Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-09-13
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orea by American military oEf~ers ahd
tgeaeh government authorities hs
bravery
j. i. pardse, secretary of the state
public safety opnmtssloh, has re-
stgned. 1t IL reported he has a1reptea
a position VITA the federal food oem'
htittee at Washington under IT, =
Hoover and Will conduct an aaHertis
ing campaign,
Thirteen Carlton boys pasted PIE
ture OF the kaiser ON the side OF
barn and began shooting at II with air
rides Merton Cain. fourteen years
old, was accidentally wounded in the
eye by one OF his playmates In the
target practice.
John Gilman. fifty-three years old,
Il farmer living near lsanti, while al
the house OF another farmer, mistak'
ing the cellar door for the entrance
into the kitchen. fell down the stairs
and fractured his skull. He died sew
eral hours later.
Headed by representatives OF the
state public safety commission l,oo0
persons charged the audience at a So
cialist meeting at Rush City, took pos
session OF the hall, burned Socialist
banners and literature and elected
three scheduled speakers.
Minnesota will receive from the
federal government for the year end
ing June 80, 1919, road aid amounting
to $425,S65, according to an official
announcement from Washington. In
1917 Minnesota was apportioned $142,-
394 and for 1918 $2S4,792.
Private Fred Fess, eighteen years
old, of Renville, this state, a member
of H. Company, Third Minnesota in
fantry, is dead at the cantonment hos
pital at Deming, N. Nj. His was the
first soldier death at the camp. He
had been in the service only month.
P. D. Hishon of st. Paul, mem Der
of the Canadian expeditionary force,
died of wounds in field hospital in
France. Mr.. Hishon had been in the
Canadian army nearly two and a half
years. He was wounded three times
and July 80 was decorated for bravery
by King George.
Judge G. w. Granger of Rochester,
on the district bench of the Third ju-
dicial district since May Is, 1915, has
resigend to become head Of the legal
staff of the Mayo clinic at Rochester.
Charles e. Callahan, a Rochester at.
torney, has been named as successor
to Judge Granger.
The state high school board, at q
meeting in st. Paul, adopted recon-
mendations of inspectors on current
appropriations of nearly $l,500,000 OF
state aid to schools and directed the
preparation of courses in citizenship,
manual training and home training for
Minnesota public schools.
L. w. Foss. Joliet. H., committed
suicide by hanging himself while In
solitary confinement at the st. Cloud
reformatory, The official report says
he had been acting strangely for q
few days, refused to obey orders and
was placed in solitary confinement the
day he committed suicide
j. l.. Mitchell Of Austin has been
elected a member of the state fair
board to succeed Robert Crickmore of
Owatonna. who resigned recently. Mr.
Mitchell has been in charge Of the
ticket audit department Of the fair for
number of years and is thoroughly
familiar with the organization.
St. Louis county swung into the dry
column by majority of more than
1900 votes in the option election Mon.
day. AS result the county will be-
come dry March Is, 1918, Duluth gave
the drys 7O1 majority, as against 1878
at the last municipal election when
the option question was voted upon
locally.
Carl Ahlteen, editor of the Alarm
I. w. w. semiweeky, published in
Swedish in Minneapolis, has been ar
rested by special agent of the de
partment Of justice ON charge of dis
loyalty. In his paper he placed the
German flag ON a par with the Ameri
can and urged his readers to refuse to
fight Germany.
Governor BurnQuist has appointed
James II. Hall of Marshall, county
attorney of Lyon county, referee tc
take testimony on charges of disloy
atty which recently resulted in sus
pension from Office Of Mayor l.. A
Fritsche and City Attorney ALDER,
Tfaender both Of New Ulm, andsAud
itor Louis Vogel of Brown county.
twenty-five laborers have been dis
charged by the city council Of Buh
because they failed to observe the or
der that all employees take out citizen
ship papers. Several other aliens qui,
before they were discharged. Thi.
brings the total of discharges on the
Mesaba range to nearly fifty. The
Chisholm council set the pace wher
it ordered its employees to become
American citizens or get of the pay
roll
Every important grain and vegeta
tle crop in Minnesota except ha,
shows a big increase over last year:
production, according to the Septem
Der crop forecast of the federal de