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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02
The Bridge at Elk River.

Princeton automobiles should
take notice that the bridge across
the Mississippi river at Elk River
will be closed to traffic from Satur-
day, October 4, to Monday, October
~. The bridge is unsafe for heavy
and rapid traffic, and the highway
commission has instructed the village
council of Elk River not to permit
anyone to drive across said bridge
faster than walk. Of course when
the bridge is repaired and strength
ened these restrictions will be re-
moved. The favorite and the best
route for automobiles between here
and the Twin Cities is via Elk River
and across this bridge 1t is to be
hoped that the bridge will be per-
manently improved and made safe
for travel at as early date as pos
Sible.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02
The Mile Laos Lake Road.

'Why not macadamize the road
to Mile Laos lake?'' queries the
Milaca Times. There is no good
reason why that road should not be
put in frst-class shape from the lake
to the Sherburne county line next
year. 1t may not be possible to COM
plete the work of reconstructing this
road next year, but a good start can
be made and the job can be finished
in 1915. The Union has always in
sisted that the first road in the
county that should be improved per-
manent]y is the Mile Laos lake road.
The permanent improvement of that
highway would be of immense benefit
to the entire county, besides it
would complete the chain of good
roads between the Twin Cities and
Mile Laos lake, and make the latter
one of the most popular summer re-
sorts in the state. Once this i'm
portant highway has been perma-
nently improved it can be maintained
in good condition at a small expense.
The Union stands committed to a
good north and south road the entire
length of the county.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02
A Summary of Years Work.

Rev. Service, pastor of the Prince
ton Methodist church wishes to
thank the quarterly board, members
of the church and adherents for
their kindness and sympathy in the
work of the church. The church
has met all it's obligations and paid
the PASTORS salary in full. The
brotherhood class has been a great
factor for good and has paid the dis
trict superintendent's claim of $40.
The treasurer of our church has
served us we'll. The Sunday school,
under the leadership of Mrs. Ewing,
has grown to over 200 members. The
choir, under the direction of Mrs.
Clair Galley, has done us noble work
in it's service of song. The Ladies'
Aid society improved the parsonage
last year and has paid $3.50 on the
PASTORS salary. Under the leader
ship of Mr.. Townsend and others
the parsonage Was repaired and
painted outside. Many have been
received into the church, while the
congregations have been large for
the past two years. The pastor
closed the year with 900 calls.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02
Better Roads Needed.

A farmer, writing in the North
west Farmstead, aptly remarks:
Yes, we are doing much for better
roads but we have scarcely begun.
We need better methods of construc-
tiOn, we need more agitation in
order to rise above the party and
fractional strife. The good road
movement should have the support
of every man and woman in the
country. especially we farmers
should be in for having the very
best of roads. When it becomes
easy for us to haul our grain, meats,
produce, ETC., to some convenient
center over good roads it means a
saving of time and in wear and tear
on horses and wagons. Let US re-
member that good roads are the
foundation on which extensive agri-
cultural conditions develop. They
are absolutely necessary to the rural
farmstead, to the growth and impor-
lance of the schools, church and
society. Are we doing all we can
along this line? If not, let's get
busy and put our shoulder to the
wheel and boost.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02
richer. People are beginning to
understand this-in Texas, at least.

I1CIlcI. IeOplc are UeS luuluS W
understand this-in Texas, at least.
Bowie county, in that state, has
two small streams for the improve
ment of which federal funds have
been appropriated. A Texarkana
correspondent writes: "These
streams are jokes, SO far as steam
boat navigation is concerned; and
the government is wasting it's money
in these appropriations. In many
places you can take a running Jump
and reach the other side of the
river!'
So the Bowie County Good Roads
association earnestly memorializes
representatives and senators to stop
this waste if possible by having the
useless appropriation for river i'm
provement diverted to the making
of a federal highway through the
county.
Of course the representatives and
senators will be unable to do that
now because there is much precedent
for squandering public money on fool
building and river projects, and none
for wisely investing it in good roads
but if enough other counties join
Bowie in the same demand, congress
will soon set a precedent. What
county will be next?-Saturday
Evening Post
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02
A DepraYed, Inhuman Mother.

A female fend named Mrs. Ida
lockwood is in Jail in Minneapolis
upon her own confession of having
committed one of the most diabolical
crimes ever perpetrated-that of
poisoning her 9-year-old daughter,
who was sick in bed. by administer
ing to her decoction made from
soaking black fly paper in water.
The little girl was feverish and
asked her mother for a cooling drink,
but instead this she-devil gave her
the deadly draught which caused
death within ten minutes. The
demon, in her confession, says she
committed the murder at the insti-
cation of a paramour. She is sus-
pected of having killed five of her
other children.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02
At New Armory October 8.

The illinois Glee Club, which ap-
pears at the new armory on October
8, has acquired a reputation for Civ
ing concerts of the most popular and
pleasing character. Their roper
toire includes some of the difficult
selections by the best composers,
but is characterized chiefly by songs
of a more popular character, includ-
ing many humorous songs and the
old songs which everybody knows
and likes to hear. These are given
with just enough variation to adapt
them to quartet singing, and the
perfect precision and harmony with
which these songs are. sung by the
Illinois Clee club forms one of the
most pleasing features of their sing
ing. Bell ringing and instrumental
solos will be a feature of this
seasons programs. Admission, rs
and IS cents. 41-ltc
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02
Death of Mrs. August Schmidt.

Mrs. August Schmidt of the town
of Princeton, died at the state
hospital, Fergus Falls, last Friday,
September 26, to which institution
she was taken on August 20 Of this
year, after being sick several months
Her death was due to chronic in
docarditis
The remains were brought to
Princeton and inferred in the ceme-
terry of the Zion German Lutheran
church on Tuesday, September 30.
Rev. Otto Strauch conducted the
funeral services.
Mrs. Schmidt, whose maiden name
was Alvina Kurrasch, was born in
Gross Gluschen, Germany. on Sep
TENDER 26, 1861, and came to the
United States with her parents in
1881. On November "a, 1889, she
was married to August Schmidt at
Harlem, ILL.,, and in the fall of 1899,
with her husband, came to Mime
sofa and took up her residence in the
town of Princeton. She is survived
by her husband, four stepchildren,
a sister, stepsister and half-sister.
Mrs. Schmidt was woman highly
respected in the community where
she resided.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02
contae1ous Diseases in Schools.

Loss to public schools of Minnesota
through contagious diseases, due
largely to lack of medical inspection,
is cited in a bulletin issued on Mon
day by Dr.. H. M. Bracken, secretary
of the state board Of health. Schools
where no attempt is made to exclude
pupils recently having contagious
diseases always are sources of in
fection, the bulletin says, and the
opening of school always is the oc-
casion for an increase in the number
of cases of contagious diseases.
Reports from 43 counties on the
last school year showed that in 96
districts, 6,442 pupils and ISL
teachers were excluded from school
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02
People Have Tired Of Them.

1t seems that the people of Prince
ton have tired of wrestling matches,
and you can't blame them for these
"attractions' have been overdone.
The extra special" match adver-
tised to take place between a. chap
named Busch and another wrestler
on Saturday night failed to draw
even corporal's guard and the
great contest was abandoned.
People are fast becoming wise to the
fact that wrestling matches are nc
longer contests of skill.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02
The Princeton Potato Market

Potatoes have been moving lively
this week and, while prices went
down to the Accent mark, buyers
seemed to have no difficulty in OBJ
tanning all they needed. Some of
the farmers have, however, COM
menced to store potatoes, although
it is questionable whether this will
prove a paying proposition. The
weather has been ideal for getting
the tubers out of the ground and
growers have been making the best
of the opportunity, utilizing Indians
to pick them up. Shipments for the
week have been about the same as
those of last. The prices being paid
on the street this morning range
from 40 to II cents per bushel.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02
Bowie County's Good Example.

Congress will cheerfully squander
millions of dollars in erecting hun
dred-thousand dollar postoffice build
ings in twenty fve-t housand-dollar
towns. 1t blithely throws away
many more millions in improving
rivers and harbors that have no COM
mercial value. II half the sum alb
solutely wasted in building and river
appropriations during the last ten
years had been devoted to good roads
the country would be appreciably
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02
Praise for Our Band.

Princeton has the best band of
any small town in Minnesota. Our
band played at the Cambridge fair
last week and here is what the In
dependent-Press has to- say of the
boys:
''The Princeton cornet band fur
nished excellent music, both Friday
and Saturday. No matter how it
rained or how cold it was the boys
were there with plenty of music and
kept the thousands of visitors
cheered despite the awful weather.
Princeton has band that any vii.
lage or city might we'll be proud of. -
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02
Someone Carries the Risk.

You may die at any. moment. 1t
may not be pleasant thought, but
it is none the less fact. Who car
ries this constant risk on your life?
If you are not insured your wife and
children are carrying it. If your
warehouse or your home burns down
without insurance you have carried
the risk and have to bear the loss.
If you die without life insurance
your family has to bear the loss.
Don't let them carry the risk any
longer; they can't afford it. Apply
at once to The Mutual Life of New
York. Assets $500, l25, 046.26. Geo.
M. Ricketts,, District Manager.
Princeton. MINI. Adv.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02
As 1t Should Be.

A number of the prominent citi.
zens of Princeton attended the
Isanti County fair last Friday and
Saturday. The week previous a
hundred or more Cambridge citizens
visited the Mile Laos County fair at
Princeton and the exchange of cour-
tesies has brought about a good feel
ing between the two county seat
towns. For some reason or other
our good old friend "Bob'' Dunn
Sighted the Isanti coumnty fair this
year, but we know it must have
been a good reason, otherwise he
would have been here. cambridge
Independent-Press.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02

nearest market? What other in
fluential man except Bob Dunn is
devoting any energy toward working
up sentiment for what you most
need? A great many public officers
forget the real interests of the people
between elections.
The way to have good roads is to
build them: and the best foundation
you can get for them is public senti-
ment. When all the people decide
that good roads are necessity that
we ought not longer to deny our
selves, then, and not till then, will
We have good roads, Now is the
time to make yourself obnoxious
upon this subject.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02
A Misleading Report.

A Washington dispatch from a re-
liable source says that although a
bulletin of the United States de-
partment of labor, now being
scattered throughout the country by
the government, assures the public
that the retail price of meat has
gone up from 6 to l6 per cent in the
last Is months, the beef trust has
been buying cattle at Chicago at an
average of one and a half cents a
pound cheaper than year ago.. y
This would seem to strongly indicate
that government reports are some
times misleading.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02
Maintains Its Reputation.

This from the Elk River Star
News is appreciated, and it shows
how the Union is regarded by out
siders:
''The Princeton Union last week
put out one of the best write-ups of
the Mile Laos County fair that we
have yet seen in print in any county.
1t contained nearly twelve columns
of descriptive matter without detri-
ment to its regular news features.
The Union maintains it's reputation
as one of the best country news
papers in the state.''
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02
Anent Roads.

Here are three editorial paragraphs
from the Cambridge: North Star that
contain solid chunks of common
sense:
Anoka had a good roads conven-
tion; last week-and passed resolu-
tions. The way to hades, as we'll
as Anoka roads, has liberal surfac-
ing of the very best quality of reso-
buttons.
Which would you rather have, a pub
{ lie utilities law or good road to your
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02
Ethel Scanlan Married.

Miss Ethel Seaman left here on
Friday for Willmar and was accom-
panied so far as Minneapolis by Mrs.
Nora Nichols. On Saturday Miss
Seaman. who is daughter of M. C.
Seaman of Spencer Brook. was mar
ried at Willmar to S. E. Twigg of
Breckenridge, and directly after the
nuptial ceremony the young people
left for that place, where they will
make their home. The Union ex-
tends congratulations.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02
St. Cloud Entertains 5000 People.

The largest crowd ever entertained
in ST. Cloud was in that city on
Monday. when people from all parts
Of the state, with Is bands, attended
the thirty-fifth annual convention of
the Minnesota Mutual Aid society
and the seventeenth convention OF
the Stats NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. or
CARNATIONS. The parade formed at
the Catholic club and was II blocks
in length. In it there were 5000
persons, composed of officials and
members of the societies, and many
clergymen. st. Cloud proved itself
equal to the task of entertaining
everyone in befitting manner.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02
NO EFFECTS IN BANK
Roman Eckstein of Clear Lake Ar
rested by Sheriff for Cash.
ing Worthless Checks.
Arra1gned Before q Justice and Bound
Over to the Grand Jury In
the Sum of $4,000.

Roman Eckstein of Clear Lake was
on Sunday arrested at his home by
Sheriff Shockley upon warrants
sworn out by Andrew Sjoblom and
Q. S.. Grow, charging him with
issuing checks upon bank in which
he had no funds. The institution
upon which he issued such checks
was the First State bank of Clear
Lake. The sheriff reached Princeton
with Eckstein on Sunday evening
and on Monday he was arraigned be-
fore Justice Dlckey, who bound him
over to the district court in the sum
of So, 000-S1 ZOO on each count. His
father, Andrew J. Eckstein, and
John Emmel went on his bonds.
At the hearing E. L. Mcmillan
represented the state and S. P.
Skahen the defendant.
The checks above named were
among a number of others which the
defendant cashed in Princeton re.
Gently and which were found to be
worthless, Hof1ander Bros, G. H.
Nelson,: the McIlhargey Hardware
Co. and Swan Olson being also in
Guided. Most of them have, how.
ever, now been paid.
Eckstein had often visited Prince
ton and had from time to time in
hi Ct ,S1l
found to be good. Consequently the
business men did not hesitate in
cashing those which later were re-
turned marked "No Effects.''
TO carelessness on the part of the
young man is perhaps partly due the
fact that he had no funds in the
bank. It is not generally believed
that his intent was to defraud.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02

because of epidemics, each pupil
suffering an average loss of nine
days.
Each district suffered an average
loss of S58.73 in teachers pay alone.
State aid to public schools, the
bulletin says, averaged S2.O7 to each
pupil last year, but in all public
health activities the state spends
only cents per pupil.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02
Wheat, Flour and Potatoes on Free List

. On Monday the conference report
on She tariff bill was made public
ard it. shows that wheat and flour
are carried on the free list, with
alternative duties to be assessed
against those products coming from
any country that imposes duty on
wheat and flour from the United
States. The wheat and -four para
graph in the list is as follows:
''Wheat, wheat flour, semolina and
other wheat products not specially
provided for, in this section: pro-
vided, that wheat shall be subject to
a duty of 10 cents a bushel, that
wheat, flour shall be subject to a
duty of As cents a barrel of 1876
pounds, and semolina and other
products of wheat not especially pro-
vided for in this section, 10 per CEN
tum ad valorem, when imported
directly or indirectly from country,
dependency or other subdivision of
government which imposes duty on
wheat or wheat flour or semolina i'm
ported from the United States.''
Potatoes, another important prod
uct of Minnesota and the northwest,
are placed on the free list, with an
alternative duty of 10 per cent ad
valorem when coming from countries
imposing duty on our product.
Articles on tie free list include eggs,
milk and cream, flax straw, not
heckled or dressed flax heckled down
as dressed line, tow of flax and flax
nolls hemp, and tow of hemp and
hemp heckled, known as line of
hemp. Furs. dressed and undressed,
+ have also been placed on the free
list.
The duty on butter is reduced
from cents pound to ~ cents a
pound. Cheese is assessed 20 per
cent ad valorem. Cabbages are ad-
mitted free, as against duty Of 2
cents apiece under the present law.
Other articles produced in the north
west are treated as follows: Barley,
Is cents a bushel; barley malt, Is
cents bushel; oats, 6 cents a
ibushel; oatmeal, 30 cents 100
pounds; oat feed, 8 cents a 100
pounds; hay, So a ton; straw, 50
cents per ton.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02

has been brought in contact with
the consumer, with much advantage
to both. The day is coming when
the system of neighborhood farmers
markets will spread over the United
States by which the products of the
farm will be handled with the same
commercial method as the products
of the factory.
The new system will not interfere
with the genuine and legitimate
commission business of the country.
Commission merchants are an estab-
lished commercial organization and
may always be necessary. Their
agencies can be utilized to better ad-
vantage than other distributing
factors. 1t is only against the il]egit-
innate and unnecessary operators
that action will be directed, and it
must be made impossible for any in
dividual to stand between the pro-
Queer and the consumer and reap
enormous profits at the expense of
each.
Wherever direct marketing has
been tried the results have been very
satisfactory. In California a few
years ago the growers of citrus fruits
combined to market their own crops
of oranges and lemons and in a short
time they were deriving comfortable
incomes from the fruit when before
they could barely make a living.
The apple growers Of Oregon fol-
lowed their example and succeeded
beyond their expectations. The
truck farmers of the southwest have
also organized and are now getting
the larger share of what the con-
sumner pays, while the latter are in
every way satisfied because they get
fresher supplies and at cheaper
rate than formerly.
Europe has shown America a
splendid example in cooperation.
Little Denmark blazed the way.
From a poverty-stricken nation Of 30
years ago, it has emerged into a
thriving commonwealth by the CO.
operative system. Cooperation has
become the keynote of all agricul-
tural effort in that country. There
are cooperative creameries, breed
ing associations, butter selling as
sociations, egg export associations,
farmers insurance associations,
packing associations, and marketing
associations of all sorts, and from a
money-making point of view all have
been successful.
In the United Kingdom at the
present time about 5000, 900 are
employed. in cooperative merchan.
dising. In Germany it has also been
| tried with excellent effect.
1t would be we'll for this country
if the agricultural department of
the federal government would take a
hand in improving the selling
methods of the farm and in formu-
lating a national market bureau to
cooperate in marketing the products
of the farm.
Already this department has spent
over s1OO,O0O,OOO in teaching scien.
tifc farming and how the produce
tivity of the soil can be increased.
1t would be accomplishing great
work and one conducive to the
future prosperity of the country il
it would now spend a few more
millions in helping the farmers tc
dispose of their, products to the best
advantage, enabling them to do away
with the non-producers' profits.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-10-02
A Cheerful Time Was Had by ALL.

The devotional exercises of this
mornings session was conducted by
Roy 3. Deadman, which was fol-
lowed by an address delivered by J.
s. Coffin. -Keokuk Democrat.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-11-08
John Bunny Hints on Beauty
Certain to Make a Killing

Americas patrons of "the movies"
who admire the rotund form and pleas
ing visage of John Bunny, will be in
terested in bunch of beauty hints
brewed and circulated by that hero of
the screen and camera. Bunny is ev,-
IDENTIFY bachelor, but like ether rare
exotics of the class he can give tips on
how a girl should be trained by the
hand bacheloric. He says:
Beauty and health may rot be en-
gagged but they go together, sort OF
steady company like. Therefore, to|
obtain beauty, one or more than one
even a bunch-should seek first the
rudy glow of health, which On bargain
days comes as low as twenty-five
cents a box, but is bound to cost more
of you get it at the regular counter.
1.-THE best authorities agree that a
girl should never completely disguise
herself. no matter how cheap the
powder. Members of her own family
and intimate friends ought always to
be able to identify her if the light be
good.
whatever the results to the face,
powder nerver improve the complex
ion of the shoulder of blue serge
coat. Every girl should bear this in
mind.
"a girl should sleep fully seven
hours and a few minutes over If she
would awaken feeling fresh in the
morning. If she were to sleep nine
hours she might feel too fresh. There
is no good reason why she shouldn't
take out her curl papers in bed. In H.
tie matters of this sort a girl should
have her own way. Why shouldn't she?
They're her curl papers.
"Any reputable physician will tel
you that little candy now and then
are not only harmless but likely to be
of benift. In the evening, is some one
drops in with a two-pound box Of as
sorted almonds, and the ribbon on the
box looks as good as fifteen cents a
yard and the box is hand painted, it is
perfectly proper and healthful to ar
range two places in the coy corner