New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-10-17
News Of the State
Condensed for Busy Folks

shooting in open water and without q
license.
With the bugle call of taps, fol-
lowed by salute Of guns, the body
Of Samuel Bloomer, pioneer and sol
der Of the Civil war, was lowered to
its last resting place in FairvieW Gem.
etary, Saltwater.
An attempt to hold meeting Of
the Non-partisan League Of North Da-
kota at Mankato was frustrated by
owners Of halls and buildings in this
city, who refused to rent them to the
organization.
p. p. Warner, recently arrested at
st. Cloud, in connection with the rob-
berry and shooting at the Great north
ern depot at Moorhead, in which
George Sheffield, operator at the sta
ton, was killed, has confessed to a
robbery at Reynolds, according to
statement given out by the Moorhead
police. r.:
In a fog SO thick that view three
feet ahead was cut of, Northern Pa
cif1c freight trains collided at Lerch,
eight miles from Brainerd. Peter
Mayres. Of Duluth, engineer, was bad
~ injured. He was taken to a Brain
erd hospital. The engine, caboose
and several cars Of Mayres' train were
derailed, delaying traffic several hours.
Last week was Fire Prevention
week in Minnesota, in accordance
with recent proclamation by, Cover
nor Burnquist. Although in the past
only one day has been set aside an
nually for fire prevention propaganda,
the period was increased this year be-
cause Of the war and It's resultant
need for conservation Of property.
Fire drills we're conducted in all OF
the schools every day. Pupils also
were given talks on fire prevention.
Many industries took similar meas
ures with respect to their employees.
Knute Nelson. senior United States
Senator from Minnesota, is to be. hon.
ored by the naming Of state high
way. The Nelson Trail runs from
the Iowa line south of Worthington,
Mimi, through Mobiles, Murray, Lyon,
Yellow Medicine, Chippewa, Swift,
Pope, Douglas, Ottertail, Watonwan
and Hubbard counties, to Lake Itaska,
MINI. It has especial scenic attrac-
lions. The road will be marked by q
black circle enclosing a yellow back
ground with the letter NJ in the cen
ter
Instructions were issued at the 18th
annual assembly of the Grand Council
Royal and Select Masters, Mobiles
Of the Mystic Shrine Of Minnesota,
which met in st. Paul, by the grand
council to the grand treasurer to in
vest $500 In Liberty Bonds for the or
der. At the election of officers, DR..
Norman B. Patten, potentate of Zuh.
rah temple, Minneapolis, was made
grand master. Other officers elected
We're: Samuel T. Irvine, Red Wing,
Deputy grand master; Charles III.
Green, st. Paul, grand councillor Of
the work; George 3. Wanner, Mime
apolis, treasurer; John Fishel, ST.
Paul, recorder; Alex e. Clarendon,
Minneapolis, grand captain Of the
guard; Charles P. Montgomery, St.
Paul, commander of the council; Sy-
ward A. Rhode, Duluth, grand chap
lain; Harold L. Lamb, Sank Centre,
marshal; O.. L. Schultz, Minneapolis,
steward. and John L. Lundwig, St.
Paul, sentinel.
E. T. Carol, formerly superintendent
Of the Wadena schools, has been elect.
ed superintendent Of the Verndale
schools.
Jacob Rudolph u Holdingford was
killed by runaway team which he
was driving. Death was caused by q
fracture Of the base eof the skull.
The Liberty Loan campaign in WI
mona county has been launched and
the preliminaries for publicity will con
tinue for q week. Two hundred and
fifty workers will Ego over the top' in
the bono drive on October Is.
Frank F.. Smith, Minneapolis, was
sentenced to serve I'VE days in the
Cass county jail at Fargo by Judge
Amidon for failure to register. He
will be registered in Minneapolis un-
der orders from the Federal authori-
ties. sss
Paul Williams, ~ years old, of Ha-
vannah, was perhaps fatally shot while
husking corn in field near his home.
It is believed the young man was
struck by q stray bullet and all efforts
to find the person who fired the shot
thus far have failed.
Mrs. Charles Roy of Red Lake Falls,
one of the Oldest settlers Of Red Lake
county, died at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Octave Lacoursiere, at the
age of S5. She had been Ill. the past
six months with dropsy and for the
past five years had been blind and in
poor health. She has 1876 descendants
living children. u grandchildren
and II great-grandchil dren. Ten Of
her children are dead.
Though the temperature didn't go
below 81 degrees last Tuesday, the first
snow of the season added zest to the
universal conversational topic, the
weather. From Superior, from La