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VOLUME XXIV.

CITIZENS STATE BANK. INCORPORATED) OF PRINCETON, HINNESOTA.

Paid Up Capital Surplus,

$30,000 • 5.000

A General Bankin? Business Transacted

Loans Made on Appioved be-cuittj

Interest Paid on Time De­posits

TJoreigu change

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S. S. PETTERSON, Pres. T. H. CALEY, Vice Pres. O. A. EATON, Cashier.

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I BANK OF PRINCETON. | ^ J- J- SKAHEN, Cashier and Manager. &

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Insurance. Village Loans. *

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i Railroad Lands ©7 F»ne Hardwood Lands, Meadows and Open , Open Lands, a t V?

Low Prices and on Easv Terms, for sale by / •

8? The Great Northern and 4 / fp St. Paul & Duluth Railroad Companies. 2? m7 For Maps, Prices, and any other information, • / £fl write to / •

% M. S. RUTHERFORD, § I? Land Agent. Princeton, Minn. A

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. Foley Bean Lumber • Company - - -

Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealers in

White Pine Lumber, Lath and Shingles.

• Also Sash, Doors j Mouldings and a Com-plete Stock of Building material.

• W. P. CHASE, rianager. PRINCETON.

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THE COMMERCIAL HOTEL,

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H. NEWBERT, Proprietor. PRINCETON, - - - MINNESOTA

Berg Bargains for This Week. \ „ •

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T 16 oz. can ZOu £

j Cornstarch, 6 pkgs /DC T

^ Saleratus, 6 pkgs ZOG i • Good Laundry soap, OC^ • • 10 bars Zuu T • American Sardines, QC» • t 6 cans l u l l £

J io lbs. Rolled Oats. ZOC 1

t IE • • Fine Rio Coffee, per lb .. IDC •

T A good Coffee, per lb

Mason's preserving cans at T • reduced prices. 4-

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! M. L. CORMANYI Attorney at Law.

Collections, Rentals,

Fire Insurance, Life Insurance, f

$ Real Estate Commission. I r 4 t • 4

<gT 1 am prepared to locate sett lers on fine improved farms of any size or distance desired free to sett lers.

Fifteen thousand acres of wild jjj land for sale at $5 per acre in

Mille Lacs & Morrison counties.

Send me a description of your ^ land if you want to sell it

Care of property for

NONRESIDENTS A SPECIALTY. 4 • ?

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R. D. BYER5, | £ Dealer in •

: Qeneraj Merchandise i • 5 Rolls of Carpet bought a t 1 • last year ' s prices. Retails a t •

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SMALL POX AGAIN. I The Dread Disease Puts in a Second

^Appearance, This Time in a

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State Officials Are Handling the Mat-

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J Be Stamped Out.

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Meat Market. E. BIPPOK & CO, Prop.

Wholesale and retail dealer in

MEATS. Fish, Poultry and Game

in Season. Princeton, Minn.

Thirty minutes is all the time required to dye with

PUTNAh FADELESS DYES.

Sold by PRINCETON DRUG CO.

Smallpox is again prevalent in the farming district south of us and extra­ordinary precautions are being taken to prevent its spread. The seat of the trouble is in the Cohoe neighborhood in the northern part of Livonia, and the reports which reach this village are to the effect that it has been spreading in an alarming manner. The attention of the State board of health has been called to the trouble and an officer of the board is on the ground looking after the sanitary con­ditions of the neighborhood and over­seeing the quarantine.

The disease is said to have been brought to Livonia about the same time as the Jennison case in Baldwin, and like that was contracted in the woods near Nickerson. While the Baldwin authorities took prompt action and established a quarantine as soon as the appearance of the dis­ease became known, the cases in the neighboring town were neglected, ow­ing to the opposition which developed to the provisions of the law, and the chances are that the authorities will now have a hard time to stamp out the plague and incur a larger expense than would have been necessary had prompt action been taken

Yesterday we learned that the Livonia officials claim that the disease came from the Baldwin case two months ago and also that the State board charge the Baldwin board with negligence As the UNION has not been able to interview any of the in­terested parties it is unable to tell which story is true Dr Bracken, of St. Paul, visited the infected district personally xn company with Dr Whit-temore, of Elk River, and both say that the patient examined was suffer­ing with small pox of a pronounced type

-*i*i^ * i P o s t p o n e d . * The Oddfellows were notified by the

official who has charge of the small pox quarantine in the Livonia neigh­borhood that thej would not be al­lowed to hold then picnic at Blue Lake, on account of the danger of con­tagion and the} were obliged to call off the aflair The picnic vv ill be held two or thiee weeks later at some other lake, notice of which will be given later The bojs aie greatly disap­pointed over this turn of affairs

Pulled the Posts. The action of ^the village council in

removing the hitching pos>ts in the business part of town has called out considerable criticism, and while most of it is favorable there are several of the business men who oppose the move­ment. They claim that it was the work of a few meichants who have large backyards where their custom­ers' teams can be accommodated, and therefore their trade will not be af­fected, while those who have no va­cant land in the rear of their stores will lose trade by the order. There is no doubt as to the improvement in the sanitary conditions of the street Af­ter all our heavy rains Mam street has been a mortar bed along the curb and with the hot weather which follows most of the showers the stench arising from the liquid filth is awful. Under the new arrangement it will be possi­ble to fix the streets so that they will be better drained than heretofore, and when the holes are filled there will be no teams standing all day stamping new holes where the water can accum­ulate The removal of sign posts and overhead signs is also a good thing. The ordinance may inconvenience a few for a time, but all will agree later that is a good thing.

The East-side is up in arms against Poundmaster Moses S. Cone and the determination of that official not to permit the herding of cows inside the city limits. Herder McCarthy with his hired man was fined in Judge Al-den's court on Saturday, and Sunday a petition was circulated through the Fiftjj ward asking the privilege of herding cows in the unsettled portion of the ward. It is claimed that Mr. Cone was the only resident of the ward who refused to sign tho paper and the only other voter in the ward not on the petition is a man who is out of town. In this connection it is reported that there is a movement on foot to re­voke Cone's appointment as pound-master. If the East-side aldermen are really after his official scalp they can probably get it.—St Cloud Journal-Press.

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m (C • A Letter from the Old World . ' \ BY THE—-=="*•

\ UNIOIV'S SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

EUROPEAN SIGHTS.

P A R I S , July 28 —Lucerne, on the lake watch the peasants coming in with of the same name, is one of the their products in cuiious vehicles, and most beautiful cities of Switzer­land and its stores filled with real brellas, etc., keeping up a running shell, real chamois, real hand- stream of converse all the while work and real stones from the moun­tains are a mecca for the tourist. No­where else is there so much in the hear the great clock strike the hour of variety of home productions to tempt twelve. There are crowds present al the pocket-book, and if this is ways at this hour and it is impressive "slander" one can still have the pleas- to note the hush that falls in the min-ure of looking and longing. The city, ute or two before the strokes begin, too, in the newer portion has a more The breath is almost suspended and American air about it than almost any previously visited. Much that is an- the little bronze angel at one side of cient, however, still remains as the face gives the warning stroke The city wall, with its nine towers and a angel opposite reverses his sand-glast, cathedral founded in the tenth century, figures representing bojhood, jouth, There is a curious old covered bridge, _ . . _ too, called the "Mule bridge" crossing skeleton who solemnly beats the hour, the river Reuss a short distance below the twelve apostles pass befote the its exit from the lake and this is figure of the Sawoui each making adorned like so many of the structures reverence and away at the top Chan-of the "old country" with paintings, (not always the work of a master hand), representing scriptural scenes.

The Rigi and Pilatus are two of the mountains in the vicinity of Lucerne, whose summits are accessible by means of the mountain railway and the view from the former is by some considered the finest in Europe. It rained on the morning of the day we were to make the ascent but by noon had cleared away, leaving however, a slight haze so that some of the more distant mouutaius, as the Jungfrau which is visible on a perfectly clear dav, were obscured

A charming sail of an hour on the lake brought us to Vitznau, the start­ing point for the incline It is a cog­wheel ra i lwaj j tbe car seating about 60 people and the engine is at the back on the upward journey and ahead when descending. It runs slowly, oc­cupying something"6ver one and one-fourth hours in the trip either way so that one has ample opportunity to en­joy the giaduallj unfolding panorama. Unlike Mt Lowe in southern Califor­nia or the incline on Lookout mountain in Chattanooga, this is full of curves so that one has more of a feeling of security. The road winds through shady groves, around rocky clifts. over deep ravines in whose depths flow purl­ing streamlets and comes out ever and anon upon bold promontories where the lake shows farther and farther away in the valley below. Several stations are passed and at each stop boys and girls from the mountain homes appear with bouquets of fresh flowers or clusters of the far-famed edelweiss, pressed, for sale

Rigi-Kulm is the last station and a short climb from here brought us to the very tip-top, 6,000 ft above the sea-level Such a panorama as lay spread before us' Villages innumer­able dotting hillside and v allej in ev ery direction, chains of lakes, rugged peaks where cloudy, mist-like forms drifted unceasingly, now wrapping themselves about the massive heads, now floating down, down into the shadowy depths. Par, far below our feet lay Lake Zug, glowing like an emerald as the sun burst upon it touch­ing with golden light the steamer making its way to the little town upon its banks A toy boat, a toy village and hardly more than a toy lake, they seemed from our height.

The ride down the mountain un­folded new beauties and as we looked back at the lofty peak from our boat it seemed a dream that we had been so high.

Our last day at Lucerne we were the uninvited guests at a wedding break­fast. The entire company, numbering 75 or more occupied the dining-room

whole proceedings. The bride, re­splendent in white with long veil oc- by side with the men. cupied the seat of honor at head of

music must almost of when rendered by Germans

On the way from Lucerne to Strass burg we stopped over night at Basel

At Strassberg we visited the cathe­dral at "hisrh noun" that we might

ticleer flaps his wings and crows thrice. It is really a great curiosity — one worth travelling miles to see The cathedral itself is a fine gothic struc­ture, very interesting. At the park in Strassburg we saw the Kiosk built by Louis, the Mad King of Bavaria, one of the many gorgeous structures for which he is so famous

Majence was our starting point for the sail down the Rhine We boarded the Borussia here at 8 30 A M and steamed down the storied river to Cologne which we reached late in the afternoon. Everyone knows the "cas­tled Rhine" thiough pictuieand story, but it means much to really float upon its waters, see its wonderful tei raced vinejards, its watch towers, its ruins; to gaze upon "fair Bingen ' with its famous "Mouse Tower'" and Ehrenfels, Rhemfels. Ehrenbreitstein and many another castle lov ed by poet and artist. It was the realization of the wish of a lifetime

Hotel Ernst, our abiding place at Cologne, faces upon the square con­taining the cathedial and our windows afforded a fine viewT of the beautiful structure, more exquisite in its lace­like exterior than that of Milan even. This is numbered among the world's highest structures and a hne view is obtained from the tower but the day was hot and we were tired. &o iesolved to forego this plea^uie which necessi­tated a climb of more than 300 steps

Early on the morning of the daj we left Cologne we noticed extensile pre­parations in progiess at Hotel Grosser Kurfurst just across the square Ban­ners, some bearing-the rovai insignia were flown from the windows a rich awning and di aperies arranged at the entrance and potted plants every­where Liveried porters were giouped about and mounted policemen guarded the front Some distinguished v lsitor, we knew was expected and ve found upon inquiry that it was the Shah of Persia. Crowds lined the streets and gathered about the entrance to the cathedral where he was to nrst pay his respect We were at bieakfast when he arrived so failed to ^ee him there but he is now m Paris and we shall probabh have an opportunity heie

The ride from Cologne to Pans was a long one, lasting from 9 o'clock in the morning to 6-47 p. M and not par­ticularly enjovable as it was hot and dusty and the train was crowded. The grain fields through this section are much larger than any we have seen previously in Europe and the landscape, generally more like that of our own northwest. We saw women at work everywhere, washing on flat stones by the riverside, carrying heaped-up baskets of clothes upon

adjoining ours while we were at their heads, cutting, binding or load-lunch and we had a fine view of the ing grain in the fields and even work

ing in the coal-sheds, shoveliug side

And now we are in Paris, the scene room with immediate friends, priest, of so much that is beautiful and so etc., with the guests at long tables on much that is tragical, and though we either side. Among them were several are but a moment's walk from the ter-university students in red caps which rible Place de la Concorde where so they removed only during a speech by many of France's most famous men and the priest. Between courses, these women met their death by guillotine,

we are still so quiet in our "Cite du group themselves and entertain the l let iro" that it is hard to realize the company by singing. This was fine as near vicinity of the great city's traffic

necessity be and tragedy. And we are greatly sur­prised to find the exposition occupj ing so smell a place in the minds of the Parisians themselves. The papers

Here our hotel overlooked the city contain scarcely a mention of it and market and it was most interesting to J the crowds from elsewhere are much