The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1924-01-10

was reelected president OF the WI
mona County Farm bureau at the an
nual meeting here.
Window - Owing to the extremely
mild weather conditions prevailing
here many farmers are blowing and
seeding. The roads are in excellent
condition all over the country.
WiIImar-At the annual meeting of
the Kandiyohi County Red Cross chap
ter, Mrs. John Dale was named as
president and Mrs. Lars Jorstad Sec
rotary.
Roehester-A new $125,OO passen.
ger station is to be built here by the
Chicago & Northwestern railway, &C
cord1ng to word received from head
quarters Of the railroad at Chicago.
Tracy-Judging of exhibits took
place at the Tri-County, Corn Show
here. Displays were declared to be Of
better quality than those shown at
previous corn shows.
Austin, Plans for the proposed new
bridge near the center Of tn, city.
which Is to carry two state highways
over the Cedar river, have been placed
before the city council.
Windom-The corn stalk disease has
appeared among the herds of cattle in
Great Bend township. Some valuable
COWS have died. Warning has been
sent out for farmers to watch closely
the cattle which are fed on corn stalks
in the field.
MarshaIl-At meeting in Client a
cooperative creamery company was
formed with Jacob Stassen as presi-
dent and Hector Holman, secretary.
1t Is the third cooperative creamery
to be organized in Lyon county within
few months.
PIpestone-J. F. Reed. president OF
the Minnesota Farm Bureau Fedora
ton, was the honored guest of the
Pfpestone County Farm bureau asso-
citation at its annual meeting here.
He delivered the principal address at
the meeting following lunch at noon
owatonna-Steele county residents
will pay $4,000 more in taxes the
coming year than ever before, an alb.
stract of the tax list completed by
County Auditor George Griffin shows.
The abstract shows total county tax
Of $749,20721. The tax to be paid by
the city Of Owatonna totals $283,S61.52
AIexandria-Fire destroyed three
business establishments. here. with a
loss estimated at $4,000. The fire
began in the Hawthorne Meat Market,
and, famed by the first winter storm of
the season, spread rapidly to the
from where the blaze ate it's way to
an adjoining warehouse.
Observation-Disclosures residents are
hopeful of being able to obtain the
location of the Tri-County Tubercu.
losis sanitarium which Is to be built
20 house patients from Steele. Free,
born and Faribault counties, when the
commissioners named by the three
counties and the state health authori
ties visit the city.
Albert Iea-In a championship con.
test for the ear of corn with most rows
and most kernels, four men Lave held
first place within 10 days. The first
ear showed 1,O06 kernels, the next
1895, third, 1929, and then came the
daddy of the corn fields" to date. with
LILO kernels. The number of rows on
an ear has. jumped from "a to 26
Observation-Disclosures of the South
ern Minnesota Oil company will take
renewed interest in the firm as a re.
suit Of substantial Christmas gift
handed them. This consisted of one
share of preferred stock. valued at
500. for each employee who has been
with the company eight months or
more.
virsinia-George Hoffbauer of this
city, who devotes his energies to hunt.
ing and trapping wolves, the enemy
of the frontier farmers of st. Louis
county, in the first two months of the
present fall and winter, has bagged no
less than Is wolves. Several of them
were among the biggest and most
valuable dead or alvey found in the
county in a number of years.
Owatonna-Enrollme in the Owa
tonna music club, community choral
society, has been temporarily closed
with 116 names. The club is Preparing
to give it's first public concert late in
January or early in February. 1t will
provide Owatonna with its first We.
hicle for massed vocal singing since
the Owatonna Choral association was
disbanded several years ago.
Clinton-The oldest residents OF
this section, who settled here in the
early '70s, cannot remember a Deem
Der that the weather was 90 uniformly
mild and pleasant as December Of this
year. The ice on the sloughs and
lakes, which froze over the early part
OF the month, has gradually grown
thinner, and many places on Big Stone
lake are now open.
Havana-At a meeting of the Ha-
vana Creamery association here. II
was voted by the board OF directors
to dissolve the corporation in January
and to reorganize the company. Plans