Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-05-24
What's Doing
in Minnesota

Albert Les. The body OF baby
girl. probably not more than months
old. clad In expensive clothing. has
been found floating in the water above
Fountain lake dam.
Blue Earth. - Less than q week
after their attempt to rob H. c. Elders
store here. M. r. Murphy and Charles
Adams began to serve indeterminate
sentences In the state prison at Still.
water.
Rochester. - Children playing in
shallow wat.r Of the Zumbro river
here found the body Of a 3-day-old in
FAINT. II was weighed down with a
heavy piece Of concrete tied about its
| neck.
Park Rapids. - Mrs. Lester Deve.
reaux, bride of a week, is in a seri.
Gus condition at her home near here
az the result OF brutal attack by a
rejected sutton. Hubbard county au-
thorities are seeking the man.
Pipestone. - When Judge Nelson
opened the spring term of district
court here he gave notice that there
would be no jury trials so that the
farmers might stay on their farms and
cultivate the crop without Interrupt
ton.
Saltwater. - The city council has
given an ordinance its first reading
| which prohibits dealers or others SELL
ing or setting of fireworks on the
Fourth Of July or at other times dur
ing the war with Germany. The pen
atty is fine Of from SO to $50 and
Imprisonment.
Minneapolis. - Drs. w. ]. and C.. II.
Mayo, Rochester surgeons. have been
commissioned majors in the medical
corps Of officers reserve, U. s. A. The
Drs. Mayo supplied the university base
hospital with one-half of its equip
ment fund, $4,000.
Minneapolis. - Warned against an
extended speech by DR.. F.. E. Burch,
throat specialist of St. Paul, Secretary
McAdoo spoke only fifteen minutes to
an audience of 1000 that filled the
Minneapolis auditorium to hear his ap-
peal for subscriptions to the Liberty
loan. The secretary followed the lines
OF MS 81. raul ADDRESS.
Hibbing. - Shipments for the week
ending May IA last. from the state
owned mines on the Mesaba range
were approximately 49,575 tons, as re-
ported to J. A. Preus, state auditor,
by F.. A. Wildes. chief inspector. The
Leonidags. Deason, Woodbride, Wan
less. Shiras, Pool. Philbin and Smith
mines were the leading shippers.
st. Paul. - The politicians, who
want Julius Schmahl, secretary of
state. to run for governor next year
may have to send to France for him,
and then the chances are that they
| won't get him. He has his heart set
on going to France in some capacity
with the American troops and he wants
to stay there until the war is over.
Crookston. Pleas for war food
conservation and an increased produc.
ton were made in the addresses of
Superintendent C.. G. Selvig of the
Northwest School of Agriculture, and
DR.. E. Dana Durand of the University
| OF Minnesota, at the fourteenth annual
convention Of the Ninth congressional
group Of the Minnesota Bankers as.
| ISOLATION, held in Crookston.
st. Paul. - Steps for a state wide
| Loyalty campaign, In which several
hundred speakers will drive home the
duties Of Americans ir this war and
aid to form local organizations to CO.
operate with the Public Safety Com
! mission, were taken at a meeting of
the All-Minnesota Development asso-
citation, attended by civic workers
from all sections Of the state.
Mora.-The Mora Booster and Com.
mercial club has turned to bean grow
ing on large scale, and the crop will
be donated to Uncle Sam. School boys
Of that town are doing tho work and
have planted twenty.fiv acres. Eight
other scattered counties sent in SINH.
lar reports OF encouraging conditions.
The other reports are from the follow
ing counties: Benton. Olmsted. Lake,
Washington, Crow Wing, Wsbasha, st.
Louis and Dakota.
Duluth. - More than 5000 Mime
sotans are combating forest fires.
Rangers. village fire departments, set.
tiers and farmers have been engaged
for days in desperate struggles to halt
the spread Of the menace. Governor
Burnquist has announced that the state
Ia keeping In touch with forest fire
| conditions In northern sections and
will give aid wher required. Should
the situation get beyond control, he
said. the national guard will b, called
out.
st. Paul. Minnesota crop condi-
tons are the most encouraging in
| years, Fred d. Sherman. state immi-
grafton commissioner. said after re.
viewing additional reports from ten
| counties. Everywhere the wartime
appeal to farmers to increase produc.
ton OF food crops is meeting with
hearty response. The result Is In.
creased acreage In every section Of the
state. Seeding Ia almost finished and
unusually large paintings Of potatoes,
beans and other vegetables will swell