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August 6 .- It is believed that the burn- ing of the Baptist church at Fair Haven about a week ago was the work of an in- cendiary, and the matter is to be investi- gated by the county attorney.
August 13 .- Henry Moeller, a pioneer settler of the Cold Spring country, died suddenly Monday of heart failure, aged 69 years.
Frederick Hollenhorst filed in 1858 on the homestead in the western part of the city which was his home ever since and where he died yesterday, at the age of 86 years.
Another old settler, Henry Messman, who came to St. Augusta in 1854 and made his home in that town for the past 54 years, died Sunday aged 86 years.
Joseph Marthaler and wife, of Meier Grove, have celebrated their sixtieth wed- ding anniversary-more than half a cen- tury of their married life having been spent in Stearns county.
August 27 .- Capt. James E. McKelvy, son of the late Judge McKelvy, died at Seattle Monday, aged 43 years. In the early eighties he enlisted in the cavalry service of the regular army, serving eight years. In 1898 he organized Company M of the Thirteenth Minnesota Volunteers for service in the Spanish war and was elected captain. He served as chief of police of St. Cloud and also as sheriff of Stearns county.
September 3 .- The big Melrose hotel has been purchased by Joseph Uptegrove for $8,000. It was built some years ago by John Hoeschen at a cost of $25,000.
September 10 .- Mrs. Anna Reding, who came to Stearns county in 1857, being among the earliest settlers in the town of Luxemburg, the following year being mar- ried to N. Reding, died Tuesday at St. Raphael's hospital in this city, aged 73 years.
John Harland and Adam Achmann, two of the pioneer settlers of Avon, have died during the past week.
September 17 .- Barney Murphy died last night at the age of 82 years, at his home in the town of St. Wendel, where
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he located in 1858, and where he had lived for half a century.
The German Evangelical church in this city was dedicated yesterday by the Rev. William Meyer, assisted by the Rev. H. Woldman, E. J. Fleer and F. Frankenfield. The cost of the building furnished was about $8,000.
September 24 .- The market day yester- day attracted to the city 1,500 to 2,000 farmers from Stearns and the adjoining counties and was a pronounced success.
October 1 .- Although the hour was 7 o'clock in the morning a large number of people gathered at Empire Park Monday to see and hear William H. Taft as he passed through the city on his way west- ward. His speech was brief but was heartily appreciated by his audience. Short stops were made at Melrose and Sauk Centre, where Mr. Taft addressed the peo- ple assembled at the stations.
The Federation of German Societies of Minnesota had a largely attended conven- tion in this city, the sessions beginning Sunday. A parade that afternoon was 12 blocks in length, with 18 bands and be- tween 4,000 and 5,000 people in line. Dur- ing the sessions of the organizations the following days a large amount of business was transacted.
Harmon Becker, when a boy of 12, ar- rived at Sauk Rapids August 10, 1852, and for two years worked on the old S. B. Lowry farm, afterwards partly included in the city of St. Cloud. He occupied him- self with farming in this vicinity until 1884, when he removed to the town of Minden, Benton county, where he had a farm of 600 acres. He was president of the Old Settlers' Association and was 68 years of age at the time of his death, which occurred last Monday.
October 15 .- Father Cornelius Wittman, the only surviving Benedictine who founded St. John's, celebrated his eightieth birthday at the University Sun- day.
October 22 .- Fritz Goenner died Sunday, aged 81 years, on the farm in St. Augusta which had been his home for 48 years.
November 19 .- Mrs. Louise Lauer who came to Stearns county in 1856, living in the town of Luxemburg until 1881, since when she made her home in St. Cloud, died this morning.
December 31 .- Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Lahr celebrated their golden wedding at the Sacred Heart Catholic church, St. Paul, December 28, keeping open house afterwards. Mr. Lahr located in St. Cloud in 1855, and his marriage took place at the Immaculate Conception church in this city, December 28, 1858. They resided here until 1880, then moving to Minneapolis and afterwards to St. Paul.
1909.
January 7 .- When the legislature of Minnesota convened Tuesday a seat in the house of representatives was occupied by a member who returned after an interval of thirty years, Henry J. Emmel, of Stearns county, who represented his dis- trict in the twentieth legislature in 1878.
James F. Bradford, one of the pioneer business men of St. Cloud and for sev- eral terms a member of the city council, died last night.
Mrs. Barbara Schwartz, wife of John Schwartz, who had been a resident of St. Cloud since 1854, died Saturday, aged 65 years.
January 14 .- The Stearns county bank has been consolidated with the First Na- tional Bank of St. Cloud.
January 27 .- The articles of incorpora- tion of the St. Cloud Iron Works, capital $75,000, were filed today. The incorpor- ators and directors are Harry Dyer, Cath- erine Dyer, Joseph B. Rosenberger and Margaret Rosenberger. The St. Cloud Iron Works is the largest and strongest of its kind outside the Twin Cities.
Donald Stevenson, who was an active figure during the early transportation days, having 50 ox teams besides several freight teams working between St. Cloud and Ft. Abercombie, died a few days since at Dickinson, N. D. He homesteaded the land where Osakis now stands, built the first house there, and was the first post- master of the village.
February 2 .- Joseph G. Smith, the founder of the Bank of St. Cloud, now the First National Bank, died Saturday at Los Angeles, Cal., aged 75 years.
The sword presented by the citizens of St. Cloud to Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Miller in May, 1861, has been returned to the donors by the expressed wish of his son, Capt. Stephen C. Miller, who died at
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Washington city last December. The sword was sent by his widow to Judge L. W. Collins, who with members of the Mc- Kelvy Post, G. A. R., attended the coun- - cil meeting last evening and made the pre- sentation. The sword was formally ac- cepted, and it was voted that it be placed in the public library for safe keeping. The return of the sword, after the death of his last surviving son, to the people of St. Cloud was in accordance with the desires of Governor Miller.
February 25 .- Mrs. Mary Stockert, who had lived at Torah for 53 years, died this morning at St. Raphael's hospital.
March 18 .- Fred W. Carpenter, born at Sauk Centre 37 years ago and for some time a law student in Capt. Oscar Tay- lor's office in St. Cloud, has been appointed by President Taft his secretary. Mr. Car- penter had been private secretary to Mr. Taft when he was governor of the Phil- ippines, and later when he was secretary of war, has accompanied him on two trips around the world, and consequently his worth was well known to the president.
March 25 .- At a meeting of the St. Cloud Granite Producers held last even- ing resolutions were adopted protesting against the proposed reduction of the tariff on granite, because of the great dif- ference between wages paid in this coun- try and Europe and the low cost of trans- portation by water, making competition by American producers impossible. Similar resolutions were adopted by the Commer- cial Club.
March 27 .- Peter Goetten, who came to St. Cloud 41 years ago and continued in business until 1888, died at his home Sat- urday, aged 77 years.
Mrs. Margaretha Schaefer, widow of the late George Schaefer, who came to St. Cloud with her husband in the late 50's, died last night at the home of her daugh- ter, Mrs. C. J. Metzroth, at the age of 76 years.
April 8 .- The sessions of the Northern Minnesota Educational Association closed Saturday, the officers elected for the en- suing year being: P. C. Tonning, Willmar, president; Charlotte Knudson, Fergus Falls, vice-president; Albertina Anderson, St. Cloud, secretary and treasurer. Among the subjects presented were "How Re- sults of Teaching May Best Be Tested,"
by C. G. Schutz, state superintendent of public instruction; "The Industrial Phases," by L. D. Harvey, president of the Stout Institute; "The Civic Phase," by Prof. W. M. West, of the University of Minnesota.
April 22 .- Mrs. Mary E. Ketcham, who came to St. Cloud in 1854 and whose hus- band, Charles Ketcham, was the first county auditor of Stearns county, died yesterday at the Old Soldiers Home, near St. Paul, aged 76 years.
April 29 .- The St. Cloud Iron Works has completed and will ship Monday the largest granite-cutting lathe ever made. It will cut a column of granite 5 feet in diameter and 30 feet long; weighs 80,000 pounds and costs $5,500. It was made for the Webb Granite & Contracting Company of Worcester, Mass.
June 10 .- The twenty-sixth annual ses- sion of the Sons of Veterans opened Tues- day, closing Wednesday, with a good at- tendance. G. W. Turner, of Minneapolis, was elected commander and Frank Tol- man, of Paynesville, vice-commander.
Henry Borgerding, one of the most prominent citizens of Melrose as well as one of the wealthiest, having located there in 1859, died suddenly yesterday at Los Angeles, Cal., aged 65 years.
The annual convention of the Sixth Dis- trict Group of the Minnesota Bankers' As- sociation opened Thursday at Sauk Centre, adjourning the following day. Papers were read by Joseph Chapman, Jr., of Minneapolis, on "The Minnesota Bankers' Association;" C. J. Gunderson, of Alex- andria, on "The Bank in Politics;" Chas. R. Frost, Minneapolis, on "Recent Bank- ing Legislation and Its Results." The Round Table Discussion was led by W. W. Smith, St. Cloud. The officers elected were: C. E. Oakley, Buffalo, president; C. L. Atwood, St. Cloud, vice-president; E. L. Sherwin, Monticello, secretary. A banquet was given at the Palmer House at which 66 members of the association were seated, C. M. Sprague, of Sauk Centre, acting as toastmaster.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B. Sartell, of Sar- tell, celebrated June 2, the 56th anniver- sary of their marriage.
June 17 .- The Congregational church of Clearwater celebrated its fiftieth anniver- sary Tuesday and Wednesday. The Rev.
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Wm. Crawford, the first ordained pastor of the church, was present and delivered a sermon the first evening. Among those present were Mrs. John Dodds, Mr. and Mrs. James Colgrove, Mr. and Mrs. P. P. Colgrove and daughter, Mrs. Martha Cam- bell, Misses Gertrude and Bessie Cambell, Mrs. I. L. Edmunds, Miss Lola Edmunds, Mrs. Elizabeth Ranney, and Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Jenks, of St. Cloud.
Joseph Kindler, for 46 years a resident of St. Cloud, and for 43 years consecu- tively engaged in business, died Friday, aged 77 years.
"July 1 .- Wesley Carter, one of St. Cloud's most progressive citizens, died suddenly this morning, at the age of 70 years. He came to St. Cloud in 1860, later purchasing a large farm where Waite Park is now located. Twenty-six years ago he built a flouring mill, which after being burned and rebuilt he sold to H. C. Ervin, and in 1902 built the large Carter block.
Mrs. H. C. Waite, who came to St. Cloud in 1859 and was married January 1 of the following year to Mr. Waite, died Sunday at her home in this city, aged 75 years.
Robert A. Lyons, a Clearwater pioneer, who had lived there since 1856, and was active in local affairs, being depot agent for ten years, died Wednesday, aged 65 years.
The Benton County Bank at Sauk Rapids has been bought by A. H. Turretin, of Rice, and I. W. Bouck, of Royalton.
Ivory S. Staples, another member of this well-known pioneer family, died this morning at his home in this city, aged 77 years, after having resided in Stearns county since 1854.
July 8 .- James R. Boyd, who came to St. Cloud after the war and engaged in business, was four times elected mayor, removing three years ago to Minneapolis, died in that city Friday, aged 76 years.
July 15 .- Henry M. Orcutt, for 44 years a resident of Sauk Rapids, and during the war a member of the First Minnesota Vol- unteers for three years, afterwards en- listing in the First Minnesota Heavy Ar- tillery, died Monday, aged 67 years.
July 29 .- John Burksi has been ap- pointed postmaster of Sauk Rapids to suc- ceed C. A. Coburn.
August 19 .- Cold Spring lias voted an
issue of bonds for a system of water works and sewage.
September 2 .- Erasmus Cross, of Sauk Rapids, died August 26, at the age of 76 years. He was the first president of Sauk Rapids village, was county commissioner for 13 years and held other offices. He arrived in the United States from Scot- land April 11, 1852, being married a few weeks afterwards, the young lady who be- came his wife having come over in the same vessel that he did.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wieber, of Richmond, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage, Monday.
September 9 .- The Presbyterian church at Sartell was dedicated Sunday, five min- isters taking part in the services. The Rev. J. M. McBride, of Duluth, who is to be pastor, delivered the dedicatory ser- mon.
September 23 .- Memorial services in honor of the late Governor John A. John- son, whose death occurred at St. Mary's hospital, Rochester, September 21, were held in this city today. Exercises were conducted in different schools and the Davidson opera house was filled to over- flowing by an audience collected to do honor to the memory of the departed chief executive of the state. An eloquent ad- dress was delivered by the Rev. M. D. Shutter, of Minneapolis.
Andrew Then, who had lived in the town of Brockway 43 years, died yesterday at the age of 80 years.
Mrs. Jane Whitney, one of the oldest residents of Stearns county, died at Rock- ville Tuesday, at the advanced age of 91 years.
October 7 .- J. Henry Edelbrock, one of St. Cloud's solid business men, died Sun- day, aged 86 years.
October 14 .- James L. Gray, a resident of Minnesota for 45 years and of St. Cloud for 28, died Monday, aged 81 years.
Jacob Christen, of Albany, near which place he had been engaged in farming for almost half a century, died Friday last, in his 89th year.
John Fink, Sr., a pioneer resident of the town of Rockville, died Monday, aged 74 years.
October 21 .- About 1 o'clock Saturday morning three yeggmen entered the State Bank at Avon, blew open its safe with
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dynamite, secured $1,700 and made good their escape. The front of the building was wrecked by the explosion.
John Keppers, who had lived on a farm near Avon for the past fifty years, died Wednesday, aged 72 years.
Dr. Abram Canfield, who came to Min- nesota in 1853 and had lived at Sauk Centre since 1867, died Thursday at the home of his son, J. H. Canfield, aged 87 years.
St. Paul parties have taken options on land in Maine Prairie which is to be drilled for iron.
November 25 .- Daniel Jernberg. who is now in the reformatory serving a sen- tence, and Lindsey Garlock have been sen- tenced to 15 and 20 years respectively in the state penitentiary for criminal as- sault.
December 2 .- Business in this city, as elsewhere along the lines of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railways, is seriously affected by the strike of the switchmen, which is now on.
The meeting of the North Central Edi- torial Association at Sauk Centre closed this evening. Papers were read and mat- ters discussed relating to the interests of the members of the association. The of- ficers elected for the ensuing year were: A M. Welles, president; F. A. Dare, vice- president; A. G. Rutledge, secretary-treas- urer. A banquet was given in Pythian hall, at which Dr. J. A. DuBois presided as toastmaster.
December 16 .- Judge D. B. Searle died at his home in this city Sunday night after an illness of more than three years, beginning with a stroke of paralysis which he suffered May 29, 1906, at Long Prairie, where he had gone to deliver an address on Decoration day. He had held many prominent positions in the county and state.
Mrs. Isabelle Grinols, wife of Benjamin Grinols, who came to Minnesota in 1857 and to Fair Haven in 1865, died Tuesday at her home in that village, aged 69 years.
December 23 .- The congregation of the Catholic church at Luxemburg celebrated Thursday the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the church. Bishop Trobec was present and celebrated high mass.
December 30 .- Archibald S. White, of New York, and Leslie Smith, of St. Cloud,
are the purchasers of N. P. Clarke's en- tire herd of fullblooded short-horn cattle, known far and wide as the Meadow Lawn herd. No other American herd has won so many grand prizes. It now consists of 36 cows and 6 bulls, among the latter being Ringmaster, the best yearling show bull in the United States.
1910.
January 6 .- The St. Cloud Improvement Company has been incorporated with a capital stock of $50,000, the company or- ganizing with the following officers: D. C. Abeles, president; W. B. Mitchell, first vice-president; Charles J. Metzroth, sec- ond vice-president; C. L. Atwood, secre- tary; O. H. Havill, treasurer. The imme- diate undertaking of this company will be the erection of a glove factory for Gor- don & Ferguson, of St. Paul.
John L. Wilson, the "Father of St. Cloud," died Monday, aged 90 years, lack- ing less than two months.
Mathias Ahles, one of the early settlers of the town of Rockville, died in this city Sunday, at the age of 73 years.
The marriage of Miss Mabel Kells to Horace F. Alden, of Sauk Centre, was sol- emnized at the Church of the Good Samar- itan yesterday.
January 13 .- Mrs. Elizabeth A. Mitchell died at her home in this city Thursday, aged 86 years, St. Cloud having been her home since 1857.
January 20 .- Henry J. Rosenberger, a resident of St. Cloud since May, 1856, and one of its leading business men, died Sat- urday, aged 65 years.
January 27 .- Rudolph Hulin, who came to St. Cloud in 1861 and the following year enlisted in Company D, First Minnesota Mounted Rangers for service against the Indians, afterwards engaged in business in this city, died Saturday, aged 77 years.
John O. McClure, of this city, died yes- terday at Medford, Oregon, of heart fail- ure, aged 31 years.
Nick Hansen, who settled in the vicinity of Cold Spring in 1856, and served in Com- pany G, Ninth Minnesota Volunteers, died at his home in that village Saturday, aged 76 years.
February 3 .- Fred Scherfenberg, for some years assistant principal keeper at the state reformatory, died at his home
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in this city Wednesday of last week, aged 48 years.
February 10 .- Casemier Galernault, who in 1852 located on land near Clear Lake, afterwards removing to a farm near Pa- rent, Benton county, where he had lived for 45 years, died Thursday, aged 80 years.
"February 17 .- George W. Benedict. who came to Sauk Rapids in 1850 and printed the Frontierman for Jeremiah Russell and until 1902 was continuously engaged in the newspaper business in Sauk Rapids, St. Paul, Alexandria and St. Cloud, died at his home in Sauk Rapids Wednesday, aged 84 years. During this time he held a num- ber of public positions.
The new flouring mill built at Holding- ford has been completed and will be oper- ated by Gerhard Abeln & Son.
Joseph Moeller, a pioneer settler of St. Augusta, died Tuesday in this city, aged 76 years.
March 3 .- Two Stearns county pioneers passed away Saturday, Nelson Perry, of Winnebago Prairie, aged 75 years, and John Mecker, of Richmond, aged 83.
March 10 .- After 40 years of continuous service with the McCormick and Interna- tional Harvesting Machine Companies, Col. Wm. Westerman retires as general agent of the St. Cloud district and is suc- ceeded by H. C. Ahlers.
Coming to Minnesota with his parents in May, 1856, John Schaefer made his home in LeSauk, where he remained until 1883, when he removed to St. Cloud, which was his home until his death, which oc- curred last Thursday, when he was in the 68th year of his age. He had served as a member of Company D, First Minnesota Cavalry, and was for several years a mem- ber of the city council.
March 17 .- Mrs. Betsey Jane Whitte- more died Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. George T. Campbell in this city, in the 91st year of her age. She had been a resident of the town of Lynden since 1861 until recently.
March 24 .- Mrs. Charles A. Gilman died at her home in this city Saturday, aged 72 years. Her home had been since 1856 in Sauk Rapids and St. Cloud.
Frank McManus, of Avon, aged 65 and William Goedker, of St. Cloud, of the same age, were two of Stearns county's pioneers
who went to their rest during the past week.
April 7 .- Mrs. Julia Wedel, a pioneer resident of St. Joe, died Sunday, aged 89 years. Her husband, who died December 28 last, had reached the age of 92 years.
April 14 .- A meeting was held at the Commercial club rooms yesterday to in- terest farmers in potato raising, with about 200 in attendance. A practical ad- dress was made by Mr. Brown, of Elk River.
George Henry Brinkman, a pioneer set- tler of Rockville, having made his home there in 1856, died April 6 at Los Angeles, Cal., aged 81 years.
Alexander Campbell, who settled in the town of Brockway 40 years ago, died Sun- day, aged 85 years.
P. Lamb, a Stearns county resident since 1856 at St. Cloud and Sauk Centre, died at the latter place Thursday, aged 85 years.
April 21 .- The marriage of Leslie Mit- chell, of this city, to Otto A. Poirier, of Virginia, took place last evening at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Mitchell, the ceremony being per- formed by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, D. D.
May 12 .- Mrs. Anna Timmers, widow of Frank X. Timmers, who came to St. Joe in 1856, died Thursday, aged 74 years.
May 19 .- Gerhard Messman, one of the oldest residents of St. Augusta, died Tues- day, aged 81 years.
May 26 .- A Goodfellowship meeting of prominent business men of St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids was held in this city Mon- day evening at which matters of mutual interest were discussed, especially the im- proving of the water power at Sauk Rapids. The principal speakers were Mayor Freeman, of St. Cloud and Mayor Porter, of Sauk Rapids, although a num- ber of others took part, the utmost har- mony prevailing. A. G. Whitney said that to improve the water power at Sauk Rapids would cost $350,000 to $400,000, and that before any bonds could be sold it would be necessary to have contracts made for the sale of 1,500 to 2,000 horse- power.
Mrs. Betsey Burnham Fogg, who came with her husband to Sauk Rapids in 1856, died in that village Sunday, aged 78 years. Mr. Fogg, who was a veteran of the Civil
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war, having enlisted in Company A, Eighth Minnesota Volunteers and served through the war, died three years ago at the Anoka Soldiers Home.
June 9 .- Fred W. Carpenter, a former resident of Sauk Centre and St. Could, re- cently appointed by President Taft min- ister to Morocco, is saying good-bye to his Sauk Centre friends.
Mrs. Hannah Nelson, who with her hus- band located on a homestead near Mel- rose in 1862, died May 24 at the home of her grandson, Alvin E. Lamb, of Getty, in the 91st year of her age.
Mrs. C. B. Gregory, a pioneer resident of Brockway, died this morning, aged 61 years.
June 23 .- Sauk Centre has lost two of its old settlers and prominent citizens dur- ing the past week, Solomn Pendergast, a territorial settler in Minnesota and who for nearly half a century had been a lead- ing business man of the place, his eldest daughter (Mrs. Nellie Lafond) being the first white child born in Sauk Centre, died this morning, aged 77 years; and Samuel Beidelman, whose death occurred Tues- day, at the age of 80 years.
Christian Bach came to Stearns county in 1854, making his home in the town of St. Martin, where he lived for 30 years, when he removed to St. Cloud. He was a soldier during the Civil war, having pre- viously been in the German army, and saw much active service. His death oc- curred at his home in this city Monday, at the age of 81 years.
June 30 .- The new Congregational church at Sauk Centre built in 1904, was dedicated Sunday. The
sermon was preached by the Rev. C. S. Harrison, of York, Neb., the first missionary in Sauk Centre from 1860-62.
July 14 .- A. E. Kasner, the popular county auditor of Benton county, died at St. Raphael's hospital in this city this morning, following a surgical operation, at the age of 45 years.
July 21 .- Orange Hyatt, a pioneer of Clearwater, died Monday, aged 83 years.
July 28 .- Twenty-five dealers from dif- ferent parts of the state attended the third annual meeting of the Minnesota Retail Monument Dealers' Association. After the business session the members inspected the local granite shops and quarries.
Andrew Alstrom, for 24 years a resi- dent of St. Cloud and for several terms a member of the city council, died Friday, aged 60 years.
Carrie Nation, the window smasher, gave a temperance lecture at Central Park yesterday afternoon to a large audience.
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