The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-04
PRESTON.

The new school building has been COM
pleteG at a cost of about $4,000, includ-
ing the steam plant for heating both
buildings. The high school, grammar
department and eighth grade will begin
work tomorrow in their new quarters.
Senator R. E. Thompson has pur-
chased a lot upon which to build new
business building next spring.
Mayor A. w. Thompson has practically
completed the purchase of two lots on
which he will erect a modern opera
house next season.
The long-talked-of electric road seems
to be a certainty. The company has been
organized and will be Immediately in
corporated H. r. Wells is president; R.
E. Thompson, vice president, and S. A.
LaEgum secretary, all of Preston. The
directorate includes prominent business
men of Rochester Chatfield, Harmony
and DEBORAH. Surveying is under way
for the line between this place and
Fountain, which will constitute the first
link in the chain. The promoters hope
eventually to build the road to ST Paul.
H. S. Bassett will erect a two-story
brick building next spring on the lot now
occupied by his law office.
w r. Peet is just putting the finishing
touches on the seventh furnace supplied
by him this fall to parties in and near
Preston.
Work is being rushed on the new II.
R. Wells block, the entire ground floor
of which has been leased for a term of
years by the Herbranson Mercantile
company. DR.. Claude Kremer will re-
move his dental parlors to a suite of
rooms in the new building. DR.. Kramer
came here from Minneapolis.
The old narrow gauge is nearing its
end 1t is expected that, with favorable
f1a1. fIn oct rrpx. cro11 100 fy-1i1 in
will leave Preston next Sunday, and the
following day will see the .sstandard
gauge cars rolling into Preston
DR.. G. A. Love is just completing his
twenty-seventh year of practice in Pres
ton and vicinity DIR. Love graduated
from Bennett college, Chicago, in 1874
DR.. Phillips has just completed the
erection of a fine barn which, with re-
cenr Improvements to his dwelling, gives
the doctor one of the handsomest resi-
dence properties in Preston.
Pennies are at a premium here. A
medicine company has neld forth at the
opera house all the week, charging ,
cents admission, and the kids have
sqrandered all the coppers.
M. II. Grattan has lately made some
notable sales of Bay McGregor colts to
be shipped to other states. Bay Nc
Gregor is a half-brother to Cresceus, and
tracted not a little attention to this
beautiful village.
Thomas Caluau, who, under the name
of Fitzgerald, received injuries on the
narrow gauge work train, from the eff
fects of which he died couple of weeks
ago, left will in which he named Fa-
Their McTeague, the local Catholic priest,
as administrator. Considerable property
in Ireland is left to a brother and sis
tie" of deceased.
Rev. Corkey, of the Presbyterian
church, has resumed his crusade against
dancing, opening with a red-hot sermon
last Sunday. The worthy pastors eff
forts, however seem to increase rather
than lesson the attendance at social
balls.
Arrangements are nearly completed for
barbecue upon the completion of the
standard guage road, partly to celebrate
that event and partly to do honor to
Senator Thompson to whose untiring eff
forts the new road is largely due, and
to whom, under the circumstances, Pres
ton owes very much OF its prosperity,
present and prospective. Probably no
other man in Preston can compare with
the senator in popularity, and Pres
tonians almost to a man would support
him in any undertaking.