Warren sheaf., 1919-05-28
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TERSEL TOLD

Recent Happenings IN Minnesota
Given In Brief Items For
Busy Readers.
Slayton.- Murray County will ex-
Ipend 100000 on it's roads this year,
exclusive of work done on the state
roads.
| Sauk Rapids. Nearly $4,000 was
! realized at the recent bazar of the
| Catholic church. Preparations for the
erection of a new parochial residence
| are under way.
Moorhead d.-Plans for cooperative
| advertising campaign by the mer-
chants were discussed at the annual
meeting Of the Merchants association
following a banquet in Masonic hall.
Thief River Falls.-Among the
many features for the Pennington
county fair will be Lieut.. Kisler, an
instructor in the aviation department
of the army. His contract will include
every known air stunt.
Walker.-Judge C. w. Stanton of
this city will be the principal speaker
at the Walker high school commence
ment, the evening of May 80. In the
morning Judge Stanton will be the
Memorial day orator at Laporte.
Bemidji.-A. P. Ritchie, local post
master, was notified by the postal de-
partment that the rural mail route
to be operated in the territory north
west of Bemidji, to be known as No.
4, has been established and will start
June 16.
Virginia.-Lightr rain fell throughout
the district in which brush and forest
fires have been smouldering and
breaking forth at intervals for the
past week in Northern Minnesota.
| Reports state that the rain was sufi-
cient to prevent spread at present of
the flames.
Two Harbors.-Iron Range railroad
section men reported that forest fires
in the vicinity of Mile Post 8S are all
| out. The fires at Mile Post 60 are
smouldering and are not considered at
all serious. Stories Of bad fires are
| much exaggerated.
Mankato.-The body of John Otto
| was found hanging in barn at the
| rear of his home. He had committed
suicide by hanging with clothesline
to one of the rafters in the barn. Ill
health and despondency are thought
to have prompted the act.
Chisholm. = Chisholm's celebration
| of the Fourth this year will be made
| notable by the presence of the famous
| One Hundred and Fifty-first artillery,
or Gopher gunners' band, fresh from
overseas, chamber of commerce COM
mittee having signed up the noted
organization for the day. Returned
soldiers will figure prominently in the
days events.
st. Cloud.-The sixty-second ::anni-
versary of the First M. E. church was
marked by banquet of over 200
guests. The pastor, Rev. George E..
Tindall, spoke briefly of the church's S
| history and introduced Rev. w. G.
Lee, the district superintendent, who
presented DR.. F. e. Ross of Columbus,
Ohio, former pastor of the church,
the chief speaker.
| Waseca.-O. S. Bagne, 60, a farmer
living near here was burned to death
and his wife is not expected to live
as result of burns received when she
attempted to rescue her husband. A
can containing kerosene exploded
when he was starting a fire in the
kitchen range in his home. Two
small children also we're severely
burned trying to save their parents
Slayton.-A commission company
for the sale of grain handled by the
farmers elevators in this state was
organized here by representatives of
farmers elevators in the counties of
Murray, Cottonwood, Mobiles i and
Pipestone. The association will be
statewide, with headquarters in St.
Paul. A district meeting to further
the organization will be held at Man.
kato in the near future.
! East Grand Forks Reconstruction
work on the stone paving of De Mers
avenue, next to the bridge, has been
completed. This paving has been in
very bad shape for number of years.
st. Paul.-Orders for $4,000 tons OF
coal in the new supply of 125,000 tons
for state institutions were placed by
the state board of control. The first
purchase is for institutions in the
northern half of the state and is all
dock coal bought f. o. b. Duluth.
Minneapolis Determination of DR.
Marion L. Burton Of the university to
bar from the teaching staff all expo.
nents of radical principles or of So,
cialistic tendencies was seen at the
meeting Of the board Of regents. The
decision was obvious in Dr. Burton's
announcement Of fifteen new profess
ors, associate professors, assistants
and instructors, who were accepted
by the regents. To make sure that
radical theories would not be brought
to the university by the new men, DR.
Burton made tour Of the country