1 INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS INSTITUTE OF COUNTY SALE OF SCHOdL AND been gradually worked out during the hollows beyond—the way to Eidem, Verda Kendall less teachers," "Our schools SCHOOLS IN SESSION the past two years will be OTHER STATE LAND Lundgren. A tiny little log building, Frontier, Lois Somers were good enough as they were." continued. The work in music, an efficient teacher, a school Good, Tillie Byrne With these words we were welcomed (Continued from Page i.) drawing, writing, as well as the of girls with one boy thrown in State Auditor"* Oflioe. Hay Creek, Hazel Hanson into Birchdale a year ago. industrial work, will again be for good measure a happy studious Paul, Julia St. Onge St. Paul. Minnesota, this function it is necessary to We had just returned from the in the hands of special teachers. group, excelling in good Rapid River, Verna Pugh take into consideration the stock August 23rd, 1916, teachers' institute held at International The reorganizaton of the work, programs and out-door Williams, Maude Sutton. That __ in trade that the pupil brings to Falls. We were overflowing NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. school into an elementary school on Oct. 9th. 1916. at 10 o'clock: A. M. sports, scarcely a month without with enthusiasm and the school as expressed by his mter- at! to the office of the County Auditor Gheen Associated Schools of six years and a junioV high some form of entertainment at sts, experience and needs. So determination to help make our intomationai Fails,.Koochiching bounty, In school of four years was begun Margaret Arnold, supervisor. the state of Minnesota. I will offer the school house,—that is the too it has been believed that schools the best in the state. sale lands, and for certain unsold state last year. This will be carried Eddy, Mabel Anderson Lundgren school. (lio those state lands which have re- lilcp nthpr liiHividtuils But the idea of associated non- teacners, liKe Oiner lnaiviauais, verted to the state by reason of the Elmdale, Rosalie Kurzek forward this year, making the A commodious modern building can, because of certain traits of schools was new to the people payment of Interest. Harrigan, Laura Semon junior-senior high school a fact erected in a pleasant clearing character, experience, training and at first all they could see cum* of sal* in subject matter and method as Hoglund, Elizabeth Parker overlooking the Sturgeon river .. ^TuTto C"« and interests, do some things was that Birchdale now had Rocky Glen, Mrs. Carrie Anderson well as in form. Members of the an enthusiastic teacher and seven better than others. five teachers when three teachI eighth year will be ocered at is payable at any time in whole or to quiet children a school where In keeping with the foregoing, ers were all that were needed. narton or before forty years from the Sundeen, Mary Arnold least one, and possibly two, subjects boys, as well as girls, can cook date of sale at an inter eat rats of four it has been the policy of the They also knew that two new Valley River, Ethel Broeffle. that are commonly ocered ner cent per annum, due on June llr«t or that earned its own graphanola school to make the teaching pro teachers meant more and higher each that the interest year provided Loman Consolidated School— in the ninth year upder the old and started a playground fund— taxes. w'St cess a problem solving one in so ettcct'. SfesTyfar SnaUy. to G. A. Olson, principal, arrangement. This will give that's Sturgeon school. far it is possible. The pupil Now the supervisors belong to this means that the interest money may as these pupils a chance at new Ruth Liens, industrial work, Last year one room in the MaTSi^yy-fl?S*^?2rip££5y?r"t" has been made to feel that only ieach one of our rural schools as Mabel Agne Berg, subject matter, and gradually initiate corner of a dwelling house, but when he has made the exper•tated, well as they do to Birchdale. timber, wtan «o Appraised value of Louise Foley. them into the high school jenceg ^he author his exper- this year a new building as mod!ern paid in the be for I Therefore when anyone says must fall at method of teaching. Indus Consolidated School— and well equipped as Mr. jences, thru relating them to ex- that Birchdale has five teachers All mineral right* are reserved to the D. C. Rockwood, principal, iwork at Big Falls and the associated Jewell and the means at his disposal they must also say that each one "*SS tai2*alHrJoU «w!5t'to •»«, periences that he already has, Anna Brodeen. schools will again be in could make thirteen pupils of the ten associated rural •Vi'a'? b- l-lis P«P'l rea% be" 1 his work as a Rural Schools— charge of Miss Poole (home patrons that aspire to make gun. 1 schools, such as Frontier, Baljdus, delinauent may at come be redeemed economics), Mr. Cochran (agriculture) Bannock, Conrad Molstad it the best school in the association—that's Rapid River, etc., has three It has been the policy of the "Sii? to1 theh0aUctu0ai "^chaser. Fairland, Iris Parmeter and Mr. Bowen (district the Waukana school. employing officers, of the school teachers, which, of course, is Such lands are listed under the caption: superintendent). The field Groveland, Hannah McLennan The prettiest school yard in hardly the case. to seek out those teachers that ca^purehase more than 810 of operations of the above named Laurel, Geo. A. Smith all koochiching county, buildings were believed to be especially More teachers would not be fecree of land as provided by the oen®**J I Nett Lake, Leland Seman t.w. 1906 prordded, however, that State supervisors has been extended in good repair to match the yard, Unds purchased previous to isos fitted for the work demanded by objectionable were it not for the is not to include those schools adjacent Norman, Verda Kendall an organ earned by the pupils, Parsed against Bueh fur. the school and community. This I fact that their wages meant UBt I Pelland to Littlefork, thus associating industrious pupils and a teacher Bis^ZSfevit of °authortty. policy has permitted of the oraad^d^^soiTar^on higher taxes. Briefly, let us explain River Dale, Marie Singleton 'with the Gig Falls school some ready to put his best efforts into lUeln^this1oflioe. ganization of the school upon what we have said so seventeen to twenty schools. Rogers, Jennie Fortier his school work. Who will not Lists giving legal descriptions^ the departmental plan, and so many times, namely: We are of Rossing, Mary Coby I Mr. Hann, the principal of prophecy success for Caldwell i^^state^AudUor1 w^the immigration placing the academic work, as not responsible for higher taxes Steffes, Burnhan Sparks the central school, is now on the Commissioner st. Pau^and^of (weu the industrial and art Brook the I in Koochiching county, and that as Stillar, Edith Sinclaire Oovnty at above address ground. His presence has stimulated Auditor Koochiching county schools j. A. o. vsxoa. work, in the hands of teachers up to date no one in Birchdale or envi­| Wildwood, Kathleen Kilgore the interest of the boys Stale Audito®. can and will grow to the peculiarly fitted for such work. in Koochiching county has paid White Birch, Leroy Matson. in athletics. able state of consolidated schools Teachers have been given a free one cent of our salaries. Miss Poole arrived last week. We realize this when we visit the NOTICE OP SALE OP B.EA1 ESTATE hand in working out their problems. Minnesota, through her foresight State Aid for Associated Schools She is busily engaged in preparing Johnson, Nett River and Dentaybow BY DECREE IN PARTITION No attempt to turn out a and sagacity has accumulated How much are the associated for the duties of the coming schools. They form the machine product has been made. a school fund of twentyfive schools and the rural school STATE OF MINNESOTA. 1 year. One of her duties is that neucleus of a very strong consolidated sa. Results, not uniform technique, million dollars. This money supervision costing the tax payers of making out library lists for school. The school County of Koochiching is the norm by which the teacher's is invested and yields- annually 1 of the county? IN DISTRICT COURT. the associated schools. Books across the river, where they work is measured. over a million dollars in interest, The above is a question asked FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL. DISTRICT are now being bought with definite have such excellent playground Looking back over this period This interest is taken and given Oscar C. Hanson, every day by some tax payer, ends in view. The "buy at Plaintiff, supervision, where the teacher leads us to believe that the policies us as a reward for schools who and the answer is not a very difficult random" method is a thing of and pupils are upon the play as pursued have been producive try to better their school buildings, Victor Tornquist et al, one. In the first place let the past. Defendants. ground every noon and recess, of desirable results. Our their equipment, or their us see what an associated school NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. That ... George Rowe announces that is the Johnsorr school. The adjoining pupils are gradually trained into teaching forcev If we were to by virtue and in pursuance of a decree is, using Big Falls associated he will be with us another year. on A school, in which the parents of Court made in said matter by the i,au:tc tVintfnlnpcc i'nrliic build a new school building the schools as an example. aDltS OI tnOtlUlneSS ana maUSCounty said District Court in and for the said George now has three years of give every school project try. They are made conscious of state would give us fifteen hundI of Koochiching on the sixth Lying tributary to and associated high school credits to his account. lay of July, 1916, the undersigned, as ,, rp, such hearty support, is the Nett red dollars toward the new building. growth. They are decree, with Big Falls school are one of the referees named in said demental These are backed up by River school. Next is the Dentaybow veloping a consciousness of the In the same manner the will on Tuesday, the Seventeenth about eighteen rural, state aided the State High School board. 17th) day of October. 1916, at school, where the pupils state gives fifty dollars a year to tact that they are members of eleven (ii) o'clock in the forenoon of schools which comprise the ".he manual training shop will exult in thinking out problems each school which associates that day, at the dwelling house f^uate jal community tO which Big Falls associated schools. To a soc on the lands to be sold as hereinafter be used as a physics laboratory for themselves, and always send they Owe allegiance. They are with a central school and to the described in the Town of Williams, form this association the rural this year. An addition will be prize material to the fair. central school it gives two hundred County of Koochichipg, State of Min- Inyal to their school and tar" ineir scnooi ana. iar schools must be conducted under nesota, offer for sale at public auction made to our physics equipment The number of schools in the dollars, to pay one or more for cash, those tracts or parcels of as it is possible to iearn, all look the direction of a supervisor, an giving us ai- equipment adequate land, situate and being in the said 4. 4.1, association this year will be teachers to visit and supervise forward to tho coming year as County of Koochiching, described as agriculturalist, and a domestic to our needs. much larger than last year, but an opportunity for further errow- the work of the associated follows, to-wit: science teacher from the central Ambrose Haluptzok, our new Lots Three (3) and Four (4). North ,7 & still we regret the loss of three schools as often as necessary. (sw th. iNot one, so far as can half (N%) of Southwest quarter be school (Big Falls). These three janitor, will continue his high schools that were active last learned, is dropping out because (SE%) In our case we try to viit each and Southeast garter of supervisors receive their pay Southwest quarter (SW%) of Section school work. Ambrose has been year. Margie left us because the he hnds the work unattractive. chool at leat once a month. Five (5), Township One Hundred sixty from the central school and keep on his new job over a week. He population" grew and grew until Since ten rural schools have (160) North of Range .Twenty-nine fhis does not mean that flip in constant touch with the rural 29) West of the 5th P. M. in Minne- .oes J101 mean mat tne is hard to beat at cleaning up a it became so very large that work is being made easy. Pupils associated with the Birchdale sota. schools and require them to conform building. Of course he will make There are twenty-five acres of these ,1 •_ the school consolidated, Henry school we get ten times two passing their State board exacres thirty-flive to the requirements of the lands under cultivation and good in both lines of work. as successfully as at and Wisner left us because they hundred dollars, or two thousand in hay and pasture.- Other imaminations central school, meeting the state el in 1 The fire box of the heating a re a grew and grew so very much 1 1 dollars a year, and out of this any time in the past, and in the 30 house 16 ft. by ft. with kitchen an- laws, and all doing the same systematic plant has been re-lined and reinforced smaller that there was nothing "ex 14 J1- hy 1® f}-- fto™ h°us® high school promotions are made amount we, the supervisors, are 16 work and not each taking and by 20 ft. stable 10 ft. by 16 ft. with steel plates. It is left of them. only upon the securing of state paid. With this explanation it 20 ft. ft. hay shed by 30 its own course in a haphazard now in better condition than it Gladys Poole This land fronts on the beautiful pprtifiratec must be plain tjiat supervision is way as under unassociated Hainy River there is a school house has been for four years. Much credit is due the teach-, not an additional expense to the two on the land, and it borders on Big Falls Associated Schools conditions. Ambrose and Mr. Bowen have State roads. ers of the past, several of whom taxpayers of Koochiching county For this supervision each rural Paul Bowen, superintendent. I Dated August 31, 1916. been studying boilers this week. have gone to positions of much but rather that it comes as a gift, ms.K C. MXX.14E, Referee school gets from the state Gladys Poole, supervisor. Experience with boilers in the A31 05 Address, Clementson, Minn. larger responsibilities and larger from which,the people will benefit fifty dollars a year and the central Geo. W. Cochran, agricultural wheat fields of Dakota came in pay. only as much as they will cooperate school gets from the same supervisor. handy. Ambrose now knows how CITATION POR HEARING ON PETITION and assist the work of The incoming teaching force, SELL, MORTGAGE Big Falls Consolidated School— source two hundred dollars. a boiler is built, its inlets and which is entirely new, has high the association. OR LEASE LAND. Thus the rural school gets not Principal. outlets, where steam goes and standards to which the community one but four teachers and is conducted Jessie Livingston, Riverdale School why. Both have learned that Estate of J. W. Thomas. expects them to measure up. the same as all of the Katherine Rauscher, One passing by a pretty spot STAT! :!\\rpnTA., hemp packing doesn't do the It is hoped and believed that other rural schools, with the added Mabelle Meehan, along the Big Fork river about business in packing man- and V~Vn r)* TC onfhio they will be able to do this and advantage that the central Edna K. Schwendeman. five miles south of the Rainy, hand-holes. Thanks to Mr. Jones, more. school is at no additional cost Littlefork Consolidated School—' exclaims, "Oh, what a cute little J. W. the mill engineer, both learned In the matter of the estate of The local schools will open to the tax payers. Otto Schwartz, principal, box!" Thomas. that asbestos and graphite work. for the year's work September The state of Minnesota to Emory Mabelle Wyman, It is the new Riverdale school. P. E. Bowen. Margie .School Thomas, Gertrude E. Christensen, Al- 1 TT entirely new teach- Anna Arnold, leu T'V-mas H^vev Thomas, on a Edna 11 Wlth an It opened one chilly day last Progressive? Yes! Some fifteen force. It is not yet possible Big Falls Associated Schools T'-rmas, anfl p. 11 persons interested in 1'ng Henrietta Pecha, September. The carpenters were the mortgaging of certain lands beion*-*ing years ago the school at The association is in its in to said estate. The petition of cinnOlinC6 ttlG nEItlCS OI the Margaret Joyce, domestic science. putting on the siding with a Margie was a little log cabin new members of the force. The of Bailie M. Thomas as representative fancy but it has stood for some rat-a-tat-tap that was about as tne above ramed estate, being duly located about half way between teachers are being selected with very definite things. Foremost filed in this court, representing that it Margie Consolidated School— conductive to peace and quiet as the present station and the Joyce is necessary and for the best interests iicnal rar anH mnciHpratmn among these has been the spirit Howard Magladry, principal, of said estate and of all interested COnSlQeratlOn the interior of a boiler factory. tne USUai CEr an1 homestead. The old building remained of the needs of both the School therein that certain lands of said de- of co-operation and loyalty between Mayme Croasdale, The effectual Hart ventillation cedent described therein be mortgaged. ^.i •, standing until eight years Community, and SO it IS teachers, supervisors and and praying that "a license be to Sallie Rural Schools— system, now installed, was ago when it was demolished 'by believed they will measure up to M. superintendent. S Thomas granted to mortgage the Bear River, Isabelle Annon well on its way, but not half as Some* fire. the high standards of the past. NOW THEREFORE, Carrying out the projects of you, and each Bescemar, Ethelind Rossing cheering as the little box stove After the exit of the old log of you, are hereby cited and required The department idea that has the supervisors has meant hard Caldwell Brook, Blaine Canfield temporarily set up on bricks to show cause, if any you have, before building, a frame school house work and more work, but it has Rooms this court, at the Probate Court which were left over from the was erected in the center of the in said mortFalls, in the Court House in International power of sale contained also meant better organized and Cross River, Irene Southard of in chimney, and surmounted by a County of Koochiching, State gage, and pursuant to the statute village and has served its purpose' made and provided, the more progressive schools. Every Minnesota, on the 25th day of Septem-. such case Dentaybow, Floss Cody setaming tea kettle. well until last year when it a ber, 1916, at 2 o'clock P. M„ why the said mortgage will be foreclosed- by visit was a pleasure to the supervisors. should not be Forsythe,— prayer of said petition sale the premises described in and Six children were there, and of proved too small to hold the granted. conveyed by said mortgage, viz: They always found the Griffith, Mrs: Bernhard one teacher, and the only equipment Witness the Judge of said Court, and children of the community, and Lots. Three (3) and Four (4) and teachers anxious to raise the the seal of said court, this 29th day Indahl, Tilda Torgerson East Half of Southwest Quarter (EH 1 was a copy of Grimm's the neighboring church had to be of August, 1916. SW%) of Section Eighteen (18), of standard of their work and to Johnson, Fairy Tales. JOHN BERG, Township Sixty-six (66) North, Range hired and pressed into service. receive and follow suggestions. Jndge of Probate. Twenty-three (23) West, in the County Keiver, Gertrude Reinarz Having finished Grimm, the A31S14 In the spring of 1916 the Koochiching and State of Minnesota, of Besides improving the quality Lindford, Mrs. Parker teacher, with a yardstick and with the heraditaments and appurtenances county board of education decided of their class work the teachers which will be made MORTGAGE UZI Mile Lundgren, Esther Tell some building paper that she to consolidate the Margie by the Sheriff of said Koochiching made a special effort to teach Nett River,. Lena Custer County at the front door of the Court found on the floor, was teaching school and to erect a four-room Default having been made in the better industrial work, sewing, House, in the City of International Sturgeon River, Ida. Johnson the children how to make paper payment of the sum of Eleven Hundred building there and though we Falls in said County and State, on the cooking, preparation of hot' and Eight and 63-100' Dollars (91,108.63), 7th day of October, A. D. 1916, at 10 Waukanha, Lillian Kruger drinking cups, although their expect to use only two of the which is claimed to be due and o'clock A. M. of that day, at publio lunches, agriculture, and to supervise Is due at the date of this notice upon "sanitation" might be questioned. vendue, to the highest bidder for cash, rooms for the present year, we the playground. a certain mortgage, duly executed and Birchdale Associated Schools to pay said mortgage debt of Eleven Turning around she saw Miss can see the wisdom in their move delivered by W. R. Fish and Cora Y. Hundred and. Eight and 63-100 Dollars This year, besides raising the A. N. Sandt, superintendent. Fish, his wife, as mortgagors, unto Shetland, quietly grinning and (f1,108.63), and interest, and Margie is growing and progressive. as Carl K. Bennett, as mortgagee, bearing teaching standard, we hope for Ninety-three and 59-100 Dollars ($93.69) Cecilia Anderson, supervisor. warming her back at the stove. date the 7th day of June, A. D. by taxes upon said premises paid great development along the Birchdale Consolidated School— 1911, and with a power' of sale therein said mortgagee, and Fifty Dollars She brought a welcome load of The school will be equipped contained, duly recorded in the office lines of community work. ($50.00), Attorney's fees, as stipulated Roy Petrie, -principal supplies and apologized for the of the Register of -Deeds in and for to handle the industrial work required in and by said mortgage in case of NLet us visit, a few of these the County of Koochiching and State Marie Solien, .industrial work foreclosure, and the disbursements allowed delay. of all schools of its class, of Minnesota on the 10th day of June, by law: subject to redemption schools that are sure to be heard Annie Heritage, A. D. 1911, at 1 o'clock P. M., in Book Riverdale has a good library at any time within one year from the and rooms on the ground floor "H" of Mortgages on Page 2, and no from this year. First we will go Grace Halverson. day of sale, as provided by law- of two sectional book cases* action or proceeding having been instituted, are being put in order for that Pated August 9th, A. D. 1916. over a winding, circuitous stump Rural Schools— recover at law or otherwise, to well filled. OIU X. MHJBTT, purpose. mortgage, the debt secured by said or route, the rear wheels of the Baldus There is an oil stove and a complete any part thereof SAWT»fcft stumps as wagon hitting the Birchdale Associated School Cedarwood, Hattie Long NOW, THEREFORE, NOTICE IS Attorneys for Mortfafee, set of cooking utensils. HEREBY GIVEN, that virtue of the by Owatoaaa, Waaeaota, A17S21 the front ones go cher-chug into Central, Delvina St. Lawrence Higher taxes,"More use- Hot lunches were served every I