The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-06-14
damage sustained is irreparable, past

nrage is all burned.
i John A. Berkey of Little Falls,
accompanied by his son, came over to
this city on Saturday. fully equipped to
make q canoe voyage down the Sank
river to Sank Rapids, all went smoothly
till at point east OF Melrose. when it
was found that there was not water
enough to float the little craft. and they
returned to this city. where a couple Of
days were spent in fishing on the lake.
". NJ. Thomson and family will
leave next week for his new home at
Lawrence, Gala. His departure has
been delayed by the fears Of delay en-
route by reason of the high water in the
mountain district. He has purchased
some land, and will engage in the bust
ness of fruit culture. His departure will
be felt as loss to this community where
he has lived so long and made so many
friends.
"A personal letter from Prof, Wood
ley received this morning states that he
arrived at his new home in safety, and
received cordial welcome. He is al
ready in harness training a chorus of
600 to 500 voices to participate in the
laying of the corner stone OF the High
school building on the Fourth OF July.
He considers himself fortunate in secur-
ing comfortable house conveniently
located.
The remains of Mrs. Maggie Barn
hart, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Kurell, of West Union, were brought to
her old home from Minneapolis for buri-
al, and funeral services were held June
LIST. in the school house near Mr.. Kur-
ellis, conducted by Rev. ]. A. Wood.
Mrs. Barnhart died, May 2Sth. being
just past thirty-six years. and leaves
large circle in the old home to mourn
her loss.
| Calvin F. How Jr., of Fergus Falls,
passed through this city on Saturday,
on his way home from Duluth, where he
witnessed the arrival of the magnificent
steamship, the Northwest, the queen of
inland navigation, an interesting dis
cription of which is given elsewhere. He
SAYS she is an imposing vessel, and the
opinion of the citizens of Duluth is that
it will stimulate travel on the lakes to
very appreciable proportions.
Mrs. r. T. Greene has genius for
discovery of rare specimens of Mime.
nesota flora. While penetrating the
depths of a tamerac swamp she found
remarka BILE pitcher plant, large, thrifty
and now in full bloom-a half dozen
beautiful flowers, and ever since she has
had it it has been putting forth pro-
fusion of those curious little pitchers
which gave name to the plant. 1t is
worth seeing.
The Great Northern railroad made
no mistake in securing the services of
Malcolm Nichols at the head of it's adj
vertising department. Not only efficient
in the management of the business in
behalf of the company, but genial
gentleman, with we'll pronounced opin-
ions upon topics outside his business, a
| close reasoner upon premises of solid
| facts gathered from wide information
1t is a pleasure to meet him aud Others
such as he.
| The Minneapolis Times in speaking
| OF the fireman's convention now in ses-
sion in that city says: Among the old
| time visitors to the convention are r. o.
Strong of St. Paul. the secretary of the
department, and L. E. Coe of Sank Cen
tire. The latter is superintendent Of the
water works at home, and intensely
loyal to home institutions. so that after
the water tower had been running about
fifteen minutes at the exhibition last
night, he came to Chief Runge and
begged him to stop. "Tell you what it
is, Gus" he said, "the miller up in our
towns pretty good friend of mine, and
If you take all his water that way he'll
have to shut down for week till he gets
the dam full again." That's why the
test was such short one"
The Minneapolis Tribune has this to
say of the commencement grafton of
William A. Simonton of this city, who
graduated last week from the State
University:
A very clever and interesting Grafton
was that which William Adair Simonton
delivered on National Songs" The
speaker started with the well-known
proposition that it was worth more
to formulate the songs of nation than
to write it's laws. He said that the peo-
pie are guided less bv intellect than by
passion and by impulse. National songs
in his opinion, are the result uf the con-
junction of the hour and the man. The
incident of THE Star Spangled Banner"
was gone over, and the history OF the
various national songs of European ma
tions was gone into. Mr.. Simonton in
terjected into his GRAFTON several orator.
cal climaxes that were greatly appreci-
ated by the audience.
The Ski U Nah Quartet, of the State
University, will appear in this city on
the evening OF June &c, in one of their
high class concerts. The gentlemen who
all have unusual musical ability, have
made special study of the theory OF
harmony, so necessary to successful
male quartet singing, and are very high
" recommended both by the press and
our own students who have heard them
sing. They are accompanied by Prof.
w. ]. Heapes, A. NJ, Phi. B., who is
one of the finest elocutionists i'll the
northwest. The quartet consists of c.
]. Zintheo, 1st tenor, / M. Davies, 2nd
tenor, Robt. e. P. Kline, LIST bass and
T. M. Hughes, End bass. They will APP
pear under the auspices of the Young
Peoples Society OF Christian Endeavor,
OF the Congregational church,
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] PERSONAL.
M. A. Scheldrup is in st. Paul this
week.
Senator Keller went to ST. Paul on