The Tomahawk., 1917-09-06
Ghe State
In Brief

| uc Wd1kST SCuOOl UOdIu POLcu P11 ,.
700 tax levy for this year.
Eight thousand people crowded the
streets of Crookston to give a fare
veil to Company before entraining
or Deming, N. Mex.
Granville Gutterson, 2O-year-old st.
Paul athlete, was seriously injured
when he dived from a diving board
n Loon lake, near Lake Crystal, strik'
ng his head on the bottom in three
:eet of water.
! Doren, .16-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest tombstone, Joliet, I'LL, is
! confined to his room at the home OF
IN aunt, Mrs. J. A. Fairburn, near
3artell. The young lad accidentally
shot himself in the. leg with rifle
An X-ray examination showed that sew.
sral bones were broken.
| 4. M. Smith is the new supervisor
Of agriculture for the schools of Koochi'
ching county for the ensuing year. He
will make his headquarters at Big
Falls and is now on the job familiar
izing himself with his new duties. Mr..
Smith taught in the associated schools
at Baudette last year.
Wheat threshing commenced as
early as Aug. 20 in Kittson county,
and already yields of IS bushels of
No. / northern have been reported.
| The Hallock elevators are working
night and day taking in the new crop,
and they all report the finest average
quality ever marketed here.
The members Of the Crookston Con-
gregational church accepted Rev. Paul
Albert's resignation, and expressed re-
greet a. their having to do so. Rev. Mr..
Albert was given a leave of absence
three months ago to attend the Off
GERS training camp, where he re-
ceived an appointment as second lieu.
tenant.
Mrs. Garfield H. Rustad is at the
Moorhead hospital with serious cuts
and bruises and Mrs. Oscar Rustad
is confined to her home with minor
injuries as a result Of an accident Fri
day night, when a Ford touring car,
driven by Ralph Gibson of Mapleton,
knocked the two women down and ran
over them here.
The farmers Of the town Of FROM
have started plan to solve the stock
feed problem this winter. In few
days they will have meeting to dis
cuss pooling interests in the purchase
Of feed. Each farmer will report how
much he will need for the winter, and
feed for each farmer will be pur-
chased in bulk and apportioned.
Delegates to the National Associa-
| ton of State Game and Fish Com
missioners in convention at St. Paul,
had an off day during their conven-
ton. They left at 1 p. m. in char
tered cars, as the guests of the Min
trip to Minneapolis, Lake Minnetonka
and the State Game farm, ending the
rip at the Lafayette club, where din
[ 1er was served.
With shortage Of farm labor in
The vicinity Of Ada, number of bust
ness men Of that city have pledged
themselves to go out and work in the
| fields if necessary.
Orders from the War department
designating Colonel Joseph D. Leitch,
former lieutenant colonel of the For
tieth infantry, as commanding officer
Of the second reserve officers train
ing camp at Fort Smelling have been
received, according to General Will
liam H. Sage.
The Second Minnesota field artil-
lery and the Fourth Minnesota infan-
try, the states two new military units
recently recruited, will be inspected
within the next few days to determine
whether they are to be accepted into
Federal service, according to advices
received from the Militia bureau at
Washington.
Minnesota knights OF Pythias, un-
der the direction Of the Pythian War
Relief council, have begun the raising
Of approximately $4,000, from the
nearly 5000 members of the order, on
the basis of 81 a member, as this
states apportionment of the 100000
war relief fund to be given by Pyth-
ians. The Minnesota fund, it is hoped,
will be raised within sixty days.
A man who gave his name to the
police as George Baldwin is held in
the county Jail at Moorhead, as the
result of the finding of a spike and
pieces of iron on the Northern Pacific
railway tracks near Muskoda. The
county authorities are Investigating.
The train was. stopped in time.
President Marion Leroy Burton OF
the University Of Minnesota will de-
liver an address on loyalty at Little
Falls, where a big Dedication day
demonstration is planned September
1, Director M. Williams of Morrison
county, who is in charge of the cele'
bration, has advised the Public Safety
Commission.
| Numer0Us APPLICATIONS from rarm'
ing districts for exemption on the ag'
ricultural grounds received by the
Fourth Federal exemption board at
Duluth, have caused the board consid'
cradle difficulty. The men working
on farms feel that the statement, Il
work on a farm" is sufficient to grant
them exemption from service in the