Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1917-09-12
minnesota State News


George W. Scheerer, Mankato bank.
OF. is dead at q Minneapolis hospital.
Mr.. Scheerer was past grand master
and past grand representative Of Min
nesota Odd Fellows.
Frank n. Carleton, Jr., of Minneap-
oils, now in the Red Cross ambulance
service In France, has been awarded
the Cross Of War for bravery In re-
moving wounded under q heavy bonn
hardment
]. r. Turner, st. Elizabeth. Wis.,.
died of a broken neck following an au.
tomobile accident on the Saltwater
road three miles outside the st. Paul
city limits.
AT the farm of w. III. Johnston in
South Long Lake township, Grow
Wing county. there is a crab apple
tree with fruit hanging from its limbs
and blossoms appearing a second time
this season.
Isaac r. Berry, Minneapolis con-
tractor and apartment house owner.
is dead. He was sixty-six years old
and had been resident of Minneap.
oils since 1877.
Lille Miller, sixteen years old, of
Benton county, won the oral spelling
contest at the state fair and Joseph
Voldahl. twelve years old, of Faribault
county, took first honors in the writ.
ten contest.
Oscar L. Buhr of Stewart, this state,
has been appointed to succeed Floyd
Lyle as secretary to President Marion
L. Burton of the University of Mime
sofa. Mr.. Lyle resigned to enter mill
tary service.
Wadena county won first honors for
county agricultural exhibits at the
state fair Cass county captured first
honors for the northern section and
Nicollet secured first place in the
southern section.
Corporal Harry G.. Cross, Red
Wing young man who enlisted in the
American Red Cross and is now on
French battlefields, was recently hon
ored by American military officers and
French government authorities for
bravery.
]. S. Pardee, secretary of the state
public safety commission, has re-
signed. It is reported he has accepted
a position with the federal food COM
mittee at Washington under HI. c.
ing campaign.
Thirteen Carlton boys pasted pic
ture Of the kaiser on the side of
barn and began shooting at it with air
rifles. Merton Cain, fourteen years
old, was accidentally wounded in the
eye by one Of his playmates in the
target practice.
Headed by representatives Of the
state public safety commission 1000
persons charged the audience at So
cialist meeting at Rush City, took pos
session of the hall, burned Socialist
banners and literature and elected
three scheduled speakers.
Minnesota will receive from the
federal government for the year end
ing June so, 1919, road aid amounting
to $425,S65, according to an official
announcement from Washington. In
1917 Minnesota was apportioned $142,-
.ss94 and for 1918 S284,792.
Private Fred Fess, eighteen years
old, Of Renville, this state, a member
of 81. Company, Third Minnesota in
fantry, is dead at the cantonment hos
pital at. Deming, N. NJ. His was the
fist soldier death at the camp. He
had been in the service only a month.
II d.,
of the Canadian expeditionary force,
died of wounds in a field hospital in
France. Mr.. Hishon had been in the
Canadian army nearly two and half
years He was wounded three times
and July 80 was decorated for bravery
by King George.
Judge CIV. Granger Of Rochester.
ON the district bench of the Third ju-
dicial district since May Is, 1915. has
resigend to become head Of the legal
staff Of the Mayo clinic at Rochester
Charles E. Callahan, Rochester at
torney, has been named as successor
to Judge Granger
Mrs. Park j.. Day of Frazee, de.
spondent over the i'll health of her
husband, who is confined in santa
rum suffering from tuberculosis, her
self III and unable to provide for her
three children, purchased poison and
mixed it with the family food. The
mother and two children are dead, but
the third will recover.
Mrs. Gunild lyerson, mother of Sam
nel G. Iverson, former state auditor
and pioneer settler Of the state, is
dead at the home of her son In St.
Paul. Mrs. Iverson was born in Nor
way in 1S47 and came to America with
her parents in 1862, settling first in
Wisconsin and then moving to Fill
more county, this state, in 1855.
j.. Z. Mitchell OF Austin has been
elected member Of the state fair
board to succeed Robert Crickmore Of
OWatonna, who resigned recently. Mr..
Mitchell has been in charge of the.
ticket audit departme nt of the fair for