The Tomahawk., 1917-10-18
Brief Items of
State News

The tiftieth celebration of the Red
wood Falls Methodist Episcopal church
will be held Oct. 1928.
c. E. Brown, former part owner Of
the Lyceum theater at Moorhead, has
purchased a moving picture house at
Mason City, Iowa.
President Burton of the University
Of Minnesota has accepted an invita-
ton to speak to the citizens Of Hub
bard county at Akeley, Dec. IS.
In the suit of the Pioneer Electric
company of St. Paul against the Sank
Rapids Granite company, brought to
recover $500. the jury returned a ver-
dict for $4,000
Frank ]. Lull, one of the we'll known
early pioneer farmers of the town of
Comstock, met death by accident at
Edmonton, Alta, Canada. He was
killed by an angry bull.
A banquet at the St. Paul association
opened the twenty-fifth annual meeting
of the Minnesota Library association,
sessions which were held in st. Paul.
About 1875 delegates were present.
Patrick Cunningham, IS, resident of
East Grand Forks forty years, is dead,
old age claiming him. Mr.. Cunning
ham was born in Ireland, immigrated
to Canada, and later came to Mime
sofa.
The Office of the Park Region Echo
was entered by enraged citizens and
badly damaged. The deed was done,
it is said, because the editor, Carl A.
Wood, it is alleged, has been disloyal
to the United States.
A Home Guard has been organized
at Lake Park for the purpose ofAguard-
ing the village at night. There is a
membership of 100, and four men will
patrol the streets every night from 10
o'clock In the evening until o'clock
in the morning.
elected president of the Minnesota
Osteopathic association at its closing
convention session at the Ryan hotel,
St. Paul. DR.. S. E. Doris of Mime
apolis was chosen secretary. The
next meeting of the convention will be
in Minneapolis.
The first married woman in Mime
apolis to apply for bond from the
second Liberty Loan is Mrs. Priscilla
Blair, negro, 1917 Chicago avenue.
Mrs. Blair applied for 500 bond; she
said that she took 500 bond last
spring from the first Liberty Loan is
sue, and wished to have a hand in the
second.
Henry Schewe, a farmer living
short distance south of Albert Lea,
escaped injury, while his son Roy was
crushed to death, another son, Ray
mond, and a daughter, Grace, probably
we're mortally injured, and Mrs.
Schewe's arms we're broken when the
machine which Schewe was driving
tipped over a short distance from his
home.
A. G. Townley, president of the Non
partisan league, delivered an address
at meeting held by that organization
at Preston. Townley was publicly
warned before the meeting that the
least references to disloyalty or sedi-
ton would result in his arrest. He d.
vided his talk between urging patriot;
ism and loyalty and attacking the Twin
Cities newspapers.
Carl Schrandt, one Of the prominent
farmers of Foley, died as the result of
injuries received several days previous
when he was kicked by horse.
Ernest Chambers of Birchdale SUI
ferer from tuberculosis, is to be sent
to the tri-county sanatorium at Be-
midi The five children of the family,
ranging in age from to II years, will
be placed in state school.
An unfortunate accident occurred
when Fred La Londe, the Belgrade no.
tel man, returning home with some
hunters from one of the surrounding
lakes, was shot in his shoulder from
his own gun. The wound is not serious.
An attack of measles cut short tho
journey of Arthur Remington, en-
route with his regiment, the First
North Dakota infantry, to Camp
Greene, Charlotte, N. c. Remington
was removed from the train at St. Paul
and taken to the hospital.
Martin Petcoff, former hotelkeeper
in St. Paul, who shot and killed Matt
Ozbolt in 1918, was sentenced to twen-
ty years in the state prison at Still
water by Judge Orr in district court
at st. Paul. It was ordered that the
sentence should run as if made on
November rs, 1913. Robert Hender-
son, negro, who killed white won.
an with whom he had been living, was
sentenced to fifteen years in the state
prison by Judge Orr. Both men plead:
ed guilty at the trial in 1913 to charges
of murder in the first degree.
It was necessary to unwind red tape
that ran from the army post at Fort
Smelling to the Office of the adjutant.
general in Washington, when Clarence
N. Lucas decided to serve his country
under his real name. Lucas enlisted
in the East and did not want his fam
lily to know it, so he signed as "Rob-
ert H. Stranger" After he had been
a member Of Company H, Thirty-sixth
infantry, some time, he decided he
would rather carry his own name, and