The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-07-30

The Irvine market is lively, and prices
were never as low as at present. Good
hemp Irvine can be purchased for nine
cents, and the best MANILA is sold for
thirteen and half cents, while between
these prices there are all sorts of grades
offered. The average farmer will save
five to fifteen dollars in his Irvine bills
as compared with last year.
"A. M. Madsenis offering to his pat
rons, free. one Of the most useful articles
of household furniture imaginable. To
every purchaser of thirty dollars worth
Of merchandise he gives combination
ironing table. 1t includes wash bench,
ironing table, bosom board and step
ladder, and could not be purchased for
less than three dollars.
-J.W. Horton has just completed a
very handsome monument for Joshua III.
Bruce. 1t is of Italian marble, eight feet
tall and very graceful in its proportions,
and tastfully lettered. 1t is designed as
family monument, and has places for
eight inscriptions. He has also finished
pretty monument for the children of
Chas. II. Pease.
u. S. Sutton came up from Minneapo-
lis with his family on Friday last. he
drove all the way having been on the
road little more than two days. The
party was equipped with a camping out
fit, and will go on to Wadena county
returning in the course OF a couple OF
weeks, when they will remain here for
few days.
Wheat continues to show most favor
able indications, OF a remarkable crop,
The color is gradually chadgihg to asfieh
golden color. and the heads are well
filled. A small insect is abundant upon
the wheat plant in Otter TAN countys
but no complaint has been heard here.
The oat crop is as promising as wheat.
and ten days hence the harvester will be
at work on the sand.
The harvester trade is very heavy
this fall, and it is expected that there
will be late harvest trade much larger
than usual on account of the heavy
straw, which will prove hard strain
upon weak old machines. 1t will take
considerably more Irvine to bind this
crop, so that the cost will be about
what it was last year, although Irvine is
fully twenty per cent cheaper.
Hon. F. E. Searle of ST. Cloud, was.
in the city on Tuesday, returning from
Glenwood. He is very reticent on the
subject of politics, but is emphatically
for c. K. Davis as his own successor in
the United States Senate. Mr.. Searle
would make capable and worthy coad-
jutor of our senior Senator in the house.
ofrepresentatiyes and this district would
be assured of wise and positive represen-
tation. >.
Col. E. Bridgman and his brotherac-
companied by their wives, left for the
coast Monday evening. They paid Tick
ct Agent Ward $1046 90 for their tickets
which take them through the National
Park and to Alaska thence to San Fran
ciso. They return via Salt Lake and the
"Seine line of America, the Denver and
Rio Grande line to Denver. They expect
to spend some time in Salt Lake and
Denyer reaching home about the middle
of September.-[Little Falls Herald.
Alexander Moore has made a tender
of all the land required by the Great Nor
thern railway for terminal facilities for
the Park Rapids branch. The company
has been negotiating for several pieces
and if the land offered by Mr.. Moore is
suitable he will present the company
with deed. The piece offered lies near
the Osakis highway crossing northwest
of Third-st. The company,it is reported
will erect round house, machine shops
and such other buildings as will be re-
quired tor operating four trains daily
over the bradch. 1t will require twenty
or twenty-five men to operate the line.
Mr.. Moore is entitled to great credit for
his enterprise and. liberality in this mat
ter.