New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-01-16
News Of the State.
Condensed for Busy Folks

Last year, during the first four
days in January, the Bemidji post
office did over $500 worth of stamp
business, while during the first four
DAYS of this year the office did over
500 wortl
Five thousand and eighty chill.
dren were born in ST. Paul in 1917,
according to the report of births com
pleted in the Health department.
This is the smallest number in 4 the
past four years.
F. H. Shoemaker, who represented
the National Nonpartisan league at
a meeting held att Walters, pleaded
guilty to charges of using indecent
and abusive language, tending to pro
woke assault and was fined $40 and
COSTS.
Two Indian boys from the Elan
dreau Indian School were captured
at Pipestone while running away from
the institution. The boys were bound
for their home in the northern part
of the state and said that they want
ed to go hunting.
K. t.. Stavn, 7l-year-old bachelor
near Willmar, was found dead in a
3O-foot well on his farm by boys COM
ing from party. A ladder with a
broken rung in the we'll indicates
that -Stavn had gone down to make
some repairs and fell into the water
VIXEN the ladder broke.
There is no law existing which
permits soldiers absent from the
state to vote at MINES a elections,
according to a statement of Julius A.
Schmahl, secretary of state, who
said that the socalled. absent voter
law Is imperative in the case t,f
soldiers. Attorney General Lyndon A.
Smith said the soldier vote cannot
be taken under any existing laws.
A farm crop survey of Minnesota
may be made by town assessors dur
ing their canvasses next spring, pre-
liminaries in that direction having
been discussed at a special confer
ence at the Capitol The scheme
is similar to that proposed to the
State Public Safety Commission last
year and this time probably will be
carried out under the direction of A.
D. Wilson, state food administrator.
Fairmont is proud of Mr.. and Mrs.
Rudolph Thieman, who were born in
Germany. Mrs. Thieman has knit "a
pairs of socks for the Red Cross and
Il pairs for the boys of E company,
136th infantry. They have two sons
In E company and third in the Ma.
tional army. In the windows of their
'ome are a service flag, a Red Cross
emblem and a food conservation
card. The Stars and Stripes fly from
the roof. - ~
A proposal for adjustment OF
both the state forestry and timber
boards and creation of a new state
board to administer laws relating to
state owned timber was referred to
a committee of five to be appointed
by Governor Burnquist and include
members of both bodies at a joint
meeting of the present boards.
recommendations will be considered
at another joint conference and fin.
ally presented to the legislature of
1919. ;
The new city hall at Breckenridge
was formally-opened to the public
with municipal ball, music for the
event being furnished by an orchestra
from Fergus Falls. The Breckenridge
chapter of the Red Cross served the
refreshments. T >
Federal appropriations of $4,000
having been expended to date on draft
expenses in Minnesota, Maj. H. r.
Brady, Federal property and disburs
ing officer, announced that a new al
;lowance Of $4,000 will be made avail
able in a few days.
1t was the irony of fate that
brought death to Mr.. and Mrs. Geo
A. Lifin, each. so years old, at Lake
City within the same day. Both
were among the oldest residents OF
Wabasha county, having lived there
more than half a century They died
on their wedding anniversary.
Tie Nonpartisan league meeting
scheduled for Wells, which aroused
much feeling and open threats Of
violence, should the meeting be held
was held on the property of the
Farmers Cooperative Creamery
company, out of doors. No seditious
utterances were reported About 1Of
farmers attended. The loyalty meet
ing planned to offset the Nonparti
san gathering, attracted the larger
crowd. Delegates from all parts OF
the county, aggregating more than
500 persons, were in attendance.
A new file was established in the Of.
nee OF the Ramsey county register OF
deeds office when wedding contract
the first of the kind to be recorded in
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