Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-11-15

itaaa& esvAsef week in te~ tfNaas
| paastv schools r~sahsa IN Ak 90, i,e .
| aaaaAere Ate1a h~aax staaAted by tho
| papsls To the Red cross
| AIRS. lacy Hall OF Frasee 10 the
new superintendent Of the farso day
| aarssvs and has already assumed
| active charge Of the work,
| Archie Cyrs, II. son OF q, W, Cyrs.
| Twins near Ten Strike. was drowned
| in Grill Lake by breaking through the
Ice, while setting traps for muskrats.
| Lake Minnstonka carp were offered
for sale by the state Wednesday, the
| fret consignment OF this fish to be
| placed on sale in Minneapolis as .
state food conservation measure.
| Ole Skridsol was bound over to the
district court by In Mo0rehead by
Police Magistrate f. L. Wade on =
| charge of keeping an unlicensed
drinking place in his grocery store.
Pitching from the seat OF = wagon.
Louis Burke. Winona county farmer.
was killed near St. Charles. His neck
was broken. The physician says he
probably was seized with q stroke
of appoplexy which caused the fall.
The American Red Cross society OF
International Falls has been asked by
headquarters in Minneapolis to fur.
nish twenty-five additional Christmas
packets for the soldiers at the 'front.'
SO the Red Cross boxes which are
in the business places will be left
there q few weeks longer.
State Dairy aud Food Inspector
Peter Schetty of st. Paul filed COM
plants against a Brainerd restaurant
and against . woman conducting a
dairy. charging them with selling milk
below standard, being less than the
required amount of butter fat Both
we're found guilty and sentence sus-
pended.
Fred Gates, Winnebago, a lineman
living at Blue Earth, was killed when
he fell from a pole.
Mayor Neil Kelleher and the entire
city administration were reelected
at East Grand Forks.
Robbers entered r. L. Singleton's
store at Nemadji and stole a type
writer and also took 50-pound can
of lard from the 500 station.
G. A. Penney was elected mayor of
Thief River Falls. He easily defeated
j.. H. Gambel, candidate for re-elec-
ton, Gambel carrying but one ward
In the city.
Fred Busch, former mayor of Hast
ings, 70 years old, died at Macon.
Ga, on q train while en- route to
Florida. according to telegram re-
ceived by friends at Hastings.
II he can get the men. James e.
McCrath. owner of the White Pine
mills, at Moose Lake. plans to take
out 100000 feet of white pine dur
ing the winter, employing $50 men
in eight camps. He also plans to
work 100 men in the mill.
The Brainerd city council believes
It is In fair way to rejuvenate
Brainerd city finances by an amend
ment to the city charter to provide
q decrease IN the city valuation and
an increase in the levy, thus giving
Breanerd more revenue and the state
smaller proportion.
While taking gasoline from barrel
standing outside his home between
Carlton and Cloquet. F. Gruning was
badly burned when the liquid spurteL
onto lighted lantern he was carry
ing and an explosion resulted. A
Cloquet doctor had to G-aft several
inches of skin onto the burned places
s. H. Selvog, the agent of the state
fisheries on Red lake. and MIR. Shoes
ter OF Kelliher had narrow escape
from drowning while on an automobile
trip from Kelliher. They took the
ice on the lake from Sbotly to Hen
lin,. distance Of twenty-five miles.
but when within half mile OF Shotly
the car went under in about six feet
Ivy the homesteaders living along the
lake shore.
Michael Godfrey. superintendent of
the Oliver Mining company at Hih-
bling, announces that 40-acre tract
| of land. in the heart of Hibbing, will
he mined. According to the plan. u
dozen square blocks in the center of
the city in which are located the
leading hotels. the city hall and prac-
tically all the business houses Will
he razed. 1t is planned to move the
business center of the city to Alice.
suburb south of Hibbing.
The city election at Crookston was
full OF surprises. First reports had
It that in a four-cornered fight for
mayor Former Postmaster Elias Stee'
nerson, brother OF, Congressman Stee.
nerson. was elected by fourteen
votes over A. J. Neal Great Northern
conductor running on ''stickers," but
a recount revealed that J. e. Morris
sey was elected by one vote over
Steenerson, the detail vote being
Morrissey, 295; Stevenson. 294: Neal
ESQ: NJ. r. Hussey, 23S.
| Directors OF the Minnesota State
Creamery and Cheese Factory Oper
ators and Managers association
formerly the Butter and Cheese Max
ers' association. were elected at 4
meeting at the Ryan hotel in st Paul
According to the new constitution
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