New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-05-09

John H. Mullen has been named
deputy state highway commissioner
by Charles M. Babcock, state highway
commissioners, and his salary fixed az
$4,000 year. Mr.. Mullen has been in
the highway department of the state
for several years. ... 3....
The state fair managers have voted
to hold the fair in September as usual
and passed resolution declaring
grain and live stock exhibitions more
necessary than before the war, because
OF the necessity for encouraging
greater production of food. -.
Roy McGregor, owner, and Ben co.
hen, driver, of the automobile which
ran down and killed Viola Beveridge
at Little Falls on March 30, have been
convicted of manslaughter in the Sec
ond degree and given undetermined
sentences in the state penitentiary.
Hibbing village, which claims to be
original in nearly everything, through
its council has adopted an ordinance
requiring all stores in the village
limits to close at 6 p. m, with the ex-
ception of nights preceding any legal
holiday and week preceding Christ
mas.
Joseph Evans, thirty years old, a
farmer of Leon township, Goodhue
county, was killed instantly and Lud-
wig Johnson, his companion, was in
Jured seriously when Evans automo.
bile crashed through the railing of
bridge at Stanton and plunged into a
creek.
Hugh H. Edwards, president of the
Farmers Insurance company of Lake
Crystal, director of the First National
bank, former county commissioner
and member of Company E, Second
Minnesota cavalry, during the Civil
war, is dead. He was seventy-five
years of age.
Mrs. Margaret Hendricks, pioneer
st. Paul woman and among the oldest
residents of Dakota county, is dead at
her home in Greenvale, aged ninety
two years. Mrs. Hendricks came to
st. Paul in 1851, when she was twenty
six years old, and four years later re-
moved to Greenvale with her husband.
1njudicious talk about the course of
the government in declaring war on
Germany has brought about the dis
missal of the oldest mail carrier in ST..
Paul in point of service, Gustave A.
Hoffman, sixty-eight years old, a na-
tive of Geramny. Hoffman joined the
postal service in 1876.
The state fair managers appointed
Sam B. Scott of Zumbrota and John
Dwan of Two Harbors to fill the two
additional places on the board created
by the last legislature. They will
serve until the next annual meeting
Of the State Agricultural society,
which will be held in St. Paul next
January.
Louis A. Krenzke, prominent mer-
chant of Stockton, was instantly killed
when he plunged thirty feet off rail-
I8ad trestle and landed head foremost
against a rock. krenZke and two
companions were returning to Stock
ton from Minnesota City when the
former lost his footing and pitched to
the ground below.
Inheritance tax on $150,00O left in
trust by Mrs. Jane Thorn Cutler of
Duluth must be paid at once, the state
supreme court has ordered. The pro-
bate court of st. Louis county is di-
rected under the law, not to wait until
the termination of the trust to collect
the tax. The case has been in the Du-
luth courts for more than a year.
Neither the antitrust nor the con-
spiracy laws of Minnesota was in
tended to prohibit strikes for the pur-
pose of increasing or maintaining
wages. the state supreme court held
in an opinion adverse to the George
J. Grant Construction company on a
reargument of the appeal from the
Ramsey county district court in it's
action against the St. Paul Building
Trades council and others.
Captain w. F. Rhinow, United States
army officer detailed as military in
structor at the University of Mime
sofa, has been appointed military Sec
rotary to Governor j.. A. A. Burnquist.
Adjutant General Fred B. Wood was
placed in charge of registration for
CONSUMPTION in the state and will de-
vote his time to that task, while Cap
tain Rhinow will take over other mill
tary duties, including supervision of
the national guard.
All regular classes at the University
of Minnesota college of agriculture
have been suspended and the institu-
ton put on a strictly war basis. The
$50 students remaining at the school
were organized into three classes
which will be trained to supply assist
ants for government agricultural
agents and to operate tractors. There
were 400 students at the college and
all but $50 have enlisted either for
military service or farm work.
Adjutant General Fred B. Wood has
issued orders withdrawing from active
SorUioo tho Eirct fold orfil1oru oy,d