Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-02-07
Brief news Notes From 1xoh.ng.s.

Brief News Notes From 1xohanses.
A new bank has been organized at
Clontarf.
The Clara City post office has been
DRY.
Joseph Moore, for 80 years clerk Of
the district court f9r Swift county, died
The OConnor brothers Of Renville
has purchased an old established banK-
ing business at Devils Lake. N. D.
The Bruson-Anderson Co., department
store at Litchfield has been purchased
by Victor MallQuist of Sherburne
A fellow by name Of Norman Bah
cock committed suicide at Buffalo last
booze.
A quarter-century club has been or
ganized in Madison to which those only
who have lived in that village for rs
years are eligible.
Congressman Lindbergh has introduce
$4,000 for a site for future post office
building at Litchfield.
Redwood Falls will be dry this COM
ing year. The vote on mayor was a tie
and the choice had to be decided by lot,
J. P. Cooper winning over j. H. Melges.
A bill has been introduced by Con-
gresham Lindburgh to- appropriate
federal post Office building at Litch-'
field.
Articles of Incorporation of the Meek
er County Cooperative Milling Company
are being published What's the mat
mar?
J. r. Watkins, formerly head of the
J. r. Watkins Co. of Winona, manufac-
urers of the celebrated DR.. Wards lini-
ment. died at Jamaica about a month
ago.
for their fire department last week. This
move was made on account Of the unus-
ual scarcity of water in the city reser-
y4i 1ns w bic Is fed by natural spring
The remains of one, Mrs. S. M. Price,
who died about 1890 were eXhumed re-
Gently at the Greenleaf cemetery in
Meeker county to be shipped to Aitken,
when the body was found to have be-
come petrified-turned into stone.
A big ski tournament is to be held at
Glenwood on February 14th. The oc,
caS1On promises to be a big event and
will attract visitors, no doubt from far
and near. Several 'skiers of national re-
pute will take part in the tournament.
w. A. Poland, editor of the Benson
Times, has been appointed as clerk of
the district court for Swift county to
the late Joseph Moore. The appoint
ment was made by the judges Of this
| judicial district
A. T. Archer of Kerkhoven is mention.
for she sheriff
Editor Archer wants with sheriff job
we can't understand, but should he de:
| eide to make the run we believe he will
Montevideo only lacked votes in re-
a eeof aoritY nsa saa ths efqf the
cense forces fell short of majority
of all votes cast, as. some voters did MOI
vote on the question. According to EN-
| inent legal opinions Montevideo is dry
If authorities will enforce it.
peton tribes of Dakota Indians are won
Idering why they are not entitled to com
pensation for the Indian reservation
along the Minnesota River which wa:
| taken from them after the outbreak
The upper tribes did not join in the
! massacre.
The potato growers around Moorheat
realized $1,240,000 from their crop las
year. More mortgages have been paic
| time. The growers have formed an as
sociation to enforce uniform shipping
regulations and branding of sacks from
that vicinity.-White Rock Journal.
| VIM. Wilson, a farmer near Madison
%en to d9 gcpe into Sroa his Ts
him twenty-six feet into twelve feet Of
| water. Here he hung to the pump roc
for two and half hours before rescued
! out he was nearly exhausted but sOor
| ecovered.-Cottonwoo Current.
! summer at Benson, while alighting from
a Great Northern train, received a YER
dict of $4,000 damages against the
| railroad company by Granite Falls
jury before Judge Powers. The com
pany will of course take the case to the
| supreme court.
| J. D. DeLange had the misfortune OF
breaking few ribs last Sunday morn.
| ing. Mr.. DeLange while descending thu
I stairway to get pail of water, Slipped
| when halfway down and fell or rolled
| to the bottom of the stairs and landed
water pail which resulted as above. pr
| broken ribs. He is getting along as wei
as can be expected.-Raymond News.
| "A murder occurred near Winsted, Nc
| Leod county, Jan. II. 1t is the fourth
! murder case in the county and, as 81
often is the case, the damnable liquor
! traffic was the cause. In a drunken
brawl farmer by name of Fred Wag.
ner shot and killed his wife, Lena Wag
ner. Both had been to Howard Lake
| Of beer and whiskey and were together
| with the hired man, on spree when the
! terrible act was done.
The purchase of a duck pass, or q
tract Of four acres Of ground between
lakes Washington and Stella by a Min.
! neapOlis gun club, and paying $312.5(
per. acre for 1t, looks like another sale
of blue sky. OF course, they now have
a privilege Of occupying that tract OF
land with cottage tents, etc, but othe,
parties also have the right to go out on
/ the shores from high.u,otor mo RI IN