New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-12-13

George Monk, tifty-six years old.
Wholesale confectioner, is dead at
Minneapolis.
The 1917 Minnesota state fair will
De held from Sept to s. These dates
were set at the twenty-sixth annual
meeting of the American Association
of Fairs and Expeditions at Chicago
Charges that International Falls is
infested with blind pigs, gambling
houses and other resorts have been
filed with Governor Burnquist and At
torney General Smith by twelve Koo-
chiching county citizens.
The state timber board has ratified
budget estimates, including items of
$4,000 year with which to run down
alleged timber frauds, following pre-
dictions of state officials that $1,000
oe9 can bs recovered te the state. :
Good roads and cSmprehehsive
SYSTEM Qf drainage for the State are
two 81 the Important topics to be dis
cussed at the second ai}Aual meeting
of the All Minnesota Development as
ISOLATION at St. Paul JAM and 6. 81
Mrs. Catherine May, Hinety-one
years of age, the Oldest woman set.
tier in Winona county, is dead. She
reached Winona county from Ireland
sixty years ago and never had been
Ill until few days before her death.
BY a vote of Is to the Minneapolis
Retail Grocers' association went on
record as favoring a thorough inves-
tigation of the prevailing high prices
for all commodities and the placing
Of an embargo upon food exporta.
tions. ...~ ....
Plans for the designation Of an
across the state" highway, running
from the Twin Cities to Moorhead and
Fargo by way Of Fergus Falls, will be
considered at good roads convention
to be held at Fergus Falls early in
J4ndary
Anssl Oppenheinl, >6nancier, railroad
! gMsial and real estate broker, for
Msf resident of St. Paul, where he
was actf1sly identified with many Of
it's principal Industries, is dead in
New York city. He was sixty-eight
years of age.
Two Minneapolis philahthf8fie or.
CARNATIONS will receive $780, VV each
by the death at Los Angeles, CAL, If
Mrs. w. S. Benton. The provisions
for disposal of the estate were made
by Mrs. Benton's husband when he
died sixteen years ago.
The state will supply, temporarily at
least, specially prepared solution
containing 1 per cent of silver nitrate
forythe use of physicians and other at
PENDANTS to prevent baby blindness"
as required by new regulation of
the state board of health.
A direct appeal for Minneapolis to
curb excuses in eating and drinking
at New Years festivities and espe-
cially to recognize that New Years
eve Is this year Sunday evening has
been issued over the signatures, of
eighty clergymen of the Mill City.
Paul Larpenteur, held by Minneap-
Oils police following the finding of
the dead body of his wife in their
Mill City home, has been released.
1t is now generally believed that Mrs.
Larpenteur committed suicide by
shooting after quarrel with her hus-
band.
Two we'll dressed men held up and
robbed the branch Office of the Leigh
ton-Campbell Fuel and Transfer COM
pany at Minneapolis in broad daylight
and escaped with $1,000 after locking
Ralph Leighton, vice president of the
company, and P. H. Johnson, Weigher,
in boxcar.
On statements under the Nov II
call, showing gains of about 20 per
cent in deposits and nearly 16 per
cent in assets for the year, A. H. Tur-
rittin, state superintendent of banks.
said that Minnesota state banks col
lectively were never in more satisfac-
tory condition.
Burt B. Townsend of Minneapolis,
fifty-four years old, a native of the
; old town of st. Anthony, president of
the board of trustees of the Pillsbury
academy at Owatonna and a son-in-
law of the late George A. Pillsbury,
former mayor of Minneapolis, is dead
at Honolulu, where he had gone for
the benefit Of his health.
Walter J. Hills Types Model, a
Shorthorn bull raised at Nortl.cote,
Mimi, won the blue ribbon at the in
ternational live stock exposition at
Chicago in the senior bull class. Mr.
Hills Royal Silver won fifth prize in
the three-year-old bull contest and
his Duke of Northcote received ninth
prize in the senior bull class
Ramsey county lost the first round
, in it's legal fight to collect $3,250,0 900
alleged delinquent personal property
taxes for 1915 from the Northern Pa
citic, Great Northern and Omaha rail
roads when a decision was rendered
in favor of the railroads by Judge
! Michael of the Ramsey county district
court An appeal will be taken ..