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

712 DULUTII AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
officers for that year, and in clue course the villag^e administration
became: L. B. Hagen, president; N. M. Buffer, recorder; Hy Meyer,
J. P. Westlund and Andrew Hansen, trustees; Henry Dastula, treasurer;
Frank Carlson and Oscar Olson, justices; J. W. Wilkins and
John Meyer, constables.
The Village of Fall Lake became a separate election and assesstnent
district in 1906. and continued as "Fall Lake" until 1914. Ordinance
No. 21, passed and approved May 12, 1914, was authority for
the change of the village name from "Fall Lake" to "Winton.*'
Winton (as Fall Lake) had an assessed valuation of $19,126 in
1902, and the tax levy was $638.81, for all purposes. Li 1919 its
valuation was $36,034, and levy $2,637.43.
in
It is part of School District No. 12 (Ely), and the school levy
1919 was 26.7 mills. Its population on May 22, 1901. when census
was taken for the purposes of petition for incorporation, was stated
PIONEER SHAFT AND POWERHOUSE, ELY
the federal census of
the 1920 census credited Winton
Village with 499 inhabitants, so that its growth has been healthy.
Andrew Hanson, president
and
in that instrument to have been 227 persons ;
1910 showed 423 residents ;
The village officials in 1920 were :
George Hendrickson, John Maki, Gust Kuskila, trustees ; Oscar Larson,
clerk; John A. Hurtley, assessor; Gust Johnson, treasurer.
The important mining within Morse Township will be the subject
of a special chapter of this work, and need not be further written
of here. The lakes of the township will also be referred to elsewhere
they make the township one of the most beautiful in St. Louis County.
The township officials in 1920 were: Alex Whitten. chairman;
H. J. Fatlalid, supervisors; I.
J.
assessor ; Matt Knutte, treasurer.
Walker, clerk; H. C. Hurning,
New Independence.—The Township of New Independence is
one of the well-established farming townships of St. Louis County.
It was set off in 1890, following a petition b}- Peter E. Schelin and
others.
They wished to have township 52-17 organized as the Town of
"Independence." The petitioners were represented by P. E. Schelin
;