New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-10-10
'NeWsof the State
Condensed for Busy Folks


The fifth branch house Of the Little
Falls Milling company has been opened
at Pine River. =. r. Tanner Of Brain
erd, vice president Of the company
superintends the branch.
Authorities have begun general
cleanup OF blind pigs and bootleggers
N the vicinity Of Fergus Falls. Seven
arrests have been made, and It Is I'm.
derstood that more than twenty addi,
tional warrants are out.
There has been "shake-up," locally
speaking, In slot machines and SINH.
lar games which started around Kelli.
her, 80 that all slot machines are SUP.
posed to be out Of commission, accord.
Ing to the order Of the council.
Fighting until every stitch Of cloth
Ing was torn from his back, Peter Ertz
OF Bluffton was arrested on the charge
OF introducing liquor in Indian terri.
tory. His wife came to his assistahee
and threatened to use q gun before she
was overpowered.
The Little Falls Civic leagues tag
day was the most successful the
league has had since it adopted this
method Of raising funds. The sale of
tags on the streets netted 1921 and
this does not include the receipts from
the schools of the city.
joel Thompson, who left Baudette
last spring to join the army, has been
made q sergeant at Fort BENJAMIN
Harrison, Ind, and George Huntington.
who is stationed at Fort Douglas.
Utah, has been made a corporal, &C.
cording to letters received from them
this week.
When Sam Kandian, Breckenridge
tailor, was charged with violating
the act of May IL in failing
to register, five Of his friends
were brought from Winnipeg and
gave testimony that they had known
him for years that he was born
in the province OF Galicia. Austria. and
that he was IS years old. There was
nothing else to do but to give Sam his
liberty.
James H. Drew, who holds the
unique record of being the Oldest rural
mall carrier In point of service and In
age in the United States, celebrated
bis etghtieth birthday at Red Wing.
Despite his four score years, Mr.. Drew
Is still in the harness and. covered his
=thirty-two-mile route, the same as any
other day. He has been in the service
since the rural mail delivery was es-
tablished in Red Wing.
Merrill and Hoyt Chase, 10 and q
years old, left their work on farm
near Dakota when they went to Wi
mona to see G company of the Second
Minnesota infantry entrain for Camp
Cody. They did not return to the
farm. Instead, the brothers left in the
evening for Jefferson barracks to join
the army. The fires of patriotism were
sktndled anew when they, witnessed the
local demonstration and they could not
resist.
Charles Jacobson, arrested at Wiz.
ginia on an indictment returned by the
Federal grand jury in Chicago few
days ago in It's investigation of the
l.-W. W., was brought here by dep
uty United States marshal and ar.
raigned before United States Commits
sioner James A. Wharton. He was
bound over to the Chicago grand jury
under bonds Of $4,000 and was taken
to the st. Louis county Jail in default
of the bonds.
ABOVE the DeJa nappa fraternity
house at Hamline university waved a
service flag containing 20 stars. Each
star stood for member of the fra.
ternity who, during the past six
months, had entered the services of
the United States. OF the original %
members of the organization last
spring only three still remain at the
house.
The possibilities OF intensive garden.
ing have been demonstrated by George
W. Giles Of Red Wing. who raised 100
bushels Of onions on one-eighth of an
acre. At this rate the yield to the acre
would have been $50 bushels. Onions
are retailing at $3.50 a. bushel, or $3.50
for his crop. "The secret Of raising
onions is high cultivation" he said.
Little Elsie Dwelle, 7-year-old daugh.
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. e. A. Dwelle OF
Bruce township near Long Prairie, was.
seriously injured when kicked by a.
solt at the home Of her parents Thurs.
day evening. Her skull was fractured.
hut she will recover.