The Tomahawk., 1924-09-11
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All & State
coodsrssd Stories Of Happsainss
~ Of the Week In Minnesota

zaar store Of $4,000 worth Of furs aud
several hundred dollars in cash was
discovered when it was re-opened.
Waseea-The Waseca county board
has appropriated a fund of $500 to
the County Farm Bureau for agricul-
tural extension work within the
county.
st. PauI-David NJ. Clough. former
governor Of Minnesota and one OF the
pioneer lumbermen Of the state, died
at his home in Everett. Wash. He
was II years old.
Mankato-Robbers entered the Of
fee of the Mankato Cooperative
Creamery company blew the safe and
secured about SIS in cash which it
contained.
Hibbing-Eight persons were Sc
verely injured when a racing auromo-
bile overturned and crashed into the
crowd oyerfowing the Hibbing Fair
racecourse.
Lake City-The new Mary McCahill
institute opened for work in all de-
partments,. eight grades, four years Of
high school and department of musi.
cal instruction.
Montevideo-Winter wheat proved a
profitable crop on the farm Of Peter
Westgaard of Baxter township. The
grain from a 10-acre tract threshed
$40 bushels.
Red Wing-The commissioners Of
Goodhue county slashed $4,000 off
the budget. for the coming year from
the figures Of the tax levy for last
year. The levy is set at $252,OOO as
compared with $296,O0O in 1923.
Moorhead-More than 100 stitches
were required to close gaping
wound in Joe Storms face when he
was slashed by broken glass of a
windshield in a smashup near Moor
head.
Albert Lea-H. F. Pigman, of Los
Angeles, human fly" fell 70 feet to
the pavement while attempting to
scale the Freeborn count court house
and was taken to local hospital in a
critical condition.
WiIlmar-Driving all residents to
cover with warning Shots as they en-
tered the place, six bandits took pos
session of the little inland town Of
Svea. 10 miles south Of here and
robbed the postoffice and bank of ap-
proximately 5000.
MinneapoIis-John r. Mitchell, st.
Paul banker, will assume his new
duffoa oc EodaroI pacarya ,oapt for
the Ninth Federal Reserve Bank in
Minneapolis. Mr.. Mitchell was ap-
pointed by the federal reserve board
at Washington to succeed the late
John H. Rich.
MinneapoIis-The Ford Motor COM
pany entered the coal business in the
Northwest, announcing that a large
stock Of soft coal is ready for deliv-
cry at its dock in Duluth and will be
sold at wholesale prices in car lots
to authorized Ford dealers and agents
in this territory.
Wheaton-What is believed to be a
record yield of fax was threshed on
the farm Of Earl Drinkwitz, eight
miles south of Wheaton. The crop
averaged 80 bushels to the acre. The
yield was measured by Fred Seiden-
stitker, president of the Aravers coun
ty farm bureau.
Slayton-Work on the foundation for
the monument to mark the graves OF
the settlers at Lake Shetek who were
killed by the Indians in the massacre
~ 1891 iS ohouf coyp nJatod opd IL "a
expected the monument will be set up
by October 1. Thirteen Shetek pio-
neers were massacred.
MinneapoIls-The Northern Pacific
railway company has taken out a
group insurance policy on 10000 EN-.
ployes, It was disclosed. This Is said
to be the largest group policy ever
written in the Northwest and the third
largest written in the United States.
The policy is for approximately $50.-
100000 of Insurance.
Fergus FalIs-Frog catching is be-
coming real business in the neigh
borhood of Underwood, and Is even
more profitable than threshing wheat
at SIPS bushel With frogs selling
at % and 80 cents pound, people
are putting in their spare time catch.
ing them and some citizens are re-
ported to have made as high as $40 to
$50 day. ........ ...-
Hastings-An automobile jaunt of
100 miles or so over to Mortified and
a round of calls on friends here were
the preliminaries INDUCED In by Mrs.
Lany Truax, who celebrated her 103rd
birthday anniversary. Mrs. Truax,
probably the oldest living woman in
Minnesota, will start upon the fourth
year of her second century Of life,
happy in the thought that her health
is still good, that she is capable Of
doing her own housework and that
she can number her friends, like her
age, by the hundreds. 1 -.. |
MarshaiI-The farmers who lost |
their property in the Balaton-Tracy
tornado few weeks ago are to be
given an opportunity to see the Lyon
county fair despite the great disaster.