Mower County transcript., 1915-01-13
STATE NEWS BITS
Minor Happenings Of the Week
Throughout Minnesota.

and fish commission at the request OF
the Minnesota Game and Fish Protec-
tive league and lake residents. The
new preserve, which is intended to be
a refuge and breeding ground for all
birds and small animals, includes tho
area of Lake Minnetonka, the shore
lands extending in some cases as far
as one and one-half miles from the,
lake, and eighteen sections of land in}
the northern part of Carver county.
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More than 200 potato growers att
tending the farmers course at the ag1
ricultural college of the University of
Minnesota organized themselves into
q Minnesota Potato Growers associa1
tion. The organization will PROMOTE
the potato industry in every way posi-
sible. In the problem of marketing it
is thought that the potato growers cam
accomplish better results working aa
body than as individuals. If neces1
sary, the organization will be pre1
pared to go before the legislature inl
behalf of state potato growers.
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Instead of seeking to obliterate the
generally obnoxious skunk, Minnesota.
people are propagatlng this now val
liable fur bearing animal. During the
past two years twenty licenses have
heen issued by H. A. Rider, ecexu-
tive agent of the game and fish COM
mission, for raising skunks. All other.
fur bearing animals are increa sing, es-
pecially beaver, and in a few years it
is expected that trapping of them will
be resumed
Minnesota is an attractive place to
immigrants seeking new homes, good
farming land and prosperous condi-
tions, according to the records of Fred
D. Sherman, immigration commission
er. In his monthly report he shows
that of 210 cars of immigrant mov-
ables handled by the Minnesota Trans
fer Railway company during Decem-
ber Minnesota received 115 cars.
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John Stuart OF Little Falls was kill
ed while fighting with a Canadian
regiment at the western front in tho
European war, according to word re-
ceived by friends In Little Falls.
Stuart for many years lived in Little
Falls, but he was in Canada at the
time the war broke out and he en-
listed
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The Minnesota Retail Monument
Dealers association, in annual con
vention in St. Paul, decided to renew
its efforts to obtain enactment of
mechanics lien law at tho present
session of the state legislature which
will give dealers the power to levy
on a monument erected and not paid
for in q reasonable time.
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Duluth bakers have reduced the size
of the and 10 cent loaves OF bread
about an ounce each, owing to the
present high price of -four. Bakers
look for a decrease in price Of -four
and subsequent advance in the size
Of the loaves before long
Gustave Otto, aged seventy years,
resident OF Minnesota for sixty-two
years, died suddenly in the state capi-
tol on the opening day Of the legisla-
ture. During the Civil war he served
in Company F., Brackets Minnesota
cavalry.
A course of journalism will be es
tablished at the University of Mime
sofa. William P Kirkwood, news.
paper man and magazine writer OF
st. Paul and Minneapolis, will have
charge. Work in the new course will
begin next semester.
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L. D. Eisentrascr, prosperous Ger
man farmer living near Morris, has
donated his entire 1914 corn crop to
the Belgian relief fund being raised
in Morris. The crop amounted to 42S
bushels, which brought s24.
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E. F. Sell of Fairfax, president OF
two banks and interested in dozen
OtucIS, ulcu III d 81. raul hospital IOl-
lowing an operation for intestinal
trouble. He had been i'll only four
days.
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John e.. Blair, who reached Mime
apolis in 1870 and for more than q
quarter Of a century was a leader in
the saw mill business there, is dead,
aged sixty-seven years.
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Felix G. Cole, a Civil war veteran
who was imprisoned ten months in
Libby and Andersonville prisons and
resident of Minneapolis for twenty
five years, is dead
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minneapolis began the year 1915
with $121,928, ,S61.46 in bank deposits.
a total of 1851 ,553.52 greater than
the sum so represented when 1914
opened -.
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