The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-01-10
Brief Items of
State News

ter $166.GS.
John Nordin, 65, of Wadena, pio-1
naer resident of Compton township.
dropped dead at the dinner table:
Christmas day.
Bishop Charles Bayard Mitchell OF
st. Paul offciated at the dedication
Of the Fairmont Avenue Methodist
Episcopal church, Fairmont, which
has Just been completed.
Earnest S. Hurt who left Be-
midi Dec. with 81 volunteers,
writes from San Antonio, Tex, that
he is in the sviation section and
that he likes his new work very
much. ~
The St. Peter Roller Mills have
started grinding -four under the new
management. The mill had been
closed for almost two years. It is es-
timated that 337 barrels daily VIII
be the output for several months.
Word was received by Mrs. Theo-'
dore Manikewske Of Breckenridge
that her brother; Sergeant Leo Nc.
braske, %, of Company l, Wahpeton,
n. D., died at Camp Merritt. The re-
mains were shipped to his old home
in La Crosse, Wis, for burial.
Supt. Walter F. Dickens of the
Red Lake Indian agency notifies those
residing in villages and in the vicin-
ity of Red Lake that the purchase
Of fish from the Indians is illegal and
that if the practice is not stopped
arrests and prosecutions will follow.
John H. Kennedy, for twelve years.
mayor OF Waverly, member OF
the Minnesota Funeral Directors as
sociation and a charter member Of
the old Settlers Association Of Min.
nesota, died at St. Barnabas hospital
in Minneapolis, following an opera
ton. Mr.. Kennedy who was IS
years old, lived in Waverly nearly
fifty years.
William Bomaster, 60. years Old
and six feet four inches tall, was
given shelter in the St. Cloud city
Jail during the night when he was
found by police, poorly clothed and
suffering from cold. He stated that
he had sons and daughters living in
the southern part of the state near
Mankato and will be sent there by the
authorities.
1T it's fifth annual meeting in New
York Jan. IS, the National Institute
on Social Science will present medals
or notable service to mankind" to
Herbert c. Hoover, food administra-
tor; Merry D. Dawson, chairman of
Red Cross war council, and DR.. Viii
10 h0
new medal will be called the liberty
service medal.
Fred Renders, alien German Of
Ormsby, astonished Martin county
draft officials by writing on ais draft
questionable that if he could get
back to Germany he would fight for
the kaiser. Deputy, Sheriff Roepcke
was dispatched to the home of the
would-be Teuton recruit, who now Isl
in the county Jail. Federal officials
will be asked to select the proper
interment camp. a
The state of Minnesota has put
in program to produce 100000
dozen eggs a month, and to double
the amount of poultry raised. The
United States government has appro-
priated $290,oo0 to help increase the
live stock industry and s14S,o00 of
this is to be used for poultry. They
expect to have 40 men who will give
all their time to this work. They
have furnished Minnesota with man
VINO gives all of his time to. encour-
aging the raising of poultry. @
The East Grand Forks high school
debating team will meet the Red Lake
Falls high schoooi team at the former
city IN Jan. s.
Trapped with three small children
on the second floor Of their Mime
apolis home by fire, and with her hus-
band lying unconscious in the hallway
from shock suffered in an oilstove ex-
plosion, Mrs. Otto Knoblauch threw
her children into an improvised net
held by Two policemen and jumped to
safety tss
Mile Laos lake has been opened
by the Minnesota Public Safety COM
mission for commercial fishing during
the period Of the war. Charles e.
Lucas Of Wahkon has been appointed
entire Mile Laos lake country and the
state will buy all the marketable fish
offered for sale.
Tho winter term of the Northwest
sttooi Of Agriculture a: Crookston
opened Jan. 1 and will continue until
March 20 The usual courses are Of
fereG this year and will include work
in the various branches OF agriculture,
home economics, farm economics. gaso-
line and auto el-ineeiIrg. music and
farm accounts. "a
John Rettendorf, son of Peter Bet
tendorf of St. Paul has been ordained
by the Rt. Rev. Bishop Joseph p
Busch, D. q. Rev. Bettendorf cele-
brated his first solemn mass at the
cathedral He was born and received
his early education in st. Cloud and
was for some time the assistant cash
Ter OF Security State bank
Mofio,, fo-' a new trial for Jacob O.