Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-08-23
Items Cleaned From Our Local Ex-
changes. .5. 3f5

Samuel Crookshanks, 80 years,
pioneer Of Crookston, died Aug. IL.
Redwood Falls has new canning
factory. Why doesn't Willmar get
one?
A burglar broke into a house at
Ortonville and secured $3.50 for his
trouble. A.
Herbert Sykes has sold the Tyler
Journal to DR.. A. J.. Cox and NJ.
Glemmestad.
A Murray county farmer threshed
out q bushels of grain from $50
acres Of crop.
Candy has granted a franchise for
a new electric light, heating and pow
er plant to cost $4,000.
Judge Gorham Powers and family
are spending the month at the Judges
place at Backus, Cass county.
Miss Genevieve Spellisey of Litch-
field and Roland Derry Crossman of
Duluth were married at Litchfeld
last Wednesday.
Litchfeld is offering $3.50 in cash
prizes for exhibits Of corn, grain,
grasses, etc., at the Market Day,
Aug. 20.
Rev. Bauer, of the German Re-
formed church of Clara City, has
resigned his charge to go south for
his health.
Rev. August Widloff, Mission pas
tor at Maxwell, died Wednesday
morning at Tower, Mimi, following
an operation for appendicitis.
The Big Stone County Attorney
and Sheriff made a personal visit to
the saloons to notify them that
thereafter" they must obey the law.
Litchfield village has failed to pay
over the Is per cent of the saloon
license money required by the new
law to the county treasurer, and the
public examiner has ordered it to do
so.
Chris Bertelson has received ap-
pointment to re-assess the village of
Watkins on money and credits and is
to receive $3.50 per day for his work.
This expense is charged to the WILL
age.
A farmer near Morris planted for
ty acres Of potatoes and is now har-
vesting the crop. He will clear about
six thousand dollars from this one
crop which is about three times the
value Of the land.
A team belonging to the Burns
boys was stolen from in front of
fuckers store about II o'clock Sat-
urday evening and found Sunday
morning about seven miles north Of
town.-Clara City Herald.
l was told by man from Hettin-
ger, N. D., that an average Of 100
covered wagons a day are passing
through that place, containing set
tiers leaving the country. There are
lots Of people who can't get out, and
to top off with, a lot more settlers
are eating but one meal day be-
cause they haven't got the stuff to
eat.-Alexandria, Is. d. Herald.
"Gus' Sommers was killed at a
crossing at Waseca while under in
fuence of the stuff sold in the sal
oons legahzed in Waseca July 1. Jas.
E. Childs, in The Waseca Herald
comments: "There is no doubt among
those who knew Sommers and those
who saw him on that fatal evening
that his intoxicated and dazed condi-
ton contributed to the terrible trag-
edy. May his sad and premature
death be a warning lesson to young
men of the county, and especially to
those clergymen who mislead their
people by advocating licensed saloons
and moderate drinking"
A stranger giving his name as Rob-
ert Mahar hired team from the liv-
cry barn of John Lackman Monday
night Of this week, saying that he
wanted to 60 out into the country a
short distance to look over some
horses he intended buying. He has
not since been heard from and Sher-
if Fitzgerald has notified the author
tiles in surrounding towns to be on
the lookout for man and team
Breckenridge Gazette.
Jonathan Gregson pioneer of Now
er county, the man who built the
first mill in that county, and for sew
eral decades was an enterprising
business man, now IS years, and a
pauper, is going back to England to
die A niece has offorod to oaro for