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

692 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
valuation of the incorporated places. The total taxes amount to 83.8
mills, with a school tax of 41.5 mills. The school levy in 1919 for
Independent School District No. 35 amounted to $484,464.08, that
provide education to 1,166 children, the majority of whom are
to
of
foreign-born parents, natives of seventeen different countries, chiefly
European.
stand, the
Many of the children are unable to speak in, or under-
English language when they first attend school, Americanization
is soon achieved, however.
Population.—There were 108 people in the township when the
1900 census was taken. In 1910, the population was 2,322, and in
1920 there were 3,963. The bulk of the inhabitants are resident in
Kinney or Buhl village. Kinney's 1920 population was 1,200, while
Buhl had 1,005 in 1910 and 2,007 in 1920.
Township Officials, 1920.— John McGrath (chairman), Nestor
Peltonen and M. E. Anderson, supervisors; Chas. Linihan, clerk;
Geo. R. Barrett, assessor; John W. Pasich, treasurer.
Halden.—The Township of Halden, the bounds of which are
township 51-21 was organized in 1903.
On May 13th of that year a petition was signed by Joseph B.
Todd and other freeholders of the territory for which township
powers were sought, and in due course presented to the board of
county commissioners, with the request that if granted, the new
township be named "Savanna."
The petition was approved "in form and execution" by the
county attorney on June 18, 1903, but was not passed by the Board
of County Commissioners until September 3rd. The commissioners
then ordered the first town meeting of the township of Savanna to
be held at the schoolhouse situated on the northeast quarter of northeast
quarter of section 14, township 51-20, on Wednesday, September
23, 1903.
Election was accordingly held and the first officers of the township
of Savanna were: Nels Wuotila (chairman), Henry Peterson
and Aug. Wuotila, supervisors; L. Randall, clerk; Aug. Anderson,
treasurer; Jacob Jurvelin, assessor; Henry Peterson and Aug, Wuo-
tila, justices ;
Joseph Kangas and Aug, Anderson, constables.
Shortly afterwards, the county auditor was advised by the state
auditor that another name for the newly organized township must
be chosen, as "Savanna" was the name of another township in the
state. "Roosevelt" could not be secured, for the same reason. The
county commissioners, therefore, on October 6, 1903, decided to name
the township "Halden," the patronymic of the then county auditor.
Their naming was subsequently confirmed by the voters.
Halden Township in 1903 had an assessed valuation of $55,642;
in 1919 its valuation was $83,532. The tax levy, for all purposes, in
1903 was $2,025.37; in 1919, the levy amounted to $6,248.19. The
population in 1900 was seventy-five; in 1910 it was 265; in 1920 it
was 365.
The township officials in 1920 were: Waldemar Alho (chair-
man), Glenn F. Chapin and Nathan Nelson, supervisors; S. Magnuson,
clerk ;
John Hannula, assessor and treasurer.
Halden has no separate school district. It is part of the immense
unorganized school district which is directly supervised by the
county school superintendent. The school levy, in 1919, was 37.1
mills. At one time, the township of Halden was in School District
No, 19, Apparently, the county unorganized district is more economical
for the taxpayers.