The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1926-04-29
MINNESOTA NEWS


filed in probate court. s.u ...E
st. Paul-Governor Theodore Chris
Hanson filed for denomination on the
republican ticket, for governor Of Min
nesota.
MInneapoIis-A resident fishing IL
cense law for Minnesota was recon-
mended by the Izaak Walton league
Of Minnesota at its third annual con-
vention.
Clinton FalIs-Miss Margaret Day.
district eight, won the annual town
ship declamatory contest in connec-
ton with a meeting of the Clinton
ralls township farm bureau unit. Z
Minneapolis-The largest conserva-
ton group ever assembled in the state
will come together when the third an
nual convention of the state Isaac
Walton league is held In the Curtis
hotel.
StiIIwater-William Bonse, a fire.
man, was seriously injured in a fire
that destroyed the old Colonel r. f.
Hersey mansion, a landmark for 40
years. The loss was estimated at
100000.
Aitkin-Brush fires famed by strong
winds destroyed buildings on the Will
liam Feist farm and threatened the
other farms, where buildings caught
fire. Fifty sticks of dynamite ex-
ploded at the Feist place.
St. PauI-The house passed the bill
of Representative Wefald, which is
designed to put into effect the agree
ment between United States and Great
Britain to regulate the level Of the
Lake Of the Woods.
St. Paul-The house of representa-
tives passed a bill authorizing the
secretary of the navy to deliver to the
state of Minnesota the silver service
set which was in use on the battleship
Minnesota.
Gayiord-Senator Claude H. Mac
Kenzie Of Gaylord, who led the fight
for Governor Christianson's reorgan-
ization bill in the last session, filed as
a candidate for denomination in the
fifteenth district. Nicollet and Sibley
counties make up Senator MacKen-
zie's district.
WeIIs-The wells Beautiful" cam
paign this year will again be spon-
sored by the Wells Business and Pro-
fessional Women's Club, Miss Floss
Loomis, chairman Of the campaign last
rnonnnfnfn1 pri1ac fnr thu
most neatly kept and most beautifully
improved premises will be awarded.
Minneapolis-Reg at the
University Of Minnesota this year has
increased 1926 oyer 1924, to a total
of 11,420, according to figures COM
piled by r. M. West, registrar. The
college Of science, literature and the
arts leads, with enrolment of 6,419.
Dental nursing ends the list, with en-
rollment Of %.
Madison-J. F. Jacobson Of Madison,
is chairman and Ludwig Roe Of Mon
tevio 60, secretary of voluntary COM
mittee announced to work for the re-
nomination Of Governor Theodore
Christianson. Mr.. Jacobson, former
legislative leader and state official,
headed the Christianson committee
two years ago.
St. PauI-Minnesota has added TO-
900 farms to its total in the last five
years, although the country as whole
showed a decrease in number Of
farms. The number of farm owners
increased in Minnesota as well, al
though the national total decreased,
tho bureau reported. There were
1SS,231 farms in Minnesota in 1926.
and 178,478 in 1920.
neapoIis-Attacking the princi-
pie of releasing criminals from the
penitentiary with instructions to leave
the state as fundamentally wrong"
Oscar Hallam, former justice Of the
Minnesota supreme court and chair
man of the Minnesota crime commits
sion, in an address advocated open,
public procedure, in the freeing Of
prisoners.
Minneapolis-An army of 100000
citizens and school children Of Min
nesota, on the opening day of Amer
lean Forest week, was enlisted to stop
destruction of Minnesota forest re-
sources worth $275,000,0O0, to launch
a program of reforestation and forest
conservation aimed at preventing Min
nesota's 10000 lakes from drying up,
and to plant $4,000 trees in the state.
Minneapolis-The northwest is en-
tering upon its most extensive build
ing program since the war, figures re-
ceived here indicate. These tabula-
tions are also interpreted by lumber
dealers, contractors and bankers as
evidence that improvement in condi
tons in business in the farm belt is
gaining in scope and momentum, re-
sulting from the marketing of profit.
able crops in 1924 and 1926.
FlooGwood-Thej last big log drive
in Minnesota will be recorded in the
movies. Five miles north of Flood
wood the Northern Lumber Co. of
Cloquet has completed cutting g.
100000 feet Of Norway and White Pine,
which will be f1oated down White
Face river to Cloquet in what is
claimed to be the last big drive in
Minnesota.
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