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The La Jara chronicle., 1910-08-26

The Robinson Graham Co.,
Pantatorium now has one of the
swellest places in town, having
just finished painting and paper
ing their new store the yellow
front.
The La Jara chronicle., 1910-08-26

f. F. Burnett, the reliable eye
sight specialist, of Salida, will
make his regular bi-monthly
visit to La Jara, Monday and
Tuesday, September 1920. Dur
ing this visit special attention
will be given to work on school
children s eyes. Examinations
will be free in these eases. Don t
forget the dates.
The La Jara chronicle., 1910-08-26

limited means will be unable to
own good farm
Why hesitate to advise friends
to invest their savings and their
earnings in the productive soil of
the farm! Neither change of To-
nation, nor fire. nor wind can des.
troy the value of the farm. or les
sen its productivity. The farmer
is our most independent and pros
porous citizen, and wherever he
has held to his farm it has given
him generous returns. The farm
is the best dividend-paying insti-
tuition in the country. Do you
own one? If not, where are you
placing your surplus earnings?
Attorney Green, of Alamosa,
was here on professional business
yesterday.
Miss Davis is down from Ala
mosa. visiting her chum Miss
Leila Mount.
Miss Joyce is up from Anto-
nito for a few days. the guest of
the Misses Hatfield.
Mrs. A. l.. Moss is enjoying
a visit from her cousin, Mrs. War
ren and daughter from Chicago.
Miss Kate Newcomb is home
from Greeley and will teach the
school on the Salvation ranch
this year.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Beckett left
to-day for Monte Vista where they
will visit friends for ii while
prior to leaving for their former
home in the east.
Fred Brownell, accompanied by
his wife, arrived from Winterset,
Iowa, last Saturday for visit
with the family OF his brother,
Frank A. Brownell, of Estrella.
DR.. Harry Cartmell and bride
left yesterday on their homeward
journey to Greenville, H., after
spending a portion of thier honey
moon trip with La lara relatives.
Walter Stevenson, who lost ii
foot under the wheels of an en-
gine at Antonito, is not d ad as
reported last week, but is get
ting along nicely at the Salida
hospital.
Thursday was the coolest sum
mer day ever known, according
to the weather bureau at Den
yer. n temperature of 39.5 was
recorded The frontier day sports
at Cheyenne We're nearly spoiled
and the people by thousands
were driven from the grounds by
the cold.
Is. l.. VanVechten, accompanied
by Mrs. NanNechten and Mr.. and
Mrs. X. $. Shahan of Alamosa,
made Il tour of the AlamOsa
Monte Vista and Center country
in his new Buick touring car last
Monday and completed the round
running considerably more than
an hundred miles, without an ac.
cident or delay of moment s
time on the entire trip. Mr.. Van
Vechten is highly pleased with
his machine and considers this
trip a pretty good test OF its
as a pretty good test of its merits
According to statistics gathered
by X. G. breckenridge. manager
of the Monte Vista mill, there
are $500 acres planted to pota
toes in the territory contiguou,
to Monte Vista this year, about
three times as many as during an,
previous year. 1t is estimated
that 1000 cars will be required
to transport this crop to the east
ern and southern markets. Tht
ID. & h. G. should take notice ot
this important fact and make ar
rangements to provide that mum
ber of cars for this district wher
the shipping season arrives
7
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03
TIE NEW GYMNASIUM
Princeton Athletic Association Eauips
Room With Paraphernalla for
Muscle Development.
Club Has a Membership of fifty-Eight
and Expects to Soon Reach
the Hundred Mark.

The Princeton Athletic association
bids fair to become one of the best
organizations of it's kind in the state.
Although in its infancy it has So
active members and its gymnasium is
we'll equipped with paraphernalia, in
cluding trapeze, vaulting horse,
calisthenic wall machines, horizontal
bars, punching bags. dumb bells and
boxing gloves. This equipment will
soon be supplemented with other
gymnasium furnishings-the most
modern to be obtained.
A gymnasium is a good institution
for any town to have. It not only
affords an opportunity to obtain in.
vigorating, healthful exercise, but
furnishes good place for young men
to while away an hour or two.
The gym is located at the National
Guard armory and is open Tuesday
and Thursday evenings and Sunday
afternoons. A membership fee of one
dollar is charged and the monthly
dues are fifty cents. VIM. Neely is
president of the association, o. B..
Newton, secretary, and P. L. Road
StrOm, treasurer.
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03
Taxes Levied at Town Meetings.

Taxes may be voted at town meeting
as follows: For township purposes,
to defray town charges and expenses,
such sum may be voted the rate of
which shall not exceed two mills in
any town having valuation of $780,
900 or more, and in any town with a
valuation of less than 100000 the
amount that may be levied must not
exceed $3.50. The rate for road and
bridge purposes cannot exceed 10
mills, and the rate for the support of
the poor cannot exceed mills. All
taxes must be levied in specific
amounts. Take a town with a valua-
tion of 100000 and the following
amounts could be voted: For town
purposes, 5000; for road and bridge
purposes, $1,000; for poor purposes
$500.
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03
PennisOn and His Speeder

Depot Agent Pennison says men
may have all the automobiles their
hearts desire for all he cares SO long
as he is provided with railroad
speeder. And he has one, too, but it
is hand pumper. "Penn" is, how
ever, about to make improvements on
the machine by attaching gasoline
motor, and then, says he, "the fastest
train on the system will not be able
to overtake me. I'll show some of
those automobile chaps how to go. !"
During the summer months he expects
to utilize the speeder for Sunday fish
ing excursions and in the winter for
making moonlight trips to Mime
apolis to attend the theaters.
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03
Sam is Able and Square.

Sam Gordon, the able editor of the
Browns Valley Inter-Lake Tribune,
is a candidate for the repub-
lican nomination for lieutenant
governor. The Office of lieu
tenant governor in many ways is
more important than that of governor
The man wanted is one who is wise to
the ways of legislators and corpora
tions. and who has the courage to
give the people a square deal, aud
will appoint the senate committees
without dictation from the "com-
bine." Sam Gordon is that kind of a
man, and we hope the republican con-
vention will have the good judgment
to nominate him. If it does the
people will elect him.-St. Cloud
Journal-Press.
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03
Lack of Water in Aiaeko

Contrary to popular ideas, the
chief obstacle in the way of large
and increasing gold output from
Alaska is the lack of water. Over the
whole OF Seward Peninsula, which
produces a fourth of the gold of Alas
ka, and in most of the interior as
we'll, the climate is comparatively
arid, except in small mountain areas.
Are you aware that the daily use of
golden grain belt beer will aid your
digestion, steady your nerves and
build you up physically? Order a
case OF your nearest dealer or be
supplied by sjoblom Bros, Wholesale
dealers, Princeton.
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03
Jeff's Remarkable Stunts.

Wesley Page possesses a horse
which is capable of marvellous
achievements. It is not one of those
aristocratic horses with glossy coat
and docked tail, but a scrubby
animal which can lay no pretensions
to either good looks or high breeding.
The stunts which it accomplishes, how
ever, are wonderful, indeed, hence
Mr.. Page is inclined to the opinion
that in the dim and distant past it
earned its daily oats by performing
tricks in circus. Mr.. Page is a
truthful man and there is no reason
whatever to doubt his story. He has
kept close watch of jeff (the horse),
and upon more than one occasion de-
tected it in the act of going from the
stable to the pump with pail in it's
mouth. It pumped the pail half full
of water, drank it and returned with
the bucket to the stable. Another
evidence of it's sagacity was that in
which it opened the oat box, devoured
its contents and then closed it again.
Wesley had wondered who appropriat-
ed the oats, but eventually caught
jeff in the act and put paddock on
the box. cit will also walk with it's
two hind feet in the air. says Mr..
Page, land l am trying to break it
OF this particular feat, which at times
places my life in jeopardy. Yes,
that horse of mine is wonder.''
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03
Death of Mrs. Albert Dilley.

|. Mrs. Albert Dilley died at Williston,
IN. p, on February %, aged 80 years.
The funeral was held at the home on
February 25.
Mrs. Dilley was daughter of Peter
Robideau, who died in Princeton in
November, 1905. Her mother is still
living and resides with Frank Robi-
deau, her son, in Minneapolis. She
leaves a husband and six children,
the youngest of whom is but seven
weeks old. She is also survived by
eleven brothers and sisters, viz,
Peter Robideau, Thief River Falls;
Nels, Greenbush; Ernest, Minot, N.
d.; Frank, Minneapolis; Elizabeth,
Seattle; Mrs. Mary Snyder, Seattle;
Mrs. Tina Robideau, Bismarck, N.
D.; Mrs. LIMA Gagacki, Mrs. Julia
Asselin, Mrs. Edith Craig, Mime
apolis; Mrs. Eta Mercer, Rochester,
MINI. She was married about twelve
years ago at Greenbush and, with her
husband, moved to Bemidji six years
ago, where she lived two years, and
the family then settled in North
Dakota.
Mrs. Dilley was. we'll known to
many people in this vicinity who
sympathize with the husband and
family in their irreparable loss.
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03
Pays Union q Compltmenr.

In renewing his subscription S. S.
buckingham of Orchards, Washing-
ton, former Princeton resident,
pays the q nj on this compliment: 81
40 not want to miss single copy of
the good old Union. It comes to me
as friend and keeps me in touch
with the east. We enjoy this part of
Washington very much and also wish
our old friends around Princeton.
through the columns of the Union.
health and happiness
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03
University Students Injured.

DR.. Jas. E. Moore and nine medical
students were injured at the state uni
tversity last Friday by the caving in
of a brick gable in a temporary
lecture room on the third floor of
Millard hall-the hall which was
Quilted by fire on Christmas eve. The
doctor was lecturing to a class of
thirty-fve students when the crash
came and buried many of them be-
meath the debris. DR.. Moore, David
Berkman of Rochester and Edward j..
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03
Another Disastrous snowslide.

An Associated Press dispatch from
Everett, Washington, says that an
avalanche rolled down the mountain
close to Wellington, near the Cascade
tunnel, at APO a. N. on Tuesday and
hurled two trains down into the
valley, killing, at a conservative esti-
mate, sixty persons and injuring
many more. These trains, says the
report, had been imprisoned in the
snow drifts since February "a, and
thirty workmen we're sleeping in the
day coaches in addition to the pas
sengers on board. The calamity is
one of the worst of it's kind which
ever happened in the west.
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03
A Scientific wrestla

Fred Hass of this village and Earl
Chaffee of Pine City came together on
the mat on Tuesday evening at the
armory and big crowd witnessed
the contest between these skilled
wrestlers. Hass won the contest, Sc
curing two successive falls, but
Chaffee proved no easy mark. The
first fall was obtained in 40 minutes
II seconds, Hass putting his man
down on head scissors and hammer
lock hold. In the second fall Hass
threw his opponent by means of the
full Nelson hold, the time of this bout
being IS minutes Al seconds. Bill
Clark of Milaca was the referee.
The match was frst-class one in
every way and the audience greatly
enjoyed it. Everything was fair,
square and clean. At the close Mr..
Chaffee said he had no excuses to
make and admitted that he was fairly
defeated by a man his superior.
There were two bouts preliminary
to the chief match-one between
Young Shockley and McDougall and
the other between 'Cylone jim" and
Tony Prescott The first resulted in
a draw after twenty minutes tussle
while in the second "Cyclone" downed
Prescott twice in less than five
minutes.
The gate receipts amounted to
Sl28.50 60 per cent of which went to
the winner and 40 per cent to the
loser
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03
State Road Fund Apportioned,

At the quarterly meeting of the
state highway commission on Tues
day $4,000 was apportioned among
the counties of the state. Mile Laos
gets $1,000; Isanti, $1,000; Sherburne,
81, 1000; Benton, $1,000; Kanabec, s400.
Each county is required to pay two
thirds of the cost of any piece of road
upon which state money is expended.
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03
BIG CLASS INITIATED
lodern Samaritans, Assisted by Off
GERS of Grand Lodge, Put Cam
didates Through Mill.
Dancing and an Oyster Supper Follow
the lnitiatory Ceremonies and
Addresses by Officers.

s-0 AS6 u4cSA A4OOU1uS OA
evening Princeton Council, No. o.,
Modern Samaritans, initiated large
class into the mysteries of the order.
The work team of the lodge was as
sisted by 3. r. Jefferson OF Mime
apolis, imperial deputy; Mrs. Efie
Johnson of st. Paul, state organizer;
and Mrs. Elizabeth Bullard, district
deputy.
Following the initiatory work Mr..
Jefferson gave very able talk on the
principal: objects of the order, and
Mrs. Johnson addressed the members
along similar lines. She also organ
lied a drill team, which she put
through a number of military evolu-
tions with remarkable skill.
The guests of the lodge were then
ushered into the hall and dancing
commenced. At IL O'Clock supper
was served by the entertainment
committee and dancing was thereafter
resumed and kept up until O'Clock
in the morning. The guests we're all
agreed in voting the Modern Samari-
tans the best entertainers ever.
Mr.. Jefferson and Mrs. Johnson
have promised to return to Princeton
within short time to further assist
the drill team, which they expect will
eventually become one of the best in
the state.
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03
one-no pay and plenty OF

curses.
We repeat and reiterate, if the
policy of the present council is car
ried out for five years the entire in
debtedness of the village can be can
celled-completely wiped without
increasing the rate of taxation for vii
lage purposes, and in all conscience
the rate is already high enough. But,
some one will remark, you allow
nothing for permanent improvements.
Yes, we do. The saving in interest
and the natural increase in valuation
will take care of permanent improve
ments. Notice that 81, ,l79.26 was paid
out the past year for interest on out
standing orders. Next year it will be
less than half that amount, and two
years hence that item will be wiped
out altogether. Then there is the in
terest on the bonds $40, 600 at per
cent and $4,000 at ~ per cent
amounting to $3.50, making total of
81, 849.26 paid in interest during the
past year. AS the Indebtedness is
decreased the interest will be corre-
spondingly reduced.
In this connection we wish to call
attention to the reduction in the
area and the assessable valuation
of school district No. ], as
the village of Princeton is located in
district No. 1. The present valuation
of the district is S63l, 947, and the tax
rate is 10 $40 mills, almost per cent.
Already this year an entire township
has been cut off from the north end of
district No. l and attached to other
districts. Several petitions are now
pending asking for more of the terri
tory of No i; by the end of the
present year all that will be left to
district No. 1 will be the village of
Princeton and the territory immedi-
ately adjoining in Princeton township
and about 400 acres in Sherburne
county. The valuation of the district
will be reduced from $631, 947 to S434,
SGT. That means an increase of ITO
mills in the rate of taxation in district
No. to produce the same revenue we
now raise for the maintenance of our
schools, viz: It will require a tax
rate Of 2S 2-l0 mills upon valuation
of S434, 567 to produce the same reve-
nue. that a tax rate of l9 $40 mills
produces on a valuation of S631, 947.
The rate of taxation for school pur-
poses in this village will not be less
than 80 mills-S3.0O on each hundred
dollars valuation-hereafter until the
bonded indebtedness is paid. There
was bond issue of $4,000 in 1903
81, 500 of the principal was paid last
year, and 81, 500 will be paid annually
until the entire amount is Liquids ated
in 1917. Then there is another issue o
$4,000, which must be paid at the rate
of $1,000 annually, 19l4-1918; and
there is still another issue of $4,000
to be paid $500 annually, l915-19l9.
The total bonded indebtedness o1
school district No. 1 at the present
time is 1923, 500.
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03
PRINCETON

Ziegler of Frazee. were seriously in
jured, the doctor receiving the worst
injuries. The roof through which
the gable crashed was a temporary
structure Of inch plank placed there
after the fire. It seems that there
must have been negligence somewhere
otherwise the use of such an unsafe
room would not have been permitted.
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03
Ben Hass Accepts Challenge.

Ben Hass of this village has ac-
cepted the challenge of Antonio Gros-
SO, the champion italian welterweight
wrestler of Minnesota, and match
has been arranged for Thursday even
ing, March 10, at the Princeton arm
ory. The last contest between these
two men resulted in the defeat of
Crosse, but at that time the Italian
was handicapped by being out of con-
ditiOn
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03
Where Auctions NJ can Prosperity

From the number of auction sales
that are taking place in Lac qui Parle-
county one might be led to think that
the country was going to the bad.
Not SO. In most cases these sales are
made by farmers who have made their
wad and have. concluded to retire.
They have either sold or rented their
farms and will move to town and take
life easy.-Madison Press.
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03
Unclaimed Letters.

List OF letters remaining unclaimed
at the postoffice at Princeton. Minn.,
February %, 1910: Mr.. Jack Downs,
Mr.. Gustaf E. Johnson, Mrs. Hannah
Lanphear, Miss Bertha Lloyd, Mr..
Hans Olson, F'ru Christin Borg
(foreign). Please call for advertised
letters. L. S. Briggs, P. M.
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03

There will be frst-class moving
picture show at Brands opera house
tomorrow and Saturday evenings.
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03
Lives Lost in Floods.

Heavy floods prevail throughout
Pennsylvania, West Virginia and
Ohio as result of the rapid rising
OF the rivers. A dispatch from Cleve-
land says that several people have
lost their lives and thousands have
been rendered homeless.
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03

A. E. Allen & Co. announce on the
last page of this number of the
U o n the arrival of their new stock
of shoes for spring wear.
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03

The Ladies' Aid society of the M.
E. church will meet with Mrs. John
McMinn next Wednesday afternoon.
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03

Next week the Union will contain
an article on seed corn which will
prove interesting to farmers.
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03

The Dorcas society will give a
fifteen-cent supper in the Cooney
building on Wednesday evening next.
There will be plenty of good things
to eat and everyone is invited.
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03

The Pythian Sewing circle met at
Mrs. M. S. Rutherford's on Thurs
day afternoon. The ladies piled the
needles and thread assiduously for
two hours and then Mrs. Rutherford
served delicious refreshments and a
pleasant social time was enjoyed.
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03

The time for the leaving of the Star
route carrier from Princeton has been
changed IN order that he may take
with him the mail which comes from
the north He has to leave, however,
not later than 1l:50 a. M, according
to orders from the postoAice depart
ment.
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03

Mrs. J. G. Herdliska entertained the
Lady Maccabees at a progressive
cinch party on Saturday evening and
there we're twenty-five ladies and
gentlemen present. The first prize-a
large cookie-was won by Mrs. Verge
Hatcher, and the second prize-a
small cookie-by Mrs. Jaax. An
oyster supper was served and at
midnight the guests departed for their
homes after passing a pleasurable
evening".
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03

The new village band, organized a
couple OF weeks ago through the
efforts of Henry Avery and Frank
Goulding, is growing fast. There
are now twenty EIGHT members in the
organization, most of them beginners,
but they are making great progress.
Professor Heinzelman of Minneapolis,
one of the best instructors in the
northwest, has been engaged to teach
the boys and he comes here every
Wednesday for that purpose. Henry
Avery is. the president of the band,
Frank Goulding secretary, and Jerald
Peterson. treasurer.
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03
A WYANETT WEDDING
Peter T0reIl and Hiss sigma Weeks
Married at Home of Brides
Parents Last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. TorelI Will Take Their
Home in Wyanett Upon Re-
turn From Bridal Trip.

Peter Torell and Miss Sigma
Weeks, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Axel Weeks, we're married at the home
of the BRIDES parents in Wyanett on
Sunday, February q, at high noon.
Rev. Forell of Karmel conducted the
marriage ceremony. The bridesmaids
we're Misses Ida Torell and Hattie
Anderson and the groomsmen Charles
and Frank Weeks.
"A gown of white silk trimmed with
lace was worn by the bride and the
bridesmaids we're also dressed in
white, while bouquets of American
Beauty roses and carnations consti-
tuted the flowers carried. Gifts in
great number were bestowed upon the
young couple and bounteous
wedding feast was partaken of by
some seventy-five or eighty guests.
Shortly after dinner Mr.. and Mrs.
Torell, accompanied by several of
their friends, drove in sleigh to
Cambridge, from whence they depart
ed on the train for their bridal trip.
The sleigh which conveyed the party
was decorated with old shoes and
hearts and at the depot Mr.. and Mrs.
Torell were fairly deluged with rice
The groom and his charming bride
are highly esteemed young people and
their numerous friends wish them
full share of the blessings which life
contains.
The Princeton union., 1910-03-03

Anti-Saloon Convention in St. Paul.
Special to the Union.
st. Paul, Wednesday evening.-In
point of attendance and in the en-
thusiasm of the delegates the county
option convention which assembled
here today was success. It is esti-
mated that 1900 people were present.
Hon. j. N. johnson of Candy was
made chairman. Governor Eberhart
was the first speaker and his effort
was a ridiculous straddle of the
county option question. He said it
would be improper for the chief exc
cutive to attempt to influence or
recommend legislation, overlooking
the fact that the constitution imposes
upon him the duty of communicating
by message to the legislature such in
formation as he may deem expedient.
Hon. Elias Rachie followed the
governor and raped him rather
severely. Rachie said the candidate
for governor must declare himself in
10 uncertain manner. Hon. J. F.
Jacobson made a characteristic
speech and he also scored the
governor Indirectly. At the AFTER
noon session Hon. e. T. Young,
former attorney general. and others
spoke. In the evening the principal
address was by Hon. Seaborn Wright
of Georgia. No candidates we're
placed in nomination or recommend
ed, but a series of red-hot resolutions
were adopted, and determined effort
will be made to have county option
plank incorporated in the republican
state platform and to nominate can
didate for governor who is pledged to
county option.
Politicians from all over the state
we're strongly in evidence in and
around the auditorium and at the
hotels, and most of them are of the
opinion that Governor Eberhart has
not improved his chances by his talk
before the convention. He was ac-
corded a respectful hearing, but SO
out of 100 of the delegates were
hostile to him.