New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-01-17

The Wfnona Bowling association,
Will hold its fourteenth annual tour
nament Jan % to Feb. 4. The asso-
citation has extended invitations to all
surrounding cities. The dates take in
two Sundays so as to accommodate
visiting teams @
The grand championship cup for
the best male bird of any variety ex-
hlilbited at the annual show of the Min.
nesota State Poultry association in
Minneapolis was awarded to f.. p.
Cross and William Schmid, joint own
ers Of the bird.
Major George E. Houle; senior mus
tering officer at Fort Smelling, says
that the mastering out Of the Second
infantry, Minnesota national guard,
will be completed by Jan. "a and that
the soldiers can start for their home
towns on that date.
reuben Stromert, while hunting in
the woods at Diamond lake, near Will
var, shot a rabbit of large size, hav-
ing i've horns protruding at the ears,
The largest of the horns was three
inches thick at the base. Stromert
will have his game mounted.
Judge A. l.. Stonger OF Norris was
elected president of the Association of
Probate Judges of Minnesota at its
annual session at St. Paul. Judge NJ
M. Shields Of Faribault was chosen
vice president and Judge Charles F..
Hall of Granite Falls secretary ami
treasurer.
Mrs. T. B. Walker of Minneapolis
wife of q pioneer lumber manufac-
turer of Minnesota, is dead in New
York city, where she and her husband
had been since last spring. Mrs.
Walker, who was seventy-six years Of
age, was a leader in charitable and
philanthropic work in Minneapolis.
Ella Johnson, twenty-one years old.
was shot and killed at st. Paul and
her mother was wounded as she tried
to save her. daughter from Charles
Woods, who entered their home and
began firing at random about the
room. The murder, it is said, was the
climax of two years of persecution
No more applications from Mime
sofa schools, counties and towns for
loans from state permanent trust
funds will be received perhaps until
July, /, State Auditor Preus said, be-
cause the limit. of $1,5OO,OOO on appli-
cation filings as recently fixed by the
board of investment has been reached.
George Atchison of Mankato defeat
ed w. r.. Murphy of Wheaton by a
vote of 153 to 1491s in the race for
the presidency of the state fair board
and State Agricultural society Mich
ael J. Holm of Roseau, w. F. Sanger
Of Window and Curtis M. Johnson of
Rush City We're elected to the board
of directors.
The college Of agriculture of the
University of Minnesota will be we'll
represented at the thirteenth annual
convention and show. of the Mime
sofa Crop Improvement association at
-Fairmont, Feb, Is, II and Is. Samples
of pedigree grains, produced accord
ing to scientific methods at the coll
lege of agriculture, will be exhibited
John McCollum, a prosperous farm
err of Denmark, Washington county,
has been in the county Jail at Still
water for more than a month pending
an order to give $500 bail for keeping
the peace toward his wife. His wife
and grown daughters have visited him
in Jail and urged him to give the peace
bond and return home, but he refuses.
President Wilson has sent to the
senate the following Minnesota post
master nominations: Otto w. Peter.
son, Audubon; Tillman w. ellison,
Bellingham; Emily M. Drexler, Bran
don; Margaret McMaher, Brewster. j,
"A. Bloom, Chisago City; Arthur j.
Yackel, Comfrey; Thomas A. Torger-
son, Greenbush; Kate Hostetler, Wy
koff
Minnesota's creamery and dairy in
dustry now brings an annual income
of more than 100000, 900, according
to Commissioner Farrell Of the state
dairy and food department. Mime
sofa, ne says, now mas 500 creamerles,
which are patronized by $4,000 farm
ers, the incomes of these patrons vary
ing from few dollars to $500 per
month.
A verdict known under Minnesota
laws as fve-sixths" jury verdict, be-
ing given by ten of twelve jurors
against the Minneapolis and St Louis
railroad in a personal injury damage
suit, has been affirmed by the United
States supreme court The verdict
was for $S,40O to George H: Winters,
a Marshalltown Qa.) machinist, suffer
ing a crushed hand.
When in their teens Bessie Hicks,
eighty-two years old, and her sister,
Juliet, seventy-four years old, agreed
to live together all their lives and
never to marry. Since then they have