The Princeton union., 1905-06-22
State News.

The teachers training school at the
Normal in St. Cloud opened for six
weeks term last Tuesday.
Minnesota stands twelfth on the list
of states in the number of rural free
delivery routes established.
Rust has already appeared in the
wheat fields of Otter Tail county,
owing to too much moisture.
A Temple of the Rathbone Sisters
was organized at Pine City on June 5
with a charter membership of twenty
five.
Thomas W. Lawson of "Frenzied
Finance,' will speak at Albert Lea
on July IA if the present plans do not
miscarry.
Fire at Jasper on June l6, destroyed
the general store of Holvig Bros,
entailing loss of S1l, 900 with So, 900
insurance.
The annual convention of the Ger
man Synod of Minnesota meets at
Sleepy Eye today and will continue
in session until next Tuesday.
Fred Guder1an, who has been en-
ployed on the Cambridge Independent
for a year, has gone to Dumont,
Minn., where he will establish paper.
Robert Grieg of Pine City, has been
appointed commissioner of the Inter-
state park at the Dalles of the ST..
Croix. He succeeds George H. Haz-
zard.
F. A. Smith, cashier of the Swedish
American National bank of Minneap-
oils, has resigned on account of ill
health. The resignation takes effect
July l.
Until July, the village council of
Gaylord, will receive bids for refund
ing bonds in the sum of $4,000, paya-
BILE in ten years and bearing five per
cent interest.
Gus ChristiansOn, an unmarried
man, was run over by a train at Pine
Station on the Duluth & Mesabe road
on the 18th and received injuries of
which he died.
On June 26, the village of Lamber-
ton will receive bids for bonds to the
amount of $1,000. Denominations of
bonds to be $500 and interest to run
at five per cent.
George O. Carrels of Wabasha, while
in Morris on the 18th cut his throat
while riding on a street car; there is
a prospect of his recovery. He is
thought to be insane.
Foley expects that the census re-
turns will show nearly one thousand
inhabitants in the town. Six years
ago it contained only enough men to
run small saw mill.
A three-year-old son of Daniel
Hughes of Crookston, was frightfully
burned on June Is by setting his night
gown on fire while trying to build a
in the kitchen stove.
Examinations will be held in the
federal building in St. Paul on June
p, to secure fifty men to fill positions
as stenographers and typewriters in
the Panma canal service.
Lieutenant Thomas Mogan, Com
pany K Fifth Minnesota, aged sixty
eight years, died of heart disease at
the Soldiers Home on the 18th of
June. He enlisted at Saltwater.
At a session of the Odd Fellows
grand lodge at St. Paul on June Is,
George W. Scherer Of Mankato was
elected grand master for the ensuing
year. The retiring grand master,
Vim Powers, was presented with a
jewel.
W. l.. Williams and Clarence F.
Camp of Winona have secured patents
on an invention to attach to fire
alarm boxes whereby the person turn
ing in the alarm is caught on the
wrist by a handcuff and held until the
arrival of the department..
Chicago wheat men are in the State
making Investigations as to the proba-
BILE result Of the harvest. It is thought
that rust will be an important factor,
but it is too early to determine to
what extent. Reports from many Sec
tions say there is yet no sign of rust.
Each state is allowed to place two
statutes in statuary hall at the ma
tional capitol and the last legislature
provided for placing that of Alexan-
der Ramsey, Minnesota's first gov
ernor, there as one. It has now been
suggested that a statue of William
Colvill, who led the First Minnesota
at Gettysburg and who died in st.
Paul last week, be placed there as the