The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-10-11
PRIN CETON ". g. U..

all proper means to discourage the use Of, and
4trafflc In the same. ssf{5ts 81
1t is the object of this organization to plan and
carry forward measures. which, 18th the blessing
OF God shall result in promoting the cause Of
total abstinence and in the ontlawing Of the
liquor traffic.
Notices Of meetings are read from pulpits Of
Methodist and regational churches
AS the the horologe Of time strikes
the advancing, fateful years, the CEN
trail idea of the temperance reform con-
tinually rises.
1850. John W esley denounces liquor
sellers as living in houses stained with
blood, and driving men to perdition
like sheep. 5
1855. DR.. Rush, in cooperation with
Franklin and Putnam, assails the.
drinking customs of his day in the
name of science. ii s5.
1910. Lyman Beecher launches the
thunderbolt of the church against in
temperance.
1926. Justin Edwards, in the Ameri-
can Society for the Promotion of
Temperance, lifts the educated senti-
ment Of the land to adherence Of the
liquor traffic and Of the drinking Gus
toms of society.
1888. Massachusetts adopts the IA
NOUS law, forbidding the sale at any
one time Of any less quantity than
| fifteen gallons.
1910. The Washingtonian move
ment commences, and John B. Cough
becomes on both sides of the sea the
foremost advocate of total abstinence.
1851. Conserving the whole moral
and political force of the previous
movements, the Main Law arrives,
with Neal Dow as its originator and
champion. Hi
1874. The Woman's Christian TEN
perance Union is organized, and under
the leadership Of Frances E. Willard,
and later Of Lady Henry Somerset,
and their co-laborers, achieves career
of varied benefcence unmatched among
organizations of its class in the whole
tide of time.
1888. The Supreme Court of the
United States decides in the Kansas
cases that prohibition of the liquor
traffic is constitutional.
1898. Scientific temperance instruc-
| tion is made mandatory in the schools
of thirty-eight American States and all
| the territories.
| 1894. Colorado grants to women
equal suffrage, and woman's ballot is
everywhere dreaded by the saloon as
the ally Of Prohibition.
1895. If it is permitted to forecast
the future, may we not hope for Con
gressional investigating commission
vested with power to unveil the hor-
rors of the charnel houses which the
liquor traffic has filled with dead mems
bones and all uncleanness?
| 1900. May we not hope that before
the close of the century scientific tenn.
perance education will have been
j spread over the entire Republic? Out
Il of forty-fours States it now covers thir.
i ty-eight and all the territories, with the
| District of Columbia, Annapolis, and
), West Point.
! 1910. At this date the cities are
likely to contain a majority of the
!, population of the land. y Unless the
liquor traffic is brought under control
some great disaster, caused by the
| political despotism of the dram-shop
, will probably occur, and will become
) the basis of colossal reforms. -Rev
), Joseph Cook.
CTATE OF MINES oTA, COUNTY OF
~ Mile Lacs.-ss. In Probate Court, Specia
! Term, Oct. 3rd, 1854.
In the matter of the estate of William H. Shaw, de
!, Letters of administration on the estate Of sait
deceased being granted unto ANGELA L. Shaw
1t is ordered, That all claims and demands o
all persons against said estate be presented to thi
: court, for examination and allowance, at the pro
: bate Office in Princeton on the following day
; viz: Monday, the 18th day of April, 1895.
, It's further ordered, That six months from III
: date hereof be allowed to creditors to presen
their claims against said estate, at the expiration
o of which time all claims not presented to sal
g court or not proven to it's satisfaction, shall b
= forever barred, unless for cause shown, furthe
: Ordered further That notice of the time an,
r place of the hearing and examination OF sal
ha given BY
! weeks prior to the day appointed for such exam
J. nation, in the Princeton UNION, a weekly news
G Dated at Princeton the 3rd day Of Oct, A. I
8 1894. By the Court:
9 5 RICHARD w. FREER,
!, (sEALl Judge of Probate.
y CTATE OF MINNEs oTA, COUNTY O
n ~ Mile Lacs.-ss. In Probate Court.
o. In the matter of the estate of Isaac Shannon
= deceased
y Letters Of administration on the estate OF Isaa
Shannon, deceased late of the county of Star
Z and State of Ohio, being granted to Aulge
Rines.
1t is ordered, That six months be and the sam
is hereby allowed from and after the date of thi
g order in which all persons having claims or d.
"a mands against the said deceased are required
= file the same in the probate court of said count
2. for examination and allowance or be foreve
a barred.
It is further ordered, That the 4th day Of M arcl
:; 1896, at 10 O'Clock. "A. M. at term of said pr<
- bate court to be held at the probate Office in II
a court house in the village of Princeton in sal