The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-10-23
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elected president. to succeed Mayor
J. E. jerks Of st. Cloud. Mayor
Michael Boylan of Virginia was
chosen vice president and Mayor
Richard r. Price was reelected sec
retary and treasurer. An office
known as executive secrtary was
created. G. A. Gesell was chosen to
fill the Office and will head the muni-
cipal reference league. The follow
ing were named trustees: Mayor
jerks of St. Cloud, Mayor Wallace G..
.Nye Of Minneapolis and Mayor Winn
Powers of St. Paul. .",
St. Cloud, Minn.-Judge John A.
Roeser of the district court has re-
ceived a petition from residents of
Sauk Center asking that charter
commission be appointed by the three
judges of the district. The commits
sion consists of Is men who serve
! for four years. It is believed that
commission form of government is
to be adopted.
Sioux Falls, s: D.-Farmers of
South Dakota. who were fortunate
enough to have their corn crop ma
ture in good condition, without injury
by the excessively wet weather of
the summer and fall, consider them
selves fortunate, for they are finding
a ready sale of the best of their corn
at SO per bushel for seed. !
| Watertown, s. D.-saturday will
mark the first Boys and Girls day
held under the auspices of the new
Codington County Agricultural Ex-
tension society. The county commits
sioners haxe given the use Of the
court house for the exhibits. :
! Albert Lea, Minn.-Mrs.: Max
Gender, 212 Elizabeth street, drop
der: dead yesterday. She had been
in the best OF health. Heart failure
is given as the cause. -.x.- ,.~..: -: :.
:Waubay., s. zD.--As: the. result of: a
brawl the: other evening; r. F: Green
wood is lodged in the county Jail at
Webster and Art Johnson is laid up
here with: a.: severe knife: wound: in
the left breast which may prove fatal.
Little Falls, :Minns===The j.: North
western Telephone Exchange COM
pany:: is: putting In g. toll: line from
this city to :Sauk, Center, commenc-
ing: operations at this end i ) -
| NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. whoScontem-
plate sending gifts to the men in the
trenches in Europe are being urged
to mail thetr*:packages early, because
of the great delay and congestion that
would be created If the mailing is
much delayed. ..:":::' s;~s = s*~ 49,.
= sBreekenridge-Thes award for the
best sow and litter: of*pigs in the
county went to P. E.: Wood this year
for: the third successive time. He
therefore retains the Northern Pacific
lsilver trophy cup permanently. The
championship corn cup offered by the
Wilkin County Farm: bureau was
awarded this year ia Charles J. seba
of Campbell. j. 80,
| .zumbrota- Mazeppa colt show
Iattracted many entries: There were
also calf, corn and poultry exhibits,
| all we'll represented. Preiums to the
amount OF $4o0 were awarded. g.
p. Bushnell,. agricultural teacher OF
the Maaeppa high school, was in
charge.
Little Falls = Mothers pensions
paid In Morrison county since the law
went into elect iii 1918 aggregate
$3,775.5o, according to . report made
by Judge OF Probate Shaw to the
children's bureau Of the United
States department of labor. e -
International Falls-The printers
of International Falls and Fort Fran
ces recently ORGANIZED a local of the
International Typographical union
and the publishers Of both towns
have signed contracts for the, unioniz-
ing OF their shops: i
n Austin, Minn. Martin Leebrought
1 home from a fishing trip a freak wa
ter animal with body like an eel
ana marked like rattlesnaks. The
head resembles a dog with a sort of
g. fur ring around the neck. The ami
NAL is displayed in the show window
of q local drug store. .s.%
St. Paul, Mimi Carlos Avery,
state game and fish commissioner has
announced that he would deny the
petition for the establishment of a
state game refuge in the six north
ernmost townships of Kanabec coun-
ty.. So much opposition to the pro-
ject was manifested by residents in
the proposed reserve that Mr.. Avery
deemed ct i4advisable to grant the
petition.n until there was greater un-
mitysamohs the personsSconcern-
ed. The plan for a game leserve in
Ramsey county also having been re-
jected, there will be for the present
only tWe reserves created under the
Legislative az Of 1916. the Mime
tonka reserve and the Bemidji re-
serve. ss .sss
st. Paul, Minn.-Minnesota's new
county option law, under which IS
conntieaahave voted out saloons; was
before the state supreme court. yes