Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-09-28
What's Doing
in Minnesota

saltwater. - Saltwater was host to
the twenty-ffth annual state confer
ence OF charities and correction, which
held four-day session here.
Bemidji. 49, Nymore, a village Of
1,5oo, will become part of Bemidji
October Z if the local aldermen abide
by vote with which they have adopt
ed the necessary ordinance on first
reading.
Lake City. - Despondent because
of Ill health, Mary Schmauss, 26 years
old, took her life by shooting, at her
home in this city. She was found in
her room with bullet wound in her
heart, when her mother investigated
revolver report.
Moorhead. - A bullet that crashed
through window into the F. l.. Getty
home here, narrowly missing a men,
Der Of the family and fiattening against
a wall, Is believed to have been fred
by property owner guarding his ap.
pie orchard against a band of boys.
st. Paul. - The apple crop in Min
nesota is only 40 per cent of the aver
age this year, according to the reports
On dealers, and what apples there are
are in scattered sections. Hot wealth
ef and the ravages of bugs early in the
spring are blamed for the poor crop
st. Paul. -- October 9, the anniver-
sary Of the Chicago fire in 1871, has
been set apart by Governor J. A. A.
Burnquist as fire prevention day. An
organized effort in cities and villages
time to reduce the fire hazard by a
general cleanup.
Minneapolis. - County commission
ers of Minnesota are said to have been
converted in considerable numbers to
a belief in concrete as a desirable
bridge material. C. E. Nagei deputy
state highway engineer in charge of
bridges said the bridge-testing dem
onstration at the state fair had con-
WINGED many.
Moorhead. With drainage work
amounting to $59,382.97 accomplished
the past summer and plans laid for an
additional $114,G2333 worth, Clay
county's 1916 record . in this respect
bids fair to stand as record through
out the state. Appropriations have
been made for the work planned bring
ing the years total up to $173 ,S0630 in
funds voted.
Duluth. Odin Halden, st. Louis
county auditor, has completed certiti-
cation to the state of wolf bounties.
About 1000 of the pirates of the wilds
we're killed in ST. Louis county dur
ing the last Is months and approx.
mately 200 was paid out for boun.
ties. Last winter the deep snow made
1t comparatively easy to kill wolves.
St. Paul. - Minnesota spent $685.,
27S.S4 on its thirty state institutions
In the last fiscal year, and more than
third of that sum went to the Uni.
veleity of Minnesota, according to fig
ures compiled in the Office of A. c.
Gooding, state treasurer The state
ment comprised all appropriations, in
Guiding those for buildings, mainte
nance and the like.
Minneapolis, Minn.-Fires at the
Foster Robe & Tanning company plant
and the Campbell Livery company
stable both starting within a few min
utes of each other, shortly after mid
night, resulted in the loss Of one life
and damages estimated at $4,000 tC
the livery stable, its contents and ad
joining buildings, and $4,000 to the
tanning plant buildings and contents
Saltwater. The forty-second an
nual session of the St. CroiX Valley
Old Settlers association was held a,
the Sawyer home here, where during
the past years the same association
has gathered in ever-decreasing mum
bers. The oldest settler of them all
A. l.. Larpenteur, st. Paul, who came
to Minnesota in territorial days, Sept
Is, 1S43. was among the first to ar
rive
Virginia. The strike on the Me
saba iron range has been declared of
by Industrial Workers of the World
The votes Of local unions in Biwabik
Aurora, Chisholm, Hibbing and at
other points have made it impracti
cable for other striking miners to con
tinue the fight No vote was taken
in Virginia according to the |. w. w.
and it is not felt it will be necessary
to take any further votes.
Rochester The ministry is a
poor place TO make money. The PEG
pie see to it a preacher does not get
more than enough for a living" de
clared Bishop Charles B. Mitchell OF
st. Paul, in an address before the
Minnesota conference OF the Method
list Episcopal church here. The min
istry has a tendency to develop sci
fshness, against which the true min,
lister must fight" he said.
International Falls. Charges OF
nonfeasance against two more koo
chiching county commissioners, not
mentioned In the first allegations OF
illegal expenditures Of county funds,
aggregating 100000, which resulted
in suspension Of the county auditor
and three other commissioners, pend.
inx investigation. have been filed with
Governor Burnquist. together with a
petition asking that they likewise be
suspended
St Cloud - Vladimir Miller of Min