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

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 687
The petition was signed by thirty-four voters, the first three to
sign being Jean W. News, John McKay, and A. A. Hall. These three
residents took oath to the accuracy of statements made in petition.
The county commissioners approved the petition, and ordered
an election to be held "at Town Hall location," section 6, 51-20, on
May 10, 1899, the commissioners appointing the same three men to
act as inspectors of election.
The election was duly held and forty-one votes were cast forty
being, in favor of the incorporation. Hence, the community then
took corporate powers.
On November 4, 1914, an election was held "for the purpose of
voting on the proposition of detaching and taking out of the incorporated
Village of Floodwood" the unplatted lands, and "separating
the village from the Town of Floodwood for all purposes whatsoever."
The election showed that thirty-eight of thirty-nine votes
cast were in favor of the detaching, consequently the area embraced
in the incorporated village was reduced, and to an extent this explains
the difference in 1910 and 1920 census returns.
The assessed valuation of the incorporated Village of Floodwood
in 1919 was $52,506; tax levy, $4,725.54. In 1899 the figures
were: $46,075 valuation; $815.53 tax. The school tax in 1919 was
42.2 mills.
The village officials in 1920, were :
Garfield Blackwood, presi-
dent; J. C. Arnold, Chas. Williams, A. O. Molden, councilmen ; M. R
Adams, clerk; James Girvan, assessor; J. L. Lalin, treasurer.
Floodwood Township is eminently agricultural. Some of the
lower lands are peaty and the high lands are sandy, with a clay subsoil.
Grasses average from two to four tons an acre, and potatoes
from 200 to 500 bushels an acre.
The Village of Floodwood is a typical agricultural community
it has good general stores, each doing more than a $50,000, yearly
business, a good banking institution, the Floodwood State Bank,
which has a yearly deposit of about $45,000 and there is a strong
agricultural co-operative society and a thriving creamery. It also
has a newspaper, an excellent brick schoolhouse and a hotel. The
Floodwood Farmers' Co-operative Society has a membership of about
eighty producers, who pool their agricultural products shipped to
other markets, and what they need to buy from outside markets they
buy collectively, at wholesale prices, through the society. The creamery
was organized by the farmers in May, 1911. It has about 100
stockholders and practically all the dairy farmers of the neighborhood
use the creamery.
Fredenberg.—The Township of Fredenberg was erected in 1904
out of part of the Township of Canosia. residents in that part of the
last-named township (52-15), praying the county commissioners, in
petition presented on July 6, 1906, to set apart as the Township of
Fredenberg congressional township fifty-two north, range fifteen west,
declaring that "said Township of Canosia is so divided by lakes, rivers,
marshes and other natural impediments that it is inconvenient for
all the citizens * * * ^q transact town business."
The county commissioners decided to hear objections to the petition
on August 4th. On that day they set apart township 52-15 as the
Township of Fredenberg. and ordered the first township meeting to
be held at the schoolhouse on the southeast quarter of section 24 of
that township on August 23, 1904.
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