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WILLMAR, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2 0 , 1 9 1 7 SOCIETY PRICE 8 CENTS NUMBER 1 9

THIS IS RED CROSS WEEK-MAKE YOUR CONTRIBUTION BY SATURDAY VALUABLE FIND OF

RARE PIONEER SCENES

Wilfred J. Whilelield Presents Portfolio of Old Paintings

At 0. S. Re-

at this meeting. The framed certifi-cates to schools that have contributed may now be had by applying at the Tribune office, also the certificates to individual contributors.

In the next issue of the Willmar Tribune a page will be devoted to a more extended report of this meeting.

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The meeting of the Old Settlers* Association of Kandnohi county j es terdav at the John \\ lcklund home on the old C ipitol townsne was a great success and a large ciowd was in at tendance tiom all paits of the county It differed from the nineteen re unions that ha\e pieceded it in some le-

^ rfpects. but it was none the less en-joyable

The big feature of the le-union was the oration of Hon Theodore Chi is tianson ot Dawson, who won for him-self the lespect and admiration of the people piesent. of Kandiyohi county by his able ertort

Another big feature was the pres-ence ot W J Whitetield son of the exploier Edwin Whitetield, and the exhibit ot the water color sketches of the Kandnohi gioup of lakes painted by the tather sixty one years ago.

A third striking .feature was the parade over Capitol Hill to the old saw mill site near the junction of Min-netaga and Kasota lakes, and the dedi

- cation of a marker on the grave of Mrs Carrie Johnson, the first pioneer to pass away in the county The pro cession was headed by the Atwatei band and the marchers on foot weie followed by a stung of seventy well loaded automobiles.

The meetings were presided over by John Malmberg of Atwater, the presi-dent of the Association The election of officers foi the ensuing year result-ed as follows* President, J O Malm-berg, Atwater; first vice president, George (Gunder) Johnson of New Lon-don, second vice piesident, J A Pet erson of Kandiyohi, secretary, A O Porsberg, treasurer, C W Odell, of Willmar ,

Treasurer Odell reported that there ' is $682 44 in the Memorial fund and

$201 39 in the general fund of the As-sociation A collection amounting to $17 was added to the Memorial fund

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DREAMLAND THURSDAY'S

SPECIAL PROGRAM

"The Captain of the Grey Horse Troop"

W i t h A n t o n i o M o r e n o a n d E d i t h S t o r e y a s c o - s t a r s

FRIDAY THE INTRIGUE"

W i t h L E N O R E U L R I C H

SATURDAY "MR- GREX OF

': MONTE CARLO" > S t a r r i n g

T H E O D O R E R O B E R T S

Also Great Comedy Program

Great Northern Erects Flagpole. The Great Northern Railroad Com-

pany has ordered flagpoles to be set up, at every one of it's seventeen main divisions. The Willmar division re-ceived their flagpole several weeks ago so that it was among the first to put up their pole. The pole which was shipped from Idaho, is one hundred feet long and is of white pine. The appioximate cost is $125 Several coats of white paint have been put on so the pole piesents a pleasing ap-pearance The bottom and top ends have diameters of twenty one and sev-en inches respectively, and the cir cumference of the ball on the top is eighty eight inches The work of rais-ing the pole took place Monday after-non, under the direction of F. C. Beese lailroad carpenter. The pole was set in a concrete base, ten feet square but will be supported for at least a week by guv ropes. Very lit-tle trouble was encountered in putting up the large pole altho at first it seemed as if the telegraph pole to which the pulleys were attached would break off A new guy rope however, had to be substituted for one that broke while the pole was in midair. Over an hour was spent in hoisting the pole The flag, which has already been leceived, is very large, measuring twelve and one-half by twenty-five feet It will not, however be hoisted inside of a week or ten days. No def-inite plans have been made as -

It is dependent on voluntary contributions. No better index to your loyalty to your country and your humanity and desire to alleviate suffering and distress is possible than what you W w U ^

We are late in getting started in this county but we had short notice. Let us jdl unite during the next three days in doing something worth while. Kandiyohi County must make good in this great effort.

It is too late to appoint solicitors in the usual way in the country districts. Don't wait for someone else to act. Make your contribution as large as you can and get your neighbor to do likewise and send in the names and amounts not later than Saturday night, June 23rd. Every name and amount given will be published in the county papers together with the names of those who send in the lists.

This fund is entirely outside of the regular work of the local Chapter of the Red Cross. Minnesota's quota is $2,000,000. We must have individual contributions from $100 and down to make good in our county.

This is an appeal that should go straight to your heart, and let that dictate the size of your contribution. Do it now.

VICTOR E. LAWSON, Editor Willmar Tribune, Chairman.

C. R. C BAKER, Editor of Republican Gazette, Secretary.

L O C A L A N D P E R S O N A L

FARM LOANS. Money to loan on Improved farms

at 5 per cent Interest. Call and S M us before placing loan.

FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Willmar. Minn.

—Themer Norling of Delano spent Sunday with his parents in this city.

IVER S. BENSON, M. D. Surgery, Obstetrics, Chronic Dis-

eases and X-Kay Office Phone 77UW Res. Phone 770R

NEL8 O. SANDVEN, M. D. Internal Medicine, Eye, Ear, Nose

and Throat Office Phone 770W Res. Phone 393

Drs. BENSON and SANDVEN (Skandinavisk Laege)

PAY DOG TAX. The 1917 dog tax Is now due and

must be paid forthwith. License tags may be had from the undersigned, or at the City Clerk's office.

Willmar, June 9, 1917. A. GILBERTSON,

6:13-20-27 Chief of Police.

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Boat Party Plunged in Lake. A tragedy was narrowly averted

Sunday evening when six of the young men of our city were out in a boat on Foot lake. Oswald Sunstedt, Bry-an Sperry, Arthur and Walter Lund-quist, Tug Mattson and Harry Dahlen were out for a pleasure ride when the accident occurred. The boat was over-loaded. In the middle of the lake Tug Mattson, who was rowing, missed a stroke causing the boat to rock vio-lently, letting in a large amount of water. In a moment the boat began to sink and the young men jumped from the boat and lightened it. Ar-thur Lundquist, Harry Dahlen and Tug Mattson, being good swimmers, reached the shore while the three re-maining clung fast to the half filled craft and pushed it to the shore. They did not, however, escape without loss, for many articles of value were miss-ed. All their watches were partly or totally damaged by the water, Harry Dahlen lost a pocketbook containing seven dollars in cash; Bryan Sperry lost ten dollars in cash, sixty-five dol-lars in bank certificates, annual pass on the Great Northern railroad and his registration card.

Uncle Sam a s k a y o u f o r a l o a n . H e n e e d s t h e f u n d s t o p r o p e r l y p r o t e c t y o u r S o l d i e r B o y , y o u r C o u n t r y a n d y o u r L iber ty .

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P. C. DAVISON, M. D. Physician and Surges*

Office Metropolitan Bids* Special attention Given to Disoaaos of the Ewe, Bar, Mass aad Throat

D o n o t m a n i f e s t y o u r p a t r i o t i s m b y w e a r i n g e m b l e m o n l y . B u y a L i b e r t y B o n d f r o m t h e f i r s t w h o a s k s y o u t o , o r f r o m u s .

Kandiyohi County Bank

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Millard, President L. O. Thorpe, Viae President Hong, Cashier j . O. Estrem, Vice President

N. H. Tallakson, Aaat. Caahlar

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Entertains. Mrs. John Olson entertained a few

of her lady friends at her home on Bast Becker avenue last Friday after-noon in honor of Mrs. A. J. Anderson of New Rockford, N. D., who is visit-ing with friends here for a week. A dainty luncheon was served and a soc-ial afternoon enjoyed.

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DRS. FROST & JACOBS GENERAL MEDICINE, SURGERY AND OBSTETRICS

—Hazel Johnson is visiting with Ol-ga Westerberg at Svea this week.

—Mr. and Mrs. Victor Klingenberg and family spent Sunday at Lake Flor-ida.

—Edwin Selin was a business call-er at Kandiyohi on Tuesday after-noon.

—Elner Forssell left Monday for an extended stay with friends at Lake Lillian.

—Mrs. Louis Hutchins left Tuesday foi a week's visit with her parents at Litchfield.

—Father McDevitt returned Thurs-day evening from a three days' visit in the cities.

—T. Larson returned to Donnelly on Monday after a three days' business vl3it in this city.

—Alvin Strom and Wenzel Wanta of Thorpe were business callers in this city Monday.

—Dr. B. J. Branton and R. Johnson autoed to Minneapolis Monday after-noon on a business trip.

—Lillie Hook left last Tuesday night for Devils Lake, N. D., for a three weeks' visit with friends.

—A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Jones, 412 Second street east, on Sunday morning.

—Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Strom left on Tuesday for St. Paul after a visit at the Mrs. Skaalerud home.

—Miss Minnie Lindstrom arrived Sunday from Alexandria for a visit at the Andrew Peterson home.

—James Kavanaugh returned Mon-day morning from a short visit with hts parents near Murdock.

—Mr. and Mrs. Erick Hedlof and son Joel of Lake Lillian visited at the John Hartz home Tuesday.

—Mrs. W. E. Pearson returned Mon-day from a couple of weeks' visit at St. Cloud with her parents.

—Charles Adams of Dassel arrived Monday evening and will be employed with a bridge crew near this city.

—Reuben and Abby Stromert and Einar Soderling of Kandiyohi visited in this city last Thursday evening.

—Miss Anna Strafelda of Twin Val-ley arrived Saturday for a visit in this city and with relatives at Prinsburg.

—Roger Mattson returned to New Rockford, N. D., last week after a vis-it at Linden Hill farm, south of the city.

—Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Nelson and family, and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wal-lin and family spent Sunday at Lake Florida.

—Misses Ada. and Anna Fridlund awf l&rry EricksoiL visited at the. S. O. Susag home near Paynesville last Sunday.

—Miss Ella Halvorson of New Lon-don arrived Saturday to spend the summer at the Tallman cottage at Green Lake.

—Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Hed and son Paul of Lake Lillian visited at the An-drew Nordgren home east of this city last Sunday.

—E. G. Almstedt of Norway Lake was a visitor here Saturday and Sun-day. He left Monday morning for Minneapolis.

—Mrs. Estrem returned to Fergus Falls Tuesday after a three weeks' visit with her parents, Hon. and Mrs. L. O. Thorpe.

—A. C. Skoog has purchased a resi-dence from C. W. Odell on Sixth street, formerly occupied by the J. F. Barrett family.

—Ingvald Anderson was a visitor here Monday while enroute for New London after a week's stay with rela-tives near Morris. """—Rev. and Mrs. M. B. Anderson of Alberta, Canada, visited at the Mrs. A. L. Nelson home, Wednesday and Thursday of last week.

—Mrs. Erick Glad and son, Junior, and Mrs. Peter Bonde returned Satur-day to their cottage at Green Lake af-ter a three days' stay here.

—Mrs. Frank Lindvall of Chisholm and children arrived Tuesday for a visit with her brother, E. J. Hedlof and family in Lake Lillian.

—Ruby Stromert of Kandiyohi at-tended the alumni banquet at the Ma-sonic Temple of the Willmar high school last Thursday evening.

—J. F. Millard left Tuesday for St. P.iul to attend the Minnesota Bank-ers' Association meeting. Mr. Millard is treasurer of this association.

—Rev. W. E. Pearson returned on Monday from a week's visit at Rock Island, 111., where he' attended the Swedish Lutheran convention.

—Emma and Alfred Kloster, Mr. and Mrs. Casper Johnson and daugh-ter left last Friday for a visit at Hen-dricks, Hanley Falls and Clarkfield.

—Themer Norling and Kelly Peter-son spent Sunday afternoon at Pen-nock. They played with the Union Sluggers against the Pennock team.

—Renius Swenson and daughter, Ella, Mrs. O. Ahlstrom, Esther and El-vira Swenson attended the Baptist church meetings at Alexandria Satur-day and Sunday.

—Mrs. N. O. Nelson and daughter, Marie, Mrs. A. Westerberg of Will-mar, Miss Mildred Ekblad of Linda-borg, Kansas visited at P. J. Gibson's in Roseland last week.

—Misses Clara Benson, Mabel Dahl-in and Ethel Thompson, Russell Strandberg and Ernest Freed attended the social at the C. Christianson home in Fahlun township last Friday eve-ning.

—Mrs. Robert Tait of Diamond Lake, who returned Monday from a three days' visit at Marshall, is at present visiting at the D. W. Haley home.

OSCAR JOHN30N DIE8 IN 8IOUX FALLS HOSPITAL

In Death Was Caused by Gangrene Wound Received in Wreck Last * February Near Garretaon.

Oscar O. Johnson, who was hurt in the wreckfbetween Sherman and Gar-retson last February, died at the Mc-Kinnon Hospital at Sioux Falls Tues-day morning. Gangrene had set in where the iron bar had passed thru his leg. Mrs. P. J. Borgan, a sister-in-law, residing at Willmar, received a message to this effect. The funeral will be held at Garretson next Friday. He is mourned by the wife, a sister of Mrs. Borgan, one child, seven sisters, both parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul John-son of Garretson, and six brothers. One brother was crushed between two logs at a point in Washington last week. The deceased, Oscar Johnson, formerly resided at Willmar, moving to Garretson about a year ago. He had a large number of friends who aie saddened by the news of his death. Mrs. Borgan and others will attend the funeral on Friday. The wreck in which the deceased man was injured was the same as that in which the late Franklin Hanson of our city and oth-ers were killed.

Dedication at Marshall Last Sunday. The dedication of the new $100,000

church of the Holy Redeemer was held at Marshall last Sunday. The morning services were conducted by Archbishop John Ireland of St. Paul.

Among those who attended the dedi-cation from this vicinity were Mr. and Mrs. Philip Haley and family, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Haley and family, Miss Mary Lawler of this city, Mr. and Mrs. Pat Lawler, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Burns, Mr. and Mrs. John. Dougherty, Mr. and Mrs. William McDermott, Jerry Law-ler and Mrs. M. Lawler of Kandiyohi, Mrs. Robert Tait and Peter DeFoe and mother of Diamond lake, Moses DeFoe and family, William Dowdell and family and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Tierney of Atwater.

Midsummer Picnic at Lake Lillian. The Lutheran church of Lake Lill-

ian will hold its annual Midsummer picnic at the home of John E. John-son, June 23, and the following pro-gram will be given. Program will be-gin at 10:30: Song, "America" Audience Invocation. Song Svea Choir Recitation Minnie Sandra Address A. F. Forsberg Dinner by. the ladles of the congrega-

tion. Afternoon session 2:00 p. m.

Sale of articles made by the Sewing Circle.

Song, "Vara Land" Audience Address Eugene Melby Vocal solo Sam Nelson Rec Florence Christianson Song Amy Ray Address A. O. Nelson Song M. Walner Rec Lars Erikson Song Svea Choir

All are cordially invited.

NOTICE BICYCLE RIDERS. Bicycle riding on the sidewalks

Must Be Stopped, aa it la strictly for-bidden according to our Ordinance. Violations of this rule will be prompt-ly prosecuted.

Willmar, June 9, 1917. A. GILBERTSON,

6:13-20 Chief of Police.

FINAL REPORT OF UBERTUOND SA l f

TtHI&k it bati hate S8U00-Arct«sir

TnuHps. The following is the final report of

Chairman Thorpe of the sale of Lib-erty Bonds of this county:

BANKS Kandiyohi County Bank, Wilt

mar $10,000 First National Bank, Willmar. 10.000 Bank of Willmar, Willmar 6,000 State Bank of New TAn«|pff,

New London _ 2,600 First Natl . Bank, Atwater 2,500 Farmers' State Bank, Atwater. 1,500 Farmers' State Bank, New Lon-

don 1,200 Farmers' State Bank,- Kandi-

yohi 1,560, Green Lake State Bank, Spicer 1,000 Farmers' State Bank, Sunburg 1,000

Total $32,200 CITY OF WILLMAR ^

First Ward. Peter Dalen^ H. T. Olson, S. B.

Chapin, $2000; total, $11,600. Second Ward.

Einar H. Brogren, C. R. C. Baker, Ralph W. Forsberg, Earl Collier, C. B. Carlson, S. B. Carlson, C. H. Sher-wood, Winnifred Sherwood, Allene Sherwood, Jennie B. Sherwood, $800; total, $9,750.

Third Ward. Peter Paulas, Adelaide U. Powers',

$100; total $(MMM>. Fourth Ward.

Previously reported, $2,000. KANDIYOHI.

Chas. A. Johnson, R. L. Davidson. D. C. Bowling, Chris P. Bennett; total, $250.

ARCTANDER. John H. Henjum, Lars O. Netland,

Adolph Engen, L. L. Bendickson, Otta Christopherson, Charley Edman; this week, $500; total, $1,150.

. MAMRE. Previously reported, $100.

PENNOCK. Previously reported, $360.

SPICER. Wm. Olson & Son, John TaR, Jr.,

O. A. Orred, F. H. Harris, Orxed Jb Anderson, $350.

ST. rarots. •» "*-*-Previoosly reported, $600.

DOVRE. Previously reported, $360.

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