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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-06-26

Why They Print Prize Fight Reports.
It should be stated in justice to the
editors of American newspapers that
they don't print all this tiresomeness
from Toledo because they are interest
ed in prize fights. They know that
the fight is moneygrabbing hippo
drome, and that it's promoters expect
to make an independent fortune by
quilting the public. The newspapers
are not part of the confidence game.
They receive no share of the profits.
They are merely the victims. They
print the gossip about the pugilists
because the BARRIERS seem to have
agreed upon pugilism as the standard
subject of conversation with their pa
irons. Every newspaper is expected
to help keep alive the fiction that q
prize fight is real and important
event. If every man who is bored by
this incessant talk about mercenary
and crooked pugilists would have tn
courage to say so to his barber ant
to his newspaper it might be possible
to bring about return to sanity il
such Nebraska State Jour
nal. x
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-06-26

leigh home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Hall and fam
ily called at the Oliver Dibblee and
Everett Hall homes on Monday even
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Sleeves and
son called at Edward Halls on Tues.
day.
! johnson Hyndman, Mrs. John Hynd
man and two grandsons, and Mr.. ant
Mrs. Frank Smith were Sunday even
ing visitors at the Everett Hall home
Charley Gates spent Sunday after
noon with Marshall Hall.
The last meeting Of Wyanett aux
iliary No. 10 of the. Red Cross wa!
with Mrs. Lewis Palm. There wa
good attendance Of members and al
report a most enjoyable time. A fin
lunch was served. The next meeting
will be with Mrs. Grace Tomlinson.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-06-26
OXBOW

Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Sleeves and
daughter spent Sunday at Charley
Roadstrom's.
Miss Beulah Sleeves is visiting at
the Oliver Dibblee home.
Mr.. and Mrs Herb Gates and family
spent last Wednesday evening at the
C. Borcher home.
Oliver Dibblee is busy with his
strawberry crop.
Carl Bengtsen spent last evening
at the Edward Hall home.
A few from here attended the far
mers' picnic in Princeton.
Mrs. Grace Tomlinson and Miss Ell
la Whitcomb spent last Friday even
ing at the Oliver Dibblee home.
Ernest Grapentine spent Saturday
evening with Marshall Hall.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Annis and fam.
lily were Sunday guests at the Bull.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-06-26
Lincoln and the Farmer.

ut was during the dark days of
1861" said Schuyler Colfax, ION the
evening of public reception given at
the white house. The foreign lega-
tions were there, and young English
nobleman was just being presented to
the president. Inside the door, evil
IDENTIFY overawed by the splendid as
semblage, was an honest faced o.
farmer, who shrank from the passing
crowd until he and the plain faced old
lady clinging to his arm were pressed
back to the wall.
"The president, tall enough to lool
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-06-26
The Increased Telephone Rates.
Anent the situation the St. Paul D.

AnenC the SITUATION the ST. raul LIS
patch has this to say:
"People are becoming case-hard-
ened to high prices. Where they are
unable to see the logic or the neces-
sity of an advance, they do see the
inevitablity and incline themselves to
let it go at that. But what they do
see and what they will insist more
than ever upon having is value re-
ceived. That is a thought which the
Dispatch would like to leave with the
telephone concern. The public may
make no great protest to the adj
vanced service cost and will make none
if it feels it warranted by conditions.
But it will demand the service for
what it pays and it is entitled to it
Recent service has been execrable; the
company admits it, but has an alibi
The alibi will disappear with the ad.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-06-26

into the hands of the owners before
July 81, house and senate conferees
indicated today.
Agreement has been reached on the
house provisions that the lines shall
go back at the end of the calendar
month in which the act is approved.
Telephone companies under the
terms of the bill are given four months
to lower rates in agreement with state
and local utility commissions.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-06-26

For the last few years nearly every
thing we have heard about has been
more or less military in character. Un-
! der ordinary circumstances a ladies'
band would be a novelty, but ladies'
military band must be the very last
word in novelty, and it is reported that
is what we are going to have in Chau-
tauqua this summer. w. NJ. Ewing,
+ one Of the most successful band lead
ers in the country, has been noted for
being right up to the last minute when
it comes to band costumes and band
programs, and this band is one of Ew-
ing's productions. In fact he has been
working on 1t for several years, and
these expert lady musicians are said
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-06-26
ISLE

Miss Vera Mattson came down from
Superior on Tuesday morning for a
short visit at home.
Fred Kaerwer autoed up from st.
Cloud last Saturday. He returned
home on Sunday.
Miss Minnie Irland is now employed
at the e. Sandstrom home.
Chester Haggberg returned home
from st. Cloud last Saturday.
The Isle Civic club met with Mrs
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-06-26
Clarence Carlson on Wednesday,

Clarence Carlson on Wednesday,
June rs.
Quite number from our village at
tended the ice cream social and sale
at Redtop last Friday evening.
Miss Helen Enroth arrived home
from Duluth on Tuesday, where she
has been attending school the past
year.
Rev. Larson from Opstead h
English services at the school h5ua~
last Sunday evening.
Miss Theda Sparks of Redtop was
| in town last Tuesday.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-06-26

vanced cost and the abominable quail
ty of service must disappear with it.
Present prices are unreasonable for
the present service and advanced
prices will be uncomfortable unless they
bring with them a corresponding i'm
provement of service"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-06-26

to put on a program that is not only
unique but Of thorough artistic merit.
The personnel of the band has been
recruited from the best artists avail
able in all parts of the country, and
the result is really remarkable ag-
gregation Of talent.
In order to make possible some spe-
cial feature numbers on the program
Miss Alma Huntley, the well-known
soprano, has been secured to accom-
pany the band as soprano soloist. Miss
Huntley has been soloist in some of
the best-known bands in the country
in recent years, and her presence will
add greatly to the strength and variety
of the program. #,..-.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-06-26

Return 6f Wires July 81.
Washington, June %. photographic
and telephone lines will not go back
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1919-06-26
LOCAL MARKET QUOTATIONS.

The quotations hereunder are those
prevailing on Thursday morning at tie
tine of going to press:
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1919-02-19

The State Highway Commissioners
were in sDes Moines last Thursday
with their engineer, Thos. Mac Donald,
to file their report for the past year
with the governor, as required by law.
The writer saw the report and can
say that every item and detail of the
commissions work TO rthe year is set
out in plain figures and will be pub
lished so that there need be no false
stories started and carried that the
commission is not making full ac-
counting. incidentally, the commits
sioners were feeling rather upset be-
cause Engineer Macdonald is likely
to leave the state, being offered a po-
sition by the secretary Of agriculture
at Washington as chief of the high
way department of the United States
at a salary to be named by himself.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1919-02-19
THE MOST IMPORTANT CONTRACT
EVER WRITTEN.

President Wilson has earned the
gratitude of his fellowmen in every
land for successfully plotting con-
tract, to its present advanced stage,
that is the hope of the world. In the
language of the poet, humanity with
all its fears and all it's hopes of future
years breathlessly awaited the result
Of his endeavors. Envious foes at
home and timid, selfish interests
abroad did all that they could to dis
credit his work. But the God of ma
lions as we'll as of men seems to have
been on his side. Humanity can now
confidently hope that the Judge OF
Judges has decreed that there shall
be an end to all wars, and that this
Constitution of the World shall be the
effective means in the bringing about
of that result.
The twenty-six articles are, of
course, in their present abbreviated
form, little more than the skeleton of
the completed instrument, But the
skeleton will hereafter be surround
ed by flesh and life blood and adorned
by appropriate clothing, and when
completed it will make this old world
q better place for the abode of man.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1919-02-19
JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL
CROWDER.

The President has re-appointed
Judge Advocate General Crowder for
another four year term, and his ap-
pointment has been confirmed by the
Senate in record breaking time
The raising of our vast army was
placed by the President in the hands
of General Crowder, who, as chief of
the law department of the army, call
ed upon the lawyers of America to
aid him in the enforcement of the
draft in manner that would assure
the legal rights of all the people.
The legal profession responded to
General Crowder's call, and without
compensation gave their services and
their devotion to the work. They
with the exemption board, and with
other public officials, did much to
make the draft law greater success
than its most ardent supporters had
hoped for when it was first enacted.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1919-02-19
Less Bills Introduced.

1t is apparent now that less bills
will be introduced at this session than
two or four years ago, by long odds.
The Senate is going slow with only
about 200 bills in, and the House is
running below $50 at this time. The
session is half gone and the time for
Introduction of bills will end about
March 18th, with one weeks vacation
coming out of the month at that Last
session saw about 1900 bills intro
duced in both houses. = And yet the
record of billsapssseds may be greatly
in favor of the present session, as
most Of the work of the Senate in the
last General Assembly was swept up
in the House waste basket after ad-
journment owing to the continual
fight and bitterness over the road
question then dominating everything.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1919-02-19
ACTIVITIES OF THE
STATE LEGISLATURE
Continued from page one.)

to II, after three hours consideration
and an interesting debate on the pro-
visions of the bill and the various
amendments offered before and DUR
ing it's passage. That the bill is not
all that was hoped for must be con-
ceded, and to our mind some of the
amendments tackled onto it are vi
cious and undesirable. House mem
bers say they will "fix it up" when
they get at it over there.
The new primary bill repeats all of
the old general primary law and en-
acts most of it as new proposition
governing the selection Of township
and county delegates and the nomina-
ton of county and state officers.
First, it takes from the primary bal
lot all candidates for state offices
below that of lieutenant governor,
leaving also on the ballot all candi-
dates for congress, state senators and
representatives. The state auditor,
secretary of state, state treasurer, SUI
perintendent of public instruction and
the railroad commissioners will, if the
bill goes through the lower house and
becomes law, be nominated hereaft-
err at state conventions in the old
way. The delegates to the county and
state conventions will be named at
the county conventions following the
primary within two weeks.
Some members feel that bad
amendment got by in the passage of
the Senate primary bill when the ad-
mission of proxies was voted in. I'm
der this amendment delegates elect
ed to county and state conventions,
if they find they cannot attend, may
be represented by proxies at conven-
tons. The old law prohibiting prox-
les absolutely, but gave the delegates
present at any convention the right
to vote their county's full quota.
Some of the senators opposed the
change of railroad commissioners
from the primaries to state conven-
ton. Others favored this change as
being more representative than under
the primary law. Others favored wip-
ing all primary laws off the books.
and some say they will favor the
House bill by Mayne of Emmetsburg
if that bill comes over abolishing the
primary law entirely. But it is con-
coded the Mayne bill will hardly live
to get across to the Senate though
many representatives favor it.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1919-02-19
SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS NOT IN
THE SADDLE.

The Southern states have kept
their Senators and representatives in
office longer, as a rule, than the
states of the North and the West; and
under the seniority rule, that has CIV
en- the South an advantage in secur-
ing committee chairmanships. The
man who has served longest on a
committee becomes chairman under
that rule regardless of his qualifica-
lions for the position. While the SEN
iority rule, which republicans as we'll
as democrats have recognized for
many years, has given the South more
than it's share Of committee chairmen
in the present Congress, the Demo-
Gratis did not give the South control
of any of the Senates important COM
mittees. The West rather than the
South is in the saddle at the present
time. While Smith of South Carolina
is in charge of the all important COM
mittees on railroads and telegraphs,
what can he do with committee COM
posed of the following members:
VI lO"d, ACWAS " AiAAAAoAo'
Watson of Indiana, Pomerene of Ohio,
kellogg of Minnesota, La Toilette of
wisconsin, Norris of Nebraska, Poin-
dexter Of Washington the west
overwhelmingly in control!
Take another illustration, the great
committee on foreign relations:
Hitchcock of Nebraska is the head.
With him are Pomerene of Ohio;
Smith, Arizona; Salisbury, Delaware;
Pittman, Nevada; Thomas, Colorado;
Lodge, Massachusetts,; Smith, Michi-
gan; McCumber, North Dakota; Borah,
Idaho; Fall, New Mexico; Knox,
Pennsylvania; Brandegee, Connect
cut; Williams, Mississippi; Swanson,
Virginia; Robinson, Arkansas, and
Shields, of Tennessee. How small a
part the South plays in these over
shadowing committees! Four out Of
twenty for the south!
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1919-02-19
WILSON WINS OVER CLEMENCEAU.

The French goernment was opposed
to League of Nations and in favor of
a balance of power agreement, but the
common people of France gave Gle
menceau to understand that they ia
vored President Wilson's plan. And
the voice of the people prevailed, and
the French delegate signed the Consti-
tuition of the League of Nations, which
was read by President Wilson to the
Peace Conference
William Allen White, who never
voted for Wilson, describes how the
result was accomplished in the fol-
lowing cablegram from Paris:
Nothing that President Wilson has
said to the elder statesman has con-
WINGED them that they were wrong.
but what he has said to the people
of Europe and the way the people of
Europe have received what he has
said, has convinced the elder states
men that if they do not give Europe
a League of Nations revolution in
Europe will follow the war"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1919-02-19

According to the estimates of the
United States Treasury, the money in
circulation in this country on the LIST
of the present year amounted in the
aggregate to ,90S, or $55.23
per capita, estimating the population
of the country at 106,731 900. In 1896,
when the circulation was less than $40
per capita the prices of all commodi-
ties were very low, because the guam
titative theory of money has few ex-
ceptions. If the per capita of money
in circulation should be reduced one
half prices would fall one-half.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1919-02-19

Mrs. Julia Ricketts, and little grand
daughter of Dubuque have been spend
ing the week with Mrs. wv. J.2Kirk-
wood. ,~- : = y,tg,
Mrs. David Smith has been quite ill
the past week. Mrs. Garwin is caring
for her.
Mrs. Hanna Barnes has returned
from Marcus, where she went several
weeks ago to care for her sons fam
lily who were i'll with influenza.
Miss Opal Rowley has returned to
open her millinery shop and get things
in order for the opening.
Mrs. Ida Andrews of Sebeka, Mimi,
is visiting her mother, Mrs, c. M. Dun
lap.
Mrs F. M. Wheeless is at Dundee
helping to care for Mr.. and Mrs. G.
L. Wilson, who are i'll with influenza.
Miss Clara Byam returned from
South Dakota, on Friday. She was &C
companied by her sister, Mrs. Della
Barker, who soon after her arrival
here was recalled by telegram an
nouncing the illness Of her husband.
She left the same day for her home in
YanktOn, S. d.
Editor w. S. Beetles and wife attend
ed the annual meeting of the Iowa
State Press Association at Des Moines
last Friday and Saturday.
Rev. w. G. Rowley, pastor of the
Methodist church, and A. G. Martin
are attending the Centenary Conven-
ton in Omaha this week.
Mrs C. B. Mexican of Monticello was
a guest of Mrs. Ermina Dunlap Friday
evening.
The Eastern Star had a picnic sup
per at their rooms last Friday even
ing:
Next Thursday afternoon from 3:15
to 3:45 the high school will give a
short program in the assembly room.
The program is under the direction of
Miss Lane.
Mrs. Ella Lux returned home from
Illinois Monday, where she has been
for the past year. She had an auc-
ton sale Saturday and disposed OF
all her household goods as she does
not expect to remain here.
The High school basket ball team
went to Springville Friday evening for
a game which they lost by just one
point.
Mrs. Kitty Sutherland of Monticel-
10 visited Mrs. W. S. Johnson this
week.
Mrs. Aylo Dunlap left recently to
join her mother in Florida
Last Friday evening a picnic sup
per was given in the parlors OF the
Presbyterian church and afterward a
program prepared by the New Era
and Jubilee Committee was given.
Prof Burton r. Lockwood. educa-
tor, orator, and humorist, will address
a patriotic rally on Protecting the
Home Lines" at the gymnasium Feb
ruary goth. Admission is free but
collection will be taken. Children
must be accompanied by their parents.
The lecture will be illustrated by 80
lantern slides and motion picture on
war activities and the liquor problem.
F. E. Morrison arrived Monday
from the Great Lakes train
ing station, having been discharged
from the navy. Mrs. Morrison and ba-
by have been at the home of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. d. LeClere, dur
ing his absence.
Mrs. l.. B. Cummings went to Cog
gon Monday to attend the golden we'd
ding anniversary of old friends.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1919-02-19
HOPKINTON.o

Mrs. Julia Ricketts, and little grand
daughter Of Dubuque have been spend
ing the week with Mrs. wv. J.Kirk-
wood, ,yt
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1919-02-19
LEAGUE OF NATIONS AN ACCOM-.
PLISHED FACT.

Last. Friday President Wilson was
accorded the honor of presenting to
the Peace Conference the Constitu-
ton of the World League, which had
been unanimously agreed upon by the
commission charged with the duty of
drafting it.
Il have very, great pleasure" said
President Wilson, as he began, lin
presenting the report of the commits
sion which has framed the constitu-
ton Of league of nations. l am par
ticularly happy to be able to say it is
. unanimous report signed by the rep
resentatives Of all the powers on the
committee"
After reading the Constitution, which
consists of preamble and 26 articles,
the President spoke at some length
and the following are some of the
points which he made:
The results embodied the Judgment
of fourteen nations, represented on the
commission, and these fourteen ma
lions were representative group of
the conference itself.
This is union of will in a COM
mon purpose" the President proceed
ed. 1T is al union which can not be
resisted, and, dare say, one which no
nation will attempt to resist"
The President pointed out that the
document was no 'straightjacket." 1t
was elastic, yet definite, and not a
vehicle of might, he said. 1t was yet
to be developed, and as yet care should
be taken as to the clothes put on it,
at is definite" continued President
Wilson, "as a guarantee of peace and
as a guarantee against aggression. 1t
is definite against a renewal of such
a cataclysm as has just shaken civili-
cation"
And So" he said, while this is
practical document, it is above all
human document 1t is practical, and
at the same time it is designed to pur-
ify, to rectify, to elevate"
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1919-02-19
Putting Circle On Ballot

The Kimball election bill came up
in the senate on Friday as special
order of business and proved more
than that body could handle in fore
noon, going over to afternoon in or
der to permit special committee to
fix it up a little, and then passing by
large majority.
This bill provides for replacing the
circle on the election ballot at gener-
al elections, SO that voter may make
a cross mark in the circle at the head
of his party ticket and thus vote for
all the candidates on that ticket with
out further marking. 1t provides in
addition that the voter may make a
cross mark in the squares on his own
party ticket or on any other ticket
and his vote will count for the candi-
dates for whom he so marks. The
bill has numerous other provisions
and regulations in it, prescribing
among other things that the names of
presidential electors may be left off
the ballot and the names of presiden-
tial candidates printed thereon, thus
allowing the voter to mark for his
presidential choice direct and instruct
ing the party electors to cast the vote
of the state as majority so express
themselves. An amendment to strike
the circle provision out of the bill was
voted down.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1919-02-19
MIR. LLOYD GEORGES CHALLENGE
New York Worldly

In words that cannot be miscon-
strued or misunderstood, Prime Minis
ter Lloyd George thus referred in the
House of Commons to domestic prob
lens which in one form or another
confront every other country:
say in all solemnity on behalf
of the Governments that we are
determined to fight Prussianism :,
in the industrial world exactly as
we fought it on the Continent of
Europe. = No section of
the community, however powerful
shall be allowed to hold up the
whole nation.
This warning was not addressed to
well-disposed labor. 1t was meant to
reach the inner consciousness of pub
lie enemies and their misguided fol-
lowers. In Great Britain, as else
where, violent men have seized upon
the present delicate situation when po-
litical, Industrial and social conditions
throughout the world are in process Of
readjustment, to stir up strife and by
naturalization and force gain ends ir-
respective Of reason and right.
Z The military rehabilitation of Rus
STA is not Immediately possible, but II
missionaries Of revolt and revolution
can wreck the Industries of the world
and paralyze government, commerce
and credit they will make the victory
of their enemies as costly to them as
a German triumph would have been
This is the Prussianism which Mr..
Lloyd George challenges, and he does
it boldly as one of faith in his cause
and not yet war-weary.