The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1889-03-21

repaired.
! Did you observe the beautiful fringe OF
icicles on the electric light shades on Fri
day evening? They resembled cut glass
pendants.
John McNiece has removed to the vii
lage from Little Sank, and will have
charge the farming operations of Alexan-
der Moore.
A number of tramps have been hanging
around town the past week A gentle
hint to see that your back doors is Sc
curely locked.
A new cross-walk should be laid at the
Simonton corner. On rainy days pedes-
TRANS stand a good chance of getting
their feet wet,
SHerb Virgin has gone to Washington
Territory, although he is of the opinion
he will return to Minnesota before per-
manently locating.
| The sheriff of Morrison county was i'll
the village on Tuesday, having with him
a horse thief for whose capture a reward
OF 5000 had been offered.
| Two petitions have been pretty gener-
ally circulated during the past week for
postmaster-J. M. Thomson and ]. H.
Simonton being the candidates.
| Peter Minnette was quite seriously in
jured on Tuesday morning by a large
piece of wood striking him in the bowels,
forced from horse power saw mill.
Elisha How, who has been east for sev-
eral weeks, has been confined to his room
| by sickness for ten days, but has recov-
cred. He will return in a couple of weeks.
The Odd Fellowsl lodge in this village is
doing large amount of work. Scarcely
a regular meeting occurs but additions
are made to the membership by initia-
ton.
Be sure your seed wheat is sound and
clean. 1t is worse than time and money
thrown away to put in foul and unsound
seed. 1t not only ruins the crop, but
damages the land.
Marie g. Schank are making extensive
repairs upon the building recently pur-
chased by them from A. O. Madison, on
Second and Elm-sts. 1t will be good
property when furnished.
Moses Rowe and n. X. Stcdman of
Warsaw, n. Y, are the guests Of their
respective sons. These gentlemen are oc
casional visitors to Sank Centre, to
whom a warm welcome is always as
sured.
John Mols has taken up 800 acres of
land within five miles of Minot, Oak,
and is framing house preparatory to
shipping it in shape to put it up with
the least possible delay. He expects to
remove with his family next week.
Recorder Petit has received from the
secretary of state certified copy of the
city charter, which he has gone over care
fully section by section and annotated
with marginal notes in red ink, and made
a very complete index. Any feature of it
can be referred to in an instant
Geo. Greene has purchased a lot on
Main-st. just north of Andrew Stewards
shop, and has removed to it the little
frame building adjoining. He has pur-
chased the old r. White store building
now in the rear of K. Woods & Sons
,.,I - 10 1<>+
and fit it Up for business.
There is plenty of good timber in the
city for officers-the present council hay
ing manifested disposition to work
hard for the best interests of tbs village
being entitled to resignation. President
Dubois is an efficient and fearless officer,
and would grace the mayors chair. as
would any one of several others.
The insurance adjusters have been in
town a couple of days settling Mr.. Sted-
mans losses on tbs mill property recent
ly destroyed by fire. The losses on build
ing and machinery are total, amounting
to $4,000, and an allowance: of sixty
five dollars is made on the boiler and en-
CINE which were insured for 5000.
At the board of trade meeting on Mon
night it was unanimously agreed to rec
commend that the bonds authorized for
the construction of lookup, to the
amount of 50, 500 be not issued at all,
but that special election be held upon a
proposition to r1ise bonds to the amount
Of So, 600 for a city hall and lookup COM
bined.
Sheriff Peacock Of Pope county went
over to Little Falls On Tuesday and ar
Iested a man who stole horse in Reno
township four years ago. He had the
man under arrest here, fettered to him.
self, and they were about town together.
They left on the train for Glenwood, and
arriving there the prisoner Quietly slipped
the haudcutt and struck out for liberty.
A petition has been very generally cir
culated praying that the city council es-
| tablish fire limits, including the four
| blocks between Second and Fourth sts.,
| and Pine and Qak-sts. This includes the
business centre of the city, and with GER
tain notifications should prevail 1t
would be well to permit wooden build
ings to be erected on the outskirts of the
limited territory under certain RESTRICT
ions and conditions.
The social and art gallery at the Bap-
fist church on Tuesday evening was
great success, especially from an arts
tic point of view. The gallery was in
every way worthy Of the appreciation it
received as it contained nearly seventy of
the finest painting in the city, beautifully
and artistically arranged. 1t was pro-
nounced to be by far the finest thing of
the kind eyer seen in the Northwest, out
side of ting Twin Nitiss. Great credit is
due Miss S. A. Farley and Miss Mary
Apfeld, who planned and had charge Of
the gallery. Such exhibitions of rare art