The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1903-04-30
WHERE THE PUMPKINS GROW.
New Items and Field Notes From Our
Country COuafns.'

WHERE THE PUMPKINS GROW.
New Items and Field Notes From Our
Country Cousins.
| Will Thoma has just completed him
a fine new barn on his farm up in Ger
many.
Horace w. Prescott has the founda-
ton in for a new barn at his farm at
Spencer Brook.
Harold Mudgett is putting on a new
porch and re-shingling part of his
house north of town.
| VIM. Newman who lives out on
route is making preparations to build
a good barn and has the stone for the
foundation all on the ground.
John Beck of Stanford and his two
brothers have rented the Tam farm
south of town, which James Burk has
farmed for the past year or more.
Ellsworth Jewell, a son of David
Jewell who formerly resided at Brad
ford has the Fred Moody farm at Spen-
Ger Brook. Mr.. Jewell is a young and
energetic farmer and will make a sue
cess in his new field.
| W. A. Smith, the Spencer Brook
department store merchant who carries
everything from prunes to plows re-
ports good spring business He has
the trade at the Brook on his list and
knows how to make trade and keep it.
Andrew Lindquist, one of the pros
porous Wyanett farmers, who lives in
the Princeton trade zone in Wyanett,
was one of the many famers who
planted fruit trees this week. He has
one Of the best farm homes out Wyan-
cit way and is improving it right along
Fred James, the new blacksmith at
Spencer Brook, who is a modern vii
lage blacksmith, is doing a good bust
ness. He formerly was in the employ
of the Northern Pacific and Great
Northern railways as travelling car re-
pairer and looked after the mail trains.
He came to the Brook from Anoka.
G. Collins, who bought the Fred
Lowell farm at the Brook, is an Iowa
farmer from Mitchell county, Iowa, and
formerly farmed in the same neighbour
hood in that State with S. Winsor who
located on the farm east of Princeton
in Spencer Brook township. Mr.. Collins
is thorough-going farmer and likes
his new location very we'll
| Two Of the progressive farmers at
Spencer Brook are Andrew and L.
Blomquist, whose farms are located near
the Brook Mr.. L. Blomquist is the
younger of the two and has a fine farm
of 240 acres which is well cultivated
and looked after. He keeps quite a
number Of cattle and has just secured
some choice Poland China pigs from a
Bradford farmer. Mr. Blomquest only
plants ten acres to potatoes and says
for an ordinary farmer that is sufficient.
The two old veteran farmers, Will
liam King and Joseph Swanbro, whose
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Brook bear evidences of hard toll and
prosperity, are enjoying life, despite
the fact that they are we'll along in the
afternoon of life. Both of them have
barns that for arrangement and equip
ment would rank up along side of the
model barns of some of the best Can
adam stock farms. The King and
Swanbro barns were completed in 1901.
The creamery at Spencer Brook
with it's skimming station at Grown is
turning out lot of prime butter these
days. O. W. Blomquist, the young but
ter-maker, has his hands full taking
care of the cream from the Brook and
Grown stations. At present there are
about thirty-six patrons of the creamery
at the Brook, while at the Swimming
station at Crown the cream is gathered
from milk furnished by forty-five
patrons. Butter Maker Blomquist was
born and raised at the Brook, and
formerly had charge of the St. Francis
creamery. He ships all his butter to
Minneapolis.
Sodality Social.
The Young Ladies' Sodality of St.
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