Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1918-06-12
Minnesota State
News

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st. Paul The state board Of arbi-
tration is expected to meet this week
to consider wage increases and other
demands Of hoisting engineers, cement
finishers, fathers, plasterers and hod
carriers.
Crookston.-G. A. R. funeral SER
vices have been held for Andrew j.
Kelly, 70, Civil war veteran, who
helped to arrange the township Of
Crookston and long was town clerk.
Besides his wife Mr.. Kelly leaves
seven children.
Duluth Northern Minnesota for
ests and st. Louis county timber will
be used to augment the fuel supply
of the state if the resolution adopted
by the board of county commissioners
gains proper legal authority from the
State Public Safety Commission.
St. Cloud.-As class memorial, the
senior high school has given to the
school a beautiful service flag with
| 81 stars on it for the alumni in SER
vice. In addition to this they gave
$3.50 to the Red Cross and left five
beautiful pictures in the school. -
Virginia.-Local people, who have
been trying to induce Billy Sunday to
come here during his Duluth revival,
were assured that the evangelist
would do so within the next two
weeks on a date to be fixed later.
He will probably speak at the curling
rink.
Hibbing.-Despite the various cam
paigns for war enterprises waged in
Hibbing last month, postal savings at
the postoffice increased. According
to Postmaster J. B. Connors, the saw
| ings last month increased $4,000 over
| the previous month-1naking the total
| $225,0O0.
st. Paul.-Minnesota is to furnish
1884 men under the June draft call,
! according to official communication
received yesterday. Of this number
| 10000 are to be sent to Camp Grant,
Rockford, ILL.,, and 1884 will go to the
University of Minnesota for special
industrial training.
Virginia.-John Haga, who defied
the draft authorities and refused to
appear in May to go with delega-
ton of Virginia draftees to Camp
Lewis, Wash, has been taken to Fort
Smelling, following an order from
Adjt.-Gen. W. P. Rhinow, who was
notified of Haga's; action.
| International Falls.-John Meier, a
| Mizpah merchant, got into a discus
| sion about the war with a neighbor
Frenchman, and he is alleged to
have made seditious statements. A
complaint was filed against him and
when arraigned in municipal court
here he was bound over to the grand
jury.
Warroad.- to the War
road Pioneer, fishing in the Lake Of
the Woods must be good this year
One of the fishing tugs came in with
1924 boxes of fish, equal to $4,000
pounds, at one time. They complain
that the railroad company does mo-
furnish a sufficient number Of cars
to handle the catch.
| Staples.-The fire which threatened
the entire business section of this
city, was brought under contro
through the efforts of the city fire
department and Northern Pacific fire
fighters. The damage, which was con
fined to the Hoenig department store
and adjoining buildings, is now esti
mated at approximately 100000.
| Eveleth.-William Mccormack ant
Elmer Shannon of Chisholm, while
motoring to Duluth yesterday, were
thrown from the machine six mile!
from here on the Miller trunk roat
when, the car skidded, rolled dowl
an embankment and went through
tarbed wire fence. Mccormack wa
seriously hurt and brought to hos
pital. His companion was cut an
) bruised
Observation-Disclosures new div
drab uniforms have arrived for tn,
Moorhead Home Guard They will b.
i distributed at the drill meeting mex
week. Since the order for uniform
, was sent in four members have joine,
, the Guards and every effort is bein!
| made to increase the number to tn
} requirement for National Guard, int
which the Home Guards have aske
to be transferred
Hinchley.-Angus F. Osborne Q
J Rock, Mimi, was severely wounde
in action June 6 in France, according
to messages received here. He wa
3 a member of the One Hundred an
= Fifty-frst Field artillery. Russo
=. Swain, also a member of the On
Hundred and Fifty-frst Field artillery
was severely wounded in action :
] France May 27, according to a motto
: received by his father, Charles I
2 Swain of Hinckley 49,.
: st. Paul.-Minnesota is the >onl
j. state in the Union in which no activ
l. labor strikes are reported. The al
nouncement was made today by F