History of Stearns County, Minnesota, Volume II, Part 77

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


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The eightieth birthday of Henry C. Waite was celebrated by a gathering of old settlers at his home, D. H. Freeman, Capt. J. E. West, B. Reinhard, H. L. Gor- don, Gov. C. A. Gilman, C. F. Macdonald, John Coates and W. B. Mitchell, who were his guests at dinner.


August 4 .- The St. Cloud Mutual Fire Insurance Company has been organized, with the following officers: Wm. Wester- man, president; D. H. Freeman, vice-presi- dent; R. L. Gale, secretary; E. F. Moore, treasurer.


The Northwestern Manufacturing Com- pany opened up its pickle factory this week.


August 11 .- The new Gordon & Fergu- son glove factory in this city has been completed. It is 120x60 feet in size, two stories, with a full basement, solid brick with granite basement and trimmings.


Mrs. Julia Drake, formerly Mrs. S. B. Lowry, of St. Cloud, died August 2 at her home in Michigan, from a stroke of apop- lexy. Her maiden name was Josephine E. Wood, and her home was near what was then called Farmington, on the Rockville road, her brother being William H. Wood, of Sauk Rapids.


August 18 .- George H. Reynolds, one of the leading attorneys of St. Cloud, died suddenly at his home in this city today of heart failure, aged 58 years.


August 25 .- Mrs. Theresa Miller, widow of the late Michael Miller, who with her husband took a homestead near St. Cloud 54 years ago, soon afterwards moving to the city, and opening the St. Cloud House, one of the first hotels here, died Tuesday, aged 76 years.


September 15 .- The Sixth District League of Postmasters met at the Com- mercial Club rooms, Wednesday for a two- days' session, its first annual meeting, with W. S. Bartholemew, of Avon, president of the State League, in attendance. Fay Cra- vens, of Milaca, was elected president; Younger Dyson, of Becker secretary and treasurer; W. E. Murphy, of Holdingford,


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Stearns county, one of the four vice-presi- dents.


Mrs. Rose Yaeger, who with her husband was among the earliest settlers of St. Joseph, afterwards moving to a farm near Pleasant lake and later to this city, died yesterday at the home of her son, Rudolph Yaeger, aged 80 years. Her husband, Carl Yaeger, who was a soldier in the Union army, died June 15, 1908.


September 22 .- The vote on the commis- sion form of government for St. Cloud, while showing a majority did not have the required 60%, losing by 90 votes.


Married, at St. John's Episcopal church, Mankato, September 21, Katherine Hub- bard, of that city, to Harry Clay Ervin, Jr., of St. Cloud, the Rev. Philip K. Ed- wards, rector of St. John's, officiating.


October 6 .- James F. Bell, one of St. Cloud's leading merchants in the early days, going to Fergus Falls in 1876, died there Monday at the age of 76 years.


Mrs. Peter George, who died Friday at Albany, came to Stearns county in 1856, living first on a farm near Pleasant lake, and at Sauk Rapids during the cyclone, which destroyed Mr. George's place of business.


October 13 .- Lambert Rau, who came di- rect from Prussia to Stearns county in 1862, making his home at St. Joe, died last Wednesday, aged 67 years.


October 20 .- St. Cloud has contributed by subscription $750 to the relief of the sufferers from forest fires at Spooner, Baudette and neighboring places in the northern part of the state.


J. A. Porter, of Wausau, Wis., succeeds Karl Mathie as manager of the Watab Paper and Pulp Mills.


November 10 .- Peter Rau, who had been a resident of Collegeville for 47 years, died Sunday, aged 66 years.


November 17 .- Mrs. Caroline Bartlett Crane, the Michigan municipal expert, after an examination of the condition of matters sanitary in the city, delivered an address at the Davidson Opera house Friday eve- ning at which she gave the public the bene- fit of her findings, with various criticisms and suggestions, brightened with some commendations.


November 24 .- Mrs. Martin Greeley who with her husband came to Minnesota by ox team in 1856, settling on Maine Prairie,


died Monday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. May F. Street, aged 87 years.


December 1 .- Mrs. George B. Marvin, whose home had been in St. Cloud since 1857, died Sunday, aged 63 years.


December 15 .- Thomas Tollington, a resi- dent of Clearwater for 40 years, died at his home there Sunday, aged 78 years.


December 22 .- Harvey G. Wire, a promi- nent business man of St. Cloud and for seven years postmaster, having also held the offices of city clerk and city justice, died Sunday, aged 57 years.


1911.


January 5 .- The mercury in G. S. Spen- cer's thermometer took a sudden drop Monday night from 10 degrees below zero to 35 below-this being the lowest tem- perature registered since February, 1904. The thermometer at the reformatory showed 31 below Tuesday morning.


February 1 .- Andrew E. Fritz, of this city, has entered on his duties as state public examiner, to which office he was ap- pointed by Governor Eberhart.


February 2 .- The Farmers' State Bank, capital $50,000, and the Farmers' Loan and Investment Company, capital $100,000, al- lied institutions, opened for business in this city yesterday. The officers of the bank are C. D. Schwab, president; A. W. Corwin, cashier; of the loan company, C. D. Schwab, president; A. A. Wright secre- tary; P. R. Thielman, treasurer.


W. S. Bartholemew, postmaster at Avon, has been made superintendent of one of the eight districts into which the United States has been divided by the president of the national league of postmasters, of which organization Mr. Bartholomew is the treasurer. His division includes Min- nesota, Iowa, Nebraska, North and South Dakota and Montana. He is president of the state association.


February 9 .- The Minnesota Retail Clothiers' Association was organized in Minneapolis Tuesday. D. C. Abeles, of St. Cloud, was elected secretary and treasurer and George L. Ley and E. A. Bartholemy, of this city, were appointed members of the legislative committee.


The Farmers' Co-operative Association held its annual meeting in the Commer- . cial Club rooms Saturday. The principal address was made by President Bugbee,


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of the Co-operative Marketing Association, of Duluth. Mr. Buss, of Chaska, discussed the proposition of raising sugar beets. The old officers were re-elected, as follows: Henry Killion, president; A. C. Cooper, vice-president; M. G. Weyrens, secretary and treasurer.


February 16 .- The Meire Grove State Bank opened for business on the 15th inst., with a capital of $10,000. The of- ficers are: P. A. Hilbert, president; Clem- ens Meyer, vice-president; Nick Weyland, cashier.


C. L. Atwood has been appointed director of the St. Cloud Normal school to succeed Karl Mathie, removed from the state.


John E. Payne, of Rockville, one of the most progressive farmers in the county, died at his home Thursday, aged 36 years.


C. D. Grinols has been reappointed post- master at St. Cloud, his second term be- ginning February 1.


March 2 .- Belgrade, by a vote of 103 to 6, at an election held yesterday decided to issue $12,000 in bonds for the erection of a new schoolhouse, the present building having been condemned by the state in- spector on account of poor ventilation.


March 9 .- Ten patrols of boy scouts, numbering in all 86 members, were organ- ized at the Commercial Club rooms Tues- day, by Organizer L. S. Dale. At Sauk Rapids eight patrols with 60 boys were organized.


By a unanimous vote at a special election yesterday Roscoe decided to incorporate as a village.


March 16 .- Alex. McGregor, one of the active business men of St. Cloud, died Tuesday at the Hudson Sanatorium, aged 53 years; and within the same hour his mother died at Minot, N. D., aged 78 years. Mr. McGregor, who was born in Canada, lived first on a farm on Maine Prairie, coming about 35 years ago to St. Cloud, where with his brother Henry he engaged in the wood-working business.


The boy scout movement has taken hold in Melrose and 100 boys have been organ- ized into patrols.


March 23 .- David B. Stanley, who came to Maine Prairie in 1858, died suddenly at his home there Friday, aged 66 years. For many years he was the Maine Prairie post- master and was a member of the legisla- ture in 1878.


Mrs. W. W. Wright, wife of the first station agent at St. Cloud and for many years a resident of this city, died Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Gude, of Duluth, aged 78 years. Her body will be brought here for burial.


Brooten is now the only "dry" village in Stearns county; Belgrade, which had been in the same class, by a vote of 50 to 48 yesterday passed over to the "wets."


March 30 .- The St. Cloud postoffice has been designated by the department as a postal savings bank, being the second in the state. This branch of the business will take effect May 1. One person can deposit not to exceed $100 in any one month and his deposit cannot exceed $500 at any one time. These deposits draw 2 per cent interest.


April 13 .- The fifteenth annual meeting of the Northern Minnesota Educational Association began its sessions in this city April 6, continuing three days. Senator Robert M. LaFollette, of Wisconsin, had been engaged as the principal speaker, but not being able to come Dr. George E. Vincent, the newly-elected president of the state university, was secured. The general theme of the meeting was "The School as a Social Factor." Other speak- ers were Dr. D. J. Cowling, president of Carlton College, whose subject was "The School as a Moral Force;" P. C. Town- ing on "The Consolidation of Rural Schools;" Miss Grace Bondurant, princi- pal of Nelson school; W. E. Larson, rural school inspector of Wisconsin; Mrs. Stark- weather, of the Minnesota Labor Bureau; Supt. E. C. Higbee, of the Morris Agricul- tural school; Miss Douglas, of the St. Cloud Normal school-these being but a partial list. The attendance was over 800; out-of-town teachers to the number of 350 being enrolled and 250 school of- ficers from Stearns county. The officers elected were: F. E. Lurton, Anoka, presi- dent; R. H. Brown, Sauk Rapids, vice- president; Jessie Burrall, St. Cloud secre- tary and treasurer.


April 20 .- When the train carrying Col. Theodore Roosevelt on his way from the West reached the Northern Pacific depot in this city this afternoon it was greeted by a crowd of citizens and boy scouts. The ex-president gave a five minutes talk on "Good Citizens."


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James H. Johnston, a foreman at the Great Northern shops, died suddenly at his home in this city Monday, aged 65 years. The funeral took place today, with Masonic ceremonies, the car shops being closed, and two special cars were provided for the pall bearers and shop men accom- panying the remains to St. Paul. A num- ber of prominent Great Northern officials were in the city to attend the funeral.


April 27 .- Beginning with next Sunday the postoffice will be closed all day on Sun- day; there will be no carrier delivery and no collection of mail from street boxes.


May 18 .- St. Cloud was host, or hostess, this week to the annual meeting of the Sixth District Federation of Womens' Clubs. The sessions were held in the audi- torium of Unity church. In addition to the routine business addresses were made by Mrs. Higbee, president of the state federation; Mrs. H. G. Winter, of Minne- apolis, and Superintendent F. L. Randall, of the state reformatory.


The past week has witnessed the death of several of Stearns county pioneers. Nicholas Kirsch, who settled on a farm in the township of Rockville in 1854 and dur- ing the war enlisted in the First Minnesota Heavy artillery, died yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Frank Braun, in this city, aged 83 years. Nicholas Scheuer located 50 years ago on a farm on the Pleasant lake road three miles west of the city, living there until 14 years ago, when he removed to this city where he died this morning, aged 83 years. Mrs. John W. Davis, who with her husband was one of the early settlers of the Sauk river country, a few miles west of this city, died this morning, aged 85 years.


June 1 .- Mrs. Mary C. West, wife of Capt. J. E. West, died at her home in this city today, aged 69 years. She came to Min- nesota in 1857, first making her home at Clearwater, removing in 1881 to St. Cloud, where she was active in church work and civic affairs until her death.


Victor A. Hodgson has purchased of Mrs. D. B. Searle the Lake View farm of 600 acres at Pleasant lake, the consideration understood to be $30,000. Mr. Hodgson, with his brother L. C. Hodgson, makes a specialty of raising blooded stock.


June 15 .- Another important land pur- chase has been that of the Nether Hall


farm, 296 acres, located just outside the city limits, which has been bought of C. D. Schwab by J. P. Fosse, a prominent stock breeder of Wisconsin. This prop- erty was put under cultivation by Wesley Carter, from whom it was bought by N. P. Clarke; Mr. Schwab being the purchaser only three months ago.


June 29 .- Judge Nye has filed a decision upholding the will of the late John O. McClure, by the terms of which the bulk of his property, the value of which is esti- mated at $100,000 to $150,000, goes to his sister, Mrs. Alice McClure Getchell. This case was one of the most important and hardest-fought ever tried in Stearns county. The chief contestant was T. S. McClure, a brother of the deceased.


Mrs. Ellen Ward Lamb, who came to this part of Minnesota in 1852, when it was still a wilderness, died at her home in this city Tuesday, aged 82 years. She first came with her husband to Watab to keep house for Gen. S. B. Lowry, who was government interpreter for the Winnebago Indians at the trading post there, soon afterwards moving to what was called Ar- cadia, now a part of St. Cloud, Mr. and Mrs. Lamb accompanying him. Some years were spent on a farm on Sauk river, after which they returned to the city, which continued to be Mrs. Lamb's home until her death. She was the last surviving charter member of the Presbyterian church at St. Cloud.


The four cottages erected at Sauk Centre for the Minnesota Home for Girls were opened this week, in charge of Mrs. Fannie French Morse, the superintendent. There are now 65 girls in the institution.


At the meeting of the Sixth District Group Bankers' Association held at Park Rapids this week A. H. Turretin, of Sauk Rapids, was elected president.


The street car line has been extended from Waite Park to Sauk river, at the Gro- cer's bungalow.


July 13 .- Mrs. Johanna Elizabeth Ten- voorde, whose death occurred in St. Paul yesterday as the result of a fall received while visiting relatives in that city, was one of St. Cloud's first settlers. With her husband, John W. Tenvoorde, she arrived at Sauk Rapids in the fall of 1854, remain- ing there during the winter while their log cabin was being built near the present


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location of the First National Bank. The house on west St. Germain street, then one of the largest and most pretentious in the place, was built 47 years ago. Mr. Tenvoorde was the second merchant in St. Cloud. Mrs. Tenvoorde was 82 years of age at her death.


Nicholas Roeder, who came to this county 63 years ago and made his home on a farm in the town of Munson until 12 years ago, when he removed to the village of Richmond, died Monday, aged 89 years.


George McCollum, whose death occurred Monday at the Battle Creek Sanatorium, served in a Michigan cavalry regiment, Merritt's Horse, coming to St. Cloud soon after the close of the war, and for 25 years was the local agent of the Northern Ex- press Company.


July 20 .- Sauk Rapids voted yesterday, 155 to 31, to issue $16,000 bonds for the erection of a new schoolhouse.


Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Miller, of Sauk Rap- ids, celebrated their golden wedding Tues- day. Mrs. J B. Sartell, of Sartell and Mrs. Frank Flint, of Rice, were the two guests of honor, having been present at the cere- mony which took place in Sauk Rapids 50 years ago, the latter being the only surviving bridesmaid.


Mrs. Joseph Eich, of St. Joseph, who had been a resident of that township since 1858 until about a year ago, died at her home in the village Saturday, aged 76 years.


July 27 .- The Minnesota Granite Pro- ducers are in the city, the guests of the local dealers. The meetings, held in the Commercial Club rooms, were presided over by J. Horne, of Luverne, president of the association.


The congregation of the Catholic church at St. Martin celebrated on the 20th inst. the golden jubilee of the Rev. Father Meinulf Stukenkemper, O. S. B. Father Meinulf was ordained at St. John's, July 20, 1861, and in 1864 took charge of the church of the Immaculate Conception in this city, and it was largely through his efforts that the present building was erec- ted in 1866. In 1872 he was sent to St. Paul, soon after going to Meier Grove, where he was pastor for over 25 years, building the present church. From there he went to St. Martin, where he is the active pastor at the age of 74 years.


September 14 .- Adolph Lindenberg, a prominent business man of this city, was robbed and shot by yeggmen in front of his residence about midnight Friday. The bullet passed entirely through Mr. Lind- enberg's body, just under the heart, com- ing out at the back and was picked up by the police. The injured man was taken to the hospital and while the wound is a dangerous one it may not prove fatal. No trace has been found of the would-be murderers.


Last night as Peter Wolne, a farmer re- siding near Apole, was driving with a friend, a dynamite bomb was hurled at him from the roadside, completely demolishing the wagon and injuring the occupants and horses. A shot fired by one of the three men engaged in the outrage struck Mr. Wolne in the neck. The identity of the men is unknown.


September 21 .- William H. Heywood, who had been a resident of Maine Prairie for over half a century, died at his home in that town yesterday, aged 80 years.


September 28 .- The State Federation of Womens' Clubs met at Sauk Centre this week, the sessions continuing for three days.


Charles Clinton Tobey died at his home in Sauk Centre last evening, aged 76 years. His home had been in St. Cloud from 1863 to 1868, when he removed to Sauk Centre and engaged in business.


October 12 .- George W. Stewart, one of the leading lawyers of St. Cloud, died sud- denly on the 8th inst. while hunting near Pleasant lake with his son Donald, death being due to heart failure. Mr. Stewart was 52 years of age and had lived in St. Cloud since 1880.


Sauk Centre has increased the saloon license to $1,200.


The Sauk Rapids Sentinel has been pur- chased of M. W. Halloran by J. W. Feather- ston, for some years connected with the Elk River Star-News.


November 16 .- Capt. Josiah E. West one of the earliest settlers and best-known citizens of St. Cloud, died last Thursday, aged 78 years. He came to St. Cloud in October 1855, and this was continuously his home until his death.


A letter from Manhatten, Montana, re- ports the death of Mark D. Ledbeater, which occurred October 18, on his 81st


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birthday. He will be remembered by the old settlers of St. Cloud as having been clerk at the Stearns House during the first years after it was built.


November 23 .- Word has been received of the death of John W. Tuttle at Brook- lyn, N. Y., to which city he removed from St. Cloud about 30 years ago, having first become a resident here in the late '50's.


November 30 .- The new charter for St. Cloud was adopted at a special election yesterday by a vote of 942 to 316, a major- ity in its favor being given in every ward.


Asa L. Clement, a leading farmer of the town of Le Sauk, died Sunday at the home of his son, Edward S., aged 84 years.


December 7 .- The annual meeting of the Northern Minnesota Development Associa- tion held in the Davidson Opera House was a pronounced success. The attendance was large, the addresses and speakers were practical and there was a spirit of genuine enthusiasm which augured well for the work the association has in hand. The leading address was by the Hon. T. V. Powderly, chief of the United States Bu- reau of Immigration. C. M. King, of Deer River, who was elected president, was a former resident of Stearns county, at Fair Haven.


The board of visitors, by request of Superintendent Randall, investigated cer- tain charges made by two of the inmates of the state reformatory against the man- agement, and after taking up all the com- plaints and examining under oath com- plainants and others made a report of com- plete exoneration.


The new St. Mary's hall gymnasium and club house, erected this season by the church of the Immaculate Conception, was dedicated and formally turned over to the Catholic Young Men's Association Thurs- day by Bishop Trobec and Father Alfred, pastor of the congregation. A number of addresses were made.


1912.


February 1 .- The new school building at Kimball, erected to take the place of the one destroyed by fire January 6 of last year, was dedicated last Thursday evening. The building is 48x104, brick, two stories and full basement, steam heated and cost over $18,000. Addresses were de- livered by Governor Eberhart, President


Shoemaker, of the St. Cloud Normal school, and County Superintendent Boerger.


Michael Theisen, who settled in St. Wen- del 49 years ago, removing five years ago to this city, died at his home here last night, aged 76 years.


Farmers who are raising tobacco in Sher- burne county, a short distance east of the Stearns county line, find, a ready market for it at a profit of $100 to $150 per acre.


February 8 .- D. G. Cannon, of this city, for two terms county surveyor, died last evening, aged 65 years.


February 15 .- J. E. C. Robinson, of this city, died this morning in a Minneapolis hospital, aged 48 years. When a young man he served as first sergeant of Company D Nineteenth U. S. infantry, serving in Colorado and New Mexico. He came to Minnesota in 1870, was state senator from this district for four years; four terms mayor of St. Cloud, two years city asses- sor, and at the time of his death was city attorney.


February 22 .- Lucas Goertken, doubtless one of the oldest teachers in the county, both in years and in service, died Friday at Meier Grove, after passing the three- score limit. For 35 years he was princi- pal of the Richmond school and for the past seven had been at Meier Grove. Be- fore coming to this country from Germany he had taught for five years in the same school in which his father had taught for 50 years, his grandfather having previously taught in the same place for half a cent- ury, when he was pensioned.


February 29 .- Mrs. Susan L. Brinkman, widow of George H. Brinkman, who came to Rockville in 1856, died February 10, at Los Angeles, Cal., aged 78 years. The funeral services were held yesterday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Staples, Rockville township.


March 7 .- Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Clark, of this city, celebrated yesterday the 55th an- niversary of their wedding.


March 28 .- The sixteenth annual meet- ing of the Northern Minnesota Educa- tional Association closed its sessions at noon today. The principal address was by Dr. Cyrus Northrop, president emeritus of the Minnesota University, in which he discussed three topics pertaining to good citizenship-patriotism in political parties,


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public schools, and arbitration and peace. Addresses were also delivered by Super- intendent M. D. Aygarn, of Sauk Centre, on "Industrial Training and Agriculture in the Schools;" Prof. H. W. Shryock, of the Southern Illinois Normal University and others. The officers elected for the ensuing year were: Dr. P. P. Colgrove, St. Cloud, president; Supt. A. E. Pickard, Hinckley, vice-president; Supt. C. A. Yae- ger, Alexandria, secretary and treasurer.


April 4 .- The first election under the commission form of government in this city resulted in a majority for P. J. Se- berger as mayor and L. J. Rocholl com- missioner. C. J. Metzroth was next high- est, but E. C. Scott was so close that an- other election for a choice would have been necessary but for the withdrawal of Mr. Scott.


George Leither was one of the pioneer settlers of Stearns county, having made a home on Jacob's Prairie in the late '50's, remaining there until about six years ago when he removed to this city, where his death occurred March 28, at the age of 82 years.


April 11 .- Bertus Miller, for three terms treasurer of Stearns county and twice Uni- ted States collector of internal revenue, died Saturday at his home in this city, aged 77 years.


Sydney A. Irish, one of the well-known citizens of Sauk Centre, died at his home there April 3, aged 79 years. Mr. Irish came to Sauk Centre in 1859, pre-empting a homestead near-by. He built a number of bridges across Sauk river and two dams, and helped build the first church in which the Congregationalist society at Sauk Centre worshiped.


April 18 .- Maurice Warren Eastman, only son of Alvah Eastman, editor of the St. Cloud Journal-Press, a young man of much promise and a graduate of Dart- mouth College, died at the home of his parents in this city April 11, aged 24 years.




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