Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1916-02-03
STUDY BEST PLANS
REORGANIZATION
MEMBERS OF EFFICIENCY AND
ECONOMY COMMISSION SPEND
FEW DAYS At HOMES.
EVENTS At STATE CAPITOL
Interesting and important Happenings
OF the Past Few Days Selected
and Arranged for the conven.
fence OF Busy Readers.

st. Paul.
With 4 mass Of information be-
fore them members Of the Efficiency
and Economy Commission are spend
| ing a few days at their homes study
| ing the best plans Of recognizing
the civil government of Minnesota.
Representative Charles A. Lindbergh
will be asked to appear before the
| board
Two things which the commission
| Is likely to recommend to the 1917
| legislature stand out as having .
greater chance of being adopted than
the other suggestions. At the hear
| ings great interest was evinced in
| the suggestion by J. A. o. Preus,
| state auditor, that the administration
OF lands, minerals and timber be Ia
ken from the direction of the auditor
and placed In a separate department.
The other point which stands out
Is the inspection work being done by
various state departments. They
seemed to feel that there is pos
sibility OF coupling up the various in
spection services into one depart
ment.
Book en- States Rural Life.
Fred ID. Sherman, state immigra-
ton commissioner, has completed q
| quartet Of books devoted to Mime
sofa agricultural life, which members
of the state immigration board believe
will go far toward bringing settlers
here.
The state is divided by Mr.. Sher-
man into four districts, southern, cen.
trail, northwestern and northeastern,
The book Is profusely illustrated.
| Northeastern Minnesota Is devoted
to the great "cut over country where
lands are cheap and where common
sense and hard work. accompanied by
very small capital, spell ultimate sue
cess. The book takes in everything
from western Beltrami county across
the state to Lake Superior and from
central Pine county to the Canadian
| line.
Northwestern Minnesota deals with
the great Red river valley prairie
country from central Clay county
northward to the Canadian line.
Southern Minnesota Is defined az all
that portion OF the state lying to the
south Of an imaginary line drawn
through st. Paul west to Big Stone
county. In that book Mr.. Sherman
tells in picture and word of the high
| ly developed corn belt Central Min.
nesota takes in that territory.
Zach book contains GA pages and IL
III several colors. About 10000 of
each win be distributed through that
territory from which Minnesota draws
the most OF her new citizens of the
| soil
For Highway Route.
The monthly meeting of the Min.
nesota Highway Commission promised
to be alive with suggestions as to
the proper route for the jefferson
memorial highway through the state
The portion Of the route from the
Iowa boundary through Owatonna,
Mortified and Pennington to st. Paul
Is pretty we'll settled and no one
appears to have any objections to il
but with regard to the remainder of
the route, State Engineer G. w, Coo,
ley has had twenty-five letters oh
1ectlng to the route to Bemidji from
Minneapolis.
The route of the highway from Re-
midi to st. Vincent Is far from bsinp
settled. 1t may be referred to tn,
engineers department for further in
formation.
The route favored by the commits
sion from Minneapolis to Remidi
passes through Anoka, st. Cloud. Lit
tie Falls, Staples. Wadena, Park Ran
ids and Itasca Park to Bemidh.
Smith to Announce Soon.
Acknowledgement Smith, who 1. q,
vacation trip in the South, has an
nounced that on his return he wi,
make known what state office he wi,
seek In the next election. He init
mated before his departure that hi
1 " III iN CilAGf HIS present nHsi
ton or place on the supreme bench
In state capitol circles he is exneets,
to so after his present Job.
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Fee Basic For Rail- Body.
Before II makes its final repor+ n
Efficiency and Economy Commissio,
VIII consider the ACCESSIBILITY Of Mac
ing the Railroad and Warehouse Com
mission on fee basis of support an
do away with legislative appropris
tons.
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Wants interstate Bridge.
The Minnesota State Highway cou
mission will take up at its meeting !,
February proposition just receive
from Hugh Jeffries of the Wiseonsi
highway commission to build anotha
interstate bridge across the st. croi
river from Danbury, Wis.,, into Pin
county, Minnesota.
The road that the bridge woul