Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1919-08-13

Recent Happenings In Minnesota
Given IN Brief Items For
Busy Readers.

lalveIl IN brlei items FOr
Busy Readers.
Bemid lit is expected that by Oct.
4, a community market will be in oper-
alton.
Hibbing 100 shopmen in tho
Great Northern branch shops at Kelly
Lake and the Missabe shops at Nit
chell have gone out:
Mporhead. o.. C.. Beck, after con-
Quoting furniture store in Moorhead
for thirty five years, retired from busi-
ness, when he sold out to Leo John
son.
Glyntlon. The county commission
ers Of Clay county will meet at Down
er soon as road committee to con-
slider the petition for a direct road
from GAINESVILLE to Glyndon.
Stillwater.-The Civic club has de-
cided to cooperate with the Washing
ton county Agricultural association to-
ward holding a county fair here on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Sept.
%, rs and q.
Dilworth.-A watermelon feast here
cost Annie Kappa and John Barone
1880. They were two of five men
arrested on charge Of stealing three
watermelOns from a car In the North
ern Pacific yards here.
Grand 1Marais.-A. j. MCGUIRE, dairy
specialist of the state agricultural ex.
tension division, will visit Cook county
the week Of Aug. 1928. He will speak
at meetings of the county farm bureau
at Tote, Rosebush and Rowland.
Moorhead. Mrs. Minnie Wright,
known also as Minnie Foss, promi-
nent witness III the Sheffield murder
trial, obtained divorce in the Clay
county district court from Lyle Wright,
whom she married on Sept. II, 1917.
New Ulm.-Julius A. Schmahl, secre-
.tary Of state, will be the principal
speaker at a soldiers Homecoming eel
ebration here Aug. 20. The celebra-
ton also will mark the turn of war
fare in favor of the white people in
the Indian massacres of August, 1862,
at Fort Ridgley.
Red Wing-Nels Neseth, IS, section
a railroad motorcar on the Great
Western road, near Zumbrota, was
killed when the vehicle left the tracks.
tipping over on him. He is survived
by a widow and six children.
st. Paul.-Governor Burnquist has in
dictated that his announcement of the
cdate of the proposed special session of
the legislature may not be issued until
the state legal department has given
ian opinion on; the question of the pow
ter Of the state calamity board to deal
with an impending forest fire menace.
St. Paul. - Regulations against ex-
cessive charges for. hay and corn, un-
accountable stock losses and other
possible abuses at the stockyards in
Minnesota were promised shippers by
the state railroad and warehouse com.
mission at an initial conference at the
capitol, establishing commission con
troll of stockyards
New Ulm.-Over 200 farmers from
Brown, NicolletS Renv1lle, Redwood
Blue Earth, lie Sueur, Scott and other
counties bordering along the Mime
sofa river went on record in meeting
here favOring an assessment of at least
% cents per acre on oyerf1owed lands
to secure funds to finance movement
to In some manner secure abatement
of the damage caused by the occa-
sional overflow of the Minnesota river
Pine City.-Ben; tSoule, his wife and
two children; residing near Princeton
were. caught under an automobile in
which they were riding near here
when the machine turned turtle The
accident was caused by the car run.
ming into deep rut. Occupants OF
another car, which came along shortly
after the accident, released the vic.
Tins. Soule and his wife were consid.
erably bruised, but the children es.
capped with shaking up
st. Paul. Reduction of the Mime
sofa National Guard as recently or.
:dered by the war department will be
considered by the state military board
Disbanding of the negro battalion of
the Minnesota Home Guard, Gen. Rhi.
now said, is probable when the State
Public Safety commission passes out
sOf existence. The announcement fol
lowed the positive refusal Of the mill.
tia bureau to authorize the continu-
ance Of the organization, composed OF
st. Paul and Minneapolis companies,
as a unit of the new National Guard.
st. Paul.-The severe drouth in the
west, particularly in Montana, Wyom-
ming and Idaho, has created a demand
on all surrounding sections for the
surplus hay. The U. S. department OF
agriculture has requested the Mime
,sota state department of agriculture to
ascertain as thoroughly as possible the
hay surplus OF Minnesota. The plan
adopted is to take listings of the hay
on hand and for sale either in the
stack or in the field, together with a
statement of the tonnage, kind. quality
and price. These listings are then
turned over by the department to the
regular hay dealers and also to such
relief committees CT buying associa.
lions or Individuals as may have been
iii .sslarket for Minnesota hay.
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