The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1920-03-18
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Bemidji.-A. T. Carlson, city chair
man of the Near East relief drive, re-
Gently held in Bemidji, reports
s1,OO7.4O was secured, while the ex-
penses were only $17.O3.
Stillwater-Five aliens were ad-
mitted to citizenship in district court
by Judge J. N. Searles, out of class
of 10. One of the men in the class
could not answer the simplest ques-
ton propounded by r. S. Coleman OF
St. Paul.
Winona.-Carl Rott, formerly of
washington Springs, S. D., has pur-
chased the 6S3-acre farm located at
Ridgeway, Winona county, from land
man in this city. The price paid for
the farm is said to have been in excess
of $4,000.
Owatonna.-More than $500 of
Steele county's $4,000 quota for the
Near East relief fund has been raised,
according to officials of the county
executive committee. Efforts will be
made to complete the quota within the
next two weeks.
Medford.-The Medford graded and
high schools have opened again after
having been closed because of the in
fiuenza epidemic. The epidemic is
believed to have died out entirely in
this section, all remaining cases OF
the disease being convalescent.
St. PAULA stubborn fire of spec
tacular proportions, which threatened
to spread to three small hotels, de-
stroyed the Rialto theater. Firemen
fought the blaze for five hours. The
temperature was S deg. below zero.
Loss is estimated at 100000.
St. James.-St. James district re-
ported it's quota raised for the Near
East Relief in the campaign for $780,
600 to be raised in the state for the
famine stricken Armenians. Will Cur
tbs, publisher of St. James Plain
dealer, is chairman of the district.
Hibbing-A jury in the case of the
state against John McGrath of Bull
returned verdict of not guilty after
| being out two hours. McGrath, a
member of the Bull board of educa-
ton, was charged with fraudulently
presenting claims to public officials. ~
Crookston.-The heaviest thaw of
the season has caused residents OF
northern Minnesota to prepare for the
final break of the winter. On &C
count of the heavy snow, serious floods
are expected. More than 81 inches OF
snow have fallen in this district this
winter.
Sn6f to
the number of 400 from all parts OF
southeastern Minnesota gathered here
for a banquet and exemplification of
the first, second and third degrees.
The work was under direction of Wi
mona Council, No. $50. Knighthood
was conferred on class of SIS.
Red Wing.--That Red Wing is a
motor boat town in every sense of the
word is demonstrated by a glance at
the city assessors tax records, which
show that at least $4,000 annually is
collected on motor boats owned in
this city. OF this sum $4,000 is Fed
eral tax while $1,000 is local tax.
Worthingham.-The high cost Of
material will not interfere with. paw
ing operations in Worthington this
year. The city council has let the
contract for Sc blocks of paving and
this added to the work yet to be done
on last years contract will make a
total of 100 blocks to be paved this
year.
Chatfield.-Mr. and Mrs. William
Brooks Of this place celebrated their
Goth wedding anniversary here. They
were married at High Forest, near
here, in 1860. The family consists Of
five children, 10 grand children and
six great-grandchildren. OF the 70
guests present, not one had before at
tended a diamond wedding celebra-
ton.
Duluth-Although fire sufferers in
the Cloquet district are willing that
all claims for losses growing out of
the 1918 fires be pooled and tried as a
single lawsuit, it became known here
that the United States railroad ad-
ministration disapproved the plan. It
is probable that individual suits will
be started.
Moorhead.-Charges that they per-
mitted al least 100 of their flock of
sheep on their farm near Moorhead to
starve to death were preferred against
Gutfried and Oscar Danielson. States
Attorney G. H. Rustad, who issued the
warrants, said an official investigation
disclosed several piles of dead sheep
on the place, with at least $50 more
sheep in an emaciated condition.
st. Paul.-Return Of the railroads
to private ownership under the new
Esch-Cummins law leaves the regu-
lating powers Of the Minnesota state
railroad and warehouse commission
almost in the same status as before
Federal control, members of the COM
mission said.
minneapolis reports of Maj
Gen. E. H. Crowder, provost marshal
general, received by E. P. Hoover,
army recruiting officer, Minneapolis,
show that Minnesota still has 3,42S