The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1901-10-10

The tenth annual fair of the Mile
Laos, Sherburne and Isanti County
Fair association was better late than
never, and with the hearty co-opera-
tion.of the farmers, the business men
and the weather man the fair was far
from being failure. On the contrary,
it was O. success to the extent thatsthe
will be able to pay it's
bills and settle in full with all the win
nersof premiums. The first day was
taken up in getting ready for the two
days that were to follow. Friday
opened cold and dreary, but by noon
the weather frightened up and warmed
up and the afternoon was a good Indian
summer spell, with the result that
there was a good attendance. Gov.
Van SAINT was the drawing card for the
day and when he arrived on the
grounds little before two, escorted by
the Princeton band and the local mil
tia there was good crowd to greet
him. The grand stand was filed and
there was good crowd on the track
in front of the stand when President
Jack of the Fair association introduced
the governor to the first audience he
ever met in Princeton Governor Van
SAINTS address was a good one He
spoke of the farmer and of his work in
developing the: country and OF the
great strides that agriculture had
made in Minnesota in the past few
years. II rememb er,"> said the gov
ernor, when I first came to Minnesota
it was on river steamer and we lowed
two barges of corn for the settlers here
then, and at that time it was thought
that Minnesota would never be able to
raise corn, but look at that great stalk
Of corn over there,' said the governor,
''that shows what Minnesota and Mile
Laos county can do
I'VE are no longer known as the
gopher State, but our great wheat
fields and our dairy interests has made
US the great Bread and Butter State.
Minnesota butter captured first prem
ium at the Worlds fair in Chicago
and Paris and will carry away first
prize at Buffalo," The governor spoke
of the great advantages our country
offers to the people of all nations OF the
earth who come here and become good
and loyal citizens. They have equality
before the law and equality of oppor-
tunities. He expressed his great pleas
ure in being present and invited all to
call and see him when in St. Paul, but
requested them to not all come at once.
The first attraction on the race track
was the running race and in this Mark
had the string of horses all to himself
and 'Greyhound'' and ''Holland' con-
tested for the honors, with some ordi-
nary saddle horses to keep company.
It was an easy matter for the little
fleet-footed horse to win, though ''Hol-
land" was close enough to make the
race appear interesting. The farmers
trotting race brought out Bob Sleeves
horse, ''Fitzimmons," Marshall's ''Bes-
sie," and the horse Robert" which
Mark bought from P. M. Torrell of
Cambridge, some time ago. The Mar
shall horse was not quite as speedy as
''F'itz" and the latter won two straight
heats. !:
IL The running race in which nine
Spartan youths entered and started
away on half mile dash was one by
Levi Orton, with John Myers second.
It was good long wind for the run
ners and they were we'll played out be-
fore they reached the quarter post.
johnson fell by the wayside utterly
played out and came in after he had
recovered from his exhaustion. In
the rope running contest nine who en-
tered had their feet tied pretty close
together with rope and were obliged
to run 100 yards. Ephriam Gle had a
walk away in the race as his rope
and he was an easy winner, but
had to try it over with Bert Nokes
who was second, and Nokes had got used:
to the hop while Gle who made
short steps before did not seem to get
the combination, though as there were
no others in the race at that time he