The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-06-13
Pine Disease Warning Sent. Out to
Protect Public by state-Imported
Nursery Stock Considered
Suspicious.

duction," Mr.. Wilson said. 'What
we intend doing Is to urge the use OF
corn meal in place of white -four, cut
meat consumption 10 pounds per cap
tia annually and try to abolish the
manufacture Of liquors in which grain
is used. The substitution of corr
meal for flour will not be undertaken
unless great economy becomes abso
lutely necessary, but if the need
should arise we could save $50, 000, 00Q
bushels of wheat for export through
this single change. The substitution
would not be disagreeable one."
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To Keep Out Pine Blister Rust.
To keep out the white pine blister
rust which, If it should get into Min.
nesota, would ruin the white pine in,
dustry in this state, F. L. Washburn,
state entomologist, is urging residents
not to import white or other five.
leafed pines.
His appeal is based on the fact that
white pines and evergreens are being
shipped in from Illinois. While at
present the nursery from which these
shipments have been made is sup.
posed to be free from rust, shipments
from 1908-1909 are believed to have
been the source Of infection around
st. Croix Falls, Wis.,, and across the
st. Crotx river in Minnesota. The
state entomologist has power to de.
stroy suspicious stock within a. radius
Of half mile of paintings or nurseries
containing such stock.
A quarantine recently was estab.
lished against Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Wisconsin.
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Sanitary Corps for Army Camps.
Creation of a state sanitary corps
to safeguard the moral and physi-
cal welfare Of men in Minnesota mill.
tary camps have been recommended
by DR.. H. M. Bracken, executive off.
GER Of the State Board of Health, to
Governor BurnQuist and it probably
will be referred to the State Public
Safety Commission for early action
DR.. Bracken's suggestion is in line
with that made by Secretary of War
Baker in letter to governors of all
the states, calling for cooperation.
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Ruling on School Appropriations.
The school appropriations made by
the 1917 Legislature can be used fol
meeting any school obligations in
CURED to that time. This is the opin
lon of Attorney General Lyndon A
Smith, expressed in a letter to Gov
ernor Burnquist, who, in vetoing q
portion of the school aid appropria
tons bill several weeks ago, declared
it was not clear to him whether school
funds could be used for meeting prior
moral obligations'
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Urges Coal Relief Measures.
A telegram urging that "extraordi
nary measures" be adopted immedi
ately to avert a threatened fuel short,
age in the Northwest by insuring an
adequate supply of bituminous coal
moving to Lake Erie for the head OF
Lake Superior has been sent Presf
dent Wilson by Governor Burnquist
following a conference between the
governor and prominent coal dock men
of Duluth.
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State Seal Butter to Be Worth More,
Betterments of market conditions to
increase the value of the official state
brand of butter were planned at con.
ference between Commissioner J. J.
Farrell of the State Dairy and Food
department and the managers and
butter makers of 10 Minnesota cream.
cries using the brand.
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Avery Announces New Reserve.
Commissioner Carlos Avery has an.
nounced the establishment of the first
new game refuge this year by the
state game and fish department, in
the prairie chicken country south of
Little Falls. It covers about Is Sec
lions between the Mississippi and
Platte rivers.
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State to Inspect "Movie" Theaters,
The Office force of the state fire mar
shall has begun the task of putting into
operation the law passed by the last
legislature providing for state super
vision OF all motion picture theaters.
Blanks are being sent to proprietors
OF all such places Of amusement to be
filled out and returned. The blanks
provide for specific details, especially
as regards seating accommodations
exits, fire hazards, and provisions
made to prevent fires or explosions
Return of the forms will be FOLLOWED
by inspection. @ -