Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-09-13
ABOUT the STATE
News Of Especial lnlaEest to
Minnesota Readers.
GATHERED FROM ALL SECTIONS
happenings 81 the Week Briefly re,e
ser tho cenveniencs Of the
Sasy HeaS-r.

I Andrew NeS$er. sixty>fve years old.
( Who had served forty.Six years as
/ ianisor in Minneapolis public schools,
/ is dead.
/ & y patriotic celebration at Heron
/ Lake shat yiliaSe OF 900 persons raised
/ $500 in forty-ive minutes for Red
/ Cross work.
/ Mrs. Sophie Stuhr. ninety-four years
| old, Winonas oldest pioneer woman.
succumbed to the first sickness she
| ever had known.
| The Minnesota State Woman's
| Christian Temperance union will hold
| its forty-frst annual convention at
| Minneapolis Sept. 26-2S.
| John Mckinney, a pioneer resident
of Winnebago City, is dead He was
born in New York in 1910 ana was
veteran of the Civil war.
! Drafted men who leave Hibbing will
have individual hackers whose duties
it will be to provide the soldiers with
tobacco and reading material.
Minnesota beekeepers, at meeting
at the state fair grounds, fixed the
price of honey from Ia to 20 cents per
pound, according to quality and guam
tity.
Seven of the eight surviving men,
| bers of G company, Eighth Minnesota
| infantry, met in annual banquet at the
home of Horace Voligney at Still
water.
Otto Anderson, farm laborer, lost
his life and Syvert Burvan was rem
dered unconscious in an automobile
accident a short distance east of
Breckenridge.
The attendance at this years state
| fair was 3S2,205, breaking all previous
records. In 1912, the former high
mark, 37412S persons passed through
the turnstiles.
w. H. Weridorf, an employe Of the
| Great Western railway at Melrose. was
| crushed while attempting to crawl un-
der moving freight car. He died
| in few hours.
George w. Scheerer, Mankato bank
err. is dead at a Minneapolis hospital.
| Mr. Scheerer was past grand master
and past grand representative of Min
nesota Odd Fellows.
Frank H. Carleton, Jr, of Minneap-
Oils. now in the Red Cross ambulance
service in France, has been awarded
the Cross of War for bravery in re-
moving wounded under heavy bonn
bardment.
j. F. Turner, ST. Elizabeth, Wis,
| died of broken neck following an au-
| tomobile accident on the Saltwater
road three miles outside the St. Paul
city limits.
At the farm of w. II. Johnston in
South Long Lake township, Crow
Wing county, there is crab apple
| tree with fruit hanging from it's limbs
and blossoms appearing a second time
! this season.
Lille Miller, sixteen years old. Of
Benton county, won the oral spelling
| contest at the state fair and Joseph
| Voldahl, twelve years old, of Faribault
| county, took first honors in the writ
| ten contest.
Oscar l.. Buhr of Stewart, this state.
has been appointed to succeed Floyd
| Lyle as secretary to President Marion
l.. Burton of the University of Mime
sofa. Mr. Lyle resigned to enter mill
tary service.
Wadena county won first honors for
county agricultural exhibits at the
state fair Cass county captured first
| honors for the northern section and
Nieollet secured first place in the
southern section.
| Orders to send the Second Mime
sofa draft contingent of I'LL zen to
Camp Dodge, at Des Moines, Ia. be-
ginning Sept. 10, have been received
by Governor Burnquist from Provost
General Il. Fl. Crowder
John p. karpen of Hastings. super
intendent of schools of Dakota county,
has been certified for service in the
national army. The board claims he
is the first county or state official In
Minnesota to be certified.
Archie Thomas of Siberian. wanted
by the police for attempting to kill
| rival, Harry Harder of Mankato, who
was engaged to his former sweetheart,
killed himself after being surrounded
| by the sheriff and posse.
Attorney General Lyndon A. Smith
has returned from Saratoga, N. Y.
where he attended the meeting of the
Association of Attorneys General of
| the United States. Mr.. Smith was
| elected president of the organization.
Thomas B. Lindsay. for thirty years
head OF one OF the largest firms in the
farm implement trade in the West, is
| dead at his home In Minneapolis He
| was seventy-four years of age Be-
| sides his prominence in the city's COM
| mercial life Mr. Lindsay was identified
with religious, educational and civic
| work
| Mrs. Park L. Day OF Frazee. de-
| spondent over the i'll health Of her
husband, who is confined in a santa.
rum suffering from tuberculosis, her.
self i'll and unable to provide for har
three Children. purchased poison and
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