Stearns County, Minnesota - Chapter with an unread heading (no. 8 of those read), 1915 (part 2 of 6)

Word has been received of the death in a hospital at Louisville, Ky., of "President" (or "Live Forever") Leonard Jones, an eccentric character who was a familiar figure in and about St. Cloud during the late 50's. He always insisted that he was the lawfully elected president of the United States and was fond of writing letters to the members of the cabinet. One of his chief characteristics was personal vanity, or rather an inordinate love for conspicuousness, and whenever opportunity

Herman Stoeckling, of this city, who made the fine organ in use in the Catholic church here, has recently completed another and even larger one,

September 17. - A great rush is being made for the pine lands, some of which have been recently surveyed. Half-breed scrip is mainly being used in making these locations.

J. A. Carter, recently from Illinois, has purchased for Lewis Lewiston the lease of the Minnesota House and will continue to keep it open for the accommodation of the public.

September 24. - N. P. Clarke, of this city, has received government contracts for furnishing 22,000 pounds of flour, in 100 pound sacks, at $3.74 per hundred, delivered at St. Cloud or Cold Spring; 29,400 pounds in barrels at same price; 900 bushels potatoes in gunny sacks, at $1.25 per bushel, to be delivered at Fort Abercrombie in October; 1,700 bushels of corn, at $3.30 per bushel, for delivery at same place and same time.

October 29. - J. A. Stanton, of this city, has received a government contract for furnishing 70,000 pounds of flour, at $3.10 per cwt. delivered here.

Married, at Faribault, November 9, by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Whipple, the Rev. George Stewart, rector of the Episcopal church at Sauk Centre, and Miss Isabel Lombard, of Faribault. ,

December 3. - Whiting Bros., of Clearwater, have shipped over 10,000 pounds of ginseng the past season. This article is quite an item of trade in this part of the state.

Sled loads of deer are brought to town daily, large numbers of carcasses being shipped by rail to St. Paul, thirty-eight going in one lot direct to Chicago.

P. B. Thompson's new grist mill on Sauk river began grinding Thursday last, with three run of stone. We understand that J. E. Hayward has purchased an interest in this mill.

December 10. - Edward M. Tobey, who for seven years had been one of St. Cloud's most active citizens, engaging in various lines of business, including the building of a large saw mill, died December 8, at the age of 48 years, of the disease which had been the cause of his coming to Minnesota - consumption.

Married, at Central City, Colorado, December 7, General C. C. Andrews, of St. Cloud, and Mary F. Baxter, of Central City. General Andrews and his bride arrived home Monday.

December 31. - P. Lamb, of the firm of Lamb & Myrick, Sauk Centre, arrived in town Tuesday with about $2,500 worth of furs, including 12,000 muskrats.

The Rev. Mr. Stukenkemper, in charge of the Catholic cathedral at this place, showed us last week the plans for a new parochial house which is to be built the present season. It will be a two-story brick, 46x57, with two L's, and will be to the eastward of the cathedral.

January 28. - A number of German citizens met at the court house on the 20th and formed an organization to promote immigration to Minnesota. Officers were elected as follows: John Zapp, president; R. Schoeneman and B. Overbeck, vice presidents; B. Vossberg, secretary; John Schwartz, treasurer. The president appointed R. Schoeneman, John Bach and B. Overbeck delegates to attend the State Immigration convention at St. Paul, January 28th.

A young man named J. D. Copeland, of Clearwater, who had been left temporarily in charge of Forrest & Ladd's flour and feed store in this city, mysteriously disappeared Monday night. It seems that he had fallen into the clutches of gamblers, and in order to secure money had forged checks aggregating over $400, on which he received the cash. After leaving St. Cloud he went to his former home in Minneapolis, and after being discovered made two attempts to commit suicide, once by taking laudanum and again by shooting. Mr. Forrest, who is his father-in-law, redeemed the checks.

February 25. - A Christian convention for Northwestern Minnesota was held in the Congregational church, St. Cloud, February 16, 17 and 18. The attendance included 20 clerical and 22 lay delegates representing 25 churches of the following denominations: Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, and Congregational, the agent of the American Bible Society and the superintendent of the Minnesota Sunday School Association also being present. Delegates were present from St. Paul, Austin, Monticello, St. Anthony, Fair Haven, Kingston, Sauk Centre, Anoka, Little Falls, Paynesville, Sauk Rapids, Clearwater, St. Cloud and other places. The meetings were largely attended and were presided over by Judge James M. McKelvy. The spirit of the convention was excellent, good will and harmony reigning throughout, and it was felt by all that much good would result from this interdenominational gathering.

The first velocipede ever seen in St. Cloud has made its appearance and is on exhibition in St. Cloud hall. Admission to the hall, with the privilege of riding, 25 cents; children, half price; ladies, free -

April 1. - A mail bag which had been lost from the stage on the night of November 15 last was found by E. C. Smith Friday night embedded in the snow and ice at the intersection of St. Germain street and Washington avenue. The contents were valuable, including a government voucher for $1,900, belonging to T. C. Mc- Clure, $68 in treasury notes and several registered letters. The bag had not been seen after it had been delivered to the stage by the postmaster at St. Jo., and as the driver left the employ of the stage company soon afterwards he had been suspected, but unjustly, it seems.

The county treasurer's office was broken into last night but the burglars got nothing for their pains. This is the third time within a year that thieves have broken into county offices, but without reaping any reward.

On the night of March 31 burglars entered B. Reinhard's store and took $105 from the desk. Entrance was effected by turning from the outside the key which had been left in the lock.

April 22. - A foot bridge is being built across the ravine on Richmond avenue. It is a matter of private enterprise, being done by a few of the citizens most directly interested.

April 29. - John Zapp, registrar of deeds, has purchased a full set of abstract of title books, seven volumes of 960 pages each, to include all of Stearns county, town lots and farming lands.

It is proposed to build another foot bridge across the ravine at the foot of Welles avenue. This is a good idea. But why does not the council have a wagon bridge constructed? This is one of the finest streets in the city, being the one nearest the river, and through groves, and would make a beautiful drive.

Large numbers of Norwegians from the old country are arriving daily to make their homes in this part of Minnesota. They make good, industrious citizens.

O. P. Boardman, of Olean, N. Y., reached here Monday. Mr. Boardman purchased some time since three hundred acres of land near the Sauk river bridge, three miles from town, and proposes having a first-class farm. He will erect a substantial dwelling house, build two miles of fence and have one hundred acres sowed to wheat this season.

Gen. C. C. Andrews, who has been appointed minister to Denmark, left this city last Thursday for Washington to receive final instructions before sailing for his post of duty.

John Cooper has received the appointment of assistant assessor of internal revenue for this division. Mr. Cooper will undoubtedly make a good officer.

The corner stone of a new Catholic church at St. Joseph was laid Sabbath last, with appropriate ceremonies. Bishop Grace, of St. Paul, was present. The attendance was very large.

A force of workmen, under the direction of Gen. Thomas, began work this week on the west, of St. Cloud, side of the dam across the Mississippi river at Sauk Rapids.

July 1. - Among the successful bee raisers in the county are J. H. Locke, Fair Haven; M. L. Norton, Le Sauk, and B. H. Winslow, Maine Prairie.

The Rev. E. V. Campbell and wife were presented by the congregation of the Presbyterian church with a purse of $123 to enable them to make a visit to their old home in Pennsylvania.

July S. - There are county orders remaining with the auditor issued as far back as 1855, and quite a number in 1865 and since, never called for by the persons to whom they were issued.

A silver set was presented last Thursday by a number of the Red river traders to W. W. Wright, agent at the St. Cloud railroad station, and a gold pen and case to R. D. Bloomfield.

The Methodist camp meeting for the St. Cloud district was held at Paynesville, commencing Wednesday, June 30, continuing a week. There were twenty tents, pitched on the Rev. R. Hoover's farm; eighteen local and traveling ministers were present, and the meetings were successful.

July 22. - It is estimated on good authority that at least 200,000 muskrat skins, of the past season's catch, have been shipped from the St. Cloud depot the past spring and summer. This was one of the best years for muskrats ever known.

July 29. - A Baptist church was organized at Paynesville on the 24th inst., and on the following day it was publicly recognized as a Christian church in Gospel order by services appropriate to the occasion. The Rev. A. Gale preached the sermon.

August 19. - If there are any who doubt that fine apples can be raised in Northern Minnesota let them examine the specimens on a tree in W. T. Clarke's garden. They are of the Duchess of Oldenberg variety, and are as large as most apples to be found in eastern orchards at this time of the year.

The first teachers' institute held in Stearns county met in the normal school building in St. Cloud, August 30, 1869, continuing in session five days. It was under the direct charge of Prof. Ira Moore and Prof. J. Tenney.

September 23. - A convention of homeopathic physicians met in St. Cloud on the 15th to form a society for Stearns and adjoining counties. C. S. Weber, of St. Cloud, was chosen president; W. Hinner, of St. Augusta, vice-president; Wm. Prosch, of Fair Haven, secretary; and Adolph Hoggeman, of St. Cloud, treasurer. Dr. Weber was elected a delegate to attend the state Homeopathic convention.

October 14. - It is a creditable fact that at the two best hotels in St. Cloud - the Central and Fletcher - no liquor is sold. We wish we could say the same for all the rest.

Contracts have been awarded by the government to E. C. Cams for 2,000 bushels of corn in the ear deliverable at Fort Ransom, D. T., at $3.61 per sack; and to E. & W. H. Clark, Melrose, to deliver 29,400 lbs. flour at Fort Abercrombie, D. T., at $8.60, and the same quantity at Fort Wadsworth, D. T., at $9.15 per sack of 196 lbs.

October 28. - Messrs. Waite, Clarke & McClure, of this city, have purchased of Alex. Moore, of Sauk Centre, his interest in the late firm of Moore & McClure. This purchase includes the saw and grist mills, store, pine lands, etc., and amounts to almost $100,000.

November 11. - Married, at Clearwater, November 9, by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, Richard D. Bloomfield, of St. Cloud, and Miss Nellie Whittemore, of Clearwater.

December 2. - J. F. Hayward has purchased the entire interest of his partner, P. B. Thompson, in the flouring mill on Sauk river, and in the feed store in this city.

General M. T. Thomas will return in the spring to complete the stone dam across the Mississippi river, near the mouth of Sauk river, extending across to Sauk Rapids.

The Maine Prairie lyceum will hold its first meeting for the season on the 17th inst., when there will be a debate between the protectionists and free traders. The protectionist side will be maintained by Samuel Young and the free trade by E. H. Atwood, although there may be other speakers.

December 16. - There has been a flurry in the pork market the past week, prices ranging from 9 to 11 cents. During the week the sum of $10,400 has been paid by St. Cloud buyers for dressed pork, Coates & Freeman leading with twentyfive tons.

December 23. - The old Baptist church in lower town, which was begun on an immense scale some ten years ago, has been bought by Jos. Steurer, who is tearing it down intending to use the lumber in building a barn. He afterwards sold it to Paynesville parties to be used in the erection of a Methodist church at that place.

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February 24. - H. C. Burbank has received the contract for all government supplies for the forts in Minnesota and Dakota north and east of the Missouri river. The bill incorporating the German Reading society at St. Cloud passed the house Monday.

Bishop Watkins preached a sermon Sunday morning at Maine Prairie on "The Proper Organization of the Church of Christ," after which he organized a church. Services were held in the afternoon by Elder Thresher and in the evening by Elder Parker.

H. C. Burbank, of this city, and A. H, "Wilder, of St. Paul, have secured the contract to transport all the government supplies to all forts in Minnesota and Dakota. This will entail an unusual amount of business, most of which will pass through St. Cloud.

March 3. - The house has passed the senate bill authorizing the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad company to extend its branch line from St. Cloud to Sauk Centre and Alexandria to the Red river.

George W. Sweet has been engaged by the Northern Pacific R. R. to explore and deliver supplies on the extreme northern line of their surveys.

About 75 tons of supplies for the Northern Pacific R. R. have been received at this place so far and forwarded to Gull lake. Clarke & Waite are attending to the transportation of the goods.

March 24. - C. Bridgman has sold the boilers in his upper mill - to make room fore new ones - to Clemens Kost, of Richmond, who will put them into a saw mill there.

April 7. - The dam at the Union mills, on Sauk river, about three miles from St. Cloud, was carried out Saturday by a large accumulation of ice. J. E. Hayward, the owner of the mill, will rebuild the dam.

May 26. - Arnold & Stanton have received a contract for supplying the government with 15,000 pounds of flour at St. Paul, at $2.07 per cwt., and 16,000 pounds at this place at $1.87 per cwt.

June 16. - A train of 85 Red river carts arrived here Tuesday, 60 of which were loaded with valuable furs belonging to the Hudson Bay Company, which were being shipped in bond to London. There were 274 bales of fine robes, 150 bales of buffalo robes being left at Georgetown. Among the furs shipped were fifty of the finest silver-gray fox skins, valued at $8,000. These carts came from the Saskatchewan country, some 400 miles beyond Fort Garry, and this is their first trip to the United States, six weeks being consumed in the journey. They made large purchases in St. Cloud.

Contracts for carrying the mails from St. Cloud have been let as follows: To Princeton and Fort Ripley, O. F. Bentley, St. Cloud; to St. Augusta, Henry Siefert, of St. Augusta; to Fort Abercrombie, W. D. Bronson, of Stillwater; to Fair Haven, .John Cooper, of St. Cloud; to Rockville, Alois Lommel, of Rockville; to Crow Wing, W. J. Gridley, of Superior.

June 23. - Work has been begun on the extension of the telegraph line from this city to Crow Wing, which will be the terminus for the present.

General Phil Sheridan was in St. Cloud this morning, on his way from Fort Stevens, coming via Forts Totten and Abercrombie. He was met here by General Hancock and members of his staff, all going to St. Paul this afternoon.

July 21. - The stages now leave Sauk Centre at four o'clock in the morning, stopping for breakfast at New Munich, and reaching here in time for the afternoon train for St. Paul.

While John Clark, a resident of Sauk Centre, was bathing Sunday in Sauk Lake, he got into a deep hole and, not being a swimmer, was drowned.

St. Cloud pays the principal of her public school as much as St. Anthony does, and the other teachers about fifty per cent more. As a result we can count on having better teachers.

John R. Clark started Monday for Pembina with twenty-five carpenters to put up the buildings, twelve in number, at the new fort, George H. Thomas, for which he has the contract.

John Becker shipped Tuesday to Geo. L. Becker, president of the St. Paul and Pacific railroad, two watermelons raised on his farm which weighed forty-eight pounds. "Who says that Stearns county can't raise big fruit?

The first birth thus far recorded with the city clerk was on Monday, a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. George H. Spencer, July 30. There is a fine of $20 for neglect to register births and deaths.

September 1. - John Hayward, Jr., who came to Minnesota in 1854, settling at Winnebago Prairie, where he remained until 1861, when he removed to St. Cloud, which became subsequently his home, died in this city August 26, aged 42 years and 3 months.

A. W. Chase has sold his hotel in Sauk Rapids, the Russell House, to Messrs. Ira Cushman and Justus Carpenter, of Ann Arbor, Mich., who will take possession in about a month.

September 15. - The new Methodist church at Sauk Rapids will be dedicated this evening, the Rev. Noah Lathrop, P. E., conducting the services.

The Germans of this place have subscribed $150 (and the amount is being daily added to) for the relief of the widows and orphans of their old-world countrymen, resulting from the Franco-Prussian war.

Melrose is reported as making good growth. Noah Freeman, Stilman Ayres, Louis Montbrind and D. B. McDonald are among those who have put up attractive new houses; Jos. Moritz has almost completed a large hotel; while the mills, stores and residences of the Messrs. Clark and Alley make Melrose a place that cannot be hidden.

November 17. - John Milligan, of Pittsburgh, is here buying all the saddles of venison he can get and shipping them direct to Philadelphia. (Couldn't do that now.)

The formal dedication of the new Congregational church took place Sunday evening. The first Congregational church of St. Cloud was organized at the Everett schoolhouse, February 16, 1864, by the Rev. W. B. Dada, then pastor of the Congregational church at Clearwater, and consisted of eleven members. The first pastor was the Rev. Geo. I. Wood, of Connecticut, who preached the regular sermon of the church, November 18, 1867, in the new church, concluding his pastorate June 20, 1869. The Rev. James Tompkins, of Lombard, 111., assumed charge of the church July 18, 1869, continuing one year, when he was succeeded by the present pastor, the Rev. Henry Mills, late of Independence, Iowa. A debt of $3,000 was cleared off before the dedication.

November 24. - S. B. Pinney, of this city, has the contract for supplying the ties for the Northern Pacific railroad from the east line of Detroit Woods, in Becker county, to the Red river, a distance of seventy miles. About 200,000 ties will be required.

Married, at Fair Haven, November 14, by the Rev. Levi Gleason, Henry Bliler and Lucy Boobar, both of Fair Haven. At Maine Prairie, November 23, by the

December 15. - At a special election Saturday to elect an alderman for the First ward, only nine votes were cast. John H. Owen received them all.

E. Hosmer, of Payette, Iowa, who had been hunting in Todd county, brought to St. Cloud, Tuesday, thirty-two saddles of venison and four bears. The latter comprised a family, the old bear and three good-sized cubs. Mr. Hosmer had found them under the root of a tree, and shot each one in the head as it came out. The whole lot was purchased by Cross & Plattes.

The total indebtedness of Stearns county consists of three bonds of $880 each, making a total of $2,640, due in 1873. County orders are cashed by the treasurer whenever presented.

December 29. - Last Friday evening a number of friends called on Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Spicer, that being the fifteenth anniversary of their wedding. Special interest was felt from the fact that Mr. and Mrs. Spicer were the first couple married in St. Cloud.

Arrangements have been completed by the Union Library association for a course of six lectures. The first will be the evening of January 10th, by Judge Hamlin, on "Joan of Arc." The others will be by the Revs. Mills, Campbell and Satterlee, Prof. Ira Moore and Col. C. D. Kerr.

January 26. - The number of reported births in the county in 1870 was 375; deaths, 121. Of the deaths the largest number, 17, were from consumption, the cases of people who had come to Minnesota from other states with the hope of recovery, but coming too late.

March 2. - The course of home lectures, seven in number, concluded last week. Of the' lecturers four were ministers, two were lawyers and one a school professor.

At nearly all the lectures the attendance was large. The Library association, under whose auspices they were given, netted about $140 from the course.

March 30. - Col. Samuel L. Hays, a former receiver of the St. Cloud land oflace, died at his home in Sauk Rapids on the 25th inst., aged 76 years.

Married, at Fair Haven, March 19, by the Rev. J. K. Thresher, G. W. Dean and Mary E. Vandervoort, both of Fair Haven. At Maine Prairie, March 30, by the Rev. Levi Gleason, Thomas Spaulding and Ida Nelson, both of Maine Prairie.

April 13. - J. F. Stevenson has purchased of S. B. Pinney the large warehouse on Washington avenue, above St. Germain street, and the old Seminary building in lower town is being taken down and the material used for an addition to the warehouse. The foundry buildings will be in the rear. Wm. Dickinson is associated with Mr. Stevenson, who came here recently from McKeesport, Pa.

Within the past two weeks fifty tons of groceries have gone forward from here to Fergus Falls and Otter Tail county. Five years ago a pair of saddle-bags would have held nearly enough provisions to feed the whole county for a week.

April 13. - Some of our Holland citizens met last evening and organized a society called the "Onderons." The following officers were elected: H. T. Daendels, president; John Vandersluis, vice-president; G. A. Vandersluis, secretary.

Davis & Clark, of this city, and Davis, Beal & Co., of Clearwater, have consolidated as Davis, Beal & Co. They will continue to operate the Union mills at St. Cloud and the Clearwater mills, as also the two flour and feed stores here.

June 1. - John Zapp, county register, placed on record Monday a trust deed from the St. Paul & St. Cloud R. R. for $3,000,- 000. The revenue stamps on this document amounted to $3,001.

June 8. - Married, at the Sherman house, Chicago, June 2, by the Rev. W. W. King, the Hon. L. A. Evans and Mrs. Elizabeth W. Libby, all of St. Cloud.

J. H. Linnemann, of St. Joseph, has just completed a fine new grist mill at that place. The machinery was put in by Stevenson & Co., of this city.

Davis, Beal & Co., of this city, are shipping large quantities of flour to Chicago, St. Louis, New York and Philadelphia. Clarke & Waite are making heavy shipments, mostly to New York, as are also Arnold & Stanton, who are sending theirs to both New York and Chicago. St. Cloud flour stands No. 1 in all these markets, as well as at home.

July 6. - St. Cloud had its first golden wedding July 4, when Mr. and Mrs. Aimer Smith celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Smith were among the first settlers in St. Cloud. The occasion was made a very pleasant one by the many friends who called to offer their congratulations.

July 20. - A sportsman's club has been organized in this city with the following oflacers: Dr. C. Schulten, president; R. W. DeLano, vice president; Wm. Mulliken, secretary; B. McCarthy, treasurer. Persons having knowledge of any violations of the game laws are requested to report the same to the president of the club.

T. C. McClure, of this city, has received a contract for furnishing 500 barrels of flour, at $10.71, per barrel, at Devils' Lake, Dakota, to be made into pan-cakes for the Indians who cluster around that post to

August 3. - The St. Cloud Rifle Company, with a membership of 101, met Monday and elected the following officers: L. W. Collins, captain; H. W. Van Rensaeler, first lieutenant; Andrew Larson, second lieutenant.

A gymnastic club was organized Tuesday evening with the following officers: Dr. A. E. Senkler, president; Prof. D. W. Sprague, vice-president; Richard Smith, secretary; Chas. Fillmore, treasurer.

August 17. - Two half-breed prisoners, Fred Sherro and Peter Spiritt, after a desperate struggle with Jailer Gaspard, made their escape from the county jail Sunday morning. A reward of $50 was offered by Sheriff Alden, and a couple of Chippewa Indians who had taken the track found the fugitives near St. Joseph. Both halfbreeds took to the brush, the Indians firing and wounding Sherro, who was recaptured and brought back to jail. Spiritt made good his escape.

August 31. - Burglars entered E. C. Smith & Co.'s store Saturday night and stole $250 worth of boots and shoes. The same night a horse belonging to G. W. Benedict, of Sauk Rapids, and a buggy owned by R. Cronk, of the same place, were stolen. Pursuit was made and Monday the horse, buggy and goods were found in the brush near Big Lake. When the parties who made the discovery were about to drive off with the property two men emerged from their concealment near by and coolly ordered them to keep hands off. Not being armed, Pullman and Putnam, who had made the pursuit, were not prepared to arrest the thieves but retained possession of the horse, buggy and goods.

Deacon Leland Cram, who was one of the earliest settlers of Stearns county, died at his home in this city, August 27, in his seventieth year. Coming here from Illinois he entered under the preemption law eighty acres of land, adjoining the original townsite, a part of which he platted as "Cram's addition," and on which he made his home.

Virginia Mason, of this city, and Evelyn A. McKenney, of Maine Prairie, members of the first graduating class of the St. Cloud Normal school, have been engaged for the Sauk Centre school, the winter term of which will begin next week, and Lizzie Barnes will teach in the Maine Prairie schools. The majority of the graduating class have already begun work as teachers in the public schools of Northern Minnesota.

A. Moore, of Sauk Centre, has a contract for furnishing 100,000 ties along the line of the St. Cloud and Pembina railroad, between Sauk Centre and Osakis.

Col. John Emerson, one of the oldest settlers in Northern Minnesota, died suddenly yesterday at his home in this city, aged seventy-five years.

December 14. - A lively business is now being done in the venison trade. Coates & Freeman shipped 400 saddles to Pittsburgh on Tuesday, and Cross & Plattea shipped 175 on the same day to St. Paul. The total shipments by rail for the past ten days have been 2,000 saddles or about 50 tons, and there are nearly 1,000 saddles more awaiting shipment.

Miss Kate Elliott, who has been in charge of the primary model room at the Normal school since its opening has accepted an offer of the position of assistant principal of the Nebraska Normal school, and is succeeded by Miss Ada Dam, at present a teacher in the Union school.

By a decision of the supreme court in the case of the Town of Sauk Centre vs. Alexander Moore, the school board in that town is from $1,200 to $1,500 the gainer.

Arrangements have been made for a course of lectures by the Hon. J. B. Brisbin, of St. Paul, the Rev. Geo. L. Chase, St. Anthony; the Hon. Ignatius Donnelly, Hastings; Prof. H. B. Wilson, superintendent of public instruction, St. Paul; Judge Atwater, of Minneapolis, and the Rev. T. F. Brown, D. D., St. Paul.

M. Hansen, Sr., died at the residence of his son near Rockville on the 21st ult., aged 85 years. His remains were buried at Jacobs Prairie, beside those of Mr. Pick, who died recently at the age of 82 years. These two veterans had been fellow-soldiers in the French army, serving together five years under the first Napoleon, and it was very fitting that, so far away from their early campaigning, they should be laid to rest side by side.

April 4. - The Minnesota Stage Company began running their stages on runners from this city to Fort Garry, November 17, 1871, and continued to do so until Tuesday of this week, making 138 days of continuous sleighing.

May 23. - John Cooper, of this city, has the contract for carrying the mail from St. Cloud to Litchfield via Maine Prairie and Fair Haven, tri-weekly; and from Alexandria to Glenwood and return.

May 30. - The Rev. Mr. Stukenkemper (Father Meinulf) will preach his farewell sermon at the Catholic church next Sunday. He goes to New Munich.

A half dozen new pianos have been received by different parties in town within the past few weeks. Judge Evans, Dr. Senkler, F. C. Mercer and Lewis Clark being among the purchasers. Not bad, that, for a new western town.

An effort is being made to have the Baptist State Educational Institution now at Wasioja, established at Fair Haven. We understand that property, money, etc., to

June 13. - The first freight put aboard a train of cars in St. Cloud was shipped today by H. W. Weary. It consisted of four tie-wagons for DeGraff & Co., at New Ulna.

June 20. - Davis, Beal & Co. made on Tuesday the first shipment of freight (direct) outside the state, being a car load of flour for Chicago.

The St. Cloud Rifle Company, Second Regiment M. N. G., met Friday evening and elected the following officers: E. C. Cams, captain; Andrew Larson, first lieutenant; John J. Dorr, second lieutenant.

July 18. - A triple wedding occurred this morning at Little Falls, the home of the brides, the ceremony being performed by Father Buh. The contracting parties were Edwin M. Wright, of St. Cloud, and Josie V. Braun; Dr. Adelard Guernon, of St. Paul, and Sophie A. Braun; Albert M. Wright, of Dayton, and Miss Eugenie E. Braun. Two of these young ladies had been teachers in the St. Cloud schools.

August 29. - With trains running into St. Cloud, and arriving at 1 p. m., the Minnesota Stage Co. take their passengers at the depot and drive to St. Jo. for dinner. Passengers on the down stages dine at the same place, connecting with the afternoon train leaving St. Cloud at 2:50 for St. Paul.

September 12. - F. R. Delano, agent of the Sauk Rapids Water Power Company, advertises for sale seven first-class mill sites, out of a total of one hundred; also, a one-third interest in the entire water power property "at ground-floor figures."

Rev. J. Sherman, who has been supplying the Methodist charge at Brockway the past year, started this week for Eastford, Conn., expecting to return in about a year.

The press of the old St. Cloud Anzeiger (Democratic) has been shipped to Lac qui Parle, where it will be used in publishing a Republican newspaper.

The Congregational church at Sauk Centre has received a new bell, costing $150, which was entirely paid for by the young men of the church and congregation.

November 14. - W. H. Lamb and J. H. Rhodes have purchased the Times office. A change has also taken place in the Press office, G. W. Benedict retiring and M. E. N. Howell becoming general manager.

the brewery on Sauk river, six miles from St. Cloud, and tlie pioneer brewery of Stearns county, was arrested last Wednesday for making "moonsliine" wliiskey. Tlie still was found in operation, but despite Mr. Brink's declaration that he was only making vinegar, he was arrested and taken to St. Paul and bound over in the sum of $1,000 to appear at the next term of the U. S. district court. As this was bis second offense it may go hard with him.

November 28. - The partnership between Lamb & Rhodes, as publishers of the Times, has been dissolved, W. H. Lamb taking the entire interest. He has purchased new material for his paper.

December 12. - Mrs. Elizabeth Gary Stanton lectured in St. Cloud Thursday evening, for the second time. Her subject was "The Coming Girl." She advised the girls to "stop lacing right off," to avoid cosmetics and take plenty of exercise; also to engage in some lucrative employment as a life work. Then she wanted the ballot for women, which she believed would do away with a multitude of evils.

December 19. - The Methodist church at Maine Prairie was dedicated last Sunday, by the Rev. J. F. Chaffee, of Minneapolis. The Rev. C. F. Garvin is the pastor. The sum of $440 was raised toward paying the debt.

The second lecture of the library course was delivered Thursday evening by Judge Hamlin on "The Crusades." The next lecture will be given by Dr. F. H. Atkins, his subject being "Popular Superstitions."

January 2. - Married, at St. Cloud, January 1, Thomas J. Gray and Laura A. Freeman, both of this city. On the same day, John P. Haramerel, of Luxemburg and Kate Weber, of St. Cloud.

January 9. - There has been shipped this season from the St. Cloud depot 193,920 pounds of venison. About one-third as much as has been shipped by express and consumed at home, bringing the total up to about 259,000 pounds from this place alone. It is safe to say that at least 5,000 have been killed in the vicinity and brought here.

One of the worst blizzards in the history of Minnesota, which swept not only over this state but over a large part of the country, began Tuesday afternoon, and continued for more than two days. While no lives were lost in Stearns county, a large number of persons who were away from home were caught in the driving blinding storm and perished.

R. A. White, of Sauk Centre, passed through town Tuesday, with eighteen horses, bought in Missouri, which he proposes using as livery stock.

The post office at Brockway has been discontinued, because no one is willing to be postmaster, and the mail matter will hereafter he sent to the St. Cloud office.

March 27. - The last of the bonds issued by Stearns county during the war was burned by the county commissioners last Friday and $16,005.69 in county orders shared the same fate.

April 10. - The work of tearing down the Methodist church, located in lower town, has begun. It is to be rebuilt above the ravine, on the lot where the old jail stood. The estimated cost, including the price of the lot, is $2,000. Until their own church is ready, the Methodists will worship with the Presbyterians, the Rev. Mr. Campbell and the Rev. Mr. Lewton occupying the pulpit alternately, morning and evening.

A movement is on foot to turn the water from Sauk river into one of the two ravines which run through the city to the Mississippi river. A very valuable water power could be obtained in this way.

April 10. - The stage left on runers on the third day of November, and started on wheels again last Thursday making 141 days of continuous sleighing.

The farmers of this county are carrying on an interesting discussion as to which variety of wheat is the better to sow, Scotch Fife or Odessa. There was much difference of opinion, the majority favoring the Fife.

June 5. - Clarke & McClure started thirty horse and mule teams Monday to transport supplies for the Boundary Commissioner's survey. They go to Pembina and from there strike west.

Brockway has once more a post office, Appleton Webb being the citizen who is public-spirited enough to accept the duties and small salary of postmaster.

The new fire engine, made in Boston, has arrived and is quite a good-looking piece of apparatus. In front is painted "City of St. Cloud," and on each side "Little Giant," the name of the company. There are 600 feet of hose.

June 12. - C. S. Benson, of Clearwater, and Jos. Thompson, of Minneapolis, are building a steamboat to ply on the Mississippi river between St. Cloud and Minneapolis.

Capt. Joe Anderson started Wednesday with 200 head of cattle for Forts Buford and Stevenson. These cattle were mostly purchased in the vicinity of St. Cloud, the average cost being $31.20 per head, making the total $6,240.

Twenty-four persons were baptised at Maine Prairie last week, six being received into the Baptist church, three into the Disciples and seventeen into the Methodist, all but four being baptised by immersion in Carnelian lake at the same time and place.

The old fort in lower town, constructed during the exciting days of 1862, when the Indians were on the war path, has entirely disappeared, the embankments having been leveled to the ground.

The exhibition at the close of the term of the German Catholic school under the charge of Prof. P. B. Kaiser, took place last evening in the basement of the Cath-

June 26. - On Friday Father Pierz, a well known Catholic missionary in Northern Minnesota, was in town on his way to Germany. Father Pierz is nearly 100 years old and has passed twenty of them in this state. He goes to the Fatherland to spend the remainder of his days at his old home.

July 3. - The new Catholic church at New Munich was dedicated last Sunday, a special train of eight cars being chartered from St. Cloud, all of which were crowded. Fully two thousand people were on the grounds. The exercises were conducted by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Grace of St. Paul, assisted by a number of priests. The Rev, Meinulf Stukenkemper is in charge of the parish.

July 17. - Last Saturday Charles R. Fry, agent of the Children's Aid Society, of New York, arrived in St. Cloud with eighteen boys, for whom good homes were secured in this city, at Maine Prairie, Sauk Rapids and Santiago.

The case of H. C. Burbank, of this city, vs. Hill, Griggs & Co., of St. Paul, involving about $14,000, has just been decided in favor of Mr. Burbank.

A grange of the Patrons of Husbandry was organized August 2 at the Fairy Lake school house, four miles from Sauk Centre, with thirty members, J. O. Milne being master.

August 21. - Coates & Freeman have the contract for supplying beef cattle at Fort Garry. Two hundred head will be purchased and forwarded at once.

Married, in St. Cloud, August 20, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev, W. E. Stanley, S. L. Livingston, of Minneapolis, and Marion Owen, of St. Cloud.

August 28. - James M. McNair, a graduate of Cornell University, has been engaged as principal of the Union school, to succeed D. W. Sprague, who goes to Rushford.

The fall term of the Normal school opened Wednesday of last week with Prof. Ira Moore principal; Martha McCumber and Thomas J. Gray, assistants in the Normal department; Anna A. Rice, principal of the model school.

September 11. - The new Methodist church building at St. Cloud was dedicated last Sunday. The debt on the building, about $1,000, was promptly subscribed, $300 being assumed by the Ladies' Society, $100 subscribed by J. E. Hayward, $100 by J. F. Stevenson and $100 by Mrs. John Cooper.

Jacob Lahr, of the town of Le Sauk, has threshed eighty-six bushels of winter wheat raised on two and one-quarter acres of land, being over thirty-eight bushels per acre. John Schultheis, of the town of Brockway, raised 217 bushels of winter wheat on seven acres of land, being over thirty bushels per acre. It might pay our farmers to give more attention to raising winter wheat.

October 2. - Reports from Minneapolis state that wheat is no longer quoted there as there is none offered. Several flouring mills have closed down and the rest will soon be forced to.

October 16. - Messrs. Ball, Bryan & Dickinson shipped from here this week the machinery for a saw mill and a stave factory which they propose to erect at Spunk lake, fifteen miles from here. This is the machinery purchased recently from Capt. A. Libby's saw mill at Watab.

E. H. Atwood, of Maine Prairie, threshed 270 bushels of No. 1 Scotch Fife wheat, machine measure, raised on eight acres of land, or nearly thirty-four bushels per acre.

November 27. - The Sauk Rapids "dummy" now runs to the St. Cloud depot to connect with the regular trains to and from St. Paul, instead of the old depot on the east side as formerly.

Capt. J. E. West appeared before the city council Monday evening and proposed to erect a $30,000 hotel in consideration of being given the $5,000 bonus voted at the recent election. A committee was appointed to consider the matter and report.

December 18. - Several granges of the Patrons of Husbandry have been organized in this county within the past few days. At Fair Haven, with Martin Coates, master and Alvin Coates, secretary; Pleasant Lake, Joshua Mayhew, master and A. B, Leigh ton, secretary; Grove, John Wieber, master and John L. Kulzer, secretary - this grange is composed entirely of Germans.

The Kellogg flouring mill at Sauk Centre, having six run of stone and capable of manufacturing one hundred fifty barrels of flour per day, has been completed. It is run by steam power.

December 25. - Prof. McNair having resigned as principal of the Union school. Prof. Angus Haines has been elected to succeed him, with Ambrose Westover, assistant principal.

A memorial to congress, signed by one hundred forty five of the citizens of St. Cloud, asking for an appropriation to improve the Mississippi river between this city and Minneapolis was sent last week to Senator Windom. Col. Farquhar, the government engineer under whose direction the recent survey of the river was made, estimates that $43,000 will make this part of the river navigable, giving at all times three feet of water in a channel two liundred feet wide.

January 29. - Wheat is now so high that our millers cannot manufacture- flour at any profit and the mills are now running short time. The advance in wheat is caused by foreign demand which does not proportionately effect the price of flour.

March 5. - The firm of J. Capser & Co., at Sauk Centre, was dissolved last week, Mr. Capser purchasing the interest of his partner, J. H. Linneman, of St. Jo. Mr. Capser will continue the business of merchandising with C. M. Sprague, the firm to be Capser & Sprague.

Arnold & Stanton, proprietors of the Sauk City flouring mill, have brought suit against the Sauk Rapids Water Power Company for $10,000 damages, claimed to liave been caused by the "set back" of the water in the Mississippi resulting from the building of the dam. A temporary injunction was granted.

Judge McKelvy has sold his Grand Lake farm to M. Weisman for $2,750, and has purchased H. C. Burbank's handsome brick residence in this city.

March 19. - D. B. Stanley's stock of general merchandist at Maine Prairie has been purchased by D. A. Hoyt, of that place, and J. E. West, of this city, who will run a Grange store. The hardware firm of Howard & Carpenter at Sauk Centre has dissolved partnership, Mr. Carpenter retiring and Lieut. Howard continuing the business.

In the case of Arnold & Stanton vs. the Sauk Rapids Water Power Company the injunction was dissolved, both parties being required to give bonds. This allows the work on the dam to be continued and also protects Arnold & Stanton against loss or damage from its construction.

A bill passed the last legislature authorizing St. Cloud to issue bonds in the sum of $10,000 for a hotel bonus, subject to a vote of the people.

April 2. - Two new granges, P. L. H., were organized in this county last week, one at Eden Lake, with D. J. Hanscom master and Elihu Swisher secretary; the other at St. Jo., with John Payne master and Lieut. Fred Schilplin secretary.

April 9. - There were 144 days of continuous sleighing, ending April 3, the present season. St. Croix county, Wisconsin, beat this with 162 days.

May 7. - Nelson Wakefield caught a pike in the Mississippi Tuesday which brought the scales down at eighteen pounds. The same day a boy named Steffins caught two pike, one weighing fifteen and the other sixteen and a quarter pounds.

May 14. - The steamer Minneapolis made her second appearance Sunday afternoon at the lower levee, going back Monday. She arrived again today, taking on a load of wheat for Davis & Beal, of Clearwater. The fare from this place to Minneapolis is 75 cents.

May 21. - The Rev. E. V. Campbell, pastor of the Presbyterian church at St. Cloud, has decided, from reasons of health to accept a call from the Presbyterian church at Butler, Mo., and will leave next Monday for his new field of labor. Himself and wife will take the good wishes of the community with them.

June 4. - The marriage of C. T. Stearns, at present register of the United States land office at Mobile, Ala., is announced. Married, in St. Cloud, June 1, John DeLeo and Hattie Chapman.

June 18. - Particulars have been received of the murder of James C. Shepley, one of the first settlers of St. Cloud, near Buchanan, Fresno county, Cal., May 25. He had located in that state a year before, engaging with others in sheep raising. His dead body was found at the sheep ranch, his neck being broken, and there were marks of violence about the throat. One of the Portuguese shepherds was arrested and held to answer to the charge of murder. Mr. Shepley was a practicing lawyer in St. Cloud, but left here some fifteen years ago and returned to Maine, his native state.

July 9. - The glorious Fourth was celebrated quite generally throughout the county, but Fair Haven took the palm with a grange picnic. The granges from Maine Prairie, Pleasant Lake, Forest Grange, Clearwater, Arcadia Grange from St. Cloud and Harmonia Grange from St. Augusta, as well as the Fair Haven Grange were present in full force with brass bands, and delegations from a number of other places. The procession was fully two miles long, S. F. Brown being chief marshal, with several assistants on horseback. The orator of the day was Lieut. Gov. A. Barto, of St. Cloud, and toasts were responded to by Bishop B. U. Watkins, E. H. Atwood, the Rev. Mr. Thresher, A. B. Coats and W. T. Rigby, the speaking being interspersed with vocal and instrumental music. It was a noteworthy occasion.

August 6. - The Zion church, built by the Evangelical Association of Germans in Paynesville township, was dedicated on the 2nd inst. It is located near John Baitinger's, about three miles from the village of Paynesville. The church is all paid for. Bishop Bscher, of Chicago, conducted the dedication services.

Eight years ago L. B. Raymond, with ten of his neighbors, left the soldiers in the stockade at Sauk Centre and located on what was then an unbroken, uninhabitable prairie, but what is now the township of Raymond. The town numbers over four hundred inhabitants, mostly Americans. There are two churches and four schoolhouses in the township.

August 13. - A petition asking the mayor to strictly enforce section 6 of ordinance No. 8, which requires that all saloons and other places of business be kept closed on Sunday has been circulated and numerously signed.

An academy, called the Butler academy, has been established at Butler, Mo., with the Rev. E. V. Campbell, lately of this place, principal. Students of both sexes are admitted.

August 20. - Colonel Farquhar, the government engineer, has a force of men at work among the islands just below this city constructing wing dams, which are intended to throw the water more into the main channel of the river, thus improving navigation. He will soon have a boat at work between this place and Coon rapids removing boulders and other obstructions from the channel. This will occupy the next three months and for this work congress has appropriated $25,000, which will scarcely be sufficient to do all that is needed.

August 27. - Enough funds have been subscribed and reading matter contributed to warrant the opening of a free reading room. Two rooms in Mr. Hill's photograph gallery have been secured, which will be kept open every day until ten o'clock in the evening and on Sunday afternoons.

Married, in this city, August 22, at the residence of the bride's cousin, Oscar Bentley, by the Rev. T. Lewton, Daniel S. Hayward and Virginia K. Moore, all of St. Cloud.

September 3. - The first number of the Sauk Rapids Courier, of which Mrs. W. H. Wood is editor, and her son, A. DeLacy Wood, publisher, has been received.

September 10. - The new Methodist church at Paynesville was dedicated on the 6th, Presiding Elder Cobb officiating. The people were asked to subscribe $1,000 to pay the debt on the church and parsonage, and the response was $1,103.50- In 1862 their church was burned by the Indians, and when the congregation began to build again the frame was wrecked by a wind storm. But they were not discouraged and their present building is the result.

September 17. - The people of the Sixth school district in the town of Le Sauk have just completed a new school house, costing a little over $1,000.

Married, September 24, at the residence of the bride's parents, William Louden and Kate Smith, all of the town of St. Cloud. October 1, at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, St. Cloud, Henry J. Rosenberger and Magdalena Schafer.

October 29. - The union between the Congregational and the Presbyterian churches of this city has been fully completed. This united church will be independent. The Rev. Mr. Milton has been engaged as pastor with a salary of $1,200 a year.

Up to this time $30,000 has been paid to the farmers for flax marketed at Sauk Centre. It is estimated that the flax crop of Stearns county this year amounted to $84,000..

J. W. Metzroth has purchased H. C. Burbank's brick store building at the corner of St. Germain street and Jefferson avenue and will occupy it himself. Price, $6,000.

December 17. - The new German paper in this city, Der Nordstern, will make its appearance today. Messrs. Brick and Kaiser are the editors and publishers.

January 14. - S. B. Pinney has started his new mill at St. Augusta to grinding wheat into flour. The quality of the flour is said to be good.

C. F. Macdonald, lately a compositor in the St. Paul Pioneer office, has purchased the Times establishment. Mr. Macdonald is highly spoken of by his friends in St. Paul and he will receive a hearty welcome from the people of St. Cloud.

January 21. - The court house investigating committee adjourned Monday, but without finding, as we understand, anything even to the amount of five cents out of the way in the county auditor's or treasurer's books. The committee will report to the grand jury at its next meeting February 2.. The expenses of the investigation will foot up between $800 and |1,000.

H. C. Burbank has removed to St. Paul, where he will become a member of the recently organized firm of Campbell, Burbank & Co., wholesale dealers in clothing and furnishing goods. His departure from this city, where he has been one of its most valued and enterprising citizens, is deeply regretted.

February 18. - A cablegram from Rome announces that the Rt. Rev. Abbot Seidenbusch, O. S. B., of St. John's college, this county, has been appointed "Vicar Apostalic for a part of Minnesota," which undoubtedly refers to the new diocese created some time ago, including this part of the state. It is understood that his residence will be at St. Cloud. The Rev. John Ireland, of St. Paul, has been appointed Vicar Apostolic of Nebraska. The duties of a Vicar Apostolic are the same as those of a bishop.

Married, in this city, February 16, at the residence of N. P. Clarke, the bride's uncle, by the Rev. E. W. Stanley, Mary Elizabeth Clarke to D. B. Searle, all of this city.

March 18. - The contract for carrying the mail from St. Cloud to Fair Haven has been let to H. Walkinshaw, of this city; from St. Cloud to Brainerd to Oravel & Racicot, of Little Falls; from the St. Cloud postoffice to the depot to J. E. Hayward.

Bishop B. U. Watkins, of Maine Prairie, and Father Ireland, of St. Paul, are having a lively discussion on biblical subjects in the columns of the St. Paul Press.

April 15. - The steamer Minneapolis, which ran last summer between Minneapolis and this place, was almost entirely wrecked last week by the ice at St. Anthony Falls. It was owned by C. T. Hobart and Dr. D. M. Ooodwin, was valued at $17,000 and was uninsured.

Mrs. Jane O. Swisshelm's house at Zozonia. Pa., was consumed by fire on the night of the 13th. The fire was caused by a lamp being accidentally thrown from a table by Mrs. Swisshelm. Nothing was saved but a few articles of clothing.

May 6. - Captain West now has thirty men at work on his new hotel and is making splendid progress. He expects to have it ready for business by October 1.

June 3. - The consecration ceremonies of the Rt. Rev. Rupert Seidenbusch as bishop of this diocese took place last Sunday at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in this city. A large number of prelates and inferior clergy were present, including the Rt. Rev. Boniface Wimmer, abbot of St. Vincent, Pa.; the Rt. Rev. Bishop Krautbauer, of Oreen Bay, Wis.; the Rt. Rev. Bishop Mrack, of Marquette, Mich., and the Rt. Rev. Bishop Hennessey, of Dubuque, by whom the consecration sermon was delivered. Nineteen carloads of people came from St. Paul, Minneapolis and the Sauk valley.

A farewell reception was given at normal hall to Prof. Ira Moore, the retiring principal of the school, who left the next morning for California, where he becomes principal of the state normal school.

June 10.. - A. Montgomery started yesterday, with a number of skilled workmen from this place, for Fort Berthold, on the Missouri river, to put up eight government

June 17. - The rates on the toll bridge have been still further reduced, the fare for double teams both ways is now 20 cents, single teams 15 cents. The bridge is to be double-planked its entire length at once.

C. Bach, of the town of Zion, has sold his farm of 320 acres to Joseph Amem for ?5,400, being about $17 per acre, which indicates that Stearns county farms are considered good property.

July 1. - The leading social event in the history of St. Joseph was the marriage June 29th of Miss Kate Linnemann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Linnemann, to Mr. Alphonse J. Demeules, clerk of the probate court of Ramsey county. The ceremony took place at the Catholic church, at 9 o'clock a. m., and was performed by the Rev. Ulrich Northman, O. S. B., of St. John's College. There were many out-oftown guests, and the festivities continued during the entire day and evening.

July 8. - Capt. J. E. West's hotel celebra^ tion at the driving park, beginning on the 3rd inst. and continuing for three days, was a great affair. On the first day there were salutes, a grand procession from the city to the grounds, music, an address by the Hon. W. S. King, member of congress from this district, races, and fireworks in the evening. On the last day was the drawing for prizes. W. Krugel got the "Scribner" farm, H. T. Daendels 80 acres of land, H. C. Burbank a gold watch, H. C. Waite a silver watch, James McLain a piano, N. Vanloon a store building and lot in Brainerd, D. A. Hoyt a sewing machine and C. A. Gilman a chamber suite - these being among the more valuabler of the hundreds of prizes given to ticket holders in the hotel enterprise.

grandmother of Mr Lewis Clark, of this city, died at Auburn, Mass., August 22, at the remarkably advanced age of 100 years; 7 months and 8 days.

September 30. - The new hotel, the West house, built by Capt. J. E. West at the corner of Washington avenue and Lake street, was opened to the public Monday. It is a handsome three-story structure. On Tuesday evening Col. Todd, the proprietor, gave a supper followed by dancing, about seventy-five couples being present, including many of our more prominent citizens. The music for dancing was furnished by Fuller & Abbott's quadrille band, six pieces.

October 21.^ - A union fair was held at the Sauk Centre driving park, October 13, 14 and 15. The officers in charge were J. D. Carr, president; J. R. Howard, secretary, and O. Matison, treasurer. Unfavorable weather operated seriously against the success of the fair.

November 11. - A lyceum was organized Friday evening at the Union school building with the following-named officers: F. E. Searle, president; Jennie Owens, vice president; E. B. Smith, recording secretary; W. M. West, corresponding secretary; Minnie Tolman, treasurer.

November 18. - The first annual Stearns County Sunday School convention was held in St. Cloud in the Congregational church November 12, extending through the following Sunday. An organization was effected by the election of the following officers: Rev. J. W. Klepper, president; Rev. W. E. Stanley, secretary; Rev. George R. Milton, treasurer. Among those who took part in the exercises were D. H. Mason, of Alexandria, district missionary of the American Sunday School Union, and Henry Plant, superintendent of the Plymouth church Sunday school in Minneapolis. Before the convention adjourned the following-named additional vice-presidents were elected: Rev. J. D. Stearns, Clearwater; Professor D. L. Kiehle, St. Cloud; Elder Green, Maine Prairie; Andrew Mead, Fair Haven; Elihu Swisher, Eden Lake; R. P. Gilbert, Paynesville; Rev. A. J. Pike, Sauk Centre.

organized Friday evening, the officers being: H. C. Waite, president; Mrs. A. T. Whitman, secretary; F. E. Searle, treasurer. It will meet semi-monthly. St. Cloud is now pretty well off for clubs and things. A partial list includes this club; a Shakespearian club; a young folks reading club; the semi-monthly normal school receptions; a lyceum; a dramatic association; a library association; a free reading room; five sewing societies, with sociable attachments, etc., etc.

December 16. - Delegates from the Good Templars lodges at Clearwater, Paynesville, Melrose, Maine Prairie, Fair Haven and St. Cloud met in this city Tuesday and organized a district lodge. A full list of officers was elected, who were installed by the Worthy Grand Chief Templar R. Calvert. The officers chosen were: P. W. C. T., A. H, Bennett, Paynesville; W. C. T., F. Tolman, St. Cloud; W. V. T., Mrs. A. B. Greeley, Maine Prairie; W. S., E. S. Hill, St. Cloud; W. F. S., R. E. Lyons, Clearwater; W. T., Mrs. A. Ayres, Melrose; W. M., E. Johnston, Fair Haven; W. C, Rev. J. G. Stanton, Paynesville; W. I. C, Miss A. Mulhollan, Clearwater; W. O. G., M. T. Adley, Melrose; W. R. S., Hattie Richmond, Melrose; W. A. S., Mary Rigby, Clearwater; W. D. M., Lizzie Davis, Maine Prairie.

The Rev. E. V. Campbell has returned to St. Cloud from Butler, Mo., and resumed his duties as pastor of the Presbyterian church, in response to a unanimous call extended to him July 26 by the members of the church.

January 13. - The annual convention of the State Firemen's Association was held in St. Cloud the 11th and 12th, the meetings being in the court house. Delegations were present from St. Paul, Minneapolis, Red Wing, Faribault, Stillwater, Mankato and a number of the other cities in the state. A supper was given the visitors at the West house.

Mrs. Julia E., wife of C. F. Macdonald, editor of the St. Cloud Times, died this afternoon, aged 31 years. She was a daughter of Dr. C. H. Lord, of Shakopee, and her remains will be taken to that place for burial. ,

February 3. - About $5,000 has been subscribed for the erection of a residence for Bishop Seidenbush in this city. It is expected to increase this amount by from 11,000 to $3,000.

C. F. Davis, assignee of Ball, Bryan & Dickinson, has sold the machinery, real estate, etc., of the Avon stave factory to N. P. Clarke and H. C. Waite for a little over $4,000, and the stock for $12,000.

The Rev. Wolfgang Northman, O. S. B. (better known as Father Wolfgang) was ) found dead in bed at Meier's Grove Tues- \ day morning. Dr. Campbell, of Melrose, I gave it as his opinion that death resulted \ from heart disease and the verdict of the '' coroner's jury was to this effect.

March 2. - Maine Prairie has a cheese factory, the first in the county. It was built by John Farwell, a number of people subscribing to a bonus.

Fair Haven grange P. of H. dedicated last Friday the first grange hall in the state. Col. Sam Adams, grand master of the state grange, conducted the exercises. The Presbyterian society have purchased a site for their new church building, 88x132 feet fronting on Washington avenue.

F. H. Dam, returning home after three months spent in California, expresses the judgment that it is no place for a poor man. April 20. - The St. Paul & Pacific R. R. has decided that two trains daily do not pay during the summer months and the schedule will be the same as last winter. The freight rate from Minneapolis to St. Cloud, a distance of sixty-four miles, is $1.50 per hundred.

May 4. - Lake George is steadily drying up and in a few years will be little better than a reedy puddle. (Very happily, this doleful prognostication is, in this A. D. 1914, in small danger of being realized. Lake George is still a lovely little sheet of water.).

The Rev. W. E. Stanley preached his farewell sermon at the Baptist church Sunday morning and the next day started for Red Wing to enter on his new field of labor.

The dam at S. B. Pinney's grist mill at St. Augusta was washed entirely away, together with a part of the mill itself, Sunday night. The loss is a serious one to Mr. Pinney.

Andrew Anderson & Sons have begun the erection of a spoke factory near the Baptist church. They have on hand already material for 55,000 spokes. It is just such industries as this that St. Cloud needs and that help most to build up a town.

May 11. - At the school election Monday afternoon, St. Cloud had, for the first time in its history, woman suffrage. Twentyfive ladies appeared at the poles, and it was remarked that "they were quite well behaved and created no disturbance."

May 18. - J. A. Stanton's new "Eagle" flouring mill at Sauk Rapids is in successful operation, making the celebrated "Minnesota Patent Process Flour." The building is 50x80 feet, four stories above the basement.

May 25. - The St. Cloud Press, which was first published February 22, 1872, was this week consolidated with the Journal, the paper bearing the name of the St. Cloud Journal-Press, W. B. Mitchell, editor and publisher.

June 1. - The Rev. J. T. Chambers last Sunday closed his four years' service as rector of St. John's Episcopal church, and Monday started for LaPorte, Indiana, where he takes charge of a larger parish.

A number of people on both sides of the river are talking about uniting Stearns and Benton counties, making one county with two free bridges.

June 8. - The first stock sale in the county was held Tuesday on the east side of Lake George. The display included 225 head of horses and over 300 head of cattle, sheep, pigs, etc. During the day 100 head of horses and cattle, 22 pigs and 4 sheep were sold.

July 13. - The Rev. G. H. Davis on Sunday last entered on his duties as rector of St. John's church. The Rev. George R. Milton has tendered his resignation as pastor of the Congregational church, to take effect the latter part of the month.

During the thunder storm Saturday afternoon the Congregational church at Sauk Rapids was struck by lightning, the front of the building being badly damaged. The dais on which the organ stood was splintered, but the organ was not injured.

August 17. - Chas. Gravel, of Little Falls, has purchased the machinery in S. B. Finney's grist mill at St. Augusta and taken it to Little Falls to be put in a mill there.

August 24. - Grasshoppers have made their appearance in considerable numbers in various parts of the county, causing very great uneasiness among the farmers lest the eggs that are laid now will hatch out next season.

J. D. Lachance, county auditor of Morrison county, has purchased the newspaper material lately used in the St. Cloud Press office and taken it to Little Falls, where a newspaper is to be started. It will be called the Little Falls Transcript and the first number will be issued September 7, with H. C. Stivers editor and publisher.

August 31. - The public reading rooms have been discontinued; cause, lack of funds. The books, papers and furniture have been donated to the Good Templar's lodge.

Levanseler & Fawcett will move the Novelty works building from lower town to the lot on which their planing mill stands and use it as a warehouse.

B. Overbeck has taken away the frame addition to his hotel, the Minnesota house, and is putting in its place a brick addition, 24x38, two stories high, this being

Yesterday about eighty members of the fire department of this city - the Little Giants under charge of Foreman Leagle, and the Hook and Ladder boys under charge of Assistant Foreman Griebler, and all under charge of Chief J. M. Rosenberger, started for Minneapolis to take part in the annual state parade today.

While a threshing machine was at work on his farm in the town of Pierz yesterday C. B. Buckman jumped on the feed table and attempted to step across the cylinder, slipped, his left leg being caught and crushed half way to the knee. Had the horses not been stopped he would undoubtedly have been killed. The leg was amputated just below the knee. Mr. Buckman is very weak but hopes are entertained of his recovery. (Mr. Buckman has since served for two terms as member of congress from this district and is in active business life today.)

September 28. - Samuel Holes, one of the early settlers of Stearns county, died in this city, last night, in the fifty-first year of his age.

There will be no "free 'bus to and from the cars" any longer. Hereafter the 'bus will be driven one day first to the West house and the next day first to the Central house and there will be no "running" for either.

B. Vossberg has sold the corner lot of the Broker block to M. Majerus, the amount being $1,400. We understand that Mr. Majerus intends to erect a building thereon. (Frank Fandel's present dry goods store.)

October 19. - On Wednesday of last week a daughter of John Baitinger, of the town of Zion, was married. Although there were 138 persons at the wedding, there was not a glass, not a drop, of beer drunk. This is remarked as being something almost unprecedented.

November 9. - Charles Buss, who came to St. Cloud about fifteen years ago and engaged in business here, afterwards removing to Cold Springs where he had a general store, died Thursday, in the 58th year of his age.

Milton B. Swisher, of Eden Lake, but eighteen years of age, shouldered his gun Monday after a light fall of snow and in three hours killed three large deer, which he disposed of at Cold Springs for $17 cash.

November 23. - The second annual Stearns County Sunday school convention was held in the Methodist church November 18 and 19. Officers elected for the ensuing year were: Prof. D. L. Kiehle, president; Prof. W. P. Burdick, vice-president; John E. Carver, secretary and treasurer.

Clarke & McClure of this city will cut on the upper Mississippi this winter 4,000, 000 feet of logs, T. C. McClure, 3,000,000 feet and H. L. Gordon 1,500,000 feet.

St. Cloud was represented at the Centennial exhibition at Philadelphia by seventy-three of its citizens - a large representation for a place of its size and distance away.

December 14. - A number of Indians, arrayed in blankets and beads, have been in town this week making purchases (and picking up stubs of cigars) for the holidays.

Tuesday a drove of about 1,000 Indian ponies passed through town bound for St. Paul, where they will be sold. They are what are left of the lot captured from the Sioux.

L. Robinson, Sr., of Robinson & Co., proprietors of the Sauk Rapids granite works, has left the country, owing $6,000, many of the workmen being in destitute circumstances by reason of his actions. The Sen-

January 4. - The people of Sauk Rapids having voted "no license," liquor cannot now be sold in that village. - The Stearns County Grange P. of H. met at Fair Haven Wednesday and Thursday of last week. John W. Goodspeed was elected master, J. B. Swisher overseer, E. H. Atwood secretary and M. Greeley treasurer, with the other officers. Seven subordinate granges were represented.

February 1. - Last Thursday evening Julia Ward Howe, author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," lectured at the Congregational church on "Men's Women and Women's Women." Speaking simply, and strictly from her varied experiences, her power over her hearers is complete without any attempts at oratorical effect which she entirely ignores. At the close of the lecture she recited two or three poems, closing with her stirring "Battle Hymn."

March 1. - Mr. Macdonald introduced a bill in the senate yesterday for the consolidation of the counties of Stearns and Benton. Mr. Mayo, senator from Benton, had it referred to himself, where it will probably remain.

March 15. - Maj. George H. Smith, general superintendent of the L. S. & M. S. R. R., shipped to this place by yesterday's train some choice short horn heifers, purchased in Illinois, for his Sauk river farm, about three miles from St. Cloud. Our farmers should appreciate the importance of grading up their stock.

Eighteen hundred pounds of venison and 1,334 partridges, prairie chickens and grouse shipped in barrels from Albany, in this county, were seized and sold last week by the sheriff of Ramsey county in accordance with the provisions of the game law. The contraband articles were shipped by R. A. White & Co. and consigned to M. Baker, Chicago.

April 5. - J. E. Hayward will again take possession of the Central House, Mr. Benson having the Black Hills fever. Judge Gregory has taken charge of the West House, succeeding E. T. Tobey, who becomes an assistant in the postoffice.

May 3. - Some of our citizens are now figuring how much they might have made if they had only bought wheat last fall for 80 cents and sold it now for $1.58.

May 17.. - Telegraph rates have been reduced so that messages to and from Chicago can be sent for $1.20 for ten words or less, and eight cents for each additional word.

Married, at St. Paul by the Rev. D. C. Lyon, Maggie Fitzpatrick to A. F. Robertson, both of St. Cloud. At Rich Prairie, by C. B. Buckman, J. P., Ella E. Harvey, of Morrison county, to Harvey G. Wire, of Stearns county.

June 21. - The official canvass of the vote of Stearns county June 12 on the proposed settlement of the old railroad bonds, showed 344 for and 2,427 against the proposition.

The new road to the cemetery (turning off from St. Germain street, near J. W. Tenvoorde's residence), has been opened and put in good condition and the old road closed.

In just 55 minutes, on Sunday afternoon last, Alex, Spaulding, of Maine Prairie, caught with a machine he had made eighteen bushels of grasshoppers on a tenacre field. Willard Spaulding caught 160 bushels in six nights. Thomas Steen caught 25 bushels in one hour and ten minutes; O. M. Nelson, 16 bushels in ten minutes, and so on.

A severe wind storm in the town of Raymond Friday destroyed or badly damaged seven houses. The sufferers were M. Shiefer, Alonzo Morris, W. T. Smith, Sanford Smith, Horace Bryant, Frank Bryant and Mat. Slatkey. The dwelling houses of R. Richardson, L. B. Raymond, H. Lyman and J. M. Oilman were unroofed. A new house in process of erection by Dennis Morris was scattered in all directions. Two sides of the schoolhouse were blown out.

July 12. - Grasshoppers still continue to leave, going sometimes in a southeasterly and sometimes in a northerly direction. Our farmers feel much more hopeful than they did. The destruction of crops, however, especially in the western part of the county, has been great.

At the Cathedral this forenoon Anna B. Edlebrock was married to Prof. Peter E. Kaiser, county superintendent of schools, by the Rev. Francis Merschmann.

August 2. - The steamer Monticello arrived last Tuesday evening and landed near the foot of Lake street and was visited by many of our citizens. It is a trim, neat little craft, and a trifle smaller than the Great Eastern.. It left for Minneapolis the next morning and will continue to make trips during the season.

August 9. - Bridgman's saw mill shut down Monday, having cut all the logs in the boom. The cut of lumber was 1,300,000 feet, shingles 1,500,000. A large number of logs failed to get down this year.

E. Cross received an order this week from E. R. Hill & Co., Chicago, for 2,500 pounds of cream cheese made at the Sauk Rapids factory. Minnesota cheese is bound to take a No. 1 place wherever it is known.

August 30. - Married, at Melrose, August 28, at the cathedral, Mrs. Anna C. Terway, of Melrose, to Joseph H. Edelbrock, of St. Cloud. Mr. Edelbrock, who has been in Chicago for some time, will engage in the general mercantile business at Melrose.

D. Steen, of Maine Prairie, and D. C. Hill and W. McKusick, of this city, who went to the Black Hills last spring, returned home Saturday. They found everything at the Hills overdone and became satisfled that they could do better here than there.

Arnold's fine new grist mill, located at the mouth of Sauk river, was fully completed August 25 and is doing excellent work. It has seven run of stone, with all modern machinery.

The Rev. I. H. Reddick, pastor of the Methodist church, who for some time preached to the united Methodist and Congregational societies, alternate Sundays in each church, and further endeavored to increase the congregation by the addition of the Baptist society, the proposition, however, not being acceptable to the later, and who preached his farewell sermon here August 26, is now stationed at Oscoda, Mich.

October 18. - D. B. Stanley brought in yesterday from the Maine Prairie cheese factory six tons of cheese which he shipped to St. Paul. This cheese took the premium at the Stearns county fair last week.

October 18. - Some Mormon elders have been at work in our neighboring county of Sherburne and have had some success in getting converts who are selling off their property to go to Utah.

October 25. - D. H. Freeman started Tuesday for Dakota to secure, if possible, the remains of his father, Lieut. Ambrose Freeman, who was killed during the Indian outbreak in 1862. He is accompanied by Capt. Oscar Taylor and John Coates, who were in the same company with Lieutenant Freeman and are confident they can find his unmarked grave.

day from Dakota, having been unsuccessful in their efforts to find the body of Lieut. Ambrose Freeman. Another attempt will be made and it is hoped with better success,.

November 8. - At the election Tuesday the constitutional amendment in favor of woman's suffrage received in Stearns county 274 votes, while 2,026 were cast in opposition.

November 22. - Married, in this city, today, at the residence of the bride's father, Anna E. Spicer, of St. Cloud, to the Rev. W. E. Stanley, of Red Wing. Mr. Stanley was for several years pastor of the Baptist church in this place.

The ticket office at the East St. Cloud depot has been completed and a telegraph as well as ticket oflftce has been put in. Both are in charge of James B. Beatty, of Sauk Rapids.

The people of St. Cloud are very indignant over the present railroad arrangement. Trains to and from St. Paul instead of coming over to the St. Cloud depot stop at East St. Cloud. Express matter which comes up on the 11 a. m. train is taken to Sauk Rapids and left there until three o'clock, when it is brought over by the train for Melrose.

Married, in this city, January 1, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, Miss Jean C. Mitchell, of St. Cloud, to Dr. Charles E. Walton, of Cincinnati, Ohio.

January 24. - A literary society, composed of about twenty-five members, was organized Friday evening to meet on alternate Tuesday evenings. The following officers were elected: L. W. Collins, president; T. J. Gray, vice-president; Mrs. A. C. Blaisdell, secretary. The first subject taken up, and to which two evenings will be devoted, will be the Life and Times of Henry VIIL

January 31. - The people of Sauk Rapids voted yesterday on the issuing of $15,- 000 bonds to aid in building a free bridge across the Mississippi river at that place. Out of 114 votes cast only four were in opposition. Benton county will issue $10,- 000 in bonds authorized by an act of the legislature of 1867.

Ephraim Curtis, who came to St. Cloud in 1856 and was one of the business men of the city afterwards, except during the time he served in the Union army, died yesterday after a brief illness, at the age of 47 years.

February 7. - Five persons, received into the Baptist church on profession of faith, were baptized in the Mississippi river near the upper mill Sabbath afternoon.

February 14. - In Stearns county last year 109 schools were taught in the districts outside the independent districts. The number of male teachers employed was 65, average salary $40.40; female teachers 44, average salary $20..86.

The bill introduced in the senate by Senator Macdonald for the consolidation of Stearns and Benton counties, after a very brief life, was strangled in committee and is now a corpse.

The Good Templars of Maine Prairie had an installation of ofl[icers at their last meeting, followed by an entertainment at the cheese factory. G. C. Chamberlain is

April 4. - The contract for building the bridge at Sauk Rapids, a combination wood and iron bridge, has been let to James Mclntyre & Co.., of New York, for $22,600. The superstructure is 809 feet long.

April 11. - A new foundry is to be built at once, to be owned principally by Rosenberger Bros., of this city, and Joseph H. Edelbrock, of Melrose, although the head workmen, Messrs. Smith and Kellerman, will have an interest in it. It will be located on a lot adjoining Anderson & Sons' hub and spoke factory.

April 18. - The St. Cloud wagon bridge was closed to travel Saturday. Coates & Freeman run a 'bus to Sauk Rapids, crossing on the ferry and meeting the up and down trains.

An immigration society for the Sauk valley has been organized by Joseph Capser, of Sauk Centre; J. H. Linneman, St. Joe; J. Simonitsch, Richmond; Maurin Bros., of Cold Springs, and other prominent business men of that part of Stearns county.

May 9. - The steamer Monticello arrived at this place Tuesday, being the first trip of the season, and left the next day. Regular trips will be made hereafter. Fair to Minneapolis, $2.00; meals, 25 cents.

May 16. - Married, in St. Cloud, May 14, at the Cathedral, Julia Scheutz to George M. Schaefer, both of St. Cloud. At Maine Prairie, May 11, Hattie Wood to George W. Linn.

May 30. - Liberty Raymond, of the town of Raymond, one of the old and prominent residents of the western part of the county, died at his home on the 18th inst. George H. Whiting, of Clearwater, a leading business man of that place, died May 25, in the 41st year of his age.

During a thunder storm last Thursday, A. Wade's house at Maine Prairie was struck by lightning, the inside being badly damaged. Mr. Wade was struck by the bolt, which leaving the stove and beginning at his foot, tearing open the boot, passed up his body, across to the other side, up that side to the arm and along the arm to the table on which it was resting, down the table to the floor, killing a dog lying under the table and then dropped to the basement. Mr. Wade was in a critical condition for a time, but he eventually recovered.

June 6. - Under the provisions of a law passed in 1874 the voters at an election held last Thursday, by 274 ayes to 33 noes, decided to issue $10,000 to be used toward securing a free bridge across the Mississippi river.

June 13. - N. P. Clarke, of this city, is building a first-class cheese factory at his farm, some six miles from this city. It will be one of the largest as well as one of the best in this part of the state.

Five cans of young salmon came to this place Tuesday, two cans being taken to Pleasant lake and three cans to Pearl lake. Three cans came up the same day to be

An offer of $5,000 for the wagon bridge, made by the city council of St. Cloud, was accepted Friday evening by the directors, and the board of county commissioners voted to appropriate $5,000 toward making it a free bridge. The balance of the $10,- 000 in bonds voted by the city will be used in the work of reconstruction.

The district court was compelled to adjourn when Cole's circus passed in procession down St. Germain street Friday forenoon. Nothing could keep the jury or the officers in their places and finally the judge directed an hour's adjournment.

June 27. - Saturday was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the entrance of Bishop Seidenbush into the priesthood, and the occasion was duly celebrated with the firing of cannon, ringing of bells, etc.

A. Anderson & Sons, of the St. Cloud Spoke factory, received this week from Lowell, Mass., the machinery for a firstclass machine shop, which they will soon have in running order.

A car load of blooded stock, Jersey cows and heifers, arrived a few days ago from Massachusetts for N. P. Clarke's stock farm near this city.

August 15. - The old H. T. Tobey house, near the Normal school, has been put in repair to be used as a "Young Men's Normal Home," and will be in charge of Mrs. Davis, of Elk River.

J. O. Crommett started Friday for Gen. T. H. Barrett's great farm near Herman, on the Main line railroad, to put up buildings for laborers and stock. Gen. Barrett has seventeen thousand acres of land in a body, of which eight hundred acres will be broken this year.

August 22. - Hon. C. A. Gilman has formed a law partnership with Mr. Wm. Barrett of St. Paul and will occupy offices in Ottensmeyer's block.

September 5. - Married, at Berlin, Wis., September 4, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. R. M. Webster, Ella M. Stewart of Berlin, Wis., to Captain L. W. Collins of this city.

The Rev. A. L. Cole has tendered his resignation as pastor of the Baptist church to accept a call from the First Baptist church of Sacramento, Cal.

September 19. - Coal is beginning to come more generally into use here. Quite a number of our citizens have ordered coal stoves for their houses.

The Mississippi river is lower than it has been since 1864. Rocks are sticking up in full view in all directions and there are plenty of places that are fordable.

Our citizens have subscribed over $500 toward opening up the road from the east end of the bridge through the marsh to the town of St. George in Benton county.

October 10. - Judge McKelvy has approved the bid of Edwin Clark, $42,600, for the entire indebtedness (less the mortgage indebtedness, $22,000, held by W. Bohmer) for the property of E. & W. H. Clark, at Melrose, at this time in the hands of a receiver (L. A. Evans), his bid being the highest, and the property will be transferred to him. Major Clarke has already started his mill and resumed business.

by the Rev. H. C. Woods, Laura E. Morse, of St. Cloud, to the Rev. A. L. Cole, late pastor of the Baptist church in this city, now of Sacramento, Cal.

October 24. - Henry Keller, of Sauk Centre, has made a contract with P. E. Levanseler, of this city, for the manufacture of five hundred more of his celebrated fanning mills.

November 7. - The St. Vincent Branch railroad was completed from Sauk Centre to Alexandria Monday, the construction train running in that evening. Regular trains will not be put on until the 15th.

A temperance club has been organized in this city, with the Rev. E. V. Campbell president, and Jennie Owen secretary, meetings to be held every two weeks.

November 21. - The Sauk Rapids free bridge was opened for teams yesterday. It will be fully completed and turned over to the Benton county commissioners on the 28th.

November 28. - Married, at Clearwater, November 26, by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, Emma Cambell to Captain Josiah E. West, all of Stearns county.

December 12. - Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Noel, who were among the first settlers of St. Cloud, celebrated their golden wedding December 4th at Santiago.

A great deal of bitter feeling has been created throughout this county as well as in various parts of the state by the efforts of the owners of drive-well patents to extort excessive royalties from users. Anti drive-well associations have been organized in St. Cloud as well as in many of the towns in the county.

Minneapolis had a double wedding on the 22nd - the contracting parties being the Hon. H. L. Gordon and Mary Louise Carpenter; Dr. A. H. Hedderly and Ada B.

January 2. - Boyd's store was visited by burglars last night and $200 worth of goods stolen. The Sauk Valley House was entered the same night, a watch and $10 in money being taken.

There were only fifteen deaths in St. Cloud last year. This speaks well for the healthfulness of a city of nearly three thousand inhabitants.

January 16. - The petition to the legislature for the enactment of a state-wide prohibitory law received over five hundred signatures in this city. The Stearns County Grange at its meeting at Fair Haven elected officers for the ensuing year, with J. W. Goodspeed, M.; F. B. Smith, O.; E. H. Atwood, Sec. A committee was appointed to prepare and circulate a petition to the legislature to abolish the "little brass kettle."

"Fencing in" or "fencing out" is now the burning question in many of the towns in the county where there is stock, either to run at large or be kept in an enclosure.

The burglars who entered Boyd's store were tracked by Chief Wheeler to a lumber camp on Hillman's brook where he arrested them Friday and they are now in jail here. They gave their names as Henry Carr and Jack Randolph, and both confessed to this robbery as well as that at the Sauk Valley House, when Mr. Kammermeier's watch and money were stolen. The sheriff of Barron county, Wisconsin, who had been on their track, arrived Monday. He said that they were brothers, their real names being Isaac and James Bailey, Jr., and that they were wanted in Wisconsin for a $500 robbery at Rice Lake. County Attorney Collins declined to surrender them.

January 23. - The old depot building on the east side of the river has been purchased by G. A. Freudenreich and Henry Keller, who will have it moved to the west side and use it jointly as a machinery warehouse.

quarried here last fall for the proposed Minneapolis and St. Cloud R. R. bridge piers, is soon to be taken up on the N. P. where it will be used in making culverts.

Burglars entered J. C. Haines's store at Paynesville Friday night and took off everything of any value. Tracks showed that a wagon was used.

February 13. - A delegation of between forty and fifty members of the legislature arrived yesterday to investigate the advantages offered by St. Cloud as the location of a second state prison.

The citizens of Mille Lacs county, at a meeting held at Princeton on the 15th inst., pledged their influence in favor of a bond bonus for a proposed railroad from Grantsburg to St. Cloud via Rush City, Cambridge and Princeton.

March 20. - St. Cloud is quite musically inclined. A number of Germans have organized a singing society of fifty members, holding semi-weekly meetings, under the charge and drill of Prof. M. Gans. The St. Cloud Cornet band is a new organization, the membership including F. A. Staples, E. S. Hil, W. Hetherington, D. C. Hill, J. E. Carver, G. E. Fuller, F. D. Crossman, Fred Barnes, C. T. Hines and George B. Smith. E. S. Hill is president and George B. Smith secretary and treasurer.

The Southern Minnesota R. R. has reduced its fare to four cents a mile. We should be glad to chronicle at an early date that the St. Paul & Pacific had decided upon a like change.

A bill passed by the last legislature authorized Stearns county to vote bonds to an amount not exceeding $1,500 per mile to four lines of railroad - the first from St. Cloud to Mankato; the second" from St. Cloud via Cold Springs to the southern or western boundary of the county; the third from some point on the northern boundary of the county running via Sauk Centre toward the western line of the county; the fourth from Minneapolis on the west side of the Mississippi river to St. Cloud and thence via Holding to some point on the Northern Pacific railway.

April 3. - The burglars, three of them, who raided Haines's store at Paynesville recently, carrying off most of the goods in a two-horse wagon, were arrested Friday. At the house of Thomas Marshall, a farmer, living on Diamond lake, near Atwater, was found a large part of the stolen goods stored in all conceivable places, even down to the pig pen. Marshall was arrested, as was also another of the gang, George Hockenberry, who was sleeping in the house at the time. The leader of the party, John Morris, a prison bird from Wisconsin, was in jail at Atwater for threatening to shoot the marshal and he was brought with the other two to the Stearns county jail Saturday, to be held for trial at the June term of court on the charge of burglary.

April 10. - A decree of foreclosure and sale of the Sauk Rapids water power was filed with the clerk of the district court of Benton county Friday. The judgment is for $159,361.15, the decree being in favor of Greenleaf Clark, trustee. The property to be sold includes the dam, canals, breakwaters, etc.

A private park is to be established by residents of St. Cloud on the shores of Pearl lake, in the town of Maine Prairie, on land owned by John Cooper.

them 4,000,000 to 6,000,000 feet of lumber this season as may be required. A drive ot between 40,000,000 and 50,000,000 feet of logs has passed this city this week. The crew in charge numbered sixty men and all were very orderly.

A new depot is in course of erection about one mile north of St. John's college in the town of St. Joseph, and is to be called Collegeville. The officers of the college have made arrangements for a post office at this place and a line of telegraph will connect the college with the station.

June 12. - Twenty-five years ago Tuesday John Schwartz crossed the Mississippi river and located on the farm where he now lives, just outside the borders of this city. He celebrated the occasion by entertaining a large number of old settlers and friends on that day in the grove near his house.

James and Isaac Bailey, the burglars who had entered Boyd's store and the Sauk Valley House, pleaded guilty to burglary and were sentenced each to three years in state prison.

Indictments were found by the grand jury against John Morris, George Hockenberry, Henry Williams, Thos. Marshall, Thomas Wheeler and Frederick Mayward for the burglary at Haines Bros.' store at Paynesville. Moore and Hockenberry pleaded guilty and were sentenced to two years each in state prison. Marshall pleaded not guilty. Williams gave his true name as Henry McKelvy.