INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS GETTING STARTED ON A FARM AMOTIONS FOR AUTOISTS ALL SIGN BOARDS POINT TO MINNESOTA. BART. The State of Minnesota. Northeastern Minnesota Appeals Very W//A Strongly to Man- With Small Capital to Invert. By Governor Winfield S. Hammond. MINNESOTA FAVORED WITH RAH* EST BEAUTIES OF NATURE. By F. D. Shernan, State Immigration Commissioner. The state of Minnesota is loved by all who live within its Northeastern Minnesota embraces borders. It has something that appeals to men and women of al. Millions to Be Spent for Good Roads what is known as the "Timber Region trades and professions. It offers opportunities to rich and poor Will Mean the Continued Better^ of Minnesota," and this part of the alike. Probably no other state has more varied resources. state is just being developed and it ment of the Highways. Minnesota leads in many things. It was is estimated that there are approximately once famed as a great wheat growing state. 12,000,000 acres of good agricultural By John H. Hohmann. Now it furnishes also the best butter for the land in Northeastern Minnesota President of the Minnesota Automobile bread made from Minnesota wheat. Minnesota that has never felt the point of Association. a has more co-Operative than any other plow. These lands are capable, creameries Minnesota has become one of the when subdned and properly tilled, of state and has won ten of the twelve banners foremost states of the Union on account producing sufficient foodstuffs to feed offered by the National Buttermakers' association of the development of its tremendous 5,000,000 people. Most of the settlers for the best butter. natural resources, worked In Northeastern Minnesota at the It is also becoming a leading corn and beef •ut largely through the medium of present time, are experiencing pioneer producing state. In 1914 Minnesota produced good roads. These are among the conditions, but during the past principal veins and arteries of commerce. 91,000,000 bushels of corn 43,000,000 and live years, thousands pf settlers have As a good, vigorous circulation bushels of wheat. The value of the corn crop moved onto these lands and are of the blood is essential to the that year was $47,000,000, and of the wheat crop transforming them into fertile fields health and normal growth and development $43,800,000. and cosy homes. At one time Northeastern of the human body, so must Minnesota was the scene of Minnesota produces more iron ore than all the other states the great commercial blood vessels great lumbering activities and considerable put together and more than any foreign nation except Germany. be properly taken care of, and that logging is being done in the Minnesota has a larger school fund than any other state. The duty has been and is being performed remote sections, but this industry will school and University fund now totals $34,000,000 and the state in Minnesota. Our automobiles, corpuscles last but a few years more, when the still owns large areas of land and great timber and mineral resources of traffic, perform an absolutely lumbermen must move westward to essential function in the movement Which, it is believed, will in time bring $200,000,000 into give place to the hands of the husbandman. of persons and property from its trust funds: While all kinds of grains, place to place. We have given them Our state was a pioneer in agricultural and industrial education. such as corn, wheat, rye, oats, barley a chance to do this work right. Let This work was begun twenty-five years ago and now there and flax are grown successfully in them do their proper part, and a practically every county of Northeastern are nearly 4,000 taking the agricultural courses at the State university mighty part it will be, in giving Minnesota Minnesota, grasses and vegetables (including the summer courses). There are departments further growth and development are the principal products. of agriculture and industrial training in 140 of our 200 high into a commonwealth greater Duluth, as well as the smallei schools and more than 100 consolidated rural schools offer similar and richer by far than its early founders cities along the three Iron Ranges in training. dared to dream, a leader among this section of the state, afford splendid But Minnesota is more than a state with great material resources the commonwealths that comprise markets for all farm products this vast republic. and a great school system. It is a state where the best produced in Northeastern Minnesota. Marvelous Beauty Spots. elements from our eastern states and of European countries have In fact, at the present time, they are What state has been favored by not producing nearly enough foodstuffs combined to make a great commonwealth, whose people are as nature with a more lavish hand than to supply the local demand. For intelligent, progressive and patriotic as can be found anywhere. Minnesota? Think of her marvelous a man with small capital who wishes agricultural and mineral wealth. Mankind to get started on a farm, I know of SUt has scarcely begun to draw upon no place in the whole Northwest that it. This state can and will give beautiful 18 ONE NEEDS TO would appeal to him more strongly design. and happy homes to millions of And No One Is Ecer Disappointed Who Follou)s Their Direction than this section of Minnesota. Wild The newer settled sections of the families. It needs only to have its land can be purchased in Northeastern state have kept pace with the older resources developed to be rendered Minnesota at from $10 to $25 per communities in their provisions for capable of sustaining many times its MISS EDUCATION Minnesota, The State For Autoists. acre, according to its location, etc., public schools. Northern Minnesota present population. The automobile is the modern and improved farms at from to $20 vies with the southern section in progressiveness Yet, great as are the commercial pleasure car. It was conceived by a $40 per acre. The state of Minnesota in all that pertains to resources of Minnesota, the state has genius and born of a necessity to supply owns approximately 2,000,000 acres of the best facilities for public education. been no less favored in the bestowal the demand of the rapidly advancing land here, known as state school land of some of the rarest beauties of nature, times. The auto is no longer a and last year they sold approximately picturesque spots and a climate fad, but a fixture in the social and 300,000 acres of land, which averaged •TATE'S CHIEF CONCERN FOR A STATE WITH A SURPLUS that is unexcelled. This Is a state of commercial life. It has been the advance less than $8 per acre. There are FUTURE CITIZENS IS OPPORTUNITY lakes. There are ten thousand of agent of the better highway also about 1,500,000 acres of homestead FOR LEARNING. them. Fishing and hunting reserves movement and has necessitated the Minnesota'^ Permanent Trust Funda lands open for entry in this section still abound. There are good roads building up and maintenance of the Are Greatest of Any State in of the state. to enable our citizens to take proper lake resorts, where the mind and the Union. advantage of the pleasures, as well body can seek that rest and contentment SCHOOLS WITHIN EASY REACH MINNESOTA'S WEALTH large centers of population in the BANK as the wealth, which Minnesota offers By Walter J. Smith, State Treasurer. which often becomes necessary state, with numerous lakes, beautiful in such profusion. Travel in any in this world of strenuous endeavor. scenery and the most enjoyable camping The condition of the state finances Deposits More Than $692,000,000 or direction in this state and your eyes Minnesota is the state for the autoist. ground to be found anywhere. at the close of the fiscal year July 31, $232 for Every Man, Woman Minnesota Requires Common Public will feast upon the marvelous beauty Here he can find all that he seel.eth. Good roads are found in Northern 1915, showed that Minnesota was in and Child in State. Institutions to be Maintained Within spots which nature has designed for We have one of the best road laws Minnesota. These lead to lakes and better condition than ever before in Accestf of Every Child the edification of mankind. These in the United States, the so-called rivers where fish are found in abundance its history. The last dollar has been By A. H. Turrittin, gifts can easily be reached by the thepe Dunn law. Under its wise provisions and in the winter months Within School Age. paid during the past year on the new Superintendent of Banks. hunts* autoists. the roads of a permanent character highways are traversed by the Capitol, and the state of Minnesota The prosperity of Minnesota is best Millions For Good Roads. whioh are being constructed. They are the men in search of larger game, C. G. Sohultz, does not owe any bonded debt. The evidenced by the condition of the banks Minnesota will have approximately •tit* delight of the autoist. can be found there in large number. Superintendent of Education. cash balance in the treasury at the of the state. one hundred million dollars to spend Good roads and the automobile "See Minnesota First." chief above named date was $3,332,006.34. Minnesota's concern for its We have 917 banks, 275 national for good roads during the next ten have given the people an opportunity future Citizens is the Our permanent trust funds of the fullest opportu•Jty Already a chain of inter-county banks, 10' savings banks and 8 trust years. If this vslst sum, which is derived to "See America first." It also cai for state are the greatest of any state state roads has been laid out, extending education. No person in this companies a total of 1,210 banks and from the one-mill state aid tax be said that excellent highways asd' State, in the Union and nearly as much as whether young or old, needs ta 1,600 miles. The greater part of trust companies. The deposits in these and the county and township tax the automobile have given the people the the all the states put together, lying east Miss chance of receiving ele» this chain of roads has been completed. financial institutions is over $492,000,000.00 levies, is spent judiciously, it will an opportunity to "See Mini nuto of the Mississippi rfver. an ttents of education. The state reQuires We have the Black and Yellow or $282 for every man, woman mean the continued betterment of the tost" to Trust Funds Are Increasing. common public schools be trail from Chicago through Winona and child in Minnesota. highways. Show* Minnesota's Wealth, The state treasurer holds in trust to the Black Hills the Yellowstone maintained within access of every Five years ago there were 970 of el The campaign for good roads has age. securities belonging to and to the The department of commerce trail, starting from Minneapolis Child within school There are these financial institutions with a total been the means of educating the credit of the following trust funds: the census bureau in itc figures to Minnesota 7,500 rural schools, 250 and St. Paul, and extending deposit of over $340,000,000.00 or a per great mass of people up to a realization the national wealth lately made WV elementary Permanent school fund....$19,380,53t through the west central part of the graded schools, and 225 capita deposit of about $164. of what these improved channels •tate Permanent university fund 1,426,522 He, shows Minnesota's wealth te state high schools. The main* state the old Dodd road, an excellent This shows an Increase of 240 in the of trade mean as wealth producers. Swamp land fund... 2,372,221 $6,547,000,000—-a figure just shore tains graded and graveled highway, running five normal schools for training number of banks, $152,000,000.00 in Besides, they are a standing invitation Internal Improvement land those of Michigan and Indiana,:/ teachers, the state from St. Paul south through university, the deposits and a per capita increase of to sight-seers and pleasure seekers colleges fund 160,000 Just below those of Missouri, New in education and in agriculture, Northfield, Owatonna and Albert Lea $68.00. a Srom a wide expanse of territory Jersey and Massachusetts. It's flfti besides other professional the olj Government trail from the to visit Minnesota and take advantage Total ....... $23,339,284 and impressive figure, and: the 9elS« schools. There are special schools Twin Cities, following the Minnesota Minnesota produced 83.6 per cent of her multiplicity of lakes and lor Most of the securities bear interest tive position of Minnesota among tfefll ot river to Mankato, and the Twin City deaf and for blind and a state white pine timber cut in the United summer and health resorts. states is gratifying, indeed* school at the rate of 4 per cent per annum. for homeless children* to Duluth road, connecting the, three States in 1909. Through the sale of state lands, Consolidation of Rural Sehoole. The six timber, receipts from royalties on iron year minimum school Is ore, etc,, these trust funds are increasing months, Most schools are in session at the rate of one million between seven and eight months. dollars per year. High and graded schools have nine Northern Minnesota Hospital months of school each year. Produces Life's Necessities. Every child in the state between One thing about Minnesota is that and 16 years of age is required to she produces in perfection the chief attend public or private school regularly. necessities of life, and they are always in demand. Our wheat, oats, Elizabeth Monohan, M. D. The state makes special grants to Mary C. Ghostley, M. D. R. H. Monohan, M. D. barley, corn, potatoes and other field the several classes of public schools, products are of the best, as also art In order to maintain high standards our beef, pork, poultry, eggs, milk, in buildings and in teaching. Special cream and butter and other products grants are made to high and graded all of the very first quality. Until schools for teaching agriculture and the world gets tired of good wholesome Other industrial subjects. Consolidation victuals Minnesota products wiV of rural schools is encouraged by continue to be in prime demand. special annual grants of $500 to each Down east, down south and way out school, of $2,000 for paying the cost west they can and do produce seme of transportation, and $2,000 for the things in perfection, but here we raise erection of a modern building in a a great many in equal perfection. For consolidated district. instance, we enjoy Delaware peaches, Best Facilities for Education. but we like them better with our Beside the common public schools Minnesota cream. We enjoy the California and the state's educational institutions, oranges and Georgia watermelons, there are six private colleges but they are but the dessert maintaining a high rank of scholarship, to a full meal of Minnesota products. equivalent to the standards in Baltimore oysters and New Jersey the state university. Different religious clams go well with our Thanksgiving denominations maintain private dinner of Minnesota meats and academies and special schools. There all tables and so it is the way •4Pa schools of art, of music, and ol The center portion of this hospital was erected six years ago-since that time the business has steadily increased so that the west wing was erected two years ago, ..V 4 and it is necessary to erect the east wing which will give the completed form as shown above. The present capacity of the hospital is 50 patients and with ment will make accommodations for 75 patients. International Falls, Office over International State Bank *.« i. '4 t. Rex Hotel, Best Hctel North of Duluth. "lkwKI JP -k*. hM! & 4 I*