AROUND THE TOWN

MOTHER DIES IN EAST. -- Miss Susanne Fritsche, aged 82 years, mother of John E. Fritsche of Charles E. Lewis & Co., died yesterday at her home, Tonawanda, N. Y. Mr. Fritsche left last night for the east. Three other children survive Mrs. Fritsche. Interment will be in Forest Lawn cemetery, Buffalo.

LUMBER-YARDS SOLD FOR $200,000. -- The Midland Lumber company of Minneapolis yesterday bought for a consideration said to be $200,000, the business of the North Star Lumber company, consisting of a line of lumber-yards in eastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin.

WINNIPEG RAILROADERS GUESTS. -- Thirty [Winnipeg] passengers and ticket agents, representing all railroads reaching that city, were guests of Minneapolis and St. Paul railroad men yesterday and will be entertained today.

FOUND DEAD BESIDE BED. -- The body of Christ Aune, 40 years old, a Minneapolis laborer, was found dead early Saturday beside the bed in which he had slept in the Auditorium hotel, St. Paul. He lived at 3435 Second Avenue N.

FRANK M. NYE RETURNS. -- Former Congressman Frank M. Nye returned yesterday from Washington as a private citizen. He will leave Wednesday for Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he will speak before the Commercial club on "Lincoln Democracy."

BACK BROKEN, TRAVELS 1,000 MILES. -- His back broken and traveling in a specially constructed box, Eugene Thayer passed through the twin cities yesterday on his way from his home in Assiniboia, Sask., to the Mayo hospital in Rochester, Minn., a distance of 1,000 miles, for treatment.

NORTH HIGH CONTRACTS -- Contracts for heating and ventilation of the North high school will be considered by the board of education at the meeting next Tuesday. The bid of H. Kelly & Co. to do the work for $35,742 has been recommended to the board by the committee on buildings. The committe has also recommended the purchase of twenty medical inspection scales. These scales have an attachment for measuring the height of pupils as well as the weight.

FREE DELIVERY ASKED. -- Five residents of Columbia Heights village were named last night to get signatures to a petition to the postoffice department to replace the postoffice at Columbia Heights with free delivery of mail from Minneapolis. On the committee are Phil T. Stack, J. B. Vincent, Joseph Mullen, Charles Covyeow and J. Albright.