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Peter Dambley, one of the pioneers of Stearns county, died in the town of St. Cloud Friday, aged 83 years.
Contracts are already being let for the grading of the branch line of the Minne- apolis & Pacific road from Kimball Prairie to St. Cloud. (But it was never graded or built.)
Roger, Bird and Frank Stanley of Maine Prairie have killed seventeen deer thus far this winter.
January 27 .- Nearly the entire member- ship of the St. Cloud Cyclone Toboggan Club with fourteen of the Snowshoers went to St. Paul Thursday to take in the first storming of the ice palace in that city. The boys attracted much attention in their white uniform, trimmed with blue and were given a very hospitable reception. Sixty more St. Cloudites went to St. Paul today to witness the second storming of the ice
palace, which is certainly a very spectacu- lar performance.
A. G. Whitney, of Sauk Centre, and C. P. McClure, of this city, have formed a real estate copartnership and will open offices in this city. Mr. Whitney will re- move to St. Cloud.
John Woll, of St. Augusta, who came to Stearns county from Indiana in 1856, died Saturday, aged 85 years.
February 24 .- John Leisen has purchased of Joseph Edelbrock the 43x100 feet on St. Germain street adjoining the post office building for $8,000.
The Cyclones went to Sauk Centre Tues- day in a special car and had a royal re- ception at the hands of the Avalanche To- boggan Club. A number of ladies were with the other excursionists. In the even- ing they participated in the G. A. R. dance, and it was after midnight before they re- turned to their car for the trip home, all voting that they had had "a beautiful time."
This has been a season of meetings and resolutions. Propositions having been made looking to the consolidation of St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids, with conferences between committees of the two places, the people of the Rapids said "nix." A bill having been introduced in the legislature providing for the division of Stearns county, it was warmly supported by pub- lic meetings at Sauk Centre and as warmly opposed in meetings at St. Cloud. A law already passed providing for holding ad- journed terms of the district court at Sauk Centre met with similar treatment at the two places.
March 3 .- A bill has passed both branches of the legislature appropriating $100,000 for the new state reformatory at this place.
The hot sun of Monday and Tuesday closed the toboggan slide for this year.
A handsome stained glass memorial win- dow has been placed in Grace Episcopal Church at Sauk Rapids, bearing the follow- ing inscription: Erected to the Glory of God and in memory of the 44 who were killed by the tornado of April 14, 1886."
March 10 .- A number of physicians from Stearns and neighboring counties met in this city last evening and formed the North Star Medical Association.
The bill introduced in the house pro- viding for the division of Stearns county
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was not reached on general orders, and so failed.
March 24 .- Four more Indian girls ar- rived at the convent at St. Joseph on Mon- day. This makes a total of 100 dusky maid- ens of the forest at that institution.
The Paynesville Telephone Company is now substantially organized and the de- pots will be connected with the town. The officers are: R. J. Tuttle, president; J. Keavy, secretary; Emmett Phipps, treas- urer. The Weinhaus telephone, manufac- tured at St. Cloud, will be used.
At the recent elections six towns in Stearns county voted against issuing liquor licenses. The roll of honor includes North Fork, Paynesville, Maine Prairie, Fair Ha- ven, Crow Lake and Crow River.
March 31 .- At the school election Satur- day Mrs. L. W. Collins, by virtue of her of- fice as school director, acted as one of the judges.
There were one hundred and twenty days of good sleighing in St. Cloud the past winter. In the country, where sleds are used even yet, the number of days would exceed one hundred thirty.
The Sauk Rapids board of trade has been reorganized with the following of- ficers: J. P. Wilson, president; E. Cross, vice-president; J. A. Senn, secretary; H. Berg, treasurer.
A. L. Riley, of this city, has decided to engage in railroad building with his brother, William Riley, the coming summer and will have charge of a crew in Dakota, where William Riley has a large contract for grading on the Manitoba extension. Peter Martin and Mckeever & Pettey will grade on the same road. The three crews will take about one hundred men from this city and vicinity.
The card of Mrs. I. G. Gould is published as that of the first Christian Scientist, "giving Metaphysical Healing, without drugs," in St. Cloud.
April 7 .- Sauk Rapids voted Saturday, by 247 to 120, to issue $40,000 in bonds to complete the improvement of the water power there. As the polls were not open during the hours prescribed by the new election law doubts are expressed as to the legality of the bonds.
April 14 .- The St. Cloud City Street Car Company received its charter from the
city at the meeting of the council on the 9th.
The first number of the Sauk Centre Avalanche, Democratic, was issued last Wednesday.
Married in this city April 13, at the resi- dence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. C. A. Cummings, Gertrude A. Powell to Lewis E. Wakeman, son of E. B. Wakeman of Minneapolis, assistant general superin- tendent of the Manitoba road.
D. E. Myers, of this city, has been ap- pointed the first superintendent of the state reformatory.
April 21 .- A new train on the St. Cloud & Willmar branch now leaves the latter place each morning at 6:00 o'clock, reach- ing St. Cloud at 8:15 and St. Paul at 11:10. Returning it leaves St. Paul at 4:10 in the afternoon, reaching St. Cloud at 7:10 and Willmar at 9:25.
The Sauk Centre Tribune suspended publication with this week's issue. The litigation between W. C. Brower, the pub- lisher, and J. V. Brower, his brother, over the ownership of the paper had much to do with the suspension.
April 28 .- William Blaisdell, one of the old settlers of Paynesville, died Sunday, aged seventy years.
May 5 .- Calvin F. How, of Sauk Centre, one of the largest real estate dealers in the county, died Tuesday, aged 63 years.
Kropp Bros., of this city, have taken the contract to erect a large solid brick building for the St. Benedictine Sisters at St. Joseph in connection with the seminary. It is for the Indian girls' school and is to replace the wooden building burned last fall.
May 12 .- Foley Bros., of this city, yes- terday closed a contract with the Manitoba Company to grade ninety miles of road from Grand Forks to Pembina and have it all ready for the rails the present season.
Married, at the church of the Immacu- late Conception, St. Cloud, May 10, by the Rev. Father Boniface, Maggie Molitor to Joseph B. Rosenberger, both of this city.
Paynesville has a new brass band of seventeen pieces.
June 2 .- At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the St. Cloud Land Im- provement Co., the following board of di- rectors were elected for the ensuing year: James J. Hill, D. B. Searle, W. B. Mitchell,
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F. E. Searle, N. P. Clarke and J. E. West. President Hill was represented at the meet- ing by his private secretary, Mr. Charles H. Benedict, of St. Paul.
June 9 .- The first number of the St. Cloud Tribune, printed with the material of the late Sauk Centre Tribune, W. C. Brower, publisher, appeared Saturday.
It is estimated that nearly two thousand persons attended Sunday evening the camp meeting held by the Free Methodists south of the city.
Married, in this city, June 8, at the resi- dence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. C. A. Cummings, Miss Helen Gilman, of St. Cloud, to Geo. S. Rankin, of Stillwater.
Joseph Emmel, who came to St. Cloud in 1856 and built the house in which he had lived continuously ever since, died yester- day, aged seventy-five years.
June 16 .- Col. C. D. Kerr, of St. Paul, was in the city this week and concluded the purchase of the Waldorf property, thirty- . eight foot frontage, on the south side of St. Germain street, midway between Fifth and Sixth avenues, for $8,000, and will at once erect a three-story brick building, the first floor of which has already been leased by R. C. Junk for his dry goods business. The building which is to be moved to give it place was put up by B. Rosenberger in 1856, being occupied by him as a dwelling and dry goods store, one of the first busi- ness houses opened here. It was of sub- stantial construction, with oak timbers, and the laths used were just sixteen feet long.
June 30 .- The St. Cloud postoffice from July 1 will rank as a second-class office, with salary advanced from $1,800 to $2,000 and increased allowances for clerk hire, rent, etc.
Last week "Grandma" Walters, at Fair Haven, celebrated her 90th birthday. Among her callers were Mrs. Smith, aged 84, Mrs. Abell 76, and Mrs. Vandervoot 75, the aggregate ages of the quartette being 325 years, which speaks volumes for the healthfulness of Minnesota's climate.
July 7 .- A Y. M. C. A. has been organ- ized in this city with the following offi- cers: Geo. R. Clark, president; W. F. F. Selleck, first vice-president; L. T. Trout- man, second vice-president; A. H. Kendall, secretary; Henry McGregor, treasurer.
July 14 .- Sauk Rapids has received the $5,000 appropriated by the state to help
pay for the schoolhouse built to replace the one destroyed by the cyclone. Of the sur- plus cyclone relief fund returned to the donors by the state committee $1,100 has been sent to the Sauk Rapids committee to be expended there.
Carl L. Schulten, for many years a prom- inent business man of St. Cloud, died yes- terday, in the 56th year of his age.
Lyman Reed, one of the early settlers of the county, died last week at Paynesville, aged 78 years.
July 21 .- Sykes & Co., of Minneapolis, who have the contract for putting in the city sewerage system, have begun work.
The Arnold flouring mill at the mouth of the Sauk river has been completed ready for the machinery. It will be a larger and better mill than the one burned, which it replaces.
August 4 .- The city water works have been sold to Phelps & Sykes, of Minne- apolis.
H. C. Waite & Son have purchased the Eugene M. McCarty farm on the north side of Sauk river and adjoining their large farm in that locality, paying $7,000 cash for the 160 acres less the railroad right of way.
August 25 .- George Tileston, of Fari- bault, was in the city Monday and let the contract to Kropp Bros. for building his new flouring mill and elevator. Arrange- ments have been completed by the cham- ber of commerce for securing the right of way for the Manitoba's spur track to the dam-the cost of which is estimated by the railroad company at $28,000-which will give Mr. Tileston facilities for ship- ping in wheat and marketing his flour.
H. C. Waite deeded to the Manitoba Railroad Company last week a tract of land near the Sauk river upon which the com- pany expects to build its car shops.
September 1 .- C. F. Macdonald and M. J. Nugent have sold to John Leisen the lot, 22 feet front, adjoining his brick building on St. Germain street for $6,500, or almost $300 a front foot. They paid $4,000 for the lot last spring.
J. E. and W. H. Hayward have purchased at Sauk Centre and in Douglas and Todd counties a number of working oxen for the pineries. These were among the last oxen purchased for use in the pineries, horses soon coming to be used exclusively.
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Married, in St. Cloud, at the home of the bride's parents, August 30, by the Rev. J. W. Hargrave, Miss May Montgomery to Frank M. Morgan, cashier of the German American National Bank of St. Cloud. At Paynesville, August 31, by the Rev. J. W. Todd, Miss Minnie Boylan to Edgar R. Phipps, all of that village.
September 15 .- L. S. Blood, of St. Paul, has made arrangements to locate a large broom factory in this city.
D. S. Hayward is now proprietor of the Grand Central Hotel.
Fred Schilplin has left the Tribune and will take a position in the Times office (where he still is, as one of the propri- etors).
Carl Kropp, of this city, and Miss Fran- ces Maurin, of Cold spring, were married at the latter place yesterday.
Bears are very numerous, the woods being full of them. On Monday thirteen carcasses were brought to market, nine here and five at Sauk Rapids. One of the animals had been killed with an ax.
Work began Saturday on the new street railway in this city. Contractor Hewitt has some sixty men shoveling dirt.
September 29 .- The first number of the Daily Times made its appearance, with brass band accompaniments, on our streets Tuesday afternoon. It is a neat six-column sheet.
October 6 .- The sum of $264.50 has been collected to pay the Union band for the open-air concerts given the past summer in Empire park.
On Monday a car on the street railway line made its first formal trip, having on board a number of the officers and stock- holders of the company.
Work has finally begun in earnest on the Lake George driveway or "Boulevard," as it is to be called.
The W. C. T. U. has been reorganized, with Mrs. C. T. Ketcham president; Miss Mollie Ellis, corresponding secretary; Mrs. J. C. Smith, treasurer.
November 10 .- The Electric Light and Power company and the Gas and Electric Light company, rival organizations, were both rushing the work of putting in poles when the city council passed an ordinance requiring all companies needing poles to use one set.
November 17 .- Judge L. W. Collins has been appointed by Governor McGill to suc- ceed Judge Berry, deceased, as an asso- ciate justice of the supreme court, and D. B. Searle was appointed to the vacancy on the district bench caused by Judge Col- lins's promotion.
John Chester Waite died yesterday at his home in St. Cloud after a brief illness, at the age of 28 years.
There is a great deal of excitement over the possible discovery of iron ore in this vicinity.
December 8 .- The officers of the Wom- en's Relief Corps, recently organized in this city, were installed Monday evening.
December 15 .- The supreme court has rendered a decision in the case of Joseph Coates against the village council of Sauk Rapids to restrain that body from taxing the people for the payment of $40,000 bonds voted for the improvement of the water power at that place, on the ground that the dam they were to pay for was a private one and would not result in a pub- lic benefit. This decision supports the judgment of the district court and declares the act for the issuance of the bonds to be invalid.
The Press is the name of a new paper published at New Paynesville.
Married, in St. Cloud, December 15, by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, at the home of the bride's parents, Julia Delaney to Frank M. Wright, all of St. Cloud.
Winslow Getchell, who came to Minne- sota in 1855 and was one of the first set- tlers in the town of Brockway, died at his home in that town December 13.
The franchise and plant of the Electric Light and Power company has been pur- chased by the Gas and Electric company.
December 22 .- The plant of the St. Cloud Tribune was taken possession of by United States Marshal Campbell Monday, this being the latest move in the some- what celebrated case of J. V. Brower against his brother, W. C. Brower, both claiming to own the plant.
The Gas and Electric Light company operated its electric light plant for the first time Saturday evening.
1888.
January 12 .- As a testimonial to Capt. J. E. West, on the completion of the en-
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larged four-story West House, and as a benefit to the managers, Waller & Field, a grand ball and supper was given last Thursday evening. It was by all odds the most brilliant social event in the history of St. Cloud. The committee comprised Captain and Mrs. West, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Waller, Mayor and Mrs. D. T. Calhoun, Mr. and Mrs. William Powell, Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Collins, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Macdon- ald, Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Foley, Governor and Mrs. C. A. Gilman, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Freeman, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Baldwin. The floor was in charge of Messrs. Searle, Gale, Todd, Tolman and Alden. Over three hundred persons were present and it was three o'clock the next morning before the last of the guests de- parted. The net receipts were $352, for which a check was given to Waller & Field.
January 19 ..- The Cyclone Toboggan club opened the slide Tuesday evening in fine style.
The mercury dropped to 42 degrees be- low zero this week, and the snowfall is the deepest since 1856-7. The railroads have all been blockaded.
The council at Sauk Centre has granted Henry Keller an exclusive contract for fifteen years to furnish the village with electric street lights, not less than twenty in number, at $1.50 per month, to run until eleven o'clock.
February 2 .- The St. Cloud Tribune made its appearance again Tuesday.
A syndicate composed of William West- erman, F. E. Searle, C. S. Benson and A. L. Cramb has purchased the McCormick building, 44x132 feet, corner of St. Ger- main street and Seventh avenue, for $16,000.
February 16 .- The so-called Boyd cor- ner, 231/4x132 feet, corner of St. Germain street and Fifth avenue, has been pur- chased by the directors of the First Na- tional bank for $11,000 and a three-story bank building will be erected on it this year.
The Manitoba company yesterday let the contract for the extension of the St. Cloud & Hinckley branch through to West Su- perior to Foley Bros., of this city. It in- volves the building ready for use of 76 miles of road through a wooded country
and will necessitate the expenditure of $1,000,000.
Abbot Edelbrock, of St. John's abbey, by virtue of being the oldest Benedictine ab- bot in this country, presided at a conclave held at St. Vincent's monastery, near La- trobe, Pa., on the 8th inst., to elect a successor to Arch-abbot Wimmer, lately deceased.
February 23 .- On Monday the German- American National bank of this city closed the purchase of the Benton County bank of Sauk Rapids and closed that institution.
Charles F. Davis, for many years actively engaged in the milling business, died Feb- ruary 17 at his home in this city, in the seventieth year of his age.
March 8 .- Mathias Mickley, for many years sheriff of Stearns county, died at his home in this city March 3, in the fifty-fifth year of his age. He came from Pennsyl- vania to St. Paul in 1853, and in 1856 to St. Cloud, taking charge of General Low- ry's lumber yard for a year, and for the following two years running it on his own account. In the fall of 1856 he was ap- pointed deputy sheriff and was sheriff when at the time of the Indian outbreak he joined the Minnesota Mounted Rangers. In all he was sheriff and deputy about twenty-five years.
April 19 .- The leap year party given at the West House Friday evening by a num- ber of the ladies of St. Cloud was a pro- nounced success. Mr. and Mrs. William Powell, Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Foley, Miss Helen Wilson, and Mr. L. E. Wakeman, Jennie Hayward and C. P. McClure greeted the bashful lads and gallant lassies as they entered the parlors. Griswold's orchestra furnished the music and Annie Baldwin and R. L. Gale led the grand march.
May 24 .- The strong smell of gas in the basement of the First National bank build- ing Friday evening led W. Wing, a book- keeper, to make an investigation. He struck a match on reaching the foot of the basement stairs and a terrific explo- sion at once followed. The front of the building was hurled into the street and the plate glass shattered into fragments. A broad sheet of blue flame lighted up for a moment the darkened interior of the build- ing and shot from the wide-open front. It was all the work of an instant. Mr. Wing was severely burned, but miraculously
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escaped with his life. A number of per- sons on the sidewalk at the time were badly cut by the flying pieces of glass.
June 7 .- The eighth annual convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians of Minne- sota was held in St. Cloud this week, the sessions opening Monday with over 150 delegates present. The officers of the St. Cloud division are W. J. Murphy, presi- dent; D. J. Morrison, vice-president; J. D. Sullivan, recording secretary; Owen O'Boyle, financial secretary; M. Branley, treasurer. The committee on arrange- ments, P. B. Gorman, John Gallagan and J. D. Sullivan, had the details well in hand.
June 14 .- Under the new uniform three- cents-a-mile rate on the Manitoba a ticket from St. Cloud to St. Paul costs $2.25 each way, or $4.50 for the round trip, against a round-trip rate of $4.75 before the "reduc- tion" took effect.
The cases of Alex. Moore, of Sauk Cen- tre, against the Northern Pacific Railroad company, for damages to land crossed by the railroad tracks, taken to the supreme court, have been settled for $3,100.
P. A. Martin has bought the Powell land adjoining Governor Gilman's Beulahland farm, 800 acres, which he will open up for a stock farm.
June 28 .- Another of St. Cloud's old set- tlers and prominent citizens has gone to his rest. John H. Owen, who came to Minnesota in 1855 and to St. Cloud in 1857, died at his home in this city this morning, in the sixty-third year of his age. From the time of his first arrival Mr. Owen had been actively engaged in business as a member of the firm of Raymond & Owen, manufacturing sash, doors, blinds, etc. He was a member of the board of county com- missioners and of the city council and was a man universally respected.
July 12 .- W. C. Brower has sold his in- terest in the St. Cloud Tribune to H. D. Jones, his partner.
The contract for the new First National bank building has been awarded to J. Car- lisle & Son, Minneapolis, at $26,135.
August 2 .- The heaviest rainfall since the memorable storm of 1859, when the Sauk river found a channel into Lake George, occurred last night. At the Fifth avenue culvert the flood of water from Larke George was so great that it backed up against the retaining wall to a depth
of twenty feet, undermining the side next to F. H. Dam's shop and washing out about a third of the wall. A number of houses, both in the city and in the country, were struck by lightning.
August 16 .- The city council has in- structed its committee to close a contract with the Electric Light company for the placing of twelve 2,000 candle power arc lights at $125 per lamp per year. The gas lamps now in use on St. Germain street and Fifth avenue will be moved to other parts of the city.
The drum corps elected Saturday even- ing the following officers: Harvey Grim- mer, president; Xavier Honer, vice-presi- dent; Watt. Cooper, secretary; Chris. Bach, treasurer. The corps has made arrange- ments with J. S. Tresize to give them in- structions on the drum and George Fuller on the piccolo and fife, and expects to be prepared to appear in public at the district fair. It has seven snare drums, one base drum and seven piccolos.
August 23 .- The completion of the water works system was celebrated Mon- day by an elaborate supper given at the West by the Water Works company to the city authorities and a number of business men, in all about one hundred guests. The company has expended $100,000 in exten- sions and improvements, besides $20,000 paid the city for the old plant, the stand- pipe alone costing $10,000. The officers of the Water Works company are: H. W. Phelps, president; E. T. Sykes, secretary; H. J. Neiler, treasurer; A. M. Greeley, su- perintendent-all of Minneapolis.
The marriage of Miss Mary Huntsman, of Minneapolis, to Mr. George W. Stewart, of St. Cloud, took place today at Fairmont, this state.
August 30 .- Wheat, No. 1 hard, is 85 cents today. This is the highest point reached for new wheat in some years.
The Phoenix Iron Works have been re- moved to North St. Paul.
September 13 .- The Rev. E. V. Campbell has begun the construction, on his resi- dence property, of St. Cloud's first green- house. It will be in charge of Miss Jennie Campbell, his daughter.
The new electric light plant came on duty for the first time Tuesday evening. Everything worked satisfactorily.
September 20 .- The last rail on the ex-
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tension of the St. Cloud & Hinckley road to West Superior was laid Tuesday.
September 27 .- The merchants of St. Cloud have formed a "Protective Associa- tion" to enforce the collection of bad ac- counts and to defend themselves from the imposition of "dead beats." Lists of such , are kept for the use of the members of the association.
October 11 .- The second annual meet- ing of the Minnesota Unitarian conference was held in St. Cloud this week in the Congregational church, beginning Tuesday. The officers elected for the ensuing year were: L. W. Collins, St. Cloud, president; C. Sprague, Minneapolis, secretary; C. C. Pudor, Winona, treasurer.
October 18 .- The dedication services of Zion church of the Evangelical Associa- tion of North America, at St. Cloud, the Rev. C. A. Schmidt, pastor, took place Fri- day to Sunday of last week, Bishop Thomas Bowman, of Philadelphia, officiating.
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