The Princeton union., 1912-05-30
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

Wheat quotations for today: No. j
hard, u Gems; No. 1 northern, 70
cents; No. 2 northern, 65 cents.
Mrs. Smith Soule was down from
the crossing and spent a few days in
town visiting relatives this week.
Will Ross has secured a position in
a St. Paul grocery house and left
for that city on Tuesday morning.
A few little sprinklings in the past
few days have been of immense ad-
vantage to the crops in this vicinity
John c. Orton and NJ. G. Sausser
of Sauk Rapids were in town on
Memorial day shaking hands with
their old friends.
Two additions to the population Of
Princeton last week in a natural way ::
A boy at Irving r. Zimmerman S
and girl at Will Browns.
| John Sadley left with two carloads
of horses and 10 or II men on Tues
day to engage in railroad work on
the Montana extension of the Man
itoba lines.
Isn't it about time that that long
promised new passenger coach were
Undertaking.? The dirty and dingy
old caboose that does duty as a pas
lsenger coach on this branch is dis
lgrace to the rich Manitoba company.
Cargill Bros. propose to erect an
Elevator of 10000 bushels capacity
at once, and will use their fiat ware
house as an annex to the elevator
proper. G. NJ. Turner, resident agent
of the firm, will superintend the
work.
| If the sacrilegious vandals who rob
the graves in Oak Knoll cemetery of
vases and other ornaments are caught
at their miserable pilfering it will
go hard with them. Any person who
thus robs graves is the meanest kind
of a sneak thief.
There was pretty wild crowd of
river drivers at Bridgman on Satur-
day night. At one time they tried
to tear down the depot, but Sheriff
| Howard appeared unexpectedly upon
the scene and put stop to the
riotous proceedings.
| Judge Keith is erecting a neat
office on the north side of First
Istreet, between Washington avenue
and main sreet. The Judge is super
intending the work, and when it is
finished he will have just such a
building as he wants.
The village council has ordered
sidewalk built on the north side of
! Oak street from main street to the
depot. The property owners on First
street should now bestir themselves
and have sidewalk built on that
street also from main street to the
station.
! At a meeting of the village council
on Friday site for an engine house
was purchased from Henry Newbert
for $3.50. The lot fronts on the east
side of Main street, just south of the
American house stable. A suitable
building will be erected on the site
| at once.
A. +. McDermott, formerly con-
ductor on the accommodation train
between St. Cloud and Hinckley,
has been transferred to a regular
passenger train running between ST.
Cloud and Minneapolis. Mr.. Nc
Dermott was deservedly popular on
the Hinckley branch.
Last Monday, despite the cold,
clustering weather and the threaten
ing sky, at least 500 strangers were
present and joined hands with the
townspeople in observing Memorial
day-honoring the nations dead.
Fifty old veterans were in line and
the Memorial services we're held in
the Congregational church. Follow
ing the services the procession
marched to Oak Knoll cemetery,
where about a score of the bows who
wore the blue are buried, and the
graves of the dead heroes were he