St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-05


the place is its two humming saw mills
each cutting 200 feet of lumber daily. The
GOOD Templars are strong here, and the
town is stalwart for mo license"
DELANo. ff
Delsno comes next on the time card, and
nobody thought of running by SO handsome
village with the Grow river running
thr ough it and several pretty lakes in sight
This is quite grain mart, with warehouse
cap able OF handling As, coo bushels of grain
per day, and second elevator with a fifty
barrel Touring mill Rather a pleasant thing
is the three story white brick school house,
which, with five churches, indicates the
healthy tone of the community.
NoNTRosE.
At Montrose the Jobbers only said hail and
farewell, but at Waver1y he stop was long
enough for tune from the band. The Cath
olic church here has a membership of 300,
which takes in all the surrounding county.
HOWARD LAKE.
Howard Lake, Wright county, 55 miles
from st. Paul, was the next stop, and the
population Of the town seemed to be out to
greet the excursion, with the flag Of Geo.
Goodsell post, G. A. R. The whole party
alighted and passed ten minutes delightfully."-
W bile the band played couple of airs. How
ard lake, upon which the town is located is
FIVE miles long and two miles wide, and
looked very inviting from the eminence of
the train. The school going population OF
the place is about 800. There are fourteen
stores of all kinds and several markets. AT
this point ladies, chaperoned by Mr. Jona-
than Smith, joined the party and were enter
tanned in Mr.. Manvel's car by the music of
the glec club, viz: Miss Minnie Taylor,
Mrs. D. B. Brown, Mrs. A. n. Carter, Mrs.
S. c.. Carter, Miss Nora Bruce, Mrs. G. n.
Bliss, Miss f. Marshall
SMITH LAKE
Found the train fifteen minutes ahead of
time, but the stop was a brief one, though
long enough to see the 500, 900 Touring
mill at this point.
CoKATo.
Cokato, four miles further on, was out in
all its glory, and the colored troops on the
hilltop fired salute of minute guns, while
the band played and the people cheered.
Cokato has recovered from the destructive
fire of last year and appears as thriving as
those Interested in it may desire. 1t possesses
two feed mills, sugar factory, cording mill
knitting factory, three elevators, capacity
IS, 900 bushels, two school houses and three
churches.
DASsEL.
Dassel is five miles further on, being sixty
six miles. from st. Paul. The people had
evidently heard the Jobbers were com
ing, for they were not only out in
force, but had erected an arch formed of
stalks of wheat across the track While the
station platform was lined with grains, fruits
and vegetables in the center of wreath in
tertwined with flowers and wheat was the
sentiment "Weicome to the Jobbers Union :"
banner nailed upon the depot side read,
''We have good schools, good churches, fine
farms, fine meadows, feed and Touring mills,
200, 900 bushels of wheat, lots of hoop poles,
plenty of lakes, splendid fishing, and the
best wooden yarn on earth"
''These are fair sample of the soil.'
An apple tree branch with many young
apples bore the legend, "We are small now,
but growing"
Under the heading of wants,
banner read, awe want bank,
newspaper, creamery, furniture
and pillow factories and more capital"
A lively cartoon being upon the wall, gro
tesque to the last degree Figures of two men,
one Of whom says, GA bank would do big
business here, Thomas, and don't you for
get it, At the sight Of that universal cry
went up for "Scheifer Schetfer," and that
gentleman responded with a bright, humor-
Gus speach, that filed all with glee. Presi-
dent Finch captured the cartoon and is
bringing it home with him as trophy.
LITCHrELD. %
''Litchfeld, thlee-quarters an hour" said
President Finch, Everybody get out of the
cars, - and it was done. Forming in line
the band led the procession to the public
square where under a shelter tent was Il
group of ladies, flower girls, for the nonce,
with pretty baskets, and beautiful button
hole bouquets. These ladies were Mrs. j.
NJ. Howard, Miss Lockwood, the
Misses Brown, Miss Stopping,
Mrs. Wakefield, Mrs. Wlnton, Miss Camp
bell. Miss Fuller, Mrs H. B. Gates, Mrs
Rankin, Miss Pixley, Mrs. II. s. Branhan
These ladies presented each member of the
party with bouquet and n badge of blue
ribbon with ''Litchfeld' printed thereon.
This WIS delightful courtesy. After music
by the Great Western, Mayor II. V. Harris
briefly welcomed the Jobbers and their
guests, and introduced c. II. Strabeck, Esq,
who spoke at some length, Offering in the
course of his remarks some important Stats
tics in regard to Litchfield and Meeker county
which are given below.
FACTS AND FIGURES ABOUT MEEKER COUNTY
By Chas H. Strobick
Has TX townships; 1872, 900 acres of land,
Il OF which is timber, g prairie and meadow
land; "a. 900 acres of water in 230 lakes, of
which over $50 are meandered beautiful sheets
of water. We shall have this year G5, coo acres
in crop of which 45, 600 acres is wheat and
from which we shall raise $4,000 bushels.
We shall raise 40, 900 bushels of oats, %, 600
bushels of corn; $4,000 bushels Of potatoes
and other crops in fair proportion.
We shall cut %, 900 tons of hay and feed
it out to 80 900 head of horses, cattle, sheep
and hogs. We shall make 200, 600 pounds
of butter. There are s Touring mills in the
county with capacity for making 600 barrels
per day. The grain elevators of Meeker
county last year handled 1,002,0 900 bushels
of wheat.
Meeker county has bona fide population
of $4,000. Has 1900 school children.
The ratio of births and deaths is as three
to one. With her nine villages, her fine
lands, beautiful lakes. peaceable, industrious
and intelligent citizens, Meeker county is
| able and willing to be ''sized up'' with any
other county in the state or out of it.
Beautiful for situation, the JOY OF the
whole people, is Litchfeld, the city of our
making. Population 5000. We have a
| graded public high school with eight teachers
and 400 pupils, and our school stands well
| TO the front amoug the high schools of the
state. Fifteen years ago there was one
teacher and seventeen school children in
! this district. Now there are eight ministers
/ eight lawyers, three doctors, two dentists,