Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-10-28
MINNESOTA NEWS

St. Paut-SLale paliOIS anu OLHeI
election material enough for 100000
voters has been distributed to county
auditors of Minnesota by Secretary Of
State Mike Holm.
Northfield-An old star atlas, print,
ed in 1889. has been added to the IL
brary of Goodsell observatory at
Carleton College. 1t was purchased
in London.
Biwabik-Biwabik will not have
potato show this year, due to heavy
rains that have interfered with har-
vesting the crop. The show has here
tofcre been an annua! event.
Anoka-Eland Olson, 70 years old,
was killed by a Northern Pacific train
while crossing trestle on his way to
work. Olson was knocked into the
Rum river by projection on one of
the cars.
-Bloodhounds were enlisted
in the hunt for John Schneider, first
mate of the lighthouse tender Amar-
anth, missing on Isle Royal. Twenty.
eight men is engaged in the hunt for
Schneider, who went ashore, presum-
ably for walk.
Little FaIls-Little Falls motorists
are looking forward to the opening of
the pavement on highway No. ~ to
Brainerd. A stretch of $500 feet just
south of Brainerd is all that remains
to be paved. Tbs link is expected to
be completed within week, but no
definite announcement has been made
concerning its opening.
.DuIuth-Committing himself to the
early construction o. the Great Lakes
to the Sea waterway and to the i'm
provement of the Mississippi river
from Minneapolis to the Gulf, Herbert
Hoover, secretary of commerce, in po-
litical speech here, forecast the COM
pletion of the waterway survey before
the close of the present year.
WiIImar-Minnesota is soon to add
two new villages to it's family. They
are to be known as Kester and Rose
land and will be situated on the Min
nesota Western railroad, which is be-
ing extended through the southern
townships of Kandiyohi county from
Lake Lillian to Clara City in Chippe-
wa county.
st. PauI-Students of 100 high
schools throughout the state which
are members of the Minnesota State
High School Debating Team League
have begun interclass debates, pre-
paratory to entering local, district, re-
gional and state debates in COMPETE
ton for the championship now claimed
by Pelican Rapids
ST. PauI-More than $4,000 Mime,
sofa boys and girls are row enrolled
in club work, T. A. Erickson, state
club leader, estimated, gain of near.
ly 1000 members in the last year.
Mr.. Erickson says the increased in
terest in club work is due to the co
operation of the newspapers, business
leaders and school men.
st. PauI-Steady increases in the
number of dairy cows, chickens and
swine in Minnesota, is shown in the
1925 Minnesota census of agriculture
taken by the bureau of census OF the
department of agriculture. Although
the number of swine is decreasing
in the United States, Minnesota has
increased it's number of swine by
334,212 since 1920, and now has TO-
tai of 2,715,074, according to statistics
of the census report.
Hokah-On her 101st birthday Mrs.
Dorothy Reed Smith Durham, still
active, alert and cheerful, expressed
the wish that this might be the last
year of her life. 81 have lived long
enough" explained the Hokah pho.
neer. "All of my family is dead-my
mother, father, brothers and sisters.
l have outlived them all-and guess
I am lonesome. I want to go to the
other side.'"
StapIes-Andrew Denniston Of Ger
mania, Todd county, lays claim to the
title of the states oldest consecutive
voter. 1t will take an army to keep
him from the polls November 2, he
declares. Mr.. Denniston's first vote
went to Franklin Pierce for president.
Later he voted for Willard Fillmore
and James Buchanan, Abraham Lin
coin, Grant and then through the gal
axy of republican candidates to Calvin
Coolidge. Now he is Sc years old
Minneapolis THE Gophers rode
roughshod over the Wabash team and
crushed the Little Giants from Craw
louisville, Ind, by score of 81 to Z
before crowd of 10000 rooters in
Memorial stadium. The Hoosiers gave
the Minnesota rooters scare by scor-
ing a touchdown during the first few
minutes of play, but that touchdown
only served to stir the Gophers to a
fighting pitch and from that time they
turned the contest into a field day.
st. Cloud-Samuel G. Pandolfo, who
was convicted of using the mails to
defraud in the financing of the Pan
Motor Co., was paroled from the fed
eral penitentiary at Leavenworth.
Kan, and started Immediately for his
home in st. Cloud He was recon.
mended for parole by the federal priS.