Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-05-06
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Condensed Stories Of Happenings
Of the Week in Minnesota

there will be no licenses granted for
carnivals to exhibit in this city this
year.
Oakland, Calf. = Four workmen
were killed at the Giant Powder Co.
works at Siege, north of here, when
the contents of a dynamite cartridge
MinneapoIis-Rain, which fell over
southwestern and central Minnesota
and portions of South Dakota, prac-
tically assured prospects for proper
development of seed crops, according
to reports received in Minneapolis.
neapoIis-Edmund Pennington,
chairman of the board of directors
and former president of the 500 Line,
died of heart disease at his home. He
was " years old and had been ac-
tivey connected with railroads for So
years.
Shakopee-Plans for combining the
celebration of the seventy-ffth ami
versary of the settlement of Scott
county and the foundation of Shake
pee and the annual farm bureau pic
MIC nave Deen announced.
Duluth-In addition to six volunteer,
unpaid special commissioned patrol
men and the sir members of his paid
staff, District Ranger Carl S. Lind, of
the state forest service, has announc-
ed that "a township patrolmen have
been appointed in district two, which
is the north shore district.
Notwithstanding of 100000 trees
in Minnesota this year is one of the
principal goals of the Minnesota Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs, Mrs. Will
lard Bayliss, Chisholm, told delegates
to the Eighth District Federation of
Women's Clubs convention here.
st. Paul-Because of crowded con.
ditions prevailing at the St. Cloud
reformatory, which means that there
are too many men to do the limited
amount of work available, the state
board of visitors has requested that
additional means Of employment be
provided.
Rush city-Three men, two of whom
had just completed voyages across the
Atlantic, were drowned in Rush lake,
it was revealed after the finding of
the third body. The dead, Minnesota s
first fishing victims of the year, are I:
John Kruger, %, Graham. Mimi: Will.
helm Backhus, %, of Germany; Barth.
olemews Bruinaars, 10, of Holland.
MinneapoIis-W a delegation of
200 Minneapolis persoss planning on
attending the Norwegian national in
dependence celebration at Oslo May
IL, and with steamship lines booking
many more for midsummer sailings,
group of at least 100 from Mime
sofa were aboard the "Gripsholm,' y
first motor ship to leave New York,
when it sailed for Sweden.
MinneapoIis-End lively legal
battle, punctuated at frequent inter
walls by clashes between government
and defense attorneys, United States
Commissioner Howard s. Abbott or
dered seven of eight Minneapolis men
charged with completely in the alleged
$14O,O0O,000 alcohol syndicate conspir
court at Cleveland, Ohio, May II.
st. PauI-Declaring that the low
water levels of the Leech lake district
threaten extinction of the fish in the
lake chain emptying into the Missis
sippi river at Federal Dam, ]. F
Gould, Minnesota game and fish com
missioner, telegraphed the Minnesota
delegation in congress urging gov
ernmental action to reduce the flow
of water through the dam.
Red Wing-Bethesda hospital, Dea
CONFESS home, st. Paul, and Bethesda
Invalid home at Lake Cervais, will be
disposed of, it was decided by the Min
nesota conference of the Augustans
Lutheran synod here. The institution
will be centered with other invalid
and deaconness homes and works o.
mercy on one site. A new hospita
also will be built.
MarshaII-Tons of dirt and silt, fine
as powder, churned up from newly
plowed fields by a 50-mile wind, ant
sent swirling into the air like grea
black clouds, covered dozen coun
ties in southwestern Minnesota in on,
OF the strangest. dust storms in the
state for many years. The air wa!
so heavily laden with dust during the
storm that motorists had to drive will
headlights burning. Drifts Of dus
buried fence posts to within two fee
of the top near Marshall.
MinneapoIis-Th steamer Genera
Allen, sternwheeler, pushing four stee
barges that glided all the way from
st. Louis, arriving at the Washington
avenue terminal. The trip from st
Louis, covering nine days, was mad'
to demonstrate the practicability O.
the operation of steel barges on thu
upper river and to afford naval en-
gineers, Inland Waterways corpora
ton officials and pilots and rivel
operators a chance to study the chan
mel conditions.
st. Paul-The cost of running tn,
state of Minnesota was $31, SOC, 49,
during the fiscal year ending June 80
| 1925, according to statistics announe
ed by the department of commerce a
Washington. The per capita cost o
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