Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-07-15
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All h State
Condensed Stories q Happsnings
Of the Week n Minnesota

Bralnerd- Over 400 members In the
Brainerd and st. Cloud districts are
expected at the annual Luther league
convention to be held at Crosby.
luth-Drastic changes in the pa
role system of the state were unani-
mously Endorsed by district judges in
their final session here.
Hlbblng-The village payroll has
been reduced to $4,000 month by
recent slashes made by the council,
It was said here for Recorder Jack
RIVAL.
st. PauI-Bids on 15 trunk high.
way projects will be opened at the
office of the state highway depart
ment July "a, Commissioner @. M.
Babcock announced.
Princeton-Joe Kaliher, % years
old, was shot and killed accidentally
at Sparta, Wis.,, while encamped
there with the Princeton unit of the
125th field artillery.
st. PauI-At least 200 Minnesota
farmers will participate in the pig
ton-litter contest this year, accord
ing to H. g. Zavoral Of the Mime
sofa Agricultural college.
WaIker-Going his superior, Pres
ident Coolidge, eight times better,
w. M. Jardine, secretary of agricul-
ture, tramped into camp with "the
limit" eight pike, weighing three
pounds or more each.
Bemidjl-275 traffic officials from
throughout the u. s. met at Birch.
mont for three-day outing. Two
special trains, including nine private
cars were used in transporting the
visitors.
Minneapolis = Purchasing in the
Northwest, as measured by debts to
individual accounts at clearing house
banks, increased $10,000,000 above
the purchase Of the previous week or
the corresponding week of 1925.
MinneapoIis-More than 140 motion
picture theater managers of the Fin
kelstein & Ruben circuit, accompan-
led by their families, arrived in Min
neapolis for the largest motion pic.
ture managerial convention of its
kind ever held in the middlewest.
Fergus FaIIs-Major and Mrs. r. L.
Martin of Fort Leavenworth are
spending their six weeks vacation at
Star lake, this county. Major Martin
was one of the aviators who began
the round-the-world trip and was lost
in Alaska.
Winona-C. e. Breitlow, Winona
shooter, by breaking 1877 targets of
200, won the class A championship of
the annual meet of the Winona Gun
squad. He dethroned A. J. Roberge
of La Crosse, Wis.,, champion for the
last two years.
DuIuth-After adopting a new con-
stitution Undertaking." the Mime
sofa Bar association and listening to
an address on international Situa-
tions," by ]. Hamilton Lewis, former
Illinois senator, attorneys Of the state
attending their twenty-fifth annual
convention went into "socia" session.
Minneapolis - Criticizing the air
mail service between Minneapolis and
Chicago as having been only 80 per
cent efficient during its first month
sof operation, Postmaster Arch Cole
man demanded better service, in a
letter to w. Irving Glover, second as
sistant postmaster general, in charge
of air mail.
Minneapolis - Wearing knapsacks
Lob 0A
Lakes" Minnesota business and pro-
fession women arrived on special
train at Des Moines to attend the
annual convention of the National
Federation Of Business and Profess
sional Women's Clubs.
st. Paula wildcat" brewery al
legged by prohibition officials to have
supplied the Twin Cities and the
Northwest with 200 cases of beer
daily, was uncovered by Federal
agents acting under instructions of
Major B. B. Wilcox, chief prohibition
enforcement officer, In raid at
Saltwater.
Minneapolis - Railroad contractors
were rival bidders for the contract
for construction of six mile rail
road extension, costing $350,000, for
the Minneapolis, Mortified & South
ern railway. The six mile extension
will run from Glenwood to Crystal,
connecting with the Northern Pacific
and the 500 Line railroads. 1t Is the
first item in a $1,5O0,000 belt line i'm
provement and development program
planned for 1925 by the Minneapolis,
Mortified & Southern railway.
st. PauI-Governor Theodore Chris
Hanson has disappeared-with his
car, his wife and his son, Theodore,
into the Minnesota north woods. The
Governor has gone on vacation
taking a much needed rest after the
primary election campaign. He will
be gone until July 20-and he left no
address behind. This is to be real
vacation, far from any office cares.
His eldest son, Robert, could not
make the vacation trip because he is
working with q road crew this
summer.
st. PauI-Grain marketing princi-
pies and methods will be taken up
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