Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-09-23
MINNESOTA NEWS

ST. Paul.. F, Gould, state game and
fish commissioner, estimated that
$4,000 hunters were in the field the
first day of hunting season.
Rochester Senator Robert M. La
I Toilette Of Wisconsin arrived here
from Madison to enter the Mayo clinic
for general examination.
Aitkin-Thomas R. Foley, ST., q
former member of the legislature and
prominent in business in this section
of the state, died here after long
illness. He was II years old.
9cf st. Paul-Edward e. Ballough, air
mail pilot, is believed to have broken
j the record for speed between Chicago
and st. Paul when he made the trip
8 in two hours and Is minutes.
Fairmont-Farmers of five counties.
protesting the open season on Chinese
pheasants, scheduled to start October
516, posted mo Hunting" signs in
woods and open fields, and closed their
farms to indiscriminate hunting.
40 ST. cIoud-With state and national
Insurance men in attendance, the Min
nesota Insurance Federation and the
Minnesota Association of Local Agents
conducted the annual convention.
RobbinsdaIe-A large "For Sale"
sign, nailed on the front of a one
story frame building in the heart of
Robbinsdale, marked passing of the
old postoffice and opening of the new
building, just completed at cost Of
more than $4,000.
Laneboro-Threaten by serious
illness that confined her two weeks
ago, Mrs. Brita Hoium, 101 years old,
achieved her ambition to celebrate
another birthday. A year ago hun
dreds of relatives and friends shook
hands with Mrs. Hoium upon reaching
the century mark.
st. CIoud-"Pan Town." containing
81 houses and other property once
identified with the Pandolfa holdings
here, is to be sold in court here Oc-
June, 1920. With other property,
they are mortgaged under s350,000
bonds
Red Wing-Steps to test constitu-
tionality of the Minnesota game re-
fuge law have been taken by group
of Goodhue county residents, who
asked the District Court at Red Wing
to set aside the order Of j. F. Gould
state game and fish commissioner,
establishing part of Goodhue county
as game refuge.
Traey-Duchess Hengerveld Julian,
purebred Holstein cow owned by F.
Nicholson, a farmer near Lind, holds
the June record as the highest pro-
ducing cow. This record is exceed
ed by only three cows in the testing
associations of 10 different states.
Julian produced 2,274 pounds of milk
containing 1872 pounds of butterfat.
Hibbing - Resumption of heavy
stripping operations this winter would
be a boon to miners in this vicinity,
where this activity was very quiet in
the last cold period. The Oliver Com.
pany has opened ground in the Hull
Rust pit, which now extends well in
to the upper end of the old main bust
ness district in North Hibbing.
MISUNDERSTANDING persons
were arrested for violation Of the
state game laws of the first three
days of the hunting season, ]. F.
Gould, state game and fish commits
sioner, said. Most of the arrests
have been made in cases where hunt
tiers did not cease their activities at
sunset or where they shot ducks on !
open water. r'seeapats4 p z..::v
st. Paul-Sheriff L. H. Lien of Cook
county, charged in petition present
ed to Governor Chistianson with mall
feasance and nonfeasance in office,
upon which hearing was to be held
at Grand Marais, has presented his
resignation to the Cook county board
Of commissioners. AS a result, the
hearing has been postponed to await
the action of the Cook county COM
missioners on the resignation.
Hokah-Even President Coolidge
sat up and took notice when he heard
buhuGh "oulo UC AO4
years old October 20. The other day
when the mail arrived there was a
large white envelope with the seal Of
the United States in one corner. 1t
was for Grandma. Her fingers trem-
bled more than usual as she opened
the letter in the presence of the fam
lily. 1t was from President Coolidge,
offering his congratulations.
MinneapoIis-A contract for the
construction of six-mile extension
of the Minneapolis, sNorthfield &
Southern railroad connecting the main
line at Golden Valley, just west of
Minneapolis, with the 500 Line
tracks at Crystal, west Of Robbins
dale, has been let to Nolan brothers
OF Minneapolis for $350,000, H. E.
Pence, president Of the road announc
ed.
Morris-Crookston was named the
1927 convention city of the Minnesota
Federation of Women's Clubs at the
final session of the federation's con-
1vention here, at which Mrs. Alton B.
Cheadle Of Jackson was elected first
vice president, and report was pre-