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The Eagle flouring mills at Sauk Rapids have been leased by Newton & Truesdale, of Minneapolis.
February 17 .- The Messrs. Hendryx, of the Sauk Centre Herald and Melrose Rec- crd, have brought suit for $2,000 damages against D. B. McDonald, of Melrose and asking for an order preventing him from continuing the publication of the Record at that place, claiming that this is a viola- tion of the contract made when they pur- chased of McDonald the original Melrose Record.
February 24 .- The St. Paul papers re- port the marriage at the Cathedral in that city on Saturday, of Millie Campbell, of Litchfield, to the Hon. C. F. MacDonald, of
this city. Senator MacDonald and bride will return here at the close of the present ses- sion of the legislature and will receive the congratulations of their many friends.
March 3 .- Henry J. Emmel, of Spring Hill, has purchased of M. Kobe at Melrose, his dwelling house, store and elevator, for $4,300.
The Nordstern changed hands March 1. W. L. Rosenberger, J. Renz and J. L. Meyer being publishers. Mr. May will be retained as editor.
March 31 .- The contract for army trans- portation on the wagon routes in Minne- sota, Montana and Dakota has been awar- ded to H. C. Waite, of this city.
Quartus B. Farwell, of Maine Prairie, has just received $1,225 back pension from 1862 with an allowance of $6 per month for the future.
April 14 .- All the liquor sellers in this city, with two or three exceptions, have signed a petition to Mayor Hammerel, cir- culated by Alderman Waite, asking that all saloons be closed at 11 o'clock each night and during certain hours on Sunday.
Invitations for the first annual banquet of the Alumni Association of the St. Cloud Normal school, to be given at the West House, April 28, at 1:30 o'clock, have been issued.
The newly-incorporated village of Mel- rose held its first election last week, with the following result: Trustees, J. H. Edel- brock, Edwin Clark, A. A. Whitney, Ger- hard Richter and Joseph Moritz; Justice, D. B. McDonald; Treasurer, E. L. Hedin. D. B. McDonald was chosen recorder.
April 21 .- "Uncle Jeff" Noyes, of Fair Haven, lias received a back pension of $900 and will receive $12 per month for the future.
Maine Prairie was thrown into a fever of excitement by the sudden and unex- explained disappearance two weeks ago of Philip Moon, the merchant at that place. Attachments amounting to over $4,000 have been taken out on his stock.
May 5 .- The saloon license at Fergus Falls is $500; Elk river, $200; Sauk Centre, $150; Melrose, $100, at St. Cloud, $50.
The Rev. O. M. McNiff has received a back pension of $1,442 with a future allow- ance of $12 per month.
May 19 .- J. B. Sartell has sold his flour- ing mill on Watab river to Fred Gruenwald,
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head miller at Arnold's mill; consideration, $6,000.
Paynesville has the honor of being the only no-license town in Stearns county.
Married, in St. Cloud, this afternoon, by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, Miss Jennie Mc- Comb to Martin Thursdale.
The butchers have run the price of beef- steaks, etc., to 121/2 cents per pound and then vow that they are losing money. (Beef cattle were quoted at 31/2@4c on foot.)
Philip Moon, who mysteriously disap- peared from Maine Prairie a month ago, has not been heard from. His stock of goods was sold at auction last week by the sheriff for $2,800, coming eventually into the possession of D. B. Stanley, of that place.
June 9 .- Married, in this city, June 8, at St. Johns Church, by the Rev. G. H. Davis, Minnie C. Tolman, of St. Cloud to H. D. Gallup of Sauk Centre .**** In this city June 8, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, Hat- tie Frances Clark to Samuel C. Gilman, all of this city.
June 30 .- The kindergarten opened yes- terday, under Fannie Dodge, of St. Louis, in a room in the Union School Building.
J. E. Hayward is having the plans drawn for a splendid brick hotel to be put on the corner of Washington avenue and St. Ger- main street, where the Central House now stands.
July 14 .- Capt. Joshua Briggs, of Briggs lake, one of the pioneer settlers of this part of the country, died suddenly at his house July 6, aged 66 years. Another old settler, Henry Vorjohan, of St. Augusta, dropped dead Friday while at work in the field. Joseph H. Edelbrock, who had lived in St. Cloud from his boyhood until 1877, when he removed to Melrose, died in that village Sunday.
July 28 .- Albert Smith has purchased of ex-Governor Marshall 160 acres of land on the east side of the Mississippi river, a little over half a mile from the city, pay- ing $9 per acre for it.
Henry Block, one of the early settlers of the town of St. Augusta, died Friday, aged 69 years.
J. L. Meyer has sold his interest in the Nordstern to Rosenberger & Rentz.
August 18 .- Prof. D. L. Kiehle, principal of the Normal school, today received from Gov. Pillsbury the appointment of State Superintendent of Public Schools.
Thomas C. McClure, one of the most prominent business men of St. Cloud, and one of the early settlers, having made this his home in 1857, died on the 12th inst., aged 54 years.
Theodore Bruener assumed editorial con- trol of the Nordstern this week, succeed- ing Mr. May.
August 25 .- Ex-Governor Stephen Miller, one of St. Cloud's early settlers, died at Worthington, in this state, on the 18th inst., aged 65 years.
A numerously-signed petition asks the city council to purchase "Pine Garden," a tract of seven acres bordering on the Mississippi river and the ravine, for a pub- lic park. It is owned by George F. Brott, who offers it for $5,000 with a perfect title.
September 22 .- St. Cloud is in mourn- ing over the death of President Garfield, September 19, after a heroic fight for life sacrificed by the assassin's bullet.
September 29 .- St. Cloud's best three hotels are without bars for the sale of liquor-the Central, the West and the Min- nesota houses.
It is not pleasant to learn that St. Cloud's two bands have both gone to pieces, but such appears to be the case.
October 6 .- Mrs. Mary P. Wilson, of Min- neapolis, has purchased of Gov. W. R. Mar- shall, of St. Paul, 170 acres of land just across the river from this city, at an aver- age price of $40 per acre.
No. 1 wheat brings $1.27 today. Milk has advanced from 7 to 8 cents per quart, on account of the high price of hay and bran.
Benjamin Gray died Tuesday at the resi- dence of his son, Frank Gray, in this city, aged 75 years.
Married, at Maine Prairie, October 4, by Elder Shoemaker, Miss Julia E. Maxwell to F. B. Smith, both of Eden lake.
October 27 .- C. Bridgman has purchased of George F. Brott the tract of land at the mouth of the ravine, known as "Pine Gar- den," for $3,200, with a view to transfer- ring it to the city for a park.
Capt. West took possession of the West House Monday and will hereafter give it his personal attention.
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November 3 .- A bill was introduced in the house of representatives October 27, providing for the holding of regular terms of the district court at Sauk Centre, the court to be known as "the Seventh judicial district, county of Stearns west."
. The new culvert across the ravine at the junction of Jefferson and Lake street has been completed and the grading done.
November 10 .- Mr. Andrew Bensen of the firm of Bensen Bros., of this city and Miss Nellie Capple were married by the Rev. E. V. Campbell this afternoon.
December 15 .- Foley Bros. of Ottawa, Canada have the contract for getting out all the bridge timber and piles needed for the St. Cloud and Hinckley R. R. They are putting up a sawmill about fifteen miles from here to be used in getting out this timber. They will make their home and headquarters in this city.
December 22 .- The marriage of Zoe Swisshelm, only daughter of Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm, to Ernest L. Allen, took place at Chicago, on the 19th inst., the ceremony being performed by Prof. David Swing, assisted by Dr. W. H. Thomas. Both these young people were former resi- dents of St. Cloud and have many friends here to extend good wishes.
December 29 .- H. Celia Higgins, for a number of years a member of the faculty of the St. Cloud Normal school, was mar- ried Monday evening to Dr. E. K. Jaques, at the Presbyterian church, St. Cloud; Dr. D. L. Kiehle assisted by the Rev. E. V. Campbell performing the ceremony.
1882.
January 19 .- Breen & Young have one hundred men engaged at their granite quar- ries across the river in getting out stone for the big Manitoba railroad bridge at Minneapolis.
The bill passed at the special session of the legislature incorporating Sauk Rapids as a village, extended the southern limits to the boundary line between Benton and Sherburne counties, taking in the East St. Cloud depot. Our neighbor is disposed to spread itself.
Joseph McNeal, one of the old settlers of the town of Brockway, died Sunday. The following day another old settler and sol- dier in the war for the Union, John Brake- field, of Avon, passed away.
January 26 .- William Westerman, of In- dependence, Iowa, who has been appointed general agent of the McCormick Harvester Machine Co. in this place, arrived on Fri- day to take up his duties.
Alvah Eastman has taken the position of editor of the Anoka Herald, which has just received a new press and discarded patent outsides, the paper being now printed entirely at home.
February 2 .- Among the postmasters re- cently appointed in this state were the fol- lowing: Holding Ford, E. Morgan; North Fork, Albert J. Anderson; Rice, R. M. Trace.
Negotiations are in progress between citizens of St. Cloud and the Sauk Rapids Water Power Company to secure the im- provement of the west side of the Missis- sippi river opposite Sauk Rapids.
February 9 .- D. B. Searle purchased Fri- day Jos. Edelbrock's farm of 130 acres ad- joining the city; consideration, $5,000. He has also purchased the adjoining Van Loon tract of 80 acres for $3,250.,
The work of rebuilding the railroad bridge across the Mississippi at this point is completed. The bridge is now practi- cally new.
February 23 .- A handsome new sleeper called the St. Cloud has just been received from Chicago for the St. P., M. & M. R. R.
Married, at the residence of the bride's parents, in the town of Rockville, February 22, by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, Martha Ellen Payne to Freeman E. Davis, all of Stearns county.
March 2 .- William Cooper, Fair Haven, who came to Minnesota in 1856, served for three years in the Eighth Minnesota Volunteers and at the close of the war went into business in Fair Haven, died February 24 at the residence of his brother, John Cooper, in this city.
Married, at Maine Prairie, February 21, by the Rev. Levi Gleason, Nellie Kimball, of Maine Prairie, to W. L. Kilbourn, of Litchfield. At Fair Haven, February 22, by the Rev. William Brown, Eunice Good- speed to John Stickney, both of Maine Prairie.
March 9 .- W. F. Markus succeeds Capt. West as manager of the West House.
The Rosenberger Manufacturing Com- pany have now forty men on their pay
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roll. They are trying to keep pace with the orders for their seeders.
March 16 .- Articles of incorporation of the St. Cloud Reading Room Society were filed with the secretary of state Tuesday.
The officers are: Mrs. Ella S. Collins, president; Mrs. Emily W. Morse, vice-presi- dent; Mrs. Emma West, secretary; Mrs. E. N. Evans, treasurer.
Richard M. Vandervoort has been appointed post master at Fair Haven.
Married, at Rockville, March 14, by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, Mary E. Payne to William Bosworth, of Sauk Centre.
March 30 .- D. A. Hoyt is engaged in tear- ing down the old Fletcher House, one of the first-erected hotels in the city. (This lot is now occupied by the Tenvoorde gar. age.)
April 6 .- Jacob Streitz, of the township of St. Cloud, died Monday. He was one of the first settlers in the town.
D. B. Searle, of this city, has been ap- pointed United States district attorney for Minnesota.
The old log building back of the Metho- dist church, which served in the primeval days as a jail, is being torn down and the material taken away.
April 13 .- Darnah & Haveland have opened the granite quarry on Coates & Freeman's farm on the east side of the river, and are getting out stone for the Manitoba bridge at Minneapolis.
J. E. Wing, of this city, has purchased J. R. Howard's agricultural implement agency at Sauk Centre and will conduct the business.
The body of Edward D. Atwater, a sur- veyor and one of the early settlers of St. Cloud, was found on the 10th inst. by the side of a muddy slough in Brownhead county, Montana.
May 4 .- J. P. Wilson is clearing about 150 acres of the land purchased by him on the east side of the river, and is laying it out into town lots. The new town will be know as "Wilson's Addition to St. Cloud."
The name of this division of the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba railway has been changed to the St. Cloud and Fergus Falls division.
M. Hansen, Sr., of Rockville, died April 18, aged 74 years. He was one of the earli- est settlers in this part of the country and
had been county commissioner at differ- ent times.
May 11 .- Dr. B. R. Palmer died at his home in Sauk Centre Saturday, aged 69 years. He came to St. Cloud in 1856 for the benefit of his health and the following year began the practice of his profession in this city, where he remained until about ten years later, when he removed to Sauk Centre.
May 18 .- A new brass band was organ- ized last night with Martin Molitor leader. It includes eleven pieces and is composed of experienced musicians.
J. B. Cable has been appointed assistant general superintendent of the St. Cloud and Fergus Falls division of the St. P., M. & M. R. R., with headquarters at St. Cloud. The old passenger depot is being put into condition for his use and that of Joseph McCable, the chief train dispatcher, and his assistants, who will hereafter make this place their headquarters.
May 25 .- The Rev. T. E. Inman, who was a resident of St. Cloud in the early days and for several years pastor of the Baptist church, died Thursday of paralysis at Wa- dena. He enlisted in the army from St. Cloud, and after his return from the war engaged in farming at Maine Prairie.
June 1 .- Antoine Edelbrock, son of H. Edelbrock, who came to St. Cloud in 1880 with all the other members of his family, arrived in St. Cloud with his newly-wed- ded wife. It appears that in November, 1879, this young man had shot a rabbit on his own father's land, which under the game laws of Germany is a serious offense. Young Antoine was arrested, tried and sentenced to three years in prison. Through the efforts of Capt. L. W. Collins, Secre- tary of State Fred Van Baumbach, Gov- ernor Pillsbury and Senator Windom, who signed a petition to the Emperor of Ger- many, his release was secured, and taking to himself a wife, Mr. Edelbrock lost no time in coming to St. Cloud, where he can shoot rabbits to his heart's content.
June 8 .- The newly-incorporated build- ing association, known as the St. Cloud Mutual Building and Loan Association, with a capital of $200,000, held its first an- nual election Saturday, when the following officers were chosen: C. F. MacDonald, president; H. J. Rosenberger, vice-presi- dent; E. D. Moore, secretary; J. G. Smith,
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treasurer, with a board of directors of fifteen including the officers.
June 15 .- Theo H. Bruener has retired from the editorship of the Nordstern, a position he has filled with decided ability. W. P. Remer will temporarily supply the place.
Pigeons continue to be brought in by sportsmen by the hundreds. The birds are nesting a few miles from town in the woods near the Rockville road, by the tens of thousands, and the noise they make can be heard for a long distance.
June 22 .- Work is progressing rapidly on the St. Cloud and Hinckley railroad. From fifteen to twenty carloads of material are being received daily for the new pas- senger depot and car shops.
Married, at Maine Prairie, June 18, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, Clara A. Roberts to J. L. Lovering, of St. Paul.
John and Andrew Bensen, of this city, and J. P. Wilson, of Minneapolis, have purchased 55 acres of land on the east side of the river, lying on both sides of the railroad track; consideration, $1,000.
June 29 .- Orlan Farwell, one of the old- est settlers in this part of the state, died Saturday at his home on Maine Prairie.
Frank Arnold has put in rollers and made other improvements to his flouring mill near the mouth of the Sauk river, to the extent of about $14,000.
August 3 .- A. Anderson & Sons are now engaged in making one thousand sets of bob-sleds, and already are crowded with orders.
Joseph Coates, of Sauk Rapids, and C. B. Buckman, of Little Falls, are at work getting out 300,000 railroad ties.
Trains will begin running this week on the Little Falls and Dakota railroad from Morris to Sauk Centre.
August 17 .- C. Bridgman will begin this week taking to pieces his upper saw mill, in lower town, preparatory to moving it to West Branch, on the St. Cloud and Hinckley railroad.
J. D. Carr, who had been justice of the peace at Sauk Centre for seventeen years, resigned the office August 3.
September 7 .- The last rail on the west- side road, connecting St. Cloud with Minne- apolis, was laid at Clearwater Saturday noon.
September 14 .- Daniel Bosworth, who came to Minnesota in the territorial days, since which time he followed the business of logging, having been engaged with Clarke & McClure since 1866, died in this city Tuesday.
September 21 .- Alvin Goodspeed, one of the early settlers of Maine Prairie, died at his home in that town Sunday, aged 78 years.
A local fire insurance board was organ- ized in this city Friday, with L. A. Evans, president; P. Brick, vice-president; F. Tol- man, secretary. A committee began Sat- urday re-rating the town.
The post office at Sauk Centre has been raised to a presidential office, the change to take effect October 1. The salary will be $1,500.
A temperance convention for Stearns county is in session at the court house. J. B. Vandervoort, of Fair Haven, is chair- man and L. M. Davis, of Sauk Centre, secre- tary. There is a good attendance from dif- ferent parts of the county.
October 5 .- The first number of the Kreusbote, a German paper, the official organ of the Catholic church of Northern Minnesota, was issued yesterday. It is published by Rosenberger & Renz, propri- etors of the Nordstern.
The Nord-Westen, the new German paper published in this city, sent out its first number last Friday ..
Alice Tobey, eldest daughter of U. M. Tobey, of Sauk Centre, formerly of St. Cloud, was married at that village last evening to W. I. Henshaw, also of Sauk Centre, the Rev. T. C. Hudson, of Morris, officiating.
Balder & Weber have almost completed their new malt house, costing $6,000.
October 19 .- The Bank of St. Cloud will begin business October 23 as the First Na- tional Bank of St. Cloud.
The St. Cloud Skating Club met last Thursday and elected as officers for the ensuing year: Prof. A. M. Welles, presi- dent; R. D. Hildreth, vice-president; Geo. B. Smith, secretary; W. H. Alden, treas- urer.
October 26 .- Mrs. T. C. McClure pur- chased this week of C. Bridgman what is known as "Pine Garden," coi taining over five acres. for which she paid $4.850, and
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N. P. Clarke purchased of H. T. Welles, of Minneapolis, six lots adjoining in block """Q" for which he paid $3,000. This prop- erty all lies along the bank of the Missis- sippi river, and the purchasers both intend erecting handsome residences on it.
Married, at St. George, Benton county, at the residence of the bride's parents, Aga- tha Blattner to Anthony L. Riley, of St. Cloud.
November 9 .- An Odd Fellows lodge was instituted in this city Thursday evening, with six charter members. The following officers were elected: N. G., L. A. Evans; V. G., Wm. Waldron; secretary, D. E. Davis; treasurer, E. B. Strong. Seventeen members of the Sauk Centre lodge were present.
Mrs. Anna Maria Stenger, whose home was in the town of St. Cloud, near Sauk river, died Saturday at the advanced age of over ninety-three years.
November 23 .- While Chester Waite, of the firm of H. C. Waite & Son, proprietors of the Cold Spring flouring mills, was on his way Tuesday to that village, he was stopped and robbed of $1,400 in bank notes. The highwayman, who was masked, was concealed in the brush by the roadside, some two or three miles from the village, and as Mr. Waite drove up covered him with a rifle and demanded his money. The latter took from his pocketbook a roll of $500 and threw it to the robber, but the latter not being satisfied demanded the re- mainder of the money in the pocketbook, and $900 was handed over. Having ob- tained this the footpad ordered Mr. Waite to turn his horses' heads and return to St. Cloud, which he did with $600, which he had in another pocket. There is no clue to the identity of this bold highwayman.
Married, at the residence of A. L. Cramb, St. Cloud, Hattie Russell, sister of Mrs. Cramb, to William Hayward, of this city.
The irrepressible George F. Brott is en- gaged at Minneapolis in manufacturing fuel from sawdust.
Sixty citizens of St. Cloud organized a lecture association Saturday, electing Prof. Jerome Allen, president; C. S. Spen- cer, vice-president; A. M. Welles, record- ing secretary; F. E. Searle, corresponding secretary; C. W. Kingsbury, treasurer. It was decided to arrange for a course of at
least six first-class entertainments, to open, if possible, with a concert.
Martin Molitor, father of M. Molitor, of this city, died Monday at his home in Rock- ville, aged eighty-two years.
St. Cloud's building improvements this year total $209,050.
December 7 .- At a meeting of the direct- ors of the Building Association Tuesday evening, A. Montgomery was elected secre- tary to succeed E. D. Moore, resigned.
The St. Cloud and Hinckley road was opened for business Monday.
Married, in this city, Thanksgiving eve, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, Elora Hayward to Dr. E. C. Holden, both of this city.
December 14 .- Clarke & McClure moved their bank on Monday to the old Corbett Building, on the corner north of the Cen- tral House ..
December 21 .- R. W. Bryan has been appointed chief train dispatcher of the Manitoba road at this place, vice Joseph McCabe, resigned.
C. F. Hendryx, editor of the Tribune, has been appointed postmaster at Sauk Centre.
1883.
January 4 .- St. Cloud voted at the elec- tion on the 30th ult., by 189 for to 12 against, to issue $10,000 in bonds as a bonus to the St. Cloud, Mankato and Aus- tin Railroad Company, and Maine Prairie, by a vote of 124 to 6, agreed to give $9,000_
Married, January 1, at the residence of A. Ross, in Fair Haven, by the Rev. L. Palmer, Elizabeth A. Ross to Clinton D. Grinols, junior member of the firm of Grinols & Son.
January 25 .- St. Cloud had its first oper- atic performance Monday night when the Alice Oates Opera Bouffe Company gave the "Princess of Trebizonde" to a good house.
A number of the young musicians of the city have organized the "St. Cloud Sex- tette Club," with the following officers: Prof. J. Rentz, president and leader; Ross Hildreth, secretary; Fred Staples, treas- urer; F. Staples, R. Hildreth and Jos. B. Rosenberger, executive committee. The purpose of the club is to furnish at all times both band and string music.
February 1 .- W. Merz, of St. Joseph, M. Schindler, of St. Cloud. and J. H. Eich, of
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Avon, have purchased the Enderle brewery in this city; consideration, $10,000.
Frank Peteler, of Sauk Centre, has leased the West House and will take possession next month.
Wm. Connell, one of the oldest residents of this part of the country, died Tuesday at his home in the town of Le Sauk.
Joseph F. Noel, who came to St. Cloud in 1856, died January 27 at his home in Santiago, aged 76 years.
February 15 .- J. E. Hayward has let the contract for the completion of his new hotel, ready for the painters, to P. Smith for $27,300. Mr. Hayward has gone to St. Paul to arrange for a steam heating plant. The total cost of the building, when fin- ished and furnished, will be fully $75,000.
Anna Frank, of Henderson, was married Tuesday to Myron D. Taylor, of the law firm of Taylor & Taylor, this city ..
The Swedish Lutherans of this vicinity have organized a church society with thirty members, and will probably erect a church building in East St. Cloud.
February 22 .- A rule adopted by the board of education of the St. Cloud district prohibits corporal punishment. "No lick- in', no larnin'," is evidently not the motto of the board.
The marriage of Ida E. Davis, only daughter of Mrs. G. M. Bishop, of Sauk Centre, to F. E. Searle, of this city, took place in that village last Thursday ..
The market is well supplied with buffalo meat.
March 22 .- B. Overbeck will add a third story to the Minnesota House, giving twen- ty additional sleeping rooms.
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