Warren sheaf., 1918-04-03
Minnesota State
News


oftonVllle.-i lie jury in the case OF
a. Il. kaercher, county attorney o,
Big Stone county, charged with dis
| loyalty, disagreed after having been
out eighteen hours.
| Mcorhead.-The annual commence
henC address at the Moorhead state
normal school will be given ry DR.
FeEbert l.. Willett Of the University
of Chicago on May 26
st. Paul.-Mjnnesota automobile and
motor cycle owners and drivers have
paid 1855, 1245 in fee under the new
automobile license laws, according tc
report issued by secretary of State
Julius A. Schmal.
Lake Clty.-P. H. Rahily, S6 years
old and representative from this
county in the state legislature for
three terms, the first beginning in
1874, has thrown his hat into tn?
ring as candidate for senator in
this district.
Bemidji.-The first indication that
the knights of Liberty had organized
in this city was when the confec
tlonary store of w. B. McChalain
suspected Of being pro-German, was
panied brilliant yellow and a sign
posted asking him to move in thirty
lays.
st. Peter.--With every section of
the state participating, St. Peter held
gigantic loyalty meeting Sunday. w.
| &. Munchoff, former officer in the
Prussian army and a graduate of the
! University of Berlin, was the chief
speaker He is touring the state un-
der the auspices of the American
First association.
Princeton. - PrincetOn's starch
manufacturing plant has commenced
to buy potatoes and farmers readily
responded to the demand for them.
in fact, 50 large a quantity was re-
ceived that the grinding machinery
has been set in notion Sixty cents
per 100 pounds, field run, is being
paid by the factory.
Minneapolis.-Th Minneapolis navv
recruiting station will send 452 en-
listed. men to the Great Lakes train
ing station OH April 7, 8 and 9.
Lieutenant George Greadwell has an
nounced. They are men Who have
been furloughed home awaiting the
call to active service. Fifty-one will
go April Z, 200 April 8 and POI April
g.
Duluth Although the season of
navigation of 1917 opened eight days
later and closed three days earlier,
and ice hampered shipping until
June 10, the season showed an in
crease in business over the season
Of 1915 Of $84,090,111, according to
the annual report of the United
States engineers here, reporting on
the Duluth-Superior harbor.
Spring Valley.-More than 100
citizens attended a meeting held for
the purpose Of forming home guard.
Stillwater.-At a meeting of the
Washington county board the, pay for
work was fixed at $6 a day.
st Faul.--Permission to increase
telephone rates at Blue Earth, Win
nebago and Wells was denied by
che state railroad and warehouse
commission in an order on the appli-
cation of the Blue Earth Valley Tele-
phone company. The commission
further ordered that the company will
either discontinue it's two party line
service or file new tariffs on such
service at figures we'll below the
present individual line rates.
HaWley.-Citizens of Hawley who
some time ago entered the home of
resident here and took a picture OF
the kaiser from the walls and burned
1t, resumed their campaign again to
make HaWley 100 per cent loyal bv
destroying all German text books in
the school house. Certain persons be.
lleved to be pro-German were made to
kiss the flag and a huge iron cross
was painted on the potato warehouse
Of Herman Schultz of Leavenworth.
Kas
St Paul. -+Limited funds and war
time prices are causing stringencies
In at least two state institutions, &C.
cording to reports from the State
Board Of Visitors filed in Governor
Burnquist's office. Because of the
financial stringency at the Minne-
sofa State Soldiers home, temporar-
lily relieved by recent emergency
appropriation of $4,000, the board
recommends that the next Legisla-
ture considers modifying the law
prohibiting inmates from contribut.
ing parts of their pension money to
the support of the home. Everyday
clothing of boys in the Red Wing
state training school is in very poor
condition, much of it absolutely rag
ged, the boards report of an inspec-
tion of that institution says, and in
dicates further the pinch of war
conditions and 1ini+od orrro1r;.