Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-12-06
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Important Happenings % the
Week Briefly Told. VI

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anesVille-The council granted a.
franchise to the Consumers Power
company Of Mankato3 to light this vii
lage. @..=. RI.
Pipestone.- The temperance people
OF Rock and Pipestone counties have
begun L series Of organizations
throughout the county IN preparation
for the campaign OF 1912.
Mankato.-At a meeting Of the board
Of the Southern Minnesota Educational
association it was decided to hold the
next meeting of the association in this
city Feb. Is, is and II.
Lanesboro.--Work on the new add.
ton to the Lanesboro high school is
to be begun at once. The village coun-
Gil has also awarded the contract for
reconstructing the Lanesboro village
Jail.
| Fergus Falls.-The school building
| In District 140, three miles from Vim.
ing, was burned with all itsgcontents.
The building was one Of the Aest rural
schools in this county. It III not kaown
how the fire Originated. S3.s.
Nicollet. The large barn of Claf.,
ence Peterson, er to t,,l, 4.
ship, was destroy ca az me. fteen
horses, ten cows ana O. larxe d MOI
of produce were consu alI 8 M loal.:
was over $4,000, with $500 iasur-
ance.
Pipestone. Citizens of Garrstson, ~
D., division town on the GreaS sNorth:
ern road, are battling with SMALLPOX.
The public schools were closed a feWig
weeks ago and now all public places
including the churches, have been or.
dered closed
Fergus Falls.-The Fergus Falls tax
rate for the coming year has just been
computed by the county auditor The
rate will be 80 mills. This is the low.
est rate in many years, and probably
the lowest in the city's history. The
rate last year was 43 mills.
Mankato.-At meeting of the North
Mankato Commercial club, after ad.
dresses by Judge Cray and Senator S.
u. Works, movement was started
looking toward the building of $780,.
900 reinforced concrete bridge between
this city and North Mankato.
| Pipestone.-William Putnam, rural
mail carrier Of Madelia, lays claim to
the distinction Of being the oldest
rural mail carrier in Minnesota, if not
In the United States. Putnam is "a
and he began carrying mail in 1901,
He has travelled 25,36O miles since en-.
tering the service. ~.
Rochester.-Father William Rior.
dan, for twenty-seven years pastor Of
st. Johns church, and lately honored
by the pope, who conferred upon him
the title of monsignor, will take a
European trip the first of next year,
He will visit Rome and Ireland and
will be absent three months. =
Pipestone.-The five creameries in
,Pipestone county the past year made
a total Of 656,271 pounds of butter;
$155,9S0.60 was paid to patrons for
gibbs pounds of milk, 1885
pounds Of cream and 549,971 pounds
of butter fat. The average price paid
for butter fat was 2847 cents pound,
Bemidji-The Bemidji creamery not
only will be kept open the entire win.
ter, but those having charge of the
t1airs of the Bemidji Cooperative az.
ISOLATION, owners of the creamery, also
will put forth especial effort to add
more patrons to furnish cream and
will try to make larger sales of the
output of the creamery. s@~<
Taylor Falls. The program for the
farmers institute to be held here
Dec. 8 and 9, will soon be ready
The management is in charge of the
department of agriculture of the uni
versity, of which A. D. Wilson is sup
erintendent and C. H. WEIGH secre
tary. One of the features will be an
address by Commissioner Winkier
A first-class institute corps is pro
missed with F. B. Mclean of Wren.
shall in charge.
Detroit. - A police court warrant
was issued against Fred Postal, for.
mer president of the state fair, charg
ing that his bar in the Griswood hote]
violated the saloon laws. ExSherifl
James Burns was arraigned yesterday
In public court on similar warrant
involving his bar in the Burns hotel
The warrants came as the climax of
crusade directed by Prosecuting At.
| torney Hugh Shepherd against slot
4 machines, saloons open after hours
and cheap hotels conducted as room.
ing houses.
Thief River Falls.-The Pennington
Hotel company was recently organized
Tor the purpose of providing Thief
River Falls with a tirst-class hotel.
The company is stock concern, and
q majority OF the shares have been
subscribed by local and Twin City CAPT
talists. H. A. Drummond of this city
is president Of the company, J. c.
Vollmer of Minneapolis is vice presi-
dent and B. Mabey secretary-treasurer,
The hotel will be three-story brick
building. This is the second first-class
hotel proposition to be placed under
way in this. city within month.
St. Cloud. subject Of penman.
ship is receiving added attention in
the public schools Of st. Cloud. ,Su.
I. perintendent Farmer says that teach.
ers as a rule are prepared to teach
writing. Those who come from the
normals are generally teachers Of the
vertical. In order that work in pen.
manship may be uniform and efficient,
Mr.. Farmer has organized class