The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1920-09-09

Henry Olson made a business trip
to Minneapolis yesterday.
DR.. Swennes and daughter were
down from Wahkon on Tuesday.
Mrs. O. G. Void went to St. Cloud
on Monday and enrolled her daughter
in the St. Cloud business college.
| The Dorcas society will meet with
Mrs. C. A. Jack next Wednesday at
ternoon. A full attendance of men,
bers is requested.
Mrs. S. F. Walker left on Monday
to visit her son, DR.. N. B. Walker, at
Basin, Wyo., and her daughter, Mrs.
Haroldson, at Bowdoin, Mont.
4 A fire started at Fred Scalberg's on
Tuesday evening, but is was extin-
guished by Art Larson in it's incipency
and virtually no damage resulted.
i F. W. Merrill, well-known piano
tuner of Saltwater, will be in Prince
ton the week of September 10. Leave
orders at Ewing's Music store. oslo
Mayor l.. F. johnson and wife Of
Bemidji are visiting relatives and
friends in Princeton and Spencer
Brook. They motored here, coming by
way of st. Cloud, on Tuesday.
S. E. Twigg of the Hibbing Tribune
, called on the Union force this morn
ing. Together with his wife, Mr..
-llTwigg came down to attend Mrs.
r Hartman's funeral. Both formerly
lived in Princeton.
. When the women voters league
n splits up into political clubs -republi-
can and democratic-it would be in or
der for them to have appropriate ban
', ners. Any suggestions as to designs
- for these flags Of freedom?
The quality of potatoes received at
the warehouses is improving as the
: season advances-less green stock is
$ being brought in. While prices have
Ie advanced to $1.95 q $2.05- from 35
to As cents per cwt. above last weeks
n uuotations-receipts are light. Ship
> ments for the week have aggregated
II something like Is cars.
R. L. Pitcher & Co. are now digging
N their second potato field, consisting o.
N Is acres, and Mr.. Sampson tells us tina
,e the average yield per acre bids fail
to be greater than that of the frs
u field, which was IS acres in extern
i and yielded $50 bushels per acre. Ism
- this pretty good for worthless, bot
tomless sand soil" in dry year?
. Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Grow have re
turned to Princeton from Los Angeles
~ where they went last June. Charlie.
looks as if he were glad to get bac]
again, but he didn't say so, in fact h
&c said he liked Los Angeles, but it wa
y. ~ no better than cities in this part of tn
~ country. The frequent earth vibra
tions probably scared him out.
20 J. F. gockoven was down from Isl
~ this week as was also Harry Shockle
- from Milky Way. 'It is pretty lone
:. some up in the Jungle" says Harr.
- 'and were it not for those little pas
ca times of making hay, saving woot
X milking goats and hunting varmints
believe I should go dippy. This sol
Ell of keeps my mind off the good Of
days which have passed away"
sit Weeds? Yes, there are larg
nd patches of them still in evidence an
nm they are very likely to remain in flu
lie enjoyment Of life, tossing their sauc
heads in the breeze and propagatin
RS their species, until the rigors Of viii
go, ter hatten them out. It is surprisin
ay how little pride some people take
.ds the appearance of their premise
Of They should be ashamed Of themselve
There is law providing for the d.
rse struction, under penalty, of noxiol
of weeds.
EN- When the telephone company al
he vanced it's rates many months ae
ay patrons were promised better servic
the corporation contending that e
.ry fcient operators could no longer
cir secured under the wage scale whit
eek then obtained. Since the rate advan'
w. the service has steadily grown wor'
wo until it has reached point where
$. large percentage of the calls you e
,,1 are wrong numbers" Wherein lii
M the remedy? Another advance