The Tomahawk., 1926-02-18
MINNESOTA news

first wolf killed within Duluth's city
limits for 1926 while hunting rabbits,
1t was learned when he applied for a
bounty. Ea
Minneapolis - Otto Swanstrom Of
Duluth was elected president Of the
Minnesota State Automobile associa-
ton at the annual meeting. He fills a
vacancy caused by the death of Ernest
T. Winship Of Owatonna. -'.
st. PauI-More acknowledgements
ed persons visited the Twin Cities
automobile show the first day, than
ever before attended the exposition
on its opening day. The attendance
was more than 1920, as against 1855
in 1926.
MinneapoIis--Preparing to handle
100,000,000 pounds of butter in 1926,
the Minnesota Cooperative Cream
cries Association, distributing the
dairy products of $4,000 farms, will
move into a new, specially built $780,
90 building at the Northwest Terminal
in Minneapolis, marking the greatest
development in cooperative market
ing in Minnesota in years. ..
White Bear-A st. Paul man and
woman were killed almost instantly
and two others injured when the auto
mobile in which they were riding was
struck by a Twin City-Duluth North
ern Pacific train at the outskirts of
the village Of White Bear. The dead
are: Frank Erickson, % years old:
Mabel Magnuson, 10 years old, both
Of st. Paul.
Pipestone-A contemplated airplane
trip from Pipestone to Wichita Falls,
Texas, where he planned to visit his
family eight hours after his take-off
came to an end when the plane of
Earl Smith, commercial fiier of this
city, crashed to the ground but few
seconds after the take-off. The ma.
chine was wrecked almost beyond re-
pair, but Smith and his assistant, Ha-
rold Tofflemeir, also of Pipestone,
escaped unhurt.
Lake City-America's oldest old.
time fiddler" who won national rec
ignition when he played "Old Zip
Coon" over WCCO, died at his Lake
City home. He was Oliver Perry
Francisco, nearly 81 years old, who
fiddled for the Back to Paris" radio
revue staged by the Minnesota
American Legion over WCCO Janu.
airy %. He had been a resident of
Minnesota for u years.
St. PauI-Despite the postwar de-
flation in prices Of Minnesota farm
lands, the farms of the state in 1924
were valued at $2,01O,S29,S45, a gain
of s422,729,111 or 26 per cent over
the value of $1,5SS, 1O0,734 reported
in 1914. The figures were made pub
lie by the state commission. The
buildings on Minnesota farms during
the 10 years gained nearly 60 per
cent in value, mounting from $685.
9S6,036 to $348,207,228 an Increase of
$129,221,192.
Neutrality-suspicious. of the
upper Mississippi river cities meeting
at Winona, pledged $4,000 as their
share of the $4,000 stock subscrip-
tions being raised to finance a barge
fleet on the upper Mississippi river
and thereby completed the financing
work. With the financing details
settled, officials of the barge line
corporation are expected to rush the
work of placing the barges and tow
boats on the river in readiness for
the government, which will operate
the feet.
St. PauI-The first state hen census
ever taken in Minnesota revealed that
hens, producing Is eggs for every
man, woman and child in the United
States, have given Minnesota another
major industry" one of the five most
valuable crops produced in the state,
by putting $40,000,000 in eggs on the
market in 1925. Livestock, too, con-
tinued to grow in value, Paul H. Kirk,
state agricultural statistician, said, re-
porting that stock on farms gained
$27,000,000 in value in 1925, passing
the $3.50, 100000 mark
St.. PauI-Beginning in May, the
month in which vacationists plan their
summer trips, 20 magazines of ma
tional scope and as many large daily
newspapers will carry advertising
matter about Minnesota, the executive
board of the Ten Thousand Lakes as
sociation decided. The advertising
firm selected two weeks ago to handle
the campaign was given final orders
to proceed under basis which con-
templates spending of $4,000 in pro-
noting the state as a summer play
ground. -. ...
caledonia-"An Acre Of Alfalfa for
Every Cow is the slogan adopted by
the Houston county alfalfa campaign,
according to w. D. Stegner, county
agricultural agent. In an effort to pro-
mote an increase in the alfalfa acre
age of the county, the seed committee
OF Houston county farm bureau has
undertaken to obtain the best alfalfa
seed for farmers who are planning
to start alfalfa fields in the spring.
"The average cost of starting an acre
of alfalfa in Houston county is only
s13," Stegner says, land some local
fields that are eight years old now are