The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1925-09-03
BrietrMm
All & State
Condensed Stories Of happenings
Of the Week In Minnesota

main business thoroughfare OF Sleepy
Eye is to be paved.
St. Charles-September I. 2, 3, and
| have been chosen as the dates for
the Winona county fair at st. Charles.
Hibb!ng-'. ne inland Steel Company
Of Chicago, owner Of the Lauar mine
here, has added the Morton iron mine
10 its list OF Minnesota ore producers.
Wheaton-Triplets, born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Leonard Kerling here last week,
are to be exhibited at the Traverse
county fair in Wheaton, September
l6.
Thief River FaIIs-Nearly 100 bank.
ers Of the ninth district met in an
nual session here. A. F. Labuddle,
cashier Of the First State bank of
Gully, was elected president.
Savage broke into the
Riley general merchandise store and
postoffice, situated in the same build
ing, and robbed the postal safe OF ap-
proximately SITS. They left 500 in
stamps and the money order book.
Long Prairle-The Long Prairie
Creamery paid $4,000 to It's farmer
patrons for the months cream re.
ceipts, according to Secretary George
Lano. More than 200 farmers re-
ceived checks in excess OF 800.
NorthfieId-One Of the largest acre
averages in grain during the present
harvest season in this vicinity was
recorded on the l.. r. Strunk farm,
where nine acres OF barley and oats
yielded 81 bushels to thu acre.
Hastings-Formal dedication Of the
new st. Matthias Roman Catholic
school will be combined with the an
nual harvest festival at Hastings. The
building cost $35 5000.
Rock creek-Paving was begun on
No. l, highway between here and Pine
City, and the work will be rushed as
fast as conditions permit the grading
on the north end Of this stretch.
Misunderstanding shopping for
everything from radium to rats cost
the University OF Minnesota just ST..
100000, for the year ending June 80
Roy S. Galloway, purchasing agent,
announced.
crookston-Having gone more than
six months without a contagious dis.
ease being reported, Crookston Is be.
lieved to have established a record for
health conditions.
Winona-Fifty thousand yellow
perch have been planted in Lake Wi.
mona at the request Of the Winona
county Izaak Walton league to i'm,
prove fishing in this vicinity.
Luverne-United States Senator
Smith w. Brookhart of Iowa will be
the principal speaker at the Rock
county fair here from September II
to 16. Senator Brookhart will speak
September Is.
Hibbing-Donald McReady of Min
neapOlis, was chosen president of the
Order Of De Molay at the closing bust
ness session here when Mankato was
elected as the next convention city.
MarshaII-Reports coming in from
the rural district show that hail dam.
age in Lyon county was more severe
than had been estimated. Near Dud-
ley and Milroy the loss in crops ran
as high as 100 per cent.
Alexandria, mass meeting, spon.
sored by the Alexandria club, was held
here to discuss proposed dam at the
outlet Of Lake Carlos into the Long
Prairie river for the purpose Of rails.
ing the water level Of lakes here.
apolis-Business men, ship
pers and representatives Of cities on
the upper Mississippi river decided at
conference at the Nicollet hotel to
proceed with plans to put barges on
the river to carry freight at lower
costs.
Mlnnsa of the Min.
nesota, North Dakota and South Da.
kota railroad commissions agreed to
cooperate in the fight which the mid
die west Is making against freight
rate increases proposed by western
carriers.
Hibbing - Ironwood, Mich, was
chosen as the next convention city at
the afternoon business session Of the
Lake Superior mine safety conference
A. A. Bawden Of the Pickands Mather
& Co., Ironwood, Mich, was elected
chairman
Minneapolis-Two hundred seventy.
five persons were injured in automo-
bile accidents in Minnesota within
seven days, setting a new record for
the year, when warm weather and
scores of outings took thousands OF
motorists over the states highways
through the last week, it was revealed
by survey made public.
Osseo-A Catholic church which be.
gan it's services at Osseo in mud
chinked log cabin owned by Pierre
Bottineau, son Of French trader and
Ojibway Indian woman, and for half
a century guide and interpreter on
the plains west to the Rocky mountains.
will celebrate it's 10th anniversary in
a $65,0000 building constructed Of
brick and marble, fitted with windows
brought from Europe and hand carved
Italian marble affairs.
MarshaII-A jubilee celebration in