Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-03-11
Nelut BrietrMn
All h State
Condensed Stories Of Happenings
Of the Week in Minnesota


university was celebrated by the stu
dents and alumni of the college.
Moose Lake-Hugo Anderson OF
Maplewood Poultry Farm has installed
a $1,000 egg incubator.
Window Window high school won
the second congressional district cham
pionship of the Minnesota high school
debating league by defeating Wells.
Worthington Introduction of
course in general ethics in Minnesota
public schools as step in crime pre-
vention is asked in a resolution adopt
ed by the w. G. T. U. here.
Biwabk-Thrift soon will be part
of the public school curriculum here
with the installation of savings sys-
stem for pupils under supervision of
the board Of education.
Minneapolis for the first
banker-farmer short course ever held
in Minnesota have been announced by
Fred P. Fellows, secretary of the Min.
nesota Bankers association.
st. PauI-Members of the Minnesota
Territorial Pioneers association are
preparing for their annual meeting,
which will be held on the birthday of
the state-the day it was admitted to
the union-May II, in the old capitol.
Duluth-B. D. Edwards, general sec
rotary Of the Duluth Y. M. C.. A., an
nounced that the fiftieth annual state
convention of the Young Mems Chris
tian Association will be conducted in
this city Thursday, March Is.
Pequot-A IL year old girl who
burned the East Gull Lake school
house near here because she did not
like the teacher, is to be tried at the
June term of District Court.
Sleepy Eye-The Izaak Walton
League will buy plot of ground near
the Cottonwood river for picnic and
camping grounds. Other outdoor i'm
provements are planned.
Waseca - Squads of Minnesota
rangers will be organized at once and
equipped in Waseca, GAINESVILLE, New
Richland, Waldorf, Otisco and Mata-
wan as the result of decision of the
Waseca County Bankers Association.
Dodge center-Nearly 800 Dodge
county village and farm women began
work in poultry production project
which promises to increase the value
Of the county's poultry and egg output
considerably.
Minneapolls-Despite the heaviest
anavufo11 ~ he 1f
laying the cornerstone of the new
100000 municipal auditorium, char
acterized by officials as zone of the
most significant steps in the history
of Minneapolis" were conducted Sat-
urday.
DuIuth-George w. Lorenzo, form
er cashier of the Peoples State bank
Of Duluth, who confessed to embezz-
ling $S3,500 of the banks funds,
pleaded guilty in district court, and
was sentenced to serve not more
than 10 years on two counts.
St. PauI-Otis e. Clymer, former
major league baseball player and star
outfielder for the Minneapolis base
ball team from 1910 to 1912, was IA
tally injured in an automobile accident
at st. Paul.
Winona-A further step to make
this section of the state sports
mans paradise" has been taken with
completion of arrangements for the
reception of 400 pairs of Hungarian
partridge to be liberated in Winona
county about March 20.
St. Paula tabulation completed by
the state tax commission shows that
railroads operating in Minnesota in.
creased their gross earnings in 1925
more than 100000 as compared to
the previous year The gross earn
ings of all roads in the state for the
year totaled $160,561, 1907 as compared
with $153,551,349 in 1924.
st. PauI-With $50 dangerous grade
intersections in Minnesota already de-
signated as stop crossings" and stop
signals" installed by the railways at
about 900 of them, the Minnesota rail-
road and warehouse commission will
begin an inspection of crossings on
the last major line to be surveyed-the
Minneapolis & st. Louis.
st. PauI-Declaring that IL Mime.
sofa is to reap the benefits of the
present tide Of Industrial decentral-
ization, 1t must act at once, Colonel
L. H. Brittin, author of the proposal
for state Industrial promotion bu-
reau, announced that he will offer his
services to Governor Christianson to
organize a volunteer bureau for the
work.
DuIuth-The supply of anthracite
coal at the head of the lakes Is entire
ly exhausted, but Duluth has little
need to worry over the fuel situation
for there Is plenty Of soft coal in stor.
age, coal company officials said. At
the end Of the 1895 lakes shipping sea
son only 10000 tons of hard coal
were In storage at the docks, the sup
ply being much lower than in former
years,
Shakopee-To insure uniform
high grade Of seed corn In Eagle Greek
township, the Eagle Greek Farmers
Club has established township test,
Ing station. Experienced testers will