Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-08-16
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Postal savings in Minneapolis have
touched the highest mark on record
$500, 400
Mrs. Catherine Golfers, aged eighty
seven, a resident of ST. Paul since
1856, Is dead.
liver Tollefson, member Of the Min
neapolis police force for twenty-eight
years, Is dead.
Charles Edridche of Minneapolis,
seventy-three years Of age, ended his
life by shooting.
T. F. Quincy. for twenty-five years
prominent in Democratic politics IN
Minneapolis, is dead.
Erick Sundkvist, prominent St. Paul
furrier, is dead. He was sixty-four
years OF age and a native of Sweden.
Burglars broke into the Daylight
store at New Prague and escaped
with $4,000 worth of silks, jewelry and
clothing.
Charles II. Peery, Minneapolis pio-
neer and veteran of the Civil and In
dian wars, is dead at Minneapolis. He
had been a resident of Minnesota since
1861.
Mrs. Cotton Mather, prominent in
Methodist church circles and well
known for her writings on farm sub
jects, is dead at her home in Mime
apolis.
Louis Yant, aged twenty-three, a fire.
man employed by the Northern Pacific
railroad, was run down and instantly
killed in the company's yards at Min.
neapolis.
All future trading in wheat on the
Minneapolis chamber of commerce has
been ordered stopped on Sept. l by
Herbert c. Hoover, national food adj
ministrator.
The First Minnesota field artillery,
to be known as the One Hundred
Fifty-first artillery, is one of the units
ordered to France with the first divi-
sion of state troops.
c. d. Huyck, fifty-one years old, a
pioneer resident of Minneapolis and
for many years connected with the
Minneapolis lumber trade, is dead fol-
lowing an operation.
S. L. Hanson, manufacturer of barn
equipment of Albert Lea, was SEN
fenced at ST. Paul to ten days in the
workhouse after pleading guilty to a
charge of reckless driving.
George f. Schrieber of Mankato has
sofa Engineers association, in conven-
ton at st. Paul. Duluth was chosen
for the convention OF 1918.
There were 1852 deaths in Minnesota
from cerebro-spinal meningitis from
Jan. l to Aug. 6, according to a report
submitted to the United States public
helth service at Washington.
julius Pleth of Plummer was found
dead in a stateroom on a 500 train
near Thief River Falls. Mr. Pleth
was fifty years of age and was en-
gagged in the real estate business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Swither were
found dead from gas poisoning in their
apartments at Minneapolis. Both We're
fully dressed when discovered. the
husband sitting upright in a chair,
Joe Popp. employed in the beef kill
ing department OF the Swift packing
plant at South st. Paul, dropped dead
shortly after asking permission to
quit work because he was not feeling
we'll
A dispatch from Vienna announces
the engagement of Archduchess He'd
| wig of Tuscany to Count Bernhard zu
Stolberg Stolberg. born in Mankato,
this state. where his father resided a
long time.
There are $50, 400 automobiles reg
istered in Minnesota. according to Sec
rotary OF State Schmahl. OF the total
number registered, Mr.. Schmahl said,
81 per cent. or l10,044, are of the pop
ular small variety.
Arthur Benson, an attorney of st.
Cloud. has been graduated from the
aviation training camp at Columbus,
o. with the highest honors. He has
been ordered to New York and will
sail for France soon to complete his
training.
Rev. {. A. Cressy, seventy-four years
Old, a Methodist minister for fifty
years. who had served in many cities
and towns OF Minnesota. including lie
Sueur, Minneapolis. Saltwater and st.
Paul Park, is dead at his home in
Newport.
Mrs. |, Il, Burgan. prominent in state
Women's Christian Temperance union
| circles and who inaugurated the first
missionary work among the logging
ramps of Northern Minnesota in the
| early eighties. Is dead at her home in
Minneapolis.
Rev. John X. Nygaard of Minneap-
oils, his bride and Sister Caroline
Thompson. a Norwegian Lutheran dea-
| coness. were among nineteen persons
drowned when the steamship City OF
Athens struck mine near Capetown,
| Sorth Africa. Aug. 10,
Gus II. Beaulieu. sixty five years of
age. agent Of the Chippewas and editor
Of the Tomahawk of White Earth. died
OF heart disease two miles from the
spot where he was born. near Crow