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

700 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
county school administration. The townships of range 20 are in
what is called the unorganized school district of the county, a school
district in which there are 139 frame schoolhouses, to which go almost
4,000 children, and which district employs 162 teachers, and spends
about $15,000 a year for transportation of pupils. The school levy,
in that part of Leiding Township served by the Unorganized School
District in 1919 was 37.1 mills, on a valuation of $263,035. Townships
64 and 65, north of range 19 west, are the limits of School District
No. 66, in which are two frame schoolhouses valued at $5,000
in 1919. The enrollment was sixty-two, and three female teachers
were employed, in the year 1919-20, at an average salary of $100.00
a month. The school levy was $4,493.11. The school board officials
were: Frank Wardas, Orr, Minnesota, clerk; Peter Marion, treasurer;
Nils Johnson, chairman of directors.
Linden Grove.—The township of Linden Grove was organized in
1907. A petition filed with the county auditor in December of that
year, and signed by C. J. Everson and others, sought to induce the
county commissioners to organize congressional townships 62 and
63-20 as one township under chapter 143 of the state laws of 1905, the
town organized in accordance therewith to take the name of "Linden
Grove." The petition asked that the first town meeting be held at
the residence of Norman Linsey, situated in the northwest quarter of
section 9, of township 62-20.
C. J. Everson took oath to the accuracy of statements made in
petition, and that in the territory at that time were resident not more
than sixty legal voters.
The county commissioners met at Duluth on December 10, 1907,
and on that day formed the township of Linden Grove, with boundaries
as asked for in petition. And they ordered the election to be
held on December 28, 1907.
Linden Grove had jurisdiction over the two congressional townships
until 1916, when township 63-20 was set apart to form the
township of Willow Valley (see Willow Valley, this chapter).
In 1908, the assessed valuation of Linden Grove Township was
$19,264; in 1919 it was $47,682. The tax levy was $857.25 in the
former year, and $3,323.44 in 1919.
Linden Grove, with two congressional townships, was found to
have a population of 223 in 1910; in 1920, the census showed that 225
persons were then resident in its reduced area, township 62-20.
The township had no railway connection nearer than Cook, about
seven miles from its eastern boundary, but it has some prosperous
farmers. The township is watered, as well as drained, mainly by the
Little Fork.
Linden Grove was at one time in School District No. 53, but that
school district has been dissolved, and the territory is now part of the
Unorganized School District directly supervised by the county administration.
The tax levy for school purposes in 1919 was 37.1 mills.
The township officials, in 1920, were: Ben Wilkins (chairman), L.
W. Simmons, supervisor; C. J. Everson, clerk; J. B. Wien, assessor;
John Frandson, treasurer.
McDavitt—The township of McDavitt was erected in 1894, such
action by the county commissioners following the presenting of a
petition by the voters of township 56 north, range 18 west. The
petition was signed by Dagobert Mayer and twenty-four other residents
of the township named, which they sought to have organized