The Tomahawk., 1919-11-06
STATE BRFvI1IES

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Moose Lake.-The Moose Lake
schools are serving hot soup at lunch
con for out-of-town pupils, under the
direction of Miss Loretta McGhee.
Pipestonc-Thee erection CT a stock
eales division on The county fair
grounds is now being plaAaca by the
members Of the Pipestone County
Breeders association.
Hastings-Rev. c.. c. Greenwood,
pastor of the Hastings Baptist church,
has accepted a call from the Baptist
church at Detroit, MINI. He will
preach his farewell sermon here No.
venlber 2.
Virginia.-Mayor Edward c. A.
Johnson for twelve years member of
the school board has resigned. He
declared the work of the board and
as mayor was taking too much of his
time.
. Trommald.-A. G. Gionet Of Ironton
was awarded the contract by the
Trommald school board to build two
room addition to the schoolhouse. It
ls expected to complete it by the be-
ginning of the new year.
Virginia.-No more collections will
various charitable and patriotic pur-
poses as a result of action taken by
Mesaba and Vermilion range school
buperintendents meeting at Ely.
Hallock.-Kittson county has enter
ed county and thirty individual ex-
hibits for the big potato show in con-
necti6n with the meeting of the Min
nesota Potato Growers association, to
be held in Moorhead, Nov. s, 6, and Z.
Rochester.-Dr. Christopher Graham
of Rochester has announced a gift of
land and property to Olmsted COun-
ty, to be used as fair grounds and avi-
alton fields. The gift comprises sew
!enty acres of land and 1000 in
buildings at the edge of the city.
Moorhead.-Clay county will fur
nish the Early Ohio potatoes for the
Minnesota exhibit of the Midwest
Horticultural exposition, to be held
at Des Moines, Iowa, Nov. II to IA.
The Minnesota exhibit will include the
eight standard varieties grown in the
state.
St. Paul. - r. F. MacDonough, for
four years secretary Of the ways and
means subdivision of the st. Paul as
sociation, has accepted the offer of the
Waterloo, Iowa, business men to be-
come general secretary of the Greater
Waterloo association and will leave In
about a month.
Minneapolis. - Henry L. Stimson,
former secretary of war; Charles W..
Whittlesey, who commanded the ia
NOUS lost battalion" and Sergeant
Alvin C. York of Tennessee are some
of the prospective visitors to the ma
tional convention of the American
legion here Nov. 10, II and 10
St. Paul-General G. c. Andrews,
secretary of the Minnesota State For
estry board, celebrated his ninetieth
birthday at his desk at the state CAPT.
tol building. General Andrews was
state senator from Douglas county in
1859. He enlisted in the Union army
in 1861 and was mustered out five
years later.
Wadena. Two 'Wadena county
cheese producers won prizes at the re.
cent national dairy show in Chicago.
Gottfried Meyer, cheesemaker at Gen.
trail, won first prize on his brick
cheese with score of 951a and was
awarded the gold medal. Leo Won ARK,
cheesemaker at Fawn Creek, won third
place with score of 94h and was
awarded the silver medal.
Wadena.-The contract for the con-
struction Of the nurses home at the
Wadena-Todd County sanatorium was
let in st. Paul to J. A. Mcdonald Con-
struction company of Minneapolis, with
the plumbing and heating contract let
to Charles Wilkins & Co., of Mime
apolis, and the electrical work and
light fixtures to J. M. Robb Of this
city. The total cost will be about $34,-
900.
st. Paul.-Preliminary to a fuel in
quiry in connection with the high cost
OF living Investigation by the state
agricultural department, Commissioner
H. N. Holmberg has begun collecting
Information on the fuel wood situa-
ton in Minnesota gathered by other
state departments. There are almost
unlimited quantities of fuel wood in
the state" said Mr.. Holmberg, "but
because Of labor costs and other con-
ditions wood prices are high in com
parison with those for coal. The de-
partment will try to find II there is
any way in which to reduce the prices
and encourage the use Of wood instead
Of coal"
Virginia. Nett Lake reservation
INDIAN, whose name had not been
learned here, was murdered on the
reservation, but word of the murder
did not reach the sheriff's Office here
until "a hours later. The victim 8
squaw is believed to have committed
the murder. Assistant County Attor-
ney Edward l.. Boyle, Deputy Sheriffs
William B. Shaver and ]. Lackery left
for the reservation by auto, but it is
not believed they will be able to pass
Cook, as eight inches Of snow is re-
y "A