The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1915-10-07
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO

!. ". Bouck Of Royalton swea1s
he will never umpire another game
of ball.
The potato market remains dull
and Inactive, and there is no i'm
mediate prospect of change for the
better.
The redoubtable A. DeLacy Wood
of Two Harbors was guest of Col.
Newbert at the Commercial hotel
last Friday evening.
Two Of Foreston'sS citizens had a
slight misunderstanding few days
ago. and Judge Dickey of this village
was called upon to uphold the ma
jesty Of the law.
The independent candidates are
numerous in tie land this year.
"What shall the harvest be''-when
the crop of votes is garnered on the
| 4th of November?
Roos Bros. have purchased the old
court house binding and lot. Con-
stderation, S1,l00. They propose to
underpin and remodel the building
and fit up the interior in first class
style.
The October apportionment OF
school moneys gives Mile Laos
county, ST, 705. 70; ~Isanti, SIS, 26l. IS
Sherburne, 81, 1920 The basis on
which the amounts are apportioned
is at the rate of 80 per capita.
E. F. Whitney was in town Tues.
day. He wishes the Union to an.
nounce that he is not candidate fol-
register of deeds this year, but if
he is alive and we'll two years hence
he will be in the field for that office.
According to the census Mile Laos
county has population of 2, S45, an
increase of 1,344 over the census of
1888. The population of the county
is about 1900, as the vote this fall
will prove. Isanti has $3.50, and
Sherburne, 5, 764.
The starch factory Started up Mon
day and has ground several Thousand
bushels of small potatoes. The
machinery works we'll. Farmers
should bring in their small potatoes
without delay, as the factory will be
shut down in a few days.
The boys tell a good yarn on
Stock Reems. They say he spent a
couple of weeks at Mile Laos lake
doing missionary work among abort
gines. Stock swears that every
redskin at the lake will vote the
straight democratic ticket this fall.
Brainerd's candidate for the legis-
lature, A. ]. Halsted, was one of the
editors staunchest friends in 1888.
w. hope our friends will rem ember
him on the 4th day of November. If
you are bound to scratch name on
the republican ticket. scratch Bob
Dunn, but vote for A. j. Halsted.
Rev. John Sargent is not coming
back to Princeton. He has been ap-
pointed to preach the gospel to the
heathens of Champ]in. Champlin
adjoins wicked Anoka. The people
of Champlin will find Mr.. Sargent
to be a preacher of more than or
binary merit, and a perfect gentle
man in every sense of the word.
The Princeton 'scrubs" came over
and played a game of ball with the
Cambridge school boys last Satur-
! day. The boys say the score was 4
to in favor of the "scrubs. ''-Isanti
County Press. ....:
The base ball boys say it is all
right for the Union to call them
''scrubs,'' but they decidedly object
to a ''foreign" paper designating
them as such. ...
There has been no move made yet
to hold county convention by mem
hers of any political party, nor is it
at all likely that there will be. The
time draws nigh when the voters
will be called upon to arbitrate.
Hand in your announcements,
gentlemen. The columns OF the
Union are open to you all. Charges
reasonable