The Princeton union., 1910-09-01
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

because there are no watermelons to
be had for love or money.
MIR. Benz. Mckenzie was in town
yesterday and remembered the printer
to the extent of five dollars.
The county commissioners have
wisely determined to shut down on
would-be paupers who are too lazy
to work. 1t is good plan.
Miss Sarah Chadbourne left for St.
Cloud on Saturday morning to re-
sumo her studies at the Normal
school, from which she expects to
graduate next spriong.
Miss Belle Severance's school in
the Judkins district, Baldwin, closed
last Friday. Miss Severance kept a
good school and seemed to be a
favorite with both pupils and parents.
Chester Ames is busy erecting
neat dwelling house on pretty lot in
the south end of the village. Chester
is sensible young man who believes
in the adage, ''Before you marry be
sure of house wherein to tarry."
Lowell Chadbourne is at Water
town, Dakota, while his brother Will
has struck good job at carpentering
at Wahpelton in the same territory.
Lowell is not very favorably i'm
pressed with the country out there.
Mr.. Chas. Van Wormer of the Cam
bridge Press, accompanied by his
wife and little son, came over on Fri
day. Charles was obliged to return
again on Saturday but Mrs. Van
Wormer and son are still here visit
ing friends.
Mr.. I. F. Walker, the wide-awake,
progressive Spencer Brook merchant,
was in town on Monday and called
at the Union Office to leave his order
for supply of printed stationery.
Like all intelligent business men, Ike
believes in printers ink.
Spencer Brook Correspondence
r. G. Dunn and Miss Minnie Young,
also Mr.. Joseph Hickman and Miss
Jessie Cowles, we're foraging through
lsanti county last Monday afternoon
in search of melons, and tarried at
the Brook long enough to get their
hash.
AS announced last week, the fall
term of school in this village CON-
menced Monday. There were 13O
pupils in attendance the first day, and
it is expected that from Is to 100
more will attend before the first of
October. There are 240 enrolled
pupils in the village school district.
During the past few weeks we have
heard people from every section of
the county express them selves on
being in favor of the building of
new court house and Jail. There
would be little or no opposition to a
proposition to bond the county for,
say $4,000, for the purpose of erecting
decent court house and Jail.
The democratic nominee for gov
ernor OF Iowa was rank copperhead
during the war, and publicly declared
that he chopped no soldier who goes
into the Abolition war will ever come
back alive" There are quite a few
old soldiers in the Hawkeye state who
will, on election day, convince the
cowardly, fre-in-the-rear rebel that
they are thoroughly alive.
A woman and her son from Orrock,
Sherburne county, were in town on
Saturday and sold load of hay to
Mrs. Wood, a poor washerwoman of
this village. The hay was weighed on
Rines' scales by Ike Patterson. Mr..
Patterson was informed that the Or
rock lady had had several sacks of
squashes, melons, etc., in the load of
hay when it was weighed and that she
had secreted them in vacant lot be-
fore delivering the hay. Ike sent
word to Mrs. Wood not to pay for the
hay until he had corrected the weight
bill, which he did by deducting 600
pounds for tare and tret. Besides,
the lady from Orrock lost her melons
the boys had stolen them. Oc-
casionally it pays to be honest.
For farm loans 60 to Robt. 81.
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