New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-02-28
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Happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
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# Busy Reader.

The First Minnesota infantry will
leave the border for home on March 2.
Little Falls will vote on local option
March 20. In 1915 the city went wet
by 275 majority.
Judge T. G. Blewitt, municipal Judge
Of Brainerd, is dead. He was fifty.
two years Of age.
Preston Cooper, seventy-nine years
old, Minnesota pioneer and Civil war
veteran. is dead at his home at Edna.
Mrs. Sarah Mckinney, widow Of Ed
ward Mckinney, former pioneer res
ident Of st. Paul, is dead, aged sew.
enty-one. vii 4,
Private c. s1lertson Of Eagle Bend,
this state, with the Canadian contin-
gent in France. has been killed on the
Somme front. ss,>s
William B.. Colver, St. Paul news
paper man, has been nominated by
President Wilson as member Of the
federal trade commission.
Edward Powell. the oldest yardsman.
in the employ OF the Minnesota Trans
fer company in point Of service, was
killed while at work in the yards.
About one hundred buttermakers at
tended the annual convention of the
Central Minnesota Dairymen and But
termakers' association lat Sank Center.
st. Paul is nineteenth on the list
of cities of the United States in the
size of its postal savings deposits. The
amount on deposit Feb. was $685.
907.
John ]. Clark, resident of Morri-
son county for half a century and
Civil war veteran, is dead at Little
Falls. He was seventy-six years of
age.
Dr.. G. A. Holt, forty-fve years old,
for more than fifteen years resident
of St. Paul. was killed in runaway
accident near his home at Antelope,
Ore.
J. F.. Leonard of Jordan was re
elected high chief ranger Of the hide.
pendent Order of Foresters of Min
nesota at the triannual convention at
st. Paul. si
Francis d. Connolly of Lewiston,
Mont, an Omaha freight brakeman,
was instantly killed in the Mankato
yards when run over by string Of
box cars. Is
Governor Burnquist has signed the
bone dry bill submitting the question
of prohibition to the voters of the
state at the annual election in No
vember, 1913.
Senator Moses E. Clapp was pre-
scented with gold headed cane by DR..
Eastman, Sioux, who headed del
egation of Indians, among whom were
several Chippewas.
Governor j. A.'A Burnquist has ac-
cepted an invitation to deliver an ad-
dress at patriotic service of the Ma
tional Congregational council July 3
at Los Angeles, Cal.
Four hundred Minneapolis militia,
men, henderson, the First Field artil-
lery, have arrived at Fort Smelling
from the Mexican border and will be
mustered out shortly
Winona county commissioners have
forwarded to the state highway COM
mission formal application for SIT 500
of the states allotment of the STE, OO0,-
900 federal highway aid.
Two hundred miners employed at
the Wilcox mine Of the Canadian
Cayuna company have gone on strike,
demanding higher pay and the aboN-
ton of the contract system.
George Ross. Judge Of probate Of
Brown county, is dead at New Ulm
after brief illness with pneumonia
He. was sixty-four years old and had
served twelve years as probate Judge.
The Owatonna board of education
is considering plans for new $4,000
high school building and it is probable
the first steps toward its erection will
be taken the coming spring or sum.
mer.
Victor Anderson, aged forty-six, is
dead at Duluth from injuries sustained
when he was caught by broken ma
chine belt and tossed to the ceiling in
the foundry of the National Iron
Works.
DR.. Marion LIE Roy Burton, presi-
dent elect Of the University of Mime
sofa, will address joint session of the
Minnesota legislature the morning Of
March 8. Dr.. George E. Vincent, re.
firing president, also will speak.
The Winona police, responding to
an emergency call, found John Erpel-
ding dead in partly wrecked house.
He had been i'll with pneumonia. He
arose from bed in a delirium, became
violent and members Of the family