Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-26
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quarters will be opened September l
at the st. Francis hotel st. Paul, it
was announced.
Brainerd-Onl 10 miles Of paw
ing remains to be done on highway
No. q to complete the paving pro-
ject which will link Brainerd with the
Twin Cities by one direct road OF
pavement. .. 49, ..e,ss.as.-.--"''. -
1 fsochester-Dr. Charles H. Mayo,
was reminded that he's in the army
now. In the role of "Brigadier Gen.
eral Mayo" of the U. s. Army Medi-
cal Reserve Corps, he was ordered to
report at the Carlisle, Pa, medical
field school "for training" effective
Sept. IL.
! MinneapoIls-Four deputy sheriffs
and Is members Of the Wayzata fire
department who for four days have
dived and dragged Lake Minnetonka
for the body Of Albert A. Cooper,
University of Minnesota engineering
student, recovered the body 500 feet
from shore in IS feet of water.
st. PauI-Negotiations are under
way for taking over Charles Dickin-
sons Twin City-Chicago air mail
line and its operation, both as a
mail and passenger route, by repre-
sentatives of Henry and Edsel Ford,
1t was learned from authoritative
sources.
i st. PauI-The entry list of county
exhibits at the Minnesota State fair
and Northwest Dairy exposition is
larger this year than ever, r. F.
Hall, superintendent, announced. The.
value of prizes in the county exhibit
competition totals $17,595, the most
liberal awards ever offered by the
fair.
st. Paula new $200,000.00 mems
dormitory will be erected at Macal-
ester college. The new dormitory
is the third building of the building
program of the college which was
undertaken following the Greater
Manchester state wide campaign
staged earlier this year. Funds are
available for financing the entire
structure.
MinneapoIis-A notorious, equip
ped with a device developed in Min
neapolis, made 226-mile run from
Minneapolis to Duluth burning ordi-
nary furnace oil instead Of gasoline.
The demonstration run, was under
the complete supervision of Profess
sor Frank B. Rowley, director Of the
University of Minnesota experiment
tai engineering laboratories.
St. PauI-Minnesota,s rural credit
bureau made an operating profit OF
$191,2S3.24 for the fiscal year ending
June 80, it has been announced, and
in the three years of its operation
has earned $325,6904S. On the other
hand, rural credit funds amounting to
$437,S07.65 are tied up in 1887 acres
of land which the state has had to
take on foreclosures.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. gift from the
family of the late William H. Laird
of Winona to Carleton College at
Northfield, was announced by Presi-
dent D. J. Cowling, to provide for a
stadium to be built on Laird Field.
Work on the new stadium, total cost
of which will be $4,000, has started,
and it is to be dedicated at one Of
the final football games of the sea-
son in November.
Minneapois-An order for 10 new
mountain type locomotives was plac-
ed today by the 500 Line with the
American Locomotive Company, for
immediate construction. The loco
motives, to be designed especially for
the 500 Line are expected to cost
about 100000. The order is in ad-
,dition to 100000 program for
1926, announced January 1, which in
-cluded new rolling stock, laying of
new rail and other improvements.
Minneapolis Minnesota co-opera-
tive dairying enterprises are getting
into the movies through newly Great
ed division of cooperation of the fed
.eral department of agriculture. Films
will show thousands Of other farmers
what Minnesotans are accomplishing
through the Land o. Lakes Dreamer
les plant here. Edward Kelly, direc.
tor, and Eugene Tucker, cameraman
for the department of agriculture,
made the pictures at the plant.
Hibbing-The first of three propo.
sails designed to forestall the creation
of state constabulary was adopted
here by the 800 delegates attending
the convention Of the Minnesota Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, when favorable &C
ton was taken on a report indorsing
proposed legislation giving local police
statewide authority. The plan would
permit local police officers to make ar
rests throughout the state, thus pro-
viding a mobile police force main
tanned without direct cost to the state.
Minneapolis - Two Minneapolis
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