Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-01-24
Home and County News
Whitney leads in low Dricas,

u MIR. and Mrs. W. +. Powell spent
.s"%nday last in Crookston.
- Hay and wood taken on sub
scription at s'HEAF Office.
- License TO wed was issued to Ole
BjorGum and Anna Giving ON Tues
day.
The genuine Swedish Almanac,
printed in Sweden, only 10 cts. at
SHEAF Book Store.
- Frank Ferguson is ut work in
the pineries east of Red Lake. He
is a head sawyer in McNair's lumber
camp. So.
- Principal Matters has received
the questions for the State High
School examination which will be
held next week. .,......
The journal Almanac and En-
cyclopedia OF Useful Information, a
very hap'',y book for reference, on
sale at SHEAF News Stand for 25 cts,
- Lem. Rafferty, left for St. Cloud
on Tuesday evening to file on a
timber claim in one OF the new towns
in the reservation now open for
settlement.
BoRN: To Mr.. md Mrs. W. J.
Wood, OH Monday, Jan. 21, a big
bouncing boy. Mother and son are
doing well, and w. j. was able to be
around the following day to set up
the cigars.
On Friday last week Clerk of
Court Malbprg issued a marriage
license to John H. Burlum and Miss
Lena Olson, OF Stephen. By this
time he has probality joined the
ranks of the benedicts, and he has n
host OF friends in Warren who wish
him an abundance OF LIES blessings.
Charley Nelson, q young man
who has been working on the Wood
ward farm this fall, died there on
Tuesday evening this week from
bowel complaint. He was about 30
years OF age, lately from Trempeleau
county Wisconsin, and Norwegian.
He was sick only a few days before
his DEATH
Rev. A. Bergin, of Sandborn, N.
D., who has been called by he Swed-
ish Lutheran congregations of Lower
Snake, Vega and Warren to become
their minister, arrived last Saturday
to look over the field before making
Il dicision as to whether or not lie
will accept said call. He held SER
vices at Lower Snake On Saturday,
at the church in Vega on Sunday
forenoon and at Warren on Sunday
evening. At each place there were
large gatherings Of people.
We are informed by Mr.. Nicolas
Nelson that a meeting was held al
Thief Lake on New Years day for the
purpose of organizing a new school
district in that section. The new
district if organized will compromise
Il territory four miles square and
will give educational privileges to IL
large settlement HOW entirely isolat-
ed. There is also much talk OF the es-
tablishment OF II post office at the
lake. The people up there are by no
means dead to their future welfare
Thief River Fails Press.
- The ladies OF the Swedish Luth-
eran church gave a social at the res
idence OF Aug. Lundgren on Mon
day evening this week There WAS a
large gathering and the evening
was spent very pleasantly y with
music, songs and in social converse.
Rev. A. Bergin, OF Sanborn, N. D.
who HAS been called us pastor, was
present and gave n short address
Refreshments consisting of coffee
and cake were served during the
evening. 1t was an occasion of true
and real enjoyment, that is the YER
dict OF all who were there.
- Rev. L. ". Squier, ofCrookston,
gave two very interesting lectures
at the NJ. T. church on Thursday and
Friday evenings last week, encll
lecture being illustrated by
numerous fine stereopticon
views. yne subject for the first
lecture WAS China and he gave 4
very vivid description OF some Of the
principle cities, and other objects q
interests in the Flowery Kingdom
and of the customs and habits of tllt
people. The manner OF preparing
tea for market was illustrated an(
described, and some have since add
ed ten to the list Of articles they
swore off using on New Years Day
The military weakness Of China wa
explained, and it is no wonder sh
finds herselves unable to cope Will
the plucky and progressive lirtl
Jups. The subject for the mex
lecture was Japnn. That countr.
is II progressive nation and it i
making use OF hemoderndi discoverie
OF the western world i'll science hn'
in art, while the civilization OF Chin,
is practically the same as it va
thousands OF years ago. Such lee
lures have i. greateducationalv value
and impress the subject upon TIL
mind mnch cln;lrpr and hetter, tln]