Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-10-10
BIG ) J. H. MEETING
HELD HERE YEsrERnAysr srAw.
OFFICERS ELECTED-PRok-
~, RENT MEN SPEAK,

rractlcally every county along the
JEFFERSON ~ highway: in Minnesota vas
90 aetaesented tn oy from two to four deae-9
gates at the state meeting %hald 80.
Yesterday at which the Minnesota nv
mu s,on OF the highway was organized
Inc sessions were held at the co,,rt
.n tOoAn az the court house and were very
i've and enthuiastic meetings. Anone,
.he prominent men here for the nneats
,..e ,us IN adoit1on to the county delegates
Genera' eoIs na Cashman and McGarry,
oeneral manager Clarkson, J. H BECK
q ana Mayor Hodgson Of st. Paul. H. d
ocn1rley. secretary of the federal high.
way commission. and others. -
AAe oe1egates came to Little Falls
~ automobile, two runs being MADE
~ thonesuay' one from Albert Lea on
tne south and one from THIEF T,v.r
Fails on the north, and two sec,nS.s,,
r,n 1ns yesterday morning from 81
thou Hh1ouo e. ana from Wadena. In all more
Th The nl5y oyedfaesg delegates ua:: were here. ~
10 o'c1ocl n session commenced at
tian Htian,onai nai,, Jefferson Highway Associa
atced % as seefetarx e. TO order R. b. Millard
Mayor Bergheim, in a brief tall ,a,
fbis fbHea nnt; me delegates to Little Falls for
e0nvea e0nvention. ion Mr.: Beck made The :'ree ree
SpHnfe Fl 5. fSG sbirieS the yjzit9rs; wi s%;a
tary Of the federai dintdg5Sn hghWaY PGsseEe-
Mos S1on' WAS WAS at the meeting in place Of
iaa4ioM Ma5i Williams: III president Of this organ
Building pano He gave Sne de fndepa exnost?a 5Gad
Of the Townsend biii, eSplainRins m InRosi'f1a ion
phases Of this bill which provides for
nrnao d natlona! system of highways like the
the % provision for creating a commission
Mnlcn viii supervise Construction of
ma;dtsna tne FEDERAL al highMWays and FOR their
roads and it is the aim to have connect
Ing roads patterned after them. Mr.
s11dh snafley ~ pointed o;d out the advantage Of
and agricultural standpoint as Wei as
Tor military purposes, although. he
added, he hoped there would never be
eef eefafion fhH to use them for this. At pres
handled in unrelated units, which IL un-
satisfactory because of the lack Of un-
uormity and continuity.
Following Mr. Shirley's talk dele
gates from Wadena. Todd and Stearns
Se4untles, which We're not heard from
Wednesday evening at the Board of
Commerce meeting, reported.
Senators eastman of Owatonna and
Pat McGarry, Walker gave short talks
the the, former TO on the. Jefferson Highway
ter on the state program of road build
ing, Mr. Beck. in Introducing Senator
eastman. stated that Minnesota could
Highway through this state as it was
largely through his efforts that the
hlghway & a3s was routed this way.
ing meeting that Nick Smith nj he Of IVA Wa
dena county had been awarded the
state gold medal of merit for doing the
best eiy road work; Mr.: Smith had been
the medal but he declined, stating that
he would be too busy working on the
roads
At noon adjournment was taken for
lunch and the delegates and visitors
then gathered in front of the court
house. where a group picture was TAX
The. meeting reconvened at 1899 p
M, with Senator McGarry as the first
speaker.
Senator McGarry's talk was enlight-
ening and interesting to the delegates
His talk is not given herein as his re-
marks were much the same as those of
proposed Babcock plan. =
Election of officers was taken up
next, this concluding the convention.
tors. The following officers were un-
animously ELECTED:
Thomas p: eastman. Owatonna, J. K
N; Martin; Little Falls and Daniel Shaw.
Thief RiXer Falls. re-e1ected directors
Most of the delegates left for their
homes Immediately after the meeting.
Delegates Rcglstersd.
Beltrami-H. NJ Stanton, G. S. Hard
Polk-A. A. Dahl, E. S. Erickson. L.
RsSofs;1H: RsS EsFsAF;ss y; %eEaY; ( Farley, E. G.
bqSes FseseSorn1A % D. AorSsrSNR 8: %atland. Martin
Blacklin, John Ruerd.
Morrison-J. K. Martin, c. w. Bouck,
c. r. CHAPMAN
Faribault-F. M Kaiscratt. John
Pennington-N. E. Beebe. Dan Pat
terson:
Robt. carmicheI. W. Nj. cadzow.
Clearwater-L. Jensen, A. Kaiser, Is.
Ref.
. steele---T. H. Joesting, M. J. Martson.
N. P. Jefferson.
Wadena-L D. Brazier A. F. Hinne-
Ramsey-J. H. Beck. L. c. Hodgson.
): Kittson@f: 4; seancY; H. Konzen, c. J. Tors
Benton-W. F. Dewey. Ed. Wander
sluis, JOS. H. Coates. Geo. G. Magnuson.
Hubbard--L. H. Rice, Chas: Potter.
Stearns-F. A. r. Moore, f. n. Glea-
son; G. H Tanner; ~, c..a
spissE TGsaT VIM Al F. Ef@'ssd Maseks. Gha5 % John:
Wadena-O. V. Johnson, F. lander
son. John Bergstrom; Erwin 8. Ward,
r. J. Guest, J. M. Fuller, L. Wagner.
Born