Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-11-27

Brooten had added its eighth teacher
to the school faculty.
Alexandria postoff1ce handles tons of
incoming mail each week.
Mysterious fires incline Alexandria
people to believe that they have a fire.
bug in their midst.
A young man at Franklin stole a suit
of clothes last week and now has ninety
days in the Jail at Olivia to think it
| over.
Ole l.. Larson of Litchf1eld has sued
J. Esbj0rnsson for 1850 for having
! been run into by an automobile on Mar
ket Day.
Peterson Bros, of the West Oaks farm
| in Meeker county received a shipment of
forty-two fancy bred horses from France
! last week.
Miss Anna Swanson Of Wilmar was a
guest at the Walter A. Johnson-Beda
Lofgren wedding at Litchfield last
Wednesday.
| Miss Selma Nelson Of Willmar was an
| attendant of the bride at the Alma e.
Nelson-Joseph C. Gustafson wedding at
Maynard last Wednesday.
! J. H. Ehlert has resigned the presi-
dency of the Breckenridge National bank
ON account Of illness and sold his stock
at premium Of rs per cent.
| Mr. and Mrs. Levi Lund of Kandiyohi
| were the guests at Danielson wedding
Nov. 6, when Miss Maybelle Nelson and
! Walter Sampson were made man and
wife.
A child but one and half years old,
fell into a tub of water and drowned
before the mother discovered the acct
dent at Bird Island last Wednesday. The
unhappy parents are Mr.. and Mrs. John
Dancer.
Mrs. Minnie Buce Carrigan, who lost
her parents and other members Of the
family in the Indian outbreak in Flora
township, Renville county, and was her
lself taken captive, died suddenly Nov. Is
lat Paramount.
| John D. Johnson, an old respected
resident Of Bird Island, passed away
Monday, Nov. II. He was a native of
Vesterg6tland, and first settled at West
Union, Carver county in 1852, later NOV
ing to Bird Island.
| D. B. Stanley of Maine Prairie, was
acquitted Saturday in the St. Cloud fed
eral court. He had been charged with
Idevising and planning scheme to de-
fraud the Durham Automatic Coupling
Co., Of st. Louis, of $4,000 in cash and
100000 shares of stock
In going to Montevideo last week we
noticed a large crew at work on the
double track between Granite Falls and
Montevideo. We understand there is a
good deal of the double track completed
between Glencoe and the cities.-Ren-
tville Star Farmer.
Some unknown man shot three times
at Arthur Wheeler of Cedar Mills while
he was seated on a coal wagon driving
the team thru the woods. The last shot
took effect in the fleshy part Of the leg.
No one knows whether the shooting was
by mistake or malicious intent, nor who
the gunman was.
John J. schoregge, prominent attor=
ney of Olivia died suddenly at the AS
bury hospital at Minneapolis Sunday,
T following an operation for bladder trou-
BILE. Funeral was held last Wednesday
and was attended by Judge Powers and
: many members of the bar of the south
part of the district
, The township officers Of Troy, Rem
' Vile county, made settlement last week
} for horse that was killed by falling
through an open bridge. The neglect
of the officers cost the town this sum
f and might easily have cost them a great
, deal more, but luckily the people in the
" rig to which the horse was hitched es.
capped uninjured
Now there is talk of an electric roa6
|. from Richmond to Albany and thence tt
l Paynesville in Stearns county. Albany
is ambitious to secure the county sea-
4 from St. Cloud. The matter Of a pro
Iposed 100000 courthouse at st. Clout
is what has brought the matter to
] head. The county board has hearing
Dec. 3.