The Tomahawk., 1919-11-20
STATE BRfVIT|ES

| Of this county we're at the American
Legion meeting at Minneapolis Nov.
| II, Pipestone's celebration will take
place Thanksgiving day.
Sturgeon Lake:&George Cunning
ham of Sturgeon Lake, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Cunningham. lost two
fingers from his right hand while oper.
ating a wood saving machine.
Little Falls.-All coal on the tracks
1T tl:is point has been commandeered
by F. G. Ruth, local agent, on orders
from the United States railroad admin
istration. This includes railroad coal
as we'll.
St. Cloud.-The st. Cloud Armory
proposition, which is scheduled to
come up again during January, was
indorsed by the St. Cloud Commercial
club by members Of the club and rep
resentatives of tho trade unions pres.
ent
Winona.-The $1,000,000 fund for
the improvement and endowment of st
Mary's college of this city is already
half subscribed, according to announce
ment by the committee in charge of
the drive throughout the Winona did,
cese.
Grand Rapids.-Because Of lack of
financial ability to do its part, if other
public work planned is carried out,
the village council this week unani-
mously resolved not to join the state in
building the proposed armory'village
hall here.
Virgin!a.-No arrests have been
made by the police In connection with
burglary of the Stone -Ordean-Wells
company's distributing branch store
here, when cigars. cigarettes and to-
bacco were stolen. Boys are believed
to have staged the burglary.
Cottonwood.-A loss of moro than
$4,000 was caused here by q fire
which completely destroyed the kero-
sene and gasoline storage tanks OF
Trageser Brothers. The fire started
early in the morning and burned for
several hours.
Worthington.-A coroner's jury In
vestigating the shooting of William
Schwarts, who died Of gunshot wounds
received when a gun in the hands OF
Luther Jenkins was accidentally dis
charged while they were hunting, re-
turned a verdict that Schwarts' death
was the result of an accident, for
which no one was responsible.
Crookston. on.-Farmers of the Red
River valley are making efforts to OBJ
tain the organization of drainage and
food control district, which will in
clude portions of Beltrami, Pennington,
Red Lake, Polk and Clearwater coun-
ties. A hearing on the project, which
was begun before district court judges
of Warren and Bemidji, will be con.
tinued Jan. 20.
Observation-Disclosures dav was gen.
orally observed throughout southwest
~ every town, appropriate exercises
yere conducted. and in many places
public programs were arranged in con-
nection with parades, football games
and other features. Business was
practically suspended in some towns
that the day could be given over en-
tirely to celebrating.
Madison.-The annual convention OF
the Minnesota division of the King Of
Trails association was held here with
delegations from all towns along tho
trail in Minnesota present. General
business looking to the welfare of the
King of Trails highway was discussed.
The trail has been logged and marked
from Mexico City to Winnipeg and
much Improvement Of the highways
in this section is planned.
Hill City. - Fifteen experienced
woodsmen are still searching the woods
in vain attempt to find some trace of
Alfred Amonson, who has been lost in
the woods for several days. Splotches
of blood were discovered in the snow
near the place where the man was
last seen, and Coroner D. +. Williams
has sent them to the state university
laboratory to be analyzed to ascertain
If it is the blood of human being or
Q wild animal.
Fergus Falls. - Minnesota produced
this year the largest crop Of corn In
the history of the state, and a COM
mercial value far above the average is
indicated in the government crop re-
port made public by Paul H. Kirk,
Minnesota field agent. The average
yield is 40 bushels, which gives q
preliminary production Of 11S,S0O,000
bushels. In 1918 the final yield was
100000 900 bushels. The report indi-
Gates the quality Of the crop is nearly
perfect, being 81 per cent Of normal.
Fergus Falls-"fhe crop of potatoes
this year in Minnesota is considerably
below that of last year." says the
government crop report. "The crop
in the southern and southwestern
parts of the state was badly damaged
by continued wet weather and too
much heat. The crop in the Red River
valley and in the northern and eastern