The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-03-09
State News.
St. Peter wants canning factory.

Wesley will have a new Catholic
church to cost $4,000.
An epidemic of small pox threatens
the lumber camps of Lake county.
Fergus Falls has civic improve
ment league to spruce up the city.
G. W. Sharp, aged sixty eight, of
the town of Haven, Sherburne county
is dead.
Stearns county farmers constructed
fifty miles of bitches last year at cost
of 5000.
Foley has a we'll that will furnish
an ample supply of water for fire
protection.
North Mankato wants $685. from
the government to build a dixie along
the Minnesota river.
The ice in Straight river in Rice
county began going out Feb. 2Sth, the
earliest date on record.
The annual Sunday school conven-
ton for Pipestone county will be held
in Pipestone March Sth and 9th.
Daniel Stinler of Minneapolis has
applied to the village council of Foley
for a twenty year franchise for an
electric light plant for Foley.
The Methodist church at Inner Grove
has been sold, and is being moved to
Spring Park. The church at Port
Douglas is also moved to Prairie
Island.
Crookston has a Jack the Hug
GER" He weighs 240 pounds, and has
a magnificent physique. He Rugged
a Crookston woman into Mysteries
and was captured.
The little town of Henning, few
miles from St. Cloud, has a serious
epidemic of diphtheria. Several
deaths have occurred and number of
persons are i'll.
The gold fever has reached Rice,
Benton county. Mrs. J. M. McNeal
found large nugget of gold in the
crop of a chicken, and it is believed
that the McNeal premises will reveal
more gold
Fire broke out in the rear of Green IS
saloon at Campbell, and before it was
under control several of the towns
largest buildings were in ruins and
the loss is estimated at close to 500, 900.
The fire was of an unknown origin.
The Commercial club Of Wood Lake
has decided to offer liberal bonus
to any responsible person who will
erect and operate a mill of about
seventy-barrel capacity. The size Of
the bonus will depend on the capacity
Of the mill. =
The life of two of the pioneer SET
tiers of the northwest is despaired Of.
Peter J. Baufre, at one time sheriff of
Stearns county, has an affection Of
the heart: aggravated by old age.
Mrs. Erasmus Cross, who is nearly
eighty, is seriously i'll at her home in
Sank Rapids.
Peter Hitler of Foley has invented
folding stove and has just secured a
patent. The device for folding is so
simple that the work can be done in
few minutes without tools. When
folded, the stove, although large
enough to cook upon for twenty per-
sons, can be put in small handbag.
The receipts of the Crookston land
Office during the last month as re-
ported by the officials amounted to
So, 1914. Forty-eight homestead entries
were filed, forty final proofs were
made out, and thirty-two cash entries
were made. Contest cases during the
past few weeks have been remarkably
scarce at the Office.
NJ. E. Williams of New York city.
who represents southern capital seek
ing Investment, is in the Rice and Lit
tie Fork valleys on the line of the
Duluth, Virginia & Rainy Lake rail-
way, with view to the establishment
of q large stock ranch IN that section.
A tract containing at least 5000 acres
is necessary.
Henry G. Feldman, an early settler
of St. Peter, died last week after an
illness of two months with pleurisy.
He was seventy-two and came to this
country from Germany in 1858, and at
the outbreak of the war of the rebel
lion enlisted in the Ninth Minnesota
infantry, serving until the close of
hostilities.
While hunting about eighteen months
ago Carl Ellefson of GAINESVILLE lost
his pocketbook containing SlO6 in
bills and several hundred dollars in
notes. A few days ago, while haul
ing hay, Charles Fankhanel, a farm
err, found the poczetbook in the hay.
It had been raked up with last years