The Tomahawk., 1924-08-07

New UIm-Miss Eva L. Blair has
been engaged to take up the work OF
home demonstration agent in Brown
and Blue Earth counties. Miss Blair
plans to spend the first half Of each
month in Brown county and the sec
ond half in Blue Earth county.
Dexter-Officers and directors Of
Mower county's nine cooperative live
stock shipping associations, at joint
meeting here, voted to reorganize-their
individual bodies in order to take adj
vantage of provisions of the new CO.
operative marketing laws.
| Waseca-Local breeders organized
the Waseca County Holstein Breeders
association at a meeting held here.
Robert d. Geiger, st. Paul, secretary
OF the Minnesota Holstein-Fresian as
sociation, assisted in the organization
and spoke at the session.
Minneapolis - Agricultural depart
nent officials Of the Northern Pacific
railway, reporting a harvest hand re-
quirement survey, list by communities
the need for approximately twelve
thousand harvest hands in Minnesota
and North Dakota along their lines.
| Moorhead--E. G. Cole has been
named chairman of a committee to
promote Clay county's participation in
the tour to be made by Red River val
ley farmers to the Minnesota State
Fair. Members of the tour will meet
at St. Cloud August 30.
Bralnerd-All Breezy Point turned
out to welcome Captain William H.
Fawcett, Of the victorious Olympic
trap shooting team. who returned
home. The American trapshooters
mopped up everything in the Olympic
game and also every shoot they at.
tended in France, England and Italy.
owantonna-Seventeen citizens, de-
MED temporary injunction to pre-
vent the Owatonna public utilities com.
mission from going ahead with i'm
mediate construction Of the proposed
municipal heating, light and power
plant, filed notice of appeal to the
state supreme court from Judge F.
w. Senn's order dismissing the ap-
plication.
neosta Editorial association meeting
at the office of T. H. Garfield, State
Fair secretary, announced that the
association will again have an ex.
hibit at the state fair, and will issue
daily paper during the week of the
fair. Frank A. Day, committee chair
man Of the association. announced the
membership Of the committee that will
assist with the work this year.
Duluth-With the appointment Of
John Shambeau as chairman of the
general committee on arrangements
for the annual convention of the Min
nesota Elks' association, the program
Is fast taking shapJ for the three.day
meeting to be held here August IA, Is
and 16. Indications are that several
thousands Elks and members of their
families will be here for the conven-
ton.
DuIuth-The Minnesota Cooperative
Creameries association will establish
a branch in Duluth. according to the
announcement made here by A. j. Nc
CURE, president of the organization.
The association, which markets the
Land O. Lakes butter, is made up Of
ATS creameries in the state, and cara
for the products of more than $4,000
farmers. The association manufac.
lures 100,0O0,000 pounds of butter a
year.
Red WIng-Minnestta has enter I'd
large measure the result Of better con.
ditions in agriculture, according to q
number of speakers at a luncheon here
at which the members Of the Mime
osta Realty association caravan, on an
automobile tour of the southern part Of
the state, were guests Of the Goodhue
County Real Estate board and the To-
cal Kiwanis club. sr
New Observation-Disclosures of New
Richards dairy days" celebration
have set Thursday and Friday, Sep.
TENDER Is and 10, as dates for the
event, which is one of the most out.
standing dairying exhibitions in the
state. Leading livestock breeders Of
the New Richland community donated
livestock valued at 1890 for the do
nation sale, which created the bulk Of
fund to be used for the immediate
construction of dairy barns to house a
part of the exhibits.
| MinneapoIis-Line and terminal ele-
vator companies with general offices
in Minneapolis and Duluth, MADE a
formal offer to the American Farm
Bureau Federation at Chicago to sell
1902 line elevators in Minnesota,
North and South Dakota and Mon.
tara, % terminal elevators in Min
neapolis and IL in Duluth. The pro-
posed /. to turn over to properties Of
grain companies in the northwest,
which have been engaged in competi
tive, private business, to the farm in
terests in connection with their pro-
gram for cooperative marketing Of