New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-12-26
News Of tie State
Condensed for Busy Folks

is now as smooth as race track for
motor cars, and some joy riders have
taken advantage of It.
More than 800 Willmar women have
already served chain luncheons in the
interest of the Red Cross war relief
fund. These Luncheons have brought
in 1925.
Adel1ne and Nelford Kongsie, 3 and
10 years old, had narrow escape
from freezing to death while walking
to the Belmont school, south Of East
Grand Forks, during the recent cold
spell.
Charles Nelson, q farmer of Syea,
just marketed 63 hogs, for which he
received $3.50 The hogs, farrowei
last spring, averaged 26O pounds each.
and brought $15.75 hundred.
tivities in the school houses.
After celebrating for three hours.
the district court jury at Mankato that
tried Henry Weibold of Lyra on the
charge of seditious utterances brought
in verdict of guilty. The defend
ant will move for new trial.
The Willmar city council has decid-
ed that all street lights in the city
will be eliminated hereafter early in
the evening, in order to economic in
the use of coal. The board Of educa-
ton has also prohibited all evening ac-
Ferris ]. Thompson, an old-time riv-
er man. known in every port and in
every community along the Missis-
sippi river between st. Paul and st.
Louis. is dead, He. died at his home
at Davenport, Iowa, where he lived
with his daughter the past few years
Miss Myrtle johnson, a stenog-
raEher of Saltwater, who received q
number of injuries in an auto acci
dent about month ago, is said to
have suffered number of sinking
spells during the past few days and
her condition is said to be most SER
iOus.
Men and teams are being withdrawn
from the Red Lake Indian agency
where Backus & Brooks recently
started operations for logging several
million feet of government timber,
this firm being the successful bidder
on 72.0O0,000 feet in government
contract us;
Unless drastic measures are taken
by the railroads In the Northwest to
prevent the movement Of box cars
to Eastern points traffic managers OF
big industries in the Twin Cities de-
clare that their firms will be COM
PEELED to shut down on account Of the
box car shortage.
Edmund Daily, draft evader, who
was picked up by the st. Cloud police,
was given a sentence of five days in
the county Jail on a vagrancy charge.
to hold him until draft officials learn
what action to take regarding his reg
fstration and possible induction into
service. l.5zSss9 s.
Instruction in raising and canning
poultry will be the principal feature of
the Thirty-Second annual poultry show
of the Minnesota State Poultry assoc
citation, January 81, in Arcadia hall,
Minneapolis. Officers of the assocfa-
ton are working with C.. III. Benja-
min of Washington, government ex-
pert, to increase poultry production
In the Northwest.
A wager was paid at a Winona
hotel that emphasizes that that city is
thoroughly Hooverized. A guest at
the hotel on Tuesday complained to
the landlord after the main meal that
no meat had been served. IF you
can't serve meat, I'll go out and
a steak" the hotel patron said. bet
you S. you can't buy steak in a
Wtnona restaurant or hotel today, !"
was the challenge. The wager was
placed. Two hours after the indignant
hotel patron still was securing the
city for Stacker eating house. He
paid the bet s.
The new grade school building at
Bemidt, the Lincoln school in the
Fifth ward, will be completed during
the holiday vacation, and about the
first Of the year an elaborate .dedica.
ton service will be held.
Reports have reached Brainerd of !
car loaded with Firms and booze which
ran into high bank near Riverton,
everything falling out except the
liquor. The Filns then hired q team
ster tocarry, them and their cargo,
the towline broke, the teamster fell
down and got hurt and the team ran
away.
A large service flag bearing the fig
#ures 1886" has been unfurled from
the district headquarters of the North
western Telephone company at Mime.
apolis, denoting that 6,S63 employees
have gone into some branch Of the
service since the declaration of war.
OF this number the Minneapolis
branch has given 112 men.
In view OF the increasing shortage
OF pennies, a movement to give post
age stamps as change has been inaug-
urated in Minneapolis department
stores. Several stores reported that
they had started such plan and that
It was working successfully. Short
age Of pennies in the northwest has
become so acute that bankers in small