Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-07-01
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All Mp State
Condensed Stories Of Happenings
| Of the Week In Minnesota

New Experimentation Of an
Izaak Walton League has been effect
ed here by Is sportsmen, with DR.. A.
M. Sladek selected as president.
Blooming Prairie-Royal Neighbors
of south central Minnesota held their
annual district convention here. about
$50 attending.
MinneapoIis-Five thousand attend
ed the tenth annual Northwestern
Peony society show, which closed at
the Pence automobile show rooms.
Rochester-Two scholarship funds
of $4,000 each are provided in the
will Of DR.. Russell Carman, renowned
roentgenologist, who died here. The
estate is estimated at $4,000.
Waseca-Leading farmers OF Wa
SEGA county are planning the circula-
ton of petitions asking for the area
testing of the county to eradicate bo-
vine tuberculosis.
DuIuth-Directors of the Minnesota
Association of Commerce Secretaries
selected Minneapolis for the annual
winter meeting of the association next
February.
st. Paul-Governor Christianson
has been invited by Senator Butler,
representing the Massachusetts, Re-
publican state committee, to address
a statewide Republican rally at Wor-
cester August IA.
Browns valIey-Ragged automobile
curtains are believed responsible for
the death of two vacationists and the
serious injuries of five others, when
an automobile crashed into the side
Of a motor rail bus near here.
DuIuth-Nearly 800 members of the
legal fraternity and their wives from
Minnesota and northwest states will
gather here July 10 for the twenty
fifth annual convention of the Mime
sofa State Bar Association.
Rochester-The body Of Gerald e.
Fuller, 70 years old, Illinois congress
man, was shipped to Belviders, ILL.,,
for burial. Mr.. Fuller died from can
Ger. Accompanying the body was the
congressman's widow and his secre-
tary.
Waseca-President Lotus D. Coff-
man of the University of Minnesota
delivered the commencement address
to the class of SO eighth grade pupils
Of the Waseca county rural schools
who received diplomas at the annual
graduation exercises here.
Little FaIIs-Abolition Of winter
fishing was advocated by Sam G. An
derson, fourth vice president, in his
speech before the Minnesota Game
Protective league here. The conven-
ton selected Aitkin for the 1927 meet
ing place.
LIndstrom-The Rev. Martin D.
Hafferman, Lindstrom, former first
vice commander of the Minnesota
American Legion, was chosen to fill
the post Of state commander until
August 10, when new officers will be
elected at the state convention at
Mankato.
Shakopee-Interest is being evinc-
ed in meteor that fell on the Math
Marshall farm near here. It is a
smooth brownish gray stone, spher-
old in shape, 81 inches in circumfer-
ence and % inches in diameter. The
stone was found deeply inbedded in
field.
Aitkin-C Charles H. Warner, leading
citizen of Aitkin and prominent in the
political life of the state for gen.
Grafton, died suddenly here. He was
candidate for the state senate in
the district comprising Aitkin and
Carlton counties, his death leaving
two candidates in the field who are
automatically nominated.
Minneapolis = The University Of
Minnesota board Of regents has
agreed that it has authority to pro-
coed with a comprehensive plan Of
building dormitories for students and
Fred B. Snyder, president said he
expected formal action to authorize
construction would be taken at the
boards meeting.
st. PauI-The city of Hudson is will
ing to give up its toll bridge, which
gives the city treasury $4,000 annual
revenue, If the states of Minnesota
and Wisconsin will reimburse the city
for the cost Of the bridge, Harry H.
Harding, member Of the Hudson
council, said. The bridge, with i'm
provements, has cost about 100000.
st. PauI-The Minnesota Western
Railway Company, successor to the
Electric Short Line Railway Com
pany, was authorized by the Inter
state Commerce Commission to extend
it's line 43 miles from the terminus at
Lake Lillian, Mimi, to Montevideo.
The estimated cost of the authorized
construction is about $1,000,000.
Winona-James e. Fraser, interna-
tionally known Minnesota sculptor,
was the maker of the heroic plaster
cast Of John Ericsson, which was un,
yelled at Washington this month by
Crown Prince Gustavus Of Sweden.
Mr.. Fraser, born in Winona, in 1876,
was the designer of the Buffalo
nickel
st. Paul-Secretary Of State Frank
B. Kellogg and Mrs. Kellogg register
"a oo voforc and will cost their hal.