Willmar tribune., 1900-08-22
NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST
Cleaned from Neighboring Exchanges, I,
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Cleaned from Hetghbortng Exchanges,
Personal or Otherwise.
Miss Anna Tallakson returned. to
her home in Willmar Wednesday
after two weeks visit with friends in
this vicinity. The seven-year-old son
of John Holmgren, of Mamre had the
bone in one of his legs broken Wednes-
day by being run over by wagon
loaded with wheat. The fracture is be-
tween the hip and knee joints. DR..
DOwswell was called out to reduce the
Observation-Disclosures Banner.
Mrs. E. Laidlaw and her little son
Harold left Wednesday on a visit to
Raymond and Willmar. liver VOL
stad took sick with an abcess of his
bowels, and was taken to the hospital
in Willmar where he underwent an op-
GRAFTON and according to the latest
report he is improving "A gentle
man from Willmar has rented the
Oakland building and will put in a
large department store the first of
next month. An addition of 34x24 feet
is being built now to that building
and when completed the store room
will measure 6Sx24 feet.-Maynard
Cor. in Clara City Herald.
Miss Mertie Carnihan of Benson,
who has been spending some time with
friends at Lake Koronis, went to Will
mar Tuesday. where she will visit for
short time before returning to her
home.-New Paynesville Press.
Martin Sorenson made a business
trip to the county seat Tuesday .....
Jon Swenson went to Willmar Tues
day. ...Mrs. G. Freese of .Wil]mar
was the guest of Mrs. B. M. Dahl last
Thursday afternoon. ......B. M. Dahl
was at the county seat the first of the
week. .... Andrew Stearns made
business trip to Willmar SATURDAY..
Miss Lydia Glader went to Willmar
Monday to visit a few days. John
Lind came down from Willmar and
spent Sunday with his family.-At-
water Republican Press.
Mrs. Bert Nelson visited relatives
and friends in this city Saturday, re-
turning to Willmar Sunday.-Breck-
enridge Gazette.
O. K. Omlie and E A. Boyd, OF
Willmar. Rev. S. T. Norman, of
Ashby, Samuel Peterson, of Renyille,
J. A Stub, of Hamline, and G.. G.
WOl'an. of Starbuck, together with
the Glenwood boys who have attended
Luther College, at Decorah, Ia. enjoy
ed a reunion at Camp Comfort last
week. Lakeside Press.
Ed. O'Connor sold three farms in
Kandiyohi Co. and bought one in
Redwood and one in Chippewa Co. all
on Monday of this week. He saws it
is but the forerunner of Bryan Pros
perity.-Sacred Heart Journal.
To-day party of surveyors will be-
Gin work in the vicinity of Redwood
Falls running leyels Tor what ia believ-
ed to be the Gulf & Manitoba r. r. on
which work was stopped about July lst
The opinion is that q suitable grade is
being looked for whereby the road may
leave the Minnesota bottoms for the
high praire. -Four miles of track have
been graded, rails laid for 1000 feet
and a bridge built over the Minnesota
river and Beaver Falls A station
has been erected at the latter place.
1t is reported that force of 500 men
will be put to work ON the Gulf &
Manitoba in the course of a few days.
Franklin Tribune.
The shirt waist fashion has worked
lts way as far west as Minneapolis,
where several of the fashionable young
men have been seen thus attlred dur
ing the late hot spell. At a glance
the fashion seems ridiculous, yet there
is no good reason why men should
carry wearing apparel enough to start
a small clothing store when the mer-
curry stands at 100 in the shade. The
shirt waist man will infest every town
in the country next year.-Ex.
Brick work on the opera house is
now nearly completed, and the iron
cornice is being but on. Contractor
F'ransen calculates to have the build
ing ready by October first, the specified
time. The Misses Frost of Willmar
are visiting with Miss Helen Upham. =.
Prof. Dewey has at last decided be-
tween the positions of head of the
Litch6eld schools and commission in
the army, and has resigned as SUPER
intendent of the school. He will at
once report for duty in the U. S. mar
inc service, and the school board are
on the lookout for a successor. Sew
eral applications are already under
consideration, but no decision has yet
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Willmar last Friday the Litchfield ball
club were vanquished in their game
with the Willmar club by the score of
too. Wil'mar can put up first class
game when she tries. In the evening
after the game another event is report
ed to have taken place not down on
the bills, in the way of sparrine
match between member of the Litch-
field club and one of the Willmar
players. In this event the score was
] to o in favor of Willmar by a good
deal,-Litchield Independent.
Rev. Christensen visited at Willmar
several days last week. =. Mrs. W.
w. Pinney and grand-daug ghter, OF
Willmar, visited here last week. Mr..
and Mrs. Volstead are spending week
at Green Lake. o. Mr.. K. E. Neste and
daughter Julia left Saturday for
Green Lake for few days. recration.
One of the Japanese laborers en-
ployed on the Great Northern here
became discontented with his job hand
ling q shovel all day and decided he
would 60 to the cities and perhaps get
an easier job. He did not invest in q
ticket to take him through but at Will
mar got into box car as be had seen
numerous hoboes do. There were
several "traveling men'' in the car
when he got in but thought they were
pretty good company. On the way
east the hObOes attacked the little
fellow, stripped him of his clothing
and everything of value after clubbing
him into insensibility. When be
boarded the train he had check on q
| Minneapolis bank for $3.50, one pay
able to his parents in Yokohama for
$40 and about $25 in cash beside some