The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-10-08
FROM CLEARWATER.
CLEARWATER, Oct. 9th. 1874

CLEARWATER, Oct. 9th, 1874.
EDITOR JouRNAL.-It was my fate to
stop one night at hotel up country, where
q lot of men from Rice county were my
travelling companions, and they had
great deal to say about the new mill near
Lewiston, on the Cannon river, and partic-
ularly about the new dam, then just built.
They laid particular emphasis on the diff
fculty of damming the Cannon river; on
the fact that it had been damned to all its
hearts content, fguratively, bythose whose
experience, literally, had been disastrous :;
and concluded their discourse by the as
surance that the present dam would GER
tainly last till Gabriel blew his trump"
because it was built by the best dam man
in the State. supposing this dam man to
be some notable Boston or New York engi-
neer, inquired more particularly about
him and found he was one of your Stearns
county men-John X. Noyes, of Fair
Haven. Perhaps I should not have thought
so much of it to-day, but from the fact that
the dam man is building
NEW DAM AT FREMONT,
for Davis & Beal, who, with their usual en-.
ergy, are getting ready for the winters
campaign. That Fremont waste-way has
always been more of less of an annoyance
and now, they propose to dam the stream
for all time, and leave the eternity business
for the theologians. As George Chamber
lain owns the saw mill on the east side, he
is, of course, associated with Davis & Beal
in the work.
At the
ANNUAL SCHOOL MEETING
on Saturday evening, Messrs. G. P. Fish
and T. G. Porter were elected members of
the Board of Education. Mr.. Porter has
never served on the Board before, but he
will do more work than half the others,
and has backbone enough and honesty
enough to act according to his convictions
of right, and if he is put on committee he
will do his duty without waiting year and
q half to make up his mind what he ought
to do.
Orrin Lawton's house was burned on
Wednesday. l could not learn the origin of
the fire.
ofthis wright county, which met on the
18th ult, was conducted so quietly that it
was hard to get the hang of it. It seems
the attendance was very slim-5 men, 4
boys and women, besides the manipula-
tors, viz, sleight, Farnham & Co. But
the few that were there wouldn't manipu-
late worth cent; so, s., F. & Co. fastened
to adjourn till about the middle of this
month, when they hope to get things fixed.
The probabilities are that they will put
candidates in the field for Auditor and
Representatives. As far as these Offices go,
they may as we'll save their breath. No
man but VIM. Tubbs, of Monticello, stands
the ghost Of shadow of shade of chance
for Auditor. Probably Messrs. Melrose &
Eppel will have fair majority for Repre-
sentatives. Henry Morrison is making no
buster, and hear no talk of prices of lum-
Der being reduced till after election,,' so
that his chance is not fattering. And then
he is the Republican nominee-this coun-
ty is Democratic. AS far Is the so-called
Anti-Monopolists are concerned, it simply
means Sleight, Farnham & Co., who have
as much claim to the name, Is "Satan had
to the land he offered to the Saviour, if He
would fall down and worship him; and
are equally consistent in their professions"
~ don't know how it seems to you, but so
it seems to me-" says one of Dickens quaint
characters. LOGOS.