VOLUME 3. 4 On February 17tb last a general council was held at the Agency guard house pur suant to notices posted by William Sayers, president of the Rod Lake Indian Pail Association for the purpose of electing of ficers for the Fair. The old officers were unanimously re elected, and are as follows: William Savers, President Ed. Prentice, Vice President Frauds Gurneau, Sec. and Treas. The meeting was not largely attended, only about forty male adult Indians being present. However, many people who were interested in the gathering were unable to attend because of stress of work at home. Several lousing speeches wore made by those present, all in support and praise of the Fair. The association's financial con dition was discussed and if was determined to try ami get the Fair Association out of debt at the next annual spring payment b\ soliciting among the people, eacb member being requested to subscribe whatever he thought he was abb' to pay towards that end. Paym way way be nais said lie had al ways attended all the former meetings that the Fair was a source of instruction to the Indians ami that as they were all interested in learning how to farm it would be of special interest to the young men. He referred to the annuities received by the lied Lakers, and expressed the opinion that with the assistance of those annuities it ought not to be a difficult matter for the able bodied young men of the reservation to open up a farm and get a good start in lite. Tin1 meeting was formerly opened by William Savers, who thanked the associa tion for the honor conferred upon him for the past two years. William stated that inasmuch as he had moved away from the lake to such a distance from the Agency that it was more or less of a hardship for him to attend to the Fair matter*, and that he was not a candidate for re-election and that he thought there were several of the others present living- nearer the Agency that could till the position as well as he. I.illie seem ed to be alone in his opinion, however, for the Indians were unanimous in their choice for his re-election. Uillie Savers has made a good president, lie has worked hard for the success of the association, has tried to make it pleasant for the Indians and visi tors, and the council showed good judgment in his re-election. Francis (iurneau has been an able assist ant to Mr. Savers. Francis, in tb capacity of secretary, has worked hard, and says thai he is willing and anxious to do the best he can another year. Ed. Prentice, the Vice President, was not at the council, but Fd. has always heen a stiong supporter of the Indian Fair organi zation and last year was one of the heaviest exhibitors, especially in the stock exhibit. Ed. lost a little nephew wlnVh was buried on the day of the council, and it was thought that that was what caused his absence from the meeting. Long John from the Outlet spoke in favor of the Fair, as follows "I want to say just a few words. We had DEFECT IV AGE RE LAK E NEWS a large attendance when our father first mentioned the Fair Association. I saw most everyone was in favor of it. I am right with the fair business. Here is what I am telling the young men. They want to learn how to farm. You are more interest ed in this than I am. You want to get up and talk." Good talks were made by Stillday and Joe Boxer and others. Each man pledged himself to support the officers and en courage1 the movement as muct as possible. CROSS LAKE ITEMS. Win. Dudley and Frank Dupris have be gun the construction of pontoons for the new linttle River bridge. Oliver L. Breckner and Frank Dupris are scaling the logs landed at Cross Lake this winter. Alex Gillespie and Felix Green, with two agency teams, were here the 25th on the freight haul in (connection with three Gross Lake teams. The condition of the ice on the lake was never better for freighting, Jos. C. Roy drove into a crack in the ice near Red by on the 25th. The crack was about three feet wide and water four feet deej Both horses went in and although John Stillday was with him, both were un able to do anything towards extricating the team until assisted by Cash Gonzer wrho happened to be near, wdien they got the team out without any material injury. Since the sun shone brightly February 22nd the ground hog must not have cared to look for his shadow. Alvie Burns is temporary laborer at the school. Almost all the loggers at Cross Lake are about through operations for this season. A stranger from the cedar camp near Kelliher on his way South, got lost and drove into Ponemah the other night. The Mequom Bay Indians have been danc ing more than Tin* Point Indians this win ter, and that is "going some." It is reported Way-oon-ding and kay- gway-dub-e-tung- have taken off their coats to tight the Ponemah Farmer's Club. They will have to go some, though they have sev eral of the young fellows scared. The Fanner's Club missed its regular meeting Saturday night, February 20, as th, Piesident Wm. Dudley, was in Beinidji. O.i Fcbimnv loth Jos. C. Roy bought the tirst butter ever sold in a store1 Lake Indian. There were two pounds of if and it brought per pound. Mr. Roy says that the butter was very good. The name of the party who sold it is Leslie Jones. The next day Mr. Roy bought one pound of butter from another Indian, Nah-gah nahbe-nung. Mrs. Elsie E. Webster of Oneida School, Wis., arrived at Cross Lake on the 7th of February and has entered on duty in the position of Laundress at the Cross Lake school. RED LAKE, MINNESOTA, MARCH 1, 1915. NUMBER 12 by a Cross WARNING. The introduction of intoxicating liquors into this reservation or its sale to non eiti/sen Indians is forbidden by law under a penalty of imprisonment for not less than sixty days. See Act of January 30, 1897 (29 State L., 506.) NEWS ITEM. Another northern Minnesota county jail has "gone empty'1 as a result of the suppres- sion of the liquor traffic here. This time a report comes from Walker, the county seat of Cass County, that the county jail is with out prisoners, and that the sheriff and town marshals are practically jobless. Here's hoping the good work may continue until the lid" will finally cover all of Minnesota and reach over into South Dakota.Flan drean, S. I). Weekly Revieto. HABITS. Saturday Evening Post.If you save 1 cent today and double the amount saved day by day, at the end of thirty days you will have laid by a respectable sum amounting to several million dollars. By taking a pen cil and a piece of paper you can easily satis fy yourself of the fact much more easily than you can find the money. Even on the tenth day, when the amount saved reaches |5, you might find that it was disorganizing the family budget. If you pursue a normal course through and a little more of it the next day, and still more the day after. The man with the delirium tremens began at only a penny^ a day. Beginning at a penny a day, you earn acquire a million-dollar tobacco heart. Also, you can acquire a million dollar satisfaction in good literature by forming a reading habit, or a million dollars7 of health by habit of exercise. Cummulative habit is about two-thirds of life. Between a book and a drink, at geometric ratio, there is all the difference in the world. FIR NT PRIZE IN INDIAN ESSAY CONTEST. The Society of American Indians has just awarded the first prize in its annual essay .contest to Lucy E. Hunter, a Winnebago In dian who is now a member of the senior class at Hampton Institute. "The higher academic training for the Indian"' was the title of the first-prize essay. Mr. Arthur C. Parker, the secretary treasurer of Hie Society, warmly commend ed Miss Hunter for the splendid argument she had presented. Miss Hunter is one of ihe forty Indians who remained at Hampton without any government assistance, and is preparing herself for a life of larger usefulness to her people. Two other Winnebagoes who are well known are Mrs. Dietz, a Hampton graduate who is famous in the world of art as Angel He Cora, and Henry Roe Cloud, the first In dian to make his own way and graduate from Yale College. These two have already done a great deal to show mankind that there is still the desire and longing for the best things of life, not only in the Winne bago tribe, but in the whole Indian race. worth fh+i **v