Stearns County, Minnesota - Chapter with an unread heading (no. 8 of those read), 1915 (part 3 of 6)

Fifteen years ago yesterday Capt. W. W. Wright, of this city, took the position of station agent on the St. Paul and Pacific railroad at Anoka. He has acted in that capacity at Elk River, Big Lake, East St. Cloud, and at the depot on this side of the river as the road was completed to these different points. During this time, he informs us, he has not been above thj.« place or below St. Paul or ridden a mile on any other road.

The Pearl Lake Park Association organized Monday by electing the following officers: Wm. Powell, president; H. P. Bennett, vice-president; C. W. Kingsbury, secretary; J. G. Smith, treasurer; John

July 10. - At the adjourned term of the district court yesterday Henry McKelvy was discharged as not having been engaged in the Paynesville robbery. Thomas Marshall was tried and found guilty.

July 17. - The board of education Tuesday issued $2,100 new bonds bearing eight per cent interest to take up old bonds bearing twelve per cent interest which became due that day.

The locomotive which is now running between St. Cloud and Alexandria, on Conductor Dodge's train, was the first locomotive ever run in the state. It was formerly the Wm. Crooks, but since the railroad company adopted the system of numbering it is known as No. 1.

August 7. - We understand that C. F. Hendryx, lately connected with the Minneapolis Tribune, has purchased the office of the Sauk Centre Herald and will soon take charge.

F. B. VanHoesen, cashier of the Bank of Alexandria, and Mary C. Gunderson, of the same place, formerly a member of the faculty of the St. Cloud Normal school, were married this morning by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, at the residence of Mrs. W. R. Hunter, in this city.

There are only fourteen Saints among the more than nine hundred and sixty organized townships in Minnesota. Five of these are in Stearns county, viz.: St. Cloud, St. Joseph, St. Wendel, St. Augusta, and St. Martin.

September 11. - Wm. McNeal, of North Prairie, one of the oldest and best-known settlers in Stearns county, died this morning, aged about fifty years.

The returns to the collector of internal revenue show that during the past month, N. Kramer of this city manufactured 2,200 cigars and Joseph Mark 3,200.

October 16. - T. C. Alden has purchased the "Sisson" place, eighty acres, cornering on Brown's addition to the south and -west; consideration, $1,775.

By the consolidation of the Mobile U. S. land office with another in Alabama C. T. Stearns, formerly of this city, for many years the registrar, has been dropped from the service.

October 30. - About five hundred persons went to Avon Sunday on the special train to attend the dedication services of the new Catholic church at that place.

Fully 150,000 tickets, regular and split, were printed in this county for the election Tuesday, or nearly fifty tickets for each voter. ( November 20. - August Lindbergh has \ been appointed postmaster at Melrose.

December 4. - J. C, Staples, of the township of St. Joseph, who was one of the very earliest settlers along the Rockville road, died Wednesday of last week in the seventy-eighth year of his age.

At the annual meeting of the Sauk Rapids Manufacturing Company the following ofiicers were elected: Chas. Oilman, president; C. A. Oilman, secretary; Ellis Kling, treasurer.

December 11. - The Bank of St. Cloud, successor to James A. Bell and J. O. Smith's private bank, was organized December 6, beginning business on the 15th.

issued last Saturday. The next number will not be issued until the party interested, A. M. Schack, has canvassed for subscribers. (It never was issued.)

January 1. - Many of the farmers in this vicinity raised the past year from 1,000 to 2,000 bushels of wheat, each, worth $1.10 per bushel - this in addition to corn, oats, potatoes, etc., not to mention stock. Farming pays in Minnesota.

January 8. - A reduction of fare has been made on the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railroad to four cents per mile. The fare from this city to St. Paul is now $3.00.

Oeo. A. Freudenrich, of this city, general agent of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., has been appointed by that company to go to Russia and look after their business in that country the present season. During his absence the business here will be in charge of N. B. Fulmer, of Alexandria, whose headquarters will be in St. Cloud.

A meeting was held at the court house Monday evening to take action toward the improvement of the water power in the Mississippi at this place. A committee was appointed to secure the organization of a stock company to carry out the project.

January 22. - A number of the $10 government silver certificates have appeared in circulation here. They are of the same size as and differ little in appearance from the greenbacks.

According to the returns made to the internal revenue department at St Paul, 4,864 barrels of beer were made at St. Cloud, 100 at Sauk Centre 850 at New Munich, 144 at Richmond and 93 at Cold Spring, making a total of 6,051 barrels in the county during the year 1879.

February 19. - The St. Cloud Reading Room Society was organized last Thursday, with the following officers: Mrs. H. C. Waite, president; Mrs. W. B. Mitchell, vice-president; Mrs. L. W. Collins, secretary; Mrs. O. Tenney, treasurer.

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A building has been moved from Sauk Rapids and placed inside the "Y" (North-i ern Pacific and S. P., M. & M. R. R.'s) on the east side, to accommodate the passengers taking or getting off the cars there. It is understood that a wide platform will be built to connect the two tracks, as at Minneapolis Junction.

March 4. - The Richmond Mining Company, composed of Jacob Simonitsch, Joseph Berghoff and A. Bussen, with a capital of $10,000, has been organized at that village to dig for coal, which is believed to be in paying quantities in that township.

March 11. - The Concordia Society met at the court house Thursday evening and decided to erect a hall, and to incorporate under the laws of the state. It was decided to locate the hall at the corner of Lake street and Jefferson avenue, the lot costing $300. The society organized as follows: P. R. Griebler, president; John Vandersluis, vice-president; John Rentz, secretary; J. R. Bennett, Jr., corresponding secretary; W. L. Rosenberger, treasurer; E. H. Kellerman, librarian; L. Thielman, H. J. Rosenberger and Jacob Lemm, finance committee. M.. Gans tendered his resignation as musical director, which was accepted, and P. E. Kaiser was elected to fill the vacancy.

The Episcopal church at Sauk Centre, which had been struggling for some time under a debt of $1,918.50, had the pleasure on Easter of seeing it fully cleared off.

The Sauk Rapids water power was bid in at the foreclosure sale Friday by Commodore Davidson, who held the claim against the property, for $125,000. G. W. Benedict bid $96,000 for certain Michigan parties.

Miss Alfa Van Valkenberg, of Sauk Centre, one of the early graduates of the St. Cloud Normal School, and for a number of years a teacher in the Minneapolis

April 22. - The increased business of the St. P. M. & M. R. R. at St. Cloud has made it necessary to put a night operator at the depot telegraph office. W. E. Magner fills the position.

April 29. - Suit was begun Tuesday in the Ramsey county district court by Joseph Robert, Philip Beaupre, U. L. Lamprey and Henry C. James against Chas. A. Gilman and Lucy C. Gilman to test the title to a part or the whole of the water power on Sauk river at Sauk City.

May 6. - The party engaged in making the survey for the Rush City, Grantsburg and St. Cloud railroad reached this end of the line last Thursday and left at once for St. Paul. It is reported that the line was found to be a feasible one.

On Saturday Mrs. Abby West, of this city, was married to Wm. H. Thompson, of Alexandria, a member of the graduating class of the normal school, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. E. V. Campbell. We understand that Mr. and Mrs. Thompson will make their home in this city.

May 13. - A dispensation from the grand lodge of the state has been granted to Solomon Foot, A. A. Whitney and N. M. Freeman to institute a lodge of Masons at Melrose.

At the public sale of short horns to be held at Minneapolis on the 26th inst., N. P. Clarke, of this city, will have on exhibition and for sale thirty-six head from his Meadow Lawn farm.

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Mockenhaupt, of St. Cloud, celebrated their golden wedding May 25. They were married at Coblenz, Prussia, in 1830, and have lived in St. Cloud since 1860.

The teachers of Maine Prairie and Fair Haven met at the Farwell schoolhouse at Maine Prairie on the 22nd inst., and organized a teachers' association.

and now have telephone communication with the depot. This line will be of great service in securing information as regards the arrival and departure of trains.

June 17. - As a result of the high water in the Mississippi river from 50,000 to 100,000 feet of logs, belonging to Clarke & McClure, escaped Saturday from the lower boom.

A daily mail will be put on between this place and Fair Haven, serving Maine Prairie also, July 1. The mail will be carried by the present contractors.

Sauk Centre has organized a free library to be known as the "Bryant Library Association," with Miss Alice Tobey, formerly of St. Cloud, librarian.

The contract for building the Little Falls and Dakota railroad from Little Falls to Morris via Sauk Centre was let Tuesday to DeGraff & Co., work to begin at Little Falls immediately and the road to be completed by November 15, 1882.

July 1. - The city council has decided to purchase for a park a part of block "C" (now Empire park), which is a very pleasant place and would make a good location, at some future time, for a city hall.

The salary of the St. Cloud postmaster has been increased from $1,600 to $1,700 per year. This being a "separating office," he is allowed $450 per year additional to the above amount.

July 8. - The glorious Fourth was celebrated with a parade and a meeting in the Pavilion grounds, where the Declaration of Independence was read by P. B. Gorman and an oration was delivered by D. B. Searle, Capt. L. W. Collins acting as president of the day. In the morning it was learned that a special train bearing Gen. W. T. Sherman and party bound for Manitoba would pass here about noon and arrangements were made by telegraph to have them stop for a short time. Gen. Sherman was met at the depot and escorted to the grounds by a large number of citizens, where he made a very pleasing extemporaneous speech and was given a tremendous ovation.

July 15. - A lodge of the Sons of Herman was organized in this city Saturday evening. It is confined entirely to Germans and is for mutual relief and life insurance.

The completed census gives Stearns county a population of 21,811, being an increase of 7,605 since the national census of 1870 and 4,014 since the state census of 1875.

August 5. - St. Cloud is the sixteenth city in the state in population. By the 1910 census it was the fifth. Stearns county ranks seventh in the state in the number of inhabitants. In 1910 it was the fourth.

August 12. - One of the new postoffice cars has been put on the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba railroad. It is a model of convenience and is presided over on alternate trips by mail agents Z. H. Morse, J. O. Hall, Chas. Dueber and C. Chrysler.

D. H. Freeman, who had made a second trip to Dakota, accompanied by Capt. O. Taylor and John Coates, to search for the remains of his father, killed in the Indian war of 1862, returned Monday, having been unsuccessful.

September 2. - Telephone instruments were this afternoon put in the West House office and that hotel is now in connection with the depot, Coates & Freeman's livery and the McCormick headquarters.

September 16. - Henry Edelbrock, a brother of Joseph Edelbrock, arrived in this city Monday with his family, compris-* ing eleven members, and twelve other persons, coming direct from Westphalia, Prussia. All will locate in this vicinity.

John Emmel and George Schaefer, of this city, have purchased Carl Herberger's store at Albany and will go into business there. Both are energetic young men and will make their new venture a success.

The many friends in this city of Ex- Governor Stephen Miller will be pleased to learn that he has received back-pay pension money to the amount of $5,800, and is to receive a pension hereafter of $30 a month, as lieutenant-colonel of the old First Minnesota.

As the result of a third trip to the Dakota battlefield, D. H. Freeman, who was accompanied by C. S. Benson, was successful in finding the remains of his father. Lieutenant Ambrose Freeman, returning last Friday, and on Tuesday the body was given its final resting place in the Si. Cloud cemetery. The grave was at Camp Whitney, on a dry sandy knoll, twelve miles from the Terry farm.

Fred Jones brought to town Monday the carcasses of six bears, which himself, his uncle A. T. Dearborn, and another lad had killed near Santiago the day before.

W. H. Fletcher, of Sauk Rapids, informs us that his bees have produced this year 2,500 pounds of honey, or an average of forty pounds to each hive.

October 14. - Eva Boobar, of Sauk Centre, was married last evening to the Rev. T. C. Hudson, rector of the Episcopal church at that place, the Rev. G. H. Davis, of this city, officiating. Mr. Hudson will be located at Morris.

October 21. - Last Saturday an October snow storm brought eight inches of the "beautiful," which a high wind piled into drifts that blockaded the railroad, greatly delaying the trains.

November 11. - A deed conveying the Barnesville and Moorhead railway to the St. Paul and Manitoba company was filed with the secretary of state yesterday; the consideration named is $250,000. Also, a deed conveying to the same company the St. Cloud and Lake Traverse road, the consideration being $550,600.

November 18. - A skating club, numbering thirty-five members, was organized Wednesday, with A. L. Cramb, president; E. S. Hill, vice-president; F. Tolman, secretary; Thos. Brown, corresponding secretary; Geo.. B. Smith, treasurer. It is proposecl to build a house and flood and keep clear of snow a good skating park on Lake George.

November 25. - The completion of the opera house, the construction of which was under charge of the Concordia Society, marks an event of no small importance in the history of this city. It is 40x120 feet and with the gallery is capable of seating 800 persons. On Tuesday the building was dedicated with a concert by the Great Union band of St. Paul. The building is located on the corner of Jefferson and Lake streets, two squares west of the postoffice.

December 16. - While in Chicago last week, C. F. MacDonald purchased a handsome drop curtain with nine sets of scenery for the opera house. These were bought with the proceeds of the benefit given the opera house at its dedication.

Winslow Maley, tried for a murderous assault on an old man named Anton Trisco, living near Melrose, was found guilty by a jury on the 11th inst., and was yesterday sentenced by Judge McKelvy to five years at hard labor in the state prison.

worth to Julius C. Payne, both of Stearns county. By the same, at St. Cloud, December 22, Addie Steen to Freeland D. Hamilton, both of Maine Prairie.

December 30. - A number of the friends of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Spicer met at their residence last Thursday evening to celebrate their silver wedding. They were the first white couple married in St. Cloud, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. Mr. Cramb, a Baptist minister, Mrs. Spicer's maiden name being Mary J. Marvin. H. C. Waite was the only person present who was at the wedding twenty-five years ago.

Under the new schedule the fare from St. Cloud to St. Paul is $2.90, to Minneapolis, $2.70; round trip to St. Paul, $4.85, to Minneapolis, $4.55.

The snow storm of last week was one of the worst in the history of Minnesota. Fences were buried out of sight under the snow which reached above the top of firststory windows and placed an embargo on travel. There was no train from St. Paul between Friday noon and Monday night.

February 17. - The Messrs. Hendryx, of the Sauk Centre Herald and Melrose Record, have brought suit for $2,000 damages against D. B. McDonald, of Melrose and asking for an order preventing him from continuing the publication of the Record at that place, claiming that this is a violation of the contract made when they purchased of McDonald the original Melrose Record.

February 24. - The St. Paul papers report the marriage at the Cathedral in that city on Saturday, of Millie Campbell, of Litchfield, to the Hon. C. F. MacDonald, of this city. Senator MacDonald and bride will return here at the close of the present session of the legislature and will receive the congratulations of their many friends.

March 31. - The contract for army transportation on the wagon routes in Minnesota, Montana and Dakota has been awarded to H. C. Waite, of this city.

April 14. - All the liquor sellers in this city, with two or three exceptions, have signed a petition to Mayor Hammerel, circulated by Alderman Waite, asking that all saloons be closed at 11 o'clock each night and during certain hours on Sunday.

Invitations for the first annual banquet of the Alumni Association of the St. Cloud Normal school, to be given at the West House, April 28, at 1:30 o'clock, have been issued.

The newly-incorporated village of Melrose held its first election last week, with ' the following result: Trustees, J. H. Edelbrock, Edwin Clark, A. A. Whitney, Gerhard Richter and Joseph Moritz; Justice, D. B. McDonald; Treasurer, E. L. Hedin. D. B. McDonald was chosen recorder.

Maine Prairie was thrown into a fever of excitement by the sudden and unexexplained disappearance two weeks ago of Philip Moon, the merchant at that place. Attachments amounting to over $4,000 have been taken out on his stock.

The butchers have run the price of beefsteaks, etc., to 121/^ cents per pound and then vow that they are losing money. (Beef cattle were quoted at 3l^@4c on foot.)

Philip Moon, who mysteriously disappeared from Maine Prairie a month ago, has not been heard from. His stock of goods was sold at auction last week by the sheriff for $2,800, coming eventually into the possession of D. B. Stanley, of that place.

June 9. - Married, in this city, June 8, at St. Johns Church, by the Rev. G. H. Davis, Minnie C. Tolman, of St. Cloud to H. D. Gallup of Sauk Centre.****In this city June 8, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, Hattie Frances Clark to Samuel C. Gilman, all of this city.

J. E. Hayward is having the plans drawn for a splendid brick hotel to be put on the corner of Washington avenue and St. Germain street, where the Central House now stands.

July 14. - Capt. Joshua Briggs, of Briggs lake, one of the pioneer settlers of this part of the country, died suddenly at his house July 6, aged 66 years. Another old settler, Henry Vorjohan, of St. Augusta, dropped dead Friday while at work in the field. Joseph H. Bdelbrock, who had lived in St. Cloud from his boyhood until 1877, when he removed to Melrose, died in that village Sunday.

July 28. - Albert Smith has purchased of ex-Governor Marshall 160 acres of land on the east side of the Mississippi river, a little over half a mile from the city, paying $9 per acre for it.

August 18. - Prof. D. L. Kiehle, principal of the Normal school, today received from Gov. Pillsbury the appointment of State Superintendent of Public Schools.

Thomas C. McClure, one of the most prominent business men of St. Cloud, and one of the early settlers, having made this his home in 1857, died on the 12th inst., aged 54 years.

August 25. - Ex-Governor Stephen Miller, one of St. Cloud's early settlers, died at Worthington, in this state, on the 18th inst., aged 65 years.

A numerously-signed petition asks the city council to purchase "Pine Garden," a tract of seven acres bordering on the Mississippi river and the ravine, for a public park. It is owned by George F. Brott, who offers it for $5,000 with a perfect title.

September 22. - St. Cloud is in mourning over the death of President Garfield, September 19, after a heroic fight for life sacrificed by tlie assassin's bullet.

October 6. - Mrs. Mary P. Wilson, of Minneapolis, has purchased of Gov. W. R. Marshall, of St. Paul, 170 acres of land just across the river from this city, at an average price of $40 per acre.

October 27. - C. Bridgman has purchased of George F. Brott the tract of land at the mouth of the ravine, known as "Pine Garden," for $3,200, with a view to transferring it to the city for a park.

November 3. - A bill was introduced in the house of representatives October 27, providing for the holding of regular terms of the district court at Sauk Centre, the court to be known as "the Seventh judicial district, county of Stearns west."

November 10. - Mr. Andrew Bensen of the firm of Bensen Bros., of this city and Miss Nellie Capple were married by th© Rev. E. V. Campbell this afternoon.

December 15. - Foley Bros, of Ottawa, Canada have the contract for getting out all the bridge timber and piles needed for the St. Cloud and Hinckley R. R. They are putting up a sawmill about fifteen miles from here to be used in getting out this timber. They will make their home and headquarters in this city.

December 22. - The marriage of Zoe Swisshelm, only daughter of Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm, to Ernest L. Allen, took place at Chicago, on the 19th inst., the ceremony being performed by Prof. David Swing, assisted by Dr. W. H. Thomas. Both these young people were former residents of St. Cloud and have many friends here to extend good wishes.

December 29. - H. Celia Higgins, for a number of years a member of the faculty of the St. Cloud Normal school, was married Monday evening to Dr. E. K. Jaques, at the Presbyterian church, St. Cloud; Dr. D. L. Kiehle assisted by the Rev. E. V. Campbell performing the ceremony.

January 19. - Breen & Young have one hundred men engaged at their granite quarries across the river in getting out stone for the big Manitoba railroad bridge at Minneapolis.

The bill passed at the special session of the legislature incorporating Sauk Rapids as a village, extended the southern limits to the boundary line between Benton and Sherburne counties, taking in the East St. Cloud depot. Our neighbor is disposed to spread itself.

Joseph McNeal, one of the old settlers of the town of Brockway, died Sunday. The following day another old settler and soldier in the war for the Union, John Brakefield, of Avon, passed away.

January 26. - William Westerman, of Independence, Iowa, who has been appointed general agent of the McCormick Harvester Machine Co. in this place, arrived on Friday to take up his duties.

Alvah Eastman has taken the position of editor of the Anoka Herald, which has just received a new press and discarded patent outsides, the paper being now printed entirely at home.

February 2. - Among the postmasters recently appointed in this state were the following: Holding Ford, E. Morgan; North Fork, Albert J. Anderson; Rice, R. M. Trace.

Negotiations are in progress between citizens of St. Cloud and the Sauk Rapids Water Power Company to secure the improvement of the west side of the Mississippi river opposite Sauk Rapids.

February 9. - D. B. Searle purchased Friday Jos. Edelbrock's farm of 130 acres adjoining the city; consideration, $5,000. He has also purchased the adjoining Van Loon tract of 80 acres for $3,250.,

Married, at the residence of the bride's parents, in the town of Rockville, February 22, by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, Martha Ellen Payne to Freeman E. Davis, all of Stearns county.

March 2. - William Cooper, Fair Haven, who came to Minnesota in 1856, served for three years in the Eighth Minnesota Volunteers and at the close of the war went into business in Fair Haven, died February 24 at the residence of his brother, John Cooper, in this city.

Married, at Maine Prairie, February 21, by the Rev. Levi Gleason, Nellie Kimball, of Maine Prairie, to W. L. Kilbourn, of Litchfield. At Fair Haven, February 22, by the Rev. William Brown, Eunice Goodspeed to John Stickney, both of Maine Prairie.

March 16. - Articles of incorporation of the St. Cloud Reading Room Society were filed with the secretary of state Tuesday. The officers are: Mrs. Ella S. Collins, president; Mrs. Emily W. Morse, vice-president; Mrs. Emma West, secretary; Mrs. E. N. Evans, treasurer.

March 30. - D. A. Hoyt is engaged in tearing down the old Fletcher House, one of the first-erected hotels in the city. (This lot is now occupied by the Tenvoorde gar^ age.)

The old log building back of the Methodist church, which served in the primeval days as a jail, is being torn down and the material taken away.

April 13. - Darnah & Haveland have opened the granite quarry on Coates & Freeman's farm on the east side of the river, and are getting out stone for the Manitoba bridge at Minneapolis.

The body of Edward D. Atwater, a surveyor and one of the early settlers of St. Cloud, was found on the 10th inst. by the side of a muddy slough in Brownhead county, Montana.

May 4. - J. P. Wilson is clearing about 150 acres of the land purchased by him on the east side of the river, and is laying it out into town lots. The new town will be know as "Wilson's Addition to St. Cloud."

May 11. - Dr. B. R. Palmer died at his home in Sauk Centre Saturday, aged 69 years. He came to St. Cloud in 1856 for the benefit of his health and the following year began the practice of his profession in this city, where he remained until about ten years later, when he removed to Sauk Centre.

May 18. - A new brass band was organized last night with Martin Molitor leader. It includes eleven pieces and is composed of experienced musicians.

J. B. Cable has been appointed assistant general superintendent of the St. Cloud and Fergus Falls division of the St. P., M. & M. R. R., with headquarters at St. Cloud. The old passenger depot is being put into condition for his use and that of Joseph McCable, the chief train dispatcher, and his assistants, who will hereafter make this place their headquarters.

May 25. - The Rev. T. E. Inman, who was a resident of St. Cloud in the early days and for several years pastor of the Baptist church, died Thursday of paralysis at Wadena. He enlisted in the army from St. Cloud, and after his return from the war engaged in farming at Maine Prairie.

June 1. - Antoine Edelbrock, son of H. Edelbrock, who came to St. Cloud in 1880 with all the other members of his family, arrived in St. Cloud with his newly-wedded wife. It appears that in November, 1879, this young man had shot a rabbit on his own father's land, which under the game laws of Germany is a serious offense. Young Antoine was arrested, tried and sentenced to three years in prison. Through the efforts of Capt. L. W. Collins, Secretary of State Fred Van Baumbach, Governor Pillsbury and Senator Windom, who signed a petition to the Emperor of Germany, his release was secured, and taking to himself a wife, Mr. Edelbrock lost no time in coming to St. Cloud, where he can shoot rabbits to his heart's content.

June 8. - The newly-incorporated building association, known as the St. Cloud Mutual Building and Loan Association, with a capital of $200,000, held its first annual election Saturday, when the following officers were chosen: C. P. MacDonald. president; H. J. Rosenberger, vice-president; E. D. Moore, secretary; J. G. Smith,

June 15. - Theo H. Bruener has retired from the editorship of the Nordstern, a position he has filled with decided ability. W. P. Remer will temporarily supply the place.

Pigeons continue to be brought in by sportsmen by the hundreds. The birds are nesting a few miles from town in the woods near the Rockville road, by the tens of thousands, and the noise they make can be heard for a long distance.

June 22. - Work is progressing rapidly on the St. Cloud and Hinckley railroad. From fifteen to twenty carloads of material are being received daily for the new passenger depot and car shops.

Married, at Maine Prairie. June 18, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, Clara A. Roberts to J. L. Lovering, of St. Paul.

John and Andrew Bensen, of this city, and J. P. Wilson, of Minneapolis, have purchased 55 acres of land on the east side of the river, lying on both sides of the railroad track; consideration, $1,000.

Frank Arnold has put in rollers and made other improvements to his flouring mill near the mouth of the Sauk river, to the extent of about $14,000.

August 17. - C. Bridgman will begin this week taking to pieces his upper saw mill, in lower town, preparatory to moving it to West Branch, on the St. Cloud and Hinckley railroad.

September 14. - Daniel Bosworth, who came to Minnesota in the territorial days, since which time he followed the business of logging, having been engaged with Clarke & McClure since 1866, died in this city Tuesday.

A local fire insurance board was organized in this city Friday, with L. A. Evans, president; P. Brick, vice-president; F. Tolman, secretary. A committee began Saturday re-rating the town.

A temperance convention for Stearns county is in session at the court house. J. B. Vandervoort, of Fair Haven, is chairman and L. M. Davis, of Sauk Centre, secretary. There is a good attendance from different parts of the county.

October 5. - The first number of the Kreusbote, a German paper, the official organ of the Catholic church of Northern Minnesota, was issued yesterday. It is published by Rosenberger & Renz, proprietors of the Nordstern.

Alice Tobey, eldest daughter of U. M. Tobey, of Sauk Centre, formerly of St. Cloud, was married at that village last evening to W. I. Henshaw, also of Sauk Centre, the Rev. T. C. Hudson, of Morris, officiating.

The St. Cloud Skating Club met last Thursday and elected as officers for the ensuing year: Prof. A. M. Welles, president; R. D. Hildreth, vice-oresident; Geo. B. Smith, secretary; W. H. Alden, treasurer.

October 26. - Mrs. T. C. McClure purchased this week of C. Bridgman what is known as "Pine Garden," coi taining over five acres, for which she pai'l $4,850. and

N. P. Clarke purchased of H. T. Welles, of Minneapolis, six lots adjoining in block '"Q" for which he paid $3,000. This property all lies along the bank of the Mississippi river, and the purchasers both intend erecting handsome residences on it.

November 9. - An Odd Fellows lodge was Instituted in this city Thursday evening, with six charter members.. The following officers were elected: N. G., L. A. Evans; V. G., Wm. Waldron; secretary, D. E. Davis; treasurer, E. B. Strong. Seventeen members of the Sauk Centre lodge were present.

Mrs,. Anna Maria Stenger, whose home was in the town of St. Cloud, near Sauk river, died Saturday at the advanced age of over ninety-three years.

November 23. - While Chester Waite, of the firm of H. C. Waite & Son, proprietors of the Cold Spring flouring mills, was on his way Tuesday to that village, he was stopped and robbed of |1,400 in bank notes. The highwayman, who was masked, was concealed in the brush by the roadsid i, some two or three miles from the village, and as Mr. Waite drove up covered him with a rifle and demanded his money. The latter took from his pocketbook a roll of ?500 and threw it to the robber, but the latter not being satisfied demanded the remainder of the money in the pocketbook, and $900 was handed over. Having obtained this the footpad ordered Mr. Waite to turn his horses' heads and return to St. Cloud, which he did with $600, which he had in another pocket. There is no clue to the identity of this bold highwayman.

Sixty citizens of St. Cloud organized a lecture association Saturday, electing Prof. Jerome Allen, president; C. S. Spencer, vice-president; A. M. Welles, recording secretary; F. E. Searle, corresponding secretary; C. W. Kingsbury, treasurer. It was decided to arrange for a course of at

December 7. - At a meeting of the directors of the Building Association Tuesday evening, A. Montgomery was elected secretary to succeed E. D. Moore, resigned.

Married, in this city. Thanksgiving eve, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, Elora Hayward to Dr. E. C. Holden, both of this city.

January 4. - St. Cloud voted at the election on the 30th ult., by 189 for to 12 against, to issue $10,000 in bonds as a bonus to the St. Cloud, Mankato and Austin Railroad Company, and Maine Prairie, by a vote of 124 to 6, agreed to give $9,000.

Married, January 1, at the residence of A. Ross, in Fair Haven, by the Rev. L. Palmer, Elizabeth A. Ross to Clinton D. Grinols, junior member of the firm of Grinols & Son.

January 25. - St. Cloud had its first operatic performance Monday night when the Alice Gates Opera Bouffe Company gave the "Princess of Trebizonde" to a good house.

A number of the young musicians of the city have organized the "St. Cloud Sextette Club," with the following officers: Prof. J. Rentz, president and leader; Ross Hildreth, secretary; Fred Staples, treasurer; F. Staples, R. Hildreth and Jos. B. Rosenberger, executive committee. The purpose of the club is to furnish at all times both band and string music.

February 15. - J. E. Hayward has let the contract for the completion of his new hotel, ready for the painters, to P. Smith for $27,300. Mr. Hayward has gone to St. Paul to arrange for a steam heating plant. The total cost of the building, when finished and furnished, will be fully $75,000. Anna Frank, of Henderson, was married Tuesday to Myron D. Taylor, of the law firm of Taylor & Taylor, this city.

The Swedish Lutherans of this vicinity have organized a church society with thirty members, and will probably erect a church building in East St. Cloud.

February 22. - A rule adopted by the board of education of the St. Cloud district prohibits corporal punishment. "No lickin', no larnin'," is evidently not the motto of the board.

The marriage of Ida E. Davis, only daughter of Mrs. G. M. Bishop, of Sauk Centre, to F. E. Searle, of this city, took place in that village last Thursday.

Jacob Lahr, a prominent farmer of Le Sauk, died Sunday at his home in that town, aged sixty-one years. Mr. Lahr came to this country in 1855, on the same ship with John Zapp, register of deeds, locating in Le Sauk the following year.

The Sauk Rapids Railway Company has been organized to operate street cars within the limits of that village. The incorporators are J. P. Wilson, Joseph Coates, Geo. W. Sweet, A. J. Demeules, J. H. Moody, W. P. Street and C. B. Buckman, with a capital stock of $60,000.

April 5. - C. A. Lindbergh, son of August Lindbergh, the Melrose postrhaster, is reading law with Searle, Searle & Tolman. He completed his law course at Ann Arbor, Mich., last month. Mr. Lindbergh is now (1914) serving his third term as member of congress from this district, his home being at Little Falls.

The city council has accepted from the trustees of the Library Association the 835 volumes on its shelves, and will make it a public library in accordance with the general statutes which allow a one-mill tax to be levied for this purpose. It will be known as "The St. Cloud City Library."

Edwin Clark, the pioneer merchant of Melrose, has sold his mercantile business at that village to Wm. Bohmer and will hereafter give his entire attention to his milling business.

May 10. - A. Anderson & Sons shipped last week the first full car load of wagons ever sent from a St. Cloud factory. They went to Moose Jaw, in the Northwest territory.

May 17. - It is less than a year ago that J. P.. Wilson began the erection of the first building on his East St. Cloud addition and by fall twenty houses had been built. This year further improvements are being pushed ahead rapidly.

June 28. - Married, in this city, June 27, at the Cathedral, Mary Rosenberger to John Rentz, one of the publishers of the Nordstern. The marriage of Miss Mattie Mann, of Windsor, Wis., to Dr. W. T. Stone, of St. Cloud, takes place today at the former city, the home of the bride.

The opening of the Buckman House Friday was a gala day at Sauk Rapids. Nearly a thousand invitations had been issued and about four hundred persons were present.

July 19. - The foundation having been completed, the new Catholic Cathedral was dedicated this morning with appropriate ceremonies by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Seidenbusch, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Francis, O,. S. B., of St. John's University, and the Rev. Father Wilkins, of Duelm, a large concourse of representative Catholics of St. Cloud and vicinity being present.

August 2. - A large crowd assembled at the opera house last evening to hear the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, the great Brooklyn orator. The lecturer was introduced by Capt. Collins and spoke for an hour and a half in an exceedingly interesting and telling manner on the "Reign of the Common People."

August 9. - Burglars have been in evidence this week. Tuesday night they entered Bensen Bros.' store, drilled into the safe, which they opened, and secured $150 in money and a gold watch worth the same amount. Today while S. Fuller was at dinner the auction room was entered by the back door and between $30 and $40 was stolen from the drawer.

Married, at St. Cloud, August 6, at the residence of the bride's mother, Mrs. Helen Moore, by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, Helen Inez Moore to Eugene S. Hill, of this city.

August 16. - Paynesville, Zion and Munson have voted in favor of issuing bonds to aid in the construction of the Dakota, Willmar and St. Cloud railroad. Lake Henry voted almost solidly against giving aid.

G. W. Stewart, of Little Falls, has removed to this city and will hereafter make St. Cloud his home. He will read law in Taylor & Taylor's office.

A strong movement is under way for the improvement of Lake George by the cleansing of the lake bottom and the construction of a driveway one hundred feet wide around the lake. This driveway would be practically, if not exactly, one mile long. The land on the west and south sides is owned almost entirely by J. O. McConnell and A. L. Cramb, who would donate what would be required within their boundaries and do all in their power otherwise to aid the undertaking, feeling that it would be a benefit not only to their remaining lands but also to the health of their families.

Married, in this city, Monday afternoon, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. Philip McKim, Elizabeth C. Metzroth to John N. Bensen, of St. Cloud.

August 30. - The individual contributions of the people of St. Cloud to the cyclone sufferers at Rochester were $439, to which was added $3,332.22 realized from the resale of a section of pine land, making the total amount sent from St. Cloud $3,771.22.

September 20. - The St. Cloud Electric Light and Power Company, consisting of L. A. Evans, F. H. Dam, Lewis Clark and J. P. Wilson, of this city, and J. H. Woolsey, of St. Paul, has leased a site for works just south of Newton's mill at Sauk Rapids. The wires will be run to St. Cloud and either light or power supplied to our citizens. The first light will be placed in F. H. Dam's factory the last of this month.

Robert L. Gale, for some months past bookkeeper in the First National Bank, has secured a position as manager of the St. Cloud Fuel and Transfer Company.

Corporal punishment has been reinstated in the Union school and the pupils can no longer do as they please, " 'cause teacher can't lick us anyhow."

A branch of the Y. W. C. T. U. has been organized in this city with the following officers: Mollie Wright, president; Belle Rankin, Anna Stevenson, Hannah Anderson, Sarah Stabler, vice-presidents; Jennie Campbell, corresponding secretary; Kittle ,W. Allen, recording secretary; Carrie Biggerstaff, treasurer.

November 1. - The marriage of Minnie Petty, of Maine Prairie, to Dr. L. H. Mumford, of the same town, is announced to take place this afternoon at the residence of the bride's parents.

Appleton Webb, who came to Minnesota in 1856, died at his home in Brockway October 25, at the age of 86 years. He was town treasurer from 1857 until his death.

November 8.. - The proposition to issue $10,000 bonds to build a new court house at Sauk Rapids was overwhelmingly voted down Tuesday by the people of Benton county.

November 15. - The St. Cloud Land Improvement Company, which is supplementary to the Water Power Company, has been organized, and the articles of incorporation filed.

All credit to Sauk Centre. By a unanimous vote the council has increased the liquor license to $500,. St. Cloud still sticks to the $100 figure.

On and after Monday next St. Cloud will have six trains daily each way between St. Paul and Minneapolis, four on the Manitoba and two on the Northern Pacific.

There has been a swapping of editors among the German papers this week. Mr. Stackelman, of the Nordstern, in connection with Fred Schilplin, will take charge of the new semi-weekly. Die Minnesota, and Mr. llenestebeck, of the Nordwesten, will

The register of deeds of Benton county received last week for record a deed by which Commodore Davidson conveyed to the Sauk Rapids Company the power at that place.

November 29. - Still more newspaper changes in the German field. Gerhard May has resigned his position as deputy judge of probate to accept the editorship of the Nordwesten, and Berteus Miller has purchased an interest in the Nordstern and will soon take the management of that paper.

The chamber of commerce at a meeting held Monday voted unanimously in favor of a resolution asking the city council to submit to the people at the earliest day possible a proposition for a bonus to aid in the development of the water power.

Central time has been adopted by the Manitoba Railroad and all clocks and watches in this city will now be moved 12 minutes and 8 seconds ahead.

December 20. - The pastors of the Baptist, Methodist, Congregational and Presbyterian churches have formed a ministerial association. They have decided to make a thorough canvas of the city, visiting every Protestant family whose church home is unknown, with a view to securing the attendance of such as are not now church-goers at some of the several houses of worship.

January 3. - H. C. Waite has purchased Major Smith's large stock farm which adjoins the former's farm on Sauk river. The purchase comprises 240 acres; consideration, $6,500. This gives Mr. Waite about 1,500 acres lying in a body.

Reversing the usual custom the ladies made the New Year calls this first of January. It was a very happy occasion all around. In the evening a Leap Year reception was given in the new McClure & Searle building, when between forty and fifty couples occupied the dancing floor. The room was in charge of Ada Locke, Rose Joslin and Helen Gilman, while Kit-

January 10. - Governor Hubbard has appointed ex-Governor Barto, of Sauk Centre, a member of the board of trustees of the hospital for the insane.

January 17. - By a vote of 702 to 53 the proposition to issue $100,000 bonds for the improvement of the water power in the Mississippi river was approved by the people of St. Cloud.

January 31. - The old St. Cloud Board of Trade held a meeting Monday evening, paid all bills and turned over $2.75 to the Chamber of Commerce.

A number of prominent Germans of St. Cloud have organized a Schuetzen-Verein, or Rifle Club. The rifle masters are J. B. Henneman, Julius Dominick and Charles Dueber.

March 6. - The final tests of the system of water works put in for the city were made Tuesday and were satisfactory. The need now is the organization of two firstclass hose companies.

March 13. - Alexander Moore has brought three suits against the Little Falls and Dakota Railroad Company for damages aggregating $10,000. Mr. Moore alleges that the company did not build its depot where it had promised; that it has not settled for right of way over his land, and has damaged his land by flowage.

J. P. Wilson made a proposition Friday to the county commissioners of Benton county to donate a site for a court house and give $5,000 toward the cost if the county buildings were located at East St. Cloud. The offer was declined. The new court house is to cost $4,000, the village of Sauk Rapids paying $1,500.

April 10. - There are now fourteen passenger trains between St. Cloud and St. Paul and Minneapolis, six of which are daily and the other eight daily except Sundays. There are also two trains connecting Hinckley with Duluth. The Northern Pacific has added a daily passenger train which leaves here at 9:35 a. m., arriving at St. Paul at 12:25 p. m., returning it leaves at 4:05 p. m., arriving here at 7:25 p. m.

Chas. W. Linwood, of Moorhead, arrived Tuesday to take charge of the American Express agency, in place of Mr. Cahoon. In this year (1914) Mr. Linwood is still in the service.

April 10.. - Monday an Odd Fellows lodge was instituted at Sauk Rapids by State Grand Master I. F. Clark, assisted by the St. Cloud lodge. The new lodge starts with a membership of twenty-four.

The council has granted permission to George Curtis, Fred Low, H. G. Wire, J. E. Henneman, J. P. Fahnlander and thirteen others to organize St. Cloud Hose Company No. L

April 17. - At the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce Monday, J. O. McConnell, for the committee on streets, roads and parks, reported that the committee had secured the right of way for the Lake George drive-way and park for about fourfifths of the distance around the lake, but that it would be necessary to condemn the remainder of the property needed. A resolution was adopted asking the city council to institute condemnation proceedings.

The Stearns County Bar Association organized Friday afternoon with a banquet in the evening. There are thirty-nine attorneys in Stearns county.

The passenger rates on the Manitoba railroad have been reduced to $2.75 to St. Paul and $2.55 to Minneapolis; round trip tickets, $4.85 and $4.50, respectively.

Burglars blew open the safe in Vandervort & Co.'s store at Fair Haven Wednesday morning obtaining about $500 in cash and a quantity of postage stamps.

Married, in St. Cloud, May 17, by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, Wilhelmina Metzorth to Frank E. Levansaler, both of St. Cloud. In Frankfort, N. Y., May 21, by the Rev. E. Haynes, D. D., of Boston, Mamie C. Tyne, of Frankfort, to John McElroy, of St. Cloud.

June 5. - F. W. Murray, manager of the Clearwater elevator, has purchased of C. F. Davis, of this city, the Clearwater flouring mills, and will at once put in the latest "roller" machinery.

Louise Polly, a graduate of the class of 1883 of the St. Cloud Normal School, was married at Litchfield on Monday, June 2, to Waite A. Schoemaker, of the present faculty of the school.

locating the following year in Fair Haven. He served in the Union army, enlisting for three months in the First Minnesota and re-enlisting in the Fourth regiment, serving until the close of the war as second lieutenant of Company D. After the war he bought a farm on Maine Prairie and made that town his home until his death. The Masons and Grand Army took part in the funeral services.

The preliminary work on the driveway around Lake George is progressing satisfactorily. J. O. McConnell has agreed to give the city not only the right of way for the street, but also a tract of about five acres lying between the driveway and the lake for a park. Other property owners around the lake it is expected will be equally as liberal.

Married, in this city, June 24, at the Bishop's residence, Mary E. Edelbrock to M. J. Nugent, both of St. Cloud. At Packenham, Ontario, the same date, Mary Ann Foley, of that city, to Dr. A. C. Ramsay, of Chicago (later of St. Cloud).

H. C. Waite & Son have shut down their flouring mill at Cold Spring.. This is because of the continued decline in the price of wheat, which makes the manufacture of flour unprofitable.

July 3. - The bill giving the St. Cloud Water Power and Mill Company the right to dam the Mississippi river at this place has passed both houses of congress.

The Northern Pacific Railroad Company completed its road from St. Paul to Sauk Rapids, on the Manitoba's leased right of way Monday, making connection there with the line to Brainerd.

July 17. - The Cold Spring Opera House Company has filed articles of incorporation. The purpose is to erect a building to be used for literary and musical purposes and social culture and entertainment. The first officers are F. P. Hecklin, president; J. J.. Gross, vice-president; J. L. Bold, secretary; Marcus Maurin, treasurer; Peter Hoffman, Jolm Kiewel and Jacob Heiman, trustees.

July 24. - Word has been received of the death of Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm, for many years a resident of St. Cloud, at Swissvale, Pa., in the sixty-ninth year of her age.

July 31. - Last Thursday afternoon one of the most destructive hail storms ever known in this region swept through the towns of Crow Lake, Lake Henry, Zion, Rockville, St. Joseph and St. Cloud and a part of Sherburne county. The storm on the average covered an area of two miles and all the crops it passed over were a total loss. The loss is estimated at from $100,000 to $150,000.

After an illness of several months Judge James M. McKelvy died at his home in this city on the night of July 31, in the fiftieth year of his age.

August 14. - The Northern Pacific depot at East St. Cloud, which has been completed, will have Montfort Johnson, who comes from Clear Lake, as its first agent.

September 4. - St. Cloud has a new militia company, with officers elected Monday evening. They are: Andrew Larsen, captain; John Schaefer, first lieutenant; W. H. Alden, second lieutenant; H. G. Wire, first sergeant; O. W. Baldwin, second; W. L. Waldron, Sr., third; Fred M. Low, fourth; Dudley W. Burgan, fifth; Frank Carrier, first corporal; H. A. Overbeck, second; Ed. H. Wright, third; George S. Curtis, fourth; M. J. Nugent, fifth; John De- Leo, sixth; Wm. Hall and John Stevens, musicians.. The company will be mustered in by the adjutant general next Monday evening.

Farmers from nine towns in the county met in St. Cloud on the 9th inst, and organized a Stearns County Alliance. E. H. Atwood was chairman and G. W. Duncan secretary of the meeting.

September 25. - Sauk Rapids' old landmark, the Buckman House, was burned to the ground Saturday night. It was a large three-story wooden building, and was erected in 1856 by Jeremiah Russell and George W. Sweet and went under the name of the Hyperborean Hotel. It had since then a number of owners, and was at one time known as the Russell House. It was valued at $8,000 and was uninsured. The furniture, valued at $3,500, was insured for $1,500.

October 9. - Joseph Cook, of Boston, delivered two lectures in this city on Saturday and Tuesday evenings, under the auspices of the Ladies' Reading Room Society. The first was on "Ultimate America" and the second on "The Seven Modern Wonders of the World." There were large and highly gratified audiences both evenings.

October 16. - W. H. Lamb, at one time editor and proprietor of the St. Cloud Times, died last Thursday at Eau Claire, Wis., aged thirty-five years.

October 23. - Miss Elizabeth C. Farrar, stepdaughter of Dr. G. S. Brigham, of this city, was married Tuesday evening to the Rev. Joseph Hayes Chandler, at the Congregational church, of which he is the pastor. The service was read by the Rev. Joseph Chandler, father of the groom.

October 30. - Bishop Seidenbusch, assisted by a large number of clergy, dedicated Tuesday the handsome new cathedral in this city, which has just been completed.

November 27. - A notable wedding took place this morning at the Cathedral chapel, the contracting parties being J. H. Linnemann, of St. Joseph, one of the best known merchants of Stearns county, and Mrs. Angelina Kraemer, of this city, Father Severin performing the ceremony.

December 4. - Married, in St. Cloud, December 2, at the residence of the bride's mother, Mrs. Sarah Hunter, by the Rev. K V. Campbell, Nellie Hunter to Arthur Hubbard, all of this city.

January 1. - One of the most enjoyable entertainments of the holiday season was the carnival at the rink Friday evening. The costumes were exceedingly fine and the participants generally were quite successful in concealing their identity until later in the evening, when the masks were removed.

Although this was the coldest day in twenty-seven years, the mercury registering from 42 to 50 degrees below zero, yet New Years calling was observed as generally as though the temperature had b i of a more inviting nature..

January 8. - Wm. Bohmer, one of the oldest settlers in northern Minnesota, died Monday at his home at Melrose, aged fiftyseven years. He had lived at Sauk Rapids and then at New Munich, where he accumulated a large fortune.

January 15. - The St. Cloud Lodge I. O. G. T. met Tuesday evening and decided to disband. The lodge has done good work in the past and has accumulated quite an amount of furniture and paraphernalia, but the members lacked interest in the work.

Ex-Vice-President Schuyler Colfax, whose death from heart disease occurred Tuesday at Mankato, in this state, was among the first of the distinguished speakers to visit St. Cloud- He was here in 1860, during the first Abraham Lincoln campaign, when Galusha A. Grow and Carl Schurz also spoke in this city.

The State Firemen's Association is holding its thirteenth annual convention in this city, the fourth convention having been held here in 1876.

E. H. Atwood has purchased the Martin B. Greely place on Maine Prairie, 76 acres, for which he paid $1,500. Mr. Atwood now has 300 acres on the Prairie in a body, besides about 400 acres more not far distant.

The Nordwesten has been sold by J. P. Hammerel to the Nordstern, and after next week's publication it will cease to exist. Its editor, Mr. May, will assume editorial charge of the Nordstern.

February 5. - D. B. Searle, of this city, has purchased of the estate of C. F. Davis the Clearwater flouring mill and also the Fremont power, both on the Clearwater river; consideration, $12,000. This property has since been sold to H. C. Waite & Son.

D. T. Calhoun, one of the leading attorneys of this district, has opened a law office in this city- March 19. - Col. L. L. Baxter, of Fergus Falls, has been appointed the additional judge for this district, for which provision was made by the legislature last month.

The St. Cloud Bicycle Club has organized with the following officers: E. S. Hill, captain and president ex-officio; Jos. Rosenberger, first lieutenant: Alfred Hubbard, secretary and treasurer.

A number of the farmers of Stearns. Benton and Sherburne counties, as also business men, met at the court house Friday and decided to organize a district agricultural society and hold annual fairs. An election of officers resulted in the choice of John Cooper, Stearns county, president; E. Cross, Benton county, E. H. Atwood, Stearns county, E. F. Hurd, Sherburne county, vice-presidents; D. E. Myers, Stearns county, secretary; Geo. E. Campbell, Sherburne county, treasurer.

Anderson & Sons have decided to accept the offer of the works and property of the Moorhead Manufacturing Company, which cost $131,000, practically as a gift and re-

March 26. - James M. McKelvy, Post No. 134 G. A. R., was mustered in Saturday with thirty-nine charter members, supposed to be the largest number of any post in the state.

May 7. - The St. Cloud school district had for the first time women as members of the board of education - Mrs. T. C. Alden being elected from the first, and Mrs. L. W. Collins from the second ward.

May 14. - David Gilman. who came to Minnesota in 1848 for the American Pur Company, locating that same year at Watab, died at his home at that place the 9th inst., aged 73 years. He was a member of the constitutional convention in 1857, and was the postmaster at Watab from 1853 to the time of his death.

The Masonic Temple Association of St. Cloud is the name of a corporation organized in this city, with a capital stock of $25,000, to purchase a site and erect lodge buildings. The first board of directors consists of Geo. S. Spencer, P. Tolman. C. W. Kingsbury, J. P. Wray and A. L. Cramb.

May 28. - The rate for telegraph messages over the Western Union from St. Cloud to St. Paul has been reduced from 40 to 25 cents for a message of 10 words or less.

June 4. - Two large contracts for granite for bridge work have been let to St. Cloud quarry men the past week. Joseph Robinson will furnish the stone for the h^w Northern Pacific bridge at Minneapolis and John Frazier for the South Minneapolis bridge.

On Decoration day Comrade John Dressier carried the canteen that he had with him from the time he left Fort Snelling until he was mustered out, and George Puller blew the same fife with which he helped "brace up" the boys on their long marches during the war.

June 18. - About fifty persons, with the Union band, went to Cold Spring today to be present at the dedication of the new Catholic church there.

July 30. - C. F. Macdonald, editor of the Times, has been appointed receiver of the St. Cloud land office to succeed W. B. Mitchell, editor of the Journal-Press.

The St. Cloud Art Association has been formed with Mrs. R. R. Coon, Jr., president; May Clarke, vice-president; Mrs. L. T. Troutman, secretary; Clara Lawrence, treasurer. Meetings are to be held semimonthly for art readings and study.

August 13. - The funeral of General Grant, whose death had occurred July 23, was observed in St. Cloud, as all through the county Saturday, with appropriate ceremonies. Addresses were delivered by Judge L. W. Collins, the Rev. C. A. Cummings and D. B. Searle. By direction of the department the postoflBce was closed for one hour. The meeting at Sauk Centre was addressed by ex-Lieutenant Governor Barto and Prof. Rocheleau.

.\ugust 20. - The first dirt was thrown and active work begun Monday for the building of the dam across the Mississippi river at this place.

For the first time different prices are quoted on old and new wheat - No. 1 old being worth 71 cents, while new is 66 cents, a difference of five cents a bushel.

The report that Col. W. A. Caruthers had been executed during the civil war for having broken his parole was a mistake. Col. Caruthers was in the Confederate army, and is now located in the practice of law at Hartsville, Tenn., friends here being in receipt of letters from him. Even the practice of law is better than being dead most men would consider.

The St. Cloud Base Ball Club was organized Saturday with D. S. Hayward, president; S. P. Fuller, vice-president; J,. D. Sullivan, secretary; F. M. Morgan, treasurer; J. R. Bennett, Jr., manager.

Enough steel rails are now at this place for the St. Cloud and Willmar railroad to lay twenty-eight miles of track and ties are arriving at the rate of ten cars a day.

September 24. - C. Bridgman has begun a suit in the United States circuit court to forever enjoin the Water Power and Mill Company from building a dam across the river at this place.

October 8. - The first $50,000 six per cent city bonds issued to aid in the construction of the dam across the Mississippi river have been sold to S. A. Keen & Co., Chicago, for $50,815. Could the bonds have been delivered all at once, instead of in blocks of $10,000 as the work progressed, the premium paid would have been $2,000 to $2,500.

Sauk Rapids has a full-fledged brass band, the instruments having been received. F. J. Schiele is president; A. De- Lacy Wood, secretary; Theo. Berg, treasurer; F. W. Conrad and John Momburg,

December 17. - The Sisters of St. Benedict have arranged to have a third story added to their convent school building in this city and the enlarged structure used for a hospital.

January 7. - New Year's day, in contrast with that of last year, was clear and pleasant, and calling was quite general. In the evening the Social Club gave its New Year's party at the Grand Central hotel, some forty couples being present.

Two well-known citizens of Fair Haven passed away during the last week - R. R. Sargeant, who died New Year's day of heart disease, in the sixtieth year of his age, having been a soldier in the Union army; and O. D. Webb, one of the first settlers in the town, who died January 4, of a stroke of paralysis, in his sixty-fifth year. He lived at Sauk Rapids in 1854, moving to Fair Haven in 1859.

Word has been received of the death of James H. Place last month at Peoria, 111. Mr. Place came to this part of Minnesota in 1856, helping build a saw mill at Watab. In 1858 he located in St. Cloud, remaining until 1870. He was a civil engineer, doing considerable city work, and a fine musician.

January 28. - Elevator agent George Mc- Mahon says he has so far handled over 40,000 bushels of wheat of the crop of 1885, shipping Saturday to Minneapolis the last of 35,000 bushels, and is ready to fill up again.

February 4. - Mrs. Frederica Imholte who was buried at St. Augusta January 25 was in the one hundredth year of her age. She had twelve children, one hundred grandchildren, thirty or more great-grandchildren, and fourteen great-great-grandchildren - the exact number cannot be given as some live in Germany, where Mrs. Imholte was born and married.

February 11. - D. B. Searle has made arrangements for the erection of a threestory solid brick business building immediately south of and to match the McClure & Searle building. The first floor will be

February 18. - Josepli Edelbrock has been appointed postmaster at St. Cloud to succeed Capt. J. E. West, who retires after seventeen years of continuous service.

February 25. - The blessing of the new St. Benedict's Hospital at St. Cloud occurred this afternoon with appropriate ceremonies. The benediction was pronounced by the Rt. Rev. Father Alexius Edelbrock, abbot of St. John's University, assisted by the vicar general of the diocese, the Rev. Father Severin, and the bishop's secretary, the Rev. Father F. X. Steruper.

Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Hanscom, of Eden lake celebrated their crystal wedding February 22. A number of choice presents were given them by friends and neighbors.

March 4. - At a meeting of the State Farmer's Alliance held at Minneapolis last week, E. H. Atwood, of Stearns county, was elected vice-president for the Fifth congressional district.

A movement is on foot to have the post office kept closed all day on Sunday, except to receive the mails. (This movement did not meet with complete success until a quarter of a century afterwards.)

April 1. - The Northern Pacific has reduced its rate on wheat from St. Cloud, Sauk Rapids and Rice to St. Paul or Minneapolis from twelve to eleven cents per bushel and to Duluth from eighteen to fifteen cents per bushel. (The rate from St. Cloud to Minneapolis in car load lots in 1914 is 6 3-10 cents and to Duluth 9 cents per bushel - a reduction in both cases of nearly fifty per cent.)

In 1884-5 St. Cloud had forty-four saloons paying a license of $100 each. In 1885-6 it has had from seventeen to twenty, paying a license of $500 each, totalling $9,250 - or $4,850 more than when the number of saloons was more than double.

The village of Sauk Centre has won its suit against the water works company and will now proceed to foreclose its mortgage and take possession of the works.

April 15. - H. J. Fowler, who located in St. Cloud in 1855, engaged in the manufacture of furniture, ran a ferry across the Mississippi river at lower town and was county commissioner for several terms, died at his farm in the town of St. Cloud Tuesday, aged sixty-three years.

The death of O. E. Garrison occurred at his home in Crow Wing county April 2, in the sixty-first year of his age. He came to Minnesota in 1851, and in 1862 was living in Pope county, on the shores of White Bear lake (Lake Whipple) at the time of the Sioux outbreak. Warned by a friendly Indian, himself and wife at once fled and looking back when some distance away saw tlieir house in flames. Narrowly escaping several bands of Sioux they made their way to St. Cloud, which became their home for the next twenty years. Mr. Garrison was a surveyor and probably surveyed more government land in Minnesota than any other one man in the state.

April 29. - Mr. and Mrs. Winslow Getchell, who came to Minnesota in 1854, where they have lived ever since, being among the first settlers on Winnebago Prairie, celebrated on the 24th inst. the sixtyfirst anniversary of their marriage, which occurred April 24, in the state of Maine. Forty or more of their friends called to offer congratulations at their home at William Gordon's.

The Rev. Clemens Staub, better known as Father Clemens, died at St. Joseph last Friday, aged sixty-eight years. The funeral was at St. John's University, Sunday.

Abram Shoemaker, better known as "Elder" Shoemaker, died at his home at Maine Prairie April 29, in the 71st year of his age. He was a member of the Dis- ciples faith, and during the week cultivated his farm, preaching in the church on Sundays. He was greatly respected by all who knew him and had a strong influence in the community.

June 3. - O. Tenny, of this city, has sold to N. Garding, of Cold Spring, the water power at Rockville with about twenty acres of land; consideration, $1,800. Mr. Garding intends putting up a fifty-barrel roller mill for custom work.

Arrangements have been fully completed for the removal of the Phoenix Iron Works from Minneapolis to St. Cloud, the Rosenberger Bros., of this city, having large interests in the new enterprise, work will begin at once on the factory buildings near the water power.

June 10. - The Fair Haven Circular is the latest comer in the Stearns county journalistic field. Dr. L. H. Munger is the editor and the mechanical work is done by the Clearwater Enterprise.

The contract for building the new court house at Sauk Rapids, to take the place of the one destroyed by the cyclone, was awarded to Coates & Buckman at $3,799.

July 1. - F. I. Stiles, of La Crescent, has come to St. Cloud, and will erect a building for the manufacture of cement blocks for building purposes, tiling, sidewalks, chimneys, etc.

July 8. Miss Lawrence and Mr. Shoemaker, of the St. Cloud Normal school faculty, have made a contract with D. D. Merrill, of St. Paul, publisher of the state text books, to prepare a new arithmetic as a text book for use in the schools of Minnesota. It will be a volume of about 370 pages and the manuscript is to be completed by the close of the present year.

July 15. - The Lakeside Club, with forty members, has been organized and incorporated, the purpose being to build a large pavilion and kitchen on the north side of Pleasant lake, for parties and picnics. OflBcers have been elected as follows: F. Tolman, president; F. H. Todd, first vicepresident; R. L. Gale, second vice-president; W. L. Beebe, secretary; F. E. Searle,

The new organ of the Catholic Cathedral was used for the first time last Sunday, and is the finest organ north of Minneapolis. The cost was $2,600.

July 22. - The new Catholic Church at Meier Grove was dedicated with appropriate ceremonies Tuesday by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Seidenbusch, assisted by Abbot Edelbrock and twenty priests. The church cost about $30,000 and was built through the exertions of the local priest. Father Meinulf.

The opening of the New Lakeside Club's pavilion and boat house Tuesday was a success. About two hundred persons attended the basket picnic held on the grounds in the afternoon and the dance in the pavilion in the evening. Music was furnished by Griswold's orchestra.

The corner stone of the new Baptist church was laid this afternoon, the local clergy, with the Rev. J. Sunderland and Boston W. Smith, of Minneapolis, taking part.

September 9. - Henry Sheldon, of Paynesville, who is an old soldier and lost a son in the war, has received $1,960 back pay with a pension of $12 per month.

Joseph Howard, who came to St. Cloud in 1856 and opened the first meat market, remaining continuously at the same old stand, died suddenly Friday.

October 14. - The Benton County Bank at Sauk Rapids has been purchased by F. E. Searle and F. M. Morgan, of the German American National Bank, of St. Cloud, they taking $15,000 of the stock of the reorgan-

Mrs. Eva Tenvoorde, who had come with her husband to St. Cloud in 1855, living ever since in their little cottage on Third avenue, died Thursday, aged eighty-one years.

October 21. - Chas. Ketcham, who was the first registrar of deeds of Stearns county, and during the war was a member of Company G, of the Fourth Minnesota volunteers, died at his home in this city yesterday, aged 56 years.

December 16. - A Toboggan Club, to consist of seventy members, paying $10 each, was organized Tuesday evening, with E. H. Morse, president; C. P. McClure, vicepresident; R. L. Gale, secretary; F. E. Searle, treasurer; E. S. Hill, H. E. Tolman, C. S. Mitchell, directors. The slide is to be located on the water work's hill at the upper end of Fifth avenue.

St. Cloud's pioneer fire company, the Little Giants, has disbanded having been organized over twenty-one years ago and did effective service. With the introduction of the Holly system of water works their days of active usefulness were num^ bered.

December 30. - A new hose company, taking the name of the Little Giants, has been organized with the following officers: Frank Beste, foreman; M. Burkle, first assistant; Joseph Griebler, second assistant; W. P. Remer, secretary; Henry Tenvoorde, treasurer.

The new toboggan slide was formally opened last evening, although one slide was used Christmas day, and the outlook is that tobogganing will be a popular sport. Addie Hodges, Clara Enderle and Hattie Davis were the first ladies to take the dash down the slide.

January 6. - The wooden bridge across the ravine on Fifth avenue is to be replaced by a stone culvert with retaining walls to the full height of the roadway and extending the entire width of the street. City Engineer Todd estimates the cost at $7,054.

A number of ladies met in the parlors of the Grand Central Hotel yesterday and firmed a Snow Shoe Club. They have oidered their snow shoes and moccasins and sent for samples for costumes. Among those interested in the movement are Mesdames Thomas Foley, W. L. Beebe, C. S. Mitchell, D. W. Bruckhart, G. H. Reynolds,

E. C. Holden and E. H. Morse, and Elizabeth Baldwin, Minnie Bennett and Charlotte E. Clark. The club organized by electing Mrs. E. H. Morse president and captain; Charlotte E. Clark, secretary; Mrs. W. L. Beebe, treasurer.

John Zapp celebrated, January 1, the twenty-fifth anniversary of his first entry on his duties as register of deeds of Stearns county. When he then took office the entire county had fewer votes than St. Cloud now has and Ramsey and Hennepin counties had fewer votes than are cast in the county of Stearns.

January 13. - The state commission appointed to locate a second state prison, after visiting twenty-two towns wliicli liad put in applications have decided by a unanimous vote to locate it at East St. Cloud. The site selected comprises 240 acres of land, which includes the Coates & Freeman tract, and also forty acres of granite owned by Waite, Clarke & McClure. In making the final decision the commission was influenced by the abundance and quality of the granite, the water supply, suitability of the land, shipping facilities, etc. (The institution located here was made a reformatory instead of a prison.)

A delegation of tobogganers and snowshoers from St. Paul and Minneapolis, numbering 577 by actual count, with the First Regiment Band, arrived Saturday evening by a special train and although less than twelve hours notice had been given they had a great reception. The procession with the varied uniforms of the members, the flaming torches and flambeaus, marching from the depot made a unique spectacle. Supper was furnished at the different hotels, and the evening was spent at the toboggan slide and in singing and dancing to the music of the First Regiment Orchestra, while three big bouncing blankets were kept in active service. It was half past ten o'clock when the train started on its return trip, all well pleased with their reception and entertainment.

Contracts are already being let for the grading of the branch line of the Minneapolis & Pacific road from Kimball Prairie to St. Cloud. (But it was never graded or built.)

January 27. - Nearly the entire membership of the St. Cloud Cyclone Toboggan Club with fourteen of the Snowshoers went to St. Paul Thursday to take in the first storming of the ice palace in that city. The boys attracted much attention in their white uniform, trimmed with blue and were given a very hospitable reception. Sixty more St. Cloudites went to St. Paul today to witness the second storming of the ice

A. G. Whitney, of Sauk Centre, and C. P. McClure, of this city, have formed a real estate copartnership and will open offices in this city. Mr. Whitney will remove to St. Cloud.

February 24. - John Leisen has purchased of Joseph Edelbrock the 43x100 feet on St. Germain street adjoining the post office building for $8,000.

The Cyclones went to Sauk Centre Tuesday in a special car and had a royal reception at the hands of the Avalanche Toboggan Club. A number of ladies were with the other excursionists. In the evening they participated in the G. A. R. dance, and it was after midnight before they returned to their car for the trip home, all voting that they had had "a beautiful time."

This has been a season of meetings and resolutions. Propositions having been made looking to the consolidation of St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids, with conferences between committees of the two places, the people of the Rapids said "nix." A bill having been introduced in the legislature providing for the division of Stearns county, it was warmly supported by public meetings at Sauk Centre and as warmly opposed in meetings at St. Cloud. A law already passed providing for holding adjourned terms of the district court at Sauk Centre met with similar treatment at the two places.

A handsome stained glass memorial window has been placed in Grace Episcopal Church at Sauk Rapids, bearing the following inscription: Erected to the Glory of God and in memory of the 44 who were killed by the tornado of April 14, 1886."

March 10. - A number of physicians from Stearns and neighboring counties met in this city last evening and formed the North Star Medical Association.

March 24. - Four more Indian girls arrived at the convent at St. Joseph on Monday. This makes a total of 100 dusky maidens of the forest at that institution.

The Paynesville Telephone Company is now substantially organized and the depots will be connected with the town. The officers are: R. J. Tuttle, president; J. Keavy, secretary; Emmett Phipps, treasurer. The Weinhaus telephone, manufactured at St. Cloud, will be used.

At the recent elections six towns in Stearns county voted against issuing liquor licenses. The roll of honor includes North Fork, Paynesville, Maine Prairie, Fair Haven, Crow Lake and Crow River.

There were one hundred and twenty days of good sleighing in St. Cloud the past winter. In the country, where sleds are used even yet, the number of days would exceed one hundred thirty.

The Sauk Rapids board of trade has been reorganized with the following officers: J. P. Wilson, president; E. Cross, vice-president; J. A. Senn, secretary; H. Berg, treasurer.

A. L. Riley, of this city, has decided to engage in railroad building with his brother, William Riley, the coming summer and will have charge of a crew in Dakota, where William Riley has a large contract for grading on the Manitoba extension. Peter Martin and McKeever & Pettey will grade on the same road. The three crews will take about one hundred men from this city and vicinity.

The card of Mrs. I. G. Gould is published as that of the first Christian Scientist, "giving Metaphysical Healing, without drugs," in St. Cloud.

April 7. - Sauk Rapids voted Saturday, by 247 to 120, to issue $40,000 in bonds to complete the improvement of the water power there. As the polls were not open during the hours prescribed by the new election law doubts are expressed as to the legality of the bonds.

Married in this city April 13, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. C. A. Cummings, Gertrude A. Powell to Lewis E. Wakeman, son of E. B. Wakeman of Minneapolis, assistant general superintendent of the Manitoba road.

April 21. - A new train on the St. Cloud & Willmar branch now leaves the latter place each morning at 6:00 o'clock, reaching St. Cloud at 8:15 and St. Paul at 11:10. Returning it leaves St. Paul at 4:10 in the afternoon, reaching St. Cloud at 7:10 and Willmar at 9:25.

The Sauk Centre Tribune suspended publication with this week's issue. The litigation between W. C. Brower, the publisher, and J. V. Brower, his brother, over the ownership of the paper had much to do with the suspension.

Kropp Bros., of this city, have taken the contract to erect a large solid brick building for the St. Benedictine Sisters at St. Joseph in connection with the seminary. It is for the Indian girls' school and is to replace the wooden building burned last fall.

May 12. - Foley Bros., of this city, yesterday closed a contract with the Manitoba Company to grade ninety miles of road from Grand Forks to Pembina and have it all ready for the rails the present season.

Married, at the church of the Immaculate Conception, St. Cloud, May 10, by the Rev. Father Boniface, Maggie Molitor to Joseph B. Rosenberger, both of this city.

June 2. - At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the St. Cloud Land Improvement Co., the following board of directors were elected for the ensuing year: James J. Hill, D. B. Searle, W. B. Mitchell,

F. E. Searle, N. P. Clarke and J. E. West. President Hill was represented at the meeting by his private secretary, Mr. Charles H. Benedict, of St. Paul.

June 9. - The first number of the St. Cloud Tribune, printed with the material of the late Sauk Centre Tribune, W. C. Brower, publisher, appeared Saturday.

Married, in this city, June 8, at the residence of the bride's parents, by the Rev. C. A. Cummings, Miss Helen Gilman, of St. Cloud, to Geo. S. Rankin, of Stillwater.

Joseph Emmel, who came to St. Cloud in 1856 and built the house in which he had lived continuously ever since, died yesterday, aged seventy-five years.

June 16. - Col. C. D. Kerr, of St. Paul, was in the city this week and concluded the purchase of the Waldorf property, thirtyeight foot frontage, on the south side of St. Germain street, midway between Fifth and Sixth avenues, for $8,000, and will at once erect a three-story brick building, the first floor of which has already been leased by R. C. Junk for his dry goods business.. The building which is to be moved to give it place was put up by B. Rosenberger in 1856, being occupied by him as a dwelling and dry goods store, one of the first business houses opened here. It was of substantial construction, with oak timbers, and the laths used were just sixteen feet long.

June 30. - The St. Cloud postoffice from July 1 will rank as a second-class office, with salary advanced from $1,800 to $2,000 and increased allowances for clerk hire, rent, etc.

Last week "Grandma" Walters, at Fair Haven, celebrated her 90th birthday. Among her callers were Mrs. Smith, aged 84, Mrs. Abell 76, and Mrs. Vandervoot 75, the aggregate ages of the quartette being 325 years, which speaks volumes for the healthfulness of Minnesota's climate.

July 7. - A Y. M. C. A. has been organized in this city with the following officers: Geo. R. Clark, president; W. F. F. Selleck, first vice-president; L. T. Troutman, second vice-president; A. H. Kendall, secretary; Henry McGregor, treasurer.

pay for the schoolhouse built to replace the one destroyed by the cyclone. Of the surplus cyclone relief fund returned to the donors by the state committee $1,100 hab been sent to the Sauk Rapids committee to be expended there.

The Arnold flouring mill at the mouth of the Sauk river has been completed ready for the machinery. It will be a larger and better mill than the one burned, which it replaces.

H. C. Waite & Son have purchased the Eugene M. McCarty farm on the north side of Sauk river and adjoining their large farm in that locality, paying $7,000 cash for the 160 acres less the railroad right of way.

August 25. - Geoige Tileston, of Faribault, was in the city Monday and let the contract to Kropp Bros, for building his new flouring mill and elevator. Arrangements have been completed by the chamber of commerce for securing the right of way for the Manitoba's spur track to the dam - the cost of which is estimated by the railroad company at $28,000 - which will give Mr. Tileston facilities for shipping in wheat and marketing his flour.

H. C. Waite deeded to the Manitoba Railroad Company last week a tract of land near the Sauk river upon which the company expects to build its car shops.

September 1. - C. F. Macdonald and M. J. Nugent have sold to John Leisen the lot, 22 feet front, adjoining his brick building on St Germain street for $6,500, or almost $300 a front foot. They paid $4,000 for the lot last spring.

J. E. and W. H. Hayward have purchased at Sauk Centre and in Douglas and Todd counties a number of working oxen for the pineries. These were among the last oxen purchased for use in the pineries, horses soon coming to be used exclusively.

Married, in St. Cloud, at the home of the bride's parents, August 30, by the Rev. J. W. Hargrave, Miss May Montgomery to Frank M. Morgan, cashier of the German American National Bank of St. Cloud. At Paynesville, August 31, by the Rev. J. W. Todd, Miss Minnie Boylan to Edgar R. Phipps, all of that village.

Bears are very numerous, the woods being full of them. On Monday thirteen carcasses were brought to market, nine here and five at Sauk Rapids. One of the animals had been killed with an ax.

September 29. - The first number of the Daily Times made its appearance, with brass band accompaniments, on our streets Tuesday afternoon. It is a neat six-column sheet.

On Monday a car on the street railway line made its first formal trip, having on board a number of the officers and stockholders of the company.

November 10. - The Electric Light and Power company and the Gas and Electric Light company, rival organizations, were both rushing the work of putting in poles when the city council passed an ordinance requiring all companies needing poles to use one set.

November 17. - Judge L. W. Collins has been appointed by Governor McGill to succeed Judge Berry, deceased, as an associate justice of the supreme court, and D. B. Searle was appointed to the vacancy on the district bench caused by Judge Collins's promotion.

December 15.. - The supreme court has rendered a decision in the case of Joseph Coates against the village council of Sauk Rapids to restrain that body from taxing the people for the payment of $40,000 bonds voted for the improvement of the water power at that place, on the ground that the dam they were to pay for was a private one and would not result in a public benefit. This decision supports the judgment of the district court and declares the act for the issuance of the bonds to be invalid.

Married, in St. Cloud, December 15, by the Rev. E. V. Campbell, at the home of the bride's parents, Julia Delaney to Frank M. Wright, all of St. Cloud.

Winslow Getchell, who came to Minnesota in 1855 and was one of the first settlers in the town of Brockway, died at his home in that town December 13.

December 22. - The plant of the St Cloud Tribune was taken possession of by United States Marshal Campbell Monday, this being the latest move in the somewhat celebrated case of J. V. Brower against his brother, W. C. Brower, both claiming to own the plant.

larged four-story West House, and as a benefit to the managers, Waller & Field, a grand ball and supper was given last Thursday evening. It was by all odds the most brilliant social event in the history of St. Cloud. The committee comprised Captain and Mrs. West, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Waller, Mayor and Mrs. D. T. Calhoun, Mr. and Mrs. William Powell, Mr. and Mrs. L. W,. Collins, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Macdonald, Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Foley, Governor and Mrs. C. A. Oilman, Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Freeman, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Baldwin. The floor was in charge of Messrs. Searle, Gale, Todd, Tolman and Alden. Over three hundred persons were present and it was three o'clock the next morning before the last of the guests departed. The net receipts were $352, for which a check was given to Waller & Field.

The mercury dropped to 42 degrees below zero this week, and the snowfall is the deepest since 1856-7. The railroads have all been blockaded.

The council at Sauk Centre has granted Henry Keller an exclusive contract for fifteen years to furnish the village with electric street lights, not less than twenty in number, at $1.50 per month, to run until eleven o'clock.

February 16. - The so-called Boyd corner, 23^4x132 feet, corner of St. Germain street and Fifth avenue, has been purchased by the directors of the First National bank for $11,000 and a three-story bank building will be erected on it this year.

The Manitoba company yesterday let the contract for the extension of the St. Cloud & Hinckley branch through to West Superior to Foley Bros., of this city. It involves the building ready for use of 76 miles of road through a wooded country

Abbot Edelbrock, of St. John's abbey, by virtue of being the oldest Benedictine abbot in this country, presided at a conclave held at St. Vincent's monastery, near Latrobe. Pa., on the 8th inst., to elect a successor to Arch-abbot Wimmer, lately deceased.

February 23. - On Monday the German- American National bank of this city closed the purchase of the Benton County bank of Sauk Rapids and closed that institution.

Charles F. Davis, for many years actively engaged in the milling business, died February 17 at his home in this city, in the seventieth year of his age.

March 8. - Mathias Mickley, for many years sheriff of Stearns county, died at his home in this city March 3, in the fifty-fifth year of his age. He came from Pennsylvania to St. Paul in 1853, and in 1856 to St. Cloud, taking charge of General Lowry's lumber yard for a year, and for the following two years running it on his own account. In the fall of 1856 he was appointed deputy sheriff and was sheriff when at the time of the Indian outbreak he joined the Minnesota Mounted Rangers. In all he was sheriff and deputy about twenty-five years.

April 19.. - The leap year party given at the West House Friday evening by a number of the ladies of St. Cloud was a pronounced success. Mr. and Mrs. William Powell, Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Foley, Miss Helen Wilson, and Mr. L. E. Wakeman, Jennie Hayward and C. P. McClure greeted the bashful lads and gallant lassies as they entered the parlors. Griswold's orchestra furnished the music and Annie Baldwin and R. L. Gale led the grand march.

May 24. - The strong smell of gas in the basement of the First National bank building Friday evening led W. Wing, a bookkeeper, to make an investigation. He struck a match on reaching the foot of the basement stairs and a terrific explosion at once followed. The front of the building was hurled into the street and the plate glass shattered into fragments. A broad sheet of blue flame lighted up for a moment the darkened interior of the building and shot from the wide-open front. It was all the work of an instant. Mr. Wing was severely burned, but miraculously

June 7,. - The eighth annual convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians of Minnesota was held in St. Cloud this week, the sessions opening Monday with over 150 delegates present. The officers of the St. Cloud division are W. J. Murphy, president; D. J. Morrison, vice-president; J. D. Sullivan, recording secretary; Owen O'Boyle, financial secretary; M. Branley, treasurer. The committee on arrangements, P. B. Gorman, John Gallagan and J. D. Sullivan, had the details well in hand.

June 14. - Under the new uniform threecents-a-mile rate on the Manitoba a ticket from St. Cloud to St. Paul costs $2.25 each way, or $4.50 for the round trip, against a round-trip rate of $4.75 before the "reduction" took effect.

The cases of Alex. Moore, of Sauk Centre, against the Northern Pacific Railroad company, for damages to land crossed by the railroad tracks, taken to the supreme court, have been settled for $3,100.

June 28. - Another of St. Cloud's old settlers and prominent citizens has gone to his rest. John H. Owen, who came to Minnesota in 1855 and to St. Cloud in 1857, died at his home in this city this morning, in the sixty-third year of his age. From the time of his first arrival Mr. Owen had been actively engaged in business as a member of the firm of Raymond & Owen, manufacturing sash, doors, blinds, etc. He was a member of the board of county commissioners and of the city council and was a man universally respected.

August 2. - The heaviest rainfall since the memorable storm of 1859, when the Sauk river found a channel into Lake George, occurred last night. At the Fifth avenue culvert the flood of water from Larke George was so great that it backed up against the retaining wall to a depth of twenty feet, undermining the side next to F. H. Dam's shop and washing out about a third of the wall. A number of houses, both in the city and in the country, were struck by lightning.

August 16. - The city council has instructed its committee to close a contract with the Electric Light company for the placing of twelve 2,000 candle power arc lights at $125 per lamp per year. The gas lamps now in use on St. Germain street and Fifth avenue will be moved to other parts of the city.

The drum corps elected Saturday evening the following officers: Harvey Grimmer, president; Xavier Honer, vice-president; Watt. Cooper, secretary; Chris. Bach, treasurer. The corps has made arrangements with J. S. Tresize to give them instructions on the drum and George Fuller on the piccolo and fife, and expects to be prepared to appear in public at the district fair. It has seven snare drums, one base drum and seven piccolos.