The Sauk Centre herald., 1926-12-02
MINNESOTABRIEFS

Cass Lake-A committee to select
attorneys to press millions Of dollars
in Chippewa claims was selected by
Chippewa bands other than White
Earth bands in a two day council
here.
DuIuth-Eabling acts will be sought
by Duluth and Superior of the Mime
sofa and Wisconsin legislature sthis
winter for permission to appoint
joint harbor commission for munich
pal development of the two ports.
Fergus FaIls-Firemen Of Fergus
Falls. in the first step toward raising
$4,000 needed to defray expenses of
the state firemen's convention here
next June, have planned number of
dances and entertainments.
st. PauI-Five persons who tried to
escape in a rowboat from police raid
on houseboat liquor party were be-
lieved to have drowned in the Missis-
sippi river near Harriet Island, st.
Paul. i.. r. e.
Minnea eapoiis-Smaller cities of the
northwest took the lead in business in
October. with the result that carload
ings for the month were the largest in
the seven years record of the Federal
Reserve Bank, the banks preliminary
statement of conditions said
st. PauI-Replying to deputation
from northern Minnesota and south.
eastern Manitoba requesting that an
q w hn fa6
Winnipeg to the Minnesota boundary
through Piney and Woodbridge, the
Manitoba government announces that
such proposal will be carried out.
MISUNDERSTANDING had the highest
birth rate and Rochester the highest
death rate in Minnesota in 1925, re-
port issued by Gerda c. Pierson.
chief of the division of vital stats
tics, tatse board of health, disclosed
Thursday. Mankato's birth rate was
1918 per cent.
nneapoiis-Records of 2f cities
of population in excess Of 100000
show that Minneapolis and st. Paul
not on]y have the lowest ratio as to
number of automobile fatalities COM
pared with population, but that each
year the Twin Cities show marked
reduction in the number OF accidents
and fatalities as compared with each
preceding year.
st. Paul-Several hundred Danish
residents of the Twin Cities gather.
ed at the Milwaukee station, to well
come Mile Gade Corson, the 27-year,
old mother who swan the English
channel When Mrs. Corson reached
st. Paul with her husband and two
children she was greeted by a dele.
cation of Danes from the Twin Cities
who accompanied her to Minneapolis.
Redwood Falis-A rally of the Amer
ican Legion will be held here Decem.
Der 3, according to plans announced
by the Melvin Daskam Post of this
city: State Commander Rufus Rand,
State Adjutant Eddie Lindell, Dis.
trict President D. Wilbur Smith of
Pipestone and District Adjutant NJ. ].
Meeker of Pipestone are expected to
attend the gathering.
Observation-Disclosures of standing
committees appointed to carry on the
work of the Minnesota Federation of
Business and Professional Women's
Clubs during 1926-27. were announced
by Mrs. Emma Hill Perkins of st.
Paul state president. Miss Pearl
sBraley Of Winona, second vice presi-
dent Of the state federation, will di-
rect the membership and organiza-
ton committee.
st. PauI-With total of s41,s77..
600 advanced to S,762 Minnesota far
mers in first j mortgage loans, the
work of the Minnesota rural credit
department is progressing so salts.
factorily that no changes in, the rural
credits act are needed, in the opinion
OF Governor Theodore Christianson.