Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1921-06-08
Red River alley
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George Reject, an eleven year old son
OF MI. and Mrs. John Reict Of Thief
River Falls, was drowned last week
near the junction of Red Lake and
Thief Rivers, when canoe which he
and another boy was padding capsized.
Howard G.. Gibbs, of Princeton, ILL.,,
has bought section of land near East
Grand Forks, Mimi, from B, G. Koch,
OF Peoria, ILL.,, for price of $127 900,
or about $500 per acre. Sullivan Bros,
OF East Grand Forks, made the deal.
A total of 81 pounds of nails, spikes
and other puncturing articles were
picked up from the streets of Red Lake
Falls by the Camp Fire girls of that
place, who were allotted the job by the
Red Lake Falls Automobile club They
were given $3.50 from the club for their
work.
. The strange case of the drowning of
little Everett Paul. 10 months old baby
boy of Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Augustson
of Springbrook, recently occurred at
that place when the little fellow fell
in tub of water. The baby had been
playing about the yard and evidently
climbed up on the edge of the tub,
which was barrel sawed in two, lost
his balance and when found was hang
ing over the edge with his head be-
meath the water.
The annual picnic of the Beltrami
County Farm Bureau association will
be held at Bemidji on Friday, June "a,
according to present plans.
John Koors and Louis Neumann, of
Bemidji, are considering a canoe trip
from the source OF the Mississippi to
it's mouth below New Orleans They
already canoed from Lake Itasca to
Bemidji and now contemplate the rest
of the trip.
Mrs Ed Griffin was instantly killed
and Mr.. Griffin seriously injured when
al automobile in which they were driv
ing was struck by the Winnipeg flyer
south bound about seven miles north
of Glyndon. Mr.. and Mrs. Dell FELTON,
with their month old baby were also in
the car but jumped and escaped serious
injury.
Reports from near Mcintosh indicate
that some of the rye in that part of the
country is already headed out. The
straw is about thirty inches tall and
according to-, present indications, the
head will bear a big yield if weather
conditions remain favorable.
Judge Andrew Grideland Of Warren
delivered the address of the day at the
Memorial exercises conducted at
CrOOkStOll
An anti-hy poster contest was held
in the Moorhead public schools recently
as the opening gun in the fight against
the house pests Bernard Burton. Olive
Yonker Viola Mattson and Thelma
Erickson were awarded the first prizes
in the contest in their respective grades.
Fire, week ago, threatened consider
able of the business section OF Middle
River but was put out after having de-
stroyed an ice house and slightly dam
aged a garage and another business
building The fire originated from a
smoldering fire in a brick smoke house
adjoining the ice house.
Preliminary work on paving in Thief
River Falls has been gotten under way
with the arrival of contractors and
equipment. There was every indica-
ton that the work would not be start
ed this year but while legal tangles con-
corning the paving are being untangled
the contracting company has agreed to
go ahead with the work and accept GER
tifcates of Indebtedness of the city at
fhn
As result of the finding of the body
of Walter Westfall, of Devils Lake, N.
D., in swamp near MahnOmen,
George Gwinn, an Indian, is confined
in the Mahnomen county jail, accused