The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1891-03-26

j. G. Hart of Crookston, has leased
the Perkins building on Main-st.. and is
now in st. Paul purchasing stock OF
fruit, confectionery and stationery. He
will open first class business house, has
ample capital and long experience and
will give our people a fine assortment OF
goods.
"A man named Putnam, bonanza
farmer at Tintah, was in town on Sat-
urday and employed several of our peo-
pie for the season. Among them Mr..
Harrington and wife, Louis Connolly,
Irving Velie, Fred w. Smith and Melvin
Van Norman. They have been employed
to work for eight months.
I'm order to relieve our people from
the illegal assessment for surveying
concerning which the HERALD has fire.
qdently spoken-it is proposed to have
an act passed by the legislature permit
ting the county treasurer of Stearns
county to accept the other taxes assessed
and levied, leaving the survey tax unpaid.
%. D. Hunt has put up telephone OF
his own invention for w. S. Dean, con-
Meeting his Office and house. 1t does its
work excellently well-equal to the high
priced telephones. All who are interested
are invited to call and inyestigateit. Mr..
Hunt is prepared to put up lines at very
reasonable rates, and warrant satisfac-
ton.
Esquire Carr received letter from
his son Byron, who is now in the pineries
neat the Duluth and Grand Rapids rail-
road, northwest of Duluth. He is in
good health, and says he encounters any
quantity of noble game, including deer,
moose, elk and caribou. He will be home
in May. He is in the land department
of the Northern Pacific railroad.
j. A. Caughren has purchased the
west half of the ]. L. Robbins homestead
property corner of Main and Sixth-sts.
"a quarter of block, and will proceed
at once to erect brick residence thereon.
The lots are very desirable and it is Mr..
Caughren's plan to put up handsome
house, one which will be an ornament to
the city. Consideration for the lots
about $1,000.
IF. McFarlin and Geo. Nj. Stire, of
Sioux City, Iowa, have been in the city
during the past week picking up cattle
fit for immediate butchering. They Sc
cured two car load, one shipped yester.
day and another to go forward to-mor'
row. They took number of head from
Michael Allen, Abner Lamb and Geo. w.
Jenkins. They purchased by the head,
so that it is impossible to quote prices
by the pound.
oh! that every member of the city
council were compelled to cross the rail-
road track on Maple-st. these days along
the line of the late lamented stolen side
walk! Wouldn't it be fun for the resi-
dents of that part of the city to see their
city dads foundering up to their knees
in ice-cold slush, and mud. 1t is next to
impossible for any one to make the cross
ing without going at least two blocks
out of the way.
Upon his seturn from Minneapolis
Mr.. Petit gives very gloomy view
of the financial situation so far as it afr
fects farm loans. He says that Eastern
capitalists are withholding their money
awaiting the outcome of the legislature.
There are any number OF accepted loans,
in which papers have been made out
ready for delivering which have been re-
turned to tine applicant, with the infor-
nation that no money could be had.
The Pioneer Press of Saturday last
had very interesting sketch of the sit
ting accorded to the. venerable ATTEST,
James H. Beard, by General Sherman,
in 1887. The article mentioned several
other notable pictifres and portraits
painted by Mr.. Beard, among them that
of Gen. William Henry Harrison-Fippe-
canoe. It may be ofinterest to the read,
ers of the HERALD to know that this
painting is in Sank Centre, in possession
of Mrs. Chas. F. Hendryx.
County Superintendent Rocholl was
in the city on Saturday last, and held
teachers examination at the school
house. There were sixty candidates for
certificates, most of them from the i'm
mediate vicinity, several of them high
school students and pupils from the
academy. He says they acquitted them
selves very creditably indeed, and thinks
large Per cent. Of esrtifeates will be
granted. He took the examination pas
pers home with him.
-Beecher used to tell good story,
seasonable just now. He was going
along a street in Brooklyn, when he OBJ
served an elderly man, annoyed by street
gamlns playing marbles on the side walk.
deliberately kick the marbles from the
walk into the muddy street. One little
fellow who went scrambling after his
precious marbles, too indignant to con-
tain himself, shouted out to PLAYMATE,
Hi! jamie! come, quick, and see the old
gray:headed euss what nsYer was boyl"
THE laboring mems organization held
meeting on Monday evening, and dis
cussed at some length the question of
putting ticket in the field for the city
election to be held the first Tuesday in
Hext month. There were thirty-three
members present. An informal ballot
was taken for mayor which resulted in
giving Michael Hogan nineteen votes,
the balance scattering among halt
iozen others. A committee was appoint
ed to report candidates for mayor and
aldermen, consisting of three from each
ward, as follows VIM. Pangburn, A.
Moore. I. M. Garfield r. Robbins