The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1916-12-06
SEVENTH ANNUAL
MEETING OF N. N.
D. A. TO OPEN IN
CITY THURSDAY
Three Hundred Delegates From 10
Counties in Northern Part of
State Expected.
GOOD ROADS AND AMENDMENT
NUMBER ONE TO BE DISCUSSED
Organization May Be Merged With
An-Minnesota Development
Association.

| With development as their theme,
more than 250 delegates to the
Northern Minnesota Development as
sociation will open the seventh an
nual meeting of the association in
Bemidji Thursday morning at ten
o'clock.
The delegates will be from 10
counties in Northern Minnesota. A
number of state developers and others
! interested in the associations work
| will also attend.
The principal subjects to be taken
| up at the meeting will be "Good
Roads, and @Legislation for Amend
! ment No. T. and the meeting bids
fair to be the most momentous since
the forming of the association.
The association meetings will be
adjourned Friday. On Saturday will
be held farmers institute and
meeting of farm clubs at which q
county federation of farm clubs will
be formed.
In connection with the association
meeting will be held the Northern
Minnesota Potato show, for which
valuable premiums. The annual Bel
trami County Poultry and Crop show
will also be held. The crop and
potato show exhibits are being re-
ceived today at the rooms above the
Battles Hardware store where the ex-
hibits will be held
G. R. Middleton of Baudette, presi-
dent of the development association,
and George D. Mccarthy of Duluth,
secretary of the association, arrived
in Bemidji this morning and COM
pleted plans for the meeting.
''Indications are that we will have
a very large meeting" said Mr.. Nc
Carthy. II believe that the associa-
tion will accomplish much good at
the meeting here.'
Among the other developers who
arrived today are Otto I. Bergh of
Grand Rapids, chairman of the agri-
cultural committee, A. B. Hostetter
of Duluth, E. A. Colquhoun of Brain
erd and T. A. Erickson Of St. Paul.
A meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the association will be held
tonight.
Rumors were circulated today that
Secretary Mccarthy stated that there
had been talk of such action and that
the matter would probably be taken
up by the executive committee to-
night. He stated that he did not be-
lieve the association would be disor-
ganized at this time.
Several delegates favor the merg-
ing of the Northern Minnesota De-
velopment association and the ALL
Minnesota Development association.
One of the most important mat
ters to be taken up by the association
today is the report of Senator P. H.
McGarry of the Amendment No. 1
campaign committee. This amend
ment was one of two which was
adopted at the last election.
The amendment provides that the
legislature may set aside quarter
of million dollarsi out of the state
school fund for the purpose of i'm
proving the state lands. Under the
amendment the state might improve
three, four or five acres on each forty,
80 or 160-acre tract, making it pos
sible for the home-maker to get re-
turns from his lands forthwith.
The development association must
see that the next legislature makes
the appropriation necessary and that
the plan is placed in operation at
earliest possible date.
Another matter of great import
ance to be taken up by the delegates
is the question of good roads.
The part the federal government
has assumed in the development of
good roads will be taken up by E.
o. Hathaway of the office of public
roads at Washington. Mr.. Hathaway
is the engineer who is in charge of
the federal district in which Mime
sofa is located. The relation of the
Shackleford-Bankhead bill appropria-
tion federal funds for aid in build
ing highways as to road development
in Minnesota is matter of current
interest and Mr.. Hathaway is ex-
pected to go into that subject. ~
Senator r. G. Dunn of Princeton
and Senator J. H. Baldwin of Frazee
will also discuss the question of good
roads,
Other important questions will be
taken up at the meetings.
The program for tomorrow is as
follows:
10 a. Call to order, President
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