The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1905-04-28
MINNESOTA HAPPENINGS
Short Items Showing What has Hap.
psned Throughout Confines
Of North Star State.

May ii is set for the St. Paul jubilee.
A national ski association is pro.
posed at St Paul
The painters of St. Paul will ask for
IN increase in wages.
The factory owners will hold state
convention in St. Paul %r
+ Hiram d. Brown dies at his home on
Portland avenue, st. Paul. -
Five companies of infantrymen from
Fort Smelling start overland to Lake
City.
The Johnson-Smith sash and door
factory in Minneapolis was destroyed
by fire.
The western automobilists will make
their endurance race from Chicago TO
St. Paul
An interesting book. on poultry rails
ing is being distributed from the state
farm school
Carleton college was awarded VIC
tory in the joint debate with the upper
Iowa university.
Pietro Villclla, Ramsey county
prisoner a.. Saltwater. was pardoneo
by the state board of pardons.
The quality of the milk sold in tho
Twin Cities improves rapidly as the
work of inspection progresses.
The war department orders that tho
historic towers at Fort Smelling be re-
stored to their original condition.
Ramsey county will have license
inspector to round up alleged blind
pigs outside of the limits of st. Paul
John p. Schmidt was appointed post
master at Ferrie, Hubbard county,
in place of NJ. NJ. Nygeard, resigned.
Lizzie E Colley has been appointed
postmistress at Bergman, Pine county
ia place of August Bergman. resigned.
Charlotte Anderson is appointed post
mistress at Huntington, Kittson coun"
ty, in place Of Isabel Doupe. resigned.
Ed. Peterson, deputy assessor OF
Ramsey county, was appointed to the
position of deputy insurance commits
sioner.
Tweuty-one young men OF St Cloud
Joined the United States navy during
the weeks stay of the recruiting OH
GERS in that city.
Bell, a milk dealer in St. Paul, was
fined $2s for selling milk and cream
that did not come up to the require
ments Of the law.
Harvey Rogers was found guilty OF
using the mails for fraudulent pur-
poses by jury in Judge Lochrens
court in Minneapolis
The application to convert the Sc
curitv Bank of Luverne into the Farm
ers' National bank is approved by the
controller of the currency
The department of commerce takes
an interest in the fight on trusts which
is being waged by the independent oil
dealers in the Twin Cities. ~,''~,> ~s@-'.'
J. w. Taylor, IS years old. carpen"
ter living in Minneapolis, was proba-
bly, fatally injured by a fall from BIZ
cycle and u kick by a passing horse
Matt Cannon, who was murdered at
Beaudette, made sworn statement to
the public examiner In which he pre-
ferred charges against the county at
torney.
State Auditor 1verson says that un-
der the Leech Lake forestry reserve
resolution in the legislature the state
would have lost land easily worth ST.
100000.
The South st. Paul school board re-
ceived two bids for the proposed $685.
600 issue Of school bonds, but rejected
both bids The board declined to re-
advertise.
Col. c. H. Graves, of Duluth. the
newly appointed minister to Stock"
holm, was rendered banquet at the
Duluth Commercial club by the Scan
dinaviau Americans.
The Business Mems Protective asso-
citation at New Richland elected c. A.
Newgard, president; c. b. johnson,
vice president; Charles Spillane, secre-
tary, and II. A. Anderson, treasurer.
At largely attended banquet Of tho
Commercial club of Pelican Rapids,
committees were appointed to estab-
lish q park in the center OF the city,
nlant trees and boulevard some streets.
With the $3.50, 900 appropriation by
the legislature and the insurance from
the burned building, the university re-
gents will have $4O3. 900 with which to
erect a new main building on the cam
pua
A fire of unknown origin destroyed
the downtown warehouse of the Keller
Manufacturing com any at Sank Cen
ter Several thousand dollars worth
of cutters and fine lumber was cou-
sumed. Partial insurance was carried.
Citizens of Pelican Rapiss have or
eanized a Commercial club for the
purpose of civic improvement. A
banquet is to be given soon. Officers:
O. NJ. Carr, president; F. J. Cooking,
vice president; S. o. Diffendorf, Sec
rotary; C. X. Frazee, treasurer.
The efficiency of the St. Paul fire de-
partment and the general stability OF
St. Paul buildings have been COM
mended in the annual report OF ln-
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