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December 20 .- The marriage of Lotta Frances Smith of Washington City to John Johnstone Boobar, of St. Cloud, took place at the home of the bride's parents Tues- day, the Rev. Mr. Barton, of St. John's Episcopal church, for a time rector of St. John's church, St. Cloud, officiating.
December 27 .- Another of St. Cloud's pioneers has gone to his rest, Allan E. Hussey, who died December 21, aged 72 years. It was in the spring of 1856 that he came to this city, which continued dur- ing the rest of his life to be his home, save for the years he served in the army as a member of Company I, Seventh Min- nesota Volunteers.
1901.
January 10 .- A complimentary enter- tainment was given last evening at St. John's abbey by the fathers of that in- stitution to the Rev. Francis Merschman, O. S. B., on the recent occasion of the celebration of his silver jubilee as a Cath- olic priest.
January 24 .- H. S. Doty, for many years a deputy sheriff of Stearns county and a veteran of the Civil war, died at his home near Sauk Centre January 18, aged 60 years.
The Davis-Larkin Company of Chicago were the successful bidders for the new public building of this city, which is to be of St. Cloud granite.
The Northern Minnesota Telephone Company has been granted a franchise to instal a local telephone exchange at Melrose.
February 7 .- Mrs. Alexander Moore, of Sauk Centre, wife of one of the earliest pioneers of the state and herself the first white woman to live in Sauk Centre, died in that city last night, aged 77 years. She came to Minneapolis in 1850, where she was married, later removing to Sauk Centre.
John DeLeo, of St. Cloud, has been ap- pointed deputy oil inspector for Stearns county.
February 14 .- Ezra G. Hicks, a pioneer resident and a veteran of the Fourth Min- nesota Volunteers, died Sunday at Maine Prairie, aged 66 years. He was comman- der of the Kimball post of the G. A. R.
Mr. and Mrs. Truman L. Stickney cele- brated their golden wedding yesterday at Maine Prairie, which has been their home for over thirty five years. It was made the occasion of a reunion by many of the old settlers.
February 21 .- Joseph P. Richardson, the veteran hotel keeper of Paynesville, died at his home there on the 17th inst., aged 67 years. For twelve years, or until the building of the St. Cloud and Willmar railroad, he had the contract for carrying the mails between St. Cloud and Paynes- ville.
March 14 .- U. M. Tobey, who became a resident of St. Cloud in 1860, removing in 1876 to Sauk Centre, of which city he was mayor in 1891, died at his home there Tuesday, aged 75 years.
E. D. Russell has sold his hotel at New Paynesville to N. H. Dries, of Wadena, for $6,000.
April 18 .- The past week has levied heavy toll on the old settlers. S. N. Wright, one of the leading citizens of Sauk Rapids, for a time station agent at that village and in 1877 elected county treas- urer of Benton county, holding the office for several terms, died Tuesday, aged 81 years. Another Benton county resident to pass away was Ellis Kling. He came to Minnesota in 1851, soon afterwards locat- ing where St. Cloud now stands as an em- ploye of the American Fur Company. In the fall of 1855 he settled on a farm in the town of St. George, now Min- den, where he resided until his death, which occurred last night at the age of 76 years. Peter Meinz, who for many years had lived on a farm in Rockville township, but later made his home in this city, died this morning, aged 68 years. He saw three years' service during the war for the Union as a mem- ber of Company G, Fourth Minnesota Vol- unteers. Peter Borman, another Rock- ville farmer, who came to the United States in 1857 and two years later to Min-
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nesota, buying the farm on which he had ever since made his home, died there this morning, aged 73 years.
Six prisoners escaped from the county jail Sunday night, making a savage as- sault on Frank Greven, the turnkey, who was locking them in their cells. They were all recaptured.
May 2 .- Joseph Wieber has sold his ho- tel at Richmond to J. Hoffman, late of Iowa, for $5,500.
May 9 .- Sauk Rapids has made a con- tract with the Public Service Company of St. Cloud to furnish arc lights for the lighting of the streets, at $80 per light per year.
June 6 .- John C. Crever succeeds Frank Zins as manager of the Nordstern, the lat- ter retiring after serving in that capacity for seven years.
June 13 .- The marriage of Laura Rus- sell to Lieutenant Oscar McGee, U. S. A., which took place yesterday at the farm homestead of J. Y. Demeritt, the bride's grandfather, in the town of Brockway, was the happy culmination of a pretty little romance which began when both the con- tracting parties were quite young.
June 20 .- The vote on the removal of the county seat of Benton county from Sauk Rapids to Foley having resulted in a victory for the latter by 1,284 to 787, the work of removal began this morning, farmers from the vicinity of Foley furnish- ing the necessary transportation. Foley gave $12,000 for the erection of a new court house. Temporary quarters will be occupied until it is built.
July 4 .- The celebrated Cold Spring dam case has reached a final conclusion by a second decision of the supreme court just filed. The history of the case in brief is this: A dam was built across Sauk river at Cold Spring in 1856, first to operate a saw mill and afterwards a grist mill, and has been maintained for 45 years. The flowage caused by the dam extended up the river 16 miles, covering a chain of lakes and increasing the depth of water from 21/2 to 4 feet. The mill became the property of Anton Muggli and in January, 1898, some forty farmers liv- ing along the river between Cold Spring and Richmond completed the payment to him of $5,000 for the dam with the privi- ege of tearing it out. The purpose of this
was to give them a large acreage of meadow land then under water. Legal steps were taken by residents of Cold Spring to prevent the removal of the dam. On the first appeal to the supreme court the decision was in favor of the farmers but on the second appeal, in which the decision has just been filed, Cold Spring comes off the victor. During the time while litigation was in progress, two sep- arate attempts were made to blow up the dam with dynamite, but both were unsuc- cessful.
August 8 .- Samuel C. Johnson, who took a farm in the township of Le Sauk in 1855, and was a veteran of the Civil war, died Saturday, aged 75 years.
August 29 .- Word has been received in this city of the sudden death of Daniel W. Bruckart at Alki Point, near Seattle, Friday, aged 50 years. For a number of years he was a member of the Stearns county bar and for three terms mayor of St. Cloud.
John Wuertz, who located on a farm in the town of Lake Henry more than thirty years ago, died yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John Neutzling, in this city, aged 78 years.
September 5 .- The first Labor day cele- bration in St. Cloud for almost ten years was successfully carried out Monday. An address was delivered at Empire Park by the Rev. F. E. Ross. The weather was fine for the sports in the afternoon. Frank Brigham proved to be the best all-around athlete, his cash prizes amounting to $17.
Andrew Fuchs, one of the original home- stead settlers of the county, died Thurs- day at his farm house near St. Joseph, aged 87 years.
September 19 .- Joseph Schoen, who was one of the first settlers in the township of Luxemburg, died last Thursday, aged 82 years.
Memorial services in honor of the late President McKinley, the victim of an as- sassin's bullet, were held in the different churches Sunday last, and this afternoon general public services were held. Fol- lowing a parade in which it is estimated that from 3,000 to 4,000 persons took part, a meeting was held at the Davidson opera house, which was packed to the doors, and an eloquent address was delivered by Father Cleary, of Minneapolis. The chil-
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dren who had taken part in the parade were assembled in the different churches, where short addresses were given by dif- ferent speakers.
September 26 .- The contests started by citizens of Sauk Rapids to test the legality of the special election by which the county seat of Benton county was removed from that village to Foley have been amicably settled. The Foley people bought from the county commissioners the old court house with the six lots on which it stands and deeded it to the village and township of Sauk Rapids, with the condition that it should never be used for court house purposes.
Monsignore Koppes, bishop of Luxem- burg and the first bishop of that province who ever crossed the water to the United States, is in the city, the guest of Father Gregory Steil, O. S. B., pastor of the church of the Immaculate Conception and himself a native of Luxemburg.
Married, at Crookston, September 24, at the residence of the bride's parents, Miss Josephine Lally to James H. Maybury, the Rev. Father Theillon officiating.
October 10. - Ephriam B. Whitney, father of A. G. Whitney of this city, died Tuesday at his home near Clearwater, aged 81 years. He came to Minnesota in 1856, and to Stearns county in 1861, lo- cating first at Fair Haven, afterwards re- moving to St. Cloud, and then to Clear- water.
November 21 .- The eighth annual con- vention of the Minnesota State Butter and Cheesemakers' Association began its ses- sions at the court house yesterday, Gov- ernor Van Sant being among the dele- gates. A number of interesting papers were read, among the rest being one by Frank W. Whitman, of Avon, on "Temper- ing of Milk; Separating and Care of Sep- arators." A meeting was held in the even- ing at the Davidson opera house, where addresses were made by Governor Van Sant, State Dairy and Food Commissioner McConnell and others. The association adjourned today.
December 19 .- At the Presbyterian church in this city last Thursday Jennie Estella Campbell was married to Ellery George Williams, the Rev. E. V. Campbell, the bride's father, performing the cere- mony.
December 26 .- Alexander Moore, of Sauk Centre, died Friday in that city, which had been his home since 1857. He was one of the most prominent business men in Western Stearns, and served his district for two terms in the state legis- lature. He was 78 years of age at the time of his death.
1902.
January 2 .- St. John's Cantius Polish Catholic church in St. Cloud was dedicated Friday by Bishop Trobec and a number of assisting clergymen. The church has just been completed at a cost of $17,000 and is a credit to the Polish people of the city.
January 9 .- Nathan F. Barnes, one of the old settlers of Northern Minnesota, died January 1, at Santa Rosa, Cal., aged 84 years. Mr. Barnes came in 1858 to Alexandria in this state, where he was one of the first settlers. In 1868 he re- moved to St. Cloud, purchasing a half in- terest in the Times, which he retained for one year. For a number of years he was city justice; in 1865 and again in 1875 was a member of the legislature and was the first resident director of the St. Cloud Normal school.
January 16 .- E. P. Barnum, prominent in business and public life in the county, died Friday at his home in this city, in the 72nd year of his age. He came to Minnesota in 1855, stopping at Hastings. After several changes he located at Sauk Centre in 1867, engaging in business at that place. He was twice the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor of the state and once for congress, on the oc- casion of the memorable contest between Knute Nelson and C. F. Kindred as Re- publican candidates, making a triangular field. For a time he was owner and editor of the Sauk Centre Avalanche. Having been appointed clerk of the district court to succeed A. L. Cramb, resigned, Novem-
December 12 .- At the St. Paul home of her parents, December 11, Miss Jennie Florence Hanson, of Litchfield, was mar- ried to Mr. Ripley Bernard Brower, of St. Cloud, the service being read by the Rev. . ber 21, 1982, he removed to St. Cloud. T. J. Crump, a former rector at Litchfield. He was elected to the office in 1894 and
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again in 1898, being the incumbent at the time of his death.
The merchants of this city met last evening and completed organization of the St. Cloud Merchants' Association by elect- ing the following officers: C. D. Grinols, president; E. W. Atwood, secretary; G. J. Metzroth, treasurer. Twenty-five mer- chants were present and fifty-eight have signed the agreement to become members.
January 23 .- Herman Mueller, deputy clerk of court, has been appointed clerk of the district court to succeed the late E. P. Barnum.
February 6 .- A figure familiar in this city for many years will be seen no more. W. W. Wright, the first station agent at St. Cloud, died at his home Sunday night, aged 78 years. In addition to his railroad duties, which were continued until he re- signed in 1894, he served as a member of the city council.
March 6 .- At a meeting of the State Normal board held at St. Paul Tuesday Dr. W. A. Shoemaker of this city was elected president of the St. Cloud Normal school to succeed George R. Kleeberger, resigned.
March 13 .- Camp St. Cloud of the Min- nesota Society of the Army of the Phil- ippines was organized Thursday with 32 charter members. The officers elected were: H. J. Limperich, commander; Peter N. Schumacher, vice-commander; A. C. Maxson, adjutant; Henry Tenvoorde, quartermaster; Edward Lenz, chaplain; Julius Hendrickson, officer of the day; D. H. Knickerbocker, officer of the guard; surgeon major, J. P. Chance, M. D.
March 27 .- The sale of the Arcturus iron mine near Grand Rapids, in Itasca county, is authoritatively reported. This property is owned by Mesdames D. H. Freeman, John Coates, C. P. McClure and E. H. Holden, of this city, daughters of the late J. E. Hayward. The option runs to George C. Howe, of Duluth, represent- ing P. L. Kimberly, of Chicago. The con- sideration for the fee is $750,000, the sum of $50,000 being paid for a four-months' option.
The Gold Star Mining company of St. Cloud has been organized, the officers be- ing largely local parties. The capital stock is $2,500,000, and the gold-silver-lead prop- erty to be developed is in Idaho.
April 10 .- A two-days' session of the Northern Minnesota Educational Associa- tion began Friday, with Cleve E. Van Dyke in the chair. Papers were read by R. R. Hill, of Alexandria; H. E. White, of Princeton; J. A. Cranston, of Alex- andria; H. E. White, of Princeton; J. A. Cranston, of Alexandria; Miss Isabel Law- rence, of the St. Cloud Normal school; George A. Stanton, of Sauk Centre; C. G. Schultz, assistant state superintendent of public instruction; and W. S. Pattee, dean of the Minnesota law school. The officers elected for the ensuing year were: Supt. H. E. White, of Princeton, president; Prof. P. J. Seberger, St. Cloud, vice-president; Miss Rose Cooper, Sauk Centre, secretary and treasurer.
April 17 .- The Math. Hemmesch brew- ery at Melrose has been bought by An- drew Rossmeisl, Anton Molitor and Jo- seph Hilt for $9,500.
Word has been received of the death of George F. Brott, one of the original pro- prietors of St. Cloud (lower town) which occurred in Washington City March 13.
April 24 .- Mr. and Mrs. Xavier Braun, of St. Cloud, celebrated April 21, at the church of the Immaculate Conception their sixtieth wedding anniversary. In 1854 they came to Minnesota, taking a home on the banks of the Mississippi river just south of where St. Cloud was afterwards located. They have fifty grandchildren and five great-grandchildren now living.
May 8 .- Wesley Carter has begun work on what will be the largest business block in St. Cloud, 132x132 feet, three stories high with full basement, located on the line of the Great Northern, near the elec- tric light station.
May 22 .- Announcement is made of the death, at Rome, May 10, of Archbishop Zardetti, a former bishop of St. Cloud.
June 5 .- William Dickinson, who first located on a farm in Minden, Benton coun- ty, soon afterwards removing to St. Cloud, died at his home here Friday, aged 81 years.
June 19 .- Christian Karels, a resident of Luxemburg for the past forty years, died Sunday at the age of 70 years.
The estate of William Bohmer, of Mel- rose, who died sixteen years ago and which was then appraised at $120,000, is now, when it is in process of closing, ap-
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praised at $240,000, having exactly doubled in value during that time.
June 26 .- The Northwestern District of the Grand Army of the Republic is hold- ing its seventeenth annual encampment in St. Cloud. The city is in holiday attire and the veterans are given a cordial wel- come. Following a parade, which was re- viewed from the portico of the Davidson opera house, a camp fire was held Tues- day evening at Empire Park, and the fol- lowing afternoon and evening there were camp fires at the encampment grounds, at all of which addresses were made. The convention closed today, Annandale being chosen as the next meeting place. The election of officers resulted as follows: P. S. Rudolph, Annandale, district comman- der; G. P. Boutwell, Clearwater, senior vice-district commander; S. P. Roach, New Paynesville, senior vice-district comman- der.
D. C. Abeles and O. H. Havill, custo- dians of the street fair fund, have liqui- dated and retired from the business, the $306.98 in their possession having been disbursed.
July 3 .- A. G. Whitney has purchased from Watson P. Davidson the Sauk Rapids water power. The Sauk Rapids company has been reorganized, the new board of directors being F. R. Greene, of New York, and A. G. Whitney, R. L. Gale, E. E. Clark and George H. Reynolds, of St. Cloud. Mr. Whitney announces his intention of build- ing a dam with a 16-foot head across the Mississippi river, affording from 6,000 to 10,000 horse power, to cost in excess of $100,000.
The new Stearns County Bank, H. J. Haskamp, president, Fred Stangl, cashier, was formally opened for business July 1, in the Lahr block.
M. A. Bussen, postmaster at Richmond, has purchased the plant of the Richmond Standard, which recently suspended, and will revive the paper.
July 24 .- The holders of the option on the Arcturus mine have failed to close the deal, forfeiting the $50,000 paid at the time of taking the option. (Long lit- igation followed in unsuccessful efforts to secure the return of this option money.)
August 7 .- The Security State Bank, C. L. Atwood, president; H. A. Mckenzie,
cashier, opened its doors for business yes- terday in the Atwood block.
At the triennial convention of the Bene- dictine Order of the United States in ses- sion this week at Atchison, Kansas, the Rt. Rev. Peter Engle, of St. John's abbey, Collegeville, was elected president, suc- ceeding the Rt. Rev. Innocent Wolf, who completed twenty-five years as abbot.
August 21 .- A. G. French, who made his home at Maine Prairie in 1857, living there, with the exception cf the period of service in the Union army, until about eight years ago when he removed to a farm at Little Rock lake, died there Sat- urday, aged 72 years.
After almost numberless unsuccessful efforts the government was finally able to dispose of the Fort Ripley reservation, 74.47 acres. The purchaser was John L. Berg, of Fort Ripley, who paid $6 per acre for the land and $50 for the improvements. The soil is very light and the buildings are of little value.
The Sauk Centre Commercial Club has filed articles of incorporation. The first officers are: L. R. Barto, president; J. A. DuBois, vice-president; George Ingram, secretary; W. O. P. Hillsdale, treasurer.
September 4 .- H. C. Ervin has pur- chased the Carter flouring mills in this city, the consideration understood to be $35,000. For the past fifteen years Mr. Ervin has been connected with the Tiles- ton Milling Company, latterly as secretary and treasurer.
Herman Schultz, one of the earliest set- tlers in the town of Zion, died Saturday at his home in New Paynesville.
September 11 .- The Stearns and Ben- ton County Medical Society was organ- ized last evening. The officers elected were: P. A. Hilbert, Melrose, president;) W. L. Beebe, St. Cloud, vice-president; J. C. Boehm, St. Cloud, secretary; H. A. Chil- gren, Sauk Rapids, treasurer.
September 18 .- The government good roads train of eleven cars loaded with machinery valued at over $40,000, in charge of experts, arrived last Thursday. A section of road immediately west of the Osseo track has been built as a dem- onstration. Meetings were held during the week at the Davidson opera house at which addresses were made by the gov- ernment officers in charge of the train,
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urging the great importance of good roads to the people of the county. An organiza- tion was effected with Hugh Evans, pres- ident and E. T. Davidson, secretary, they with Mayor Robinson, O. H. Havill and C. A. Cooper, of this city, J. T. Marvin, of St. Cloud town and Wm. Loudon, of Maine Prairie, to constitute a committee to or- ganize a Stearns County Good Roads As- sociation.
The primary law had its first test this week, and meets with plenty of criticism.
October 2 .- Dean Stabler, who had been a resident of Sauk Centre for more than forty years, died Saturday in the 80th year of his age.
October 9 .- The Agricultural Society of Stearns county has filed articles of in- corporation. The first officers are A. E. Irwin, president; R. L. Palmer, vice-presi- dent; G. C. Ingram, secretary; Henry Keller, treasurer. The incorporators in- clude thirty or more of the business men of Sauk Centre and the annual fairs are to be held at that place.
October 16 .- The unplatted part of Waite Park, 220 acres, has been sold by the Waite Park Association to E. W. Randall, secre- tary of the State Fair Association, for $50 per acre.
R. C. Burdick, prominent in St. Cloud during the early transportation days, and a member of the territorial legislature in 1855, died in St. Paul Monday, aged 68 years.
H. M. Fenderson, one of the early set- tlers of Brockway, died Tuesday at Lang- ola, aged 77 years.
The Benton County Bank at Sauk Rap- ids has been changed from a private to a state bank. The incorporators are Tollef and Andrew Jacobson, of Alexandria, and L. L. Herrick, Herman Berg, W. H. Flet- cher, J. A. Senn and August Neils, of Sauk Rapids.
October 23 .- The Rev. Gregory Steil, O. S. B., pastor of the church of the Immacu- late Conception in this city, celebrated Saturday the twenty-fifth anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. Seven- teen of these twenty-five years have been spent in the ministry of the St. Cloud church. His first charge was at St. Wen- del.
November 27 .- Lucian Belden, one of Fair Haven's pioneers, died Friday at Dick-
inson, N. D., aged 68 years. His body was brought to Fair Haven for burial.
December 4 .- Simmers & Campbell have purchased the Breen quarry, a 40-acre tract west of Waite Park, for $7,000.
1903.
January 1 .- James Y. Demerritt, who with William McNeil took a homestead on Winnebago Prairie in 1855, they two being the first settlers in Brockway, died at his home December 24, 1902, when within less than two months of having completed his four score years.
January 8 .- The marriage of Miss Ada J. Coates, of Sauk Rapids, to Jacob A. Jochem, register of deeds of Benton county, took place today at the home of the bride's parents, the Rev. E. V. Camp- bell, of this city, officiating.
January 15 .- The death of Mrs. Mary Babcock Smitlı, wife of J. G. Smith, presi- dent of the First National Bank of St. Cloud, occurred suddenly Sunday, of heart trouble, at the age of 70 years. The re- mains were taken to Watertown, N. Y., her former home, for burial.
Daniel Chisholm, who had been a resi- dent of that part of Stearns county since the late '50s, died January 3, at his home in New Paynesville, in the 70th year of his age.
January 29 .- The new German Lutheran church at Sauk Rapids, costing $8,000, was dedicated Sunday. The Rev. August Aga- ther is the pastor. The church has a mem- bership of 95 families, with a parochial school of 105 pupils enrolled. ,
February 5 .- Peter Lommel is another cf Stearns county's pioneers to pass to his final rest. In 1856 he located at Luxem- burg, ten years afterwards removing to Rockville, where he had a farm and a hotel at the town-site. In 1897 he came to St. Cloud, which was his home at the time of his death January 29, when he had passed the age of 84 years.
February 12 .- The long-contested will of the late Alex. Moore, of Sauk Centre, has been sustained by the supreme court. The estate, valued at $100,000, was left, aside from a few small bequests, to a daughter, Mrs. Jessie F. Robertson, of Sauk Centre, and a granddaughter, Alice A. Moore, now Mrs. C. S. Coles, of Benson. The contest by the disinherited children
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was brought on the ground that there was a subsequent will, which however was not produced at the trial.
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