Viewing The Year-End Banquet of the Stearns County Bar Association (1893).The Year-End Banquet of the Stearns County Bar Association (1893).On Saturday evening, December 30, 1893, a banquet for the lawyers and judges of the Seventh Judicial District was hosted by the Stearns County Bar Association in St. Cloud. It was a sumptuous, festive affair held during the first months of the Panic of 1893, what became the worst depression in the country's history prior to the 1930s. In his keynote address, District Court Judge Dolson Searle described the mysterious but beneficial workings of the laws of nature, the importance of the legal profession and the judiciary which he called the "sheet anchor of the State and nation."
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