The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1876-03-30
MAINE PRAIRIE.
NAIVE PaA1RrE. Mar. u, 1877


MAINE PRAIRrE, Mar. ~, 1875.
EDITOR JouRNAL.-Mr. D. g. Keefs his
traded his far,u on Mains Prairie, togeth'
er with most Of his stock, with David
Spaulding, for his farm and stock near Otter
Tail, and intends moving Mp ON to it in
day or two Mr.. ksefe has host Of warm
friends here who will exceedingly regret
losing him - citizen. Mr.. Spaulding
once lived here and will be warmly vel
sonsd back. Just before bidding Mr..
Kssie good bye, l saw him hand $2.l6
to Mr.. F. NJ. .Kimball to pay for THE
JOURNAL, and have the address change
mid hs t'oouldn't yet along without THE
JOURNAL. Kimball said THE same here"
WHAT. THE NORMAL GRADUATES ARE
DOING.
Miss Nellie Kimball ha. sladdened the
hearts of her parents and friends ny
spending her vacation. here for the past
week. She has been teaching in the grs-
ded school at Anoka, and starts back To-
day to resume her school duties.
learn that Miss Mary Greeley, one Of
the Normal graduates, has been engaged to
teach in the Farwell district this sum mes,
and Miss Powers, another Normal gradu-
ate, il to teach IN Browns district. Miss
Mary E. Gunderson, one Of the Normal
teachers, has consented to take charge Of
the school in District No. %. 1t is ru-
mored that Miss Mabel Hamilton who il
. graduate Of the St. Cloud Union School,
il to teach in District No. 70; also that
Aiss Llszie. Davis takes charge of the
school in the Stickney district; and Ma
dame Rumor says that Miss Hattie Wood
is going to take small select school At Clear
water.
And now, in the early morn, shs shzill
scream of
wILEY's STEAM WHISTLE
rouses the denizens of Maine Prairie to the
trials and vexations of another day, and
still they are not happy. Our ambition
once was for steam saw-mill we've got
one, and still long for something more.
A BRISK T1Av1LER.
The other evening was At the store, when
stranger came in and called for ten cents
worth Of cracksn. D. A. Hoyt, who sells
cheap, handed out about four quarts OK LEES.
The stranger looked mournfally 1t the pile
and thought 1 saw tear course down
his cheek ~ he said. II can't ct ill of'en;
give me cents WORTH" While he was
eating his crackers, he told me that he had
started that morning from home, which was
two miles south Of Forest City, had walked
al the way to St. Cloud, and 70 far on his
way home, which he intended to reach
that night, making ~ miles Travelled A.
ready aud 10 miles yet 10 travel. He
ahouldered the uneaten crackers and pair
Of boots. and started off 20 fresh that the
betting was ten to one that he woald see
his wife that night Who says that We are
growing wiser aud weaker
Twas passing through
last week and called at D. B. Hanscom's.
While was in the house shaking hands
with the folks, the boys put the horses in
TO the stable and l was compelled to stay
to dinner. The newly elected town officers
had all met there that day to qualify
They were Supervisors, W.T.. Mills Chair.
man, James M. Stowe, and James Jones
Clerk, D. J. Hanscom; Justice Of the
Peace, H. NJ. Dye; Treasurer, Coma Ham,
ilton Assessor, D. J. Hanscom. The vo-
ters of Eden Lake look out for their own
interests, by putting their best men into
Office. Mr.. Hanscom has taken THE jour-
NAL for = good many years. He has q
very fine location, and tells me that most
Of the soil in tho town il very rich. Their
Grange is In Aourishing condition and
increasing in numbers quite rapidly.
The Patrons of Husbandry of Maine
Prairie and Fair Haven are talking up and
arranging fora
= HISTORICAL CENTENNIAL GRAFTON
on the Fourth Of July next. Other Changes
may join them. There il some talk Of
having Centennial building and sxhib-
ting some Of the relics of early pioneer
life.
Mn. Lovejoy, who had her leg broken
some two months ago, is not getting along
very we'll the bone does not seem to unite
and heal Is it should.
| STRANGE DEATH OF 4 PROMINENT CITIZEN.
Last Friday morning Nh. Martin Coats
and his son, of Fair Haven, went with a
horse team after load Of wood or logs.-
After they had got the load on the sleig Oh,
Mr.. Coats started with the team for home,
and the boy went off in another direction
to = neighbor's house. Abont An hour or
two after Mr.. Coats had started, some one
coming along the same read found him ly-
ing unconscious beside the road, but few
rods from where his boy had left him. He
had fallen from the load in some kind of a
fit and remained unconscious until his death
ON Sunday morning. Mr.. Goats was an
old citizen Of Fair Haven, and esteemed
by all who knew him, and his loss will be
sincerely mourned. He was the first Mas
Ter Of the Fair Haven Grange, and his
funeral to-day will be conducted according
| to the ritual Of the Order of the Patrons Of
Husbandry. Mp.
LETTER List.
Letters remaining unclaimed at the Post
Office, in st. Cloud, Minnesota, on We'd
nesday, March %, 1875. To obtain any