Monday, November 7, 2011

News from the Dart - Part 8

From the February 8, 1893, issue:

Sandstone Grits

* Joseph Kronenberg drove up from Hinckley, Friday last, and visited with his family.

* There are murmurings of discontent among some of the workmen employed in the quarry.

* Mr. Tobin is here from Minneapolis in the interests of the firm of Ring & Tobin, the quarrymen who are doing such great work in this place.

* The quarrymen received their pay last Friday and Saturday, Mr. Tobin acting as paymaster.

* P. Peterson, the quarry foreman, is quite ill. His friends – and they are legion – hope his sickness will be of short duration.

* T.W. Finn, well known as a bright business man and jolly fellow, made a trip to the Twin Cities on business the first of the week.

* Mr. Adams, representing the Central Supply company of Chicago, was in town Friday, exhibiting school charts to the board of education of this village.

* Miss Anna Sutherland, who has been the guest of Miss Clara Troolin during the past fortnight, departed on Monday for her home at Stanchfield.

[Note – Clara Troolin was the sixteen-year-old daughter of Erick and Christine Troolin. The Troolin family lived on what is now Minnesota Street in Sandstone. They saved themselves in the Kettle River during the 1894 forest fire that destroyed Sandstone and several other Pine County towns.]


Sandstone before the 1894 fire

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