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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-07-06
Almost an Angel

George AIDE was talking at a June
wedding in Chicago about matrimony.
"Matrimony is perhaps little too
much idealized," he said. "These
June brides, radiant under their white
wells in glitter of June sunshine,
seem capable of changing earth to
heaven, but as a matter of fact, they
are not capable of anything of the
sort.
81 am heartily in sympathy with
old Brown, to whom young Black
said at wedding:
IA good wife can make a veritable
angel of a man.
" Yes, that's so, old Brown
agreed. MY wife came near making
one OF me with her first batch of
doughnuts. ~
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-07-06

Mr.. Ormsby. "They ought to get the
case over into Wadena or Hubbard
county," Mr.. Ormsby declared that
Dumas is only lieutenant of Cass
Lake man who is the captain of the
arson gang, but has managed to keep
out of trouble so far. "Dumas is a
fool; he thinks nothing can flush
him. added Ormsby. "Dumas
friends are working hard to create
sentiment in favor of him." said
Ormsby, land so is his baseball
team. So is the lower element. Re-
ports have been sent out that Dumas
is popular in his own town-that Cass
Lake is standing up for him. That is
true only of the lower element.
Martin Behan, captured in the
battle at Puposky on the morning OF
June II, was released from the county
jail at Bemidji on Friday morning on
bond of $4,000, signed by his wife
and J. B. Meyer. The arrangement
is to be arranged by Fire Marshal
Charles Keller. The bail bonds were
passed upon by Thayer Bailey, who
appeared for the state, and we're &C.
cepted by Court Commissioner
Simons, before whom the proceedings
were held. Behan, who is in the last
stages of tuberculosis, has been taken
to Wisconsin by his sister and wife.
1t was generally understood that his
release is in a measure a reward for
having turned states evidence.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-07-06
The Late W. A, Trask.

Brief mention was made last week
Of the death of Mr.. W. A. Trask,
which occurred at Monticello on the
morning of the 10Th ult. He was born
at Vassalboro, Maine, November 81,
1888. He served in the U. S. navv
during the war of the rebellion, came
to Minnesota in 1867 and located in
Princeton on farm Immediately
south OF the village limits, where he
resided until 1884, when be removed
to Monticello, where he resided until
the date of his death. In 1869 Mr..
Trask went to Maine and married
Miss Mary Phillips on November 9 of
that year. Two children, George A.
and Frank A., both born on the farm
IN Princeton, died several years ago,
and Mrs. Trask is the only surviving
member of the family.
To add to Mrs. Trask's already
overlooking cup of sorrow her home
was destroyed by fire on Friday
morning and the corpse of her
husband narrowly escaped being con-
sumed by the flames. Thus one woe
doth tread upon another's heel.
Years ago, under the nom de plume
OF "Barnacle," Mr.. Trask con-
tributed frequently to the columns of
the U IN ION. He welded a sarcastic
pen and was endowed with fine sense
OF humor: but it was as a rhymester
that he excelled. He had manv
friends in this vicinity who hold him
in kindly remembrance.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-07-06
Dumas Held to Grand Jury.

After mass of discriminating evi.
dence had been heard in the Dumas
case at Bemidji on Thursday last, in
which Behan, the captured yeggman,
and Smythe were the principal wit
nesses for the state, Dumas was held
to the grand jury in bail bond of
$4,000 furnished by his father.
Postoffce inspector b. P. Ormsby
OF Bemidji, who has been actively en-
gagged on the northern Minnesota
arson and robbery cases, but who has
resigned from the government service
on account of having reached the age
limit, declared that Mayor A. F.
Dumas OF Cass Lake can never be
convicted in Cass county. "They will
have to get change of venue" said
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-07-06
HOME FROM ORIENT
q. A. OReilIy, Representing Philip
pine Commission, in America
to Establish rIarkets,
Will Also Visit Commercial CenterS of
Europe in an Endeavor to Ell
feet a Like Purpose.

G. A. O'Reilly of Manila, P. L.,
brother of Mrs. J. J. Skahen and
Mrs. T. j. Kaliher, arrived here on
Monday evening from Chicago and de-
parted for Washington, D. c., on
Wednesday. Mr.. O'Reilly is superin-
tendent of the Manila schools and is
in this country as representative of
the Philippine government. His
mission is to establish trade relations
between the islands and large COM
mercial houses of the United States
he seeks to find market for the
handiwork of the Filipinos. There is
a strong movement on foot in the
Philippines to make the natives self
supporting. They are being taught in
the schools to make many varieties OF
useful and fancy articles-hats, laces
and hundreds of other things.
Naturally they are ingenious and turn
out some beautiful works of art.
To find a market for their products
"a market where such products can
be. readily disposed of-will mean
much to these natives. They will re-
ceive pay for their wares, and this
will do more than any one thing to
make them self dependent. Hereto
fore, and in fact at the present time,
the supply of Filipino wares are
greater than the demand, but when
Mr.. O'Reilly completes his mission
he expects that markets will have
been established which can handle not
only the present output but a greatly
increased one.
Not alone in the United States, but
in the great marts of Europe Mr..
O'Reilly will make an effort to estab.
lish markets for Filipino wares.
From here he went to Washington, D.
c., to report to the bureau of insula1
affairs upon his progress, and within
a few days he will sail for Liverpool.
London, Paris, Berlin, Dublin and
other large commercial centers will be
visited by him before he returns tc
the orient.
Mr.. O'Reilly is a highly educated
man and is perfectly familia,
with conditions in the Philippines
And, be it said to his credit, his sole
ambition is to do whatsoever is in his
power to better the condition of thu
natives.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-07-06
THE FOURTH OF JULY
Princeton Virtually Deserted and Res
idents Go to the Lakes and
Elsewhere to Celebrate,
Befitting Celebrations Are Held at
Long Siding, Sandy Lake and
at Elk Lake Park.

Princeton was almost deserted on
the Fourth, the greater part of the in
habitants going to the lakes and
other places in an endeavOr to find
relief from the sweltering heat which
prevailed-it could scarcely have been
hotter on the equator than it was her Q
on the Fourth. Small boys ushered
in the day with frecrackers and other
decorators and in the evening set off
skyrockets, Roman candles, etc., and
this, with flag displayed here and
there, we're the only indications that
Independence day had arrived. So
far as we have been able to ascertain
there we're no casualties either in
Princeton or the surrounding country
as a result of monkeying with ex-
plosives.
Of the places which celebrated the
Fourth in the country tributary to
Princeton Long Siding attracted the
largest crowd. The principal features
were couple of baseball games-one
between Long Siding and Estes Brook
and the other between fat and lean
mines. In the Long Siding-Estes
Brook game Long Siding won by a
score of s to and the leans we're vic
torious in the other contest Races OF
various kinds were pulled off and
hundreds awaited themselves of the
opportunity to trip the light fantastic
toe. The program throughout was a
good one.
Many people went to Elk Lake park,
where ball game was played between
Blue Hill and Orrock, in which Blue
Hill won by a score Of 20 to IA, and
there we're launch excursions and a
program Of races, dancing, etc. ELI
Lake park on the Fourth was one Of
the coolest places to be found.
Out at Central park, Sandy lake, a
large number of people attended the
celebration, but there was no ball
game. There we're, however, other
sports to interest the visitors, and
everyone seemed to have good time
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-07-06
Machine Sucked Mud.

Mark Stroeter, in order to test the
speed Of his new benzine wagon,
started for Minneapolis one day last
week with the throttle wide open, but
when he tried to slow down he found
it was impossible to do so. The ma
chine had sucked so much mud into
it's system that it would not respond
to the usual methods brought into
requisition to slow down. On it went
at a speed of something like 100 miles
an hour, and farmers ran out of their
houses wondering what the dickens
the streak which passed over the road
consisted of. The machine went at
such a terrific speed that from dis
lance it was impossible to tell it was
an automobile.
Herr Stroeter hung on to the wheel
like grim death-his grip was more
tenacious than that of an octopus.
Otherwise he would have been uncere-
moniously pitched into the road as
the machine swung around the
corners. sit was mighty hard for me
to steer" said he, "going at that
speed, but knew that if I made a
false move I would probably land in
kingdom come. I expected the car
would keep up that nerve-racking gait
until the gasoline had become ex-
hauSted Or the hattor;oe ool1o ,eoa
and that probably by that time I
should be somewhere in the vicinity
OF Chicago or New York, but all of a
sudden the machine shivered and
came to a full stop. AS you may
imagine, I received a greater jar than
did the machine when it made that
instantaneous stop. was lucky, to
be sure, in not being instantaneously
transformed into an inanimate mass.
but I did not escape uninjured. Look
at this bump on my head-there's an
other just like it on my right elbow
and both my knees are lacerated.
And yet I merely struck mother earth.
Supposing that cussed machine had
hurled me against telephone post!
| would never have lived to tell this
tale.n
Despite his bumps and bruises the
story goes that, after Herr Stroeter
had said his prayers, he walked back
to Princeton.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-07-06
A Dastardly Proceeding.

AS Frank Michaels and son were
proceeding down First street in a rig
on Monday afternoon, on their way
to their home west of town, a vehicle
occupied by a couple of drunken fell
lows going in the same direction ran
into Mr.. Michaels' buggy and tore
off the right hind wheel. The spokes
OF the wheel we're smashed to pieces
and Mr.. Michaels was compelled to
purchase new one before he could
proceed on his journey. The COL
lision occurred near Will Hatch's
residence, and the horse attached to
the rig in which the two drunken men
were seated was going at a gallop
when it ran into Mr.. Michael's con-
veyance. The fellows did not stop to
see what damage they had caused
they whipped up the horse, which was
covered with foam from fast driving
and, with a whoop, galloped away on
the road leading north from the site
where the Princeton hotel stood.
The fellows should have been pur-
sued and brought back-it is shame
that the perpetrators Of so dastardly
an outrage should be permitted to go
free. They could have been easily
run down with an automobile. Who
the fellows were no one seemed to
know.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-07-06
Story of Grimm's Alfalfa

Speaking of romances, here is one
which the United States department OF
agriculture believes is destined to
play an important part in the agricul-
tural evolution of that vast prairie
country in the United States and
Canada north of the forty-second
parallel, which runs just north of Des
Moines, Iowa:
In the grand duchy of Baden, Ger
many, certain strain of alfalfa has
been grown for 300 or 400 years.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-07-06
AN APPEAL

To the People of Zimmerman and Sur.
rounding Country-Gigantic Undertak.
ing-The Retiring from Business of j
A. Smith-The Big Event of the Year
in Zimmerman
Mr.. Smith, who has been doing bust.
ness for several years in Zimmerman
and has established an enviable repu.
tation for reliability and square deal.
ing, and never carried any except the
most dependable merchandise, has
positively concluded to retire from
business. Hence, with the object in
view of making a clean sweep of the
entire stock in the next ten days he
has contracted with the T. K. Kelly
Sales System, the renowned merchant
disc bargain givers, to close out every
dollars worth of stock regardless of
cost, loss or profit.
The people of Zimmerman and
vicinity will be greatly benefited by
the tremendous sacrifice in prices at
the closing-out sale at J. A. Smith IS
store, which will begin on Wednes-
day, July IL, 1911, at O'Clock a. m.
sharp.
1t is safe to say that sale such as
this comes but once in lifetime, and
the public no doubt will buy out the
combined clothing, dry goods, shoes
and grocery stock quickly. The T. K.
Kelly Sales Systems representatives
are now on the ground rearranging
and marking down the entire stock.
Store now closed, and positively
nothing will be sold until the opening
day, Wednesday, July II, at a. M,
and lasting ten days only. Come
prepared to get great bargains.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-07-06
Peary Missed the Pole

According to the report adopted by
congress Peary did not reach the
north pole, even according to his own
figures, within one and one-sixteenth
miles. So as an exact fact neither
Cook or Peary actually stood on the
top OF the earth. They came about as
near to it as some people do to buy
ing the most perfect beer when they
do not buy golden grain belt beers,
the most perfect by scientific test,
made in the most prefectly hygenic
brewery in the world. Get a case for
your table, and visit the brewery
when you are nearby. Order your
supply from Sjoblom Bros, Prince
ton.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-07-06
Creamery Comparisons.
United States Department of Agricul-
ture, WASHINGTON, D, c..

United States Department of Agricul-
ture, Washington, D. G.
West Branch Cooperative Creamery
Co., Princeton, MINI.
Dear Sir: The data below has been
compiled from the annual reports of
creameries in the state of Minnesota
for the year 1910, and will help to
give you an idea of the standing OF
your creamery as compared with
other creameries of the state. This
statement is being sent out only to
those creameries cooperating with
this division by sending in reports to
be used in making these totals. The
~creameries reporting to this division
showed the following:
Average amount Of butter made by
local creamerieS ia 1873 lbs
Amount made by your creamery. 105'910 lbs.
Average price paid to patrons per
pound for butterfat observation-disclosures 30 CSC
Average price paid at your creamery -. 80. 9Oc
Average cost of making, per h. OF butter Z. 46c
Average cost OF your creamery. ...........2.3 SOC
Average overrun of your creamery. 20 OOG5
Average shrinkage per tub was. O. IS lbs
Inc hlghest yearly average price paid
- 1Or butterfat per pound was. SO 4Oc
ne lowest yearly average price paid
for butterfat per pound was. .243Oc
me highest buttermaker's salary was 50 212 90
Inc lowest buttermakers salary was. 1878 90
Side lines (selling milk. cream. making ice
cream, feeding or selling butternilk. etc. were
reported from FER cent of the creameries
rs Whole-mllk creameries received per
pound OF butter 20 O6c
And paid patrons per ID. OF butterfat. 81. SIC
Their average overrun was. . 20 SOn
Therefore, for 5000 900 pounds of but
terfat handled by these cream
cries the patrons received S $685. 200 90
% hand-Separator creamerieS received
per per pound OF butter q SIC
And paid patrons per pound OF but
terfat. Observation-Disclosures. So SIC
Ihelr average overrun was; ...:..... 1850
Therefore, for 100000 pounds of but
terfat handled by these cream
cries the patrons received. w S975, 200 90
The details given above are based
on reports showing over "a, 900, 900
pounds of butter manufactured.
Very respectfully,
S. G. Thompson, =
In Charge of Dairy Manufacturing
Investigations. 3
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-07-06
VOLUME XXXV. NO. %
field over while Senator Haycraft of
Madelia is angling for the congress
siOnal fish.

Madelia is angling for the CONGRESS
sional fish.
=
Edward E. Smith, chairman of the
republican state central committee.
has been reported in WASHINGTON
during the past few weeks. It is ex-
pected that the Eberhart forces will
line up back of the president and
Chairman Smiths presence in Wash
ington is causing considerable curl
osity. He will be home this week.
i. i. i.
Former Mayor W. q. Eustis is
beng discussed as a Taft delegate to
the next national republican conven-
ton.
Senator Nelson's opposition to
reciprocity and to the administration
is starting a good deal of discussion.
The senator has taken so strong a
position that it will be difficult for
him to get into the fight for a Taft
delegation from this state, even if he
should desire to. If not Taft he will
have to support LaF Gillette and good
many are wondering where the sena-
tor is "going to get off,
!. $50.
There are rumors that ATTORNEY
General Simpson would like to be a
candidate for governor. There are
also rumors that he will resign and
60 into private practice. The rela-
tions between his Office and that of
the governor are said to be strained.
But the election is long ways off
and Mr.. Simpson has not yet re-
signed.
The Gordon boom, which was
started in Jim Arneson;s paper at
Chisholm in the form of bitter criti-
cism on Governor Eberhart has
suffered an early frost. The attacks
on the governor are continuing, but
MIR. Arneson is busily explaining that
be didn't mean it.
RALPH.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-07-06
Reeve Made a General,

c. McC. Reeve, for twenty years
colonel of the First regiment, M. N.
G., was on Monday made brigadier
general of the Minnesota National
guard. The choice was made by field
and staff officers. Colonel Reeves
resignation from the First regiment
was announced last week and he will
retire from the National guard
August 8. Colonel Reeve was made
brigadier general of United States
volunteers after the battle of Manila,
but after the war returned to active
duty as colonel of the First regiment.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-07-06
The Heat Kills Grandma.

"Grandma" Greenblat, aged lo7
years, and said to be the Oldest
woman in Minnesota, died at the
Jewish home for old people in St.
Paul yesterday from heat prostra-
tion. She comes of long-lived
family, her father having reached
the age of LIS years month before
he died.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-07-06

de!ln Grimm farmed a little plac
near the village of Kulsheim in
Baden. Of course, he raised alfalfa,
but there it is called "everlasting
CLOVER
From wind or insect-no one knows
what-the pure bred alfalfa in
Grlmm's field was touched with wild
blood-the blood of the yellow
lowered sickle lucerne, known botan-
ically as medicago falcata.
lt.chanced at that time that Grimm
decided to emigrate to America, and
it, happened that he had lot of
farmer neighbors in Carver county,
Minnesota. He decided to settle near
his old friends in Carver county.
As Grimm was packing up to leave
the fatherland he remembered that be
had few pounds of alfalfa seed in a.
sack. 1t was the seed carrying the
drop of wild blood. Crowded for
room, he searched and found a hole
in which he poked the bag of seed. It
was crucial moment for the prairie
! northwest.
Grimm landed in Carver county,
Minnesota, in 1857. He lost no time
putting in crops on a little farm of
scarcely more than a hundred acres.
The Everlasting clover" or alfalfa
was planted that year. Baden is a
much warmer country than Minneso-
ta..; The trouble with alfalfa north of
hetorty-second parallel is that the
plant freezes out: it cannot stand the
severe winters. So Grimm's everlast-
ingfclover passed a "powerful bad"
winter. The next spring Grimm's al
fa1fa field was almost ready to join
the: bald-headed crew. But two things
saved the day north of the forty
second parallel. Grimm was bull
headed for one thing, and the alfalfa
had the touch of wild blood for an
other. Grimm had always raised al
falfa over in Baden, and he could
not understand failing here. He left
the ground in alfalfa as a matter of
course. The wild blood in the alfal-
ia produced diversity in the plants.
They bloomed in colors of the rain
bow That gave nature quite a vari-
ETY. to select from. So nature kept
what it could use in that hard climate
and killed off the others.
AS years went on the alfalfa that
stsyed became accustomed to 20 and
30 degrees below zero. Without know
ing anything of the why or the where
fore of it,, Grimm finally got a stand
of alfalfa. Thus the work of &C
climatization and selection went on
for nearly fifty years before anybody
knew what was happening. Grimm
himself had not the slightest idea that
be was creating a new race of alfalfa.
he died some years ago without know
ing that his name was to be linked
with a plant designed to help build an
agricultural empire.
Inc department. or agriculture has
now taken Grimm's alfalfa in hand
and is jealousy guarding the few
thousand acres known to contain the
| pure strain.
Alfalfa stands so high among
wealth-producers on the farm that it
has become known as "the mortgage
LITTER" Starting in America only
about fifty years ago, alfalfa now
produces an annual crop valued at
$3.50, 900, 900, with an acreage covering
about 100000 square miles. Very
little of this acreage is north of the
fory-second parallel, between the At
lantic and the Rockies.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-07-06

To the People of Zimmerman and Sur
rounding Country-Gigantic Undertak-
ing-The Retiring from Business of j.
A. Smith-The Big Event of the Year
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-07-06
Union Special Correspondence

LaFollette boosters are hoping for
great things from the second district.
They think they have a good chance
of securing some LaFollette DELE
gates because of the torn up condi-
lions among the republicans. There
have been rumors of a tentative effort
to get together there among the re-
publicans and the name of Sam B.
Wilson OF Mankato has been men
toned as the man who might be able
to carry off the nomination. Since
then other possible candidates have
become very busy. Franklin L. Ellis
worth, candidate in the last election,
has moved to Mankato and will be a
candidate. F. E. Putnam of Blue
Earth is willing Barkis. Senator
Garfield of Luverne is looking the
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-07-08

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