Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-12-23
MINNESOTA NEWS

NorthfieId-For the first time in it's
history the st. Olaf College choir will
tour to both coasts of the United
States in single season.
Minneapolis-Lee Douthitt of Fart.
bault was elected president of the
Minnesota Gamers association at
the final session of it's annual conven.
tion.
acknowledgements of the two
buildings on the campus of st. Johns
University here is being considered to
alleviate crowded conditions due to
Increased enrolment.
Pipestone-Floyd o. Rains of the
Rosebud Indian agency, s. D., has
been named principal of the govern.
ment Indian training school to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Wal.
Ter Underwood.
DuIuth-Eight of % Hibbing high
school teachers who had chartered a
bus to go home for their Christmas
vacation were injured when their bus
skidded into a telephone pole on the
outskirts of Duluth and overturned.
st. PauI-With additional barge
equipment now virtually assured, sue.
cess of barge operations on the upper
river on a large scale is certain, and
long stride has been taken toward
an annual saving for northwest ship
pers of $1,750,O00 a year, which ex-
lperts believe will result.
st. Paul-Dean A. Clark, a senior
at Princeton, will represent Minnesota
as Rhodes scholar at Oxford where
he will take up residence in October,
1927. Mr.. Clark was selected by the
Minnesota Rhodes committee, of
which President Lotus D. Coffman is
president.
st. PauI-With cooperation and an
unselfsh attitude between parents
and teachers as the principal aims,
the executive board of the Minnesota
Congress of Parents and Teachers
met at st. Paul to outline the years
work and discuss plans for the 1927
convention of the congress at Fergus
Falls. s.-s: l.sass
Hinn,nr---A petition asking for the
dismissal of the famous North
Forty" case in the United States Su-
preme Court will be presented when
the case is to be argued, O. G. An
sdersep. one Of the attorneys appear
dng for the North Hibbing residents
said. The date for argument before
the Supreme Court has not been set
by the court.
g. FaribauIt-John Meirick, 20 years
sold, winner of the grand champion
sweepstakes prize at the Faribault
Corn Show, was present with the
trophy which he won by Lieutenant
Governor w. L. Nolan. The show.
sponsored by the Faribault Chamber
of Commerce, attracted great crowds
for the three days it was conducted
and was one of the most successful
ever staged in the southern Minnesota
city.
ST. PauI-Governor Theodore Chris
tianson was asked by the Twin City
Milk Producers Association to go to
Washington to petition President
Coolidge to ask the tariff commits
sion to increase the tariff on butter
fat in milk and cream as a means of
preventing foreign dairymen from
evading the IL cent duty on butter
by sending their butterfat to this
country in the form of milk and
cream.
ST. Paul-Minnesota has regained
its nationwide supremacy in the art
of ALTERNATING, according to N. j.
Holmberg, state dairy commissioner
who attended the convention Of the
National Creamery Buttermakers' as
sociation at Sioux Falls, S. D. Mr.,
Holmberg stated that Minnesota had
taken first place in the creamery but
ter contest, and that it has been
awarded the trophy emblematic of ma
tion-wide supremacy in the art of pro-
ducing butter.
ST. PauI-While Mike Holm, secre.
tary of state, completed preparations
for an $11,O0O,0O0 business in the au
tomobile registration department
when he issues more than 100000
licenses for 1927, Charles M. Babcock,
state highway commissioner, prepar-
ed to go before the legislature to ask
for restoration Of automobile Ii.
cense fees to the higher levels pre-
vailing before the reduction made by
the 1925 legislature. Commissioner
Babcock also will ask of the legisla-
ture when it convenes in January a
$20,000,000 bond issue to complete the
trunk highway system.
st. PauI-Complete revision of par.
don and parole procedure in Mime
sofa, by reducing the pardon board
and limiting its power, and forcing
full publicity on paroles and other
criminal proceedings, was recon.
mended by the Minnesota Crime
Commission. Reporting to Governor
Theodore Christianson, the commits
sion he appointed demanded heavier
penalties for crimes, tightening up OF
procedure to make punishment swift
and certain, definite restrictions on
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