The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-02-23
nEARBR00K YELLOW
DENT CORN WINNER
AT CR0OKST0N SHOW
Takes Third Prize; County
70 Get State Road Allot-
-, ment of $1s,35o
(snecial to the Pioneer)

ing her vacation here visiting Win
her grandparents, Mr.. and MRS: Hans
Johnson. of Leon township, and other
relatives and friends. =. ,y.
L. Jensen of Leon township won
third prize for his yellow dent corn
which he exhibited at the Crookston
crop show last week. We believe TINS
a very good showing, when we con-
slider the fact that corn raised mucn
further south, under speclal conut
lions and under hands OF experts
had to be contested. Mr.. Jensen
made no special effort outside OF good
straight cultivation, raised under OF,
binary field conditions, and raised
much further north than lots OF inc
corn in the contest. Hence, we con-
slider it a real victory for a Clear
water county farmer to step into
classy crop show, like the one JUST
held at Crookston, and come out w1ths
a prize of that sort in the corn l1ne'
It is a magnificent victory 1or
Clearwater county, and a strong
boost for Beltrami county and others
Of it's class in our section OF the state.
such a victory at this time and under
such conditions indicates that we may
in the near future expect to ADVANCE
and it is not at all even Impossible
but that we may capture the nrst
prize at a date not far distant.
Peder Ollestad was in the city Wed
nesday and shipped a large amount
of fancy clover seed to seed expert
further south. He cleaned up SO
cents per pound for his clover seed IN
an uncleaned state, directly from the
machine. Such farming is what IS
placing coin in our farmers pockets.
Clearwater county's share in the
state one-mill tax for this year IS
s19,35O. This is a nice little sum
and will do it's share towards plac-
ing our state highways in shape FOR
travel. This is nice snug sum, but
when it must be spent in state high
ways it does not reach as far as II
should, and especially under present
conditions and high cost of material
and labor. But when we have once
carried the good road amendment,
No. l, next fall, the county commits
sioners will be relieved from the
work of building and keeping up
these highways, as they will be built
and maintained with the license
money collected on automobiles thru
out the state. That will release the
above money, be it 100000, $50 900,
or 100000, and the commissioners
will be in position to spend this mo-
ney on our county roads, and under
conditions which will accomplish
much work, which, in turn, means
larger mileage annually than under
present conditions. To this state
road fund for county purposes our
commissioners will add the county
road money The third unit will be
the township highways which the
township supervisors construct and
maintain. When the state takes over
the state highways for permanent
construction and maintenance, they
reduce the building and the upkeep
of that many miles for our county,
which gives our commissioners
greater liberty and more money with
which to build and maintain. 1t
will be most wonderful sysytem
when completed and give us the best
highways in the world, with less
cost than under the present system,
and on top of it have no roads any
where.
Thus, you will see, any man or
set Of men who will oppose Tie prop
osition as now set before the people,
in Minnesota, are doing it with sim
cere motives, or from an impaired
brain, with which they will try to
poison the minds of the people who
have failed to understand the issue
involved or grasp its greatness. In
view of these facts it is up to every
man and woman who understand the
question to come to the rescue and
place the facts before the less FORUM
ate ones in such manner that they
shall come to 4 true understanding
of the conditions and what 1t will
mean to their respective community,
county and state.
Arnold Jensen and Charley Ritter
have just completed putting in the
piles for bridge across the Clear
water river, a half mile west of the
Neving dam, and just north of the
Nels Holm farm in Sinclair town.
ship. The work includes a part Of
the Sinclair big road work which is
to begin in the spring. We under
stan that the county foots one half
of the cost of the construction of
this bridge.
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s>~ The United States government is
just getting ready to roundup 49,
oil willful draft deserters. The war
department announces that they will
be vigorously prosecuted. Lists of
these drafe: deserters will be publish
led locally. We hope to see none pub
lished in this community.
John McCullom, one of Clearwa-
ter county's original settlers passed
away at his home in Moose township,
south of Shevlin. Mr.. McCullen was
the first white settler in that town.
ship, locating on homestead. He
became postmaster in 1891, and
i drove the stage. from Fosston. to-
Moose long before the Great North