The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-12-12

0 necessary, Tor the purpose OF deter
mining the advisability of continuing
the case to the higher court.
4 No further business appearing, on
mohion the board adjourned.
L. S. LIBBY,
oil Vice Chairman Board of County
Commissioners, Mile Laos County,
. MINI.
y Attest:
0 E. E. WHITNEY,
al County Auditor, and Ex-
y oficio Clerk of Board.
0 auditors Seal.)
2 An Opportunity to Secure G. N. Stock.
oil By request the Union prints the
n following article which informs
employees and others living along the
0 Great Northern lines how they can Sc
n cure shares of stock of that company,
and, in our judgment Great Northern
' stock is good and .ssafe investment.
At any rate we would like to own a
0 few shares:
0 GIVES ITS EMPLOYEES AND OTHERS AN
OPPORTUNITY TO INVEST.
The recent newspaper reports from
0 the financial centers show a very
0 large increase in the number of hold
q ers of stock in various corporations,
particularly in those companies which
are considered safe. It is understood
y that these new stockholders are
largely people of comparatively small
0 means who are taking advantage of
O the present low prices to invest saw
\ ings in securities, which while safe,
will pay a better rate of interest than
the higher prices of last year would
0 return.
0 The government recently recog-
O nized the Importance of inducing idle
a capital to invest, thus keeping the
money in circulation and giving a
' safe investment and fair return to the
holders of such idle capital, and has
0 issued one hundred million of short
0 time three per cent notes and fifty
n millions of canal bonds. In foreign
countries there is every facility for
the investor of small means to make
0 safe small investments; in this country
6 there are few.
0 President Louis w. Hill, of the
n Great Northern Railway, has issued
\ circular outlining plan whereby it's
employees and others living along the
system may purchase for investment
2 one or more shares of that company 8
6 stock without paying the usual CON-
n missions charged by stock brokers.
In explanation of this action on the
part of the company Mr.. Hill says:
"During the last few weeks, and par
5 ticu1arly since financial conditions
0 became acute, the officers of the COM
o pany have received many requests
from employees and others for infor-
nation as to how small Investments
might be made in stock of the Great
0 Northern Railway Company. These
0 inquiries came mainly from people
0 who had had no experience in pur-
= chasing stock in New York or from
Q persons living in communities where
' there were no stock brokers.''
0 The circular outlines in detail the
0 conditions and methods attaching to
q the purchase of stock. No subscrip-
Y tion will be received for over one
l hundred shares, but if any person de-
: sires more than one hundred shares
the Great Northern Employees Invest
ment Company will endeavor to pur-
r chase same in New York at such
2 price as the subscriber may name.
All subscriptions for less than one
5 hundred shares will be filled at the
, current market price of the stock at
the time the subscriptions are re-
ceived. A remittance of the approx
. mate price of the shares of stock to be
purchased should accompany the sub
> scription and should be for slightly
more than the probable cost in order
5 to allow Tor fluctuations of the mar
! ket. Immediately upon receipt of the
! subscription and remittance the re-
, quired number of shares together with
! any over remittance and full state
, ment of the transaction will be sent to
: the subscriber.
Employees now holding investment
certificates issued by the Great
} Northern Employees Investment Com
: pany may surrender all or part of
their certificates and purchase Great
} Northern stock with the proceeds.
! Contrary to the custom such en-
ployes will be permitted to take out
other investment certificates from time
to time as they desire up to the
! amount of the certificates surrendered
J for the purchase of stock. Current
price quotations can usually be OBJ
tanned through the public press.
, There are other details relative to
the procedure in purchasing the
stock that are fully explained in the