Willmar tribune., 1900-08-29
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Judge Nordin and Chris Freese of
Willmar were in Atwater Tuesda ay
y. Jorgen Olson of Willmar was in
Atwater Tuesday on political business
....Miss Ruby Olson has accepted a
position as clerk with the johnson &
Sivertson Mercantile Co. Solomon
Porter of Willmar was seeing his
friends in this part of the county the
latter part of last week.. Mrs. Sam
uel Porter of Willmar. visited Atwater
friends last Friday. Hans Dahl re-
Gently sold the Aspinwall farm in
Harrison TO F. Steering of Raymond
For consideration of $1,000. :; Mr..
Dahl purchased the farm two years
ago for some oyer $4,000. He has
taken off two crops and now sells it at
an advance of nearly $4,000.
M. J. Welton took the passenger to
Willmar, Monday noon. The sur
facing gang putthe finishing touches"
on the track here this week. It is now
IN excellent shape. Grain turns out
we'll in some localities. A gentleman
near Montevideo had As acres from
which he got 81 bushels to the acre.
His whole crop averaged % bushels
Clara City Herald.
G. j. johnson of Willmar WAS the
guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. N. B. Ander-
son over Sunday. ay.-Litchfeld Review.
Miss Ina Smart. of St. Cloud, and
Miss Margaret Haley, of WilImar,
who had bean visiting at the home
OF A. ]. Carnihan, returned to their
respectives homes Tuesday.-Swift
County Monitor. ~".
The Arnold Granite company of this
city, which has the contract for the
monument to mark the graves of the
untortunates who lost their lives in the
terrible Hinckley fire, loaded the blocks
today and they will be set up at once.
There are eighteen stones in the monu-
ment. AS whole it stands So feet in
height and is IL feet square at the base.
1t is said to be one of the handsomest
pieces of work that has ever left St
Cloud and cost in the neighborhood
of S240O. The monument will be un-
yelled September lst and invitations
to the ceremony will be sent all over
the state. 49,. Traffic on the Willmar
branch of the Great Northern is suff-
ering some little Inconvenience by the
settling of bridge three miles east of
New London. This structure Is abo ut
rs feet long and 90 feet high and the!
ground about it has always been very
soft, giving the company some little
trouble at various times. Recently
culvert was placed in the rayine and
work has been commenced on the fiji
when the entire bridge settled some
eighteen or twenty inches. No freight
trains were sent out yesterday or to-
day, it being of course impossible to
get heavy engines over with positive
safety. The passenger train is still
getting through by crawling along very
carefully. It is expected that repairs
will be made by tomorrow, so that the
regular freight traffic can be again re-
sumed.-St. Cloud Journal-Press.
J. R. Hultgren is rusticating at
Green Lake. .. An infant child of Lars
Netland's of Arctauder, died Monday
of summer complaint {. -. Mr.. and Mrs.
NJ. Hultgren and Mrs. Martin Negaard
and the children left for Green, Lake
Wednesday for visit with relatives
...Wm. Noonan, of near DeGraff, is
i'll with typhoid fever. The elder DR..
Frost, of Willmar, was up to see him
Monday. 50. Mrs. p, Dale and little
daughter, of Willmar, were the guests
OF John Peterson and family from Sat-
ucday until Tuesday 49,. Reports. from
the threshing machine show that: the
wheat yield in 4his neighborho,od of 13
bushels per acre oman average. Some
of the fields already. threshed yielded
as high as 16 bushels to the acre. :: :.
Paul, the three-year-old son 5of: Mr..
and Mrs. John Brandt, of Murdock,
was seyerly injured Monday evening
by being hooked by acow. The cows
horn entered the little ones mouth and
punctured the palate. An ugly ;zScut:
was also made in the child, cheek.
Dr. Dowswell was called up to- dress
the child's wounds and reports that
while they are very painful they are
not necessarily dangerous.-Kerkhov:
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T. By request, Rev. ~Crump went TO
Wil'mar last Sunday night to visit
Frank Minton, who is very low and
expecting to cross che dark river at
any moment. solong as his health
will permit, the good old Parson would
go to the ends Of the earth, at the call
of a needy friend. - -Litchfeld News
Ledger. -:@ # \ = ss'= .. sS.' s$4s
7 S. E. 'Magnuson Of Willmar, drove
through town Monday enroute for his,
farm in Burbank 8. Mrs. Victor Mel
son Of Willmar, visited Saturday and
sunday at New Lond Ion !, olmberg
brothers, Of Willmar and Kandiyohi,
visited at r. Hakanso on's Sunday 8.
Herman Estrem and skriYel Thorpe