The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-04-23

i night, 1.-THE Revival IN N1neveh.
/ August Rien, father of Mesdames
Keller and Dahlem, is i'll with the grippe.
He is very old, an octogenarian. and the
desease has taken firm hold of him.
! -Abner Lamb is authority for the
state ment that there is still a large
amount of wheat still in first hands in
the town of Getty, among his neighbors.
/ Fred Rowe and wife returned from
Minneapolis on Tuesday. They have
been absent two weeks, part of the time
| Mr.. Rowe has spent at his Bird Island
farm.
Bert Sawyer came up from Minneap-
oils on Monday. on his way to Willard,
where he has large farm which he is
stocking up with valuable horses and
| cattle.
IF. L. Bergren has removed to his
farm near Grove Lake where he will
spend the summer. He has leased his
home on Thlrd-st. to the book-keeper for
Dean & Co.
Henry Keller is engaged in making
fax breaking and threshing machine,
which is doing its work of preparing flax
straw for the Irvine machine in salts
factory manner.
This has not been very favorable
year thus tar for the drill to exhibit any
| marked superiority over the broadcast
seeder. 1t is in light soils and dry sea-
sons that the drill asserts itself.
The Great Northern road has issued
valuable bulletin of several pages up
on the subject of poultry raising. Any
one can secure copy by applying to ].
| A. Norris, local agent at this station.
| "A recent Deadwood paper gives an
extended account OF the capture ofa band
of burglars and the recapture of the plum
der. in which Deputy Sheriff Val. Apfeld
played prominent and very creditable
part.
Mat Vanish is yeneering his building
on Third-st. with pressed brick and will
carry it up above the gable, with
square front. With it's plate glass and
new brick jacket, it will be greatly i'm
proved.
Mayor Tobey has appointed Ben
Rice special policeman pending the selec-
ton of chief of police. The council at
it's last meeting failed to confirm the
mayors appointment of Mr.. Rice to be
chief of police.
The " P. S. c. E. social, spoken of
elsewhere, will begin at $50 with the
Grand March, in which all can partici-
pate who choose. This alone will be
worth the price of admission, which is
only ten cents.
There will be Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society Convention at the
Methodist church May 10Th and 18th
several speakers from abroad will be
present, among them, Miss Define of
Bombay, India.
e. H. Atwood has received of the agri-
cultural department at Washington sew
eral pounds of sugar beet seeds which he
will distribute in limited quantity
| among applicants who enclose stamp
to pay postage.
Seeding has been delayed by the re-
cent rains, but there is nothing perticu-
larry discouraging in that fact. Last
spring there was heavy snow storm on
May 18th, and wheat did not sprout
until after that date.
Hon. Joseph Capser has returned
| from St. Paul. He has an excellent re-
cord, and is entitled to no little credit for
his influence in defeating some of the
damaging measures introduced notably
the so-called usury bill.
On Sunday last the pipe organ at the
Episcopal church was used for the first
time, although not complete, Mrs. Brew
err presided at the KEY board. and she
made excellent use of it too. By next
Sunday it will be complete.
The Odd Fellows celebration on Mon
day evening will be pleasant occasion
to all interested in the good and welfare
| of the order. Appropriate addresses will
be made, and there will be musical feat
| ures to supplement the literary.
! THE St. Cloud Daily Times has been
| increased in size from six to seven col
| umns. The Times is bright, newsy
and altogether creditable rural daily,
and deserves the increased patronage
which made the change imperative.
The pipe organ in the Episcopal
church is now in perfect order, and it isa
remarkably fine instrument, sweet toned
and powerful. On Wednesday evening" it
was given very satisfactory treat by
Mrs. Brewer and Messrs Wales and Bar
COWS,
Marcus Maurin of Cold Springs,
drank ammonia by mistake, for Hosteters
hitters, and narrowly escaped fatal re-
suits. A similar occurance in this city
recently emphasizes the fact that people
can not be too careful with poisonous
medicines.
I'm his sermon on Sunday evening
and it was very good one indeed-Mr.
Lawson made the startling statement
that the saloons of this city are open on
Sunday for business. If his sources of
information are reliable an investigation
! is in order.
Mrs. Knutson sustained painful
accident on Fourth-st., due to defective
sidewalk, A loose plank caught her
foot in such way that she fell prone,
striking her face heavily upon the walk,
the blood flowing freely from her nose
and mouth.
The special train mentioned last week
| as passing through this city on its way
westward, having number ofthe gener-
al officers of the Great Northern on
tour of inspection, was wrecked in Dako-
ia by colliding with freight train, but