Garfield Orders Strictly Obeyed In Brown County
New Ulm and Brown County enforce Dr Garfield s sweeping order causing most businesses to close or reduce hours Monday with hotels and restaurants among few exemptions. Officials and local merchants discuss the meaning of the order and implement exemptions and half day closings for future Mondays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Urder
Arthur L. Pooek
Brown County
Public Safety Commission
Sud
Fred W. J. Johnson
G. A. Ottomeyer
Chas. A. Stolz
Havenstein Brewery
Schell Brewery
F. Audferkeide & Sona
Saffert and Gugisberg Construction Co
Ruby
Boock
War Department backs Smileage Book sale in Brown County
The America First Association will run a Brown County campaign January 28 to sell 1 Smileage Books. The War Department via Newton D Baker authorizes 20 000 books, with Postmasters and county officers handling distribution to soldiers sailors and marines. The books cost 1 and provide 20 coupons for Liberty Theatre seats at camps and cantonments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America First Association
Brown County
War Department
Newton D Baker
Pred Johnson
F. W. Murphy
Robert Wargadine
F. A. Doggett
St. Paul
Minnesota
Twin Cities
Duluth
Rotary
Doggett
Liberty Theatres
Purchaer
United States
America Flrat Association
Populist Leader Explains Nonpartisan Fees at Turner Hall
About five hundred gathered at Turner Hall for a Nonpartisan meeting featuring Geo D Brewer of Kansas. Brewer, a Kansas legislator and State Campaign Committee member, argued that Big Business uses pressure to steer farmers and warned Minnesota to beware. He defended the $16 membership fee as a tool for organizing, lobbying, and funding campaign efforts to counter corporate influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turner Hall
New Ulm
Speaka L. W. Samuelson
Lafayette
Nonpartisan League
Geo. D. Brewer
Kansas
League
Minnesota
House
Leeton
Brewer
Beef Trust
Minneapolis
London
United States
Russia
New York
Rockefeller
Big Business
Medical Advisory Board Meeting Schedule Set
The Medical Advisory Board of Litly and Brown Counties will meet at Dr. Q. C. Strickler's office in this city on the last Tuesday of each month at 4:00 PM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Litly
Brown Counties
Q. C. Strickler
Food Department Officials Rally Dealers In War Cause
Judge Frank T. Wilson led a Food Conservation campaign talk in New Ulm stressing dealer duties. He urged posters, bulk sales, cash and carry, and a national slogan plea. Separate committees to set fair prices and organize retailers were to be formed, with Hess directing county actions. Also reported: Severe Kasota railroad death and earlier incidents on the line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank T. Wilson
Stillwater
New Ulm
Wilson
St.Paul
Woodrow Wilson
America
Food Administration
France
Federal Food Department
Hess
Sever Anderson
Kasota
Northwestern
Tom Ginn
Mr. Anderson
Anderson
Teichrow
Court ruling allows banks to buy more Liberty bonds
Minnesota Supreme Court upholds that state law restricting bank liabilities to 15 percent of capital and surplus does not limit purchases of United States bonds. The ruling affirms that South Side State Bank of Minneapolis may hold $41,800 of Liberty bonds plus $1,600 more, exceeding the proportional limit to avoid restricting safe federal securities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
State Supreme Court
Leary
Hennepin County District Court
M. E. Trumer
South Side State Bank of
Minneapolis
United States
South Side State Bank
Liberty
Tramer
George L. Bunn
Will Form Shipping Association Meeting Stated
A meeting at Courtland town hall on Wednesday January 90 at 2 o'clock will discuss forming a shipping association. A representative from the Agricultural Extension Division at State University will speak. Shippers are urged to attend to perfect a cooperative organization benefiting all in the vicinity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courtland Town Hall
Noreucne
Agricultural Extension Division
The
State University
Target Practice Keeps Men Busy at Camp Dodge
Illness lashes Camp Dodge as frigid weather confines over a thousand troops to hospitals. At rifle ranges the 350th infantry under Col Harrison Price trains with Enfield rifles and advanced sighting to two miles. Artillery units test three inch and 4.7 inch guns, aided by Port Sill school officers, while new ammunition limbers and shells arrive. Medical staff anticipate three months to complete base hospital expansions to handle growing casualties.
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350Th Infantry
Harrison R. Price
Smith Brookhart
Washington
Iowa
Ordnance Department
Army
C. V. Schmidt
Minneapolis
Three Hundred Thirty-eighth Field Artillery
Port Sill
Beaver Valley
Camp Dodge
Bage
389Th Field Artillery
J. R. Shook
War Department
Sheok
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Garfiel
Arthur L. Boock
Nel
Tre
Sammy
G. D. Brewer
Anl
Hest
Federal
Shipping Association
Enfield
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