The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1925-11-12
MINNESOTA NEWS

St. cIoud-Farmers in the vicinity
Of st. Cloud were paid $4,000 this
season for peas, corn and cabbage, a
local canning factory announced.
caIedonIa-The Houston county jun.
Tor fair has just brought to close q
successful season Of boys and girls
club work. Approximately 440 boys
and girls were enrolled In the projects.
Fairmont-Seventeen groups of Mar.
tin county housewives have register
ed under the nutrition project recently
organized under the supervision OF
University Farm extension workers.
MInneapoIIs-Min Elks will
hold their annual convention at st.
Cloud next August, 1t was decided at
meeting Of the executive board Of
the state association.
Duluth-Constructio of a flying
field for Duluth Is under way and with.
in month airplanes will be flying be.
tween here, the Twin Cities and Chi.
cago, A. j. Haze, manager of the Ar.
rowhead Air Ways Co., announced.
The company has bought a 40-acre
tract.
st. PauI-Minnesota has a total oil
22,310 miles Of surfaced roads, &C
cording to an estimate by the United
States department Of agriculture. The
total for the entire country is 1905,
In all there are 107,S16 miles Of rural
roads in Minnesota, 20 per cent OF
that mileage is surfaced.
St. Paul-The Second Institute Of
Government and Politics conducted by
the Minnesota League Of Women
Voters In cooperation with the Uni
versity of Minnesota will be held No
vember 16 to 20 in st. Paul at the St
Paul hotel. The course of study in
cludes several lectures by prominent
public speakers.
Roseau-Roseau county farmers are
staging poultry improvement cam
paign in continuation of the work be
gun when 10 meetings were held
Specialists are advising the farmers
about feeding and housing and giving
demonstrations in dressing, packing
and proper sticking Of chickens and
| turkeys.
nneapoIis-Funeral services were
conducted for Mrs. Angelina Gervais
105 years old, a resident Of Mime
sofa for nearly 95 years, the third OF
Minnesota's oldest inhabitants to die
within two months, and the SECOND
of Minnesota's oldest women to die
within 10 days.
= st. PauI-Seventy-two more grade
intersections on the Great Northern
railway were designed as stop cross
ings by the Minnesota railroad ant
warehouse commission. More thar
600 crossings now have been designat
ed for full stops by motorists, on thu
Great Northern, Northern Pacific ant
500 Line.
DuIuth-A skirmish between Duluth
and Superior, for supremacy in thu
grain marketing business at the Hea(
Of the Lakes developed, when the Wis
consip grain and warehouse commits
sion announced a reduction Of q
cents per carload, from 81 to rs cents
in the Wisconsin rate for testing
wheat for protein content.
Minneapolis. A. O. Preus, TO
the past 20 years active in the public
life of the state and who completed {
four year term as governor last Jan
uary, has resigned as general mana
ger of the Minneapolis Committee t
promote industrial activity and will
become vice president of large in
surance corporation with headquaI
ters In Chicago.
HutchInson-An inquest over tn
body Of Frank Micka, wealthy retire'
farmer, whose body was found undo
a pile of sticks and stones, resulte'
in a verdict, that Micka met his dealt
"by bullet In the back Of his head.
At the same time the county sheriff
and the county attorney made plan
to go forward with vigorous hun
for Micka's unknown assailant. -
Anoka--Anoka county, with a dair.
industry which each year brings i
S1,250, 900 for its farmers, has jus
launched an ambitious feed producin
program intended 70 Increase its a
falfa acreage from 1000 to 10000 acre
by the fall of 1926. About 600 farm
ers. or approximately 50 per cent Q
those In the county, already hay
pledged their cooperation.
Minneapolis-The Gopher and tn
Badger tangled for the 35th time an
like their last two encounters tn
battle ended in a deadlock. The coun
was IL and II. After whipping tn
Badger for three quarters, the Gopher
with several substitutes In the linz
up, could not stave of edo or die
rally Of the snarling, beaten Badger
and saw victory snatched from 1t
grasp In the last 10 minutes Of the Ell
gagement.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Minnesota Ev'
stock authorities will serve as Judge
at the International Stock expositio
to be held November % to Decembe
s in Chicago. Dean w. G. Coffey, Un
versity Of Minnesota, will award tn
honors IN the RambOufllet Shee