The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1921-03-17
HAPPENINGS IN
GOPHER STATE
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sofa Given in Condensed
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Where Busy Readers viii Find News
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ChronicIed for Their
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briefs hospital.
Pipestone-'rhirteen former service
men qualified da all examination here
to receive vocational training PROVIDED
by the government.
Luverne-The 4 year old son OF Ca
sey Van Batavia was drowned IN a
foot of water in rainbarrel at their
farm home near here.
Hastings-At meeting OF the Hast
ings board of education tonight E. A
Durbahn was elected superintendent OF
schools for the coming year.
Fergus Falls-Wreck Of fast
freight train on the Great Northern
railroad at Parkdale, south OF this city,
blocked traffic over that line several
hours.
New Richland-Plans were made for
a fast semi-professional baseball club
here this summer at meeting which
formed the New Richland Baseball as
ISOLATION. -,
Marshall-D. E. Brunskill and Louis
Hanson, both of Russell were badly in
jured when the automobile in which:
Lucy were SAooAASu AA VAN >~~>7
and turned over.
Worthington-Henry Wasslund, 50
years old, for 20 years farmer in De-
.wald township, committed suicide by
hanging himself from rafter In a
barn on his farm
Grand ,Rapids-The farmers insti'
tute meetings planned for Itasca coun'
ty March Is to 10 inclusive are attract
ing considerable attention from the
farmers in the county.
MINNEAPOLIS labor condi'
lions in Minnesota were reported sat-
isfactory by an executive committee OF
the Minnesota Building Employers as
ISOLATION, which met here at the Build
ers Exchange.
Minneapolis Minneapolis public lib
rary patrons during 1920 read 1857, 1854
looks. Of these, 1,O95,603 were read
hy those who borrow their books from
the branch libraries and 298,245 by
those who use the central library.
St. Paul.Thomas Dixon, Negro, who
on February % shot and instantly
killed Mrs. Alberta Williams and Miss
Rose Brown, was sentenced to StillWa'
ter prison for life, when he pleaded
guilty to murder in the second degree.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. authorities OF
Chippewa and Lac qui Parle counties
have been unable to solve the mys:
terry which surrounds. the death OF
Sam Robinson, s. years old, livery
man of this city. Robinsons frozen
| body was found not far from this place
on Feb. 20.
Bemidji-A modern junior and se'
nior high school building will be erect
ed on the site of the school recently
destroyed by fire, the board OF educa'
ton decided. The new school will
have a capacity of 800 students and
will be one OF the best educational
buildings in the northwest.
Minneapolis-Gas consumers who
have failed to pay the Minneapolis
Gas Light company the difference be-
tween the temporary rate of 5 cents
a thousand cubic feet and the perma'
nent rate of $1.14 for the period from
February 10 to July rs, 1920, were or
dered to pay or have their gas shut on
by Judge Wilbur F. Booth in the Uni
ted States district court. -..
st. Paul-Every possible aid to
those who knock at our doors" is
urged by Royal A. Stone, state Ameri'
canization chairman of the American
Legion, in bulletin which just has
been issued. The bulletin urges aid
in education by establishment of eve
ming schools where none now exist,
and by aiding new arrivals. to obtain
employment. ,<M. III 49,.
Nergus Falls Ross Petrie killed him.
SELF at his home, near this city. A
party in honor of his twenty-second
birthday anniversary was held +. and
when it was over he expressed a wish
to shoot himself A gun was taken
away from him, but he slipped away
in the night and hanged himself to q
tree. Disappointment in love affair
is given as the cause.
Minneapolis-One hundred seventy
boys from all parts of Minnesota, ex-
ceiling in club work designed to IL.
crease and improve production of live
stock, grains and other farm products,
are to be given free trips to the 1921
Minnesota State Fair and memberships
in the annual boys camp at the fair
grounds. Two boys Is years or over
who have made the best records this
year will be selected from each county
for the trip in 1922. s..-s Ill
N1inneapolis-Pat Murphy, alleged
millionaire lumberman of Gilbert, who
operates soft drink place. for diver.
sion, was one of the Is men arrested
by federal prohibition agents in a Sc
ries Of raids last night at Eveleth, Gil.
bert, Little Falls, Chaska and Waconfa,
Paul D. Keller, supervising federal pro
hibitioa agent, reported. .s
Rochester-Artie Naow, japanese
restaurant proprietor, was arrested
charged with the manufacture Of moos.
shine S:spicio2 was drawn to Naow
when the sewer at his home became
clogged. Plumbers seund raisins
caused tie trouble.