Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1916-01-05
What 5 Doing
III Minnesota

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| Red Wing. Surrounded by chill
dren, great-grand children and neigh
bors, Mr.. and Mrs a. B. Johnson Of
WEIGH celebrated their golden wed.
ding day at their home.
Winona. Rev. BENJAMIN f. Nc
Laenney, SO years old, one of the old
est Baptist ministers in the North
west, died at his home here follow
Ing an attack Of heart disease
Winona.-Labor conditions through,
| out Minnesota are far better this year
than year ago, declared George w.
Lawson, secretary of the Minnesota
State Federation q Labor, who spent
several days in Winona 5a
Winona. Mrs. Walter Sprecher,
30 years old, wife Of the cashier Of
the State Bank of Independence, Wis,
was killed when an automobile in
which she was riding alone plunged
from a bridge. Death was instanta-
| neous.
stewartville Business houses
closed here and a public funeral took
place for Mrs j. w. Savage and her
brother, Edward H. Hagen, 2 years
old, who were burned to death when
the II. O. Hagen home was destroyed
by fire. All ministers of the village
officiated.
st. Paul. The wisdom Of the pio-
neers of Minnesota in making provi-
sion for school lands was commend
ed by former State Auditor Samuel
| G. Iverson in an address before the
meeting of the Fourth district, Fed
GRAFTON of Women's Clubs, at the Will.
| der building on "The Public Land
Policy Of Minnesota Schools" l1.
Rochester. The fifteenth annual
| convention of the Minnesota-D Dakota
Association Of Hotel Clerks was held
in Rochester and fifty of the greeters
were expected to be present. Roches-
ter greeters arranged program In
Guiding luncheon, dinners, theater
parties for the women, bowling par.
ty, an auto trip and the official ban,
| quot.
Albert Lea AS the result of q
double explosion of gasoline, Mr.. and
| Mrs. Harry Howe were mortally
burned at their farm home near Al.
den. Bert Howe, brother, suffered
serious burns from attempting to res
cue them. When Harry Howe start
/ ed to move a fve-gallon can of gaso-
line from its position near the stove
/ the contents exploded
Jackson. The first year Of the dry
regime in Jackson has proven to be
an unqualified success Four saloons
were voted out Of business last March
and within month all the buildings
were turned into other mercantile es-
Adjustments. All kinds Of trade
4 showed a steady Increase to the first
i part Of this month, and bank deposits
II are larger than in any previous year.
Tracy. One thousand acres Of
rich corn land will be drained and
A 1000 acres benefited by a large tile
ditch to be dug in the spring, which
will drain Lake Sigel, one mile south
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other wet land in the same vicinity.
This will be a great benefit to Tracy,
since the land has been non produc.
tive, although it Aas rich black soil.
Worthingt ton. The Minnesota Crop
Improvement Association will hold it's
annual meeting and seed show at
i Worthington, Minnesota, February Is.
-. F. G. Trip, instructor in agricul.
! ture at the Worthington High School,
has arranged with the Extension Di.
vision of the Minnesota College Of
4 Agriculture for series of stock judg.
ing demonstrations for the forenoons
of each day.
Z. st. Paul.-Osca Larson, a 12-year
old boy of Viking, Marshall county
won the potato-growing contest OF
the Northern Minnesota Development
Association, and made a record fol
potato-growing by boys at the same
time. He grew 1878 bushels Of po
tatoes upon * Of an acre. Had he
grown an acre Of potatoes at the
same rate, his yield would have been
605h bushels. The potatoes grown
were of the Green Mountain variety
/ Red Wing. Picture solid square
business block filled to depth Of IL
feet with carp and other rough fish
and you get an idea of the immense
haul made by David Gantenbein 81
Diamond Bluff in single sweep Of
Lake Elysian with seine 1000 feet
In length. Mr.. Gantenbein estimated
that fully fifty carloads Of fish were
caught in the net, but as there is no
market for that quantity Of fish at
this time, all but few carloads Of
carp were released in the lake.
Minneapolis. County Treasurer
Henry G. Hanke handled $1O,637,-
017.48 for Hennepin county in 1915.
This included taxes OF all kinds, ST.
i 2S8, OS9. 20 on real estate; 81 1922, 6O3.12
on personal property; 100000 on in,
heritances, and $4,000 mortgage reg
istration taxes. There was less than