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Death Comes ToJulius▲Schmahl]Sti\ eteran State OfficialW ho Served 36 Years InThieves Get BigStnOffice Dies At STHaul Of WhiskeyST. PAUL (AP) — Julius A. Schmahl, a onetime cowpuncher who served 36 years as Minnesotasecretary of state and state treasurer, is dead.Schmahl, whose political record was unequalled in Minnesota, died Sunday after an illness of several weeks. He was 87.Schmahl served seven terms as secretary of state, from 1907 to 1921. He was state treasurer for 11 terms, from 1926 to 1927 and from 1939 until his retirement in 1950.Bom Aug. 1, 1867 in NicolletCounty, Schmahl moved with hisparents to Redwood Falls three years later. He worked as a cattle puncher in southwestern Minnesota from 1875 to 1881, then joined the Redwood Falls Gazette asan apprentice.After working in the job printing office of the Fargo Argus andWOODSTOCK, Minn. (AP) Pipestone county sheriffs officers today were investigating theft of about $2,000 in loot from Bob’s Bar here.The burglars Saturday took 24 cases of whisky and $200 cash. Sheriff Leonard Stelling said the door of the bar was forced.Israel, EgyptliC1lt;sPBothFaultjl! tl\ N. CommissionBlames \nd WarnBoth In Gaza IncidentJERUSALEM (AP)—The U, N. Mixed Armistice Commission has charged both Israel and Egypt with truce violations in a recent i”a reporter for Twin City new’s- border clash along the troubled apers, he bought the Redwood Gaza Strip that left two soldiers 'alls Gazette in 1892 with Herb dead and 12 wounded on each side, tuter, a former Gazette printer. A communique, issued yester-'he newspaper’s circulation dou- day after an emergency meetingcled, and then tripled.He entered public life in1901. when he was elected chief clerk of the MinnesotaHouse of Representatives. Heserved in the post during the1902 special session and during the regular sessions of1903 and 1905.In 1906, the Minnesota Republi-an party nominated Schmahl for ecretary of state. lie was electedind remained in the office until921.He bowed out of politics in 1950, vith drawing from the campaign ifter one speech. He scoffed at he attention he was receiving ‘because I’m an octogenarian orvhatever it is you newspapermenrail me.”“You fellows keep poundingiway at me,” he added, “but youind me in pretty sound shape,lon’t you?”Val Bjornson, St. Paul news-raperman, then replaced Schmahl is the GOP’s candidate for statereasurer.Hospitalized here for several■veeks, Schmahl took a turn forho worse Saturday. Death cameit 12:30 p.m. Sunday.Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Listoe-Wold Mortuary here, and at 2 p.m.Thursday in the Redwood Falls Presbyterian church. The rites at Redwood Falls will be in charge if the Masonic Lodge and the Knights Templar, also a Masonicbody.Survivors include Mrs. Schmahl, St. Paul; a son. Col. Dana Schmahl (ret), San Antonio, Texas; one daughter, Mrs. Fred Trump, Tucson. Ariz.; four granddaughtersand two great-grandsons.of the commission on the April 3shooting at Nahat Oz, also contained a plea by U. N. truce chief Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns of Canada. Burns called on both sides to keep “firm control” over their armed forces in the Gaza Strip, scene of a series of bloody outbreaks recently.The commission ruled the April3 skirmish was “a very serious incident” involving violations by both sides.tfcfttc£t1I1JLiirlit Rains:reii On Wav!I-Vlniost AH OfNation Has Mild.Sunn\ Easter(By The Associated Press)Mild weather, which much of the nation enjoyed Easter Sunday, continued over the northern half of the country east of the Rockies today.Fair weather prevailed in most of the area from the Dakotas eastward to New England and the Middle Atlantic states, but anusof cloudiness and precipitationwere increasing.One rain belt was moving northward from the Gulf states into the middle Mississippi and the lower Ohio valleys.A second band of light rain and snow was reported over the northern Rockies extending south-westward into the Great Basin.:PLANE CARRYIh
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Fergus Falls Daily Journal
Fergus Falls, Minnesota, US
Mon, Apr 11, 1955
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