1921 Duluth & St Louis County MN, Van Brunt.pdf - Garon.us

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 673
organized as a separate township, which it was originally proposed
be named "Camasia," that name having been first written into the
petition, but eventually ruled out, and the name "Canosia" written
above it on the instrument.
The petition came before the county commissioners at their board
meeting of December 6, 1887, and they then took exception to the
granting of it. The matter was referred by them to a committee,
which, on February 3, 1888, reported favorably, and "recommended
that the prayer of the petitioners be granted."
Therefore, the board of commissioners set apart the township on
that day, and ordered the first town meeting to be held at the
schoolhouse in School District No. 10, in the Township of Canosia,
on Thursday, February 23, 1888.
The four congressional townships which constituted the township
of Canosia had an assessed value of $225,274 in 1888, and the
taxes levied for all purposes in that year totalled to $4,353.65.
Three other townships have since been created (see townships
of Dinham, Grand Lake and Fredenburg, this chapter) out of territory
originally in Canosia, and the boundaries of the last named
township now embrace only the congressional township 51 north,
range 15 west. The assessed valuation of that reduced area of
Canosia in 1919 was $144,437; and the tax levy, $7,726.92.
Population of Canosia Township in 1900 was 221 ; in 1910. it
was 287; and in the last census, 1920, the population was found to
be 311.
Township officers in 1920 were : Peter E. Michels, chairman
Chas. A. Sundell and J. Kolodzeski, supervisors; John W. Johnson,
clerk; W. C. McCummon, assessor; E. B. Emgren, treasurer.
Canosia township is served by two school districts, Nos. 10 and
55. There are three schoolhouses in the township, one each in sections
12, 30 and 35. In School District No. 10 which covers part of
township 51-15, there is one frame schoolhouse, to which went twentythree
scholars for the school year 1919-20. Its one teacher (female)
received a salary of $90.00 monthly. The school board officials were :
Jacob C. Clark, clerk; Joe Kolodzeski, treasurer; John W. Johnson,
chairman of directors. Its school levy, in 1919, was $1,883.18. School
District No. 55 embraced part of townships 51-15 (Canosia) and
51-14 (Rice Lake). Its two frame schoolhouses were valued at $2,000
in 1919, when the enrollment was 37. One school was conducted by
a male teacher, and the other by a female. The average salary was
$77.50 a month. School levy, in 1919, was $1,809.89, Canosia paying
a school tax of 25.3 mills. Officials of School District No. 55. in
1920, were: P. E. Michele, R. F. D. 4, Box 66. Duluth. Minn.,
clerk; Chas. Sundell, treasurer;
Cedar Valley.—A petition,
P. A. Paulson, chairman of directors.
signed by Mike Snyder and twenty-
five others, dated October 22, 1908, was duly presented at the St.
Louis County Court House. The instrument sought to secure the
organization as a township, under section 451, chapter 7. Revised
Laws of Minnesota, 1905, to be known by the name of "Rosemount,"
all of congressional township 53 north, range 21 west.
At the Fel)ruary, 1909. session of the Board of County Commissioners,
the petition was approved, and the first town meeting ordered
to be held at School House No. 2, on Saturday, February 26,
1910. After the election, the county commissioners were advised by
the state auditor that there was another township in the state named
"Rosemount." They therefore resolved that the name of the newly
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