The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-10-19
! What's Doing
in Minnesota

neSOta Baptist convention, held IN THIS
city Oct. II to Is.
Mortified. - Charles J. Hunt of St.
Paul sounded the keynote of Congre-
gationalism here in the moderator's
address before the sixty-first annual
state conference of the denomination
at the opening meeting Of two days
program.
St. Paul - Property loss of $617,
858 resulted from 251 fires in Mime
sofa during September, Robert w.
Hargadine, state fire marshal, an
nounces. In the corresponding month
last year 2O8 fires caused $317 1862 loss,
he added.
Bemidji. - Nymore, a suburb, was
| annexed to Bemidji and a $4,000 gas
| franchise granted to the Public I'm
| provement company of Minneapolis at
= meeting of the city council. With
The incorporation, Bemidji has pop
| alation exceeding 5000.
| Minneapolis. - Dynamite is reclaim
ing hundreds of thousands of acres Of
fertile land in northern Minnesota
every years. With the aid Of the high
| explosive, homesteaders are clearing
The cut-over lands and Transforming
| hem into productive farms.
Boy River. - Two children, one and
TWO years old, were burned to death,
Ind their mother, Mrs. Charles Rob-
oins, suffered severe injuries in her
lttempt to rescue them, when the Rob-
bins farm home three miles east of
here, was entirely destroyed by fire.
Bemidji. - When the Northern Min
lesota Development association meets
aere in December the delegates will
not only enjoy one of the best pro-
grams ever planned by that organiza-
ton but will also witness the greatest
potato, corn and poultry show ever to
take place in northern Minnesota.
Mortified: Mrs. NJ. w. Skinner,
who gave to Carleton college the new
Skinner Memorial chapel dedicated as
the opening ceremony in celebration
of the fiftieth anniversary Of the
school was announced by President
D. ]. Cowling as the donor of the pipe
organ in the chapel, at cost of ST.
00O
st. Paul. - Almost all high records
for output of iron ore from state mines
are broken already this year, State
Auditor Preus announces, and indica-
lions are that 1916 will close with 4
total of more than 100000 tons Of
ore taken from state properties, and
more than $1,0O0,000 in royalties paid
the state during the twelve-month
period.
Winona. - Satisfied that the school
laws of Minnesota are not elastic and
that the provisions of a teachers con-
tract are absolutely binding, the W.
mona board Of education has voted to
pay all the public school instructors
their full salaries for last month, al
though some of them taught only one
week and none of them over two
weeks.
Mankato. The thirtieth annual
session of the Southern Minnesota
Teachers association will be held here
October 10, 20 and 81. The county
and city superintendent will meet
the evening of the first day and will
be addressed by DR.. G. A. Prosser,
Dunwoody institute, Minneapolis, on
"How the High School in Small Town
Can Give Training in Manual Arts"
Brainsrd - 1t was a motion picture
play that brought light here. For
weeks the city had been in darkness
because the general fund was over
drawn and the city owed the water
and light board $4,000. The Brainerd
Amusement company staged benefit
movie performance to raise money to
buy enough street light for month
or more. The event was thorough
SUCCESS
st. Paul. Radical changes in the
eminent have just been proposed by
Representative l.. G. Spooner of Nor
ris to members of the state efficiency
and economy commission, meeting at
the state capitol. The program has
| been the subject Of conferences, and
it was said that most Of the changes
suggested by Mr.. Spooner were likely
to be approved.
st. Paul-The shortest presidential
and state ballot in the history of Min
nesota and possibly in the United
States, has been approved as to form
by Secretary Of State Schmahl. The
printing of 100000 copies has been
started Samples of these ballots to.
gether with those on amendments to
| the state constitution have been mail
ed to county auditors for posting, as
| required by law.
Crookston. Resolutions asking
that the legislatures of Minnesota,
North and South Dakota appropriate
fund for a Typographical survey of
the Red river valley, and also appoint
commission to eradicate noXious
weeds, were passed by more than 800
| representative business and profess
sional men Of northwestern Mime
sofa, North and South Dakota, in ses-
sion here to discuss grain and flood
control of the Red river valley