The Tomahawk., 1922-03-16
HAPPENINGS IN
GOPHER STATE
News From All Parts of Mime.
sofa Given in Condensed
Form.
EVENTS BRIEFLY TOLD
Where Busy Readers Will Find Newe
From All Parts Of State Tersely
chronicIed for Their
Benefit.

chronicled for Their
Benefit
Winona-More than 1000 rural visit.
ors came to Winona, guests OF mer-
chants at farmer day program.
Fairmont-American Legion officers
here assert that Fairmont veterans
now have the finest clubrooms in the
state.
Red Wing-Andrew Ellingson, aged
g., pioneer clothier, for IS years a
resident of Red Wing, died at his home
following a stroke of paralysis.
Alexandria - The new National
Guard armory for Company L, Sixth
Minnesota, was opened here with a
formal ball. The structure cost
100000.
Pipestone, Minn.-The congregation
Of the First Baptist church of Pipe
stone has extended a unanimc s. cali
to the Rev. G. o. Loken, of st. Paul,
to become pastor of the local church.
Moorhead.-St. Olaf college debaters
defeated the Concordia college team
here, debating the "open shop issue.
St. Olaf upheld the proposition that
the "open shop" is better for labor and
employer.
Virginia-Robert Rutherford, hotel
proprietor who was convicted OF ar
son and sentenced to three years at
Saltwater, is seeking new trial.
Rutherford was convicted of burning
a cottage at lake resort.
Duluth.-Frank Leo Dormal, aged
II, convicted Of second degree man.
slaughter for Staying Robert Luczak,
his Is year old playmate, was SEN
fenced to the state reformatory by
Judge Walter Cant in district court.
Duluth-Kasper Sokolinski, Polish
priest, who was convicted after sec
ond trial on a charge of second degree
grand larceny; was sentenced to serve
an indeterminate term at saltwater by
Judge Bert Feeler in district court
here. -'-2..':. =
Red Wing-Red Wings American
Legion will be known hereafter as Leo
c. Peterson post, in honor of soldier
of that name, who was killed in action
in the fall of 1918 in France. Peter
son had no parents living and his body
is buried in France. e, r.. 49,.
Minneapolis United States Su-
preme court refused to review Mike
Weisman's long fight to evade Fed
eral penitentiary term for conspiracy
to smuggle liquor. This means that
the Minneapolis man will go to Leav-
enworth prison within 60 days. .E.
Duluth-Coast guardsmen and gov.
ernment lighthouse keepers are daily
scanning moving ice foes in. Lake Su'
perior in the hope of picking up traces
of two small boats, which are believed
to have contained the bodies Of two
persons-James Maher, Cook county
commissioner, and Mrs. Alfred Peter
son, wife Of French River, Mimi,
fisherman, who were lost on the lake
In January. 49, ~.
,Crookston-"Give up your stills dur
ing Lent" was the advice given. his
parishioners by Bishop Corbett of the
Crookston Catholic diocese in Urging q
strict observance Of the Lenten sea
son. Everybody is running still"
declared the bishop. People trade
LIQUOR recipes like neighbors trade re-
cipes for cakes. Even high school
boys bring home liquor formulas from
school, Home brewing and moonshin-
ing seems to be the great popular in
door sport, but good Catholics should
forego making 1t during Lent" *:
Caledonia. Mrs. Gunder Midboe and
four children were drowned while her
husband and George Wesland, a neigh
Dor, escaped, when the sleigh drawn
by two, horses in which they were re-
turning to their farm home from visit
at the home of Mrs. Midboe's mother,
overturned in fording Beaver creek,
near Caledonia. Mr.. Midboe made a
vain attempt to save two Of the chill
dren, but lost them from his grasp in
the swift current. Wesland cllng to
the lines and was drawn ashore by the
horses. The children were aged 6. 4
and 2 years and months.
st. Paul. Thousands Of evergreen
trees for Arbor day planting are to be
given to Minnesota schools by the
division of forestry Of the University
of Minnesota, according to announce
ment from the University farm. Each
school may have rs small eyergreens
by request to the assistant SPERM
tendent of the forest experiment sta
ton at the University farm, if the
request is accompanied by Is cents
to cover the cost Of digging, packing
and shipping. The evergreens are to
be shipped from tho nursery at Clo-
quet in time for planting on Arbor
day. Requests for the trees nus be
at the University farm by April l.
Minneapolis After Investigating