The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-01-13
FOR PREvE:N n / TON =. ...
OF SCHOOL FIRES
STATE FIRE MARSHAL iSSUEo
PAMPHLET CONTAINING EX-
HAUSTlvE SET OF RULRo.
EVENTS AT STATE CAPITOL
Interesting and Important Happenings
Of the Past Few Days Selected
and Arranged for tho Conve7.
fence Of Busy Readers.

seHCe OF ouSy HeaoerS.
St. Paul
Prompted by the number of fires in
schoolhouses in Minnesota in the last
two years, Robert w. Hargardine,
state fire marshal, has issued in PAM
phlet form an exhaustive set of rules
for fire prevention and for fire drills
for the guidance of school boards,
principals and teachers" For fire
prevention he suggests adequate
means of signaling, fireproof STAIR
ways, plenty of easy exists opening
outward, freproof boilerrooms in de-
tached buildings wherever possible,
extreme care in the storage of sup
plies, secured seats in auditoriums,
fireproof fuel rooms, chutes and
shafts There are 60 suggestions un-
der this heading
IN the matter of fire signals, drills
and apparatus the fire marshal says
there should be a drill at least every
two weeks under varying conditions
to meet possible emergencies. Jani-
tors and attendants, he says, should
be assigned specific duties, and cards
of instruction should be posted TO.
employees, teachers and pupils.
loss @: life in crowded buildings"
says the fire marshal, almost invari.
ably comes from lack of control. Run.
ming, especially on the stairs, in
creases liability to falls and to i'm
pairments Of a teachers command Of
the Glass;
Specia! provisions should be made,
the marshal says, for inspection Of
each floor to see that no persons ara
left in the building and to care TO.
children physically incapacitated. It
is urged that no inflammable scrap
be allowed to accumulate.
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Quack Grass is Worst Pest.
Quack grass, declared Minnesota's
most serious weed pest, is the subject
of bulletin just issued by the uns-
versity's agricultural experiment Sta
ton in which the menace of quack
grass and methods of eradication arc
considered.
This weed is said to be a more or
less serious pest throughout tho
Northwest. I'm Southern and Central
Minnesota" the bulletin states, "quach
grass has esta blished itself so thor.
oughly that in some instances farms
have been abandoned to it. In North,
ern Minnesota it is already 80 widely
distributed that time only is needed
to make the occupation of waste
places and poorly cultivated fields CONF
plete. The heavy black soil of the
Red River valley is ideal for the
growth of Guack grass, and the all.
grain systems of farming, still too
prevalent there, make prevention OF
spread difficult and eradication almost
impossible after the weed is once we'll
established. Every effort should ba
made to prevent it's spread in tho
state and to keep it out or uninfeat-
ed territory. In order to do this it il
necessary to know both the plant
and it's seed. for upon such knowl.
edge methods of eradication ara
based
X X X
Appoints Board Members.
Governor Hammond has announced
six appointments on as many state
boards, all to be effective at once. Ali
of the selections are reappointments
and are for fve-year terms. Those
named are: State Board of Electricity,
A. w. Lindgren, Duluth. Board of
Directors of the Minnesota Schools
for the Deaf and Blind, R. H. Dart.
Litchfield. State Live Stock Sanitary
board, DR.. c. E. Cotton, Minneapolis.
State Board Of Osteopathy, DR.. Arthur
| Taylor, Northfield. Advisory commits.
sion of the State Sanitorium for Con.
sumptives, DIR. c. F. McComb, Duluth.
State veterinary examining board. l.,
Hay, Mortified.
X X X
! Represents ~" at Congress.
DR.. Scion J. Buck, secretary of tho
Minnesota Historical society, will rem.
resent Minnesota at the annual meet.
ing of the American Historical asso.
citation in Washington this week. DR..
Buck also will attend the sessions OF
the Pan-American congress as delegats
from the University of Minnesota.
X X X
Explains Rise in Death Rate,
Gradual rise in the death rate in
Minnesota the last three years. Al
reported by the census bureau. is at.
tributable to the fact that the popula.
ton of the state is becoming more
stable, less affected by influx of youna
persons from other states and conn.
tries, according to Dr. H. M. Bracken.
secretary of the State Board al
Health.
X X K
Funds for Farm Societies.
State Auditor Preus has started thu
distribution of $4,000 to the county
agricultural societies in the state. Thi,
amount was appropriated by the last
legislature and is $4,000 less than wa,
appropriated two years ago. In ell. 81
societies will participate with a limit