American Legion Post to Debut Basketball Game
The American Legion Post basketball five debuts Friday evening against Howard Lake, a team that has already won several games and earned medals. The game starts at 8 p.m. with 50 cent admission for city residents and 25 cents for High School students.
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American Legion Post
Howard Lake
Knights of Columbus Quint
Waverly
Willmar
A. E. Nordstrom
H. Severinson
O. Christian
R. Christian
Miss Elna Forssell Hosts Fourteen Guests for Evening
Miss Elna Forssell entertained fourteen guests at her home Monday evening with games and music. Honors went to Miss Alice Magnuson and Miss Cora Galiford. A late large feed followed.
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Elna Forssell
Alice Magnuson
Cora Galiford
East Side Ladies Aid to Meet at Pederson Home
Mrs. P. W. Pederson will entertain the East Side Ladies Aid at her Eagle Lake home on Thursday January 6. Everyone is welcome to attend.
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L. Aid
Eagle Lake Church
P. W. Pederson
East Side
Ladies Aid
Thieves Fail to Break Into Market and Local Notables Wed
Thieves tried to force entry into the Cash Market via a basement door, carving a shallow slot but abandoning the effort when they sensed approaching Frank Collier. Nearby marriages and holiday gatherings are noted, including Gent Lepse-Wangsness wedding at the Free Church and several Christmas Day dinners among local families.
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Frank Collier
Mannish gym exercise club forms in city
A Monday evening gym session at the high school gym attracts many men who join an athletic club paying a one dollar initiation. A business meeting precedes hours of exercise with plans for equipment and a future by law rewrite at the next meeting led by T. Grace and Elmer Peterson.
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T. Grace
Elmer Peterson
Death at Bowbell Franklin Anderson 21
Franklin Anderson son of Mr and Mrs Richard Anderson formerly of the Syea community died at Bowbells North Dakota December 21 from appendicitis at age 21 Many friends from this county grieved His father is a cousin of Oscar Lindblad of Fahlan The funeral was held Friday.
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Bowbell
Franklin Anderson
Richard Anderson
Syea
Bowbells
N. D
Oscar Lindblad
Fahlan
Kandiyohi
Franklin
Roy Anderson
Raymond Anderson
Gordon Anderson
Warming House for Skaters on Lake Foot
Funds are being raised to build a warming house near Foot Lake, the city’s popular skating spot. A coal stove and electric lighting will illuminate and heat the site, with volunteers and local merchants contributing to the project aimed at ready ice conditions.
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Foot Lake
Manley Holt
Willmar Co-operative Store
Geo. Brogren
Weum-Elkjera
Russell Strandberg
Roy Johnson
Seventh St. North
Chester Holm
H. Severinson
Arthur W. Magnuson
George A. Brogren
Elbert Gilbertson
Louis Reebsese
Lieutenants Home for Holidays
Lieutenant Alexander Sand of Atwater visits friends in town over the holidays while stationed at Camp Knox Kentucky as a field artillery member. His brother Lieutenant Harold Sand, stationed at the cavalry school Fort Riley Kansas, also spends the holidays with their parents Mr and Mrs G O Sand in Atwater.
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Alexander Sand
Atwater
Camp Knox
Field Artillery
Harold Sand
G. O. Sand
Cavalry School
Fort Riley
Kansas
Long Lake Ladies Aid Meeting Next Tuesday
The Ladies Aid of the Long Lake church will meet next Tuesday January 6 at the home of O O Rykken. All are welcome.
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Long Lake
Ladies Aid of the
O. O. Rykken
Local residents spend Sunday and holidays visiting kin
Arthur Hed spent Sunday at his Lake Lillian home. Mrs. A H Swanson and Mrs. Einar Soderling with son Vincent traveled Thursday noon to La Bolt North Dakota to visit their parental home during the holidays. Mr Soderling joined them Friday.
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Carl Pehle
Russell
Ruby Pehle
Grove City
Arthur Sjoberg
Martin Swenson
Second Street East
Edith Hegstrom
Minneapolis
Anina Hegstrom
Svea
J. A. Jacobson
C. H. Lundgren
Harriet
Raymond
Arthur Hed
Lake Lillian
A. H. Swanson
Einar Soderling
Vincent
la Bolt
Mr. Soderling
Great Northern raises mileage rate effective Jan 1
The Great Northern Railway announces a .6 cent per mile increase, raising the standard rate from 2 cents to 2.6 cents per mile. Minneapolis fare climbs from $2.97 to $3.56, while St. Paul departures rise from $3.30 to $3.97. Clergymen rates increase from half to two thirds of regular fares.
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Great Northern
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Judge C B Lien Dies At Grove City Today
Obituary notes the death of Judge C B Lien pioneer of Kandiyohi County and former Willmar businessman who died at 1 40 pm in Grove City. Funeral set for New Years Day at Grove City. Also includes a grief card from the Anderson family and brief local items about a fire alarm at a dry cleaners and community tree comments.
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Lien
Grove City
C. B. Levi
Kandiyohi County
Willmar
Back From Tour Mr and Mrs Sijalmer Peter Son
Mr and Mrs Sijalmer Peter Son returned last week from a month long tour through Minnesota the Dakotas and Wisconsin. They plan another tour in the Eastern United States where they will present Swedish entertainments for audiences there.
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Sijalmer Peterson
Minnesota
Dakotas
Wisconsin
United States
Machinists Plan Dance at Green Lake Lodge Ball
Machinists Lodge No 1440 plans a dance January 12 1921 at the Masonic Temple with music by the Olivia Orchestra.
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Green Lake
Masonic Temple
Olivia Orchestra
Furnace Order Ad From Ohs berg-Berquist Hardware Co
Local hardware advertisement urges readers to place furnace orders with Ohs berg-Berquist Hardware Co. The message emphasizes prompt service and availability of heating equipment for upcoming cold season.
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Ohsberg-Berquist Hardware Co
County livestock meeting urged for Minnesota farmers
The Minnesota Livestock Breeders Station annual meeting is set at Unity Farm at 10 15 a m on January 6 with talks by University of Minnesota officials and industry leaders. A banquet follows at 7 p m in St Paul as multiple livestock associations plan their January gatherings.
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Minnesota Livestock Breeders Station
Unty Farm
Inter of Minnesota
L. D. Coffman
University of Minnesota
Minnesota
Cattle Breeders’ Associations
Epworth League Watch Nite Programme New Year's Eve 1920
A detailed New Year’s Eve program at the Methodist church includes stereoptican pictures piano solos sacred songs and vocal recitals with performers such as Levi Dahl Gene Gilfillen J A Inahut Amelia Olson and Doris Scott. Admission 25 cents for isle and oyster stew plus ice at 11 780 12 05. Corner 4th and Trott.
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Epworth League
Ole” Vora
Levi Dahl
J. A. Inahut Mershall de Camp
Gene Gilfillen
Walter
Amelia Olson
Traumesi
Paul Petterson
Voesl
Blancheford Hall
Dolly
Violet” Yoes
Doris Scott
Wallace BE. Johnson
Methodist Church
Painter Opens Auto Painting Shop in Willmar
Anderson reports a new workshop at Lindblad-Larson Motor Co. in Willmar Minnesota. The studio offers auto painting plus top building and repairing services with emphasis on quality and timely completion.
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Wiros
Motor Inn
Lindblad-Larson Motor Co
Dorney Litchfield
Str
Willmar, Minn
Final Hearing on New Ditch Dredging
The county commissioners held hearings on Ditches 8 16 and 18 at the courthouse. Objectors opposed the dredging route through Lake Lillian Roseland Whitefield and Holland with costs in the hundreds of thousands dollars. The board deferred action until January 6 1921 at 10 pm due to numerous questions and complexities.
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County Ditchen
County Commissioners
Lake Lillian
Roseland
Whitefield
Holland
Board of Commissioners
Christmas Eve Wreck Delays Mountain Rail Travelers
A wreck near Montrose last Friday split a freight into two, delaying heavy Christmas travel. Passenger train No 2 hit the freight rear, dampening the caboose and three cars, with engine damage. Trains Nos 10 22 and 18 faced delays. delays also disrupted paychecks for Great Northern employees and mail delivery from the East.
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Montrose
Ger
Willmar
Great Northern
No. 13
Miss Hannah Linndgren Arrives From Sweden
Miss Hannah Linndgren sister of Mrs Hjalmar Peterson arrived Christmas from Minneapolis after three weeks visit. She came from Nar sundet Sweden a month ago and will make her home in this country.
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Sweden
Hannah Linndgren
Hjalmar Peterson
Christmay
Minneapolis
Narsundet
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American Legion
Legion
H. S. Gym
Breamlam
Gouverneur Morris
Anita Stewart
Sauh Pallards
Goldwyn Bray
Jack Dempsey
Polly
Lost City
Bolt
Lepse-Wangsness
John 8. Lepse
Alma J. Wangsness
O. P. Wangsness
Free Thurch Parsonage
Nicolay Nilsen
Lepse
County Auditor's Office
Colton
S. D
Pennock
J. A. English
George Winney
Charles Rasmussen
A. O. Bryant
Walter Sperry
Henry Sletten
A. ¥. Millard
Jong
L 0. Thorpe
Omperness
Cashier
N. T. Tallaeson
Asst
LO Nurmstrom
Ast Cashiard
Struxness
Anat Cnahtor
Alfred Olson
Sigrid P. Antonson
Albin T. Blur
Grace Dahl
Oscar C. Olson
Freda Johnson
John 8S
Leose
William Rose
Hannah Johnson
Lane C. Findley
Marian E. Jennings
St. Francois Co
Missouri
Frank P. Rodney
Commercial Hotel
John Nichelson
Esther
Emil Nichelson
Thrond Alvig
Eleanor Nickelson
Stanley Hall
Golden Rod Farmers Club
Emma E. Johnson
Amanda Johnson
Mabel
John A. Johnson
Evelyn Swenson
Mankato
Willimar Sash & Door
Adv
Santa
Sophus Larsen
Snow Queen
H. Ruddy
Saint Nick
Miss Robbins
Mr. Jolly
Jack
Eastern Star Lodge
Orphans Home
Lillie Noren
Alton Crosby
Mesdames Thomas
G. Otterness
Jolly
Brohaugh
Hackett
C. E. Anderson
Hahn
Robbins
Mesdames Ramsett
A. C. Carlson
Hong, Bakke
Spicer
Mesdames Vandyke
and Lidstone
Misses Noren
Alice Lundquist
Hazel Benson
THE
Willmar Hospital
B. J. Branton
F. Branton
J. Ehrenberg
M. D
TP. M. Riet
Pacific Ave
Fire Dept
C. H. Anderson
Anderson Bros, & Co
Willmar Bey
Oscar R. Zabr
Metropolitan Eds
Litchfield Avenue
Teeple
E. L. Rodegeb
Anderson
L. E. Goss’ Chiropractic Adjustory Corner Ltd
St. and
Geo
C. Mickelson
Lewis E. Coss
Spinal Adjustments
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