New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-11-28
News Of the State
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Mrs. John Harry Of Fergus Falls
has received q telegram that her
brother, Arthur Bates, was killed in
action on the battlefield In France
81 The Aitkin-C Crow Wing county san
atorium ut Brainerd for treating tu-
bercular patients will be completed in
February at cost of $40.0 900 and be
occupied in the spring. s
The mayor and chief of police OF
Lester Prairie and 10 other residents
of that village have been indicted by
the Mcleod county grand jury on q
charge of being members Of a ra;ding
party that assaulted owners Of the
Klatt hotel July Is.
A large delegation Of Pipestone
county automobile owners & went to
Omaha to attend a meeting of the ex-
.ecutive committee of the King Of
Trails association The route for the
trail between Sioux City and Orion
vile, Mimi, will be decided.
j AS result Of alleged disloyalty ut
terances and publications Is indict-
ments have been returned against
Faribault residents by grand jury,
and ]. e. Palmer, assistant attorney
general, has gone to aid James P. Nc
Mahon, county attorney, in the prose-
cutions before District Judge A. B.
Childress.
F. S. Schwalen, a Triumph banker,
arrested several weeks ago on a
charge of interfering with the sale of
Liberty bonds, appeared in court at
Fairmont and was fined 500 by Judge
e. G. Dean. When his case was called
Schwalen appeared before the court
wearing Liberty Loan and Red Cross
buttons. He told the court he had
subscribed to the Loan and Red Cross
fund, and for that reason was. given
q light fine.
Effort to coordinate Minnesota or.
carnations engaged in7patTfotic serv-
Ice will be made by Representatives
Of the State Public Safety commits.
sion at Z conference IN st. Paul soon.
Announcement Of the proposed con.
ference is made by C. w. Henke, pub.
lfcity director Of the commission, who
said the undertaking is along lines
laid down at q meeting in Chicago
which was called by Arthur e. Bees,
tor of Washington, whom President
Wilson has placed in charge of M.
tional patriotic work.
The Rev. s. M. Kelly has been for
mally installed as pastor Of the First
Presbyterian church Of Red Lake
Falls. Mr.. Kelly went there from
Stephen, Mimi, where he had been
pastor for two years.
-Four hundred delegates attended
the annual convention of the Mime.
sofa Union, American Society OF
Equity, which was held in st. Paul
The real business of the session were
the discussion Of market problems;
and plans for extending the organiza,
ton
st. Paul's mild epidemic of small.
pox assumed serious proportions when
10 new cases were discovered. OH.
cials of the health department, who
have supervised the vaccination OF
approximately 1900 persons since the
present epidemic started month ago,
assert that it will be necessary to vac
cinate at least 1000 more to halt its
spread.
E. B. Ford, Mrs. Elizabeth Ford and
Edward Bosky, indicted on charge OF
dislOyalty in connection with the pub.
LEGATION of the Faribault Referendum,
entered pleas of not guilty before
Judge A. B. Childress. The charges
of disloyalty are the outgrowth OF
certain items published in the news
paper of which the defendants are
owners and editors. st.S
All the patriotic organizations OF
Minnesota will be represented at the
annual convention of the National
Security league, to be- held February
Il, % and % in Chicago. The meet.
ing this year will be In the nature OF
q national war time council, which
will call in for consultation the Red
Cross, state safety commissions. CT
william relief societies and all the 9th.
er organizations brought about by
war exigencies. i t.4.5 81. PSI
Two recent announcements from
Washington marked progress In pre-.
pairing for future operation Of the
selective draft in Minnesota. One
stated that December / had been set
as the date on which all local boards
should begin preparations for putting
into effect the new classification sys.
tenn for drafted men. The other stated
that DR.. William J. Mayo had been
named chief of the medical advisory
organization for the state.
A new industry has been born in
Minnesota-the production of sheep
on the long unproductive cutover
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