Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-07-22
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Hibbins-Mine shipments from the
state this year will exceed those OF
last season If the present rate Of out
put continues, Frank A. Wildes, state
superintendent of mines, said here.
Brooten-The testimony of a friend
by which she hoped to prove her case
lost Mrs. Marie Rengel of Brooten, her
claim to $250,000 of the 100000 es-
tate of Edwin B. Jennings, eccentric
recluse, who died In q howell in 1922.
Red Wins-In attempting to reach
camp at Lake City before their leaves
expired, one Saltwater youth was
killed and second severely injured
In falls from freight trains. Both
were members of the 135th Infantry.
DISQUALIFICATION Mattson, of
Breckenridge, is the oldest postmas.
ter in the United States. He was
born in 1889 and is now 81 years old.
The veteran postmaster was first ap-
pointed postmaster by President
Roosevelt.
DuIuth-Fifteen f1remen were burn
ed and scorched about the face, and
two men and two children were burned
and injured by flying glass in series
of gas explosions at the West Duluth
branch of the city water and light de-
partment building.
st. PauI-Governor Theodore Chris
Hanson was unable to greet Herbert
C. Hoover, secretary of commerce, on
his visit to Minnesota because of
very important previous engagement.
He was in Revillo, 8. D., to attend the
wedding Of his secretary, Harry ].
Acton.
DuIuth-An aged man, with certi-
flcates of deposit worth $13,7S0 in his
pockets, is near death In hospital
here from the want of food and shell
ter. The man is B. B. Shea, about so
years old, according to police, who
found him lying in weakened condi-
ton near the railroad tracks in the
vicinity of the Minnesota steel plant.
Minneapolis - Stanley Mccormick,
convicted more than three years ago
In federal court in a 100000 bond
conspiracy and sentenced to seven
years at Fort Leavenworth and fined
$4,000, has abandoned his fight to
carry an appeal to the United States
supreme court.
DISQUALIFICATION Of the $780,
900 athletic field house at the Uni
versity of Minnesota, to be financed
from earnings of the athletic depart
ment, whose largest revenue comes
from football games, will be started
shortly, Fred B. Snyder, president Of
the university board Of regents, an
nounced.
nneapoIls-Articles of incorpora-
ton have been filed in Maryland by
the Commander-Larabee Corporation,
holding company which will control
flour milling properties valued at
about $10,000,000 and located in Min
nesota, Kansas and Missouri, accord
ing to announcement made at head
quarters in Minneapolis.
Minneapolis F.. Andrews, who 81
years ago was drummer boy at the
funeral of Abraham Lincoln, was
buried in the old soldiers plot at Lake
wood cemetery. Mr.. Andrews was
member of the 146th Illinois Infantry
during the Civil war and his death
leaves just one surviving member of
his company.
neapoIis-Contract for construc-
lions of three towboats, to be used in
the upper Mississippi barge service
which will be inaugurated next spring
by the Inland Waterways Corporation
between the twin cities and st.
Louis, was awarded to the Dubuque
Boat and Boiler Company of Du-
buque, Iowa.
Mankato-With winter wheat in this
vicinity described by local buyers as
being very good, % bushels to the
acre are being harvested on the s.
Small farm In Nicollet county. Three
farmers have brought newly threshed
wheat to the city and all received No.
I rating. Thus far the yield is run
ming from % to % bushels to the acre,
according to the buyers.
st. Paula program of prohibition
enforcement, designed to cover the
entire state of Minnesota, with under
cover agents at work in rural com.
munities as we'll as urban centers, fly
ing squadrons. of agents to follow up
leads uncovered by agents working in
secret and enlargement of the present
prohibition enforcement staff, was an
nounced by General Walter F. Rhi-
now. northwest prohibition admins
traitor.
MinneapoIis-Conv that uni
versity education is worth $50 mile
hike, Philip Granberg, Hawarden,
Iowa, was on his way home-on foot
after making all arrangements for
entering the University Of Minnesota
this fall. Granberg, who graduated
from Hawarden, walked the $50 miles
to Minneapolis to inquire about regis
tration at the university and to put
in his application for work to pay his
way through school.