Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-08-24
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medical examiner for the state board
of health.
st. Paul. The state board OF law
examiners has recommended to the
state supreme court for admission to
the bar SO applicants who passed the
beard examinations last month.
Ray Mimi. Damage to state,owned
timber from recent forest fires In the
vicinity of Ray, Koochiching county.
is estimated at from $500 to $4,000
in an official report filed by the state
forestry department with the state
auditor.
Duluth. Trial of ten persons held
in connection with the murder of Dep
uty Sheriff James Myron at Biwabik.
has been started before District Judge
Martin Hughes at Virginia. These
men charged with murder are alleged
to be l. w, w. leaders.
st. Cloud Three hundred white
clad delegates from the Twin Cities
paraded here from their Great North
ern special train to the Davidson the
alter for the opening of the twenty
sixth annual convention of the State
Christian Endeavor union.
St Paul.--Governor T. A. A. Burn
quist has announced appointments OF
Minnesota delegates to the American
Prison association meeting and the
Mississippi Valley Conference on Tub.
erculosis. The prison association will
meet Oct to ~ at Buffalo. N. Y.
Taylors Falls, Minn.---Seyenty- Ave
graduates of the rural school of Chi.
sage county received their diplomas at
the annual Chisago county picnic held
here. A special train left Rush City
aud more than thousand persons ar.
rived here when the train pulled in
Detrcit.-With tive organization
centers established in Minnesota, one
ct Detroit and another at New Ulm,
the work of the Minnesota Nonparti-
can league, affiliated with the North
Dakota league. has succeeded already
IA signing up about $500 members in
this state. From Minnesota the
league will turn to South Dakota.
Winona. The Tri-County fair,
scheduled to be held here August 80
> September l. has been postponed In.
teinitely because of the prevalence Of
bickness and the demands of harvest
;ng, according to an announcement by
the management. The exposition
probably will be held late in Septem-
Der or early in October ii is announc.
ed.
State Treasurer A. c. Gooding sign.
ed warrants for the payment of prin-
eipal and interest on $l23.4S7.50, the
first state educational certificate of
indebtedness. A recent legislature
authorized the issuance of such GER
tificates by the board of control to
cover the cost Of state university, nor
NAL school and other structures in ex-
cess of appropriations.
Morton.-A that since its
purchase by the state In 1894 the six
acres of Renville county land on
which occurred the battle of Birch
Coulie has been cropped annually with
AUDITING land. ]. p. Patten OF Morton,
the nearest town, through an attor-
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his services without compensation 40
caretaker of the tract.
st. Paul. - Possible abolition of the
contingent fund system at the Univer-
sity of Minnesota Is threatened. State
Treasurer Gooding advised the boar
of university regents that he was uil-
able to find legislative or other legal
authorization for the system which
involved an average of $50, 900 OF state
funds and at times greater amounts,
all used for the payment of minor cur
rent expenses.
Minneapolis. - The offer of $4,000
In cash prizes to exhibitors at the Min
nesota State Fair, Sept 4 to 9, is said
by members of the board to be itself
sufficient to make the 1915 exposition
one OF the best In the history of the
state. This sum for the educational
and material interests of state, Sec.
rotary J. c. Simpson says, has never
been equalied by any state fair asso-
citation in the United States.
st. Cloud. - A 100000 project,
which will give St Cloud a civic cen
ter, has been launched. The old
Catholic club here will be turned into
a non sectarian institute and the
building will be remodeled Business
men of all denominations are inter
ested and those who were instrl
mental in raising more than 81 ,000, o0a
for the new Minneapolis Y NJ. G. A.
will be brought here to. raise the
funds.
st. Paul.-The average value of an
acre of land in Minnesota is SIS, &C.
cording to the summary Of sales OF
real estate for 1914 and 1915 compiled
by the Minnesota tax commission.
This average includes the wild lands
of Cook county in the extreme north
eastern corner of the state and un.
crossed by railroads where 1871 an
acre is the prevailing price, as we'll as
the fertile agricultural lands of Little
Rock county In the extreme south
western corner served by four great
railway systems, where farms are
worth on the average s102 90 an acre.
st. Paul. The commission of thir.
teen appointed by Governor Burnuuist
to revise and codify the laws relating
To children at an initial uaefinp at