The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1923-08-23

SwdtoHnd burglars euleIeu tho Va
fees Of the Central Cooperative OIL
association here, blew the safe and
obtained cash totalling about 500.
WilImar The Methodist church
was dedicated here with appropriate
ceremonies, in charge Of Bishop
Charles B. Mitchell of st. Paul.
Fairmont-Magnus Johnson, newly
elected United States senator, has
accepted an invitation to attend the
Martin county fair and deliver an ad-
dress. The fair dates are Sept. 26,
q, % and 29.
Grand Rapids-Cushman Dunn, Is
years old, Of Cohasset escaped prob
able fatal injury when an automobile
struck the boys pony which he was
riding. The pony was killed and the
automobile smashed. The Dunn boy
was tossed over the automobile.
Observation-Disclosures for the lower
ing of Swan lake, in Nicollet county,
have notified their attorneys at New
Ulm to take steps to appeal from the
recent decision Of Judge A. B. Gisla-
son in the Nicollet county district
court, denying the petition of those
wishing to drain the lake.
Rochester-Olmsted county at the
present time seems to be afflicted with
plague of crickets. Merchants have
complained that they are entering
stores in large numbers. Housewives
say they have innumerable crickets.
This is particularly true in the coun-
try districts. At night they are espe-
cially annoying.
Faribault-Rice county will be
forced to import rural school teachers
for the first time in several years, &C.
cording to John H. Lewis, county SUI.
perintendent of schools. There Is a
lack Of local teachers, caused by mar.
riages and changes to higher positions
by teachers who were in rural schools
last year.
Fergus FalIs-James Chapman and
three sons were brought to the hospi.
tai here having been injured by the ex.
plosion OF a gun. One of the boys
laid the gun down on the kitchen
stove with a shell in the barrel and
1t exploded, scattering bits of gun
metal all over the ROOM The mother
and three sons were all seriously in.
jured, particularly the younger son.
Observation-Disclosures petitioning
congress for an increase of pay to SIS
mile a year for each mile covered.
making "a mile route pay $1,000 a
year, and longer routes in proportion,
were passed by the Minnesota Fedora.
ton Of Rural Route Carriers at their
annual meeting here. The carriers
also passed a resolution asking con.
gress for law allowing Carriers to
retire after 80 years of service, with
an allowance of $50 a month.
Waseca-After a salesman for a
stock tonic" had secured orders from
Is farmers in this vicinity for 100
pound lots, it was found the supposed
contracts they had signed were nego-
table notes, and that they were in
possession of local bank. The farm
ers protested they had not signed any
notes, and the stuff ordered hadn't
come, so the bank returned the checks
uncollected, and the signers are
awaiting the next move.
Thief River FaIls-The sugar beet
committee of the Thief River Falls
Commercial club, headed by H. w.
Pritzeler, is at work on a plan to ad.
vertise the possibilities of this section
to people residing in other parts of
the country. When the best harvest
is at it's height next fall, it is the in.
tention of the committee to arrange
for a special train to carry about so
carloads of beets in one shipment to
the factory in Mason City.
Redwood FaIIs-A new district of
the Order Of the Eastern Star, to be
known as district No. AZ, has been
formed by dividing the sixth district.
Mrs. William H. Ball of Redwood
Falls has been named as district
deputy grand matron for the new dis.
trict. Included in the new district will
be the chapters at Winthrop, Red.
wood Falls, Morton and Fairfax, those
at Marietta, Wood Lake, Dawson and
A'A"NASoh ASAAoAAAh5 Ill thC olAlh ulS.
trict.
MinneapoIis-The Minnesota State
Bar association will hold it's annual
convention at the Radisson hotel,
August 81, % and 20, in conjunction
with the annual sessions of the Amer.
lean Bar association. The state con.
vention will close August 30, and the
national organization will convene
the same day and continue through
September 1. Thousands of lawyers
from all sections of the country will
assemble the last week in August to
attend both sessions. Hundreds Of
these will be Minnesota attorneys
and judges.
DuIuth-Coal receipts at the Duluth.
Superior harbor in May, June and July
showed an increase of 5,651,3S3 tons
compared with last year, according
to a report issued by Major e. H.
Marks, United States engineer, Du.
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