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iv.- 'J OFFICERS% S. S. PETTERSON, President. T. H. CALEY, Vice President. G. A. EATON, *L Cashier. A. W. WOODCOCK. ^Fine' 4 4 A PRINCETON, MINNESOTA.- *^JWJ33^SI CITIZENS STATE BANK O PRINCETON, MINNESOTA, (Incorporated.) CAPITAL PAID UP, AUTHORIZED CAPITAL, Are You Thinking of- A Woodcock & Oakes, O MANUFACTURERS Near Depot, Where there is Always a Complete Stock of Lumber, Lath, Shingles, Sash, Doors & Moulding. Which will be Sold at Prices to Suit. $30,000 $100,000 A General Banking Business Transacted. CreamF BrickN AND DEALERS IN WOOD AND LUMBER. (Office and Yards at Woodcock's Spur.) PRINCETON, MINN. BUILDING A HOUS E? Barn, or Wood Shed? Then Go to Reed & Sherwood's ^o^ ^i^ -**Zi Loans Made on Approved Security. Interest Paid on Time Deposits. *K i ^ss^ ^SJS ^i^ ^K ^i^ Foreign and Domestic Exchange. W. P. CHASE Manager. MANUPACTUEERS OF nne&ttardwoodLumber, LATH, SHINGLES, ETC. LOWEST WHOLESALE PRIG On Cars at Foreston or Princeton. 0. W. SWENSON Manager, Foreston, Minn. S^mmmmmmmmmmtmmrammmmmmmfnniij! rE Come in and get our prices on Ground 3 Feed, Corn Meal, Cracked Corn, Middlings 3 g Shorts, Bran, Screenings, Etc. We will 3 E undersell any dealer in this county. Re-3 E member =2 is the best straight flour sold. It received3 f Medal and Diploma at the World's Fair for 3 ST- PURITY STRENGTH and \\:r COLOR. '-'/f,t ,rA^0i i Princeton"Roller Min Co I t$(3 E^S W. OAKES. Yardr R. C. DUNN, Publisher. Terms $1.50 per Tear. \$i%$ PRINCETON, MILLE LACS COUNTY, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, JUNE 25,1896. '^Mf^SB CD O PROFESSIONAL CARDS. TAKBOX, D.^ PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Graduate of Bellevne Hospital Medical College and Randall's Island Hospital. N. Y. City. Surgeon of G. N. & E. R. R. U. S. Pension Examining Board meets every Wednesday at Office over Pioneer Drug Store. Princeton/ V^'f J:* H. Minn. COQNEY, V-"' '"$:ftj*W 0% DOCTOR OF MEDICINE AND SUR- GERY. *^5 U. S. Pension Examining Surgeon*.'"*-""--^ Graduate of the College of Physicians and Sur geons. and Cook Co. Hospital, Chicago. Office Up Stairs in Townjend Block, Opposite Cit izens State Bank. Residence on Second St. Main Street, Princeton. TTVR. Ii SMALL, f-vf.f^i DENTIST. '^,-%'Hi Office Hours: 9 to 13 A 2lo 5"r?M. C'f Office in Townsend Block. Main St. Princeton, Minn. SOUR, D., S., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. i Graduate of Jefferson Medical College, Phila delphia, Pa., and Medical Department of Ham line University, Minneapolis, Minn. German and English spoken. Office at resi dence on Washington ave., next to M. E. church. Princeton, Minn. N. COOK, D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Graduate of Bennett Medical College, Chicago Milaca. Minn. pHAELES KEITH, ATTORNEY AT LAW. No. 3 First Street West. Princeton. Minn /^HAS. A .DICKEY, LAWYER, NOTARY PUBLIC AND CONVEYANCER. Office in Carew Block. Main Street, Princeton, Minn. Ii. BRADY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office on First Street. Main Street. Frinceton. Minn! A.ROSS, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in Carew Block. Main Street, Princeton, MinD. N ROGERS, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Princeton. St. Paul. BUSINESS CARDS. E~ CD 'Ai^OSS^^^^^f^?^* "V*"^'" Dealer in Ready-Hade COFFINS, CASKETS AND BURIAL SUITS. ALSO AGENT FOR D. O. BKRCHER'S MARBLE WORKS. Washington Ave., Princeton, Minn. "P M. CHAPMAN, PRINCETON BARBER SHOP. Main Street, PrlncetoD. A C.SMITH'S OLD RELIABLE MEAT MARKET Is the place to get Choice Fresh and Salt Meals. Ve.deal in the Best and our prices are reasonable. Opposite Starch Factory? Princeton. Minn. A/T SATJSSER, FLOUR AND FEED. A full line of every grade of flour, ground feed, oats, corn, corn meal, buckwheat and baled hay constantly on hand.' One door east of Post Office. First Street, Princeton, Minn. mlBBETTS' HOTEL,, M. A. TIBBETTS, PROP. Good Rooms. Good Beds. First Class Meals. One-Half Block from Depot. Princeton, Minn. Livery Stable, NEELT& CLAGGETT, Prop. Single or double rigs, with or without drivers. Commercial travelers and hunting parties a specialty. Opposite Commercial Hotel, Main Street, Princeton. Saturday is Picture Day! Put on a pleasant expression, be with good humor, then go to %&07Z4/% PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIO N -=aaz^^ And sit for your picture, and you will be pleased with the result. Studio open ever Sat urday only. A NELSON, Artist. P. S. I make duplicates from negatives taken at Princeton by Mr. Rugg. Send in your orders if you want some more. Only $2.00 per dozen. For Sale! THE MONDAY MELEE Inhere Will a Hundred Prima- ries in Minneapolis Next O'Monday Evening, ^V&-' ^--MS*'" i ust to Show'the Country How the lOO Can Punish a Man for Being Governor.'- Special Correspondence to the UNION.' MINNEAPOLIS/June 23,1896.Next lytonday evening is the time, and the 100 or so primaries of the county are the place where the Committee of One fiundred is to punish the State for de feating Washburn and electing Nelson Senator and making Clouglx governor. Watch our smoke. The Republicans of the 80 counties need *iot think that they are going to do such things with out the approval of Hennepin and ^es- cape deserved chastisement. Le the State prepare for the whipping block next Monday evening. General Lovejoy, Van Sant's surveyor general of logs, will sWing a horsewhip on that occa sion, and Col. William Henry Eustis will sv?ipe the 80 counties with a cat-o hine-tails, and he does not mind if Le and Van Sant get a cut or two in the .bargain. Our William Henry was to have^car Hed Sueur county the other day, and also Lyon county those were our strongholds, you know. That unspeak able Clough stole 'em. is mean enough to do a thing of that kind Nelson was that way too. Bu you never see our honorable Minneapolis candidates, like Washburn and Eustis, jdoing a thing of that kind. .$? Th morning Eustis organ is already looking forward to the defeat of Eustis and has prepared the following as the reason: ""There is a concerted and de termined effort on the part of certain [Ambitious Republicans in Minneapolis lisprevencounty.Eustih Main House and" lots for sate on street in Princeton. Apply to HUGH BROWN, Sauk Rapids, Minn. Mr. from carrying own Te "local pride" 'sentiment is to have no sway here. They will give the endorsement of this .county to an outside candidate, or,, fail ing that, to Clough, rather than to a man who has been one of its most loyal and devoted citizens*for 15 years, who has for more than a dozen^ y^aes^ paid into the treasuries of tne* city' jnjtt county more than $5,000 a year in taxes and who has served the people of this city with signal efficiency and honor.' Of course, the real reason is that Eus tis lacks political strength. has other things, but no strength in th primaries. j. J* As"soon as the Winona convention was over, Captain Va Sant came to Minneapolis and secured quarters at the West, where he is now entertain ing* his following. This makes the local member of the Hennepin Al liance, Mr. Eustis, very hot under the collar, and his organ spits out in the following complimentary manner: "Mr. Va Sant, as the Times has re peatedly pointed out, is simply the in strument of a clique of local bosses who have sought from the beginning to pooh-pooh, discredit, be-little and wet blanket Mr. Eustis' campaign." $- $- It appears that the Eustis contin gent wants Van Sant to come and help beat Clough, but get no delegates. The alliance and aid are to be all on one side. Th work is to be Van Sant's and the benefits all for Eustis. But Van Sant acts as though he in tended to get a few delegates himself. It is true, however, that what he gets will come from Eustis, rather than from Clough, forth Clough voters are not electing Van Sant delegates this year. Lee does not seem to be dis posed to get delegates. is the silent partner of the three-cornered combine, and apparently a dead letter. $- If Eustis gets beaten in Hennepin, as in all the other counties,and the case is now pretty sure that wayhe is going to lay the blame on the "100", where much of it undoubtedly belongs: His organ says: "Mr Eustis is given to understand that he must stand aside because he is not the favorite of a few of the Committee of 100, who have de creed that it will suit their purposes better to have,. Clough governor for two years more than to have Eustis governor for a possible four years. If there ever was a combination that de served to be beaten and rebuked, it is this one of the notorious 100one-half of whose members are to-day among the open or covert supporters of Clough."VS&*y,-A ^^JSAFV i The "independent Republican" can didate, Millard" F. Bowen, is holding nightly meetings and making headway toward getting delegates. is steer ing clear of the "100" and the "al- liance", and making his own campaign He is likely to get as many candidates as any of the three members of the combine. 'i i i $- $- $ Va Sant, having carried his own county, Eustis thinks that he too is en titled to his own county, and he is sending out his picture on which he lauds himself as a loyal Minneapolis man and entitled to a* "solid Eustis delegation". Bu "Dave" Clough, who does not belong to any alliance, or "100", or combine, and does not in vite outsiders to come and help carry the county for him, and then turn about and kick them put for attempt ing to getr a delegate or two, also con siders himself entitled to home sup port. Haying been a Minneapolis man longer than Eus'tis and always having more political and business strength, he is showing Eustis and the "100" how politics should be conducted. I is said that a quiet canvass develops the fact that no small" proportion of the 22,000 votes and 13,000 plurality which he polled in Hennepin two years ago are going to the primaries for him again ABSOLUTELY PURE uext Monday evening. YOUR UNCLE JASON. nALL'S ESTIMAT E. His The Gre at Potato Authority Gives Opinion of the '96 Crop. "Murpies to burn" may again be the plaintive cry of the agriculturist at the close of the present season says the Minneapolis Journal. Last year the potato crop of the country was the. largest ever raised and the supply was far in excess of the capacity of the peo* pie to consume. As a consequence the acreage was much reduced this year. With an average yield, the crop would be reduced in proportion, but nowon June 19the indications are that the yield will be so very heavy that, not withstanding the smaller acreage, the total production will, if anything1/gex eeecl the 'tremendous xjrop oyl&95^ Qi course it is" still early. There is a good 60 days before the northern crop will be matured. Bu from every part of the country come such roseate, reports of the conditions, that there is very little ground for expecting that such unfavorable conditions as may exist in certain sections during the next two months, will materially reduce the grand total of the potato crop of 1896. The foregoing is a summary of the opinions of S. H. Hall of this city, who is one of the most extensive potato operators in the country, and perhaps the best posted man on crop conditions everywhere, and though the acreage is reduced, there is prospect of such a heavy yield per acre that the reduced area will count for nothing. I esti mate the acreage in Minnesota as 18 per cent less than last year in Wis consin 12 per cent in western New York 10 ps cent in eastern New York and in New England 20 per cent. In Michigan the acreage is about the same as last year and for the whole country the decrease is from 8 to 10 per cent. Now, with an average yield, say of sixty to one hundred bushels per acre, there would not be an oversupply, but from everywhere we receive word that the crop is enormous again. "One of the interesting features of the situation is the extreme forward ness of the crop. On the average pota toes are at least fifteen days earlier than the average, and some people re port them as four weeks ahead of time. The crop from the south to a line from' 100 to 200 miles north of the Ohio river is already madeit is practically assured. From Kansas, Missouri, Indianapolis, Peoria, Springfield, 111., and Lima, Findlay and Youngstown, Ohio, come reports that they are getting in their own local grown potatoes and that they are a big crop. "Kansas and Arkansas potatoes are flooding the Minneapolis market al ready. 'jWithin the past week there has been a tremendous drop in value all through the upper Mississippi val ley. New potatoes have dropped here within the week from about $1 a bushel to 30 centssomething almost unpre cedentedand the price to-day in Minneapolis is lower than was ever known here before on the same date. A year ago to-day potatoes were worth 90 cents a bushel here. Th shrink age in values of potatoes in the north ern part of the Mississippi valley in the past week will average 30 per cent. "Of course all estimates of the crop must be qualified by the that the critical -time for statement YOLUME XX. NO. 27. Latest S. Gov't Report Powder t. ft. -/^s has notarrivedat least for the north-\'' er.n grown crop.. Should there be a heavy drouth, or too much rain and hot weather during the maturing time, the crop might yet be very much re duced. In this latitude the dangerous time is from July 20 to Aug. 20. By the latter date the crop is generally out of danger." Mr. Hall thinks that the Minnesota crop will be .perhaps five or six million bushels less than last year, when the government crop estimate was 24,000,- 000 bushels. This is about the same percentage of reduction as the acreage in other words, the. yield per acre will be, according to the best information, quite equal to that of last year in this State. Last season the price was, on the average, 12 cents at country points, and where the freight was more than 6 cents per bushel, the potatoes were not marketed. Present conditions do not warrant, in Mr. Hall's opinion, ex pectation of any better prices. There was a large increase in the practice of feeding to stock last fait and-winter, and a very large amount of potatoes were consumed by the starch factories. There are now, in the four northwest ern States, nineteen starch factories. Thirteen of these are in Minnesota, four in Wisconsin and two in North Dakota. Last year they consumed something lifce 2,500,000 bushels of potatoes. Their product was about 5-13 of the total potato starch made in the country. I notice," said Mr. Hall, "that Professor W O. Atwater, in his article on 'Th People's food,' in the Beview ofBeviews, gives the potato a very high place as an article of food. Pound "for pound, it ranks, according to his state ment, ahead of beef, pork and other common foods, and in proportion to price per pound it is one of the cheap est and most valuable of all food 'products. I is interesting to see that with the prospects of a very large crop of potatoes that they are after all one of the best and cheapest articles i food that-the people can get." THECOUNTV MONEY. What the County Received frotn Taxes for Three Month s. The county auditor and treasurer have completed the annual June set tlement, showing the collection of taxes from March 1, to May 31, inclu sive. Th following are the figures: State revenue S1.019 08 One mill school tax 516.25 State university. 97*72 SCHOOL FUNDS. District No. 1 10 11.... 12 13..... 14 15 =46.... 17 18 19 20 towarbde h"a rW L$f COUNTY FUNDS. S County revenue $3,034.08 Costs, interest, etc 2 703 42 Railroad bonds 2^482 58 Court house bonds OT Minneapolis 3fe. S* 4.250.12 208.60 490.87 110.25 48.84 400.51 155.15 49.74 155.29 83.07 300.58 238.16 748.99 270.64 38.73 70.45 55.10 121.73 19.51. 1.81- 1 030 53 Poor fund l'493.09 Roads and bridges 972.801. TOWN FUNDS. Princeton $1,596.98 Bogus Greenbush Miio Milaca Borgholm Robbins South Harbor Isle Harbor 230.35 354.26} 408.36 384.00' -\i 371.67.'~ PMk 92.91 VHH 57.75 \*V 109.81 'Ml "*r andoh potato ably caught in a day two iE|I.S, Total 2-4.778.76.?,l?M Forger and Thief. '."$ ,W. S. Peterson has claimed Cam-~f|| bridge as his residence for some time^ji but just where he hangs his hat now is*CJ* not known. There are several people^? who are anxious to know, though, and^ they will undoubtedly discover his^ whereabouts too. Evans & Herdliska, Irftj-v of this village, and G. W Nesbitt, of f.0^ Cambridge, have taken up the matter^ "from personal motives." Last fall he|l| rented a gun from the .Princeton peo-^i pie but although he has had several months in which to return it he has not done so. Mr. Herdliska and Con stable Newton went after it Tuesday, but the bird had flown. had been selling McCormick harvesters for Nesbitt at so much per sale and seemed to be doing a fine business. But when it came time for the deliveries the orders were found to be forged. Mr. Nesbitt is out a nice roll because he paid cash on receipt of the orders. When last heard of he was moving will prob-