Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1918-02-06
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Recent Happenings In Minnesota
Given In Brief items For
Busy Readers.

Minneapolis. = F.. L. Howard was
held up at Twenty-fifth street and
Eleventh avenue south by two masked
men WHO relieved him of $3.50 and his
watch. e.. =.
% Stillwater.-All of the mail CARRIERS
@of the city have taken up knitting
sweaters for the local Red Cross,
many having already made good prog
-ress along that line.
Chisholm. Over 40 families must
move their houses from Pig Town be.
tween April and Is to make way for
the extension of mining operations in
the Tioga mine, which are now under
way.
Moorhead. -- Thrift Stamp day at
Concordia college resulted in the COL
lection among the students Of the col
lese of total of $1,700 to be used
in the purchase of government thrift
stamps. .
Winona.-H. S. Bolcomb, for many
years lumberman of Winona and for
the last 10 years an operator of lun-
Der company at Seattle, Wash, died
Jan. 81, according to message re-
-ceived here.
St. Cloud.-A new building for the
Melrose district school, four miles
west of Melrose, has been suggested
owing to the fact that the school is
rapidly growing in number of pupils.
There are 70 pupils now.
Grand Mt
civil service examinations for clerks
in the departmental service will be
held at the postoffice on Feb. Is, and
on Feb. 16 there will be examinations
for clerks in the field service.
st. Paul.-Frank A. Weld, president
has been appointed chairman of Gov
*er1for Burnquist's school aid commits
sion. J. P Vaughan, superintendent
of schools, Chisholm, is secretary.
Crookston.-Word has been receiv-
ed from Los Angeles, CAL, of the
death of John r. Becker, former
resident of this city, Mr.. Becker spent
his boyhood in Crookston, his father
being engaged in the ice business.
Mankato-More than 1900 persons
heard F. Ostensachen, former Prus-
sian nobleman, at the loyalty rally
here. He condemned the philosophy
of militarism which exists in Germany
and pointed out the restrictions which
that government places on it's inhab-
Itants
Duluth. - Slowly but surely the
stocks of anthracite coal on the docks
aat the head of the lakes are. being de-
pleted, and according to c. P Craig,
chairman of the Duluth fuel admins
tration board, only the greatest econ
somy in it's consumption can prevent a
. shortage In the spring. The bitumi-
nous coal situation is slightly better
Moose Lake,. L. Thomas, engi-
seer of the locomotive which crashed
into bus load of school children
here, was exonerated from blame for
the accident and the killing of seven
children and injuring of II others.
Thomas almost broke down while on
ahc stand at the inquest. Two months
ago his engine struck and killed two
men driving an automobile over a
crossing at Willow River
Minneapolis" Lutherans in Mime.
sofa will be called c. to raise $780,
900 for social and religious work
among American soldiers and sailors
in this country and abroad" S. H.
Holstad announced On his return from
pittsburgh, where he represented
Western synods at a meeting of the
4 National Lutheran commission for SOL
oilers and sailors welfare "Statistics
showed that Minnesota has the second
LARGEST number Of Lutherans of any
state in the Union, Pennsylvania lead
ing Mr., Holstad said.
St. Paul.-Brewery owners and lic-
-aIOr distributors Of st. Paul were
taken by surprise by the action of the
State Public Safety commission in ex-
tending the bone dry order, but rome
who was Interviewed could give in
detail an opinion as to how far the
order will affect his business All
admitted that the order necessarily
will prevent the shipment of consil-
@arable liquor and beer which hereto
fore has been permitted in the "a
counties now made bone dry by the
commission latest order
Fairmont.-Chris Schmidt German
:alien of Truman, was arrested on two
charges of disloyalty and County At
torney Allen said dozen counts could
be brought against him. He was held
to the grand jury in $4,000 bail. The
complaints charged that Schmidt adj
yised drafted man not to go to the
war till he had to and that ne stated
the United States had no reason to
go to war with Germany You ought
to have government like we have in
Germany" Schmidt makes no pre-,
tense of being loyal, saying he is Ger
man and favors Germany in the war.
Duluth. The shortage of substitutes
for wheat -four is making it impossible
.Ior Duluth bakers to follow out the
governments war bread order. Corn
meal and har1ev flour tho toh;of c,,1,