Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1914-06-24
Colson's Bazaar
GERMANTOWN

The primary with its surprises and
disappointments has come and gone.
We will hope the people of our state
have found the best men for the Of
,3sces and that we may be on the road
III some Of the many promised pre-
sction reforms, or the correction OF
4 few of the past mistakes and cor
tlAqpt practices.
{ IA large number Of the members OF
,4e local Synod congregation, met at
,ie church last Saturday, and vici
hsly attacked the brush and grass
i rowing on the churchyard, As a
i suit the premises present q very at
ractive appearance, all brush and
l lbbish having been cleared away.
Emil Ristau and Carl Bentten who
! Jok road contract have completed
their work already and thus got thru
IN hurry. Chas. Wayne is busy
orking on his road contract south
a Of Germantown, and Henry Clausen
and several neighbors who took
contract in the north part Of town,
have completed theirs. a
4 We understand the Vawter Chau-
I, tauoua win visit Warren in a few
faays. Your correspondent feels
strongly tempted to come down to
Warren and "take it in" even though
it means a fifty mile trip.
A dance was given at Chas.
Wayne's place last Saturday evening.
A large crowd and good time is re
ported.
Hans Clausen sold his farm west Of
here short time ago for $1,000 per
acre. We understand they will move
to Montana in the fall.
The town board met as a board Of
equalization Monday. We have not
heard whether there was ony
euualizations to be made.
Lars Rosett and wife left for
Thompson, N. D. last week where
thew will be employed on farm dur
ing the summer.
Lars Halvorson who conducted a
term of parochial school west OF here
has now commenced term OF scnoel
in district No. 81. '.s
MIR. and Mrs. Rambec have been en-
toying a visit from Wisconsin reia,
lives. This week they accompanied
4he;r relatives to North Dakota tor q
visit with friends in that state.
The Young Peoples Society met al
Mons Lindwick's place last Sunday
Before we close we want to make
some explanation of an article en-
titled ALost Ballots" which appeared
in the Register for last week. =
say people up here were surprised i
quitting it mildly. The article is en-
tirely misleading and is evidently IN
tended to create the impression tina
the ballots were lost up here, le. ina
+be mistake or blunder is at this EN-
of the line,-perhaps also to shield o
cover up the mistakes OF the count.
snd;tor. Now the package OF cleo
ton supplies never was lost put ar
rived in due time, for which q regis e:
~ receipt was given. But TIL
nackace did not contain the non-par
tisan ballots. The auditor was no
tilted of this mistake several days De
fore election, but he still failed T
send the missing ballots On tn
day before election, Monday, June L
ba was again telephoned from The
river Falls and asked to send tn
missing non-partisan ballots. :
last on Tuesday, 10th, he brougf
them up in an automobile. He wa
.tren tcld in the presence OF ~
iadses that his package OF sappne
had arrived but did not contain y
non-partisan ballots. lie then SUI
rl;ed us with the ballots lacking
Now Why such a misleading artle
u. the one in the Regisfer should /
published, we fail to see. Evldent
+bare is a blunder to be covered y
somewhere, but wherever it is' It
o+ nm here.