The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1902-02-20
NEARBY COUNTIES.
Items of Interest Cleaned
from Exchanges, With
out Credit.

from Exchanges, With
out Credit.
There is considerable talk about q
company being formed to dig in Wa
tab town, Benton county.
The Staples freight depot burned on
Sunday morning. Some of the freight
was saved. Loss, $4,000.
Will Mckay, a former old resident
of Willard and q relative of Gen. Lee,
died recently in Montata OF small pox.
Henry Allyn, an old resident OF
Miltona, aged 50 years, died on Mon
day in the insane asylum at Fergus
Falls.
B. j. Buckland has resigned his po-
sition rs superintendent Of the Norris
schools on account of ill health. He
is engaged in the real estate business
and resides at Minneapolis.
Earl Smith, the boy who pretends
that his home is in Sank Rapids and
who was found guilty of stealing
clothing from a Brainerd store, was
sentenced to sixty days in the Brain
erd Jail.
II. o. Amundson, the hardware and
harness dealer at Alexandria, has
bought w. B. Wilson's harness shop
and business. This is a business deal
that surprised the business public.
J. A. Johnson was at Long Prairie
from Sank Centre last week and
bought back his old gallery from A.
fuller. He will begin coming here to
do work again the first of March,
coming on Friday and remaining till
Monday.
Mat. Meyers, jr., and E. G. Erickson
have formed a partnership and will
manufacture boats of all kinds on a
large scale at Alexandria. The firm is
now completing an eighteen foot
launch to be propelled by a gasoline
engine.
w. r. Holly ofvillard, has received
an appointment as acting grand dis
trict deputy of A. F. and A. M. from
the LANDS of the grand master of the
state. Said district comprises Viii
lard, Sank Centre, Osakis, Alexandria,
Glenwood and Morris.
Patrick Hogan, who died at Willard
last week, was born in County Upper
airy, Ireland, May 2, 1925; he was mar
ried to Mary Butler on April 20, ls4S.
Twelve children we're born to them
They came to America in 1850, settling
at Portage City, Wis. Rev. FIR. o.
Conner oficiated at the funeral.
The Fergus Falls wooden mill has
been sold to Joseph Rose and liver G.
Boyum of Grand Forks. Mr.. Hogan,
the former owner, had worked up a
good trade and employed about twenty
hands. This is an enterprise Sank
Centre might have had with very little
encouragement.
George Diebel, a brother of Henry
of Long Prairie, reached there on
Tuesday from Milton, N. D., to maze
him and his sister here from Michigan
q visit of several days. These two
brothers had not met before in four.
teen years and the sister and her two
brothers are having their first visit to.
gether in twenty-five years.
John Kohlhass, one of the old and
most highly respected citizens Of
Douglas county, has gone to his final
account. That the verdict will be
swell done, good and faithful servant
all who knew him Will rest assured.
He was born in Germany in 1920 and
came to America in 1852, spending
several years in the California gold
mines, where he accumulated con.
siderable property.
They have a farmers cooperative
elevator at Kenyon, Goodhue county,
managed by q salaried agent. The an.
nual meeting of the oncern was held
recently and the agent reported such
a successful years business that q div.
idend of so per cent had been earned
for the stockholders. The meeting
voted to distribute dividends to the
stockholders and then discharge the
agent on the ground that no man
could make such profits for a company
and do it honestly.
Several weeks ago a Little Falls
man missed six of his lows. Diligeni
search failed to reveal their wherea'
bouts and it was decided that they had
been stolen, when q little boy attract
ed by groans from a deserted house In
vestigated and found the cattle. They
had wandered into the house and
pushed the door shut. The animals
presented 9 pitiful sight. One wai
dead and the others were all but ready
to give up the ghost.
! If you want an artistic photograph
20 to J. A.. johnson.