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Seeing is Believing
When in need'of anything in our line do not fail to call
on us. You attention is called to a few articles which
now are seasonable.
Maohins OH from SO to 40 ••nts
(alien
••st trade hand Separator Oil SO
cents a gallon
Pure Boiled Linseed Oil
•est rade Oas Engine 0)1 SO cents
a gallon
Best grade Roofing Paint, SO oents
a gallon
B. P. S. and Lion Brand House Paint
Buggy and Wagon Paint
Floor and Barn Paint
HOSE&AND.
Roseland, April 7—Mr. and Mrs. John
Brouwer suppered at the D. Dekker
home last Sunday evening:.
Miss Jane Van Dyk assisted Mrs. J.
Van Esmond with paperhanging last
Friday.
Mr. Arnold Green of Silver Creek ar
rived here last Tuesday and again hired
out to Mr. Bruggers for the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Van Dyk and Mrs. H.
Dragt made a business trip to Wlllmar
last Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Knoll visited at the J.
Vos home last Sunday evening:.
Mr. Gerhard Damhof and sister, Ab
bie were paperhanging at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. H. Brouwer last Wednes
day.
Rev. Brummel and Mr. H. Dragt
leave today (Monday) for Iowa where
they are going to attend the classes.
Baptismal services were held here last
Sunday. The children received the fol
lowing names: The baby son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. Damhof received the name of
Lewis Walter the baby son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. Hoffman received the name of
Benjamin the girl of Mrs. Bunkinberg
received the name of Mary Anna the
baby son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Hoekstra
received the name of Fobbie and the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Knoll received
the name of Helen May.
Death came to the home of Mr. and
Mrs. H. Holtz last Saturday and claimed
one of their baby twins. The interment
took place last Monday at the Raymond
cemetery.
Roseland April 7—Mr. and Mrs. John
Johnson visited at Joe Bjornberg's in
Fahlun last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Charley Kostka spent
last Sunday at the former's parental
home near Olivia.
Mr. Emil Granberg has hired out to
Oscar Johnson of Whitefield for the
coming summer.
Miss Anna Kohrs visited with friends
in Olivia last Friday.
A week ago last Saturday about twen
ty-five relatives and friends gathered at
the John Anderson home, where they
sprung a surprise in honor of John
Lindblad. A delicious luncheon was
served, after which the self-invited
guests left for their homes.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Strafelda spent last
Thursday afternoon at Joe Skalak's.
Mr. and Mrs. Walfred Blomquist and
daughter Pearl of Whitefield, visited
with the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Ole Blomquist last Sunday.
Mrs. W. H. Williams visited last Sun
day afternoon with Mrs. Aug. Builte.
Miss Myrtle Ostrom who is attending
school at Willmar spent a few days of
last week with her sister, Mrs. Edgar
Lindblad.
Miss Lillian Strafelda visited with
Otillie Holechek last Thursday evening.
Mr. Gust Thunstedt, who teaches in
the Roselillian school visited at Albert
Lundquist's last Staurday and Sunday.
Misses Clara Anderson and Thilda
Johnson teachers in the Washington
school, were entertained for dinner last
Sunday at Edgar Lindblad's.
Miss Anna Kohrs went today (Mon
day) to assist Mrs. Martin Swenson of
Svea, with housework for some time.
Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Anderson spent
last Friday evening at the Forsman
home in Lake Lillian.
Mrs. John Johnson and Miss Mary
Anderson visited with Mrs. Martin
Johnson last Friday afternoon.
NOTICE!
Any teams or horses found stabled on
the streets or bitched to eleotrle light
poles which bear the signs, "DO HOT
HITCH HEBE" will be removed to the
nearest livery stable or the City Hay
Market.
.Anyone not wanting' to pnt np their
team in a livery barn have the free use
of the City Hay Market at all times. It
is located on the old mill site.
Head ordinance on file in the City
Clerk's office.
AX.TBED QTXBEHT80H,
3w Chief of Police.
Miss Anna Nelson of Grove City was
a guest at the P. E. Parson home over
Sunday.
Varnishes and Dryers
•est grade Manila Rope,
Run Easy Wash Machines $11.00
ISOO Washing Machines $lt.S0
White Lily Washing Maohlne $7.00
Wash Benohes and Wringers
Cloth Racks, largo siio, $1.00
Window Glass and Putty
I MEAN YOU
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Nook Yokes and Single Trees.
Kerosene and Gasoline Stoves"
Majestic Steel Ranges from $47.50
to $57.00
OHSBERG, SELVIG & CO.
&ONQ SANS.
Long Lake, April 7—Last Friday eve
ning Alma Martinson was very pleas
antly surprised by about 70 of her
friends. They left as a remembrance
a purse of about $35.
Miss Selma Netland left last Monday
to assist Mrs. Fred Swalin with house
work for a few weeks.
Miss Ella Martinson is at present vis
iting with her sister, Alma at the Est
wick home.
Misses Alphia Otterness, Alma Brat
berg, and Lillie, Olia and Hannah Lar
son spent Saturday afternoon with Mrs.
R. F. Hamilton.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Grorud entertain
ed a number of friends for dinner last
Sunday.
Oscar Gustrud from Spicer has hired
out to David Swenson for the summer.
Hannah Larson visited with her
schoolmate, Viola Carlson from Tues
day until Wednesday.
Remember the Y. P. M. in the Long
Lake church next Friday evening, April
11th. A good program will be given.
Miss Tillie visited with her friend,
Olia Larson last Thursday evening.
Mr. Carl Holseth called at G. J. Brat
berg's last Thursday afternoon.
Mr. Nels Erickson from Nevis called
on friends around here last Thursday.
The Long Lake Ladies' Aid will meet
with Miss Martha Berg Thursday after
noon, April 17 th.
Misses Alphia Otterness and Olia and
Lillie Larson visited at the Jonas Mon
son home last Wednesday evening.
Miss Amanda Netland left last Satur
day for New London where she will vis
it with friends and relatives for some
time.
Miss Selma Rykken called at the Gro
rud home last Sunday.
The Estwick and Overson families
and Miss Alma Martinson were pleas
antly entertained at the G. J. Bratberg
home for dinner last Sunday.
Miss Thora Netland left last Satur
day for Willmar to resume her studies
at the Willmar High School.
Mr. and Mrs. Ole Rykken called at
the G. J. Bratberg home Sunday after
noon.
Mr. Oscar Gustrud visited with Spic
er friends Sunday.
Mr. Arthur Eiland called on New
London friends last Sunday.
Mrs. David Swenson and children and
Miss Tillie Hansen visited at their par
ental home near Willmar.
Arnold- and Oscar Peterson called at
Hans Hagen's last Sunday.
COIiPAX.
Colfax, April 7—Mr. and Mrs. R. J.
Hultberg of Belgrade visited at L. O.
Mickelson's Sunday.
Marius Mikkelson of Belgrade visited
at L. O. Mickelson's Sunday.
Mrs. Theo. Gunderson and baby
boy Gordon of New London are at pres
ent visiting with the Mrs. Gunderson's
mother, Mrs. Katherine Olson.
The parochial school will commence
in the Warner school house, District 31
on Monday, April 7th, with Miss Jon
ette Thorpe of Willmar as instructor.
A baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Geo. F. Smith March 26th.
Mrs. Theo. Gunderson and Miss Clara
Larson visited at Knud Olson's on Sat
urday.
Amos Nordlie of Belgrade is at pres
ent visiting at the Severin Olson home.
Mrs. Minnie Erickson and son Milo,
visited with Mrs. Anton Erickson at
Brooten a couple of- days last week.
A surprise was given on Mrs. Albert
Thorson last Wednesday evening by a
number of her lady friends the occasion
being her birthday anniversary. She
was presented with a number of useful
and beautiful presents as mementoes of
the day.
Mabel Mikkelson visited with her sis
ter, Mrs. C. L. Gulsvig at Sunburg Sun
day.
Mr. and Mrs. Christ Peterson visited
at the Ole Hamborg home Sunday.
Mrs. Swan Erickson and'Orval Matt
son of the Twin Cities were summoned
to their home in Whitefield Saturday by
the serious illness and death of their
father, M. O. Mattson.
MY FRIEND FARMER:
I want to quote some prices to you on spring-steel-coil*
woven wire fencing made by Kitestmas Bros.
I will take your order and have it shipped direct from the
factory to you.
39 inch Fence, per rod, 251/2c-
A heavy Fence made of No. 9 wire at top and bottom and 7
No. 11 wires.
A 26 inch Fence, per rod, 19%c
Same guage wire as above fence. I also have a cheaper
fence, but what 1 have quoted you is a No 1 article. Here
is a dandy for all purposes.
A 47 inch, per rod, 36%c
with mesh only 6 inches apart. One No. 9 wire at top and
one at bottom, and eight No. 11 margin wires.
JUST THINK OF IT
Prices just one-half lower than retail.
It will pay you, my friend farmer, to call on me at 710, 4th
St., Willmar, just three blocks south from the post office.
Maadlyohl fi UM/CT
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C. WIKEL, 710 St.
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Xatweotlag Information, to* Vhose Who
Are Interested la the Vow Use.
Redwood Falls Sun: We have secured
the following- facts for the informa
tion of our many-readers who are in
terested In the Electric Short Line from
the twin cities to Redwood Falls.
The Luce Electric Short Line Co.,
have acquired 157 acres of, property
within the limits of Minneapolis, for
terminal facilities at a cost of approx
imately one million dollars.
There has been about thirteen miles
of grading done and eight miles of that
has already the steel laid thereon, and
the contract has-been let for double
tracking* the three and one-half miles of
terminal, and for concrete bridges over
tracks at Pa. Western Ave. for a dou
ble'track steel viaduct bridge 250 feet
long over the Great Northern and M. &
St. L. roads at Holden St. in Minne
apolis.
The contract has been let for com
pleting the line to Long Lake, a dis
tance of about 18 to 20 miles, this con
tract tp be fulfilled by the first of June
this year, and the contract is ready to
let for construction from Long Lake to
Winsted, a distance of about 42 miles
from Minneapolis to the named point.
The company now owns about 90
miles of right-of-way from Minneapolis
toward Clara City an'd Montevideo.
Surveys and estimates of cost of con
struction for 184 miles of road from
Minneapolis, have been made.-
Surveys have been made and right
of-way men are in the field for the line
running south to Marshall from a point
some where north east of Bird Island.
A preliminary survey has been made
for a line running to New Ulm from
Watertown, and a preliminary survey
has also been made for a line running
to Litchfield from Hutchinson junction.
We are reliably informed that .enough
stock has been already subscribed to
complete the first twenty miles of the
road.
The Minority.
It is announced that the Reesevelt
Perkins Party will, at the opening of
the extra session, hold a caucus, nomi
nate candidates for speaker, clerk and
other House officers and cast their
votes for such candidates, when the
House meets to effect its organization.
This is a perfectly proper proceeding
for the men nominated and elected by
the Roosevelt-Perkins party. It will
serve a very excellent purpose. It" will
be mentioned in the Washington dis
patches of that day.
But when we come to the business of
the session, there will be more import
ant work in hand for the minority in
both branches of Congress, than exploit
ing parties for political effect.
The policies of the party now domin
ant nationally are to be tried out. Cen
tralized control of production and dis
tribution, of capital and credit began
to be alarmingly manifest in the first
years of the Roosevelt administration.
Though greatly troubled, the people
were led to believe, from day to day,
that the "malefactors of great wealth"
would be swept from power, and equal
opportunity knock at every man's door.
They waited in patience through the
elections .of 1904 and the "succession"
in 19D8. By 1912 the catch phrases and
dazzling epigrams had worn thread
bare. The burdens had become intoler
able, and a nryan-made platform and
a Bryan-selected candidate were ac
cepted willy-nijly.
The Democratic Party, under the con
ditions which prevailed, offered the only
hope. Governor Wilson had given New
Jersey a progressive administration.
He comes tp the Presidency of this na
tion with a limited experience in public
life, but with the confidence of the Am
erican people that he will deal with the
existing evils seriously and fearlessly
in the public interest. He evinces a dis
position to meet responsibilities. He is
not waiting for them to be thrust upon
him. He is not satisfied to sit in his
place and distribute the spoils of office.
He has entered at once upon the great
task committed to him and his party.
He has promptly called an extra session
of Congress. He is ready to put forth
a plan for tariff revision. It will be fol
lowed in good time with currency legis
lation, and later his administration will
deal with trusts conservation, and soc
ial wrongs, generally and specifically.
The responsibility for this program is
upon the Democratic party. But the
minority in the House and Senate must
meet its responsibility, as well. It is
no time for trifling or playing politics
or trying to put the Wilson administra
tion in a hole. It is no time for the
Roosevelt-Perkins Party or the Repub
lican party to maneuver for 1916. The
American people demand that money
and credit and transportation, and the
market place where labor and the pro
ducts of labor are bought and sold, be
freed from the control of powerful in
terests.
If the Wilson administration offers
legislation which will best accomplish
this result, it is the duty of the min
ority to support that legislation. If
not, it will be the duty of the minority
to offer better legislation instead. No
greater opportunity was ever presented
for patriotic statesmanship. The field
is open to the minority as well as to the
majority.
ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE.
I.AKE EUBASBTK.
Lake Elizabeth, April 7—Oh you Lake
Elizabeth correspondent of the Atwater
Press, you don't know us yet and you're
not likely to either.
Why was there only one- candidate
nominated for each office? And who's
fault was it? What kind of an election
would the presidential one have been if
only Woodrow Wilson had been running
and no one else. Then why does the
Western part of the ^township govern
practically all of the Eastern?
August Olson' visited with friends
in Rosendale Sunday.
Andrew Nelson, the real estate agent
was around listing farms in this neigh
borhood last week.
"Old Lewis" is doing painting and
paperhanging in this vicinity now and
will improve both the inside and outside
if you'll only give him a chance.
When Pete Mossberg is ready to sell
gravel from his gravel pit, Holmgren
wants the main road to Rosendale grav
eled. But that will not be for some
time yet as Pefe wants a sample of it
analyzed. We don't suspect any gold
to be found though.
Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Glader visited with
friends In Atwater Sunday evening.
Richard Johnson is busy dehorning
cattle these days.
That Immense scene In "The Wolf,"
which comes to the Willmar, Opera
House next Tuesday evening,'April 15,
in which a duel takes place before the
audience, but on a Btage so dark that
you can't tell which man is getting the
worst of it. Then comes a fell, a dead
ly silence. One is killed—but which
one? The hero or the vlllian? And
then a light flashes and you see—what
you see. It's not only the big scene of
the play but the biggest,- strongest and
greatest scene ever played on' any
stage.—Adv. A -~'-yH&-Jvr
Politics^
St. Paul, April 7—Powerful Influences
are at work-to secure the enactment of
a comprehensive public utilities law at
the present session of, the legislature.
The MInette bill Is not satisfactory to
the interests'concerned. .It effects only
telephone companies, and the strongest
of the telephone companies, the North
western, has from the first been bitterly
opposed to many of its provisions. The
bill that is really preferred is the Wall
ace bill, though the Knapp bill which
has been favorably reported "to the
house would be acceptable.
Jofai LawsoD's Legislative Letter TeUs of a Fight 01 Minette Bill—
Primary law Amertmeats—Temperance LawsBlocked—Work
ncn's Compensation Bill—Good Roads—"Efftency Board"
WHY STATE CONTROL IS PRE
FERRED.
The characteristic feature of these
last two measures is that they substi
tute state for local control of corpora
tions engaged in the business of supply
ing Minnesota cities with water, with
gas,- with electric light and power and
so on. Hitherto in order to engage in
any of these lines of business, the con
tracting company has been obliged to
obtain a franchise from the city coun
cil, giving it such rights to the streets,
alleys, etc., as it required, and where
the council has been alive to the public
interest the corporation has generally
been required to give something sub
stantial by way~ of return. Under all
of the proposed laws the company may
secure such rights as it desires on ap
plication to a state commission without
the people immediately concerned hav
ing anything to say in the matter. It
can readily be understood why corpora
tions would prefer- doing business in
this way, rather than be put to the an
noyance and expense incident to satis
fying the demands of exacting citizens
who, when they give away substantial
and valuable rights and privileges, are
inconsiderate enough to think that they
should have something substantial and
valuable in return for them.
STATE VS. LOCAL REGULATION.
Not only under these public utilities
bills will the corporations be privileged
to acquire from a state board rather
than from a local council the rights in
municipalities which enable them to en
gage in a profitable business, and so
far as appears, without valuable con
sideration of any kind whatever, but af
ter the utility is under way they are
to be in no wise subject to municipal
control. The new tneory, indeed, is that
this control is vicious, that it imposes
upon corporations the necessity of be
coming a factor in local politics, and on
occasion, of buying up an alderman or
two. A state commission, it is argued
would settle disputed matters impar
tially on their merits, giving to each
party in interest their just dues and no
more. At all events one can readily
understand why a public service corpor
ation would prefer to do business with
one central authority rather than with
a hundred cities or more scattered wide
ly throughout the state. This is espec
ially the case with concerns like the
Consumers Power Company which is
branching out in every direction and
sometimes exercises control where it
does not do business in its own name.
And it may be added it is especially the
case in cases where the power appoint
ing a public utilities commission is
known to be in co-operation with the'in1'
fluences which are seeking the enact
ment of legislation of the kind referred
to.
PRIMARY LAW AMENDMENT,
What warrant there is for it, it is
hard to say, but the opinion seems to be
general that there is a disposition both
in the senate and the house to sidetrack
the bill amending the primary law.
Leaving aside controversial matters as
whether the county ticket should* be
elected on a non-partisan ballot, or
whether politics should be recognized
in electing members to the state legis
lature, there are respects in which the
primary law ougnt to be amended in the
interest of economy. This is proposed
in the bill passed." It would probably
save every ^county in the state a couple
of hundred dollars or more if no pri
mary election were required for political
offices where a party had but one can
didate, or for non-partisan offices where
there are but two. It will bejemem
bered that at the last election the coun
ty auditor was required to furnish, be
sides Republican and Democratic ball
ots, tally sheets and so on, ballots and
tally sheets for the Prohibition, the Pub
lic Ownership, and the Socialist-Labor
party, although in these parties there
was in nearly all the counties of the
state no contest for nominations at all
and the voting of these ballots and the
recording of the vote was purely a mat
ter of form and served no good pur
pose whatever. Under the amendmnts
proposal to the primary law this utterly
unnecessary expense would not have to
be incurred, and it would be a shame if
in that respect at least a change was
not made.
TEMPERANCE MEASURES BLOCKED
Obstructions still continue to be put
in the way of temperance legislation.
The O'Neil roadhouse bill which was
aimed at a crying evil has been emas
culated, and even in that form is having
a rocky road to travel. The "daylight
lid" bill, so called, which provided for
closing saloons everywhere except in
cities of the first-class at nine o'clock
has been- defeated decisively in the
house. The bill extending local option
to cities of the -fourth class appears to
have -been pigeonholed somewhere. No
progress is being made with the bill
limiting the number of saloons in cities
to one for each five hundred of popula
tion. The bill requiring wholesale deal
ers in intoxicants to take out a license
is being fought at every turn in the sen
ate committee. When it was known the
other day that the senate had passed
without debate and without opposition a
bill designed to do away with the brew
ery-owned saloon there was great re
joicing, and it was freely predicted that
at last something really worth while
was about to be accomplished. But the
senate had scarcely taken this action
before it reconsidered it, it is said, at
the suggestion of an official of the an
ti-saloon league, who may have possibly
thought that his occupation as an agi
tator was in danger of being interfered
with .so that now within less than two
weeks of the close of the session tem
perance reform is scarcely farther ad
vanced than it was when it opened. Of
course, it is not too late yet to accom
plish something, but the prospects are
not bright.
WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION IN
SIGHT.
There is a real prospect, however, of
the enactment of a workman's compen
sation law. The bill has passed the
senate where, if anywhere the greatest
opposition to legislation of" the kind was
to have been anticipated. It does away
with the ordinary defenses in actions
for damages in personal injury cases—
namely, the plea of Contributory negli
gence, and the plea of negligence of fel
low employe. To defeat a suit of this
kind it will be recessary hereafter to
prove that the employee had been guilty
of wilful negligence.
SOME THINGS THE JBILL PROVIDES.
All labor except that employed on the
farm, in,domestic service and that which
is casual comes under the operation of
the bill. All employers and employes
come under its provisions unless they
specifically elect not to do so. It pro
vides a scale of payments for injury to
be made without question based on the
character of the injury. In case of tem
porary total disability the employer
must pay 50 per cent of his wages to
the workman so long as his disability
lasts if not more than 300 weeks. This
is subject to a maximum compensation
of 110 a week and a minimum compen
sation of $U a week.
STUDY THE EXCELSIOR CLOSELY
The Big is the machine for you. If you want
a machine that*' will give you service 24
*, hours each day and every day xt~the
year, then you want the Excelsior.
In cases of temporary partial disabil
ity the workman is to be paid fifty per
cent of the difference between the wages
he had been earning and those he can
earn while partially disabled. This also
for not more than 300 weeks.
For the loss of limbs the following
schedule has been arranged:
Per cent of
wages Weeks
Thumb ~. 50 60
Index finger 50 35
Second finger 50 30
Third finger 50 20
Fourth finger 50 IB
Great toe 50 30
Any other toe 50 10
Arm 50 200
Foot 50 125
Leg 50 175
Eye 50 100
For permanent total disability the
payment is fixed at 50 per cent of the
wages received at the time of the injury
for 400 weeks. The minimum that may
be paid is in this case also $6 and the
maximum $10 a week.
In case of death the same maximum
scale obtains. The payments are to ex
tend over not to exceed 300 weeks. In
other words if a workman is killed while
engaged at his occupation the employer
is required to pay his heirs according to
the wages he was receiving at the time
of his death a maximum sum of from
$1,800 to $3,000. This is payable in
weekly installments to his dependents.
In case there are no dependents the em
ployer must pay medical, hospital and
funeral expenses.
GOOD ROADS.
Bob Dunn was fortunate enough or
clever enough to induce the senate to
pass his good roads bill in all essential
respects precisely as it was when he had
it fixed up to suit him in- the house. The
only change the senate made of conse
quence it reconsidered, and this only re
ferred to the financing of the roads and
not the operation of the law. The sen
ate thought at first it would prefer to
pay the expenses of the highway com
mission, $150,000 annually, out of the
road and bridge instead of the state rev
enue fund. It probably would have stuck
to this plan had it not so happened that
if the highway commission had to wait
until this fund was raised under the
law, it would be practically put out of
business until August of next year.
Once convinced of this the senate re
ceded from the stand it had taken. Mr.
Dunn is now working overtime trying
to get the new automobile bill through.
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ter of million dollars more to be spent
annually on the roads.
SEVEN SENATOR BILL.
The southern Minnesota senators con
tinue to be convinced that the best in
terests of the state demand that some
restriction be placed upon the represen
tation of the Twin cities in the upper
branch of the legislature and propose
to again submit the constitutional
amendment defeated at the last election.
Th-L prospects are that if it is reached
the house will pass the measure. How
ever the number of constitutional
amendments proposed will be two years
hence so great that it is doubtful if it
will "be worth while. It will be near
the foot and that would be quite as
likely to defeat it as the sentiment
against it.
WILL. SAM BE DISCIPLINED?
Anent the sanguinary fracas which
took place in a "toilet room of the cap
ltol between Fish-Agent Ryder and Fire
Expert Fullerton, it is said that the
governor had fully made up his mind
to discipline the latter veteran of the
public service, until he reflected that
although Sam had given away all he
knew of the fish and game department,
he still retained enough knowledge of
the inner workings of the fire mar
shal's office to be dangerous if he got
on the rampage.
THE EFFICIENCY BOARD.
That is what the body is called which
it is proposed shall investigate the state
departments curing the recess with a
view to their reorganization along bus
iness lines. Mr. Spooner has been work
ing along that line for some time as
might be imagined from the speeches he
made during the last campaign, from
which the deduction might have been
drawn that he was not quite satisfied
with things as they are and have been
for some time. The Rines organization
would scarcely let any outdo it in its
zeal for reform, but while it agrees with
Mr. Spooner that things want mending
it does not at all agree with him as to
who should undertake the job of mend
ing them. Mr. Spooner has a notion
that this might safely be left to bus
iness men who had no axes to grind.
The Rines organization on the other
hand has concluded that if there is to
be any glory won out of a deal of this
kind it would be well if it was on hand
to gather in the persimmons. And what
the Rines organization can't do with the
present .house is scarcely worth men
tioning. So that while Mr. Spooner had
the thing allr lined up, the men's names
down in black and white and everything
cut and dried it as he supposed, it was
only necessary for Billy Nolan to pass
the word around that this sort of thing
would never do at all for the fat to be
all in the fire. That was a case in which
pledges, even though written, didn't
hold. As the plan is now the efficiency
board will be composed of progressive
senators and house members. This will
scarcely suit the governor either as he
Is said to hold that if his administra
tion is to be investigated It should be
Investigated by its friends. If one were
permitted to hazard a guess about this
thing, it would be that if we are to have
a reorganization by politicians for the
benefit of politicians the people of the
state are scarcely likely to find the in
vestment they will be asked to make
worth while.
WEST WKXTSnBXA.
West Whitefield, April 7—Mrs. Ernest
Olson entertained^ the Ladies'^'Aid
Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs/Cl Bangtson made a trip
to Willmar last Friday. Their daugh
ter Phoebe accompanied them home.,
'rVacation is now over and some of the
.girte from here who are, attending the
High School at Willmar, returned Sun
day to Resume their duties..
»MayJohnson.4s laldup with the pink
4ye«'"/-!:'\ "C*
?JTMr.tand Mrs. Andrew Johnson attend
ed the funeral of Mrs. Nelson^ in Wlll-
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aENNESSEE.
Gennessee, April 7—Harry Anderson
called at the Hans Flygare home Sun
day evening of last week.
A son was bom to,Mr. and Mrs. Ar
thur Rossell Monday, March 31.
Anton Flygare left on Tuesday of last
week for Thebes, Mont., where he will
locate on a homestead. His family will
join him in a few weeks.
Mrs. Henry Isaacson visited at Lind
quist's last Friday afternoon.
Andrew Flygare left last Thursday on
a trip to Montana.
Oscar Johnson visited at Hans Fly
gare's last Thursday evening.
Mrs. Jonas Berg and daughter Miss
Emma Berg of Atwater were gue'sts at
George Enblom's home a few days of
last week.
Mrs. Johnson of Lake Elizabeth has
been staying at the home of her daugh
terT Mrs. A. G. Olson the'past week.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Wicklund and
baby daughter and Miss Ida Westlund
of Fahlun were Sunday visitors at the
Claus Johnson home.
Miss Adena and Esther Halberg visit
ed at the Hans Flygare home last Sun
day afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cederstrom and
Mr. Jonas Berg were entertained at the
George Enblom home last Sunday.
Clarence Freeman and sister, Vivian,
spent Sunday at George Engwall's.
Wedding bells will soon be ringing in
Gennessee.
At Willmar Opera House.
"The Wolf," one of the most import
ant productions as well as one of the
big dramatic successes of the year, will
be presented at the Willmar Opera
House, on Tues. evening, Apr. 15, with
an all-star cast. "The Wolf" is a ro
mantic drama of the Hudson Bay fur
country in three acts and three scenes,
by Eugene Walter. Mr. Walter is an
author who strikes hard and he is said
to handle the story with a directness
that is courageous, but yet does not of
fend. The story concerns the vengeance
wreaked upon an American civil engin
eer, who,_years before the story opens,
had deserted a half-breed girl of the
far North.- The girl Annette, dies in
a storm but in Montreal there lives a
half brother who had promised his dy
ing father to search for the girl. He
discovers that McDonald is the man he
seeks, and that he is tempting Hilda,
the daughter of a Scotch settler, whom
he (Jules Beaubien) loves.
Mrs. J. C. Dale and daughter, Ger
trude returned home^the latter part of
the week from a visit with relatives in
Litchfield. Mrs. E. Johnson and son
accompanied them for a brief visit.
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NOTICE!
All owners of live poultry will pleas*
see to that same are confined within
their own premises from April first to
November first.
Bead Ordinance No. 31 on file in the
office of the City Clerk.
AL7BEB CtXKBEBTSON,
3w Chief of Police.
(First publication Apr. 9-4t)
Citation for Hearing on Petition to Sel^
Mortgage or £ease £and.
Estate of Louis N. Smith.
State of Minnesota, County of Kandi
yohi, In Probate Court:
In the Matter of the Estate of Louis N.
Smith.
The State of Minnesota to all persons
interested in the selling of certain lands
belonging to said Decedent: The petition
of Ole Thorson as representative of the
above named Decedent, being duly filed
in this court, representing that it is
necessary and for the best interests of
said estate and of all interested therein
that certain lands of said Decedent de
scribed therein be sold and praying that
a license be to him granted to sell the
same:
Now Therefore, you, and each of you
are hereby cited and required to show
cause, if any you have, before this court
at the Probate Court Rooms in the
Court House in the City of Willmar,
County of Kandiyohi, State of Minne
sota, on the 5th day of May 1913, at
2 o'clock p. m., why the prayer of said
petition should not be granted.
Witness the Judge of said Court, and
the seal of said court, this 7th day of
April, 1913.
(COURT SEAL) T. O. GLBERT
Judge of Brobate Court.
CHAS. JOHNSON,
Attorney for petitioner, Willmar
Minn. 1
(First publication April 9-4t.)
Notice of Hearing Upon Petition of
Freeholder.
Whereas, A petition signed by Her
man Gratz, a freeholder of School Dis
trict No. 32, in this County, represent
ing that he is the owner of the follow
ing described lands, situated in said
District to-wit:
N% of NEV4, N% of NW%, and Lot
1 Section 27,*Town 120, Range 33, and
that said lands adjoin School -District
No. 3, has been presented to the Coun
ty Board of Kandiyohi County and ask
ing that his said lands may be set oft
from said District No. 32, to said Dis
trict No. 3, and the said Board has ap
pointed a time and place for hearing
thereon. Therefore.
NOTICE
Is hereby given that said petition will
be heard by said Board, at a session
thereof, commencing on the 14th day
of July, A. D. 1913, at 2 o'clock in the
afternoon, at the office of the County
Auditor in the City of Willmar in said
County at which time and place the
said Board will hear the evidence and
the arguments of all persons interested,
for or against granting the prayer of
the petitioner.
Dated at Willmar, Minnesota, April
7th. 1913.
By order of the County Board.
JOHN FEIG,
County Auditor and Ex-Offlcio Clerk of
Board. 2t
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