The Tomahawk., 1923-09-13

nual vacation.
Virginia - Petitions seeking to
amend the city charter, abolishing the
police and fire commission and the
water and light commission were ap-
proved by the charter commission.
currle-Fish in Lake Shetak and ad.
Joining sloughs are dying in large
numbers. Many more thousands Of
fish will die this fall and winter at
Lake Shetak owing to the low stage of
the water there.
Faribault-Five persons were injur-
ed, one fatally, on Trunk Highway
No. 60, near Waterville, when a tour
ing car plunged over a 40-foot embank-
ment and into Lake Shataha, 1t was
learned here. julius Teske, Fari-
bault, died after the accident.
MarshaII-Judge A. B: Gislason, re-
Gently named by Governor ]. A. o.
Preus as special district court Judge
Of this district, has removed from
Minneota to Marshall to reside and
will make this city his official head
quarters in the future.
Winona - The new selfpropelled
steel barge, La Crosse, en- route from
st. Louis to st. Paul, was in Mime
sofa waters on it's maiden trip de-
signed to test the possibilities of
freight transportation on the upper
Mississippi by other than steamship
and towboat methods.
Moorhead-Ole Swanson, aged 81,
is dead from fractured skull and in
ternal injuries received when his car
overturned, pinning him and his son,
Sigfred, 10, unconscious beneath it..
Mr.. Swanson never regained consci.
BUSINESS. The boy is recovering from
minor injuries.
st. CharIes-Loss aggregating $780,
600 resulted when fire. of undeter-
mined origin destroyed one OF the
most modern farm plants in this sec.
ton of the state on the Fred S. Pea.
body place, four miles east of here.
Loss is partially covered by $4,000
insurance.
Hibbing-This is the day for educa-
ton and married folks as we'll as
single folks are taking advantage of
it here. The registry files of the high
school for this year show that there
are three married women enrolled for
high school work and two graduates
registered for postgradutes work.
Two Harbors-A. H. jam, IS years
old, was instantly killed when his
car turned turtle about two blocks
west of the city limits. The driver
was scalped in the wreck, dying in
stantly, physicians stated. He was
the owner of pool hall and was on
his way home at the time of the &C
cident. He is survived by Mrs. jam
and two children.
Minneapolis Dropping into the
Minnesota State Fair from $50 miles
away in l hour IS minutes became
reality when two Truman, Mimi, farm.
ers landed at the Wold-Chamberlain
Twin City airport. They are Walter
Ritz, 20 years old, who farms $50
acres out of Truman, and Victor st.
John, 40 years old, a machiAist and
farmer in the town.
OrtonviIIe-The Gold & Co. elevator
at Big Stone City, s. D., near here,
was burned to the ground causing a
loss estimated at 100000. The Orion.
vile fire department was summoned,
but the firefghters were unable to
check the flames. Approximately 49,
900 bushels of small grain was con-
sumed.
st. cIoud-Mrs. George NJ. Osborne,
state president of the American
Legion auxiliary; Miss Blanche Seal.
Ion, state secretary, and Mrs. Sandy
Hamilton, past state president, of Min
neapolis; Mrs. A. V. Denman, state
treasurer, and DR.. Helen Hughes He'll
scher, in charge of disqualification, OF
Mankato, represented the American
Legion auxiliary at the laying of the
corner stone of the new neuropsychi.
atric hospital here.
Elk River-Arthur N. Dare, pioneer
newspaper man of Minnesota and
former speaker of the House of Rep
ulcu at HIS mere,
following an illness of long duration.
Mr.. Dare, who was born in Jordan,
N. Y, 70 years ago, came to Mime
sofa, settling at Elk River in 1875,
and started the Star-News three years
later. He was elected to the Minneso.
ia state legislature in 1895 and. was
returned to that body for three con-
secutive sessions, being chosen speak
er of the House during the term Of
1899. He was a Republican.
nneapoIis-Applicatio for loans
received by the Minnesota Rural Cred
it's board Appropriated $1S,5oo,OOO at
the end of August, according to COM
pilation of the bureaus activities just
made by the Ninth District banker.
The number Of applications is now
more than 1900, there having been
1888 received from the time the board
began to function to July 81 and more
than nine hundred in. August. The
value of the loans sought up to July
81 was $S,0O6,694, while approximate