The Tomahawk., 1919-07-31


for the increase.
Albany.-At a meeting of the presi-
dents, secretaries and buttermakers OF
the cooperative cFeameries OF
Stearns county held here on Thursday
an association to be known as the
Stearns County Cooperative Cream
cry association was formed.
Crookston.- and Penning-
ton county farmers who suffered loss
from this years floods in those coun-
ties, will receive aid from the Red
River Valley Development associa-
tion, according to c. G. Selvig, Crook
ston, secretary of the association:
st. Paul.-Roy Albert Sharp, Albert
Lea, yesterday pleaded guilty to q
charge of being a Stacker when he
was arraigned before Samuel Whaley,
United States commissioner. He was
held under $500 bail to appear at the
~Mankato term of district court October
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Minneapolis.-A special committee
Of the Minneapolis common council
will consider q plan to purchase army
foodstuffs and sell them to the public
at q municipal market. Alderman T.
@. Dahl said he believed the plan
would help to reduce the high cost OF
living.
Moorhead.-Tornado insurance to
the amount Of $5O,500 will be placed
on the Clay county courthouse, it was
decided by the Clay county board of
commissioners. Andrew o. Houglum,
Clay county auditor, also was author
ICED to take out tornado insurance on
the county jail.
Minneapolis.-No more army pa
tients will be received at the Fort
Smelling General Hospital No. 20, it
was announced yesterday. Gonzales
cents are being discharged as rapidly
as possible in preparation for closing
the hospital August 1. Those remain
ing will be transferred.
Jackson.-Jackson county officials
are searching for an automobile party
of. seven men who forced entrance
into the home of Francis l.. West, .
farmer living nine miles south of Win
dom, held up Mrs. West, q. farm hand
and Mrs. Vests boy, and looted the
cellar which contained $50 cases Of
whisky valued at $4,000.
Minneapolis. - Ten thousand new
box cars will be furnished to the North
west for the handling of the 1919
grain crop, according to A. J. Strouts,
chairman of the grain control commit
tee Of Twin City terminals. Four thou.
sand of the new cars already are on
their way to Minneapolis, by order Of
the Railway administration, he said.
st. Paul.-Until the national defense
act Of 1916 is amended, Minnesota
probably will not lose any of its Ma
tional guard strength, 1t is believed by
Col. H. A. Hanigan, inspector-instruc.
tor, who said yesterday the War de-
partment order limiting guard
strength to 200 officers and men for
each senator and representative in
Congress probably applies only to
states which did not organize guard
units under the act Of 1916.
Onvia.-Running at IS miles an
hour, the westbound Olympiah, coast
train on the Milwaukee railroad,
struck an open switch here and the
engine and eight coaches, all steel
cars, left the rails. Fireman Frank
Frederickson and Arthur Bonniwell,
coal inspector, both of Minneapolis,
were scalded. The train ran onto .
siding and the engine plowed into two
empty stock cars, smashed them ard
turned over in the ditch. Kenneth
Ferguson, Minneapolis, engineer, stuck
to his post and was uninjured.
Eveleth.-John Smith, claimed to be
the oldest man living in the world,
and his adopted son, Thomas E. Smith,
who were here most Of last week.
were forced to leave when Mayor Ed
ward H. Hatch learned that they were
partaking too freely of firewater. It
could not be learned whether Smith
got his whisky in Eveleth or whether
he brought it with him, but he had It,
and the effects we're very evident.
Faribault.-Fred J. Oster, 13, Of
Belle PLANE, was drowned at the
school for feeble-minded and apoplec
tic children here. While playing with
other children in charge of an instruc-
tor he became separated from the
party and when found some time after
wards was lying face down in creek.
to the coroner's report he
probably was seized with an apoplec-
tic 1T while crossing the stream and
fell in.
Brainerd.-J. T. Carey, Of Albany,
N. Y, international president Of tie
union, and ]. p. Burke,
of Fort Edward, N. Y, international
president of the pulp and sulphite
workers, have arrived here. New
schedules are being considered by the
and paper making indus
tries.
Mankato.-Bethany college incorpo-
rated is the title of q new corpora-
ton which was organized with $780,
600 capital to take over the property
Of Bethany college and operate the
school - . semin&8y for Lutheran
girls.