Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-11-25
'MINNESOTABRIEFS


Duluth-Eabling acts will be sought
by Duluth and Superior of the Mime
sofa and Wisconsin legislature sthis
winter for permission to appoint a
joint harbor commission for munich
pal development of the two ports.
Fergus FaIIs-Firemen of Fergus
Falls, in the first step toward raising
$4,000 needed to defray expenses OF
the state firemen's convention here
next June, have planned a number Of
dances and entertainments
: st. Paui-Five persons who tried to
escape in a rowboat from a police raid
on houseboat liquor party were be-
lieved to have drowned in the Missis-
sippi river near Harriet Island, st.
Paul.
inneapoIis-Smaller cities of the
northwest took the lead in business in
October, with the result that carload
ings for the month were the largest in
the seven years record of the Federal
Reserve Bank, the banks preliminary
statement of conditions said.
st. Paui-Replying to deputation
from northern Minnesota and south
eastern Manitoba requesting that an
all weather road be constructed from
Winnipeg to the Minnesota boundary
through Piney and Woodbridge, the
Manitoba government announces that
such a proposal will be carried out.
Observation-Disclosures had the highest
birth rate and Rochester the highest
death rate in Minnesota in 1925, re-
port issued by Gerda c. Pierson,
chief of the division Of vital statis-
tics, tatse board of health, disclosed
Thursday. Mankato's birth rate was
1913 per cent.
Observation-Disclosures Of 27 cities
Of a population in excess Of 100000
show that Minneapolis and st. Paul
not only have the lowest ratio as to
number of automobile fatalities COM
pared with population, but that each
year the Twin Cities show marked
reduction in the number OF accidents
and fatalities as compared with each
preceding year.
St. Paul-Several hundred Danish
residents of the Twin Cities gather
ed at the Milwaukee station, to well
come Mile Gade Corson, the 27-year-
old mother who swan the English
channel. When Mrs. Corson reached
ST.. Paul with her husband and two
children she was greeted by dele
CATION of Danes from the Twin Cities
who accompanied her to Minneapolis.
Redwood FaIIs--A rally Of the Amer
lean Legion will be held here Deem
Der 8, according to plans announced
by the Melvin Daskam Post of this
city. State Commander Rufus Rand,
State Adjutant Eddie Lindell, Dis
trict President D. Wilbur Smith OF
Pipestone and District Adjutant M. ].
Meeker of Pipestone are expected to
attend the gathering.
neapoIis-Chairmen of standing
committees appointed to carry on the
work of the Minnesota Federation Of
Business and Professional Women's
Clubs during 1867, were announced
by Mrs. Emma Hill Perkins of st.
Paul, state president. Miss Pearl
Braley of Winona, second vice presi-
dent of the state federation, will d.
rect the membership and organiza-
ton committee.
ST. Paui-With a total of s41,S77,-
900 advanced to S,762 Minnesota far
mers in first mortgage loans, the
work of the Minnesota rural credit
department is progressing so satis-
factorily that no changes in the rural
credits act are needed, in the opinion
of Governor Theodore Christianson.
No Recommendation for new legisla-
ton to strengthen or otherwise re-
wise the state system Of extending
credit to farmers will be included in
the executive message to the 1927
legislature, he said.
: nneapolis-Work on the United
States Veterans Bureau hospital at
Fort Smelling, which will comprise
one of the largest and most COM
plete medical units in the world, will
be completed March 1, one month
ahead of the building schedule, &C
cording to Major E. v. Perry, con-
struction superintendent. The lay
out of 20 buildings being built at a
cost of s1,S50,000 was started March
1, 1925. When the contract was
awarded it was called for completion.
April 1, 1927.
Minneapolis-Th second Minneso-
ta-Michigan game at Memorial stadi-
UNI, was won by Michigan, to 6, by
converting late in the game, a Mime
sofa tumble into a touchdown and
goal, after a 70 yard run through
clear field, when Minnesota had
played Michigan completely off their
feet in every department Of the
game; had made touchdown from
which, however, no goal was kicked.
and had reached point in charge
up the field in the fourth period
which gave promise of another pos
sible touchdown. Sixty thousand
football fans from all over the North
west, the largest gathering Of enthu-
siasts ever to congregate at Min
nesota game, watched the annual
struggle for the historic Brown Jug.