History of Stearns County, Minnesota, Volume II, Part 79

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


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Mrs. Mary Hurrle, who had been a resi- dent of St. Augusta continuously since 1863, died last evening, aged 78 years.


December 18 .- The new Starland the- atre, built by Frank E. Nemec, opened last evening.


Mrs. Margaret Krier, one of the pioneer settlers of Stearns county, died today at the home of her son, Mathew Krier, in this city, aged 80 years.


December 23 .- Ormus Marshall, a resi- dent of Stearns county for the past 62 years, died at his home Thursday, aged 84 years.


Mrs. Ellen Fuller Boobar, wife of Oliver B. Boobar, postmaster at Sauk Centre, and


for half a century a resident of Stearns county, died at her home there, aged 71 years.


December 31 .- The annual banquet of the Northwestern Granite Manufacturers' Association was held this evening in the Commercial club rooms, with a large at- tendance of members and invited guests.


The Watab Paper Mill is turning out its normal production of paper.


The building improvements in St. Cloud for 1913 total $711,447.


The postal receipts at the St. Cloud post office for the year were $36,667.26, lacking only $3,332.74 of becoming a first-class of- fice.


1914.


January 8 .- The marriage of Emmaline Metzroth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Metzroth, to James Quigley, all of St. Cloud, was solemnized this morning at the cathedral, the Rev. Leo Gans officiating. The bridal couple leave for New York to spend a month at the Bermudas.


Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Capser, of Sauk Centre, celebrated last week their golden wedding, 7 children and 21 grandchildren being present. Mr. Capser was Sauk Centre's first merchant, his store, built in 1863, being outside the stockade which had been erected for defense against the In- dians.


January 13 .- Mrs. Samuel F. Fullerton, who came with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jones, to St. Cloud 57 years ago, died in Minneapolis last evening, aged 59 years.


January 16 .- A car load of hogs, 87, of which 65 were the property of J. M. Lo- renz, shipped from Rockville to St. Paul, brought $7.95 per hundred weight. The average weight of the porkers was 275 pounds each.


January 19 .- The annual meeting of the Association of Station Agents of the St. Cloud and Fergus Falls division of the Great Northern railway was held at the Commercial club rooms in this city yes- terday. Every station agent from St. Paul to Barnesville, Sandstone to Willmar, Sauk Centre to Cass Lake, and from Minneap- olis to St. Cloud via Osseo was in attend- ance at the meeting, together with Supt. W. C. Watrous, superintendent of trans- portation of St. Paul; General Agent F. A.


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Hilla, James Mullane, T. W. Flaherty and other prominent railroad men. The meet- ing was in charge of Local Passenger Agent H. A. Neide. A number of inter- esting addresses were made. The officers elected were: Edward Stevenson, Long Prairie, president; C. W. Webb, Evans- ville, vice-president; A. H. Pike, Monti- cello, secretary-treasurer.


January 24 .- A number of farmers met in this city this afternoon and organized the St. Cloud Farmers' Shipping Associa- tion, the purpose of which is to secure better prices and prompter service from buyers of their stock.


Peter Maurin has been appointed post- master at Cold Spring.


January 31 .- The new Davidson opera house, greatly improved over the one de- stroyed by fire about a year ago, was for- mally opened last night by Miss Florence Roberts and the Bainbridge Players in "Sham." Among the guests was Governor Eberhart, who made a brief address of congratulation, Public Examiner Fritz and other gentlemen of prominence. The at- tendance was large and the opening a suc- cess.


The Sauk Rapids Co-operative Associa- tion, composed mostly of farmers, has pur- chased of F. H. Mooers, the creamery at Sauk Rapids, for $2,500.


February 2 .- The Freeport Farmers' Company has purchased Schoener & Benol- ken's implement buildings and business.


February 7 .- John Bernard Homar, who had resided in St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids for nearly half a century, died at his home in the latter place last evening, aged 84 years.


February 10 .- The Granite City Tablet Company, recently incorporated in this city with a capital of $50,000, will be pre- pared to turn out from 40,000 to 70,000 tab- lets per day. The officers of the company are: C. F. Ladner, president; C. S. Bun- nell, vice-president; A. A. Wright, secre- tary; C. D. Schwab, treasurer.


Word has been received of the death of James Young, one of the early merchants of St. Cloud, at Superior, Wis., on the 5th inst., at the age of 74 years.


February 17 .- James R. Bennett, Sr., died at his home in this city this morning, after a prolonged illness, at the age of 82 years. Mr. Bennett located in this city


in 1881, engaging in the mercantile busi- ness which he continued for many years.


John Fuecker, of Cold Spring, a resident of Stearns county for nearly 60 years, died yesterday, aged 80 years.


Another Cold Spring pioneer, Nicholas Retter, who settled on a farm near there in 1862, afterwards removing to the vil- lage, passed to his rest Wednesday, aged 83 years.


February 20 .- The Elks' beautiful new home in St. Cloud, Lodge No. 516, was formally dedicated last evening before a large assemblage, the ceremonies being conducted by Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler Charles D. Johnson, of Brainerd. The dedication address was delivered by Al- bert H. Hall, of Minneapolis.


February 23 .- Mrs. Mary Louise Ben- nett, wife of James R. Bennett, Sr., died at her home in this city last evening, aged 79 years, her death following just six days after that of her husband.


March 3 .- It is reported that the U. S. Steel Company has begun stripping the Acturus mine, owned by St. Cloud parties, prior to beginning active mining opera- tions. The mines were leased on a royalty basis March 1, 1904, to the Security Land and Exploration Company, a subsidiary of the U. S. Steel Company. A royalty on a minimum output has been paid since then to the owners, without any ore having been taken out. The deposit is believed to be exceedingly rich.


March 9 .- Professor Peter E. Kaiser, of this city, died suddenly yesterday. He was county superintendent of schools for seven years and at the time of his death was a member of the St. Cloud board of educa- tion and its secretary.


March 10 .- Henry B. Smart, of the town of Brockway, where he had made his home for half a century, died Saturday at the ripe old age of 95 years. He lived first at Langola, Benton county, in 1853, after- wards moving to Brockway.


March 14 .- The eighteenth annual con- vention of the Central Minnesota Educa- tional Association opened at the Normal school building Thursday, the sessions con- tinuing until this afternoon. Addresses were delivered by Miss Josephine T. Berry, of the State University, on "A Woman's Education for Women;" "The Educational Value of Literature to Children," by Gund-


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run Thorne Thomsen, of the University of Chicago; "Progress Toward United Action in the Rural Field," by Rural School Com- missioner E. M. Phillips; "Is the Public School a Failure?" by Editor Corson, of the Ohio Educational Monthly, and others. Meetings of the high school and grade sec- tions and of the rural school officers were held, with a full attendance at each. It was regarded as the most successful con- vention in the history of the association. The officers elected for the ensuing year were: Supt. F. W. Dobbyn, Little Falls, president; Supt. A. E. Pickard, Cokato, vice-president; Prof. I. T. Johnsrud, St. Cloud, secretary-treasurer.


March 16 .- Edward E. Clark, of this city, superintendent of the Public Service Com- pany and the St. Cloud Street Railway Company, died yesterday at Rockledge, Florida, at the age of 57 years, following a sickness of several months.


Joseph Marthaler, of Meire Grove, a res- ident of Stearns county since 1856, died yesterday, aged 91 years.


March 20 .- Thomas Hussey, for 40 years a resident of the village of Avon, where much of this time he was engaged in the hotel business, died this morning, aged 70 years.


March 23 .- Samuel Young, who had been a resident of Maine Prairie since 1856, died at Kimball yesterday, aged 89 years.


March 24 .- Mrs. Eliza Boobar died this morning at the home of her son, F. H. Boo- bar, at Fair Haven. Mrs. Boobar was 98 years and 26 days old, having recently celebrated her 98th birthday, and was probably the oldest resident of the state, which had been her home since 1858.


March 27 .- Jacob Engelhard, a pioneer citizen of Richmond, died Monday, aged 67 years.


March 30 .- A. H. Turrittin, of Sauk Rapids, has been appointed by Governor Eberhart to be state bank examiner.


April 4 .- Mrs. Annie Ernest Gasser, widow of the late Nicholas Gasser, of St. Augusta, to whom she was married in 1856, died Saturday at Minneapolis following a surgical operation, the day of her death be- ing the 75th anniversary of her birth, March 29.


April 7 .- On the invitation of Fred Speechly, district manager of the North- western Telephone Company, some 50 of


the managers of local exchanges having connection with the Northwestern for long distance service, are in session in this city today. An address was delivered by Guy H. Pratt, of Omaha, general commer- cial superintendent of the company. A banquet will be served this evening at the Grand Central Hotel.


William Capple came to St. Cloud in 1856, taking a homestead near Grand Lake where he remained until the Indian out- break in 1862 when he returned to St. Cloud, which continued to be his home with the exception of some nine years spent in California and three years in Eng- land, until his death which occurred to- day, when he had reached the age of 88 years.


April 9 .- The golden wedding anniver- sary of Dr. and Mrs. E. V. Campbell, of this city, was celebrated by a large num- ber of the members of Dr. Campbell's con- gregation last evening, at the home of Misses Edith and Estelle Pattison. A purse containing $100 in gold was presented to Dr. Campbell and another with $50 to Mrs. Campbell. A very pleasant evening was spent by the company, who tendered the guests of honor their congratulations and good wishes.


April 10 .- Wolfgand Wieseckel, a farmer living near Cold Spring, died Friday at the unusually advanced age of 94 years.


April 16 .- By a vote of 1,194 to 727, at a special election held yesterday, it was decided to change the St. Cloud school dis- trict from a special to an independent dis- trict.


April 25 .- The contract for the building of a new Catholic high school has been let to A. G. & A. M. Wahl for $47,792. This does not include the heating and plumbing.


April 27. - Nicholas Lauerman, who came to St. Cloud in 1856, afterwards mov- ing to a farm in the town of St. Joseph, serving during the war as a member of Company F, Second Regiment of U. S. In- fantry, died yesterday, aged 77 years.


May 2 .- At the special election yester- day W. W. Smith, Andrew Schumacher, C. S. Bunnell, A. M. Simmers, Julius Adams and J. A. Harris were elected mem- bers of the board of education of the new independent district, their majorities rang- ing from 725 to 925.


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John Slivinick, one of the first settlers of Albany, died April 26, aged 79 years.


May 4 .- Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Loder- meier celebrated their golden wedding an- niversary yesterday at their home in this city.


May 8 .- Mathias Huff, who came to Stearns county in 1854, first making his home in St. Joseph, later taking a home- stead near Richmond, where he lived for 15 years, when he removed to St. Cloud, died this morning, at the home of his daughter in Minneapolis, aged 89 years.


May 11 .- Zap's State Bank opened to- day for business in its handsome new building.


Melrose has voted to issue $35,000 in bonds for the erection of a new school building to replace the one recently de- stroyed by fire.


May 15 .- Michael Nugent, who was one of the first settlers at Grove Lake, in this county, died yesterday at Milwaukee, aged 89 years.


May 18 .- Peter Decker, who took a farm near Cold Spring fifty years ago, died at his home there this morning, aged 72 years.


May 19 .- Another old settler to pass away was Joseph Massho, who settled at St. Martin more than half a century ago, his death occurring Sunday, in the 70th year of his age.


May 20 .- Col. Wm. Westerman, of this city, for many years general agent of the McCormick and International Harvester companies, died suddenly yesterday at Los Angeles, Cal., where he had been spending the winter with his wife and daughter. The remains will be brought to this city for burial.


May 23 .- The jury in the case of J. O. McConnell vs. the City of St. Cloud, in the matter of certain lands wanted for the Lake George boulevard, awarded the plaintiff $2,900, which is $1,770 in excess of the amount offered him by the city.


June 3 .- Majorities ranging from 563 for the issuance of $15,000 in bonds for the purchase of additional land for school house sites; 596 for $10,000 for an ad- dition to the Lincoln school, to an even 600 for $75,000 in bonds for a new high school, were given at a special school elec- tion held yesterday.


Miss Esther Naomi Johnson, of Red Lake Falls, was married today to Colie


Polybe Guy, of St. Cloud, at high noon to- day, the Rev. Mr. Kuehl, of St. Paul, of- ficiating. The ceremony took place at "Teepe Tonka" cottage, Avon lake.


June 9 .- Theodore Buck, a resident of Roscoe since 1862, died yesterday at his home there, aged 72 years.


June 11 .- Joseph Jodoin, of East St. Cloud, died today, aged 82 years. He came to Minnesota in 1856, the following spring taking a claim in the town of Haven, Sher- burne county, about three miles from St. Cloud, where he lived until 1894 when he removed to East St. Cloud.


June 17 .- At St. John's church in this city last evening occurred the wedding of Miss Zelah M. Freeman to Mr. Warren H. Stewart, both of St. Cloud, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. L. R. Lever- ing, rector of St. John's, and the Rev. J. H. Dewart, of Minneapolis.


June 19 .- The Rt. Rev. James Trobec, bishop of the diocese of St. Cloud, ten- dered some months ago his resignation, which has been accepted by Pope Piux X. He was ordained bishop of St. Cloud Sep- tember 21, 1897, and resigns because the cares of his office are too great for his ad- vancing years. His resignation is received with much regret throughout the diocese.


June 20 .- Henry K. W. Scott, of Con. cord, N. H., has been appointed superin- tendent of the state reformatory at St. Cloud, to succeed Chas. S. Reed, appointed warden of the state penitentiary as suc- cessor to Warden Wolfer resigned.


June 22 .- Nelson P. Staples, who be- came a resident of Stearns county in 1855, settling on the Staples homestead on the Rockville road, died yesterday at Still- water, while on his way from Portland, Oregon, to this city. He was 66 years of age. The remains will be interred in the family burial ground.


The new Pilon hospital at Paynesville was formally dedicated on the 20th, 21st and 22nd inst.


June 23 .- The recall petitions filed against Commissioners Metzroth and Rocholl are held by the Board of Com- missioners to be ineffective, on the ground that the former lacks 9 and the latter 10 names of the required number. The case will doubtless be appealed to the district court.


June 24 .- The marriage of Miss Grace


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Edna Whitney to Henry Zehring Mitchell, both of St. Cloud, took place last evening at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Whitney, the ceremony be- ing performed by the Rev. J. H. Dewart, of Minneapolis, and Dr. E. V. Campbell, of this city.


June 29 .- The plat of the village of Hold- ingford has been vacated by order of Judge Roesser on a suit brought by Frank J. Meier. It is located very near to the set- tled village of Holding, has no buildings and the land is used wholly for agricul- tural purposes.


July 2 .- A. H. Turretin, of Sauk Rapids, has been appointed state superintendent of banks.


July 14 .- The corner stone of the new Cathedral Brothers' high school was laid Sunday afternoon, Bishop Trobec, the Rev. Leo Gans, pastor of the Cathedral parish, and the Rev. James Reardon, of St. Paul, by whom the principal address was deliv- ered, conducting the ceremonies.


July 16 .- Paul Beaudreau, of this city, Democrat, succeeds E. D. French, Repub- lican, as deputy United States revenue col- lector, with offices in this city.


July 23 .- The steamer Joel Bassett, used by the Boom Company in the work of driv- ing logs, is at St. Cloud and has been tied up for the season. Its days are about numbered as log driving on the Mississippi can last only a few years longer.


Mrs. Elizabeth A. Hamilton, widow of Charles F. Hamilton, died Sunday at Kim- ball, aged 85 years. She was the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Dam, the first white settlers on Maine Prairie.


July 30 .- The news of the declaration of war by Austria on Servia sent wheat up 9 cents a bushel at Minneapolis and ad- vanced the price in St. Cloud from 89 to 95 cents.


A number of editors, members of the North Star Daily Press Association, hon- ored St. Cloud with the first session ever held outside of St. Paul. Besides the trans- action of business they were taken by the local press to the reformatory, to the big paper mill at Watab, to St. Benedict's Aca- demy at St. Joe and St. John's University at Collegeville, where the party had a hos- pitable reception with a fine lunch. In the evening a banquet was given at the Grand Central hotel, a number of business men


of the city being invited to meet the visit- ing editors.


August 4 .- Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Trauf- ler, of St. Cloud, celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary July 27, at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Michael Mohs. Mr. Traufler is 94 years of age and Mrs. Trauf- ler 89 years, and both are in excellent health. Their five living children were present at the celebration of the anniver- sary, coming from Grand Forks, Brainerd and New York, also a grandniece from Milwaukee.


August 13 .- The war has sent the price of sugar up to $7.42 per 100 pounds in this market.


Four St. Cloud granite companies, Sim- mers & Campbell, Benzie & Campbell, St. Cloud Granite Works and the Granite City Granite Company, have together spent over $2,000 in preparing a representative exhibit of the St. Cloud stone for the National Granite Manufacturer's convention to be held at Milwaukee next week.


David C. Abeles, one of St. Cloud's lead- ing business men, died suddenly Sunday morning as the result of a stroke of apoplexy, at the age of 60 years.


- September 3 .- The Rev. Father Wilkins died at Holdingford August 30, aged 85 years.


September 10 .- The new Caughren thea- tre at Sauk Centre, a handsome building, was formally opened Friday evening by the "In Old Kentucky" company. Delega- tions were present from a number of the surrounding towns.


Henry Killian has sold his 210-acre farm near St. Cloud to Adolph Werner, of Mar- shall, for $15,960. Mr. Killian still owns 110 acres, which he will convert into a model dairy farm.


September 22 .- Another sale, at still higher figures, is that of George Mohs, of St. Martin, who sold his farm of 160 acres to Wm. Scheidemantle, of Richmond, for $14,400.


September 24 .- The post office at Albany was entered last evening, a mail pouch stolen and a number of letters and pack- ages taken from the pouch, which was found this morning in a box car on the railroad tracks.


Anton Kuefler, one of the largest and most successful farmers in the county,


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died yesterday at Lake George. He had been a resident of the county for over 36 years.


October 8 .- Jonas D. Thomas, who came from Maine to Minnesota, making his home successively at Faribault, Clearwater and St. Cloud, died at his home in this city on the 5th inst., aged 79 years. He served during the war as a member of Company I, Seventh Minnesota regiment.


October 13 .- The Rev. Walter A. Smith was ordained Sunday as minister of Unity church. The sermon was delivered by the Rev. Ernest C. Smith, of Chicago; the charge to the people was given by the Rev. Wilson M. Backus, of Minneapolis; the charge to the minister by the Rev. Elmer S. Forbes, of Boston; and the welcome to the new pastor by the Rev. Lewis R. Lev- ering, rector of St. John's church.


The contract has been let for a concrete reinforced bridge across the North Fork of the Crow river in section 24, Paynesville, at $2,250.


Jacob Woll, who located at St. Augusta in 1854, died at his home in this city on the 8th, aged 80 years.


October 20 .- Mrs. D. A. Perkins, whose maiden name was Nancy E. Bonham and located at Fair Haven 45 years ago, died at her home in this city Sunday, aged 77 years.


October 24 .- Col. Wm. Stratton, who came to St. Cloud October 1, 1908, occupy- ing from and after that date the position of vice-president and manager of the Geo. Tileston Milling company, died suddenly yesterday at his home in this city, aged 61 years.


October 29 .- John DeLeo, for many years a prominent citizen of St. Cloud, a member of the council for several years, died suddenly at his home in Minneapolis Tuesday, aged 61 years. He was connected with the state grain inspection department.


November 3 .- The Melrose Granite com- pany has purchased 26 acres of land west of the Osseo crossing in this city, where it will erect suitable buildings and remove its plant to this place in the spring. The main building will be 42x700 feet, with an engine room 60x100 feet, an office 24x36 feet and a supply room 24x30 feet. The engine room will be of granite. The equip- ment will include 10 polishers, 5 surfacers, lathe, etc., the entire plant to be heated by


steam, and have 1,200 feet of side-track on the Great Northern.


Mayor Seberger yesterday threw the first shovel of dirt on the grading for the new Minneapolis & Central Minnesota railway, work on which at this end toward Kimball will be pushed rapidly as long as weather conditions will permit. President Potter and a number of local business men were present.


November 12 .- Two car loads of horses, at prices from $125 to $150, purchased for the French army, will be sent to South St. Paul, whence they will form part of a train load forwarded east for shipment to their destination.


November 16 .- St. Cloud lost one of its best citizens and most progressive business men in the death last evening of H. C. Ervin, Sr., at the age of 54 years. He was the owner of the City Flouring Mills, which he made a financial success, and was much interested in civic affairs, where his influence was strongly felt.


Sauk Rapids is to have a sub-station of the Public Service Company, to supply that locality with the electric power required for its granite and other industries.


November 20 .- The celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the First Presbyterian church of St. Cloud was held last evening. The sermon was delivered by the Rev. H. C. Swearingen, pastor of the House of Hope church, St. Paul. The Rev. L. R. Levering, of the Episcopal, F. W. Hill, of the Methodist, and W. M. Hul, of the Baptist churches, took part in the exercises. A historical review of the organization and life of the church was given by Dr. E. V. Campbell, by whom it was organized and who has been its pastor during the half century fol- lowing. There will be a general reception given by the Ladies' Aid Society at the Commercial club rooms this evening, when brief remarks will be made by Archdeacon H. F. Parshall, of Cass Lake, for many years rector of St. John's church, St. Cloud, P. B. Gorman, Alvah Eastman and C. F. Macdonald. A history of the Ladies' Aid Society, prepared by Mrs. Campbell, its first president, will be read by Mrs. E. F. Moore, the present president.


November 25 .- While the duck season was very disappointing, the early part hav- ing been so warm that the birds did not


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leave the northern lakes, and when the weather turned colder they flew very high on their trip southward and did not stop at their accustomed haunts hereabouts, yet the season for big game has been quite sat- isfactory, nearly all of our local hunters securing a deer apiece, the legal limit.


The re-count of the votes cast for county commissioner from the First district was concluded today, followed by the with- drawal of J. D. Kowalkowski, the contest- ant. The re-count showed that P. N. Lahr had a majority of three out of the four votes majority shown by the original can- vass. While there were a number of double- marked and other disputed ballots, yet Mr. Kowalkowski said he was willing to accept as the will of the people the result shown by these which were undisputed and con- cede the election to his opponent.


November 27 .- Dr. George E. Maloy, for 25 years a practicing physician at St. Cloud, died on November 25, at the home of his son, Charles E. H. Maloy, at Spo- kane, Wash., aged 59 years, his death be- ing due to cancer, from which he had been a great sufferer for three years.




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