The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1904-05-26

Judge Van Alstein has laid new
sidewalk in front of his residence.
The judge is seventy -four years of
age but he did the work himself Just
the same
Mrs. Kitty Chamberlain of Mime
apolis arrived Tuesday and will nurse
Carl Cravens during his illness. Mrs.
Chamberlain is a trained nurse and
was employed during the illness of the
Orton boy with typhoid fever.
The body of Nina Magnus was taken
to Glendorado last Saturday and the
funeral was held in the Norwegian
Lutheran church in the afternoon.
The death of the Magnus girl has
caused much sorrow in that commun-
ity.
While building fence yesterday
Mike Mahoney cut his knee cap quite
badly with Ratchet. The sharp
blade struck him across the knee cap,
making a cash about an inch deep.
DR.. Armitage dressed the wound and
MIR. Mahoney was driven home where
he will have to lay up for few days.
Mrs. S. W. Williams and daughter
and Mrs. Williams sister, Miss Mary
Blair who spent the winter in
Phoenix, Arizona, returned home
Monday. Mrs. Williams who was in
poor health when she left, has re-
gained her health and is looking as
though the change had been of vast
benefit to her.
There will be no preaching services
in any of the Notwithstanding
churches in Princeton next Sunday.
Mr.. Shore of the Episcopal church
society will be in Willow River and
there will be no minister for the Con-
gregational church, while the illness
OF Rev. Gratz makes it impossible for
him to fill his pulpit next Sunday.
Yesterday the Women's Aid society
of the German Lutheran church of
Princeton met with Mrs. Amelia
Stamm at the parsonage, and decided
to raise sufficient funds to buy altar
flowers and new pews for the church.
The day being Mrs. Stamm's birthday
the ladies remembered her by present
ing her with set of silver knives and
forks.
A few new stone crosswalks are be-
ing laid. What's the matter with law
ing few good new sidewalks. It is
much better to walk in mud than on
treacherous sidewalks. A few of the
property owners are waking up and
doing something, but there are a
whole lot of them who will have to be
assisted by the council in making
some much-needed repairs.
DR.. Armitage has bought the tele-
phone equipment of the Clough & Hurd
lumber camp at Nickerson. He bought
the equipment of the E. Mark Live
Stock company this week. It consists
of twenty miles of wire, poles, and
cross-bars, insulators, and all the
phones, etc., that go with the system.
The Rural Telephone company will
use the equipment in building new
lines.
A young lad giving his name as
Harry Margaret was taken before the
village justice last Saturday and fined
SIS and costs for having stolen a watch
in the secondhand store. A lady
caught the boy in the act of stealing
the watch and notified the authorities.
The lad owned up to the theft. It is
said that he has been caught in thefts
before but was always allowed to 90
unpublished.
Quite delegation of the K. P. BOYS
went to Minneapolis to the K. P. fes-
tival at the International Auditorium
where the Ionia degree team did secret
work. It was a great K. P. event and
the boys say they would not have
missed it for a good deal. Among
those who attended were w. P. Chase.
Oscar Peterson, Ed Anderson, L. S..
Briggs, G. A. Dickey, q. K. Evans,
Elmer Chapman and others.
Al NUM- will leave for New York
the second of June where he will meet
his sister, Miss Anna, and a young
lady who comes of a prominent fam
lily in Leipzig whom he will wed.
Al didn't make that trip to Germany
last simmer for nothing, and his
many friends in Princeton are glad to
know that he was victorious in WOO
ing and winning the heart and hand