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m 2 I Sr John Yager of Blue Hill, who hasger turned the sod in that section for thirty-seven years, is one of a large number of old-time agriculturalists in this vicinity and has witnessed the remarkable development of this sec tion. Mr. Yager came to this country from Indiana and when he started in to help tame the wilderness it was un der anything but favorable circum stances. But like others he has had faith in the country and has to-day a farm of 160 acres that does not resem ble the land he took when first com ing here. "There is one crop," said Mr. Yager, "that has surprised many and that is the corn crop. When I first started in all we could raise was the old flint corn, but to-day we can raise just as good corn as anywhere in the country." Mr. Yager keeps from 25 to 30 head of stock and of a Short horn strain* and finds that stock is a good investment for any farm. "The potato acreage down our way has not been increased to any extent the last year. Wheat averages 15 to 20 bushels, and oats 35 to 40 Land to day is worth from $25 to $30 per acre." During the past year Mr. Yager has built him a new house, and he says that farmers in his section have made a good many improvements in the way of new buildings the past year. F. C. Foltz who resides on section 10 in the town of Greenbush, was in town last week. Mr. Folta is one of the progressive farmers of that section and takes much interest in the develop ment of the farming community. He came to Mille Lacs county four years ago from one of the richest sections of Wright county, and he says that his experience so far with soil culture in Mille Lacs county gives him the im pression that Wright county has no better land than is to be found in Greenbush. He raises some grain, be sides potatoes and vegetables and also keeps quite a few cattle. "My wheat crop this year," said Mr. Foltz, "went 22 bushels to the acre, but last year the yield was 28 bushels The light yield this last \ear was due to poor seed and not to the soil. My crop of oats was A No. 1, and the yield was 78 bushels to the acre, certainly a bumper crop. The hay crop was also big this year Mr. Foltz farms 120 acres He says he notes a steady progress among the farmers who are improving from year to year. In live stock he has also noted quite an improvement. Church Topics a* A A, A, Sunday and Weekday Announcements. CONGREGATIONAL The Dorcas society met yesterday with Mrs. Moxie. Topics for next Sunday Morning, "Christianity, the Faith, Religion evening, "Mary's Memorial." The annual business meeting of the Congregational church society was held at the church last Thursday night. Reports for the year were read and submitted. $1,300 was paid out during the year of which sum the Dorcas so ciety furnished $640. They made the past year $440. Dr. Tarbox was elected clerk and S. S. Petterson trustee to succeed Dr. Tarbox whose term had expired, John F. Petterson was elected treasurer and Mrs. Jonh Hatch dea coness. Prof. H. E. White was elected Sunday school superintendent and Messrs Kelley and Chas. Carlson ushers The^e i & at the present time about $300 in the church treasury. METHODIST. The Ladies' Aid society met 3 ester day with Mrs A. Z. Norton. Sunday topics Morning, "Things Undone evening, "The Prayer of the Prayerless." Rev. Gratz is conducting special evangelistic services this week in which there is much interest taken. His topic this evening is "The Angel that Blocks the Way." Friday eve ning, "Look Up, Lift Up." A sermon to young people. There is special music every evening. The annual election of the Sunday school of the Methodist church re sulted as follows: Superintendent, Miss Ida King Assistant Superintendent, I. E. Burgan Secretary, Lizzie Town send Assistant Secretary, Allie Jones Treasurer, B. Taylor Organist, Orphia Townsend. The closing year of the Sunday school was very prosperous and the outlooK for the coming year is ex ceedingly bright. The smallpox in Greenbush has de veloped at three different places during the last week or so. Last week Al Bemis, Frank Erickson and Luther Jones, came down with the disease and were at once quarantined. It is said that they were up hunting not a long while ago in the same neighborhood with Wm. Orton, and it looks as if they all got into the smallpox infested dis trict. On Christmas night there was a dance at the home of Al Bemis and it is thought a good many have been ex posed to the disease. REVOLVER WOUN DS.v' More Dangerous, For Many Reasons, Than Thaae of the Rifle. APHORISMS. The man who procrastinates strug gles with ruin. An apt quotation is as good as an original remark.Johnson. Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.Emerson To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.Stanislaus. The desire of appearing clever often prevents one becoming so.Rochefou cauld. God is on the side of virtue, for who ever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it dreads it.Colton. The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity and cast down by adversity is generally abject and base. Human nature is so constituted that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their ow Ter ence. Despite all refinement, the light and habitual taking of God's name in vain betrays a coarse and brutal will. Chapin. A Large Covey. Two old hunters were swapping yarns and had got to quail. "Why," said one, "I remember a year when quail were so thick that you could get eight or ten at a shot with a rifle." The other one sighed. "What's the matter?" said the liist. "I was thinking of my quail hunts. I had a fine black horse that I rode ev erywhere, and one day out hunting quail I saw a big covey on a low branch of a tree. I threw the bridle rein over the end of the limb and took a shot. "Several birds fell and the rest flew away. "Well, sir, there were so many quail on that limb that when they flew off it sprang back into place and hanged my horse!"Los Angeles Times. Turned the Tables. A lecturer was ce descanting on the superiority of nature over art when an irreverent listener in the audience fired that old question at him: "How would you look, sir, without your wig?" "Young man," instantly replied the lecturer, pointing his finger at him, "you have furnished me an apt illus tration for my aigument. My bald ness can be traced to the artificial hab its of our modern civilization, while the wig I am wearing"here he laised his voice till the windows shook"is made of natural hair!" The audience testified its apprecia tion of the point by loud applause, and the speaker was not interrupted again. Rice and Rice. To most people rice is rice, but, not withstanding this, there is a consider able difference between the Chinese or Japanese and the American article. The former is darker in color and in no way compares with the latter in flavor or quality. Of the American, bow ever, there are a number of grades, of which that grown in the Carolinas is considered the best. When purchas ing, see that the grains are large, plump and unbroken. In washing be careful not to break them between the hands. A Use For the Hyphen. Wounds In civil life differ from those in military life in the greater after dan of septic involvement Revolver cartridges are more liable than are rifle cartridges to have been handled frequently, to have been carried in dirty pockets and to have come in con tact with various forms of infectious materials that may prove of serious consequence when buried in the tis sues. Moreover, revolver cartridges tial, earnest, straightforward looking are covered with a coating of grease, chap, whose looks I liked first rate. He and this encourages an accumulation was reading a paper, and presently he of manifold microbic material, some of tore off from his paper an advertise- which may prove to be of virulently infectious nature. Rifle bullets are practically always sterilized by the intense heat developed by the powder at the moment of their twist to it came along at just that mo- discharge. Their rapid progress through the air while in a heated condition still further serves to cleanse them of any extraneous material that may chance to have accumulated on their surfaces. This cleansing process is very effectu ally begun by the rifling of the rifle barrel through which the bullet forces its way. All these favorable factors are lack ing in the case of the revolver bullet, and so it is possible that in any given case such a bullet may carry infectious material with it into the tissues. If this were in small amount, nature might effectually wall it off and no seaway, rious consequences result. On the oth er hand, such infectious material might lie seemingly dormant for days, but really slowly gathering strength by multiplication, and when its toxins were elaborated in sufficient amount they might paralyze protective chemo taxis and produce a septic condition. New York Medical News. A teacher had just given a lesson on the hyphen, and thinking that his class understood it now, he wrote the word "birds-nest" on the blackboard. "Now, boys, why do we have a hyphen be tween birds and nest?" asked the teacher. Several hands went up, and the teacher pointed to a small boy who seemed very anxious to answer. "For the birds to roost on," was the rejjfy London Tit-Bits. A Hard Problem. First ScientistThis is a puzzling case indeed. Second ScientistI should say so Why, this would puzzle an amateur scientist.Baltimore American. THE PRINCETON XTKIO^ftgXTBSDAY, JA3STTTABY 9?W ONE MAN'S LUCK. w$ Steered Into a Junior Partnership by a Chance Gust of 'Wind. "Speaking of taking in partners," said a downtown business man, "our junior was, you might say, blown in on us, and I saw him started in .our di rection, though I had no idea of it at the time. ment leaf that he didn'- want and threw it out of a window or tried to, for as a matter of fact it didn't go out. ust of wind with just the right ment and blew the paper back, to fall on a vacant seat next to him. "And as it fell something in it caught his eye, and he picked up that part which he had just been trying to throw away and began earnestly to read it and ended up by folding it carefully and putting it his pocket. "About four minutes after I'd got in here that morning this same young man walks in and applies for a place that we had been waiting for some body to fill. Our advertisement for a man for it was in that paper which I had seen this young man try to throw and which a gust of wind, by one chance in a million or more, had blown back upon him and in such a manner as to fix his attention. "As a matter of fact I hadn't liked the young man's act of throwing the paper out of an elevated car window. A paper floating down and around as that would do might frighten horses and lead to no end of trouble and lots of damage, but no one man thinks about everything, and he'd learn better about this, I knew, and so as a matter of fact I took this young man on the spot on my first impressions of him. He far more than made good and in due course of time he came into his junior partnership, literally and truly blown into it. "Sort o' queer, eh?"New York Sun. A CORDIAL RECEPTION. The Book Agent Got One That Wasn't Intended For Him. There is a farmer living just north of Evanston and a book agent some where in the cosmopolitan desert of Chicago each of whom feels that he is a victim of a cruel circumstance Last week the farmer bad a note from a nephew to say that the boy would visit the farm on Thursday. Uncle and nephew had not met for fif teen years, and the old man drove to the station in his most uncomfortable coat that he might welcome his sister's child. But the young man failed to arrive. After waiting till the last pas senger had disappeared the old man drove away, disappointed. The book agent entered into the dra matis personam early the next morning. Looking over the top rail of the barn yard gate, he called, "Hello, uncle!" The book agent never got such a re ception before in all his life. The farm er flung the gate wide open, seized the agent's hand and pressed a whiskered kiss on the ironclad cheek. "Say, this must be heaven," mur mured the agent, following the farmer into the house and explaining that ev erybody at home was as well as could be expected. Not till the agent was full of a boiled dinner and attempted to sell a book did the farmer begin to see a dim light. Charged with imper sonating the missing nephew, the agent explained that he greeted all elderly strangers as "uncle that he even had a few almost real ones in South Clark street in Chicago. When last seen by the farmer, the agent was still running, and when the real nephew does come he may find an electric current in the latchstring. Chicago Tribune. The Best Man. B'or the origin of "the best man at a wedding" we must go back many cen turies, to days when it was the amia ble practice of the budding bridegroom to dispense with the consent either of the lady or her father. He simply waited for a suitable opportunity to capture her and make a bolt with his bride. In this enterprise he found it helpful to have the services of a friend who would assist him in the capture and keep the pursuers at bay until he had got a sufficiently long start. This friend was the prdtotype of the "best man" of our own unromantic day, when his duties are limited to seeing that the bridegroom doesn't leave the ring behind him or leave the church without taking his hat with him. How times do change! Mostly Fortissimo. HuntIt seems strange to me to hear you criticise your wife's reflections as harangues, in view of the fact that in the earlier days of your married life you spoke of your wife's voice as the vry soul of music. BluntThat's all right, too, but you see she's drifted from the Italian to the Wagnerian school.Richmond Dis patch. The Only One Eligible. PapaSo, Bobby, you're the presi dent of your bicycle club. That's very nice. How did they happen to choose you? Bobby-Well, you see, papa, I'm the only boy that's got a bicycle.Tit-Bits. A statistical item of interest to wo men is that today women are two inches taller on an average than ttiey were twenty-five years ago. Lampblack mixed with turpentine to a consistency that will flow readily from the brush makes a good marking ink. BUSINESS LOCALS. ST MONEY to loan on improved farms. M. 5 RUTHERFORD, Princeton, Minn. a Going down town one summer morn- river, for sale on easy terms. Inouire ing on a Ninth avenue elevated train I saw sitting opposite to me a young man who caught my fancy, a substan Cash for your hides, pelts and furs to LUDDEN'S STORE. For Sale. House and two lots, on north side of of FRANK HENSCHEL, 4-6t Princeton, Minn. Bring your mink, skunk and muskrats LUDDEN'S STORE. FOUNDOn road between Princeton and Greenbush, cover with nickel plated ornament to heating stove. Owner can have same by calling at the UNION office and paying for notice. Seal brand overshoes and rubbers at LUDDEN'S. Solberg Bros, have opened a black smith and wagon shop opposite B. Soule's nlaniner mill and are prepared to do all kinds of blacksmithing and wagon work. Horse shoeing and plough work a specialty. Satisfaction guaranteed. 44tf Wood's Boston coffees, the freshest and best at LUDDEN'S. In Doubt As to where to get the best food stuffs at the lowest prices' We can settle the question for you. AH you have to do is to look at our goods and ask the prices, and you willtoein doubt no longer When you lessen your grocery bill you increase your income. Here are a few suggestions for your consider ation 7 lbs. Granulated Sugar $1.00 Pure Maple Syrup per gallon "Crystal Drips fancy per gallon... "Golden Drips" a favorite per gallon Arbuckle, Lion and XXXX coffee per package White Wine Vinegar per gallon Fancy Brick Cheese (our kind) per pound Choice Florida Oranges per dozen Honest Oats per package Assorted Iced Cookies per pound Prepared Mustaid in cupb Ralston Pancake Floui 2 packages for Cooks Flaked Rice 2 packages for $1.25 50c 30c 121c 15c 15c 30c 10c 10c 5c 25c 25c AT Tel. 23 WALKERS Larson& Harrington Princeton, Minn. Dealers in Potatoes And Jewell Nursery stock. Minn. No. 163 Seed Wheat, etc. While we solicit your patronage we beg to remain yours for honest trade. Office in S. M. Byers' store. How to pay off Your Mortgage. THE HOME LIFE Insurance Company of New York will furnish the money to pay off your mort gage in twenty years, or at your death if prior, for about 5 per cent of the principal sum Send your date of birth to-day for the exact cost What a beautiful thought to know that in your old age your family is well protected For the best there is in insurance see Library Buffet Smoking Cars in daily use on Bur lington limited trains between the Twin Cities and Chicago. Supplied with card tables, easy chairs and the latest periodicals. ASK YOUR HOME AGENT FOR TICKETS VIA THE BURLINGTON ROUTE. i QUY EWINO, Agent, Princeton, Minn. vsmsassz Burlington All the comforts and con veniences of a good club or your home are found in 1902. |fp?m '^^(^m^^^^^W^^WW^^^^ 1 The Big Store Shipped With Care In Keg or Case HAKIM'S BEER Always Fresh, No Matter Where You Buy K Supplied by Affents Everywhere, or THEO. HAMM BREWING CO., St Paul. Minn.* Will receive a line of Acorn Steel Ranges and Cook Stoves, and must make room for them. We will sell All Haeters at Half Price also reduced price on all Furniture, Carpets, Draperies, Rugs, Dishes, Tin ware, etc. Will take your old goods in exchange. We also do picture framing and gen eral repairing. THE BIG STORE, Farmers' Exchange Having purchased the interest of L. E. Jesmer the firm will be conducted as heretofore. The shop where the best sleds are made that money can buy. M. J. JAAX. And also the best Horse=shoeing done. PETERSON & NELSON, PRINCETON, MINN. E. HARK LIVE STOCK COflPANYf HOLDS REGULAR flUCTIOI) SflLES }AT PRINCETON O/V THE FIRST SATURDAY* OF EACH MONTH. Fifty Good Young Horses and Mules Constantly on Hand. Private Sales Daily. Time Given on Approved Paper. E. MARK, Auctioneer. THE COMMERCIAL HOTEL, H. NEWBERT, Proprietor. PRINCETON, MINNESOTA 1 Or 2335 SSL sag? __Jri WMpWm So, and Druggists. m^.am- mm BENZ WO Stfcul and Minneapolis. Distilleries at Eminence. 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