Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1925-11-26
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All Me State
Condensed Stories Of Happenings
Of the Week In Minnesota

MtnneapoltS-FOur men Tell TO tnelr
deaths and one was seriously hurt
when hanging scaffold broke and
plunged with them 80 feet to con-
crete floor inside huge concrete grain
elevator under construction.
Minneapolis veteran employees
Of the Minneapolis Street Railway Co.
were wounded, one of them seriously,
in a gun battle with five bandits who
attempted to take $4,000 from the
company's money transfer car as it
arrived at the main office.
Minneapoiis-With the arrest in st.
Paul of man who had his ankles
taped in S1,400 in paper money, Twin
Cities police believed they would clear
up dozen burglaries in the Lake Har-
riet and Lake of the Isles district and
80 in st. Paul.
MinneapoIls--Tit "The Temp
tation of Christ" viewed by many in
temational critics as the most highly
priced work of that. master, has been
acquired by the Minneapolis Society
Of Fine Arts. The price paid is said
to be in excess of 100000.
st. PauI-Cheese makers of West
Concord were winners in the regular
contest held by the state dairy and
food department, N. J. Holmberg,
dairy and agricultural commissioner,
announced.
Little FalIs-Mrs. Margaret Foley,
101 years old, died at the Stottos
home here. Born in Ireland, she
came to the United States n 1850
She was q pioneer of Minnesota. COM
ing to Little Falls in 1920 from
Chokio.
shakopee-Hundreds of acres will
be added to the pasture and meadow
areas of this section by seeding to
sweet clover and alfalfa tracts of sand
and gravel, now waste land. Expert
ments by farmers have shown that the
use of lime with careful preparation-of
the seed beds will convert these waste
areas to fertile fields
Minneapolis - Professor Andrew
Boss, head of the farm management
division at the University of Mime
sofa, will leave December 1, on his
first leave of absence in 80 years as a
faculty member. Professor Boss will
go to Washington for three months, at
the request of the United States gov
eminent, to conduct survey and
draft plans for development of inyes-
tigational problems throughout the
country.
, st. PauI-Railroads operating in
Minnesota were called upon to show
cause why they should not haul
freight within the state at the 1915
rates set by the railroad and ware
house commission, instead of charg-
ing the higher tariff established by
the interstate commerce commission
on July 1, 1925. These orders consti-
tute the first direct move made by
the railroad commission of Minnesota
in combating increased freight rates
Neutrality-suspicious. beet raisers
in this section Of the state did well
last season despite unfavorable wealth
er conditions. The crop was heavy
and of good quality, and there is an
indication that the acreage will be in
creased next year. The growers we're
guaranteed $3.50 q ton for the beets
and the price next year will be Sc,
it was said. Fifty-five carloads at
beets were loaded here, 81 carloads
at Reading, IS at Round Lake.
MinneapoIis-Minneso as a sum-
mer playground will be headlined for
at least week this winter, when the
Twin City Automotive Exposition is
staged February to 49, Members of
the Minneapolis Auto Trades Asso-
citation approved plan to feature the
10000 lakes and the rest of the sum-
mer playground, in the general scheme
for the show, devoting space to sum-
mer attractions.
1 Minneapolis Minnesota went down
to defeat at the hands of Michigans
greatest team. 35 to 0, but the Gophers
went down fighting. The fight of the
Gophers, especially in the last quar-
ter, will always be remembered by the
5000 Minnesota rooters, who travelled
750 miles eastward, to see these
youngsters battle the best eleven ever
developed at Michigan by Fielding H.
1OSI, WHO uniSueu d quarter. OIL a CEN
tury's service with the Maize and
Blue school.
st. Paul-"Ash Cam" the mechanical
bloodhound assigned to sniff out the
hiding place Of an $500 pellet Of
radium which had rolled into a St.
Paul sewer four weeks agd, did his
stuff" The radium Is back at st. Jo-
seph's hospital, in the cabinet of DIR.
Arnold Schwyzer, the owner. 1t was
found after an all-day hunt, after 16
trips had been made along the Mis-
sissippi river, and into the st. Paul
sewer tunnels by Professor Henry A.
Erikson, Of the University of Mime
sofa physics department.
Fergus Falls-Otter Tail county
business men united here with the
breeders associations, dairymen, far
mers and agricultural leaders in
pledging support to the purebred
sire campaign of the Minnesota Hol-
stei nBreeders' association in an ef-
fort to displace the scrub bull with
a pure-bred registered bull on every