The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-21
CIVIC BODIES THROUGHOUT MIN
NEsoTA TAKE RECOGNITION
OF HAMMOND'S MESSAGE.
EVENTS AT STATE CAPlT0C
Interesting and Important Happening,
Of the Past Few Days Selected
and Arranged for the Conven.
fence Of Busy Readers.

sAAo oI~~o, ~. w. 11dI Sdu1u0, StdI0 uI0
marshal, said.
"One of the greatest benefits We
expect from the observance of the
day." he said, will come from the
impression given the children as to
the necessity of preventing fires. By
this means we can reach the parents
also.
"Civic bodies took recognition OF
Governor Hammond's proclamation
by urging the people to clean up their
premises and watch for defective
electric wiring.
1--WE are spending millions each
year keeping up departments with
which to put out fires and few thou
sands on fire prevention. The tables
should be turned so that the larger
amount be expended in preventing
fires.
This department is allowed $4,000
this year. Half Of it must be spent in:
vestigating fires after they have oc.
CURED. The remainder we can use to
prevent fires as much as possible.
care should be exercised in the
homes to prevent fires, especially nov
that furnaces and stoves have been
started for the winter. Storekeepers
and owners of property can be more
careful in keeping their places free
of combustible material"
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Health Hints Aid Parents.
Through the efforts of the stata
board Of health and the department
Of education to protect the health OF
school children many Minnesota par
ents have been brought to tho realiza
ton that they themselves should be
watching public health matters, DR.;
H. M. Bracken, secretary of the health
board, said.
The health officers are working in
cooperation with the education off.
Gals in seeing that water supplies
and sewage disposal plants of the
schools are properly maintained. DR.
Bracken said that in many cases the
health board went into village
where the schools were being sup
piled with water from the municipal
water plant, and declared the vatei
unfit for use Of the school child en-
This action brought the vilkagerl
face to face with the fact tina, they
themselves were using water that was
unfit for the school children. Such
revelations Of conditions, DR.. Bracken
said, have served to bring about i'm
provements to the benefit of the en-.
tire population.
Schools with bad water supplies
and poor sewage disposal plants are
denied the state aid to which they
would be entitled.
The examinations are conducted by
H. A. Whitaker of the division q
sanitation in the health department,
and the cost is charged to the local
school districts.
criticizes Drainage System.
Criticism of the present system OF
state drainage is included in recon.
mendations made by E. V. Willard.
state drainage engineer, in answer to
the request of the efficiency and econ.
omy commission. A suggestion is
made that all plans for future drain
age be based on sea level and filed
with the state commission in all cases.
"The present practice of embracing
small areas chosen in a haphazard
manner after being selected by a few
interested petitioners should be dis
couraged," says Mr. Willard, and
the requirements of the entire water
shed should be carefully studied be-
fore any operations are undertaken"
Disease Census Prepared.
A disease census of all school chill
dren in towns in Blue Earth and Koo-
chiching counties has been prepared
because of the prevalence Of scarlet
fever in Mankato, Carlton and Big
Falls, according to a report to the
state board Of health, prepared by
DR.. A. J. Chesley, head of the bureau
of preventable diseases.
Buttermakers Scored.
Eleven Minnesota buttermakera
scored more than 4 per cent on their
entries in the educational contest con-
Quoted by the state dairy and food
department for the month of Septem-
Der. Theodore Peterson Of Maple
Plain made the highest score in tho
whole milk and butter class.
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D>>A N>.~.>>> c.
G. w. Cooley, secretary and engi-
neer for the state highway commits
sion, has returned from Cedar Rapids.
where he has been attending the
Northwestern Good Roads congress.
as president. 1T was one of the most
successful road meetings ever held
in the Northwest" said Mr. Cooley.
There were seven states represented,
Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan.
Indiana, North Dakota and South Da~
kota. The place of the next meeting
will be decided by the directors soK4a
tiuao this winter.