The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-03-02
State News.

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Sank Centre has new band which
can blow the socks off of many bands.
Peter Morrison, resident of Mon
tevideo since the early 7O's, died last
week.
Creameries in Freeborn county are
paying sl.20 per hundred pounds for
milk.
Farmers in Brighton township, Mic
ollet county, will build cooperative
creamery.
The village Of Triumph will vote
bonds to improve the highways within
two miles of that village
Foxes are plentiful in the vicinity of
Winona. Local dealers have bought
over 100 pelts, at $3.50 to 81 a pelt.
The annual encampment of the Min
nesota Sons of Veterans will be held
at Pennington June 20, q and p.
The saw mill of A. E. Hoaglund &
Co., located at Cornell. was entirely
consumed by fire recently. Loss 81 900,
no insurance.
Business men of Elbow Lake have
subscribed $4,000 to purchase site
for new $4,000 court house which
will be erected.
The seventh annual convention of
the South Central Minnesota Teach
res association will be in session at
OWatonna March 10 and II.
The directors of the Triumph State
bank have let the contract to builders
of Springfield for new two-story
brick bank building, 4Sx60 feet, to be
completed by July l. The building
will cost $4,000.
John L. Wilson, the FEATHER of St.
Cloud,' celebrated his eighty fifth
birthday last week. He bought the
it plated in 1854. Up to the past
year he has enjoyed the best of health,
but for weeks has been rapidly failing.
Farmers in the western part Of
Winona county have formed a local
union OF the American Society of
Equity. national organization of
farmers. The ends sought are by
controlled marketing to regulate the
prices On all crops-a tremendous
task.
c.. E. Reed and John Holman of
Hastings, S. W. Thompson of St. Paul
and John Rubis Of Streator, ILL.,, have
closed a deal for $500 acres of i'm
proved farm land at Warren, Minn.,
for Sl05, 600, with Illinois men. The
purchasers are called "Homish," a
religious sect, and expect to start a
colony as soon as the season opens
DR.. David Tice, one of the Oldest M.
E. ministers in Minnesota, died at his
home in Minneapolis last week, sew
enty-six years of age. He came to
Minnesota in 1859, and for several
years was an itinerant preacher, later
being assigned many prominent
charges. He built the first NJ. E.
church at Austin, digging the founda-
ton himself.
Emerson D. Dyar. g prominent citi-
zen and capitalist Of Winona, died at
his home in that city last week from
heart failure. Mr.. Dyar was presi-
dent OF the Merchants bank and presi-
dent Of the Winona Insurance COM
pany: but as secretary and manager
Of the Western Elevator company he
gave most Of his time. He was inter-
ested also in number of country
banks and other institutions.
Blanche Williams, the fourteen
year-old daughter of j. B. Williams
OF Verndale, was accidentally shot by
her Oldest rrbrother, aged twelve last
week. The boy was playing with a
double-barrel shot gun, which his
father had used in the Civil war. and
pointing the barrel deliberately at his
sisters head pulled the trigger, the
charge scattering her brains around
the room.
Inc state historical society has
come into the possession of an auto
graph letter written by George Wash
ington two days after his retirement
from the presidency. 1t has been
handed down in the family of Christie
pher Gist, Washington's guide in the
expedition to Fort Duquesne, and was
donated to the society by Annette
Ralph, sister at the Episcopl home
in St. Paul. The letter was written to
Sir John Sinclair, Scotch baronet,
March 6, 1897.
The trial of DR.. Koch has been such
drain upon the county of Brown
that it has been forced to borrow
money and when the second trial at
Mankato is finished the county is
likely to be in debt for from 500, 600 to