LITTLEFORK AND VICINITY case, but gave notice of a hearing attended County Agent Jewell PLAN TO REORGANIZE ling it' for three. In 1913, $270,0 to the parties concerned with the night PUBLIC SCHOOLS was given each semi-graded DISTRICT NEWS the club meeting last Friday Miss' Annie Shelland, county charges specified. If they were contest school under a legal maximum of and decided the potato $300. By this plan class A semigraded superintendent of schools, was in not always successful in hearing (Continued from Page i.) for the boys. Edward LaPoint6 town Tuesday Of this week, the charges, it was not their fault Oscar Shoulder responsibility. Their schools will receive $300 M' was awarded first prize and BIRCHDALE SLIVERS, visiting some of the rural schools of the or $450 and class $200 or $300./ but they tried to act in accordance Peggar second. Several individual character and the board Mrs. Jack McCarl of Baudette, of the vicinity. with law. Can the members boys had very fine potatoes. basis Where four teachers are em- js jn Birchdale on a visits of their election will be the 'M Chas. Sutcliff went to St. Paul a of the present council, with the Howard Goben is building best guarantee that .schoolhouses ployed, it is reckoned as a graded Quite a few people werejjreserit last Tuesday evening, returning exception of Trustee Shelgreri, new barn. will be located where they will school. at the Farmers' club, Oct. 7th. on Saturday. justify their line of action Perhaps his Sam, Plummet 'completed most conveniently serve the largest Graded School Aid 'After business matters were disThe Dr. Withrow of the Falls, was the Sage of the Littlefork week, number, that personal reasons work of ditch viewing, last commission recommends cussed, an enjoyable -program was in towft last Tuesday evening, attending Valley will take his pipe from his accompanied and got home: Mrs. Plummer will not govern in the election of that state aid to graded schools, rendered, including violin music Mrs. Chas. Gable. 7 mouth long enough to elucidate a last teachers, and that the funds will which maintain the standards set Mr. Henning Larson, accompaby him to the Falls, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Anderson few ponderous remarks which work be spent for the benefit of the the state board of education in nied on the organ by Miss Hazel week, to have some dental were in town over Sunday, returning will clear the humid air. done. entire district. conformity with law, shall range Hanson, a song by Miss Elizabeth to Waukonha last Monday Anton Gratton DeGraw and This plan will put all school from a. minimum of $600 up to Howard and a very pleasant and night. 's to ^districts on an equal basis. In $1,300, according to the number 01 profitable talk by Mr. Franz LOMAN Amundson are the latest ones Mr. Charters is putting a foundation electing school district officers, Mrs. M. Peggar returned last have new wells bored. teachers. For each teacher above Jevne, of International Falls. under D. A. Colpitt's residence Odd Ben Peterson is giving the the independent district, comprising four, add $100 to the garnt. Mr. E. Ruberg is making new week from a visit with hey mother, in town. of near Siox City, Iowa. Fellows' half a good trimming the territory where population The two-year high school improvements on his home, which The W. C. T. U. held their regular concentrated, will choose its With all the rain that has fallen new paint. is course is a, step toward the four- greatly add to its appearance and monthly social meeting in year high school, recognized and ccmfort. in the past month most any one local board. the Baptish church last Thursday will agree that we need ditches, The county unit will enable the aided by the state. This aid the Mr. James Nelson has returned WILDWOOD evening. and a lot of them. common school district to have commission would continue in from the Falls, where he has been are Mr. and Mrs. Gust Erickson F. E. Griffith is spending a good Garland Ogden ana wife came not only its own graded schools substantially the same form and on jury. at their entertaining a little girl deal of his time with dredge No. amount, with only this change up from Baudette last week. They l?ut also its own high schools. home since last Monday. 10, which is working on ditch running expect to live on a claim this The schools that all help to support that $250 shall be paid for each the Birchdale School Notes. Mrs. W. E. Sykes was on to Ericsburg. teacher instead of $500 to each winter. may be brought nearer to ailing list Saturday. By Jennie Borg Work on the bridge over Beaver County Attorney Jevne was those who do not livbe in high school. guest Howard Maglady was the A week ago last Friday the Brook began this week. A here last week inspecting the School districts the benefits may Sunday. The commission recommends school children had a picnic from of Cyrus O'Loughlin, bridge has been built across to the trenches and preparinig for the, be more equally shared by all. Bur* that where the local school tax half past two until four o'clock in Hans Ettestad and John island opposite the mouth of the engagement on Nov. 3rd. All is at for maintenance riins above fif-: the afternoon. Nobody had been sack were transtcting business Distribution of School Funds brook, so the contractors could well along the west wing. teen mills, the state shall share'absent nor tardy during the week, Northome Friday and Saturday. So much of the school fund as get sand for the concrete work. Mrs. Ben Peterson left last the burden, paying one-third of the teachers thought the child- efttertained irises Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Nordby from the income of tlfe so The bridge will be completed before Tuesday for Annandaie where she Satur* the excess over fifteen mills, up ren deserved a picnic. Cake, cocoa a dancing party trust funds must under the Constitution winter. will visit her mother for some to a total of $1,800 for the school. day evening. and .apjfles were served before be appointed on a per Road work on the Elwell road time. High School Aid Mrs. H. G. Taylor called on going' home. Everybody enjoyed capita basis according to the number is progressing rapidly. Practically Mrs. Monke and three children The commission recommends themselves. Mrs. O'Loughlin Sunday. of "scholars." The legislature all the clearing has been done arrived from North Dakota last that the uniform bonus for high called Miss Irene O'Loughlin We had three new scholars, has heretofore limited the on the road/near here, and ditchers Wednesday. She will keep house schools which maintain the standards on Mrs. W. E. Sykes, Friday. Apportionment to as many pupils Monday. They were Charles and for Wm. Hainer. are at work on the road north to be set by the state board deliver* Peter Dahlgren and son Keith Lovejoy and Tommy Daud. as have attended school at least of Frank White's place. Henry Moss purchased a fine of education shall be $1,800. This Northern ed a load of hay to the forty days in schools that have Last week school had to be team at the Falls, of Sam Bjarre, Mrs. D. A. Colpitts and Mrs. A. is the lowest amount for which a camp, Contsruction Company's been kept open five months. Without closed up because of the bad about two weeks ago. C. Earley left Monday night to Saturday. high school department can be'roads. departing from the constitutional attend the county W. C. T. U. maintained. I Wednesday Principal H. E. basis of apportionment, the convention which met at Northome For the same, reasons cited in Pierce will go to Minneapolis for commission should be raised to on,Tuesday. Mrs. Earley returned the case of graded schools it is (a few days. Mrs. M.' Underwood 100 days. Wednesday morning, recommended that by way tf jand Miss B. Sparks will take his So much of the school fund as international Falls, Minnesota while. Mrs. Colpitts went on to equalizing unusual burdens the place while he is gone. comes from taxation is at the disposal Bemidji to visit a short while with state shall pay one-third of any Tw.o new scholars have been of the legislature. There relatives there. excess above fifteen mills in the expected to attend school ever is now a 1-mill state tax, collected Mr. Johnson of Bemidji, visited •ftnd local levy for maintenance up to since it started. I wonder why distributed by the state, and a maximum for any one high they don't show up? Friday and Saturday with ft I-mill local tax required by the LOCATION, POWER AND RAW MATERIAL friends in tjown. State and applied locally. The school of $2,500. Our school carried off one of Other recommendations by the the fisrt prizes in sewing at the latter has no clear singificance For the benefit of those who These Combined Guarantee a Populous Center of Activity, committee are: and no definite influence. state fair and also at the county have been interested in the action For industrial aid to high and The 2-mill state tax, which the fair,, besides a few other prizes. of the council in holding up LOTS FOR RENT graded schools: Agriculture, $1,- commission recommends, will Watch us do better yet next year. the saloon license of Ole Thdrson, take the place of these two levies 25° home economics, $75° shop the following statement is given: The Koochiching Company will lease of the same amount. The com- $750 commercial training, work A month ago three men, Ole LITTLEFORK SCHOOL NEWS lots at International Falls lor building ibined appropriation amounting to, $75°- In no case should the aid Thorson, Fred Larson and O. M. a,, V. V-T purposes on the basis lor the first five Over $2,500,000 a year, it says, industrial departments exceed to Paulson applied for a license to Owing to the fact that monthly years ol current duces and assessments Should be used to equalize the tl?e salaries paid to the vocational sell liquor in the building belonging examinations are being held this and six per cent per annum on the as« burden and promote school effi- teachers. to Ole Thorson. "Only one week* we will have no general tor sessed valuation. Leases a longer Ciency. Let the fund be divided For high school training aid: man owned the place, namely exercises until next week.: .. period will provide for an appraisal at in halves to be used in two ways. F°r principal, $1,200 for each sa- Thorson, but Paulson had a verbal The old fence which was built the end ol each five year period* The first means to efficiency is sistant, $900 maximum, $3,000. promise that Thorson would around the school yard has recently to engage capable teachers. Let The consolidated schools: Class Buildings must comply with city sell to him. However he would been removed and a new one-half of this fund be distribut- "A" minimum for transportation, not pay the price asked for the ordinances and be appropriate to the v/oven wire fence has taken its ed in proportion to the hp^ooo class "B" minimum for place and no money had been passed neighborhood, and must, in case of resi* place. This greatly improves the amount paid teachers for salaries. And .transportation, $500 special in closing the bargain so he appearance of our school gro ind«. dence property, be placed on the same if any district will not pay enough building aid, maximum, $2,000. had no right to the place at all. A portion of the school farm building line as other houses in block. to command a fairly capable Aid for industrial departments He put in an application to the has been plowed and will be laid teacher—say $400 a year, $50 a and for high school training demonth, council to sell liquor in this building out in small lots for the boys, to Residence Lots from $200 up Business Lots from $1,200 up let it forego so much of partments is an addition 4 to aid and the matter was up to the plant potatoes on next spring. this premium. In order that that any school may receive in its council. On the evening set for Mr. Davis, principal of the 1 no Industrial Lots from $600 up Terms to Suit All district may use this fund as class. the hearing, a motion was made Littlefork Consolidated School,, a C. B. KINNEY Substitute for its own taxes instead that*under the unsettled state of will leave Wednesday night for of a supplement to them, SECOND HOMESTEAD St. Paul, to attend the Minnesota things, the matter be laid over to SALES MANAGER the salary of any teacher paid less the next regular meeting. At the ENTRIES Educational association, which than at that rate should not count regular meeting the matter was will be held October 21 st, 22nd Minnesota International Falls in the calculation. We have just received through laid on the table indefinitely. It and 23rd. The surest sign of efficiency is the U. S. Land .Office at Crookattendance.^ may be supposed that the council A surprise birthday party was Good teaching and ston notice of the passage of a given on Ralph Foster by his intended to limit the saloons in good discipline make good attend the place to only two, but any one new act relating to second or additional mother, October-20, 1914, in the ance. Let the other half of this homestead entries. This domestic science room% The Faculty, who knows the pro-saloon sentiments LICEN fund be distributed on the basis of of the council, would not, new act was passed and approv- Eighth grade and High attendance—aggregate days at-' September 5th of this year and for a moment believe that to be school class was invited. He was ed and Heating tendance, which takes into account relates to those who made and presented with afoot ball, the case and furthermore if they both the number of children lost or relinquished their entries had wished to limit the number, in the school and their regularity prior to that time. BRITAIN WILL START they had the opportunity at the WATER AND SEWER WORK PROMPTLY DONE Of attendance. It reads as follows beginning of their term of office, WHEN OTHERS FINISH ESTIMATES FURNISHED ON SHORT NOTICE State Aid to Schools An act providing for homestead 'when two saloon' licenses were The state grants from its general (Continued from Page i.) and desert-land entries. granted. The postponing of the EAST & CORRIN revenue fund a total of $2,- suit is that nearly all of the troops Be it enacted by the Senate and case was possibly done, so that a boo,000 in aid to schools which House of Representatives of the now at the various concentration gentle pressure could'be brought Oveson Block International Falls, Minn. Phone 221 provide certain special facilities United States of America in Conor camps have been furnished nearly on Thorson .to sell out cheaply to St. which exceed the minimum rc-, gress assembled, that any person everything needed and no longer Paulson. The latter was sure he quirements for sharivg the cur-, otherwise duly qualified to make is it found necessary for the was the lucky man, for he had rent scvhcol fund. 1 entry or entries of public lands volunteers to drill in citizens' boasted that neither of the two The commission recommends under the homestead pr desertthat clothing. There is a sufficient others would get it. Where did there be two classes or rural land laws, who has heretofore quantity of ammunition so that he get that assurance (.,!A pi enftt Schools receiving aid of three,,as made or may hereafter make the soldiers can be given unlimited After the hearing a financial THE DRY CANDIDATE present. 1 try under said laws, and who, opportunity for target practice. agency sent' an an inquiry Class A—Eight months' school through no fault of his own, may The result is that there is no ancial agency sent in an inquiry From the STATS TIDNING Mr. Calderwood has more and teacher having first grade have lost, forfeited, or abandoned longer the slightest nervousness September 23. as to th^ status of "Paulson the i'-cr ability than the dewooistle I believe we have only one and ^republican candidates certificate* to receive $150. .thre same, or who may hereafter over the outlook. Plenty of recruits saloonkeeper" showing Hhat he man i^no stands straight on combined.—Dr.W, B. ^{{ey. Class B—Seven months' school, lose, forfeit, or abandon same, are enrolling and their was so certain of getting the license the temperance Side and who Pastor First Baptist ChttlCtt, l^n^apolis. has stood there for yean -teacher having second grade cer- shall be entitled to the benefits training is being rushed with the that he wanted a backing. and left no doubt as to his 'tificate, to receive $100. of the homestead or desert-land very equipment they will carry This is the common understanding position. -. He (Calder/ He is MORALLY by Requirements as to building, land laws as though such former with them into the battle. There 01 those who are acquainted wood) is an honorable man, demanding the prohibition a man of ability and one and not the segregation of equipment and efficiency to be mi entry or entries had never beea will, however, be no sending of with the. case.' It is who could fill the governor's aneviL He is POLITICALlY^rig^ fixed by the state board qi education. raw troops to the front. Earl made: Provided, that such applicant furthermore said that the council chair with distinction,—Rev. hy demaading a J. A. Krantz, ex-president (statewide), settlement sad shall show to the satisfaction Kitchener set his foot down hard had charges against ^Thorson Swedish Lutheran Church not^ (county) prolougitlon i.s And that there may be no pre- 1 of the..Secretary of the Interior on the proposition that even the \yhich were enough to put him of Minnesota^ of the issue, fljium on parsimony, no special that the prior entry or entries Canadians* admittedly one of the out of his job. But if they had, wd should be given to any dis- were made in good faith were best looking forces ever sent into why not take the legal' way of I8SHWf*!®5U£ 11*1: For Governor •gi trict which levies less than 5 mills lost, forfeited, or abandoned be^he England, werej denied the privilege hearing these charges, give Thorson average established by cus- cause of matters beyond his contktom, of being sent direct to the a chance to be heard,, and decide The great popular demand Is for--Statewide Prohibition NOW. sedMr, Calderwood is the only candidate who supports that demand. which therefore embodies trol, and that'he has not speculatpublic front. Instead, they will be forced by the evidence submitted, Mrl Calderwood rings true on every public question. I commend him (O opinion as to what cons- ed in his right nor committed a tp complete a -coarse of training rather than to act in such an arbitrary the people of Minnesota and hope they will elect him governor of our gtAt|,a« titutes fair support. 'nection with cuch prior hrdluu However, it is explained fashion? It will be remembered W J. Burnett, Manager, Northwestern Hide and Fur Co., Minneapolis, ... 1^', Semi-graded schools -may be fraud or attempted fraud in conbrought tllat this will neither be long nor that the okl council of ^OU%»O^rthEENJOB VOTE FOR under, the same rule, nection with such prior entry, or last year,. (when charges were exacting arid the Overseas ^contingent doubling the credit where two entries. is looking forward to early made, did not adopt* any hocus-,, teachcers are employed and treb- pocus course in 1 dealing with thjz^ m. mm