Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-04-25
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news BREvlIIES. S3. .. 5.:
The board Of audit has been in ses-
sion this week. q The work will he
finished today: 81 viii:
Do not forget the gold medal con-
test g be held Of the opera house next
Friday evening, ss=:sa s. ): 4:
Il Rev. Albin Johnson, missionary
from Alaska, preached in the Mission
church last night. <4=Ss' I,
"a. e. Serenson has opened q land
Office in the:east apartment Of the H.
T. Olson building on Benson avenue,
between: Fifth and Sixth streets. 49,. 3,
:Nels sNorsen went down. to Willmar
Tuesday night and expects to enter the
employ of the Great Northern. Swift
County (Benson) Monitor. =:H:' $sz:5 81.
j.. Danens, who for some time has been
employed BY the Powers Elevator Co.. as
manager Of an elevator and lumber yard at
Streeter, N. ID, has resigned his position
there and is at present with his family in this
city, ri; 81; X .c.Ss H.,
W. E. Somerville believes in maxi
ing his residence property look attrac-
tive and consequently has given it a
good coat of paint as we'll as his
other buildings on the premises.
The Ladies' Aid society OF the Swe-
dish Mission church will meet Friday
afternoon Of this week in the church
basement. :.Mesdames Paul Peterson
and Louis Hedlund will entertain. All
are, cordially invited. e -,
The 't.cap social" that was to have
occurred in Dist. No.. 81, Miss Elsie
Thorne, teacher, two weeks ago, was
postponed to occur next Saturday
evening, April %. All are invited.
"A voluntary petition in bankruptcy
has been filed in the United States
court by George N. Gary, d railway
brakeman of ,Willmar. The. schedule
shows debts of $676. 30 and assets of
1926 in exempt personal property
Minneapolis Journals
Dan Leary succeeds Herman Rigg
as. day: transfer clerk at the Great
Northern express Office. The latter
takes the position of delivery clerk at
the Page Department store. succeeding
Lee Somerville, who resigned to enter
the mail service in this city.
Among the new residents who have
recently been added to our city's pop
ulation is the E. M. Baldwin family,
who came here from Hutchinson. Mr..
F. c. King late of Marshall, is also
another new resident. The family will
join him later in the season. Messrs.
Baldwin and King will be employed
at the peat factory which will be built
south of this city.
The surgeons of the Chicago &
Alton railroad refuse applicants for
positions who are cigaret smokers, on
the ground that inveterate smokers of
cigarets cannot be relied upon in
cases OF emergency. This may be a
good enough reason, but better one
is that they pollute the atmosphere of
the railroad yards. Minneapolis Jour-
nal.
During last week the two cold stor-
age houses of this city received 2,756
cases of eggs, making a total amount
Of close to a million eggs shipped in
here over the Great Northern. Six
carloads were consigned by the J. B..
Agen Co. to their plant at Seattle,
Wash: This is the largest amount OF
business in the egg line handled in a
single week by the local houses.
A most interesting as we'll as very
enjoyable program was that which
was given at the opera house last eve
ming, by Capt. S. Alberti and family
of Chicago. The entertainment con-
sisted of selections by an orchestra
composed of the sons and daughter
OF the captain, and an illustrated
lecture on Russia and Siberia by him
self. The affair was given under the
auspices of Sharon Lodge A. F. and
A. M. and besides the members of the
lodge in this city and their families
and friends there were q number of
out-of town people who enjoyed the
entertainment as invited guests.