The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-04-22
BriettMm
All 3 State
Condensed Stories Of Happenings
/ Of the Week in Minnesota

St. PauI-Governor Theodore Chris
Hanson filed for denomination on the
republican ticket, for governor of Min.
nesota.
DuIuth-Navigation in the Duluth.
Superior harbor officially opened when
the tug Minnesota shifted to the. coal
docks to load coal. ....~
Winona-Work on government riv-
er projects has started in this vicinity.
The General Allen, towing five barges,
one of which was loaded with signals
for river traffic, passed the city.
Clinton FaIis-Miss Margaret Day,
district eight, won the annual town
ship declamatory contest in connec-
ton with a meeting of the Clinton
Falls township farm bureau unit.
lie Sueur-Mrs. Frances Caldwell,
rs years old, wife of Judge F. A. Cald-
well, prominent Minnesota jurist, died
here, of heart trouble after an ex.
tended illness. =
Mankato-Miss Mildred Boie of Man.
kato, a junior in the college of sci.
ence, literature and the arts at the
University of Minnesota, won the Pills.
bury oratorical contest with defense
of modern literature.
MinneapoIis-The largest conserva-
ton group ever assembled in the state
will come together when the third an
nual convention of the state Isaac
Walton league is held in the Curtis
hotel.
Stiilwater-William Bonse, a fire
man, was seriously injured in a fire
that destroyed the old Colonel R. F.
Hersey mansion, landmark for 40
years. The loss was estimated at
100000. ri.
PIainview-The homestead and per.
sonal property of E. L. Sylvester, now
in prison, were exempted in bankrupt
cy proceedings in decision handed
down at Winona. Sylvester is sery.
ing sentence in the state penitentiary
for embezzlement during his tenure
as president of the Cefunct Plainview
State Bank. ....
" Fort sneIIing-More than 5000 men
will receive military instruction at
special encampments at Fort Smelling
this summer. Under present arrange
ments II camp periods will be con.
Quoted with members of the Organized
Reserve corps. Minnesota National
guard, Reserve Officers Training corps
and citizpnS taking mart
Crookston-Five hundred young men
gathered at monster meeting here
and organized the first unit of the
"Stay West Young Man" club. From
Fisher, Mentor, Fertile and Red Lake
Falls three young men of the west
drove in to change Horace Greeley's
admonition of old to "stay west, young
men,"
GayIord-Senator Claude HI. Mac
Kenzie of Gaylord, who led the fight
for Governor Christianson's reorgan-
ization bill in the last session, filed as
candidate for denomination in the
fifteenth district. Nicollet and Sibley
counties make up Senator -.acKen-
zie's district. ..-s.s
WeIIs-The "Wells Beautiful" cam
paign this year will again be spon-
sored by the Wells Business and Pro.
fessional Women's Club, Miss Floss
LOOMS, chairman of the campaign last
year, was reappointed. Prizes for1the
most neatly kept and most beautH .Illy
improved premises will be awarded.
Morris-The West Central Baseball
league will start its season May End.
The seven teams in the league are
Morris, Hancock, Chokio, Glenwood,
Starbuck, Herman and Benson. The
league officers are J. D. Landes, presi.
dent, and L. R. Woodbridge, secretary.
treasurer, both of Morris.
MinneapoIis-An army of 100000
citizens and school children of Min
nesota, on the opening day of Amer
lean Forest week, was enlisted to stop
destruction of Minnesota forest re-
sources worth $275, 100000, to launch
a program of reforestation and forest
conservation aimed at preventing Min.
nesota's 10000 lakes from drying up,
and to plant $4,000 trees in the state.
MinneapoIis-The northwest is en-
tering upon its most extensive build
ing program since the war, figures re-
ceived here indicate. These tabula-
lions are also interpreted by lumber
dealers, contractors and bankers as
evidence that Improvement in condi-
tons in business in the farm belt is
gaining in scope and momentum, re-
sulting from the marketing of profit
able crops in 1924 and 1925.
Minneapolis - Magnus Martinson,
publisher of the magazine, Scandal"
was found guilty of criminal libel by
jury in Hennepin county district
court. The charge against Martinson
followed publication of a report that
former United States Senator Magnus
Johnson had been arrested for drunk.
enness. A. N. Jacobs, editor Of the
publication, was convicted in district
court on the same charge and is at
present serving a sentence of 90 days
in the workhouse.
st. Paul-Organization Of the Min
nesota national guard regiment into
brigade units was authorized by the
war department. The end brigade
will be created from the 205th and