The Tomahawk., 1919-10-16

the state investment board. The money
will be used to help in payment OF
the cost of building the new Third
ward school building.
Moorhead-Frank Robotka OF the
University Farm, St. Paul, has been In
this section to make preliminary ar
rangements for short course in book
keeping by the officers of farmers CO.
operative organizations.
Farmington.-The school teachers OF
Pennington have petitioned the school
board for SIS month increase. No
action was taken by the school board
at its regular meeting. The salaries
Of the teachers now range from $50 to
$125. -.
St. Cloud.-Letters have been re-
ceived here from large manufacture
ing concern in Middle Grandville, N.
Y, making inquiries as to the granite
production here and the possibilities
of obtaining and unlimited amount Of
crushed granite.
st. Paul.-Nine cases of influenza in
St. Paul and twelve in the state at
large were reported during September,
according to figures issued by the state
board of health. Outside of st. Paul
not more than two cases were listed
in. any community.
Owatonna.-Steele county now has
two posts of the American Legion, the
second, at Blooming Prairie, having
just been temporary organized with
membership of nearly ESQ. Plans
are being made for Its formal organ
ization some time late this month.
Winona.-As a result of eating pois-
oned berries, it is said, Mildred Eaves,
years old, is dead and the mother,
Mrs. Owen Eaves, and another child
are critically ill at their home at Alma,
Wis. All were taken violently i'll with
convulsions. The authorities are In
vestigating.
Two Harbors.-The Duluth & Iron
Range railroad has laid off two of It's
train crews hauling ore from the Yer.
million range, presumably as a con-
sequence of the strike at Ely. The
company has II trains in operation
to bring the bulk of its business here
by way of Biwabik.
were hosts to the returned service men
of this section. A banquet with num-
Der of prominent men of the state as
speakers, football game between a
squad from Pillsbury academy and the
Blooming Prairie high school eleven
marked the days program.
Virginia.-Edward Nyquist, Herman
Hyvonen and Albert Nyquist, farmers
living near Biwabik, who were arrest
ed by Gaze Warden George E. Wood
on a charge of killing a moose out
of season at Birch lake, waived exam
ination before Judge Carey here and
announced they would plead guilty In
district court.
Pipestone.-The knights of Colum.
bus council of this city made plans
for the initiation of class of Is last
Sunday. The first and second degree
were conferred by the Pipestone coun.
Gil and the third degree was exempt.
fed by a degree team from Minneap'
oils. 1t was the first big initiation that
the local council has had in the last
two years.
Bemidji.-Mayor L. F. Johnson, who
was asked by a vote of to to re.
sign by the city council said he would
take the matter under consideration
and denied he was responsible for al
legged bad conditions. The mayors
resignation was asked in a resolution
adopted by the council to straighten
out bootlegging conditions which have
existed for some time.
st. Paul.-Actual field work has
been~started to determine methods Of
preventing floods in the Minnesota
River valley. Similar investigations
In the Red Lake and Roseau river
basins will be undertaken when pend
ing negotiations with Canadian Off.
cials handling interrelated problems
are completed, according to e, v. VII.
lard, state drainage engineer.
: Pipestone.-W. C. Anderson was
elected first mayor of Hatfield. newly
Incorporated village, at the initial elec-
ton. Theodore Smallfield, Nick Pech-
on and ]. H. Wiener were chosen as
councilmen; w. NJ. Smith. clerk; N. J..
Nilsson, treasurer, and John A. Thomp-
son, Justice of the peace. Hatfield is
the second village in the county to in
corporate during the present year.
st. Paul.-Minnesota's $40, 0,000, 900
soldiers bonus law may be subjected
to court tests to establish it's consti.
tutionality and Validity beyond any
question. Such action 10 contemplated
by bond concerns purposing to buy tho
certificates Of Indebtedness offered un.
der the law. Any litigation that il
commenced probably Will mean from
thirty to ninety days delay in the be-
ginning of the actual payments of bon
uses, 1t was semi-omcially stated.
Deer Rivera 9-month-old baby Of
. woman from . range town whose
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