5 miles, they walked about 8 miles [aing loese accounts, quit him andcooper^te and it took a relay of two teams to vantage, if the project is sound- your wjti your banker. piano which was placed in the Waukanha get them the balance of the way. local banker will undoubtedly finance R. J. Langaard, public school, the "comfl?t?r*ty 5 the purchase." Mizpah. center" of the neighborhood The'Rainy has frozen over again Not long ago a car of corn was During the war the club members a a a a a a so that the mail boat can't navigate bought through the local dealer with did their bit in war work, 7 members tolator. The latter produces nothing By O. H. SMITH. S3 --r 8 so Emery Thomas had to get Jesse satisfactory results to all concerned. having enlisted' while the "stay-athomes" and every time a tract of land passes 8 AROUND LOMAN 'i*'" Kennedy to start out on horsback The old way of a farmer coming helped in Red-Cross work and State Immigration Inspector. rorit one speculator' to another the Monday morning. with his produce, taking his hat off Northern Minnesota has, during the other waiys.. a a at::::::-::: a price is increased to the ultimate and asking "What can I' get for it," Last June, by a unanimous vote, this past ten years, made more rapid progress Mrs. -La Pointe is quite sick with settler. I have known settlers to pay "Uncle Norton" Chapman is going go to the store and "What is the cost club became4a unit of the Koochiching in the way of development than the grippe. as high as $18 per acre for land sold to give us a lot of pointers on poultry of these7" and then ask to have the County Farm Bureau, electing as any other section of' the United by the.'state less than two years previously raising at the school house Friday bill placed on the book should be a the executive board, Oscar Ness, Director States. The Federal census, repo/ts Joe Mercure and wife called at the 'for $5 per acre. afternoon. He wishes to make a v" thing of the past, H. F. Clark, vice-directorJ. for 1^20 show that 25 per cent of all Plummer home last Sunday. In this connection the writer desires These lines- have been leading up poultry demonstration to the community "J.<p></p>Sl'vfe': n^w farms developed ,in the entire R. Mack, secretary. 'V to compliment Mr. R, P. Chase, of Loman which would be a to the question of credit. Credit is Through the active .work of this United Stat'es are in Minnesota. In our present State Auditor, on the Mrs. -Neilson continues very low. what the farmer must have but the great advantage to us. here. unit, 3,500 pounds of picric acid were other jwords, one-quarter of all the new state land policy he has adopted Mrs. Pearson is staying with her. credit at the store is the costliest distribute at this point to club members new land placed under cultivation ijri since1 taking over the State Auditor's credit he can have. Not knowing and neighbors. the entire country lies in Minnesota. Drove Out Gamblers Quickly. office a year ago. 'Working in close how long the account will remain on The snow storms of the past three Our director died in September and Koochiching county shows the highest Bloomsburgh, after Pa.—In 24 hours harmony with the State Immigration the books the merchant must sell his days gave us the most snow we have vice-director H. F. Clark was advanced he the oath rate of development in the state during took of office Police Chief Department, a new policy has been had this winter. goods on a larger margin, and having drove the gambling oat to the directorship, with A. E. Mericle that period which, in effect, means Vervin evolved, which will result, as far as his capital tied up in these book accounts, of Bloomsburgh. first edict was His that this county has made greater Gustafson as vice-director. possible under the present law, in against punchboards and they disappeared he must pay more for his The subject of raising more and better Frank Anderson and brothers of progress during the past ten years selling state lands to actual settlers. quickly. next visited He several goods, must pay interest on past due than any other agricultural county potatoes was taken up and a large Kansas, who were called here by wire establishments, where poker was Practically all the lands on the old list accounts, and passes the extra expense acreage of tubers is pledged for this in the* United States. to -see their aunt, Mrs. Neilson, arrived played and notified to close up them have been withdrawn from sale and oh to his customers. year, all' of one variety. In 1910 this county had 73,245 acres about midnight Monday. It took it" or land in jail. and "beat The in their stead will be offered this A dairy sire will be purchased in So I say again, cooperate'with your them over twelve hours to come from in farms, of which but 5,529 were actually proprietors closed up and hurriedly summer about 48,400 acres of land the near future. under plow. In 1920 there were merchant, but if he persists in run- the Falls. A car brought them out left. of known quality, selected with a Three-quarter mile of muskeg 152,507 acres in farms, with 22,450 view to giving the settler, the advantages road, leading out from the settlement acres under actual cultivation, an increase of close markets, good roads, to the Ellwell road has been graveled of per cent in total land. 108.2 school's, and other necessary facilities. through the cooperation of the Farm in farms and an increase of 306 per Any tract that is offered for Bureau unit and the county board. cent" in cultivated lajids. Beltrami sale that does not measure up to the county was second on the list, with A good hardwood floor laid in the requirements or does not offer the \V HERCULES an increase of 170.1 per cent in cultivated Waukanha schopl house ajid other Hercules-Aetna Dynamite settler the advantages enumerated lands, while Itasca county needed repairs are promised us by will be immediately withdrawn from came ^hird with 146.7 pe£ cent increase the county school board as soon as sale. The whole program is based in lands under the plow'. possible. on the state keeping absolute good But there still remains an immense The club members built a barn at faith with the settler. area of agricultural land in upper and Blasting Supplies the school house, capable of accomodating The hard fight made by the State Minnesota that is awaiting the actual all the teams likely to be at Immigration Department during the settler and if Koochiching county is public meetings here for some time past year against the land-sharks who going to maintain its' record of development to come. have been doing business in the state during the next decade Long- distance telephone connections is also beginning to bear fruit and some tall hustling and real cooperation with the Falls and outside points a number of the worst offenders have POWDER is going to be eequired. was also secured and a phone booth been successfully curbed. By far the Northern Minnesota will never be was installed at the Waukanha store. greater number of these, and certainly completely developed through individual the most vicious of them, are from A large membership in the clearing effort. It is going to require outside the state and cannot be and brushing campaign has been secured the active cooperation of all the various Do not hesitate about purchasing reached under our state laws. But and keen competition is assured. agencies, organizations, and private by persistently advertising the fact explosives for farm use. If you individuals financial and otherwise, that "the state employs no agents" Needed repairs on the depot were interested in that part of the and by otherwise hampering them in want a superior grade of explosives asked for and received. state as well as moral and financial their activities, we have succeeded in assistance from both the State and Keen interest is shown in the subject at a reasonable price we are in a putting a crimp in their nefarious practices the Federal Government. of raising cucumbers for the salting to such an extent that their Congress appropriates regularly station to be located at Northome. position to meet your requirements business has ceased to be profitable fabulous sums of public funds for the Director H. F. Clark, refusing to and a number of "purchasers' agents replamation of arid lands in the West at all times. accept the office again, Mrs. Frank for Minnesota State Lands" has been and Southwest and this very week is Sirvis was elected director, Mrs. Joe perceptibly decreased. considering the passage of an Act Giroux, vice-dirertor and Mr. J. R. When the good roads program was establishing an irrigation system that Mack was re-elected secretary at the passed two years ago a big step toward will cost millions and will reclaim recent annual' election. the permanent development of but a few thousand acres of land of For Sale By The above gives an idea of what Northern Minnesota was taken. What questionable value, while here in the are doing and a number of projects we need now is: cutover section of Minnesota, Wisconsin, A complete and thorough soil survey are under way which will develop and Michigan lies approximately P. D. Anderson, International Falls as time passes. of all unoccupied lands in the 5,000,000 acres of the finest state recognized as having agricultural The best work the Farm Bureau agricultural lands in the world that possibilities has done here is in the teaching of would productive beyond comparison be A classification of all vacant lands cooperation and promoting a more active if adequate drainage would be that in the opinion of experts, are community spirit. provided, but those westerners, cooperate—they at present suited to agricultural purposes We predict a more successful year pull together and get results, to come than the nine months past. of Minnesota, Wisconsin, while we An effective method of financing Our slogan is "Boost for Waukanha." and Michigan sit idiy and by the settler until such a thne as he is are apparently content with our lot. able to make a living out of his farm The writer hereof will never be fully J. R. Mack, for himself arid those dependent upon Waukanha, Minn. satisfied until some action is taken him to secure for Northern and Western Cooperation of the State and the BUYING CORN. Minnesota the same consideration at Federal Government in matters pertaining the hands of the Federal Government to drainage flood control, and Buying of corn for farm purposes that other and less productive sections the conservation of lakes and are now getting. should be conducted on the same streams and Neither has the State of Minnesota principle as buying other things needed An appropriation from the Legislature been playing fair with the northern on the farm, "and for best results to pernjit of the proper advertising and western parts of the state, and should be founded upon efficient and of the State's wonderful resources. here too, there is room for improvement. intelligent cooperation among the farmers themselves. In addition to If, after getting these things, the First policy cooperation there should be complete of all, the state land has state lands ever development organizations. been wrong. No varlous harmony. Put away all distrust both public and private, can be made should have been sold to anyone but have perfect faith in one another let to cooperate as they should, some excellent an actual settler. The state of Minnesota mutual trust and helpfulness prevail. work can be accomplished and is not so much interested in By cooperation in buying such much will be done toward putting Minnesota the amount of money it receives things as feed, cement, salt, dynamite, where she properly belongs— alone from tl^e sale of its lands as etc., larger single purchases at the head of the list of the great it is to bring these lands to the high can be made with consequent lesser agricultural states of the greatest state of productivity that their fertility prices and a smaller cost of handling. ^country on earth. warrants. A single acre of cultivated In addition to cooperation among land will, in a very few years, themselves there should be full cooperation WAUKANHA FARM BUREAU return a much larger amount into with the local dealer. If wncuia UNIT PROGRESSES the State Treasury in the shape of rightly approached he should Je more Vdded taxes than its original purchase than willing to get your^goods at a price from the state. At Waukanha there has been'an active saving to you and be satisfied with HE house you build will tell the world, in so many words, just what you are Then again, state lands should be farm club for the past five or a minimum profit. If it should happen —and in the end it will be either an asset—or a liability. kept out of the hands of the spec- six years. In that time the club has that the farmer body and the It is the decisions you make now, as to materials Which go into tint The Ruling Passion house, that will determine whether or not expenses begin or end, after it has been lived in a year. In offermg our services to you, we feel we are placing concrete assets at your desposal, because our experience with all kind of building materials qualifies us to ^advise you judiciously. i® Mr. Farmer—Make a list of your lumber wants and when you attend the Farm Bureau come in and see us. "u LUMBER SHINGLES MILL WORK LIME INSULITE CEMENT ROOFINGS SASHES c======== Falls Lumber & Coal Co. E am jl wi 1