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FIVE JUNEWEDDINGS Misses Eva M. Hatch, Caroline Nach- bar and Gertrude Hill Among the Fair June Brides. Edgar Briggs and riarie Hotter and John Lane and Esther Kim- ball Also Couple Up. William H. Orr of Sidney, Mont., formerly of Princeton, was married yesterday morning to Eva M., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hatch, at the home of the bride's parents. Rev. Sen ice of the Metho dist chinch performed the ceremony and the wedding ring was carried in a white rose by little Donald Orr. nephew of the groom. Mrs. Benj. Soule played the wedding march from Lohengrin and Miss Byers ren dered a pretty vocal solo. Miss Marguerite M. Bjeis attended the bride and Worthie Elin of Anoka the groom. The bride's gown was of white muslin draped in white silk embroi dered net, while the bridesmaid was dressed in pink muslin draped in pink chiffon. A bouquet of white roses was carried by the bride and one of pink carnations by the brides maid. The presents bestowed upon the young couple were numerous and \aluable. Mrs. W. L. Hatch, the bride's mother, ser\ed an excellent wedding breakfast in the piettily decorated dining loom, and yesterday after noon Mr. and Mrs. Orr left for Sid ney, Montana,wheie the groom is engaged in the jewelry business, Dennison Bjers taking them so far as Elk River in his father's auto mobile. A number of friends from Elk Rivei, Anoka and other outside places, were present at the cere mony, among them Hon. and Mrs. Chas. IS". Orr and son of St. Paul. The man} friends of the young people wish them a lite of contin uous happiness. Faust-Nachbar. George Faust of Parkston, N. D., and Caroline Nachbar, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard Nachbar. ,of Princeton, were married in St. Ed ward's Catholic church on Tuesday morning at 8:30 by Rev. Joseph Willen brink. Anthony Faust was the best man and Laurena Jesmer the bridesmaid. The bride, who was conducted to the altar by her father, wore a traveling suit of pale blue and carried roses. Roses were also carried by Miss Jesmer. Mrs. T. J. Kaliher played the wedding March and Mrs. S. P. Skahen sang "O. Salutaris." A duet, "Alta Maria," was also sung by two little daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Blocker. A reception was given at the house of the bride's parents after the nuptial ceremony, and at 2 o'clock Mr. and Mrs. Faust were conveyed in an automobile to Elk River. From there they took a train to Parkston, where the groom conducts a lumber yard. May contentment and prosperity be theirs. Tomlinson-Hill. At 2 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon Gertrude, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hill, was united in wedlock at the home of her parents in this village to Thomas Tomlinson. Rev E. B. Service performed the cere mony in the presence of a number of relatives and friends of the contract ing parties. Nellie Hill, a sister of the bride, was the bridesmaid, and Thomas Owens of Zimmerman the best man. A pown of white crepe duchene was worn by the bride and she carried a bouquet of white roses, while the bridesmaid carried roses of pink. Mrs. C. E. Hill served a bounteous wedding dinner after the ceremony and many guests sat down to the re past. The dining room was prettily decorated with flowers and ferns. Mr. and Mrs Tomlinson left for Minneapolis upon the same after noon, the bride's father conveying them so far as Elk River in his auto mobile. The young people will make their home in Princeton. That their life may be happy is the wish of their friends. Briggs-Holter. Edgar A. Briggs and Marie G. Holter, both of Princeton, were married at the Methodist parsonage by Rev. E. B. Service on Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The wit nesses were Carl Krull and Mary Wurzhuber. A reception was given at the home of the bride's mother Minnc8ottli9toiicnlcetTi after the ceremonj and the young folks leceived a number of pietty gifts. Mr. and Mrs. Briggs will leside in Princeton township. Lane-Kimball. John Lane of Princeton and Mrs. Esther Kimball of Milaca were married at the home of Mrs. G. W. Marshall in this village yesterday morning at 7:30. Rev. Service per formed the ceremony. Following the ceremony a wedding breakfast was served to a small gathering of friends and neighbors, and Mr. and Mrs. Lane left on the morning train for St. Cloud and other points to spend their honeymoon. They will be at home to their friends in Princeton after July 1. Road Improvement Meeting. Puisuant to call about a couple of score of people interested in the proper observance of Good Roads Day in this village met at McMillan' & Stanley's office on Tuesday even ing. Dr. C. S. Neumann presided and John F. Petterson acted as secretary. After an informal discussion, in which all present participated, it was determined that the movement to improve one half mile of road the-stretch from the East Branch bridge to the foot of the Coates' hill and about 30 rods on the north side of Oak Knoll cemeteryon Good Roads Day must be successfully carried out, and in order to do so more teams must be had than were obtainable in the village, hence it was deemed expedient to appoint a committee on finance. On motion of R. C. Dunn, S. S. Petterson, J. J. Skahen and L. C. Hummel were ap pointed a committee on finance. It is hoped that the finance com mittee will meet with a favorable response from our citizens generally. Several hundred dollars must be raised. One thousand cubic yards of crushed rock have been ordered part of the rock has already arrived and is being unloadedand it will require from 80 to 100 teams to get the rock on the road in one day. I is expected that owners of draught teams in the village will donate a day's hauling, but teams must be obtained from outside the village and most of them will have to be hired. Then it will require a large force of men to load^at the railroad yards and another laag force to handle the rock on the road. On motion of Chas. Keith a com mittee of three was appointed on teams and labor. This committee consists of T. J. Kaliher, Will Swan bro and A. M. Davis The duty of this committee will be to ascertain the number of men and teams that will be available in the village and properly list the same. It was also unanimously determined that T. J. Kaliher should have charge of the loading of teams at the railroad yards. Of course, the expert road builder furnished by Engineer Cooley 6f the highway commission, Mr. W. T. Kerr, will have active charge of laying the rock on the road. There is no more experienced road-builder in the state than Mr. Kerr. A meeting of the committees will be held at McMillan & Stanley's office at 8 o'clock Wednesday even ing, June 11, to ascertain how many men and teams can be had in the village for volunteer service on Good Roads Day, and to perfect aJl ar rangements. Let there be unity of action. There is no room for any divergence opinion on the question of im- of -.-wv^**yr^*r*,,^*'- R. C. DUNN, Publisher. Terms $1.00 Per Year. PRINCETON, MILLE LACS COUNTY, MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1913. leading-^ntjo the proving the roads village. Let us demonstrate whaii a live village can do in. the matter of practical road-improvement. Talk will not build or improve roads. Let us make the first Good Roads Day memorable in the history of Princeton. A Good Appointment. Mr. P. M. Torell of Cambridge has been appointed assistant- state highway engineer and his sphere of operations will be confined to Isanti county. Mr. Torell is an energetic man and knows how to build roads he has a splendid field to work in, for certainly there is room for im provement in the roads of Isanti county. Heretofore Mr. R. S. Chapman of Princeton has had charge of the state road work in Mille Lacs, Kanabec and Isanti countiestoo much terri tory for one man to properly cover. The appointment of Mr. Torell will relieve Mr. Chapman of at least one third of the work he has been doing for the past two years, but he will have few spare minutes at his dis posal even now with Isanti left out of his district. He will find enough work to keep him busy in Mille Lacs and Kanabec counties. REV. VIGIUUS KRULL Is Conducting a Mission at St. Ed- ward's Catholic Church Which Will Conclude June 7. At Every Meeting Large Audiences Gather to Listen to This Elo- quent and Logical Man. Father Vigilius Krull, C. P. P. S.. of Collegeville, Ind., opened a mis sion on Sunday morning at 10:30 in St. Edward's Catholic church and the meetings will continue daily at 9 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. until Satur day morning next. He is assisted in his work by priests from the sur rounding parishes. Father Krull is a finished orator, a thorough scholar and a most forceful speaker of wide experience, making him a real power in the elucidation of religious doctrine. He is broad minded and libeial in his views. With sledge-hammer blows of logic he backs up every statement he makes by scriptural citations, but, generally, his discourses are more in the nature of lectures than of ser mons. In his Sunday morning sermon he showed the harmony existing be tween the laws governing science and revelation, and demonstrated clearly that there is no contradic tion in these two laws. On Sunday evening his discouise was upon the apostolic succession, tracing the mir acles performed by Christ and the authority given by Him to the apos tles, and from that down to the present time. During the Week he gave dis courses on the following subjects: Matrimony, including all that in any way appertained to the making of the home Repentance and Confes sion, saying that this must precede forgiveness, and the application of this law was traced by the speaker to its ultimate limits and the Holy Encharist, or Lord's supper, founded by Christ and given to all humanity for the cleansing of souls. mu fln city at every meeting and the lee tures are not only of a religious nature but are highly instructive to aJL The good that will follow from these^testoiMwrtll B^njaJJvjto manent and far reaching. Alumni Banquet. The High School Alumni associ ation held its annual banquet in Odd Fellows hall last Friday evening, and it was a sort of free-and-easy affair devoid of the stiffness which has characterized former banquets given by the association. No third-degree methods were resorted to in Jniti at ing the new members, and the event was just one round of social merri ment. A splendid supper, prepared by ladies of the Rebekah lodge, was served at 8 o'clock, and it was after 10 when the last member finished gnawing the chicken leg on his plate. Fifty-five covers were laid for the feast. There was no toastmaster neither were there any toasts, and the frivolous person attempting to spring any chestnuts was promptly ruled out of order by the chairman At the business meeting Etta Davis was elected president, Chas. Umbehocker vice president, and Herman Hofflander secretary-treas urer. An impromptu dance in which the swinging, the swaying and the toe tripping were executed to the sweet strains of Marshall's orchestra, con cluded the evening's merriment The members of the school board were present as guests of the associ ation. The Gollmar Shows Are Coming. Gollmar Bros.' big circus will be here on June 23 and, among its great zoo attractions is Lotus, the largest hippopotamus in captivity. Lotus was captured near the head waters of the Nile by special agents of Goll mar Bros, and shipped direct to this country for exhibition in their large menagerie. Lotus weighs over two tons, measures 8 feet 7 inches from his broad nose to his tail. His mouth, when open, measures from upper jaw to lower jaw 4 feet 1 inch. His mouth is 2 feet 6 inches wide. Gollmar Bros, value Lotus at $20,000 and have him insured at that sum with Lloyds of England. Gollmar Bros.'shows have visited Princeton upon several occasions and have always proved to be exhibitions of the highest type. Company C, Attention! The members of Company will assemble at the armory on June 15 for a 10 days' peiiod of duty at Lake City. A. H.,Johnson, Captain. w,.A THREE BALL GAMES Princeton First Nine Defeat Isanti and Carry Off the Honors in the Game With Big Lake. Princeton High School Team Goes Against Milaca and fleets De- feat in Score of 5 to 3. Last Sunday at the fair grounds the Isanti and Princeton ball teams staged the best ball game seen on the local ball lot in some time. It was one of those close, nerve-racking games where one misplay might be enough to lose the game, and both teams were going their limit throughout the game. Joe/Porter svas on the firing line for the locals and pitched shut-out ball for 9 innings. He had the visit ors eating tamely out of his hand throughout the game, and only one of them, Baker, broke loose from Jde's treatment long enough to find the ball for a safe hit. Baker's two base clout in the fourth was the only hit registered off Joe's delivery, and thil failed to figure in the scoring. Baiter was the opposing pitcher and he pitched a classy article of ball, allowing only five hits, which he kept pretty well scattered. For the first four innings both sides went out lh rotation, and the game settled down to an aiitight affair with both pitchers working harp and getting good support. Iji their half of the fifth Isanti got busy and scored their one and only run, when Lundgren got a life on Fullwiler's error, stole second and scored on a smash to left field that Wicktor misjudged. Things were beginning to look a little dubious for the locals, for up to the seventh inning they had failed to score and the home crowd was getting just a little anxious for the boys to start something. Skahen sent Princeton stock booming when he started the seventh round with a clean drive to left field and a .Jta^roent later stole second. Wicktor The church is filled to its full capa^4ir-fl E -v.. IT, *._. fsaeriflcedan HSm to third andd with only one out a man on thir it began to look like a score. Joe Trunk slapped a vicious one to the short stop and Skahen scored, while Joe wa^^fe first on the play. Full wiler hit one^down the third base line, and when the Isanti 'infield got through with their wild throwing to catch the fleet-footed Joe, he had scored on the play and put the locals one in the lead. The other Princeton score came in the next inning, when Smithie fell on one of Baker's choice ones for a two-bagger and made it into a home run when they tried to catch him going third. This ended the scoring for both sides, and when the game was over the scorer handed in the official returns as follows: Isanti, 1 Princeton, 3. The Big Lake Game. Last Friday the Princeton first team went down to Big Lake and, after eleven innings of heart-break ing baseball, finally brought home the bacon12 to 13. We use the word heart-breaking advisedly here because it bordered more on the comical after all, although the play ers on both sides took it seriously enough and fought long and hard to win. It was quite a victory for the local boys, however, as it brought out a fighting spirit which they didn't know they had themselves until it began to crop out of them in the face of almost hopeless defeat. Princeton got a bad start in this game and at the beginning of the fourth inning the score was 7 to 0, and the only thing that kept the crowd was just their curiosity to see how big a score the home guard could run up on the Princeton lads. But at this stage of the game the visitors pulled a surprise when Full wiler went in to relieve Porter of the pitching duties, as the home boys were taking a too violent liking to Joe's offering, and led the attack by some airtight pitching by thje high school flinger, the Princetonians un limbered their war clubs and pro ceeded to fall on some of the choice offerings of Smiley, the Minneapolis lad who was heaving them over for Big Lake. The batting and base running of the Princetonians was so vicious that, at the end of the seventh inning they had not only overcome Big Lake's lead but had passed them by one score. From this stage on to the close the game grew hazy in a cloud of hits, errors, wild throws and other base ball misdemeanors in which each side do }heir seemed to be daring the other to 'durndest. During these i .^ri. last four innings of play the game was won and lost by both sides on various occasions, and it took two extra innings of baseball before the Princetonians emerged wild-eyed from the struggle, but with the long end of the score tucked safely away in the bat sack. The High School Game. The local high school team closed their season last Thursday on their own grounds by playing the rubber game with the high school team from Milaca. This game proved to be a highly interesting affair, and it took 10 innings of good, fast baseball before the game was decided. Each team had won a game, and this game settled the dispute between "the two rival schools. Milaca proved too much for the locals, however, and started a batting rally in their half of the tenth that drove in two runs, which proved too big a lead for the locals to overcome, and they were compelled to accept a 5 to 3 defeat. NOTES. Eighteen autos were over from Isanti to see the Sunday game and fully 100 Isanti people were on hand to root for the visitors. Neither team had lost a game and the Isanti cohorts were out in force to help their athletes humble the Princeton ians. The largest baseball crowd of the season turned out to see the after noon sport and it reminded one of county fair time to see the crowd around the grounds. Joe Porter, under the skillful tu telage of Guy Ewing, is writing a short baseball article entitled, "How to catch the high ones.'' The Princeton team is coming along in good shape now, having won four straight games and not lost any, and, with a little more consistent practice and a little more experience, they should be able to worry the best of them in this neck of the woods. Heinie Plaas and a gentleman from Isanti umpired the Sunday game, and not once was the plaj marred by a kick on their decisions. The gameAvas pulled off in big league style throughout. Next Sunday Princeton goes over to Isanti to play a return game, and this game should prove a battle royal as the teams appear to be j^bout evenly matched. TRAIN CRASHES INTO AUTO. Four Killed and Two Injured on Cross ing Below Elk River. A frightful accident occurred at the Nord railway crossing, half a mile below Elk River, shortly after 10 o'clock on Monday morning, when the Northern Pacific's Winnipeg flyer No. 13 collided with an automobile containing six people and killed four of them. Those who lost their lives were J. L. Dawson, driver of the machine, Mrs. J. L. Dawson, the eight-year-old daughter of Mrs. C. G. Dawson, and Efon Dawson The injured are Mrs. C. C. Dawson* who lost a leg and her small son, who was badly bruised. The Dawsons had purchased a farm at Clear Lake, about 30 miles north west of Elk River, and were on their way from Kalona, Iowa, to that point to make their future home. The highway which crosses the railway steel near the home of Just Nord parallels the right-of-way for many rods, and Dawson, who was at the wheel of the machine, undertook to cross ahead of the fast running train. He had miscalculated the speed with which the locomotive was bearing down and his auto was struck when upon the very center of the track and hurled fully fifty feet and torn to pieces. The bodies of two of the dead were carried along by the machine in its flight and were crushed and torn almost beyond recognition. The injured who sur vived the collision were picked up near the tracks. Word of the accident was tele phoned from the Nord farm and county officials and citizens were taken in autos to the scene. In" the absence of the coroner from the county, the bodies of the dead were taken in charge by the county at torney and conveyed to Minneapolis. The survivors were removed to the Nord house. I Kathio Will Build Three Miles of Road Mr." and Mrs. A. P. Jorgensen drove down from Vineland in their new machine on Tuesday and will return today. "On Good Roads Day, June 17," says Mr. Jorgensen, "the citizens of Kathio township have decided to turn out and build three miles of graveled road, and to build it right." Here's an example for other towns. VOLUME XXXYII. NO. 31 VETERANS IN IE Old Boys in Blue Attend Impressive Exercises at M. E. Church in Honor of Dead Comrades. Ritualistic Services of Q. A. R. Per- formed at Oak Knoll and the Roll of Dead is Called. Princeton, at all times patriotic, observed Memorial day with exer cises befitting the occasion, and there were hundreds of people from the country tributaryfarmers, their wives, sons and daughterswho at tended the services held in memory of our soldier dead. There was a small contingent of old soldiers from neighboring towns in attendance, but the representation of veterans f*om distant parts of Mille Lacs county was small. As the years roll on the line of the old boys in blue upon Decoration day is growing thinner and thinner, although time seems to have dealt kindly with those who remain with ustheir ages throughout the United States averaging 70 years. There was no desecration of the nation's day of mourning in Princetonevery one took cognizance of the sacred nature of the day and observed it with that' reverence which is its due. The old soldiers assembled under the veranda of Thos. H. Caley's res idence, and the Citizens' band played a couple of patriotic selec tions to enliven the old boys in before the formation of4 5 the columeblu which was to proceed to the Metho dist church for the memorial ser vices. Immediately after the selec tions by the band the column formed as follows: Citizens' band, with Lieutenant Chas. Bullis of Company G, marshal of the day, leading Company G, under command of Cap tain Alfred H. Johnson the Boys' band, Members of Wallace T. Rines post and other old soldiers, the Woman's Relief corps, and a number of school children carrying flags and flowers The procession was indeed an imposing one which marched to the Methodist church. In that sacred edifice the day's ob servance commenced with a song by the chorus choir. This was followed by an invocation delivered by Rev. E. B. Service, and then came a selection by a male quartet consist ing of Messrs. Ewing, Briggs, Fred ericks &no>Radeke with Mrs. Swing as organist, and a song by the chorus choir. The address of Assistant Ad jutant General O. S. Clark of the state militia followed and, among other things, he said: "We are assembled here in this lit tle city of Princeton, on this day sacred to the memories of our com rades who either fell in battle, or sickened and died of wounds or disease during those terrible years of the civil war, or who, coming home apparently strong and well, have since then been mustered out of our ranks here, but we believe mustered in above. I know of nothing happier in its conception, away back in 1868, than this idea of decorating the graves of our fallen comrades, and to General John A. Logan, the then commander in chief of the G. A. R. is all praise and honor due. He builded better than he knew and from that day, when he issued his order for the keeping of Memorial day, until this, the 30th day of May has been ob served with ever increasing sacred ness, until today all over our broad land, even to some extent in the southern states, innumerable com panies are gathered, just as we are here in this beautiful Minnesota city. "More and more as the years go by, not only the old veterans of the civil war, but the people generally participate in these sad, but beau tiful services, and in almost all our states the 30th day of May is set apart as a legal holiday. "We of the Grand Army deprecate the making of the day a day for sports and general hilarity, because to us it has a fac greater sacredness than almost any other day in the whole year. Our minds ought to be turned from such things, and cen tered upon the great object we have in view: the impressing upon all, both old and youn|r, but especially on the young, the obligation, soon to rest upon them alone, to keep sacred this Memorial day., I take it that the main object in my address today fe to seek to make such a lasting impression that it will never be forgotten. 'We read in ancient history how memorial arches were reared by* those who had, by their courage bravery and fidelity to the cause g- *y &i&hj*&hj$t HiS^&iht^^w'ss^if