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

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 697
Ed Schau and F. P. Johnson, supervisors; James Mohan, clerk;
D. J. McDonnell, assessor; Chris Hendrickson, treasurer.
At one time Lakewood Township was in School District No. 20.
District No. 62 now serves part of township 51-13. There are three
frame schoolhouses in use, the three valued at $5,000, in 1919. The
enrollment in that year was 62, for a school year of nine months.
Four female teachers were apportioned to the district, and they
averaged a salary of $85 a month. The school levy was $3,854.10.
The school board officials were: F. J. Monkhouse, clerk; Joseph
Pommerville, treasurer; D. J. McDonnell, chairman of directors.
Lavell.— Lavell Township, which now embraces three congressional
townships, was first organized to have jurisdiction over unorganized
townships 55-19, in 1904.
A petition, signed by Richard Carrigan, Martin Lavell, and others
who were legal voters of congressional township 55-19, was prepared
during the winter of 1903-04, asking the county officials to
organize that territory, and name the township so organized "Lavell."
Martin Lavell presented the petition at the county offices for filing
on August 4, 1904, and then took oath that statements made in
petition were correct.
The matter came before the county commissioners at their meeting
on that day, and met with their approval. They ordered an
election to be held at the house of Martin Lavell, sw qr. ne qr., sec.
18, twp. 55-19, on August 23, 1904. Martin Lavell, acting as deputy
sherift", posted notices to that effect.
The election completed the organization of the township, and
within ten days another petition was in course of preparation, the
residents of congressional townships 56-19, 56-20, and 55-20, seeking
to have that territory annexed to the new Township of Lavell. The
petition was signed by P. E. Meehan and others, in sufficient number,
to influence the county commissioners to act upon the request. They
placed these three unorganized townships into the Township of
Lavell, taking that action at their monthly meeting of October,
1904, having considered the petition at their September meeting and
called for the hearing of remonstrances at the October session.
The boundaries remained so until November, 1913, when congressional
township 56-20 was separated from Lavell, and added to
the Stuntz territory (see Township of Stuntz, this chapter).
In 1904, the assessed valuation of the township of Lavell was
$267,323; in 1919, the valuation, excluding township 56-20, was
$153,343. The tax levy in 1904 was $3,795.95; in 1919, the levy was
$10,875.78 for the three townships. ^
Lavell Township is content to let its school system be part of
the unorganized school district administered by the county school
superintendent. Such an arrangement is probably less expensive for
the township, the population being scattered. Lavell Township had
a population of 548 in 1910, and 632 in 1920.
The township officials, 1920, were: John Turkula, chairman;
Jacob Hellman and Fred Rekkala, supervisors; Alex Narva, clerk;
Matt Korpi, assessor; and Herman Lammi, treasurer.
Leiding.—The Township of Leiding was organized in 1907. and
now embraces four congressional townships 64 and 65, ranges 19 and
20. The Duluth, Rainy Lake and Winnipeg Railway passes through
the township, which is the administrative centre of big logging in-
terests. Glendale, Orr. and Cusson are the railway stopping places,
communities having developed at each place, Orr being a trading