The Tomahawk., 1919-10-09
STATE BRfWTlES


Aitkin.-Marriage licenses have been
issued to John Otto and Ionic NJ.
Samson, August H. Villnow and Leola
Ada Peysar, Donald A. Johnson and
Cecilia V. Swarmer. ax,.
Holdingford.-Thisv village has let q
contract for the construction Of the
first sewer project for the village. The
contract was let to the Illstrup & o.
son firm of Minneapolis.
st. Cloud.-The St. Cloud council Of
the knights Of Columbus has made
plans for two big limitations during
the fall season. The first will be held
on Oct. 26, and the second Nov. %.
East Grand Forks.-The wrecking Of
the old Moonshine hotel near the Min
nesota Point bridge, which is nearly
completed, marks the passing of one of
the prominent landmarks of the early
days in East Grand Forks.
Paynesville.-E. Selke, superintend-
ent of the Paynesville schools for the
last two years, has resigned to 90 with
the college Of education department
of the state university and will leave
Oct. to assume his new duties.
Brainerd.-A natural fish hatchery
has been located in the Full river
near the federal dam, by Deputy Game
Warden A. p. Cardle. More than 5O,-
900 bass, crappies and 0lue gill fry
have been obtained and transplanted.
Moorhead.-The Moorhead fire de-
partment, which will be host next
year to the Minnesota Firemen's asso-
citation, has adopted the street dance
as a means of raising funds for tho
entertainment of the Gopher state fire
fighters.
Mentor.-Richard Kolb, 10, was seri-
ously injured when attacked by a
vicious bull near Mentor. An arm was
broken, one of his legs were injured and
several body bruises were sustained.
The boy was taken to st. Vincent's
hospital, Crookston.
Moorhead. approximately $1,00O,-
900 will be spent in municipal improve
ments in Moorhead next year, a large
proportion of the city work having al
ready been started. Already plans
have been made for paving thirty-two
blocks.
Danube.-Robbers entered the Dan
ube State bank some time during the
night and secured $40 in cash and
some Liberty bonds from the vault
Entrance was gained through a back
window. Three feet of brick work in
the vault was removed to allow q man
to crawl through.
Pillager-Throughou South Cass
and North Morrison counties farmers
are harvesting their potato crop, and
although the yield per acre is slightly
below normal, It is believed that the
large acreage this year will mean the
production of the largest crop in the
history of the county.
East Grand Forks.-The potato har-
vest in the vicinity Of East Grand
Forks has become general. The aver
age yield seems to be about $50 bushels
to the acre although there are q num-
ber of farms yielding ITO to 200 BUSH
els and unverif1ed reports even run
the yield up to near the 300-bushel
UUdTA uAOoOto 7 O1lS A0AuSs
Bemidji.-An extensive sheep ranch.
embracing a section of fine grazing
land north Of Bass Lake and between
Turtle Lake, with more to be added, IL
being fenced to accommodate several
thoufand sheep and cattle owned by
L. H. White, extensive livestock dealer
and shipper Of Cogswell, N. d., who
has purchased the tract from J. J. Op-
saht of Bemidji.
Crookston.-Congres Steener-
son of the Ninth congressional dis
trict, spent several days at his home
here. He came from hearing on the
increase Of salaries of postmastsrs,
held in st. Paul. From Crookston Mr..
Steenerson went to Chicago to attend
q similar hearing. The congressman is
q member of the house committee on
postoffices and post roads.
Marshall-Marshall has a new kind
Of poker game. A game where all Of
the players lose. Two unlimited guests
at an old lumber shed where a game
was in progress among some threshers
covered the five card men with re-
volvers and compelled them to hand
over all their money The robbers
made good their escape before Sheriff
Monroe was notified of the theft.
Ivanhoe.-The dynamite case, in
which Martin Mikulewicz, of this place,
named several defendants and asked
that they pay him the sum Of $25, 900
for injuries he received on the night
of July 1. 1916, by reason Of the ex.
plosion OF . stick Of dynamite being
used in connection with a premature
Fourth Of July celebration, was dis
missed in the district court here With
out coming to trial.
Mankato.-"I stole these chickens
from Mr.. Hopkins" So read q sign
carried through the streets by . de-
jected appearing Westbrook citi1en,
~ he plodded along dusty paths and
kept his downcast gaze on q truck In
front of him, on which the stolen
chickens were being exhibited to the
public. Hopkins, who lives at Man
kato, had suffered the loss Of chickens
ON several occasions and investiga-