Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-12-16
AMONG OUR
NEIGHBORS

ny VIC IO"us CoAACu aOOuC pow
above expenses during the last year.
Tracy has incorporated a COM
pany for the manufacture of foun-
tain pen, invented by one of it's
citizens.
Hon. Lyndon A. Smith will close
his law office in Montevideo the
first of the year and go to St.
Paul, where he will take up his du-
ties as assistant in the attorney gen.
erals Office.
In order to get the additional
$4,000 necessary to erect the pro-
posed Carnegie Library building in
Bemidji, the city coucnil increased
the annual library fund levy from
$1,000 to $500.
Candy is talking of a "Rest
Room" for farmers. The idea is
to maintain place centrally locat-
ed where visitors and shoppers from
the country might 60 and enjoy the
comforts of home while in town.
J. S. Shannon, the 500 depot
agent at Nashua, a little village in
Wilkin coutny, committed suicide
when he was checked up by the
company and found short $500.
Speculation in wheat in the city
caused his downfall.
P. j. Haley and his crew of men
left for Willmar Wednesday morn
ing. The road work between Spi-
Ger and Crescent Beach was not
completed, but as the ground froze
further work was prevented. 1t is
expected that they will return in
the spring and finish the work.
Green Lake Breeze.
i A movement has been started by
the citizens Of Redwood Falls to
develop Redwood water power,
planning to secure enough power to
run the mill, pump the water need
ed for the village supply and run
the electric dynamos, besides fur
nishing power for factories and
various other business establish
ments.
A commercial club was organized
in Bird Island last week and al
ready has membership Of about
80. A "Boosters committee and
a committee to look into the mat
ter of having an up-to. date hotel
built in the village were appointed.
John M. Olson is president and AL
fred Jury secretary Of the new Or
ganization.
The carpenters who will prepare
the Great Northern ice houses for
the ice harvest this winter arrived
this week and are at work. The
ice house will be cleared out and
siding will be put on the outside,
and the space between the walls
will be filled with sawdust. It will
take about six weeks, or probably
more, before they will be in readi-
ness to be filled. - Green Lake
Breeze.
And now the business men of
Redwood are up in arms at the pro-
posed advance in rates asked by the
Minnesota Central Telephone COM
pany. A number Of them have al
ready notified the company that
they will not pay the new rate, and
it looks as If the telephone people
will either have to effect compro-
mi Sc or get out. The sum of $4,000,
subscribed in one day by citizens
toward the organization of a local
company, indicates pretty thoroly
which way the wind is blowing.
A number of the farmers con-
nected with the Litchtield cream
cry, twelve in number, have organ
lied a testing association and will
give the milk from each Individual
cow in their herds tests, the idea
being to Gull out the non-paying
animals. Once or more month
each farmer in the association will
weigh the milk from each COW. A
sample of this milk will be taken
and to it will be applied the Bah
cock test for results. A member
Of the agricultural school has prom
ised to come up once each month to
apply it. There are cows and COWS;
there are some that nav we'll for
their keep and no doubt many 9TH
res that ought to be prepared for
the butchers block at the earliest
!, ment.-Litchfield Saturday Re-
> view.