PART 6 OF 100 YEARS IN SANDSTONE!

1908: New wagon bridge completed; John Hawley opens grocery store in Northern Hotel Building; Kettle River Power Company incorporated; Sandstone Telephone Company phone book listed 138 telephones; Village ordered all animals running loose to be put in village pound; Gus Moll narrowly escaped being bitten in the face by a copperhead while working in the quarry; Kettle River Power Company completed new dam, capacity of 1000 horse power, downstream from old dam; Rotting train bridge repaired with steel

1909: Sandstone State Bank became the First National Bank of Sandstone; Englis Spring Water Company of Minneapolis purchased spring from Village of Sandstone, later changed name to Sandstone Spring Water Company, Sandstone water bottled under copyrighted name of Minnepura Spring Water; William Penn Company purchased cut-stone operation in quarry Kettle River Quaries Company owned large share of Penn Company; New Larson Brothers Opera House opened; Voters made Sandstone a dry town after strong campaign waged by temperance groups

 1910: Kettle River Company consolidated quarry, creosote, and stonecutting companies; Population-1818; Sandstone soccer team was state champion; Sandstone Spring Water Company requested creosote plant relocate to stop polluting water; Most productive year ever at quarry

1911: Moving pictures shown at Larson's Opera House twice a week; School fumigated due to scarlet fever; Sandstone Spring Water Company built reservoir; 453 enrolled in school; W.C.T.U held annual district convention at Larson's Oper Hall; Kettle River Power Company added subsidiary companies -Kettle River Power Company , William Penn Cut Stone Company; and quarries in Sandstone, Superior and Port Wing; Sandstone Spring Water Company was a victim of campaign to make public believe cemetery drainage tainted the water supply; Village voted remain wet

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