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Northwestern, 'office, 138 home, 5. Tri-State: Office, 320, home, 187. PRINCETON, MINNESOTA GEORGE PRENTICE ROSS Undertaker and State Licensed Embalmer. Disinfecting a Specialty Rural Phone No. 30 PRINCETON, MINNESOTA DR. D. A. McR/E Dentist Office in Odd Fellows Block. PRINCETON, MINNESOTA S. P. SKAHEN Attorney at Law Office in Princeton State Bank Bldg. PRINCETON, MINNESOTA ELVERO L. MCMILLAN, Lawyer Townsend Building. PRINCETON, MINNESOTA G. ROSS CALEY, M. D., Physician and Surgeon Office & Residence over Jack's Drug Store TelephoneRural, 26. PRINCETON, MINNESOTA oooooooooooooooooooooooooo Moneyto Loan ON IMPROVED FARMS Liberal Amounts Lowest Rates Prepayment Privileges ROBT. H. KING Princeton, Minnesota. THE BEST PROOF Princeton Citizens Cannot Doubt It. Doan's Kidney Pills were used They brought benefit. The story was told to Princeton res idents. Time has strengthened the evi dence. Has proven the result lasting. The testimony is from this locality. The Proof convincing. Mart Dunning, Cambridge, Minn., says: "I had an extreme lameness in my back and I used Doan's Kidney Pills. I soon knew that I had at last found something that would remove the lameness. I got a great deal of relief, too, from dizziness and my kid neys were fixed up in good shape." A Permanent Cure. More than two years later Mr. Dun ning said: The cure Doan's Kidney Pills gave me has been permanent. I still highly endorse them. Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't sim ply ask for a kidney remedyget Doan's Kidney Pillsthe same that Mr. Dunning has twice publically recommended. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. Adv. i Great German Offensive Re suited In Loss of Thousands of Lives on Both Sides. THtarythcriticn E Germa offensive, resulting in battle of Verdun, has been called by competent mili the bloodiest battle in the history of all the world. Wheth er this be an exaggeration or not, cer tainly as many men were employed as in any other struggle. The methods of slaughter were more highly devel oped, and the issue at stake was all im portant. The Germans, after having leveled the French trenches by hours of ar tillery fire in which the great 42 centi meter siege guns played an important part, sent regimenfafter regiment of their best troops into the mouths of the French seventy-fives. The French, unable to withstand the force of the great Teuton dri^e, executed under the supervision of the German crown prince, cautiously withdrew several miles and established new positions nearer the city of Verdun, which ap parently was the objective of this of fensive movement. For days the fighting continued with unabated fury The kaiser himself went to the front for several days. The full story of this battle will never be told. After the war perhaps we shall know the total number of men lost, but how they died, what their suffer ings were, the fate of their bodies, will never be known. Those heart touching Photo by Am3rican Pi ess Association THE GEBMAN CROWN PRINCE. little details have all been buried by the continual rain of millions of shells and bullets. But some idea of the in tensity of the struggle may be had from the stories told by those who took part and who have returned to Ger many and France from the battle front. One Shell Wrecks Fort. The Berlin'Tageblatt correspondent gave the following account of the re duction' of Fort Douaumont: "The giant block of cement and steel armor plate that was Douaumont lies in ruins. A second fort not far off blew up, just as did Fort Loncin at Liege, as the result of a single large calibered shell crashing through to the ammunition magazine. "The organization of the attack on the north front of Verdun was a mas terpiece in itself. Preparations of vast extent had first to be carried out in complete concealment from the enemy if the fight against the invincible for tress was to succeed. "To the great distances over which heavy artillery had to be taken with out using railways were superadded the great difficulties resulting from con tinuously bad weather and the conse quent condition of roads. Hundreds of men had first to build good roads. "Another of the difficulties was the proper laying of the beds on which the great guns rest and on whose firmness depends in the first line the accuracy of our heavy gunfire. How unbeliev ably accurate was their fire is now known. "Prisoners said that the effect of our artillery was indescribably frightful. Nobody could hold out long against it." Battle In the Lake. Another correspondent at the Ger man headquarters says: "The Meuse valley in many places had been transformed into a lake by floods. The woods on the rolling Meuse heights, everywhere sown with barbed wire entanglements, are mown down by artillery. The battleground is distorted by explosions. The cap tured French trenches, which had un dergone a severe bombardment, had been very extensively developed, but showed signs of less secure construc tion than ours. "Contrary to assertions which have been made, the heavy snowstorm did not stop the progress of the battle in the slightest degree. Our artillery con tinued to fire uninterruptedly through the veil of snow. Toward midday the THE PRINCETON UNION? THUReDAY, MAY 18, 1916. Eyewitnesses Describe Scenes Behind the Lines of Teuton and French Trenches. sky cleared. From my high vantage point I saw before me the entire row of heights, from Fort Douaumont to the Cote de Froide, the main fortress line north of Verdun. "Here the principal battle raged. Our heavy fire lay upon it. One could see the giant black clouds of the big cali bered guns rise like enormous trjees. The firing and fall of our heavy shells could be clearly followed. The masses of smoke that developed showed where fires had been caused. Behind Fort Douaumont, too, pillars of smoke seem ed to signify the advance of the battle beyond this height that was now firmly in our hands. "On the front ridge of the heights west of Douaumont numerous flashes caused by the enemy's shrapnel were observable, leading to the deduction that one of our infantry attacks was proceeding. "Guns of all calibers roared about me. The firing also extended toward the southwest, over the fortifications Photo bj American Pi ess Association A "BUSY BEBTHA," OB GEBMAN 4.2 CEN- TIMETEB SIEGE GUN. on the opposite side of the Meuse. In the direction of Vacherauville the ar tillery fire of the enemy appeared to occupy itself almost exclusively with the foremost line and seemed power less against the German artillery firing from the rear. During my long stay in the neighborhood not a single shell fell there. I could see Verdun with the naked eye. A large church was the most prominent feature. By means of glass es fires could be discerned in the town. "I talked with some of our men who, after several days of attacking, had been withdrawn to the rear to get rest. They laughingly related how they had always gone farther than they had been ordered to go. On one occasion they had been told to take one hill, but instead they carried three in succes sion. They had now had a welcome wash, eaten well and slept well and were ready to get at it again. "The fresh appearance of the troops and their splendid spirits. astounded me in the face of the signs of such ter rible fighting, and especially the calm, clear, almost unmoving sureness with which this titanic undertaking was being carried through, almost like ma neuvers." Stories of French Wounded. Graphic narratives of the greatest and most terrible battle in history were told in Paris. Officers who had been to the front, most of them wound ed, shuddered as they recalled the sights. "They came in a flood, in an endless wave, those Teuton hordes." said one officer. "The French guns mowed them down in heaps, but still they came, pouring across the slopes in a ceaseless tide of humanity. "The German infantry began their attack on Monday, Feb. 21. The first symptom of the battle favorable to the French was the inability of the Ger mans to silence the French artillery. The offensive opened with strong re connoitering parties advancing, where in were noted a large proportion of offi cers. French Work New Maneuver. "Then came the Infantry In great numbers. During the next two days the fighting waxed fiercer and fiercer. "At first fourteen German corps were engaged, then sixteen and finally seventeen corps (340,000 men). The French command at this point carried out a maneuver which will be recorded as a masterpiece in military history. The German movements had been made under the cover of woods, in ravines and patiently prepared com municating trenches. If the French had tried to keep In touch with the enemy they would have been more or less in the dark and the operation of their own artillery greatly hampered. "If the Germans had been only fif teen yards away the French could have been submerged by the attack, provid ed the attacking forces were prepared to make any sacrifice, but the distance being 1,500 yards there was little chauce against the opposing artillery. The French troops were accordingly swung back to positions from which they could see the Germans approach ing over exposed ground. Front Reduced to Nine Miles. "The effect was that the immediate front of the attack, which was origi nally twenty-five miles in extent, was reduced to nine miles, but even this soon proved too wide. The German losses were so great that the attack could not be kept up at all points. "On Friday, the critical day, the front was reduced to six miles and then to five. On Monday, Feb. 28, the offen sive dwindled to fragmentary attacks." The following description of the French retreat from Ornes, six miles northeast of Verdun, was given by a wounded French soldier who was in the engagement: "On the 21st we started giving ground, with the Germans at our heels. No sooner had we traversed Ornes, firing as we went, and taken the road to Mon court than our artillery opened on the advancing Germans. I've seen some bloody fighting in this war, but they were only sham battles compared with this conflict. Shell after shell ripped gaps in the German lines. Advanced Twenty Lines Deep. "As our seventy-fives flamed death against the oncoming, close packed bat talions, twenty lines deep, the corpses were piled up in mounds. We were so near them that fragments of bloody flesh, from human bodies torn asunder by exploding shells, fell among us. "That night we spent in Moncourt under the ghastly radiance of star shells, which the Germans fired contin uously. "Under the lurid glow of these bombs the bloody battlefield was shown with its carnage. I saw long lines of German dead, where machine gun volleys or shells had torn through the ranks. "All the while the guns in the Ver dun forts kept up a continuous bom bardment agains't the German posi- GENEBAL HUMBEBT, FRENCH COMMANDEB AT VEBDUN. tions. So terrific was the cannonade that the blood poured from our ears and noses from the concussion. "Far away was heard the continuous crash of exploding projectiles as they fell upon the German lines, and still farther away in the distance the big German guns were replying with a steady roar of thunder." Great Gaps In Ranks. A soldier who was in the ranks fight ing at Ornes told this harrowing story: "I fought since the beginning of the war. I saw the shambles at Suippes and Souain. They were nothing to what I saw at Verdun. "The Germans advanced, and we re tired under orders, but we killed them by the dozen. It was so terrible that I, who have watched my comrades fall around me almost with indiffer ence, shudder as my memory recalls those scenes. "Eventually we reached Moncourt and took shelter for a time in the wood. Although it was 3 o'clock in the morning, the bursting shells made it as clear as day, giving the battlefield the aspect of a fairy scene. Bead Stood In Groups. "From behind us the French artil lery fired into the German masses, the German shells flying over our heads toward the Douaumont section. Then our machine guns, placed in batteries every five yards, began to play, and we saw the dead in groups. From Mon court I followed the supply road to Fleury, where I took the light rail way toward Verdun. The heavy guns near Douaumont and Damloup were firing as fast as they could be loaded. "When we passed between the two points the air pressure produced by the continuous discharges was so terrific that blood rushed from our ears and our lungs almost ceased working." A combatant, who was in one of the most advanced trenches early in the battle of Verdun and who has return ed to Paris wounded, says: "At dawn we received orders to leave the trench and to retire to a strong position in the Vaux woods, in front of Douaumont. Bending low, we retired the three or four kilometers through the snow without much loss. "Once In the new trenches we could not hear one another speak, so great was the noise of the cannonading, and when we looked through the periscopes we could only see heavy clouds of smoke shutting out the sky with jets of fire flashing through the snowflakes." SHOWING HOW LIFE IS SAVED Arrangements for Exhibit to Be Sent Through the Country on Spe cial Train. What the federal government Is do ing in the saving of life and property recently was shown in Washington and is now to be demonstrated to the country at large. Secretary of the Interior Lane con ceived the idea that the exposition recently held in Washington should be shown to the rest of the country, the Post of that city states. A special train is to be equipped as quickly as possible and sent throughout the coun try so that the people may have a more intimate idea of what their gov ernment is doing. Here in Washington the exposition attracted more than 35,000 persons during one week. The work of the public health service in guarding the gateways of the^ republic against epi demics of diseases sent from foreign shores and the stamping out of these diseases on the threshold of the coun try was demonstrated at the exposi tion. Through this traveling exposi tion the people will get some idea of the work of the coast guard service in saving life at sea, the forest serv ice plan of fighting forest fires and preserving millions of dollars of nat ural resources to the nation, the meth ods used by the bureau of mines in rescuing entombed miners from ter rible death and the safety methods of the interstate commerce commis sion, which have signally reduced the deaths among trainmen. The exposition also demonstrates the safety work of the army and navy departments in sanitation and the stamping out of typhoid fever and oth er diseases in the army and navy. A rare opportunity is being presented for the people who know more about lthe humane activities of their own government. The trip should stimu late patriotism and national pride. IN BLUE AND ORANGE COLOR Scientist Remarks on Strangeness of Aura of Human Beings Placed in Darkened Room. "So far as we know," says the Medical Record, "the great scientists who have investigated the phenomena of spiritualism and have in some cases become converts to the latter belief, have not expressed themselves ex cathedra on the validity of the finds in question. Recently Profes sor Benedikt of Vienna has made stud ies along these lines. "At a meeting of the Royal and Im perial Society of Physicians of Vienna he stated without comment that when a normal human being is placed in a dark room the face appears blue, the left half of the body blue, and the right half red or orange*. A woman who claimed to be able to locate ob jects with a divining rod seemed broader in the chamber than was actu ally the case. In particular the thumbs seemed much larger. "An- other of these women gave off an em anation for part of the time only. Both the women were said to be able to locate water, coal, oil, and metals, the second one only when these were below the ground, while the first was able to find them when concealed in a room." Professor Benedikt offered no ex planations and advanced no theories. To Manufacture Optical Glass. The manufacture of American op tical glass is about to be begun on a commercial basis, a large factory hav ing been erected by an optical firm of Rochester, N. Y., which, it is said, will be equipped to make all kinds of lenses, from the tiny glass used in the microscope to that of the searchlight measuring several feet in diameter. The first effort in this direction was made about twenty-five years ago, and It was a failure. The latest effort in the manufacture of this glass was be gun experimentally by the Rochester firm a few years ago, and when the war broke out they had just demon stated its success, so that its expen sion would have come along in the regular order of things. The neces sity for a plant of this kind in this country has been forcibly demonstrat ed by the war, which has completely cut off the supply of optical glass, which came heretofore from one or the other of the belligerent countries. Princeton's New Dining Halls. The new dining halls which are be ing Constructed at Princeton will have a grill and clubrooms along the lines of a university club. Large smoking rooms equipped with billiard tables will be provided for the freshman and sophomore classes, while there will be a reading room for all classes. Plans for the use of the grillroom are not completed, but it is likely that its main use will be for the entertain ment of visitors. It is thought that a unionized dining hall, where the great majority of the student body, Especially the lower classes, gravitate three times a day, may prove an excel lent substitute for a common club house where a student's social in stinct may call him only at odd inter valg. Business. "I took out an insurance policy on my house"last week, and today the agent who insured me tried to sell me an extinguisher that will positively put out any kind of a fire." "Well, what of it?" "What I want to know is, why didn't he tell me about the extinguish er first Then I could have saved tha uremium on my policy." (First Pub. May 11) Citation for Hearing: on Final Account and for Distribution. ESTATE OF SIDNEY JESMER. State of Minnesota, County of Mille Lacs. In Probate Court. In the matter of the estate of Sidney Jes mer, decedent. The state of Minnesota to the next of kin and all persons interested in the final account and distribution of the estate of said dece dent: The representative of the above named de cedent, having filed in this court his final ac count of the administration of the estate of said degedent, together with his petition pray ing fr the adjustment and allowance of said final account and for the distribution of the residue of said estate to the persons thereunto entitled Therefore, you, and each of you, are hereby cited and required to show cause, if any you have, before this court at the probate court rooms in the court house, in the village of Princeton, in the county of Mille Lacs, state of Minnesota, on the 5th day of June, 1916, at 10 clock a. m., why said petition should not be granted. Witness, the Judge of said Court, and the Seal of said Court, this 9th day of May, 1916. WM. V. SANFORD, (Court Seal.) Probate Judge. Jesmer & Prescott, Attorneys for Petitioner, 224 Endicott Building, St. Paul, Minn. (First Pub. May ll-3t) Order Limiting Time to File Claims Within inree Months, and for Hearing Thereon. ESTATE OF PHOEBE M. SOULE. fetate of Minnesota, County of Mille Lacs. In Probate Court. In the matter of the estate of Phoebe M. Soule, decedent. .J^Si* tetamentary (First Pub. May 4-3t) Citation for Hearing on Petition to Sell, Mort gage or Lease Land. ESTATE OF ERNEST FOLEY. State of Minnesota, County of Mille Lacs. In Probate Court. In the matter of the estate of Ernest Foley, decedent. The state of Minnesota to the next of kin and all persons interested the sale of cer tain lands belonging to said decedent: The petition of W. L. Burton as representative of the above named decedent, being duly filed in this court, repi-esenting that it is necessary and for the best interests of said estate and of all interested therein that certain lands of said decedent described therein be sold and praying that a license be to him granted to sell the same. Now Therefore, you, and each of you, are hereby cited and required to show cause, if any you have, before this court, at the pro bate court rooms in the court house, in the vil lage of Princeton, county of Mille Lacs, State of Minnesota, on the" 29th day of May, 1916, at two o'clock p. m., why the prayer of said petition should not be granted. Witness the Judge of said Court, and the seal of said court, this 28th day of April, 1916. WM. V. SANFORD, (Court Seal) Judge of Probate Court. Aimer J. Peterson, Attorney for Petitioner, Mora, Minn. (First Pub. May 4-3t) Citation for Hearing on Final Account and for Distribution. ESTATE OF DENORA T. WAXMUTH. State of Minnesota, County of Mille Lacs. In Probate Court. In the matter of the estate of Denora T. Waxmuth, decedent. The state of Minnesota to the next of kin and all persons interested in the final account and distribution of the estate of said dece dent: The representative of the above named de cedent, having filed in this court his final ac count of the administration of the estate of said decedent, together with his petition pray ing for the adj'ustment and allowance of said final account and for distribution of the resi due of said estate to the persons thereunto en titled Therefore, ou and each of you, are hereby cited and required to show cause, if any you have, before this court at the ,-robate court rooms in the court house, in the village of Princeton, in the county of Mille Lacs, state of Minnesota, on the 29th day of May, 1916, at 10 o'clock a. m., why said petition should not be granted. Witness the judge of said court, and the seal of said court, this 29th day of April, 1916. WM. V. SANFORD, (Court Seal) Probate Judge. F. C. Harvey, Attorney for Petitioner, 801 N. Y. Life Ins. Bldg., Minneapolis, Minn. (First Pub. May 4-3t) Citation for Hearing on Final Account and for Distribution. ESTATE OF STEPHEN W. WILLIAMS. State of Minnesota, County of Mille Lacs. In Probate Court. In tne Matter of the Estate of Stephen W. Williams, decedent: The State of Minnesota to the next of kin and all persons interested in the final account and distribution of the estate of said decedent: The representative of the above named deced ent, having filed in this court her final account of the administration of the estate of said de cedent, together with her petition praying for the adjustment and allowance of said final account and for distribution of the residue of said estate to the persons thereunto entitled Therefore, You and Each of Yu, are hereby cited and required to show cause, if any you have, before this Court at the Probate Court Rooms the Court House, in the Village of Princeton in the County of Mille Lacs, State of Minnesota, on the 29th day of May, 1916, at 10 clock A. M., why said petition should not be granted. Witness, the Judge of said Court, and the Seal of said Court, this 2nd day of May, 1916. WM. V. SANFORD, (Court Seal) Probate Judge. S. P. Skahen, Attorney r Petitioner, Princeton, Minnesota. eyca^s^gy if^S PAGE SEVEN this day having been granted to Benjamin Soule, and it appearing by the affidavit of said representative that there are no debts of said decedent It Ordered, That the time within which all creditors of the above named decedent may present claims against her estate in this court be, and the same hereby is, limited to three months from and after the date hereof and that Monday, the 14th day of August, 1916, at 10 o'clock a. m., in the probate court rooms at the court house, at Princeton in said county, be, and the same hereby is, fixed and appointed as the time and place for hearing upon and the examination, adjustment and allowance of such claims as shall be presented within the time aforesaid. Let notice hereof be given by the publica tion of this order in the Princeton Union as provided by law. Dated May 9th, 1916. WM. V. SANFORD, (Court Seal.) of Probate. fa. P. Skahen, Attorney for Representative, Princeton, Minn. (First Pub. May ll-3t) Citation for Hearing on Petition for Admin istration. ESTATE OF J. FRANK QUINLAN. State of Minnesota, County of Mille Lacs. In Probate Court. In the matter of the estate of J. Frank Quin lan, decedent. The State of Minnesota to the next of kin and all persons interested in the granting of administration of the estate of said decedent The petition of Mary Jane Quinlan having been filed this court, representing that J. Frank Quinlan, then a resident of the county of Mille Lacs, state of Minnesota, died intestate on the 7th day of April, 1916 and praying that letters of administration of his estate be granted to Edward Quinlan and the court having fixed the time and place for hearing said petition Therefore, You, and Each of You, are here by cited and required to show cause, if any j-ou have before this court at the probate court rooms in the court house, in the village of Princeton, in the county of Mille Lacs, state of Minnesota, on the 5th day of June, 1916, at 10 o'clock a. m., why said petition should not be granted. Witness, the Judge of said Court, and the Seal of said Court, this 4th day of May 1916 WM. V. SANFORD, (Court Seal.) Probate Judge. Charles C. Kolars, Attorney for Petitioner, LeSueur Center, Minn.