The Tomahawk., 1919-07-03

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Solaraget, which was in session here.
Glyndon.-A meeting of the farmers
of this neighborhood was held at. Glyn~
don to plan systematic fight on the
grasshoppers. f.,
+ Blue Earth-Mrs. Rosa Peterson.
wife of Jens Peterson Of Emerald town!
ship, who had been acting strangely
for some weeks, hanged herself In jail
Waseca.-Three bandits held up the
night operator at the Minneapolis &
St. Louis depot here and rifled the till
of $25. They were unable to get into
the safe. .---
Thief River Falls.-V.. c. Noper, Nv-
ing Just east of the fair grounds here.
has brother animal to the bull which
was sold at the big sale of cattle at!
Moorhead for $65, 5,000s ~
Moose Lake.-Moose Lake is arrang.
ing for big Fourth of July celebra-
ton and Homecoming day for the re-
turned soldiers. Representative Theo-
dore Christianson will be the principals
speaker. >a s-~a g." = !
Mora.-Fire of unknown origin was
discovered in the old fire hall building,
which is now occupied by the George
E. Rice Potato company, in charge OF
w. M. Anderson, and It was badly
damaged. #~ n-s E.
St. Paul.-Forty forest fires reported
last month did $4,000 damage to state
and private property in the vicinity OF
Tower, according to reports to the
state forest service office from F. p
Murphy, forest ranger in that district.
Nashwauk. - The Great Northern
station agent here and assistants had
some trouble to induce cow that
wandered into the waiting room of the
depot recently, to leave, after the ami
NAL knocked map from the wall and
chewed up some timetables.
Virginia. - Several American SOL
diers of foreign birth are being exam
ined for citizenship in district court
here by r. X. Doe, Federal immigra'
tion bureau representative. Ten of
the number filed petitions for citizen
ship while they were overseas.
st. Cloud.-The remains of D. w.
Sprague, who died Of pneumonia In
Minneapolis on Dec. 81, 1918, and who
was at one time superintendent of the
St. Cloud schools, were brought to this
city by w. L. Klein and daughter-in-
law, Mrs. Horace Klein, for burial.
St. Paul.-Preliminary plans for in
vestigation and study Of state indus
trial accident compensation and q
state industrial accident fund were
formulated at an organization meeting
at the capitol, of the commission cre-
ated by the 1919 legislature for that
purpose. p
Stillwater.-Potato bugs have ap-
peared in great numbers since the
heavy rain of last Sunday in all Sec
tions Of Washington county, and In
some instances the bugs have eaten up
the vines so close to the ground that
1t has been almost impossible to save
them from complete destruction.
-Hibbing.-Walfred Stenberg, 81. OF
Alice, died at a local hospital of in
juries received in Brooklyn, when hts
motorcycle collided with an automo-
bile said to belong to Gust Anderson.
a contractor of Chisholm, he was
thrown, some distance receiving q
fractured leg and internal injuries. 81
Moorhead.-Dr. Patrick N. Barnes
of Fargo was taken to saltwater BY
Sheriff Dan w. Mcdonald to serve an
indeterminate sentence of from one to
five years. DIR. Barnes was convicted
in, Clay county district court on the
charge Of shooting and injuring
Charles Ottersetter at his home here
last winter. A.. q
Hibbing.-The question of the in
creased telephone charges will be
brought up at the next meeting of the
Commercial club on July 1. Local
business men and others having occa-
sion to use the lines between CHS
holm and Hibbing claim that q charge
of 10 cents is too much and that the
rate can be reduced. a.E.. .,..
st. Paul.--While Judge Grier M.
Orr in Ramsey county district court
was granting 20 divorces one day re-
Gently, James Drummond, marriage n
cense clerk in the Offices 81 the clerk
of the Ramsey county district court.
sold 21 marriage licenses. The day
was one of the busiest the divorce
mill has experienced in many years.
Little Falls-Hard-surfacing Of the
state road between Little Falls and
the Benton county line, which 1t had
been hoped would begin this summer.
will be indefinitely delayed as result
of the action Of the state highway COM
missioner in changing the route OF
State Road No. 2 from the Jefferson
highway and running 1t parallel elNwith
the Northern Pacific right-of-way.
st. Paula minimum wage of 23
cents an hour for all women and min
ors employed in Minnesota is proposed
in a tentative order adopted by the
Minnesota Minimum Wage commis+
sion. The tentative schedules for ap-
prentices will permit employment OF
those 1S or over at IS cents an hour
for three months, and q cents for the
second three months, the regular min
imum then to apply, and of those un-