The Tomahawk., 1918-06-20
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Brief Items of
State News

Middle River.-The second annual
picnic of the Marshall County Fed
Grafton of Farmers Clubs will be held
on June Is, at Menzel's grove, three
miles east of Argyle.
Moorhead.-Word was received here
that Rudolph OVERLY, son of Mrs.
OVERLY of this city, who was on the
transport Lincoln at the time the
steamer was torpedoed, is safe.
st. Paul.-The state board of arbi-
tration is expected to meet this week
to consider wage increases and other
demands of hosting engineers, cement
fnishers, lathers,- plasterers and hod
carriers.
Duluth. Stanley G. Harwoon,
equipment engineer and statistician
for the Minneapolis schools, has been
ELECTED assistant superintendent of the
Duluth public schools by the board of
He will receive $4,000 a
year.
Duluth.-Northern Minnesota for
ests and st. Louis county timber will
be used to augment the fuel supply
of the state if the resolution adopted
by the board of county commissioners
gains proper legal authority from the
State Public Safety Commission.
Virginia-Michael Pilir and Frank
Farovich were arraigned on charges
of making seditious remarks. They
were released on 5000 bail. They are
alleged to have said that Germany
will win the war and we will have
a German king in this country"
St. Paul-St. Paul's new joint Fed
eral railway city ticket office will
be housed in the Great Northern build.
ing. It is expected the new office
will be open by July 4. 1t is esti-
mated the elimination Of separate up
town offices will save $4,000 annu-
ally.
Virginia.-Local people, who have
been trying to induce Billy Sunday to
come here during his Duluth reviv\l,
were assured that the evangelist
would do so within the next two
weeks on date to be fixed later.
He will probably speak at the curling
rink.
Virginia-John Haga, who defied
the draft authorities and refused to
appear in May to go with a delega:
tion of Virginia draftees to Camp
Lewis, Wash, has been taken to Fort
Smelling, following an order from
w. p. Rhinow, who was
notified Of Haga's action.
International Falls.-JOhn Meier, a
Mizpah merchant, got into a discus
sion about the war with neighbor,
a Frenchman, and he is alleged to
have made .seditious statements. A
complaint was tiled against him and
when arraigned\ in municipal court
here he was bound over to the grand
jury.
st. Cloud Mrs. August F. Young
is in St. Raphaels hospital with SER
ious injuries as a result of an auto
mobile accident on the Waite Park
road. Her physician stated today
that he believed she would recover,
though it is admitted that her injur-
les are serious. Mrs. Young was
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the ditch. Mr.. Young escaped,
Eveleth.-William Mccormack and
Elmer Shannon of Chisholm, while
motoring to Duluth yesterday, were
thrown from the machine six miles
from here on the Miller trunk road
when the car skidded, rolled down
an embankment and went through
barbed wire fence. Mccormack was
seriously hurt and brought to q hos
pital His companion was cut and
bruised.
Hinckley.-Angus F. Osborne of
Book, Minn.. was severely wounded
in action June in France, according
to messages received here. He was
a member of the One Hundred and
F'ifty-first Field artillery. Russell
Swain, also a member of the One
Hundred and Fifty-first Field artillery,
was severely wounded in action in
France May n, according to a notice
received by his father, Charles T.
Swain of Hinckley.
st. Paul.-Minnesot is the only
SIdLc Ill Iuc OulOA lA "UlCu uO hCIltC
labor strikes are reported. The an
was made today by H.
w. Southworth, secretary of the state
board of arbitration, which is at
tempting to avert industrial troubles
in Minnesota during the war. The
board planned hearing on the de.
mands of hoisting engineers for an
day and cents an hour
wage increase. and those Of cement
plasterers, hod carriers and
fathers for general revisions of wage
scales.
Thief River FaHs.-Crop pledges
to more than $4,000 arc
reported by County Agent Ross P.
White. who is assisting in the Red
Cross work among the branch cen
ters in Pennington county. These hg-
ures were arrived at by taking the
average yields per year for Mime
sofa during the past ten years, but
lnasmuch as only ten of the twenty