J*
Gives Farmers Some Good Advice
Going1
Into Fruit liaising-.
I think the present a good time to
give expression to a few thoughts on
orcharding and the first and a very im
portant matter to consider is the tree
agent. Have nothing to do with him:
just tell him that you don't want his
trees, bid him goodbye and leave him
don't give him a chance to talk for if
you do he will convince you or will try
to make you believe that he is an
honest agent and the firm or nursery
man he represents is reliable. But
don't believe him. His statements are
not the truth. It is said that every
fish is either slippery or scaley: the
same is true in regard to tree agents.
When you are ready to set an orchard
send to any nersery man in Minnesota
for a catalogue and select such va
rieties of apples or plums as are rec
ommended to be hardy, prolific and
free from blight. Always get your
apple trees from a nursery in your own
State and you will stand abetter chance
to succeed. If you get apple trees
from an eastern state you will fail of
success.
Minnesota nursery men are reliable.
Trees that are perfectly hardy and
prolific are so recommended and those
that are not hardy or are troubled with
blight it is so stated, so if a man sets
out an orchard of the latter varieties
and fails it is his own fault. Every
man ought to post himself in horticul
ture. The cost of horticultural litera
ture is small compared with the cost
of experience by the loss of setting out
a poor variety of trees. The apple tree
blight is a disease that should be
guarded against as much as possible.
It does not affect all kinds of trees but
those varieties that are affected should
be discarded. The Transcendent crab
is the most affected of any variety and
is so badly troubled with blight that
it ought to be stricken from the list
and not propagated. Nearly all the
trees of this variety in this section
have been killed by blight. This va
riety was condemned years ago by
nearly all of the leading horticultural
ists in Minnesota. The Tetofsky is
another variety that it is not safe to
plant and some others following close
after. There is but little if any danger
in planting the following varieties of
standard apples: At the head of the
list is the Duchess and Hibernal,
closely followed by Wealthy, Patten's
Greening and Rupka. There are a
few other varieties of which it would
be well to plant a few trees, but I
would not plant more than one or two
of any variety unless I knew them to
be perfectly hard\. Two-thirds of the
apple trees that have been planted in
Mille Lacs county south of Foreston
within the last ten years are dead.
Many of the trees were winter killed,
showing that they were not hardy
enough for this climate. Others were
killed the blight. Many trees that
have borne fruit for several years have
died from the effects of blight during
the past two years, causing men to be
come discouraged and they declare
that they will never plant another ap
ple tree. But whj should men be so
easily discouraged because of a little
failure in starting an orchard. Does a
farmer become discouraged and give
up farming because of a failure of a
crop or does he quit farming because
he has failed of a crop of one variety
of grain?
A few years ago farmers in the
southern part of Minnesota went wild
over the introduction of several va
rieties of soft wheat, such as China Tea,
Rio Grand, Italian and Lost Nation.
Some of these varieties were badly
troubled with smut and were worth
less like the Transcendent crab apple
others rusted badly and the bran on all
of them was too thick for profitable
milling purposes. Many farmers met
with heavy losses but they did not quit
farming nor the raising of wheat but
they tried again and now they make a
success with the Fife wheat and its
first cousin the Blue Stem, so if at first
you don't succeed try, try again.
Recently an agent traveling through
Milo got bit. It was the lightning rod
man. He called on a man who had a
good lot of buildings and told him he
ought to have rods on them. He said
he was taking orders for putting cop
per rods on buildings for seventy cents
a foot but would put them on his build
ings for $6.00 and the farmer told him
to go ahead and put them on, where
upon the lightning rod shark filled out
a blank and asked the farmer to sign
his name but he refused to do it and
told the agent he might put on the
rods according to agreement but he
would not sign his name to anything.
The result was the agent destroyed the
order and passed on to the next.
Doubtless if the order had been signed
it would have proved to be a note of
perhaps $160. Let others take warn
ing and shun such sharks.
HOPEFUL HARRY.
A Lost Children Kpisode.
It is said that hope springs eternal
in the human breast, but parental in
stinct and love and affection are not a
bit behind hope in this respect, for
there is no danger so great, no trial so
severe, nor affliction so sore and painful
that will brook the slightest abate
ment of this the greatest attribute of
human and dumb brute creation.
It is hard to conceive of a man devoid
of this parental affection to an extent
that he would leave two of his little
children out all night in a storm, and
knowing that they had became lost,
but according to reliable reports this
is what Marcus Brynulson who lives in
the town of Glendorado did last Thurs
day night. The parents sent their lit
tle girl six years of age and a little boy
four years of age after the cows about
dusk, and after the children had been
gone some time the cows came home
but the children were not with them.
The mother started to look for the
children at once and was joined by the
father when he had finished milking.
The neighbors were not notified and
after searching in vein until nearly
midnight the parents gave up the
search and went home, much against
the mother's wish. In the morning
they managed to tell some of the neigh
bors and soon a large searching party
started to look for the children, and
about ten o'clock in the forenoon they
were found not a great ways from the
house. There were no houses near and
the children remained out exposed to
the elements all night. When found
they were chilled through from expo
sure and were in a pitable condition.
The little boy had become tired and ex
austed and had fallen down and gone to
sleep. His sister had tried to shield
the little fellow as much as possible.
There is considerable feeling in the
neighborhood over the affair.
A Brilliant Scheme.
Some amusement and a good deal of
unfavorable comment has been caused
by the visit paid last Monday by a party
of State officials to the hospitals for the
insane at St. Peter. The party con
sisted of James Martin of the board of
control who acted as chaperon Gov
ernor VanSant taken along presumably
to lend an air of respectability and im
portance to the affair Labor Commis
sioner O'Donnell, Dairy Commissioner
McConnell, and the secretary of the
live stock sanitary board, Dr. S. H.
Ward.
The real object of the visit is not
given out, but the public has been in
formed that it was for the purpose of
improving the minds of the departmen
tal officials named. It is not asserted
that they had any legitimate business
there, as that would entail proving that
the insane patients are working people,
milch cows or live stock, and even the
cheapest of politicians would hesitate
before adding any burden to the mis
fortue of the insane.
It is freely alleged, however, that
the visit is a part of a brilliant political
scheme, entirely original with the Jam
ison-Martin third term boomers, for
using the power of the board of control
for their own political purposes, and, if
successful, anyone who remembers the
influence wielded by the State institu
tions a ear or two ago when they and
their friends were fighting the board
of conti-ol bill in the legislature, will
realize that with good management
and some luck an exceedingly power
ful and dangerous political machine
might be constructed.
In the hands of unscrupulous and sel
fish politicians, such a machine would
be a menace and a danger to the State,
and would enable its maniplators to re
tain their hold on the public offices for
an indefinite period.Duluth Herald.
Real Estate Transfers.
The following are the real estate
transfers in Mille Lacs county as filed
with Register of Deeds Chapman dur
ing the past week.
Eastern Minnesota Creamery Co. to
Fred C. Keith. Creamery lot in the
village of Princeton $180 00
Fred C. Keith, unmarried, to Charles
Keith and Swan S. Petterson
Creamery lot in village of Princeton
Timothy Foley and wile, et al. to Oscar
W. Swenson, lot 5 in block 2, of Ma
lone's addition to Bridgman
Aulger Kines and wife to The Heirs of
Erastus O. Fletcher, deceased, the
n% of lot 7 block 6 of Oak Knoll
cemetery
N. M. Smith, widower, to Ingar Yotten,
ne of nyf^i of section 27, Bogus
Brook
E. N. Best and wife to North Star Land
Co.. sw of svrH of section 6, Bogus
Brook
Peter Dahlen, single, to EibertRuis,
sVofnw&of sections Milo.. 59400
North Star Land Co. to Oscar W. John
son, swH of swX of section 6, Bogus
Brook 230 00
Ann River Farm Land Co. to Carrie L.
Pratt, nw# of neH. and n% of nwi
of section 2, Borgholm 1103 70
Isaac E. Burgan and wife to .Annice
Geckler, lot4 in block 7 of Princeton 400.00
Central Trust Co. of New York to Geo.
E. Raicne, swi of nwM of section 19
Greenbush 41166
Eugene N. Best and wife to North Star
Land Co., ey2 of sea and se# of swj*
of section 24, w&of neH, seM of ne%
and neM of se'4 of section 26,41-25,
Princeton
Josiah L. Wilbur and wife (by the sher
iff) to Charles Keith, lot 4 and seu
of swX of section 30, Isle Harbor
Mary A. Potts and husband to Mark
Harvey, lots 13 and 14 in block 2 of
Potts Town
A.
E./
Johnson Co. to
sl
THE PRIKCETOK UNIONS
180.00 000.00
20 00
1.00 1.00
1 00
478.00
Per, EridknwM
Aslev,
75.00
of se% of section 11 an of
SWM of section 12 41-27. Princeton
Amanda Flink and husband to Willard
E. Thayer, lot6 in block 43 of Flink's
addition to Milaca 250 00
Isle Harbor Land Co. to Mads Knudson
and Oscar K. Almlie, netf of section
9 41-2o Princeton 960 00
20.00
Th L,ast Kind Words.
A couple of months ago an old man
c*ne into this office and "stopped his
paper"said he had no use for it. Well,
we frequently meet him on the streets
since that time and it is amusing to us
to note the look of surprise on the old
man's face that we are still in existence
regardless of him having "stopped his
paper." Some day, and it won't be
long either, that poor old man will turn
up his toes. His old heart will be
stilled forever. Neighbors and friends
will follow his lifeless clay out to the
cemetery and lay him to rest among
the flowers. An obituary will appear
iftJ?-3,. TCI
in these columns telling what a kind
father, good neighbor and benevolent
citizen he was,which lie the record
ing angel will kindly overlook for char
ity's sakeand in a short time there
after he will be forgotten. As he lies
out there in the cold graveyard,
wrapped in the silent slumber of death,
he will never know that the last kind
words ever spoken of him were those
of the editor of the paper which in life
he "stopped."Growler Allen in Mor
ton Enterprise.
Wall Street and the West.
We are repeatedly assured by east
ern journals that the west shall have
money to move its crops. Small thanks
to the east! The money which will
come west for crop moving is that of
western men, temporarily loaned to
"help out" the ever-needy east. The
obligation of the west in the case is
that of the depositor to the bank which
honors his checksa thing it must do
or "bust. "Pioneer Press.
Boys Wanted.
Boys wanted to pick jack pine cones.
Bring them to F. S. Walker's grocery
and get fifty cents per bushel. The
cones must be the closed kind of this
seasons's growth, not the old open ones.
Pick with a knife or by giving them a
jerk back toward the base of the limb,
and do not have more than three inches
of bark adhering to them.
36-38 THE WEDGE NURSERY.
Saturday was the first day of the State
fair rates on the Great Northern, and
there was quite a crowd on hand to get
in on the ground floor and take the
morning passenger.
First publication Sept. 3,1903.
OTATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
Mille Lacs.ss. In Probate Court.
Special ierm, September 2dd, 1903.
In the matter of the estate Flora A. Couch,
deceased.
On receiving and filing the petition of Nellie
M. Bnggs of the village of Princeton, repre
senting, among other things, that Flora A.
Couch, late of Elgin, Oregon, on the 22nd day
Augnst, A. 1902, at Elgin. Oregon, died in
testate, and being a resident of Elgin, Oregon,
at the time of her death, leaving estate within
this county, and that the said petitioner is no
relation of said deceased, and praying that ad
ministration of said estate be to E. A. Briggs
granted:
It is ordered, that said petition be heard be
fore this court on Friday, the 25th day of Sep
tember. A. D. 1903, at 3 o'clock p. M., at the vil
lage of Princeton in said county.
Ordered further, that notice thereof be given
to the heirs of said deceased, and to all persons
interested, by publishing this order once in
each week, for three successive weeks, prior to
said day of hearing, in the Princeton Union, a
weekly newspaper printed and published .at
Princeton in said county.
Dated at Princeton the 2nd day of September,
A. D. 1903. By the court,
B. M. VANALSTEIN,
[Probate Seal.] Judge of Probate.
First publication Aug. 20,1903.
STATEe
OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
Mill Lacs.ss. In Probate Court.
Special Term, Aug. 18th. 1903.
In the matter of the estate of Olive R. Bar
ker, deceased.
On receiving and filing the petition of E A.
Vaughn of Marion. Lynn county, Iowa, repre
senting, among other things, that Olive R. Bar
ker, late of the city of Greeley, Weld county,
Colorado, on the 12th day of July, A. D. 1903 at
the city of Denver, died intestate, and being a
resident of said city of Greeley of said county
at the time of her death, leaving estate within
this county, and that the said petitioner is an
uncle of said deceased, and praying that ad
ministration of &aid estate be to John W.
Gouldmg, of Mille Lacs county, Minn., granted.
It is ordered, that said petition be heard be
fore this court on Saturday, the 12th day of
September. A. D. 1903, at 2 o'clock p. M. at
Princeton in said county.
Ordered further, that notice thereof be given
to the heirs of said deceased, and to all persons
interested, by publishing this order once in
each week, for three successive weeks, prior to
said day of hearing, in the Princeton Union, a
weekly, newspaper printed and published at
Princeton in said county.
Dated at Princeton this 18th day of August.
A. i). 1903. By the court.
,_ B. M. VANALSTBIN,
[Probate Seal.] Judge of Probate.
First Publication Aug. 20,1903.
Summons.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, I
County of Mille Lacs, fSS
District Court, Seventh Judicial District.
Andrew Bryson, Plaintiff,
vs
Margaret J. Ross, Howard M. Atkins,
John Toal, Daniel Mccarty, Eliza
Banks McCarty, Richard Washington,
Administrator, Elial S. Wilson, John
Rollins, James W. Gillam, Ovid Pinney
also all other persons or parties un
known claiming any right, title, estate,
hen or interest in the real estate de
scribed in the complaint herein De
fendents. The State of Minnesota, to the above named
defendants:
You are hereby summoned and required to
answer the complaint of the plaintiff in the
above entitled action, which complaint has
been filed in the office of the clerk of said dis
trict court, at the village of Princeton, county
of Mille Lacs and State of Minnesota, and to
serve a copy of your answer to said complaint
on the subscriber at his office, in the village of
Princeton, in said county of Mille Lacs, within
twenty (20) days after the service of this sum
mons upon you, exclusive of the day of such
service, and if you fail to answer the said com
plaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff
in this action will apply to the court for the
relief demanded in said complaint together
with plaintiff's costs and disbursements herein.
CHARL ES KEITH.
Plaintiff's Attorney, Princeton, Minn.
Notice of Lis Pendens.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, I
County of Mille Lacs.
s
District Court, Seventh Judicial District.
Andrew Bryson, Plaintiff,
vs.
Margaret J. Ross, Howard M. Atkins
John T. Toal, Daniel McCarty, Eliza
Banks McCarty, Richard Washington
Administrator, Elial S. Wilson, John
Rollins. James W. Gillam, Ovid
Pinney, also all other persons or
parties unknown claiming any right
title, estate, lien or interest in the real
estate described in the complaint here
in, Defendants.
Notice is hereby given, that an action has
been commenced in this court by the above
named plaintiff, against the above named de
fendants that the object of said action is to
determine the adverse claim of the defend
ants, and each and all of them, and the rights
of the parties respectively herein, in and to the
real estate hereinafter described, and asking
that said adverse claim of the defendants and
each of them, may be adjudged by the court
null and void, and that the title of said real es
tate may be adjudged and decreed to be in the
plaintiff and that the premises affected by
said action, situated in the county of Mill
Lacs and State of Minnesotal,o are described as
follows: Lots three
(3)',
thiVty-eilhte
bc
(4), five (5), seven
(1) and eight (8), inn block thirty-six (36) lots
one (l), six (6) seven (7) and eight (8), in block
thirty-seve)nanfive
(10
ifour
te
(37), lots one (l)f two (2), three
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(9)
01 and
(3). four (4) (5), six (6), seven (7), eight
Jlml,ont!s
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10
elevei
one(l),two (2), three (3), seven (7),
te
W twelve (12) in block forty-seven (47) lots one
(1). three (3), four (4), five (5), six (6), eight
(8) ten (10), eleven (11) and twelve (12) in
block forty-eight (48) lots four (4), five (5)
six (6), seven (7), eight (8) and nine (9). in
block forty-nine (49), of Princeton, according
to the recorded plat thereof in the registry of
deeds of said county. Also the north three (3)
acres of the southeast quarter of the southwest
quarter of section twenty-eight (28), township
^rty-six (36), north of range twenty-six (26)
TJ, i CHARLES KEIH*
Plaintif~f, Attorney, PrincetonT, Minn.
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Mille Lacs County
I Agricultural
ill Society,
& Wednesday Afternoon, Sept. 16.
1:30 p. m.2:30 Trot, one mile
heats, best three in five,
For a purse of
Purity
in beer
O I that the Long's Mercantile
Co. have plenty of barbed wire,lime and
cement, flour, feed, bran and shorts on
hand.
Twelfth Annual
A Better Fair Than Ever
3:00 p. m.--BalI Game,
Princeton vs. Spencer Brook.
Home Race for Mille Lacs county horses
only, one-half mile heats, best three in
five, purse to be divided
Farmers' Race, one-half mile heats,
best two in three.
Purse
Concerts Daily by Princeton Band.
Something new and interesting every day.
FnnCetOn Wednesday
September 15,16 and 17,1903.
Fine display of Agricultural Products.
A Big List of Premiums by the Fair
Society and Business Men of Princeton
GRAND PROGRAM OF RACES SPORTS
$200
S50 S30
AL AGREE
to the excellence
UNCLE SAMS
MONOGRAM
WHISKEY
A trial will convince?
Ask your dealer or druggist,
GEO.
ST. PAUL, BEN/ MINNEAPOLIS
8 SONS
DISTILLERIES AT
EMINENCE, KY. AND BALTIMOREtrTD.
First publication Aug. 20,1903.
STATEe
OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY OF
Mill Lacs.ss. Probate Court.
Special Term, Aug. 14th, 1903.
In the matter of the estate of John Barry, de
ceased.
On reading and filing the petition of Minnie
H. Barry, executrix of the estate of John Bar
ry, deceased, setting forth the amount of per
sonal estate that has come into her hands as
such executrix, the disposition thereof, and
how much remains undisposed of the amount
of debts outstanding against said deceased, as
far as the same can be ascertained and a des
scription of all the real estate, of which said
deceased died seized, and the condition and
value of the respective portions or lots thereof
the persons interested in said estate, with their
residences: and praying that license be to her
granted to sell all of said real estate at private
sale. And it appearing by said petition that
there is no personal estate in the hands of said
executrix to pay said debts or expenses of ad
ministration, and that it is necessary for the
payment of such debts, legacies or expenses to
sell all of said real estate.
It is therefore ordered, that all persons in
terested in said estate appear before this court
on Saturday, the 12th day of September, A. D.
1903, at 2 o'clock p. M., at the court house in
Princeton in said county, then and there to
show cause (if any there be) why license should
not be granted to said Minnie H. Barry, as ex
ecutrix aforesaid, to sell all of the real estate
of said deceased as shall be necessary to pav
such debts.
Aiid it is further ordered, that this order
shall be published once in each week, for three
successive weeks prior to said day of hearing
in the Princeton Union, a weekly newspaper
printed and published at Princeton in said
county.
Dated at Princeton, the 14th day of August
A. D. 1903. By the Court,
r-r, i.
[Probate Seal.]
Tuesday,
VANALSTBIN.
Udge
E. L. MCMILLAN,
Attorney for Executrix,
Princeton, Minn.
of Probate.
Old Papers for sale at the UNION of
fice for 25c per 100. Just the thing for
carpets and house-cleaning.
Fair
and Thursday
New Buildings and Many
Improvements to Grounds
Thursday Afternoon, Sept. 17.
1:30 p. m. Ball Game,
Cambridge vs. Milaca.
Free-for-all Trot or Pace,
Mile heats, best three In five,
Purse Free-for-all Running Race,
mile heats, best two in three.
Purse
[First Publication Aug. 27.1903.]
No. 5626. OFFICE OF
NORTHWESTERN IMPROVEMENT CO
Northern Pacific General Office Building
Cor. Fourth and Broadway sts., St Paul, Minn.
To Gottf rid Johnson.
Whereas, a certain contract in writing was
made and entered into between the St. Paul &
Duluth Railroad Company, as party of the first
part, and you, Gottfrid Johnson, as party of the
second part, dated the 14th day of May, A.
1898, under and by the terms of which contract
the said party of the first part contracted and
agreed to sell to you, the said party of the sec
ond part, upon payment by you of certain sums
of money and the performance of certain con
ditions, the following described lands, to-wif
Northwest quarter of southwest quarter of sec
tion No. 11, in township No. 43 north, of range
No. 25 west of the 4th principal meridian, said
lands being situate in the county of Mille Lacs
and State of Minnesota and
Whereas, default has been made by you the
said party of the second part, in the perform
ance of the terms and conditions of the said
contract, in this, to-wit: Failure to make pay
ments as per terms and conditions of said con
tract and
Whereas, the Northwestern Improvement
Company, a corporation, has succeeded to the
rights of the said St. Paul & Duluth Railroad
Company under the said contract and the title
of the said St. Paul & Duluth Railroad Com
pany in and to the premises above described
and
Whereas, the said Northwestern Imnrove
ment Company is by the terms of said contract
by reason of said default entitled to declare a
forfeiture thereof, and to declare the same
wholly null and void.
Now. therefore, you the said Gottfrid John
son are notified that the said Northwestern
Improvement Company does hereby elect to
declare a forfeiture of the said contract and to
declare the same wholly null and void, and to
cancel and terminate the said contract, and the
same is hereby forfeited, canceled and termi
nated, as provided in said contract and pursu
ant to the statute in such cases made and pro
vided, and such eancellation and termination
will take effect on the 19th day of October. 1903.
NORTHWESTERN IMPROVEMENT COMPANY
By F. W. WILSE Y, Ass't Land Commissioner.
Dated July 7th, 1903.
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Races to be called at 2 o'clock.
Be Sure and Attend.
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