Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1921-03-02
Recent Happenings in Minnesota
Given in Brief Items for
Busy Readers.
ENTIRE FIELD COVERED
News Of Events IN Gopher State
Gathered From Many Different
Sources and Arranged in
Crisp Readable Form.

Spring Valley-Mrs. B. Wruck OF
Norwalk, Wis, visiting friends here
was stricken with heart disease while
at a motion picture theater and died.
! st. Paul-S. B, Duea, Of Pipeston :,
former state senator, will succeed A.
Fl. Turritin of Minneapolis, as private
secretary to Governor Preus His ap
pointment was announced by the gov.
ernor
Stillwater-Londius Sargent presi.
dent of the Saltwater Manufacturing
company and for many years promi-
nent in civic affairs, is dead at hi,
home here. after an illness of several
months.
! Sleepy Eye-William Lawson, in
structor i'll agriculture in the Sleep
Eye public schools, has accepted the
position of county agent for Brown
county and will enter upon his duties
It once - ts>ts tE =. - 49, =.
OWatonna-A final meeting of the
STEELE county organization for raising
funds for European relief council and
the Near East relief showed that with
quota Of $11,24O Steele county raised
a total of $11,305.
ST.. Paul--T E. Campbell, ST.. PAU
police chief, who recently was unde4
n"e in connection with an alleged al.
fair with the wife OF patrolman, re-
signed. He was eXonerated, however,
OF misconduct charges.
st. Peter-A gift Of 100000 to the
Gustavus Adolphus college from the
Rockefeller foundation, interest accru.
ing from the amount to be applied to
teachers salaries. was announced by
0. J. Johnson, president of the, college.
Willmar-Mrs. William Forsberg,
whose husband was killed in an acct.
dent on the Great Northern a short
time ago, has received $4,000 from
the railroad company as damages. The
case was settled without court trial.
Ellendale-Miss Celia Harty of this
city is seriously i'll with sleeping sick
ness according to her physicians. This
is the second case of the disease here
Miss Cora Johnson was ill for several
months with the same malady last
year s..
Owatonna-The Steele County Tele-
phone association composed Of repre-
sentatives of rural telephone compa-
MES of this county have decided to dis
continue switchboard business with
connections with, the Tri-State Tele.
phone Co! i
ST. Paul.. E., Potter, president of
the Minnesota Farm Bureau federation,
has accepted appointment as a mem
Der of national executive committee
organized to collect and ship surplus
corn on American farms to starving
peoples abroad. / III
al tended byabout 800 farmers. anG
business men, G. a. Genet, local repre-
sentative of the Minnesota Sugar com
pany Of Chaska, has contracted fer
geo acres fsugar@ beets to be raise,
=, this section. The sugar beet indus.
try is new to this section 49, s! !, 81.
St. Paul Charles ], Moos, we'll.
sncwn newspaper man., manager OF
SENATOR Frank r. Kellogg's 1920 cam
paign for the United States Senate,
and at present head of a contracting
i!rm in st. Paul, will be named post
master Of st. Paul to succeed Otto
Raths, according to report from
Washington.
Rochester,. o. Smith, former al
derman at large, was found guilty in
district. court here of grand larceny in
the second degree. The charge against
Smith was that while a city officer he
refused check to- pay election clerks
and judges but that he paid only part
Of these and converted the balance to
his personal use. :ss.ss d
Albert LeaAfter four hours de.
liberation, the jury in the case OF
Hardy Friend, accused of a crime
against a 13-year-old grill of this city,
brought in a verdict of guilty. The
case has attracted wide attention in
this vicinity, Friend being the son OF a
wealthy banker Of Marshalltown. He
IS IS years old and a divorced man.
Minneapolis More than 1000 stu
dents between the ages Of II and 81,
and representing every county in the.
state, are registered in. the correspon-
dence study department at the Uni
versity Of Minnesota, according to Miss
Sarah III. Van .Duser, secretary.
Twenty five occupations are repres ent-
ed, including teachers, students, bank
ers and businessmen. Stud ents cannot
graduate through the correspond
course, but two years Of university
v ork may be finished.
Winona-The swift passing sof the
pioneers who developed this region
was indicated 1t a report submitted at
the annual meeting here Of the Winona
County Old Settlers association, show
ing the death Of q members the last
year. -Four Of the 81 were more than
80 years OF age. Seven Of them canaa
here when Minnesota was territory.
Faribault-Forty head Of pure bred
Poland China hogs, the majority
spring gifts, brought $1,000 to eiRht
consigners Of this county here at the
first annual consignment sale. The