The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1926-04-01
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Condensed Stories Of Happenings
Of The Week In Minnesota

members.
{. Alexandria-T candidates
have filed for county offices of Doug
las county. .-t
q Mankato-The Minnesota Historical
Society is to conduct it's fifth annual
summer meeting here June 18 and 10.
Albert Lea-Married women will
not be engaged in Albert Lea public
schools in the future, DR.. c. L. Blunt,
superintendent of the school board,
announced.
st. Peter-Five generations of the
Bode family, of which Mrs. Carl Bode,
6r., aged 80, is the great, great grand
mother, make their homes in Nicollet
county, ~~~
st. CIoud-Central Minnesota tobac-
90 growers will plant almost double
the acreage this year over last sea-
son, it was indicated at the annual
meeting near Sank Rapids.
MinneapoIis-Through river service
from Minneapolis to New Orleans,
without reloading, is one of the fea-
lures of the enlarged river fleet pro-
gram which is expected to be brought
70 definite conclusion at Washington.
Observation-Disclosures Teachers Col
aege's first newspaper has made it's
appearance. 1t was distributed to stu
dents and faculty and will be issued
semimonthly.
ements-Harry Miller and his
three year old daughter Darlene were
slightly improved, although still in a
critical condition from burns suffered
in fire which killed Mrs. Miller and
her sister. s.
MinneapoIis-The Gaylord five is
the championship basketball team Of
Minnesota high schools by virtue of q
Is to victory scored over the Gilbert
Quint in the finals of the state tourna-
ment at the Kenwood Armory.
st. Pathfinder the new state law
regulating highway crossings have
Deen designated as dangerous and are
being equipped with stop" signs re.
uuiring every vehicle to come to full
stop before crossing the tracks.
Duluth-Minnesota women by keep
ing the subject of forestry alive in
their homes and clubs are pushing
the state forward as a leading ex-
ponent Of conservation. A. F. Opel,
assistant state forester, told the Du-
auth Council of Catholic Women.
Winona-Booms and floats of the
public baths were carried down the
Mississippi river when the ice went
out. Nearly foot drop in the water
levels followed soon after the ice had
gone.
Morris-Miss Florence Schroeder,
sophomore in the schools here
whose essay on baking powder won
first place in a national contest and a
trip to Europe for herself and her
domestic science teacher, Miss Mar
garet Randall, of Grand Forks, N. D.
Waubun-Reports received here say
that the fish in several of the lakes in
Becker county are perishing because
the water has become impregnated
with dioxide gas, caused by the de-
composition of vegetation and the lack
OF proper aeration of the water.
Standardization thieves, armed
with pistols, surprised George DON
kers as he got up at midnight and
went downstairs, marched him into
the yard, tied him to a post with
binder Irvine and looted the farm of
chickens. aa.....
eg St. Paul-The Minnesota Supreme
Court gave the state highway depart
ment blanket order controlling traf-
f1c, signal systems and conduct of
trunk highways within the cities and
villages of the state. including the
right to say why and where a stop
and go sign is to be maintained.
Anoka-Judge Orie Wyman of Ano-
aka, the only woman municipal judge
IN Minnesota, ordered a Minneapolis
patrolman and his companion held to
the District Court, under $500 bond
each, after their arrest in an automo-
bile chase in which deputy sheriff
1lred several shots at them. The men
were charged with transporting liquor.
international FaIis-An $4,000, 900
expansion program involving Backus-
Brooks Company interests at Interna-
tional Falls and Fort Francis, Ontario,
was announced by George Mclean,
resident director of the company at
International Falls. Construction now
is under way at plants of the Mime
sofa and Ontario Paper Company here
and the Fort Francis Pulp and Paper
Company, Ltd, at Fort Francis.
st. Paul-W. T. Goddard, attorney,
became trustee of the bankrupt estate
OF Larry O'Keefe, packing house en-
ployee, who won nationwide fame
when he announced that he had in
herited an Irish estate, fortune and
the earlship. O'Keefe filed voluntary
petition in bankruptcy and told Gi-
deon s. Ives, referee, that his total
assets amounted to $67.50-one weeks
back pay and $25 in cash.
st. James-Prize winners In the
community history contest conducted
by the Minnesota Federation of Wo-
mems clubs, in which more than 800
children throughout the state parti-
cipated, were announced by Mrs. Will
Curtis of st. James, chairman of the
department of applied education for
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