Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1918-04-24
Minnesota State News

Little ls.-Buttermakers of Nor
rison county held a meeting here in
the Chamber of Commerce rooms for
the purpose of forming county
unit. Between 80 and 35 we're in at
tendance. ..,,'. ~. - ....
St. Cloud.-The Salvation Army has
completed its drive in St. Cloud to
raise war funds. The net amount to
be raised, $1,000, was oversubscribed,
according to Major Riddle, who was
in charge Of the campaign.
Brainerd. - Hans Solberg was
bound over to the grand jury on a
charge of seditious utterance When
he left the courthouse he met a Lib
erty Loan salesman and bought $500
bond and then donated to the Red
Cross
Lafayette.-One rooster. in Lafay.
cite has a right to crow, for he was
bought at auction for $3.50 The local
Red Gross chapter was given the
proceeds. The Lafayette Red Cross
units combined raised $4,000 at an
auction at which one flag brought $75
Duluth.-When Duluth went over
the top in it's Liberty Loan of $5,000,-
600. a wooden Uncle Sam kicked a
paper kaiser off the earth. The peo-
pie witnessing the event tore the
kaiser to bits after Uncle Sam had de.
liVered his knockout punch. Duluth
raised s5,936,000.
Moorhead.-That Clay county will
oversubscribe it's quota in the third
Liberty Loan by 100000 is indicated
by the reports coming from all Sec
tons of the county. Moorhead has
already oversubscribed it's allotment
by nearly $4,000 and there are still
several committees to be heard from.
Minneapo lis-The Ninth Federal
Reserve district. last IF all the fed
eral reserve districts to start it's
third Liberty loan sales campaign,
has registered in Washington as the
first of all the districts to report that
it had oyersubscribed its allotment
The Ninth district, which started it's
campaign nine days after all the
other districts had begun to sell
bonds. came sweeping down the
stretch. passed the s105, 100000 mark
set by Secretary Nc Adoo as the mini
mum for this district, passed the
S125, 100000 mark set by A. R. Rogers,
when he apportioned the third loan
bonds by states, and at last reports
the Ninth district had gone galloping
past the s137.ooo,ooo mark.
st. Paul-From some sections Of
the state. marked by high lands and
light soil. come reports that some Of
the seed may have been blown from
the ground by high winds which were
followed by a rainfall ranging from
one to two inches for the western half
of the state. to lighter falls in the
eastern half. all of which is said to
have done the grain planted untold
good. and made the soil in peofect
condition for the reception of the
remainder OF the crop. In many Sec
lions of Southern Minnesota the
spring crop is already through the
ground. In the northern section the
seeding is practically complete, a
condition which gives the state a de.
cided advantage over last year so far
as an early start is concerned. The
light frosts recently are not believed
to have injured crops.
Foley-Four of the seven officials
in Benton county indicted by the
grand jury TOR malfeasance in office
appeared in court. pleaded guilty and
were fined each SO. Mike Lazer,
town supervisor in MAYHEM Lake,
was removed from Office Joseph
Knapek-s IA: ~Eiselman, L. NJ. Lubbes-
meier and Mike Lazer paid fines John
isendy;, Asher: Walker and Frank
Wipka PLEADED not guilty to the
charge and their cases were contin-
ued It is alleged that the officials
were interested in contracts in which
the money Of the county was in.
volved.