Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1916-08-30
What's Doing
In Minnesota

i OF infantile paralysis in this section.
/ Duluth. - Rye sold at $12O bush.
81, the highest price ever recorded
for it on the Duluth Board of Trade,
/ Aug. %. The highest previous price
for rye was SLIT.
i Virginia. - An automobile driven
by Munroe Shandeling and carrying
eleven persons, mostly children, to a
Jewish picnic at Ely lake, turned over
today, killing one child and i1.juring
most of the others.
Red Lake Falls. - The only remain
Ing wet towns in Northwestern Min
nesota, Red Lake Falls and Plummer,
probably will be closed soon by the
Federal Indian bureau, according to
prohibition headquarters.
4 Owatonna. - Miss Rosette Hendrix
Of Minneapolis has been reelected
! president of the Minnesota Women's
Christian Temperance union of the
annual convention here "Yith but ono
exception, other executive officers also
were reelected.
! Winona. - Funeral services for
Charles E. Ely, the first white boy to
walk what now are the streets of WI
pona, have taken place at De Smet,
S. D. Ely died in sanitorium at Hot
Springs, S. D. He had been in poor
health for years.
| Owatonna. - The state board of
visitors has submitted to Governor
Burnquist highly commendatory re-
port on conditions at the state public
school for INDECENT children at Owa-
tonna. There are 211 boys and 107
girls in the institution.
st. Paul. - The commission recent
~ appointed by Governor J. A. A.
burnquist to revise and codify Mime
sofa laws relating to children, at
second meeting which was held at
the state capitol, adopted a plan of
organization and procedure.
Bem1dji. - Members of the state
normal school board and the presi-
dents Of the five state normals, with
their wives, were guests here. They
met to consider plans relative to the
erection of the new normal school
here. The site of the proposed build
Ing was inspected and general plans
agreed on. II
Fergus Falls. - L. l.. LaRue, travel
Ing passenger agent of the Great
Northern railroad in this district for
Reveral years, has been transferred to
the freight department, with head
quarters at St. Paul. Mr.. LaRue will
be in charge of the territory out of
Great Falls, Mont, and will spend
most of his time in that section
| West st. Paul. - Governor J. A. A.
Burnqu1st has signed a proclamation
calling special election November Z,
on the petition Of citizens of West st.
Paul and vicinity asking that part OF
Dakota county be set aside and an
nexed to Ramsey county. The cleo
ton will be in the district affected
and on the same day as the general
election.
St. Paul. - Andrew E. Fritz, state
public examiner, in report of an ex-
animation just completed OF St. Paul
municipal departments and made pub
lie shows practical shortage of $2,575
In armory funds unaccounted for in
the records, also numerous minor If.
regularities and cites a need for more
systematic and thorough accounting
by the city administration.
st. Paul. = Vigilance for several
seasons is necessary In Minnesota to
prevent the spread Of the white pine
blister rust, according to statement
made by F. L. Washburn, state ento-
mologist. The blister attacks many
varieties Of evergreen trees, as we'll
IS many kinds of shrubs. The white
pine blister rust has been found in
two nurseries near the eastern border
Of Minnesota.
Faribault. According to Lyndon
A. Smith, attorney general, further
Inquiry by Louis S. Headley, one of
his assistants, into the condition of
the Fire Relief association at Fart
bault, tends to sustain findings in the
examination by J. O.. Cederberg, dep
uty public examiner, whose report
charged Edward F. Kelley as treas
urer of the organization with S11,l88#
alleged shortage.
St. Paul. According to a state
ment issued by State Auditor j. A. o.
Preus, a new high record will be set
this year in Minnesota's production of
IRON ore, despite recent reductions at
tributed to the strike on the Mesaba
range. The auditor estimates that
1916 shipments from Minnesota mines
will reach or exceed 40,OOO,OOO tons,
compared with the previous high rec
ord Of 36,238,264 tons in 1918.
/ Minnesota, with an annual pota-
to crop of 36,O00,00O bushels, and
which last year led all other
]. ptates of the Union in the harvest Of
the tubers, will fall far short Of it's
mark this year This Is the opinion
expressed by H. G.. Krum, Ramsey
county agricultural agent, and is based
pn the shortage of the early crop and
the present condition Of the late crop
which usually is harvested about Oc-
tober /.
Argyle Optimism is rampant in
j the Red River valley, according to III.
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