Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1913-03-05

Lake Lillian, Feb. 25The new.
silver blanket hardly covers the
ground.
Some Of the farmers are busy.
cleaning their Seed, expecting an ear.
iy spring:
Asa. Bomstad saw 4 flock Of two
dozen robins on Kandiyofi Island
last week. Asa says fishing is rath-.
er bum this winter.
Lars Erickson, one Of our mer-
chants, had his ice house filled last
week. Tried to have.i done artific-
tally but. cold weather and machinery
did not have its required power. .
Andrew Blomquist has started a
harness repair shop near the Lake
Lillian store. Farmers keep him
busy. .2@s=@@.s xs>., :. =
Rev. Alexander Peterson has been
caught by the grippe strong enough
to have kept him in bed a few days,
but we hope for a speedy recovery. /
r. Clarence Renstrom has decided to
go into the hog and dairy business,
and has been busy buying stock.
Both our home merchants are buy
ing cream now and say that business
is good. -
q. Andrew Larson is spending the
winter in his cottage on Kandiyohi
Lake. He says that fishing is not a
paying business, but is lots Of fun.
Mrs. Ole E. Erickson has been in
bed with rheumatism for three
months and is still there. She has
improved quite a lot and with the
help Of fine weather, the physicians
expect to see her, herself again soon.
John 0. Erickson made a call Mon
day at the county seat for probate
matters, as he has been appointed
administrator over the estate of his
mother.
Judging from statistics in the Will
mar Tribune, this town took the lead
IN the line Of building improvements
in the year Of 1912. With a progress
sive majority of the town board, and
with our progressive town clerk, IS:
years in office without opposition,
many public improvements have been
made. Roads have been put in the
section lines and limited sums of
money have been allowed for bitches,
to make roads better. :
The Progressive party in District
50 have almost without opposition,
moved the school house up to the
road and have decorated it with a
champion belt.
Aron Erickson, the hardware deal
er, Of Niobe, N. D., is visiting rela-
tives and friends here. On the way
down here he took in the Hardware
Convention at Grand Forks, made
calls on Louis Larson at Clarrisa,
Mimi, Victor Knutson and Andrew
Nordloef Of Long Prairie, Mimi,
brother-in-law Erickson and family
at Bemidji, Mimi, and stopped over
at Minneapolis on business.
The Erickson young folks, enter
tanned forty Of their friends last
Friday evening and everybody pres
ent reported having had very good
time.
Mrs. Pete Blomgren has been on
the sick list or some time with what
the doctor says is bronchitis. She is
is improving.
-: M. Walner has been putting up ice
and is now planning for a refriger-
ator. They are expecting some hot
weather.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin johnson from
Roseland and r. r. Olson from Min
neapolis called at o. E. Erickson's
place last Sunday.
- Quite number of renters are
moving their stock, machinery and
household goods and other belong
ings, these days from the farm they
had rented during 1912 to the farm
rented for 1913. Clarence Renstrom
is moving to John Erickson's farm;
Willie Larson to the Ole Olson farm;
Betsey Lundquist to the Storch
farm; Albert Johnson to Mrs. An
derson's farm; Christ Madison to Ole
Lundquist's farm; Victor Lundquist
to Andrew Nelson's farm; Emil Pet
erson to John Bengtson's; Oscar Err
lckson to Mary Peterson's; Bill
Stewart to the Shield farm; Richard
Rudbeck to the Ole Lindgren farm;
Iowa party to the J. G. johnson
farm; Asa Bomstad to Mrs. Berg
lun's; Albert Walner to the Ris Lars
farm; an Iowa party to the Erick
Danielson farm; an Olivia party to
the Charley Peterson farm; Alfred
Erickson from Bemidji, Mimi, to the
Skone farm. With the exception Of
a few, tn y are moving from another
farm inside the town, either from in
duceement or disappointment.
A few farms in this town have
changed hands lately. Most have
been bought on speculation by money
men, having faith in the electric