LITTLEFORK AND VICINITY OUR LOCAL SCHOOL KILLS WIFE, SHOOTS THREE DISTRICT NEWS The public schools of this district are now fully qrganized and Born to Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Peterson, have already started on another year of effective work under Supt. WILDWOOD a son. E. E. Mclntire and a splendid corps of twenty-six teachers, whose A E I-O S Y-CRAZED HUSBAND Miss Tillie Benson, of Mahnomen, hames and home addresses are as follows RUNS AMUCK WITH GUN. Minn., arrived last Saturday, The Northome visitors, the past St. Paul Principal Mrs. Alice Dreshler for extended visit with her sister, an TO A STANDSTILL week, were Jens Skebbnjes, J. Asst. Principal Bingham Lake Charlotte Jefferson Mrs.CKarles Jewett. High School Royalton O'Loughlin, Henry Ettestead, Turns Weapon on Self After Slaying Eliza Batzer Mrs. Frank Foge and children Dom. Sc. & Com. ~alumet, Mich. Florence Messner John Bursack and W. E. Sykes, Mate Who Left Him, and Injuring returned last Wednesday morning Normal Minneapolis K. Dauffenbach Mrs. M. Two Others, One Fatally. Jr. six months visit with relatives Agriculture from a Lakefield Edward W. Van Cura The construction crew on Elwell Fitchburg, Mass Manual Training in Cadillac, Michigan. Wm. M. Donnelly GREAT DECISIVE BATTLE NOV* Minneapolis, Sept. 8.—Jacob MamBkewsky, road No. 5 are pushing the Litchfield 8th Grade W. L. Keiver returned home Elvera Walters while in a jealous rage, shot ON TO DETERMINE WHETHHR work right along. Int'l Falls 7th Grade Mrs. Pfaff (supply) from Minneapolis last week and and killed his wife, Rose, 54 years old, PARIS WILL BE ATTACKED Hjelmer Bloom and Willie Long Prairie 6th Grade probably fatally shot Mrs. Mary Oleinik, Olive Stephanson reports that he is now getting OR NOT. Lundstrom were callers at Banner wounded John Lepton? 16, years, Maude Graham Int'l Falls 5th Grade ready to farm again. his stepson, and fired two shots into Park Farm, Wednesday River Falls, Wis. 4th Grade Mrs. Georgia Stenson Grandma,Riker is visiting er his own head. Maruskewsky andJMrs.Oleinik Mayme Dunden St. Paul 4th Grade »Rev. Test and Mr. Gregorson, BaQkf Advance Lines Now Have Mrs. probably will die. John*Lepton daughter, Wanderwalk. Herman 3rd Grade Effie. Ekberg of Mizpah, were in here last week, Turned to French Capital and Art will recover. The shooting occurred Mrs. Lucas returned Saturday 2nd Grade Eleanor Gates Int'l Falls collecting for the state fair. at the home of the Oleiniks. Sides Being Attacked From Both morning from a visit with relatives Int'l Falls 2nd Grade Florence Green With a revolver in each hand, Maruskewsky Mr. Howard Magladery, of —Three Million Men in in and around Minneapolis A 1st Grade Nellie Dunn Anoka fired shot after shot, the first Birchdale, came in Saturday to Great Fray, Miss Mabel Wyman, who will Elizabeth Arthier Int'l Falls 2nd Grade killing his wife instantly. Lepton wag teach the Wildwood school for the Kindergarten shot through the arm as he shielded Flora Remington Minneapolis again teach in the school, arrive coming year. Ranier (upper) his face from the madman. Mrs. Oleinik St. Paul C. David Peterson Sunday morning from her home The Misses Irene 'and Isabelle was shot twice, once in the throat Stillwater Ranier (lower) 3race Underwood near Dodge Centre, Minn., The and again in the neck as she shielded O'Laughlin left for Minneapolis Ericsburg Alice Best Litchfield oast week Miss Wyman has spent Paris, Sept. 8.—The Germans td* her six-months-old baby. One bullet Ray Ray and St. Paul to attend the fair. Mildreth Duffy —. 44 nPP 11CIOT1 vancing upon Paris have been forced grazed the infant's head and another Mountain Lake Lyman Henry Teichrow Mrs. Anna Sarnquist returned {"r^UlTteTch- to face about and now are fighting nearly tore off several fingers. Beaver Cloquet Florence Lansing from the Twin cities Friday. with their backs to the city while thf F. L. Williams ran to the house at ers of the county. Minneapolis Goldville allies harass their rear with cavalry Agnes McNulty the sound of the shooting. He found Mrs. T. W. Smith left for Winnipeg W P. Holland has resigned his and artillery supported by infantry. Mrs. Oleinik lying wounded on the There is an enrollment of seventy pupils in the High school, to visit her sister for a position as village marshall and Tables Are Turned. kitchen floor, Mrs. Maruskewsky dead, Which is an increase of twenty over the registration of last year. couple of weeks. The monotonous and steady ona and Maruskewsky standing with the will leave shortly to attend schoo Every seat is occupied in the grades and many pupils are sitting on slaught of the kaiser's forees, which Not a very large attendance at revolvers in his hand. Before Williams Chairs without desks, which will be replaced by desks as soon as the have been hurled forward hy leaps and could interfere the man sent two the farmers' meeting at H. P. '"M^and Mrs. Foster Willhide of orders for them can be filled. While the attendance is larger than bounds toward the fortifications of bullets into his head and fell backward Nordberg, as it was a case of Paris, has been turned iiitg & reaf anticipated, all are being accomodated in the magnificent new building, Shelby, Ohio, arrived here last 04 a bed. have to stay at home to attend to guard action with the Germans la r% but only one room is now left for overflow. It will possibly Williams called the police and sent Saturday, and will treat. crops and other business that for ambulances. The injured were be necessary to put some classes in the old building before the year home near Happyland, where Mr. Entire Line Not Retiring, could not even stop for the club taken to the City hospital. Is out, thus it is easily proven the school board made no mistake in Willhide will teach school. *1 entire This does not mean that the Two weeks ago Mrs. Maruskewsky erecting such a commodious building. meeting. kaiser'l German line is retiring, Thf brother, L. E. Willhide, was principal separated from her husband. Denied number 1|* forces on the battle front the care of her son, John Lepton, by of the Littlefork school for close eitl# 600,000 men, according to a former marriage, while she lived along two terms. mates, and they are distributed with the man, she told him they would Miss Helga Muus left last Saturday Nan* a battle line which extends from never meet again. First she fled to of teuil-Le-Haudin, 25 miles northeast evening for Minneapolis the home of Efrem Oleinik. The Olei- where she will enter the North niks were o'd friends Then she sent Pa™? Meau* Sezanne In through to fn Tair rir ni v, southeasterly direction and then A lit* to Lake Bluff, Illinois, where her son High school as a member of the 1 tie Mo north of easterly to Verdun throuch was an orphanage. The son arrived Vitry-Le-Francois, a front of 120 mllei« senior class. several days ago. Off. At the council meeting Advance Body Cut Maruskewsky appeared at the Oleinik It is more probable that the advance Tuesday evening, Jas. Van Vlec home, the location of which Mrs. body of the invaders which bad sue* Maruskewcky thought was unknown to was appointed marshall. ceeded in penetrating to Coulomalree him. He pleaded with his wife to return Mr. and Mrs. John Noll, of International and Laferte-Gaucher has been cut to him. She refused. Then the ott from the main body by the allies south Falls, spent Sunday son, whom Maruskewsky disliked, appeared. of the Marne river to the immediate GET H'S with S. T. LaChapelle's. COR east of Paris and are now retiring In SELECTeO Work on clearing the right of Apparently the sight of the young 0EF EFORE. an easterly direction probably with man crazed the visitor. WILL. way of the Elwell road north and the object of affecting a juncture with the Bavarian army under Prijjg§ Rup« south of town will begin Y?*y LION KILLS NEWRY STOCK percht which is attacking Naney undef soon Ira Foster, Myron Van the personal direction of the kaiser. R. Vleck and W*Hale have the Albert Lea, Minn.—Farmers living Allies Number 1,400,000. job of clearing the two mies near Newry, in this county, report __ The general action which WM that a lion has been seen in that vicin- started on the allies' left when the pur south of the depot, while Murphy ity several times the past week. The suit of the retiring Germans was take* a^dRomens will clear the remaining $ son of N. P. Nelson saw the beast up, was vigorous from the beginning two miles to Happyland. standing in the road near his farm. and soon the full force of the" united North of town Sam Lee has Several farmers have lost sheep and armies of the allies was thrown into even half-grown cattle. The half-eaten the conflict. These number 1,400,000 clearing of the right of way. carcass of a sheep was found near the men, making the number of those en« Archie McNeil, the janitor of C. Christianson place a few days ago, gaged in both sides about 3,000,000. the school, has been busy laying and tracks measuring five inches in French on Rear. length and four and one-half inches In out gravel walks, which later on From time to time as the Germans width were plainly visible in the soft will be replaced by cement. School continued to retire they were forced earth. Farmers are keeping their chil- to turn and engage the French •who will begin Monday dren at home and may organize to hard upon them in their rear, all of the old teachers in thei were ttZSLT?.. '5L"™" P-nch shell, were Miog eonttnuW lion escaped from some circus and is In the German rear and it was evident making its home in the timber about that the field artillery of the pursuere plaMrS'and Mr, C* Newry. was being forced well to the front of entertained Mr. and Mrs. the line of attack. Earley and Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Firemen Mistaken Woman Burned. As the action along the left of the Miller at supper last Friday, allies' line was carried eastward, the event being their first wedding Winona.—Miss Gertrude Semlerwas engagement became general all along burned severely in her home while the line which development marks the anniversary. 9 firemen raced to remote parts of the definite abandonment of the kaiser's Miss Cecilia Anderson arrived city in an effort to locate the source turning movement against the left MILLION last Saturday from her home of the alarm. The telephone alarm flank of the allies, which has been BUSHELS Green Bay, Wisconsin and last hammering for two weeks. was misinterpreted in the first instance CORN and the firemen stopped across by week attended the teachers institute Anticipated Allies. the street. The woman in whose home Evidently the feature of the man* at the Falls. euver was anticipated by the allies gasoline had exploded was too busily Fire broke out Saturday morning shown by their retreat on Farlii engaged to attract them. The firemen, in the restaurant adjoining where they turned east, to join the assuming they had gone in the French center, which movement they wrong direction, traveled to the same the Ole Thorson saloon, but before accomplished practically without being number in the opposite direction. much damage was done the disturbed by the enemy. it grew at all. Besides from the WAR ON POOR SEED CORN! eight bushels," answered Bill, "bucket brigade" extinguished The allies occupy the strongest poai« crib you have no chance to select scratching his head. round town the past week. The tion they have taken up since the WM the flames. early maturing ears or ears from Btarted. Should the great battle now country looks more like the older The electric light experts have John Cornman was a farmer "Might just as well have been the in progress result in defeat for good stalks. Hang it, I'm surprised farming sections, where one sees gotten along so fine in their work forty," sai4 the farmer-banker. first and a banker on the side. Germans the latter would be routed to» that you got even twentyeight a threshing machine at work. The that some of the business places have "The average for the state last wards Luxemburg should they He had made a success as a bushels to the acre. You to and residences were lighted for jv/heat was damaged by the rust to the advantage they would continue year was forty, so you were way farmer, put some money away in must have worked well to do the southwest In their advance toward some extent. the first time, this week. Gordon behind. Say you grew twentyeight Paris, where they would be confront* that." the bank, and then one day R. Liljeblad and Mr. Linsten bushels to the acre last Bros, store enjoyed the distinction ed by, strong fresh troops assigned to "Nowi Bill, what you need," When the bank wished to enlarge spent Friday and Saturday in of being the first business the year. You had twenty acres in the defense of the capital, while its capital called on John went on John, "is to select your the village selling life insurance. other troope threaten their flanks. place lighted by electricity. The corn. The average price for the Bitter Fighting Elsewhere. seed corn in Seed Corn Week, to become a stockholder and officer. Bernice Muus left Sunday evening Joseph LaChappelle residence, year was cents a bushel. You 50 In addition to practical casualties Sept. 14-19* from the standing for Northfield, Minn., where &r John was willing, and so half a mile from the electric light got, therefore worth of bat* $280 and momentous fighting along this corn in the field. Here is a copy became a banker on the side. He he will attend St. Olaf college. plant had the light turned on last tie line between Paris and the eastern 0-' corn. Now if you had grown the of Bulletin No. from the Col­ did his duty by the bank, but frontier, there are bitter struggles 1ft 9, average grown in the state— Tuesday evening. This week will Miss Grace Monroe arrived of progress elsewhere tn the theater lege of Agriculture. It will tell he always considered himself a witness several other houses Saturday evening from her home forty bushels to the acre—you war, and up in Belgium fighting hag you just how to select your seed farmer first, and he liked nothing in Baudette and will again fill her would have had bushels, lighted in this manner. been resumed with bitter vigor, 800 corn from the standing corn in better than to get a farmer old position in the school. worth or more. That Frank Lucas has been at work More Brftleh Land. $400, $120 the field and how to cure it. Then oft by his desk in the bank and Reports that1 the British have land* on his farm in Cross River township would have made a -good Monday afternoon at the school $120 ed another army at Ostend, beliere4 you can test it in the spring before talk good farming to him. hole in your mortgage, Bill, and the past three weeks dynamiting Jiouse, Mrs. John Vanderwalk was to be the fifth army which has been Bill Jones came into the bank planting and say, Bill, if stumps and clearing away if you had fed your corn on the very pleasantly surprised by the sent across the channel, gave rise to you'll follow those rules, work 6ne day to pay the interest on the brush, for a larger farm. farm, you would have had a good ladies of the cooking class of the the hope here that this British force mortgage on his farm, and your corn as well next year as the in conjunction with the Russian bri* Fred Getchell and Ole Klefstad deal more to apply on your [domestic science room. Light refreshments tho gades that have been landed In John got hold of him. you did last, and don't get more mortgage.'* journeyed to the Falls on Monday were had, and a pleasant aorth at a point which is not disclosedt, than twenty-eight bushels to the "Bill," said John, "why don't last. time was spent by all. The "Well," 'said Bill, "I kind o' will be able to strike the German army acre, I'll credit you with on $50 Ernest Polkinghorne went to you pay off that mortgage?" event was a birthday surprise. In the rear and thus bend the invaders' thought I was going to get more that mortgage anyway. If you line toward the allies front, effectually "Ain't got the cash," was Bill's the Falls Saturday to meet his Miss Margaret Moe, who will corn that I did last year. Somehow trapping the enemy. do get more than more response. ewenty-eight mother-in-law, who came via Fort teach in the Helendale district, it didn't pan out." City Is Calm. bushels to the acre, you are to Frances from Ontario. This is passed hrough here Saturday on "Get it," answered John. The The city is comparatively calm. "Where did you get your pay the price of what you get Mrs. Polkinghorne's first visit to her way to her school. east "How?" said Bill. day was beautiful and a strong seed?" asked John. over twenty-eight bushels on the this part of the country .although wind blowing enabled those with sharp The fr-ost last week hurt all the "Easy," retorted John. "Grow "Out of the crib, long to-\yard mortgage." ears occasionally to hear the sound of her son has been here for a number garden truck in this vicinity and corn, clover and alfalfa and feed spring," answered Bill. artillery firing Qff toward the battle* Bill agreed and started out. of years. the cold weather prevailing is not 'em to live stock. There's the field. "Gee, Bill, the first thing you Wild plums have been plentiful "Say, Bill," called John, "tell Col. Rousset, the military expert, be* very helpful for the late potatoes. game that will win and let you know you'll be the worst back this season and there have been ileves. the battle now in progress will your neighbors, too. If- they Wm. Deteker has been clearing wipe out that mortgage." number in the country. The crib be decisive. He declares it is clear many pickers. up the lots along the river which "How much corn did you get want copies of that bulletin, tell now that the extra rapid advance of is no place to go for seed corn. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Anderson he purchased from Ernie Holler. the Glermaris on Paris was only an In* to the acre last year, Bill?" John 'em to write tp the Extension There the corn has frozen and went to Wakmha last Saturdav Miss. Lee, who has been working timidation. This having failed in its asked. it? thawed out, and frozen and Division, University Farm, St. effect, the Germans must now fight U| to spend Sunday on the claim at the Deteker hotel, will "Oh, ,twenty-seven, ^twenty- thawed out, until it is a wonder Paul.-1 an open field. Optimism was the ke*. John Heath has been threshing |bave shortly for Chicago. -Nrr* tot? everywhere in Paris last nlgfcL V*ti- i'Z" •3. am