The Sauk Centre herald., 1939-03-09

en- of transmitted motion to the
pitman or crank and so on to the
sickle or knife.
Albert Dahlem was the first to
deliver groceries to the customers
door. With one horse and three
spring open wagon, he delivered
as far west as the top of Hoboken
hill. The first real church organ
ization, Congregational Il think)
had it's inception in the north wing
of the Sank Centre House, at u
donation party sponsored by Elder
Clark-am a little hazy as to this
preachers name. l remember well
many who attended this gathering
Mr.. and Mrs. Dean Stabler
and family, George Stabler, and
Fiddler Taylor and wife. A part of
the entertainment was dancing,
the music being furnished by Mr..
and Mrs. Taylor.
The first exclusive shoe store,
run by the Webber family, occu-
pied the small building about two
lots north of the Boobar home.
Webbers came from Hastings. The
first doctor, was DR.. Palmer. /.
the first lawyer, N. H. Miner, a
soldier at the stockade. /. the later
the following doctors came along;
j. A. Dubois. E. ]. Lewis, DR.. Can
field, DIR. McMasters, and last but
not least that sturdy old "Hoosier"
Deacon Connor, who by the way,
looked after "colicky horses. i.
The first hotel keeper was, of
course, Warren Adley. then
came Pete Stafford. Da d
Wright, who had two fine daugh-
ters. They later became Mrs. c. M.
Sprague and Mrs. Ira Carpenter,
and as the writer recalls there was
a double wedding, and am quite
certain this took place about the
last Of June. The date do not
remember. Ira was at that time a
member of the Sauk Centre Cornet
Band. Ed Chase, { of Kelley, Chase
&c Mayo, merchants) was leader.
Then came the following hotel
keepers: Bennells, father and son,
Dad Coe, Fish & Murphy, Hyland
& Murphy, and Joe Ebensteiner in
a small log house on Third Street
between Main and Pine, north side
of the street. This log house was
formerly the Bayley home. Then
came John Apfeld with his Amer
ican House," three or four doors
south of what is now the Corner
Drug Store; then the Eastern
Hotel" corner Pine and Fourth.
Horace Alden sold jewelry. Z.
George Ingram lumber. James
Ingram farm implements. w. S.
Dean machinery. Don Lathrop,
barber. :. Corner Drug Store,
Capt. Oakford. Variety Store,
Geo. Stabler, who was the finest
ball room dancer this writer has
ever seen, and by the way, dane
ing was about all the amusement
or pastime the old timers had. :.
the writer still has the violin with
which he helped furnish music for
many of the entertainments spon-
sored by the I. o. o. F. and A. F.
&c A. M. and many other parties
at Sauk Centre, Long Prairie, Lit
tie Falls, Osakis, Alexandria, Nor
ris, and many, many country part
les. In those early days, with no
theatre, radio, movies, or any other
form of amusement, the "Old
Boys" worked off their surplus
energy by dancing. Masonic enter
tainments drew them from many
distant parts such as Melrose, Osa-
kis, Long Prairie, Little Falls,
Glenwood, Alexandria, and way
points. The following are some of
those who took a leading part in
sponsoring these Masonic and Odd
fellow dances: E. p. Barnum, Sam
Biedleman, Geo. Stabler, Pony
Lamb, ]. B. Perkins, Ira Carpen-
ter. The only hall in town at that