Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-10-10
4 Trip Through the County II
III. erssa tsks-(C Continued J.
BY THE EDITOR.

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hon. O. N. Grue is clerk Of schoo,
D'strlct No: 60-the Embertson school
mouse. We found the Ex-senator :,
MS usual good spirits and we'll stocked
WIN Information. He has been secre.
tary OF the Dovre & Mamre Insurance
company since it's organization and
we secured notes from the records of
sne a same for the county history. We
Were detained at Senator Grue's pleas
ant home by fresh outburst from the
clouds and were Hospitality entertained
over night. Mrs. Grue is q true swed-
1sh lady. Five children-a son and
Tour daughters, we'll bred and fntelli-
gent-bless the home. Nels Olsen
Grue. the father of the ex-senator. re-
sides with him. The elder Mr.. Grue
IS veteran of the Ninth Minnesota
Volunteer Infantry, having enlisted at
Carver in 1862. The Grues came to
the county in 1859 and settled in Do
rye. The son later purchased land in
Green Lake, northeast of Eagle Lake,
and now has fine farm of 32O acres.
There is q fine flowing we'll upon the
place. Talking about freak wells,
Senator Grue stated that he formerly
possessed flowing we'll that would
invariably cease to flow for "a hours
when the wind changed to the north
west. After that lapse of time the flow
would begin, even if the wind contin-
ued to blow from that direction. No
satisfactory explanation of this phen-
omenon has ever been secured. Prov.
ision for fine future orchards has been
made on the place, hundreds of apple
trees having been planted.
This cohntry around Eagle Lake
and Green Lake attracted some of the
very first settlers of the county and
quite few were here before the out
break, as the old settlers history will
show. After the outbreak but very
few of the first settlers returned to re-
side upon their claims. The new set
Element took place in 81, '68 and 49,.
The old house now used at Erick o.
sons place for blacksmith shop was
known as "Sju-pojka-huset'' - the
house of the seven boys-from the fact
that seven bachelors lived in the same
during the winter of 49, 80. Three of
the boys still remain single, confirmed
bachelors.
Our visit to Green Lake has twice
been interrupted by disagreeable
weather. We visited the village of
Spicer last Monday. We secured notes
from the records of School District
No. 26, the Spicer school. Oscar Or
red is the clerk. The district is a COM
paratively new one, being organized
in 1890. The original District No. 26
was abolished in 1878, no school hav-
ing been held in the same for two
years. That district embraced what
is now District No. SO and some ad-
joining territory. Whatever school
that was held in that district was
taught at Green Lake village, at the
MILL
The village of Spicer has an ideal
location on the southwest shore o1
Green Lake. The plated portion Of
the village touches north line of Green
Lake township. It's business enter.
prises include two elevators-Cargill
Bros, John TAFT, Jr., agent, and Du.
luth Elevator Co., William Peterson,
agent; three general stores, Nelson
Orred, post master, Chris Jacobson
and o. c.. Farmen, proprietors; q
hardware, furniture and harness es'
tablishment by Elmer Thorson and o.
G. Larson; confectionery and tobacco,