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-I?* WILLMAR TRIBUNE Established Feb. 19, 1895. Published every Wednepdasr,at the Tribune Building, 3Il£^£3rM*f*W|fcet South, Willmar. Minri^,bp2«Ife]t*r E. Lawson. under the firm name 'of Tri bune Printing Company. (Entered December 5, 1902, at Will niar, Minnesota, as second class matter, under act of March 3, 1879). I E TRIBUNE PUBLISHES ALL OFFICIAL MATTERS OF COUNTY AND CITY. New Bates, Effective Jan. 1, 1930. One year, in advance $2.0D feix months 1.00 Three months 60 One yeir to Canada 2.50 One year to other foreign coun tries .-• 3.00 All subscriptions are now discontin ued on expiration, unless sooner re newed. Please renew promptly to avoid being cut off. Advertising rate card will be sent on application. KANDIYOHI April 25—A number from here at tended the shower at the Walter Nel son home last Thursday in honor of Miss Ruby Olson, a bride of next •month. With Miss Koch as a chaperone, the girl scoucs of Willmar. hiked to this village on Friday eve. They returned on the evening train. Louis Tait of Diamond Lake ship ped stock to South St. Paul on Wed nesday. Mr. and Mrs. A. Skoglund entertain ed company on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Thunstedt spent Sunday visiting with relatives at Will mar. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Peterson and Miss Ruby Larson of Spice.r visited at the E. N. Erickson home on Satur day afternoon. Mrs. Carl Haggberg returned on Saturday from Hankinson, N. where she visited for some time. Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Backlund son Randall visited at Willmar Sunday. and on vis- Banning Hanscom of Willmar ited here the first of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hanscom family visited at Willmar on Sunday. and Mr. and Mrs. Chas, Olson and dau ghters oi Willmar spent Sunday at the Frank Hawkinson home. .: Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Brown entertain ed relatives from Litchfield and Grove City on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Chas,. Hfclm of Will mar and Mr. and Mrs. Victor Holm and children of New London visited at the Harry Holm home in Sunday. John Dahlbeek-'o£-Willmar-attended to business matters here the first of the week. -. Misses Lena and Lily Johnson spent Sunday afternoon at their home in Pittsburg, we guess. Chas. Hanson and John Isaacson of Atwater were awarded the contract to build basement and remodel the Eb enezer church here. Misses Hilda Gynild and Frances Nelson spent Sunday afternoon visit ing with Miss Sophia Tallakson. Miss Anna Haroldson of Willmar visited iwith friends here the latter part of the week. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Holm and chil dren spent Saturday evening at the Arvid Anderson home north of the village. Miss Anna Pierson of Willmar spent Friday afternoon with Miss Mary An derson. Mr. and Mrs. John Peterson, Mrs. Earl Collier of Willmar and Mrs. Sel mar Oberson of Westby. Wis., spent Saturday afternoon at the O. W. Kro ona home. Adolph Kroona of Verona, N. D., is visiting here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Kroona. Oscar Thulin who spent several weeks visiting with relatives cities returned here the latter part of the week. in the I Harold Sorenson of Spicer visited in our burgh the latter part of the week. Mr. and Mrs. K. M. Kalbak Willmar visitors on Monday.' Irene Berg of Atwater spent last week with her grandparents, Mr. and M.rs. Jno. Anderson. Anton Olson will have charge of the oil station that is being established here. Miss Marie Botnen spent Sunday at her home in Willmar. Miss Evelyn Kroona spent the week end at her home here. Ansgar Lundquist, traveling sales man for the Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co., who has made his home at Sheldon, la. for the last 3 years, will move with his family to Minneapolis some time in the near future, where Mr. Lund quist will do general work for the same company. Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Lundquist will be glad to know that they are the happy parents of a baby girl born in the loth of April. Victor Bergfalk visited in Litchfield the first of the week. Mrs. John Lundquist who has spent the winter in St. Paul returned to her home here on Monday eve. Miss Mary Anderson and Mrs. O. W. Kroona were Willmar visitors the first of the week. Anton Gkerman of the Willmar Tri bune was in our village Friday even ing soliciting advertising for the Kan- TO THE ASSESSORS OF KANDIYOHI COUNTY A.+Jf JJw*on 4jybjb Jjffivi Writes Strofig Letter on Assessments tt Editor Willmar Tribune.:..*, The taxing system, lk getting xotten in this county on account of some of the assessors who failto list more than two-thirds of the' personal property. Others leave off old horses, pigs, feed and some all the grain, and such small things as threshing rigs are not men tioned in some townships. If that kind of assessing is going to go on we might as well stay home, as the coun ty board could sit right in the office and guess closer than' that what a man is worth. There is no horse but it is worth something for hog meat if nothing else. Small pigs are growing into money every day. Suppose a far mer has 50- pigs the 1st of May this year he may sell that bunch for about $3000 before first of May next year. Why should he go free any more than his neighbors who may have cattle for the same amount? No, you can not do justice without listing both pigs and the feed they consume dur ing the year of the farmer has it on hand. If he has not, he doesn't pay any tax on it, but he may have to sell some wheat or a cow or a horse that he paid tax on in order to buy feed. So you see the injustice of leaving off feed. In. other words the farmer that has the feed is more able to pay tax than the one who has not, and the tax is supposed to be paid according to ability. I know where a man had $2000 worth of wheat in the bin and did not pay a cent tax on it while if it had been old machinery in which there is no profit it would have cost him about $21.00. Do you think that is right? No, if we should drop any thing let us drop all personal proper ty and we would save nearly as much as the tax amounts to. You see we could drop the assessors:, state tax commission and hundreds if not thou sands of clerks in counties and state, for the real property could be assess ed every 10 years and the census tak ers could do the work, for the little change there is some other officer could send that in. Now start out to do justice and we will have the best assessment we ever had. If you make up your mind to neglect your duty this year you better stay home, as we have been paying somebody else's taxes for years just because our honesty has been a little above the average. Now don't think that I blame all the people or all the assessors but there is some that are a little crooked or badly Tjent. If not, what is your object? If all the asses sors would drop just as much you would not gain a cent for your town and if one will try to be more dishon est than the other what will that sys tem come to? This year we will not stand for any dirty work. If the as sessments are not complete there will be re-assessment in that town ship. Yours for an honest assessment, A. J. JOHNSON. Bird Island, Minn. diyohi County Telephone book, which is soon to be published. Mrs. R. S. Kroona and daughter spent the first of this week in Willmar visiting with her sister, Mrs. A. H. Okerman. Mrs. Andrew Hanson and son of Willmar spent Saturday here at C. Challberg's. Carl Robert Kroona and Miss Isabel Anderson were married at Minneapo lis last Saturday. They will make their home at 147 East 17th Street, Minneapolis, after May 1st. M.r. 'and Mrs. C. E. Kroona and son Rudolph left on Saturday morning to attend the wedding. Congratulations.. John A. Peterson of Ogilvie..is here attending to business matters]' Mrs. John Lundquist and iMrs. W. Kroona attended a birthday party in honor of Mrs. Earl Collier of Will mar on Tuesday. The High School students of the W school will present the mor- al fantasy "Every Youth" in three scenes Friday evening, April 2S, 1922:, at S:15. Prices 25 and 15c. After the play the epmmunity club will serve a lunch. were °let Frans of Minneapolis is vis iting Irere with her mother, Mrs. An na Frans. LUTHERAN EBENEZER CHURCH Rev. H. Tillman, pastor Ladies Aid will -be entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Holm on Friday afternoon. Confirmation class meets Saturday in the church at 2 .p. m. Next Sunday services at three and Sunday school at two p. m. -Lid Wants To See You. tf STRIKE DOESN'T WORRY FORD The coal strike isn't worrying Hen ry Ford any. The Ford mines in Kentucky "will continue in operation. They are working on a strict 8-hour basis, and the miners are drawing about $3 a day more pay than.th ordinary mine gives its coal diggers. Ford is able to do this because he does away with middleman's profits. The coal is mostly shipped to Toledo and distributed by way of Ford's own railroad to the Ford plants only about 25 per cent of it is sold for domestic use. Ford's 375 miners turn out 2,200 tons of coal a day, 6 days a week. The same miners have been on the job ever since Ford bought the mines.— Capper's Weekly. S I E April 25—Mr, and Mrs: Gust Mon son and daughters autoed over from Grove City Sunday afternoon and spent the afternoon visiting relatives and friends here. Miss Amelia Carlson, who is em ployed in a bank at Minneapolis ar rived here some time ago for a visit with her mother, Mrs. Sarah Carlson and other relatives. Miss Bertha Gustrud returned to Willmar Monday after a visit with relatives re Mr. and Mrs. J. Albert Peterson and son Allen of Willmar and Peter Swen son of Ihlen came out from Willmar Sunday morning and visited at the H. J. Thorvig home and with other rela tives. Mrs. Hugh Pritchard and little dau ghter Katherine, returned last week to their home at Lake Crystal after visiting for several days with her daughter, Miss Helen Pritchard. Postmaster Anderson inspected the routes this week. Mrs. Hans Hagen came over from New London Monday for a visit with Mrs. Peter IBoro. Mr. and Mrs..Bill Christenson enter tained friends last Sunday. Misses Gyda Dale and Ruth Arne son were guests of friends south of Atwater Saturday. Mrs. Wm. Thorvig returned to Das sel Friday after visiting here since Tuesday, J. J. Johnson who resides south of town is having a well drilled on his farm. Oscar Wallin our local well man is doing the work. Messrs. Edgar Mori-son and Henry O. Thorvig went to Minneapolis last Wednesday morning where they atten ded the International Harvester Com pany's dealers convention. They .re turned Thursday evening with a new International service truck which Mr. Monson purchased. Wm. Olson, the secretary of the Kandiyohi Farm Loan Association, gives the following report of the dir ectors meeting which was held at the courthouse in Willmar Friday, April 21: There were seventeen applica tions voted on amounting to §92,000, and on Saturday the next day the gov ernment appraiser came and ten loans were allowed. Wm. Olson returned to Minneapolis Tuesday morning after spending about a month here attending to business and also visiting relatives. School Program A program will,be given by the pu pils of the Primary and Intermediate rooms of the Spicer school at the M. W. A. Hall Saturday evening, April 29, at eight o'clock. Admission 25c and 40c Opens Repair Shop Wm. A. Hudson has opened a vul canizing and radiator and battery re- COLFAX April 25—-A program and candy box social will be given in school district 13 Saturday evening, April 29th. La dies please bring a candy box. Lunch will be served by the district. Mr. and Mrs. John Fosso who have resided at Arctander the past year, have moved back recently to their farm, here which has been rented by Carl Larson during their absence. Marie Johnson is at present keep ing house for her brother, Hans John son. A number of young folks from this vicinity attended the social which was given at the Warner school Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Tangen and dau ghter Lena spent Sunday afternoon at Petep Tangen's in Lake Andrew. Myrtle Hatlestad who is employed" in Belgrade arrived home Saturdav ev- Name Address Town. ^fldSJ/"f JHHHHHHHt" Xo£x I X1C 31 pair shop iff the Walquist blacksmith shop located in the West side Of the railroad tracks. Trees to be Planted in Memory of the Soldiers At the last meeting of the Green Lake Community Club it was decided to replace all the trees that did not grow in the two .rows that were plant ed along the street leading to the schoolhouse. It was also decided that three evergreens be planted in the village park in memory of Walter H. Henderson, who was killed in action during the World War and Oscar Ahl berg and Otto Carlson who were vic tims of influenza while in service. The committee in charge will have the trees here and they will- be planted Friday afternoon. Short exercises will be given beginning at 3 o'clock, after which the trees will be planted. Wayside Inn Changes Hands George Johnson who has been pro prietor of the Wayside Inn for a short time sold out his goods and fixtures to the Nelson-Bros, of Willmar. They are two wide awake and energetic young men who no doubt will make their business a success. Change in Route 1 Instructions were received recently by Postmaster Anderson from Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, that changes have been made on Route 1. The carrier in place of going West from Spicer will now go North to Mel by's corner and then turn West and go as far as the Swenson corner near Nest Lake where he gets back on the route where he formerly travels. This change will benefit twelve families and will take effect May? 1st. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. T. M. Findley, pastor Sunday school at 10 a. m. Services at 10 a a. m. •SWEDISH LUTHERAN Rev. A. F. Aimer, pastor No Sunday school or services until May 7th. NORWEGIAN ZION Rev. A. M. Lunde, pastor Sunday school at 10 a. m. Norwegian services at 3 p. m. English services at S p. in. Ladies Aid will serve lunch at the Annex Wednesday, -May 3rd, in the af ternoon and evening. All are welcome. W1LLMA TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY APRI 26. \92zM^^^^^^MWv:^^'VjW,^^i^mim^w __+ Dr. C. V. LYNDE Office Over Fanners Store NEW LONDON, MINNESOTA ening to.spend a week. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Highstrom, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Olson, Mr. and Mrs. Dusenus Jensen and families were en tertained for dinner at the Lewis Jen sen home near Belgrade Sunday. •Miss Elsie Anderson who has been employed near Kerkhoven this winter arrived home Saturday. Miss Geoline Rude and Kernell Hat lestad of Norway Lake spent Sunday at Lars Hatlestad's. Mrs. Darwin Johnson and Inez and Clara Larson called at the P. E. Olson home Thursday evening. Carl Larson has hired out to M. Engen at Norway Lake. Lena and Ruby Swenson visited at Hatlestad's Sunday afternoon. J, 0. Dunhan, Lawrence Starr and. Ole Sharstrdm motored to Atwater on business on Wednesday. SPECIAL OFFER FLOORLAC The "All Around Varnish Stain" Stains and Varnishes in One Operation We sell Sherwin-Williams FLOORLAC, "The All Around Var nish Stain," because it is the most durable and toughest finish that is made for floors, ^woodwork, furniture, etc. To show you what FLOORLAC will do, we are offering for a short time a 30c can of FLOORLAC and a good Brush to ap ply it—all for 10c. Just jot your name on this coupon and bring it in to us for this Special Offer. Ohsberg-Berquist Hardware Company I S O O N and 10 cents entitle you to a 30 cents can of a any color also a brush to apply it. LAKE LILLIAN 1 April 26—Arthur Hed was a caller seat-Wednesday. •Miss Ellen and brother JiOmsjBtrand 'called at George O. Anderson's Mon day'afternoon. I ^t \~, Mrs. Carrie Johnson and son Albert visited at Mrs. Anna Norling's Tues day. Oscar Anderson and son George mo tored to Willmar Thursday. Miss Minnie Erickson visited at Rev Axel Anderson's Tuesday afternoon. Richard and Eddie Johnson cafled on George O. Anderson Friday even ing. 'Lewis Strand spent a couple days of last week at Mrs. Pete Erickson's doing some paper hanging. Marvin and Quentin Erickson visit ed at Lawrence Anderson's Sunday. Peter Anderstrom of Thorpe visited at Albert Lundgren's Friday. Albert Skarland called at George Anderson's Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Johnson and El len Blomgren called at Willmar Sat urday evening. .-'•.* A good program and foot social will be given in District S3 Saturday even ing, April 29th. Mrs. Strand and daughter Ellen vis ited at Albert Johnson's Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Melviri Peterson and children visited with Mrs. John E. Johnson on Saturday evening. Paul Hed who attends high school in Olivia spent the week end at his parental home here. Lilly Johnson spent the week end at George O. Anderson's. •Mr. and iMrs. Hoon and family vis ited at John E. Johnson's Sunday af ternoon. George Erickson and son Buddy of Thorpe spent last week at the Ole E. Erickson home. Gust Abraham is busy overhauling George O. Anderson's Ford. Mrs. Willie Blomquist, Mrs. Carrie Johnson, Ellen and Lilly Strand called at Rev. Anderson's Friday afternoon. Myrtle Renstrom of Boyd arrived on Saturday evening for a months visit at her home here. Emil Johnson called at Gustaf John son's Sunday afternoon. Carl and Franklin Erickson called on the local barber Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Lars Erickson and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ole Erickson and family were entertained at John Sundin's Sunday. Martin Larson accompanied by his little sister Evelyn returned from Ni obe. N. D., last Sunday where he at tended the funeral of his mother. Mr. and Mrs. Asa Bomsta and fam ily made a trip to Willmar on Satur day. —O. G. Cappelen spent Easter with relatives at Willmar. TAKE NOTICE Commencing May 6th, and continu ing during the summer months we will close our offices on Saturday at one o'clock. C. E. Gerretson. H. F. Porter. C. E. Anderson. O. E. Hedin. R. V. Malmgren. J. W. Nixon. 17-2 The Stylish Hat 1 to In Selecting Your New Hat Be Sure Its a STETSON. ^an Tan they are the real Hhing Tan Hats Dark er Tan Bands. $*J OO Other Stetson Lanphef H. and D. Special J*-* mrj- iome.M TO NATIVE LAND Swan and Chas. Nelson to Leave May 1st for Three Months Foreign Travel Swan Nelson and Chas. Nelson of this city will leave on Monday, May 1, for Sweden on a visit in that country and a tour thru other European coun tries to last three months. The two men will sail from New York on the Cunard liner Caronia which leaves on May 13th, and lands at Hamburg, Ger many. From there they go in brief time to the province of Skane, Swed en^ where Swan Nelson will visit his aged mother and his brothers and sis ters, who reside there. Chas. Nelson also has relatives in Skane. After a visit of some time in Swed en the travelers will go back to Ger many, tour that country, also France and then Italy. In Italy they will- ex perience an incident with royalty in that a relative of Swan Nelson is wed ded into Italian regal circles. The rel ative is Princess Hilma. It is forty years since Sw'an Nelson left Sweden and his visit now will be of unusual interest. Chas. Nelson has been to his native land several times since he first set foot on American shores. ,-..- ., —Elbert Gilbertson- of Willmar spent Easter with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gilbertson.—Swift Co." Monitor. •&• San Ta Stetson's The Home of Hart, Schaffner and Marx Clothes Qur National Ban&*fo|A! Memfcier of the Fecl^al Respite System of Baoks Tbet'Federal Reserve" SYStt&^ol&lA Banks, of which our bank is a mepa-^"v ber, was thought out by the. best brains in the banking and business^ world. I This system demands that a bank be sound before it can become a member bank We can take care of your banking business arid shall be glad to Have? you come in and "make yourself at BANK WITH US FACE THREE -$£ ^iV- -. ,*H SERVICEMEN'S PICNIC Ex-Service Men of County to Pot on Big Picnic on Sunday, July 9th At Mie county meeting of the Am erican Legion Posts and Auxiliaries held Wednesday in the city the repre sentatives laid flrst plans for a big county picnic at which the ex-service men of the comnty will be the main guests. It will be an ex-service man's picnic but the public is called upon to make the day a rousing success. It will be the big picnic of the summer. The Legion Posts and Auxiliaries will make excellent preparations for the outing. The exact place for the pic nic has not been decided upon but wUl be announced later. 'h —-William N. Peterson of thia city was a business caller in Kandiyohi on Thursday. —Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Peterson of Litchfield visited at the Flanders Pe terson hom£ on Friday. W. A. HUDSON SPICER, MINN. Now Open For Business Vulcanizing, Battery building and Repairing. All up to date. Good Service Assured. Radiator Rep. #6.50 #7.50 #8.50 #5.00 #3.50 S 31