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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-08-08
The City
i'm Brief

Thirty-fiv members of the Nature
Study Club inspected gardens at
Garfield park Thursday night. A
picnic supper and games featured
the tour.
Annual street fair of the Epworth
League of Heath Memorial Metho-
dist church will be held tonight at
Commerce avenue and Windsor
street.
Third annual homecoming cele-
bration of the Tibbs avenue and
Eagle Greek Civic League will be
held Aug. 90 and 80, changed from
Aug. % and %.
A picnic luncheon and games
will feature the annual joint re-
union Sunday in Garfield park of
the Chambers and Thompson fam
lilies. Mrs. L. A. Won Staden, In
dianapolis, is president of the re-
union organization.
The Gallaher golf trophy given
by the Sigma Nj fraternity was to
be awarded to Ernest Lee Williams,
Indianapolis, at picnic this after
noon in Noblesville. The golf tour
ney was held two weeks ago at Leb-
anon.
Business can not survive without
advertising, members of the Adver-
Using Club were told Thursday by
Toner M. Overley, managing di-
rector of the Better Business
Bureau, at a meeting at the Co
lumbia Club.
Members of the Optinrist Club
held their weekly luncheon today
at the nutrition camp for children
operated by the Marion County
tuberculosis Association at Bridge
port.
indianapolis will be visited by a
delegation Of Louisiana business
men on Aug. %, it was announced
today by Ed w. Hunter, secretary
of the Indianapolis Chamber of
Commerce. The party will arrive in
the city at 1850 a. m. and will leave
at 2:45 p. m.
Warren township will hold its first
annual picnic and homecoming Sat
urday in the grove Of Warren Gen.
traI high. school. Exhibits Of All
clubs will be shown. A basket din
ner and an entertainment program
is planned.
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Carl Mcfarland. %. of ITO Iowa, printer
and Olive NJ. HUMPHREYS. 10. Of 1854
Orleans.
sor. merchant. and Helen M. Boyer, 26, OF
426 Parkway. stenographer.
James c. Fox. 20, Of 1912 Charles. Ia
borer. and Vivian L. Richards. 10. of 551
Birch.
George M Bayers. 40. of TT. Harrison.
soldier. and May c. v. Hoffman, %. OF
Hotel Harrison. cook.
William E. Mathis. 20. of ss17 Madison,
clerk, and Mary A. Doyle, 10, of 27l5
North Sherman
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Special Programs Daily

Aviation questions will be an
swered during Aviation week at a
booth in the Circle theater lobby
to be conducted by representatives
of the Emby- Riddle Company and
the Curtiss-W Wright Flying Service
of Indiana. They both will be open
at 2 p. m. today and close Sun
day, Aug. II.
Pilots and officials at all city air.
ports were busy today arranging
for Aviation week, which starts
Saturday noon. Special programs
have been announced for each day.
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Deaths

Lena smock. so. Long hospital. chronic
neDhritis
Perry. Curry. 2s. city hospital pulmonary
tuberculosis
Ellsworth Martin. e.. city hospital. pull
monary tuberculosis.
Edward Louis Dannacher. 81. st. Vim
cents hospital. acute nephritis
Anna Mcdonald. So. 2i5i Highland place
acute cardiac dilatation.
Anna Belle Phillips months. city hos
pital. acute CASTRO enteritis.
Friedrich ". Hergt. IS. 1886 Cornell,
acute dilatation of heart
Paul Webster Washington. month. 6ii
Patterson. cholera infantum
Robert Miller. IS. ambulance, accidental
apoplexy.
Louise Kern. 80. sos4 Park. arterio-
ScleroSis.
Absolum stinnett. So. s4s virginia.
chronic myocarditis.
Anna NJ. KrsuSs. 70. 1921 Guilford. pull
monarv edema.
Nsva wesEe Israel. So. ssss Washington
boulevard. carcinoma.
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Safety Essay winner Killed

Eu United Press
LONDON, Aug. S.-Leslie Skinner
Il, won first prize at school for an
essay on safety first and was killed
in the street by q truck the next
day.
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Average Of thirty boncs ior 1nursoey
rails vas vas 1856. on / a. Aysrsss Of
f~sentv utilities was 1910. on 80. Aver
ass % fortv bonds vas $3.50. I'D %.
Bv United Press
NEW YORK, Aug. 5.-Active SELL
ing Of leading issues on the stock
exchange today brought prices down
] to s points in nearly every issue
traded and clipped millions from
stock exchange value Of the various
shares.
Trading picked up in activity for
a time when traders we're unloading
at random, but tickers had the sit
uation in control and around noon
the decline appeared to have spent
itself for the time being.
However, the rallies that enSued
we're not vigorous and prices drifted
about not far from their lows Of the
day, which in a few instances were
new lows for the year or longer.
Warner UnIoaded
Passing of its common stock divi-
dend by Warner Brothers Pictures
was the principal incentive to the
sellers. They unloaded Warner
without regard to price and the
issue broke to 20, of 67s from the
previous close. Warner came out in
long strings and featured in activ-
ity.
TIL xxTar,,av i,cfdav,t moe o,,I,y oy,a
of the many factors in the selling.
however. Others included further
fears OF the drought depredations,
a decline of 3 per cent in United
states Steel production in the Pitts
burgh area, and a decline of AZ per
cent in automobile production in
July as compared with July, 1929.
The steel decline brought out
heavy offerings of United States
Steel, the issue declining to 1897,
of 3 points before support was
Forthcoming. Other steels followed
the leader downward, Vanadium
selling at S27s. of SIS, and Bethle-
hem at SIS, of is.
Utilities Sell Of
Southern Railway broke to 1914,
of rs. and a new low since 1925,
and other rails followed it to lower
ground High-priced and specula-
tive industrials made wide breaks.
Eastman lost 81 points, Allied
Chemical s. Westinghouse Electric
nearly 4, Case As, and Worthing-
ton Pump T.
Utilities continued their down
swing. but losses did not exceed 3
points. Coppers sagged off, as did
chemical shares, foods. oils and Spe-
cial issues.
Call money renewed at 2 per cent
and the tone was steady.
Sales at 1890 a. m. totaled 1885,
500, against 271 500 shares Thursday
in the same period. Sales to noon
totaled 1.37S.00O. against S59,70o
Thursday.
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Births
Girls

Girls
Ernest and Esther Holmes. $50 East
Tventy-frst.
Harry and Margaret Mussrave. a. South
Colorado.
BOYS
Leo and Olivia Mortoro 1903 Candy.
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viking Cemetery Pound

KOENIGSBERG, Aug. 6.-An
extensive Viking burial ground dat
ing back from the fifth or sixth CEN
fury A. q. has been discovered near
KoenigsberE.
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BIZ aI nnitSd Press : r.


Wind, northwest, IL miles per
hour; barometric pressure, 1898;
visibility, 10 miles; ceiling, I'M
limited; field, good.
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Chicago Grain Table

BU Times Special
CHICAGO. Aug. s.-Carlots Wheat. 1861
corn, rs; oats 231; rye. 4, and barley. 10.
Bu United Press
CHICAGO. Aug. s.-Cash grain close
Wheaas-No; 2 red; s6A @9814c; No; 2 hard,
yellow. $1,000 .O3; No. yellow, sl.Ol "a
LOB; No. 3. yellow. s1.o2; No. yellow.
9912c; No. 2 white $1.03: sample grade,
96c. Oats-No. white, 41H 043c; No. 8
white. 4oM@42Ac; No. 4 white, 40@40lac.
Rye-No. roc. Barley.5s@esc; Tim
BV United Press
ToLEP 2ed aye sGrai9 eoe close Wheat
4sG44ei Reno. 2, 7sc. BsTley-No, 3.
SEC Clover-Domestic cash. $l3.75: prime
choice. $l405: october. STATS; December,
SIS. Alsike--.Cash $780, october. s12;
December. $l2.25. Butter-Fancy cream
cry. 4l042c. Eggs-Country run. 20@22c.
BaY-aimothY. S1.25 per cWt.
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Produce Markets

Eggs Country Rum Loss OF delivered
in Indianapolis. tic; henerv quality No. j.
Poultry ifH: buying Pricse,-Hens. Weighing
az lbs. or over, csc: under Az lbs: lsc;
over. 2ic: Under SH lPs.. lsc; Le s;IsST
fp feather r'0 fat eV whises &C. geese
These prices are for NO. top quality.
0e ButPer Py tWho 0Esa 4oa4c: No q
Rlttertat-ssc, .,,u ..,,. 49,
poundl American loaf, 3lc; pimento loaf.
32c: Wisconsin firsts. &c: Longhorns. SAC:
New York Limberser S6c.
NEW YORK. Aug. -Elour.-Quiet and
steady, spring patents s5.S5@5 $40; Pork
isatdff s West m spot
STEADY: special, to extra. 81 @5lsc., Pota,
s0S S so and easy L0pg Island 5b er Sc
s soSsz bas ket soutSsrn ear
mand goo Si:O turReys 5o@4sc chickens 20
ducks, Long island. iSalscs Live, poultry
@5sc fo wis n i5a23c turkeys ulSC aCa25c
ROSTERS i6c: broiiers, 1S@32c. Cheese =
Quiet: state whole milk, fancy to specials.
24@26c; young Americas. l8IaQ25c.
BIZ United Press
CINCINNATI, Aug. 8.-Butter-Steady;
creamery in tub lots, according, to score,
packing stock. No /. 27c; No. 2. zoe; No. 8.
i5c: butterfat. 350I37c. Eggs-Higher;
cases Included: Extra firsts. 29c; hrsts.
Live poultry-Thin and coarse stock sells
only at heavy discount: fowls. 5 lbs. and
over. 21c; lbs. and over. 1885,; 8 lbs. and
ROSTERS 13c: coiored-fryers over 8 lbs.
27c;, broilers colored. oyer 2, lbs. Csc;
broilers. oyer ll3 lbs; csc; ~ lbs: and
over liz lbs. 23c: IL lbs. and over. 19c:
broilers. partly feathered. 15@16c; black
springers. 1ac.
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PITTSBURGH. Aug. s,-HoEs- Receipts.
1 200: market strong to l0c. higher; i5o-22o
lbs. slo610.50; 23o-28o lbs: s9.25Me.eO;
None: market nominal. Calyes-Receipts;
$50; market active; fully &c higher: good
vealers S106l2.50; bulk common and me-
dunn. $6.50G9.50 Sheep-Receipts. .500
market steady; choice fat lambs. S9@9.50;
medium and good. s668.50.
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Bu United Press

EAST ST. LOUIS. Ill. Aug. s.-Hogs-
b nik pis2so lbs. ss75Gs 90 top. SO: 40
40 lbs. s9.6OMe.70: most sows. $3.50
ceipts, 700: market. no stores. vealers SOC
75c lower at s1l.25: other classes STEADY;
mixed yearlings and heifers. s9;35G9 90;
1000: market opened steady; bulk fat
lambs, $675M9; common throwouts. 81;
fat ewes. S25063.50.
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By Times Special

LOUISVILLE. XIV. Aug 6.--Hogs-.Re-
| as lbs. up, $500: 1925 lbs. $685.: 130-
l65 lbs. sS.S5: $50 lbs. down, s7.lS: roughs.
s655: stays. $685.. Cattle-Receipts, 800;
market slow: shade lower: prime heavy
steers. S750Ge: heavy shipping steers. IS
T750: medium and plain steers. $3.50
cows. s4G5$.S0: medium to good cows.
al: cutters. ss25d35o: csaners. $40
5: bulls So 506 $50: feeders, s5.50a q:
stockers $40 $50 Calves-Receipts. 400
market. soc lower: choice. s7.50Ge: me
dunn TO good. s667: common to medium.
lambs soc lower on tops and seconds.
steady on others: ewes and wether lambs.
SIS: buck lambs. 81; seconds; $500 !:
shipments: Cattle. IS: calves 1877: hogs.
$40; sheep. 932.
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BvU niLed Press

BIZ JnifFd Press
market steady: heavies. IS 50ffe: mediums
$3.50 e.65. Workers. Se-25d9S5. pigs. 50 q
69.75. Cattle-Receipts- light. market
steady 10 soc lower. sheep-Heceipts
light; market steady.
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New York Bank Stocks
Local Wagon Wheat

CITY grain elevators are paying s3c for
No l red wheat and stc for NO. nato
XhaAt.
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Banks and Exchange
INDIANAPOLIS STATEMENT


INDIANAPOLIS STATEMENT
INDIANAPOLIS bank clearings Friday. Aug.
| o, S3.5l7000; balances. S5.490. 900.
CHICAGO STATEMENT
BIZ United Press
CHICAGO, Aug. s.-Bank clearinFs.
s79, 200 900: balances. $500. 900.
NEW YORK STATEMENT
BU United Press
NEW YORK. Aug. S.-Bank clearings.
$993. 600. 900; clearing house balance, si44.-
ance, sl37.000.000.
TREASURY STATEMENT
Bu United Press
WASHINGTON. Aug. s.-The treasury
net balance on Aug. 6. was $162, TIC, GAG go.
Expenditures for the same day were So
85S.8o2.60 and customs receipts for the
month to that date we're $6.417.29071.
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BUILDING Permits

May r. Kirkpatrick. dwelling, 6I2i West.
6eld boulevard SIS 900.
II. Hannich. repairs. l743 Morgan. S3z0
Grace Andrews. garage. 2776 Paris. $3.50
II. s. Wolf. garage. 202f Wilcox. $3.50.
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United Press

CLEVELAND. Aug. s.-Hog+Re Receipts,
roo: followers. 81: steady to 10c higher:
TOP. sf0z5. on choice 16o-2l0 lbs; prob
down: light lights and pigs. s9.506975:
CattIe-Receipts. 125: steady; scattered
common steers and heifers. s6qe.50: low
Sausage bulls upward to IS and above.
Cslves-Receipts $50: steady: bulk choice
vealers s13613.50. good to choice other
market offerings s12n12.50. Sheep-Re-
CENTS. 700, steady; good TO choice lambs.
seas So: strictly choice eligible. s9.SS or
above; sheep scarce.
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Other Livestock

81 cH HiMiteq Press a~c suoas p.c.irts >,
lO@20 higher: heavies up least: packing
SoWs; steady to loc higher; TOP; $40; bglS
good and choice. $5.2S@ $50: light Weight.
lSo2OO lbs good sn5 ch SSs
Choice. ss.5o@ s.ss; heavy heavy Weights, $3.50
lbs. good and choice. .$8.s5d9.7o packing
a ssSebt ss p %du o and gRS s sood
and choice, .ss:25@9. Cattie--Receipts,
LOO calves LOO yearling3s dactiye T arm
6acSer heeTs and
inactive. but weighty steers, SLOW and
steady. but considerably. lower for the
FEDS $780, 0 Se gTassers on SO short fed orngs
81 down to IS: some light cutter offerings
as low as 81; slaughter cattle and vealers;
i1es5 sSSySS b e0 soed ana and dn SRoce
al 5S s s Sna and choc
medium. s575GsT. rs: heifers. 55o85o lbs,
good and choice: So. 75d 1918: common ana
aao6 c0 Sn G gSSd and s4 eeSse
iings excluded good and choice, beef. Sc. IS
milk fed. good and choice. S11@is; me
$50: stcoker and feeder cattle steers, 500 500
mon i adn G wedinm $4.75Gs5o. sheep-Re
ceipts. 1000; steady to, strong: choice
lambs. very scarce. bulk lightly sorted
$3.50 $50: bucks. s80S.25: throwouts.. $50
s ssus6ter sheep and Lsmbs" a. sng1s go 90
lbs down goSd g. an al Teists
s4.75T7: ewes. 9n-150 Ibis. medium to
choice. s22504: all weights. Gull ana COM
mon sIn275: feeding lambs, 50-75 IDS,
good and choice, s6.2566.T5.
b. rnitcd press
0 c1Nc1NNATI' Aug. s-Hogs--R Receipts.
2. 694, Including 1884 direct; no holdovers:
hos market active. 15c to mostly &c
2 55oAi lbs. si0S1o.25: mostly $40 25 on 20
lbs down: some. 100000 lbs. S9.22qS 70:
pigs and light lights about steady at Spy ,
packing sows strong to Csc higher: pu II6R,
S7N725 Cattle-Receipts. SIS; calves. 4o0'
cattle steady: most steers except light year
lings. soc lower than Monday; col1r1on 70
medium steers and heifers. So mo.zo.
small lots highly finished weightS iteers.
$3.50: most cows. S4.75G So; lowes cut
ter and cutter cows. S3@3.50 bulls largely
S566: top ouotable to $3.50; vealers SLOW
to soc lower; good and choice. ,SlOm II
Sheep-Receipts. 10000; lambs weak to oOc
lower: better grade showing the run loss,
good and choice lambs very scarce at $8.oO
to mostly SO: medium grade ara BUCK
lambs, s6@s; so; common t.t aT won't
mostly $5@5.50; sheep steady; lat ewes
s2.50G4.
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STOCK SHARES
DRIFT DOWN ON
I ACTIVE SELLING
Warner Brothers Pictures Is
Target for Bear
Activities.
Average Stock Prices

Average Of thirty bonds for THURSDAY
vas 20 90. % i-69- Average o. twenty
f@entv uifilitieE was 1910. OF 90. Aver
az 81 FORTY bonds vas e6.33. I'D .o5.
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TREASURY STATEMENT
Retail Coal Prices
Marriage Licenses

= ton discount for cash.
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Indianapolis bank clearings Friday, Auj
8. s3.517,o00; balances. s5.490, 900.
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DOze,-Jones
Summary

London-New York cables opened At 80
arainst Ar f-32 Paris checks iQs ~: an
sterdam i2.os7. italy 1895. Berlin zoss0-
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Newport Company first six months earn
ing S126 share on 507. 800 common shares
against s2.1o on 255,337 common shares in
like 1929 period Stockholders offered
right to subscribe to additional common
stock at 500 in ratio of one share for
forty shares held.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-02-26
BLASTS
PARSNIP BUGABOO

w. H. Alderman, head of the divi-
sion of horticulture, Minnesota Ayri-
cultural Experiment station, answer
ing an inquiry by Swift county re-
sident, says there is no foundation for
the idea that parsnips turn poisonous
after being taken from the ground,
and that it is not necessary to leave
them in the ground over winter.
Mr.. Alderman says, however, that
it is good plan to leave part of
ones crop in the ground all winter,
so that fine vegetable may be add
ed to the household menu in the early
spring when the ground thaws out.
AS matter of fact, he says, parsnips
dug in the spring are generally of a
better quality than those dug in the
fall. But fall-dug parsnips can be
kept in a cellar successfully if the
cellar is cool and moist.
Many persons believe that a par
snip which has stood in the ground
all winter becomes poisonous after
growth starts in the spring. There
is nothing to the belief. After new
growth has attained a height of 10
inches or foot, the old root becomes
hard and woody and is not good eat
irg, but it is not poisonous.
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FLAX PRICE PROSPECTS
LEAD ALL CASH CROPS

Price prospects for flax in 1880 are
more favorable than for any other
cash crop grown in Minnesota, &C
cording to DR.. E. C. Johnson, of the
division of farm management and
agricultural economies, University
Farm, st. Paul. With productions
costs of the two crops being about
equal, flax has averaged SO bushels
per acre in Minnesota in the last 10
years compared with 1871 bushels for
spring wheat. Prices of flax during
the same period have average about
double the price of wheat, making the
per acre profit on flax much greater,
DR.. Johnson points out.
During the past season, flax prices
have been the highest since 1920 and
No. flax has averaged about two
and a half times as high as No. l
dark northern spring wheat. If pro-
duction is increased, it is likely that
flax prices will be lower at thresh-
ing time this year than in 1929. DR..
Johnson says, but still high enough
for favorable returns from land suit
able for the crop.
Minnesota produced about one
fourth of the United States flax crop
last year, the bulk of the acreage be-
ing grown in the four states of Min
nesota, Montana, North Dakota and
South Dakota. Although the United
States has used about 43,50O,OOO
bushels of flax annually for the past
two years, less than 100000 BUSH
els were produced in this country in
1928, while in 1929 dry weather re-
duced the domestic crop to 16,S3S,0OO
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AWARDS ARE MADE IN
FRONTAGE CONTEST

Honors in the newspaper 'front.'
page makeup contest, held in con-
nection with Farmers and Home
Makers Week, University Farm, st.
Paul, are announced by the judges as
follows:
Seven and e:,ght-column class:
First, Journal-Chronicle, Owatonna,
with score of 91.SS; second, Tri-
bune, Detroit Lakes, with score of
S73.
Five and six-column class: First,
Murray County Herald, Slayton, with
score of SS; second, News, North
field, with a score of $50.
The papers receiving first honors
will get prize of SIS each, and those
receiving second honors, a prize OF
$40 each, the gift of the Minnesota
State Fair, which has provided the
premiums for this contest for sever
al years.
The judging was done by five men,
each rating all of the papers. with
regard to certain features. E. G.
Torrey, Minneapolis Journal, passed
upon the heading or name plate and
associated features; F. w. Beckman,
managing editor of The Farmers
Wife and an experienced newspaper
man, on the selection of page mater
ial; M. w. DePuy, of the University
print shop and an old-time newspaper
man, on news topography; Bruce R.
Mccoy, of the University department
OF journalism and a newspaper man
of experience, on headline topogra-
ply, and Herbert S. Marshall, of the
University printing department, on
press work and mixing. Each of the
judges also gave all of the papers en-
tered rating for general page de-
sign. Ratings on general attractive
ness by a group of advanced students
in the college of agriculture were
taken into consideration on the score
cards, as a means of getting the
newspaper readers judgment. Each
of the various features mentioned
was allowed certain percentage, the
possible total being 100. The total of
the ratings for the different features
made the score for each paper.
The papers entered were on exhibit
during Farmers and Home Makers
Week, and attracted much attention
from the hundreds of visitors at
University Farm for the week. They
will be mounted again during the
Editors Short Course, May 8, 9 and
10, when the scoring by the judges
will be discussed.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-02-26
COUNTIES TO GET
MORE HIGHWAY AID
Board AllOts $45,130 Gas Tax
and S21,423 One Mill Tax
Fund to County

Redwood county was allotted $21,-
423.00 for its state aid roads and
S45, 130.C0 from the gas tax fund for
use on the new county aid roads, at
a meeting of the allotment board held
at the offices of the Minnesota High
way department February A. The
board consists of Ray Chase, state
auditor, Julius Schmahl, state treas
urer, and C. M. Babcock, commission
er of highways.
The total amount of state aid al
loted to the counties was SIS, 10000.
Of this amount $1,960,0O0 is the re-
gular one mill state aid fund and
$3,200,0O0 is the counties one third
of the gas tax receipts. Total income
from the gas tax for 1880 is estimat-
ed at $9,600,000, since the 3 cent tax
will be in force the full year.
The minimum allotment of the gas
tax fund is $4,000, since the law
makes three-quarters per cent the
minimum. Last year the minimum
was S20,625. The minimum allot-
ment of state aid is $4,000, or one
per cent. Last year the minimum
was S19,543. The law provides that
in making the gas tax allotments, re-
CARDS shall be had to mileage of
county and town roads and traffic
needs and conditions of the respective
counties.
The three large counties, Hennepin,
Ramsey and st. Louis, are this year
given the 3 per cent maximum allot
ment permitted by law, or $58,SOO
state aid and $4,000 from the gas
tax fund. These three counties fur
nish "A per cent of the state aid fund
and over 40 per cent of the gas tax
fund.
In addition to the regular allot-
ments, special allotments were made
totaling $129,39O from the gas tax
fund and $79,05C from the state aid
fund. The largest of the special al
lotments is $45,00O from the gas tax
fund allowed to Morrison county to
aid in the construction of road and
bridge over the Mississippi, to con-
meet the new Minnesota national
guard camp with trunk highway No.
27. While the road is in Morrison
county, the guard camp is a state
project, and it was felt that the state
should bear the cost of the road and
this allotment is made in addition to
, the regular allotment to Morrison
county.
The second largest special allot-
ment is $4,000 to Hubbard county to
build its portion of the cutoff from
trunk highway No. 10 to trunk high
way No. through La Porte. While
this piece of road is in Hubbard coun-
ty, it is of special benefit to Beltrami
county because it furnishes a short
cut from Bemidji to Walker and
point south. Although the allotment
is made to Hubbard county, which
must build the road, it may in reality
be considered as special allotment
to Beltrami county.