The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-02-24
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annual Minnesota convention of the
Y. M. G. A. including delegates and
many business men.
Owatonna-TheS Steele County Town
ship Good Roads association has been
formed here with William King of Mer
ton township as president and Alex
Chambers of Havana as secretary.
st. Paul - The federal commits
missioner of fisheries has allotted
Minnesota $4,000 land-locked salmon
eggs and 100000 lake trout eggs, &C
cording 10 Carlos Avery, game and
fish commissioner.
Red Lake Falls. - Battling on the
! only ground in Northwestern Mime
! sofa that still remains wet, optionists
| of Red Lake county are making Wig
orous bid for success at the option
election scheduled for Feb. %.
Winona.-Winona county bids fair to
have one of the first woman saloon
| operators. An application has been
made to the Rollingstone village coun'
cir to transfer the license formerly in
the name of Frank Biltgen, deceased
to his widow, Mrs. Agnes Biltgen.
Red Wing-Goodhue county's Oldest
woman, Mrs. Gertrude Quale, centen.
| arian of Kenyon village, is dead. Mrs.
Quale was born in Trondhjem, Norway,
Aug. q, 1915. On Aug. Is last, Mrs.
Quale celebrated her, one hundredth
birthday.
Duluth. - Because his father and
brother have enlisted in the Cana dian
forces, Alfred Cottrel, a 16-year-old
boy, has been deported by the immi-
grafton officers here and will be sent
back to Port Arthur to support his
mother and sister.
New Ulm. John C. Rudolph, for
mer auditor of Brown county, is dead
at the home of his daughter in Chi
cago. He was born in Prussia in
1928, and settled here in 1857. He
took an active part in the defense of
this city in the Sioux war.
Mortified. - This city has enter
tanned the goth annual meeting of the
United Lutheran church. Seventy
pastors from Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Iowa, Illinois, North and South Da-
kota attended and representation of
lay delegates also was present.
Minneapolis $75,S9S secured
in signed pledges and 1924, 112 under
written by the 1O2 teams of solicitors,
the 100000 subscription fund can-
paign of Minnesota college has come
to formal close. A total of $100,033,
pledged and guaranteed, was reported
at the closing meeting of the 500
campaign workers. -.
Warren.-Three boys of Marshall
county made exceptional records in
corn, potato and pork production for
the year 1915, and have been presented
with certificates of honor signed by the
officers of the Red River Valley Devel-
opment association. The boys were
under the direction of o. Neral, agricul-
tural instructor Of the Warren Eigh
school,
Worthington.-The display OF corn
and other seeds ct the annual cOnVen-
ton of the Minnesota Crop Improve
ment association here is excellent as
to quantity and quality, notwithstand
ing that 1915 was poor corn year.
Exhibits from southern Minnesota are
all high grade and scored higher than
the exhibits from the central and
northern parts of the state.
Misunderstanding Baby" the little
monarch who is to reign over Mime
apolis for the period from March 4 to
tC March II, has had the boundaries of
his Kingdom extended far and wide and
loyal subjects everywhere in Mime
sofa are doing homage. Baby week.
promises, as new plan develops from
day to day, to be q success In every way
and an event of magnitude far greater
than had been expected.
Osseo. Unless agents for the
United States Fidelity and Guaranty
company pay the Osseo State bank
the amount of the $4,000 personal
bond given for Joseph B. Thompson,
defaulting cashier, the state depart
ment will not pay the bonding COM
pany the $4,000 due, under the 50 per
cent dividend order, on account of the
$4,000 paid to Hennepin county after
the bank was wrecked.
Minneapolis, MINI. - Waiter J.
Smith, former state treasurer, is back
again in the Gatlin sanitarium in Min
neapolis, at liberty under $4,000
bonds. He was taken quietly to st.
Paul, was arTaigned, pleaded not gull
ty to three indictments charging him
with grand larceny of state school
funds, arranged his bail and returned.
Frank T. Thompson, chairman of
the state boxing commission, Louis F.
Dow and julius Schmahl. secretary Of
state, went On the $4,000 bond for the
former treasurer. -..-. . ...-
A. G.. Gooding, the new state treas
urer, appeared at the capital shortly
before neon and went at once to the
Office Of Governor Gurnquist.
The governor armed him with his
official papers and Mr.. Good:ng took
charge. He said that no changes
would be made in the personnel of the
staff in the trcasurer's Office. He is
making arrangements for his bond.