The Tomahawk., 1916-12-14
STATE COMMISSIONER SAYS MIN
NEsoTA VARIETIES MAY BE
SERVED VERY cHEAPLY.
THIRD REGIMENT HOME AGAIN
Guarusmen Return From Llano Grande
In Two Sections-Mustering Out at
Fort Smelling is Expected to Oc-
cupy Several Days.
St. Paul.

housekecpers can materially reduce
the much talked-of high cost of living
by serving fish more frequently-sub.
shutting fish for more costly foods.
More than zoe car loads or nearly
100000 pounds of fish were shipped
from Minnesota last year principally
to New York City," he said. They
sold for 21k to 5 cents pound in cars
on tho tracks In towns near tho lakes.
which proves there is ample supply
that might be retailed in Minnesota
cities at very low prices if demand
was created. These fish make nourish.
ing food and palatable when properly
prepared for the table"
This brought the commissioner to
the reason the demand is not al great
as conditions should warrant.
I'm the first place." he continued,
unlike the rose that would smell as
sweet with any other name. some fish
would taste better IL served under
new names, as Uncle Sam demonstrate
I'd by changing the name OF the At.
lantic dog fish to gray fish and by
'For example, carp and buffalo fish
that make up the bulk of fish exports
from Minnesota, are In little demand
In the state. This Is because cooks
generally fry or bake fish for the table
and those varieties are coarser and
more oily than some others. But II
differently prepared both make nigh.
ly palatable dishes, as l have learned
by eating them. So housekeepers and
cooks must be educated both to realize
the economy and to cook tho cheaper
kinds of fish,
Third Regiment Returns.
Members of the Third infantry
Minnesota National Guard, will be
able to spend Christmas in their own
homes. This was the assertion OF Ad-
jutant General Fred B. Wood upon the
arrival of the guardsmen at Fort Shell
ing from Llano Grande, Texas. The
first section reached the fort just q
short while before the second.
The battalion, comprising 267 men
and ten officers, was in the first Sec
ton commanded by Major Mattson.
The second section, carrying go
men and thirty-nine officers, was COM
manded by Colonel Eva.
1t Is expected the mastering out
will occupy several days.
Although no formal reception was
given the men on their arrival scores
Of relatives greeted them at the fort.
The members of the Third infantry
are from Duluth, Anoka, Zumbroto.
Eveleth, Princeton, Olivia, Crookstor.
Saltwater, Red Wing, Hibbng and
Rochester.
Good Roads Aid Schools.
The good roads movement in Min'
nesota is indissolubly linked with the
proposition for county and township
consolidated schools, George w. Cooley
Of the State Highway commission
states. A survey made by the office
of public roads of the department OF
agriculture shows not only develop
mert Of county industries and improve
ment of social intercourse, but con.
solidation of little one-room schools
into graded schools following road
improvement in various counties.
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Profits BY High Price~
High prices for commodities will
aid tho state treasury. About 30,0O0,-
900 feet Of timber, principally pulp
wood, ties and poles, on scattered
tracts is to be offered for sale and
officials Of the state timber board ex-
poet big prices because market quo
tatiors are nearly double those of q
year ago when 100000 feet wore
sold.
Can Order Rail Station.
The state railroad and warehouse
commission has power to determine
whether station maintained by rail
way company is suitable and to order
a new station built when it deems it
necessary. the state supreme court
ruled in deciding in favor of the village
of Ada that towns controversy with
tho Great Northern road.
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Fixes Dates For Sales.
The State Timber Board held meet
ing at the State Capitol to fix dates
early in January for sales of state tim
Ter in Lake, Cook, st. Louis Itasca,
Koochiching Beltrami and Clearwater
counties.
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Society Favors Civil Service.
Tho natural resources of Minnesota
;houid be managed by systematized
cdy under civil service according to
ne reclamation drainage and food
'Cmmittee Of the All-MiDnesota De-
cio2nent association. The committee
) mailing a letter ITO business men.
commercial organizations, land dealers
nd railroad developers throughout
10 etate aeffiu1 forth conditions as