The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-30
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EDUCATORS At U.
MINNESOTA SUPERINTENDENT
AND PRINCIPALS TO ATTEND
MEETING APRIL 10 TO e.
STATE. CAPITOL HAPPENINGS
events OF General Interest in Mime
sofa Condemned and Revised 70,
- the Greater Conveniencs
OF Busy Readers.


st: Paul.
F. H. Swift, dean of the college Of
education, University of Minnesota.
mas announced the third annual short
course for: Minnesota school superin-
tendents and principals will be given
at the university during the Easter re.
cess, April 10 to. %. Two prominent
American educators, Professor w. G.
Bagley, director of the school Of edu-
cation OF the University of Illinois, and
Professor E. P. Cubberley Of Leland
Stanford university will deliver lec-
lures. The time selected for the short
course coinsides with that of the annual
conferences of the superintendent
section Of the Minnesota Educational
association. The superintendents and
principals conferences will take place
Thursday and Friday afternoon, April
~ and Il. The superintendent and
principals annual dinner will be on Fri
day evening, April 81, at the Elks' club.
There will be several other educa-
tional conferences at this time. includ-
ing the Minnesota psychological con-
ference, the school library conference,
and the conference of English and COM
mercial high school teachers.
The annual meeting of the college of
education alumni will take place Tnurs-
day evening, April 20, at o'clock.
Tae committee in charge of arrange.
ments for the short courses includes:
State Superintendent C. G.. Schulz.
Dean L. D. Coffman of the college of
education; w. c. Cobb, president of
the superintendent section of the
Minnesota Educational association; E.
M. Phillips, state high school inspec-
tor. and Professor F. H. Swift.
Is Mecca Of Home-seekers.
Minnesota is the mecca of the i'm
migrant, according to figures given
out by Fred Sherman, immigration
commissioner. The state retained
more than half of the 461 cars of i'm
migrant movables handled at the Min
nesota Transfer during February.
Other states in the Northwest re-
ceived 23O of the carloads of household
goods and other belongings of the
seekers for new homes.
D.: North Dakota was Minnesota's near
est competitor, with So cars, Montana
received q, Canada rs, and other
states in tho Northwest the remainder.
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Land Sales Bring $4,000.
Showing the heavy demand for state
land, State Auditor Preus has DISPOSED
OF nearly 10000 acres in a number of
northern Minnesota counties. The to-
tai amount realized for the state school
fund from the sales held was approxi-
mately $4,000. At International Falls
where the hrst of the sales was held,
1885 acres were sold for $25,733. The
second held at Duluth aided in the dis
posal OF $500 acres at $62,97O, and the
third held at Aitkin saw 440 acres tur-
ned over to settlers for $3,040.
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Pass Bar Examinations.
Names of twenty-three new LAWYERS
who have passed their bar examina-
tions have been recommended to the
supreme court by Eli Southworth. of
Malkato, secretary of the State board
OF Law Examiners. One woman was
on the list. The successful candidates
now may take their oaths of office.
which must be filed in the sunreme
court.
Statewide Cleanup Day.
A statewide cleanup and fre-pre-
cention day probably will be observed
In Minnesota April 1 this year. Gov.
ernor Burnquist and r. w. Hargadine
state fire marshal, conferred, relative
to fixing date when all citizens will!
be urged to clean out their attics and
Easements and remove the rubbish
from their yards.
Drains Unsold State Land.
The state drainage board has let {.
contract for completion of the Sand
Hill ditch project in Polk county, for
which SIS, 600 was appropriated by the
last legislature. The work includes {.
ditch, the road alongside, and four
steel bridges over the ditch, which
drains considerable amount of I'm,
sold state land.
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To Enlarge Reformatory.
Members of the board Of control re-
ported after visit to the St. Cloud
reformatory, that crowded conditions
in the institution would be relieved
in six months when cell house D is
completed. There are $50 inmates in
the reformatory. The new cell house
will accommodate about 200 persons.
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Alleges Risk Law Violation.
For the FIRST time the statute pro-
hibiting Minnesotans from being it,
sured In companies that are not licen~
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