Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-11-08
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The Week IN Brief
An Epitome of All the Big and
Interesting Events of the Past
Few Days In the State.

! Few Days In the State.
The townships of Aitkin county
have voted $61, OO3 for road and bridge
maintenance and construction for the
coming year.
The Hamline university smallpox
epidemic is thought to be under con.
troll and the danger of closing tue
college virtually has passed.
Alvie Johnson. for many years a res
ident Of Willow River and later Of
Sandstone, dropped dead of heart fail
ure at his place of business at st.
Paul.
The state department Of education
has assigned instructors for a teach.
ers institute for Aitkin county to be
held at the Aitkin high school January
2. and 4.
Jacob Lucius, six-year-old son Of
Joseph Lucius, farmer near Cannon
Falls, was crushed to death when q
wagon, driven by the father. backed
over the child's head.
Frank Stranberg. q salesman, Is in
st. Raphael's hospital at st. Cloud
with two fractured ribs as a result Of
q collision between an automobile and
. wagon In East 8. Cloud.
The Interstate Seed & Grain COM
pany, with capital OF $50 900, has been
organized at Moorhead. The company
will build number Of potato cellars
next year at several points In Clay
county.
Only 10 arrests were made at Be.
midi In three months, according to
Chief of Police Frank Ripple, the fines
totaling 1925. Although that is dry
territory seven of the arrests were for
drunkenness.
The Red Wing chapter of the Amer.
lean Red Cross, organized on April 80.
with an initial enrolment of 90 mem.
bers, now has 1927 members, of which
number 1917 are annual and 20 sub.
scribins members.
Mrs. Agnes Rex. Grand Forks. N.
D.. has been elected policewoman Of
Winona. succeeding Miss Sybil Camp
bell Of Winona, resigned. Mrs. Rex
proposes at the outset to procure the
passage OF dance control ordinance
ana then to enforce It.
The commercial depository bank of
the Crosby-Ironton schools conducted
by the commercial department of the
high school has been opened for the
pupils. The deposits draw per cent
interest and are deposited in the
banks of the two towns.
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mas packages allotted to the Penning.
ton County Red Cross chapter will be
willingly filled within a few days. At
special meeting Of the directors 1t
was thought best that st. Hilaire be
asked to make six Of the number,
Goodridge four and the remaining 80
for Thief River Falls.
AS the result of alleged seditious ut.
terances on q train en- route from
Havre. Mont, J. w. Brown of Mime
apolis. travelling salesman, was
locked up in the city Jail at Great
Falls. Conductor f. L. Shields caused
Browns arrest after the matter had
been called to his attention by w. H.
Baxter. another salesman
Katherine Krier, the 17-year-old
school girl who has been held at st.
Cloud for the past two weeks on q
charge Of stealing a postal money or.
der and passing worthless check.
was sentenced to nine months in Jail
and sentenced suspended on her prom.
Use to spend this time in the House of
| Good Shepherds at st. Paul.
The Northern Pacific freight depot
at Little Fails Is now operating on
the efght-hour schedule, The freight
warerooms are open from a. m. to
| p. m. but are closed from IL to 1.
The eight-hour schedule has been put
In force In accordance with an agree
men: made between the clerks union
| and the road q short time ago.
An interesting program is assured
those attending the annual meeting
1t Thief River Falls Of the Northwest
Minnesota Educational association on
Nov. Is and is. Several noted speak
ers from various parts of the country
have been secured. Papers by local
and other teachers will hold the at.
| tention of those al the meeting.
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holm Lumber company at Frazee. A.
ter long and very successful saving
season, has shut down. The men left
for the camp In the woods. The com.
pany will operate four camps this win.
ter. Railroad logging Is a thing Of
the past with this company, as all
the logging done this winter will be
| with horses and sleds.
The seriousness of the food situa-
| ton is fierce. and the urgent need for
preventing waste Is emphasized in =
| letter deceived from Theodore Tsator,
| Greek merchant of Winona. who now
Is In Patros, Greece The letter was
written to his brother in Winona. Il
Is unquestionably the food situation
that is keeping the Greek army from
entering the world war. Tsatos be-
| lieves
Phil McDermott, who has resided in
| Saltwater about sixty one years, says
he cannot recollect OF a more disa-
| greeable October than that of 1877