The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1915-09-02
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO


soon we time for the fun to COM
mence.
Judge Chas. D. Kerr of St. Paul
came in on Tuesday to enjoy few
days of duck shooting. ~ -.e
The republican county committee
of Mile Laos county is composed of
G. H. Rines., G. W. Mcfarland and
Moses Cone.
A copy of the Minneapolis Tribune
Star, dated October 10, 1889, reached
this Office through the mail Tuesday.
Fast mail service, you know.
Mr.. &. E. Turner, a representa-
tive of the Pioneer Press, was in
town yesterday and appointed Mr..
George Newbert agent for that reli-
able and representative old paper.
The lizard Times' sociable by the
W. r. G., at G. A. r. hall on Tues
day was we'll patronized and neat
little sum was realized which will
be worthily expended in aiding a
sorely distressed G. A. r. man and
his family.
Judge Baxter-"James G. Blaine
is the greatest man of any party in
the United States. Blaine is
genius" D. ". Bruckart-"I en-
dorse the judges opinion of the
Plumed Knight. Judge Baxter is
an old line democrat.
A. Y. Merrill, Esq, county attor-
ney of Aitkin county; was here We'd
nesday looking after the interests of
some of his clients. We are glad to
know that Mr.. Merrill stands we'll
in Aitkin and is prospecting.
jeff Orton of Foreston was knocked
down and robbed Of $25 by tramps at
the Manitoba freight yard in St.
Cloud the other evening. A police
men overhauled the tramps in East
st. Cloud but they drew revolvers,
showed fight and escaped.
Spencer Brook Correspondence:
There is at present about fifteen
men employed on the Clough ranch,
the most of them are grabbing and
up land. and when some OF
you Princeton folks visit the Brook
you will not recognize the place.
A. W. Cater was in attendance at
court, and he combined business
with duty by representing the cigar
firm of Marx & Wire, St. Cloud.
This firm manufactures excellent
cigars. and Mr.. Cater knows how to
sound the praises of the smokables.
All the old officers were renom-
mated at the republican county con-
vention held at Cambridge, Isanti
county, on the 9th ult. Our old
FRIEND, Chas. VanWormer, was the
unanimous choice of the convention
for judge of probate.
In it's report of the Fourth con-
gressional district democratic conven-
ton the Minneapolis Tribune says:
"One of the resolutions denounced
the stand that republican congress-
men from Minnesota, with the excep-
tion of Knute Nelson. had taken. A
wild-eyed delegate from Isanti
county wanted Milo Whites name
included. He was called down.
The fall term of the village
schools commenced Monday, with
Prof. NJ. D. Williams, a graduate of
Carlton college, as principal, Miss
Esther M. Green, graduate of the
University of Iowa, in the grammar
department.. Miss Freer, graduate
of the School of instruction of Min
neapolis, in the intermediate depart
ment, and Miss Mary Huse, the local
favorite, at the head of the primary
department..
Government agents have been
among the Chippewa Indians around
Mile Laos lake during the past
month, and we understand their aim
is to get the Indians to peaceably
remove to White Earth. Mr.. Chas.
Beaulieu, who is engineering the
movement, has succeeded in getting
the chiefs and some braves, number
ing about 30, to go and look over the
White Earth country, and whittier
they departed today. ;