New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-06-06

pr ~ M. Freeman, assistant dean
OF tie department Of agriculture, Uni.
versity Of Minnesota, has been ap.
pointed q member of the agricultural
committee of the National Research
council at Washin gton.
State Treasurer Rines has mailed
to county treasurers statements for
81, s29,441.7S, interest and principal, on
due July / on state loans
aggregating s21,O5l,O92.f Is to schools,
municipalities and counties.
James Cassidy, aged nine, son Of
Stanley Cassidy, St, Paul detective,
was killed when new automobile his
father was driving sK1dded into the.
curb and turned over. Four other oc-
cupants of the car were uninjured.
The annual convention Of the Min
nesota Bankers association will be
held in St. Paul June 20 and 81. At
least $500 delegates are expected.
Rear Admiral Robert E. Peary, famous
Arctic explorer, will deliver an ad-
dress.
G. A. Schneider, a farmer residing
four miles east of Blue Earth, sold
two hogs in that town that weighed
1,275 pounds and brought him $194.4O
This is the largest check that has ever
been issued in Blue Earth for two
hogs.
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Miss Julia O'Brien, teacher in the
North Mankato school, has been mott
fed Of the death in the battle of Vimy
Ridge, France, of her brother, for
merly OF North Mankato and gradu-
ate of the Mankato state normal
school.
Five girls from the high school of
Thief River Falls have quit studies to
work on farms in the immediate neigh
borhood and have BEEN given full
credit for the balance of the school
year, the same as in the case of about
fifty boys.
The price of spruce pulpwood, used
in paper making, has been advanced
by the state timber board. The boards
action requires that not less than 81
cord shall be paid the state for
spruce pulpwood, compared with 81 to
$1.25 paid in the past
Part of the east side of Thief River
Falls was threatened by fire when a
fifty-mile gale carried flames and en-
bers in a southerly direction. The
homes of Walter Quist and Peter Kol-
den were completely destroyed by the
fire. the origin of which is unknown.
Cora Merrick, aged thirty-five, was
killed and Chris Nelson seriously in
jured in an automobile accident near
the Minneapolis city limits. The car,
driven by Joe Carr, wrestler, skidded
and smashed into telephone pole.
Seven other occupants of the car es-
capped injury. g.. :,: i,
u. B. Arnold, Duluth; Otton Bergh,
Grand Rapids, and A. p Silliman, Hib-
bling, have been selected by Governor
Burnquist to constitute the state land
improvement: board to administer the
100000 revolving fund" set aside for
clearing and breaking state land to
maise It salable. lSs d S us 5:4Ssssssss
While attempting to go from one
room to another on the third story of
the college building by walking on a
narrow ledge of stone, John A. Sulli-
van, fourteen-year-old student at St.
Mary's college at Winona, lost his bal
ance and fell sixty feet to the ground,
breaking his neck:
The Clapp act is held invalid in so
far as it attempts to make taxable al
lotted Indian lands. on the White Earth
reservation in cases. where the adult
mixed blood Indian had not volun-
tarily conveyed or mortgaged in an
opinion rendered by the United States
circuit court of appeals.
Disorganization of the. state forestry
service is threatened by responses to
the announcement that regiment of
Minnesota foresters and woodsmen
will be recruited for service in France
at the direction Of the federal war and
forestry departments, according to
State Forester w. T. Cox.
Rev. Charles P. Lehnert, pastor OF
the Central German Methodist Episco.
pal church of Minneapolis, arrested
on charge of making seditions utter.
ances. has been temporarily suspended
from HIS pastorate by DR.. F. E., Hirsch
of st. PAU, district uperintendent OF
the Northern German conference
Michael Moore, bartender, played
the role Of an insane man in Ramsey
county district court when he and
Frank J. Dunn, teaming contractor,
pleaded not guilty to an Indictment
charging them with the murder of
Mrs. Alice McQuillan Dunn. Moore's
case was set for trial June and
Dunn's for the same day, to follow in
order.
! Major Oliver J. Duane, Second in
fantry, Minnesota national guard, has
been suspended for six months by
Brigadier General F.. E. Resche on
conviction before courtmartial of
charges of INSTRUMENTATION preferred