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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-10-10
OPSTEAD

Rev. o. Larson and family, Mrs.
Jonas Grant, H. j. Anderson and wife
and son, Willie, Mrs. Erick Lofgren
and George Lundquist and wife at
tended the Ladies' Aid meeting at a.
G.. Sandberg's home at Isle one day
last week. d
The Willing workers met at The
Freer home on Friday afternoon and
the meeting was well attended.
C. G. Haggberg and Chas. Andersen
autoed to Isle and Wahkon on Friday
evening. 81 u.
F.. a. Bushey and 2. G. Boeck 81
Isle were in town on Friday.
Mrs. George Lundquist and daugh
ter, Laura, visited relatives at Isle q
Saturday.
e. G. Haggberg made q flying tril
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-10-10
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to Aitkin On Saturday afternoon.
While saving wood at the E. j.
Peterson home John Anderson had the
mist fortune to cut his foot quite badly
He was scraping sawdust away from
under the saw with his foot and hap.
pened to lift It too, high.
The Baptist Ladies Aid society met
at the o. Larson home On Tuesday
afternoon.
b Jonas Grant and wife visited rela-
tives at Granville, south Of Isle, on
Monday. ls#
Rev. o. Larson and family visited al
The Carl Anderson home at Eastwood
on Friday evening. .7s-
William Lofgren and Willie Ander.
son autoed to Dalbo on Sunday.
Chas. Anderson and G. G. Hagg-
berg were Isle visitors Tuesday. RI,
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-10-10
ISLE

Remember Wheeler's auction in
Greenbush October Fl.
August Leland went to Duluth on
Tuesday for short visit.
Nels Berglund, having sold his farm
at Malmo, has moved to Isle and ex-
poets to locate here permanently.
Miss Jessie Haggberg is in Mime
apolis at present, having had an op-
GRAFTON on her eye. She is getting
along nicely. Several Of the Baptists
from Isle attended the Ladies' Aid
meeting at Opstead on Tuesday after
noon.
The Red Cross has been busy this
week sewing on buttons and making
buttonholes on the shirts which they
remodeled.
George Fairchild has gone to Mis-
souri,, where he has secured employ
ment.
Miss Elizabeth Phillips, having
severed her connection with the M. G..
Winter store, is visiting friends before
she departs for Minneapolis.
c. Borchert returned this week af-
ter a few months absence in the
southern part of the state.
Word has been received that another
of Isles boys, Carl Olson, has ar
rived across safely. 81
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Hymes are
spending the week in the southern
part Of the state.
Earl Gregory Of, East St. Cloud ar
rived on Monday and will be the prin-
cipal of our school for the rest of the
term. Mr.. Gregory has been teacher
here before and is known to most of
our people.
The John Harrison family are en-
joying a visit from relatives who mo-
tored here from Dakota.
A. O. Peterson went to Minneapolis
on Monday to resume treatments. All
his friends at Isle hope for a speedy
recovery. Il
The Ladies Aid society met with
Mrs. C. Swanson last Thursday after
noon. A very large crowd was pres
ent.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-10-10
VINELAND

Arthur Anderson Of Wigwam bay
departed last Monday for Milaca,
where he will attend high school.
A. P. Jorgensen and family and
Jean McVicar and Eunice Bergquist,
teachers at Springbrook and Wigwam
bay, attended basket social at Camp
Johnson last Saturday night.
VIM. Anderson's girls were home on
a visit Saturday and Sunday and re-
turned to Milica on Sunday night.
They will attend school there.
VIM. Taplin held services in the
M. E. church last Sunday.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-10-10
BLUE HILI.

Remember Wheeler's auction in
Greenbush October 81.
Mr.. Albright and son and daughter
Of Greenbush were Sunday visitors at
Chas. Gaulier's.
Raymond Saxon and family Of Bald
win spent Sunday at James Saxon's.
VIM. Van Kleek spent couple Of
days in Minneapolis last week.
The little showers we are having
are making the rye look green, but the
ground is very dry, and we learn that
many wells are going dry. IF we don't
get some heavy rains soon the water
supply will be rather short when the
cold weather comes on.
We learn that Charley Kuhlman Of
Princeton and Miss Amanda Morris Of
Greenbush were married last week.
Charley's friends in Blue Hill extend
congratulations.
Hale Powers Of Iowa autoed from
his home to spend a few days with
his sister, Mrs. John Kisner. He re-
turned this week and was accompanied
by his mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Briggs and sons,
Archie and Ivan, Of Zimmerman, spent
Saturday night with Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas. Brande. s
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kisner, Mr.. and
Mrs. Matt Johnson, Laura johnson
and Nina Croft were among the Blue
Hill people who attended the county
fair at Elk River.
Misses Stella and Louise McKown
have returned to Minneapolis to take
up their studies at the state university.
Warren Kisner left last Saturday
for a visit with his parents in Cerro
kGordo county, Iowa.
Chas. Brande is having a serious
time with an attack Of neuritis in his
left arm and hand, and has been I'M
able to use them for three weeks.
Neuritis is a disease of the nerves UNI
der the skin and is very painful.
Carl Johnson has been carrying his
left arm in sling the past week. He
got a sandbur in his middle finger
while filling silos and has had real
bad time with it.
Raymond Slogan, who broke his
arm while at play, is now recovering.
Mrs. D. Powers of Iowa has been
spending a couple Of weeks visiting
her daughter, Mrs. John Kisner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith of Ames, Iowa,
uncle and aunt Of Mrs: Matt Johnson,
made them a visit last week Mr..
johnson took them to Wahkon on
Wednesday.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-10-10

To the Voters of Mile Laos County.
Gentlemen: In announcing my can
didacy for the office Of County At
torney desire to make the following
statement:
IF elected to this important office I
will, to the best Of my ability, hon.
est1y, faithfully and impartially per-
form the duties thereof, without fear
or favor. 5..
Ny official record is well known to
the majority of you gentlemen and, as
factions speak louder than words" I
prefer to stand or fall, politically, on
my record Of past performances II
Owing to the strenuous duties I
was called upon to perform as Score
tary Of the Local Board Of Mile Laos
County, I was compelled to resign as
County Auditor and did So, May 28th,
1918. This gave meEample opportunity
to help the board render better SER
vices to all interested parties and
thereby do my small part in keeping
the Selective Service law working
smoothly in this county. However,
the bulk Of the work, including the
new registration and classification,
viii be completed by january I, 1919,
when I will be able again to take up
my chosen professions the practice Of
the law.
I'm conclusion will say graduated
from the Law Department of the Uni
versity Of Minnesota and was admit
ted to the bar June "a, 1907. Prac-
tieed law in Milaca for over three
years, one Of which I served as Vii
lage Attorney. Was appointed Coun7
4 ty Auditor by the Board Of County
i Commissioners, October 5, 1910, a
critical time in the history Of the audi
4 tors office, and when the emergency
4 demanded a man with legal training.
{. If the times were normal / would
4 endeavor 80 make a personal canvass
Of the county, but at present Uncle
! Sam has the right of-way on my time
4 and services and I must, therefore
leave my political prospects in the
I hands Of my friends.
, thank you. 81
4O-6c w. G. DOANE,.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-10-10

For Treasurer of Sherburne County.
I respectfully announce that I am a
candidate for the office of treasurer Of
Sherburne county at the general cleo
ton November 5, 1913. If elected I
shall put forth every effort to con.
duct the affairs Of the office to the
entire satisfaction of the taxpayers of
the county.
39-4p Nels c.. Nelson.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-10-10
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.

All announcements under this head are paid
for, unless otherwise stated, by the person
whose name is affixed to the announcement at
the regular transient rate of 10 cents per
line for each insertion. r. C. Dunn, whose
postoffice address is Princeton, Minnesota, is
the sole owner of this newspaper.
r. c., DUNN, Publisher. :
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-10-10
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1t is deliciously palatable, agrees
with the weakest stomach, contains the
most soothing, healing, Strengthening
ingredients. Natures gift to make
you weM and happy HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea. 35 cents, tea or tab
2lets. c. a.. Jack Drug Go. Adv.
The sun., 1918-09-29
THE Sun" Held the Secret.

And vet all the while ii was making in
quiries and receiving them The SUN had
the secret in IFS possession. 1t lay buried
in the Office files of August 81, where Mr..
Bedford predicting hearty response to
the appeal that no unnecessary gasolene
be burned on the following day-the first
of the gasolene Sundays-gave utterance
10 the following expression of his faith
and firm conviction:
Tomorrow is going TO witness in
America a marvellous demonstration of
patriotic united purpose to do anything
possible TO hasten the victory over Ger
many.
"The record Of the day will demonstrate
that the users of gasolene, which is now
so sorely needed for motor transport, for
airplanes, for ambulances, for tanks and
all the other uses of war which are so
helpless without it, will hail this as an OPP
portunity TO prove, by sacrifice of pleas
ure, their eagerness to back up our boys
who are doing, daring and dying abroad"
Logic dictated that any one with so
vital faith in the inherent decency of
The sun., 1918-09-29


spoke up.
81 don't think that is good plan
"'What isn't a good planF
"'To issue an order that nobody shall
use gasOlene unnecessarily. l thought
when the heatless days were ordered that
the public would have responded better if
it had been requested TO make the saeri-
flee voluntarily. This is merely sugges
ton. But l believe the heart of the
United States is in this war
That was ALL He didn't ask for
vote or for any one else's opinion. As
matter of fact the meeting, which hal
then been In session for three successive
days, adjourned soon afterward and was
resumed the next morning. The next
morning everybody-they had all alb
sorbed Bedford's idea and had been Sleep
ing over Thought the same way he
did, and the suggestion was passed on to
Mark Requa, oil administrator, and
through him TO the President, with the re-
suit that everybody knows.
Author OF Idea Modest.
"And why hasn't Mr.. Bedford come for
ward and owned up that he was the man
who trusted the public and wanted them
to conserve their gasolene voluntarily?
Well, imagine he hasn't spent much time
thinking over his suggestion as sugges-
ton since the day he made it and didn't
know anybody cared much who made it
first"
DR.. Harry Garfield, Federal Fuel Ad-
ministrator, appointed Mark L. Requa oil
director for the Fuel Administration last
January. Mr.. Requa was prominent
mining engineer and believed thoroughly
in the principles Of Government control
and operation of the oil fields and oil in
dustry during the war. He believed so
even as late as last July, when he made
a speech at Tulsa, Oklahoma, at a meet
ing of refners and producers. Mr.. Bed
ford also made speech at the same meet
ing on the same day. Mr.. Requa said
among other things:
Il realize that it is not possible for the
producers of oil or the refiners of oil in
Oklahoma to be fully acquainted with the
many problems confronting official Wash
ington. The magnitude of the struggle
in which We are engaged is, I think, but
family comprehended even by many of
those who occupy official positions.
Beyond German Vision.
"The most profound students of mill.
tary tactics in Europe failed at the out
set Of this war to, visualize in any degree
the gigantic proportions that the conflict
has assumed, and it is recorded that after
the battle Of the Marine the German Gen
eral Staff, realizing how utterly they had
misjudged the course of events OF the i'm
The sun., 1918-09-29
A. G. Bedford, Stand
ard Oil Executive,
Had aith That
Voluntary Appeal
Would Be Best

4 n the National Petroleum War Ser
vice Committee chairman of the
board of directors of the Standard Oil
Company of New JERSEYS the man of
genius who first proposed that the people
east Of the Mississippi be requested, not
required, TO give up the use of their auto
mobiles during series of motorless Sun
days.
This is the fifth Sunday. The notable
record of the last four is guarantee in.
: full of as perfect a performance to-day.
And less because each of the four Sun
days spelled saving of from S,000,0 10
100000 gallons of gasolene for the
fighters than because some one had
gauged absolutely the heart and spirit of
the American people, public curiosity has
been insistent concerning him, and from
every corner of the country has sought to
discover his identity. -....-.
Curiosity Finally Satisfied. -
CGDlt W 81 Nv tIt
thousands, but TIE SUN, which had made
diligent inquiry and tapped all its known
sources of information, was as deeply.
in the dark as any enc else. And on its
editorial page last Wednesday it ackncwl-
edged as well its impotence as its own
eager interest:
We confess to a patriotic curiosity to
know the. name of the person in the ser
vice of the United States Government
who first conceived the idea of making the
call for the motorless Sundays east of the
Mississippi. request and not command
Such great conceptions are usually the r
product OF individual intelligence. The
initiative is not from plural effort. 1t
goes back to some one man g wit, common
sense, foresight and faith in the sound
ness of public opinion. 1t is rarely the
result of formal conference. Its pro-
mitigation may follow a conference on the
subject, but somebody, some individual,
has proposed the plan originally to the
conference which adopts it as the expires
sion of combined wisdom and Joint au-
thority.
This man-fOr we insist that it was
some one man, man of genius-per-
ceIHed that better results could be OBJ
tanned by making the sacrifice and the ser
vice purely voluntary matter, to be en-
forced only by an equally voluntary con-
eensus of unofficial public opinion He
foresaw that the Government had only to
ask and that the entire population CON
cerned would loyalty and joyfully cooper
ate. He knew with the faith that was in
him that the spontaneous sentiment sup
porting the restriction would manifest
itself with potency which all the mar
shals and deputy marshals at the command
Of the Department of Justice could not
exert. And he was right!
This man of genius, whoever he may be,
is a profound psychologist, a clairvoyant
Seer, a practical administrator He has
served HIS country well, because he has
done much more than to accomplish with
out friction, without reaction, the requisite
saving of gasoleRe in the eastern part of
the continent. He has evoked perhaps the
most impressive and instructive demon
stration of the American spirit that has
been witnessed since the war began.
THE SUN would like TO know the name
of this nan of genius.
The sun., 1918-09-29
Mr.. Bedfords Subtle Hand.

On the authority, however, of another
member of the petroleum war service COM
mittee we have the following story and
explanation:
He has the neatest way of making him.
self felt in a meeting of any person /
have ever encountered He is little and
lignt-oniy physically of eourse-and
when he is leading in any gathering or
deliDeration he never suggests for a min
ute that he is running the job. | have
noticed that if all is going well and SEN
sibly he frequently takes no part at all.
As early as last May it became appar-
ent that all the wasted gasolene of the
country would have to be saved and that
a lot that was not really being wasted
would have TO be saved also. We had
food administration already, then, and
fuel administration The Government had
taken over the railroads and the express
companies and was preparing to take over
the telephone and telegraph lines. 1t
looked as though the oil industry would be
the next to come under the thumb of
Uncle Sam and all the oil men were wor-
ried.
Bedford had had the idea that by har-
mony and cooperation among the oil peo-
pie Government control would be made
unnecessary and had been working
hard on this line, travelling all over the
country, comforting with this group and
that and trying TO make it clear to all
hands that the oil industry stood on the
threshold Of great opportunity; the OPP
portunity to demonstrate to the country
that its patriotism and organization were
so perfect that it could be trusted fully
TO conduct itself and do it better than the
Government could do it,
Just a Quiet Suggestion.
"All the independents and big compel
itors of the Standard Oil fell into line
with him, and by last August the organiza-
ton which is now known as the petro-
leum war service committee was an es-
tablished and harmonious affair, and had
been considering the proposal about cut
ting down the use of gasolene for more
than two months. We were all at a meet
ing one day discussing it: --'
1--WE had been all over the history of
coal conservation, and had about decided
that the Government would have to dii
rect series of gasless days, the same as
it had ordered the fuelless days last win
ter. Suddenly Mr.. Bedford, who hadn't
The sun., 1918-09-29
ALFRED COTTON BEDFORD

Americans must have been himself the
one to propose originally that that de-
cency could. be relied on absolutely. To
Mr.. Bedford in due course was conveyed
the intimation that no man could deny
himself in print. He did not deny it, but
he evaded it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-03
BIG MEN FOR BIG THINGS.

Among the many changes brought
about by the war, public sentiment can
hardly wholly escape. AS an evidence
of this, the employment of leaders in
big business to conduct public affairs
connected with the prosecution of the
war is resulting in suggestions that
these men be kept in public service
after the war.
notable instance is the attempt to
draft Henry Ford for service in the
senate Of the United States Follow
ing this Leslie's has suggested Henry
P. Dawson for president. In justifi-
cation of the idea it says:
For big things commend us to big
men. No benevolence connected With
the war is more worthy or makes a
more powerful appeal than the Red
Cross. At first thought 1t would seem
that the government should do this
work, but when one considers the
wonderful efficiency of the orsaniza-
tlon under private management, the
latter seems to be better.
When Henry P. Dawson took
charge of the war work of the Amer
lean Red Cross and proposed that
S1OO.oOO,000 be raised in one week
people stood aghast. Nothing dauntei
ne CdHeu loSetner the nations editors,
its captains of industry. its bankers
and business men, and told them what
, he wanted The drive brought in over
$4,000, 900! The second drive for
the same sum now amounts to $780,
100000. with returns still coming in.
What would be the beneficent re-
| suits to the whole country If man OF
Mr.. Davison's ealiber and business ex-
perience should be elected to the
| White House! There would then be
| no doubt that We would have a ma
tio11al budget as a preliminary to all
| appropriations, that government de-
| partments would be put on business
| basis, saving hundreds of millions OF
| dollars to taxpayers.
| Would it not be an opportune time
| after the war. with its tremendous cos
| burdening the taxpayers, to have g
real. live business man in the white
House?
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failed to see lot of eminent people
I wanted to meet, because I tried to
absorb all the printed information
that confronts and pursues the guest.
The bill OF fare took the most of
my time. According to a hasty cali
culation, I figure that it contains 237
more words than the book of Genesis.
1t is super-explanatory. To get the
diner in the right frame of mind a
full portion of poetry is served with
each plate. One Is informed that the
stewed prune about to be served is
from a noble strain grown especially
in a particular section of California.
L think the name of the one 1 had
was Beatrice.
The trout was fine. It was raised
at an altitude of 1000 feet, swan sew
except three or four little ones in the
time for breakfast, and was caught by
an angler who led an exemplary life.
I finished all the signs on my floor
except thret or four little ones in the
bath room, and I will always be Curl
Gus to know what they were about.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-03

Thru the Swedish government,
which is charged with American in
terests in Turkey, the United States
asked the Turk for an explanation of
the Tabriz incident-in which, the
Tabriz is on Persian soil, an American
hospital and the American consulate
were pillaged by Turkish troops.
Three inquiries CT this sort are said
to have been submitted to the Sui lir1e
Porte; and thus far no reply has come
from whoever it is that heads the
Turkish government just now. Polite
notes of inquiry do not stir the Turk
fish mind. as is well known by those
who have dealings with the Ottoman
government. The possession &C force
and . disposition to use 1t are neces-
Eary to impress him.