The Tomahawk., 1917-06-21
What's Doing
in Minnesota

Minneapolis. William Williamson
| of Mankato has been taken to the City
hospital with what were believed to
be fatal injuries, suffered when he was
run down by an automobile. a..
Winona.-Music teachers of the state
will gather at Winona Tuesday, June
10, for the annual convention or the
Minnesota Music Teachers association,
which will last through June FL.
st. Cloud 49, y $1,O00,0OO theatrical
corporation with Minneapolis as the
nucleus, has been formed by COM
pany headed by Frank E. Nemec, q
local exhibitor, and a number OF bank
ers and others.
Virginia. Nick Luona, % years
old, an I. W. w., was shot In the back
by a policeman at Virginia, MIMI,
while seeking to escape arrest as
Stacker. Sixty-one arrests have been
made in and near Virginia.
St. Paul - Rains have finally
checked the forest fires in Northern
Minnesota and conditions are greatly
improved, according to reports to the
capitol More charges Of incendlary
forest fires have been received.
St. Paul The Ramsey County
Beekeepers' association, which eventu-
ally will have on its rolls practically
every one of the approximately 1000
| beekeepers in the county, has been
organized at meeting at the Univer-
sity farm.
. Winona-The annual spring frolic
will bring to Winona on June FL and
| %, 1000 members of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks. Dele
] cations of convention boosters from
Winona lodge have visited neighboring
cities. Assurance has been given that
fully 200 will be here from Minneapolis
and st. Paul.
Washington, D. C-"The Minnesota
Way" is the heading given an exten-
sion of remarks by Representative
Harold Knutson Of Minnesota In re-
cent issue of the Congressional Record.
Mr.. Knutson explained the purpose OF
his remarks was to show how one COM
munity in the Gopher state went about
raising it's quota for the Liberty loan
MINNEAPOLIS. More than 80 per
cent Of Minnesotas fire losses are
partly preventahle, 25 per cent are
strictly preventable and a large per-
centage OF the balance are I'M
known but probably preventable,' &C
cording to a repo1 furnished Chief
Ringer of the fire department by the
National Board of Fire Underwriters
St. Paul. - Reports from IA addi-
tional scattered counties in Minnesota
| all carry the same story. Crop pros
poets are excellent" Fred D. Sher-
man, immigration commissioner, has
given out reports from Ottertail, Hous-
ton, Mobiles, Pennington, Waseca, Da-
kota, Todd, Goodhue, Wilkin, Mower,
! Lincoln, Renville, St. Louis and Pipe
stone counties.
| Virginia. Fred d. Sherman, CON-
missioner Of immigration, urged at the
land clearing convention in Virginia
that the Northern Minnesota Develop
ment association send one Of it's best
advertisers with the force when the
Minnesota exhibits are taken to the
state fairs next fall, to boost for the
timber and cut-over country in North
ern Minnesota.
Minneapolis. Soaking rains over
every section Of the northwest have
added thousands of bushels to the sea-
sons crop, in the opinion Of agricui
tural men who have visited every sec
ton. Favorable crop reports from the
following counties have been received
at the office of Fred ID. Sherman, Com
missioner of Immigration: Murray,
Aitkin, Norman, Isanti, Wadena, Fill
more, Benton, Jackson, Grant, Mcleod,
Koochiching and Hennepin.
St. Paul. - Organization of the ad-
ditional regiment of artillery and a
new field hospital corps to strengthen
the Minnesota National guard and in
crease the states contribution to the
fighting forces of the nation is to be
deferred temporarily, Captain Walter
| F. RhinOw, military secretary to Gov
ernor Burnquist, Indicated, pending
further investigation on plans to as
sign a battalion rf new artillery units
among Southern Minnesota towns.
St. Paul - Commissions issued to
nine home guard officers by Governor
Burnqust and reports from Major
Oscar Seebach,. organization chief,
mark progress in. the organization OF
the Minnesota home guard. Comman-
ders of four companies forming the
Third battalion in Duluth, named by
the Governor, are: Capt. Parker M.
Paine, Company A; Capt. Roger M.
Weaver, Company B; Capt. Donald
Holmes, Company c, and Capt. Claude
l.. Haney, Company d.
| St. Paul. - With only st. Paul city,
Koochiching county and the North
west angle precinct returns lacking,
Minnesota registrations under the Sc
lective draft proclamation totaled
| 1908 against the governments esti-
mate of 215,578 for the districts in
Guided Every Stacker in Minnesota
will be arrested. Both state and fed
eral authorities have received specific
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