The Twin City star., 1918-03-23

Bemidji.-The biggest membership
drive ever launched in Bemidji in con.
nection with the Commercial club is
| under way.
Questionable Polk county chap
ter of the Red Cross plans to put on a
big Red Cross auction sale In Crook
ston Saturday, March 80.
st. Cloud.-D. K. Collins died on q
train while on his way from his home
near Sauk Center to st. Paul, where
he was to have entered a hospital for
! treatment.
st. Paul.--The state is condemning
fourteen lots on Langford avenue with
which to enlarge the state fair
grounds at point opposite the Hippo.
drome building.
Mankato.-Total sales OF war saw
ings stamps and thrift stamps in Blue
Earth county up to March amounted
to $1S,743.15, according to R. E..
Brown, county chairman.
Brainerd.-Two weeks after the
death of his mother, Mrs. John Peter
son, ST., her son, John Peterson, Jr,
died at Ellensburg, Wash. He was a
Wash, and formerly lived here.
acknowledgement Rundgren, IL,
son of Charles Rundgren, carpenter,
sustained broken leg when hit by a
courthouse street car while riding on
horse in front of the Comstock hotel
Luverne-Dur.ng an electrical storm
here a barn on the farm Of Jens
Thorsen Of Magnolia township was
struck by lightning and thirty-thr
head nf cattle and horses were killed
Jacksonville township of Sioux
Valley voted Monday to consolidate
seven school districts and erect, one
of the finest schools in Southern Min
nesota. A teachers home will be built
near the school. -......
St. Cloud.-George w. Helm, mana
ger of the LIE Sauk Milling company,
denies the report which was being
circulated that his mill had been clos
ed and ha had been fined for violation
of the food regulations.
st. Cloud.--Articles of incoi rDration
for the Farmers State Bank Of
Georgeville have been filed with the
county register of deeds. This is the
first bank to be located in Georgeville.
The capital stock is $4,000.
East Grand Forks.-Extensive re.
pairs are being made to the manse
Of the Mendenhall Memorial Presby.
terian church to put the house In COM
plete repair before the newly called
pastor, Rev. e.. G. Oliver, arrives.
Hinckley.--The electric light com.
pany will replace the line between
Hinckley and Sandstone with a heav-
ier wire some time during the COM
ing summer. The increase in business
has caused the present wire to be
rent.
Pipestone.-Andrew J. Knudson, the
first Pipestone county man to die in
the army service during the present
war, was buried with military honors
here. Knudson died after an attack
of appendicitis in a hospital at San
Antonio
st. Cloud.-Miss Daisy Gudgell, who
has been principal Of the Jefferson
school during the past year, has re-
ceived an appointment from Wash
ington to a position in the war risk
insurance department and has left to
accept the new position.
Fergus Falls.-The first sedition
case to be tried in Fergus Falls came
up for hearing before Judge Hagen
son in the municipal court here. Ped
er Sandbeck was the defendant. He
was convicted of making seditious
statements and given three months.
st. Paul.-Albert Steinhauser, edi-
tor o. the New Ulm Review, and the
German language publication, the
New Ulm Post, was expelled from the
Minnesota Editorial association by
the executive committee of the or
ganization at meeting in the Hotel
Saint Paul.
st. Cloud.-Machinery for the man
ufacturing and assembling of Pan au.
tomobiles is being moved into Factory
Building No. 2 Of the Pan Motor com,
pany plant west Of the city, and work
will commence at once on the turning
out of the $3.50" model Pan cars in
this structure.
Minneapolis.-Joseph c. Mulholland
So, member of the civil service com.
mission and well known labor leader,
der from burns received in a boiler
explosion in the hospital heating
plant March 5. His was the second
death resulting from the explosion, in
which six men were severely injured.
New Ulm.-Dr. l.. A. Fritsche has
withdrawn as candidate for re-
election. His withdrawal is said to
have been caused by the opposition
developed among citizens who be-
lieved his candidacy, after he had
once been removed from office by the
State Public Safety Commission for
his part in alleged disloyal demonstra-
tions last summer, was a reflection
of New Ulm's loyalty to the Stars and
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