Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-12-16
MINNESOTA NEWS

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= Minneapolis - Thomas e. Moore.
Minneapolis will be the first man in
the history Of the University Of Min
nesota to receive a degree for work
completed wholly in the night school
courses.
St. Paui-Nine counties reporting
sales of 29,2S0 acres of farm land, for
$1,7O2,500, in survey under way by
the Minnesota Realty Association,
brought the reported amount received
in the 1926 sale of agricultural acre
age in Minnesota to $7.71S,SO0.
MISUNDERSTANDING the highest
level since the war. prices of butter
climbed to a point where wholesale
prices were listed at AZ to "a cents q
pound. The market quotations set
new high mark fol recent years after
climbing consistently all fall.
st. PauI-Deposits in state banks
totaled s42S,790. 1853 on November Is.
according to tabulatiens announced in
the offices of A. ]. Veigel, state bank
examiner. The cash reserve of the
state banks is approximately s50,000,-
quired by law.
neapoIis-Additiona allowance
of 100000 year for salary increases
and new members of the teaching staff
are requested in the budget estimate
of the University of Minnesota, sub
mitted by the board of regents and I'M
der consideration by the state depart
ment of administration and finance.
Rochester@The condition of DR..
Clarence Spears, University Of Mime
sofa football coach, who was operated
upon, is entirely satisfactory, attend
ing physicians said. The Gopher
coach, who underwent gall bladder
operation, is resting comfortably and
is in a cheerful frame of mind, it was
reported.
st. Paul-An 1S-foot dam to cost
$4,000,000. and to be built three miles
above Hastings, has been recommend
ed by Major R. C. Williams, United
States engineer at st. Paul, and ap-
proved by the board of engineers OF
the war department, so as to insure
a permanent six.foot channel in the
Mississippi river al. the way to Min
neapolis.
Rochester-Two men were held in
Jail without charge here after pos
ses had halted a Twin City bus to
arrest them in hunt for gang of
two-gun bandits who terrorized down
town Rochester with a hail of bull
lets, wounded two patrolmen and
shattered store display windows in
their escape, after robbing the Ohm
stead County Bank and Trust Com
any Of 100000.
MinneapoIis-Plans for a Press
ed in journalism at the University Of
Minnesota to be named in honor of
the late W. ]. Murphy of the Mime
apolis Tribune. who endowed the
school of journalism, have been
started by Sigma Delta Chi. profes
sional journalistic fraternity on the
campus.
st. PauI-Governor Theodore Chris
Hanson was asked by the Twin City
Milk Producers Association to go to
Washington to petition President
Coolidge to ask the tariff commits
sion to increase the tariff on butter
fat in milk and cream as a means Of
preventing foreign dairymen from
evading the IL cent duty on butter
by sending their butterfat to this
country in the form of milk and
cream.
st. Paul-Eleven game refugees es-
tablished in Minnesota this year are
an important part of the conservation
departments campaign to save and
develop wild life resources Of the
state, James F. Gould, conservation
commissioner, announced. The de-
partment will ask the legislature to
make winter fishing illegal or to adopt
restrictive measures designed to pro-
tect fish which spawn early in the
spring, including pike, pickerel, bass,
crappies and sunf1sh.
st. PauI-While Mike Holm, secre-
tary of state, completed preparations
for an s11,0O0,O00 business in the au-
tomobile registration department
when he issues more than 100000
licenses for 1927, Charles M. Babcock,
state highway commissioner, prepar-
ed to go before the legislature to ask
for a restoration of automobile Ii
cense fees to the higher levels pre-
vailing before the reduction made by
the 1925 legislature. Commissioner
Babcock also will ask of the legisla-
ture when it convenes in January a
$20,000,000 bond issue to complete the
trunk highway system.
Minneapolis - The goth annual
Twin City Automobile Show will be
held the week of Feb. 5-12, 1927,
Manager Harry E Wilcox announced.
The Overland building in the Midway
district will again house the North
vests greatest motor exposition.
Manager Wilcox announced that spe-
cial ceremonies will mark the fifth
of-a-century anniversary of the show
that grew from one of 500 square
feet in 1898 to 100000 square feet
this Winter. Speakers of national