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RACK SIGHT
COWS HOLD WORLD
BUTTER RECORDS
Five Greatest of Each
Breed Are Listed
GREAT DAIRY GALAXY
Report Compiled By Head Milk
ing Husbandry, University
Of Illinois
[Associated Press Dispatch.]
Urbana. 111., January 6. —The five
greatest butter cows of each breed
have been listed here by Professor W.
W. Yapp, of the department of dairy
bus Landry at tne University of Illin
ois. They make a galaxy undreamed
of by the farmer of fifteen years ago,
so fast have these world beating cows
developed. All but one hail from the
United States.
•The breeds of dairy cattle vary so
widely in their ability xo produce milk
that it is out of the question to com
pare them on that basis,” says Prof.
Yapp in prefact to his table. ‘The
hotter fat production of the various
breeds Is not so different however,
•ad if we use fat as the standard they
may be more readily compared.
•The accompanying table shows the
ftee leading butter fat producing cows
of each breed. It is interesting to ob
serre that all of the breeds with the
weapfinn of one, the Ayshire, have an
average production per cow for the
ftva Mated in excess of 1000 pounds of
fkt Those of us whose memory goes
baak ten or a dozen years recall that
there wasn't a cow which had pro
duced a thousand .pounds of fat at
that time. The five greatest butter
fat producing cows of each breed. The
name of the cow, milk pounds, fat
pounds, and the name of the cast
owner are gWen in tbeir order:
Melatein Frieatlans Yearly Record
Bella Pontiac, No. 4632; C. H. B.
27017.0; Thomas A. Barron. Branford,
Ontario.
Duchess Shylark Ormsby, No.
134514; 17761.7; 1205.00; John B. Ir
win. Minneapolis, Minn.
Finderne Pride Johanna Rue, No.
111063; 18403.7; 1176.47; Bernard
Heyer, Finderne, N. J.
Segis Pleterje Prospect, No. 221846;
37881.4; 1158.05; Cornation Stock
Farm, Seattle, Wash.
Finderne Holigen Fayne, No.
144551; 24612.8; 1116.05; Bernard
Meyer, Finderne. N. J.
Average Production, 29035.3; 1183.11.
Guernseys
Countess Prue, No. 43785 18626.2;
1193.45; F. L. Howes, Croton, Mass.
*'w no Gowan, No. 19597 24008.0;
10fF.18; O. C. Barber, Barberton, O.
[ >y Rilma. No. 22761; 19673.0;
■<“.’,4l; T. P. Crosier, Upland, Pa.
'■ ”a Jay 4th, No. 38233; 20709.9;
25; T. W. & I. W. Roberts, Phil
'■Ma. Pa.
■ 'water Maney, No. 27943;
■ 5; 1011.66; A. T. Herd, New
no. Pa.
.•n age Production 20300.1;
.15.
Jersey*
’ain Mery, No. 268206; 15256;
fO.08; Ayrdale Stock Farrii, Bangor,
Vive La France, No. 319616; 15272;
1039.29; Pickard Brothers, Marion,
Ore.
Lady Silken Glow; 14939; Y 038.7;
Pickard Brothers, Marion, Ore.
Sophie’* Agnes, No. 296759; 16212;
1000.07; Ayrdale Stock Farm, Bangro,
Me.
Sophie 19th of Hood, Farm Nd.
189748; 17557; 999.10; C. H. Hood,
Lowell, Mass.
Average Production, 15847; 1023.44.
Ayrshire*
Lfly of WlHowmoor, No. 22269;
22596.0- 955.56; J. W a Clise, Red
mond, Wash.
Anchenbrain Brown Kate 4th, No.
27944; 23022.0; 917.60; Penhurst
FUnn«, Narbeth, Pa.
Gavdaugh May Mischief, No. 27944;
25229.0; 894J1; Penhurst Farms
Narbeth. Pa.
Anchenbrain Yellow Kate 3rd No.
96910; 21123.0;' 888.33; Penhurst
Farms, Narbeth, Pa.
Jeah Armour 3rd, 21938.0; 859.65;
W. P. ftehanck, Avon, N. Y.
Average Production, 22801.6 ; 903.21.
Greatest Butterfat Producer*
Fifteen of the sixteen greatest but
terfat producing cows in the world —
every one of them a super edw—are
to be found in the United States, re
ports Prof. W. W. Yapp of the Univer
sity of Illinois in an inquiry he con
ducted for The Associated Press. The
leader of the list, however, hails from
Onada, Great as these cows are, the
future will produce even greater. Prof.
Yapp predicts. Prefacing his list, the
Illinois dairy husbandry expert says:
“The only common ground upon
which it seems advisable to attempt
to compere cows is better fat produc
tion. It is not possible nor practicable
to compare cows on the basis of milk
yield inasmuch as the breeds differ
so marketly that both quantity and
quality of the milk which they pro
duce. They are very similar however,
in their total butterfat production.
“It is a long jump from one-hundred
pounds to 1200 pounds of butterfat.
Yet this amount just about represents
the difference in production between
the primitive cow and our present day
marvels. What would those original
cows think and more particularly,
what would their owners thjnk if they
■ could see our newest super-cows.
Hold* Highest World Record
“The accompanying table gives the
sixteen cows regardless of breed, age,
ownership or location which have the
largest butterfat productions for the
yearly period. It is extremely inter
esting to observe that Bella Pontiac,
for instance, the highest butterfat
producing cow in the world, would
supply butter sufficient to feed twen
ty-four averages families of four
members each for the entire year, and
that any one of the cows would feed
twenty-families allowing 16% pounds
butter per person per year, which is
the approximate average consumption
according to the United States cir
cular No. 65 for 1918.”
The sixteen greatest butterfat pro
ducing cows In the world are thus re
corded by the Illinois professor:
Yearly Record
Cow Milk Pounds Fat Pounds Last
Owner
1— Bella Pontiac. No. 46321 C. H. B.
H. 27017.0; 1259.00; Thos. A. Barron
Branford. Ontario.
2 Duchess Skylark Ormsby, No.
I
12414; H. 27761.7; 1205.00; J. B. Ir
win, Minneapolis, Minn.
3. —Finderne Pride Johanna Rue,
No. 121033; H. 28403.7; 1176.47;
Bernard Meyer, Finderne, N. J.
4.—Segis Pletertje Prospect, No.
221846; H. 37381.4; 1158.95; Carna
tion Stock Farms, Seattle, Wash.
5. —Finderne Holigen Fayne, No.
144551; H. 24612.8; 1116.05; Bernard
Meyer, Finderne, N. J.
6. —Queen Plebe Mercedes, No.
154610; H. 30230.2; 1111.56; E. C.
Schroader, Moorehead, Minn.
7. —Countess Prue, No. 43785; G.
18626.9; 1103.28; F. L. Howies, Gra
ton, Mass.
8. —Mume Cowan, No. 19597; G.
24008.0; 1098.18; O. C. Barber, Bar
berton, O.
9. O. K. L. Pearl lula. No. 265487;
H. 27389 2; 1093.40; Julius Schmidt,
Montgomery, N. Y.
10. —Emeretta Korndyke De Koi,
No. 189227; H. 28035.7; 1077.55;
Winterhur Farms, Winterhur, Del.
11. —One Button De Koi, No. 115939;
H. 26761.2; 1076.44; Peter Small,
Chesterland, O. ,
12. —Maple Crest Pontiac Applica
tion, No. 141158; H. 23421.2; 1075.44;
Ralph King, Mentor, Ohio.
13. May Rilma, No. 22761; G.
19673.0; 1073.41; J. P. Crozier, Up
land, Pa.
14. —Anna Lenox De Koi 2nd, No.
153318,-H. 29162.7; 1073.3; Harry
Yates, N. J. Orchard Park.
15. —Aaggie Riverside 2nd, No.
164467; H. 24690.0; 1065.42; A. W.
Morries & Sons Corp. Woodland, Cal.
16. —Wisconsin Pride 2nd No.
427126; H. 29502.9; 1062.35; John
Erickson, Waupaca, Wis.
H. Holstein. G. Guernsey.
“One might rightfully ask. will the
world ever see greater producing
cows than these?” Professor Yapp
adds. "Undoubtedly yes. We need
only to go back ten or a dozen years
to recall that there was not a single
cow which had produced as mudi as
1000 pounds of fat Every cow in the
above table has produced in excess of
1060 pounds of butterfat. Surely the
future will bring forth even greater
cows than these.”
Tax Imports of Flax
And Wheat Is Urged
Senator Ladd, North Dakota,
Would Protect Producers
” ’ Of Their Grains
Washington, D. C.» January 5.
Taxes on imports of wheat and flax
which would protect growers of
these crops in the northwest against
“ultimate extinction," was asked of
senate tariff markers today by Sena
tor Ladd, republican of North Dakota.
Speaking in behalf of the grain
growers of that section Senator Ladd
asked for a tariff levy of 25c a nushel
of the house bill rate on wheat and
65 cents per hundred pounds, or 15
cents above the house rate on flour.
The rate on flax. Mr. Ladd said, should
be forty cents a bushel as against a
tax of 29 cents in the present emer
gency law and 25 cents in the house
bill. A* a compensatory duty on
flaxseed oils the senator asked for 3
1-2 cents a pound or approximately
26 cents a gallon. The emergency
law carries a rate of 10 cents a gallon
and the house bill 2 1-2 cents a
pound.
Big Increase In Fiax Imports
Senator Ladd told the, committee
that there had been such tremendous
increases In imports of flax and its
derivative oils that the industry could
not long exist were the imports to
continue. He declared that if the
flax growing industry were destroyed,
immediately American manufacturers
of paints, oils and varnishes must
look to foreign lands for their supplies
with the American people paying the
MH.
Adequate care Of the industry pro
vided by the tariff law, the .senator
said would add about 5,000,000 acres
of. land to that already devoted to the
production of fiax. Turning to the
wheat and flour levies, the senator de
nied statements that imports of Can
adian wheat did not seriously inter
fere .with or influence the price of
wheat grown south of the Canadian
line. He said he did not agree with
proposals submitted by James F. Bell,
Minneapolis miller, for an extended
bonding or drawback privilege, de
claring he believed the suggested
changes would work to the decided
disadvantage and certainly not to the
interest of the evelopment of agricul
ture in the northwest.
Bradley Troost who has been
spending the holidays with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Troost of
State Street, returned this morning to
Faribault where he is atending Shat
tuck school.
Miss Ethelyn Lang has returned
home after several days visit at the
A. Lindgren home, St. Peter, route 1.
Attorney Evan Hughes has returned
home from a sevarai day’s business
trip to Duluth and West Superior.
Miss Irene Prouse, who is taking
nurse’s training at St. Luke’s Hospi
tal, St. Paul, spent the past few days
with and friends in the city.
She returned to her duties Wednesday
evening. , ’
Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Andrews will
leave on Monday for St Paul, where
they will remain for several days. The
doctor will attend a clinic.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mahlke will re
turn tomorrow evening from the twin
cities, where they have been spending
a few days on business. They will
leave shortly for Watertown, S. D.,
where Mr. Mahlke will have the man
agership of one of the string of Value
stores.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kresensky will
leave tomorrow for their home in Wa
terloo, lowa, after having been the hol
iday guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. C.
Clark of the Plaza.
Miss Elizabeth DeUser has returned
to Two Harbors, where she teaches,
after having spent the holidays in the
city with relatives.
L. W. Prendagast returned to Le
Sueur Center %his morning, having
spent last night in the city as the guest
at the A. R. Pfau, Sr., home. #
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Eckman will
leave this evening for Nevz York City,
where they will attend the automo
bile show, and from there will go to
Florida, to remain during the winter
months.
Rosprim-Lenz
Miss Frances Rosprim, daughter of
Mrs. Mary B. Rosprim, and Rev. A. H.
Lenz of Elgin, N. D., were married
yesterday afternoon at five o’clock at
the residence of Rev. O. K. Netzke,
626 South Broad street. Rev. Netz
ke officiated. They were attended
by George Salfer and Miss Anna Hru
by, both of this city. The bride, /‘ho
has been a student at the Si tte
Teachers’ college, is a very fine young
lady, and has the best wishes of her
many friends. %
[Associated Press Dispatch.]
PERTAINING TO PEOPLE
TRAIN NEW TYPE
NEWSPAPER MEN
This Task Seen For School
Of Journalism
TEACHERS HEAR TALKS
Director Harrington of Joseph
Medill Institution At Mad
ison Meeting
[Associated Press Dispatch]
Madison, Wlk. December 30. —
Schools of journalism are being call
ed on to train a new type of news
paper worker because of a new type
of journalism found in the rising
community newspaper, H. F. Harring
ton, director of the Joseph Medille
School of Journalism of Northwestern
University, told the American Asso
ciation of Teachers of Journalism
here today.
“The community paper is concern
ed with community upbuilding and
with advertising the local merchants
as against the department store own
ers in the city,” Prof. Harrington
said. “Although the scope is cir
cumscribed, there is just as much joy
in this field as in a larger one. The
community newspaper is a good deal
more intimate, friendly and folksy
than the big papers.
“For instance, there is a group of
small towns around the hub of Chi
cago, and in these small towns are
people who are interested in their
local news as well as in the neyrs the
city papers give them. The interests
of these people are home interests
and they are personally concerned
with the news of their own town and
not with the news they get in the
city papers.
Train Community Editors
“In my own opinion we ought to
change the word country community
newspaper, because this paper is
sinking its roots into the very life of
the community and gathers its
strength from it.
For the community newspaper we
must train men in the social outlook
so that they recognize the community
as their community and that they
have certain obligations toward it.
That means a collegiate background
or a background of appreciation of
books, a thorough knowledge of the
field and a kind of love of small
town institutions. It will also entail
some newspaper chaftsmanship in the
technique of the story and the edi-
"Thls knowledge might well come
from a school of journalism or from
some metropolitan newspaper office,
but the handling of community news
paper also requires a good deal of
making both ends meet. Not only
business sense with experience in
making both ends meet. Not only
must the editorof a community paper
be a good editor and reporter but he
must also be a good business mana
ger. These are all necesary adjuncts
in the equipment of a successful
communiy editor.”
Here are some papers that Prof.
Harrington cited as outstanding ex
amples of good community papers:
The Evanston News-Index, The
Glencoe News, The Lake Shore News,
The Bronx News, The Brooklyn Eagle
The Mountain Lake News, The Hast
ings-on the Hudson News, The North
field Minnesota News, and The Abil
ene (Kan.) Reflector.
Watchword Of Course
Actual contact with business paper
problems is the watchword dt the
course in trade journalism at the Jo
seph Medill School of Journalism,
Northwestern University, Prof. Frank
Thayer of the Joseph Medill School
of Journalism told the teachers of
Journalism here today. “Of the two
courses offered, the first business
Journalism, treat with the writing
problems affecting technical trade
and class journals" he said. “Articles
are written and submitted to trade
paper editors after intensive study of
usable rhetorical methods such as are
at the editors command.
"The second course, problems of
industrial publishing, comes into
more definite contact with the busi
ness problems of trade and techni
cal journals. For the second semes
ter this year, three publications
will be brought to the service of the
class, presenting their administrative,
promotion, circulation and advertis
ing problems. In this way, each stu
dent in the class will have an oppor
tunity to do a constructive, piece of
work for one of the progressive jour
nals published in Chicago.
“In considering circulation prob
lems each student will have an op
portunity to write a sales letter and
converse personally or by mall with
prospective subscribers for these
journals. The. business manager of
each journal will present through the
instructor an outline of his circula
tion problems and of his desired gain
for a certain period. After discus
sion of circulation problems in gener
al. the students will be presented
with the specific problems of the
cooperating publications. Preliminary
reports on their plans and exner
fences in handling these problem?
will be brought by the students to
the conference room of the Medill
School where these ideas will be
sounded out The business manager
of each publication will be brought to
the conference accepting for his pub
lications use such ideas presented by
the students as the managers know
ledge and experience deem essential
and profitable.
-ln a similiar way the advertising
problems of these rooneysti”*? publi
cations vHI be studied. Thus it is
hoped to train youne executives for
the trade paper field."
CHANGE IN LOCAL FIRM
L. F. Jaehn Retire* From the Busi
ness of Jaehn-Peck Company.
A change has taken place in the
firm of Jaehn-Peck company, propri
etors of the tonsorlal parlors and
barber’s supply house at 222 South
Front street, in this city. Mr. Jaehn
has disposed of his interests to his
partner, Claude R. Peck, who be
comes sole proprietor and will con
tinue the business at the present lo
cation. The change took place last
Monday, Mr. Jaehn retiring to accept
a position as traveling salesman for
the local branch of the Standard Oil
Co., with headquarters here.
The firm started their present bus
iness nearly three years ago and
have been most successful, both mem
bers being experts in their trade. and
v?.rv popular young men.
MANKATO FREE PRESS
Witnessed Execution
Soldiers In France
Mississippi Ex-Service Man Tes
tified In The Watson
Hearing Today
[Associated Press Dispatch.]
Washington, D. C., January 5.
Further testimony relating to the
hanging of American soldiers at Is-
Sur-Tllle, France, was presented to
day to the senate committee investlgat
ing charges by Senator Watson, dem
ocrat, Georgia, that soldiers had been
executed without trail. Herbert L.
Cadenhead of Greenville, Miss., a for
mer service man, declared he nad
witnessed “ten or twelve’” executions
at Is-Sur-Tille while engaged in
transporting German prisoners Lj
truck in the vicinity of that place.
War department records previously
submitted to the committee showed
that two soldiers were hanged at 1s-
Sur-Tlle after conviction by General
court martial and gave the total ex
ecutions in the A. E. F. as eleven, af
ter all had formal trials before mili
tary courts.
Cadenhead did not know whether
any of the men he saw hanged had
been sent to their death without
trial. Nope of them, he said, inaue
any statement when on the gallows.
He described in detail the executions
which he claimed to have witnessed,
one of them being of a lieutenant,
who Cadenhead said had been charged
with assault upon a seven-year old
girl.
Cadenhead produced several small
photographs of purported hanging
scenes.
Colonel Walter A. Bethel, who was
General Pershing’s judge advocate
general in France, stated that of the
eleven executions listed by the war
department, one took place in Decem
ber, 1917, three in 1018 and the others
in 1919. after the armistice. v f
Two witnesses called to testify as to
charges that Major Hierome L. Opie.
of Staunton, Va., commander of the
Third battalion 116th infantry, over
seas, declared today before a senate
investigating committee there was not
a word of truth in charges by former
service men that he had shot his own
soldiers.
ARREST AT HURON
AWAIT THE SHERIff
Will Make It Hot For
Someone, He Declares
HELD BY AN OFFICER
Wife Knows Nothing of Cottage
Burning; Owns One At
Oak Hill
Robert Rockvam was arrested at
Huron, S. D., today •on instructions
from Sheriff William Carver of Martin
county, who holds a warrant charging
Rockvam with arson, who is alleged to
have hired a man to burn a cottage he
owned at Fox Lake, Minn.
Acording to a Message received by
The Free Press from Huron this af
ternoon, Rockvam claims complete ig
norance of the charges, and says that
he has not been 'in the vicinity of
Fox Lake for the past four months. He
claims that hi owns a cottage at Oak
Hill summer resort, but it is not in
surecL and he knows of no fire there
with he could be connected.
Rockvam is alleged to made the
statement that he will make it hot for
those who made those statements
about him. He was arrested by the
Huron authorities this morning, but
at noon today Sheriff Carver had not
reached Huron to take the prisoner
back to Fairmont.
The wife of Rockvam disclaims any
knowledge of the burning of the cot
tage.
A resident of Lake Crystal received
word from Rockvam this morning
asking what opportunities there was
at Lake CrystaJ for the erection of a
dance pavilion.
THANKFJJL HE IS CITIZEN
Manila Man Travel* 8,000 Mile* To
Take Out Naturalization Paper*.
[Associated Pre** D-spatch.)
Omaha, January 6. —Max Schroth,
of Manila, P. 1., traveled 8)000 miles
to the United States in order to com
plete his American citienship after he
had labored for twenty-one years un
der the delusion that he was a citi
zen of the United States.
Born in Germany, Schroth came to
this country, and in 1892 enlisted in
the United States army at Norfolk,
Neb., serving in the Cuban campaign
in the Spanish-American war and
later in the Philllppine insurrection.
He had his first papers and thought
that his citienship could not be ques
tioned, only to learn that he woum
have to leave the Philippines where
he was employed in the government
transportation service, and return to
America to obtain his final papers.
Schroth set out nearly a year ago,
having a native wife and six children
in Manila, and came to (Nebraska
where he took up residence in Oma
ha while his naturalization case was
pending in district court. When hts
final papers were handed to him
Schroth said: “I feel like getting
down on my knees and thapking God
that I am now a bona fide American
citizen."
MONEY FOR INDIANS
Large Sum To Be Divided Among Bad
River Chippewas
[Associated Press Dispatch.]
Ashland, Wls., January 7. —Distri-
bution of 1663,200 to 455 members of
the Bad Riyer Chippewas of the Bad
River Indian reservation will be made
next Thursday, Jan. 12. P. S. Everest
of Ashland, superintendent of the res
ervation, will make the payments at
the town of Odanah, eight miles from
here. Of this amount cash payments
of >145,000 will be made to 125 In
dians who have been declared compe
tent. The balance of $518,200 will be
retained on deposit in certain Wiscon
sin banks. It will be credited to th
accounts of minors and incompetents
at Ashlond, Wisconsin ' Rapids, Eau
Claire, Superior, Madison and Wauae
sha.
Col. Bethel On Stand
Will Make It “Hot”
■ •
HELP ON THE FOLK
OVER SEAS IS PLAN
Aid Given Starving Russos
By Mankato Body
ACTION AT THE MEETING
Civic and Commerce Associa
tion Favors Buying Flour to
Send Abroad
Endorsement of the campaign that
is now being waged for the relief of
the millions of people who are starv
ing in Central Russia, was made at
an informal meeting of the directors
of the Civic and Commerce Associa
tion held yesterday afternoon. The
plan of spending the money contri
buted toward this worthy cause for
flour was strongly favored, and the
board offers this as a suggestion to
the public. The Hubbard Milling
company has donated a car of flour
which is now on its way to the strick
en area, and another car is being ar
ranged for by the pooling of sub
scriptions made at large. F. C. Pew,
a farmer residing near Mankato, who
had already contributed three barrels
of flour, or about |9, telephoned G. M.
Palmer yesterday instructing him to
raise his contribution to five barrels
It is hoped that the second car may
be shipped next week.
Attention of the directors was call
ed to the classified business section
of the new telephone directory, the
draft of which was ccmpiled and
partly revised by the staff of the as
sociation.
Work of Traffic Committee.
A report waa made of the work that
the traffic committee is doing in re
gard to the discrimination alleged to
exist in freight rates applicable from
Chicago and points east thereof to
Mankato as compared with the rates
in effect to the twin cities and other
distributing points in Southern Min
nesota. This committee again wishes
to urge Mankato shippers and receiv
ers of freight to call upon the com
mittee for assistance on transporta
tion problems coming before them.
The General Audit empanv of Man
kato has completed an audit of the
association’s books, and has also in
stalled a new system of bookkeeping.
Advertising Forum Meeting.
Reports were also made on the re
cent meeting of the Civic and Com
merce Association Advertising Forum;
the examination for chauffeurs’ li
censes held a short while ago at the
offices of the organization; the action
taken by the association with a view
of speeding up delivery on the nstru
ments ordered by the Fifth Infantry
band; and the'Home Builders Clinic,
which the Mankato Builders Exchange
is considering conducting a little later
on.
Attention was Called to the fact
that the second supply of metal Man
kato automobile pennants or tags is
not depleted, and that parties desiring
a set of these may purchase same at
the asspeiation offices. These pen
ants ire being sold at cost, 50 cents
a pair.
Give Farmers Right
To Fix Their Prices
Members State Farm Bureau
Federation Hear New
Chief
[United Press Dispatch]
St. Paul, January 6.- — Farmers
should have the right <o set the price
of their products like the merchant
the price of his goods’, said J. F. Reed
of Lac qui Parle county, the newly
elected president of the Minnesota
Farm Bureau, who was chosen late
yesterday over L. E. Potter of Spring
field, one of the retiring executives.
Mr. Reed said that the farmers
must be given the right to set the
prices of their products, so that they
will not have to sell even in the pro
duction of farm crops. Co-operation
must be carried to that extent that
the farmer will be insured a profit on
his products. Mr. Reed said that it
is unjust and unfair to think that the
American farmer must go on raising
crops, the prices of which are set by
agencies beyond his control, and not
taking into consideration production
cost.
F. E. Lammers o£ Lakeville was
elected vice-president, and Victor An
derson of Wheaton is treasurer. Mrs.
E V. Ripley of Park Rapids was
elected one of the members of the ex
ecutive board. She is the first woman
elected to such a position in this
state. Other members of the execu
tive board elected were Thomas E.
Cashman of Owatonna;; J. J. Jacob
son of Vowlus; George Freeman of
Zumbrota; J. D. Pyle of Madison; and
M. L. Warren of Warren.
CARD PARTY IS SUCCESS
Ladies pf Catholic Parish Entertained
At Madison Lake.
[Special To The Free Press ]
Madison Lake, January 7. —The la
dies of the Catholic parish entertain
ed at a card party in the pavilion
Tuesday evening. The lady’s head
prize was awarded to Mrs. Ed Sulli
van and the man’s to Michael Mul
doon. Foot prizes were awarded to
Mabel Frederick and Max Lysdal. At
midnight a lunch was served, after
which a couple of hours were spent
in dancing. •
Miss Beatrice Oney is spending a
few days with friends' at Mankato.
Miss Helen Hoehn spent the week
end with relatives at Mankato.
A number of friends gathered at
the home of Miss Dorothy Mape
Thursday evening and were pleas
antly entertained at games. A nice
lunch* was served.
John Dashner is reported on the
sick list.
William Murtaugh was a x Mankato
visitor Wednesday.
H. G. Wirig was a business caller
at Mankato Thursday.
New Dollars In Mankato
Ttye Mankato State Bank today re
ceived a supply of the New Peace sil
ver dollars and can be had in ex
change if desired.
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FORT CREVE COEUR
SITE FOUND ATEAST
Twenty Years Investigation
Over Historic Spot
BUILT 241 YEARS AGO
Imposing Marker Is To Be
Formally Dedicated
This Year
[Associated Press Dlspr4ch.]
Springfield, 111., January 2. —More
than twenty years oLlnvestigation has
been ended by the announcement here
that the historic site of Fort Creve
Coeur, on a bluff across the Illinois
decided. Fifteen acres surrounding
liver from Peoria has been definitely
the site has ben given to the state, and
an imposing marker has been made
ready for the formal ceremony of des
ignation.
Announcement of the decision by the
Illninois State Historical society was
made by the state department of pub
lic works and buildings. The full re
port of the Historical society will be
made public later.
Contentions ' have been born, and
have lived and died, while this con
troversy has gradually increased in
interest and warmth. All actual re
mains of the fort, built 241 years ago
by the French chevalier, LaSalle had
been lost, long ago. The Historical
society weighed all arguments and
decided. But even now thar the Illi
nois State Historical society has
spoken, the doubt has not downed,
and man contenders still maintain
their land holds the sacred remnants
of their earliest Illinois fort.
Owners of the land on which the
marker will be placed, are Mr. and
Mrs. C. H. Wagner of Fond Du Lac
township, Tazewell county. They
have deeded the land to the state.
Among their most energetic contend
ers was the City of Peoria, which de
sired that the marker Le put on the
Peoria side of the river. Some argu
ment for the Fort Creve Coeur on
Peoria’s side was adduced, but it was
too weak.
Maps from official archives of the
French government at Paris, put the
fort on the Tazewell side. With that
decided the controversy was still
warm. Land owners up and down the
river laid their claim.
“The search for the truth as to the
exact site." says an announcement by
the Department of Public Works and
Buildings," was pursued over many
years. Ap examination of all the Il
linois hinstories, both translations
and originals of French writers on
the subject and many other books
have been made, in order to make the
collection of opinions as complete as
possible. The Illinois State Historic
al society finally selected as the act
ial location of the fort a spot sit
> ated on a beautiful bluff overlooking
Ihe Illinois river In Fond du Lac
township, Tazewell county, south and
east of Peoria. This is the site se
lected some years ago by the Peoria
chapter of the Daughters of the
American Revolution.”
National Conference
On Called
Something “Worth While” Ex
pected To Come Out Of
Meeting
[Associated Pre** Dispatch.]
Washington, D. C.. January 7. —The
feeling that something “worth while”
will come out of the national confer
ence on agriculture which is to meet
here January 23, has been voiced by
practically all of the more than 2uo
delegates invited to sit m the gath
ering, Secretary Wallace said today.
President Harding, no doubt. .will
open the conference, Mr. Wallace said
today. The delegates will meet, he
continued, without any previously ar
ranged program.
The conference, the agricultural
secretary said, will be a cross section
of the entire agricultural life of the
nation, with representatives of allied
industries dependent on agriculture
and a group of outstanding men rep
resenting the public.
With them will sit the joint con
gressional agricultural inquiry com
mission, which will, Mr. Waliace said,
give the delegates. the result of its
work. i
Two Young Bandits
'Roped In St, Paul
Were Trying to Open Safe When
Discovered; Handed Over to,
Police
[United Press Dispatch.]
St. Paul, January 7. —Two young
bandits were overpowered and dis
armed in the Guardian Life Insurance
offices last night by M. L. Griffiths,
the manager and two other employes
of the office. Mr. Griffiths discovered
the bandits at the safe and yelled:
“Lay off on that and boat it. This
seemed to have the desired effect, for
the two young men seemed to be froz
en with fear. Mr. Griffiths called the
engineer and the janitor to his assist
ance and the two young men were
overpowered, disarmed and roped.
Then’ they were turned over to the
police. They gave their names as
James Wilford and Elliot Madsen.
Their ages are nineteen and sixteen
respectively.
Decision In Will Case.
Northfield, Minn., January 7.—Under a
decision filed here by District Judge Al
bert Johnson of Redwing. Northfield will
receive over 160,090 for the erection and
maintenance of a city hospital from the
estate of the late George W. Murphy,
who died at Colorado Springs, Colo., in
October, ISIS. The decision of Judge
Johnson sets aside a will alleged to have
been made in May, I>l|, under which
Miss Anna' D. Burns of Colorado Springs,
who nursed Mr. Muprphy in his last ill
ness laid claims to the entire estate.
The will under whieh the city will bene
fit was executed in April, IfiMT.
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FRIDAY JANUARY 13, 1922
REPORT ON NORMAE
SCHOOL LIBRARIES
First Draft Standard Na
tional Committee
NEEDS MEASURE STICK
l/yembers Invite Criticism On
Being Sent Out To
Presidents
[Associated £ress Dispatch.]
Emporia, Kan., January 5. —In car
rying out its assignment to apply “a
measuring stick” to normal school
teachers’ college libraries, the com
mittee on normal school libraries,
appointed by the National Education
al association, has completed its first
draft of standards covering all es
sential requirements.
The committee finds ardent need of
a “measuring stick.” How large
should be the staff of librarians in a
normal school of 750 students? How
large a library fund ? How many books
are needed in the library of a teach
ers’ college of 1,500 students? How
much floor space. What library in
struction should be given?
“Administrators, boards of regents,
faculty committees and librarians of
normal schools and teachers’ colleges
are asking questions like these,*' the
report savs. “There ought to be an
authoratlve answer. For until the
teacher-training institutions have
adequate, satisfying library service,
resulting in teachers trained to know
the true value and use of libraries in
education, all types of education will
be deficient and all types of libraries
will fail in their hfgdiest usefulness.”
Two General Causes.
The committee’s report divides the
institutions into two general classes —
two year normal schools, and four
year teachers* college. It goes into
detail as to standards of equipment,
floor space, staff personnel, number
of books under various classifications,
funds, academic status of librarians
and staff members, etc. Some of the
findings follow:
A normal school with a two-year
course (with an initial enrollment
of 300 students) should have a li
brary of 20,000 volumes; with 7,000
more for each additional enrollment
of 300.
The librarian should have academic
status of full professor with vote; as
sistants to rank bs instructors; istaff
should consist of librarian and fihree
assistants; salary on • pa- with pro
fessor of English; staff-on-par with
better paid instructors In English.
Four-year teacher colleges with en
rollment of 500 should have a reading
room to accommodate 100 readers—
-2,500 square feet, ’ and hind other
rooms; reference, periodical, child
rens’ (2) library class room with 60
seats, cataloging, work rooms (2) and
office.
Book stock: 30,000 volumes; for
each additional 500 students, 13,000.
Library fund: At disposal of libra
rian, not including salaries,and build
ing maintenance, 86,000; for each ad
dtonal 500 students, 33,000.
Personnel: Librarian, ranking as'
full professor—head of a department,
with votes—and staff of five.
Library Instruction. \
Library Instruction: Librarian to
be instructor, at least twelve lessons
required of freshmen in use of library;
three semester hours credit in chil
dren’s literature required; elective
course in library organization, bibllo
graphy and reference work.
W. H. Kerr,/librarian, Kansas State
Normal school, Emporia, is chairman
of the national committee, the other
members being William C. Bagley
Columbia University, New York; Mary
J. Booth, State Teachers’ College,
Charleston, Ill.; W. M. Davidson,
president, State Teachers* college,
Moorhead, Minn; Martha* Caroline
Pritchard, Detroit Teachers’ college:
Mary C. Richardson, State Normal
school, Geneseo, N. Y., aud Alexander
C. Roberts,, president. State Normal
School, Centralia, Wash.
The committee which is sending
its full report to normal school presi
dents and librarians and oth,e.r edu
cators, invites criticism. The com
mittee was appointed at the 1921
meeting of the National Education
at Des Moines.
PET DOGS ARE POPULAR
Especially So Are They With Fem
inine Population of Berlin
Berlin, December 19.—[Correspon
dence of The Associated Press] — Pet
dogs, have become so popular among
the feminine population of Berlin
that theater managers have be«a
competed to install rooms where the
dogs may be checked. Some patrons
complain that none of the theaters has
made similar provision for checkin ’
babieC and think this is an unwar
ranted diecrimination.
During the' intermissions the wo
men repair to the "dog room” and
feed the animals with bits of sani
wichea which it has become the cus
tom for theater-goers to eat between
the
ASKS FOR SALARY CUT
School Head In Nicollet County Seeks
Cut In His Stipend
St. Peter, January 6. —County Sup
erintendent of Schools A. J. Holm
stead made a formal reqqueet to the
board of county commissioners, in
session Tuesday, that his salary he
cut from |2IOO to >I9OO this year.
Last .year his wages were increased
>2OO and he states that he promised
at that time to submit to a reduction
when living conditions changed. This
is the first case of its kind ever re
corded in this county, where a public
official voluntarily asked for a cut in
wages. The board was astounded, as
they did not feel that his salary whs
exorbitant, as he pays a large share
of his own expenses, but they acceded
to his wishes in the matter.
LOWER PHONE RATES
These Are Promised By State Rail
road and Warehouse.
St. Paul, January 9.—Lowef tele
Ehone rates for Minnesota will soon
e ordered by the state railway and
warehouse commission, it was learn
ed today. The engineers of the com
mission who hate been working on
the physical valuation of the proper
tie* of the Tri-State and Northwest
em telephone companies have com
pleted their labors, and have place!
the valuations at a lower figure than
the companies turned dn.
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