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The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
All. YEAR SCHOOL
URGED BY SCHULZ
SUMNER VACATION SHOULD BE
SHORTENED SUPERlNTEN-
DANT BELIEVES.
POWER FOR COUNTY BOARDS
Reorganization Of Minnesota's CON-
mon Schools, Provision For State
Mileage Tax and More Equit-
able Distribution Asked.

st. Paul.-Increase of the legal mini
mum school term from six to eight
months and removal of the legal maxi
mum restriction of ten months is
recommended in the biennial report of
=. &. Schulz, state superintendent of
education, soon to go to the governor.
1t gives favorable mention to the "all
year" school.
There is growing sentiment that
the traditional summer vacation should
be shortened by intermittent vacations
of less length and that schools should
be free to continue in session through
out the entire year.
Dozen Recommendations.
mot only should the six months
minimum term be increased to eight
months, but attendance of pupils for
sharing in the state apportionment
fund should be fixed at 100 days in
stead of 40, as it now isl
Increasing the school term is only
one of dozen recommendation in
the report for legislation this year.
On issuance of teachers certificates,
for instance, Mr.. Schulz proposes exist
ing laws be repealed and power to fix
and adjust standards for training and
licensing teachers be left with a GEN.
trail state authority
Favors County Boards.
Other recommendations include:
Creation of county boards of educa-
ton, which should aDDOint county Sill
perintendents; authorize county SUI
perintendents to appoint rural school
supervisors, their salaries to be paid
by the state; provision for a state
mileage tax to replace the specific ap-
preparations as state aid for public
schools, and provision that no school
district shall receive aid for it's schools
unless the district tax levy for school
maintenance exceeds mills.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
BURTON CHOSEN HEA!). 81.
" OF STATE UNIVERSITY
Former Minnesotan, Now President Of
Smith College, Is Unanimous
Choice of Board Of Regents.

Minneapolis, Mimi A former Min.
neapolitan, graduate of Carleton col
lege and now president of a girls
school will succeed George Edgar Vim.
cent as president of the University of
Minnesota. He is Marion Leroy Bur.
ton, president of Smith college, North.
ampton, Mass. He is 43 years old.
DR.. Burton has been elected by unan-
lmous vote of the. board of regents.
His name was the only one submitted
by the committee authorized by the
board TO seek a president. The com.
m1ttee consisted OF Fred B. Snyder
president of the board, Pierce Butler
of st. Paul and G. w. Glotfelter of
Waterville. All three are said to have
conferred with DR.. Burton recently.
1t is expected that the president.
elect will assume his duties here about
July 1.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
Discuss Governors Proposals.

oO1uoLuluS ike cO1SCefudIlOu, IL uOt
heart failure, attended the discussion by
the university regents of the proposals
by the governor for reductions in the
university requests for legislative ap-
preparations. 1t was decided to pres
ent to the finance committee of both
houses the budget as agreed upon and
urge that the cuts suggested by the
governor be not made.
Would Hinder Extension.
In the maintenance item, including
salaries, the governor proposes a cut of
$4,000 yearly for the two years for
which funds will be asked. President
Vincent explained that if this proposal
became effective it would mean either
that salaries of faculty members and
others could not be raised, as had been
purposed, or that needed additions
could not be made to the faculty to
relieve present student congestion.
Even if salaries were left at their pre-
sent level, he said, the funds available
after the BurnQuist cut would permit
of adding only a few extra men to the
staff
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
Preus Opposes Public Domain.

Opposition to the legislative meas
ure which proposes to create com.
mission of public domain was voiced
by J. A. O. Preus, state auditor, speak.
ing at meeting of the Northwest de-
velopment committee of the Civic &
Commerce association
Mr.. Preus AYERS that there are Ger.
tain duties which cannot constitution.
ally be taken away from the state au.
ditor. He further decries the creation
OF public domain commission because
he fears the present bill would concen.
trate too much power in the director
OF the commission and would not pro.
vide system of keeping check on his
activities.
He criticized the present form of the
bill for ignoring the civil service meth
cd of appointment. He said the com
mission could become a powerful poll
teal machine if the Offices on the com
mission were made appointive.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
$1,000 Miners a,e !, W, w.

There are between $4,000 and $4,000
members of the minefs' branch of the
|. w. w. in Northern Minnesota. This
was perhaps the most surprising state
ment made to the members of the
House labor committee at a public
hearing held on labor conditions in
the northern part of the state.
1t was the second of a series of
hearings on the bill, passed by the
Senate, appropriating 100000 for use
by the Governor in suppressing disor-
der in the lumber camps.
l. w. w. members testimony has
occupied the attention of the committee
thus far R. L. Buck and James Soren-
son told of being hired in St. Paul
early in January as lumber camp gun
mems and for working as such in
camps. They declared that Jo7eph Nc.
Andrews, Koochiching county deputy
sheriff. armed and paid them.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
ANY CORN LIFTS OUT,
DOESN'T HURT A BIT!
No fooIishness! Lift your corns
and cailuses off with fingers
It's like magic!

Sore corns, hard corns. soft corns or
any kind of a corn, can harmlessly be
lifted right out with the fingers if you
apply upon the corn a few drops of
freezone, says Cincinnati authority,
For little cost one can get small
bottle Of freezone at any drug store,
which will positively rid ones feet of
every corn or callus without pain.
This simple drug dries the moment
it is applied and does not even irri-
tate the surrounding skin while ap-
plying it or afterwards.
This announcement will interest
many Of our readers. If your druggist
hasn't any freezone tell him to surely
get small bottle for you from his
wholesale drug house.-adv.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
TOWN SPREAD TOO FAR:
is WIPED OUT BY ORDER
FL Rose obIiterated by Stroke of Pen
Action by Acknowledgement and
Dissatisfied Residents.

st. Cloud.-The village of Ell Rose
has been obliterated by stroke of the
pen. Judge Roeser in district court
signed an order dissolving the village
recently incorporated, and declaring
the village officers jobless The action
was brought on behalf of the attorney
general and residents opposed to the
incorporation.
It was shown that the village, in
order to get the proper number of
freeholders within it's boundaries, was
forced to spread out over five square
miles, only about thirty acres of which
was used for the actual village.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
ACTRESS TELLS SECRET.

A we'll known actress gives the follow
ing recipe for gray hair: To half pint of
water add OF. Bay Rum. small box of
Barbo Compound, and n or. of glyceEine
Any druggist can put this up or you can
mix it at home at very little cost. Full
directions for making and use come in
each box Of Barbo Compound. It will
gradually darken streaked, faded gray
hair, and make 1t soft and glossy. It will
not color the scalp, is not sticky or
greasy, and does not rub of. Adv.
His Class.
II say, Nose, is that dog of yours
a mongrelY"
mo, sab; jes' common dog, sah."
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
Federal Auent Freed.

Duluth.-W. J. Johnson, special Of
f1cer of the United States Indian SER
vice, has been ordered liberated from
the Beltrami county Jail by Judge Will
bur F. Booth at Duluth. Judge Booth
granted the writ of habeas corpus
taken out by U. S. District Attorney
Alfred jacques and the effect Of the
decision is that the state courts have
no right to interfere with federal of.
fcers. Johnson forced an entrance in
to hotel to look for liquor. An en-
ploye charged Johnson with pointing
q revolver at him.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
Board Accents u. S. Offer.

The board accepted an offer from the
federal government to send an army
medical ojcer to give course of lee
lures at the university, without charge
Also, they adopted recommendation
that in all cases of diptheria occurring
among the university students or en-
ployes negative cultures from the state
board Of health's laboratories be re-
quired before readmission to the uni
versity. Heretofore, negative cultures
reported by city health departments
or private physicians in Minnesota
Nl. 9 been 2ccerted.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
MORE lNTERESTIN SANITATION
Minnesota Communities Are Becoming
Aware of Dangers.

st. Paul.-Minnesota Communities
are fast becoming aware of the dan.
gers associated with improper santa.
ton, according to H. A. Whitaker,
director OF the sanitation division of
the state board of health, who points
to the records of his Office as indica,
tive. They show the people are in
creasing their demands on his office to
undertake work for the protection of
public health.
The sanitation division is engaged
IN investigating water supplies, gar:
bage disposal and the sanitary ar
rangements of certain public build
ings.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
Would Change Taxinq Svster,

Three bills providing for sweeping
changes in the taxation system of the
state have been introduced in the House
by Representatives Anton Peterson, In
drehus, Marvin, Odland and Shipstead.
One of the measures would increase
the assessed valuation of iron ore,
whether mined or unmined, to rs per
cent OF it's value, instead of SO per
cent, as at present.
The others relate to improved prop
erty and household goods, and would
reduce the assessed valuation on i'm
proved land, live stock, machinery
and other property of this kind from
3R per cent of it's value to 20 per
cent, and would fix the assessed valu-
alton of household goods at 10 per
cent, instead of Is per cent.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07

In 1916 the crop was not as heavy,
but the yields in many districts were
very large. So large, indeed, was the
acreage under cultivation in 1915 that
the resulting crop proved too large to
be all threshed the same fall. 1t over
loaded railroads, and made marketing
slow. A less amount of fall blowing
was done than would have been done
in less heavy year, because the aver
age farmer was too busy with his
threshing. All these conditions neces-
sarily reacted upon the acreage
seeded in the spring of 1916. Add to
this that labor last year, owing to the
great number of Canadians who have
enlisted, was scarce and high-priced,
and one factor in the decreased yield
smaller acreage under crop was evil
dent.
Another factor is that this year
Western Canada has experienced, in
common with the. entire North Amerl-
can continent, conditions that have
been less favorable to the production
Of big crops. The conditions have re-
suited in smaller yield per acre and
reduced grade Of grain in certain local
tiles.
The average yield of wheat in the
three western provinces is estimated
by the government at about 16 bushels
per acre, oats 43 bushels, and barley
q bushels.
Gro aio1 ln1n 0ft hoir
Western Canadian farmers has been
greater this year than ever before
Owing to the high prices of grain that
are prevailing, returns have been re-
ceived that are extremely profitable.
With wheat standing at the present
time at over $3.50 per bushel at the
Great Lakes, wheat crop at present
figures would pay the farmer, even
supposing he had only, the average of
16 bushels per acre, over $1,000 per
acre. A large number are receiving
$4,000 per acre~some have received
$500, and few even more than that.
This price Of course, is not all profit /;
it represents the gross return, and the
cost of operation must be deducted.
but it does not. even at the highest fig
ures, cost more than IS cents to raise
q bushel of wheat in Western Canada,
so that the profit can be figured accord
ingly. 1t must be emphasized that the
acre which produces $4,000 crop costs
in the first case, probably less than
that. In the United States the same
class of land would cost in many dis
tricts from 500 to 5000 per acre, and
even then a return of $4,000 would be
considered extremely satisfactory. In
/ Western Canada the best class of ag-
ricultural sland;T capable of producing
crops that Id size compare With any
country In the world except, perhaps
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
"WET" PETITIONS HELD VALID
Duluth Council to Call Special Election
on April 8,

Duluth.-City Clerk Borgen's certi-
ficate of sufficiency has been attached
to the "wet' petitions and they have
been submitted to the city commission
ers. This means the council must
call special wet and dry election on
general election day Tuesday, April g.
The wet contest is under the auspi-
ces OF the Duluth Retail Liquor Deal
ers' association. Duluth will become
dry July if the vets fail April 3. The
ordinance making Duluth dry in July
was vo%SA April 3, 1916.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
Resolution MemoraIizes ConureAs.

A concurrent resolution memorable
ing Congress to establish terminal e:e-
vators in the leading railroad and ma
rine centers of the country, has been
presented to the Minnesota House. of
Representatives by the Grain and
warehouse committee. Representative
W. A. Pittenger of Duluth objected to
the resolution on the ground that he
did not believe Congress should be
asked to go into the grain business.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
Would Change Date.
Dissension In SUFFRAGE Camps.

Dissension in suffrage camps has
arisen and protests from one faction
are being actively circulated against
the other faction in regard to just
what the women want at this session
of the Legislature.
The Minnesota Equal Franchise
league favor constitutional amend
ment for women suffrage, while the
Minnesota State Suffrage association
is advocating a partial suffrage bill,
similar to that in Illinois, which will
not necessitate amending the consti-
tuition.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
Auto Upset; Woman Burned.

International Falls, MINI. - Mrs.
George Stoffel of Rainier was burned
to death, two persons were burned Sc
riously and several others were in
jured when an automobile bus, which
was filled with Rainier people, caught
fire from an overturned heater after
the car was hit by Minnesota, Dako.
ia & Western Switch engine at a
grade crossing here. Mrs. Mouska,
mother OF Mrs. Stoffel, and George An
.derson. Rainier banker, are said to
~ ,ho ,..oat ser3o,,alv knr+ :: -.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
Wants Place on Red Trail.

Rothsay.-Following a hard fight
at a recent good roads convention at
Fergus Falls for it's place on the Red
Trail, Rothsay Is making renewed eff.
forts to prove its worthiness to posi-
ton on the route. The Rothsay Good
Roads associations has called con-
vention of town board members of this
section
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
DEAN WOODS OF "U" RESIGNS
Head Of Farm College Accepts Mary.
land Position.

st. Paul.-Albert F. Woods, dean
of the College of Agriculture of the
University OF Minnesota, has just ten
dered his formal resignation at a
meeting of the board of regents of the
institution, to accept the presidency
of the Maryland State College of
Agriculture at salary Of $4,000 a
year.
The St. Paul educator, who will re-
ceive the highest salary ever paid by
Maryland to public official, will leave
for his new field Of work on July /.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
SHOOT UP NEWSPAPER OFFICE
Three Highwaymen Demand Payroll
Of Western Newspaper Union.

Minneapolis.-Two masked highway
men, assisted by lookout" who en-
tered the Western Newspaper Union 4
offices at noon, and demanded the coin
pany's payroll were frightened away
without obtaining any loot. The hold
ups fired dozen shots in an effort
to intimidate the office employees but
no one was injured. They effected
their escape before the police arrived
on the scene.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
GUARDS TO NEED POSITIONS
Mastering Out to Leave Nearly Thou
sand Job!ess Is Belief.

Minneapolis.-The Homecoming and
mastering out of Minnesota troops now
in Texas will leave nearly 1000 men
jobless, according to information made
public by Adjt. Gen. Fred B. Wood.
Lieut.. Col. Hugh MCGEE wired that
500 out of 1000 men in the First Min
nesota infantry at San Antonio, Tex,
will need new positions when they are
discharged from active service and
that the cases of 80 others are doubt
full" said General Wood.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07

some European countries, c:,n be Oh
tanned at, on the average, from $50 to
$50 per acre, with irrigated lands some
what higher. 1t is no exaggeration
whatever to say that number OF
Western Canadian farmers have paid
for their land entirely from the pro-
ceeds Of last years crop, and this In
cludes men who last year began for the
first time.-Af~
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
Want e-Owned Paper Mills.

Fairmont. Publishers of county
newspapers in Minnesota are going on
with their project for state-owned
paper mills, Frank Day of Fairmont,
chairman of the editors committee
on the subject, said in advance of a
further conference with Attorney Gen.
eral Lyndon A. Smith on necessary
legislation to permit the state to ad-
vance the scheme.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
WESTERN CANADA LEADS
As WHEAT. PRODUCER
342,000,000 Bushels Wheat in
1915; In 1916 Many Farm
erS Paid for Their Land
Out of Their Crop.

! That Western Canada is indeed
mistress of Wheat" to the extent that
Its 1915 crop exceeded, acre for acre,
the production of any country on this
continent is striking fact proved by
the following figures:
In 1915 the Dominion of Canada pro-
duced 376,000,00O bushels of wheat,
which represented ana sewerage yield of
~ bushels to the acre. The United
States produced 1Ol1, sos, 600 bushels,
yield of II bushels per acre. The only
serious competitors in wheat produc-
ton In South America were Argentine,
with 17S,221 900 bushels, or less than
IL bushels per acre, and Chile, with
100000 bushels or - bushels per
acre.
The three Western Canadian prairie
provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan
and Alberta produced between them
342,0OO,00O bushels out of the total Ca
madam 3760O0,000 bushels. It will be
seen, therefore, that, outside Of the
United States, Western Canada pro-
duced considerably more than the COM
bined production of North and South
America. Canada Is of course a new
settled country, and the fact that the
crop of the United States was practi-
cally three times as much is no dis
couragement. The United States has
at present more than twelve times the
population Of Canada in approximately
the same area.
To illustrate further the greater pro-
ductiveness of Western Canadian land,
We submit the following figures, show
ing the 1915 yields per acre in the
three provinces of Western Canada
and in the states which in that year
produced the greatest quantity of
wheat. The figures are taken from the
U. S. department Of agriculture's an
nual report and from the figures of the
Dominion census bureau:
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
State ConstabuIary Is Possibility

II the bill allowing the Governor
$4,000 year for the maintenance of
order in the state is defeated, it will
mean the establishment of state
constabulary, according to the friends
OF the bill from Northern Minnesota.
III the members of the l. w. w.
are allowed to continue as they have
IN the past, they unquestionably will
invade the farming district next sum-
mer and after that the farmers will
be ready for any measure that will
suppress Them" Senator l.. H. Nord,
International Falls, said.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
On Election of School Heads.

Selection of the county superinten.
dent OF schools by a county school
board, to be elected by directors of
the common school districts is provid-
ed for in bill introduced in the
Senate. Senators Henry N. Benson
OF st. Peter, L. E. Potter of String
field, N. J. Holmberg of Renville and
A.. I. Ward of Fairmont are joint au-
thors. The present law provides for
the election by popular vote of the
county superintendent of schools.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
Many Towns Ask Reformatorv.

St. Paul-Difficulty in selecting a
site for the proposed state reformatory
for women is being experienced by
the State Board of Control The
board expects, however, to reach a de-
cision soon. Cambridge is the latest
town to urge it's claims to the proposed
new state institution. WATERFOWL, on
the Luce Electric line, west of Mime
apolis, also is asking consideration.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
DANCE IN SCHOOL BUILDING
Entertainments Not Prohibited by
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Rulino.

Virginia. William H. Eaton. clerk
of the school board. received word
from G. G. Schulz, state superintendent
of education, that no ruling had ever
been made by the encouragement on
the question of dances in school build.
ings.
''The communication from Superin.
tendent Schulz is a complete vindica-
ton of the school board for it's action
in permitting school Dances" Mr..
Eaton said.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07

Not an Occasion for Praise.
In doing what we ought we deserve
no praise, because it is our duty.-St.
Augustine.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07
HANDBILLS BARREDIN Dull nth

CTdInance Aimed at I. w. W. Hits
Candidate for office.
Duluth.-Candidates for city offices
and officials of the wet" and "dry"
forces will be barred from distributing
literature, cards or handbills in the
spring campaign. This is the inter-
probation made of the handful ordin-
ance passed as an emergency measure
by the city commissioners during the
I. w. w. movement
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07

Suitable Match.
''What became of Milly? She was
a duck of a girl.'''
eyes, and she married a quack."
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1917-02-07

Constipation, Indigestion, sick-headache
and bilious conditions are overcome by a
course of Garfield Tea. Drink on retiring.
ADV.