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VOL. XXX NO. 11 LITTLE FALLS, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA 7, 1918

COUNTY DADS MEET RECONSIDER ROAD BUILDING

PROGRAM—NOT AZJ* TO RE DISCONTINUED

The county board met in adjourned session Monday afternoon with, all members present.

'The first matter to come before the board was the condition of the road and bridge fund, and as to the advisa­bility of discontinuing road work dur­ing 1918, until outstanding road and bridge warrants had been in a measure redeemed.

The resolution passed at the regular meeting on the 7th of May, "That all road work on county and state roads be discontinued, except such as may be ne­cessary to obtain state aid," was re­considered and qualified in that if it is necessary in order to make the roads passable now under construction the fol­lowing amounts, but no more, may be expended on the following roads: The sum of $2500 on state road No. 3; the sum of $1500 on state road No. 1 and the sum of, $1000 on state road No. 4. But the foregoing limitation shall not apply to maintenance work.

It was/decided that after the county has completed the work on state roads, that the tractor will Ibe loaned to such towns as desire them, the towns to use the engineer now employed by the coun­ty, and pay and pay all other run­ning expense and to maintain tractors, and keep them in repairs and return same in as good condition as when re­ceived, usual wear excepted; also to use the same grader men now employed on the county graders. Berglund and Yanselow have charge of the old trac­tor and Carnes, Gassert and Rocheleau have charge of the new tractor.

The matter of the bridge over the Mississippi river on state road No. 1, near Royalton, was then taken up. Mr. Ellison of the highway commission ap­peared before the board and explained the present condition of one of the piers under said bridge, and who was to blame for the same; also the best man­ner to rectify said default.

The county allowed the Minneapolis Bridge Company, a partial payment on their contract for $5000. It is fur­ther agreed that for driving and fur­nishing steel sheet piling and placing of additional concrete under pier No. 3 of bridge No. 2436 the county enters into a contract to pay Minneapolis Bridge Co., $1000 over and above the original contract price of said bridge, said work to be done under the plans and specifications of state highway com­mission.

WAR SAVINGS CAMPAIGN

Representatives From Headquarters Meet With BusinessMen

: H. M. Bayley and H. E. Hutchinson, representatives from the Headquarters War Savings committee at Minneapolis met a number of the merchants, bank­ers and other business men at the Board of Commerce rooms yesterday morning and laid before them plans for the com­ing War Savings drive. The week of June 6-13 has been selected for putting on the campaign. Messrs. Bayley and Hutchinson are on a tour of the north­ern counties lining them up for the drive. 4

FLOUR HOARDERS NOT TO RE TOIr ERATED

The local food commission will go over the flour reports that have been sent in and endeavor to determine from them, the amount of flour that is being hoarded in Morrison county. The food administrator or a committee ap­pointed will make personal- investiga­tions in cases where persons are sus­pected of hoarding flour. If in. any case a person is found with more than the allowed thirty-day supply, six pounds per person, it will be taken up and the hoarders may bo prosecuted.

FIVE LEAVE F OR CAMP SEVIER, GREENVILLE, S. C.

The five local men who will leave to-today for Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C., are Emil Klingberg, Herman Cross field, Leo Tuzinski, Henry Moehle and John H. Chesney. They are all car­penters and have been called by the government to fill positions as such.

A call which also made for one black­smith from this county will be filled by John W. Janson, who will leave for Port Benjamin Harrison at the same time.

EELGIAN BABIES' DAT There will be a social next Wednes­

day afternoon at the L. E. Richard home under the auspices of the Wom­en 's guild. 'The proceeds are to be used to defray expenses incidental to the holding of Belgian Babies' Day the following Saturday. On this day bo-quets of forget-me-nots entwined with the Belgian colors will be .offered for sale on the streets, the proceeds to go' into the Belgian Babies' fund.

LITTLE FALLS AIT OROBST SUN-DAT

The local Red Cross baseball team will play at Crosby next Sunday. If the weather is good, there will likely be a number of cars accompany the team and encourage them in winning the third straight victory.

ALDERMAN FARROW ILL F. P. Farrow was taken suddenly ill

Wednesday' noon and was taken to St. Gabriel's hospital Thursday for treat­ment. He has been unconscious most of the time.

HARGADINE WAS IN. CITY ''b

Congressman Miller Shown Opportuni­ties of City for Industrial Development

The local War Council of America met Wednesday morning with Robert' W. Hargadine, secretary of the Ameri­ca First association with headquarter at St. Paul and Congressman C. B. Milr ler of Duluth.

Mr. Hargadine addressed the council on the work the America First associa­tion is doing throughout the state and Mr. Miller spoke on his Tecent visit to Europe and answered questions asked on the German atrocities. A large number of the council were present.

After the meeting members ̂ of the Industrial bureau and the iboatd of di­rectors of the Board of Commerce es­corted Mr. Miller and Mr. Hargadine on a tour of the city to Show Mr. Miller the opportunities for water power deyelop-ment in (Little Falls.

Mr. Miller left for Brainerd Wednes­day noon, where he talked in the eve­ning. Mr. Hargadine motored to St. Cloud 'on business concerning the asso­ciation, before returning to Sit. Paul.

Jos. F. Bastien, who was confined to his bed by illness, is able to be about again.

Otto Plettl, who left but a short time ago, is reported as having safely arrived overseas.

Alvin Landmeier, who underwent an operation for appendicitis a shorttime ago, has returned home.

Daniel Mandrey commenced work on Monday as baker in the Model Bakery. He is from Watertown, S. D.

The Water Power company has its chlorine plant repaired and is now puri­fying the water supply of the city.

Tegnor Ausland, who is suffering from blood poison in a finger, was brought to the city Wednesday for medical treat-emnt.

Henry Richard, who was operated up­on a short time ago for hernia, at St. Gabriel's hospital, is reported to be,con­valescing. aW1

During the storm Tuesday evening two purebred Polled Durham heifers were killed by lightning on the J. H. Newman farm.

Mrs. Edmund Houle of Belle Prairie was brought to the city suffering with appendicitis. She was operated upon Tuesday morning.

A meeting of the city council will be held tonight, it having been postponed from Tuesday evening on account of the Miller meeting.

John Venice has taken a position in the DeLuxe Candy Kitchen, during, the absence of Christ Kolias, who has gone to the cities to try to enlist.

Noel Granger of Leader fractured a thigh bone Wednesday morning, when he was thrown from a horse. He is re­ceiving medical aid at St. Gabriel's hos­pital.

Filings have been made this week by A. M. iStoll for clerk of court, F. X. Bastien for register of deeds, D. Lund-berg for commissioner from the Fifth district.

Edwin Olson, who has been employed with Con Berquist, left Wednesday for his home at Marietta. He expects to en­list in some electrical department of the service.

CRUSH PRUSSIAN MISSION OF UNITED STATES SAYS

CONGRESSMAN MILLER OF DULUTH

Mrs. Medric Heroux of St. Mathias, who has been suffering with gall stones the past several weeks, was brought to the Hall hospital Wednesday, where she was operated upon.

Hose company No. 3 Tuesday eve­ning elected officers as follows: Fore­man, Geo. Peterson; secretary, Frank Grecza; treasurer. Wm. Hang; delegate to convention, E. A. Loucks.

At a meeting of Hose company No. 1 Monday evening, A. M. Stoll was'elect­ed foreman, Henry Smith secretary, L. W. Vasaly treasurer and A. M. Stoll was selected to attend the firemen's convention.

A dance will We held in the newly erected barn on the Ole Okerman farm in Twin Lakes, Wednesday evening, May 22. A four-piece orchestra will furnish the music and a lunch will< be served. The proceeds of the dance will bo turned over to the Red Cross.

St. Cloud Times: Dr. Fred H.Sltangl, who will be graudated froni Rush Med­ical college in June, has received notice that he is twelfth highest among the 300 students taking the civil .'.service examination for an internship in\tthe Cook county hospital, one of the larg­est of its kind.

Congressman Miller of Duluth spoke at a loyalty meeting at the Victor the­atre Tuesday evening. The attendance was rather small, principally dure jo'the inclement weather.

Congressman Miller said that through investigation he has found Morrison county to be the banner county of the state. It has the largest num^r, of members in the America First organiza­tion, in proportion to size, of any coun­ty in the state. He said that the Ameri­ca First organization is an organization without a religion and without politics. It has only one purpose and that is America.

Mr. Miller gave a review of the war from the beginning to the present time. He said ever since the little kingdom of Prussia came into existence it has been a war loving people with idea of a strong army always uppermost in its minds. Slowly by conquest and pillage it welded together a strong nation, al­ways under the military heel.

About the years of 1913 and 1914 the, German people began to wake up and demand more rights of freedom. Up to this time they had been working for practically nothing, and without any freedom of speech to demand what was theirs. The kaiser became uneasy about the sudden outburst of his people and called his cabinet together to.decide on what was best to be done. He decided that a war would be necessary to quiet the people and thus keep militarism su­preme. Therefore the war was started by the kaiser and no one but him. We will have to lick the kaiser and his clique before we can end the war, Mr. Miller said.

Mr. Miller gave the development of the war up to the present time telling about the German advance through Bel­gium and how France stood the shock of the onslaught alone. Although Eng­land had a small army they were fight­ers and when they were put in France fought the longest and retreated the slowest of any men fighting in France at that time. He gave a good descrip­tion of the battle on the Marne and the battles of Vimy Ridge and Verdun, telling how at Verdun the Crown Prince Karl with a large army of picked fight ers was beaten.

After the English had organized an army of 5,000,000 men and put them in, relieving the strain on the French, tilings started to go the way of the allies. The Germans were slowly being pushed back toward Germany until Russia betrayed the cause and laid doiwn its arms'. This gave the Germans a chance to put their men from the east front on the west and thus check the ad­vance of the allies. .The allies are now holding the Germans and the Germans may bend the allied line but they will never break it. Mr. Miller said that it is up to the U. S. A. to win the war and by constructing enough ships to carry 5,000,000 men to France we are going to do it. '

The food supply of England, Mr. Mil ler said, will last them but ninety days and the people of England are living by card. Last year we sent to Eng­land 10,000,000 bushels of wheat and since we started conserving we have in­creased the export to 100,000,000 bush­els.

By an established system of convoy the submarine menace has also been quieted, breaking the blocade around England and letting food in.

Mr. Miller urged the women to con­serve, saying it rwas only a small bit compared to What the women of Eng­land are doing. There are 1,400,000 women working in the munition factor­ies, industrial factories and farms. With the United States in the war it means a speedy death to Prussianism and autocracy, in which case, the United States will write the history of the world for the next fifty years.

Dr. iL. M. Roberts introduced the speaker, expressing his regret that the weather was such that crowd could not attend. Congressman Miller has recent­ly returned from France and all that he told the audience was taken from per­sonal investigation .

METHODIST CHURCH Program of services at Methodist

Episcopal church of this city Sunday morning at 10:30. Dr. E. B. Service will take for his subject, "Is My Name Written There?" Solo, "When the Roll is Called Up Younder." The clerk of the church will call the name of each member from the roll. The entire membership of the church is request­ed to be present. (Special music will be rendered, morning and evening. Ser­mon Sunday night, 7:30. "The Hand of God."

Louis Hermann of Royalton, suffer­ing' from appendicitis, is at St. Ga­briel's hospital.

Ethel Axmark of Culdrum will be ex­amined before Judge of Probate E. F. Shaw this morning for insanity. The complaint being preferred by the girl's brother, Joel Axmark.

The barn belonging to Bror Akerson of Pike Creek, was struck and burned to the ground, by lightning, Tuesday evening, during the electrical .storm. Wm. Liebl had hay stored in the,barn. No insurance was carried on eithei the •hay or the barn. '

Wm. Sllowe, who was in this-city .last summer as recruiting officer for the army, passed through the city Thursday on his way to Brainerd, where he will be stationed as recruting officer. Mr. Slowe has been on recruiting dtity the last five months under Major John D. Yost} who has been making a tour in a recruting car.

Twenty-three members of the !Brain-erd chapter of the Degree of lionqr mo­tored down Tuesday evening to dtten^ the initiation of a class of 17 by the local chapter. Six more were t&'-have b e e n i n i t i a t e d b u t o n a c c o u n t t h e rain were unable to attend. Grand President Mrs. Hurley and Past Presi­dent Mrs. Bender were at the initiation. Light refreshments were served .lifter a short program was given.

OPEN MEETING HELD BY BOARD OF COMMERCE

V —WILL AID IN WAR AC-' T1VJLT1ES

The first meeting of the membership of the Board of Commerce since its or­ganization, March 18, was held in the city hall Thursday evening. The meet­ing was called for the purpose of intro­ducing W. E. Olson, the newly elected managing secretary, to the members, and to plan for the Red Cross war fund eampdign. The Board of Commerce has entered onto a program of community service, and has thrown its entire force behind all activities for winning the war.

The meeting was called to order by J. W. Stephenson, president of the Board of Commerce, it being his first appearance before the members. Since organization he has presided at all di­rectors' meetings. Mr. Stepheson ad­dressed the members on the work to be taken up, urging the support of all pres­ent in the work.

Mr. Olson, the new managing secre­tary, who assumes his duties as the first secretary, was introduced, and address­ed the members , on what was before them the first year, and the work to be done in connection with platform out­lined by the board of commerce.

Other addresses were made by Mayor N.- N. Bergheim and J. K. Martin, chair­man of the Red Cross War Fund cam­paign and the handling of the campaign was discussed. The program of cam­paign was laid before the members and the various details explained. A pledge of support by the membership of the board of commerce was the result.

WOMEN DIRECTORS' MEET

Conference to Be Held at Weyerhaeuser Home This Afternoon

DEMONSTRATION IN BREAD MAK­ING

'At a meeting held at Lastrup Monday evening, attended by over a hundred, Miss Helen Rider, of the university ex­tension division gave demonstrations in the new kinds of bread making. Talks were also made by Mrs. L. D. Brown and County Agent McCann. Miss Lau­rel Brannen, accompanied by her sister, sang a group of songs. A largely at­tended dance was given after the pro­gram, the receipts going toward the ex­pense of the home demonstration agent. Ilread demonstrations were give Tues­day at the Robert Tedford home in Rip­ley town, and on Wednesday Miss Rider assisted Superintendent Dobbyn in or­ganizing the boys' and girls' clubs in the city schools.

X O. A. CHURCHILL DEAD jfrs. N. E. Cary left Monday after­

noon for 'Los Angeles, Calif., called there by the death of her grandfather, O. A. Churchil'l, a former resident of this'city. He died Sunday after a long illness at the age of 94. Mr. Churchill

horn in Poxnford, Vt., coining to Little Falls at an early period in life. He was in business here until 1890, at which time he moved to Pasadena, Calif., living there four vears. Since that time he has lived at Los Angeles.

The (Morrison County Women's com­mittee of the National Counsel of De­fense of which Mrs. L. D. Brown is chairman for this .county, will hold a conference of the board of directors this afternoon. They will meet at the library at 2 o 'clock this afternoon from which place automobiles will take them for a tour of the city before going to the home of Mrs. C. A. Weyerhaeuser, where the conference will be held.

The following directors have been ap­pointed for the several divisions, which include 1,000 population each:

Agram and Belle Prairie, Mrs. M. F. Smith; Culdrum and Flensburg, Mrs. P. A. Bain; Ripley, Platte, Pulaski and Richardson, Mrs. Robert Tedford; Pike Creek, Mrs. Dan Hovey; Parker, Dar­ling- and Randall, Mrs. E. F. Buck, as­sisted by Mrs. Mabel Anderson and Mrs. Oothoudt; Royalton, Mrs. C. C. Lisle; Green Prairie, Clough and Cushing, Mrs. E. P. Nauertz, Mrs. Bjorklund and Mrs. L. E. Bergman; Bowlus and Two Riv­ers, Mrs. R. K. Carnes; East Elm Dale, Miss Ella Davies; West Elm Dale and Upsala, Mrs. Nels Eckstrom; Swanville town and village, Mrs. E. A. Flood; Rail Prairie and Scandia Valley, Motley and Rosins. Mrs. M. E. McGill; Buckman town and village, Mrs. Jos. Hortsch; Little Falls, Mrs. Ed M. LaFond-; Mor­rill, Lakin, Mt. Morris, Hillman and Leig;h, Miss Maude Bethel; Pierz town and village and Genola, Mrs. Matt Reis-grraef; Granite and Buh, Miss Eleanor Wieland.

The following officers are also mem­bers of the board of directors:

President, Mrs. L. D. Brown; vice president. Miss Lillian Gunderson, Elm Dale; secretary, Mrs. Mary F. Street, Royalton; treasurer, Mrs. A. P. Etoll, Pierz.

At this time any business that may come up will be taken care of and the $600 necessary to secure a home demon­stration agent for Morrison will also be handed in.

RED CROSS DRIVE OPENS MONDAY—COUNTY QUOTA.

$25,000—CITY QUOTA $8,000

WEST SIDE POLISH CHURCH PIC­NIC

A picnic will be held by' the West iStide Polish church next Sunday, begin­ning after morning service, and lasting all day. Dinner and supper will be served and there .will be various amuse­ments for. the young and old. Supper will also be served Monday evening. Everybody is invited to attend.

WOMEN'S FEDERATION MEETING AT BEMIDJI

The Sixth District Federation of Women's clubs will hold their thir- , , , . teenth annual meeting at Bemidji Mav | childhood, at present being employed 21 and 22. Mrs. L. D. Brown, who is n ™int°T and ™1whaTltrfir

president of the district, will preside and will also give an address on "Pa­triotic Motherhood." A number of delegates from this city will be in at­tendance.

FIFTY-FOUR MEN TO CAMP LEWIS Morrison county's quota of the 4,714

men to go to Camp Lewis, Wash., from Minnesota, will .be 54 men. The exact date for entrainment has not been set' but the date will probably be between May 25 and June 4.

MARRIED The wedding of Miss Laura Agnes

LaFond, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Er­nest LaFond of this city, to Mrs. Al­bert P. Rank, son of Mrs. Mary Rank, of Minneapolis, was solemnized at St. Francis Xavier church Tuesday morn­ing at 9 o'clock, Rev. A. LaMonthe of­ficiating.

The bride wore a suit of sand colored Poriette twill with hat to match and carried a bouquet of bride's roses and lilies of the valley. The bride and groom were attended by Mr. Francis Koelgren, best man, and Miss Susan Rank, sister of the groom, as brides­maid. The bridesmaid wore a suit of qiidnight blue Poplin with hat to match and carried a bouquet of pink roses and sweet peas

Miss Marie Gannon rendered a few vocal solos accompanied by Miss Celia Gannon, who also gave an organ solo.

After the ceremony the guests re­tired to the home of the bride's parents, 305 Third street N. E., where a sump­tuous wedding breakfast was served, the Misses Celia Johnson, Edna Bas­tien, Desida Fournier and Mabel Gra­ham serving,

'The bride has always lived in the city, attending the local schools and has a host of friends. Mr. Rank, a former resident of the city, is employed by the W. B. and W. G. Jordan company of Minneapolis as assistant claim agent. Mr. and Mrs. Rank will be at home af­ter June 1, at 1400 Eighteenth avenue North, Minneapolis.

The out-of-town guests were Mrs, Mary Rank, Mr. John Brown, Mr. Cas­per Rank, Mr. Francis Keelgen of Min­neapolis and Mrs. Mary Yaeger of Sauk Rapids, Mrs. Gertrude Bentfield

At St. Francis Xavier's church last Wednesday morning at 8 o'clock, ac-cured the wedding of Miss Celia Mary Heroux, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Heroux and William Kieley, son of Mrs. John Kieley, Rev. A. Lamothe of­ficiating.

A navy blue traveling suit with white hat and a corsage boquet of white roses, was the bride's attire. The bridesmaid, Miss Bridget Kieley, a sister of the groom, wore a dark blue suit with pink carnations. James Kieley, a brother of the groom, acted as best man.

The bride is a native of Little Falls and the groom has lived here since

as a painter and paperhanger.

After the ceremony the wedding party repaired to tlie home of the bride's parents on Seventh street north­east, where breakfast was served.

After a short wedding trip to White Bear, the couple will make their home at 914 Sixth street northeast.

Word telling of the death of Mrs. M. F. Keough's mother, at her home at Le-fMars, Iowa, has been received in this 'pity. Mrs. Keough has been with, her Mother for the last week.

HIGH SCHOOL PAGEANT Tonight about 200 girls of the Junior

and Senior high school will takes part in a pageant entitled " America, Yes­terday and Today." This is to be the crowning feature of their year's work and everybody is urged to attend. The Pageant is to be in three episodes: The Spirit of Indian Days; The Spirit of the Wilderness, and the Spirit of Pa­triotism.' The interpretation parts twill be taken by Mildred Mathieson as the Spirit of Indian Days; Eloise Richie as the Spirit of the Wilderness^ Eva John.-son as the Spirit of Patriotism, and Lil­lian as the Spirit of the New America. Miss Agnes Hamm will act as accom­panist.

The service flag which was ordered by the Relief Corps of the G. A. R. some time ago has arrived and will be dedi­cated and hung in the postoffice in the near future. The flag contains 140 stars, representing a like number of boys from this city. There are still a few more stars to be added before the flag is dedicated.

Miss Sadie Fuller, assistant to Super-teadent of Schools Barnes, was stricken with paralysis Sunday night at her rooms in the Kiewel Realty block, the whole right side being affected. Miss Fuller suffered a stroke 15 years ago but recovered nicely. She was taken to St. Gabriel's hospital Tuesday and has shown improvement and it is hoped by her many friends that she will soon be in her usual health again.

DIED John Federspil, who has been suffer­

ing the last six months with paint pois-ining, died Saturday morning at St. Ga­briel 's hospital. The deceased came to Morrison county from Milwkauee, Wis., 33 years ago settling in North Prairie, where he was in the blacksmith business for three years, after which time he came to iLittle Falls, where he took up work as a painter and had re­mained in the business until his illness. He leaves three sons and two daughters, the sons are Edward of Duluth, Albert of Bemidji; Frank of Warroad, Wis. The daughters are Mrs. A. Gustafson and Elsie of Sioux Falls, S. D. The funeral was held Tuesday from the Sa­cred Heart church, interment being made in Calvary cemetery.

John LeClair, aged 71, who for the past few years has been an inmate of the old folks home at St. Gabriel's hos­pital, died at Anoka Monday night, where he had been receiving medical treatment. The body was brought to this city Tuesday and the funeral held Thursday morning from St. Xavier's Catholic church, interment being in Cal­vary cemetery.

Edward LeClair, a brother of the de­ceased and a son, of Grafton, N. D., at­tended the funeral.

When the Red Cross war fund cam-jaign opens Monday, May 20," on a drive to secure $100,000,000 in the United States, committees in -Morrison county will set out to secure the alloted amount of $25,000. This sum has been appor­tioned among the forty-one districts of the county according to population, .val­uation and general conditions. The ex­ecutive committee in charge of the cam­paign is as follows: J. K. Martin, chairman; W. E. Olson, director of cam­paign ; A. F. Koslosky, M.. W. Zipoy, M. M. Williams, Mrs. R. I/^Cbchrane, I. W. Bouck, Royalton; C. O. Nelson, Bowlus, and F. O. Swain, Lincoln.

This week complete instructions are being sent to the chairmen who are to have charge of the districts of the county. The majors of the America First association in nearly all instances will be chairmen for the Red Cross drive, and the same organization that put over the loan drive will be used. Letters have been sent to the 27 branches of the Morrison County Chap­ter of the Red Cross asking them to have rallies during the week of the cam­paign, and the Speakers' committee has been requested to furnish speakers for the rallies.

It has been decided that instead of Saturday, which is the national parade day, the parade shall be held in Little Falls next Wednesday evening at 7:30 o 'clock prior to the address by Lieuten­ant L. Martin, recently returned from the trenches, who will talk on his ex­perience in the war. As a committee to plan and look after the details of the parade the following have been appoint­ed: A. F. Koslosky, F. W. Dobbyn and Mrs. M. V. Wetzel. A request has been sent throughout the county to the chair­men to be present that evening, and to the branches of the local chapter to fur­nish delegations for the parade. A number of special features is planned, such as floats, delegations of members of the Junior Red Cross and Red Cross classes.

In the city of Little Falls the quota has been placed at $8,000. In several districts of the county the quota is slightly higher than the population in numbers. Business houses, churches and public buildings are urged to fly the Red Cross flag beginning today and to continue flying the flag until the cam­paign is completed.

The Board of Commerce office is the official headquarters for the campaign and all work will be conducted from there by the director, the managing sec­retary of that organization. The money secured in the drive goes first to the re­lief of the boys in khaki and to the home service for relief of those left be­hind.

MUNICIPAL COURT Wm. Gaboury and Joe Pusc were ar­

raigned before Municipal Judge Lyon Tuesday evening on the charge of speeding. While speeding on Broad­way a traffic sign was knocked down and damaged beyond repair. Gaboury, who drove the car was fined $5 and costs amounting to $9.50 which he paid.

MARRIAGE LICENSES Marriage licenses were issued this

week to G. J. Lano of Carver county and Miss Elizabeth Peine; Albert P. Rank of Hennepin county and Miss Laura LaFond; William Kiley and Miss Celia Heroux; Joseph C. Gross and Miss Ameila Weiss and Walter Tuholski and Miss Mary Kaniesky.

BORN BALESKI—To Mr. and Mrs. P. J.

Baleski, Tuesday, May 14, a daughter.

PERZINSKI—To Mr. and Mrs. J. Perzinski, Tuesday, May 14, a son.

ELLISON—To Mr. and Mrs. Dave Ellison, Tuesday, May 14, a daughter.

HOFFMAN—To Mr. and Mrs. George Hoffman of Ripley, Saturday, May 11, a daughter.

HIGHWAY ASSOCIATION TO GIVE •MTmATJI

The Jefferson Highway association is to give a medal to some man in every county on the highway at end of the year, and he will also have a chance to attend the annual meeting of director* at the expense of the association. He must maintain two miles of roadway, the kind of Toad to be taken into con­sideration. The directors urge that those interested get busy and they will be along later to judge the roads. Q matters not whether the contestant is paid for his work or does it for nothing.

BAiffiBfl TO MEET NEXT THURS­DAY

F. R. Ziske, captain of the eighth dis­trict, has called a meeting of the bak­ers of the district to be held at the city hall next Thursday afternoon. A good attendance is expected.

George Hughes returned from a busi­ness trip to Minneapolis Thursday.

Word has been received that Ray Stein, son of A. iL. Stein has arrived safely "over there."

Peter Juba is filling the position of cashier at the First State bank of Flensburg, which was vacated by An­ton J. Bandura, who entered the service recently.

Irving Germain has taken the position as deliveryman in the Kennedy & Brous-seau grocery. Aloysius Kerich, who has been filling this position is clerking in the store.

Miss Emma Wilson of Washington, D. C., will give a talk at the library this afternoon at 3 o'clock. She is a member of the Red Cross Town and Country Nursing service.

The receipts of the dance given by Ignatz Kanieski at his farm in Swan River netted the Red Cross $31.50. Sev­enty-two couples were on the floor. Mr. Kanieski furnished the lunch gratis.

R. C. Breth, who has been acting as secretary-fnanager of the Board of Commerce*' left this morning for Min­neapolis before going to Chicago, where he will try to get into some branch of the service. Mr. Breth is already a member of the naval auxilliary, but will try to get a transfer. During his stay here in connection with the Board of Commerce he has been most obliging. He is a gentlemanly and capable young man, and has made many friends in Little Falls.

Frank Grzeca has purchased the tire repair apparatus - formerly owned and operated by LaFond & Brick. His place of business will be' in the building next to the Ideal laundry. This is a much needed business in this community as much of the tire repair work has been sent out of town to be done. Mr. Grzeca will do all kinds of work on both inner tubes and casing. He has been for the last seven years employed as clerk by the Victor Clothing Co., and is popular among his acquaintances.

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