The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-05-09

GALL TO MORE REGIMENTS MAY
FOLLOW CONFERENCE ON
TRANSPORTATION.
FARMERS NEED IMAM POWER
Food Committee Calls on Minnesotans
to Help Solve Problems
for Acreage Increase Made to
Corn Planters.
St. Paul.;


St. Paul.
A call to the colors, perhaps, to-
put the flag on the fighting front,
was reported an early probability for
the Second and Third Minnesota regi-
ments when Major Harry L. Brady
called operating officials of Northwest
ern railroads into conference at the
Capitol to arrange schedules for trans,
portation of troops.
Major Brady, in charge of troop
transportation as United States prop
erty and disbursing officer, admitted
that the War department has directed
Immediate preparation Of such sched-
ules but declined to give any further
information, believing it would be con-
trary to public policy.
The conference was to forward
schedules to central headquarters at
Chicago and early mobilization calls
for the Second and Third infantry are
expected.
The meeting to arrange for actual
railroad movements of troops and the
fact that most companies already are
recruited to the maximum, was re-
garded as an Indication that the regi-
ments will be sent soon to Fort Shell
ing and perhaps prepared without de-
lay to go to the fighting front.
X X X
Men Needed on Farms.
The present food shortage is due
not to inefficiency on the farm but to
the fact that there are not enough
people on the land to feed all of the
rest Of the people, says A. D. Wilson,
chairman of the state committee on
food production and conservation, and
the man-shortage is caused in part by
war conditions and in part by the
preferences Of people for the shorter
hours of labor in town.
It is believed that bankers, mer-
chants and others in farming trade
centers should in periods of labor
stress on the farms go out and take
hand with the farmers. This will
not only help to solve the present
labor problem, but it will help to bind
town and country into closer union
for their permanent good.
The crop production committee Of
the state committee is making a final
appeal to the farmers of the corn belt
to plant the largest possible acreage
of corn as means of offsetting the
shortage in the wheat of the winter
wheat states.
X X X
Grain Department Chief Resigns.
H. E. Emerson, chief of the Mime
sofa grain department, retired from
the office May after serving &c years
and after passing every grade from
helper to the chief Office. He will be
succeeded by G.. H. Tunell, who has
been in the grain department since
1889, being appointed from Albert Lea
in that year. Richard Gibbs is pro-
noted to be chief deputy inspector at
Minneapolis after thirty-two years in
the service.
To Hold Recruits Positions Open.
The Minnesota Railroad and Ware
house Commission by formal resolu-
ton has pledged that body to retain
the places of any of it's employees who
are enlisted for military purposes dur
ing the war. Several of them already
have Joined the colors without any as
surance that their positions would be
restored to them on their return and
it was to show their appreciation for
such action and to assure others in
the department who have desired to
enlist that their places will be pro-
tected, that the commission made their
position a matter of formal record.
X X X
Relatives to Care for Insane.
Inquiry to determine how many Of
more than 5000 patients in Mime
sofa institutions for the insane are
financially responsible or have rela-
tives able to pay for their care and
treatment by the state has been or
dered by the state board of control.
X X X
Pine Quarantine Declared.
, An absolute quarantine against ship
ment into Minnesota Of five leaf pine
nursery stock from states where white
pine blister rust is prevalent has been
declared by F. L: Washburn, state en-
tomologist.
X X X
XIII No Spawning Fish, Plea.
A plea to the public to not kill fish
during the spawning season has been
made by the executive committee OF
the state food conservation committee
X X X
Border Service Pay Ready.
Guardsmen who served on the Mexi
can border last summer will receive
their additional state pay Of so cents
day as soon as payrolls now in the
hands Of the printers have been
checked up and signed, it has been
announced. How soon the men actual
ly will receive this money, which