The Tomahawk., 1926-04-08
MINNESOTA NEWS

have filed for county offices OF Doug
las county.
Mankato-The Minnesota Historical
Society is to conduct its fifth annual
summer meeting here June Is and 10.
Albert Lea-Married women will
not be engaged in Albert Lea public
schools in the future, DR.. G. l.. Blunt,
superintendent of the school board.
announced.
st. Peter-Five generations of the
Bode family, of which Mrs. Carl Bode,
ST., aged 80, is the great, great grand.
mother, make their homes in Nicollet
county. n
st. Cioud-Central Minnesota tobac.
co growers will plant almost double
the acreage this year over last sea.
son, 1t was indicated at the annual
meeting near Sank Rapids.
Mankato-Mankato Teachers Col
lege's first newspaper has made its
appearance. 1t was distributed to stu.
dents and faculty and will be issued
semimonthly.
cIements-Harry Miller and his
three year old daughter Darlene were
slightly improved, although still in a
critical condition from burns suffered
in fire which killed Mrs. Miller and
her sister.
Minneapolis-The Gaylord five is
the championship basketball team OF
Minnesota high schools by virtue of
IL to VICTORY scored over the Gilbert
quint in the finals of the state tourna.
ment at the Kenwood Armory.
FaribauIt-Chicken thieves, armed
with pistols, surprised George Don.
kers as he got up at midnight and
went downstairs, marched him into
the yard, tied him to a post with
binder Irvine and looted the farm OF
chickens.
st. Paul-Walter c. Martin, former
deputy state treasurer, entered the
state penitentiary at Saltwater to
SEIZE an eight-year term of imprison.
ment. He pleaded guilty to a charge
of second degree larceny in connec-
ton with the theft of state funds.
Austin-One Of the largest financial
deals in southern Minnesota for a
number Of years was completed here
when the George A. HORNED Packing
Co. purchased the Austin National
bank.
st. Paul-The Minnesota Supreme
Court gave the state highway depart.
ment blanket order controlling traf.
fic, signal systems and conduct of
trunk highways within the cities and
villages Of the state. including the
right to say why and where a stop
and go sign is to be maintained.
Anoka-Judge Orie Wyman of Ano-
ka, the only woman municipal judge
in Minnesota, ordered Minneapolis
patrolman and his companion held to
the District Court, under $1,000 bond
each, after their arrest in an automo-
bile chase in which a deputy sheriff
fired several shots at them. The men
were charged with transporting liquor.
st. Paula reduction in rediscount
rates of the Federal intermediate
Credit Bank of st. Paul, from 5k to 5
per cent, was announced by J. A. Rio
kert, vice president and general man.
ager, as new evidence of the improved
financial position of northwest far
mers.
St. PauI-Minnesota farms produced
1871, $4,000 of new wealth in 1925.
The annual report of the state de-
partment of agriculture places the
value of last years grain, hay and
vegetable crops at 1882, 100000; live
stock, $254,7S9,OOO; milk, $154,19s,-
900.
nneapoIis-Magnus Johnson, for
mer United States senator, who ar
rived in Minneapolis from his home
at Kimball, said that kilograms are
being sent to the senate subcommit-
tee in Washington, asking for per-
mission to present additional evidence
in the Schall-Jo hnson election contest.
Minneapolis-600 boys and girls
from all parts of the state attending
an agricultural short course at the
University farm, gathered in the
dining hall to tell their own expert
ences as producers of prize-winning
farm products and to hear represen-
tatives Of the leading business organ
izations of the Twin Cities discuss
their achievements. ..
international FaIIs-An $4,000, 900
expansion program involving Backus-
Brooks Company interests at Interna-
tional Falls and Fort Francis, Ontario,
was announced by George Mclean,
resident director of the company at
International Falls. Construction now
is under way at plants of the Mime
sofa and Ontario Paper Company here
and the Fort Francis Pulp and Paper
Company, Ltd, at Fort Francis.
st. Paul-W. T. Goddard, attorney,
became trustee of the bankrupt estate
of Larry O'Keefe, packing house EN-.
ployee, who won nationwide fame
when he announced that he had in.
herited an Irish estate, a fortune and
the earlship. O'Keefe filed voluntary
petition in bankruptcy and told Gil.
deon s. Ives, referee, that his total
assets amounted to $67.50-one weeks
back pay and SIS in cash.