully 150,000 tickets, regular and split, were printed in this county for the elec- tion Tuesday, or nearly fifty tickets for each voter.


November 20 .- August Lindbergh has been appointed postmaster at Melrose.


Stanley, Moon & Co. are opening up with a large line of goods at Maine Prairie.


December 4 .- J. C. Staples, of the town- ship of St. Joseph, who was one of the very earliest settlers along the Rockville road, died Wednesday of last week in the seventy-eighth year of his age.


At the annual meeting of the Sauk Rapids Manufacturing Company the follow- ing officers were elected: Chas. Gilman, president; C. A. Gilman, secretary; Ellis Kling, treasurer.


December 11 .- The Bank of St. Cloud, successor to James A. Bell and J. G. Smith's private bank, was organized December 6, beginning business on the 15th.


December 25 .- The first number of the St. Cloud Tilende, a Norwegian paper, was


issued last Saturday. The next number will not be issued until the party inter- ested, A. M. Schack, has canvassed for subscribers. (It never was issued.)


1880.


January 1 .- Many of the farmers in this vicinity raised the past year from 1,000 to 2,000 bushels of wheat, each, worth $1.10 per bushel-this in addition to corn, oats, potatoes, etc., not to mention stock. Farming pays in Minnesota.


It is said that Commodore Davidson has become sole owner of the Sauk Rapids wa- ter power and will organize a company for its improvement.


January 8 .- A reduction of fare has been made on the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad to four cents per mile. The fare from this city to St. Paul is now $3.00.


Geo. A. Freudenrich, of this city, gen- eral agent of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., has been appointed by that company to go to Russia and look after their business in that country the present season. During his absence the business here will be in charge of N. B. Fulmer, of Alexandria, whose headquarters will be in St. Cloud.


A meeting was held at the court house Monday evening to take action toward the improvement of the water power in the Mississippi at this place. A committee was appointed to secure the organization of a stock company to carry out the project.


January 22 .- A number of the $10 gov- ernment silver certificates have appeared in circulation here. They are of the same size as and differ little in appearance from the greenbacks.


According to the returns made to the internal revenue department at St. Paul, 4,864 barrels of beer were made at St. Cloud, 100 at Sauk Centre 850 at New Munich, 144 at Richmond and 93 at Cold Spring, making a total of 6,051 barrels in the county during the year 1879.


February 19 .- The St. Cloud Reading Room Society was organized last Thurs- day, with the following officers: Mrs. H. C. Waite, president; Mrs. W. B. Mitchell, vice-president; Mrs. L. W. Collins, secre- tary; Mrs. O. Tenney, treasurer.


February 26 .- J. R. Boyd made on Mon- day the first shipment of specie ever sent


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from St. Cloud, being $500 in silver sent to Anthony Kelly, wholesale grocer at Minneapolis.


A building has been moved from Sauk Rapids and placed inside the "Y" (North- ern Pacific and S. P., M. & M. R. R.'s) on the east side, to accommodate the passen- gers taking or getting off the cars there. It is understood that a wide platform will be built to connect the two tracks, as at Minneapolis Junction.


March 4 .- The Richmond Mining Com- pany, composed of Jacob Simonitsch, Jo- seph Berghoff and A. Bussen, with a cap- ital of $10,000, has been organized at that village to dig for coal, which is believed to be in paying quantities in that town- ship.


March 11 .- The Concordia Society met at the court house Thursday evening and decided to erect a hall, and to incorporate under the laws of the state. It was decided to locate the hall at the corner of Lake street and Jefferson avenue, the lot costing $300. The society organized as follows: P. R. Griebler, president; John Vanders- luis, vice-president; John Rentz, secre- tary; J. R. Bennett, Jr., corresponding sec- retary; W. L. Rosenberger, treasurer; E. H. Kellerman, librarian; L. Thielman, H. J. Rosenberger and Jacob Lemm, finance committee. M. Gans tendered his resigna- tion as musical director, which was ac- cepted, and P. E. Kaiser was elected to fill the vacancy.


April 1 .- The Normal course concluded Tuesday evening with a lecture by H. C. Waite on the "Merchant of Venice."


The Episcopal church at Sauk Centre, which had been struggling for some time under a debt of $1,918.50, had the pleas- ure on Easter of seeing it fully cleared off.


April 15 .- A lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen was instituted here Saturday evening, to be known as St. Cloud Lodge No. 63.


The Sauk Rapids water power was bid in at the foreclosure sale Friday by Com- modore Davidson, who held the claim against the property, for $125,000. G. W. Benedict bid $96,000 for certain Michigan parties.


Miss Alfa Van Valkenberg, of Sauk Centre, one of the early graduates of the St. Cloud Normal School, and for a num- ber of years a teacher in the Minneapolis


public schools, was married last week to N. M. Freeman, of Melrose.


April 22 .- The increased business of the St. P. M. & M. R. R. at St. Cloud has made it necessary to put a night operator at the depot telegraph office. W. E. Magner fills the position.


April 29 .- Suit was begun Tuesday in the Ramsey county district court by Joseph Robert, Philip Beaupre, U. L. Lamprey and Henry C. James against Chas. A. Gilman and Lucy C. Gilman to test the title to a part or the whole of the water power on Sauk river at Sauk City.


May 6 .- The party engaged in making the survey for the Rush City, Grantsburg and St. Cloud railroad reached this end of the line last Thursday and left at once for St. Paul. It is reported that the line was found to be a feasible one.


On Saturday Mrs. Abby West, of this city, was married to Wm. H. Thompson, of Alexandria, a member of the graduating class of the normal school, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. E. V. Camp- bell. We understand that Mr. and Mrs. Thompson will make their home in this city ..


May 13 .- A dispensation from the grand lodge of the state has been granted to Solomon Foot, A. A. Whitney and N. M. Freeman to institute a lodge of Masons at Melrose.


At the public sale of short horns to be held at Minneapolis on the 26th inst., N. P. Clarke, of this city, will have on exhibition and for sale thirty-six head from his Meadow Lawn farm.


H. Horton, the contractor, turned over the repaired Sauk Rapids bridge Saturday to the county commissioners.


May 27 .- John Anderson has been ap- pointed census enumerator for the city of St. Cloud, and M. Gans for the township.


Mr. and Mrs. John E. Mockenhaupt, of St. Cloud, celebrated their golden wedding May 25. They were married at Coblenz, Prussia, in 1830, and have lived in St. Cloud since 1860.


The teachers of Maine Prairie and Fair Haven met at the Farwell schoolhouse at Maine Prairie on the 22nd inst., and or- ganized a teachers' association.


June 10 .- Messrs. Coates & Freeman have received the necessary instruments


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and now have telephone communication with the depot. This line will be of great service in securing information as regards the arrival and departure of trains.


June 17 .- As a result of the high water in the Mississippi river from 50,000 to 100,000 feet of logs, belonging to Clarke & . McClure, escaped Saturday from the lower boom.


A daily mail will be put on between this place and Fair Haven, serving Maine Prairie also, July 1. The mail will be car- ried by the present contractors.


Sauk Centre has organized a free library to be known as the "Bryant Library Asso- ciation," with Miss Alice Tobey, formerly of St. Cloud, librarian.


The contract for building the Little Falls and Dakota railroad from Little Falls to Morris via Sauk Centre was let Tuesday to DeGraff & Co., work to begin at Little Falls immediately and the road to be com- pleted by November 15, 1882.


July 1 .- The city council has decided to purchase for a park a part of block "C" (now Empire park), which is a very pleas- ant place and would make a good loca- tion, at some future time, for a city hall ..


The salary of the St. Cloud postmaster has been increased from $1,600 to $1,700 per year. This being a "separating office," he is allowed $450 per year additional to the above amount.


The Fair Haven census enumerator found a woman in that town ninety-six years of age.


July 8 .- The glorious Fourth was cele- brated with a parade and a meeting in the Pavilion grounds, where the Declaration of Independence was read by P. B. Gorman and an oration was delivered by D. B. Searle, Capt. L. W. Collins acting as presi- dent of the day .. In the morning it was learned that a special train bearing Gen. W. T. Sherman and party bound for Mani- toba would pass here about noon and ar- rangements were made by telegraph to have them stop for a short time. Gen. Sherman was met at the depot and es- corted to the grounds by a large number of citizens, where he made a very pleasing extemporaneous speech and was given a tremendous ovation.


The net proceeds of the day, $300, were given to the Concordia society's fund for building the new hall.


July 15 .- A lodge of the Sons of Herman was organized in this city Saturday even- ing. It is confined entirely to Germans and is for mutual relief and life insurance.


The completed census gives Stearns county a population of 21,811, being an in- crease of 7,605 since the national census of 1870 and 4,014 since the state census of 1875.


July 22 .- Thomas Barrett has been ap- pointed postmaster at St. Wendel.


Owen & Raymond have closed a con- tract with the Fair Haven village school district for building a $1,200 school house.


John Kray opened his new hotel at Cold Spring with a grand ball.


August 5 .- St. Cloud is the sixteenth city in the state in population. By the 1910 census it was the fifth. Stearns county ranks seventh in the state in the number of inhabitants. In 1910 it was the fourth.


Kitty Cooley, daughter of the Rev. E. A. Cooley, of Fair Haven, was married today to Dr. L. H. Munger, of the same place.


August 12 .- One of the new postoffice cars has been put on the St. Paul, Min- neapolis and Manitoba railroad. It is a model of convenience and is presided over on alternate trips by mail agents Z. H. Morse, J. O. Hall, Chas. Dueber and C. Chrysler.


August 26 .- A. Montgomery and son William are putting up a chair factory, corner of Washington avenue and Percy place.


D. H. Freeman, who had made a second trip to Dakota, accompanied by Capt. O. Taylor and John Coates, to search for the remains of his father, killed in the Indian war of 1862, returned Monday, having been unsuccessful.


September 2 .- Telephone instruments were this afternoon put in the West House office and that hotel is now in connection with the depot, Coates & Freeman's livery and the McCormick headquarters.


September 16 .- Henry Edelbrock, a brother of Joseph Edelbrock, arrived in this city Monday with his family, compris- ing eleven members, and twelve other per- sons, coming direct from Westphalia, Prus- sia. All will locate in this vicinity.


September 23 .- Wm. J. Parsons, one of the early attorneys of St. Cloud, died in St. Paul September 19 as the result of a


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stroke of paralysis. He was 57 years of age.


John Emmel and George Schaefer, of this city, have purchased Carl Herber- ger's store at Albany and will go into business there. Both are energetic young men and will make their new venture a success.


The many friends in this city of Ex- Governor Stephen Miller will be pleased to learn that he has received back-pay pen- sion money to the amount of $5,800, and is to receive a pension hereafter of $30 a month, as lieutenant-colonel of the old First Minnesota.


As the result of a third trip to the Da- kota battlefield, D. H. Freeman, who was accompanied by C. S. Benson, was suc- cessful in finding the remains of his father, Lieutenant Ambrose Freeman, returning last Friday, and on Tuesday the body was given its final resting place in the St. Cloud cemetery. The grave was at Camp Whitney, on a dry sandy knoll, twelve miles from the Terry farm.


September 30 .- C. S. Benson is suc- ceeded by C. L. Boardman as landlord of the West House.


Fred Jones brought to town Monday the carcasses of six bears, which himself, his uncle A. T. Dearborn, and another lad had killed near Santiago the day before.


W. H. Fletcher, of Sauk Rapids, informs us that his bees have produced this year 2,500 pounds of honey, or an average of forty pounds to each hive.


October 7 .- Bishop Seidenbusch offi- ciated at the Catholic church Sunday morn- ing for the first time since his return from Europe.


The Grange hall at Fair Haven, includ- ing lot and fixtures, was sold at auction on the 2nd inst.


October 14 .- Eva Boobar, of Sauk Centre, was married last evening to the Rev. T. C. Hudson, rector of the Episcopal church at that place, the Rev. G. H. Davis, of this city, officiating. Mr. Hudson will be lo- cated at Morris.


October 21 .- Last Saturday an October snow storm brought eight inches of the "beautiful," which a high wind piled into drifts that blockaded the railroad, greatly delaying the trains.


The new custom grist mill of J. B. Sar-


tell in the town of Le Sauk has been com- pleted and is now in fine runnng order.


November 11 .- A deed conveying the Barnesville and Moorhead railway to the St. Paul and Manitoba company was filed with the secretary of state yesterday; the consideration named is $250,000. Also, a deed conveying to the same company the St. Cloud and Lake Traverse road, the con- sideration being $550,600.


November 18 .- A skating club, number- ing thirty-five members, was organized Wednesday, with A. L. Cramb, president; E. S. Hill, vice-president; F. Tolman, sec- retary; Thos. Brown, corresponding secre- tary; Geo. B. Smith, treasurer. It is pro- posed to build a house and flood and keep clear of snow a good skating park on Lake George.


The Melrose Record has been merged in the Sauk Centre Herald and the consoli- dated paper will be published at the Sauk centre office.


November 25 .- The completion of the opera house, the construction of which was under charge of the Concordia Society, marks an event of no small importance in the history of this city. It is 40x120 feet and with the gallery is capable of seating 800 persons. On Tuesday the building was dedicated with a concert by the Great Union band of St. Paul. The building is located on the corner of Jefferson and Lake streets, two squares west of the postoffice.


December 2 .- The St. Cloud Anti-Drive Well Association now numbers fifty-one members, an increase of ten during the past week.


The first number of the Sauk Centre Tribune has been received. W. C. Brower, managing editor.


December 16 .- While in Chicago last week, C. F. MacDonald purchased a hand- some drop curtain with nine sets of scen- ery for the opera house. These were bought with the proceeds of the benefit given the opera house at its dedication.


Winslow Maley, tried for a murderous assault on an old man named Anton Trisco, living near Melrose, was found guilty by a jury on the 11th inst., and was yesterday sentenced by Judge McKelvy to five years at hard labor in the state prison.


December 23 .- Married, December 20, by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, at the home of John Payne, Rockville, Phoebe M. Bos-


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worth to Julius C. Payne, both of Stearns county. By the same, at St. Cloud, Decem- ber 22, Addie Steen to Freeland D. Hamil- ton, both of Maine Prairie.


December 30 .- A number of the friends of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Spicer met at their residence last Thursday evening to cele- brate their silver wedding. They were the first white couple married in St. Cloud, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. Mr. Cramb, a Baptist minister, Mrs. Spicer's maiden name being Mary J. Marvin. H. C. Waite was the only person present who was at the wedding twenty-five years ago.


1881.


January 27 .- Fred Schultz has bought George Geissel's half interest in Schwartz & Zeis's hall, for $2,200.


Rudolph Huhn, of this city receives $1,- 350 arrears and a pension of $12 per month for the future.


Theirse & Balder's brewery has been purchased by Nick Weber for $5,000.


Under the new schedule the fare from St. Cloud to St. Paul is $2.90, to Minneap- olis, $2.70; round trip to St. Paul, $4.85, to Minneapolis, $4.55.


February 10 .- D. A. Parkins, of this city, has received arrears of pension amounting to $1,500 and will have $12 per month for the future.


The snow storm of last week was one of the worst in the history of Minnesota. Fences were buried out of sight under the snow which reached above the top of first- story windows and placed an embargo on travel. There was no train from St. Paul between Friday noon and Monday night.




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