The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-05-19
5ELYSIAN ALMOST
FIFTY YEARS. OLD
LIE sUEUR COUNTY TOWN WILL
CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY.
Old Settlers of the Lake Association
/ and Citizens Of Elysian Prepare for
Double Header Celebr ation-Fifty
.. Years Ago the Town Had Only Small
j. Log Cabin.
Special to The journal.

opecial to The journal.
st. Peter Minn May 19-Unusual interest
is attached to the meeting of the Lake Elysian
Old Settlers association, which will be held at
Elysian June IA. This Is due to the fact
that citizens Of Elysian are planning to cele-
brate the fftieth anniversary OF the founding OF
their town while the pioneers are with them.
William Lee. who was member of the party
that helped Surveyor Wright to drive stakes and
lay out the lines Of the townsite IN June, 1856
says that it then covered with heavy timber,
and that the only building in Elysian was
small log cabin near the site of the present
Catholic church. The village Of Okaman was
plated the following year and another town,
which christened Empire. was established in
Iosco township. This was before the organiza-
tion of the village Of GAINESVILLE, and the people
OF that place were compelled to hold their town
meetings at Empire, Of which not a vestige
remains.
The grist mill at Okaman was erected in
May, 1857 and Mr.. Lee recalls that there was
ice floating in Lake Elysian the first day Of
that month. After the Okaman mill was built
that village prospered, and for twenty years
was hourishing little place and promised to
9ut-dstance Elysian. When the st. Louis road
was built thru to Mankato the settlement at
Elysan revived and continued to spread out,
while not building is left to mark the spot
where the thriving and promising town of Okla
man once stood.
AS; the semicentennial occurs in the same
month In which the old settlers meeting is held
each year. more pretentious program than
usual will BE prepared
Opposition ZOE peterson.
Ole Peterson of Brighton, representative from
Eicollet county and Of the leaders In the
movement to secure good roads legislation, is to
have opposition at the primary election. His
campaign will be made against T. O. Haugen,
town clerk of New Sweden township, who an
nounced his candidacy this week.
4 meeting of the board Of county commits
sioners will be held next Monday to open bids
Tor the construction Of the new county jail and
sheriff's residence.
Accused by Stepdaughter.
Joseph Beberheck, aged 40, resident OF
Brighton township, is in the Nicollet county
ieil charged with a serious crime He was ar
rested complaint Of his stepdaughter, a CIR
OF 10, and bound over to the district court
his bonds being placed at $500.
Miss Magner's Picture Wins Prize.
Miss Adelaide Magner, st. Peter girl wht
has been studying art for the last three years
has been notified that painting she prepared
for the annual exhibition Of the New Yori
academy has been awarded first place by the
Judges
This Is the second time she has won In the
same competition, and her achievement is the
was selected the canvasses of some fifty
other artists. Her victory carried with 1t
scholarship in the New York School Of Art
and entities her to another year Of study under
Robert Henri the great portrait painter.