The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1905-05-11
State News.

concerns GulS SEASON.
St. Cloud will pave st. Germaine
and other streets this summer.
There is some talk of starting a
Swedish newspaper in Cambridge.
In Superior there are only l42 sa-
looms to keep the people from going
dry.
Walker, Mimi, is to have tele-
phone line: to be built by local COM
pany.
Mail is now delivered in Moorhead
by carriers, the new order taking effect
on May s.
The Pillsbury- Washburn flour mill
at Anoka will grind Canadian wheat
exclusively.
Eagle Bend is to have new State
bank, to be located in A. S. Carpen-
ter's building. 49,. .....
The fftieth anniversary of the Con-
gregational church was celebrated at
AnOka last week.
A commercial club has been organ
lied at Moorhead, MIMI, with a men,
bership of ninety.
Calvin S. Eastman has purchased
the Foley independent and took pos
session last week.
A Pelican Rapids mail carrier has
been sentenced to a year in. the peni-
Tertiary for rifing letters.
The Leslie Telephone company of
Long Prairie wants sealed bids on
constructing fifty miles of line.
Work has been commenced on a
bridge across the Mississippi river
between Elk River and OtsegO.
Sank Rapids is considering the
question of installing water works
plant and other village improvements.
Minneapolis is to have an automo-
bile factory. The enterprise will be
started by the Maxwell-Brisco COM
pany.
John H. Strong of Athens, Isanti
county, died on the 10Th of April. He
served several terms in the State leg
islature.
The capitol commission has issued
an order forbidding the acceptance of
tips by guides who show people over
the new capitol.
Considerable excitement has been
caused in Fergus Falls by the sup
posed discovery of an oil we'll in the
Red river at that place.
At Parker's Prairie last Friday,
Frederick Vogt, aged five years, fell
into kettle of hot soap and was so
badly burned that he died.
The First National Bank of Cass
Lake has been designated as the de-
pository for the funds of the Indians
on Leech Lake reservation.
The State capitol commission has
decided that those who visit the capt.
tol will need guides to show them their
way and two have been appointed.
A small cyclone swooped down upon
Crookston one day last week demol-
ishing houses and doing considerable
damage to property. No one was
hurt.
The northwestern part of Minnesota
was visited by a terrific wind on the
third inst, and in many places hail
fell in sufficient quantity to cover the
ground.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Elliott of Stay
ton, Mimi, celebrated their golden
wedding on the 3rd inst, eight of
their children being present at the GEL
ebration.
Mayor Townley of Fergus Falls,
has issued an order for the removal
of all slot machines, dice boxes and
other gambling devices from saloons
and other places of business.
Polk county will no longer pay for
probate blanks, nor allow it's judge of
probate to fill them out, but those
probating estates must be their own
attorneys or hire their work done.
The school at Lake Crystal, MIMI,
has been closed on account of small
pox and the homes of all the pupils
quarantined. Twenty-Five cases of
smallpox were found among the pupils.
Godfrey Goodwin, county attorney
of Iasnti county rendered his resigna-
tion to the board of county commits
sioners of that county at late meet
ing, but the board refused to accept it.
E. G. Road has discovered a min
eral spring on his claim on the shore
of Dark lake in the iron range. In
valids will not be Obliged to go out
side of Minnesota to get sulphur water
now.
. A case is on the calendar at Elk
River this week for the purpose Of