The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1920-10-07
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| AQrlan-JOnu 1HOLupbOu AUc DooAA
commissioned postmaster at Lismore.
| Owatonna-The Steele County Horse
Breeders association has been formed
here.
| Winona--Four persons were injured,
two seriously. as result Of headon
collision between an automobile and
streetcar. The machine was COM
pletely demolished.
St. Cloud-Daniel Perkins, for many
years prominent In st. Cloud G.. A. Il.
circles, is dead. Perkins served with
the First Minnesota regiment until at
ter Lees surrender.
Bemidji-Nellie Brooks, 10, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Brooks, was &C.
cidentally shot in the back by her older
sister while the two were hunting near
their home. She will recover.
st. Paula recount Of st. Paul
seems assured, following an offer by
Commissioner A. r. Smith that the po-
lice and fire departments be enlisted
as enumerators in taking census.
Canby-Because the public hospital
at Balaton did not prove paying pro-
position, the institution has been clos
ed and the equipment has been sold
to the new hospital to be opened az
Tyler.
Winona-Potatoes are being sold on
the streets here for rs cents bushel
while a produce house is paying $1.15
per hundred pounds. The prospects
for big crop in this locality are much
better
Montevideo-Plans have been COM
pleted for district meeting of the Amer
lean Legion in Montevideo on Oct 8.
Delegates from all of the posts in the
seventh congressional district will be
in attendance.
Canby-Miss Clara Peterson of Can
by, was perhaps fatally injured when
the automobile in which she was riding
ran off the road and turned over. Two
of Miss Peterson's ribs were broken,
one of which penetrated her lungs.
Owatonna - The Owatonna city
council has authorized special COM
mittee to draw up a resolution propos-
ing a bond issue which will empower
the city to buy or contract municipal
lighting, power, heating and gas plant.
Minneapolis-The dates of the Min
nesota potato show and Minnesota Po-
tato Growers convention have been
advanced to Nov. 8, 9 and 10, accord
ing to A. G. Tolaas, secretary. The
Official program Is now being prepared.
Blue Earth-The large barn on the
Hanson farm, near this city was de-
stroyed by fire, resulting in the loss OF
this years hay crop, several hundred
bushels of oats and other feed, in ad-
dition to some machinery and farm
tools.
Hibbing-Joseph Bescheant of Du-
luth made an unsuccessful attempt to
kill himself in the Hibbing jail. He
stabbed himself with a knife. Another
prisoner notified the turnkey, who
called physician. Bescheant will re-
cover.
Hastings-Joseph Pleskalt, 30 years
old, is being held at the Dakota county
jail here without charge, pending the
outcome of the coroner's inquest into
the death of his wife, Katherine Pies
kalt, whose body was found in swamp
near South st. Paul Sunday.
St. Paul-State institutions are sure
to be hard pressed for coal this winter,
members of the state board of control
said, after conference with A. l..
Flynn of the railroad and warehouse
commission. There is little or no coal
stored for winter use, board members
said.
Minneapolis-Five carloads of REIN
deer carcasses, sent frozen from
Nome, Alaska, for consumption as
meat in the United States, reached
consigned to the Ornes'
Eswein corporation, American distrib.
utors for that product. The shipment
comprises 1000 animals and is part of
a $4,000 consignment of which the
remainder is expected in early In DC.
tober.
st. Paul-Three thousand persons
attended the laying of the cornerstone
Of new clubhouse building at Rice
street and Aurora avenue, which will
be occupied by the Associated German
American societies Of St. Paul. Ad'
dresses extolling the efforts of citizens
of German descent who helped the |
nation in time of peril and their pro- |
gress in pursuit of peaceful industries |
we're made by Senator F. B. Kellogg, |
Mayor Hodgson, l.. r. s. Ferguson,
Of education, and other |
officials.
st. Paul-John F. Fulton, Jr., st. |
Paul, was chosen as the 1921 Rhodes |
scholar from Minnesota, to be one of |
64 scholars chosen to represent the
United States at Oxford for the next !
three years, according to an announce
ment made by Prof. Frank Aydelotte |
Of the Massachusetts Institute Of Tech 7
nology, American secretary of the !
Rhodes trustees. .
Minneapolis-Th city council and ,
the board OF estimate and taxation, at
their next meeting, will be asked to
authorize bond Issue Of 1920, 600 to
build six new schools within the next
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