The Tomahawk., 1918-01-31
News of State
Condensed for Busy Folks

comfy has put "a more registrants
| in Class in addition to the 3S al
ready classified by the board.
John Hack, patient at the hosp1~
tai for the insane at st. Peter, hanged
himself with a roller towel in an
empty closet Sunday night. Haach
had been an inmate for year and a
half, coming from P'pestone.
Edwin Adams, fuel administrator
for Clay county, said that fuel deal
ers in Mcorhead and generally
throughout Clay county were we'll dis
posed to follow the suggestions made
by the state fuel administrator.
Reconstruction OF a portion OF
mans skul<and an operation on his
legs has transformed, Robert Kelly, 80
years old, from a pa:alytic, unable to
talk, into health at Rochester. Inc
operation is the newest feat OF the
Mayo clinic.
More than 100 Thief River Falls
business men met and passed resolu-
lions expressing cheerful, hearty and
cordial support to Fuel Administrator
Garfeld's recent fuel saving order,
and pledged patriotic compliance
with the order.
George R. Parker, Sunday school
superintendent of Sank Rapids, was
fined s25 and costs by Justice Bell
on a charge of assault and battery
preferred against him by Rev. F. +.
Marks of the Congregational church.
Parker will appeal.
The appointment OF John Carter :ls
captain OF the st. Cloud Home Guard
has been confirmed. Warren Stew
art, formerly top sergeant, will be
second lieutenant. Henry Sullivan
wit, be top sergeant and his post will
be taken by Morris Dudley.
James Foley. %, for the last two
years proprietor of a livery business
at Cold Spring, died Of pneumonia.
Tie remains were taken to Eden
Valley to the home of his father. Fo-
ley contracted his fatal illness while
making drive to Pearl Lake.
Charles r. Frazier formerly super
intendent of the Little Falls schools,
and afterward superintendent at WI
mona and assistant superintendent of
public instruction, recently superin-
IelQeIL vi Lllc CVelCtL " doE.|
schools, has accepted the position Of
director of vocational education for
the state of Washington, under tie
new federal law.
Rufus Harper, negro, on trial at
Hastings for the murder of Alex
Bush, white, changed his plea from
not guilty to guilty of murder in the
third degree at the end of the first
days hearing and testimony and was
sentenced from one to Is years in
state prison. Harper and Bush were
employed at the Swift & Co. packing
plant at South st. Paul
Frederick Wilhelm Legler, Mime
apolis, an enemy alien under arrest
in Minneapolis for seditious utter
ances, probably will be interned for
the period of the war. Legler boast
ed that he nad gone to Camp Dodge
and had taken photographs of the de.
tails OF the camp He also said that
ne had been able to get mail through
to Germany through Sweden.
When man in the audience at a
Duluth moving picture theater failed
to stand when the orchestra played
the "Star Spangled Banner" young
woman standing beside him decided
to take matters into her own hands,
and proceeded to administer several
hard blows upon his face and shout
ders. The Stacker left the theater,
but lodged no complaint with the po-
lice.
Mike Ossa. sr., o. Opole, arrested
on a charge of selling liquor without
license. was taken before Justice
Alden in court at St. Cloud and paid a
fine of $50 and costs, amounting to
! sG1.75.
! Winona Masonic orders are patri
: otto, and the Winona Temple ded!ca'
tion which was to have been attend
ed by several hundred members, has
; been postponed to assist in conserva
tior of fuel.
An executive committee meeting OF
the Grow Wing County Sunday
School association was held at Brain
. erd The county convention, it was
! decided, will be held at Brafnerd the
r week of June II.
Deputy Game Warden Walter Kline
J. felter is engaged in cutting holes in
some of the shallow lakes of the I'M
mediate vicinity of Saltwater in order
+, to allow air to get to the fish so as te
prevent them from being smothered
D War lunches served to the schoo
I students of tie domestic science
= rooms at the Central school at Eas1
Grand Forks seems to be very popu
: | ,o, with tho ochoo1 childron for IA
|, were served during the first weei
. after the lunches were commenced.
A resolution condemning the Non
y partisan league and recommending
! that its propaganda be discouraged
and promoters thereof be rejected
from our homes, our halls. OH
y churches, our schools, and all othel
5 places of public gathering" has beer
G adopted by the public safety commits