The Tomahawk., 1918-01-03
News of the State
Condensed for Busy Folks

a former school teacher, who is now
80 years old, has in the last seven
months knitted nine sweaters and 40
pairs of socks for the Red Cross.
The United States Civil Service
announces an examination
to be held at East Grand Forks and at
CroOkston on Jan. II, to fill the posi-
ton of rural carrier at Fertile and
East Grand Forks.
H. Mayne, Stanton, editor of the
Bemidji Sentinel, has disposed of his
interests in that publication to Henry
z. Mitchell, former editor and part
owner of the Thief River Falls News
Press. Mr.. Stanton will enter the mil
itary service.
Oscar Adler of Red Wing, brake.
man on the Great Western railway,
VOC h>d'v injured at Winona when he
was crushed between cars as he was
trying to make coupling in the Great
Western yards. He is at the Winona
general hospital.
Awakened by the cries of his child,
G. S. Smith, Carlton village president,
found the home full of coal gas and
quickly removed his family to anoth-
er home 1t is feared, if the child had
not awakened, the family all might
have been asphyxiated.
Brainerd Elks will put on minstrel
show with an outside instructr and
properties, for the benefit of the Rel
Cross. The show will be given early
in the new year. William " Turcotte.
chairman of the enlarged entertain
ment committee, heads the U1dertak-
ing.
Andrew Johnson, SO, of North
Branch, was found dead in a chair at
his home by a neighbor who had
called to see him. The coroner was
called and he declared death due to
heart failure Mr.. Johnson was
bachelor and lived alone in little
house west of the track.
Alarmed at the serious seed corn
shortage, farmers of Maptin. the ban
ner corn county of the state, have
called a meeting at Fair1nont' to see
where they stand. 1t is planned at
once to test every avatl"h'e ear to
prepare for next years crop. The
meeting will be held in cooperation
with the state food administration and
follows a. conference If leading corn
growers at the university farm.
Oscar Keller, St. Paul commissioner
of public works; James Manahan, at
torney for the Nonpartisan league.
and Thomas J. McGrath, speaker at
the labor meeting in Rice park, st.
Paul on December 2, were formally
charged with rioting before Judge c.
c. Haupt in Ramsey county court.
They entered pleas of not guilty. Their
cases were continued until January
Z, when date will be set for their
trial.
Mrs. Carl M. Nelson lies in \
Moorehead hospital suffering from SER
ious burns received Christmas eve
when candles on home Christmas
tree fired her Santa Claus disguise
while distributing presents to her hap
py group of youngsters. Burns about
the chest, arms and shoulders are so
extensive physicians fear for her re-
covery. Mr.. Nelson smothered the
flames by using blanket and she was
removed to hospital.
The Big Fork river ice at Big Falls.
is now as smooth as race track Tor
motor cars, and some joy riders have
taken advantage of it.
More than 300 Willmar women have
already served chain luncheons in the
interest of the Red Cross war relief
fund. These Luncheons have brought
in 1925.
Charles Nelson, farmer of Svea,
just marketed GO hogs, for which ne
received $3.50 The hogs, farrowed
last spring, averaged 260 pounds each,
and brought $15.75 hundred.
tivhies in the school houses.
After celebrating for three hours,
the district court jury at Mankato that
tried Henry Weibold of Lyra on the
charge of seditious utterances brought
in a verdict of guilty. The defend
ant will move for new trial.
The Willmar city council has decid-
ed that all street lights in the city
will be eliminated hereafter early in
the evening, in order to economic in
the use of coal. The board of educa-
ton has also prohibited all evening &C.
Ferris J. Thompson, an old.time riv-
er man, known in every port and in
every community along the Missis-
sippi river between st. Paul and st.
Louis, is dead. He died at his home
at Davenport, Iowa, where he lived
with his daughter the past few years
A wager was paid at Winona
hotel that emphasizes that that city IL
Hooverized. A guest at
the hotel on Tuesday complained to
the landlord after the main meal that
no meat had been served. III you
can't serve meat, I'll go out anc
a steak" the hotel patron said. "Bet
you s. you can't buy q steak in a
Winona restaurant or hotel today"
was the challenge. The wager was
placed. Two hours after the indignant
hotel patron still was securing the
city for a Stacker eating house. He