The Tomahawk., 1916-01-06
State1lew$InD rleJ
ooings Of Last Few Days Throughout
Minnesota Condensed for
hasty Perusai.

church, which cost $4,000, has been
formally opened for services.
Hinckley. Judge F. II. Stolberg
of the 18th district court of Mime
sofa died here of cancer of the stom,
ach.
Winona. The epidemic of grip,
which has swept this section of South
ern Minnesota, caused the death on
two nonagenarian pioneers in Winona.
Red Wing. Surrounded by chill
dren, great-grandchildren and neigh
bors, Mr.. and Mrs. A. B. Johnson of
WEIGH celebrated their golden we'd
ding day at their home.
Winona. - Rev. Benjamin F. Nc,
Laenney, 50 years old, one of the old
west, died at his home here follow
ing an attack of heart disease.
Albert Lea. Curtis B. Kellar, 70
years old, president of the First Ma
tional bank of this city, died here
after short illness of arterial sclero,
sis. He had been connected with the
bank since 1867
Winona. Mrs. Walter Sprecher,
30 years old, wife Of the cashier of
the State Bank of independence, Wis,
was killed when an automobile in
Which she was riding alone plunged
from a bridge Death was instanta
neous.
Stewartville. Business houses
1,oro op5 ,11h1io f,,nora1 fnN1<
place for Mrs. J. w. Savage and her
brother Edward H. Hagen, 2 years
old, who were burned to death when
the H. O. Hagen home was destroyed
by fire. All ministers of the village
ot1iciated.
St. Paul The heirs of Joshua
Robertson, who own a tract of land
from which the county has been get
ting gravel for. the past year and who
gave the county deed to one acre
Of the land more than a year ago,
have been returned the deed by the
county board, on agreement to sell
the county gravel at Is cents a public
yard.
Rochester. The fifteenth annual
convention of the Minnesota-Dakota
Association of Hotel Clerks was held
in Rochester and fifty Of the greeters
were expected to be present Roches-
ter greeters arranged a program in
Guiding a luncheon, dinners, theater
parties for the women, bowling par
ty, an auto trip and the official ban
quet.
Minneapolis. Building operations
in Minneapolis during the past eleven
months of 1915 exceeded in volume
those Of St. Paul and Seattle combined,
those of Baltimore, Indianapolis and
New Orleans combined, or those of
bined, according to a statement by
James G. Houghton, inspector of
buildings.
Albert Lea. - AS the result of a
double explosion of gasoline, Mr.. and
Mrs Harry Howe were mortally
burned at their farm home near Al
den. Bert Howe, a brother, suffered
serious burns from attempting to res
cue them. When Harry Howe start
ed to move a tive-gallon can of gaso-
line from it's position near the stove
the contents exploded.
Tracy. One thousand acres of
rich corn land will be drained and
1000 acres benefited by large tile
ditch to be dug in the spring, which
will drain Lake Sigel, one mile south
of VOL cir oh
other wet land in the same vicinity.
This will be great benefit to Tracy.
since the land has been non-produc-
tive, although it has rich black soil.
Worthington.-The Minnesota Crop
Improvement Association will hold it's
annual meeting and seed show at
Worthington, Minnesota, February 10
10. F. G. Trip, instructor in agricul-
ture at the Worthington High School,
has arranged with the Extension Di-
vision of the Minnesota College Of
for a series of stock-judg-
ing demonstrations for the forenoons
of each day.
St. Paul.-Oscar Larson, a 12-year-
old boy of Viking, Marshall county,
won the potato-growing contest Of
the Northern Minnesota Development
Association, and made a record for
potato-growing by boys at the same
time. He grew 1924 bushels Of po-
tatoes upon Is of an acre. Had he
grown an acre Of potatoes at the
same rate, his yield would have been
6O5B bushels. The potatoes grown
were of the Green Mountain variety.
Red Wing. - Picture solid square
business block filled to depth of II
feet with carp and other rough fish
and you get an idea of the immense
haul made by David Gantenbein of
Diamond Bluff in a single sweep of
Lake Elysian with a seine 1900 feet
in length. Mr.. Gantenbein estimated
that fully fifty carloads of fish were
caught in the net, but as there is no
market for that quantity of fish at
this time, all but few carloads of