The Tomahawk., 1924-08-28
Neu1f BriettMm
All & State
cosdsassd Stories Of Hsppsninss
Of he Week In Minnesota

/ old, Of Candy, was killed when he
came in contact with a high voltage
| transmission line while at work.
/ Rochester-At a special election
voters passed by large majority the
S350,000 bond issue to provide funds
for the construction of a new sewage
plant for this city.
Duluth-About 300 Elks from towns
throughout Minnesota, who attended
the state Elks convention here, re-
turned from a cruise to the Canadian
| Head of the Lakes aboard the steamer
| Noronic.
MarshaIl-First report of threshing
of Gopher oats, developed by the
! Minnesota Experiment farm, is that a
yield of 10 bushels to the acre was
secured by Neuel Olson, farmer
near Cottonwood.
Jackson-At a meeting Of business
and professional men Of Jackson a
! Kiwanis club was formed. Harry NJ.
Burnham was named president of the
new organization and Karl l.. Rudow,
secretary.
AppIeton-In the worst thunder
storm of the season the grain eleva-
tor of John j. Hagen & Son at this
place, was struck by lightning and
! burned to the ground with its con-
tents, about 1000 bushels Of grain.
observation-disclosures has been
made here. Of the purchase of the
building formerly used as a brewery,
by the Minnesota Potato Exchange.
The building will be taken over by
the exchange Sept Is, for the storage
of potatoes.
kenyon-The whole of Main street,
Kenyon's principal business and resi-
Dental artery, is to be paved this
year as the result Of action taken by
the village council on a petition pre-
sented by property owners on the
street.
New UIn-H. L. Beecher has been
elected president Of the Eagle Milling
| Company here. Mr.. Beecher entered
the employ Of the mill in 1905 as a
correspondent, was elected director
in 1909 and has been general manager
of the mill since 1920.
Mankato-Major NJ. D. Welty, Unit
ed States Army, has been assigned
as an Instructor with the 205th In
fantry, Minnesota National Guard,
with headquarters here. He comes
from Fort Leavenworth, and will sue
ceed Colonel w. s. Fulton.
Austin-A survey Of houses under
construction in Austin since the, first
of the year and of contracts already
made for construction to be started
this fall reveals that by November l
200 houses will have been started in
Austin since January 1.
st. CIoud-A!falfa crops can be
made to pay aS bigh as $50 an acre
and in some cases higher than that,
Charles R. Hutchinson, alfalfa expert,
told the members of the Stearns
County Bankers Association at a spe'
cial meeting at Greenwald.
MinneapoIis-Minneapolis provided
the second largest number of recruits
for the U. S. Navy during the fiscal
year which ended June 80, according
to figures issued by the Navy depart
ment at Washington. Kansas City
led the country with a total Of 5,449
men.
St. CIoud-Dr. Hans Hansen, of
the S8th division during the World
war, and newly appointed medical Of
ficer in charge of the Veterans hospi-
tai about to be opened here, is now
in st. Cloud. He has been for some
time acting executive officer of one
of the large hospitals for veterans in
New York.
| Preston-Finding power wire
down, a Preston farmer touched it
with a match to see II 1t was "hot''
and then picked it up and tied it
around fence post. Linemen com.
ing along later declared the farmer
must have handled the wire in a mo-
ment of temporary failure of power,
for the whole fence was found charg-
ed with $4,000 volts.
Observation-Disclosures from Oxford
University of England will meet Garlic
ton College in Skinner chapel, No
vember II, it is announced by DR..
e. B., Dean, chairman of the board
of deans of Carleton Among the Ok
ford debaters is N. ]. Macdonald, son
of the prime minister, Of Queens col
lege Last year Carleton defeated
Cornell University, which has also
met the British team.
Minneapolis-Three yachts out of
the entire fleet of Glass C yachts
which started in the first race of the
championship series Of the Inland
Lakes Yachting Association at Deep
haven, Lake Minnetonka, were left
sailing when the race neared compile
tion there. The boats, starting in the
rain, ran into a severe storm which
capsized boat after boat and made the
task Of rescuing the crews most diff
ficult. ~
Fergus Falls - Raynold Schroeder.
three years old, living in Leaf L;4Se