The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1902-01-23

who owned orange trees and had large
orchards near there, About a mile on
this side of Interlachen is lake called
Mariners lake. Here are about half
dozen houses built by wealthy people
before the freeze, who also owned great
orange orchards. Our orchard is on
Lake Grandin, about eight miles from
town by the present road. This or
chard tract is part of an old planta-
ton known as the Cole plantation
before the war. This was the richest
plantation in the South, and contained
about five thousand acres or more.
After the war it was abandoned by the
owners and from then on has not been
run. In one place is couple of old
boilers, parts of cane and saw mill.
There are also old negro shacks which
are supposed to have been built 'befo'
de war; ,..
sour farm is planted to peach, orange,
pecan and fig trees. On the shore of
the lake is the natural woods, which
are very pretty. There are three large
burr oak trees on our farm, ard they
are handsome with the Spanish moss
hanging down nearly to the ground.
The woods are lovely with the holly,
hickory, bay, sweet gum, magnolia and
Georgia pine, and other trees which
do not know. All these trees have this
Spanish mass hanging from them.
The live oaks are also found, and they,
L think, have more of this moss than
any others, unless it is the hickory and
magnolia. This moss is fine and of a
sort of grayish green color. They
use certain process of taking the out
side off and using the inside for mat
tresses. 1wish you could see the holly.
There is any amount of it here, grow
ing all through the woods. I suppose
you know what the hickories are.
You will never find the mistletoe on
any tree but the hickory. The bay
tree is very pretty. The leaf is like
our willow, only not so long, and they
are very glossy. The sweetgum is
something like our maple, that is, the
leaves are like them, and they are just
turning and are very pretty: The
magnolia is lovely thing; they grow
to be a very large tree. The leaves
are very large and very pretty. The
upper part is very glossy and under
meath is sort of brown and leather
like. The Georgia pine is very much
like our pine except the needles. The
live oaks are very pretty trees. They
grow to be very old and large, and do
look so stately. The leaves are very
much smaller than our oak leaves but
are shaped like them.
"Well, talk about good things to
eat! 1 just wish you could get some
good, ripe wild persimmons-they are
just delicious. But if you get a green
one your mouth will get as small as a
worm hole. They are worse than choke
cherries.
Mr.. an6 Mrs. Borden have been up
here staying two or three days and left
for Pulaski this morning."
During Christmas week the Wood
cocks visited Pulaski, St. Augustine,
Jacksonville, Tampa and other places.
Chadbourne's First Case.
Last Friday Mrs. Nellie Jones was
brought before Justice Bouck on a
complaint sworn out by Marshal New
ton who charged defendant with hav-
ing on the 31st day of last December
called him such names as would have
tendency to provoke a disturbance
and cause breach of the peace. The
incident occurred at the time the
marshal was taking Chas. Tibbetts,
to the lookup and there were several
witnesses to the affair. At the request
of the plaintiff change of venue was
taken and on Saturday afternoon the
trial came off before Justice Chad
bourne at the village hall. Defendant
had asked for a jury and the following
citizens were kindly invited by. the
sheriff to try the case: Clarence Hill,
Il. d. Byers, Ira Bulls, E. K. Evens,
M. G. Sausser, Jas. Hartman, B. D.
Grant, Geo. Staples, Jos. Nokes, Gil
Monette, Roy Jesmer, and E. B. An
derson. County Attorney Ross prose-
cuted the case while c. A. Dickey was
present to see that defendant was not
taken undue advantage of. Several
witnesses were examined and their
testimony was all to the effect that the
wording of the complaint was not far
from the truth. Some of the testimony
introduced appellations that were for
eign to the complaint. It did not take
long to hear the whole case. and after
Messrs. Ross and .Dickey had addressed
the jury the latter took the case ''un-
der adyisement" and it was an even
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