Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1918-01-23
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The Minnesota Aggies basketball
team defeated the st. Cloud Normal,
&c to 8. Ress, with six baskets, and
Molstad with five, were the Aggies
stellar performers.
Mike Osga, ST., of Opole, arrested
on a charge of selling liquor without
a license, was taken before Justice
Alden in court at ST. Cloud and paid a
fine OF $50 and costs, amounting to
$6175.
Winona Masonic orders are patri.
otto, and the Winona Temple dedica.
ton, which was to have been attend
ed by several hundred members, has
been postponed to assist in conserva-
ton Of fuel.
An executive committee meeting of
the Crow Wing County Sunday
Scaool association was held at Brain
erd. The county convention, it was
decided, will be held at Brainerd the
week of June II. ~. IL
Deputy Game Warden Walter Kline
felter is engaged in cutting holes in
some of the, shallow lakes OF the i'm
mediate vicinity of Saltwater in order
to allow air to get to the fish so as to
prevent them from being smothered
Sales of more than 100000 Red
Cross Christmas seals in Minnesota
already have been reported to the ma.
tional headquarters and the total is
expected to reach 100000, according
to DR.. l. J. Murphy, executive secre-
tery for Minnesota.
Duluth will derive $9,OO5,537 in
taxes from the mines located within
Its boundaries. The report of the
county auditor shows the value of the
mines as $270,000,0OO, granting tax
assessment over s2,OO0,OO0 larger
than ever before collected.
A. A. McPheeters. agricultural in
structor at the Northfeld high school,
has been appointed agricultural agent
in Dakota county. He is successor
to r. c. Pollock, who has been ap-
pointed to an important position in
agricultural work in South Dakota.
The 50th anniversary of the found
Ing Of the state normal school at
Mankato is to be observed next June.
The faculty has the matter in charge,
hut owing to the war it has decided
not to make the celebration as elab-
crate as had at first been planned.
War lunches served to the school
students of tle domestic science
rooms at the Central school at East
GRAND Forks seems to be very popu-
lar with the school children, for TAI
were served during the first week
after the lunches were commenced.
Winona's BARRIERS are the latest re-
cruits in Fuel Administrator Garfield's
coal saving campaign They have
agreed to open a half hour later in
the morning and close an hour earlier
in the evening. This, in spite of the
fact that the Garfield order issued
Wednesday means the loss of day
each week. -
AS result of the liberality of the
people of Luverne in purchasing Red
cross seals, the pupils of the schools
OF that place are to have the benefits
OF five weeks service of VISITING
nurse without further financial outlay
by the taxpayers of tie city. Christ.
mas seals to the number of $4,000
were sold in Luverne. e
"A resolution condemning the Non.
partisan league and recommending
that it's propaganda be discouraged
and promoters thereof be rejected
from our homes, our halls, our
churches, our schools, and all other
places of public gathering" has been
adopted by the public SAFETY commits
sion OF Fariballt county.
A passenger train on the Great
Western railroad was held up for two
hours while the train crew and pas
sensers labcred to remove team of
horses from trestle so feet high
The team had run away at Altura vii
lo2e and ran out upon the trestle
stretching across ravine. The ami
ma!s' legs slipped between the ties
and they were imprisoned.
Profiteering by seed dealers is
charged by A. p. Erickson of Ray in
a letter received by the State Public
Safety Commission and referred to
Prof. C. P. Bull of the agricultural
extension division Of the University
eof Minnesota. Farmers in Koochi.
eching and other counties in Northern
Minnesota, Mr.. Erickson's letter
stated, are forced to depend on other
'sections for seeds OF all kinds except
grain.
BY oversubscribing its allotment .!
$4,000 in the second Liberty Loan
by S135,800, Lake county, OF which
Two Harbors is the capital, has won
the silk banner offered as prize by
the Public Safety Comn1.s sion to the
county returning the largest oversub.
:scription. A similar prize was award.
ed Mobiles county as the one obtain
Ing the largest number of loan SUBJ
scrlptions in proportion to the popu.
Aation. Mobiles county returned 4,G95
Individual subscriptions out of a pop.
-&ulation OF 15,412.
Forced to change their plans at the
aast moment, because the use of the