New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-05-16
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Happenings Of the Week Briefly Told
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William Trauernicht, vice president
of the st. Paul White Lead and Oil
company, is dead.
The 1917 conference of the Metho-
dist church will be held in PipestOne
Sept. 26 to Oct. 1.
John Donovan, aged seventy-six, a
veteran employee of the Omaha rail
road, is dead at St. Paul.
Mrs. John Hedstrom, pioneer of Min.
nesota, is dead at Eggleston. She was
eighty-six years of age.
State Senator Thomas M. Pugh. one
of Duluth's Best known men, is dead.
He was eighty-five years Of age.
Albert F. Mccall, president of the
Citizens State bank of Lake City, is
dead. He was seventy-seYen years of.
age.
Donald Mclaughlin, three-year-old
son of Mrs. Hazel Mclaughlin Of Min
neapolis, was run down and killed by
an automobile.
/ Mrs. Katherine OBrien, eighty-seven
years old, an early resident of Dakota
county, died at her home in Douglas
after a brief illness.
Nels Nelson of Parkers Prairie, dig
ging a well on his fathers farm, was
buried to depth Of thirty-one feet
when the earth caved in.
Captain jeremiah G. Donahower of
St. Paul has been elected commander
of the Minnesota commandery, Loyal
Legion of the United States
| At the annual convention of the
state council of the Knights of Column
| bus at Red Wing St. Cloud was Sc
lected as the 1913 convention city.
Rochester's population is 1922, ac-
cording to figures compiled from a
new directory. This is an increase Of
5000 since the last directory was is
sued in 1915.
In the third fatal automobile acct
dent in as many days in Minneapolis
Louis David, a thirteen-year-old news
boy, was struck by an automobile and
died few hours later.
Lieutenant Frank Kinds, former
resident of Saltwater, where his
mother still lives, was killed in the
battle of Vimy ridge, in France. He
belonged to a Canadian regiment.
w H. Lamson of Hinckley has been
elected secretary of the state board Of
| investment, position created by the
last legislature He will begin service
Aug. I. The salary is $4,000 year.
Fire of undetermined origin at
tackled the plants of the Davis Chair
company and the Twin City Mission
Furniture company midway between
| the Twin Cities and caused loss of
| $45, 900.
DR.. G. L. Scofeld of Benson, for
| merly on the state advisory commits
| sion for consumptives, has been ap-
pointed on the state board of health
| to succeed DR.. w. G. Chambers of
Blue Earth.
| Three Socialist members of the Min.
| neapolis city council voted against an
appropriation of $500 for expenses in
connection with the draft army. 9th
| erwise the vote was unanimous for
the resolution.
Stanley Washburn of Minneapolis,
we'll known correspondent, has been
commissioned a major of cavalry on
the active list of the army and as
signed to duty with the Russian rail-
road commission.
Police duty by national guardsmen
during the month of April cost the
state national guard fund approx
mately $4,000, according to Captain
w. F. Rhinow, military secretary to
Governor Burnquist.
Wallace S. Streeter of Granite Falls,
| this state, clerk for Representative
Andrew J. Volstead, has joined the ma
val reserve. He is the first empIoye
of member of the Minnesota delega-
| ton to join the colors.
| Dean Guy Stanton Ford of the Grad
uate school of the University of Min.
nesota and professor of European his
tory, has been called to Washington
to take a position on the committee
on public information.
! Petitions of Walter J. Smith, former
state treasurer, and R. c. Pickit, for
mer state investment clerk, both SEN
fenced to indeterminate terms for mis-.
use of state funds, have been denied
by the state board of parole.
E. P. Wells of Minneapolis and Ju.
Illus Barnes of Duluth have been ap
pointed members of committee OF
seven representatives of the grain ex
changes of the country to cooperate
with the coucil of national defense.
Anton Gutgesell, twenty-five years
old, was thrown from his bicycle
against the railing of the Twentieth
avenue bridge at Minneapolis when
his wheel skidded in the mud. He
Z. died few minutes later while in an
ambulance.
c. D. Mesick of Minneapolis, sixty
four years of age, third cousin of Mar.
ssquis Lafayette, has offered his sery.
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