Warren sheaf., 1916-05-10
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Doings Of Last Pew Days Throughout
Minnesota Condensed for
Hasty Perusal.

Austin.-One thousand men marched
In a parade of Sunday school workers
which closed the fifty-eighth annual
convention of the State Sunday Schoo!
association.
Duluth. - Ore shipments in April
from the Duluth-Superior harbor and
Two Harbors amounted to 652,931 tons
more than in April, 1915. April is the
initial month of the navigation sea.
son, and runs only ten days.
St. Cloud.-One inmate of the state
reformatory is in the hospital suffer
Ing from buckshot wounds and an
other is in the solitary, living on
bread and water, as a result of an
attempt to escape from the yard
where they were working.
Little Falls.-A party of Jefferson
highway workers started from here in
automobiles to make a tour of the
cities south Of Little Falls to line
them up solidly for this route for the
highway. The party was to be joined
by other cars at Royalton and Rice.
st. Paul-V. R. Irwin, wholesale
grocer, who leaped into prominence in
st. Paul through his connection with
the Christmas Good Fellows" move
ment, has been elected mayor of St.
Paul. His total vote was almost twice
that of w. c. Handy, retiring comp
troller of finances.
Winona.-The First District Sports
mems club, to be affiliated with the
new Minnesota Game Protective
league, will be organized here May 1S.
It will be the first organization of the
kind in Minnesota 1t is anticipated
there will be representatives from
various organizations
Detroit. Three big conventions
will be held in Detroit on June 16, 16
and II, the Minnesota Red River Val
ley Development association, the Red
River Valley Livestock Breeding as
sociation and the Minnesota Live
stock Breeders association, all hold
Ing forth at the same time.
Caledonia. - The district court for
Houston county has ordered the
Strengthening Of Root river. The chan
mel will be twenty miles long and will
drain large tract in the northern
part OF the county. The cost of straight
ening is estimated at 100000. Digging
will begin in few weeks
St. Paul.-Thomas Cathcart of Bel
trami county spent several years i'm
proving a homestead in that county,
which will avail him nothing, accord
ing to a decision of the supreme
court. The decision was made in the
case of Cathcart against the Mime
sofa & Manitoba Railroad company.
Virginia. - Armed with business
like shotgun, Axel Ohrin of Angora
has been patroling the hanks of the
Rice river, running through his farm.
He held up log drive, which settlers
were sending to the Angora Lumber
company, until paid toll which he
claimed for use of the water running
through his farm.
LuVerne.-In a presidential prefer
ence contest for Rock county, conduct
ed by the Rock County Herald, Justice
c. E. Hughes led Colonel Roosevelt by
four votes. Hughes received 70 votes,
Roosevelt 70, Root IL, Cummins 6,
Fairbanks 4, La Toilette 4. A majority
OF those voting for Roosevelt were
scandinavians, while only two Ger
mans voted for him.
international Falls.-More than 200
club women from twenty towns in the
northern part of the state convened
here for the annual two days. meeting
OF the Eighth district, Minnesota Fed.
GRAFTON of Women's Clubs. Rural con.
ditions, a vital question with the
women In this section OF the state
were discussed in various phases at
the sessions during the day and at
night. -
st. Paul.-its costs ~ cents per stu.
dent every time class in mathematics
meets in Minnesota high school.
This is the average cost of teaching,
according to the survey made last fall
by the bureau Of research of the COL
lege Of education of the University of
Minnesota. The highest cost of teach.
ing mathematics is placed at 1876
cents for each student and the lowest
at 2. 6. -"
Perham.-Mrs. John Weis, GA years
old, and Miss Thersa Alstadt, 18, were
killed when Northern Pacific work
train West-bound collided with an au.
tomobile driven by John Weis, who
was taken to st. James hospital bad.
ly injured. Mr.. and Mrs. Weis lived
In Perham for the past forty years.
Miss Alstadt was the daughter OF
George Alstadt, an old resident of OF.
tertail county.
Minneapolis Minnesota directors OF
the Industrial survey, being planned
for this state by the naval consulting
board held a meeting in the office OF
H. V. Winchell, chairman and secre.
tary of the group. The directors are
clearing the way for the appointment