The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-09-26

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Rev. Page of Fergus Falls preaching the
sermon.
The dance and oyster supper at the
rink tomorrow, Friday evening, will be
a pleasant affair The best of music will
be furnished, and good supper served.
Those who desire supper only can get
it for fifty cents.
The agent for the Remington type-wri-
tiers was in the city the other day and
put in three cabinet machines on trial
e the First National bank. the academy
and the loan and collection agency of A.
H. Petit. They will all stay.
A.G. Whitney is in Washington ter,
ritory. He has visited the national
park, Tacoma, Seattle and Spokane
Fails, and will return by the way of San
Francisco, Salt Lake city, Denver and
Kansas city, returning early next
month.
The Swedish Ladies' concert adver-
tised for last Monday evening at the
rink had to be abandoned, owing to i'll
ness of members of the troupe. The
engagement was cancelled, and it is not
definitely known whether they ever will
visit this city.
The Sank Centre Academy is doing ex-
cellent work There are between thirty
and forty students in attendance-an un-
usual number for the season-among
them several young ladies. A new feat
ure has been added to the many excellent
old ones, which will meet an urgent de
mand, and that is department of STEM
ography and typc-writing, with COM
petent instructor. A fine Remington
machine has been purchased.
A meeting under the auspices of the
w. c. T. U. was held at the Congrega-
tional church on Sunday evening last.
The address of the evening was made by
Rev. E. G. P Sanderson of Long Prairie
He delivered an interesting lecture upon
the underlying principles of government,
adducing as a conclusion that prohibit
ton may be engrafted upon the laws of
the state without doing violence to the
spirit of our republican institutions. He
was listened to with interest by good
audience.
The wood work on the City Hall
Opera House is completed. The stage is
very large and will be convenient. tick
tends across the south end, is twenty
eight feet deep, and will have ample
dressing rooms conveniently arranged.
The floor of the hall is oak, wainscotting
of pine, and walls and ceiling fneshed
N pure white. 1t will be a beautiful
audience room, with seating capacity
If about 600. 1t will be ready about
October 1st and should be opened with a |
strong company.
Caughren Brothers have taken the con-
tract for moving a quarter-million yards |
Of earth for the Omaha road, and as it is |
heavy cutting they can work |
Turing the winter. The road is building |
a cutoff to shorten it's line, commencing
twenty miles east of Saltwater, thence
twenty-five miles further east. The boys
shipped two carloads Of mules and five
Of appliances on Wednes lay, and more
will follow. They will employ 200 men,
and expect to complete the work before
March list. They are hustlers, under
stand their business and will make some
money out oft.
A gang o norse-traders with the usual
quality of rse-fesh, is in town.
The annual meeting for voting funds
ior school maintenance was held on Sat-
arday and the following levy made:
Teachers wages, 5000
Bonds and interest, 1000
Incidental expenses, 1900
Total, $500
This is 81, 600 less than the levy OF last
year, made possible by Q surplus in hand
saved by rigid economy, and the boards
entitled to no little credit. By this re-
duction theratio of taxationis cut down
about five mills.
Mcclure & Whitney have a fine set of
blueprint plats of Sank Centre, and its
several additions, as also plats of all the
villages in Stearns county. One curious
one is that of the original plat of Sank
Centre, before the present town-site plat
was made. 1t was surveyed in June
1857 by Henry Hill, and was owned by
E. S. Jones, A. Moore, w. H. Leonard,
VIM. Clark, w. Adley. Richard Stuart
and Henry Hill. All streets were eighty
feet wide excepting Main, which was
100 feet wide, and every block had an
alley sixteen teet wide, and the lots
we're 66x17O feet. The plat contained
ninety blocks of ten lots each, embracing
an area of about a mile square; the
streets were named Mary, Seward,
Orange, Clark, Uncas, Winnebago, Nc
Caslin, South, Bruce, Doyle, Sinclair,
Pequawket, Nam, johnson, Stone, Hill
and Jones.
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