The Tomahawk., 1919-04-17

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Virginia-The girls put it all over
the boys in the honor roll of the high
school last month according to Princ1-
pal Quickstad. '....s.-
! Mankato.-Thomas J. Cassidy, form
er brakeman on the Northwestern rail-
way running through Mankato, has
been promoted to major in the Ameri-
can army, now serving in Germany.
/. Stillwater.-StateT Tax Commissioner
James T. Hale will be in Saltwater on
April IA and hold a school of instruc-
ton for the township assessors of
Washington county at the courthouse:
Melrose.-!The body of August Yante,
SO, retired farmer, who had been miss
ing since Oct. Is last, was found in
the Sank river near here. It is sup
posed he was deranged and committed
suicide. ry.s--. -.
2 Senator George H. Sui
Ivan will engage in the general mer-
camille business according to articles
of Incorporation Of the st. Croix Trad:
ing company. He will be president OF
the company. &.->,..~- ~ Ill. -
Red Wing.-Mrs. Andrew Larson,
Mrs. Bengta Resell and Mrs. A. Peter
son were awarded special Red Cross
service medals for knitting the great
est number of socks for soldiers In
Goodhue county,
. Chisholm.-There is no change in
the condition Of William Vuorinen,
who attempted suicide by cutting his
r~ic "a IL Of
care of the physicians at the Rood
hospital and but little hope is held
for his recovery. ~
Minneapolis are 76,800,0O0
drinks of whisky left In Minnesota, &C.
cording to figures computed in the
office of E. J. Lynch, internal revenue
collector. At least 100000 gallons of
whisky remain unsom in the state to
be disposed of by July. 1t.
Sank Rapids.-The school board OF
this village elected G. A. Smith super
intendent of schools for the coming
year. Mr.. Smith has been an instruc-
tor of chemistry in the school for the
past year and at a recent board meet
ing was named as principal. $500. .-
Little Falls.-Charles Daylen, 60
years old, was found dead in his room
here, with a bullet wound through the
head. He had evidently committed
suicide, a 32.calibre revolver was be-
side the body. Daylen had been a
resident of Little Falls for eighteen
years. No cause can be assigned for
the act. AS far as known he had no
relatives.
Red Lake Falls. we've got to look
after the children. They're the big
gest crop we have" said one of Red
Lake county's commissioners in voting
to appropriate 500 month to assist
the Red Cross society in defraying the
cost of a visiting nurse to be perma-
nently stationed In Red Lake county.
The board voted unanimously to con.
tinue the 500 q month appropriation
for the balance of the year.
p Bemidji.-More than so beaver will
be trapped by game wardens, skinned
and the skins prepared and shipped to
st. Paul where they will be sold be-
cause of the damage they are doing
in the vicinity Of Big Falls, Koochich-
ing county. Game Warden Bailey has
been authorized to supervise the trap
ping. The beavers have been con-
structing dams across the judicial
bitches, flooding much land and en-
iangering the tracks Of the Minnesota
& international railway. .,.
East Grand Forks.-Formally ap-
proving and adopting plans submitted
by Architect w. J. Edwards for a new
city fire hall to take the place of the
joint building destroyed by fire in Jan
uary last, the city water and light COM
mission announces advertisements for
bids will be started at once, and that
the contract for construction will be
let about April Fl, when work will
be Immediately started and rushed to
completion. City officials hope to be
ready to occupy the new building by
July 4.
Crookston.-The first intimation that
his son had been killed in France
came when Peter George got notice
from the government declaring that
he had been paid SIS too much in his
SuOCHOuC I1Oucy duu " ISSuIA ~ W IAS
government. The reason given for the
overpayment in the allotment was that
Georges son had died and with his
death his father was not entitled to
the money. Although no word has re-
Gently been received from Peter
George, Jr., his father felt confident
he was still alive, as he was still re.
ceiving the monthly allotment and had
received no notice of his death from
the war department.
'Wabasha. - Monsignor Meximilian
Wurst, prominent In Catholic circles
Of southeastern Minnesota and widely
known throughout the country. died
here after an illness Of several months.
Monsignor Wurst had been pastor Of
st. Felix parish, Wabasha, since 1887.
He was ordained . priest In 1873 BY
Bishop Grace In the cathedral OF st.
Paul and shortly afterward was ap-
pointed assistant to the Rev. A. II.
Bruton, Rochester. Two years later
he was made the first resident pastor