Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1925-11-05
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o.. cIoud-Farmers In the vicinity
Of ST. Cloud were paid $4,000 this
season for peas, corn and cabbage,
local canning factory announced.
caledonIa-The Houston county jun
for fair has Just brought to close .
successful season Of boys and girls
club work. Approximately 40 boys
and girls were enrolled In the projects.
FaIrmont- Sevsnteen groups Of Mar
tin county housewives have register
ed under the nutrition project recently
organized under the supervision OF
University Farm extension workers.
Minneapolis Elks will
hold their annual convention at st.
Cloud next August, II was decided at
o meeting Of the executive board Of
the state association.
Duluth Construction Of . flying
deld for Duluth 10 under way and with
in q month airplanes will be flying be-
tween here. the Twin Cities and Chi.
cage, A. ]. Haze. manager Of the Ar.
rowhead Air Ways Co., announced.
The company has bought 40-acre
tract.
Roohester-Sale Of all Rochester
theaters to the Twin City amusement
trust, controlled by the Finkelstein &
Ruben and the William Hamm inter
ests OF st. Paul, was announced. The
new owners plan a $4,000 theater to
be built next spring.
st. Paul-The Second Institute of
Government and Politics conducted by
the Minnesota League Of Women
Voters In cooperation with the Uni
versity Of Minnesota will be held No
vember 16 to 40 In st. Paul ct the st.
Paul hotel The course of study In
cludes several lectures by prominent
public speakers.
Roseau-Roseau county farmers are
staging q poultry improvement cam
pafgn in continuation of the work be-
gun when 10 meetings were held.
Specialists are advising the farmers
about feeding and housing and giving
demonstrations in dressing, packing
and proper sticking Of chickens and
turkeys.
st. Professionalism are searching
the Mississippi river for bit Of "a
dunn about the size Of pinhead.
seventy-dve milligrams of radium,
valued at $500. inclosed in contain
er smaller than marble, slipped down
a drainpipe when It was being used
in treating a patient.
MinneapoIis-J. A. O. Preus, for
the past 20 years active in the public
life Of the state and who completed q
four year term as governor last jan
uary, has resigned as general mana
ger Of the Minneapolis Committee to
promote Industrial activity and will
become vice president Of large in
suranee corporation with headquar-
tiers in Chicago.
st. PauI-Seventy-two more grade
intersections on the Great Northern
railway were designed as stop cross
ings by the Minnesota railroad and
warehouse commission. More than
600 crossings now have been designat-
ed for full stops by motorists, on the
Great Northern, Northern Pacific and
500 Line.
DuIuth-A skirmish between Duluth
and Superior. for supremacy In the
grain marketing business at the Head
Of the Lakes developed, when the Wis
consin grain and warehouse commits
sion announced a reduction Of 25
cents per carload, from 81 to 75 cents,
in the Wisconsin rate for testing
wheat for protein content.
Hutchinson-An inquest over the
body of Frank Micka, wealthy retired
farmer, whose body was found under
a pile of sticks and stones, resulted
in a verdict, that Micka met his death
'Fby bullet In the back of his head"
At the same time the county sheriff
and the county attorney made plans
to go forward with vigorous hunt
for Micka's unknown assailant.
MinneapoIIs-The Gopher and the
Badger tangled for the 35th time and
like their last two encounters the
battle ended in deadlock. The count
was Ii and IL. After whipping the
Badger for three quarters, the Gopher,
with several substitutes in the line
UP, could not stave of do or die
rally of the snarling. beaten Badger,
and saw victory snatched from its
grasp In the last 10 minutes Of the en-.
gagement.
Mendota-More than $4,000 persons
nearly twice as many as last year
visited the old Sibley House at Men
dota, memorial shrine Of the Mime
sofa Daughters of the Revolution, In
the summer months in which 1t was
open to the public. The house was
closed after the most successful sea
son 1t has ever had season which
marked the beginning Of a campaign
on the part of the Minnesota Society
Daughters Of the American Revolu
tion, to make the Sibley House better
known and more freQuented.
Rochester-Dr. Charles II. Mayo
was presented with the medal worn
by officers of tho French Legion Of