The Tomahawk., 1917-05-31
| What's Doing
in Minnesota

tary service or for Work on farms 10
help increase the nations food supply.
Garry. - Seventeen buildings in the
business section of Garry, MIMI, have
been destroyed by a fire and only two
business buildings in the entire town
are standing.
Albert Lea. - The body of baby
girl, probably :iot more than months
old, clad in expensive clothing, has
been found floating in the water above
Fountain lake dam.
Winona. The busiest year for
operators of short lines or the Missis-
sippi river is looming, according to M.
H. Newcombs, master of the steam
boat Red Wing Of st. Paul.
Rochester. Children playing in
shallow water of the Zumbro river
here found the body of 3-day-old in
FAINT. 1t was weighed down with
heavy piece of concrete tied about its
neck.
st. Paul. - Employment agencies
may be opened by Minnesota's $1,000
600 war board in the large labor cir
Giles of the state, it is reported, in con-
nection with the make and save the
crop movement.
Brainerd. - Initial steps in organ
izing the campaign whereby the $780,
900 quota of Liberty bonds Grow Wing
county is expected to purchase as its
part in the governments plan of war
finance, have been taken.
St. Paul. Wolf bounties must be
paid as usual, despite Governor Burn
quist's veto of large appropriations to
reimburse the counties, according to
advices given county auditors by Ray
p. Chase, deputy state auditor.
Park Rapids. Mrs. Lester Deve-
reaux, bride of week, is in seri-
Gus condition at her home near here
as the result of brutal attack by
rejected suitor Hubbard county au-
thorities are seeking the man.
Graceville. Bankers from every
town in Big Stone county met here
and organized the Liberty Loan AS
sociation of Big Stone county. The
bankers were unanimous in pledging
their aid in disposing of the county's
quota of bonds.
st. Paul.-Showin,y few if any signs
of abatement, the epidemic of spinal
meningitis has attacked 243 victims
and caused 102 deaths in Minnesota to
date this year, DR.. A. J. Chesley, direc-
tor of the state division of commune
able diseases, announces.
Hastings. - Imprisonment for life
at hard labor was the sentence i'm
posed by Judge w. L. Converse on
Nick Jivan, convicted in the district
court here of the murder of his half
sister, Mrs. Petreu Jivan in South St:
Paul, April 7. Jivan protested his inno-
cence to the last.
Minneapolis - Warned against an
extended speech by DR.. F. E. Burch,
throat specialist of St. Paul, Secretary
McAdoo spoke only fifteen minutes to
an audience of 1000 that filled the
Minneapolis auditorium to hear his ap-
peal for subscriptions to the Liberty
loan. The secretary followed the lines
of his St. Paul address.
st. Paul. - The politicians, who
want Julius Schmahl, secretary of
state, to run for governor next. year
may have to send to France for him,
and then the chances are that they
won't get him. He has his heart set
on going to France in some capacity
with the American troops and he wants
to stay there until the war is over.
St. Paul. - The fellow who gets the
$4,000 job as secretary of the "Blue
Sky" commission will have to look to
the blue sky for his first months sal
airy, if he takes the job July 1, when
the law goes into effect, and when the
commission is supposed to begin do
ing business. The appropriation is
not available until August 1.
Washington, D. C. - What every
section of the country is expected to
do in unlooseuing it's purse strings for
the Liberty loan has been officially
announced by the Treasury depart
ment Minimum tentative allctments
by states, estimated on the same basis,
show the approximately proportionate
share for Minnesota as $43,000,000.
Mora.-The Mora Booster and Com
mercial club has turned to bean grow
ing on large scale, and the crop will
be donated to Uncle Sam School boys
Of that town are doing the work and
have planted twenty-five acres. Eight
other scattered counties sent in SINH
i lar reports of encouraging conditions.
The other reports are from the follow
ing counties: Benton Olmsted, Lake,
Washington, Crow Wing, Wabasha, st.
Louis and Dakota.
St. Paul. - Minnesota's national
guard contribution to the world war
will be virtually doubled according to
Washington reports, which Captain w.
F.. Rhinow, military secretary to Gov
ernor Burnauist has just confirmed.
The announcement, based on War
department orders, comes on the heels
Of the resumption Of recruiting by the
First Minnesota infantry and First
artillery regiments, and means, Cap
tain Rhinow said, big addition to
Minnesota's part in the war.