The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1921-12-08

ercises of tn Mankato teachers COL
lege, II graduates received their d.
plomas.
Duluth-Severt Lekve, aged "a, for
mer municipal judge at Hibbing and
a pioneer resident of northern Mime
sofa, is dead at a hospital here.
Hibbing-The Rotarians at their
weekly MONDAY luncheon went on rec
ord as favoring bond issue to take
up the outstanding indebtedness of the
city.
affirmed former decision holding the
railroad companies and the govern
ment responsible for damage caused
by the forest fire of 1913 in Northern
Minnesota.
Red Lake Falls-Red Lake county
has just received $13,240 from R. P.
Chase, state auditor, this amount be-
ing the county's share Of the $685.
1875 of special school aid approprit-
ed by the last legislature.
Hibbing-What is considered one OF
the best yields per acre in oats in this
section of the country is the record
claimed for the John Olson farm, To-
Gated in the Swandale farming region.
Oats went IS bushels to the acre.
st. Paul-Colonel E. l.. Butts, as
signed to the Minnesota National
guard as senior instructor, and who
won two citations for bravery while
he served throughout the World war
on the British front, arrived Friday
in st. Paul. ..
Red Lake Falls - Final arrange
ments for the third annual show OF
the Red Lake County Poultry associ-
alton are now being made by Presi.
dent Kruger and Secretary S. A. Rice
Of Plummer and committee of the
Red Lake Falls Commercial club.
misunderstanding to Dennis Bow,
in charge Of the state mine offices
here, ore shipments from the mines OF
Minnesota to the docks at Duluth,
Two Harbors and Superior for the
season totaled 17,433,359 tons, as COM
pared with 39,570,197 tons in 1920.
Fergus Falls-From reports received
by Paul H. Kirk, Minnesota agricul-
tural statistician, from growers, buyers
and shippers of commercial potatoes,
it is estimated that the carlot move
ments of Minnesota potatoes for 1921
will be about 22,734 cars compared
with slightly more than $4,000 for
1920.
St. Paul-Adjutant General w. f.
Rhinow was notified that equipment
for the First Minnesota Observation
- i, <~y;v, oft ha
warded by the war department within
short time. The equipment includes
1S airp1anes, cameras, and various
other apparatus.
neapolis-Andrew johnson, a
farmer from Kenyon, has asked police
to aid him in the search for his
brother, Mons Johnson, who was a
mechanic for Minneapolis motorcab
company until a few months ago, when
he disappeared from his lodgings. The
brother feared foul play, he said.
Cook-John Wilkin, living nine
miles west of here, was found muir.
dered in his cabin. A broken window
pane indicated, authorities said, that
he had been shot by an unknown as
sailant while he lay in bed. The body
was taken to Virginia. Authorities ex-
pressed the belief that 'Wilkin had
been dead at least a week.
Red Lake Falls-L. E. Healy, chair
man of the Red Lake County Child
Welfare board, was at Thief River
Falls to meet other members of the
committee on arrangements for. a re
gional conference of child welfare
workers of Roseau, Marshall, Red Lake
and Pennington counties to discuss
plans for the enforcement of laws re-
lating to children. - IT,. ''.'~ - -.
St. Paul-E. M. Phillips, state high
school inspector appearing before the
joint commission on education in ses-
sion at the capitol, denied the state
department of education has made
numerous threats to take state aid
away from schools in case new build
ings were not erected. Mr.. Phillips
said he believes state aid for schools
in some cases should be curtailed
rather than increased.
Faribault-"Road of Remembrance"
the highway beautiful of all Mime.
sofa, will be the description of ali
tourists of the Jefferson highway
pavement from Fariba"lt to North
field, If the plans Of DR.. Allen Hoban
of Carleton college, are carried out.
DR.. Hoban proposes that the twin
cities" Of Rice county, Faribau1t and
Mortified, unite on q project of plant
ing shade trees along the entire
length of the highway between the two
municipalities. 49, y 49,: III
Minneapolis = Sixteen agricultural
associations, four Of them with mem
bers throughout the state numbering
several thousand in each, have com.
bined to give from Dec. Is to 16, at
the Hennepin county courthouse,
what is believed will be the greatest
agricultural exhibition, exclusive of
livestock, the state has ever. seen.
More than 1000 competing entries
have heer made Thonaands NJ Vic