Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1918-01-02

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Ninth district has sold $4,000 worth
Of war savings and thrift stamps, &C.
c0rding to Theodore Void, governor.
This amount does not represent total
sale in the district, however, because
large amounts of stamps have been
disposed of through the postal sys.
TEN, Mr. Void said
Herbert L.. Kline, assistant cashier
of the First National Bank of Winona,
who died Christmas eve at his home
in that city, is the first Minnesota
man to lose his life through service
in the state home guard. Mr.. Kline,
while serving in the Winona Home
Guard company in St. Paul, during
the recent labor trouble, contracted
a cold which developed into pneu-
nonia
Bricklayers among Minnesota men
subject to draft are in special demand
because of a special call for fifty men
of that. trade received from Provost
Marshal General Crowder. General
Pershing wants 1000 bricklayers in
France, the message explained; ard
it is planned to get them from among
the draft registrants who have been
certified but not yet called for SER
vice. ..>.,-
~ Announcement III civil service ex-
am;nations to procure one woman and
four7~,me as assistant directors IF
agricultural, trade and industrial,
commercial and home economics edu.
caticn to be conducted in st. Paul
January % has been made. Three
Of the mems salaries as directors
will be $4,000 annually and the other
as an assistant in tue research work
planned by the board will receive
$4,000.
Miss Doris Conroe Doe, an 1S-year.
old Hutchinson, Minn.,. girl took ex'
aminations before the state automo'
bile examining board at the state
house and was granted a chauffer's
license. She said it was her first
step towards gaining admission to
ambulance work in France. Miss Day
was given a 100 per cent score, offic-
ials said. She is a daughter of Bert
w. Day, editor of the Hutchinson
! Leader -:
A profit of $73,O35, the largest in
years, was returned by the Minnesota
State Fair of 1917, according to the
, annual report of Secretary Thomas
H. Garfield, presented to Governor
Burnquist The secretary said that
!, the year showed a net profit of $685.
900 on the Fair grounds property, af-
ter making allowances for depreci-
alton and all other items, and assert
ed that the showing was remarkably
successful.
To aid people in figuring out their
income taxes a federal officer will be
sent to Clay county next month and
will assist residents Of the county who
are not familiar with the law in max
ing out the reports, which must be in
by March 1913, according to an an
nouncement by e. ]. Lynch Of the in.
! ternal revenue department. Accord.
ing to the present schedule, the offic-
or will be in Hawley Jan. 81 to Feb.
2, Moorehead Feb. to Feb. 16 and
BalneaYille Feb. 10 taFeh. Is
Between 1900 and 1000 retail lum.
Der dealers are expected to take part
| in the patriotic program which will
occupy one Of the sessions OF North
western Lumbermen's association IN
Minneapolis, Jan. Is. to II. It will
be the purpose to bring home to every
lumberman his personal responsibility
in financing the war, and there will
be practical ideas for patriots in the
speeches. It is also promised that
On officer just recently back from ser
vice IN the front line trenches will b
on the program to give ao1aA Q8 thl
real done" On the war.