New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-01-10
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The grand lodge, Masons Of Mime
sofa, will meet at Masonic temple in
st. Paul Jan. Il and Is.
Charles Grodnik, who located in
Minneapolis thirty three years ago, is
dead following an operation.
g Mr. and Mrs. w. HI. Malone, pioneer
residents of Minneapolis, died within
fourteen hours Of each other.
N. Quig1ey, editor Of the Pipestone
courier-T Times and Oldest newspape,
Publisher in that county, is dead.
Miss Francis Mtad Lyon, sixty
Years old, teacher Of French at Cen.
traf high school in st. Paul for fifteen
years, IS dead.
Mrs. Rose Oelker, resident of st.
Paul for more than half / century, is
dead from injuries suffered in q fan
New Tears day.
Ether Leonard Shepley, vice presf-
dent Of the Northwestern Fuel com
pany, II dead ct st. Paul. He Was
4hfty-efsht years Of age.
~ DR.. Arthur G. Rogers, aaperintana.
ssnt Of the state school7.nar the feeble
minded At aFaribault, died at the Uni
sversity hospital At Hamline. &
Building permits issued In Mime
spells during 1916 reached total OF
81, S0Q, 290, an Increase Of 4&,547, $50
over 1916, the previous record.
F. E. Pearson. new superintendent
Of state banks, granted the first new
bank charter under his administration
to the Miltona State bank in Douglas
county.
Internal revenue collections in Min
nesota for the last year showed gain
of $662,S04 over the collections in
1885, The total amount collected in
the state in 1916 was $6,722,223.
Lucius Maltby Healy, ninety years
old, the oldest resident of Red Lake
county, is dead at Red Lake Falls.
Mr.. Healy was member of the legis-
lature from Rice county in 1S74-75.
"A petition is being circulated by
Duluth vets for an election April to
set aside the dry ordinance which be.
comes effective July /. The petition
will require total Of 1923 signatures.
After wet and dry contest lasting
since August, Beltrami county official
5ly went wet when Judge CIV. Stan
ton of Bemidji handed down a de-
cision- in favor of the liquor inter.
ests.
Proceeds Of a New Years enter
tainment at the West Side CONNER
cial club at St. Paul was the loot of
robbers who broke the lock from a
cigar case in which the money was
placed. 4
George H. Knowles, an early Mime
apolis resident, is dead Mr.. Knowles
was born in New York state in 1912.
served in an Illinois regiment during
the Civil war and then came to Min
nesota.
Edwin Aldritt, a pioneer resident Of
Carver county and veteran of the Civil
war, is dead at Lake Minnewashta. He
was almost seyenty-seven years old,
Mr.. Aldritt was born in Staffordshire
Eng, April 4, 1910.
F. E. Pearson, state superintendent
OF banks, has appointed P. w. Moore,
formerly Of Rochester and Mankato.
to the vacancy on his staff caused by
the recent resignation of o. l. Brant-
hold, the oldest examiner.
A new 100000 drainage project in
the Red Lake river basin was adj
vanced by the. state drainage COM
mission with an order directing E. ".
Willard, state drainage engineer, to
make a preliminary survey.
Bank deposits in st. Paul national,
state and savings banks during 1916
increased s10,968 ,616.43,1or almost ST.
000, 900 a month The deposits on
Dec. 81, 1915, were $1O5,143,O 27.17 and
on Dec. n, 1916, they were s116,111,.
643.60.
William McAlmon, captain of the
University of Minnesota football
team in 1913, died in Abbott hospital,
Minneapolis The cause Of his death
was diabetes, from which he had
besn suffering for more than two
years.
Six hundred and fifty eight persons
received treatment at the City and
County hospital at st. Paul last year,
with only sixty-three deaths, accord
ing to statistics issued. An increase
of 1913 in the number Of patients adj
nitted IoverS 1e15 is shown.
Mrs. Abbie s. Pendergast, widow of
w. w. endergast, first principal Of
the school Of agriculture and former
state superintendent of education, a
survivor. of the Indian attack on
Hutchinson, in which Little Grow was
killed by the stockaders, died at the
home Of her son-in-law, Rev. A. w.
Farnum, in st. Paul