The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-07-16

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| The Sank Centre Junior base ball nine
were defeated at Melrose on Monday by
a score of rs to Is. The return game
will be played in this city on Tuesday
| afternoon next.
Commissioner Donley has done some
much needed work on Sixth-st. between
Main and Grove Lake-ave. He has gra-
ded down the top of the knoll and filled
the hollow about two feet.
AT the Methodist church next Sun
day morning the subject of the sermon
will be "The first miracles Of Christ,
and at night the subject of the address
will be, "The New Testoment.
Conductor Baxter of the Little Falls
and Dakota road, has been given a pas
senger train on the main line of the Nor
thern Pacific. He will be missed by his
many friends on this branch.
The camping party consisting Of
Web. Harmon, Horace Alden, L. NJ.
Bunnell and Harry Stedman broke camp
at Birch Lake on Tuesday, after two
weeks of delightful recreation.
r.. Woods & Sons will attend to
their business in the future at the store
of John Batchelder. All persons indebted
to the late firm will please call there and
settle. R. WOODS & Sons.
wv. Moore of Crow Wing, was in the
city on Tuesday. He was one of the old
garrison in the stockade here in 1862,
and had not visited this locality since.
He met a number of old time acquaint-
ances.
Doctor and Mrs. ]. A.; Dubois left
Wednesday last for Seattle, and the
Yellowstone Park, to be absent
month. They will join upon their return,
the Weyerhauser party which left for
Alaska on Wednesday. >i..z
The party consisting of Alex Tully,
Ransom Buck and M. F. Woodbury. re-
turned from their fishing excursion into
the wooded and watery, wilds of Todd
county on Saturday after four days of
royal sport.
Miss Lillian Knott returned home
lase week t or the summer. Miss Laura,
who has has been visiting with friends
in Iowa, returned on Monday, after at
tending the convention of the Y. P. S. c.
E. .r
To day the corner stone of the Hen
nepin county court house will be laid
with imposing masonic ceremony.
Among the masons of this lodge who
will be present are Ed. Dunlap, George
Fish, L. M. Kells and Wash McNeice.
Robbie, son of M. A. Scheldrup. who
has been visitidg his grand parents in
Douglas county, returned home on Mon
day. He was accompanied by Mrs. Pet
erson, sister of Mrs. Scheldrup, who
will make a visit of some time with her
sister.
The city has relaid the sidewalk on
Maple-st. south of the railro ad track,
which was removed by the council year
ago. 1t is much needed Improvement
in fact indispensable to the residents of
that part of the city.
Alex Tully left for St. Paul on Tues
day for the purpose of meeting represen-
tatives of the heaviest dry goods and
notion houses of New York City, and
will purchase a stock of goods from first
hands.
The Stabler reunion of which mention
was made last week was held at the old
Stabler homestead, now occupied by
Charles, Tuttle, whose wifeis daughter
of Dean Stabler, and whose name was
inadvertently omitted from the list, as
published.
Cards have been received announcing
the marriage of John c. Mangan, former
~ law student with Storey & Foster,
and teacher in the academy under the
management of Father Cogan, and Miss
Mary O'Dowd of Shakopee, on the %,
inst.
= Mrs. N. H. Miner arrived on Satur-
day from Minneapolis, and is located at
her old home, corner Oak and Fourth-sts
The place has been improved, a new side
wolk approch laid, the porch rebuilt and
external as we'll as internal improve
ments
One of the finest pieces of wheat i'm
aginable may be seen on the farm OF
George Salmond. The straw covers the
ground as thick as possible, is fully four
feet high, and the heads are long and
large thus early in the season. 1t is even
and handsome.
j. V. Brewer was in the city on We'd
nesday on his way from St. Paul to Long
Prairie. Mr.. Brewer is one of the Stat.
Park Commission appointed to secure a
large area of land about the headwaters
of the Missippi river for state park pur-
poses.
The big freshet of 1868 occurred on
July 18th. The HERALD has it on tho
best of authority that rain fell to suffi-
Gent depth within twenty -four hours to
fill a kerosene barrel, standing remote
from building where it could catch any
drip, so that it oyerfowed more than
thirty inches of rain.
Robert Smith of Appleton, Wis,
than whom no former resident of Sank
Centre is more popular, is in charge OF
affairs at the Citizens Bank for the pres
ent, as the proprietor a. j. Smith con-
templates protraeted trip to the east
with his family. Mr.. Smith will leave in
few DAYS and will go to the sea-shore.
"A social will be held at the residence
of David Cleveland in this city on Thurs
day evening OF next week, under the aus
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