The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1888-03-01
The Saturday night train going west,

The Saturday night train going west,
drawn by two engines, struck broken
rail near GAINESVILLE, and both engines
were thrown from the track. No damage
was done other than tearing up the track
for some distance, and delaying trains.
L. w. Gilman and family will leave
soon for Deadwood, d. T., where he will
have charge of toll bridge. It is with
sincere regret the HERALD chronicles his
departure. He is good citizen and has
made an exceptionally efficient village
| officer.
Judge Searle was in town on Monday
on his way home from Todd county
where he had been holding term of
court. The Judge but adds to his reputa-
ton as an ideal Judge. The errnine
adorns no man better calculated to
maintain its spotlessness.
Andrew Brink has sold the Parker
house property to Mrs. Gospard of St.
Cloud, for $1,000. 1t was bought sub
ject to the lease of the present tennat,
Whether he will vacate is question, but
if he does the new owner will enter pos
session soon and open it as a hotel.
The firm of Wakefield 8. Murphy, pro
prietors of the Sank Centre house, has
been dissolved, MIR. Murphy withdraw
ing. The business will be conducted
without material change by Mr.. Wake
field. That he will make success of it
no one who knows him can for a moment
doubt.
| Owing to the blockade on the North
ern road score of people came down
Long Prairie on Saturday with teams.
| Among them several who had been at
tending court there, and also number
of commercial travellers who did not
relish taking the chances of being snow
bound for an indefinite period.
| 7. M. Fuller turned the seventy-hfth
mile post in his honorable career on Sun
day last, and it is gratifying to know
that he is hale and hearty. Among the
| testimonials OF affection received by him
| was handsome cane from his son-in-law
G. F. Fawcets of St. Cloud. 1t is hand
somely finished, the stick being of Texas
pine.
A small colony Will leave for Seattle,
| Washington Territory at an early day.
Messrs. D. E. Woodward, c. A. Bailor,
w. E. Rockwell and o. A. Bailor intend
ed leaving on Monday, but owing to the
sickness of Mr.. Rockwell the time of de-
| parture has been delayed week. Mrs.
| Bailor will live at Osakis during Mr..
Bailor's absence.
The receipt of a very handsomely en-
graved invitation to attend the COM
mencement exercises of the dental depart
ment of the University of Cincinnati, to
be held on Wednesday, March 7th., with
the compliments of r. B. Foster, D. DIS,
is hereby acknowledged. DIR. Foster
completes his course this year, and will
return to Sank Centre after graduation.
James A. Caughren has returned from
his trip to the south. He visited st.
Louis, stopped at the hot springs, Ark,
made trip through Tennessee and
Mississippi, and then went to New
Orleans. He came home little too early
| for comfort. He is not well pleased with
the south as field for contract work.
He has two or'three protective pieces OF
| work under consideration for next
season.
The Caughren boys have purchared the
Way farm of 16O acres just west of their
place, and when they get it into shape
will have little village of their own so
far as buildings are concerned. They are
earring for nearly a hundred head of
horses and mules, as many more cattle,
and with their immense grading outfit,
require lots of room under cover. They
! are wide-awake men and are bound to
expand.
The wind on Friday, Saturday, and
Sunday blew sharply from the northwest
and at times with sufficient force to de-
tach great sheets of crusted snow, and
hurl them with violence. The air was
filled with snow, which drifted consider
ably. On the prairies the storm was felt
| -verely. Farmers say it was the worst
If the s.,"ason, stock suffering more than
~ .r,, tim. ri,9 the winter, as the
cold air was driven with eiea' ioiee'
penetrating every crevice. Had it be-
accompanied with falling snow, the
storm would have exceeded that of Six
weeks ago in its disagreeable results.
On Monday the wind shifted to the
south and blew with considerable vio-
lence, the day being exceedingly disagree
able.