History of Stearns County, Minnesota, Volume II, Part 68

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


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John Cooper and A. L. Cramb, of this city, and E. P. Smith, of Nashville, Tenn., have returned from a hunting trip to Da- kota with thirty-six wild geese, one of which weighed almost twenty-five pounds.


Petros Buckman, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Buckman, of St. Cloud, who, although only a little more than six years old, had suffered fifteen separate fractures of an arm or leg-his bones being so brittle that any fall would break a limb-died Monday of acute peritonitis.


October 25 .- George Tileston has a crew of twenty-five coopers at the Phoenix Iron Works building turning out barrels for his new flouring mill.


The marriage of Martha Paddock to D. S. Hayward, the Rev. E. V. Campbell offi- ciating, took place at the Grand Central hotel.


The McCormick Harvesting company's new block in this city, one of the finest machinery buildings in the Northwest, erected at a cost of about $30,000, has been completed and Colonel Westerman may be found in his new offices.


November 15 .- The baptistry at the Bap- tist church was used for the first time Sunday, two men and two women being immersed.


The Tileston flouring mill was started for the first time Tuesday. This mill, the location of which at St. Cloud was secured


through the efforts of the Chamber of Com- merce, is one of the most modern and best equipped flouring mills in the state. It turns out the highest grade of flour and is assured of a large foreign as well as home demand for its product. The cost of the mill was about $80,000. H. C. Ervin, who recently came to Minnesota from Philadelphia, is in charge of the office.


November 29 .- The fifteenth annual state convention of the Y. M. C. A. was held in St. Cloud the past week, the ses- sions beginning Thursday evening and con- tinuing through Sunday, with a large at- tendance from almost all parts of the state. The St. Cloud association reported 40 active and 33 associate and sustaining members, a total of 73, with William Fran- cis general secretary.


December 13 .- The grand jury returned eighty-five indictments at this term of the district court, all but fifteen of which were for offences against the liquor laws.


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January 3 .- No edition of the St. Cloud Tribune was issued on Saturday, the office having been closed for several days, and that day the mortgagee, F. H. Smith, of Faribault, took possession of the stock. J. W. Jones, who had purchased the in- terest of his partner, W. C. Brower, in the office, lost his total investment.


January 17 .- Last Thursday evening while Francis Talcott, the jeweler, was at supper thieves entered the store by a back door and stole jewelry amounting to about $1,000.


St. Cloud had its first sleighing for the winter January 15.


The marriage of Jean Hayward to C. Parker McClure took place at high noon January 15, at the Grand Central hotel parlors, the home of the bride's parents, the Rev. C. A. Cummings officiating.


Miss Mary F. Wheelock, formerly a member of the faculty of the St. Cloud Normal school, was married at her home at Moscow, N. Y., to Frank Tolman, of this city.


January 24 .- C. S. Benson planted a number of German carp in Lake George today.


Robert Lutz closed Tuesday the sale of the old Tribune plant, newspaper and job


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offices, to St. John's University for $1,375. The university will now do its own print- ing of all kinds, including the Record, here- tofore issued from the Times office.


At a public meeting held at the court house Tuesday evening resolutions were adopted forming the municipal limits of St. Cloud to include the village of East St. Cloud and the land as far as the state reformatory; also in favor of the passage of a bill authorizing the issue of $80,000 in bonds for the building of a bridge across the Mississippi river at or near the dam.


January 31 .- Mr. and Mrs. Charles Whit- temore, of Clearwater, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary January 28. Their children were all present and all the grandchildren but one.


Michael Lahr died at his home in the town of St. Cloud Saturday, aged 66 years. Mr. Lahr was one of the early settlers of Stearns county, having come here in 1854 and ever since made his home on the farm he then took.


February 7 .- The first officers of the St. Cloud Commandery Knights Templar are: J. F. Wray, eminent commander; George McMahon, captain general; T. C. Boorn, generalissimo; C. A .. Cummings, prelate.


McGregor Bros. have begun the erection of a woodworking factory on Fifth avenue south.


February 21 .- Kerr & Collins was one of St. Cloud's law firms back in the early '70s. Col. C. D. Kerr, the senior member, has just been appointed one of Ramsey county's new district judges and L. W. Col- lins, the junior member, is a justice of the supreme court.


The Sauk Rapids Sentinel reports that meetings have been held at Minden, Rice and other places at which the sentiment was practically unanimous in favor of con- solidating Benton with Stearns county.


February 28 .- St. Cloud's new creamery, the Arcade, started up Tuesday and the machinery ran smoothly. The building, which cost $5,000, is located on the St. Cloud and Hinckley branch of the Mani- toba railroad, and was built by the Davis & Rankin company, of Chicago. The offi- cers are: S. Marshall, president; E. Cross, vice-president; John Schaefer, secretary; F. E. Searle, treasurer; John Schaefer, E. Cross, John Ferschweiler, D. W. Bruckart, L. T. Troutman, N. K. Hunt and H. Becker,


with the president and treasurer, ex-officio directors.


March 7 .- The records of the Fergus Falls land office, that district having been by presidential order consolidated with the St. Cloud district, arrived Monday.


Sauk Centre is now a "city." Here's the top of the mornin' to you.


March 21 .- The bill annexing the Ben- ton county portion of East St. Cloud to the city of St. Cloud for municipal purposes passed the senate and house Saturday.


The contract for completing Unity church was awarded yesterday to Staples Bros. for $9,605. This will make the en- tire cost of the church without furniture or heating about $11,000.


March 28 .- A letter from Santa Ana, Cal., dated March 19, reports the death of Z. H. Morse, at one time a prominent citi- zen of St. Cloud, the previous week.


Mrs. Elizabeth Cramb, who with her hus- band, Leland Cramb, came to St. Cloud in 1856, when Mr. Cramb pre-empted eighty acres of land lying east of Lake George, died at her home in this city Sunday, aged 85 years.


April 4 .- The proposition to issue $80,000 bonds for the building of a bridge across the Mississippi river at Tenth street was carried at Monday's election, as was also the proposition for the consolidation of the two school districts. On the bond issue the vote was 1,004 to 374, and on the school consolidation 1,049 to 254.


April 18 .- The Crusaders Catholic Young Men's Union, one of Bishop Ireland's aids to temperance, was organized in St. Cloud Sunday evening at Cathedral hall, with the following officers: L. J. Rocholl, president; J. A. Zapp, vice-president; W. C. Mitchell, secretary; Charles F. Macdonald, treas- urer; Wm. Friese, J. M. Goetz, Joseph Eich, J. E. Barry, Nicholas P. Mertes, executive committee.


April 25 .- McClure & Whitney have sold the McClure mill at Sauk Centre to Dr. DuBois, who will operate it. The transfer includes all the mill property, water power, etc., closing out almost all the Mc- Clure estate interest in that city.


Honore Moulin, who came to St. Cloud in 1859, died at his home in this city April 19.


May 2 .- The Melrose Creamery Associa- tion, with a capital of $10,000, was incor-


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porated April 5, with Everett E. Clark, Dawes How, W. E. Kimmell and J. P. Pal- lansch incorporators.


George R. Clark and bride are expected here next Wednesday and will be at home at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. T. Clark.


May 9 .- For the first time in nine years the St. Cloud high school will graduate a class, although it numbers but two mem- bers, Finley Wharton and Theodore Clark, who have completed the course.


At the school election Saturday Mrs. Adelle Fuller was elected from the first and Mrs. Ella S. Collins from the second ward as members of the board of educa- tion.


June 6 .- The thirty-seventh annual meet- ing of Grand Lodge of the I. O. O. F. was held in St. Cloud, beginning June 4 and ending the next evening. Five hundred delegates were present. C. M. Sprague, of Sauk Centre, was elected G. M. The Grand Lodge of the Daughters of Rebekah met at the same time, with a large at- tendance.


Joseph E. Wing, who came to St. Cloud in 1863 and was prominent in business circles, died at his home in this city last evening, in the eighty-first year of his age.


June 13 .- The city council of St. Cloud appropriated $1,000 to be equally divided between the sufferers by the Johnstown flood and the Seattle fire.


June 20 .- When the St. Cloud band re- turned Friday from the Fargo tournament where they had taken the first prize, with eight competitors, a grand reception was given by the ciitzens, together with a purse of $350, the prizes captured at Fargo amounting to $225 additional.


Work is progressing favorably on the new hospital on the east side.


Burglars entered the office at H. C. Waite's mill at Cold Spring on Monday night, blew open the safe doors with dyna- mite and secured $206.40 in cash. A fire which resulted was put out by the thieves themselves.


August 8 .- Leander Gorton, who came to St. Cloud in 1856 and engaged first in saw-mill enterprises and afterwards in building and operating a flouring mill, who was a member of the board of county com- missioners and of the city council, died August 4 in Minneapolis, aged 75 years.


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August 22 .- E. T. Davidson, formerly connected with the Newmarket theatre, St. Paul, has leased the St. Cloud opera house for two years and will take possession Sep- tember 1.


The First National bank will occupy its new building September 9.


September 19 .- Married, in St. Cloud, September 12, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. J. H. Chandler, Carrie M. Clark to B. F. Carter, both of St. Cloud; September 17, at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Whitman, by the Rev. J. W. Hargrave, Abbie B. Crommett to A. Montgomery, all of St. Cloud.


October 3 .- The free delivery carrier system went into effect in this city October 1, with three carriers in the service, Mich- ael B. Miller, George A. Dickinson and John J. Jackson. (These three carriers have been in service ever since and are on duty this A. D. 1914.)


Mrs. John Blakely, of Paynesville, died Wednesday of last week, aged 71 years. The News says she was the first white woman to cross the Mississippi river into this state.


October 17 .- A creamery association has been organized at Fair Haven.


Joel Bailey, one of the old settlers of Le Sauk, died in this city Thursday, aged 81 years.


The name of the Cold Spring City post office has been changed by the department to Cold City. (It afterwards was named Cold Spring, which remained.)


October 31 .- Manitoba engineers were in the city this week making notes for a topo- graphical survey of the property on which the railroad shops are to be located.


Married, in this city, October 27, by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, Miss Phoebe Rau, of St. George, Benton county, to G. H. Dunnewold, of St. Cloud.


November 7 .- The fifth annual conven- tion of the Young Women's Christian As- sociations of Minnesota opened its sessions in the Congregational church Friday even- ing, continuing through Sunday. St. Cloud reported 42 active and 14 associate mem- bers. Misses Caroline T. Mitchell and Kittie Bennett were elected members of the state committee.


The marriage of Bertha Miller, of Still- water, to Peter J. Seberger, of St. Cloud, took place at the former city, November 5.


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November 14 .- Mr. and Mrs. George H. Reynolds arrived home Friday evening. Their marriage took place October 31 at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Harvey, at Fulton Wells, Los Angeles.


November 21 .- A royal reception was tendered today to Bishop Zardetti on his arrival to become the successor of Bishop Seidenbusch. Societies from a number of the surrounding towns were present in full force and more than forty of the clergy of the diocese, all members of the O. S. B., were in the procession. An address of wel- come was given by Ald. Reinhard, vice- president of the council, acting for Mayor Westerman.


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December 19 .- A double wedding oc- curred at Sauk Centre yesterday, when Minnehaha Bruce, daughter of Capt. and Mrs. S. M. Bruce, was married to J. L. Mullin, and her sister, F. Belle Bruce, was married to George Fish.


1890.


January 3 .- St. Cloud has now twenty- five hotels. The Grand Central, D. S. Hay- ward, proprietor, with W. F. Gullett day clerk (at his old post in 1914) and A. Leimbacher night clerk; the West, Waller & Field, managers; the St. Charles, built last year and furnished by C. F. Powell, cpened by C. A. Rand, who was succeeded last month by N. H. Danforth; the Minne- sota House, George Overbeck; Grand Pa- cific, P. Schaefer; Arlington, Mrs. Mun- singer; St. Cloud Hotel, M. Miller; Grand Union, L. McDonald; Eagle House, P. Spaniol; Rheinischer Hof, Mrs. Fischer; Commercial, Schoen Bros .; National, P. H. Ley; Seberger House, Joseph Seberger; Kauffman, M. Kauffman; Farmers' Home, P. J. Seberger; Washington, M. Hendra- han; Sixth Avenue, Mrs. Olds; Union, B. Dambly; Pendle House, Josepli Pendle; Railroad Place, J. J. Morris; Garlington, August Aabischung; Schmidt House, Joseph Bloberger; Hotel Gruetli, C. Aerne; Central, George Hansen; Albion, George Conrad-the last three being located on the east side. These ho- tels can take care of 1,300 guests.


January 16 .- The contract for building the Tenth street bridge was let Thursday to Foley Bros. & Guthrie, of this city for $50,500. The bids ranged up to $56,500.


Wm. H. Hayward, of this city, died in Chicago Friday, following an operation, the funeral being from the home of his parents, the Grand Central hotel, in this city, Tues- day. He was in the thirty-first year of his age.


January 23 .- The Rev. Ulrie Northman, O. S. B., died Tuesday at St. John's Uni- versity, Collegeville. For a number of years, and until ill health compelled his resignation, he was vice-president of the university.


A large part of the machinery for the St. Cloud Fibreware Company's plant has been received and it is expected that it will be ready to make tubs and pails by May 1.


February 6 .- The creamery at Fair Haven, which is a duplicate of the Arcade, of this city, is completed and will begin making butter March 1. It cost $5,000.


The Ladies' Calisthenic Club organized yesterday by electing Mrs. O. W. Baldwin president and instructor and Mrs. C. S. Mitchell, secretary. Other members of the club are Mesdames E. S. Smith, H. C. Er- vin, G. W. Stewart, E. E. Clark, George Tileston, J. C. Palmer and W. S. Andrews. February 13. - Albertus Montgomery, who located at Fair Haven in 1857, being one of the earliest settlers of that town, and came to St. Cloud in 1862, died at his home in this city, Friday, aged 54 years. He built the St. Cloud Normal school, be- sides being prominent in business affairs.


H. C. Block, Maine Prairie: I "can re- member thirty years ago when I was well satisfied to drive a yoke of oxen into St. Cloud with a load of wood, carrying a lunch of brown bread in my pocket. Now every farmer has to have a fine span of horses and put up at a hotel."


February 27 .- Capt. J. E. West's ap- pointment as postmaster at St. Cloud was sent by the president to the senate Fri- day.


The new board of pension examiners or- ganized today by electing Dr. W. L. Beebe, president; Dr. H. M. Post, secretary, and Dr. L. H. Munger treasurer.


March 20 .- Almer Smith, who came to Minnesota from New York in 1855 and to St. Cloud in 1857, being the first painter in the town, died at his home in this city Tuesday, aged 89 years.


April 3 .- The United States land office


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has been removed by Register Barto and Receiver Westerman to rooms in the old McCormick block.


May 8 .- A Poultry Association was or- ganized last week in L. R. Swift's office, E. W. Mayman, of Sauk Rapids, being elected president; C. D. Burgan, of St. Cloud, secretary; F. I. Stiles, St. Cloud, treasurer.


The new hospital erected in this city by the Benedictine order has been com- pleted and is a fine structure, three stories above the high basement. It is in charge of Sister Placide, with eleven assistants.


May 15 .- Work has begun on Bishop Zardetti's new residence which will con- nect with the present episcopal residence and front the west. The cost will be from $15,000 to $20,000.


Anderson's new saw mill on the east side started sawing logs yesterday.


May 29 .- Robert Lutz, county auditor of Stearns county, has disappeared. Public Examiner Kenyon has been going over his accounts and finds them in a very unsat- isfactory condition.


June 12 .- Word has been received of the death of Joseph Broker, one of St. Cloud's pioneer settlers and wealthiest business men, which occurred at Sioux Falls, S. D.


Married, this afternoon, at the family residence in St. Paul, the Rev. Dr. Forbes officiating, Lou Murphy to R. L. Gale, of St. Cloud.


The Western Union Telegraph Company now keeps its office open until 11 o'clock at night to receive messages, instead of to 8 o'clock only as heretofore.


June 26 .- Telephone connection with Sauk Rapids was completed today.


Married, at the residence of the bride's parents in St. Cloud, June 26, Euretta O. Robertson to Albert E. Bowing, of St. Cloud, the Rev. R. R. Atchinson officiat- ing.


At the meeting of the state medical so- ciety at St. Paul last week Dr. W. L. Beebe, of this city, was unanimously elected presi- dent.


July 17 .- Wesley Carter's new flouring mill started up this morning and was run without a hitch all day. The mill has a capacity of about 100 barrels.


George I. Porter, who came to Minne- sota in 1857, serving in the Eighth Minne -. sota volunteers and locating in St. Cloud


at the close of the war, died at his home in this city Monday, aged 67.


July 24 .- The general contract for the new Great Northern shops has been let to Frederick Althen of St. Paul. A crew of surveyors have been engaged during the past week setting the stakes for the new buildings and side tracks.


August 14 .- The Anderson saw mill was struck by lightning Thursday night and en- tirely destroyed.


A new orchestra, with fifteen members was organized Thursday, the officers being Martin Molitor, president and manager, and J. Pontius, secretary and treasurer.


September 18 .- Sixty-six owners of prop- erty assessed for the Lake George boule- vard have by their attorneys filed objec- tions to the assessments made by the board of public works.


Married at Owatonna, September 17, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. Stanley McKay, Miss Elizabeth Crandall to Clarence L. Atwood, of St. Cloud.


December 4 .- The Great Northern car shops are completed, the last stone being laid Sunday. The boilers, engines and machinery have yet to be placed.


1891.


January 8 .- The Tenth street bridge was completed and opened for travel last week.


The first exhibition by the Sauk Rapids Dog and Poultry Association took place at that village Wednesday and Thursday of last week and was very successful.


March 5 .- H. H. Budgett, of Long Prairie, arrived in St. Cloud last evening to close the purchase of the West House. It will remain in charge of Hall & Hough.


Mrs. Zoe Swisshelm Allen, wife of Ernest L. Allen, and only daughter of the late Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm, all formerly of St. Cloud, died Monday at her home in Chicago.


April 16 .- The Central Minnesota Build- ing Association, located in St. Cloud, has been incorporated, being the second of the kind in the city. John Zapp, A. L. Cramb, John Cooper, D. E. Myers, H. C. Waite, W. B. Mitchell, J. G. Smith, C. S. Benson, George Tileston, W. Powell, L. A. Evans, D. H. Freeman and J. E. West constituted the first board of directors.


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St. Cloud is the title of a new financial or- ganization incorporated in this city. The first board of directors are: Otto Metzroth, O. W. Baldwin, Hugo C. Metzl, James Mac- Mullan (of Minneapolis), Charles J. Metz- roth, W. L. Rosenberger and R. P. Rus- sell, Jr., (of Minneapolis). Among the other incorporators were A. L. Singer and C. S. Schoenmann, of Chicago.


May 21 .- The Rev. Edward A. Steiner, of Oberlin, O., will preach in the Congre- gational church and for several succeed- ing Sundays. (Mr. Steiner, who was the local pastor in St. Cloud for some time, has since obtained a national reputation as an author and sociological investigator.)


May 28. - The marriage of Emma Schaefer to Charles J. Metzroth, both of this city, the Rev. Father Gregory of- ficiating, took place this morning.


June 18 .- The attendance at the district encampment of the G. A. R. held in St. Cloud during the past week was unusually large and the occasion was an enjoyable one for the old soldiers. The next en- campment will be held at Melrose, which has pledged $1,600 for the expenses.


The people of St. Cloud contributed $2,- 000 in cash for the expenses of the G. A. R. encampment and the race guaranty fund last week.


July 2 .- Charles W. Kingsbury, who for twenty-one years continuously had been foreman in the office of the St. Cloud Jour- nal-Press, died June 30 at the home of his brother at Merriam Park. Mr. Kings- bury had served as a member of the board of education and in other responsible posi- tions and was held in universal esteem.


Work at the new Great Northern shops is rushing and more men will have to be hired, making a total of 140.


August 6 .- Capt. Willard Glazier will leave St. Paul on the 17th inst. on his exploring expedition for the headwaters of the Mississippi river, spending one day at St. Cloud on the way.


The marriage of Fannie M. Lahr, of St. Paul, to John J. Leisen, of St. Cloud, took place August 4, at the church of the Sacred Heart, St. Paul.


August 27 .- Grain inspection for grain received at St. Cloud has been established by the state department and J. F. Low ap- pointed inspector.


September 24 .- D. H. Freeman has pur-


chased J. E. Hayward's entire lumbering outfit, which includes 90 head of oxen, 17 horses, besides sleds, camps, etc. He ex- pects to cut 10,000,000 feet of logs the coming winter. The firm of Freeman & Gray succeeds Cooper & Gray.


October 1 .- Last Monday the street car line franchise was sold to the Thompson- Houston Co., of St. Paul. By the contract the company is to begin work within thirty days and to have three miles of track in operation within one year.


Dr. A. C. L. Ramsay, a prominent physi- cian of St. Cloud, died Monday as the re- sult of a stroke of apoplexy.


Wm. A. Riley, an extensive railroad con- tractor of this city, died September 26 at Kalispel, Montana, of mountain fever.


October 15 .- The Minnesota Baptist an- niversaries began their thirty-second an- nual sessions at the church in this city Tuesday forenoon, closing this evening. There was a large attendance of distin- guished clergymen and laymen from all parts of the state.


At Moscow, N. Y., October 13, at the home of the bride's parents, occurred the marriage of Alice Wheelock, of that place, to Albert G. Whitney, of St. Cloud, the Rev. F. Gutelius officiating.


November 5 .- The dedication of the new Unity church took place Thursday even- ing of last week. The total cost, including lot ($1,675) but excluding furnishings, was $13,562. The chairs, carpet, etc., costing $1,020, were furnished by the Ladies' So- ciety, and there were other donations. The church is free of debt except a mortgage of $4,000 to the American Unitarian Asso- ciation of Boston, to be repaid in ten an- nual installments without interest. The annual meeting of the Minnesota Unitarian conference opened Friday morning, closing that evening.


Married, at Dayton, Minn., November 4, at the Catholic church, Julia Nugent, of Dayton, to Frank J. Thielman, of St. Cloud.


1892.


January 14 .- A very pleasant social oc- casion was the reception given Tuesday evening at the episcopal residence by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Zardetti, D. D., who was assisted by Vicar General Bauer and Father Richter, the presentations being made by Prof. P. E. Kaiser. The invited


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guests included Protestants as well as Catholics. The refreshment tables were presided over by Mesdames Thomas Foley, C. F. Macdonald and P. E. Kaiser.


January 28 .- A car load of flour has been purchased with contributions made by citi- zens of St. Cloud and others in Stearns county and will be shipped to the famine- stricken people of Russia.


March 10 .- Tuesday brought the worst storm that has been known here since 1873. The storm grew steadily worse until this morning, the mercury dropping from 50 degrees above to 8 below zero, and the snow was piled in drifts which made loco- motion very difficult. The telegraph reports even worse weather in the east; in New York state the snow, which had fallen to the depth of two feet on the level, being piled in drifts ten feet deep in the streets of Oswego, Auburn and other cities, while railroad travel is completely blocked.




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