The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1903-03-05

tern hats, street hats and everyt thing
in the line Of millinery novelties
Cothlow & Co.
| E. B.. Harrison has been up the
branch line inspecting and receiving
tiesfortheGreat Northernroad He says
that the timber is nearly all gone, and
stations where he formerly inspected
thousands of ties every year have
only few hundreds to offer, If any.
The Grand Army Post have good
sum in hand and it Is proposed to
make very notable improvements up
on the Grand opera house owned by
them. 1t will probably be covered
with pressed steel, in imitation OF
stone, and other exterior changes and
improvements made.
It is surprising to learn that eleven
hundred thousand pounds of prison
Irvine have been disposed of up to
date. Club orders amounting to
100, 900 pounds are coming in daily.
The demand is claimed by Warden
Wolfer to be three times greater than
at this time last year.
T. j. Killeen, who has gone to
Osakis to take the business manage.
ment of the business of J. A. Caugh-
rem, formerly Dahlem & Caughren,
was for seventeen years an employee
OF the Boston dry goods store, and
a more popular salesman or faithful
employe cannot be found.
| Alfred Johnson has removed his
family to the farm recently purchased
by him near Willard, and expects to
join them today. He was in the city
on Wednesday to meet Henry Lam
mers of Iowa, who purchased his
farm in Raymond, and to formally
turn the property over to him. -
w. D. Lowry, representing the
Hcme, and Walter Williams the
Spring Garden fire insurance compan-
les, were in the city during the week
and adjusted the losses of James Con-
nelly's livery stable. Both policies
were paid in full-S1. ZOO by the Home
on building and $500 by the Spring
Garden on contents.
Charles Jacobson, an old settler of
outhern Todd county, who has lived
for many years near Cedar Lake, died
on Wednesday at his nome, aged SO
years. He leaves widow and ten
children to whom deep sympathy is
extended. Ed. Craig married a
daughter recently, and daughter is
in the employ OF the Boston store as
cashier.
1t will interest," the members of our
high school to know that the Little
Falls basket ball team defeated the
Aitkin high school by score or 1s
to IL. The Little Falls Transcript
saws the overwhelming defeat of the
team at Sank Centre was "bitter
experience. Prehaps the return
game at Little Falls next week will
not be quite SO bitter. |
This past week has given this vicin- |
ity a variety of weather. A damp
snow on Thursday, with a high
wind and colder on Friday, drifting
the roads badly. On Sunday there
was q high wind aud on Monday it
cleared and the day was mild and
beautiful. Tuesday the thermometer
marked as high as forty, and wate~
stood in pools in the streets.
Martin Olson OF Brandon. was in
the city on Tuesday, the guest OF A.
G. Kay. Mr.. Olson has been ap-
pointed one or the weighers of mail
in transit on the Great Northern road |
during the month of March. Every |
TWO years the government has all the |
mails weighed for thirty consecutive
days as a basis for new contracts with |
the railroads, and every mail car has
= man specially delegated for that
purpose. |
Com, ade D. A. Perkins of St. Cloud, |
has received notice that the ladies'
auxiliary to the First Minnesota asso- |
citation has purchased Miss Hoblet's
picture of Camp Stone, in Virginia,
and will on March II ut Central hall,
st. Paul, present the picture to Gov.
Van SAINT for the state of Minnesota.
The picture Is of the historic old camp
where the First was stationed in Vir-
ginia at about the period OF the first
battle of Bull Run.
The new time table on the Great
Northern went into effect on Sunday
last. No. /, the westbound flyer was
composed of new cars throughout, and
presented a very pretty appearance.
Itis not as heavy train by two or
three cars as formerly, the company
having put a new through tr ain to the
coast over the Breckenridge division,
dividing the business. The day trains
which meet here at one O'Clock are
providad with q dinAr and q oh ;rroor