The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-16
PROGRAM INCLUDES lNSTREC.
TON AND AMUSEMENT-TO
BE HELD APRIL ~,
STATE CAPITOL HAPPENINGS
sofa Condensed and Revised for
The Greater Convenience
OF Busy Readers.

luSS.
Ten series of talks and demonstra.
tons will be given in the mornings
and each boy may select four of these.
The girls will take three subjects, one
each in breeds of cattle and bee.
keeping; foods, cooking and garment
making; gardening and poultry.
In the afternoons places of interest
around the Twin Cities will be visited.
Trips will be made to the State Capt.
toll, the Soldiers Home, the Walker
Art Gallery, the prison at Saltwater,
Minnehtha, the South st. Paul Stock
Yards and the Russell-Miller Milling
Company's Mills.
The Toys and girls will board on the
agricultural college campus. Board
and room for the week will cost So.
An additional expense of 81 for street
care fare is all that is necessary.
Many students in short agricultural
courses are making Boys and Girls
Week a commencement week for their
course this year. 1t is recommended
by many high school principals as
fitting close to the winters session in
agricultural courses. Other schools
are giving credit for work done at
University Farm during the week.
X X K
Auto nds To Go To Roads.
Beginning August 1 next, all moneys
collected by the state automobile re-
sistration department for the year
ending with that date will be available
for state road and bridge purposes. A
ruling to this effect has just been
made By Attorney General Smith. De-
auctions are to be made for expenses
Incurred by the department, which is
in charge of the secretary Of state. Mr..
schmah! said that he thought the earn
lngs OF his department by next August
would be between 100000 and $780,
600. Beginning January 1, 1917, the
cost OF automobile licenses will be in
creased to SIS each and the revenue in
consequence will be many times great
er.
Automobile registration in Mime
sofa is more than $4,000. Tags have
been ordered with numbers running
to the 100000 mark, and Mr.Schmahl
expects that the figure will be reached
in a few weeks. Numerous requests
have already been made for license
No. 100000 and requests are also in
for license No. $1,000.
X X X
Reports High Fire Loss Ratio.
Minnesota citizens paid for fire in
surancc in 1915 the sum of S8324.-
5000. The companies in the same
period paid them $4,908, 101.34, the lat
ter figure representing the aggregate
OF adjusted losses. The figures are in
an official statement by Samuel D.
Works, state insurance companies
which collected $7,64S,0O0 in premiums
and paid out $4,529,00O, which repre-
sents fire loss ratio of 59.2 per cent,
the highest since 1911, when the loss
ratio was 81 per cent.
Mr.. Works said there had been a
reduction in cost of insurance, which
ne hoped would be further reduced
the coming year as the result of his
order placing rates in the state on a
basis. The average premium rate in
1915 was $1.25 a 500 of insurance,
compared with $1.30 in 1914.
X X X
Certifies School Allotment,
g. e. Schulz, state superintendent Of
education, has certified to the state
auditor the March apportionment of
the current school fund, amounting to
$S85,962.70 and derived from the / mill
state tax and partly from the interest
on the permanent school fund. The
average total enrolment of the state
schools is 421,887, and the March dis
trlbut1on allows the districts $21O for
each pupil, compared with 1855 allow
ed in the April apportionment. Hen
nepin county, with 54,4S6 pupils, leads
with an allotment of $114,420; st.
Louis county, with 34,O28, will get ST.
1885, and Ramsey county, with 30,621
pupils, receives $64,304.
X X X
Smith Receives Complaints.
Many complaints alleging violations
OF the liquor laws are being received
by Attorney General Lyndon A. Smith,
who says that it will require his en-
tire staff to follow them up. II am
writing in answer to all complaints"
said Mr.. Smith, that I am willing to
give assistance"
X X X
May Raise ~" Fees.
It's going to cost a student $40 more
yearly to do work in the university's
academic college if the Board of Re-
gents authorizes an increase in fees.
Heavy increase in enrolment out of
proportion to the increase in size of
the teaching body has led to fee rails
in project. The amount suggested is
SIS each semester which, for a total of
about 1000 students, would bring in
about $4,000 year. Dean Johnston
of the college has prepared a state.
ment of the situation in justification
Of the proposed fee raising.