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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-04-23
WILL BUY POTATOES
The St. Anthony & Dakota Elevator
7 co. Has Decided to Buy Po-
tatOes at Princeton.
VIII Become a Permanent BUYER on
the Local rlarket and Also at
Other Line Points.

Princeton is to have another perma-
nent potato buyer on the market and
the capacity of the local market is to
be Increased considerable. The St.
Anthony & Dakota Elevator co. has
decided to enter the potato market at
this point, as we'll as at ali points
where it has elevators and warehouses
and where potatoes are raised or can be
raised. M. G. Barry, the local agent
at this point, says that the company
will start in May LIST and will take in
such potatoes as are merchantable at
the present time and next fall they
Will start in buying the regular run of
spuds. He says that the elevator here
can store 10000 bushels and it is the in
tention to fit the elevator up so that it
can handle potatoes on an extensive
scale. The company will handle all
kinds of grain right along the same as
1t has in the past, but it intends to
branch out into the potato business
w ~ ~ u IL lltIo C1ON <llOlo. WI. DdiIt
says that the company has 172 houses
on its line and there are perhaps sew
enty-tive Of these houses that can ham
Ole potatoes. All through the Red
River valley the company will enter
the potato market, and will give farm
ers steady market at many points
where in the past the business has
simply been done on track in car load
lots. By going into the potato market
in this manner the company will no
doubt build up a good steady market
for potatoes at many points where it
has houses located.
Princeton is the leading potato mar
ket of the State, and the biggest in the
country for that matter, and it well
comes all legitimate buyers and espec-
tally those who can furnish storage
capacity, as many times during the
busy season every warehouse and cellar
in the place is full and running over.
Princeton handles a big lot of potatoes
Il ssssspp can handle good many more with
the proper facilities.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-04-23
The George Farm Sold.

c. F. George of Santiago sold his
farm and closed out all his farm ma
chinery, etc., last week at auction.
Nicholas Scherer and Theo. Bailey of
Amboy. MIMI, have bought the farm
of $40 acres, the consideration being
$4,000. Mr.. and Mrs. George will
visit relatives and friends in Princeton
and Elk River for a while and they
have not made up their minds where
they will locate in the future Mr.
George and son left for Elk River
Tuesday while Mrs. George will be the
guest Of Mrs. O. G.. Earbox for few
days. Mr.. George located in Santiago
forty-six years ago, and went into that
section from St. Cloud and bought the
land from the government. He is now
past three score years and ten and
thinks it time for himself and wife to
have a rest after many years of hard
work in pioneering and settling up a
new country. Messrs. Scherer and
Bailey will run the farm as stock and
dairy farm and will keep fifty head of
dairy COWS. They are old stock farm
ers and will equip the farm in good
shape for a dairy farm.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-04-23
BurbankS Were Booming.

The potato market, or what is left of
it for the season, took squirt the lat
ter part of the week and Burbanks
were advanced to thirty-one cents a
bushel Monday, which was the highest
price reached. One of the dealers got
a bit anxious to have few more of the
old reliable tubers and began quietly
to run up the price, and the snap was
too good to keep. The farmers passed
the good word along the line and white
stock commenced to move quite rap
idly where there was any to move.
Rose were in fair demand for a time
and sold for fourteen cents, but the de-
mand was limited.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-04-23
p Plunnmer was D1scharped

Charles Plummer was arrested last
Friday on warrant sworn out by DR..
Walker who charged Plummer with
having stolen his overcoat from the
opera house during the Modern Sa-
marian dance on Tuesday night of last
week. Plummer was up in the hall
during the dance and was in an intoxi-
Gated condition. When he went down
he took Dr.. Walkers coat with him
and went to the Sleeves barn where
he left the coat. The case was brought
before Justice Norton and Elvero L.
Mcmillan appeared for Plummer. Sew
eral witnesses were examined and the
testimony showed that Plummer did
not take the coat with any intention of
stealing it and he was DISCHARGED from
cuStO1v
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-04-23
KILLED BY DYNAMITE
A Farmers Wife Living Up on Chase
Brook Blown to Pieces by
Dynamite Explosion.
Sticks of Dynamite Being Warmed
by Kitchen Stove Explode
With Terrific Force.

A terrible fatality resulting from the
premature explosion of dynamite at
the farm house of man by the name
OF Peterson at Chase Brook was re-
ported yesterday. Peterson was using
dynamite in grabbing on his farm and
yesterday morning he placed several
sticks of dynamite by the kitchen stove
to warm and he left the house to attend
to some chores. During his absence
one OF the sticks of dynamite exploded
with terrific force while Mrs. Peterson
was at work in the kitchen. The wo-
man was literally blown to pieces and
the house was wrecked, the stove being
forced down through the floor into the
cellar, while the roof and sides of the
building were blown away with the
fury OF cyclone, portions of the build
ing being picked up $50 rods from the
scene of the explosion.
Peterson witnessed the awful acct
dent, and saw his wife meet her terri
bic and instant death. Frantic with
excitement and grief he gave the
alarm and neighbors came to tender
assistance, but there was little to do
but search for his wife's dismembered
body. The explosion had in minutes
time robbed him of his wife and help
mate and destroyed his home
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-04-23
Do You Own a Home.

Do you pay interest? Do you pay
rent? Would you like to own home,
by paying $500 per month for 16 years
for thousand dollar home, without in
terest and have it paid for? Then in
vestigate.
The following letter highly endorses
the ''Chicago Mutual Home Union"
CHICAGO, April IA, 1903.
Mr.. O. N. Ledin, Princeton, MINI.
Dear Sir: Replying to yours of the
18th with reference to The Chicago
Mutual Home Union will state that the
officers of this association are abso-
lutely reliable men, in whom have the
utmost confidence. I am fully con-
WINGED that their plan is all right and
that they will do what they promise.
[ have taken a $4,000 contract with
them myself, and if had not believed
in 1t would not have taken it.
Yours very truly,
J. E. NoRL1NG.
Mr.. Norling is worth over half a
million dollars and stands high in bust
ness circles in Chicago.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-04-23
Brick Yards to Start In.

The brick yards up at Brickton are
beginning to show signs Of life and &C
tivity. Already the Cream Brick Co.
is burning a kiln of brick made last
fall and all the yards are busy getting
in shape for the seasons work. 1t is
expected that if the weather gets SET
tied that operations will commence the
first OF next week. There promises to
be big demand for brick this year.
All the Brickton stock of last season
has been sold and the yards will push
operations as fast as possible to get
brick ready to fill the orders now on
hand
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-04-23

be used on the bridge across the Mis-
sissippi river at Elk River. Isanti
county received $500 and Anoka and
Kanabec $500 each, while Benton got
ST. 900 and Morrison S4OO.
The 5000 for Mile Laos county will
be used in the construction of the
bridge across the Rum river at the
brick yards.
Out of the appropriation for Sher-
burne county through the efforts of
Hon. H. E. Craig the sum of $3.50 was
provided for in the bill for the i'm
provement of the Baldwin highway
just south of town on the road leading
out OF Princeton past the Catholic
church.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-04-23
Princeton VS.. Elk River.

The first game of ball of the season
will be played at the fair grounds at
Princeton on next Saturday afternoon
at 2 o'clock when the Princeton high
school nine will play the high school
nine from Elk River. The boys have
been working hard to get in playing
condition though they have not had
the practice that they wished to have,
but the team as lined up this season is
not bad one. The boys gave Elk
River a hard tussle last year on the
home grounds and will try and get the
long end of the score Saturday. The
Elk River team is made up of some
very good material and the Elk River
boys are always in very fair playing
condition, so that the game next Sat-
urday ought to be a very interesting
one. Those who like to see home vic
tories should go out and root hard at
the game next Saturday. Admission
Is and Is cents.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-04-23
Roller Mill for Brainerd.

The Princeton Roller Mill Co. has
closed deal with Brainerd parties for
the erection of a large roller mill at
that place and just as soon as the rail-
road tracks are put in work will be
commenced on the new mill. The new
milling company will be known as the
''Riverside Milling Co.. and will be
capitalized for $4,000. The Brainerd
mill will in no way interfere with the
business of the Princeton Roller Mill
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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-04-23
5000 for Mile Laos County.

In the apportionment of the road and
bridge money of the State to the var
ious counties by the legislature Mile
Laos county gets the sum of $500, not
as much as was asked, but much more
than could ordinarily be expected from
the legislative dizzy Of road and bridge
money. The bills introduced for road
and bridge appropriations amounted to
S23l 900, and the legislature appro-
priated the sum of $61, $50. Sherburne
county got So, 500, most of which will
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-04-23
No Training School.

There will be no training school in
Princeton the coming summer. County
Superintendent of Schools VanWormer
says that there are so few resident
teachers in Mile Laos county that it
will hardly pay to have another train
ing school. Only about fifteen to
twenty teachers in the county live
here, the balance being non-residents.
The chances are that training school
will be held at Elk River or Cam
bridge this coming summer.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-04-23
In the DeDartment Store.

Customer (emerging from bargain
counter crush)-Help, my leg is broken!
Floor walker-You will find the
crutch department, sir, on the fourth
floor, in the rear.-Tit-Bits.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-04-23
Carpets.

Have you been in and seen those
carpets at the Galley Hardware Co. and
the price is right.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-11-20

ner when she should get settled. She
was still in doubt where to locate
when | first met her.
There was a swinging seat out on
the big porch close by the screen of
the dining-room window. An armful
of cattails leaned up in the corner and
right above them hung an orioles nest,
looking just like a work bag covered
with coarse gray lace. While l sat
there in the twilight Lady Mouse
came climbing up the screen with her
cunning little feet, just as you would
climb up a ladder. | watched her
until the bell rang for tea and told
the family about our visitor. Then we
forgot all about her. One day, not
long afterward, we were all out there
with books and sewing, when some
one noticed a tiny ball of gray fur
on the floor under the orioles nest.
What do you suppose it was? The
smallest dot of a baby mouse, and the
poor little thing was quite dead:
"How did it get there!" everybody
asked, and then | remembered Mrs.
Mouse and her trip up the wire screen.
She has a nest in those cattalls,"
said some one.
So we all looked, but there was no
mouse nest in the cattails.
Maybe it's in the orioles nest" said
somebody else.
Nonsense! It's too high up. Be
sides, mice don't nest in bird houses"
said the others.
But WI got a chair and the tallest
one of us stood on tiptoe and peered
down into the nest, and there, snug
gled close together in milk weed silk
and ostrich feather quilts, were four
other tiny baby mice with skin like
pink velvet covered with a soft down
like the bloom On a peach. Probably
the other baby wanted to see the
world too soon and lost his balance,
and so fell down, and down, to the
hard floor under the cattails. Poor lit
tie venturesome baby mouse!
The rest of them behaved as little
mice should, and are probably living
to a good old mouse age by this time.
No doubt they have lived in a great
many houses, but they could not hope
to find a daintier home than an orr
ole's nest. Could they?-Detroit Free
Press
The Tupelo journal., 1903-11-20
EDUCATED OYSTERS.
for Bivalyes Are Maintained
by Many Eastern Wholesale
Dealers In Fish.

"a school for oysters" said a Phil
adelphia dealer in fish, sis an institu-
ton that you would swear could not
exist, for oysters are notorious for
their stupidity. 1t is, however, a fact
that there are many oyster schools.
An oysters Intelligent. is limited, but
1t has intelligence. Years ago a GER
tain wise fish dealer discovered that
If you take IN oyster suddenly from
w%hereupon the life-giving water inside
it all escapes, and the oyster dies.
But if you expose al oyster in the air
gradually, lifting it out of the water
for a few minutes, and then returning
it again, it gradually learns that to
keep it's shell closed when out of the
water is the best thing for it's health.
These investigators found that they
could take two oysters, one trained
and one unframed, and the trained oy-
Ster, keeping its shell closed while out
of the water, would live a long time,
while the unframed one, opening it's
shell, would die in a few hours. There
lore, training SCHOOLS lot oysters were
established. The schools are in ap-
pearance nothing more than reservoirs
full of water. Oysters are put in them,
and the water is drained off, and then
returned again. 1t is kept off for a
few minutes at first, Their for ten min
utes, then for half an hour, and so on.
Oysters in these schools learn that
they will live longest and live health
lest out of water, if they hold their
shells shut tight. AS soon as they
learn this, they are graduated. and go
III into the world."-N. Y. Weekly.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-11-20
JUDICIAL DIGNITY.
Was Maintained in This Instance At
Cost to the Court of the
Prisoner.

A certain squire of the city, who betrays
his patriotism by presiding in a small Of
fee painted red, white and blue. had a
case before him the other day which at
tracted an unusual crowd to the temple of
justice. A young fellow was up before him,
relates the Pittsburg Dispatch, on a charge
of stealing brass, and his friends were out
in full force to see that he got a fair
show.
Before the case opened the noise and
confusion became SO great that his honor
declared that the next nsln to indulge in
any unusual outbreak would be elected
from the room. He had hardly ceased
speaking when a young man shouted, at
the same time waving his hat above his
head:
"Hooray fur Squire Hooligan,'
Put him out" roared the court, and in
another instant the young man found him
self being rushed to the door. Order hav-
ing been restored once more, his honor or
dered that the prisoner be brought before
the bar for trial. The court officer hur-
riedly glanced about through the crowd
and then a great light suddenly fell upon
him.
Cant do it your honor" he replied.
"The young fellow you just put out was
the prlsoner.V
The Tupelo journal., 1903-11-20
Cat Winds TN the Clock.

W. G. Sanderson, a Salem, S. D.,
business man, has in his store a cat
which is remarkably intelligent. The
animal appears to think that it's espe-
cial duty is to wind a large clock which
occupies a conspicuous position in the
store. The timepiece is of the kind
that has weights suspended by a chain.
The remarkable intelligence of the cat
is displayed when it discovers that the
weights are getting close to the floor
and winds them back by pulling on the
other end of the chain. 1t attends to
this regularly, neve permitting the
clock to run down.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-11-20
Boy shoots a Big Bear.

About as proud a boy as there is in
the entire Adirondack region is little
Jack Stearns, an 1~1-year-old New York
boy, who shot and killed a bear. With
his mother. Mrs. John Noble Stearns,
the little New Yorker is a guest of the
Adirondack League club, and it was
hear the Coombs Spring hatchery of that
organization that the youthful hunter
laid Bruin low. Dave C~harbonneau, a
guide, was with the hoy when the bear
was killed. He says the animal was 100
yards away from the boy when the shot
was fired. The first attempt was sue
cessful. The bear weighed $50 pounds.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-11-20
The Doctors Statement.

St. John, Kans., Nov. l6th.-This town
has a genuine sensation in the case of a
little boy, the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam Mcbride. DR.. Lines, the attending
physician, says:
Scarlet Fever of a very malignant type
brought this child very near to death and
when the fever left him, he was semi-para-
lyzed in the right leg and right arm He
also lost hearing in his right ear and his
mind was much affected.
His parents tried another treatment for
a time and when | was recalled / found
that he was having spells very like Epilep-
sy and was very bad and gradually growing
worse. / advised the use of Dodd's Kid
ney Pills and in a short time the child be-
gan to improve. Inside of a week the
nervous spasms or epileptic seizures ceased
altogether"
Mr.. and Mrs. Mcbride have made a
sworn statement of the facts and DR.. Jesse
l.. Lines has added his sworn statement
saying that Dodd's Kidney Pills and moth
ing else cured the fits.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-11-20
M0UsY's QUEER HOME.
looked Around for q Suitable Loca-
ton for Some Time and Then
Settled in OriOIe Nest.

-
Once a Mother Mouse started out to
find a home for herself and five tiny
baby mice, as soft as velvet, and as
pink as the bottom Of a baby's foot.
First, she looked into an old wooden
stocking in the attic under the caves,
and nearly decided to take 1t because
it was so warm and comfortable. Still,
there were other things to consider in
selecting a house. There was nc view
from the front door for one thing. 1t
opened right upon the shingles of the
roof, and there would be difficulties in
educating the babies SO far away from
the dining-room. She was an anbi-
tIous little Mother Mouse, and hoped
to see them all do well in life, as
smart little mice should.
So she decided not to take the stock
ing house, and went to see a haibox
next, where there was a pretty little
bonnet crown lined with white silk, all
ready to go to housekeeping in. There
was only one objection to this, and
that was, a tenant could not be cer-
tain of the lease.
The owner of this attractive bonnet
house, likely as not the next bright
day, would take it into her head to
wear the thing, though for what pur-
pose it was beyond the average mouse
to understand. There was such a fine
veranda, too, made by the bonnet rim,
where the babies could play tag and
hide and seek, in the chiffon. 1t real
ly seemed a great pity mol to be able
to secure such a desirable house, and
Mother Mouse went back to take one
more walk on the wide porch and nib
Bile a mouthful of white ostrich feath-
ers that grew by the side of it. These
she would use in making a coy cor
The Tupelo journal., 1903-11-20
Shutting OF the Bore.

A medley of young literary men were
once gathered to meet Robert Brown
ing. The most aggressively literary of
the group was first introduced, and at
once began to pour out his personal de-
light and admiration with so ~unceasing
a flow that the other introductions
were being held in allegiance, and the
other young literary men starved.
Browning endured it with great good
humor for some time. At last, he put
his hand almost affectionately or the
egotist's shoulder, and said: But |
am monopolizing you"
The Tupelo journal., 1903-11-20
THE SAND MAN.

know a man
With face of tan,
But who is ever kind;
Whom girls and boys
Leave games and toys
Each eventide to find.
When day grows dim,
They watch for him,
He comes to place his claim;
He wears the crown
OF Dreaming-town;
The Sandman is his name.
When sparkling eyes
Droop sleepywise
And busy lips grow dumb;
When little heads
Nod toward the beds.
We know the Sand-Man's come.
JOHNNY SPEAKS.
The Sandman he's a jolly old fellow,
His face is kind, his voice is mellow,
But he makes your eyelids as heavy as
lead,
And then you got to go off 10 bed;
/ don't think / like the Sandman.
But I've been playing this l~ivelong day;
1t does make a fellow so tired to playi
Oh, my, I'm a-yawning right here before
ma,
I'm the sleepiest fellow that ever you saw.
| think I do like the Sandman.
Paul l.. Dunbar. in Chicago Daily News.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-11-20
DANCING EGG TRICK.
A Little Experiment for Boys and
Girls That Is Sure to Prove En-
Pertaining Always.

To execute this little experiment you
need a hard-boiled egg and a smooth
china plate. To be sure that the ex-
pertinent is going to be successful, keep
the egg in a perpendicular position
while 1t is being boiled.
Place the plate upside down on the
table, allowing it to stand out a little
over the edge of the table, to be able
to catch it quickly with your hand.
Place the egg in the center of the plate
and putting the thumb of the left hand
The Tupelo journal., 1903-11-20
Two Authors.

1t is related that shortly after Run
Gilman, the we'll known writer on sea-
farers and smugglers and ~pOachers,
had bitterly fallen out with the late
w. E. Henley, he lay dying in London.
To Henley in Edinburgh, lame and ill,
came an indirect message that Runci-
man believed that if Henley would
come and look on him he would get
well. 1t was a dying mans whimsey.
but Henley took the train from Edin-
burgh-and arrived in London to find
his friend dead.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-11-20
THE EGG.

and the index finger of the right hand on
both ends of the egg, give it a sudden
twirl causing it to turn around in quick
motion. The egg will gradually stand
on one end; then you grab the plate,
and all you have to do is to keep the egg
in motion, which is not dificult.-Phil-
adelphia Press.
The Tupelo journal., 1903-11-20
Church

Bishop Phelan, of Pittsburg, owns .
remarkable set Of church vestmenrs.
They were brought into this country
from the Philippine islands at the time
of the Tenth Pennsylvania regiments
return. They are supposed to be the
work of native Filipino sistef and ap.
parently are 100 yeaTA old
The Tupelo journal., 1903-11-20
The Proper Recommendation.

Chauncey Depew went into a high
class restaurant the other day and to
his surprise discovered Oleomargarine
upon the table. "Come here" he said
to the waiter. How do you pronounce
o-I-e-o-m-a-r-g-a-r-i-n-e?" And the in
telligent servitor Of the magnificent
palace of pleasure at nee responded:
Il pronounce it butter, sir, or else !
lose my job"
The Tupelo journal., 1903-11-20

JR text is the testi-
mony of Gods
Word against Is
rael. and we ask:
Will not this in
stand
with equal force
against the people
of to-day? 1t de-
scribes the way
of the natural a
Is there less stub
bornness in the
human heart In
The Tupelo journal., 1903-11-20
Business Precaution,

A caller ct the boarding house of Mrs.
Irons was surprised to see a fine greyhound
basking in the sun outside the kitchen
door Il didn't know you had a dog" she
said. Hes a beautiful animal. How long
have you had him."
Two or three years"
How does it happen | nave never seen
him in passing along here?"
We don't allow him to leave the back
yard" replied Mrs. Irons, with emphasis.
What kind of an advertisement would it
be for a boarding house to have a creature
as lean as that dog is standing round in
front Of it?"-Youth's Companion.