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

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 689
township in 1919. Taxes certainly have increased more rapidly, the
twenty-two mill levy of 1879 becoming 81.7 in 1919 including a school
tax of 36.2 mills.
Gnesen has advanced slowly mainly, perhaps, because of lack of
railway facilities. The Northeastern Railway is the nearest, passing
within a few miles of the northwestern part of Gnesen Township.
Otherwise, there is only roadway means of transportation and the roads
are not very good, excepting the Vermilion Road, which passes
through the eastern half of Gnesen, entering in section 35 of township
52-14, and passing out in section 2 of 53-14. There are several small
lakes in Gnesen, which is bounded by Fredenberg and an unorganized
township on the west, by unorganized territory on the north, by
the Township of Normanna on the east and by Rice Lake Township
on the south.
The present township officers are : Jos. Trudel, chairman ; Peter
Trader and John Krezewski, supervisors; S. C. Machnikowski, clerk;
John Jakubek, assessor; Jacob Mosiniak, treasurer.
Its educational district is known as School District No. 8. Three
frame schoolhouses are in use in the township, the value of the three
being estimated in 1919 to be $6,900. The school in that year had
an enrollment of 101 scholars. There are five female teachers; the
average salary was $91.00 a month; and the school term was eight
months. The school board is constituted as follows : Frank Labud,
clerk; Ignace Karalus, treasurer; John Jakubek, chairman of directors.
Grand Lake.—The Township of Grand Lake was organized in
1895, out of territory formerly part of the Township of Canosia. It
resulted from the circulation of a petition signed by residents in
townships 51-16 and 52-16 in March, 1895, asking that the two congressional
townships be separated from the Township of Canosia,
and given the township name of Grand Lake. William Keir was the
first signer of the petition, which w^as referred by the county commissioners
to the county attorney on May 7th. No further action was
taken until October 8th, when the instrument was found to be in
regular legal form. It was then filed by County Auditor Halden,
and considered by the county comissioners on the same day. Hearing
of remonstrances was set for November 5th, when the commissioners
organized the Township of Grand Lake, embracing the two
congressional townships named in petition, with township powers
as provided by Chapter 10, General Statutes, 1878.
The first election was held at the schoolhouse situated in the
northeast quarter of section 22, township 51-16, November 23, 1895.
There has
Township.
since been no change in the boundaries of Grand Lake
The Cloquet River runs through township 52-16 and two railways
pass through, the Duluth, Missabe and Northern and the
Duluth and Winnipeg, and there are several good roads.
The assessed valuation of Grand Lake Township in 1896 was
$150,979; in 1919 it was $322,210. The tax levy in 1896 was $4,474.69
in 1919 it was $14,241.68.
Population in
was 329.
1900 was 104; in 1910 it was 283. and in 1920 it
'I'hr township is iti school district No. 15. which serv(\s the full
area of Grand Lake, i. e., township 51 and 52, range 16. There are
three frame schoolhouses, valued in 1919 at $15,000. The teaching
stafT (four female teachers) get an average pay of $80.50 a month.
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