Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-12-09
MINNESOTA NEWS

Company Will install large amount
Of new equipment at the Susquehanna
mine, one of the leading independent
properties on the Mesaba iron range.
Eveleth-The winter meeting Of
the Northern Minnesota Editorial AS.
ISOLATION will take place In Grand
Rapids, January 20, 81 and %. Grove
Wills of Eveleth, president Of the as
sociation, announced.
st. Paul-Two safes in Schune.
mans & Manufacturers department
store offices were blown OPEN and
robbed of $4,000 by robbers who
handcuffed the store Waterman and
made their escape. q s.52s4
notwithstanding the highest
level since the war, prices OF butter
climbed to a point where Wholesale
prices were listed at AZ to 81 cents a.
pound. The market quotations set a
new high mark fol recent years after
climbing consistently all fall
st. cIoud-The Great Northern car
shops in st. Cloud received notice of
a $1,464,500 car building order for
1927. in which 600 new cars will be
built and 500 others will be recondi-
toned in addition to a number of
smaller assignments. Work on the
new program is starting at once.
Duluth-The port of Duluth. and
Superior, handled 45,60O,0OO tons OF
water borne commerce in 1925, Civ.
ing it second rank among ports of
the United States-New York being
first-in total tonnage handled, &C.
cording to figures complied by the
bureau Of research of the shipping
board.
st. Paui-Minnesota's yearly motor.
ing expense is now in excess OF
100000, according to an esti
mate issued by the state highway de,
partment. For new cars. the states
$4,000 motorists spent $97,0OO,OOO
this year, and their bills for aces
series and tires was sS,0O0,O00. Other
major items include 100000.
St. PauI-The Minnesota Livestock
Breeders association and auxiliary or
CARNATIONS will hold their annual
meeting at the University farm Janu-
airy 20 to FL. Special meetings of the
various breed associations, including
the branches of dairy and beef cattle,
sheep, and hogs, will be held Thurs.
day afternoon, January 20.
st. PauI-Equipment was being
cleared away from the new Ford
bridge with major work on the 81,
100000 structure completed, but the
bridge probably will not be ready for
traffic before June 1. two years after
operations started at the Ford plant.
The bridge is now in use for pedestri
an traffic, however, and 800 persons
are using it daily. .....-- ~
MinneapoIis-A Memorial stadium
with total seating capacity of $4,000
is envisioned by the University of
Minnesota athletic department. Thirty
two thousand additional seats may be
added to the present stadium at a cost
of approximately $4,000, in case the
tremendous interest" in intercolleg.
late football continues to increase at
the present rate.
st. PauI-Julius A. Schmahl, state
treasurer elect, took his oath of Of.
flee before Justice Homer Dibell of
the state supreme court in prepare
ton to taking over the office in
January Mr.. Schmahl filed bonds -
falling 100000. The taking of the
oath marks the Goth anniversary of
Mr.. Schmahl being sworn in as sec
rotary of state following the 1906
election
Rochester-Two men were held in
Jail without charge here after pos
ses had halted a Twin City bus to
arrest them in hunt for gang of
two-gun bandits who terrorized down
town Rochester with a hail of bull
lets, wounded two patrolmen and
shattered store display windows in
their escape, after robbing the Ohm
stead County Bank and Trust Com
any Of $4,000. ..> ---.. -~-... ....-.
st. PauI-Dates of the 1927 Mime
sofa State fair were set from Septem
Der 3 to 10 Tuesday, at the annual
citation of Fairs and Expositions in
Chicago. Herman Roe, of North field,
president of the National Editorial as
ISOLATION and president of the Mime
sofa State Fair association was one
Of the principal speakers at the open
ing session of the gathering. :. =
Winona-The Winneshiek, that area
Of Mississippi river bottom land mid
way between La Crosse, Wis, and Nc
Gregor, Iowa, nationally known as a
hunting and fishing ground, was &C
quired by the government as part
of the upper Mississippi river wild life
and fish refuge. The area purchased
is IA miles long and three miles wide.
It Is considered one of the most i'm
portant areas in the entire refuge.
st. PauI-Eleven game refugees es-
tablished in Minnesota this year are
an important part of the conservation
departments campaign to save and
davelOn wild life rpSources of tho