«JL .*fl i7 vrr%i'f^iv-t''3.1:* i,Vjsf **3 {Most MxtWpblt ^lUuabli OcauMtm cfaH •SL^Sg-fS^ T" Jfrts tfjwutod TOE FARM BUREAU IS THE ON OF EARMERS THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN Wt&s* **d£&lI "V .«*» *1 r*Sfe*^ \m. *,*u INTERNATIONAL* FALLS, MI NN., THURSDAY. AUGUST 24, 1922 VOL. 14 4 NUMBER 10 •*&£ DEVELOPMENT IN TEE '*fJWI HOME US! gressive farm families. Yet there are Nerthwest company ceased in 8121, Homes many firm in .this county, not the troubles of the settlers continued. LITTLE FORK VALLEY BE ATTRACTIVE yetReeling the^ influence of these lifegiving It was ^6on found that hordes of grasshoppers afcid* he colonists could factors. It is the realization of not liVe happily on the same territory this need which has prompted the farm bureau in co-operation with especially when both must 'eat. By E, J. Chilgren, Editor qf.the |£^»Sa7« Miu Stbin, Dutrict Home Dent" Plagues of grasshoppers and rats the state, department of agriculture Littlefork Times. :%&• !«iutratioB Afent, in the Followiaf with the excessive cold and droughts to secure the services of 0. part-time Interesting Article. home, demonstration agent. This caused constant desertions. de­ A The evident productivity of the soil JB, home-economic^ maker is studying structive flood of the Red river in early attracted settlement to this section, Before agriculture and tfural life iC with home makers the needs of individual 1826-finally led tojthe departure of the one settler ante-dating 1894, and can reach it's highest development the largest group, 243 in number. homes and communities and a score or more settling in the loWer farm home and the rural community The refugees nearly- all migrated is thus able, by linking her technical valley during the summer of 1894 and must be made as efficient, as attractive skill with the practical experience of southward from Pembina. Some went the years immediately following. and as satisfying to the whole on down the Missippi river to Ga. the housewives, to co-operate in the Most of' these Settlers still reside on family as the farm is to the farmer. accomplishment of large results by lena and ofehe points, but a considerable the places selected and are prosperous To reach this goal there must be number settled near Fort providing a channel through which and contented. Th^pe have died and better rural schools, better roads, Snelling and became the first settlers the state agricultural college and th$ sofhe three of the original number better health ^facilities, more modern United States department pf agriculture in the oldest towns in the state! near have removed to'other localities. conveniences in the home, more attention the military reservation. can deal directly with rural This early' settlement, dating with to home beautification, and The Northome Co-operative Creamery is the oldest and largest creamery home makers. the firs? platting at International Falls, time more for play, for social life andv in Koochiching county- An article pertaining to this creamery1! and«the one constitutes the major portion of the Farm women want to broaden XUGUST, IN MINNE- hospitality among rut»l people. If the at Loman: appears on page 5 of section one of this issue. development here as elsewhere in the their outlook and keep up with the farm woman is to take her place in SOTA HMTORY county until 1903, when the county advancement of their children, not the social and civic life of her own added many fee-holders and a few by courses of study as in school but in family and the community which her community to seek the services 'By means of his influence with the actual settlers, this valley received liberal by bringing progressive ideas, methods, Aug.' 5, 1805—Lieutenant Z. M. Pike she lives, her work and the conditions of the home^. demonstration agent, Hudson Bay company, lerd Selkirk patronage at that date, due to its and facilities intjj the everydSy left St* Louis in charge of the first surrounding the Jyome must be and through organized meetings to secured an immense tract of land in comparatively well drained basin. work„and recreation of the home environment. American expedition to explore the so adjusted as to make this possible. discuss some of the various farm what is now the' northern part of The? village of Littlefork was established The intelligent women upper Mississippi rivor.Aug. Making life in the farm home satisfying home problems, the farm woman can Minnesota and North Dakota and the at this time,, and as indicative realizes that the home with a progressive is one big problem of the do i^iuch to keep informed,' attractive, province of Manitoba. To this 'El 1, 1820—Governor Cass of Michigan of. settlement required a one-room mother is one generation open country today, but with the. development and in harmony with life as the years Dorado" he sent groups of colonists* territory made a treaty of school. At this date nine rooms are ahead of the one with only a progressive of the farm bureau idea, advance. the first of whom arrived on August peace between the Sioux. and the used for school purposes and a $65,000.00 daughter I The farm woman now nation-wide in its influence, the 30, 1812. But1 the Northwest company, Ojibways of Fort St. Anthony, later high school is under construction. feels her isolation from- neighbors as farmer and his wife are begining to GRASSHOPPERS VERSUS a-rival of the/prosperous Hudson named Fort Snelling. well as from libraries and other study this problem more and more Bay company, regarded them COLONISTS' With the advent of the M. & I. railway means of keeping in touch* with outside Aug. 21, 1833—Rev. William T. Boutwell, closely. They are making use of the as intruders and soon started trouble. in 1907^8 the settlement was again life. The farm gaper or woman's a missionary, started, from LaPointe, farm bureau organization and the extension Promises and threats thinned the One hundred and t'pn years ago materially increased,.but the main start magazine are counted among her valued .Wisconsin, to labor for the service of the University for group of settlers. A bloody attack this month the first, settlers for! $he in real farming did not become noticable aids. She believes that farm wom- conversion* of the Pillager Chippewa on the colony resulted in the killing ill-fated Red eiveri colony, fostered by until 1916, dating with the Elwell th®sol"lng a" th.elr pr°b'e,"5-r, f'en should come together more often at Leech 4ake. Th* farm house .» a vital P'» ,ean fromJ of the governor and twenty of his the Scotch Earl of Selkirk, arrived road construction. $ince that time organized groups t0 Ahg. 26, 1884—The "Stillwater convention" the arm. The farmmg bus.ne?s is a gai„ a„ unders.and- company and drove the remainder near the site of their intended home. progress has kept pace with the improvement cach olher amJ to memorialized the jpresl fanuly matter and the wife is a nec- ni.„hl,me ,t,roulfh from their settlement at Fort Douglas. How the unfortunate- Scotch and Irish of the highways in the vatley. n( united dent and congress for a separate essary partner in that business it is Only the intervention of of Lord immigrants were .driven^ icpm their effprX. The former .deals, with other "T to be successful. The farm exists for territorial organization, and asked Selkirk yyith hired soldiers saved the homes by a jealous fur company, and A contributing factor of no small importance men, the children with associates at the home and the home for the farm that the new territory be named attempt at colonization from complete in thifcl progress was Ithe operation how a plague of. grasshoppers and school but the farmi woman because and! men, women, and children form, Minnesota. .. failure. Several groups of immigrants, rats, combined with a flood of ^he of the International Lumber CO., of her narrow range of duties anddistance a working unit with common interest including come Swiss families, with its logging-railways—the "Pea Red river, finally broke up the colony, from neighbors, forms the Aug. 21, i88i—& tornado wrecked and aims. The farm bureau, dealing attracted by the glowing promises is told by Dr. W. W. Fotwell in the Vine" to the north and northeast of habit of staying home and so feels many homes and caused the death with this-family unit and with community of agents, joined the remnants Littlefork, the "M. D. & W." to the first volume of his History of Minnesota, the need for congenial companionship. of twenty-six persons'in Olmstead groups, views home work as of the original band. recently published by the stafe south and north, and the "Bear River" county. Most of the destruction .• one phase of the farm problems. Men Historical society. While the interferenece of the extension to the west. Major operations By uniting with other women in was in Rochester. and boys work primarily with production on these lines ranged from in the business of farming 1910 to 1916. The first named opeded .TIE JINGLE OF FIFTEEN MILLION FARM DOLLARS IK THE NcCORNICK WALSKA WEDDING and women and' girls with utilization extensive tracts, which were completely and conservation in the business of denuded of their timber housekeepings but they all come together growth and in large measure burned in a iommon interest for a over, leaving the land comparatively ON COUNTRY AMERICA'S DOLLARS common goal—homemaking. Farming Son of Forme* Harvester King Splits easy to clear. Had highway construction and housekeeping %re not end? «i Fortune and Unmakes Two Marriages been possible immediately following j*** themselves, but necessary means to It is estimated Harold McCormick of Harvester Company, diced fifteen to Wed Woman of hi* this period an increased development the realization pf this goal. The farm Choice. would have resulted. million off fortune ta wed opera singer. bureau realizes this fact and the«*A The results attained in an agricultural the work of the county agricultural (Special to The Press) way a^e partially revealed when agent working for prosperity onvthe By ROBERT FULLER it is stated that one/can travel 13 farm and the home demonstration WTien Harold F. McCormick, son of mil#s to the southeast of Littlefork agent striving for efficiency in the old Cyrus McCormick, the inventor of without passing through any virgin house, the organization is creating the wheat binder, was married to forest worth spveaking of that one opportunities for richer and more Mme. Ganna Walska the other diy, can travel miles to the north finding 12 satisfying rural home and community there echoed the ciank of some fifteen similar conditions, and several million American farm dollars. miles in almost any other direction. The entire purpose of extension Country America is not much interested Along these highways, the arteries work. as it pretains to the home is in the doings of millionaires, of progress, are now found farms to help the home maker to so arrange but. the name McCormick is different ranging from a few acres to ISO acres. the various tasks in her housekeeping because it, is known in every farm Threshing machines and clover hullers that she may secure for herself, /. yard in the United States.( The McCormick keep pace with the requirements. her family and her community the Tractors and even power sprayers are millions are made up of dollars highest possible degree of health, paid in for farm machinery during in service. 4 happiness, and efficiency. The aim of the last half century. Dairy and beef cattle provide certain the home demonstration agent's, work 'A Willi and steady incomes, and data is What Man Do Low for as defined by Miss Lita Bane state ^The marriage of Harold McCormick establshing 8thlfoe stimate bd.aaa home demonstration leader in Illinois, to the thrice married Polish opera now being secured with a view toward shows how far reaching s*ch services establishing a creamery at Littlefork singer,( Ganna Walska is the story of FOR/AER. can be. Miss Bane says the aim of a man of great wealth* swayed by love ^nd the number of dairy cows "O such work is to have eve^y home who gave up one of. America's greatest so far reported is surprising to even '"^'.economically sound, ^echanicaHy the most optomistic. The only potato industrial positions, the presidency I MCCORMICK convenient, physically healthfu of the Internatiorial Harvester Co., warehouse in the county is located Harold Fs McCormick, until re- *?ANAIA WASKA.M-CORMICK»' morally wholesome, mentally stimulating in the valley at Littlefork. One stripped himself of a laVge part oj his cently qhairman of the Bqsard of ., Edith Rockefeller McDirectors and spiritually inspiring wtfh of the International Har- HAROLP r. Cormick prenuptial settlement upvester huge fortune and unmade two marriages silo is under construction on the mutual helpfulness and love:for a Company, is reported to his choice, Ganna Waska, the on his present bride and the cost farm of O. G. Olson, also the first in (his own and that of Mme. Walska), have sacrificed fifteen million dol- widow-divorcee opera singer. Mc of two divorces, his own. and also wf— -That creed is as manj-sided as the couiity to the knowledge ^of the in order to--wed the woman of i. lars of the fortune made off farm Cormick gave up these dollars ^n a his brides^ from Alexander Smith re.' homemaker's duties. writer. Saw mills and a woodworking his choice. SI machinery -to wed -the woman of financial arrangement with his first Cochran. Anyone who has experienced the factory, and establishments where It .is estimated that i{ cost him satisfaction, of living in the open she was not only beautiful and talented, suaded her to start action for divor.ee. timber products are marketed contribute Harold McCormick has sliced the Maybe Harold McCormick, blinded 'r It country knows that the average farm but possessed spirityal qualities Harvester King's fortune vin half to and swayed by love, is following a which was granted just three days before to the support of agriculture. 1,7if. Woman is more 'fortunately placed such as I had never before recognized last New Year. An outside property A full development awaits additional wed the:woman of his choice. will of the wjsp idea—imagining f'iV many ways than her average city^sis- in an/ human being,% McCormick is And h^ now says: "the ambition of quklities in voice which did not exist. settlement was then made which ty way, our has been great. progress The varied interests of the farth reported as having said. was reported to be almost half of the A full development awaits addttional my life is to see her recognized as v,,.r.- woman's life, her contact with,growW Mme. tjanna Walska was first married the greatest woman singer in the What do you think? McCormick fortune- roads. to a Russiatf General who was ing things, her enjoyment of PC«onal McCormick ytill holds his former world." $15,000,000. Thesef figures include the F&R •k changes in nature, and her freedom killed in action. Next she married Dr. KOOCHICHING COUNTY That means he will 9pend the rest settlement with his former yrife a father-in-law, John D., Sr. ia^ high regard Praenkel who died in 1920. Later she The Koochiching county fair will be •J rf from noise, dust and confusion is not of the MqCormick millions if necessary. settlement of $5,000,000 on his new and onlj^ recently, said he was held at Northome on Sept. 19, 20 and^ to be lost sight of in comparing her married Alexander Smith Cochran, sure the former oil king sympathized for her success—or failure. wife and the cost of the two divorces.' 21st. The fair committee has made and opportuntties ^with millionaire bacttelor^ from whom she conditions And there is thevrub. Harold McCormick's first wife was: with him. recently was divorced by a French extensive preparations for t|iis event those of home makers of urban communftes. Edftji Rockefeller McCoribick, 'the Harold McCormick met Ganna Edith Rockefeller, daughter of J. .D. and it is expected that the attractions Marked progress has been court. Walska in 192D. She called him on spurned: wife, from her high social Rockefeller, the world's .richest man. will be bigger and better than any 'made in the past few years in rising Ambition to make her Greatest Singer throne can have a finger in the success McCormick Finally Gets Dhont the phone and asked him to help her previous year. Quite a number of rural standards of lwipg. Mod- There is an old saying that the or failure of her former husband's realize the ambition of her life to The RockefellerTamily is much opposed home people from International Falls as lHern resources such as the telephone, third generation df the rich are usua love bride when the latter is ready score a success on the operatic stage. to divorce^—still it was J[ohn D. well as the surrounding territory are automobile modern farm .machinery a in a for her grand opera test, "From that meeting began, my acquaintance Rockefeller, Jr., whd finally went to planning on visiting Northome during A'and community centers are being en- (Lnd Wll, this prove true with the Mc But iviU she? Maybe i't. will not Chicago after a brief and vigor­ with the woman I determined) the fair. tyedjy marfy,prosperous, and pro- Cormicks? be necessary ous conference with his sister, per to make my„ wife. I.found that .fe-nsy