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or IS Ottawa, Anderson, Gonvick, Minn., listed among the wounded and missing. Eighteen Minnesota merchants paid fines totaling more than $750 last month for violations of the state pure food laws, Commissioner James Sor. ensen of the dairy and food department announces. With road conditions growing worse daily, the prospects for relief of the International Falls wood famine grows more unfavorable. No hard coal can be secured by dealers, so the fuel situation is very serious. Inheritance taxes of $793 were paid the state on the estate of Emerson Hadley, a St. Paul attorney, who died Nov. 11, 1916. Mr Hadley left property valued at $89,565 to his widow, daughter and grandchildren. Several bad cases of black diphtheria have developed in the Kuppela family, living about four miles east of Plummer. Mary, eight-year-old daughter, and John, a 14-year-old son, passed away. The school in that district has been closed. Fergus Falls Elks donated $150 to the Y. M. C. A. fund and $50 to the Knights of Columbus fund for the boys at the front. They also set aside $50 for the poor fuel bills in the city, besides making arrangements for their Christmas charities. The little parks of the Great Northern at Barnesville will not receive their usual winter covering to protect the tender plants and shrubs this winter. as the officials of the Fergus Falls division refused the expense necessary for their protection. Red Cross organizations are now established and at work in the follow. ing Polk county centers: Angus, Beltrami, Chester township Climax, Crookston. Erskine, Euclid. Fertile, Fisher, Fosston, Lengby. Mallory, McIntosh, Mentor. Neilsville. Trail, Tabor. Key West. Sarah Olson, mother of Baby Ruth Olson, who is fighting George Weston, living near Faribault, for the return of her baby, is willing to take her chances on a jury of 12 men. Through her attorney. James B. Hickey, the mother asked Judge Childress of Rice county to have a gury trial. When the case goes to trial Nov. 23 a mother's might to her child born out of wedlock will be considered by the jury. A new dividend of 15 per cent will be paid creditors of the defunct Osseo State bank about Dec. 15. The announcement was made by F. E. Pearson, state superinteadent of banks and receiver of the Osseo institution, for lowing the payment of $10,000 by the surety company on the bond of James B. Thompson, former cashier of the bank. who was sentenced to state prison for misappropriation of bank funds. The entertainment committee of the Crookston Red Cross chapter has planned a series of afternoon or evening chain parties, each member of the committee to entertain four of their friends at a party, each one of the four bringing 25 cents for the Red Cross. The four guests are then to promise that they will each entertain four of their friends, who will contribute a quarter. Each of these guests will be requested to do the same thing. thus making a continuous chain. It has been figured up that this series for six weeks would raise $5,260. From now on all manufacturers, miners, dealers and foremen handling explosives in Minnesota will be ob liged to take out licenses, and to keep itemized records of all such explosives that come into their possession, a telegram from Washington to Labor Commissioner W. F. Houk stated. The state labor department is charged with the enforcement of the law. Postmaster Henry J. Schaefer of Albaay sent in his resignation last June and not until recently was it accepted by the postmaster general. Owing to the vacancy there will be an examination for the position at St. Cloud
