The Tomahawk., 1924-07-17
BrietrMm
All 3 State
condsassd Stories Of HsppeninSs
Of The Week In Minnesota

Rochester-Beef cd,-.e OF the nnest
type will b. exhibited in large num-
bers in the livestock show at the Ohm
sted county fair. Rochester, Aug IL
to Is. Premiums totaling $3.50 are
offered for beef and dairy cattle.
Mankato-Two men are dead and
two others injured, one perhaps fat.
ally as the result Of an automobile
wreck 10 miles northeast Of here. The
car, running at high speed, went OF
the road and into a ditch.
Misunderstanding the activities OF
the farm to poultry raising. the Hib-
bling public school experimental farm
will raise 1900 chickens this year. The
birds will be used to provide chicken
dinners at the school cafeteria.
Albert Lea-After administering
poison to her Q year old son, Mrs.
Mabel Wallace, residing on a farm
southwest Of here, near the Iowa bor-
der, herself took a dose of the SUBJ
stance, dying within a half hour of
her son.
crookston-Plans already have been
started for the production or a three
day music festival here this fall
with the climax being a gigantic open
air presentation of De Kovens Rob
in Hood" with several hundred Of
Crookston music lovers taking part.
Jasper-For the second time in TWO
years burglars entered the public
garage in the village Of Ihlen six
miles north Of here. Mere than $500
worth Of tires and automobile acces-
series were carried away by the rob-
bers on their last visit.
Fergus FalIs-One hundred and sew
enty patients, 80 men and 80 women
were transferred from the Fergus
Falls hospital for the insane to the
asylum at Willmar. They went in four
special cars accompanied by Is nurses.
All of them are chronic cases.
misunderstanding were COM
pleted covering the sale of the ware
house building Of the Moorhead Stor-
age and Transfer Company, of this
place, to the Minnesota Potato Grow
ers' Exchange. Announcement of the
sale was made to Leo H. Wright, presi-
| dent of the company.
Pipestone-Plans are being made
here for a homecoming and old set
tiers picnic to be conducted on Sat
urday, July 26. The gathering will
take place at Court House park The
/ date for the event marks the 5Oth an
niversary of the completion of the
first building erected in Pipestone
| county.
cass Lake-Hundreds of Indians
| from Cass Lake Indian reservation
| pulled their tent pegs and started
home, ending one Of the most success
| full pow-wows ever staged here. This
| celebration continued three days, the
Chippewas joining with the Cass Lake
American Legion post in the program.
A rodeo show, Indian games and races
| occupied the first day.
EveIeth-A Safe Drivers club in
Eveleth has enrolled more than 100
members, after a three-days' cam
| paign. Those who enroll sign a
pledge to drive carefully at all tim %,
| obey the laws, pause all railroad
crossings, protect the lives of chill
dren. and obey traffic signs and Off
GERS.
Pipestone-A new automobile trail
from Chicago to the Black Hills is
now being planned, which will carry
the tourists through southern Mime
sofa and west from here into South
Dakota. Crossing Wisconsin, the pro-
posed new trail will follow trunk high
way No. 9 to Worthington and thence
to Slayton, Pipestone, Madison, s. D.,
washington Springs and Rapid City.
Albert Lea-This city won honorable
mention in better homes contest just
concluded on national scale, the ma
tional headquarters of Better Homes
in America announced. Kalamazoo,
Mich, won first prize. No details were
given Of the house that Albert Lea ex-
hibited in the contest Herbert Hoo
yer, secretary Of copmerce, is presi-
dent of Better Homes in America, and
DR.. James Ford is executive secretary.
Ada-Funeral services were conduct
ed here for David c. Lightbourn, edi-
tor of the Norman County Index since
| 1881 and former deputy state insur-
ance commissioner. Mr.. Lightbourn,
born at Pine Bend, S. D., in 1858, came
to Minnesota when boy, graduated
from the st. Cloud public schools at
the age Of Is, and worked for time
as carrier, compositor and reporter on
,, the ST. Paul Pioneer Press. Later he
| founded the Norman County Index.
Duluth-Twenty-six suits against
| the United States railroad admins
tration for losses suffered in the Oc-
tober, 1918. forest fires in northern
Minnesota, were continued until the
January term Of court by Federal
Judge w. A. Cant here. This action
was taken at the call of the calendar
on motion Of Lafayette French, Jr.,
United States district attorney, who
stated that his client, J. c. Davis,
| agent designated by the president,
was not yet prepared for the trial.