Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-08-19
III. RoSevil,o TOWNSHIP.


The most northeasterly of the town.
ships which form the splendid county
which we feel p oud to call our home
is Roseville. The township has some
characteristics which distinguish it
from its sister towns. One of the
most striking to the visitor is the
mixed population. -Four distinct set.
Elements may be traced. The Ameri-
can born fasteners or "Yankees''
and their descendants who still remain
from the earlier settlements the Ger
man American settlement along the
river and northern part, the French
American settlement in the east GEN.
trail portion and the Norwegian Anne r.
lean settlement in the southeastern
portion. Roseville is the only town.
ship in the county that has two differ
ent railways crossing through the
same, and two stations upon such
competing roads. The 500 road en-
tiers Roseville from the northwest on
Sec. and follows the Crow River
bottoms in a southwesterly direction,
leaving the county at point two miles
south of the northeast corner of the
township. Fully six square miles of
Kandiyohi county soil lie north of the
500 track. The Great Northern en-
tiers the township from the southwest
exactly at the corner of the tom and
runs in a northeasterly direction,
crossing the county line half mile
south of the 500 road The railroads
of Roseville thus form ''V" with the
point towards the east. LintOnville is
the station on the 500, located on Sec
ton 6, and Hawick is the Great
Northern station, placed in Sec. g.
The stations are Just five miles apart
by section lines. Roseville has about
ten square miles of heavy rolling coun
try with clay sub-soil, about twelve
square miles of nearly perfectly flat
treeless river bottoms and about four
teen sections of sand prairie. To the
southwest lies the beautiful Long Lake
and about four square miles of coun-
try east of the same is more or less
heavily wooded. The north fork of
the Crow River that flo IS through the
northern part of Roseville is quite a
formidable stream. To provide prop
er bridges has been quite an expense
to the township. Six public bridges
span the river, four within the town
the east bridge, the Patznick bridge,
the Gruetzmacher bridge and the Lin
ton bridge-and one upon the bound
airy line of Paynesville town and an
other upon the line between Roseville
and Lake Henry on the north. The
town is about to erect new $500 steel
bridge to replace one that has been
condemned.
We entered the town early Monday
morning at the southwestern corner
and drove directly trough to section
one, with a cold and muggy nor'-
wester' beating us on the side, and
thus we had ample opportunity to
study the lay of the land at the outset
We reached the pleasant home of
Hugh Blakely in good season. Seats
abou, the kitchen fire we're comforta BILE
after the ride in the raw wind on the
morning of that tenth day of August.
Mr.. Blakely was one of the early SET
tiers, first reaching this county in the
summer of 1858 He was one of the
commissioners of the original Monon-
gala county. Mrs. Blakely, who
shared with her people the dangers OF
the early set lement, now enjo to sit
amidst her grown up family of fine
looking young men and la lies and
tell of the trials of former days A
fine old couple, with merry eye and
CHEEKY voice, are the Blakely's. A.
ter dinner we took a drive over the
judicial road on the county line
around the extreme northeast corner
OF the county. A natural grove OF
mixed timber shelter the Blakely and
Glenz homes to the westward. On the
/ northern edge of this grove wi hin