Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1920-05-05
NEWS OF STAT
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Recent Happenings in Minnesota
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Winona-A salary increase of 10 per
cent was voted firemen and police
here by the board of fire and police
commissioners.
st. Peter-Citizens of Nicollet coun-
ty have organized the Nicollet county
branch of the Minnesota Sound Gov
eminent association.
Duluth-Coal dealers here have re-
ceived notice the prices of soft coal
will be $3.50 higher than last year on
cargoes now en- route for Duluth from
Lake Erie ports.
Pine City-Pine county is being Wis
tied this spring by many landseekers
from southern Minnesota, Iowa and
the Dakotas, attracted here by low
priced productive lands.
observation-disclosures bankers will
be hosts to members of the First dis
trict group of the Minnesota Bankers
association at that bodys annual meet
ing here May rs and rs.
Beardsley-Crowds coming from the
surrounding territory for many miles
are attending the community evang-
elistic campaign conducted in the
Methodist Episcopal church here.
st. Paul-Two new state banks were
chartered by the State Securities COM
mission, following recent hearings.
The banks are to be located at New
Prairie and Skyberg, with $4,000 ca
pital each.
St. Cloud-N. J. Ostraas of Mime
apolis has purchased the St. Cloud ho-
tel from Mrs. Lawrence F. Schaefer.
Mrs. Schaefer has conducted the hotel
for the past six years. The new owner
is to take possession May 1.
Owat0nna-Plans for the forty-third
annual & commencement of Pillsbury
academy are being completed. The
commencement exercises will be June
2 and will be marked by speakers,
physical and military drill. A class of
% will be graduated.
Brainerd-Wool growers of Crow
Wing county will organize wool
pooling association through which
they will pool their clip this year and
have bidders from wool mills and other
wool buyers place bids on the Crow
Wing county wool crop.
Pipestone-Plans are now being
made for the annual commencement
exercises of the Pipestone high school
on Thursday evening, May II. The
exercises will be in the auditorium of
the new $4,000 high school building
and It will be the first public opening
of this portion Of the new structure.
A class of nearly SO will receive dip
Tomas. s.:
Hibbing-The Mesaba range will en-
terrain more mining and civil en-
gineers this summer than at any one,
period in the history of the iron ore
industry. In addition to- the national
meeting of: engineers, which is to be
in: Minnesota the coming sumer, the
Lake Superior institute and the Mich
1gan College of Mines alumni are also
planning junkets to the Mesaba
range. r. -
Akeley-Target practice four miles
east of Akeley put the Guyana Range
Power company out of commission and
resulted in damage to the big dynamo
at the plant. Some one shot off the
insulators on the Akeley-W Walker line
and soon big sheets of fame burst
from the dynamo. The engineer sum-
moned the fire department and had
thrilling experience shutting off the
engine, not being able to reach the
throttle. It took day to make re-
pairs.
Duluth-Three. hundred and three
damage suits, affecting claims aggre-
eating $10,0G0,000 will be disposed of
at single sweep, when the entire jul
dietary of the 18th district takes the
bench at Duluth as associate judges.
They will decide by a test case
whether Walker D. Hines, as agent for
the president under the wartime con-
fscation act, shall be held liable for
damages resulting from the forest
fires, which devastated northern Min
nesota Oct. IL, 1918.
St. Paul-Less than one-third of the
people or Minnesota, which is rated
an agricultural state, are on farms, in
stead of more than half the state po-
pulation as commonly supposed. Hugh
J. Hughes, marketing director in the
state department of agriculture, made
the announcement after a careful
study Of United States census reports
and declared that the condition is an
other reason for the high. cost of liv-
ing. 1.-THE farm as factory is shorter
handed than is generally believed"
said the director.
Ivanhoe.-At a largely attended
meeting, the Ivanhoe Community club
was organized here, following a num-
Der of meetings which had been con-
Quoted in different parts of the county
by r. 10. Olmstead Of the University Of
Minnesota Farm school,.
Lake Benton.-One lone muskrat
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