The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-09-03

returned from long ana SUCCESSFUL series
OF field trials with the Irvine.
Miss Flora Huntress has gone to Chi.
cago to join her mother and sister there.
1t is quite probable the family will make
. that city their home as they think seri.
ously of opening boarding house.
The Wilson Theatre Co. will be here
for season commencing Sept. 14th.
The agent for the company will be here
in few days to do the preliminary
work.
y Dan Duncan has purchased through
]. L. Robbins, a forty inch Minneapolis
separator and 16-horse. power engine.
It is a fine threshing, outht, and Dan
knows how to use it.
The trains northward from St. Paul
on Monday evening were crowded.
There was hardly standing room on the
: train on the Great Northern. Every
man had gun, in search Of the festive
:, chicken.
/ "A thoro'ly equipped party Of sports
men from Minneapolis passed through
town on Wednesday on their way west.
They had model outfit of dogs, guns,
and other paraphernalia for chicken and
duck shooting.
/ The grand sovereign lodge of odd
fellows will meet in St. Louis on Septem-
Der Dist, the delegation from this state
going over the Milwaukee road. Grand
representative Sprague is chairman of
transportation committee.
Miss Hannah Petit has accepted the
position of teacher of music in the state
institution for the blind at Indianapolis.
She is thoroughly competent, land withal
a 1oyelv character, and her association
with the sightless unfortunates must in
evitably be advantageous to them.
Miss Nellie Morgan gave a very fine
Evolutionary entertainment at the opera
house on Tuesday evening. Her rendi-
ton of the several selections evinced rare
talent and thorough culture. It was
unfortunate that the audience was so
small-she deserved full house.
Josiah Cooper and family have just
returned from delightful visit Of several
weeks through the valley of the Hudson.
1t was his first trip back to the familiar
scenes and faces of his childhood for more
than twenty years, and notwithstanding
the many changes he enjoyed every mo-
ment. DE
John Harrison of Kansas City,
brother of President Harrison, is enjoy
ing season of fishing and shooting at
Alexandria, with party of friends He
stepped off the car here for the few min
utes the tram remained here to meet
friends. ..h..r+.
Patrick Donahue went down to Min
neapolis some time since for the purpose
of being operated upon for cataract. He
experienced the relief sought and can see
very clearly, but the operation was fol-
lowed by bowel trouble and hiccough.
He returned home on Tuesday. Unless
soon relieved the worst is feared.
Jas. Fitzgerald has recently sold to
to the Sank Centre library a complete
set of Atlantic Monthlies from the first
issue to the end of volume &c, last Dec.
They were obtained from an old book
seller in the east and are to be bound by
Mr.. Fitzgerald and delivered at Sank
Centre for $1.15 volume or about two
thirds what they cost by yearly sub
scription.-[Post.
The crickets have been playing havoc
with the Irvine bands out in Westport.
On George Benefits farm nearly two
hundred acres,,of wheat had to be threshed
from the shock as the bundles could not
be handled for stacking, He used the So
called halfand-half Irvine, and the pests
seemed to work fiercest on the bundles
on timothy sod and more on wheat than
oats. A. L. Sunderland suffered consid-
cradle annoyance from the same cause.
Bert Sawyer passed through the city
on Tuesday on his way to Minneapolis.
He said he had been compelled to kill a
horse and valuable dog on his farm in
Willard tor fear of hydrophobia. He had
the dog shut up for several days until he
became satisfied it was affected with the
dread disease. The horse had been bitten
by the dog, and was badly swollen about
the wound and he considered is safest to
kill the animal. Several similar cases
have occurred i'll that vicinity.
John Maguren had his examination
at st. Cloud on Monday and Tuesday
on the charge of rape upon the person OF
Mary Hennenkamp of Melrose, the par
ticulars of which have been previously
published in these columns. No evidence
was introduced by the defense and the
accused was committed to the county
jail without bail to await the action of
the grand jury. The examination was
conducted by county attorney Taylor
| for the state and D. W. Bruckart for the
defendant.
The suggestion recently made that
literary and historical society be organ
ICED In this city meets with wide and en-
thusiastic approval. At the request Of a
| number of citizens a meeting is hereby
called for next Monday afternoon at four
O'Clock, at the office of Barto & Kelsey.
The object of this meeting is to consider
the ACCESSIBILITY OF organizing, and ifie
be favorahly considered, to perfect pre-
liminary organization. Everybody ISM
vited and there should be 9 large attend
| ance. ~ ~
Nothing definite can be learned rela-
| tive to the purposes of the Great North
ern road in. the matter of operating the
Park Rapids extension. The company
is DESTROYS of purchasing land in this city