Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1909-05-12
LOCAL BREvIIlB


i The site for the government
building was surveyed last week
Chase's store is closed for re.
pairs. It will be opened for bust
ness again the first of next week.
J. A. johnson left the first of the
week for Paxton, Ill.,. on business
connected with the Anderson Land
company.
Mrs. Henry Palm and sons Rich
ard and Wilber are spending the
month with friends and relatives in
Sherman. S. D.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Leslie are
spending a couple of weeks visiting
at the home of their son, Otto Les
lie, near Wist, S. D.
DR.. F. A. Ilstrup has bought a %
horse power Buick roadster, and in
a short time he will attend to all
veterinary calls via gasoline.
Monday morning Supt. Tonning
announced that Esther johnson will
be valedictorian of the Senior class
and Oswald Grangaard Salutatorian.
Miss Martha E. Haley has been
engaged as one of the instructors
at the Teachers Training school to
be held at Owatonna this summer.
The Alumni Association of the
Willmar high school will hold its
annual meeting and banquet at the
Carlson hall Friday evening, June
II.
The Brooklyn Amusement COM
pany is attracting good crowds at
the Bonde hall this week. They
show moving pictures, and have a
good, five piece orchestra.
A. N. Gilbertson of this city took
the parts of Erickson, the Peasant
in Ludwig Holberg's comedy, 'Den
Stundesl0se," presented at the state
University last week by students
OF Norwegian descent.
Four from Spicer and five from
Raymond took the examinations for
rural carriers last Saturday, to ap.
ply for the vacancies caused by the
death of Gustaf Holm and the re-
signation of John Tygeson.
It is possible that there will be
change in the running of 81. Ac-
cording to the proposed schedule it
will leave St. Paul at 5 o'clock and
Minneapolis at $50. which will
make its arriving time here about
$3.50 o'clock.
The Ladies Guild will hold it's
spring sale on Friday, May IA, at
the Guild Hall. The sale will in
clude aprons, shoe-bags. and very
novel and attractive lot of some-
thing entirely new in the line of
cottage, porch and hammock pill
lows of special designs.
A. L. Zulauf has resigned as
manager of the New London Mill
ing company's mill at New London,
and he intends to go to Oregon in
the near future to locate. Charles
Bredberg has been promoted from
grain man to take the place as man
ager, and Filing Larson will work
at the plant in the capacity of mill-
er.
A five week term of summer
school will be held at Willmar,
commencing Monday, June %.
Supt. Edgar L. Porter of Hastings
will be the conductor, B. G. Eaton
of St. Paul. and Mrs. Kathlyne
Libby Bird of Minneapolis, a re-
cognized authority on primary
work, will also be on the teaching
staff.
The Mission society of the Synod
church today sent three boxes of
clothes to the Twin Valley Orphans
Home at Wild Rice. The members
of the society, Is in numbers, have
been hard at work making and COL
lecting clothes for the orphans dur
ing the past three months, and as
consequence the home will receive
one of the largest shipments it ever
received.
Andrew Nordloef writes to the
Tribune that from now on he will
make his headquarters at Mitchell,
S. D. MIR. Nordloef was recently
promoted to the position of general
soliciting agent for the o. w. Kerr
Land company, the firm whose en-
ploy he entered only about three
months ago. His many Willmar
friends congratulate and wish him
continued success.
The marriage of M. L. Mehalsick,
a popular brakeman of the city, and
Miss Nora Dugan was solemnized
last Wednesday at the brides home
in Pipestone. Mr.. and Mrs. Me-
halsick arrived here Friday, and
they have already gone into house.
keeping at SOL First street. The
Tribune joins the friends of the
contracting parties in wishing them
Ia happy and prosperous married
life.
"Dreamland," the new moving
picture theater, has been enioyinQ