Warren sheaf., 1917-09-19
IlleState Newsof
The Weekiil k Brief |
An Epitome Of All the Big and
Interesting Events Of the Past
Few Days In the State.

Dan Driscoll was held to the Novem-
her grand jury at saltwater on q
scharge of arson. 1t is alleged he at.
stempted to burn the South Side school
building.
Charges signed by SO persons have
been preferred against Mayor ]. j.
Reiter of Rochester. The complaint
against the mayor as yet has not been
reVealed.
Five crews are working on the state
roads of Mile Laos county under the
supervision of Highway Engineer
Gray, and great deal of effective
work is being done.
The Better Farming association,
which will hold a meeting in saltwater.
has promised that President M. l..
Burton Of the University of Minnesota,
will be the principal speaker.
The county commissioners Of Inter.
national Falls have offered the base.
ment Of the courthouse as storage
space for families which do not have
suitable cellars for winter storage.
Melvin Henderson received a broken
leg and dislocated shoulder when he
caught his arm between the belt and
the fywheel of gas engine and his
body was thrown against hay press
,at Foxhome.
Carl Larson lost forty acres of fax
and William McCann 137 acres of
standing flax as the result of hail
storm which passed over the country
northeast of Beltrami. The loss is
placed at $4,000.
Members of the state board of con.
troll were In Shakopee recently to Sc.
dect building sites for the state re.
iormatory for women which will be
established in that city. The buildings
Will be contracted for by the board
probably in the near future.
The new concrete bridge over the
Minnesota river at Mankato has been
opened for travel 1t cost approxi
.mately 100000. The street railway
company will use the bridge to enter
North Mankato, having already laid the
in May Of last year.
While walking from the Olmstead
county fair at Rochester five persons
were struck by an automobile driven
by Ambrose Kelly of Stewartville
Enos DAILY, II, was killed and Anna
Jorgenson, Lester Weed, Helga Han
son and Lena Nelson were injured,
two Of them perhaps fatally.
With cabbage selling as low as 25
cents dozen in Winona, ray Of
sunshine has crept into the home of
the humble and the wealthy, alike
For there is assurance of an abundance
of sauerkraut at unusually low prices
Buyers and sellers agree that this
years crop of the essential ingredient
Is record breaker
Winona county farmers, facing
heavy losses because of the frost
damage to corn, are being aided to
garner the salvage by soldiers. Cap
tain J. D. Burke, responsive to the
argent appeal for men, permitted as
many as possible of his members Of
o company to spend day in the field
assisting in filling silos with corn for
fodder.
BED Lake Falls is now practically
assured Of a new hotel, as $4,000 Of
the $4,000 necessary stock has been
subscribed and every effort will be
made to bring the subscription up to
@the required amount. A loan of $4,000
Or $4,000 will then be secured, which,
with the $4,000, will be sufficient for
building 80 or 35-room modern
structure. t
When the saloons Of st. Louis county
are closed six months hence as the
sresult Of the dry victory Monday, Red
Lake county will be the most northern
most wet county, not only in Mime
seta, but in the United States. Wash
fngton, Idaho, North Dakota and Maine
are already dry and Montana, the only
Iother state on the 10th parallel, has
voted dry, but prohibition is not yet
I'D effect.
Rev. Charles Z. Lehnert, pastor of
the Central German Methodist Episco-
pal church Of & Minneapolis, will be
1r1ed In Winona at the Northern Ger
anan conference. OF that church, on the
) charge Of improper conduct. The case
grows out OF a letter written to the
liberty Loan committee at Mime
apolis last May. Lehnert now is facing
prosecution under criminal charge
I'm the United States court at Mime
:apolis.
When the Northern Minnesota; De-
velopment association holds its annual
meeting in Brainerd December 6 and
Z, the first gun in the campaign to
boom that section Of the state as ban
sner potato seed producing locality will
be fred. The executive committee Of
the booster organization has voted to
appropriate 5000 to be used in provid.
ing premiums for the Minnesota Po-
stato Growers association that it might
shold its annual exhibit in conjunction
with the Boys and Girls potato show
at Brainerd.
Forty-two women patients at the
state hospital for the insane at ST.
Peter have Joined movement begun
by Mrs. B. Leverland, an employe Of the
institution, TO knit garments for the