The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-07-25


tull amount be pledged at once it is prob
able sons work will be done by the city
upon the grounds this fall.
The board of equalization has not vet
completed its labors, but will do so to
day. There has been considerable. in thu
| aggregate, added to the assessment roll:
and IN few cases reasonable reduction:
have been made, but the board will leave
the sum total greater than It found it.
c. NJ. McCollum took the contract fol
plastering the city hall and has associa
ted with him Henry B,ugh of Melrose
They commence this week and it will b.
completed about the first of September
1t will be as good a job as first-class
material anu skilled workmanship car
make.
There seems to be no question but The
superintendent of the water-works Is II
a measure responsible for this rain. He
drove 4 well on his place oyer the river
on Wednesday for the purpose of secur'
ing water for his trees and lawn and he
then predicted that it would rain within
| twenty-tour hours.
Sam Beidleman has received check for
!. %31.1t from the Travellers insurance
company of Hartford, through their
agents, Messrs. Morse & Lamb. Mr..
D:lI-,o, ,,,.,.;a. 90, o,,,,,,o1 ,>oI;c,, wv; !,
Tie Travellers and lie found it quite con-
venicnt when laid up with an injury to
his loot sustained few weeks since.
! Tie council and the assessor met at
tie Office OF the city clerk on Monday as
| required by l,,w, as board of equaliza-
| ton. A number of changes in assessed
valuations were made The board certi-
! iics its work up to the state board of
equalization direct, under the charter the
county board not having any jurisdic
! ton in the premises.
Marie, Schank q Co. are alive to the
| fact that money is scarce, and they are
offering spccialinducemen to patrons for
cash. y dollar never would purchase as
| much hardware in Sank Centre as it will
| to-day 1T their store This may sound
cNtrayagant and the one way to test its
accuracy, by giving them 4 trial. They
have q complete stock to select from.
Try them.
There are two parties of Sank Centre
people cucamped at Birch Lake. Mr..
and Mrs. Wakefield, Frank Perry and
some parties from ST. Paul constitute
| one, and W"l. II. Clark, of St. Cloud,
Viii Stabirr end Geo. West the other.
| The parties have been visited during the
week by Misses Maud Pcndergast,
Mamie Woliord and Edith Whtefcld,
and AIcssrs. john Boobar, Harry Carr,
HARRY Whitcheld, Fred Jacob, John
Law, Dad" Dunlap and John Gilman.
There is pleasant party camping near
GlcuW0Od composed Of Nh and Mrs. J.
Z. Rich, two daughters and son, Mrs. 1.
| NJ. SprGgue and son, Mrs. ]. NJ. McMas-
! tCl Gnu tNo t'ihShtSiS, anu tIiSS 4uol-
| tie Wo!tord They have entertained
during the past week Mrs. J, c. Parker,
Mrs. William Lewis, Misses Eta and
| Emma Lewis, Miss Rose Brown, HarfE
Lewis, Charlie Parker, Elmer Hilsdale,
lanes Smith Ir. of Leavenworth, Ks,
and 4 number Of others. They are hay
in: good time.
\ quiet wedding was celebrated at the
residence of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. J. Getty at
Getty's Grove on Monday, July 22d,
1889, it being the marriage of their
daughter Margaret y. to Mr.. c. II. Bah
cock of St. Paul, Rev. S. G.. Brggj of the
Methodist church, officiating. The family
OF the bride are well and favorably
| known here and host of friends tender
earnest congratulations to the happy
Young couple. They leave for an ex-
tended tour of the great lakes and Min
ncs0ta summer resorts. On their return
they will be at home at Getty's Groye
! until Oct. list.
The following item from an exchange
will be ofinterest to our farmers in view
of the fact that several cases of hog chol
era have been reported in this vicinity
The prosposcd remedy is very simple and
easy of application and trial can Ger.
tainlv do no harm: Burnt corn is a sure
cure for hog cholera. 1t was first dis
covered by the burning of a pile of corn
belonging to a distillery at Peoria. 1t
was thrown to the hogs and readily
eaten by them. Before that time NUM-
Der had been dying each day with chol
era but the disease Immediately disap
pearcd. It is so simple a remedy that i
can be easily tried"
Hon. Joseph Capser and wife will
their SONS Henry and Joe, lett Tor Orator
last week on visit to Mr.. and Mrs
RcyIivk. On Wednesday Frank Carlson
received letter from him, the following
extract from which is interesting: ITO
day Henry and I arrived at Winnipes
| anu NS IISlNS NlS"SI ilS WIiOlS CITY aUt
the halfbrecds with it. 1t is a grea
city with some fine buildings. The crops
on either side of Winnipeg are clearly
nothing and they will have to buy thei
wheac for bread and seed from the states
They have had no rain since spring unit
about week ago. Crops are an aver
age around Grafton, but no where a
good as around Sank Centre"
CRY HALL BIDs-The building com
lnittce of the city council met on Satur
! day to consider the bids for roofing ant
plastering the city hall. The followin!
bids were presented and passed upon:
How Bros. & Co., roofing per