Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1917-08-22

ssClOuu, mas deem grd0uateQ from the
aviation training camp at Columbus,
q, with the highest honors He has
been ordered to New York and will
| sail for France soon to complete his
training.
I Pierre schott, st. Paul truck
driver. turned his truck into barn
to avoid hitting child who stepped
i directly in the path of the machine
and is in the St Paul city hospital
with a broken leg as a result Of mis-
| hero;sm.s @
Declaring that bloodshed and loss
OF life would result from continuance
OF anti-America an demonstrations Gov
/ ernor Bnrnquist has announced that
no more anti.draft and other like pro-
! test meetings will be permitted in
| Minnesota.
! Enraged over the stabbing of sol
der by an alleged I. w. w. after the
| guardsman resented derogatory re-
marks about the government, members
OF the Third Minnesota regiment raid
led and demolished !. w. w. headquar-
/ tiers at Duluth.
William S. Conrad, president and
i general manager of the w S. Conrad
company Of st. PaA cigar Importers
/ and 1obbers, is dead at his home in
i Saltwater. He was seventy-tWe years
old and his health had been failing
for the past year.
Minneapolis is 100000 richer than
T a year ago, City Assessor G. L. Fort
announced, following the completion
Of the annual city assessment by his
Office. The assessed valuation of all
real and personal property in the city
is estimated at $216,OO0,00O.
Hibbing, the worlds richest village,
has begun negotiations for eighty
acres of state land on which to erect
municipal gas and garbage incinerator
4 plants and public gardens and nur-
sery, and also to include site for a
new municipal electric plant.
The state public safety commission,
!, following recent report by COM
lnittee sent to international Falls to
make an investigation, has recon-
! mended that abatement proceedings
be begun against fourteen alleged dis
orderly houses in Koochiching county.
r. w. and Charles III. Orth of Nor
tor, who own an eighty-acre farm,
sold eight cars of live stock at South
st. Paul that brought $4,000. The
check they received for the lot is said
4 to be the largest ever issued on the
4 South st. Paul market for single
shipment
Walter j. Smith, former state treas
urer, after serving about eighteen
months of an indeterminate sentence
for misappropriation Of state trust
funds, has left Saltwater prison I'M
der a temporary parole to go to a
hospital for treatment for incipient
4 pulmonary tuberculosis.
4 Ralph o. Van Lear, son Of Mayor
Thomas Van Lear of Minneapolis, pas
i filed an exemption claim sperSusing
that he is a member of the Syslaltst
4 party, an Organization opposed to
4 war, but deletes the word religious. "
I His claim was turned down and he
was certified for service.
Gas poisoning killed Martin Nelson,
i aged seventy-fve, found dead by neigh
bors at his home in Minneapolis. Cor
a oner Seashore said he believed the
case accidental, a jet feeding a gas
plate being found partly OPEN Mr..
! Nelson had been dead two days before
/ his. body was discovered.
In friendly scufle with his cousin,
Christian Estebo, Carl j. Monson,
!. twenty-five years old, of Leon town
ship, Goodhue county, suffered bro
ken neck and died. After investiga alton
the coroner held The affair to be
purely accidental and Estebo, who had
surrendered to the authorities. was re-
4 leased s
/ Mlnnesota's drafted men must be
ready to enter active military service
as required by the government in in
] stallments of 80 per cent Of the force
on Sept. 5, Is and 80, and the re-
! manning 10 per cent soon :afterward.
This announcement was made by Adj
iutant General Fred B. Wood, state
draft chief, following instructions
from Provost Marshal General b. H.
! Crowder.
/. A county agent for each of the
eighty-siX counties in Minnesota is
/ made possible by plans Of the depart
4 ments of agriculture. "a. D. Wilson, di-
] rector of the agricultural extension
4 division Of the University of Mime.
! sofa, says that there now are eighteen
] agents ii Minnesota and that commu-
mites throughout the winter will have
opp ortunity to form county organiza-
4 tons, get ready for the work OF such
j an agent and make application for his
i services.
William de Graft, friend of Harry
1 Hayward, executed in Minneapolis
i some years ago for a sensational muir
der, penniless after squandering a for
tune, was found dead beside. the little
hut on an island in the Mississippi
river near Winona where he had lived
4 the last five years. De Graft was fifty
five years, old and a quarter century
ago was a polished man Of the world
i and we'll known in Minneano1is M The