Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1920-02-11

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The erection OF a memorial hall
concentrating the war. activities of
Indians from the Standing Rock res
ervati0n is proposed in an aggressive
campaign here. Every Indian family
is called upon to contribute and al
ready $500 has been raised The res
ervation is being canvassed by dis
tricts.
To remedy congested condition of
grain elevators throughout the Middle
West Director, General Hines, has is
sued general orders to railroads serv-
ing the grain producing areas which.
in effect turn all available boxcar
equipment into the grain Transports
ton service to the exclusion of prac-
tically all other traffic.
No decision was the result Of a
three-cornered fight for the next meet.
ing place of the South Dakota Corn
and Grain Growers association at Wa
tertown. Strength in the convention
was so evenly divided between Yank-
ton, Brookings and Mitchell that the
matter was finally referred to execu-
tive committee for solution.
A controversy is developing between
the states of Michigan and Wisconsin
over approximately 400 square miles
of territory that is now included with
in the boundary of wisconsin. A
triangular strip of territory bordering
on Gogebic county and including Hur-
ley, the county seat Of Iron county,
Wis, is the cause Of dispute.
Washington ....-.>.>..
The committee of the American LIE.
gion appointed to develop the organ
ization of the national woman's auxili-
airy of the American Legion will hold
its first meeting in Washington on
Feb. 16.
The decennial census now being TAX
en-, will reveal that the center of pop.
ulation has moved eastward J. A.
Hill, statistician of the census bureau,
said the 1910 census showed the cen.
ter OF population to be in Bloomington,
Ind.
Completing the task of mailing out
December checks, totalling $23,562,-
APO, the bureau of war risk insurance
announced that insurance of compen-
sation checks to disabled former serv-
ice men had been placed on a cur
rent basis. The December checks.
which averaged $26S.93 for each reel.
pient, contained retroactive adjust
ments due to the Sweet law raising
the compensation rate.
At the sessions of the national con.
ference of church women, represent
ing nearly 80 religious denominations,
plans were made to combine to over
come what was characterized as the
dangerously insidious modern tenden-
cy toward indecent clothes, indecent
dances and tune of African Jungle
syncopation." The conference decid-
ed unanimously to convene in every
state series of mothers meetings at
which it is proposed to enlist every
woman in the campaign. r.
Foreign
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland
and Holland have agreed they will not
resume trade with soviet Russia before
Russia's debt to nationals to those
countries have been paid or guaran-
7 teed. @5sr -.
:: An illiterate Austrian earned S.
527 in Canada during a single year of
the war, as laborer, at the Welland
| Steel foundries, it was learned when
Mike Ennis was fined for making a
! false income tax return.
| An Italian train has just arrived to
take $500 starving children of Wien.
ma to Milan for the remainder>o of the
winter. The departure Of the children
completes the 10th consignment sent to
Italian towns to recuperate. ="
Designation of Archduke Joseph as
king by the Hungarian national assem-
bly, seems probable as a result of the
strong royalist tendency in that coun
try. This movement persists despite
objections to the Hapsburgs on the
part of the allied and Hungarian So
cialists. ..~.=: >~-
Domestic
One man was killed and three 9th
ers seriously injured when fire de
stroyed the Barnett hotel at Logans
port, Ind, causing loss estimated al
100000
| Loss estimated at 100000 resulted
from fire of undetermined origin
which destroyed two buildings ant
damaged number of others at Nc
Keesport, Pa.
| Total output of the meat packing in
dustry in the United States for 191!
was estimated at more than $4,000
100000 in statement given out by tn
institute of American Meat Packers.
John F. Mullaney, Madison, Wis.
coffee house owner, advertised
WANTED: Slender waitress ASKED
why SLENDER" John said: "They tax,
: up less room, are quicker on thei
feet, eat less and don't get fiat feet
Henry P. Davision chairman of tn
League Of Red Cross societies, recent
ly organized at Paris, and four othe
American delegates sailed from New