New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-01-26

Happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader. .>..~ '.


Mrs. Sarah M. Coon, for more than
fifty years resident of Northf1eld. is
dead at the age of eighty-1ve. L.,
Farmers and others interested, about
eighty in all, met at Mora and organ
lied cooperative creamery company.
Premiums aggregating more than
$4,000 are offered by the Farm Crops
show to be held at Crookston Feb.
7.12.
About 1000 pounds of butter was
consumed when the Comfrey Farmers
Cooperative creamery was destroyed
by fire.
Minneapolis, the eighteenth city Of
the United States in population,
ranked seventh in building operations
in 1915.
Irving A. Caswell. manager of the
Cummins campaign in Minnesota, has
opened headquarters at the Merchants
hotel in st. Paul.
Tentative plans are under .consid.
Grafton for the aflliation of the St.
Paul College Of Law with the Univer:
sity of Minnesota >>' =,
Peter Kaiser of Rockville, an EN-.
pioye of the Rockville Granite COM
pany, was killed when struck by a.
Great Northern train. - Il;
James A. Peterson of Minneapolis
has filed for lieutenant governor. of
Minnesota on the Republican ticket
at the June primaries.
Discouraged and unable to find work
Edward Samson of Minneapolis shot
and killed his wife and then fired q
bullet into his own brain.
To raise 100000 for Minnesota col
lege 200 Lutherans, 100 men and 100
women, will begin ten-day cam
paign in Minneapolis Feb. 1.
Frank Russler, the hermit of Rose
Creek, is dead. For forty years he
occupied a shack of two rooms, using
dugout under the shack as a bed
chamber.
Five persons were injured in an &C.
cident near Winona when a heavy
bobsled was hurled into ditch. The
team dragged the injured persons sew
eral rods.
One-third of St. Pauls buildings
erected during 1915 were homes. Dur
ing the year there were I, 246 permits
for dwellings taken out at a value of
$3,119,114.
The first presidential petition to be
filed with Secretary of State julius
Schmahl was that of Woodrow Will
son. The petition contained more
than 500 names.
Judge G. w. Stanton of Bemidji has
issued a statement denying he will
be a Democratic candidate for gov
ernor. He says he will file for re-
election to the bench.
Work will start on the new 100000
packing plant of the Farmers Ter.
minal Packing company of St. Paul
at Newport Feb. 1, directors of the
company have announced.
The report of the federal depart
ment of agriculture shows that on
Jan. 1, 1916, there were 100000 mich
cows in Minnesota. This is gain of
$4,000 milk producing COWS in a year.
Axel Anderson, aged fifty-five years.
leaped to death from the highest point
of the high bridge at St. Paul. His
crushed body was picked up on the
ice fifty feet from the south bank of
the river.
William Sulzer, former governor of
New York, and Francis Baldwin, Ell.
mira, N. Y, will be the Prohibition
party's candidates for president to be
selected at the Minnesota primaries
in March.
The Blue Earth County Pure Seed
association, which comprises several
counties in that part of Southern Min
nesota, will hold it's annual corn show,
seed fair and convention at Mankato
Feb. 1926.
Awakened by the odor of escaping
gas Mrs. A. J. Markle of Minneapolis
went into the kitchen of her home
and found her husband dead on the
AOOA. OO1Oucl OOdSuOt0 SdlU the man
had ended his own life.
An I. w. w. walking delegate is
organizing woodsmen in Northern
Minnesota with the avowed object of
calling strike. He charges the men
are underpaid and underfed and are
forced to live in "rotton" camp condi.
tons.
-Four school districts west of Jack.
son with a. valuation of more than
100000 have voted to consolidate and
will erect a modern school building
next summer which will give the de-
sired grade work and high school ia
cilities.
Frank Robson, who during the Civil
war aided in the construction of some
of the first buildings erected in St.
Paul, is dead at Alma Center, Wis
Mr.. Robson helped by hand to make
the shingles used on the old st. Paul
cathedral.
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