The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-09-05

An ordinance has been passed by
the Minneapolis city council limiting
the number of saloons in that city
hereafter to 435.
The farmers creamery at Rindal,
seven miles east of Fertile, caught fire
from defective smokestack and was
destroyed. The loss is $4,000, with
So, 500 insurance. It will be rebuilt
at once.
Striking miners in Northern Mime
sofa who have been wounded or i'm
prisoned by deputies employed by the
United States Steel company have
decided to sue the company for dam
ages aggregatng half million
dollars.
That a man will put some sort of
acid on his arm, make it raw and sore
and then exhibit it to the public as
means of obtaining aims seems i'm
probable. but such in all probability
is the method used by William Deal
arrested in Duluth and given twenty
days for begging.
The apple crop is so abundant in
the vicinity of LIE Sueur this year that
the fruit is drug on the market.
Choice apples are offered at the retail
stores for IS cents bushel and at this
price it does not pay the farmers to
gather them, so that many are giving
them away to any one that wants to
pick them.
Eva Rohbech, S years of age, the
daughter of Ernest Rohbech, truck
farmer living on what is known as the
Sunfsh road, west of St. Paul. about
three miles from the city limits, is in
a serious condition, and her seven
year old brother is suffering from nu-
merous cuts about the arms and
shoulders as the result of a vicious
attack by boar.
The proposed steel plant at the head
of the lakes is not only assured, but
is assuming prospective proportions
beyond early anticipation. The CON-
pany has already acquired something
like l, 700 acres for it's numerous mills
and furnaces. The estimated cost is
now placed at fully double the early
estimate of $40, 900, 900; and it is quite
possible that the ultimate result may
be the greatest iron and steel plant in
the world.
It is the intention of officials of the
department of agriculture to make the
grain testing laboratory at Minneap-
oils permanent institution. The lab
oratory has been established, not for
the purpose of inspection, but for the
purpose of testing the grain on the
request of dealers, both in buying
and selling. The tests show the per-
centage of moisture in a given number
of grains of wheat or corn, or given
weight of these commodities, the
amount of dirt and the weight per
bushel.
In 1886 there were but l42 creamer-
les IN this state, and 81 per cent OF
them failed within short period. In
1900 the first cooperative creamery
was established Freeborn county.
There are now in operation 100 CO.
operative creameries and 1856 inde-
pendent creameries. In 1901 the state
produced 100000 pounds of butter.
Since then the number of creameries
has risen from 5S2 to SS5, and the
amount of the product has more than
doubled. Moreover the price of butter
per pound has gone up from 17.5 cents
in 1901 to % cents in 1907. It is also
true that the cost of manufacturing
IS, 100000 pounds of butter in 1904
was very much less than the cost of
manufacturing $4,000, 900 pounds in
1889. In 1901 the patrons of the Min
nesota creameries received Sc, 500, 900;
in 1906 they obtained 100000.
Aug. 29-Sept.5
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