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VOL. XXXI NO. 3 LITTLE FALLS, MOBRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA

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\£X^,3 FlhflXi, MARCH 21, 1919

MOTLEY MAN STUNG ELECTION QUIET ONE TRADED HISLAND FOB MOT ANA

HOMESTEAD WITHOUT A TITLE

To trade real land in Minnesota for • a homestead in Montana, only to find : . out later that he had given his land

away, the father party to the trade hav­ing no land in Montana, was the mis-

• fortune of Alfred Wilson of Motley. It seemjs that Mr. Wilson traded his

property. to M. M. Parks, for a 820-a,ere homestead in Montana. Mr. Parks gave Mr. Wilson a contract for deed, whereas Mr. Wilson gave Parks a quit claim, deed to his land. Later, upon investigation, it was learned that Mr. Parks had never secured a patent on the homestead and it is claimed tliat lie never occupied the land. Mr. Wil­son has instituted an action in the courts in this matter.

Since this deal was made, however, Mr. Parks has employed men to cut timber on the land which he obtained

.in the trade. Mr. Wilson secured itn order from the court restraining him from cutting any more timber on the

Viand or from entering the land for that purpose, but the order, according to Mr. Wilson, has been entirely ignored. When Mr. Wilson visited the property 'recently to see what had "been "done there he was threatened by one of the men employed on the place, he states.

Through his attorney, E. A. Kling, Mr. Wilson has asked the court for an order to show cause "why Mr. Parks should not be punished for contempt,

.'for failing to comply with the provi­sions of the restraining order.

AFFILIATE WITH FEDERATION OF FARM CLUBS

At the Parker Cdmmunity club meeting last evening held at the town hall, thirty men were present. County Agent Jacobson spoke briefly on his work as advanced through the farmers and community clubs. R. E. Olmstcad of the Minnesota farm. St. Paul, spoke on Farmers' Clubs and Their Opportun­ities. Sam Hammerbeck, president of the Minnesota Federation of Farmers' Clubs, spoke on the "Necessity of Federation." Wednesday afternoon the same speakers addressed the Cul-drum Community c-lilb at the Culdium

t'town hall. Cooperation was the prin­cipal topic discussed. The club decid­ed to affiliate with the State Federa­tion of Farm clubs, as did also the Parker Community club.

Mrs. E. V. Wetzel entertained the .. Young Mothers' club at her home yes­terday afternoon.

BOARD OFCOMMERCE ANNUAL MEETING NEXT MON­

DAY . EVENING—DINNER TO BE SERVED.

Next Monday evening the Little Falls Board of Commerce will hold its annual meeting at the Elks' hall. This is a meeting for all membersNand all who can uttend should make it a point to be there.

Considerable business will come up at this meeting, including 3ome new propo­sitions. It was originally planned to have O. M. Johnson of Bush City ad­dress the club et its annual meeting but this has been cancelled and he will be secured for some other time instead.

A dinner will be served at the hall at 6:30 p. m., for all the members. A nominal charge of about .40 cents will be made for the meal, the amount to be only the bare cost.

At a special meeting of the directors of the Board of Commerce Wednesday afternoon fifteen new members were elected to the organization. The new members are as follows:

Miss Eliza Batzer. Gordon Motor company. Halseth Electric -company. B. A. McClintick. Moeglein Bros. , Dr. W. S. Putnam. § M. V. Wetzel. A. Simonet. W. H. Eyan. *. Ii. Pancratz. Fred B. Kleber. ^ Julius Jetka. Peter J. Gregerseu. Joseph H. Eicli. J. C. Patience and A. H. Vernon were

appointed as an auditing committee to -£,udit the board's books before the an­nual meeting. »

Invitations have been extended to the secretaries and members of the St. Cloud Commercial club and the Brain erd Chamber of Commerce to be pres ent at the annual meeting as guests of the local organization.

PARKER WOMAN DROPPED DEAD, Mrs. George Pierce of Parker town­

ship, dropped dead at her home last Friday evening at about 6 o 'clock. Mrs. Pierce had been to Randall that day purchasing household supplies and evi dentlly was well when she left home. Just as she returned home and was about to step from the sleigh she drop­ped dead. Heart trouble was the cause.

Mrs. Pierce is survived by her hus­band and by several brothers and sis­ters. IJgfore her marriage she was Miss Snow of Parker. There were no chil­dren but Mr. and Mrs. Pierce had two

: small adopted boys. The funeral was held from the home

Monday at 2 p. m,, Dr. E. B. Service of Little Falls officiating. Interment was in the cemetery at Randall.

OLD CLOTHES DRIVE BEGINS MARCH 30.

People are urged to look up any dis-carded clothing which is fit to wear, and turn it over to the Eed Cross dur­ing the old clothes drive which begins March 30 and lasts a week. Dr. E. W^. Kaliher is chairman for the drive in the county and A. F. Koslosky and fl. E. Biddinger for this city.

ONLY HALF OF VOTERS TURN OUT —RANDALL WINS BY ONE

VOTE.

FIFTH LIBERTY LOAN • 'iV-iii*

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FLOATING OF VICTORY LOAN NE-Ifc• CESSARY TO MEET COUN-

" TRY'S OBLIGATIONS

'Little Falls had what was perhaps the most quiet election in its history, last Tuesday. The municipal judgeship was the only office for which there was opposition and this contest was as dose as it possibly could be—Mr. Randall re­ceived one vote more than Mr. Lyon.

The total vote cast was but 579, ap­proximately one-half of the vote that should be registered if all turned out. The vote by wards was es follows: First Ward :... 227 Second Ward 132 Third Ward ....' 118 Fourth Ward 102

Total 579 Henry J. L&Fojid was re-elected ald­

erman for two years from the Fourth ward. He had no opposition but a few votes were cast for other men fot the two-year term. Charles W. Hogle was elected alderman for one year from this ward. There were no filings for this, of­fice but the names.of Mr. Hogle, Wm. Parshall and W. E. Greene were written on the ballots.

By mistake both returns of the elec­tion results in the second ward w6re locked up in the ballot box, whereas only one should have been put in the ballot box and the other turned' over to "the city clerk. Consequently the vote in that ward cannot be given in this issue, except the vote on municipal judge, which was secured by one of the candidates just after the votes had been counted.

Following are the results of the elec­tion by wards:

First Ward. Mayor—N. N. Bergheim 133 City Clerk—Andrew Johnson 152 Treasurer—John Vertin 148 Assessor—Frank Ellenbecker 154 Justices of the Peace—2 Elected—

George Gerritz H. E. Canfield 67

Alderman— • F. E. Hall 143 Henry Smith - 10

Alderman-at-Large— ' Geo. Moeglein. Sr 14 <

Municipal Judge— F. W. Lyon 81 Phil. S. Randall 13"

Seconal Ward. Alderman—G. C. Raymond v Municipal Judge—

F. W. Lyon Phil. S. Randall 49

Third Ward. Mayofc-N. N. Bergheiiri... »8 City Clerk—Andrew Johnson 9b Treasurer—John Vertin Assessor—Fragile Ellenbecker »» Justices of the Peace—

George Gerritz H. E. Canfield

Alderman—N. J. Peterson Alderman-at-Large—

Geo. Moeglein, Sr Municipal Judge—

F. W. Lyon. Phil

41 91 92

83

52 S. Randall - 62

Fourth Ward. Mayor—N.> N. Bergheim 80 City Clerk—Andrew Johnson.—. 84 Treasurer—John Vertin 8j> Assessor—Frank Ellenbecker Justices of the Peace— ,

George Gerritz »» H. E. Canfield 41

Alderman, Two Years— Henry J. LaFona »<> Wm. Parshall -.»• % Charles W. Hogle |> W. E. Greeite 1U

Alderman, One Year— Charles W. Hogle 21 W. E. Greene i" Wm. Parshall 9

Municipal Judge— F. W. Lyon Phil. S. Randall -- fl The city council met last night to

make the official count of the returns but as this meeting was held after go­ing to press it could not be stated i»v

this issue whether the official count made anv change in the figures.

GETS 33,000 VOLTS H. C. JOHNSON NARROWLY ES­

CAPES ELECTROCUTION AT SUB-STATION.

H. C. Johnson, construction foreman for the Little Falls Water Power com­pany, is confined to his room at the Buckman hotel, where he is slowly re­covering from the effects of an electric shock from a transformer which sent 33,000 volts of electricity through his body. That Mr. Johnson was not in­stantly killed is miraculous as one-fifth of that voltage is sufficient to kill a person. He was also hadly hurt in the fall which followed.

The accident occurred at the West side sub-station Saturday afternoon and was witnessed by other men who were working there.

Mr. Johnson was taking the measure­ment of a wire, when he came in con­tact with a live wire and caused a cir­cuit. He was standing on a. dead trans­former at the time and the shock threw him from it to the concrete foundation, teen feet below. _ ^

Besides being badly burned about the hands, Mr. Johnson sustained a bad scalp wound, some ribs broken, his shoulders were bruised and one foot* was injured, this, being caused by the fall.

WOMAN'S GUILD THIsTAFTER­NOON

The Woman's Guild will meet this afternoon with Mrs. Napoleon LaFond on Ninth street northeast.

The following program will be given: Piano solo Mrs. Henry LaFond Catholic Notes...Miss Rosalie Richard Vocal solo Mrs. W. Ckrte Paper—"The Polish People''

Mrs. A. Koslofky Violin solo •Leo LaFond Reading.,. Mrs. Harvey Ploof Paper. Mrs. I. J. Bates America

Mrs. L. D. Brown and Mrs. Ed. M. , LaFond went to Minneapolis Wednes-j day evening to hear Carter F. Glass, secretary of the treasury speak at the big Liberty Loan meeting there yes­terday. They were also to attend a complimentary luncheon at the West hotel. Mrs. Brown is . county chairman of the women's Liberty Loan commit-

The idea that there may not be a Fifth or Victory Liberty Loan and the bonds or notes widely distributed among the people of the United States is_ advanced only by ' those who are misinformed or who are desirous that this- last great loan should not suc­ceed.

It is absolutely necessary that there be a Fifth loan, subscribed by the peo­ple of the country-

First: Because by the middle ^of April the Treasury Department will have expended six billion dollars, ob­tained from the sale of short time cer­tificates of indebtedness sold to the banks which are but a fprm of antici­pating the returns from bond sales.

Second: Because if the banks sab-scribed the immense amount of money necessary to be raised they would have no money left to finance business enter­prises, and the commercial life of the 'country would be slowed up.

There • must be a Fifth or Victory Loan drive, and the bonds must be dis­tributed among the greatest possible number of citizens.

America went into war without self­ishness and with high purpose. Ger­many was dismayed by our enthusiasm and power, she showed the white flag, gave up her dreams of conquest, took the count, and the United States flag now flies from the strongest Hun for­tress.

Nevertheless, the heroic job which we entered so fairheartedly and car­ried on so effectively is yet to be finish­ed. So now we whom posterity will consider worthy the name of Patriotic Americans must "carry on" until our debts are paid and the suffering world is taken care of and the waivruined lands built up.

We cannot believe that now when the disease of autocracy has been cured the American people are going to refuse to- cheerfully pay the doctors and the hospital bills. .

People who now hesitate about con­tinuing to give of their time and mon­ey so that America can finish it's job do not stop to consider that had war gone on as was expected, for months or possibly years, we would have had not one more loan but many and would have sacrificed the lives of hundreds of thousands of boys who are now coming home to us. When <hey~ do consider these things, thev will enter upon the work necessary to put over*he Victory Liberty Loan with a true spirit of gratefulness, and make the Fifth the loan of thankfulness.

A . f e w f a c t s s h o u l d h e l p t o m a k e clear the (Government's need and the individual's duty:

Up to November 8, 1918, the war cost the United States $21,000,000,000, of which we have loaned to our allies practically $8,000,000,000, and have spent ourselves over $13,000,000,000. The estimate of the Secretary of the Treasury is that the expense of the first six months of 1919 will be approx­imately $10,500,000.

The huge sum. must be had to finish the job, and the size of it is largely accounted for by the necessity of the settlement of war contracts which had to be made, and which in themselves played an important part in the quick finish of the conflict.

All these obligations must be met. The wisdom of making the expendi­tures must be decided by the men whom we have chosen to carry on ̂ the busi­ness of our Government. It is not our business to question their wisdom dur­ing a crisis. They are acting for us and the obligations they make are our obligations. If they have not been proper ones, there will be a time when we can bring them to account. Until that time arrives, it is a case of ours not to question why—ours to go out and buy.

These facts speak for themselves. fTIhe Government has promised and is taking the necessary legal steps to en­able it to pay a billion dollars, which it is estimated will be the difference between the market price of wheat and the guaranteed price of $2.26 per buch-el. It is interesting to know that the Ninth District's, that is our district's share of this excess will probably be a quarter of a billion dollars, which is more than the amount of bonds the people of this district will be asked to buy. In other words, the Government is asking us to lend it the money which it will be necessary for it to return in cash to people on the land and all those who benefit from the' expenditures of these people. Surely to us of the Ninth District who are facing a period of prosperity, such as we have never be­fore known, should consider the coming (Loan a loan of thankfulness as well, as of Victory.

Yours for the Victory Liberty Loan, —R. B. Millard, County Chairman.

The Professional Five Hundred club was * entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Cameron Wednesday evening.

New furniture is being provided for the office of the local Red Cross chap­ter, some of it already having been re­ceived. R. D. Musser is the kind don­or.

The funeral of W. T. Lambert, who died in the West, and which- it «was thought would be held Wednesday, will be held today at Royalton, after the ar­rival of the train leaving Little Falls at 2:30> this afternoon.

PLAN Rjt DRIVE MANAGER OF NORTHERN DIVI­SION FORESEES NEED OF MORE

MONEY BY FALL

Another, drive for funds will very likely be put on by the Red Cross, al­though not until next fall, the organiza­tion's work having increased Ito such a great extent that the present funds will not suffice to carry out the program of relief work, etc. This is indicated in a letter received this week by the lo­cal chapter from- Clifford C. Hield, di­vision manager for the Northern Divi­sion, American Red Cross.

Mr. Hield in his letter states that the Red Cross, accepting its commission from the American people, has built up a war program of service not only to OUT own soldiers and sailors and their families, but-to the war stricken peo­ples of our allies, particularly where the distress of the refugees and help­less children made an appeal which could not be disregarded. This pro­gram, he states, did not end with the signing of the armistice. - Our soldiers are still in Europe and work there can­not be ended suddenly. And in addi­tion to this comes a call for help from Mr. Hield continues in his letter, '' that Poland, Russia and Palestine.

"It was expected last November," the effort already made and the funds in hand would be sufficient completely to meet the obligations which the Red Cross had been forced to undertake. It is liow apparent that this is not the case. In spite of the strictest oversight of commitments and the most rigid economy, the appropriations by the War Council for relief in Europe for the months of January and February have been the largest in the history of organization. In other words, the war task of the Red Cross is not yet finish­ed and our divisions a Ad chapters must hold themselves ordered and ready for instant . service. A further appeal for funds will be postponed until the last possible moment, but we must rface the high probability that before the year is ended such a call will come.''

CRAVE ALL ROADS C. A. FORBES MAKES PROPOSITION TO IMPROVE STATE ROADS AND

HARD-SURFACE HIGHWAY

t FARM BUREAU NOTES • • • •••

A special meeting of the Morrison County Potato Growers' association will be held at the city hall, Little Falls on Saturday afternoon, Mar. 29, at 1:30 p. m., for the purpose of furth­er planning the seed plot work of our members and also to make plans for se­curing seed of the special varieties which we decided to grow. It is es­pecially desired that all farmers having seed {xot&to'gs >for sale of v the Green Mountain, Rurals, "Triumphs, Cobblers or early Ohio varieties, should send or

Plans submitted by Chas. A. Forbes of the state highway commission, to th# county commissioners and the Lit­tle Falls Board of Commerce, if carried out, as they likely will, will give Moiri-son county first class roads to all parts of the county. Mr. Forbes was in the city yesterday and presented the pro­position at a noon-day luncheon at the Buckman hotel. O. L. Kipp, who was also to be here - for the meeting, was unable to come. The county board was represented by Henry Gassert, D. Roch-eleau and W. B. Milberry. Others at the luncheon were W. E. Olson of the Board of Commerce, County Auditor McNairy, A. Fenri, county engineer, J. W. Stephenson, J. K. Martin, R. B. Mil­lard, Charles Sylvester, George Kiewel A. F. Koslosky, H. H. Tanner and R. L. Palmer. §

The plan is to have the state roads leading from this city to Brainerd, Swanville and Pierz graveled and to have the Jefferson Highway hard sur­faced from this city to the Benton county line, also to gravel the highway from here to Lincoln. The cost of this work will be met equally by the county and by the government, but eventually the cost to the county will be only in­terest paid, as its share will be met by the state under the Babcock road law, when that goes into effect.

This plan of improving the roads has been put up to counties throughout the state and is being met with favor gen­erally. In some counties work has al­ready been begun.

WOULD "SOAK" THOSE WHO VOT­ED FOR HIM.

Bowlus Advance: C. O. Nelson got 20 votes for justice of the peace after telling everybody he wouldn't accept it. He says he didn't think there were so many people in town who'wanted , to wish trouble on him so long as the wom­en are not voting. He almost has a mind to accept the office so he can soak the guys who voted for him.

Besides being editor and publisher of the Advance, all Mr. Nelson has to do is to drive a rural route and run a drug store, so the added responsibilities , of justice of the peace should be accepted as-a trifling matter.

Mrs. Julius Jetka is at St. Gabriel's hospital for medical treatment.

Dr. O. J. Brown, who has been con­fined to his home with rheumatism for two weeks, is again able to be "at his office.

BASKETBALL TEAM DEFEATS BUFFALO 33 TO 6—BARNES-

VXLLE 2d OPPONENT

Mr. and Mrs. 8. E. Betts have receiv-, .i -n u ed a telegram from their son, David,

bring in samples to the Farm Bureau stating that he ^ arrived in New - jsc: ~~ Mn*/ih OCk cn tha t - y. office on or before March 29 so that they may be inspected at that time. Mr. K. A. Kirkpatrick of the Extension Division will be with us at this meeting to explain the seed plot work and lead in the discussion of this subject in gon-

Set aside the afternoon of March 29 for this meeting whether you are a member of this organization or not. Any fanner who is interested in improving the marketing conditions of this special product should attend this meeting. Now that we have this thing started, let us boost for it and make it a sjic-ce^s

E. P. NAUERTZ, President.

York frojm France. David went to France in August of last year. He will be sent'to Camp Dodge for. dis­charge.

Mark Vertin, who is in the marines and stationed at Paris Island, S. C., writes his parents that he has been as­signed to the quartermaster headquar­ters, purchasing department, at Paris Isladn. Mark recently qualified as a marksman. »

County Treasurer Renick received a check from the state superintendent of education for $12,551.10 as the March school apportionment. The amount re­mitted is for 5457 pupils at $2.30 each.

. Hhis money is included in the distribu-ADVISORY OOUNCIL ORGANIZED J tion 0f the March settlement.

An advisory council was formed at _______ the Farm Bureau office Saturday af-' nin1Att ternoon, twenty members of different C| MHH C f CTC niTfII farm clubs of the county being present. LlliiTll/iiLiLi ULl 1IJ 1/11 vi£ The meeting which was called through S. Hammerbeck, president of the State Federation Of Farm clubs, is the first of advisory councils to be formed in the different, counties of the state to work in cooperation with the .Federa­tion. R. E. Sewall was elected chair­man and J. E. Claasen secretary of the .j# Morrison county council.

ASSESSOR'S MEETING MARCH 27. City, village and townsliip assessors

of Morrison county will meet at the county courthouse next Thursday after­noon to receive instruction ill their work. County Auditor McNairy will act as instructor. Notices are to be sent to the various assessors befose the meeting, as soon as all election returns are in so that Mr. McNairy will know who the assessors are and their ad­dresses. The returns have been coming in very slowly. v

Howard Ferrell, who is in the ma­rines and is stationed in tjie east, writes home that he has been quite ill from the effects of chlorine gas which j he got at the front.

COUNTY BOARD ACTS FAVORABLY ON PETITION—WANT TO SPEND

$300,000 ON ROADS.

John Hanfler and John Yanietz, both residents of the West side, have pur­chased lots from the Water Power com­pany, the former in block 69 and the latter near his home on Fourth street southwest. O. R. Fisher is the com­pany's agent. #

Jos. Wirwicki, who recently dispo?ed of his residence property on the East side, has purchased the residence at the

! corner of Fourth street and Fifth ave-' nue southwest, from the Water Power ! company. He is having the house re-. modeled and new porches built and will | move there about the first of April. The i house is modern. a

W. H. Workman, formerly a well known resident of Little Falls, and con-nected with both the Herald and Transcript, is now proprietor of^ the Harriet Printing company of Minne­apolis. Mr. Workman for many years

' ran a paper at Bowman, N. D., and still has interests there.

DIED V The youngest child of Mr. and Mrs.

Dombovy of the West Side, died Satur­day from influenza. The remains were interred in the Polish Catholic ceme­tery. - • r" ?

MARRIED Kenneth D. Wood and Miss Olive

Grace McGuire, both of Rosing, were married Wednesday morning by Justice Phil. S. Randall.

A special meeting of the board of county commissioners was held at the courthouse Tuesday to take up the mat­ter of the county ditch petitioned for by residents of Elmdale town. After consideration of this petition the board appointed County Attorney C. Rosen-meier to represent the county in the proceeding^ He was directed to take such steps and to do such things as in his opinion are necessary and proper for the protection of the county's inter­est in this matter.

Nels Peterson, county engineer, was appointed as engineer on this ditch, which will be known as ditch No. 25 He was instructed to begin work on or about March 24 and to report same when completed on or before May 17, 1919.

Bonds of some of the county banks' for county depositories were approved.

Auditor McNairy was instructed to report to the state highway commission that it is the desire Of the. county board to use 30 per cent of the state allotment for 1919 as a maintenance fund. •

Wm. Beveridge and E. J. Rooks were appointed tractor engineers for the 1919 season and their compensation was fix­ed at $6 a day for each day actually employed.

A resolution was passed that the board make application to the state for an allotment for * an additional $100,-000 from federal-aid funds to the state to aid in constructing and improving state postal roads in this county. Also that upon federal aid in the above sum being granted, the county agree to'com-plete roads according to the require­ments of the state highway commission and secretary of agriculture. The es­timated cost of this improvement is $200,000. The board fuither agrees to issue bonds under the provisions of Chapter 75, Laws 1917, to help pay for said improvements, and in event that the amount received as aid and through this levy does not cover the cost the deficit shall be paid from- the county road and bridge fund.

Little Falls won its first game in the state high school basketball tourna­ment being held at Carlton yesterday and today.

The drawing gave Little Falls Buffa­lo as an opponent for the opening con­test Thursday morning, which was won 33 to 6. The first half [Little Falls scor­ed 20 to Buffalo's 5.

Lepinski, Fortier and Elvig replaced Tourtillott, Sprandel and Sims all of the last half, 'Levis and Wands remain­ing through the whole game.

Coach Hall says that the boys are going great, and that drawings were favorable. *

The second game was slated with Barnesville, said to be one of the main contenders, at 5 o'clock yesterday af­ternoon, which score we were unable to get before going to press.

URGES FARMERS TO FORM CLUBS. R. E. Olmstead, a farmers' club spe­

cialist, is holding meetings throughout the county this week to encourage the organization of farmers' clubs. He spoke at Elmdale Tuesday afternoon, at Culdruni Wednesday afternoon, Parker Wednesday evening and at Rice Lake last night. This afternoon he will speak at Freedhem, tonight at Green Prairie, and tomorrow at Motley. A. D. Wilson will also speak at Motley.

DYNAMITE LICENSING DISCON­TINUED.

County Auditor McNairy is in receipt of a letter from the state office advis­ing him that the licenses for the sale and possession of dynamite have been revoked by the state, the reason for th» licensing no longer existing. Mr. Mc­Nairy is advised in a letter, however, that dealers should be warned not to sell any dynamite to enemy aliens.

COXJNTrES MUST MAINTAIN STATE ROADS.

Under the provisions of a bill recent­ly passed by the house, but not yet passed by the senate, the commissioner of highways will have power to revoke state roads which are not properly maintained bv the counties.

W. H. Muncy has disposed of his res­idence on Fifth street northwest to Vern Savage. Mr. Muncy and family will live in, rooms over his garage at the corner of First street and First ^venue southeast.

TO STATE PRISON ALEX LACE SKI GETS 18 MONT HS

FOR BURGLARIZING FLENS-BURG SALOON.

Alex Laceski of Swan Biver was sen­tenced by district Judge Parsons to eighteen months in the state prison, for grand larceny in the second degree. He recently entered the Wojciechowski sa­loon at Flensburg and stole $10 in cash and a quantity of liquor. He will be taken to Stillwater to start serving his sentence, in a few days.

Laceski made a confession of the burglary and agreed to go before Judge Persons and plead guilty to the charge mentioned above. He was taken up there Tuesday by Deputy Sheriff A. A. Fueger, accompanied by Clerk of Court Stoll, County Attorney C. Rosenmeier and L. W. Vasaly as attorney for the defendant. <

COPY OF DISCHARGE NOW GOOD , FOR BONUS

Minneapolis Tribune (19): Regula­tions of the $60 bonus to discharged soldiers were amended by the War de­partment yesterday to permit the ac­ceptance by disbursing officials of "true copies" of discharge certificates, according to a news dispatch received here from Washington last night.[

Heretofore the original certificates were required, but it was found that many soldiers refused to part with their papers, preferring to lose the bonus rather than risk loss of their dis­charge certificates.

All copies submitted now must be certified by the army recruiting officer nearest the soldier's residence.

BORN YAGEN—To Mr. and Mrs. Frank

Yagen, Saturday, Mar. 15, a daughter.

LEAHY—To Mr. and Mrs. Dan Leahy, Wednesday, March 19, a daugh­ter.

JOHNSON—To Mr. and Mrs. Eskil Johnson of Freedhem, Friday, Mar. 14, a son.

. SHAW—To Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Shaw, Monday, Mar. 17, a son, at St. Gabriel's hospital. >

NELSON—To Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Nelson of this city, Friday, Mar. 14, a daughter.

KLIBER—To Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Kliber of Swan River, Saturday, March 15, a daughter.

FREUDENRICH—To Mr. and Mrs. Frank Freudenrich of Ripley, Sunday, Mar. 16, a daughter.

MELBERG—To Mr] and Mrs. Christ Melberg, Monday, Mar. 17, a daughter, at St. Gabriel'9 hospital.

SAUNDERS-—To Mrs. Harold Saund­ers of Fort Ripley, Tuesday, Mar. 18, a son. Mr. Saunders recently died of influenza. '.V... «,'«><.-

COLLINS—To Mr. and Mrs. Tim Col­lins of Minneapolis* Friday, Mar. 14, a daughter. Mrs. Collins is the daugh­ter of^Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Kemp of this city. >