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I Three Suits, brown Cheviot at the price & $6.50, 20% off Fir Armitao-p'c Clifiroe. UT. Armiiage unices 1 $ $ $ and white mixed marked $5^0 Three dark brown Cheviot Suits, a very popular suit, sold for $8.50. 0 Off At this sale OOiOU Ten suits, alight brown and white mixture a very nice business suit, Cfl price $9.50, 20% off I iOU o? About 15 blue Serge, double and single 67 breasted suits. &ii &IE &IQ Prices 00 Oil) 010 013 mz 15% off. These are some of our very best values. No store outside of the cities can Z beat them. sure to get one of them. (ff They will not last long. Christmas Goods Our line is the most complete ever shown by the retail stores of town. We have every thing for the rich and poor, and the old and young. Come in and see our line before buy ing elsewhere and be convinced. Everything up-to-date, nothing old, all new. Princeton Drug Co. AJiE ABOVE TBE STORE. Jt Hours-9A Are fitters of men, women and children in shoes, dry goods groceries, hardware, and all kinds of farm machinery and fencing. Foreston Mercantile & Live Stock Co. FORESTON, MINN wwvvwww %%%%%w%% -wvwvwvwvwvwvwwwS COMMERCIAL HOTEL A. C. SMITH, Proprietor. New management, newly furnished throughout, elec- tric lighted, bath rooms, everything up-to-date. Sam- ple room in connection. Both phones. Princeton, Minn. Phone SO. to 6 to 12 30 ap RIVERSIDE HOTEL FRANK SMITH, Proprietor. $ Neatly furnished throughout, electric lighted, every- thing up-to-date, baths and telephone connections. American and European Plan. Private Dining Rooms. Sample Room in Connection. PRINCETON, MINN. S I Forestall Mercantile& LiveStock Go. FIRS SEMl-ANNOA CLEARANC E The above prices and reductions will give you an idea of this sale. We have only been able to quote a few of the many bargains we have, on everything. Please note only cash purchasers receive the benefit of this reduction. Call early. The sale is now going on. HIS IS THE SEASON of the year when nearly every Clothing fyouse will be bidding for your trade. Some will offer you fair goods and honest values, while with others it will bewell, never mind, we will not name it. At this sale of ours, which is our first Semi-Annual Clearance, or, as we may call it in years to come, Reduction Sale, we will give you an opportunity to get at a very low price. State News. Forty-five thousand cases of eggs have been consumed in the twin cities since last fall. The ore shipping season has ended so far as the Duluth & Iron Range and the Duluth, Missabe & Northern roads are concerned. The school houses in the State of Minnesota are worth $19,661,922, and, adding the value of desks and other equipment, the total value of all school properties in the state is $22,170,624. Frank McConnel, who attempted the murder of Ham Craits last fall at Montevideo by shooting him in the neck, was convicted in the district court and sentenced to Stillwater for the term of seven years and six months Morris Edeistein. who was found guilty of giving false testimony at his bankruptcy proceedings, was sen tenced by Judge Lochren in the United States district court at St. Paul to serve one year and three months in the state prison at Stillwater. William Williams, the slayer of John Keller, 16, and Mrs. Keller, his mother, in St. Paul, must hang. The state supreme court has handed down this decision. Judge C. L. Lewis of the five judges, was the only dissenter. The murder was committed on April 1. Probate Judge D. E. Vance of Winona up to the present time this year has officiated at Qi weddings in 43 of which either the bride or groom or both have come from Wisconsin, and in 20 'cases either the bride or groom or both have been residents of La Crosse. If there is not bloodshed in connec tion with the Lake Ely government lands, supposed to be invaluable for mining purposes, the citizens of Eveleth will be surprised. The squat ters are armed, are suspicious of each other, and some of the claims are guarded night and day by men armed with rifles. Judge Dickey of Brooklyn has de nied the application of A. J. White man for a certificate of reasonable doubt. Consequently Whiteman has been taken to the Auburn prison to serve his sentence of eight years for grand larceny. Whiteman was form erly a resident of Minnesota and one of its legislators. Jacob Humber, a prominent farmer residing near Lake Volney, about seven miles from Montgomery, was killed by the Minneapolis & St. Louis The Best Clothing the Country Affords We shall give for the balance of this year from 5 to 20 per cent discount on all our splendid new stock of goods, which have all been bought this season, mostly made especially for us by the manufacturers. It consists of MEN'S, BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S CLOTHING, HATS, CAPS, and everything in the furnishing goods line. Our store has not been closed several days to put away the best values and marked up prices on others. Our prices have not been tampered with in the least, the marks are the same as when they first were marked from two to four months ago. Below we give a list of part of the stock with reductions. Don't These Prices Tempt You? Ten black clay Worsted was very low at $15.00. Twenty per cent off Four Overcoats $9.00. Twenty per cent off Ten Boys' Overcoats, 20% off, &lf) (If) at prices from $5.50 to About 20 dozen of Men's, Boys' and Chil dren's Pants, from 10% to 20% discount. suits. Price SI3.50 $7.20 Gloves, Mittens, Shirts, Underwear, Hosiery, Etc. In addition to the above we have a full line of all kinds of Underwear, Hosiery, Gloves, Mittens, Shirts, Collars and Cuffs, Collar and Cuff Buttons, Suspenders, etc. south-bound train No. 2. Humber was returning from the Quirk's flour ing mill, where he delivered a load of wheat, and as he drove on the cross ing he was struck by the train and killed instantly. A day before he died last week an engineer named Thomas Clark em ployed on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway who lived at Mont evideo revealed the hiding place of $10,000 in gold to his family. He had buried his savings in the cellar of his residence. The historic cemetery at Fort Snell mg is now but a memory. The work of dismantling required about three weeks. In all 223 graves were opened and the little heaps of bones were re moved to the graves in the new location. The oldest gravestone bore the date 1823. Wm. Bisson, a Minnesota federal prisoner who had been in the insane asylum for five months, has been de clared sane and removed to the Still water penitentiary. The prisoner was convicted in Duluth for raising a postal money order from $1 to $91. After his incarceration he developed insanity and was sent to Washington. Joshua Rollins, aged 60 years, in company with his son Ralph, aged 17 years, took a team and gun and went to the woods near Caledonia for a load of wood. When starting for home the son, on handing the gun to his father, accidentally discharged the weapon, and the contents entered the father's stomach, who shortly ex pired. The son was prostrated with grief. Emil Teska is at the Two Harbors hospital being treated for shots from a 22-calibre rifle. He was employed at a camp at Cloquet river and dur ing the evening was out in the woods setting snares for rabbits. The camp cook saw him, and, mistaking him for a wolf, procured his rifle and pumped three shots at him, one going through his upper jaw and side of face. He Is reported in a dangerous condition. Some one has been using the name of the Salvation Army in Minneapolis to provide himself with a winter's supply of apples. A grocer who was asked to contribute toward the Christ mas dinner for the poor said he had already given a barrel of apples to a fellow claiming to represent the army. The man is a fraud, for every col lector for the army is provided with credentials signed by Brig. J. W.on Cousins. Michaef Barrett, a Great Northern Hats, Caps and Neckwear In this line we are leaders with a reduction from 10 to 15 per cent. "We undersell all dealers in inferior lines. It will be your gain to buy one of these hats. 1^" Our very fine Neckwear, most of which was bought and made for us a short time agon will go at a reduction of from 5 to 15 per cent, be able to show you a more Children's Suits All our children's Suits and Overcoats go at a reduction of 15 per cent. We have a very good assortment of these suits. Bring in your little fellows be fore the sizes are gone. Clothiers and Tailors. section man, uas instantly killed in the railroad yards near Jackson street, St. Paul on Monday. With a number of other employes, Barrett was at work on apiece of track when a switch engine backed down the track. At the warning given by the engineer the crew stepped aside from the rails. Barrett, however, dropped his pickax upon the track and jumped back to get it. As he stooped to pick it up the tender struck him. James Tanner of Washington, D. commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, with Mrs. Tan ner and Mrs. Abbie L. Adams of Superior, Neb national president of the "Woman's Relief Corps, are Minneapolis this week to confer with the executive board on the arrange ments for the national encampment to be held there next summer. During their stay they will have their quar ters at the West hotel, and will be en tertained by citizens, G. A. R. organ izations and allied orders. A new law regulating the sale of fowls, etc., which will go into effect next March is as follows: "Every person who shall offer or expose for sale at retail, for human food, at any public market, store, shop or house, or in or about any street or other public place, any domestic fowls, or any slaughtered rabbits, squirrels or other small animals, wild or tame, unless the entrails, crops and other offensive parts are properly drawn and removed, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor." Sheriff Gonyea of Crookston has received word from Norfolk, Neb., of the capture of Elmer Sterns, the al leged horesthief, who is accused of stealing a team of horses from the Ben Bronson place at Oslo, and sell ing them to John Kittleson of Grand Forks. A package of old letters found by the authorities revealed the names of several of Sterns' relatives and their places of abode. The sheriff and city police were notified to be on the lookout for him. A warrant has been sent to the Nebraska authorities with a detailed description of the man and sheriff Gonyea will leave for Norfolk to bring back the prisoner. The $200 reward offered for the ap prehension of horsethieves will, it is understood, go to the Polk county sheriff. Theodore Larsen, accused of the murder of Nels Nelson at Crookston Oct. 16, and who confessed to the crime at Northome, was released from custody, no true bill having been re- i time ao win go ax a reduction Jm Look where you will, nobody will /to nor attractive assortment. Z From 5 to 20 per cent discount turned. Larsen's written and signed confession was the only scrap of evi dence possessed by the state It is impossible to hold a man on his own testimony, afterwards denied, and Lar sen is at liberty. Nelson was hit on the head with an ax in Crookston and his body was dumped into Red Lake river It was found next spring in the ice below the dam. Befoie leaving Eveleth a short time ago John Shea told a storv to the effect that he had l'eceived from an agent of Thomas Bardon of Ashland the sum of $47,000 for his claims as a squatter on Ely lake land. Al though there is not a great amount of credence placed his narration by local people, it i-, certainh true that several of the settlers have recently been approached and asked what they would take for their rights. One of the squatters says he was first offered $10,000 by a stranger, and that later the amount was increased to $.30,000. VlarneU l.OOO Couples. Rev Wm. R. Wiggington of Lin neus, Mo., is said to have married over 1,000 couples in his time. The most interesting feature of this re markable career is that he has often married three generations of the same family. Today he is as strong and well as most men of half his age, but then most all of us could be the same by using golden grain belt beer regu larly at home. It's the quiet, health ful life with good food and such a tonic as golden grain belt beer that keeps men strong and hearty. No home is complete without it. Order of your nearest dealer or be supplied by Henry Veidt, Princeton. Torture of a Preacher. The story of the torture of Rev. O. D. Moore, pastor of the Baptist church, of Harpersville. N. Y., will interest you. He says: H8r 4 suffered agonies, because of a persistent cough, resulting from the grip. I had to sleep sitting up in bed. I tried many remedies, without relief, until I took Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, which entirely cured my cough, and saved me from consumption." A grand cure for diseased conditions of throat and lungs. At C. A. Jack's, druggist price 50 cents and $1.00, guaranteed. Trial bottle free. The Pore Quill. "Is this pure milk?" said the in quisitive lady customer. "Yes," replied the milkman, "we sell the cream separately. "Detroit Free Press.