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August 4 .- The first number of John H. Ley's new city directory, including St. Cloud, Sauk Rapids and Waite Park, has been issued. The book contains 4,196 names.
Married at Anoka, at the home of the bride's parents, August 1, Catherine Ma- hany to Louis E. Wakeman, of St. Cloud, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. H. F. Parshall, of this city. This morn- ing at the cathedral, Edith P. Howes to Jeremiah I. Donohue, both of St. Cloud, the Rev. Father Edward Jones officiating.
August 11 .- The Great Council of the Order of Red Men of Minnesota met Tues- day at Odd Fellows Hall and was called to
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order by Louis E. Longley, of this city, Mayor Robinson delivering an address of welcome. A grand parade will be the feat- ure of this evening's pow-wow. F. W. Ly- ons, of Little Falls, was elected grand sa- chem, and L. E. Longley, of this city, one of the two great representatives to the national council to be held at St. Joe, Mo.
August 25 .- Samuel P. Roach came to Minnesota in 1857, taking a pre-emption claim near Paynesville in June 1860, on which he resided until his death August 19, at the age of 68 years. He enlisted in Company I, Third Minnesota volunteers, seeing service against the Indians and also in the South.
September 22 .- Chris. Block has pur- chased Mr. Morey's interest in the stage line from St. Cloud to Kimball and it will be run by Knower & Block.
October 6 .- Articles of incorporation of the Melrose Milling Company were filed yesterday in the register of deeds office. The capital stock is $100,000, held by the following St. Cloud subscribers: J. C. En- right, C. A. Munck, L. J. Wahl and Annie L. Tileston. John Hoeschen, for $35,000, transfers to the new company the mill property, with use of the water power, mill dam, electric light plant, etc.
November 3 .- Orlando Tenney, one of the early settlers of the county and for a number of years a resident of St. Cloud, died yesterday at his farm near Rockville, aged 82 years.
November 17 .- J. J. McGregor, late mem- ber of the legislature from this district, died this morning at his home in Minden, as the result of a stroke of apoplexy, at the age of 61 years.
December 1 .- There are now two rural telephone lines in operation out of St. Cloud, one to Duelm and the other to St. Augusta. The farmers of Luxemburg have formed a mutual company and will build a line to this city, and the farmers along the Rockville road are moving for a line, all to connect with the St. Cloud exchange of the Northwestern Company.
December 15 .- The public skating rink on Lake George recently opened by the city is proving to be a popular place for the young people of the town, and not a few of the older ones may be seen gliding
December 29 .- With the close of the year two of Stearns county's pioneers and veterans closed the volume of their lives. John Stanger, who served as a member of Company K, Twenty-sixth Wisconsin vol- unteers, receiving wounds which made him a cripple for life, died Thursday at the home of his brother, Chris. Stanger in this city. On the same day Wilbur F. Fisk, of St. Augusta, one of the oldest settlers in that township and a member of Company G First Minnesota Heavy Artillery during the Civil War, died at St. Raphael's Hos- pital of heart disease.
1905.
January 5 .- The new wing to St. Joseph's Home for the Aged, on the east side of the river, has been completed by the con- tractor, John Heiman, at a cost of $20,- 000. It is 44x89, three stories and base- ment, and includes a new chapel, the old one having been converted into sleeping rooms. The new wing and this change add fifty rooms for occupancy.
January 12 .- Levi L. Ball, who came to St. Cloud in 1856 died suddenly at his home Thursday, aged 68 years.
C. F. Macdonald has been appointed a member of the board of trustees of the state soldiers' home and Alvah Eastman, president of the state normal school board, has been reappointed.
January 26 .- William Brinkman, a pio- neer resident of Stearns county, where he came about fifty years ago, died Sunday, at his home in Collegeville, aged 89 years.
February 16 .- The Minnesota Imple- ment Dealers' Association, composed of dealers in agricultural machinery, was organized in this city yesterday, with C. D. Grinols, of St. Cloud, president. Twen- ty-two firms, mostly in northern Minne- sota, were represented.
A bill has passed both houses of congress providing for the construction of a dam across the Mississippi river at Sauk Rap- ids. As the matter now stands two com- panies have congressional consent to build a dam at Sauk Rapids-the Whitney in- terests and the Gilman interests-although of course only one can be built.
February 23 .- Charles H. Bennett, Sr., of Sauk Centre, died Monday from the ef- was sleeping in the same room with him
over the smoothi surface. The warming . fects of coal gas. His son Charles who house will be ready for use tomorrow.
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had a narrow escape from the same fate. Mr. Bennett had been engaged in business in Sauk Centre since 1869, and was 64 years of age at the time of his death.
March 2 .- Henry C. Burbank, one of the early settlers in St. Cloud and for many years one of the most prominent factors in the development of Northern Minne- sota, died February 23, at Rochester, in this state, aged 70 years.
March 16 .- The Grand Army of the Re- public in session at St. Paul on the 9th inst. elected C. F. Macdonald, of this city, grand commander. The first annual con- vention of the Minnesota Retail Implement Dealers closed in Minneapolis last night. C. D. Grinols, of St. Cloud, was elected president.
March 30 .- H. C. Block, of Maine Prai- rie, was elected general manager of the Minnesota Farmers' Exchange, which met at Minneapolis Thursday.
April 6 .- Thomas C. Alden, one of St. Cloud's first settlers, having come here in 1856, died last evening at his home in this city, in the 77th year of his age.
April 20 .- More than one hundred teach- ers attended the ninth annual meeting of the Northern Minnesota Teachers' Associa- tion in this city, last Friday and Saturday. Besides the papers on various educational topics, an interesting address was delivered at the opera house Friday evening by Father Cleary, of Minneapolis. Supt. T. B. Hartley, of Brainerd, was elected presi- dent; Supt. W. J. Marquis, of Two Harbors, vice-president; and Prof. I. T. Johnsrud, of St. Cloud, secretary and treasurer.
April 27 .- N. H. Miner, of Sauk Centre, one of the leading attorneys of Western Stearns county, died suddenly Friday of heart disease, aged 73 years. He enlisted in April, 1861, in Company E First Min- nesota volunteers for three months' serv- ice, but being sick at the time of the re- organization of the regiment for three years' service could not re-enlist. On the breaking out of the Sioux war in 1862 he joined Captain Northrop's company, and in 1864 served in Hatch's Battalion. He located at Sauk Centre in May 1866, and was elected to the legislature that year and the year following.
The First State Bank, of Clearwater, a reorganization of the Whittemore Broth- ers' Private Bank, has been incorporated,
with Joseph Whittemore president and C. B Whittemore, cashier.
May 4 .- At a special election held Sat- urday the people of Melrose by a vote of 272 to 89 decided that the city should own its own light and water plant.
May 11 .- Jacob E. Tenvoorde, one of the earliest settlers in St. Cloud and a veteran of the Civil War, having served as a mem- ber of Company G Fourth Minnesota vol- unteers, died last week at St. Joseph, Mo., aged 78 years.
The long-drawn-out and much-litigated McHenry case, which especially interested residents of Maine Prairie, has been finally decided by the supreme court, which holds that Mary B. McHenry was the lawful wife of Henry B. McHenry, whose true name was Brackin, and as his widow is entitled to the homestead and $500 worth of per- sonal property.
What is probably the worst snow storm ever seen in the month of May in this vi- cinity struck St. Cloud this morning. A light rain changed to snow, and after an hour the snow changed for the next two or three hours to sleet. It is the tail-end of a blizzard which has been covering North Dakota.
May 18 .- The fourth annual convention of the Sixth District's Women's Clubs is in session at Sauk Centre. Mrs. H. J. Boyd, of Alexandria, was elected president, and Mrs. W. H. Fletcher, of Sauk Rapids, treasurer.
John Bohmer, of the Bank of Brooten, was elected president of the Sixth District Bankers' Association and H. A. McKen- zie, of St. Cloud, secretary and treasurer, at the annual meeting held at Long Prai- rie on the 12th inst. A paper on "Bank Ad- vertising," was read by George E. Hans- com, of the State Bank of Foley.
June 8 .- John Kray, the veteran hotel- keeper of Cold Spring, died Tuesday, aged 72 years.
J. V. Brower, widely known scientist and author, for several years a resident of St. Cloud and receiver and also register of the United States Land office, died at St. Paul this morning, aged 64 years.
June 22 .- Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Barrett, of Lynden, who were married in Brandon, N. Y., fifty years ago, celebrated their golden wedding Thursday last.
June 29 .- The marriage of Olive Celeste
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Moore, of this city, to Archibald Sylvester White, of New York City, was solemnized at St. John's church June 27, the rector, the Rev. H. F. Parshall, and the Rev. E. V. Campbell, of the Presbyterian church, officiating.
July 13 .- Henry C. Bahe, of Waite Park, 'died last night aged 91 years. He lay helpless on his bed when lightning struck and shattered the house ten days ago, es- caping then without injury to die now from natural causes.
Originally instituted nearly 25 years ago, and resuscitated in 1887, St. Cloud Lodge No. 32 of the Knights of Pythias has given up the ghost, its parapiernalia being shipped to Minneapolis subject to the order of the grand lodge. At one time it was one of the best K. of P. Lodges in the state.
July 27 .- The Eden Valley mill has been purchased by John Loner, Wenzel Guenes and W. A. Sattler from L. L. Nerlein, of Minneapolis, for $20,000.
August 3 .- Archbishop Symon, Arch- bishop of Mohilow, Polish Russia, is to- day the guest of Bishop Trobec. He is the first Polish bishop to set foot on Amer- ican soil, and is an exile from Russia, within whose domain a large area of his unfortunate country is situated, and is liv- ing at Rome, where he is known as Arch- bishop of Plock, and another Polish center of population and culture. Archbishop Sy- mon will deliver a lecture this evening at the Polish Catholic church.
Robert Ashworth, one of the leading granite producers of St. Cloud, died July 28, aged 69 years.
August 17 .- Work on the dam across the Mississippi river at Watab for the mam- moth new paper mill to be erected there is well under way, although much delay has resulted from the high water in the spring. The enterprise is in the hands of Wisconsin capitalists. There are two sep- arate companies, with two distinct sets of officers. The Watab Rapids Power Com- pany is organized as follows: Chas. G. Oberly, president and superintendent; George McMillan, vice-president; O. T. Hougen, secretary; Karl Mathie, treasurer and manager. This company will build the dam and power house. The officers of the Watab Pulp & Paper Company are: Louis Dessert, president; Chas. G. Oberly, vice- president and superintendent; H. P. Cor-
vivean, secretary; Karl Mathie, treasurer and manager.
Ventaline Williams, who had been a resi- dent of Melrose for the past 35 years, died August 18 at the advanced age of 94 years, 7 months and 4 days.
The annual meeting of the German Cath- olic Teachers' Association of Stearns coun- ty began Thursday continuing through Saturday. The officers elected were: Gott- hard Harren, of Freeport, president; Henry Stotzel, of Isabel, vice-president; W. A. Berger, of St. Cloud, secretary; J. C. Dick- man, of Roscoe, assistant secretary; J. L. Hohman, of Albany, treasurer.
August 31 .- W. D. Townsend, a promi- nent business man of Sauk Centre and twice mayor of the city, died Monday, aged 70 years.
October 19 .- Harvey W. Grimmer, of this city, has been appointed by Governor John- son to the position of executive clerk, and he will at once go to the state capitol to enter on his new duties.
W. T. Mills, a pioneer settler of Eden Lake, died October 11, at his home in that town, aged 71 years.
The people of Fair Haven are much dis- satisfied with the abolition of their post office, which took place Saturday, prefer- ring the local office to the rural delivery system.
October 26 .- Two Stearns county pio- neers have passed away during the last week-John H. Staples, who came with his father, the late Jacob C. Staples, in 1855 when the family home was made on the Rockville road, and for the past fifteen years has lived in East St. Cloud, died Fri- day last, at the home of his brother, Ivory S. Staples, aged 60 years. Capt. Oscar Taylor, one of St. Cloud's leading attorneys for many years and for three terms county attorney of Stearns county, although for the past five years retired from profes- sional life because of ill health, died Tues- day at the hospital connected with the na- tional soldiers' home at Leavenworth, Kan- sas, aged 73 years. He took part in the campaign against the Sioux Indians in 1862-3.
November 2 .- A. G. Whitney has pur- chased the C. A. Gilman interests at the Sauk Rapids dam for $14,000.
Three more Stearns county old settlers have gone to their rest. Marcus Maurin
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was one of the successful business men of Cold Spring, which became his home in 1863, and remained so until his death Mon- day at the age of 69 years. Joseph Cooper, of Sauk Centre, died Friday of last week, aged 77 years. A. B. Darling, for nearly 40 years a resident of Clearwater, died Monday at Langdon, N. D., where he had lived recently. His age was 72 years.
November 23 .- Friedreich Dorenkemper, one of the first settlers in the township of St. Augusta, died Sunday night, at the ripe old age of 91 years.
November 30 .- John Phipps, one of the early settlers of Stearns county and for many of the first years a resident of Paynesville, died Saturday in this city, hav- ing passed the four-score years age.
Mrs. Martha L. Jenkins, who left Bid- dington, Maine, in 1857, to come to Min- nesota, her husband, Russell G. Whitney, dying while they were on the journey, and who with her children made their home at Fair Haven and afterwards at Maine Prairie, died in this city Saturday at the home of her son, Dr. F. A. Hoyt, in the 86th year of her age.
December 11 .- The new Lawrence Hall of the St. Cloud Normal school is now ready for occupancy. The building will accommodate 140 girls and cost $65,000.
December 21 .- A commission consist- ing of fifteen of the prominent business and professional men of St. Cloud has been appointed by the judges of the 7th and 18th judicial districts to prepare a new charter for the city.
1906.
January 20 .- Anthony Kersteins, who settled in Stearns county in the early 50's and served in the army during the Civil and Indian wars, returning to his farm in St. Augusta after leaving the service, died at Denver, Col., aged 84 years.
The citizens of Belgrade have organ- ized an association with P. R. Solberg president and W. J. McGladrey secretary to establish a public library at that place.
January 26 .- John Andrew Bensen, the well-known grocer of this city, died sud- denly this forenoon at his place of busi- ness. He had been a resident of St. Cloud since 1873 and was 54 years of age at the time of his death.
January 30 .- The marriage of Emma
Kneip, of St. Peter, to John P. Weber, of St. Cloud, took place this morning at the church of the Immaculate Conception in that city.
February 3 .- Casper Pick, who settled in Luxemberg, this county, in the late 50's, died yesterday at his home in Torah, aged 71 years.
February 15 .- The first annual conven- tion of the Tri-county Good Roads Asso- ciation was held in this city this week, with delegates present from Stearns, Ben- ton and Sherburne counties. The discus- sions were interesting and valuable. The use of the split-log drag was strongly urged. Karl Mathie was elected president; Joseph Coates, of Benton, D. M. Camp- bell of Sherburne and C. M. Sprague of Stearns vice-presidents; H. C. Ervin, sec- retary. A banquet was held Monday even- ing at Unity church, George H. Reynolds acting as toastmaster. The principal speaker was George W. Cooley, secretary of the state highway commission.
February 22 .- The fiftieth anniversary of the date when the first Episcopal ser- mon was preached in St. Cloud was cele- brated at St. John's church Sunday, an appropriate sermon being preached by Dean G. H. Davis, of the Seabury Divinity school, Faribault, who was the rector of St. John's from 1876 to 1881.
March 8 .- Death claimed during the past week two more of Stearns county's old settlers, Joseph Ahmann, of Rich- mond, who until about ten years ago had lived on his farm in St. Martin, his death occurring Saturday, at the age of 76 years; and Hubert Hansen, of the town of Lux- emburg, where he had lived for 52 years, who died Tuesday, aged 80 years.
March 15 .- Nicholas Rassier, a resident of the township of St. Joseph for half a century and for some years postmaster of the village, died yesterday, aged 80 years.
May 3 .- Matthias Gans, one of the old settlers and prominent citizens of Stearns county, died at his home in this city Sat- urday, at the age of 76 years. He came to this county in 1857, occupying a farm in the township of St. Joseph, afterwards teaching school in the towns of Wakefield and St. Joseph, being one of the early school-masters in this part of the country. In 1870 he was elected county treasurer, filling that office for eight years, after-
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wards purchasing the Boardman farm in the town of LeSauk, which was his home until about a year before his death, when he removed to his city.
Col. Elliott Bridgeman, who located in Sauk Centre and engaged in business at the close of the war, during which he had made a brilliant military record, died April 22 at Tacoma from a stroke of paralysis, his body being brought to Sauk Centre for burial May 1.
One of the leading educators of Stearns county in the early days was Henry Krebs, who located in St. Augusta in 1858, teach- ing school there for 25 years and serving for several years as county superintendent of schools. For the last fifteen years and up until the time of his death, which oc- curred last night at the home of his son, George Krebs, at the age of 80 years, he was clerk of the school board of his home town.
St. Cloud has raised in all over $1,000 for relief of the sufferers by the San Fran- cisco earthquake.
May 10 .- Thomas Jones, one of St. Cloud's pioneer settlers, died Wednesday night of last week at the home of his daughter, Mrs. C. H. Graceson, in St. Paul, aged 79 years. In 1856 he came by wagon from Paris, Ill., to Sauk Rapids, where he worked at his trade as a blacksmith a few months, later moving to lower St. Cloud, where he continued at his trade. Mr. and Mrs. Jones celebrated their golden wedding December 18, 1903, the death of the latter occurring March 21 of the following year.
May 17 .- Henry H. Thole, aged 79, one of the early settlers of the town of Lyn- den, died Wednesday of last week at the home of his son, G. H. Thole.
The new St. Cloud hospital has been completed and is a great improvement over the old one, being four stories above the basement, and is supplied with all the modern appliances of a first-class hospi- tal. It will accommodate fifty-five pa- tients and if necessary room could be made for sixty.
May 31 .- The contract for the erection of the new model school building on the Normal grounds has been let at $20,500.
Mrs. Annie Carrie Campbell, wife of Dr. J. E. Campbell, mayor of Melrose, died at her home in that city yesterday, aged 47 years. The last 30 years of her life had been spent in Melrose.
June 14 .- The Minnesota Adventists' state conference, which began June 1 closed June 10. It was somewhat in the form of a camp meeting, the 105 family tents, besides three assembly tents, cook- ing tents, etc., were located on the east side of the river. Daily meetings were held, the services being conducted in three languages, German, English and Scandinavian.
H. J. Limperich, of St. Cloud, was to- day elected president of the State Fire- men's Association in session at Le Sueur.
At the convention of the Ladies of the Maccabees held in this city 151 candidates joined the order Monday afternoon. St. Cloud hive captured the first prize, having a class of 76.
The Sixth District Group of the Minne- sota Bankers' Asscociation meet on the 8th at Alexandria. Among the papers read was one on "What Bankers Should Not Do," by W. W. Smith, cashier of the First National Bank of St. Cloud. The officers elected were: Willis Shaw, Clear- water, president; Tollef Jacobson, Alex- andria, vice-president; H. A. Mckenzie, St. Cloud, treasurer.
John Jones, a veteran of two wars, the Mexican and the Civil, and a pioneer of this county, died Friday at Sauk Rapids, aged 86 years.
June 21 .- The annual state convention of Elks, B. P. O. E., attracted during the past week a large number of the antlered brethren to this city, the home of the president, W. W. Koons. The business sessions were held in the opera house and Thursday a reception was given at the hall by a number of the ladies of the city. J. C. Nethaway, of Stillwater, was elected presi- dent, and the Rev. H. F. Parshall, of St. Cloud, chaplain.
May 24 .- The attempt of the Washburn- Crosby Company, of Minneapolis, to es- June 28 .- Two more of our old settlers have joined the "great majority." Michael Miller died suddenly at his home in this tablish a market for their flour in this city begun four months ago, has been abandoned because of the opposition of . city Thursday, aged 74 years. He came to the labor unions and the local millers.
Stearns county in 1855, first taking a farm
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in St. Cloud township, then locating in St. Wendel, where he staid but two years, com- ing then to this city where he established the St. Cloud hotel, which he operated for 26 years. During the time of the Indian outbreak in 1862 he was on his way to St. George from Georgetown by wagon, with three other men, when attacked by a party of Sioux, his companions being all killed. Francis Arnold, a veteran in the milling business, breathed his last at his home in the town of Le Sauk Satur- day, aged 85 years. He located in Stearns county in 1860 and purchased an interest in the flouring mill at the mouth of Sauk river, of which he later became the sole cwner and which he operated until ten years ago, when he retired from business.
June 5 .- Clearwater has a canning fac- tory, which opened up with 25 men and women employed. All kinds of vegetables raised in this part of the country will be canned.
That village has had its annual "Old Home Week," beginning on Wednesday, with returning sons and daughters from far and wide. The corner-stone of the new schoolhouse, James E. Jenks, of this city, delivering the principal address, was laid at this time.
Joseph Nierengarten, of St. Joseph, who came to Sauk Rapids with his parents 60 years ago, died Friday, aged 63 years.
July 19 .- Two of the oldest freight cars on the Great Northern road, No. 1 flat car and No. 2 box car, have been attracting considerable attention around the car shops at Waite Park. The cars are just about 40 years old and have stood the test of time well. No. 1 first came to the shops a long time ago and has been repaired fre- quently, being used as an ambulance car to carry to the shops wrecked freight roll- ing stock, but was recently itself caught in a mix-up and rendered useless for the future. No. 2 is still in the service, hav- ing recently received new doors and other repairs, including a fresh coat of paint. When one remembers that the last series of freight cars sent out by the Great Northern runs between 55,000 and 56,000 it will be seen that No. 2 has a long rec- ord behind it.
August 2 .- The first number of the St. Cloud Union Herald, a weekly paper de- voted to the interests of the labor unions,
with Chas. H. Allen editor and manager, appeared today.
James A. Martin has resigned as post- master at St. Cloud, the resignation to take effiect on the appointment and quali- fication of his successor.
The corner-stone of the Salem Swedish Lutheran church on the east side was laid Sunday with appropriate services. The dedication sermon was preached by the Rev. J. A. Knaratz, of Duluth, and an ad- dress in English was given by Dr. P. M. Magnusson.
Mrs. Caroline Ruff, of St. Augusta, who with her husband, Fred Ruff, made her home in that town before the Indian war, died Saturday when within a few months of being 90 years of age. She was the mother of 10 children, the grandmother of 60 and the great-grandmother of 35.
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