The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-03-02
What's Doing
i'm Minnesota

of Mr.. and Mrs. Hanus, who went
down with the Lusitania.
Rochester. Arthur G. Gooding,
newly appointed state treasurer, was
. the honor guest at banquet given at
the Zumbro hotel, at which $50 bust
ness men of the city were present.
Tracy The Yellowstone national
highway will be graveled this spring,
and will then complete a stretch of
40 miles of continuous graveled road
reaching from Mankato through Tracy
west to the state line.
Mortified. - Fay Quinlivan, repre-
senting Carleton college, won first
place in the annual Ware oratorical
contest between Carleton and st. Olaf.
The title of his Grafton was "The
City's Dominant Peril of Hope" 1t
was plea for reform in the large cen
tiers of population.
Minneapolis. Placing the state
militia under federal control will be
an important step in the policy of pre-
paredness and will be welcomed by
members of the national guard all
over the country. This is the con-
sensus of opinion expressed by Off
GERS and enlisted men here.
Wheaton, - ITO the God Of things
Is they ought to be and to the finest
people in the finest community in the
finest of states-to all that is finest in
education.' In these words Frank W.
Murphy, president of the Wheaton
school board, dedicated Wheaton's
new $4,000 school community build
ing.
Duluth. - After a thrilling five-mile
race with a pack of wolves, while
skiing from her country school to
train for Duluth, Miss Olga Lakela,
a school teacher, listened calmly to
addresses at the annual meeting of
the Northeastern Minnesota Educa-
tional association here
St. Paul. - Reports that Minnesota
state banks hold large amount of
unpaid personal paper Of Walter J.
Smith, indicted former state treasur-
err have been investigated by A. H.
Turrittin, state superintendent of
banks, and he has found, he has just
announced that the total amount of
such paper is less than $4,000.
Minneapolis - Directors of the Sec
lion Four Mines company of the Me-
saba range, Of which former State
Treasurer Walter j. Smith is president
and Forrest Mickey of Minneapolis
secretary, met at the st. Paul hotel.
They announced their meeting was
purely routine, and had nothing to do
with the state treasury scandal.
,Eveleth.. - Eveleth, Gilbert and
other range towns probably will adopt
the Gary public school system within
the present year, as the result of sur
veys made by G. w. Schwartz, as
sistant superintendent at Gary, Ind,
who has been inspecting conditions
here prior to reporting on the advis-
ability of putting the plan in opera
ton.
Winona. - The promise of unusual
ly high water along the upper Missis-
sippi river this spring has caused ap-
prehension among residents and
property holders along the river front
in many cities and at the same time
is the cause of jubilation on the part
of steamboat owners who see an ideal
stage of water in which to launch the
seasons traffic.
Albert Lea. - Since the farm crops
class of the Albert Lea college has
announced its willingness to test corn
at small cost, every member has been
working night and day. Tests show
the 1916 corn is 80 and so per cent
strong, while the 1914 corn tests only
IS to Al per cent. Homegrown seed
corn, tested, is selling at $3.50 to 81,
but there is not enough on the mar
ket to supply the demand.
Crookston. - At meeting of the
directors of Northwestern Minnesota
Agricultural Fair association plans
were made for the greatest fair ever
held by the association. The dates
set were from Tuesday to Saturday.
inclusive, July. IL to Is. A special
feature will be provided for each day,
with Saturday automobile day, auto
mobile and motorcycle races taking
the place of the harness races.
Thief River Falls.-Bringing to
close one of the most sensational
divorce cases ever filed in Penning-
ton county the court granted an alb
solute decree of separation to Attor-
ney E. NJ. Stanton of this city from
his wife, Fannie R. Stanton. The case
has aroused statewide interest be-
cause of the fact that Mrs. Stanton
pleaded her own case and became
known as the Modern Portia.''
Akeley. - Petitions praying for the
abrogation of the Indian treaty o.
1855 are being circulated in the ter
ritory known as the Indian country"
following the interview recently Civ
en- out by Congressman c. H. Lind
berg to the effect that only 10 per
sons have requested him to introduce
a bill in congress to abrogate the
treaty, while 1000 have petitioned
him to favor retention of the treaty.
Osseo. - A. H. Turrittin, state SD
perintendent of banks, has signed
checks for the first 81 per cent to be