The Tomahawk., 1918-01-17
News ofthe State
Condensed for Busy Folks

During the Red Cross drive at East
Grand Forks in one week $3.50 was
collected, 1873 members enrolled, I'll
Red Cross magazine subscribers g.
cured.
The new city hall at Breckenridge
was formally opened to the public
with a municipal ball. music for the
event being furnished by an orchestra
from Fergus Falls. The Breckenridge
chapter OF the Red Cross served the
refreshments.
Federal appropriations Of $4,000
having been expended to date ON draft
expenses in Minnesota, Maj. II. L.
Brady, Federal property and disburs'
ing officer, announced that new al
lowance of $4,000 will be made avail
able in few days.
1t was the irony of fate that
brought death to Mr.. and Mrs. Geo.
A. Lflin, each so years old, at Lake
City within the same day. Both
we're among the oldest residents OF
Wabasha county, having lived there
more than half century. They died
on their wedding anniversary.
For the second time in 32 years
s. l.. Collins of Crookston the other
day failed to meet the inbound Great
Northern and Northern Pacific trains
with his hack. Mr.. Collins, having
been elected to his first public office
during the recent elections, took
possession of the city assessors Of
flee in the city hall. He has been in
the livery business in Crookston for
~ years.
Otto Wangerin, one of the four Ct.
Paul men whose cases were among
those appealed to the Federal supreme
court for a decision on the draft law,
will not serve his one-year sentence in
this state at once, for he has already
begun fifteen-year sentence at Fort
Eeavenworth. The latter was imposed
by q court-martial at Camp Dodge,
which found Wangerin guilty of in
subordination.
Tie Nonpartisan league meeting,
scheduled for Wells, which aroused
much feeling and open threats of
violence, should the meeting be held,
was held on the property of the
Farmers Cooperative Creamery
company, out of DOORS No seditious
utterances were reported. About 100
farmers attended. The loyalty meet
ing planned to offset the Nonparti-
san gathering, attracted the larger
crowd. Delegates from all parts of
the county, aggregating more than
500 persons, were in attendance.
A new file was established in the Of
flee Of the Ramsey county register of
deeds office when a wedding contract,
the first of the kind to be recorded in
this state, was placed on file. The
contract contained the signatures of
Veronica Mihalyi of St. Paul and
George Davis, also of st. Paul, now a
member OF One Hundred and Fifty
first field artillery serving in France.
The contract with Miss Mihalyi's sig
nature affixed followed Davis to the
trenches, where he signed, in the pres.
ence of the captain and adjutant Of
his regiment.
Clay county has paid $10,12O to
mothers under tle provisions of til.
mothers pension act of 1913. In the
last year $3,176 has been paid. Pay
ments to mothers now range from 81
a month to $50 a month.
Croatians of the Hibbing district
belonging to the Croatian Benefit
society will meet at Hibbing Jan
IS to elect officers and adopt loyalty
resolutions. The local society is one
of the old foreign societies on the
range and has a big membership.
A. D. Smith, st. Paul, investment
clerk in the state treasury depart
ment for nine years, has resigned.
File was recently admitted to the bar
and will go into the office of James
J. Giblin, city attorney of Eveleth.
Carl j. Eklund will succeed Smith.
The Hibbirg village council has
decided that the village needs a pc.
lice matron and has appointed Miss
vashta Fitzpatrick to the position.
She will particularly look after the
children. She will see that the
youngsters behave themselves at the
postoffice, and that those too young
do not frequent pool halls, and that
young children are kept off the streets
at night.
Hotels and restaurants throughout
Minnesota generally are complying
with the rules and regulations laid
down by the state food administrator.
Walter A. Pocock, member of the in
vestigating committee. said. No COM
plants have been received by Mr..
Pocock from travelling men who
have enlisted in the interests Of con-
servation and who are to report any
disregard to the rules.
A woodsman, believed, from the
name on q hospital ticket found in
his pocket, to be H. J. Turner, was
found frozen to death on the ice
about one-lalf mile from Glengary
point, near Walker. He appeared
from tracks in the snow to be going
to Walker. The man WAS evidently
going to the hospital from RObinson'S