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

720 DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY
strances against the separation from Field, and the erection of Owens
Township, was announced by the commissioners, who set August 6th
as the day upon which they would hear objections to the petition.
Apparently, there were no objections, for on August 6th the Township
of Owens was organized, the commissioners then ordering the
notices to be posted in conspicuous places throughout the township
calling residents who were legal voters to gather at the Cook Schoolhouse
on section 17 of township 62-18 on Saturday, August 24, 1912,
to elect officers for the Township of Owens.
Valuation.— In 1912, the assessed valuation of the township was
$68,516. In 1919 it became $102,332. the increase representing agricultural
development. It is one of the richest agricultural townships
north of the Mesabi Range, and in 1919 paid $7,597.11 in taxes,
including a school tax of 37.1 mills.
Education.—For school purposes, the township is part of the
Unorganized School District directed by the county school superintendent.
The principal community is at Cook, a growing village, and
a station on the Canadian Pacific Railway, which connects Duluth
and Winnipeg. Leander, on the border line of Owens and Angora
townships, is also a station on that system.
Present Township Officials. -The officials of the Township of
Owens in 1920 were: Fred Anderson (chairman). Oscar Magnuson
and John A. Pearson, supervisors ; .Chas. Fogelberg, clerk ; D. G.
Winchel, assessor; G. J. Francis, treasurer; August Buboltz and
L. F. Luthey, justices.
Village of Cook.—The Village of Cook, when August Buboltz,
who now is its principal storekeeper, came to it in 1904 consisted of
not much more than a tent, in which was a printing plant, upon
which the "Northland Farmer" was printed, published and circulated
almost to the Bear River, by its editor-owner, James A. Field. The
paper 'olant
was hauled into Cook on a sleigh, over the Vermilion
Lake.
With the clearing of timber, the land in the Township of 62-18
was seen to be good for agricultural purposes, and with the Duluth,
Rainy Lake and Winnipeg Railway possibilities, the .possibilities of
a farming center developing somewhere in the vicinity, attracted some
who were interested in town planning. The Goodhue Investment
Company of Duluth, acquired land in section 18 and a townsite was
surveyed and platted for them by the Duluth Engineering Company.
The first lot was sold to John Nelson, of Taylor Falls, a lumberman,
now deceased. Upon his lot now stands the Farmers and Merchants
Bank.
The first building in Cook was that erected for August Buboltz
by John B. Shaver, of Virginia. When completed, it was opened as
the Little Fork Hotel, and conducted as such by Mr. Buboltz until
1909, when he went out of that business, and later took up merchandizing
and other enterprises in Cook and the vicinity. He built many
houses in the place.
The first store building in Cook was that occupied as a general
store by Lee and Hanson of Tower.
The first church was the Swedish Mission, which was built in
about 1906. The first minister in Cook was the Rev. '' '' * Lantz.
The first school was that erected about one and a half miles east
of Cook. It was built in 1905, and the first teacher is stated to have
been Miss Payne.
The first physician was Doctor Kurtz.