The Tomahawk., 1917-12-20
News of the State
Condensed for Busy Folks

! wv" w IlSo SOuAIy A'oo DouSAAS ~
Staude Ford tractor attachment to he
used in connection with the dragging
! of roads.
was SO years old, single and lived in
Poplar River township, Red Lake
county, up to three years ago, When
he went to Canada and enlisted.
Martin county, which was asked for
$4,000 for the Y. M. c. A. war fund,
subscribed $1S,500, according to the
report of Chairman De Forrest Ward.
Tenhassen township, which is almost
wholly German, trebled it's quota.
The Brainerd Symphony Orchestra
associa ton passed through the sea-
son of 1916-1917 without a deficit.
The directors report a balance of $50
In the treasury after paying all ex-
penses, including the pay director, El-
| win Harris Bergh.
A meeting of the State Command
cry of the military order Of the Loyal
| Legion of the United States was held
at the Merchants hotel, st. Paul. Me-
MORALS for members of the Loyal Le-
gion who died during the past year
were acted on.
Prof A. w. Rankin of the Univer'
sity of Minnesota will head the Min
nesota Beekeepers' association for
| the coming year. He was elected at
| the final meeting of the 1917 conven-
ton at the Agricultural college. L. V.
France was made secretary.
Muskrats as a solution of the ma
| tional food problem is suggested in a
| report to the Winona Association OF
Commerce by local trappers, who say
| that more than 10000 pounds OF
good meat is annually going to waste
| along the Upper Mississippi valley
alone. The report is to be forwarded
to the national food administration.
Somewhere in Minnesota, pro-Ger-
mans are sending daily messages to
Berlin with wireless outfit on the
top OF a we'll drilling machine. else
the suspicious of persons reporting to
the Public Safety Commission are un-
founded. The report was received by
S. w. Fraser, commission attache,
who declined to make public the
source of the complaint and the loca-
ton of the we'll drillers' aerial.
Judge G. w. Stanton, in district
, court at Bemidji, has denied a new
trial to Jess Dunning, former secretary
| of the local I. w. w. convicted un-
der the new state law against syndi-
calism and sabotage, and he will be
sentenced to from one to two years
in states prison, providing the ST.
preme court on appeal does not upset
the order of the district court. 1t IS
understood to be the first conviction
under the law.
Forty delegates to the eighth an
nual convention Of the state confer
ence of maso1s, bricklayers and plas-
terers, pledged their loyalty to Pres
ident Wilson. Red Wing was given
the 1918 meeting, and the following
officers were elected: President, Matt
Lillaman, minneapolis; first vice
president, Sam Blondell, Red Wing;
second vice president, Nick Gejosky,
Duluth; third vice president, Nick
Vergoth, Winona; secretary and
treasurer Nick Korth, Mankato.
At the meeting of the county CON-
missioners at Pine City, it was de-
cided to nave county agent in Pine
county.
Dakota county voiced it's loyal
ty and patriotism at a meeting in
Hampton. James G. Gabelle, Mime
apolis speaker and writer addressed
the gathering.
Nearly one hundred families are
now gas users in Bemidji and the
Bemidji Gas company is making new
| connections every day in spite of the
severe weather.
Tsanti county is being represented
at Washington at the large temper
ance gathering which is being held
there by Rev. A. Lindgren of the
Swedish Baptist church.
Resolutions adopted by the Otter
tail county bar at Fergus Falls, cali
OH every person who claims the pro-
lection of the flag to give "our gov
eminent their undivided loyalty and
support"
The Thief River Falls hospital has
been admitted to the ranks of accred-
tied institutions and its, students will
now he allowed credit for two years
work there, finishing at Minneapolis
City Hospital.
Mrs. Charles ,Pilkin OF Thief River
Falls is training Crookston artists
who are preparing to put on at the
Grand theatre there on Dec. 20 a
three-act comedy entitled Mrs. Tenn
pleton's Telegram"
The Northern Minneapolis Devcl-
opment association convention came
to a close at Brainerd with a loyalty
rally at which Governor Burnquist
was the principal speaker. r: 4.
Wise of Brainerd was chosen presi-
dsnt.
John Drexel will finish a term In
the state prison at Joliet, ILL.,, soon
and is scheduled to be nabbed at the
prison gates and returned to Mime.
sofa as parole breaker, if requisi.
ton issued for him by Governor Burn
quisa is honored by the governor of
Illinois.