Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-08-26

shlpstead, the third son, graduated
from the Northwestern Dental College
last year and has opened an Office at
Belgrade. Three other sons and three
daughters have blessed this house.
hold. Over Shipstead, a brother OF
SyVert, lived until recently across the
road from his brother, but sold his
farm to a Mr.. Binner, a German
American. Over Shipstead has fam
ny OF four sons and seven daughters,
so there is no immediate danger that
the Shipsteads will decrease in num-
bers. Halyor Shipstead, the we'll
known marble dealer of Willmar, is a
brother of Syyert and Over Shipstead.
We had long and interesting chat
with Mr.. Shipstead senior regarding
the past history of the community.
Crow River runs by back of his resi-
dence and barn. There is consider
able fall at and above this point and
a number of springs pour out water
along the bank. One of these keeps
constant supply of cold water run
ming through the milk house. When
Mr.. Shipstead first located here, he
entertained the idea of building a dam
across the stream at this point and
utilizing the power secured in running
grist mill, but, when the mill was
built at New London, the project was
abandoned. A view of the stream
from this place was secured for the
county history. Leaving the Ship
steads, who lad so Hospitality enter
tanned US, we proceeded on our way
westward. The fine ridge of hills
south of the schoolhouse of Dist. No.
" was too tempting to be passed
without taking a look over the coun-
try, and one or two good views were
secured from there. We drove on to
the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Jorgenson,
the widow. of Ole Jorgenson and
sister of T. z. Newgord. She is the
mother of the first white child born in
Burbank. She is pleasant and we'll
preserved old lady, and gave us some
interesting information. We passed
on westwardly over the bridge that
spans the river near the old Thor
Jorgenson place. Here bridge was
built of poles in 1859 Before that
time the Norway Lake people had been
obliged to drive south of Green Lake
and make St. Cloud via Cape Bad
Luck. So
AS the sun was getting low we ar
rived at the Grow River church prop
erty. Gilbert Open, the teacher, and
young wife, at considerable sacrifice
of their own comfort, we fear, made
US welcome to spend the night under
their roof. Mr.. Open is a graduate
of DEBORAH College and ranks high
among the educators of this section.
He teaches public as we'll as Nor
wegian parochial school. He is secre-
tary of the Crow River church and we
were here given an opportunity to
note down the history of the church
from the records. This church was
organized in 1868, and is one of the
most important congregations in Kan
diyohi bounty, in point of members
and amount of work accomplished.
A meeting of the ministers of the Will
mar Conference of the Norwegian
Lutheran Synod was in progress at
the time of our visit. The following
were in attendance at the same, viz:
Rev. Henry Solum, principal of the
Willmar Seminary, Revs. J. E. Berg,
of Sacred Heart, Chr. Peterson of
Benson, j. G. Beito of Swift Falls,
c. N. Peterson of Ellington, S. Oak,
T. J. Strand Of Appleton, E. Strom
of Red Wing, G. B. Ingebrigtson of
Wheaton, O. Estrem of New London,
Lars Mus of Grove City, P. Kilness
of Sisseton, S. OAK, D. G. Jordahl
of Norway Lake, Nikoli Ylvisaxer of
Zumbrota and T: O.. Tolo, local pas
tor. Mr.. Andreas Ylvisaker of Zum-
brota, member of the church coun-
Gil, was also in attendance. Several
of these visitors were given shelter at
the pleasant home of the "Opens.
The church records kept the writer
busy until noon. Meanwhile our ar
fist had secured several views includ-
ing a view of the parsonage with a
group of the visiting clergymen. Al
ter dinner we called at the parsonage
and Rev. Tolo kindly assisted us in
securing additional information from
the minister al records. Shortly we
drove westwardly into Colfax.
! I Our next stop was at the well-ap-
pointed home of Thor Mikkelson.
His son, Carl O. Nicholson is clerk in
Dist. Dist. No. II. Mr.. Nicholson
had already kindly furnished most OF
the information desired from the re-
cords. Father and son were busy at
stacking oats. While the son drove
home with our companion to secure