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VOLUME XXXII. 12 18. GRAND RAPIDS, ITASCA COUNTY, MINNESOTA, NOVEMBER 23, 1921. TWO DOLLARS A»YEAR
NAME DATES
OF MEETINGS
Educational Campaign for
Brushing and Seeding Be
gins Saturday—Two Crews
of Speakers Will Go Out.
WILL GIVE PRIZES
Substantial Inducements Of
fered Enterprising Farmers
and Communities—All Sec
tions Will Be Visited—Good
Speakers Provided.
Beginning on Saturday of this week
a campaign of educational meetings
will be conducted in all parts of Itas
ca county, in an effort to induce far
mers in the cut-over sections to clear
up brush land and seed it to grass.
This is recognized as the initial step
in preparing lands for farming, and
in removing the menace of forest fires,
which thrive best in slashings, where
brush remains to offer a foothold for
the flames.
This campaign is sponsored by the
agricultural extension division of the
state university, and in this county by
the Itasca County Land Clearing as
sociation, as well as the different farm
bureau units of the county. The exec
utive committee of the land clearing
association met last Saturday after
noon and mapped out a plan for the
meetings that will give every farmer
in the county an opportunity to at
tend. Sessions will be held in the
forenoon in some instances, and in
the afternoon and evening of almost
every day until all sections of the
county are visited. Two crews of
-speakers will be out, and definite dates
assigned to each.
Substantial prizes are offered to the
farmers and to the communities where
the most results are attained. Five
counties are included in the brushing
and seeding campaign, Itasca, St
Louis, Lake, Cook and Beltrami. A
No. 2 wheelbarrow stump puller will
be given by a manufacturing concern
in Duluth to the man in the five coun
ties named who brushes and seeds the
largest acreage. Fifty pounds of
timothy seed is offered by a St. Paul
firm to the individual in each of the
five counties that excells, while a seed
firm in Minneapolis has donated S2O
for prizes. The Dupont Powder com-
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TIMBER SALE HAS
SPIRITED BIDDING
Loggers Bid for Selections of
State Timber—Deputy
Auditor Here.
Timber on several tracts of state
land was offered for sale last Satur
day, the sale occurring in the court
house and being conducted by Otto H.
Diercks, in charge of the sale of state
timber stumpage. A number of log
gers from different parts of the coun
ty appeared to bid on desired tracts,
and the sale was enlivened by a num
ber of competitions for certain tracts.
Twelve lots of timber were offered,
and all were sold with the exception
of two. Loggers who bought timber
were John Kivisari of Marcell; Peter
Peterson, John Fleming, Jake Riegel
and Peter Olson of Deer River; the
National Pole company; James Reid
of Bigfork; and Sid Williams of Effie.
A small tract of land on which
there was som^ pulpwood stumpage,
and located along the Minneapolis &
Rainy River railroad, a short distance
north of Bigfork, brought the most
competition. The timber on this land,
which is in Section 10-61-26, was sold
to Peter Peterson of Deer River for
30 per cent more than the appraised
price of $1.75 a cord. James Reid
paid 20 per cent more than the ap
praised price of the timber on forty
acres in Section 24-61-26, and Peter
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FINDS TIMES ARE
PROSPEROUS HERE
Otto H. Diercks, state superin
tendent of timber and timber sales,
was in Grand Rapids last Saturday
to conduct the sale of timber on
several tracts of state land. Mr.
Diercks knows the timber situation
thoroughly, as he gained his expe
rience in mills and camps along the
north border of the state.
In speaking of financial condi
tions in the state, Mr. Dieptks said
that Grand Rapids was to be con
gratulated. He found, upon inves
tigation, that money appeared eas
ier, and business conditions in gen
eral better, in Itasca county, par
ticularly in Grand Rapids, than
elsewhere in the state. Concerning
the timber situation for this com
ing season, Mr. Diercks does not
believe that there will be much ac
tivity until after the first of the
year, at least, but thinks that after
that time a moderate revival in
this industry may be expected, and
further that next year’s building
may be expected to so absorb pres
ent stoeks of lumber that a year
from this winter ’will find camps
working in all their old-time vigor.
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YOUNG MAN KILLED
WHILE OUT HUNTING
Oscar Kostamo of Trout Lake
Found Dead in Woods
Near Home.
Fatal hunting accidents in Itasca
county were not reported from any
source from deer hunters, but Oscar
A. Kostamo, a young farmer of Trout
Lake township, was accidentally shot
last Sunday morning while hunting
rabbits near his home. The young
man, who was 24 years of age, left
home to attend to some snares he had
set for rabbits. When he did-not re
turn after some time, his parents be
came alarmed and his father went in
search of him. Followings the tracks
a short distance, the father came upon
the body of his son lying in the snow.
. From the appearance of the body,
the unfortunate man had pulled his
weapon, a shotgun, through the brush
toward himself, and it had exploded
from catching in some brush. The
entire upper part of the face and the
top of the head was blown away.
Death had been instantaneous, as
there was no evidence in the snow of
any struggle.
Sheriff Carson of Grand Rapids and
Deputy Coroner E. R. Blair of Cole
raine were summoned to the scene of
the accident, but no inquest was held,
as death was deemed accidental.
WOLF HUNTERS ARE
BRINGING THEM IN
Average Nearly Two a Day
During November—Major
ity Are Shot.
That mny of the deer hunters who
have been out in the woods of Itasda
county are watching for wolves as
well as deer is shown by the number
of pelts that are brought or sent to
the office of the county auditor in or
der to receive the bounty. With $lO
paid for bounty on male wolves, and
fifteen on females, a well-directed shot
is profitable.
On Tuesday afternoon, the thirty
seventh wolf skin for the present
month was received by the auditor’s
office, and the bounty paid. A large
majority of the wolves brought in for
bounty are shot, though a number of
them have been trapped in different
parts of the county. Emil Maki, who
was hunting south of Calumet, was
one of the lucky hunters. He secured
two female wolves in one day last
week, getting an opportunity to shoot
them while hunting deer.
In former years, N. D. Fairbanks of
Goodland, known as a very successful
wolf trapper, brought m any wolf
hides in for the bounty, but Mr. Fair
banks has transferred his trapping
operations in the Little Swan coun
try, several miles north of Hibbing,
where there are many wolves.
LOCAL AUTHOR HAS
STORY IN “JUDGE”
Arthur R. Otis Gaining Recog
nition in Periodical Lit
erary Field.
“Two Nips of Home Brew” is the
name of a story which appeared as
the first feature short story in “Judge”
for Nov. 26, 1921, and is from the
pen of Arthur R. Otis of Grand Rap
ids. Mr. Otis, who with his mother
lives on a farm on beautiful Sugar
lake, has been doing considerable
writing and his stories have appeared
in various publications from time to
time. x
The story which appears in the cur
rent issue of “Judge” is in the form
of a personal reminiscence by the
writer and there is no mistaking the
application of the location to Grand
Rapids and the Otis farm on Sugar
lake.
Friends of Mr. Otis are pleased in
deed to see the success which he is
having. He is just breaking into “fast
company” in the magazine world and
no doubt more of his stories will ap
pear in leading periodicals before
many years have passed.
CONFERENCE SEEKS
MORE FARM RELIEF
State Convention of County
Agents Indorses Township
Unit Idea.
A. H. Frick, who returned last
week from attending the state con
vention of county agents, held at
University farm, is more than ever
impressed with the need for perfect
ing the township unit idea in farm
bureau work. The convention was at
tended by a large number of county
aeents from different parts of Min
nesota, and a marked spirit of en
tnusiasm and confidence was mani
fest.
The problem put before the conven
tion by F. W. Peck, director of agri
cultural extension at University farm,
was how to give the man and woman
on the most distant Minnesota farm a
real voice and increasing influence in
agricultural and public affairs. The
answer, as given by a large majority
of the county agents, was to strength
en the township or community units,
making them real factors in the lives
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THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION
By President Warren G. Harding
/ytYRESIDENT HARDING issued a proclamation designating Thursday, Nov. 24,
4 J as a day of thanksgiving, devotion and prayer and urging the people to
Tv give thanks “for all that has been rendered unto them” and to pray “for a
continuance of the divine fortune which has been showered so generously upon
<_ this nation.”
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“That season has come when, alike in pursuance of a devout people’s time-honored
custom and in grateful recognition of favoring national fortunes, it is proper that the
president should summon the nation to a day of devotion, of thanksgiving for blessings
bestowed and of prayer for guidance in modes of life, that may deserve continuance of
divine favor.
“Foremost among our blessings is the return of peace and the approach of normal
days again. The year has brought us again into relations of amity with all nations, after
a long period of struggle and turbulence. In thankfulness therefore, we may well unite in
the hope that providence will vouchsafe approval to the things we have done, the aims
which have guided us, the aspirations which have inspired us. We shall be prospered
as we shall deserve prosperity, seeking not alone for the material things, but for those
of the spirit as well, earnestly trying to help others, asking before all else, the privilege
of service. As we render thanks anew for the exaltation which came to us, we may fit
tingly petition that moderation and wisdom shall be granted to rest upon all who are in
authority, in the tasks they must discharge. Their hands will be steadier, their purposes
strengthened in ariswer to our prayers.
“Ours has been a favored nation in the bounty which God has bestowed upon it %
The great trial of humanity, though indeed we bore our part well as we were able, left
us comparatively little scarred. It is for us to recognize that we have been thus fa
vored and when we gather at our altars to offer up thanks, we will do well to pledge, in
humility and all sincerity, our purpose to prove deserving. We have been raised up and
preserved in national power and consequence, as part of a plan whose wisdom we can
not question. Thus believing, we can do no less than hold our nation the willing instru
ment of the providence which has so wonderfully favored us. Opportunity for very great
service awaits us if we shall prove equal to it. Let our prayers be raised for direction
in the right paths. Under God, our responsibility is great; to our own first, to all men
afterward; to all mankind in God’s own justice.
“Now, therefore, I, Warren G. Harding, President of the United States, here desig
nate Thursday, the twenty-fourth day of November, to be observed by the people as a
day of Thanksgiving, devotion and prayer; urging that at their hearthsides, and their
altars, they will give thanks for all that has been rendered unto them, and will pray for
a continuance of the divine fortune which has been showered so generously upon this
nation.
“In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the seal
of the United States of America.
“Done at the capital of the United States, this 31st day of October, in the year of our
Lord, nineteen hundred and twenty-one, and of the independence of the United States,
the one hundred and forty-sixth.
CENSUS REPORTS
ARE INTERESTING
Character and Composition of
Population Shown in
Figures.
A recent report from the bureau
of the census contains some figures
that are of interest, particularly to
those who are inclined to compari
sons. The report deals with the popu
lation of Minnesota by counties and
cities, and tells of the number of
foreign born and native citizens, the
total number of Indians, and much
other information of value.
Itasca county has a population, ac
cording to the 1920 census, of 23,876
persons. Of these 17,017 were born
in the United States, and 6,406 were
bom in some foreign country. To
these must be added 448 Indians, and
a number, not given, of Negroes, al
though there are but a few in the
county. The total population of the
county in 1910 was but 17,208, which
indicates a satisfactory growth.
More than twenty countries are
represented in the foreign born pop
ulation of Itasca county. Finland
leads in numbers, with 1,607 Finns
born in Europe and now living here.
Sweden is second with 1,083, and Nor
way third with 618. Other countries
that are well represented here are
Jugo-Slavia 588, Italy 481, Canada
625, Austria 389, Czecho-Slovakia
140, England 121, Ireland 73 and Po
land 71. The other European coun
tries contributed smaller numbers to
the population here.
Out of a total population in Min
nesota of 2,387,125, there are 486,164
foreign bora whites. A comparison
of figures would indicate that Itasca
county has a larger percentage of
foreign born persons than the state
average.
TIME LIMIT SET ON
VETERAN INSURANCE
Reinstatement Possible Until
January I—Conversion
of Policies.
It is possible for former service
men who have permitted their gov
ernment insurance to lapse to rein-
state it, if they act promptly. Word
has been received from C. D. Hibbard,
district manager for Minnesota, to
the effect that such insurance may be
reinstated at any time up to Jan. 1,
1922.
In «order to be reinstated, it is nec
essary for the applicant to pay two
months’ premiums, and pass the re
quired physical examination. Those
who are unable to pass the examina
tion on account of a disability re
ceived in or aggravated by military
or naval service may reinstate their
insurance by paying all premiums due
from the date of lapse to the present
time, together with- interest at 5 per
cent per annum on premiums due.
Term insurance may be converted
into other forms, such as endowment
or 20-payment or 30-payment life,
without medical examinations.
Conversion into any one of these
forms may be made at any time prior
to March 4, 1926, but inasmuch as it
is to the advantage of the insured to
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amation follows:
MUNICIPAL RINK
LOOKS ASSURED
Funds Secured to Start Work
—Volunteer Help Essen
tial Now.
Grand Rapids is to have a municipal
skating rink, or at least the only
thing that will prevent it is the
chance that volunteer workers refuse
to come out to help clear the snow
off the ice to begin with. Ice lake is
the place. The call is made for 9
o’clock tomorrow morning, Thanks
giving day. Several high school boys
have volunteered to be there. If a
dozen or more town folks turn out
at that hour to put in a half day’s
work the rink is assured. A team is
also needed.
The Grand Rapids Woman’s club
started the contribution box with $25
and more funds will be solicited. R.
F. Cogswell of the high school has
agreed to take charge of the work
and volunteers are to report to him
tomorrow morning. The snow is not
deep on the lake and a suitable rink
will be cleared and kept cleared all
winter or as long as there is patron
age. A warming house is already on
the lake and is the property of the
Woman’s club. It may be moved to a
location at the foot of Hoffman ave
nue.
If Grand Rapids people want a
good skating rink they should be on
hand tomorrow morning to help do
the preliminary work.
John Nelson, forest ranger in
Itasca and part of Cass counties, was
a visitor in Grand Rapids last Sat
urday. Mr. Neklm brought word of
the organization of a new ranger dis
trict, with headquarters in Brainerd.
He has been asked by State Forester
W. T. Cox to go to Brainerd and or
ganize the new district, so expects to
leave Deer River soon. Mr. Nelson
has been connected with the state for
ester’s office in this county for the
past six years, and has a wide ac
quaintanceship with the district and
its needs. While the move to Brain
erd spells promotion, his friends in
Itasca county are selfish enough to
want him to remain here.
Leaves for Brainerd.
ONE WAY TO SAVE EVIDENCE
Phil Griffin, chief of police in
Nashwauk, cannot be balked by
wily moonshiners who would de
stroy the evidence. When he made
a raid on the Marco Bolf soft drink
parlors in Nashwauk, the other
day, Bo’f is alleged to have in
structed his young son to break
the jugs that contained the moon
shine. The boy grabbed the stove
poker, so the tale runs, and smash
ed the jugs. Not to be outdone in
cleverness, Griffin snatched up a
towel and sopped up the fast escap
ing evidence, wringing the towel
out into a dish, and securing about
a pint of moonshine, which he bot
tled to be used at the trial.
It is. said that a number of
charges will be preferred against
Bolf, and against Eli Rokela,
who was also arrested. Rokela
pleaded guHty to some of the
charges, and was fined over S2OO
in municipal court in Nasßwauk.
BAD MEN OPERATE
NEAR RANGE TOWNS
Cottages and Stores Robbed
During Past Weeks—One
Gang Taken.
There have been a number of rob
beries reported during the past few
weeks, particularly in the vicinity of
the range towns in Itasca county, and
in territory easily reached from those
towns. Summer cottages have been
opened and contents removed, live
stock stolen and butchered, and stores
robbed of goods, which were hauled
away in trucks or cars. Only one
gang has been apprehended, though
the police of the different towns and
Sheriff Carson and his deputies are
following up clues in a number of
the other cases.
Last week three hogs belonging to
O’Reilley & Mitchell, road contractors,
w T ere stolen from the camp between
Marble and Calumet. Search re
vealed the carcasses of the hogs con
ceaeld in a straw pile on the K. O.
Pelto farm, a short distance south of
Marble. Upon being arraigned^ in
court in Marble, Pelto pleaded guilty
to a charge of petty larceny. Two
others, thought at first to have been
implicated, were released and not
brought to trial.
Several cottages at Swan lake, a
short distance from Nashwauk, have
been entered, and furniture stolen.
One cottage, owned by Mr. Murray of
Hibbing, was robbed of all its contents
except a cook stove. Others in that
vicinity fared nearly as badly. A
couple of weeks ago the store of Karon
& Jaffe, in Calumet, was entered dur
ing the night, and a load of merchan
dise taken. One store in Wawina was
robbed twice within a month, and the
same car used to carry away the
goods, judging from the tire tracks
that led away and towards the range.
COMMERCIAL CLUB
IS KEEPING BUSY
Will Assist Band Next Year-—
Takes Up Other Import
ant Matters.
At a meeting of the Grand Rapids
Commercial club, held Tuesday even
ing, it was decided that the club
would assist the Grand Rapids City
band at least to the extent of SBOO
during the year 1922. A committee
from the band, consisting of Charles
King and A. L. Wellien, appeared in
behalf of that organization, and
agreed that this 'amount, with the
SSOO that will be received from the
village, would be enough to assure
support.
In naming a budget and expenditure
committee for 1922, H. D. Powers, A.
C. Bossard and B. L. Lieberman were
'chosen. These men will have an op
portunity to make their plans, and
get details completed, before making
up their budget for next year.
An additional appropriation of $250
was made to the Ten Thousand Lakes
association. This is the second ap
propriation of this sum that has been
made to this association during the
present year.
A committee consisting of E. C.
Kiley, H. D. Powers and George F.
Kremer was named to act in the
matter of concluding negotiations be-
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CHRISTMAS CAROLS
AND TREE PLANNED
Everyone to Take Part in Sing
ing—Tree Near Pokegama
Hotel.
If plans that are now under way
are carried out successfully Grand
Rapids will have, for the first time
in history of the village, a Community
Christmas tree and Christmas carols.
Committees from all the churches in
the village met on Tuesday afternoon
at the library to consider the matter
and it was decided to ask the village
council to furnish a large tree and
the lights for the tree. It is planned
to have the carols sung only by chil
dren’s voices. A committee was ap
pointed to get a song leader and a
cornetist to lead the singing on Christ
mas eve.
The committee will ask the council
to put the Christmas tree in the
boulevard across from the Pokegama
hotel, as that is the most central and
conspicuous place in the village. It is
planned to have the singing about
4:30 o’clock in the afternoon, as it
will be twilight at that time and the
lights will show well. There will be
another meeting of the committees
from the churches after the meeting
of the village council on Dec. 8 and
definite plans will be announced then.
RED CROSS DRIVE
TO BE CONTINUED
Local Quota Not Reached as
Yet—Sale Will Continue
Until Dec. 1.
The final date for the close of the
Red Cross drive for funds will be
postponed until the first of Decem
ber in order that the citizens of Grand
Rapids may buy their buttons and
thus, raise the membership to the
standard of last year, if not higher.
The response has not been as strong
as was expected and the longer time
will give the late givers time to get
their membership. Last year the,
membership here was 150 and it is
hoped that at least that many can be
secured this year.
C. C. McCarthy has given several
talks during the past week in behalf
of the Red Cross and the local chap
ter takes occasion to thank Mr. Mc-
Carthy through the columns of the
Herald-Review for his splendid work
They wish to thank the girls who
sold buttons at the show and at the
high school and also wish to thank
Mr. Gumm for shownig Red Cross
films at the New Grand on Sunday.
The work of gathering memberships
will be pushed harder than ever this
week and everyone who has not a
button and membership should secure
it at once. The stores and the Po
kegama hotel have the buttons for
sale.
BUDGET BLANKS
YET AVAILABLE
Small Supply at Postoffice for
Distribution to Ap
plicants.
Postmaster E. C. Kiley reports that
there is still a limited supply of the
household budget blanks at the post
office that can be secured by making
early application. There is no charge
for these blanks, which are furnished
to anyone who will agree to give this
system of keeping household accounts
a fair trial.
A number of people from out of
town have sent in by mail for the
blanks, which have been sent out to
them. Mr. Kiley says that young
couples just starting housekeeping
will find this system of keeping the
household books of particular advan
tage. By making up the records care
fully each month, it will be possible
to know every item of expense, and
to calculate ahead in order to save for
the emergencies that are likely to
arise.
The first applicants will receive the
sets of blanks that are still on hand
at the postoffice.
OLIVER WILL OPEN
MINE AT KEEWATIN
Immediate Development of
Open Pit—Comprises One
Forty Acre Tract.
The Oliver Iron Mining company
will begin at once the develop
ment of a mine in the village of Kee
watin. Machinery to be used in strip
ping the mine is being prepared and
will be on the ground in about a
week, when actual stripping opera
tions will begin.
The property which will be opened
in Keewatin is not a large one, com
prising but a forty-acre tract. The
ore, however, is said to be of good
grade and desirable for shipping.
One large shovel will be used in strip
ping this mine, and a number of men
will be given immediate employment.
This property to be stripped lies im
mediately south of the St. Paul mine
property and is the closest to the busi
ness center of any of the Keewatin
mines. The tract to be stripped bor
ders on the baseball park, just to the
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MANY MATTERS
CLAIM BOARD
Multitude of Details Take Time
of County Commissioners in
Meeting of Tuesday—Peti
tions for Roads Received.
ALLOW MANY CLAIMS
Final Awarding of Damages on
Babcock Roads Takes Pa
tience-Depositories of Coun
ty Funds Proffer Bonds—
Will Build Bowstring Dam.
Though there did not appear to be
much business in sight for the county
board to attend to when they met
Tuesday morning, a full day was re
quired to take up the multitude of
details that came before the board for
their action.
Two road petitions were presented
to the board for their consideration.
One, brought in by Carl Richter, was
for a road south and east of the Split
hand lakes. This road will accommo
date a number of settlers in that ter
ritory. The petition was referred to
P. C. Warner, county surveyor, for
his consideration. The second peti
tion was for a road north and south
through the center of Section 36,
Township 58, Range 23. As this sec
tion has been subdivided, the engi
neer was able to give an immediate
report, and approved the route. A
committee hearing will be held on
Dec 9, and final consideration on
Dec. 27.
A number of sectional surveys were
accepted, other petitions received, and
ordered to take their regular course,
and one such petition rejected. This
was for Section 32, Township 56,
Range 25.
Depository bonds were accepted
from a number of banks. Financial
institutions included were the Ameri
can National of Nashwauk, the Capi
tal Trust & Savings bank of St. Paul,
the Capital National bank of St. Paul,
and the First National bank of Min
neapolis. Funds from the sale of road
bonds are on deopsit in the last three
named.
A number of applications for dam
ages because of the Babcock roads,
in different parts of the county, were
received. Some of these were al
lowed, some rejected, and some laid
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STATE LAND SALE
HAS FEW BUYERS
Ten Descriptions Find Purchas
ers—One Tract Is Im
proved Land.
Very few persons attended the sale
of state lancLon Monday at the court
house. This was the last sale of the
season, and no more regular sales will
be held till next March. There is but
a small amount of state land offered
or on the list at the present time,
though more has been appraised, and
will likely be added at the spring
sales, which commence in March.
Six forties of land in Township 146,
Range 26, were sold to parties living
in lowa and Southern Minnesota.
Competition was marked in bidding
on one forty-acre tract near Dora
lake. The purchaser, Joe Bart, who
lives only a short distance from the
land in question, was compelled to
pay $6.50 an acre, an increase of a
half dollar an acre over the appraised
price.
One tract of improved land, where
there are five acres cleared, with two
grubbed and plowed, was sold. This
went to Clinton A. Crow of Fort
Dodge, low^. This land is in Section
16, Township 148, Range 25, and is
near Jessie lake. A. H. Herrly of
Grattan, who already owns some state
land east of that place, bought an
other tract on which there is some
timber, to add to his present holdings.
The sale was conducted by S. C Bailey
of Bemidji, with Thomas Erskine,
county auditor, as clerk of the sale.
FARMER MEMBERS
ASKED TO VOTE
County Agent A. H. Frick is ask
ing that particular attention be
given by members of the Itasca
County rarm bureau to the blank
ballot printed in the last issue of
the Farm Bureau News, which was
mailed to all members last week,
fh.s ballot is in regard to legaliz
ing the unit form of the Farm Bu
reau, and is a referendum as to a
change in the constitution.
It is particularly desired that the
members of the Bureau vote on the
proposition, tear out the ballot and
mail it to Mr. Frick at as early a
date as possible. The results of
the vote are wanted in the office of
the county agent by the close of
this month, so that announcement
of the result of the state-wide vote
can be made at the annual meeting
in January. If you believe that
the unit idea, which is working out
so successfully in this county, is
good for the entire state, vote to
indicate this, and send your ballot
in at once.