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0 Land Agent. (tvtwvwwwiw Established 1892 Incorporated 1897 Retail orders solicited and promptly delivered in thet village Exchange work solicited W. P. CHASE, flanager. CITIZENS STATE BANK. (INCORPORATED) OF PRINCETON, fllNNESOTA. Paid Up Capital Surplus, change #*^^*^*^^^***^MMMM^* E. HARK LIVE STOCK COHPANY $30,000 5.000 A General Banking Business Transacted Loans Made on Approved Se curity- Interest Paid on Time De posits Foreign and Domest)c Ex S. S. PETTERSON, Pres. T. H. CALEY, Vice*Pres. Q. A. EATON, Cashier. BANK OF PRINCETON. I "3f J. J. SKAHEN, Cashier and Manager. 4 -J! $ Does a General Banking Business. Collecting and Farm and j 2 Insurance. Village Loans. 5 Railroad Lands Fine Hardwood Lands, Meadows and Open Lands, at Low Prices and on Easy Terms, for sale by (S The Great Northern and 4? kp St. Paul &. Duluth Railroad Companies. 49 wZ For Maps, Prices, and any other information, write to M. S. RUTHERFORD, SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS3SSSS& Princeton, Minn. HOLDS REGULAR i flUCTIOIJ S^LES 4F PRINCETON ON THE FIRST SATURDAY OF EACH MONTH. Fifty Good Young Horses and Mules Constantly on Hand. Private Sales Daily. Time Given on Approved Paper. I E. MARK, Auctioneer. PRINCETO N ROLLE MIL Wheat Flour COMPAN rf***rf**rf'V**Wfc*)L***fe**fe'Wtn0tea*a*4*rfVw Rye Flour, Buckwneat Flour, Ground Feed, Etc. Foley Bean Lumber Company Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in White Pine Lumber, Lath and Shingles. Also Sash, Doors, Mouldings and a Com* plete Stock of Building Material. Princeton PRINCETON. R. C. DUNN, Publisher. Terms $1.00 per Tear. PMNCETOH, MIME L4.C8 COUNTY, MIKSESOTA, THtTBSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1901. CROCKERY I have just received a large consignment of Crockery, both plain and decorated, which is being sold at re markably low prices. The decorated ware comprises several choice patterns and is being sold almost as cheap as the plain. Come in and see it. We will be glad to show it to you. 4- John N. Berg.{ Princeton, Minn. I would like to talk to you about your Fall Suit or Overcoat. Call and get prices and see what I can do for you. Sam J. Fryhling, TAILOR. JS?" Next dooi to Keith &. Rmes office $ I am ready to take orders for Fall Suits and Overcoats. Come in and see the goods and get prices. E. ENGSELL, Tailor. Upstairs over W Pierson store 4+- Teet Examinations and Dr. C. F. Walter Dentist. A Plates i Gold and Porcelain Crowns. Teeth extracted without pain by use of Vitalized Air, Call and have your teeth ex amined free of charge. Appoint ments may be made by telephone call 55. In Princeton 11st to 20th SS Office in Chapman Building. In Cambridge 121 to 28th, SSJ1 Office over I Qouldberg & Anderson's store, I M7 SCHOO BEL RINGS.almosn Princeton School Children Qbey Its Summons and Renew Acquaint- ance With Teachers. An Increased Attendance Over Last YearSome New Teachers in the School Rooms. LIKES MI1XE LACS. A Minneapolis Man Pleased With the Big Lake. A T. Ankeny recently visited this section, and in a communication to the Minneapolis Journal, has the following to say of it- I had occasion lately to visit the re gion lying about Mille Lacs. I was then deeply impressed with the abso lute necessity of our having a connec tion between Minneapolis and that lake The Great Northern now runs to Milaca, a distance of sixty-four miles,. and with an extension of about twenty five miles we would be brought within a 2T hours' ride of what in my judgment would soon come to be one of the most noted summer resorts in the northwest. Lake Mille Lacs has an interesting history. It was at this point the two French explorers came in about 1658, more than twenty years before Father Hennepin discovered the Falls of St. Anthony. It was called by them Lake Buade, but the Indian name, signifying "much water," has fortunately been retained. It was here that the Sioux and Chippewas long contested with each other the possession of the valua ble shores. So fervent were the desi criptions sent back to the French ceded it to England, and in the revolu- even though time is short. tion our fathers mother country wrested it 14 from the water. It has a Quite regular and circular form, being about sev entee miles long by about fifteen miles wide. Its shores have a gradual slope and its sands are those of the ocean beach. As one looks out upon its broad expanse several islands, prob ably of volcanic creation, are distinctly seen. Except for the scattered settlers along the shore, and the 500 or 600 re maining Indians, the lake itself appears almost as "primitive" as it did to the explorers 250 years ago. A lumber company has on it a steam tug to tow logs to the outlet at Rum river, and a small steam launch carries the occa sional visitor from shore to shore. Numerous rowboats used in fishing are also there Now arises the query, why so desira ble a resort, right at our doors, should be so allowed to he With the golden rod comes the school rodthat would be what young Amer ica would say if he wasn't feeling just in the proper spirits, and disliked to wash his feet, polish up the stone bruises and encase them in a pair of boots or shoes But the average Princeton lad cares little for the gol den rod or the school rod, for while Nature has not aband?ned the rod, the stretching far away to the Pacific slope of hunting parties, who commenced schoolmaster and sChoolma'am have to an alarming extent. It was a happy lot of school children that wended their way to school on Monday, to see their teachers and get back into the harness again. There was little work done on Monday, other than to enroll the scholars and get them properly graded and ready for work Among the teachers there are sev eral new faces this year there being five new teachers to take positions in Princeton schools this year. The rostei is as follows. Pro' E. White, superintendent, Miss Mary Harmon, principal and first assistant: Miss Helen Moody, second assistant, Miss Ida King, eighth grade Miss Florence Ketcham, sev enth grade, Miss May Larkm, fifth and sixth grades: Miss Maud Murdock, fourth grade, and principal of grade building. Miss Mattie Calev, third grade, Miss Zilla Davis, first and sec ond grades Miss Alice Jones, kinder garten Miss Florence Davis will teach at the brick yard school. Miss Harmon, who has taught in the Princeton school for several terms, and who has become very popular as an instructor, will sever her connec tion with her school work here in a week or so, because of the removal of her parents from Minneapolis to Cali fornia fo^ 4be health of Miss Harmon's sister Miss Patterson, of Alden,j5,.* will succeed Miss Harmon in school wotk here Miss Moody, who had the eighth grade last year, becomes second assis tant, and will have high school work solely Miss Ida King is advanced from seventh to eighth grade work Miss Florence Ketcham, who will ha\e seventh grade work, is from Minne apolis, and Miss Larkin who has the fifth and sixth grades is from Southern Minnesota. Miss Murdock has the same position as last year Miss Mat tie Caley is from Minneapolis, while Miss Zilla Davis is from Milaca Miss Alice Jones who takes up Kindergar ten work this year is a Princeton girl, ha\ ing taught at the brick yard and other schools in this vicinity. The attendance this term shows an' increase over that of a year ago, the total enrollmenc in the Princeton schools being 375. It is gratifying to note the increased attendance in the high school proper, the classes in the higher grades and studies being con siderably larger than last year. 3 There is but one answer. The railroads have been and paying no attention to the develop ment of our State. The time has come when "the community of interest"' be tween them and our citizens demands that special attention be given to home development. The region lying about the lake, particularly that lying in Mille Lacs, Benton and Morrison coun ties, is by nature one of the richest in Minnesota. Indeed, all that country stretching from the St. Croix to the Mississippi and beyond is now coming to be found capable of the very highest production. Gradually the settlements have extended back from the railroad centers a distance of ten, fifteen and twenty miles Until a short time ago, much of the territory belonged to the railwaj companies by grant. It first began to pass into lar^e companies, then into smaller ones, and then into the hands of actual farmers. Probably more than a million acres of these lands have so changed hands within the past one or two years. The soil is "aid to be of the richest. The water is of the purest, and, singu larly, drouth is unknown. It is the stockman's paradise. All over the re gion stock-farms are now being opened up, many of them by Iowa farmers who have sold there at from $50 to $100 an acre to buy here at from $5 to $10. I visited the stock farm of Col. George F. Thompsom, of Minneapolis. It con tains 3/200 acres in the'Rum river val ley There herds of shorthorns fairly revelled in the rich pastures and in blue grass higher than a man's head. Samples of this were brought down which measured 6 feet 10 inches Also corn 10 feet 3 inches, wild raspberry 8 feet 6 inches A red clover stalk meas ured 3 feet 8 inches, and twenty-seven shoots were found to be growing from one seed If these figures are doubted the specimens may be seen at Mr. Trask's office in the Kasota block. Elsewhere I saw wheat and timothy 4 feet 6 inches, and oats 4 feet 2 inches. Nelson Brothers, of Minneapolis, have a similar stock farm of about 2,500 acres. A dozen others could be named. I think I may safely say that in what may be termed the central Minnesota region hundreds of thousands of tons of the most nutricious grasses are to-day going to wase. Their value in our market would run into the millions. Now, what is needed? First, a rail road connection from Milaca to Lake Mille Lacs. Next, a short connection from there to Brainerd. This would give us a connection with the Interna tional, now heading for the boundry line. It would also give us another direct connection with Crookston and the Red river valley, certainly desira ble. Then from the lake there should be a connection on the east side with the Eastern Minnesota at Swan river. This would give us direct communica tion with the vast iron regions. By a line of seventy-five miles we would cut off over 200 miles now run by way of Duluth. Our merchants could then compete with Chicago through Duluth. Every consideration, both for the de velopment of our State and the com mercial interests of our city, demands that this situation be further explored. With Lake Mille Lacs opened up as a summer resort, and this vast region made readily tributary to Minneapolis, the results would be beyond all conjec ture. I commend it all to our Commer cial Club. THE COUNTY FAIR. Meeting at the Tillage Hall Saturday Night to Discuss Plans. The business men of Princeton have decided to take up the county fair matter and try and make arrangements to hold the fair. There has been con siderable agitation of the questiondur ing the past week ._ and a meeting has *wd rulers that all the territory east of the been called for next Saturday night at vicinity of Santiago, and there Mississippi was ever after regarded as the village hall to take up the matter -and valuable. In 1763 France, by treaty, in a vigorous manner and hold a fair, The movement is a good one, and the UNION hopes to see everyone put j. ^tfp *\r IT -.*.jwuv, TM iBwiuuuuui bus outw UUrU Ol UVtklbU The lake itself'is a magnificent sheet shoulder to the wheel and not let our is the proper thing to do under theC fair become a thing of the past. VOLUME XXY. NO. 39. CffiCKENJIARVEST. Princeton Nimrods Break Away to the Coveys for the Succulent Bird. Some Records of Sunday's Harvest as Told by Princeton Shots. As the clock struck twelve Saturday night the Minnesota prairie chicken lost the protection of the vigilant game warden who has been guarding to the best of his ability the much sought and coveted bird, and the sportsmen with hunting paraphernalia and dogs had the field to themselves. Princeton sent out a large number the onslaught on the chicken family at early dawn and staid with the game until late at night. There was the usual hustle to get at the charmed coveys, and it was not long before Mrs. Chicken and family were a little bit nervous and gave the hunters plenty of chasing. But the dogs were sure spotters and as a rule most of the hunt ing parties returned with game. The Bullis Soule Caswell Staples combination headed for the coveys and when the sun went down had 24 birds to their credit. Wm. Cordiner and party fell in with them late in the day and put 17 chickens in the bag. Abe Orr and party returned claiming 25 birds, which Abe says were as hard to hit as a good live Boer. T. H. Caley, Dr Guy Caley, Jim Hartman and others were early in tl^ field and succeeded in killing 10 chick ens. Chris Neumann and Frank Stadden report having had good luck and claim to have depopulated the fields to the extent of 25 chickens. Ev. Southard and party found good fields and as a horseman would say their luck was "around 25." Register of Deeds Chapman, C. Herdliska, et ai., were among the hunting hosts who created consterna tion on the fields and they claim to have shot 17 birds. C. A. Jack was seen covering cdyeys during the day and succeeded in re turning with considerable more than a taste at least. Judge Keith and party were among the successful ones, coming home with over a dozen. Dr. Small and Mike Kahher were frank in saying the chickens were a trifle modest, but a few foolish birds forgot to seek safety and came home in the bag. Dune McCuaig was also one of the "sooners" and claims to have got his share. Steve Palmer folded up the wall pa per and with gun and dog took to the fields. He pasted a pair and could have done better had the birds been more sociable. Attorney Dickey, M. S. Rutherford and Wm. Neely were among the hunt ing parties and they returned with a modest haul. Wm. Geckler and Magnus Sjoblom were with a party that ^brought home 23 chickens. Messrs. Evens, Newton, Mitchell, and others made up a party and went out Saturday night, returning Monday noon with 30 chickens. A hunting party composed of Banker Petterson and a party of friends were out Monday and came in with 20 chick ens to their credit. COMPULSORY VACCINATION. The School Board to Compel all Scholars to be Vaccinated. The Princeton school board intends to enforce the rules and resolutions of the State board of health regarding the vaccination of all school children. At a meeting of the State board of health August 9th the board declared that smallpox was now epidemic in this State, and has been epidemic since 1899, and the following resolution was adopted: Resolved, that the school boards, school directors and boards of health in the various districts, insist upon it that all school children and teachers in the schools of Minnesota, public, private or parochial, must show a cer tificate of successful vaccination since January 1st, 1896, or, in lieu thereof, a certificate from a responsible physi cian to the effect that the party is im mune to vaccination. Such certificate of vaccination or immunity must be presented to the proper authorities on or before October 15th, 1901. It becomes the duty of .the school board to enforce this resolution. It is said that within the last two weeks smallpox case have develope inuthoeeuthavi been cases at Mjl Oa Par with in the last six weeks. Many scholars from outside points attend school at Princeton and the enforcement of the resolution of the State*board of health HW circumstances. ^|'^l^ i i. fel **d -s*Jg ,k