New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-01-03
ABOUT The STATE
= News Of Especia! interest to
Minnesota Readers.
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happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
for the Convenience Of the
Busy Reader.

: Mrs. G. E.. Lien, pioneer of Willmar,
as dead, aged seventy-four.
A st. Paul firm has received an or
der for poison fly paper from China
Dr. Ethelbert F. Geer, well known
st. Paul physician, is dead, aged fifty
eight.
Four business buildings, one the
largest in town, were destroyed by
fire at Danube.
Mrs. George Pomerleau, sixty-three
years old, an early resident of Mime
/.apolis, is dead.
Mrs. Samuel Hess, eighty-two years
aold, a pioneer resident of Minnesota,
is dead at St. Paul. Il II
Mrs. Ellen O'Connor, seventy-fve
years old, resident of St. Paul for
fifty-five years, is dead.
Leonard S. Storey, son of H1,J.
Story Of Puposky,'-is dead as the re.
suit of kick by horse.
Mrs. Anna M. Willes, widow Of
Charles L.<1Willes, a pioneer of St.
Paul, is dead, aged lightweight.
A new high record in marriage IL
censes was established in Minneapo-
lis in 1916, when 1919 were issued.
The First National bank of Mankato
presented it's employees with cash
bonus equal to. per cent of their sal.
aries. H..
Fred Anderson, twenty-six years of
I'll
rifle at the home of his parents near
Hastings.
Minneapolis bank clearings for 1916
broke all records, the total being close
to $1,475,000,000, gain of $134,00O,000
\~over 1915. 80, -,...
L. L. De Rosia, eighty-nine years
old, who recently retired after twenty
eight years in the hotel business at
Mankato, is dead.
Mrs. Mary Smith Harrison, of Min
neapolis, a prominent member of the
Territorial Pioneer Woman's club, is
dead in California
Robbers entered the saloon of Casey
e Doyle at Minneapolis, broke open
che safe with sledge hammer and
escaped with $3UO.
H. H. Cheney, aged sixty-eight, a
resident of Minneapolis since 1866, Is
dead from injuries sustained IN q
street car accident @
Albert Stromire, a switchman,| was
killed at Minneapolis in. attempting
TO board moving passenger train. in
the Milwaukee yards.
Every workman in the mills of tho
Watab Pulp and Paper company near
st. Cloud has received raise in
wages of S. month +
Miss Mary J. Wingate, an old time
school teacher and resident of North
Minneapolis for thirty-six years. is
dead, aged eighty-three.
John Fuller, trapper, sixty years old,
was found dead in the ruins of his
shack in Clough township, Morrison
county, his body burned to a crisp.
Daniel Taylor, formerly of Minneap-
oils, for many years in the engineer
ing department Of the Great Northern
railroad, is dead at Sierra Madre, CAL
Two thousand four hundred and six
more persons were born in St. Paul
during 1915 than died. During the
year there we're 5,161 births and 1855
deaths.
William Markoe, pioneer of Ramsey
county, died at his home at White
Bear lake.. Mr. Markoe was born in
Philadelphia in 1920 and reached st.
Paul in 1856.
Charles Stevens, firemen for the
Great Northern railway, dropped dead
while climbing aboard his engine in
the yards at st. Paul. He was forty
five years of age.
Mrs Jane Clapp, eighty-five years
.old mother of United States Senator
Noses E. Clapp, was seriously injured
when she fell on an icy sidewalk near
her home at st. Paul X
Nick Sobtzson is dead at Spooner
following a quarrel with Billy Polak.
The shooting is said to have been the
result of an argument over taxes. Po-
lax claims he shot in self-defense
Arnold Uhler, aged sixty-fye, drop
ped dead while attending Christmas
mass at St. Francis de Sales Catholic
church at ST. Paul. Mr.. Uhier was a
pioneer resident of the Capital City.
Each member of H company, Sec
sond Minnesota infantry, at Llano
sGrande, Tex, received 81 bill and
box of assorted chocolates as Christ
mas gift from the Mankato Commer-
acial club. :
G. Danford Jooste, graduate of the
Minnesota Agricultural college last
June, has been assigned to the British
Royal Flying corps and is training
near London for service on the West
,ern front.
The thirty ninth annual convention
of the Minnesota State Dairymen's as
ISOLATION will be held at Lake City
Jan 16 to 10. Men prominent in the
.dairying industry are scheduled to-
make addresses.