The Sauk Centre herald., 1922-02-02
NEWS OF STATE
TERSELY TOLD.
Recent Happenings In Minnesota
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News .of Events In Gopher State
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Minnesota are under way. for the Uni
versity of Minnesota Glee club.
Rochester, Minn.-The Lutheran
pastoral conference of southern Min
nesota held a three days session here.
Adrian-While hitching up his team,
A. j. Kunkle, farmer, was kicked in
| the face by one of the animals and his
nose was broken.
Hibbing- Explosion of an oil stove
in the home of Fred Smith, drove the
family into the cold and caused loss
of $4,000 to the building.
Albert Lea-Mrs. Robert Dwight
was chosen by the city council to fill
the vacancy in that body made vacant
by Robert Anderson, who resigned.
Minneapolis hearing on the
suit contesting the election of Mayor
George e. Leach was continued by
| mutual agreement to February 10.
Faribault-Fire originating from an
overheated furnace caused $400 DAM
age to farm house at The Minnesota
State School for the Feeble Minded
Duluth-Two men, tried jointly on
a charge of robbing the postoffice at
Ray, Minn., last July were acquitted
by jury in United States district
court
Fairmont = The Commercial S ate
Bank of Triumph has asked the state
bank department to send a deputy ex-
aminer to take charge, after volun-
yarily closing.
ntevideo-Declaring that 80 per
cent of the farms in this territory are
mortgaged, 200 farmers at meeting
here formed an organization designed
to get financial relief.
Brookston = Twenty-eight school
| children were marched to safety,
when fire broke out in the rural school
here. The flames, of unknown origin,
destroyed the structure.
notwithstanding to new city di-
rectory, just issued, Austin has a pop
ilation of 1871 This is an increase
Of 2.013 over the United States census
dgures OF two years ago.
Lamberton = Grace Sorenson and
Bernin Emerson won the declamatery
and aioratbrical contest here and will
represent Lamberton high school in
the state declamatory league.
Virginia. great deal of interest is
being shown by the women voters in
the coming city election Most of
them are registering and taking an
active part in the preliminary discus
sions.
Pipestone-The jury in the case OF
State against Jerry Hines, charged
with attempting to burn his 100000
Orpheum theater here last November,
were unabe to agree ON verdict, after
deliberating 1e hours.
ST. Paul-State officials were served
with copies of petition filed by 81
Minnesota mining companies in fed
eral court asking an injunction to re-
strain collection of the state tonnage
tax imposed by act of The 1921 legis
lature.
Owatonna-Ernest Sloan of Ellen
iale, has been elected head of the
Steele County Holstein Breeders as
sociation Other officers chosen are:
9. G. Heinz, Meridian, vice president,
and Donald Alexander, secretary
reasurer.
Red Wing Addresses by Bishop
McElwain and DR.. Luke, of st. Glenn
ons church, st. Paul, opened the 65th
.nnual Minnesota diocesan council Of
the Episcopal church here. About so
clergymen and over 200 lay delegates
were in attendance.
Rochester--Colanth Pauline Segis
l-year-old Holstein heifer, broke two
worlds records for seven days pro
duction She produced $50 pounds of
milk from which was made 134k
pounds of butter The heifer is owned
by DR. c. Graham of Rochester.
Minneapolis The Cappelen Memo
,ial bridge, under construction over
the Mississippi river at Franklin ave-
aue, suffered damage estimated at $15,-
900 and its completion was delayed a
month by a fire in the false work. The
flames were started by the explosion
of small stove under the central
span of the bridge.
Duluth-A hearing on an interlocu
tory injunction sought by the Oliver
iron Mining company, and 80 indepen-
dent corporations to test the constitu-
tionality of the state occupation tax
will take place in St. Paul about
March 1, Judge Page Morris indicated
in United States supreme court here
when he granted an order restraining
the state of Minnesota temporarily
from proceeding any further with the
company's books or assessments of
their tax.
st. Paul-Notice OF appeal from the
ruling of Judge F. M. Catlin in Ram
sey county district court denying the
motion for an order restraining the
st. Paul City Railway company from
aboiishing the neutral zone in the
Midway district, was fled with the
supreme court by T. D. O'Brien, ST
Paul attorney, in behalf Of several
Midway firms.
Elmore-A few county schools in
this vicinity have been closed because
Of the several cases of scarlet fever.
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