Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-08-26
A Trip Through the County y:
BY THE EDITOR.

Letting vital statistics is very unsatis
factory, because so many, people fai
to properly report births and deaths,
He believes that the work of collecting
the same should be left with the asses.
sors, who make house to house can:
vass of the town, anyway and could
with very little extra work secure 4
correct record of the births and
deaths.
We proceeded up the hill to the
Newgord place. T. z. Newgord is the
first settler in the town of Burbank,
although he shared the honor with
Jorgen Postmyhr and his sons, Ole,
Thor and Halvor. Mr.. Newgord was
busy at work stacking oats, when we
came. The dinner hour was near at
hand, and we remained to share the
hospitality of the home. We enjoyed
an interesting interview and secured a
great deal of valuable information re-
garding early times in the town. The
Ringville postofice is located at the
Newgord home. It is soon to be dis
continued, the patrons of the same to
be served by a rural delivery route
from Georgeville. The route service
is to begin some time in September.
Mr.. Negord expressed great relief in
the anticipation of losing his official
position as postmaster, the Office at
the best being but an accommodation
to a limited locality.
During the afternoon we visited the
homes of George Johnson and Gun
der Iverson. The former is clerk in
Dist. No. IL. Mr.. johnson had taken
great care in gathering the historical
data for his district and thanks to his
work, our labors were light. No. II
is good district. At one time there
were IS pupils enrolled. We were
hospita bly, treated during our short
stay. We called at the Iverson or
Gunderson home to note down the his
tory of the Gausdahl church organic
alton. John Gunderson, now residing
at New London, was the secretary un-
til recently. The old gentleman's
name is Gunder Iverson Ringen (from
which Ringville post Office derived it's
name) and the sons have adopted the
name of Gunderson, as was customary
among Scandinavians. They are all
pleasant people to meet and gave US a
hearty welcome. The ladies insisted
upon providing refreshments. Our
work done, we must proceed. In the
evening we drove up to the fine home
of O. A. Sonstegaard on "Sloughside
Avenue" term not unknow to TR1-
BUNE readers. We were Hospitality
received and pleasantly entertained
This family has contributed three to
the ranks of public school teachers in
this county. Carl A. Rudolph and
Miss Julia. The latter graduated
from the St. Cloud Normal last year,
and will teach in southern part of
county during the coming year. The
boys are in South Dakota. After a
pleasant visit with the Sonstegaard's
we departed in the early morning for
Georgeville, to secure picture of the
creamery at that place. We called at
the Peterson home and would have
been glad to have stopped there
longer. Paul Peterson is the secre-
tary of the Georgeville Creamery AS
socia'ion.
Georgeville is station on the 500
railroad and lies about three quarters
of mile north of the Kandiyohi
county line. The main pushers of the
creamery organization live in Bur-
bank. They built the creamery near
the station because of the better facili-
ties for shipping their products.
There is general store there man
aged by Olof Nicholson. The store is
a branch of the mercantile establish
ment of Nicholson Bros. & Glesne at
Belgrade. A blacksmi h shop and a
wagon shop attend to work in that
line. A feed mill is soon to be es-
tablished. The grain elevator was
recently demolished in a storm, but
will be put in shape to buy grain this
season. AS is usual about these but
ter. towns, the creamery is the busy
place during the morning hours. In
our call there we met Mr.. Ole Larson,
the manager, and Oscar Thor, the
buttermaker. This creamery paid it's
patrons $2,638.93 during the month oil
June. Tobias Solseth of Burbank is
the president. ~~ .,~.:s5
We sped back to within the bound.
aries OF our own county again and
made for the residence of Mr.. Syvert
Shipstead in Sec. 4. Theodore, the
second son, is clerk of School Dist.
No. %. u Edward S. Ship tead, the
oldest son, is we'll known as . jolly
threshefman III these northern aparts,
He says he has had enough Of that
kind Of life, and has disposed Of his