Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1910-11-24
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Minnesota Events Of the Week In
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CONDENSED Form.
st. Paul.-The official returns. com
piled at the secretary Of states Office,
insure the passage of the good roads
amendment.
Minneapolis, Nov. 21.-Rev. Theo-
dore Payne Thurston, rector of St.
Pauls church, Minneapolis, has &C.
cepted of his recent appointment as
bishop OF Eastern Oklahoma, made
at the recent general convention OF
tn Episcopal church at Cincinnati.
Ptpestone.-Within few days tho
boy scout movement will have gained
a. foothold In Pipestone, and organ.
izers will be here from the Twin Cities
TO complete branch for Pipestone.
4 council composed of leading men
will be held in a few days to- assist
the boys with their organization.
M1nneapolis.-The popularity of Sis
Hopkins, which will be the attraction
at the Bijou the week of Nov. 9th.
does not lessen particle as the years
roll by. This is her twelfth tour and
her last, for at the close of the pres,
ent season she will retire from tho
stage and Sis Hopkins will be a pleas
ing and fragrant memory. z''
Minneapolis.-The first batch Of
convictions in Minneapolis in the
Vice crusade, which has been going
on Tor week, was announced by
Judge Waite. Eleven barkeepers and
landladies of disorderly houses re-
ceived workhouse sentences of from
thirty to fifty days and fines of fifty
to two hundred dollars.
| st. Paul.-DawsOn Moreland. for
thirty years engaged in commercial
agency work in the Twin Cities. died
in st. Luke's hospital. He opened the
first Bradstreet agency in Minneapo-
lis in 1878 and was local manager
| seven years. Then he took charge
OF the st. Paul office, remaining there
until 1898, when he transferred to the
| R. G. Dun & Co. agency.
st. Paul.-If it will facilitate reap
portionment, Robert C. Dunn, of Prince.
| ton, representative-elect, favors an ap-
preparation of $4,000 for the benefit
OF senators who will be deprived of
their emoluments of the Office should
the state be reapportioned and a new
election of senators be ordered for
1912. Mr.. Dunn will not be a candt.
date for speaker. He suggests that
the county option question be left out
OF the speakership contest as the is-
sue Will be decided by the house and
not by the speaker or the temperance
committee.
st. PAULA new form of govern
ment that is combination of the COM
mission plan and the present munich
pal machine, is proposed by the st.
Paul charter commission.
1t proposes that the common council
with its two houses be retained, but
be deprived of all authority other than
to pass ordinances and resolutions.
grant franchises, and exercise the right
OF eminent domain. The administra-
ton shall be in board of five COM
mlssloners, consisting of the mayor,
commissioner of finance, commissioner
OF public works, commissioner of pub
lie safety, and the corporation council.
They are to hold Office for four years.
but will be subject to recall by the
people.
| Winona.-The Tri-State Telephone
Company, which last week went be-
fore Attorney General Simpson alleg-
ing that the Northwestern Telephone
Company entered into an agreement
In restraint of trade when it purchased
the Winona Telephone Company, tool
over it's lines and left the Tri-Statn
without toll lines, will be granted pei.
mission from the city council to enter
Winona with lines for toll purposes.
That fact became known when the
council heard the first reading of an
ordinance which grants that permits.
sion. The Tri-State will stretch a
line from one end of the city to the
other and across the lake. The ordi-
nance requires that it establish an up
to-date exchange here and be in opera
ton within six months after the pas
sage of the ordinance.
! Fergus Falls.-The dry weather of
the past summer will result in an in
crease In the cost of electricity in this
city. The city has been purchasing
electricity for its plant from the Otter
Tail Power Company, and has been
charging consumers seven and one
half cents kilowatt. The water in
the river is SO low that the company,
! which snnn1ios WahnofOn ond prool,