The Tomahawk., 1923-11-29
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All & State
coodenssd Stories Of Happenings
Of The Week n Minnesota

for the annual district conference.
Montevideo-A public welfare and
law enforcement league was formed
here. Mayor ]. ]. Brown presided at
the preliminary meeting of the organ
iZation.
New UIm - Acting on the petition
Of many club women of this city, the
board Of education voted to permit
dances in the gymnasium of the high
school building.
GAINESVILLE - The Evangelical Trim
ity Lutheran church was dedicated
here in the presence of hundreds of
persons from all over the state.
Mankato Stockholders of Beth
any college have turned down the Of
fer to exchange the local college prop
erty for 1000 acres of North Dakota
land.
DuIuth-Dr. Smuel Carson McCor-
mick, SO, said to have been the oldest
practicing physician in the state and
one of the oldest members of the
Royal Arch Masons in the northwest,
died after an illness of seven months.
Thief River Falls - DR.. George Mi
Ian, for the last four and one-half years
medical director Of the Oakland Park
Sanatorium near this city, has ten
dered his resignation to the board of
directors.
Bio Falls - Bandits, who entered
this village by automobile cut all the
telephone wires leading out Of the
town, dynamited the safe Of the AL
Schalsby soft drink parlor and es-
capped with $500 in cash and checks.
Winona - Purchase Of the Young
Women's Christian association admin
istration building in this city by the
council of the Knights Of Columbus
was announced here. The building Is
to be used as lodge quarters and
clubhouse for the new owners.
Hibbing - Not only will the village
of Hibbing levy on the basis Of the
1923 population, as revealed by the re-
cent census, but 1t will levy for $780,
343.S7 more than it did several months
ago, according to a resolution passed
at a meeting Of the village council.
Rochester-Company A, Third in
fantry, which has been spending the
past two weeks on recruiting duty
here, has returned to Fort Smelling.
The company, composed of 60 men
commanded by Capt. o. c. Green, has
taken part in many local activities
during its stay.
chishoim-Hope of finding the
bodies OF Former Police Chief Oscar
Oska and Robert Banta, who were
drowned when their boat capsized in
rs feet of water, in Lake Winnibo-
gashish while they were returning
heavily laden with game. practically
was abandoned.
Marshall - Merwin Kiel, farmer
near here, has no cause to complain
of his corn crop this year. On tract
of AS acres Kiel will have more than
9,400 bushels of corn, the average be-
ing about IS bushels to the acre. Last
year the same field yielded 100 BUSH
els of corn.
Breckenridge - Authorities sent the
2h-year-old boy, found brutally beat
en- in an clubhouse at Nashua, back to
his father and little brother in Den
YER The father, John j. Randall, was
located through the efforts of Judge
Ben B. Lindsey, of the Juvenile court
at Denver, who reported to the Off
Gals here that the parent was an hon
est, Woodworking father who had
placed the child in care of couple
which recently disappeared from town.
Duluth - Handcuffed and locked in
a stateroom on board the steamer
Huronic, John Donald Lockwood, age
rs, former Toronto, Can, policeman,
who was detained here for the Fort
William, Ont, police where it Is said
he escaped from Jail Nov. 4, and who
was being returned to Fort William,
disappeared in mid-lake before the
ship reached Port Arthur and was
missing when Fort William authorities
met the boat to take him OFF.
Hibbing - Seventeen minutes after
the jury took the case, the jury re-
turned a verdict of not guilty in the
case of G. C. Alexander, charged with
ldTC6uy Ill COhucCtlOu Will pau
ding the payroll while superintendent
of schools. The verdict brings to an
end a trial which has been followed
with interest by the people of the en-.
tire range. This was the second trial
for Mr.. Alexander and his second ac-
quittal.
Faribault - State Highway Commits
sioner C. M. Babcock has notified
County Auditor Frank M. Kaisersatt
that Stems, Helmers and Schaffner,
contractors who built the Faribault-
Mortified concrete pavement on
Trunk Highway No. 1, cannot collect
$4,000 in damages which they have
asked from Rice county because Of an
alleged delay resulting from the coun-
tvs failure to furnish the proper sub
grades.
Annandale - The post Of the Amer
lean Legion co.operated with the
schools in observing Education Week
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