Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-08-19
A Trip Through the County x
BY THE EDITOR.

EDITOR.
Kandiyohi county lies the schoolhouse
in the fractional school district No.
II OF kandiyohi county and No. lip
OF Stearns county. VIM. Nehrinq ia
clerk, and he lives on the Stearns
county side of the line. A few rods
from the schoolhouse is the church of
the German Evangelical congregation.
The church building is in Stearns
county, but the adjoining church GENE
ter! Is in Kandiyohi. At this church
a number of the people of the Germ an
community of Roseville worship.
Mr. Nehring is also secretary of the
church org anization. From here we
Grove south and west into Dist. No.
2o. The schoolhouse stands on the
bro" OF the bluff that marks the north
ern edge of the river bottoms. Owing
to the high location, the boys have
nlcknamed the same "The Hioh
School, The district has purchased
a plot OF ground on the lowlands and
will erect new schoolhouse on the
same next season. The severe storm
that struck this community q few
weeks ago, demolished barn just be-
low the hill, but the schoolhouse es-
capped unscathed. The view from these
bluffs southwark is grand. The eye
may sweep over many miles of terri
tory. The bottoms on the north side
OF the 500 track are cultivated, and
harvest was in full blast The gravel
train had b. n busy along the line of
railway and two large crews of men
working upon the road-bed were in
sight. Herman Gruetzmacher is clerk
OF Dist. No. ~, and we visited his
home upon the bottoms to examine
the records of the district, which are
far from complete. The district has
undergone complete change of pop
"lation during the past decade and
hardly one of the old-timers remains
there.
Next we made our way up the bot
toms to the station of Lintonville.
w. II. Feddema is owner of the town
site, president of the Lintonville
creamery and clerk of the Lintonville
school, District No. 30. His house
furnishes acc mmodations to the &C.
casional traveller who visits the place.
Mr.. Feddema is born in Holland and
was one of the early settlers in
Stearns county. There his long as
ISOLATION in an exclusively German
community has given him thorough
knowledge Of German, and he uses the
three languages with ease. He is a
civil war veteran. He came to this
county about dozen years ago and
purchased half section of land from
the Kings, including, as we stated
above, the townsite. The early rec
ords of No. 81 have been lost, and
but very few of the early settlers and
their descendants are still living in the
community. In the morning we Sc
cured views of the creamery, the town,
etc. A brief visit at the fine home of
Valentine Kranz, secretary of the
creamery association, gave US the
particulars regarding this cooperative
enterprise. A five mile drive brought
US to Hawick. Here the writer spent
the day taking notes from the town
records, which are complete from the
organization of the township in 1866
Mr.. E. S. Smithson is the town clerk
and LIE resides near the station. We
we're kindly treated at the Smithson
home. Mrs. Smithson was formerly
Miss Ella Geer, and attended the New
London school during the same term
as the writer, under the tutelage OF
Editor W. A. Krause. During the
day, our companion, Mr.. A. S. Mel.
son, drove over into Dist No. 81, OF
which Mr. F H. Lester is clerk, to Sc.
cure what inform alton he could of the
same. This district is what was form.
erly k'.own as Fractional Dist. No.
of Kandiyohi county, but now is
known in both this county and in
Stearns as No. 81. Mr.. Nelson found
prosperous community. He enjoyed