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Jacob Lahr, a prominent farmer of Le Sauk, died Sunday at his home in that town, aged sixty-one years. Mr. Lahr came to this country in 1855, on the same ship with John Zapp, register of deeds, locating in Le Sauk the following year.
The Sauk Rapids Railway Company has been organized to operate street cars within the limits of that village. The in- corporators are J. P. Wilson, Joseph Coates, Geo. W. Sweet, A. J. Demeules, J. H. Moody, W. F. Street and C. B. Buck- man, with a capital stock of $60,000.
bor, Mich., last month. Mr. Lindbergh is now (1914) serving his third term as mem- ber of congress from this district, his home being at Little Falls.
The city council has accepted from the trustees of the Library Association the 835 volumes on its shelves, and will make it a public library in accordance with the gen- eral statutes which allow a one-mill tax to be levied for this purpose. It will be known as "The St. Cloud City Library."
May 3 .- At a special meeting of the city council last Tuesday evening, saloon licenses were raised from $50 to $100.
Edwin Clark, the pioneer merchant of Melrose, has sold his mercantile business at that village to Wm. Bohmer and will hereafter give his entire attention to his milling business.
May 10 .- A. Anderson & Sons shipped last week the first full car load of wagons ever sent from a St. Cloud factory. They went to Moose Jaw, in the Northwest ter- ritory.
May 17 .- It is less than a year ago that J. P. Wilson began the erection of the first building on his East St. Cloud addition and by fall twenty houses had been built. This year further improvements are being pushed ahead rapidly.
June 28 .- Married, in this city, June 27, at the Cathedral, Mary Rosenberger to John Rentz, one of the publishers of the Nordstern. The marriage of Miss Mattie Mann, of Windsor, Wis., to Dr. W. T. Stone, of St. Cloud, takes place today at the for- mer city, the home of the bride.
The opening of the Buckman House Fri- day was a gala day at Sauk Rapids. Nearly a thousand invitations had been issued and about four hundred persons were present.
July 12 .- St. Cloud has another national bank, called the German American Na- tional Bank, which was organized Monday, with the following officers and board of directors: A. C. Hull, president; F. E. Searle, vice-president; Edgar Hull, cash- ier; J. F. Stevenson, John Coates, J. E. West, John Cooper, W. Westerman, J. E. Hayward, E. W. Truesdell, C. A. Howe, Marcus Maurin, F. E. Searle, directors.
Sauk Rapids Lodge No. 84 A. O. U. W., was instituted Friday evening. The fol- lowing officers were elected: Erasmus
April 5 .- C. A. Lindbergh, son of August Lindbergh, the Melrose postmaster, is reading law with Searle, Searle & Tolman. He completed his law course at Ann Ar- . Cross, P. W. M .; Chas. E. Bell, M. W .; W.
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F. Street, F .; E. F. Barnum, O .; W. E. Wagner, recorder; Geo. L. Fisk, financier; C. G. Wood, receiver; Nelson Meclon, G .; L. E. Newell, I. W .; M. E. Van Cott, O. W.
July 19 .- The foundation having been completed, the new Catholic Cathedral was dedicated this morning with appropriate ceremonies by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Seiden- busch, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Francis, O. S. B., of St. John's University, and the Rev. Father Wilkins, of Duelm, a large concourse of representative Catholics of St. Cloud and vicinity being present.
July 26 .- The surveyors on the St. Cloud, Mankato and Austin railroad reached St. Cloud last week and turned back over the line again.
J. R. Howard, of Sauk Centre, has been appointed deputy collector of customs at St. Vincent, with a salary of $1,300.
August 2 .- A large crowd assembled at the opera house last evening to hear the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, the great Brooklyn orator. The lecturer was intro- duced by Capt. Collins and spoke for an hour and a half in an exceedingly interest- ing and telling manner on the "Reign of the Common People."
Sauk Rapids was connected with St. Cloud by telephone Monday.
Prof. Cogan has removed his college from Grove Lake to Sauk Centre.
August 9 .- Burglars have been in evi- dence this week. Tuesday night they en- tered Bensen Bros.' store, drilled into the safe, which they opened, and secured $150 in money and a gold watch worth the same amount. Today while S. Fuller was at din- ner the auction room was entered by the back door and between $30 and $40 was stolen from the drawer.
Married, at St. Cloud, August 6, at the residence of the bride's mother, Mrs. Helen Moore, by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, Helen Inez Moore to Eugene S. Hill, of this city.
August 16 .- Paynesville, Zion and Mun- son have voted in favor of issuing bonds to aid in the construction of the Dakota, Willmar and St. Cloud railroad. Lake Henry voted almost solidly against giving aid.
G. W. Stewart, of Little Falls, has re- moved to this city and will hereafter make St. Cloud his home. He will read law in Taylor & Taylor's office.
A strong movement is under way for the improvement of Lake George by the cleans- ing of the lake bottom and the construc- tion of a driveway one hundred feet wide around the lake. This driveway would be practically, if not exactly, one mile long. The land on the west and south sides is owned almost entirely by J. O. McConnell and A. L. Cramb, who would donate what would be required within their boundaries and do all in their power otherwise to aid the undertaking, feeling that it would be a benefit not only to their remaining lands but also to the health of their families.
Married, in this city, Monday afternoon, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. Philip McKim, Elizabeth C. Metz- roth to John N. Bensen, of St. Cloud.
August 23 .- East St. Cloud has a news- paper, the Northern Pacific World, with N. P. Olson editor.
W. H. Hayward has succeeded his father as proprietor of the Grand Central Hotel.
August 30 .- The individual contributions of the people of St. Cloud to the cyclone sufferers at Rochester were $439, to which was added $3,332.22 realized from the re- sale of a section of pine land, making the total amount sent from St. Cloud $3,771.22.
September 20 .- The St. Cloud Electric Light and Power Company, consisting of L. A. Evans, F. H. Dam, Lewis Clark and J. P. Wilson, of this city, and J. H. Wool- sey, of St. Paul, has leased a site for works just south of Newton's mill at Sauk Rap- ids. The wires will be run to St. Cloud and either light or power supplied to our citizens. The first light will be placed in F. H. Dam's factory the last of this month.
Married, at Sauk Rapids, September 13, by the Rev. Leo Winter, Miss Josephine Homan, of Sauk Rapids, to Henry Beaupre, of St. Cloud.
Robert L. Gale, for some months past bookkeeper in the First National Bank, has secured a position as manager of the St. Cloud Fuel and Transfer Company.
September 27 .- The two-cent rate of postage on letters goes into effect Monday.
Corporal punishment has been reinstated in the Union school and the pupils can no longer do as they please, "'cause teacher can't lick us anyhow."
The rate for gas in St. Cloud is to be $2.50 per 1,000 feet.
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October 11 .- Telephone connection has been made with St. Paul and Minneapolis.
A branch of the Y. W. C. T. U. has been organized in this city with the following . officers:
Mollie Wright, president; Belle Rankin, Anna Stevenson, Hannah Ander- son, Sarah Stabler, vice-presidents; Jennie Campbell, corresponding secretary; Kittie W. Allen, recording secretary; Carrie Big- gerstaff, treasurer.
October 25 .- Burglars entered Prond- zinski's clothing store Tuesday night and made away with $500 or $600 worth of goods.
November 1 .- The marriage of Minnie Petty, of Maine Prairie, to Dr. L. H. Mum- ford, of the same town, is announced to take place this afternoon at the residence of the bride's parents.
Appleton Webb, who came to Minnesota in 1856, died at his home in Brockway Oc- tober 25, at the age of 86 years. He was town treasurer from 1857 until his death.
November 8 .- The proposition to issue $10,000 bonds to build a new court house at Sauk Rapids was overwhelmingly voted down Tuesday by the people of Benton county.
November 15 .- The St. Cloud Land Im- provement Company, which is supplemen- tary to the Water Power Company, has been organized, and the articles of incor- poration filed.
Judge McKelvy and D. W. Bruckart, who recently arrived in St. Cloud to make his home here, have formed a law partnership.
The ordination services of the Rev. J. H. Chandler, as pastor of the Congregational church, took place Tuesday evening.
All credit to Sauk Centre. By a unan- imous vote the council has increased the liquor license to $500 .. St. Cloud still sticks to the $100 figure.
November 22 .- The street gas lamps were lighted for the first time Tuesday night.
On and after Monday next St. Cloud will have six trains daily each way between St. Paul and Minneapolis, four on the Manitoba and two on the Northern Pacific.
There has been a swapping of editors among the German papers this week. Mr. Stackelman, of the Nordstern, in connec- tion with Fred Schilplin, will take charge of the new semi-weekly, Die Minnesota, and Mr. Ilenestebeck, of the Nordwesten, will
take the vacant editorship of the Nord- stern.
The register of deeds of Benton county received last week for record a deed by which Commodore Davidson conveyed to the Sauk Rapids Company the power at that place.
November 29 .- Still more newspaper changes in the German field. Gerhard May has resigned his position as deputy judge of probate to accept the editorship of the Nordwesten, and Berteus Miller has purchased an interest in the Nordstern and will soon take the management of that paper.
The chamber of commerce at a meeting held Monday voted unanimously in favor of a resolution asking the city council to submit to the people at the earliest day possible a proposition for a bonus to aid in the development of the water power.
Central time has been adopted by the Manitoba Railroad and all clocks and watches in this city will now be moved 12 minutes and 8 seconds ahead.
December 13 .- John K. Noyes, who lo- cated at Fair Haven in 1857, continuing that as his home, died on the 7th, in the 67th year of his age.
December 20 .- The pastors of the Bap- tist, Methodist, Congregational and Pres- byterian churches have formed a ministe- rial association. They have decided to make a thorough canvas of the city, visit- ing every Protestant family whose church home is unknown, with a view to securing the attendance of such as are not now church-goers at some of the several houses of worship.
1884.
January 3 .- H. C. Waite has purchased Major Smith's large stock farm which ad- joins the former's farm on Sauk river. The purchase comprises 240 acres; considera- tion, $6,500. This gives Mr. Waite about 1,500 acres lying in a body.
Reversing the usual custom the ladies made the New Year calls this first of Jan- uary. It was a very happy occasion all around. In the evening a Leap Year re- ception was given in the new McClure & Searle building, when between forty and fifty couples occupied the dancing floor. The room was in charge of Ada Locke, Rose Joslin and Helen Gilman, while Kit-
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tie W. Allen, Charlotte Clarke and May Alden were the committee on reception. Supper was served at the Grand Central Hotel adjoining.
January 10 .- Governor Hubbard has ap- pointed ex-Governor Barto, of Sauk Centre, a member of the board of trustees of the hospital for the insane.
The name of the Mississippi River Navi- gation and Improvement Company has been changed to the St. Cloud Water Power and Mill Company.
Gas is now made every other day at the gas works. Twenty-four consumers be- sides the city are supplied.
January 17 .- By a vote of 702 to 53 the proposition to issue $100,000 bonds for the improvement of the water power in the Mississippi river was approved by the peo- ple of St. Cloud.
January 31 .- The old St. Cloud Board of Trade held a meeting Monday evening, paid all bills and turned over $2.75 to the Chamber of Commerce.
The members of the Disciples church in this city have rented a room and will hold regular services, Elder Wilson officiating.
A number of prominent Germans of St. Cloud have organized a Schuetzen-Verein, or Rifle Club. The rifle masters are J. E. Henneman, Julius Dominick and Charles Dueber.
George Overbeck has purchased the Minnesota House of his father, and will now be owner as well as host.
March 6 .- The final tests of the system of water works put in for the city were made Tuesday and were satisfactory. The need now is the organization of two first- class hose companies.
Married, at Picton, Ontario, February 26, Charlotta Hourigan, of that place, to Ev- erett H. Morse, of St. Cloud.
March 13 .- Alexander Moore has brought three suits against the Little Falls and Da- kota Railroad Company for damages aggre- gating $10,000. Mr. Moore alleges that the company did not build its depot where it had promised; that it has not settled for right of way over his land, and has dam- aged his land by flowage.
W. F. Street has begun an action against Frank Tolman which involves the title to all of Lowry's addition to the City of St. Cloud.
March 27 .- Die Minnesota, the new Ger- man paper, has suspended publication.
J. P. Wilson made a proposition Friday to the county commissioners of Benton county to donate a site for a court house and give $5,000 toward the cost if the county buildings were located at East St. Cloud. The offer was declined. The new court house is to cost $4,000, the village of Sauk Rapids paying $1,500.
April 10 .- There are now fourteen pas- senger trains between St. Cloud and St. Paul and Minneapolis, six of which are daily and the other eight daily except Sun- days. There are also two trains connect- ing Hinckley with Duluth. The Northern Pacific has added a daily passenger train which leaves here at 9:35 a. m., arriving at St. Paul at 12:25 p. m., returning it leaves at 4:05 p. m., arriving here at 7:25 p. m.
Chas. W. Linwood, of Moorhead, arrived Tuesday to take charge of the American Express agency, in place of Mr. Cahoon. In this year (1914) Mr. Linwood is still in the service.
The new roller rink in this city is in full blast.
April 10 .- Monday an Odd Fellows lodge was instituted at Sauk Rapids by State Grand Master I. F. Clark, assisted by the St. Cloud lodge. The new lodge starts with a membership of twenty-four.
The council has granted permission to George Curtis, Fred Low, H. G. Wire, J. E. Henneman, J. P. Fahnlander and thirteen others to organize St. Cloud Hose Company No. 1.
April 17 .- At the meeting of the Cham- ber of Commerce Monday, J. O. McCon- nell, for the committee on streets, roads and parks, reported that the committee had secured the right of way for the Lake George drive-way and park for about four- fifths of the distance around the lake, but that it would be necessary to condemn the remainder of the property needed. A reso- lution was adopted asking the city council to institute condemnation proceedings.
May 1 .- C. B. Buckman received the con- tract for building the new court house at Sauk Rapids; price, $3,800.
The Stearns County Bar Association or- ganized Friday afternoon with a banquet in the evening. There are thirty-nine at- torneys in Stearns county.
May 8 .- Holes & Moriarity, of this city,
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have the contract for furnishing all the dressed granite for the new Chamber of Commerce building at St. Paul.
The passenger rates on the Manitoba railroad have been reduced to $2.75 to St. Paul and $2.55 to Minneapolis; round trip tickets, $4.85 and $4.50, respectively.
At a special election Wednesday of last week Sauk Centre voted to issue $14,000 in bonds for water works.
May 22 .- St. Cloud Lodge No. 34 of the Knights of Pythias was instituted in this city Friday evening, with twenty-one ini- tiates. The officers elected were: Wm. Westerman, P. C .; D. W. Bruckart, C. C .; F. E. Searles, V. C .; W. H. Alden, P .; A. M. Welles, M. at A .; C. W. Kingsbury, K. of R. and S .; W. L. Beebe, M. of E .; M. D. Taylor, M. of F .; E. Robertson, I. G .; John Schaefer, O. G.
The new St. Cloud Union Band made its debut at the rink last night and gave excel- lent music.
Burglars blew open the safe in Vander- vort & Co.'s store at Fair Haven Wednes- day morning obtaining about $500 in cash and a quantity of postage stamps.
Married, in St. Cloud, May 17, by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, Wilhelmina Metzorth to Frank E. Levansaler, both of St. Cloud. In Frankfort, N. Y., May 21, by the Rev. E. Haynes, D. D., of Boston, Mamie C. Tyne, of Frankfort, to John McElroy, of St. Cloud.
June 5 .- F. W. Murray, manager of the Clearwater elevator, has purchased of C. F. Davis, of this city, the Clearwater flour- ing mills, and will at once put in the latest "roller" machinery.
June 12 .- John Rentz has sold his inter- est in the Nordstern to W. P. Remer and will remove to St. Paul.
The telephone has been extended from St. Cloud to St. Joseph, Cold Spring and Richmond.
Louise Polly, a graduate of the class of 1883 of the St. Cloud Normal School, was married at Litchfield on Monday, June 2, to Waite A. Schoemaker, of the present faculty of the school.
Married, at the residence of the bride's parents in Chicago, June 10, Jessie Brookes to John H. Anderson, of St. Cloud.
locating the following year in Fair Haven. He served in the Union army, enlisting for three months in the First Minnesota and re-enlisting in the Fourth regiment, serving until the close of the war as sec- ond lieutenant of Company D. After the war he bought a farm on Maine Prairie and made that town his home until his death. The Masons and Grand Army took part in the funeral services.
June 19 .- Married, at Cokato, June 16, Miss Phena Jordon, of Cokato, to Geo. R. Whitney, of Maine Prairie.
C. Truman, one of Sauk Centre's early settlers and most respected citizens, died Saturday night.
June 26 .- The end of the world has come .- The East St. Cloud World.
The preliminary work on the driveway around Lake George is progressing satis- factorily. J. O. McConnell has agreed to give the city not only the right of way for the street, but also a tract of about five acres lying between the driveway and the lake for a park. Other property owners around the lake it is expected will be equally as liberal.
Married, in this city, June 24, at the Bishop's residence, Mary E. Edelbrock to M. J. Nugent, both of St. Cloud. At Pack- enham, Ontario, the same date, Mary Ann Foley, of that city, to Dr. A. C. Ramsay, of Chicago (later of St. Cloud).
H. C. Waite & Son have shut down their flouring mill at Cold Spring. This is be- cause of the continued decline in the price of wheat, which makes the manufacture of flour unprofitable.
July 3 .- The bill giving the St. Cloud Water Power and Mill Company the right to dam the Mississippi river at this place has passed both houses of congress.
Sauk Centre has a new roller rink, 46x 125 feet, provided with chairs sufficient to seat 1,000 people.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company completed its road from St. Paul to Sauk Rapids, on the Manitoba's leased right of way Monday, making connection there with the line to Brainerd.
July 17 .- The Cold Spring Opera House Company has filed articles of incorpora- tion. The purpose is to erect a building to be used for literary and musical purposes
A. J. Whitney, one of the prominent citi- zens of Maine Prairie, died in that town June 9. He came to Minnesota in 1857, and social culture and entertainment. The
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first officers are F. P. Hecklin, president; J. J. Gross, vice-president; J. L. Bold, sec- retary; Marcus Maurin, treasurer; Peter Hoffman, John Kiewel and Jacob Heiman, trustees.
July 24 .- Word has been received of the death of Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm, for many years a resident of St. Cloud, at Swissvale, Pa., in the sixty-ninth year of her age.
July 31 .- Last Thursday afternoon one of the most destructive hail storms ever known in this region swept through the towns of Crow Lake, Lake Henry, Zion, Rockville, St. Joseph and St. Cloud and a part of Sherburne county. The storm on the average covered an area of two miles and all the crops it passed over were a total loss. The loss is estimated at from $100,000 to $150,000.
Mary DeWinter, of St. Joseph, was mar- ried this morning to Hubert Hansen, of this city.
August 7 .- The postoffice has been re- moved to the West House, as has also the telephone exchange.
After an illness of several months Judge James M. McKelvy died at his home in this city on the night of July 31, in the fif- tieth year of his age.
August 14 .- The Northern Pacific depot at East St. Cloud, which has been com- pleted, will have Montfort Johnson, who comes from Clear Lake, as its first agent.
Married, at Butler, Pa., August 7, at the residence of the bride's parents, Elora Thompson to Charles S. Mitchell, of St. Cloud.
August 21 .- East St. Cloud will here- after be a regular station on the Manitoba line.
September 4 .- St. Cloud has a new mili- tia company, with officers elected Monday evening. They are: Andrew Larsen, cap- tain; John Schaefer, first lieutenant; W. H. Alden, second lieutenant; H. G. Wire, first sergeant; O. W. Baldwin, second; W. L. Waldron, Sr., third; Fred M. Low, fourth; Dudley W. Burgan, fifth; Frank Carrier, first corporal; H. A. Overbeck, sec- ond; Ed. H. Wright, third; George S. Cur- tis, fourth; M. J. Nugent, fifth; John De- Leo, sixth; Wm. Hall and John Stevens, musicians. The company will be mustered in by the adjutant general next Monday evening.
September 11 .- No. 1 hard wheat has gone up to 68 cents.
Albert Smith, of East St. Cloud, has picked two hundred bushels of cranberries this year from his marsh near Pleasant Lake.
Farmers from nine towns in the county met in St. Cloud on the 9th inst., and or- ganized a Stearns County Alliance. E. H. Atwood was chairman and G. W. Duncan secretary of the meeting ..
September 25 .- Sauk Rapids' old land- mark, the Buckman House, was burned to the ground Saturday night. It was a large three-story wooden building, and was erected in 1856 by Jeremiah Russell and George W. Sweet and went under the name of the Hyperborean Hotel. It had since then a number of owners, and was at one time known as the Russell House. It was valued at $8,000 and was uninsured. The furniture, valued at $3,500, was insured for $1,500.
Married, at Clearwater, September 11, at the residence of the bride's parents, M. Minnie Ranney to Chas. D. Whittemore.
October 9 .- Joseph Cook, of Boston, de- livered two lectures in this city on Satur- day and Tuesday evenings, under the aus- pices of the Ladies' Reading Room Society. The first was on "Ultimate America" and the second on "The Seven Modern Won- ders of the World." There were large and highly gratified audiences both evenings.
October 16 .- W. H. Lamb, at one time editor and proprietor of the St. Cloud Times, died last Thursday at Eau Claire, Wis., aged thirty-five years.
October 23 .- Miss Elizabeth C. Farrar, stepdaughter of Dr. G. S. Brigham, of this city, was married Tuesday evening to the Rev. Joseph Hayes Chandler, at the Con- gregational church, of which he is the pastor. The service was read by the Rev. Joseph Chandler, father of the groom.
Married, at Glastenbury, Conn., Miss Elizabeth A. Mosely to Mr. Francis Tal- cott, of St. Cloud.
October 30 .- Bishop Seidenbusch, assist- ed by a large number of clergy, dedicated Tuesday the handsome new cathedral in this city, which has just been completed.
Wheat dropped one cent per bushel dur- ing the week and is now 57 cents for No. 1 hard.
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Amos O. Berry, of Winnebago Prairie, received last week back pay amounting to $1,152, with a monthly pension of $4,000.
Specimens of St. Cloud granite, both the red and gray, have been sent to the New Orleans exposition.
November 27 .- A notable wedding took place this morning at the Cathedral chapel, the contracting parties being J. H. Linne- mann, of St. Joseph, one of the best known merchants of Stearns county, and Mrs. Angelina Kraemer, of this city, Father Severin performing the ceremony.
Joseph Moody, one of the oldest and best known residents of Sauk Rapids, died Sun- day, aged 68 years.
December 4 .- Married, in St. Cloud, De- cember 2, at the residence of the bride's mother, Mrs. Sarah Hunter, by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, Nellie Hunter to Arthur Hubbard, all of this city.
December 11 .- Married in St. Cloud, De- cember 6, by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, Lot- tie N. Whitney to Arthur A. Hussey.
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January 1 .- One of the most enjoyable entertainments of the holiday season was the carnival at the rink Friday evening. The costumes were exceedingly fine and the participants generally were quite suc- cessful in concealing their identity until later in the evening, when the masks were removed.
Although this was the coldest day in twenty-seven years, the mercury register- ing from 42 to 50 degrees below zero, yet New Years calling was observed as gener- ally as though the temperature had b 1 of a more inviting nature.
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