Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-03-04
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All R State
Condemned Stories Of Happenings
Of the Week IN Minnesota

Maplewood Poultry Farm has installed
a 47,0e0 egg incubator.
Fort SneIiing-Work has been
started on the construction of the new
$1,200,000 hospital for disabled form
er service men.
ortonviIIe-Henry Pafrath of Clin-
ton has been advised that big ship,
ment of seed corn he sent to Illinois
has 3ecn sold at $40 ,.lsheL
Minneapolis-Three hundred mem
bers Of the Minnesota Retail Grocers
and General Merchants Association
attended the thirtieth annual conven-
ton Of the organization Lere.
orthfieId-Hamline University, rep
resented by Cecil Prior, won the Min
nesota state oratorical contest at st.
Olaf College. Prior, who is a senior.
spoke on Our Friend, China"
MinneapoIis-Mrs. ]. A. Burnquist,
mother of ]. A. Burnquist, former gov
ernor of Minnesota, died at her home
in Dayton, Iowa. Mrs. Burnquist was
81 years old.
St. Paul.. Harris of Minneapolis,
won the state chess championship by
defeating Harry Kline, his fellow
townsman, in the finals of the Mime
sofa Chess association tournament at
the ST. Paul Athletic club.
Moorhead-A subscription of $4,000
to the Lutheran campaign to raise a
100000 endowment for Concordia
College was made at meeting of the
senior class, which has a membership
of IS.
Austin-Citizens of Mower county
paid tribute to the memory of Mrs.
Nancy Clark. Mrs. Clark died at the
home of her daughter here, at the
age of 102, living in Mower county
for so -ears.
Tracy-Forty-eight boy scouts of
Tracy edited the Tracy Headlight
Herald under the direction of Scout
Master William R. Mitchell. They
wrote all the news stories for "a
pages.
Mounds wild turkeys were iber-
ated from the game refuge at this
place. SO other birds we're freed at
Belle PLANE. Winona, Rush City and
Hinckley. Forebears Of these tur-
keys came from Pennsylvania and
Texas.
AppIeton-Well drillers on the Han
son farm brought piece of cedar tree
to the surface from a dept of 240 feet.
The wood was in good state of pre-
servation and will be sent to the Uni
versity of Minnesota for examination.
MinneapoIis-About1 5000 additional
men will be employed throughout the
northwest in the next six weeks when
four railroads begin spring main
tenance construction work at an esti-
mated cost of $34,000,000.
st. PauI-Otis E. Clymer, former
major league baseball player and star
outfelder for the Minneapolis base
ball team from 1910 to 1912, was IA
tally injured in an automobile accident
at st. Paul
lie Sueur Center-Twenty-seve LIE
Sueur county dairy herds yielded an
average of rs pounCs of butterfat
per COW in January. The average
milk production per cow was 1913
pounds.
crookston-Actual cost of prcduc-
ing crops on Red River valley farms
near here will be determined in a
survey of rs farms by group of
farm experts headed by Professor
George A Pond of the University of
Minnesota
Winona-A further step to make
this section of the state a sports
mans paradise" has been taken with
completion of arrangements for the
reception of AGO pairs of Hungarian
partridge to be liberated in Winona
county about March 20.
St. Paula 100000 building and
improvement program for 1926 has
been announced by the Northern Pa
cific Railroad. 1t is one of the larg-
est railroad constructions programs
undertaken in recent years. Plans of
the Northern Pacific bring expected
expenditures by northwest roads this
year to more than s50,000,000.
ST. Paula per capita payment of
$50 to the Chippewa Indians of the
Red Lake and Consolidated Chippewa
agencies in Minnesota was authorized
at the interior department. The
amount to be distributed to Red Lake
Indians ,totaled $87, 800 and that to the
consolidated Chippewa agency Indians,
$610, 900.
ST. Paui-Organization of the Min
nesota Taxpayers association, a
statewide group of individuals and
firms representative of all classes
and financial standings" has been
announced. The organization is nom
political and Judge T. D. O'Brien of
st. Paul-is president, ]. F. Reed, presi-
dent of the Minnesota Farm Bureau
federation, first vice president; H. 2.
Mitchell, editor of the Bemidji SEN
tinel, second vice president
Waseca-Waseca county residents
are aroused because of numerous per-
sonal injury cases, the outgrowth of
accidents in Illinois and other outside
states, being brought here for trial at
the expense of local taxpayers A