The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1921-02-17
ZIMMERMAN

ZIMMERMAN
About 100 friends and relatives
gathered in the corner store on Satur-
day night for farewell surprise par
ty to Mr.. and Mrs. Milford Jennison,
who left on Tuesday morning for their
home in Elgin, Ore. Progressive five
hundred was in order during the even
ing and Roy Carter won the first
prize while Mrs. Prestige received
the consolation, which upon being
opened proved to be a coiled snake
made of paper. 1t was 80 real an I'M
itation that it caused a panic among
the ladies. The older people enjoyed
old-fashioned square dances and were
as young as the youngest. Later on
the younger set demonstrated the
modern method in dancing. Lillian
Stendahl and Prof. Swails gave read
ings in their usual entertaining way:
Throughout the entire evening there
was one continual round of pleasure,
and it will long be remembered as a
most pleasant occasion. Mr.. and Mrs.
Jennison were presented with some
beautiful silverware as a token of es
TEEN. Those present from out of town
we're Mrs. Fletcher and children, Mrs.
Gertie Prestige, Erving Jennison and
Alice and Jay Spencer of Minneapolis.
Mrs. Alice Jennison accompanied the
Jennisons as far as Minneapolis on the
return trip.
Mrs. Joe Cohoes and Mrs. Spencer
were in Elk River on Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Pratt enter
tanned a number of friends at z
o'clock dinner on Monday evening.
Covers were laid for nine. A pleasant
evening was spent unsteady and So
cially. The Pratts are good enter
tanners.
A bunch of young people from the
M. E. Sunday school had sleighride
party to the Purl Mallory home on
Friday night. Each one went pre-
pared with something good to eat and
a regular feast was had later on. The
evening was pleasantly spent in play
ing games and a general good time
was had.
Norman Heck of Minneapolis was
Sunday guest of relatives here.
Mrs. E. H. Foley and Mrs. G.. D.
Kaliher of Elk River were callers in
town Sunday.
Miss Nyquist, the county nurse,
finished her work here on Friday, and
returned to Elk River.
Russell Benson returned from Big
Lake on Saturday, evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Hanson spent Sum-
day at. the Joe Smith home.
Ed. Hanson went to St. Paul on
Tuesday morning to attend the hard
ware convention. .. --
The snow fall early in the week
paved the way for numerous sleigh
ride parties On Thursday night a
bunch of high school students sleighed
out to Crown to spend the evening at
the Chas. Tiff home. They were a
merry bunch and. by the amount of
noise, all were enjoying the occasion.
Many games were played during the
course of the evening that kept the
crowd in continual uproar. A boun-
teous lunch was served the guests. All
united in saying one of the best times
Of their lives had been had. The lifts
always enjoy crowd. .~~r
. J. r. Winton Peterson and Ethel
Nash attended the auto show on Satur-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Bergquist
and mother autoed up from Lake Min
nctonka on Saturday to get Esther
Bergquist, who is ill with inflamma-
tory rheumatism.
Mrs. Anton Hanson was on the sick
list last week.
The Nash family spent Sunday at
the Costen Bell home in Meadowvale.
Friday evening about dozen young
people took a sleigh ride to the Harry
Nicholson home on Maple Grove
farm. Lew Stendahl furnished the
rig and, by the time all were piled on,
it comprised as jolly a crowd as ever
started forth. The sleighbells jingled
mcrrily, irterspersed with the louder
tone of cow bells, and all went we'll un-
til about two miles from town when,
either Intentionally or accidentally,
that rack began to tip and a general
spilling was the result. No serious
mishaps occurred and amid much
shouting the crowd arrived in good
season. The evening was spent in
popping corn and having taffy pull,
the latter, as usual, making everyone
rather stuckup. One thing was plain
ly evident-some Of the gentlemen are
not very we'll versed in the art of
candy pulling. For some reason they