Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1916-09-06
AN OUTING At Lake ANDREW
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with build a fine clubhouse there and Il
make improvements involving the ex.
penditure Of $4,000 to $4,000. This
resort will have an enviable location,
both for hunting and fishing.
The old Christian Hanson farm, on
the southeast end of the lake is now
owned by DR.. G.. A. Newman, now
physician at the States Prison at
Saltwater. This farm has fine from.
tage of thirty to forty rods on the
lake. Here is where, as a boy, the
editor depended upon securing boat
when coming to Lake Andrew to fish.
A fine old gentleman was the late
Christian Hanson. It is fifty years
ago since he first came to the place
and the log house built by him then,
still stands as relic of by-gone days.
DR.. Newman is improving the place.
Carl Soderlund and his estimable
wife, Mrs. Clara Gilman Soderlund,
with fine family of boys and girls,
are running the farm. The editor
and his folks are under obligation to
the Soderlunds for many favors ex-
tended to them while at the lake. DR..
and Mrs. Newman and daughter, Lo-
lita, and Mr.. Nelson, brother of
Mrs. Newman, of Nebraska, spent
some time camping on the lake this
day. During the cold evenings some
days ago, DR.. Newman kept roaring
camp fire going Many old stumps, |
several feet in circumference, we're
rooted out from their ancient resting
places to furnish fuel for the Doc.
tors big watchtire. Mr.. and Mrs. E.
F. Fink and family were also camp
ing at the lake and added interested
members to the circle which sat on
camp stools and stumps around the
blazing fire and watched the glowing
embers and heard the stories told
there. Camp Pohilia was the name
given this interesting camping spot
on the hillside overlooking the lake.
Among other interesting farmsteads
on the lake is that of A. G. Sakar-
Jason on the south shore. The place
has a fine natural location fronting
for a half mile along the lake, with
a fringe of timber along the beach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sakariason have large
family Of bright boys and girls to
help them with their farm work. They
raise large numbers of swine, geese,
turkeys and chickens. There is a
good orchard Of young apple and 9TH
er fruit trees which are we'll loaded
with tempting fruit of which we were
given liberal samples.
An operator of a saw mill building
for himself house of solid concrete
is the anomaly in evidence at the Pet
er Thompson place on Buffalo Bay.
Buying a lot of heavily timbered land
near the inlet four years ago, Mr..
Thompson has cleared some of the
land and has built fine house Of con.
crete blocks and is now making a
porch with ornamental cement brick
and blocks all made by himself. Pet
er is mechanical genius. His house
is heated by steam and lighted with
electricity in the most approved man
ner. 1t is nicely located on an eleva
ton with good outlook over the
lake. In the winter time Mr.. Thomp
does a brisk business. No less than
thirty-six loads of logs were brought
on one day last season. Mr.. Thomp
sons aged mother, Mrs. J. P. Thomp
son, keeps house for him and is hale
and hearty in spite Of advancing
years. She enjoys life on Buffalo
Bay, she says, living over pioneer
days, with the aid of more modern
equipment, however. Peter traded of
the old hotel property on the north
east shore for a quarter section OF
land in Bowman county, N. D., adjoin
ing the farm of his brother, John
Thompson. The old foundation of the
hotel, now torn down, perched on ar
abrupt hill rising from the lake, fur
nishes a romantic point Of interest
on the lake shore, reminding one Of
pictures seen of old castle ruins.
Along the north shore is the farm
of A. J. Nordstrom, son Of Jonas
Larson, long ago deceased, whose
homestead is now the home of thu
Sakariasons. There are number O.
timber lots owned by Mamre ant
other prairie farmers along the north
west shore. Paul G. Nordin owns {
good parcel of the rough land nortf
OF the lake.
A trip around Lake Andrew woult
not be complete without call at thu
magnificent farmstead Of Ole Halvor
at son which Is located between Lake
A1OIc" duO MlOuAc x<dhc. WI 11dA
10 vorson is one of the early guard o
~ old settlers. He arrived in 1863
three years before the exodus causet
at by the Indian outbreak. After thu
q. return of the settlers in 1865, Mr.. Hal
ol vorson homesteaded the place OF
which he now lives. We found hin
s. sitting on the porch Of his house en-
joying the cool evening breeze, flint
r. type of we'll preserved old gentle
IS man, and enjoyed few minutes cha
with him. His land extends a hal
a mile along the shore line, and adjoin:
that of the Osten Larson place, which
Id also extends half mile along thu
south shore and includes the outlet
Id where Andrew Creek leaves the lake
re The widow of Osten Larson still lives
n on the place.
IS Lake Andrew was discovered ant
named by Andrew Holes and William
IN CARTRIDGE when on an expedition tt
I'd the Norway Lake country in the ear
. ly summer of 1857. They camped IL
lg bunch of trees on the southern
e. shore, and Andrew Holes took the no
~ ton to carve the name Lake An
drew in the bark of large tree. The
8. Government surveyors were meander
as ing the lake shores and running thu
section lines later in the summer ant
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