The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-08-29
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

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n. p. Jesmer has bought out the
mercantile business Of Jesmer Bros.
at Bridgman and will remove the
salable goods to Princeton.
Judson M. Goss Of Anoka and
Lottie Goulding Of this place were
united in marriage by Rev. Kidd at
the residence of the brides parents
yesterday morning.
The fall term of the village graded
school commences Monday with Pro-
fessor Ewing, principal, and Z. S.
Briggs, Miss Mamie Huse and Miss
Carrie Scoville, assistants.
Bears are again numerous in this
vicinity. The fires in the timber
consumed the nuts, ETC., on which
bears feed and they are obliged to
seek food in the open country.
Judge Keith has moved into his
new Office on First street and is very
comfortably situated. The Judge is
having all the business he can attend
to in the matter of loaning money
and insuring property; besides, he
| dabbles considerably in real estate.
M. A. Brantsfeld, one of the fence
building crew on the railroad, was
arrested on grave charge last
Thursday and arraigned before
Justice Dorr on Friday afternoon.
An adjournment was taken until
Saturday morning, when, the COM
planning witness refusing to appear,
on motion of the county attorney,
the defendant was discharged.
A big black bear and two cubs were
freed near W. B. Carriers residence
in Greenbush on Saturday evening.
A regiment of men and boys sur
rounded the tree in which Mrs.
Bruin and her cubs had taken refuge.
Oliver McCarriel closed his eyes and
blazed away at the old lady, then
wheeled and ran. Oliver picked up
courage and retraced his footsteps
slowly when the boy yelled to him
that there was no danger as his shot
had killed the bear. The two cubs
were fairly spiked to the tree with
twenty penny nails shot out of young
cannon by Charley and Will Slater
and Will Carter. 1t is a burning
shame that poor old Mrs. Bruin and
her two fatherless cubs should have
been slaughtered in such a ruthless
manner by such arrant towards.
The baseball game between the
fats and leans came off on Saturday
afternoon and was witnessed by big
crowd of both sexes It was hard
work to get up the mines, and some
of the fats were not very fat nor
| some of the leans as thin as fence
rails. Tom Galley umpired the first
two innings when Steve Palmer, the
leans pitcher, knocked the wind out
of him with a curved ball. Only five
innings were played, and the score
stood rs to Is in favor of the fats.
Hank Newbert did some excellent
work at the bat for the fats. SO did
| Mart Leach. Byron Van Alstein,
the infantile 250-pounder, retired
numerous leans at first base. Nose
| Tibbetts pitched for the fats while
Otto Boyn stood behind the bat. It
! was laughable to see Bill Martin run
! bases, but he got there all the same,
and it was better than circus to
watch the curved legs of Hank New
bert as he made home run. The
leans had some active players among
them, but not having any bushel
baskets handy they did not manage
to stop many balls. So far as genu-
inc fun is concerned the game on
Saturday was the best ever played in
Princeton. However. Tom Galley
sWears he will not undertake to UNI
pire another game for such a gang
unless he is fitted out as Doc Ames
was in Minneapolis-with couple of
hair mattresses for a belly plate.