Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-01-21
Neuut Brietl6an
All h State
Condensed Stories Of Happenings
Of the Week In Minnesota

Paul, La Crosse, Milwaukee and Chi
cago, according to dispatches from
Washington.
st. Paul-More than 1000 enlisted
men have dropped out of the Mime
sofa national guard. owing to restric-
lions imposed by the federal govern
menk curtiling armory drills and
making it difficult for national guard
officers to maintain their units, Colonel
e. A. Walsh, acting adjutant general
of Minnesota, announced.
Minneapolis-The Minnesota state
highway commission, the Ten Thou
sand Lakes association, the state for
estry board, the state game and fish
commission, the University Of Mime
sofa, the Isaak Walton league, vari-
GUS other sportsmen's organizations
and q dozen, cities and towns OF Min
nesota will be represented in booths
at the Twin City Auto Show, Feb. e.
IL in the Overland bull ing.
Minneapolis Is The University OF
Minnesota, with 1921 resident stu
dents enrolled for the first semester
Of this academic year, stands fourth
in the list Of principal universities In
student population, the University OF
Illinois reported in national survey.
The University Of California, with
1922 students, leads the nation, fol-
lowed by Columbia with 1885 and
Illinois with 11,212.
st. PauI-Minnesota's % principal
crops harvested In 1925 placed the
state fourth in estimated value in the
United States, with D. value OF $780,
075,O0O, Paul H. Kirk, state agricul-
tural statistician reports. States
ahead of Minnesota in total crop
values were Texas, Iowa, and Illinois.
For all crops, the hypothetical value
in Minnesota was $382,107 900, plac-
ing Minnesota fifth among states. For
the five year period ended 1923, Min
nesota ranked ninth in value OF "a
principal crops.
ST. Paul-Potato growers and ship
pers of Minnesota and North Dakota
won all important victory in their
fight to prevent increase in freight
rates on their crops when examiners
of the interstate commerce commits
sion recommended that the present
tariffs be held reasonable and that
the petitions of railroads for advanced
rates be denied.
st. Paul-Financial interests OF the
northwest, headed by the Minnesota
Bankers association, lined up In. sup
port Of a nationwide movement to
standardize the sizes and designs OF
bank checks and do away with the
thousands of different STYLES now In
use, as an effort to facilitate bust
ness transactions, reduce possibility
of errors and curtail expense.
Pine city-Four men will spend
their lives in Minnesota's state prison
at Saltwater to atone for bank rob-
Der (which enriched them $1,194.12
for two days they were at liberty.
The four men, all of Superior, Wis.
pleaded guilty in district court here,
and were sentenced to life terms un-
der the law which provides only that
penalty for robbery of bank occu-
pied by human beings.
st. PauI-Herman Roe, Mortified
publisher, was reelected president Of
the Minnesota State Agricultural So
ciety, at the closing session OF the
society at the state capitol, Cal. S1V-
right of Minneapolis was reelected
vicepresident, and the State Fair.
managers were reelected. They are
william F. Sanger, Window; D. D.
McEachin, Hibbing, and John A.
Stoneburg, Cambridge.
Acknowledgements in the corn belt
are not as bad off as some of their
would be saviors indicate, to Judge
from the records Of Probate Judge
A. R. Fancher Of Martin county In his
report for 1925 filed yesterday. OF II
estates filed in the county Last year.
most of them those Of farmers, the
average value was $4,000, the re-
port shows. The total. value was ST.
140, 900. Only three were less than
$1,000, life insurance not being includ-
ed unless 1t was left directly to the
estate.
ST. Paul-Minnesota state officers
and shippers turned to Washington,
in an organized fight for immediate
relief from discriminatory freight
rates, which they contend were forced
upon the state by a federal govern.
ment agency, acting without jurisdic-
ton. Headed by Governor Theodore
Christianson, and including o. P. B.
Jacobson and Ivan Bowen, state rail-
road and warehouse commissioners.
the delegates visited the capt.
tai to protest what they termed wreck
age Of the states rail rate structure
by the interstate commerce commits
sion.
ST. PauI-Because he raised 548.8
bushels of potatoes an acre, defeating
TAI other boys and girls of Minnesota
in potato club work, Aomanzo Palmer,
Excelsior, took the Minnesota grand
championship in potato raising, and
won trip to the International Live
stock Show at Chicago.
Thomas j. Skellet.
president of the Skellet Transfer Co.
and Danish vice consul in the Twin CT