The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1917-09-27
News of the State
Condensed for Busy Folks

ton was heal in Stillwatsr A banquet
was served at / 90 p. m. at the Sawyer
house.
Work on the new Cokato high school
building is being pushed as rapidly
as possible, and it is said that the
building will be ready for occupancy
by Oct. 1.
Because he insulted the American
flag, Henry Zaender of Alden is spend
ing three months in the county Jail at
Albert Lea. He was given no option
Of paying fine.
Plans for the federation of the
Presbyterian and Methodist churches
at St. Peter have been presented to
the two congregations by their pastors.
A committee will meet to consider de-
tails of the proposed cons olidation.
Henry Schroeder of Moorhead, the
potato king" does not agree with
some dealers that potatoes will be as
low as so cents bushel. He has
made several sales of carload lots for
October delivery at prices considerably
above 81.
Goodhue county's second quota OF
men for the national army have been
increased from forty-five to sixty men,
They modified at Red Wing and in
the evening a reception and banquet
was rendered them in the Methodist
church parlors.
Four University Of minnesota pro-
fessors are in Washington doing their
bit for Uncle Sam. They are Pro-
fessor John Gray of the department
of economics, and Dean G. S. Ford,
Wallace Notstein and A. G. Krey OF
the department of history.
Five of the young women employed
in the Great Northern shops at st.
Cloud to take the places of men as the
first war measure in industrial work
have been compelled to give up the
work because of the fact that they
have found it too strenuous.
Resolutions to furnish facilities for
moral and religious training of Nor
wegian Lutherans in the training
camps of the new National army we're
adopted at meeting in Minneapolis,
called by H. G.. Stub, president of the
Norwegian Church Of America. -
An enthusiastic loyalty meeting at
Bay Lake honoTing the boys called
to the colors was addressed by Ernest
Smith, a. Canadian, whose father is a
high official in the Canadian Army, and
by Carl Bepreze, an American of Ger
man birth. Both speakers were
crippled in serving their country and
had to use crutches.
Women, wives and daughters Ia
bored side by side with men in the
corn fields of Winona county and Sun
day brought no cessation in the speed
Of work to gather the salvage of the
corn crop, attacked by killing frost.
Farmers, now convinced that most of
the corn cannot possibly mature, are
working feverishly to fill silos.
Potato digging operations are under
way throughout the famous Clay
county potato growing region, with in
dications pointing to a crop 100000
to 100000 bushels under normal. Frosts
that laid the vines low stunted the
growth of potatoes materially, and, in
the opinion of some growers, reduced
the yield by at least 20 or Is per cent.
Dan Driscoll was held to the Novem-
Der grand jury at Saltwater on a
charge of arson. It is alleged he at
tempted to burn the South Side school
building.
Charges signed by so persons have
been preferred against Mayor j. j..
Reiter of Rochester. The complaint
against the mayor as yet has not been
revealed.
Melvin Henderson received broken
leg and dislocated shoulder when he
caught his arm between the belt and
the fywheel of gas engine and his
body was thrown against hay press
at Foxhome.
While walking from the Olmstead
county fair at Rochester five persons
were struck by an automobile driven
by Ambrose Kelly of Stewartville.
Enos DAILY, II, was killed and Anna
Jorgenson, Lester Weed, He1ga Han
son and Lena Nelson were injured,
two of them perhaps fatally.
Winona county farmers, facing
heavy losses because of the frost
damage to corn, are being aided to
garner the salvage by soldiers. Cap
tain ]. D. Burke, responsive to the
urgent appeal for men, permitted as
many as possible of his members of
G company to spend a day in the field
assisting in filing silos with corn for
fodder. 81
When the Northern Minnesota De-
velopment association holds its annual
meeting in Brainerd December 6 and
z, the first gun in the campaign to
boom that section of the state as ban
ner potato seed producing locality will
be fired. The executive committee OF
the booster organization has voted to
appropriate 5000 to be used in provid-
ing premiums for the Minnesota Po-
tato Growers association that it might
hold its annual exhibit in conjunction
with the Boys and Girls potato show
at Brainerd.
Word has inst been received at Pipe