The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-06-08
State News.

j. V. Brewer, father of Senator r.
B. Brewer of St. Cloud, died May 81.
Milaca wants a band stand, and
the Times says the band is entitled to
it.
There will be a Free Methodist camp
meeting at Burtrum commencing June
18th.
Ed. Barry's house in Milaca burned
last week. Loss $500 with small in
surance. .s-.
The village of Perham has organ
lied a commercial club of nearly sixty
members.
The Browerville and Motley Rural
Telephone company was organized
last Thursday.
An epidemic of diphtheria at Audo-
bon, Becker county, has caused the
closing of the schools.
DR.. L. @. Edison, a prominent den
tist of Fergus Falls, died June End of
pneumonia, after brief illness.
The Old Settlers association of o.
ter Tail county has arranged to hold
it's annual reunion at Henning June %.
Stearns county is to have drain
ditch thirteen miles long, to cost S15,-
900, which will drain 10000 acres of
land.
The citizens of Parkers Prairie,
MIMI, have purchased l, 100 box elder
trees and have set them out along the
village streets.
Nineteen theological students were
graduated from the United Norwegian
Lutheran seminary in Minneapolis
last Saturday morning.
The executors of the will of Paul D.
Ferguson of St. Paul, will test the
validity of the inheritance tax law
passed by the last legislature.
Two census enumerators made their
final report on June 5. The first one
was r. G. Andrews of South Still
water, and the second was Martin
Rogan of Tynsid, Polk county.
State banks of Minnesota have been
called on by Public Examiner Kerst
for a statement of their condition May
20. The date is chosen to conform
with the national bank call just issued.
Beatrice Written, Maude Purdy,
Edith Mcintosh, Inez Martin, Jessie
Hutchins and Narcissa Cundy are
Anoka girls who will be graduated
from the St. Cloud normal on June IA.
One of the largest checks ever paid
into Beltrami county treasury for
taxes was handed to County Treasurer
French last week by the Crookston
Lumber company, amounting to $22,-
Oils.
The Indians of the White Earth res
ervation are preparing to celebrate
the anniversary of their settlement in
1868, on June IA and Is. The pro-
gram will consist largely of Indian
dances.
Midsummer Day, known in Norway
as St. Hans day and "jonsok," will
be observed by the Sons of Norway
of St. Paul and Minneapolis with an
outdoor festival at Como park on
Sunday, June 25.
The mayor of Owatonna has prom
ised to stop Sunday base ball play
ing in that city if all it's pastors signed
a petition to have him do so. Those
interested claim to have secured the
required signatures.
The Anoka High School Athletic
association has elected the following
officers: President. Leeds Cutter;
vice president, Marie Curial; secre-
tary, Ross Cutter; treasurer, Ned Cut
ter; manager; Herbert Goodrich.
Receipts paid into State funds from
all sources during May were S166, 2l4.
Of this amount $S0,965 was in the
stumpage accounts, paid in on per-
mits and trespass settlements. Onlv
$769 came in from mineral leases and
contracts.
The following Sherburne county
girls will graduate this spring from
the St. Cloud Normal: Gertrude and
Mildred Davis, Maud Hayden, Mabel
Fredericks, Mildred Mills and Anna
White of Elk River; Emily Mosford
of Clear Lake.
The postohice and store building at
Guthrie, thirteen miles south of Be-
midi, was robbed by two masked men
last week Wednesday. The men es-
capped. One was short man dressed
in long frock coat and the other was
a much larger man.
Charles E. Johnson of Grass Lake,
an old resident of Kanabec county,
while returning home from Grasston
on Tuesday evening and driving a
horse hitched to rOadcart, was