Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-01-06
MINNESOTA news

L. H. Stephens. was named president
and A. q. Gongoll secretary.
Hutchinson-The Mcleod county
dog derby, sponsored by the Gopher
Campfire Club, will be staged here
February IL.
Bertha-Destruction by fire of the
Ahrendt & Bluhm potato warehouse
here resulted in loss of approx.
mately $4,000.
kerkhoven - The largest cream
check ever issued to patron of the
local creamery was issued to N. e..
Valentine, in the amount OF $414.
Thief River FalIs-This city has its
own Luther Burbank. He is Martin
Bothun, florist, who, after more than
a year of experiment, has produced
yellow carnation which he believes to
be the only one in existence.
Mankato-This city is ending 1926
with a new building record of more
than $1,O00,O00. Included in this to-
tai are many new homes, municipal
improvements, hospital additions and
commercial structures of all types.
Lake Benton-Commercial fisher
men are making some big haulsN from
Lake Benton. Some of the carp
weigh as high as IS pounds. The
rough fish taken from the lake are
shipped alive to the eastern market.
st. Paula $20,O0O,OO0 program of
Improvements for 1927 was announc-
ed by the Great Northern railroad,
which is planning also to augment
this expenditure by $15,000,00O more
for the purchase of two short electric
railroads in Idaho and Washington.
MinneapoIis-The Minnesota State
Poultry association will hold it's 41st
annual show at the Kenwood armory
January 1S to 16. The exhibition will
be in charge of George HI. Nelson,
secretary and treasurer of the asso-
citation, who will be show manager.
MinneapoIis-A. R. Rogers, presi
dent of the Minneapolis Civic & Com.
merce association, was announced as
a northwest member of the Business
Mems Commission on Agriculture,
formed to inquire into the agricultur-
al problems and their relation to the
economic life of the United States.
st. Paul-The automobile death
rate in Minnesota was lower than the
average for the country as a whole
during 1925, it is revealed in sta
tistical report by the national confer
ence on street and highway safety,
These figures show that for every 923
cars registered in the country as a
whole, one person was killed during
the year.
MinneapoIis-Stu of the Univer.
sity of Minnesota's future building
needs, a tentative estimate of which
will involve spending $4,S30,000, is to
be requested of the next legislature by
the board of regents. The legislature
will be asked to appoint an interim
committee of its members which can
devote the next two years to survey
ing the university situation.
Minneapolis - Archite ctural
sketches for~the new $1,000,000 me-
mortal auditorium at the University
of Minnesota, seating $500 persons,
ordered prepared by the board of re-
gents six months ago, were complet-
ed as part of the plan for a greater
campus. The auditorium is to be a
memorial to Cyrus Northrop, second
president f the university.
st. PauI-Minnesota in 1926 pro-
duced S1,7s9,OO0 bushels of various
grains and potatoes, valued at ap-
proximately $2SS,O53,OO0, Paul H.
Kirk, Minnesota agricultural statisti-
clan, announced in his December re-
port OF those grand totals, corn was
the greatest crop both in size and
value, producing 147,662,00O bushels,
worth $S2,691,OO0 The value of the
corn crop was 1877 per cent of the
total.
Albert Lea-Captain Charles Haven
Farnsworth, commander of the troop
that pursued and killed Abraham Lin
coins assassin, and pioneer leader
in development of Albert Lea and
southern Minnesota, died here at the
age of SO. For half century, Cap
tain Farnsworth had been an out
standing figure in southern Minnesota.
He established the first telephone
company in Albert Lea and built the
: first electric light plant there.
MinneapoIis-Bank deposits in the
ninth federal reserve district are
heaviest in regions where, dairy
farming and cattle and hog marketing
predominates. This fact, together
with "the marketing If all classes of
livestock in very large amounts" is
hailed as the outstanding event of
November in the reserve district, &C.
cording to the December agricultural
and business review by the Federal
Reserve bank of Minneapolis.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of capital
punishment and establishment Of the
whipping post and a state constabu-
larry are asked of the 1927 legislature
in resolutions adopted at a meeting
here, which resolved itself into the
Southern Minnesota Crime Proven
ton Association" More than 100 of