The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-02-24
STATE FUNDS FOR
MINNESOTA ROADS
HIGHWAY COMMISSION TO MEET
MARCH z, TO MAKE ALLOT-
MENT-$1, 100000 AVAILABLE.
EVENTS AT STATE CAPITOL
Interesting and Important happenings
Of the Past Few Days Select
and Arranged for the Converr
lenco Of Busy Readers.
St. Paul

st. Paul
The allotment of the state
road and bridge fund, amounting
to about $1,50o,0oO, to the counties Of
the state, will be made by the State
Highway Commission at meeting
March Z. According to the state law
every county must have allotted to it
at least per cent of the fund and tho
maximum allotment for any one coun-
ty is g per cent. Since the three larg-
est counties contribute about so per
cent of the fund it is usual to allot
nearly the maximum to Ramsey, Hen
nepin and St. Louis counties and some
of the others which contribute much
more than per cent, generally get
back what they pay in.
If this custom is followed this year
the commission will not have more
than 4 or at most s per cent of the
fund to distribute along the other
counties of the state over and above
the minimum.
A preliminary meeting Of the high.
way commission was held in the Shu.
bert building to consider the applica-
lions of some counties for special al.
lotments.
Rural Youth Ambitious.
| Minnesota is the home of small high
schools. OF 221 schools in the state
recognized by the state department OF
education as "high," 118 have enroll
ments of less than 100 21 have fewer
than SO students each enrolled and one,
the smallest star in the high school
constellation, at the little village OF
Welcome, has q pupils. But small
as the great majority Of the high schools
may be, a large part of their pupils
come from the outlying rural sections
In fact there are many such institu.
| tons where less than hale the young
people turned over to the high school
teachers are home products, the 9th
ers hailing from the country.
This may indicate that the love OF
knowledge, the ambition to obtain an
education is keener in the rural youth
than in his urban cousins. DR.. G.. G.
Schulz, superintendent of education
believes that the country boys and
girls prize school facilities more high.
~ than city children, but he . not
prepared to submit his figures on en-
rollment as proof of his belief.
He thinks, however, there is great
Significance in the fact that among the
1880 students enrolled in high schools
for the school year 1914-15, 6,G27 were
nonresident pupils. More than one.
seventh, almost II per cent, were out
siders.
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Would Unity State Duties.
Definite plans for the consolidation
of correlated state departments have
been presented to the state economy
and efficiency commission by Samuel
G. Iverson, former state auditoA lie
said he offered no new system Of gov.
eminent but simply practical plan
Of unifying and co-ordinating allied
state duties and eliminating overhead
charges without disturbing methods or
upsetting the general routine. The
suggestion or plan was prepared by
him at the request CT the com omission,
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OrderS JOINT 'Pfo1e Lines.
The railroad and warehouse commits.
! sion has issued instructions to the
Northwestern Telephone company to
make connections with toll lines Of
| the Tri-State company at Cwatonna,
Mimi, within 20 days or show cause
why it should not do SO. The order is
the first under the Minette telephone
;~;, ,,,ifl ~,
| lines under certain conditions. The
| order was made at the request of the
! city of OWatonna.
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| 200 File For Delegates. ....
Tho rush on the Office Of Julius A,
Schmahl, secretary Of state of those
| who desired to file for delegates tc
| the national convention resulted in the
totals reaching the 200 mark Former
| Governor S. II. Van SAINT filed as g
| Cunmins delegate-at-large and A. D.
| STEPHENS, Crcokston, member OF the
! immigration commission, filed for Cum,
| Minis.
CarelessneSs GAUGES Fircs.
Minnesota property valued at $4,722,.
925 was destroyed by fire during 1915.
Robert w Hagardine, state fire mar
| shall has announced in an appeal sent
| to the newspapers Of the state to aid in
| Il campaign for greater care in the use
of combuseible materials. Three
fourths of this loss is attributed to
, carelessness, Mr.. Hagardine said.
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Ten Railroads Reduce TARIFF.
Ten railroads affected by the com
| mon rate point order o. the Railroad
and Warehouse Commission have filed
their new reduced tariffs. Reductions
on the different classes OF freight If.
fectsd by the order are from 2 cents
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