The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-10-04
News Of theState
Condensed for Busy Folks

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increase in it's business, the articles of
incorporation to take effect at once.
The capital stock is 100000.
Carleton Lindquist, who graduated
from the Wheaton high school last
June, has been awarded $500 per
year scholarship at Hamline university
for a period of four years, from the
DR.. lines fund.
Shipments of ore from the mines Of
the Chisholm district for the season
now reaches close to the $500, 000-ton
mark, and before the close of naviga-
ton it is estimated the total will ex-
coed 100000 tons.
Hugh J. Donohue of Pine Lake was
arrested by the sheriff on the charge
of assaulting another man with cold
chisel. His bonds were fixed at 81 1000,
which he produced and 1vas released.
His wife has applied for a divorce.
The Otter Tail County Public Safety
association circulated petition asking
that Senator La Toilette be ousted
from the United States Senate, fol-
lowing his speech befor the Non-Par-
tisan league convention in st Paul.
The Farmers State bank of Deer
Creek has built a new bank building
and will open at once. The officers
are: Andy Veden, president; Carl A.
Johnson, first vice president; Richard
Anderson, second vice president; A. G.
Johnson, cashier.
Rev. w. F. Fritze, formerly pastor
of a Winona church, was selected to
replace Rev. G. L. Lehnert, as pastor
of the Central German Methodist
church of Minneapolis at the closing
session of the thirty-irst North Ger
man conference at Winona.
William Wyhill, prominent in Brain
erd mining circles, and his wife were
injured when their autohobi became
uncomfortable and ran into a ditch on
the Pillaget-Walker highway. Mr..
Wyhill was probably fatally injured
and his wife had two ribs broken.
The state timber boards meeting at
the capitol ordered the largest sale OF
fire killed timber of record for Oct. 30,
| rescinded a recent resolution increas'
ing price of pu1pwood taken from state
land from 81 to 81 cord, and fixed
fees for scaling and measuring by the
surveyor generals office.
Chisholm's health department has
started a crusade against pigs and no
longer will pig sites and hog walloWs
be tolerated in the village limits. The
central district has been declared re-
stricted zone and all keepers of swine
| within that territory will have to move
their stock outside the boundaries at
once or suffer prosecution.
Now that potatoes have become
legal tender for the movies and other
necessaries of life, the potato bank
| is about to be established in the iron
mining sections of Minnesota where
| "spud" owners can deposit them and
| "check'' them out. Thousands of
bushels of potatoes will be @'deposited'
in the potato banks" that are rapidly
rearing their walls everywhere on the
iron range.
! The Northern Conference of the Ger
man Methodist Episcopal church has
sustained the charge that the Rev. c..
| L. Lehnert, pastor of the Central Ger
man M. E. church of Minneapolis, had
made threats against President Wilson
| in letter to the Liberty Loan COM
mittee of Minneapolis last May, but
did not expel him from the church. In
stead the temporary suspension was
continued indefinitely because of his
penitence for his offense and other
"extenuating circumstances" sur
rounding the letter.
| The city hall, the only public hall in
International Falls, has been condemn
ed as unsafe for use. At the Red
Cross dance recently, the floor buckled
up; and upon investigation it was
found that the stills of the building
were decayed.
| The county fair at Little Falls,
which closed recently, was the most
| successful in the history Of the asso-
citation in many respects. The receipts
were over $500 more than ever before,
| the attendance was greater, the at
fractions better and the exhibits good,
| Practically the entire population Of
| Jackson and several hundred farmers
from the surrounding country turned
out to say goodbye to Jackson cOunty's
first quota of drafted men who left
for Camp Dodge. The men were join
| ed at Fairmont by seventy men from
Martin county.
| The Northwestern fair, which will
be held in Crookston for three days,
beginning October 3, is expected to be
splendid success. The fair, which
was formerly managed by local men.
has been turned over to the farmers
surrounding Crookston. They will run
| the fair on their own ideas.
| The Tri-State and Bell Telephone
companies won partial victory over
the State Railroad and Warehouse
| Commission when Judge Childress of
the district court filed decision on
the appeal of the companies revers-
Wing the order of the commission that
a 1O-cent extra charge should be lev
led for all distance calls on the Tri-
State through Owatonna.
Joseph H. Gates, pioneer resident