The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-12-12
STATE BREVITIES

Virginia. There are flfty-three
cases on the civil and criminal cal
endar for the December term OF
court. =
| j., East Grand Forks.-The farmers on
mail route No. 3, northeast OF the city.
scraped and improved their roads and
they are now In good coalition.
st. Cloud-Students Of St. Johns
university, Collegevtlle, have donated
81, 100 to the United War Fund. There
are 275 male students at this institu-
ton ~ 49, =.
Bemidji. - Preparations are being
made for the annual meeting ef the
Red River Valley Dairymen's associa-
ton here Wednesday and Thursday,
Dec. II and II.
| Bemidji-The Elks held Memorial
services at the Elks theater Sunday.
The feature of the program was the
address of r. f. Eldredge of St. Paul,
editor of 1.-THE Jolly Elk"
Eveleth.-Victor Mulligan sustained
broken collar bone when he fea
from a ladder while putting storm
He is in the More hospital. =
Duluth.-B F.. Brittle and A. L. Ship
ley, bankers of Virginia. Mimi, were
found by searching parties near Tow
er, apparently none the worse from
two days of wandering in the woods.
They became lost while hunting.
Mankato.-Max Hahn of Amboy, in
dicted by the grand jury for alleged
use of seditious language, pleaded
guilty and vas released on $1,000
bond to appear for sentence later. He
! was born in Germany As years ago.
Bemidji. - Farmers throughout the
southern part of Beltrami county are
| taking advantage of the law permit
ting townships to construct telephone
lines for IRE protection and a vast
| system of farmer telephone lines 1s
being constructed.
| Mankato.-Joseph A. Leonard, c. &
N. w. freight contractor, died within
an hour after being struck by an en-
CINE in the local yards. He was 80
yearu of age, born in Switzerland, a
| Spanish American war veteran. a
member of the A. o. U. W., and 1s
survived by a widow and several chill
dren.
| Thief River Falls.-Another bridge
across the Red Lake river in tho east
ern part of the county IL probability
of the near future. At tho last meet
ing of the commissioners, Chairman
o. J. Peterson was instructed to sign
applications for specifications for a
structure to be placed between Sec
lions 20 and q, township of Kratka.
Red Wing.-Harry G.. Cross, former
ly of Amboy, will arrive here soon
from France, accompanied by his
bride, formerly Mile. Madeline Senil-
lade, a Mons, Belgium, girl he married
in Paris. He went across in the am
bulance corps and has been II the
aviation mechanics branch. His
brides father and brother both lost
their lives in the war.
Moorhead - There are PA civil
cases, besides the tax cases, on the
calendar for the December term Of
Clay county district court. There are
eleven cases on the criminal calendar
continued from the May term, the only
! important one being the granddaughter
! charge against George s. Barnes, who
is charged with running down and
killing q man on the Dilworth road last
March.
Minneapolis.-A Christmas fund Of
| $1,736.52 has been cabled to France
for Base Hospital No. 26 by the local
Rotary club, Clinton Odell, chairman
of the committee for raising the fund,
said. The fund will be used in pro-
viding q Christmas tree and gifts for
1000 patients, physicians and nurses,
most of whom are from the North
west, at tho hospital, which is located
at Allory, France.
Fergus Falls. Maude Christopher
son, of Fergus Falls, died at hospital
! about two weeks. Miss Christopher
son was the daughter of Mrs. A. Over
land of Fergus Falls and went to
Grand Forks about three weeks ago
as a student at the Lutheran Bible
school. She attended school for only
a week when she was taken i'll and
was removed to a hospital.
| IQloI AlVcF FAIlS. 49, luS lHuucu6a
epidemic seems to have spent itself in
Thief River Falls and Pennington
| county. Not death has been re-
ported for a week and the number Of
new cases is very much smaller than
for any similar period since the out
break. Doctors say that in their opin.
ion there is not much danger of =
recurrence, providing such safeguards
are followed as a sensible person
would at all times employ against
| catching q cold.
| Minneapolis. - Minnesota delegates
will attend two conventions ut Chi
| cago during the next two weeks. The
Minnesota Dairy council will be rep
resented by w. s. Moscrip, Lake e.
| Mo; w. A. McKerrow, University
| arm, and Andrew French, st. Paul, at
the meeting Of the National Dairy
council. Delegates from all sections
Of western and northwestern Minne-
sofa, headed by F. l.. Cliff, Ortonvflle.