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 Report of 
 
 Minnesota Commission 
 
 of 
 Public Safety 
 
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 'T'his copy of the Report of the Minnesota 
 -*■ Commission of Public Safety is presented to 
 
 by direction of the Commission. 
 
 H. W. 
 
 LIBBY, 
 Secretary 
 
 n. of D. 
 |<«AV 21 1919 
 
V 
 
 Minnesota Commission of Public Safety 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, HENRY W. LIBBY, 
 Governor, Ex-Officio Chairman Secretary 
 
 C. H. MARCH, JOHN F. McGEE 
 
 Vice-Chairman A.C.WEISS 
 
 CLIFFORD L. HILTON, 
 
 Attorney General, Ex-Officio THOS. E. CASHMAN 
 
 Ambrose Tighe, Special Counsel 
 
 Mrs. T. G. Winter, Minneapolis, 
 Director Women's Auxiliary 
 
 OFFICE STAFF 
 
 Henry W. Libby, Secretary 
 
 M. M. Booth, Assistant Secretary C. W. Henke, Publicity Director 
 
 N. A. Grevstad, 
 S. W. Frazier, Organization Agent Publicity Scandinavian Press 
 
 P. A. Ragatz, Marketing Agent 
 
 Miss Ione Rodgers, Stenographer Miss Marguerite Walsh, 
 Miss Marie Walsh, Stenographer enograp 
 
 „ _, Miss Rose Rodgers, File Clerk 
 
 Mrs. Georgiana Rossland, 
 
 Stenographer Miss Helen Semper, Mailing Clerk 
 
 Miss Beatrice Billing, 
 Publicity Clerk 
 
 LOUIS F. DOW CO., 8T, PAUL 
 
Report of 
 
 Minnesota Commission of Public 
 
 Safety 
 
 To J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor of Minnesota 
 Sir: 
 
 The act (Chap. 261, Laws 1917) under which the Minnesota Com- 
 mission of Public Safety was created provides that, upon the conclu- 
 sion of peace, it shall, among other things, make a report to the governor 
 of its acts and expenditures. Although peace has not been concluded, 
 the principal part of the Commission's work is done, and it is deemed 
 expedient to submit at this time a report containing an outline of its 
 more important activities. The period generally covered is from 
 April 23, 1917, to December 31, 1918. A supplementary report will 
 be rendered when the Commission shall have closed up all of its affairs. 
 
 THE SAFETY COMMISSION ACT 
 
 The 1917 legislature created the Commission that Minnesota might 
 have, during the period of the war, a governing body capable of effi- 
 ciently mobilizing its resources in men and property, and applying them 
 to the war's successful prosecution. A number of specific duties were 
 enumerated in the act, some of which will be hereinafter referred to; 
 and the general power conferred 
 
 "to do all acts and things non-inconsistent with the consti- 
 tution or laws of Minnesota or of the United States which, 
 in the event of war existing between the United States and 
 any foreign nation, are necessary or proper for the public 
 safety and for the protection of life and public property, or 
 private property requiring protection; and *** all acts and 
 things necessary or proper so that the military, civil and in- 
 dustrial resources of the state may be most efficiently applied 
 toward maintenance of the defense of the state and nation, 
 and toward the successful prosecution of such war." 
 
 The law was approved April 23, 1917, two weeks after the declaration 
 of war. No state had a similar law at the time, although Connecticut 
 
had already given its Governor extraordinary powers and the right 
 to make unlimited expenditures. On April 29, 1917, California by 
 statute provided for a state council of defense, and within a month 
 or more afterwards other states adopted similar legislation, but the 
 prescribed duties of most of these bodies were mainly of an advisory 
 and investigating nature. On May 15, 1917, Pennsylvania, by statute, 
 provided for a Commission of Public Safety and Defense which 
 
 "shall take all necessary means to prepare for the defense 
 of the Commonwealth, and to provide for the safety of its 
 people and the protection of their property, and shall aid the 
 government of the United States in protecting and defending 
 said Government and the people thereof and their property." 
 
 The powers thus defined were as broad as those of the Minnesota 
 Commission's, and the Pennsylvania act appropriated $2,000,000 for 
 its Commission's use. In many of the states voluntary councils of 
 defense had been or were afterwards organized without legal authority, 
 and were supported by popular subscription, and several states, like 
 North and South Dakota and Montana, later adopted measures framed 
 largely on the Minnesota model. But with the exception afforded by 
 Pennsylvania, Minnesota was not only the pioneer, but the early 
 pioneer in this class of legislation. 
 
 Some of the appropriations made available for war purposes in 
 other states were as follows: 
 
 New York $1,000,000.00. 
 
 Pennsylvania 2,000,000.00. 
 
 Michigan 5,000,000.00. 
 
 New Mexico 750,000.00. 
 
 Connecticut: Full power to governor to use all necessary funds. 
 
 Maine : Same as in Connecticut. 
 
 Massachusetts : All that is necessary out of a specified fund, which 
 
 does not. exceed $1,000,000. 
 New Jersey : Whatever may be necessary. 
 Wisconsin: Whatever may be necessary. 
 
 The expenditures in some of the above states, as far as they have 
 been ascertained to date, have been as follows: 
 
 Michigan $2,800,000.00. 
 
 Pennsylvania 1,750,000.00. 
 
 New York 860,658.00. 
 
 Massachusetts 700,000.00. 
 
 Connecticut 329,344.00. 
 
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The MINNESOTA act appropriated $1,000,000.00 for the purpose 
 of carrying out its provisions. Its section 5 required the Commission 
 to pay out of this fund fifty cents a day to each Minnesota enlisted man 
 for each day of service on the Mexican border in 1916. There was 
 expended in this way $488,337.78 and left available for the Commission's 
 other purposes, $511,662.22. 
 
 Out of this the Commission actually expended up to January 1, 
 1919, $259, 643.99 and had on hand in its fund, $252,018.23. 
 
 The details of the expenditures are given in a condensed report of 
 the Public Examiner which appears as a supplement hereto. (See 
 Appendix.) 
 
 MEMBERSHIP AND ORGANIZATION 
 
 Under the law the Commission consists of seven members, five of 
 whom are to be appointed by the Governor with the advice and con- 
 sent of the Senate. The Governor and the Attorney General are 
 members ex officio, the Governor acting as ex officio Chairman. The 
 following were appointed as members by the Governor: C. H. 
 March, C. W. Ames, John Lind, John F. McGee, A. C. Weiss. 
 
 On April 23rd, 1917, the Commission held its first meeting, and the 
 Governor made the following assignments : Mr. March, who had been 
 elected Vice-Chairman, was assigned to the Committee on Agriculture; 
 Mr. McGee, Military Affairs; Mr. Ames, Civic Co-Operation ; Mr. 
 Lind, Labor; Mr. Weiss, Publicity. John S. Pardee was elected 
 Secretary. In June, 1917, the Commission made a request under 
 the statute (§105 G. S. 1913) for a special attorney, and the Attorney 
 General employed Ambrose Tighe. 
 
 On September 8th, 1917, Mr. Pardee resigned and was succeeded by 
 H. W. Libby. Subsequently Commissioners Ames and Lind were 
 succeeded, respectively, by H. W. Libby and Thomas E. Cashman. 
 
 The Office Staff is made up as follows: H. W. Libby, Secretary; 
 M. M. Booth, Assistant Secretary; C. W. Henke, Publicity Agent, 
 N. A. Grevstad, Publicity Agent for the Foreign Press; S. W. Frasier, 
 Organization Agent; P. A. Ragatz, Marketing Agent. 
 
 Mrs. T. G. Winter was appointed to take charge of the work of 
 organizing the women of the state for war purposes. 
 
 Offices were established at the State Capitol. As a rule the Com- 
 mission has held a meeting every week, besides special meetings. In 
 all it has met more than one hundred days for transaction of business. 
 
 The Commissioners serve without pay. 
 
LOCAL AND SPECIAL ORGANIZATION. 
 
 The work of organizing the counties was taken up immediately, 
 and within a month every county in the state had its local Safety 
 Commission working under the direction of and in close co-operation 
 with the central body in St. Paul. The County Commissions are 
 manned by a Director and a Secretary, the Director named by the 
 State Commission, and, as a rule, by a Chairman for each township of 
 the county, named by the county director. 
 
 On June 13th, 1917, the County Directors, responding to the call 
 of the Commission, assembled at the State Capitol to exchange in- 
 formation and receive instructions. It was a large and inspiring 
 gathering, resulting in a better understanding of the work ahead and 
 how best to do it. Intelligent co-operation between the central and the 
 local bodies was planned and established, and the whole defense or- 
 ganization of the state was knit together in union and harmony for 
 the great common purpose. 
 
 MINNESOTA A PIVOTAL STATE 
 
 Every state in the union is, of course, of value in its Contribution 
 to the national wealth. Minnesota stands high among them in its 
 peace time contributions to the volume of commodities in the pro- 
 duction of which other states share. 
 
 Taking some of the essential food stuffs by way of illustration, 
 Minnesota, in a normal year, makes in round numbers one-seventh 
 of all the butter made in the United States, it raises one-fifth of the 
 nation's barley, one-tenth of its wheat, one-tenth of its corn, and one- 
 tenth of its oats. Its mills make one-fifth of the white flour ground 
 in the United States. Its own people consume but a small fraction 
 of its output, and it ranks high in importance among the states as a 
 source of supply, if products of this character only are considered. 
 
 But two states have peculiar resources which are absolutely essential 
 to the country's industrial life under any conditions and the inter- 
 ruption in the production of which in war times would paralyze the 
 nation's arms. One of these is Pennsylvania with its exclusive pos- 
 session of extensive beds of anthracite coal, and the other is our own 
 state. 
 
 The iron mines of the Lake Superior District, most of which are in 
 Minnesota, yield eighty-four per cent of all the iron ore produced 
 in the United States. Taking no account of Russia's uncertain pro- 
 ducts either before or following her collapse, after the occupation 
 of Belgium and northern France by Germany, the total iron ore supply 
 
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of the entente powers was only 23 million tons per annum, as against 
 the central powers' 48 million tons. Minnesota's annual 45 million 
 tons were a controlling factor in such a situation. 
 
 It is a noteworthy fact that with instinctive recognition of their 
 importance as the sole source of these indispensable commodities the 
 legislatures of Minnesota and Pennsylvania should have been the first 
 in 1917 to provide strong and efficient governmental instrumentalities. 
 
 THEORY OF THE LAW 
 
 As one of the country's largest granaries and dairies and the main 
 source of indispensable iron ore, Minnesota held a paramount position 
 among the states when war came. If we were to win, the maximum 
 production of her staples must be in every way stimulated. Govern- 
 ment plays only a minor role in production in times of peace. Stated 
 broadly it preserves order and leaves the rest to individual or to volun- 
 tary concerted enterprise. The hope of profit is then the chief incentive 
 to effort. If the best results are not realized because workers are idle, 
 dissolute or inefficient, or because the wheels of industry are clogged 
 by class quarrels or the application of false social doctrines, those 
 who cause the troubles are usually those who suffer from them; time 
 can be counted on to bring the cure, and the state as a whole is only 
 indirectly affected. But when the country's life is at stake, the situa- 
 tion is different. The operation of the industrial machine ceases 
 then to be a private and becomes a public matter. If our soldiers 
 need food and munitions, the man who will not help to their supplying 
 according to his ability, or who, by his conduct, interferes with others 
 producing, is as much an enemy of the country as those in arms against 
 it. As a war power and for purposes of self-preservation, the govern- 
 ment can stimulate general production both by any course positively 
 effective to that end, and by suppressing the things which are calcu- 
 lated to retard it, and in so doing, it is exercising as legitimate and 
 constitutional a function and a function of the same sort as that which 
 it exercises in maintaining and operating armies. It goes without 
 saying that a state which has the right to use its strength to crush 
 its foreign enemies can also protect itself against those at home whose 
 behavior tends to weaken its war capacity. 
 
 But while all this might be admitted, the creation of a body like 
 the Commission to do this sort of work, seemed to many people ex- 
 tremely novel and unusual, and the hostility which some of its activ- 
 ities excited is a matter of common knowledge. It is true that there 
 was no similar legislation in Civil War times. The method of hand- 
 ling seditious talk and action and of furthering war activities then 
 
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adopted was not the employment of civil agencies, but was recourse 
 to the strong arm of the military commander. But in revolutionary 
 times, there was a council of safety appointed July 2, 1777, in Vermont, 
 and in the public interest it effectively discharged functions very similar 
 to those exercised by the Minnesota Commission. *The idea is, there- 
 fore, not without American precedent, and the law itself and what 
 has been done under it, as a proper exercise of legislative power, have 
 been sustained by every court before which any of its phases, or any 
 of the Commission's procedure, have been put in issue. 
 
 *Vide Circular by C. D. Greenfield, Secretary Montana Council of Defense 
 
 (A.) THE COMMISSION'S CREATIVE ACTIVITIES 
 
 As a governmental instrumentality, acting otherwise than in co- 
 operation with popular organizations, the Commission exercised func- 
 tions of two entirely separate sorts. Under one, it undertook creative 
 work designed to stimulate industrial life, to concentrate business 
 attention on the production of essential commodities, to further the 
 physical and mental welfare of our soldiers and sailors, to rouse the 
 spirit of loyalty by holding public meetings and by the dissemination 
 of literature, and to weld the people of the state into a coherent whole 
 appreciative of the solemn import of the nation's war purposes and 
 keen for their actualization. It follows that the business of the 
 Commission has had a scope as wide as the state itself, and has in- 
 cluded a great variety of important questions. As a matter of fact, 
 the work of the Commission has affected, directly or indirectly, all the 
 activities of the people of the state, because the great business of the 
 war has been the common task of all the people — a task of lofty and 
 aggressive patriotism, devoted loyalty, strenuous endeavor, self de- 
 nial and sacrifice. The Commission's work under this head is re- 
 corded in brief in the following: 
 
 INITIAL MEASURES OF SAFETY. 
 
 The first imperative task confronting the Commission was to main- 
 tain public peace and order, to protect the moral and bodily health 
 of our soldiers and our people in general, to check or suppress all efforts 
 interfering with the mobilization of the man power of the state or 
 hampering full and free co-operation with the national government. 
 
 This was done at once by establishing a dry zone around the Fort 
 Snelling military reservation and closing the saloons in the Bridge 
 Square District of Minneapolis, which were dangerous hotbeds of 
 crime and sedition; by the organization of a Home Guard, to which 
 
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a Motor Corps Division was subsequently added, and by providing 
 for the appointment of peace officers. 
 
 THE HOME GUARD AND MOTOR CORPS. 
 
 The Commission's Order No. 3, dated April 28th, 1917, provides for 
 the organization of a Home Guard to be known as the "Home Guard 
 of Minnesota," for service in the state and to consist of such units 
 as may be authorized by the Commission. This force has gradually 
 grown to a number of 8,373 officers and men-, organized into twenty- 
 one batallions. A further development of the Home Guard is the 
 Motor Corps Division, which has attained a strength of 143 officers 
 and 2,440 men, organized as a brigade of ten battalions. 
 
 The moral effect of the existence of this peace force has been marked 
 from the day of its organization. It has been an efficient means for 
 preserving public peace during threatening strike disturbances, and 
 in the distressing calamities of last year it rendered most signal ser- 
 vices of rescue and relief. 
 
 PEACE OFFICERS. 
 
 For the protection of life and property and as a matter of military 
 expediency and necessity, provisions were made by Order No. 4 for the 
 appointment of peace officers, invested with all the powers possessed 
 by constables. Some six hundred such officers have been appointed 
 and have rendered very useful service in guarding property in a period 
 of unrest and danger. The fact that such a force was available and 
 that it might be increased to any strength shown to be necessary has 
 in itself had a deterrent effect upon evil-minded persons plotting 
 crime or destruction of property. 
 
 FOOD PRODUCTION AND CONSERVATION. 
 
 On April 28th, 1917, only a few days after the Safety Commission 
 had been organized, the Governor acting as Chief Executive and Ex- 
 Officio Chairman of the Commission, issued a Food Proclamation 
 emphasizing the great shortage of food prevailing and stating that, 
 in order that maximum production might be attained in this state, 
 no effort would be spared to furnish the farmers all needful labor for 
 producing and harvesting the crops, and that, as a guaranty against 
 an eventual fall in prices, measures would be taken to insure a remunera- 
 tive return from the crops and other agricultural produce. A Com- 
 mittee on Food Production and Conservation, made up of 36 capable 
 and experienced men and women had already been appointed by the 
 Governor to study the food question and co-operate with the Safety 
 
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Commission to be created. The work of the committee was divided 
 among eight sub-committees or divisions, including divisions on labor, 
 markets, live stock, crops, and home economics. 
 
 All problems relating to the production of crops or agricultural 
 produce of any kind were studied by this committee and everything 
 done to enlighten the farmers and others on what should be done to 
 produce large crops. A special committee headed by a member of 
 the Safety Commission was appointed to secure facts as to costs and 
 methods of retail distribution of food, fuel and other necessaries of 
 life, for the purpose of shortening and cheapening the road between 
 producer and consumer for the mutual benefit of both. 
 
 A Labor Bureau was established in Minneapolis early in the summer 
 of 1917 to supply labor where needed and work for idle hands seeking 
 employment; and the farmers of the state were advised to apply to 
 this bureau for help of which they might be in need. That the Labor 
 Bureau has been an important factor in enabling the farmers to in- 
 crease their production in 1917 and still more in 1918 will appear 
 from the fact that it furnished farm hands to the number of 2,717 
 in 1917 and 6,187 in 1918. 
 
 The Marketing Department of the Safety Commission has accom- 
 plished much in saving surplus crops by obtaining needed means of 
 transportation, securing new or better access to markets, by aiding 
 in meeting shortages of hay, oats and other produce in certain districts 
 of the state from surplus stores in other districts, and in many other 
 ways. It was due in a large measure to the energetic and practical 
 efforts of this department that a substantial part of the bountiful 
 crop of potatoes in 1917 was saved. A public potato market estab- 
 lished in the Midway District in the early part of 1918 had the effect 
 of steadying prices in the Twin Cities for the benefit of sellers as well 
 as buyers. On the whole it is to be said that the Marketing Depart- 
 ment has been of great aid to the farmers of the state by securing 
 to them improved market facilities and better prices. A letter re- 
 ceived on December 29th, 1918, from R. S. Doherty, a grower at Harris, 
 Minnesota, may be cited as an instance of the value of its assistance. 
 He writes that he desires to ship all of his potatoes through the de- 
 partment this season because it netted him about $400.00 more last 
 season than he was able to secure by disposing of his crop in other ways. 
 
 A Square Deal for the Farmer as to prices and grading of his grain 
 has been insisted upon by the Commission as a matter of simple justice 
 and as a necessary condition of maximum production of wheat, and 
 
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it has spared no effort to attain this end. On August 22nd, 1917, 
 the Chairman of the Commission, Governor Burnquist, wired James 
 A. Garfield requesting that no prices on grain be fixed until representa- 
 tives from this state had been given an opportunity to be heard, in 
 order that no injustice be done to the farmers of Minnesota and the 
 Northwest. At the suggestion and request of Governor Burnquist, 
 representatives from South Dakota, North Dakota and Montana met 
 at the Capitol of Minnesota for the purpose of planning joint action at 
 Washington for the protection of the interests of the farmers of these 
 four states. 
 
 This was the beginning of a sustained and vigorous campaign to 
 secure fair prices and a juster system of wheat grading. In this work 
 the Safety Commission has been represented by two of its members, 
 who have had the support of representatives of the State Railroad 
 and Warehouse Commission. In the course of the past two years 
 these spokesmen for our grain growers have made many trips to Wash- 
 ington, where they have made an aggressive fight to secure justice 
 for the farmers, in co-operation with delegates from the other north- 
 western states and supported by the congressional delegations from the 
 Northwest. The price level finally agreed upon was regarded as 
 acceptable, as is evidenced by the substantial increase of the wheat 
 acreage of the state for 1918. 
 
 The insistent demand of the farmers for a radical reform of the 
 unjust federal system of wheat grading was energetically pressed and 
 supported by the Commission. Though the Safety Commission did 
 not secure all it contended for in the matter of just prices and fair 
 grading of wheat, there can be no doubt that its efforts helped materi- 
 ally in obtaining such concessions as were made to our farmers and 
 which have meant much to them and still more to the country and the 
 government. 
 
 An Effective Campaign for the eradication of the common barberry 
 bush, which harbors the destructive black stem rust of wheat and other 
 cereals and grasses, was inaugurated by Order No. 28, issued on March 
 19th, 1918. This measure received general support among the farmers 
 and other residents of the state and was very successful, about 650,000 
 of the harmful bushes being destroyed. It is a matter of common 
 knowledge that a serious failure of the spring wheat crop the past 
 year would have been nothing short of a calamity for the nations at 
 war with the central powers. Fortunately the yield was above normal, 
 and it is but fair to assume, in the light of what is definitely known 
 concerning the propagation of the black stem rust, that the absence 
 of this destructive pest in 1918 was due, at least in part, to the measure 
 
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of precaution taken by the Safety Commission in co-operation with the 
 Department of Agriculture of the United States. 
 
 The Farm Labor and Crop Census approved by the Commission by 
 Order No. 27, of March 12th, 1918, deserves attention as a measure of 
 great general benefit to the farming community and the state at large. 
 A vast amount of useful information relating to the supply and needs 
 of farm labor in the various localities of the state with accurate data 
 on live stock and the areas planted to the different crops has been 
 gathered by the state auditor's office at comparatively slight expense. 
 It is suggested that provisions be made for taking a similar census 
 every year as a means of supplying a deficiency in the agricultural 
 statistics of the state. 
 
 Fish as Food Supply. — As a means of reducing the high cost of living 
 to the people and of saving meats needed to sustain our armies and 
 Allies the Safety Commission has taken measures to encourage a more 
 general use of fish instead of meat and to increase the fish supply 
 available for the market. By a resolution adopted June 26th, 1917, 
 the Board of Control was granted permission to take fish, upon certain 
 conditions, by its own agents, in waters of the state for consumption 
 in the state institutions. 
 
 Of greater importance is the fishing done for state account by the 
 Game and Fish Commissioner under authority granted by the Safety 
 Commission. The Commission felt that in the existing emergency the 
 vast stores of wholesome food contained in the waters of the state 
 ought to be made available to the people at low prices, and instructed 
 the Game and Fish Commissioner to carry out the suggestion as a war 
 measure, and advanced $1,000.00 to defray the initial expenses. 
 
 The experiment has been successful beyond the most sanguine 
 expectations. From a small beginning the undertaking has developed 
 until it has become an important source of cheap and nourishing food 
 for the people. Since October 15th, 1917, till the end of last year 
 1,630,366 pounds of fish had been caught and sold for consumption at 
 a total cost to the consumers of $132,278.96. The state dealers are 
 allowed a margin of three cents per pound and no more, and the retail 
 cost to the consumers has been about 50% of the current market prices 
 for the various kinds of fish ; in other words, the experiment had saved 
 to the people $132,000.00, in round figures. The fishing has been 
 confined to Red Lake and a couple of other lakes so as not to interfere 
 with the licensed fishermen. The money advanced by the Safety 
 Commission has been repaid, and the profits earned even at the low 
 selling cost of the catch has made it possible to increase the equipment 
 from time to time and yet leave a net profit of approximately $35,000.00 
 
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in equipment and cash. 182 markets in the state, besides two outside 
 markets, have been regularly supplied with "state fish," and applica- 
 tions for the establishment of new markets which are coming in from 
 time to time, testify to the growing popularity of this new source of 
 food. 
 
 It is to be noted that this meritorious undertaking would have been 
 unlawful and hence impossible except as a war measure authorized 
 by the Safety Commission. 
 
 THE PRODUCTION OF IRON ORE. 
 
 The well known firm attitude of the Safety Commission and the 
 timely organization of a reliable and efficient Home Guard have been 
 instrumental in maintaining peace on the Range and preventing dis- 
 turbances planned or desired by disloyal organizations or individuals 
 for the purpose of hampering the operation of the mines and curtailing 
 the output. The Commission has likewise devoted a great deal of 
 time and attention to the adjustment of disputes between employers 
 and employes in the mining district which were not due to disloyal 
 plottings but to differences that are apt to arise between capital and 
 labor, especially in periods of unstable prices. If they had not been 
 prevented or settled in their incipiency, some of these disputes, relating 
 to wages or other working conditions, would have interferred seriously 
 with operations and production. All difficulties of this kind were 
 obviated by the meditating and conciliating efforts of the Commission. 
 In this connection it is but just to state that great credit is due to the 
 patriotism and fairness of the mine managers as well as to the loyalty 
 and good sense displayed by the mine workers when protected against 
 the pernicious influence of disloyal agitators. 
 
 As a result of these combined efforts the production of iron ore 
 was not only carried on without interruption but was even increased 
 while the United States was actively in the war. In 1916 the output was 
 44,585,423 tons. In 1917 it reached a total of 45,398,787 tons, exceed- 
 ing that of the preceding year by 813,365 tons. The figures for 1918 
 are not known definitely at the date of this report's preparation. 
 
 LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL PEACE. 
 
 The aim of the labor policy of the Commission has been to enlist the 
 full working power of the state for war work as directed by the Govern- 
 ment, to bring about harmonious relations between labor and capital 
 and to secure full and even handed justice to our work-people. To 
 this end it has adopted measures to insure industrial peace during 
 the war, and has used its good offices for adjusting differences be- 
 tween employers and employes on terms just and equitable to both 
 
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parties; and by its Work Order of June 4th, 1918, it added thousands 
 of workers to the ranks of active toilers and put an end to the gross 
 injustice done by loafers and other shirkers trying to live by idleness, 
 and thereby loading their duty to work upon the shoulders of the 
 patriotic work-people. 
 
 By his proclamation of March 30, 1918, the Governor instructed 
 the members of the State Board of Arbitration to confer with repre- 
 sentatives of employers and employes for the purpose of adjusting all 
 industrial disputes and thereby prevent strikes or lock-outs during 
 • the war. A spirit of conciliation and mutual concession prevailed at 
 these conferences, and an agreement was reached, providing that differ- 
 ences concerning wages or hours should be referred to the State Board 
 of Arbitration for adjudication. The agreement was confirmed and 
 given the force of an emergency law by the Commission's Order of 
 April 13, 1918. Approximately 40 disputes have been settled by 
 the State Board under the arrangement thus effected. 
 
 THE EMPLOYMENT SERVICE. 
 
 The Public Employment Office established by the Safety Commission 
 in Minneapolis was in operation from June 1st, 1917, to November 
 1st, 1918, when it was discontinued by being merged into the United 
 States Employment Service. It has done creditable and useful work 
 in manning the industries of the state and connect idle hands with 
 vacant jobs. Its services in supplying farm labor have already been 
 referred to. It has also furnished a large number of men for the build- 
 ing trades, the railroads, logging, local transportation, and general 
 labor. The total number of workers referred to positions during its 
 operations is 24,556. 
 
 HIGH COST OF UVING. 
 
 In November, 1917, the Safety Commission ordered investigations 
 to be made relative to the prices of milk and bread. The cost of these 
 indispensable necessaries had been steadily rising in the Twin Cities, 
 causing wide-spread complaints and great hardships, especially among 
 the less well to do. An inquiry into the matter of the milk price was 
 undertaken and served to place the pertinent facts relating to the 
 cost of production and distribution of milk before the people and 
 thereby cleared up misunderstandings on the part of producers and 
 consumers alike. The maximum price of 11 cents a quart for milk 
 fixed by the Commission by Order No. 13, of December 5th, 1917, was 
 generally accepted as just and fair to all concerned. 
 
 The Bread Investigation with attendant experiments conducted in 
 Minneapolis indicated that the price of bread in that city was un- 
 
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necessarily high. It was shown that bread could be produced and 
 sold with profit at prices materially lower than those that had been 
 prevailing ; and the poorer classes of the city were supplied with cheaper 
 bread during the winter months, and the "cash and carry" plan of 
 delivery of merchandise was promoted. The facts established by 
 the investigations were an important contribution to economic knowl- 
 edge; and on February 26, 1918, the Commission adopted an order 
 turning over to the several municipalities in the State the practical 
 application of the examples its work in this direction affords. 
 
 THE FUEL QUESTION. 
 
 In July, 1917, the Commission's investigations disclosed the following 
 alarming situation: At the close of the 1915 season, 2,000,000 million 
 tons of coal were carried over at the head of the lakes, and in 1916, up 
 to the last of July, eight million tons were transported to the head of 
 the lakes. At the close of the 1916 season only three hundred thousand 
 tons were carried over and in 1917 up to the 1st of July only four 
 million tons had been transported. Unless this situation was remedied 
 it meant a fuel failure in theNorthwest in the winter of 1917 and 1918. 
 No federal fuel administrator had as yet been appointed for the state, 
 and the needs of the section were without representation at Wash- 
 ington. 
 
 Recognizing the extreme gravity of the situation and the urgent 
 necessity of securing an adequate fuel supply for Minnesota, the Com- 
 mission appointed one of its members to act as a committee for this 
 purpose; and through this action of the Commission the calamity 
 was averted. As a matter of fact, the Northwest has been in 
 much better condition than any other section of the country 
 during the past two years. On October 8, 1917, the member referred 
 to was appointed, by the national government, Federal Fuel Adminis- 
 trator for Minnesota, which was of material assistance to the Com- 
 mission in its efforts to provide for the needs of the state in the matter 
 of fuel supplies. As supplementary to what was thus done for obtain- 
 ing coal fuel, the state auditor, by direction of the Commission, caused 
 a series of practical steps to be taken for the purpose of making the vast 
 stores of fire wood on the state lands available to the people in many 
 neighborhoods. 
 
 ALIEN REGISTRATION. 
 
 The Order of February 5th, 1918, requiring all aliens in the state to 
 register under the direction of the State Auditor, was a measure of 
 great importance — much greater than had been anticipated. The 
 registration disclosed 225,000 aliens in the state, many thousands of 
 
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whom were holding property and all of whom were, on account of their 
 failure to obtain or perfect their citizenship, exempted from sharing 
 with their citizen-neighbors, the full duties and burden of government. 
 The registration was a necessary war measure, but was also required 
 for a proper equalization of public burdens and a just and equitable 
 management of public affairs in times of peace, and made it possible 
 to detect fraudulent voting and illegal holding of land. It gave the 
 great majority of these residents a needed reminder to acquire citizen- 
 ship, which most of them had wished to secure, but had neglected to 
 obtain in due form, and in general, it was fully justified as a means to 
 secure a more equitable adjustment of public duties and privileges in 
 the commonwealth and its subdivisions. 
 
 SOLDIERS AND THEIR DEPENDENTS. 
 
 The Safety Commission has taken special pains to look out for the 
 welfare of the soldiers and their families and to protect the rights 
 of the soldier from the day of his departure as a recruit to his return 
 from the war. On leaving for the camps the recruits have been shielded 
 against the temptations of the saloons, which were closed on those 
 days by orders of the Commission. While in camp their wants were 
 inquired into and ascertained and, in some instances, supplied by the 
 Commission out of funds placed at its disposal for that purpose. 
 
 Upon complaints of undue hardships being suffered by Minnesota 
 soldiers in certain training camps a thorough investigation was made 
 by a special committee headed by the governor, of conditions in Camp 
 Cody and some other camps where units from this state were being 
 trained, and a report of the deficiencies found to exist was made to 
 the Safety Commission and also to the Department of War. It is 
 believed that as a result of this action on the part of the Commission 
 the ills complained of were remedied sooner than would otherwise 
 have been the case. The dangers threatening our soldiers from ven- 
 ereal diseases received the attention of the Commission, and the State 
 Board of Health was instructed to take all steps deemed advisable 
 and necessary to protect our men in arms against the perils of con- 
 tamination. 
 
 The civic rights of the soldiers to vote have been carefully guarded 
 by the Commission, which, in the face of technical difficulties, succeeded 
 in devising practical methods enabling soldiers in camp or abroad 
 to vote at the primaries as well as at the election of last year (Orders 
 No. 31 of April 30, 1918, and No. 46 of September 10, 1918.) The val- 
 idity of Order No. 46 was sustained in a district court, and no appeal 
 taken therefrom. (See appendix.) 
 
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BANKS AND PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. 
 
 Various efforts to establish new and unnecessary banks have been 
 checked by the Commission. In disaffected communities groups 
 of depositors would withdraw their deposits from loyal banks 
 as a means of intimidating their officers and forcing them to relax 
 their work in support of the war. Many unpatriotic men or schemers 
 were at once ready to fish in the troubled waters and set about to 
 start new banks in such localities with the expectation of attracting 
 the business of the disloyal elements. These pernicious schemes, 
 harmful alike to the cause of the country and the best interests of the 
 communities immediately concerned, were effectually thwarted by 
 prompt action on the part of the Commission. 
 
 In advance of the activities of the federal capital issues committee, 
 the Commission called public attention to the inadvisability of pro- 
 ceeding with the construction of new public improvements and the 
 issuance of municipal bonds, one of which would compete with the 
 federal government in its need for materials and the other in its demand 
 for money. With the patriotic co-operation of public officials, new 
 construction work and new bond issues were arrested. 
 
 FOREST FIRE PROTECTION. 
 
 The Safety Commission has rendered effective assistance to the For- 
 estry Commission in the matter of preventing and checking forest 
 fires. In the early summer of 1917, a season of exceptional drought, 
 the danger of devastating forest fires was particularly great, especially 
 in view of the fact that the Forestry Commission was not provided 
 with sufficient means for maintaining adequate forest protection. On 
 June 29th, 1917, the Safety Commission issued its first order against 
 setting fires in grass, stubble, etc., applicable to eleven of the northern 
 counties of the state, and additional orders covering a larger territory, 
 were issued on August 14th, 1917, on April 6th and on October 21st, 
 1918. A sum of six thousand dollars was advanced to the Forestry 
 Commission to aid in checking numerous incipient fires in the summer 
 of 1917. The Safety Commission has done all that it was empowered 
 and equipped to do for forest conservation, and its assistance has been 
 of material aid to the Forestry Commission. The great calamity of 
 last fall has shown conclusively that the protection against forest 
 fires hitherto provided by the state has been altogether inadequate. 
 
 EMERGENCY RELIEF. 
 
 During the past year the state was visited by two great calamities, 
 and in both instances the Safety Commission rendered instant services 
 of rescue and relief. When the City of Tyler was struck by a tornado 
 
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in the month of August, resulting in the death of many residents and 
 the practical demolition of the city, the secretary of the Commission 
 at once proceeded to the stricken community, followed by a unit of 
 the Minneapolis Motor Corps with doctors, nurses, medical supplies 
 and food. 
 
 Another calamity appalling in its harvest of death, misery and deso- 
 lation, was the terrible fire that, in the first part of October of last year, 
 swept St. Louis, Carlton and other counties in the northern part of 
 the state. No more destructive forest fire has ever visited Minnesota. 
 More than 500 lives were lost; about 12,000 families were made home- 
 less, while upwards of 40,000 persons were affected by the fire. Some 
 1,500 square miles were turned into a barren, blackened waste strewn 
 with charred remains of victims and remnants of ruined homes, and 
 the total property loss exceeds 20 million dollars. 
 
 Governor Burnquist, Chairman of the Safety Commission, left 
 at once for Moose Lake to take personal charge of the relief work, 
 and the next day a force of some 300 of the Motor Corps arrived with 
 supplies of all kinds, besides a staff of doctors and nurses. The Com- 
 mission was convened by the Governor to sit at Moose Lake, where 
 emergency relief measures were adopted. Financial aid to meet the 
 most pressing immediate demands was promised by the Commission. 
 Such assistance was made possible by the authorization by the Calamity 
 Board of the expenditure of $300,000.00 by the Safety Commission for 
 the benefit of the fire sufferers. 
 
 Two orders were issued by the Safety Commission at Moose Lake, 
 under date of October 16th, one authorizing the Commissioners of 
 St. Louis County to appropriate moneys for relief purposes, and the 
 other confering indentical powers upon the Board of Commissioners 
 of Carlton County. The Commission appointed as its agent the Forest 
 Fire Relief Commission. By the joint efforts of the Relief Commission 
 and the local organizations of the Safety Commission, approximately 
 one million dollars in voluntary subscriptions have been collected to 
 date for the benefit of the fire victims. 
 
 AMERICANIZATION. 
 
 The entire work of the Safety Commission has been a powerful 
 factor in promoting Americanization, in the broadest sense of this 
 term. Some of its measures have had a far-reaching influence in 
 securing compliance, on the part of a very large number of foreign- 
 born residents, with the first conditions and elementary duties of 
 citizenship. This is especially true of Order No. 23, providing for 
 alien registration, which probably has done more than any law or 
 measure previously adopted in Minnesota to bring foreign-born civic 
 
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slackers — to the number of 225,000 — within the full sway of our laws 
 and the American spirit ; to make them realize their duties and appre- 
 ciate their high privileges as Americans. 
 
 In the performance of its duties the Commission has, at almost 
 every turn, been forcibly impressed with the urgent need of Americani- 
 zation in the narrower sense, or a systematic work "to equip the for- 
 eign-born with a knowledge of the United States language, American 
 ideals of liberty and principles and institutions of government, so 
 that they may become strong, active, right-thinking Americans." 
 It appeared that even thousands of children born in this country were 
 not afforded an opportunity to learn the speech of the land. By a 
 special investigation it was ascertained that there were in this state 
 some 200 parochial or other private schools using a foreign language 
 wholly or in part as a medium of instruction, and that some 10,000 
 children receiving their education in these schools were brought up 
 as aliens and foreigners. To put a stop to such unwholesome condi- 
 tions the Commission, on November 20th, 1917, adopted a resolution 
 to the effect "that school boards, principals and teachers be urged, 
 as a patriotic duty, to require the use of the English language as the 
 exclusive medium of instruction in all schools in the state of Minnesota, 
 and to discontinue and prohibit the use of all foreign languages in such 
 schools, except as a medium for the study of those languages themselves 
 or as a medium for religious instruction." 
 
 The question of the study of foreign languages in the public schools 
 of the state had already received the attention of the Commission, 
 which, in September, 1917, requested the State Superintendent of 
 Education to make an inquiry as to the content and tendency of Ger- 
 man texts used in the public schools and as to the advisability of dis- 
 continuing the teaching of the German language in such schools. A 
 member of the Commission who was working in co-operation with a 
 special committee appointed by the Superintendent for the purpose 
 stated, reported the findings to the Safety Commission. This report 
 accompanied with a "white list" and a "black list" of German text 
 books used in our public schools, was published by the Commission in 
 December, 1917. On April 30, 1918, the Commission adopted an order 
 providing, in substance, that no person who is not a citizen of the 
 United States shall be qualified to serve as a teacher in any public 
 private, or parochial school, or in any normal school in which teachers 
 for these schools are trained. 
 
 As stated elsewhere in this report, an energetic and successful 
 work of Americanization has been conducted or directed by the Woman's 
 Committee. As a result of these efforts night schools for aliens were 
 established in many localities. Americanization committees were 
 
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organized in sixty-odd counties and patriotic literature was distributed 
 among the foreign born women of the state. 
 
 In the early months of 1918 a national plan of Americanization 
 had been placed in operation by the Council of National Defense 
 and the Department of the Interior, acting jointly, and during the 
 first week of April, 1918, a conference was held in Washington in the 
 interest of organizing the work throughout the country. Governor 
 Burnquist, who attended the conference by invitation, appointed, upon 
 his return, through the Safety Commission, in conformity with 
 the general plan adopted by the National Americanization Com- 
 mittee, the "Minnesota State Americanization Committee." This 
 Committee has done considerable preliminary work, partly with a view 
 to ascertaining how best to co-ordinate the various Americanization 
 activities throughout the state, and a tentative plan of operations, 
 based upon special investigations by the executive secretary, Miss 
 Hester M. Pollock, has been submitted by her. 
 
 WAR RECORDS COMMISSION. 
 
 In justice to Minnesota's host of brave sons who have upheld the 
 honor of the flag at the fronts, many of whom are never to return, and 
 for the sake of preserving, ere it be too late, invaluable historical ma- 
 terial, the Safety Commission has appointed a War Records Commis- 
 sion for the purpose indicated by its name. The selection of members 
 have been made with a view to secure a number of men for this work 
 who are especially qualified for it by reason of their professional studies 
 and training. The Commission expects to enlist the active co-opera- 
 tion of interested men in every county of the state. Funds have been 
 provided by the Commission for carrying on this work. 
 
 THE WORK OF THE WOMAN'S COMMITTEE. 
 
 The Woman's Committee was created in May, 1918, by the appoint- 
 ment of an Executive Committee of 16 women, with authority to or- 
 ganize the women of the state for all forms of war service. This Com- 
 mittee embraced representatives of the chief women's organizations 
 and also of the Board of Education, the Department of Labor and the 
 Farm School. At the same time, the same committee was authorized 
 by the National Council of Defense, to act as the Minnesota unit of 
 the National Woman's War Organization. This meant that the women 
 who were presidents of all organizations having state-wide constit- 
 uencies should form a "War Council," meeting in executive body 
 once a month, and that in every county and town women chairmen 
 should be appointed who should draw together all the workers in 
 their several communities. 
 
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^ In Minnesota this resulted' in the appointment of chairman and 
 vice-chairman of the ten congressional districts, under them eighty- 
 six county chairmen, and under them, again, some thirteen hundred 
 town chairmen. 
 
 Intensive Organization. In more than twenty towns and cities 
 there has been an intensive organization, each ward having its chair- 
 man, each precinct and each block, so that every family could be reached 
 within 24 hours. Wards have been studied so that the committee 
 knew just the number of families in each, their nationality, the indus- 
 tries, churches, schools, etc., of each ward, and how much each had 
 contributed to Liberty Loan, War Savings, Red Cross, etc. Through 
 these organizations each "drive" or special campaign was put through 
 with a maximum of efficiency and a minimum of waste labor. Al- 
 together nearly 20,000 active women workers have thus been in the 
 Woman's Committee. 
 
 All work undertaken was that directly requested by the National 
 Council of Defense, and was done in accordance with directions sent 
 from Washington, with the idea that uniformity of effort over the whole 
 United States would be sure to result in more efficient service. 
 
 Food Conservation. The first active work asked by the government 
 was to secure signatures to the so-called "Hoover Pledge," promising 
 family economy in the matter of fats, sugar, wheat and meat. At 
 the beginning there was little general understanding of the great world 
 shortage and the problems of food distribution. But all over the state 
 the women responded heroically. They canvassed every town and 
 farm. Training classes in war cooking, demonstrations and demon- 
 stration kitchens, prizes for the best local recipes, community work 
 in preserving and drying perishable foods, distribution of officially- 
 tested recipes, drove home the lesson to which the pledge had called 
 attention. In connection with the food problem other matters of 
 Home Economics were emphasized, especially wool saving, the ad- 
 ministration of the family income and the relation of the family life 
 to national well-being. 
 
 Americanization. The war brought home to us the fact that many 
 millions of those living in America were not naturalized or, even when 
 nominally Americans, had little conception of the ideals of America 
 or the purpose for which we had gone to war. Minnesota has an 
 unusually large proportion of foreign born, and had 194 schools in 
 which German was the medium of instruction. This problem is not 
 to be solved in a year or in several years, but a strong beginning has 
 
been made. In 58 out of 86 counties, Americanization chairmen have 
 started working, and an outline of practical methods has been put 
 in their hands, covering Self -training in American ideals, Community 
 singing, friendly Meetings, Cooperation between all social and edu- 
 cational groups, Social Service, Work among Foreign born Women, 
 Night Schools, "English First" Campaigns, Training for Citizenship. 
 Particularly in the cities a great deal of most excellent work is under 
 way. 
 
 Child Conservation. A program for "Children's Year" was made 
 by the U. S. Children's Bureau, such work being considered a war 
 work on account of the discoveries made in the draft examinations. 
 Since from 25% to 46% (in different localities) of the young men were 
 found unfit for military service and often from defects that might have 
 been remedied in childhood, it was seen that there was a direct re- 
 lation between child welfare and military efficiency — and also peace 
 efficiency. The weighing and measuring of all babies to discover what 
 defects existed and then the setting up of agencies to correct those 
 defects constitutes, in brief, the program already well on its way to 
 completion. Qver 100,000 babies have been tested in the state. Baby 
 clinics, more supervised playgrounds, county and school nurses, milk 
 supervision, county and state exhibits on child welfare, establishment 
 of public baths and out door carnivals are among the phases of follow- 
 up work. 
 
 Patriotic Education. A representative of the State Board of Edu- 
 cation co-operating with the State chairman and the Patriotic Leagues 
 of teachers and children arranged a number of pageants and partici- 
 pated in numerous flag raisings. A book entitled SCHOOL PATRIOT- 
 ISM dealing with all phases of patriotic education was issued by the 
 Board of Education and distributed to the schools. 
 
 Women in Industry. A Survey, covering all phases of women's 
 war work was made. (Home conditions, replacement of men by women, 
 wages, sanitary conditions, etc. were studied.) This was done in hearty 
 cooperation with the Department of Labor, and has covered the whole 
 state in a most thorough way. Legislation based on its findings will 
 be asked of the coming Legislature. 
 
 Work concerning the Employment of Women has been done in co- 
 operation with the Vocational and Employment agencies in the cities. 
 
 In Minneapolis 3,100 firms have been reported, employing 19,000 
 women; in St. Paul 591 firms, employing 4,313. Fifty-eight counties 
 and 162 towns have been covered. About 65,000 women are employed 
 outside of the Twin Cities. Nearly 8% of the women are married 
 and have children. 
 
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Liberty Loan. As the Allotment system has prevailed in the later 
 work, the duties of the women have been confined chiefly to publicity 
 and clerical service. This has been done largely all over the state, and 
 the women are credited with one-fourth of the subscriptions reached. 
 Of course Minnesota has gone over the top in all loans. 
 
 Speakers' Bureau. Besides local Speakers' Bureaus in the larger 
 cities, about 100 state speakers have been listed for general work. 
 Dramatic and Musical artists have been provided for patriotic en- 
 tertainments. A Patriotic-Americanization Pageant is now being 
 prepared by a special committee, with reference to the needs of Minne- 
 sota. 
 
 Nurses' Drive. In response to the Government request to list 
 young women to take training for nurses, a campaign was carried on 
 through the counties, resulting in 560 applications being sent in to 
 Washington from our state office. Besides these, many applications 
 were sent in direct from local offices. 
 
 Young Women's Auxiliary. In Duluth nearly 2,000 young women 
 have belonged to the Auxiliary and have served to correlate all the 
 younger women's work, for Red Cross, for Hospitals, for Naval Re- 
 serve, for service in all "drives" and in the Children's Year. In Minne- 
 apolis the organization has parallelled the Council of Defense and 
 correlated all organizations of young women and provided volunteer 
 workers along all lines where their help was called for. In St. Paul 
 four committees provided books and flowers for the Aviation Hospital, 
 carried on a War-Information Booth, surveyed City Gardens and as- 
 sisted in Child Welfare work. Becker, Waseca, Stearns, Stevens and 
 Wright Counties also had efficient Junior Auxiliaries. 
 
 Exhibits. In the State Fairs of 1917 and 1918 the State Committee 
 had booths with patriotic exhibits, conducted musical patriotic pro- 
 grams, gave out many hundreds of thousands of patriotic publications 
 and answered innumerable questions. In practically every county 
 the local chairman had booths at the county fairs, at which food de- 
 monstrations and exhibits and patriotic programs were conducted. 
 
 State Meetings. Besides the regular monthly meetings of the War 
 Council at which the needs of the state were discussed and action 
 decided upon, there have been two State Conferences held in the House 
 of Representatives and attended by District and County Chairmen, 
 chairmen of committees and members of the War Council. These 
 
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have been three-day meetings, financed by the Safety Commission, 
 and have considered all forms of women's war work. 
 
 Publications and Publicity. Besides the circulars and letters sent 
 out by special chairmen of Food, Child Welfare, etc., and in addition 
 to the printed matter distributed at State and County Fairs, the State 
 Office has sent out about 25,000 letters and 12,500 pieces of printed 
 matter and received 12,000 letters. Letters have been sent to the 
 counties about once in two weeks. Wide newspaper publicity for all 
 war service has been obtained, not only in special articles in the press 
 of the cities, which has been more than generous, but also in the material 
 sent to country papers through agencies, and in the cooperation of 
 local editors. The State Committee has printed matter covering all 
 phases of its committee work, to the amount of several hundred thousand 
 copies. It has also acted as the distributing bureau for great quantities 
 of literature sent from Washington. 
 
 Red Cross. A representative of the Red Cross has always been a 
 member of the Executive Committee of the Woman's Committee, 
 and warm relations have existed between the two bodies, as for instance, 
 when the Red Cross allowed the use of its local headquarters for the 
 Nurses' drive, and when the machinery of the Woman's Committee 
 has been used for Red Cross drives or publicity. Joint letters on food 
 conservation were signed by the Food Administrator, the Chairman 
 of the Red Cross and the Chairman of the Woman's Committee. 
 
 PUBLICITY WORK. 
 
 The Publicity Department has been the hand maiden of the Com- 
 mission for the promotion of loyalty and other work. Since September, 
 1917, a weekly Bulletin "Minnesota in the War," has been published 
 in the interest of the work of the Commission and its local branches. 
 All orders of the Commission and other documents of importance have 
 been published in the Bulletin, which has lent consistent support to 
 all war work desired by the government or suggested by the Council of 
 National Defense, and in particular to all loan and savings stamps 
 drives and all campaigns in behalf of the Red Cross or other war or- 
 ganizations. Some 700 papers in the state have been provided with 
 a weekly service in support of war work. In addition to this a large 
 number of foreign-language papers with extensive circulation in the 
 state have been supplied with articles in their respective vernaculars 
 every week. These articles, the general purpose of which has been 
 to instruct, to stimulate loyalty and promote all kinds of war work 
 among the readers, have been readily accepted and published, though 
 
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they have been a heavy tax upon the limited space of the publications 
 in question. A very large number of booklets and leaflets dealing 
 with the various phases of the war have been distributed by this de- 
 partment — some of these publications also in several foreign languages. 
 
 The speaking campaign of the Safety Commission has been managed 
 by the Publicity Department since September, 1917. About 400 
 speakers were kept in the field. These men gave their time and ser- 
 vices free of charge. The local expenses have been defrayed by the 
 respective County Directors and their committees. Many outside 
 speakers of wide reputation sent to the state by the Committee on 
 Public Information have likewise been routed by this department. 
 In all some 4,000 meetings have been held under its auspices, which 
 almost invariably have been very well attended. 
 
 The Liberty Chorus and Community Sing movement suggested by 
 the Council of National Defense was inaugurated in this state under 
 the auspices of the Publicity Department. In spite of the draw-back 
 caused by the recent influenza epidemic the movement has met with 
 great favor among the people, and every effort has been made to make 
 it helpful in the work of Americanization and up-building of the com- 
 munity spirit. Successful Sings have been arranged in many localities 
 and have everywhere aroused local interest. 
 
 THE WORK OF THE OFFICE. 
 
 The following facts will serve to indicate the volume of the business 
 transacted : 
 
 Reports demanding the attention of the office or the Commission 
 were received as follows: 682 sedition cases; 331 violations of liquor 
 laws or regulations; 226 complaints against dance halls; 208 violations 
 of the Work Order; 118 complaints of interference with the Liberty 
 Loans in one form or another; 174 complaints relative to the teaching 
 of German in schools of the state. These reports or complaints re- 
 ceived prompt attention as demanded by the nature of each individual 
 case. 
 
 Special requests for orders and literature were received as follows: 
 For Orders, 1,187; literature (in general) 4,328; Peril of Prussianism, 
 875; Man without Country, 555; Wall Street and the War, 1,356; 
 Facts About the War, 790; Posters, 612. All these requests were 
 promptly complied with. 
 
 The distribution of the vast amount of patriotic literature furnished 
 by or through the Safety Commission represented not only considerable 
 clerical and physical work but also accurate knowledge of conditions 
 throughout the state, judgment and care in order to make stare that 
 each booklet or leaflet sent out do the most good. Approximately 
 
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40 titles of literature, aggregating more than a million copies, were 
 published by the Commission and distributed by the office, besides 
 upwards of one half million copies of literature received from the 
 Committee on Public Information or other sources. 21,250 pieces of 
 German literature were sent out according to lists of names received 
 at the office. 
 
 Many hundreds of thousands of copies of circular letters were sent 
 out to the County Directors and the 5,000 members of the county 
 organizations, as well as to many others. 
 
 The press service furnished to state papers and papers in foreign 
 languages, aggregating more than 700 newspapers receiving matter 
 regularly every week, was dispatched through the mailing department 
 of the office. 
 
 People would continually call at the office to present complaints 
 and to seek advice or help ; the number of such callers aggregate many 
 thousands of men and women. In this way such pertinent information 
 was received regarding intoxicants sold to men in uniform, hoarding 
 of sugar or flour, outcroppings of disloyalty and many other matters, 
 and appropriate action taken. Many dependents of men in the service 
 who needed assistance were provided for through this office or by 
 other organizations on reports from the office of the Commission. 
 
 Telephone messages were constantly received from all parts of the 
 state inquiring for information concerning the application of the most 
 important orders of the Commission and other matters. At times 
 such messages would total several hundred a day, the entire time of 
 the secretary or assistant secretary being occupied in attending to 
 such telephone calls. 
 
 The number of individual letters sent out would average 300 a week, 
 and the number of mail sacks would run from 15 to 20 a dav. 
 
 (B.) THE COMMISSION'S LAW ENFORCING 
 ACTIVITIES 
 
 The other function which the Commission exercised is the one which 
 attracted especial public attention. The Commission assumed that 
 it had the right, if in its judgment the public interest so required, to 
 use the strong arm of force to suppress disloyalty, to prevent wastage 
 of men and material, and to preserve public order. It not only assumed 
 that it had the right, but it also did not hesitate to exercise it. 
 
 The Commission in this branch of its work aimed not alone to jail 
 individual traitors and to clean up individual cesspools of vice, but 
 also to make malefactors generally realize that many things which in 
 
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peace times would be insignificant were serious in war times, and to 
 hearten loyal men and women with the thought that the state was 
 equipped to help them in their endeavors. It does not think the 
 Constitution suffered under the ordeal, and it is unable to regardthe 
 Constitution as so delicate a document that its pages will be soiled 
 or torn by a little rough usage, while battles are raging. 
 
 It will not be practicable to give here more than some specimen 
 episodes by way of illustration of its work in this direction. These 
 will serve to present their spirit, purpose and result, and those selected 
 for comment are arranged by subjects under their several heads as 
 follows : 
 
 I. THE SUPPRESSION OF DISLOYALTY, 
 
 To-day we are at the close of a successful war and our people unitedly 
 are welcoming their returning sons and brothers, or honoring the 
 heroes among them who died for their country's cause, in a foreign 
 land. It is hard in such an environment and at such a time to realize 
 the indifference, pacifist sentiment and even opposition to the war 
 which prevailed in some parts of Minnesota two years ago. 
 
 Even before Congress declared war in April, 1917, many of our 
 people, irrespective of their racial origins or affiliations, appreciated 
 the significance of the contest in Europe, and were openly and heartily 
 in favor of our entering the war. But this was by no means true of 
 all our people. Some of them at first could not see why we should 
 get into it at all. There are several explanations of this. Many 
 of our people did not understand the principles governing ocean traffic 
 nor grasp the paramount importance of maintaining the rights of the 
 country and its citizens under the established law of the sea. 
 We live far from the coast and thousands of us had never seen the 
 ocean or the big ships which sail on it. The sentiments of these people 
 were reflected in the votes of some of Minnesota's representatives 
 in the two houses of congress on the McLemore resolution. Another 
 explanation was the racial situation in the state. We had a population 
 of about 2,000,000 by the 1910 census, and more than seventy per 
 cent of these were either foreign born or of foreign parentage on one 
 or both sides. Out of the two million people nearly five hundred 
 thousand were either born in Germany or Austria, or were of German 
 or Austrian parentage. There were many sections where the English 
 language was not spoken, and in some cases, not understood; where 
 the English language newspapers did not circulate, and where a 
 foreign tongue was the medium of communication in church and 
 school, in the home and in business relations. 
 
 Thousands of these men of foreign origin, including those of German 
 
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blood, favored the war before we got into it and after the declaration 
 thousands of them, who had not before been in sympathy with our 
 participating, promptly caught the spirit of the nation's war 
 purposes, appreciated the consideration which forced us into the war 
 and became prominent and active in mobilization. But some of them 
 were of another mind. A part of these had personal associations with 
 Germany before the United States entered the war, and for this reason 
 wanted Germany to win, and even after the United States entered 
 the war, could not reconcile themselves to the thought of Germany's 
 defeat. It was a shock to others of them who had themselves or whose 
 fathers had come from Europe to escape military service and the 
 quarrels of dynasties, to see the United States drawn into the whirl- 
 pool of world politics. They opposed this before the declaration, 
 and the attitude of some of them continued the same even after the 
 declaration. The test of loyalty in war times is whether a man is 
 wholeheartedly for the war and subordinates everything else to its 
 successful prosecution. There were many in Minnesota in 1917 who 
 were not loyal in this sense. Some of them were traitors deserving 
 of their fate which followed. Some of them were good citizens in 
 most of the concerns of life, and as long as this type of the disloyal 
 thought and acted as individuals, no serious public danger attended 
 their perverted attitude. The public danger came when the anti-war 
 feeling assumed the shape of concerted and public propaganda, and it 
 assumed this shape here in the spring and summer of 1917. The 
 Minnesota men who were disloyal in the sense above defined then formed 
 a constituency of considerable size and there appeared leaders and 
 spokesmen to organize them and give expression to their opinions. 
 Misinterpreting the constitutional guaranty of freedom of speech 
 and of the press, these leaders thought or pretended to think that even 
 in war times, they could properly oppose the government's policies 
 in speech and writings. These leaders were of three classes: 
 (1) Professional and theoretical pacifists who organized for a nation- 
 wide anti-war campaign, the so-called People's Peace Council and 
 similar bodies. (2) Men of pro-German traditions and sympathies, who 
 were opposed to the war because Germany was one of the combatants. 
 The troubles from this type of leaders showed themselves first most 
 conspicuously in the Minnesota Valley culminating in the New Ulm 
 episode in July, 1917. (3) Professional politicians of the socialist or Non- 
 partisan league stamp, who sought to win votes at their country's 
 cost by pandering to a treasonable sentiment. The Commission un- 
 dertook to kindle the back fires of patriotism among the rank and file 
 of this ilk by the devices already referred to. With the leaders it 
 used the mailed fist. 
 
 (1.) The People's Peace Council included the most prominent leaders 
 
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of the socialistic, anarchistic, pacifist, pro-German and other elements 
 actively opposed to the war. Among its leading lights were the men 
 who had drafted the notorious St. Louis platform of the Socialist 
 party, which branded the declaration of war by the United States as a 
 crime. It was organized in New York for the immediate purpose of 
 carrying on a propaganda throughout the country in support of the 
 German demand fpr an embargo upon food and munitions of war 
 and in opposition to enlistments and subsequently to the draft law. 
 The City of Minneapolis was selected as the most suitable place for 
 the first great demonstration. The polyglot population of this state 
 and section was looked upon as a promising soil by the sowers of sedi- 
 tion, and, moreover, the then mayor of Mineapolis had assured them 
 of a most hospitable welcome and all needed protection. The pro- 
 posed demonstration which was set for the first week in September, 
 1917, attracted great attention in this state and in the country at 
 large. Reports of the elaborate preparations appeared frequently 
 in the press. Special trains were to bring the eastern leaders of the 
 movement to Minneapolis, and delegations were expected from other 
 parts of the country. The loyal people in Minneapolis and the state 
 at large were alarmed. The projected meeting was regarded not 
 only as an overt act of sedition, but also as a blot upon the good name 
 of the city, and the sentiment that it should be prevented by the 
 loyal people of the city at all costs gained strength from day to day. 
 Against this demand stood the repeated assurances of the mayor 
 that the full power of the city would be used to shield the demonstrators. 
 A few days before the meeting was to take place the situation was 
 reported so serious that the Governor sent to the sheriff of Hennepin 
 County the following telegram: 
 
 "My attention has been directed to a so-called Peace Council to be 
 held in Minneapolis beginning September 1, 1917. If the said meeting 
 will in any way tend to injure the government in the prosecution of the 
 war or disturb the peace within the city of Minneapolis, you are here- 
 by ordered to prevent the holding thereof. Intentional or unintentional 
 arousing of anti-American sentiment or the dividing of our forces through 
 ill-advice and futile peace talk at this time will only aid and abet the 
 enemy. 
 
 Summon to your assistance such forces as you may need to execute 
 the laws as herein ordered. Advise me at once as to whether you will 
 have sufficient facilities to cope with the situation." 
 
 In response thereto the sheriff called at the Governor's office on the 
 next day when the Commission was in session. The matter was dis- 
 cussed with the sheriff and upon his report and the discussion thereof 
 the Governor issued the following proclamation forbidding the meeting : 
 
 GOVERNOR'S PROCLAMATION 
 
 WHEREAS, an organization designating itself as the People's Council 
 of America has announced that it will hold a national convention and 
 
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public meetings in the city of Minneapolis from September first to Sept- 
 ember sixth, 1917, and 
 
 WHEREAS, an order was issued by me to the Sheriff of said Hennepin 
 County on August 27, 1917, directing said Sheriff to prevent the holding 
 of said convention and said meetings if the same would be likely to hin- 
 der the Federal Government in the prosecution of the war and disturb 
 the public peace, and 
 
 WHEREAS, the Sheriff of said county has this day, in accordance 
 with said order, personally appeared and advised me that said conven- 
 tion and meetings, if held, in his opinion, would result in blood-shed, 
 rioting and loss of life, and 
 
 WHEREAS, said convention and meetings can, in my opinion, under 
 the circumstances have no other effect than that of aiding and abetting 
 the enemies of this country, • 
 
 NOW THEREFORE, I, J. A. A. BURNQUIST, Governor of the State 
 of Minnesota, do hereby order that the holding of said convention and 
 meetings within the county of Hennepin or elsewhere in the state of 
 Minnesota be and the same is hereby prohibited: that the peace officers 
 of the city of Minneapolis, the county of Hennepin and elsewhere in the 
 state of Minnesota are hereby charged with the enforcement of this order 
 and are directed to use all the means at their command to secure obedience 
 thereto and that, if additional forces are required, they are hereby dir- 
 ected to call on me therefor. 
 
 (2) The Commission preferred charges at Washington against the 
 pro-German newspapers, in an effort to exclude them from the mails. 
 It called some of their editors before it for examination and discovering 
 that one of them was an alien enemy, it induced the federal authorities 
 to have him interned for the period of the war. It instituted proceedings 
 against L. A. Fritsche, Mayor of New Ulm, and Albert Pfaender, 
 City Attorney of New Ulm, and they were removed from office by the 
 Governor. As a matter of public record and to preserve a picture of 
 a now almost forgotten condition, there is printed in the appendix the 
 Commission's charges against the New Ulm officials, which tell the 
 story in detail. 
 
 (3) The Commission collated the evidence against socialist agi- 
 tators by having its agents attend meetings addressed by them, and 
 where there appeared a violation of the (Espionage or other 
 federal acts, laid the evidence before the United States Attorney and 
 secured their indictment. The Commission does not care to include 
 their names in this report, but it was at its initiative that many of those 
 subsequently convicted, were brought to justice. In September, 1917, 
 after U. S. Senator Robert M. LaFollette, had addressed a meeting 
 held in St. Paul under the auspices of the Non-partisan League, it 
 cited the president of the League before it for examination and pre- 
 ferred charges against Senator La Follette with the United States 
 Senate asking his expulsion. It instructed public officials as to the 
 law of free speech and right of assembly during a war and from that 
 time exercised a continuous surveillance of public gatherings. 
 
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II. THE PREVENTION OF WASTE. 
 
 Twenty one of the Commission's orders had to do exclusively with 
 some phase of the liquor traffic, the dance halls and the pool rooms. 
 In the sequence of their numbers, these orders and the subjects with 
 which they respectively dealt were as follows: 
 
 Order No. 1, of April 24, 1917, closing the saloons in the Bridge Square 
 District, Minneapolis. 
 
 Order No. 2, of April 25, 1917, establishing of dry zone around the 
 Fort Snelling military reservation. 
 
 Order No. 6, of May 29, 1917, closing saloons on registration day. 
 
 Order No. 7, of June 5, 1917, relating to saloon hours and cabaret 
 entertainemnts . 
 
 Order No. 8, of June 5, 1917, restricting the sale of intoxicants in 
 St. Louis County in the proximity to mines and timber 
 lands. 
 
 Order No. 10, of September 17, 1917, relating to the sale of liquor 
 in Martin and Pipestone Counties. 
 
 Order No. 11, of September 19, 1917, forbidding transport of liquor 
 into Koochiching County. 
 
 Order No. 12, of October 25, 1917, forbidding transportation of in- 
 toxicants to Beltrami and Clearwater Counties. 
 
 Order No. 14, of November 6, 1917, restricting the operation of pool 
 and billiard halls to the hours within 8 A.M and 11 P.M. 
 
 Order No. 17, of December 5, 1917, regulating the sale of intoxicants 
 in the village of Blooming Prairie, Steele County. 
 
 Order No. 19, of December 11, 1917, forbidding shipment of transpor- 
 tation of intoxicants to Polk County. 
 
 Order No. 20, of January 15, 1918, forbidding transportation of intoxi- 
 cants to Clay County. 
 
 Order No. 22, of January 15, 1918, relating to the disposition of seized 
 intoxicants by sheriffs or other officers. 
 
 Order No. 24, of January 30, 1918, prohibiting the introduction of 
 intoxicants into territory in which the sale of such liquors 
 is prohibited by Indian treaty or the county option law. 
 
 Order No. 34, of May 14, 1918, prohibiting three saloon keepers in 
 the village of Blooming Prairie from selling intoxicants 
 during the period of the war. 
 
 Order No. 35, of May 14, 1918, forbidding the transportation of in- 
 toxicants into or through any dry county, city village 
 or borough. 
 
 Order No. 39, of July 9, 1918, closing saloons at points of entrainment 
 upon days fixed for the entrainment of soldiers. 
 
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Order No. 43, of August 13, 1918, forbidding the sale or keeping for 
 sale or delivery of intoxicating liquor in the County of 
 Red Lake. 
 
 Order No. 45, of September 10, 1918, suspending all traffic in intoxi- 
 cants on registration day. 
 
 Order No. 47, of September 24, 1918, prohibiting the sale of intoxi- 
 cants in the Village of Ceylon, Martin Coutoty. 
 
 Order No. 48, of September 24, 1918, relating to the sale of intoxi- 
 cants in the Village of Blooming Prairie. 
 
 Of the above orders Nos. 1, 6, 7, 14, 39 and' 45 were pri- 
 marily aimed at the protection of the soldiers and incidentally 
 to increase the efficiency of city workers. Their value to these ends 
 is obvious. For example, closing saloons till eight o'clock in the morn- 
 ing lessens the temptations to drinking before business hours, and early 
 closing of saloons, dance halls and pool rooms and the exclusion of 
 women from resorts check night time debauchery. The harlot and 
 whiskey are more dangerous to soldiers than bullets, and these measures 
 were proper as a matter of military expediency. 
 
 Orders 8, 10, 11, 12, 17, 19, 20, 22, 24, 34, 35, 43, 47 and 49 
 were designed to meet a peculiar situation which disclosed itself out- 
 side of the big cities. Much of the state was dry by the application 
 of the county option or local option statutes or by treaties with Indians. 
 But in the midst of dry territory there were, here and there, isolated 
 communities where liquor was sold under local licenses. The tier of 
 counties nearest Iowa was saloon-less except for Martin County, and 
 in Martin County there were only three villages with licensed saloons. 
 In the second tier of counties, Pipestone County was saloon-less except 
 for the village of Trosky. South Dakota to the west of Pipestone 
 was saloon-less, and so were Murray, Cottonwood and Watonwan 
 Counties to the east. All of northwestern Minnesota was dry except 
 for two places in Red Lake County, Red Lake Falls and Plummer. 
 The volume of liquor business done in these small places was amazing. 
 Red Lake Falls received 218 tons of whiskey and hard liquor and 
 45 carloads of beer within the short period of five months and sixteen 
 days. Trosky had 250 people and one saloon, which paid an annual 
 license of $8,000.00, and employed fifteen bartenders. The testimony 
 showed that in four months between April 1 and July 31, 1917, one 
 of the three saloon keepers at Ceylon in Martin County had re- 
 ceived shipments of beer aggregating 6,290 cases and shipments of 
 hard liquor aggregating seventy-five tons. 
 
 Although Plummer had not to exceed 350 people, 2,728 gallons of 
 whiskey, brandy, gin, alcohol and wine, and 100,118 gallons of beer 
 
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were delivered there by the Soo Railroad between July 1, 1917, and July 
 1, 1918. 
 
 The liquor shipped to such places was not all consumed there. Part 
 of it was, but a large amount was re-distributed through the adjacent 
 dry counties. Men from the surrounding country visited these centers 
 for the purpose of drinking and the places became nests of disorder. 
 The roads leading to and from them were traveled by noisy crowds of 
 roisterer's, decent people were excluded from the highways and out- 
 raged by the indecent language and conduct of drunken men, and the 
 regular authorities were quite powerless to handle the problem. These 
 places were thus also a s'ource of demoralization over a wide territory 
 extending as far south as Camp Dodge, near Des Moines, in Iowa. 
 The reports of the conditions were appalling. So many of our young 
 workers had been taken into the army that if the crops were to be har- 
 vested the best services of those left at home were required. The 
 continued operation of these sources of moral disease and contagion 
 was inconsistent with the utilization of the state's man power, and its 
 efficient application to satisfy war needs. The Commission first tried 
 to remedy the evil by limiting the hours in which liquor could be sold in 
 these places to the hours between nine A. M. and five P. M., and by 
 limiting sales to liquor consumed on the premises where sold. When 
 it appeared that this plan was not effective, it closed the offending 
 saloons and put them out of business. 
 
 m. THE PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC ORDER. 
 
 The Commission calls attention to two only of many episodes which 
 illustrate its work for the preservation of public order. 
 
 (a) The I. W. W. 
 
 In 1916, there had been labor trouble on the Range, accompanied 
 by disorder, violence and the destruction of property. The I. W. W. 
 promoted them. In 1917, the headquarters of the I. W. W.'s agri- 
 cultural division was in Minneapolis and the elevator and mill district 
 along the river was thronged with this organization's loafers. There 
 were authentic reports that the 1916 trouble on the Range would be 
 repeated in 1917, and meetings at Virginia, Minn., and other points 
 were advertised to be held on May day and to be addressed by im- 
 ported men and women agitators. 
 
 (1) The Commission closed the saloons and other loitering places in 
 the mill and elevator district of Minneapolis by Order No. 1, already 
 referred to. 
 
 (2) It prepared a vagrancy ordinance for enactment by municipalities. 
 This defined professional agitators as vagrants, and under it the agi- 
 
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tators imported for the May day meeting were arrested and incarcerated 
 as soon as they came within the state. With their orators in jail, the 
 meetings were abandoned. 
 
 (3) On June 20, 1917, the Commission called a conference at the 
 Capitol of the public officials of the Range cities and villages and 
 Duluth, explained to them the dangers which would flow from the in- 
 terruption of the mining industry during the war as threatened by the 
 agitators who were planning meetings and strikes in the Range district, 
 and pledged and secured their loyal cooperation for the preservation 
 of order and the prosecution of work. 
 
 (4) The Commission sent a representative to Washington who, under 
 its instructions, laid before the Department of Justice the evidence 
 it had accumulated of the I. W. W. plans and induced the seizure of 
 books and papers of the organization and the subsequent indictment 
 of its leaders at Chicago, which were followed by the conviction of 
 W. D. Haywood, head of the I. W. W., and one hundred of his fellow 
 workers. 
 
 (b) The Street Railway Strike. 
 
 In October, 1917, there was a strike of certain employes of the Twin 
 City Rapid Transit Company. The cessation of its service meant 
 the interruption of business in all lines, including the munition fac- 
 tories and other establishments engaged in war contracts. 
 
 On October 9th the Commission met representatives of the company 
 and of the strikers and after a hearing made the foollwing Order: 
 
 "Whereas, a strike is now existing by reason of a dispute between 
 the Street Railway Company and a portion of their employes, and 
 
 Whereas, their differences have narrowed down primarily to the 
 previous discharge of fifty-seven men and their possible re-employ- 
 ment, and 
 
 Whereas, officials of the Street Railway Company have stated 
 that it is not the policy of the company to discharge employes on 
 account of membership in any organization, and 
 
 Whereas, unionism or non-unionism should not, during the war, 
 be involved, 
 
 IT IS ORDERED that the chairman advise that the strike be 
 called off at once by the men striking and that the men go to work 
 immediately and, in that event, it is ordered that the Street Railway 
 Company reinstate the men who suspended their work on the 
 morning of October 6, 1917, in the positions held by them at the 
 time and that the status of each of the fifty-seven discharged men 
 be immediately thereafter investigated by this Commission, 
 
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and that those who were unfairly discharged be reinstated when 
 the Commission shall so order." 
 
 The men returned to work and the troubles ceased until November 
 3, 1917, when a communication was received from certain employes to 
 the effect that the company was not observing the terms of the order. 
 The Commission appointed a committee of three representative citizens 
 to investigate and report. On November 19th, 1917, this committee re- 
 ported certain recommendations which had been agreed on by all parties 
 to the controversy. One of the recommendations so agreed upon was 
 that the wearing by the employes of buttons and other insignia of either 
 union or non-union affiliations should be discontinued during working 
 hours in the interest of peace and order. The Commission approved 
 these recommendations including the button provision, because they 
 had been agreed to by all the interested parties. Some of the labor 
 leaders thereafter repudiated the arrangements and demanded that 
 the button provision be rescinded. Having been made by the agree- 
 ment of all parties concerned, it could not be rescinded without the 
 consent of all. The Company and the overwhelming majority of the 
 employes approved its making, observed it and continued their duties. 
 A small minority refused to return to work although the Commission 
 had at their request ordered their reinstatement by the company. 
 
 There followed meetings engineered and addressed by Non-Partisan 
 League leaders, professional politicians and imported agitators de- 
 nouncing and attacking the Commission. Violence and disorder 
 occured in the public streets of St. Paul, and the destruction of prop- 
 erty, which the local authorities proved unable or unwilling to prevent. 
 Forty-two men were injured by the rioters. Then came threats of 
 general strikes instigated by political agitators, a demand for federal 
 intervention and communications and visits from federal officials, 
 asking that the Commission recede from its position. The Commis- 
 sion felt that it could not modify the stand it had taken. The so- 
 called button order was made only upon the request and agreement 
 of the parties involved. As shown by its previous order in the 
 matter it sympathized with the workingmen's aspirations for a better 
 status, but it felt that this was a local matter which had been settled 
 between the parties, a view taken by President Wilson in September, 
 1918, in a similar matter. The stand of the Commission in this con- 
 troversy was recently sustained by the National War Labor Board. 
 
 If law and order and the proper administration of government were 
 to obtain in the state, the Commission could not yield. A govern- 
 ment which would surrender and consent to the repudiation of a 
 solemn judgment not only entered in a proceeding to which the ob- 
 jecting interest was a party, but entered by his consent and under 
 
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his stipulation, and which would surrender under the pressure of 
 violence, threats and the appeals of influential officials, would be a 
 legitimate object of popular contempt and a traitor to the principles 
 of civil liberty on which our institutions rest. The Commission did 
 not yield. The Governor called out the Home Guard, which had 
 been organized by the Commission. This force patrolled the streets 
 of St. Paul and Minneapolis and restored order. The street cars con- 
 tinued to operate and to carry the workmen to the factories engaged 
 in munition making and other war industries, and the general strike 
 did not ensue because the great mass of Minnesota workers are patriots 
 who recognize the sanctity of law, and that the victory of our armies 
 abroad would be of no value if accompanied by the discrediting and 
 overturn of our government at home. 
 
 IV. ENFORCEMENT OF COMISSION'S ORDER BY THE STATE 
 EXECUTIVE. 
 
 Under the constitution the military forces of the State are subject 
 to the order of the Governor. The act creating the Commission pro- 
 vided that the Governor "shall have the same powers in relation to 
 the Home Guard as are now conferred upon him by the constitution 
 and laws of the State in relation to the other military and naval forces 
 of the State." Pursuant to this power the Governor called out several 
 companies of the Home Guard to quell the riots on the streets of St. 
 Paul during the aforesaid street car strike. 
 
 The stand taken by the Governor in enforcing the Commission's 
 said labor orders is also shown in the following telegrams sent by him 
 to the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of War and Samuel Gompers, 
 President of the Federation of Labor, in reply to telegrams from them 
 asking him to use his efforts in reopening the Commission's award: 
 
 "Louis F. Post, Acting Secretary of Labor, Washington, D. C. The 
 orders of the Public Safety Commission were adopted after the submission 
 to it by both parties of the matters in dispute, and said orders were issued 
 upon the understanding that the recommendations orginally adopted 
 were satisfactory to both sides. Interference at this time will simply 
 result in an attempt to defy duly constituted authority of Minnesota. As 
 Governor of this commonwealth I shall use every power at my command 
 to uphold the dignity of the State and to protect the rights of all concerned. 
 Should the time arrive when we need Federal assistance to maintain our 
 laws I shall not hesitate to call upon you. J. A. A. Burnquist, Governor of 
 Minnesota." 
 
 "To Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War, Washington, D.C. 
 
 "On Dec. 1, I sent the following telegram to the acting secretary of 
 labor in reply to telegram from him: 
 (Telegram quoted above.) 
 
 "Since sending the above telegram, conditions are less favorable 
 
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to a re-opening of the decision already rendered than at the time of sending 
 it because of the riots which have since occurred. 
 
 "Submission of disputed questions to arbitration at this time would 
 practically mean arbitrating the arbitration already concluded. Re-open- 
 ing of the decision as matters matters now stand would be a surrender 
 of government by reason of riots and agitation and would be an incentive 
 to further riots and agitation. 
 
 "Under orders adopted by the Safety Commission, men in the employ 
 of the street railway company have a right to their union cards. They have 
 the privilege of belonging to any union they wish to join. They have a right 
 to wear union or non-union buttons on civilian clothes, but because there 
 was continual irritation between the men themselves and between the men 
 and the public by reason of some wearing non-union buttons and others 
 union buttons, a committee appointed by the Commission upon representa- 
 tion made to it that such an order would be willingly acquiesced in by both 
 sides made a recommendation that buttons be not worn on uniforms at 
 the present time. The Safety Commission adopted that recommendation. 
 No principle of unionism therefore is attacked. 
 
 "There is no vital issue involved and no reason whatsoever for sym- 
 pathetic strikes. Because of the technical objection referred to and from 
 other information we have, it is apparent that there is back of the 
 present unrest some other reason for the agitation than the orders of ,the 
 Commission. J. A. A. Burnquist, Governor of Minnesota." 
 
 "Samuel Gompers, Washington, D. C. 
 
 "The dispute referred to in your telegram was submitted to the Safety 
 Commission on application of the car-men's unions and a decision was 
 duly rendered. The Safety Commission, by its orders, made it possible 
 for them to save their organizations. Obedience on the part of both sides 
 is all that is necessary. If you, as President of the American Federation 
 of Labor, will use the great influence of your position to secure, on the part 
 of the union men, a compliance with an order adopted by a department of the 
 State government after full hearing and with the understanding that it 
 would willingly be complied with by both parties and adopted for the pur- 
 pose of preserving public peace, you will be pursuing a just and patriotic 
 course which will be of benefit to the cause of labor. Violations of govern- 
 mental orders cannot be permitted nor can such orders be modified by 
 reason of such riots as occurred here last week or because of a continual 
 agitation on the part of self-seeking politicians and enemies of our govern- 
 ment. Outside interference has only prolonged the controversy, which 
 has been greatly exaggerated in reports to you and others. Patriotism 
 demands obedience to a just order which, in no way, was intended to 
 attack the principles of unionism and which in fact does not do so. J. A. A. 
 Burnquist, Governor of Minnesota." 
 
 A similar position was taken by the Executive in enforcing the liquor 
 orders of the Safety Commission. 
 
 On July 1, 1918, the Governor, against whom a restraining order 
 had been issued in the District Court of Ramsey County, sent the 
 following order to the Adjutant General: 
 
 WHEREAS, it is reported that certain saloons at Blooming Prairie are 
 openly defying an order of the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety, 
 and 
 
 WHEREAS, the conditions in said village are disclosed by ample evi- 
 dence before said Commission to have been an intolerable nuisance and 
 the permission of such a defiance of constituted authority would be exceed- 
 ingly dangerous to the peace and order of the Commonwealth, 
 
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THEREFORE, you are hereby ordered to investigate the situation in 
 said village and close the saloons that are violating the law and keep the 
 same closed by the use of such of the National Guard as is necessary for 
 said purpose, until the validity of the order involved has been determined 
 by the courts of this State. 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor. 
 
 Under date of July 13, 1918, said District Court of Ramsey County 
 made an order requiring the Governor and the Adjutant General to 
 show cause before the court why they should not be punished as for 
 a contempt, the act complained of being the order of the governor 
 of July 1, 1918, directing the adjutant general to close three liquor 
 saloons at the village of Blooming Prairie then operating in defiance 
 of the order of the Safety Commission of May 14, 1918. 
 
 In reply to a telegram of the attorneys of the owners of the saloons 
 involved asking the Governor to appear in court in response to said 
 order of the District Court, he sent the following telegram: 
 
 "As the people of the state have through their constitution imposed 
 solely upon the Governor the duties of the Commander in Chief of our 
 military forces, I, as the servant of the people and responsible to them, 
 have no right under that constitution to consent to the court's jurisdiction 
 in the matter referred to in your telegram. To do so would be to admit 
 that there are as many commanders-in-chief in this state as there are 
 judges of our courts. If attorneys for those who are openly and defiantly 
 violating the law are going to be able, especially in war time, to hinder the 
 exercise of the executive military authority through the securing of ex 
 parte temporary restraining orders and thereafter by the many possible de- 
 lays incident to legal procedure, results disastrous to the peace and order 
 of the state must necessarily follow. Out of respect therefore to the 
 people of our commonwealth and their executive department of government, 
 which the courts have uniformly held is not inferior to the judicial, but of 
 equal dignity and co-ordinate with it, and in view of the fact that our 
 Supreme Court has decided that the Governor cannot be interfered with 
 when he is performing political or governmental duties which require the 
 exercise of judgment or discretion, and least of all in matters which are mili- 
 tary in their nature, I must in answer to your inquiry state that I cannot 
 personally attend court on Saturday morning. Out of respect to the 
 judicial department, however, I have notified the Attorney General to 
 present to the courts my position in relation to this litigation. 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor of Minnesota." 
 
 In the decision filed by the State Supreme Court on August 9, 1918, 
 in the case of State of Minnesota ex rel J. A. A. Burnquist et al,' Re- 
 lators, vs. District Court 2nd Judicial District et al, the Supreme Court 
 held "that the trial court was without jurisdiction to proceed against 
 the relator Burnquist, since it appears that in closing the saloon he 
 was in good faith discharging a constitutional duty, placed upon him 
 as Governor, to take care that a duly enacted law was faithfully ex- 
 ecuted." 
 
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TEAM WORK WITHIN THE STATE 
 
 In the performance of its duties the Safety Commission has had 
 the benefit of helpful co-operation with voluntary organization, agencies 
 or forces working to the same end. The purpose of the creation of 
 the Commission was in part to assist in co-ordinating the voluntary 
 agencies and efforts and serve them with counsel, direction and aid. 
 It goes without saying that but for the splendid initiative and patriot- 
 ism of the people and the many voluntary organizations the results 
 of the labors of the Commission as a creative force would have been 
 comparatively modest. 
 
 The most powerful agency were the newspapers of the state, 
 which with few exceptions struck and sustained a high tone of loyal 
 agitation. The county officers performed duties outside their statu- 
 tory obligations with real zeal and fidelity. The patriotic leagues, 
 loyalty leagues, four minute men associations and other similar bodies 
 were of great value in kindling the fires of patriotism. The Safety 
 Commission acted as a clearing house for the exchange of information 
 and ideas between the several local or special agencies and organiza- 
 tions of other states or of federal origin, and helped many of them by 
 pecuniary allowances from time to time. The Commission's meetings 
 were the occasion of hearings of delegations from every section of the 
 state and from abroad, and its office was kept busy with correspondence 
 with people and bodies on every subject related directly or indirectly 
 to the war. In this way effective team work and union of efforts 
 between all were secured and greater results for the public good achieved I 
 
 MINNESOTA'S WAR CONTRIBUTIONS 
 
 Minnesota, with her loins girded up as outlined in the foregoing 
 pages, may justly be proud of her contributions to the nation's war 
 power. With a population not exceeding 2,400,000 people at the pre- 
 sent time, she sent 112,000 men to the military or naval forces of the 
 country. From some little hamlets, even before the selective service 
 act went into effect, the whole male population of military age enlisted 
 in the service. She bought of the successive issues of Liberty bonds 
 with increasing liberality, as the following figures will show: 
 
 First Loan, $49,933,750; Second Loan, $74,157,500; Third Loan, 
 $98,793,350; Fourth, $133,315,250. In all, $356,199,850.00, or approxi- 
 mately $150.00 dollars per capita of the population, or about 730 
 dollars for each family of five. The amount of war stamps sold in 
 Minnesota aggregates $30,000,000.00 in round figures and the State 
 
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contributed nearly $5,000,000.00 to the Red Cross and more than 
 $5,000,000.00 to the Y. M. C. A. and associated organizations. In 
 spite of the drain upon its man power the state's production of iron 
 ore was not only kept up to normal but perceptibly increased. The 
 results of the crop census taken last summer, as far as they are tabu- 
 lated indicate that the area of almost every crop was markedly in- 
 creased in 1918, and that the farmers of the state had responded readily 
 to the appeals of the national food administration for increased pro- 
 duction of hogs, cattle and other live stock. 
 
 Minnesota jumped from ninth place in 1917 to fifth place in 1918 
 among the states in the relative value of her farm products. Only 
 Illinois, Iowa, Texas and Georgia outranked her in 1918 in aggregate 
 production of the country's great staples. These few statistics which 
 make no note of individual doings elsewhere commented on, show that 
 Minnesota did its part in the war. 
 
 But greater than all the things that may be counted, measured or 
 weighed was the new spirit born among our people under the stress 
 of war and the perils of our common country. It is true to a large 
 extent that, when it came, the war found Minnesota a state of scattered 
 or even disjointed communities, many of which felt that they had 
 little or nothing in common with the others. Each lived its life apart 
 from the others, and in many instances mutual understanding and 
 sympathy between them were lacking. These separatist tendencies 
 were burned out in the furnace of common duty, which kindled the 
 fires of American partiotism even in sluggish hearts and carried even 
 to the backwoods man a new vision of America and her mission in 
 the world. 
 
 Minnesota has had a new birth in consequence of the world war. 
 Her people have become welded into a compact body united in the 
 spirit of true Americanism. This is a gain out-weighing all her sacri- 
 fices — an invaluable gain for herself and the whole nation. 
 
 Dated as of January 1st, 1919. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. Burnquist, Chairman, 
 
 C. H. March, Vice-Chairman, 
 
 H. W. Libby, Secretary, 
 
 Clifford L. Hilton, Attorney General, 
 
 J. F. McGee, 
 
 A. C. Weiss, 
 
 Thos. E. Cashman. 
 
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APPENDIX 
 
 REPORT OF EXAMINATION 
 
 of Books and Affairs of the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety. 
 
 Period covered by examination April 16, 1917, to December 31, 1918. 
 
 Date of Audit January 2, 1919. 
 
 ANDREW E. FRITZ, 
 
 PUBLIC EXAMINER 
 
 Receipts. 
 
 Appropriation, Chapter 261, Laws 1917 .. $1,000,000.00 
 Refunds 8,084.00 
 
 Disbursements. 
 
 Warrants issued April 16, 1917, to Dec. 
 31, 1918, for Soldiers' Pay and Suste- 
 nance $ 488,337.78 
 
 Warrants issued April 16, 1917, to Dec. 
 
 31, 1918, for all other purposes 278,495.01 
 
 Balance, December 31, 1918 241,251.21 
 
 Refunds. 
 
 Commissioners' expense $ 105.35 
 
 Salaries 716.26 
 
 Soldiers' payroll 308.66 
 
 General expense 97.31 
 
 Printing and publicity 66.50 
 
 Newspaper subscriptions 12.00 
 
 Home Guard expense 20.24 
 
 Soldiers' dependents 210.00 
 
 Revolving Funds: 
 
 John Lind (bread fund) 1,481.90 
 
 Carlos Avery. (fish fund) 1,000.00 
 
 Employment Bureau 765.78 
 
 Regimental Funds: 
 
 Col. W. J. Murphy 2,500.00 
 
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 $1,008,084.00 
 
 $1,008,084.00 
 
Camp Cody Athletic Fund : 
 
 Dr. L. R. S. Ferguson $ 800.00 
 
 $ 8,084.00 
 
 Warrants Issued: 
 
 Commissioners' expenses and steno- 
 graphers' services 9,430.47 
 
 Salaries of regular employes 55,539.96 
 
 Miscellaneous service 12,028.18 
 
 General Expense : 
 
 Office supplies, etc. 2,954.06 
 Furniture and equipment (including motor truck for 
 
 military, $1,417.00) 3,966.24 
 
 Postage 13,764.39 
 
 Printing and publicity 76,344.86 
 
 Subscriptions to Papers 986.52 
 
 Telephone and telegraph 2,670.92 
 
 Freight and express 1,413.96 
 
 Badges 324.75 
 
 Miscellaneous 1,085.88 
 
 Traveling Expense : 
 
 Employes 7,003.21 
 
 Miscellaneous (includes expense of county directors, 
 meeting called by Commission, fuel and food bu- 
 reaus and womens' committees) 12,115.19 
 
 Salaries and expenses of special investigators 5,933.75 
 
 Labor Bureau: 
 
 Rent 1,750.00 
 
 Salaries 10,588,39 
 
 General expense 1,978.65 
 
 Soldiers' pay and sustenance 488,337.78 
 
 Forest fire fighting 6,718.41 
 
 Street car strike expense 6,558.81 
 
 Home Guard: 
 
 Coats and caps 22,869.50 
 
 Miscellaneous expense 471.41 
 
 Loans to Soldiers' Dependents 747.50 
 
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Revolving Funds: 
 
 Employment Bureau $ 1,000.00 
 
 Carlos Avery (fish marketing) 1,000.00 
 
 John Lind (bread market) 1,500.00 
 
 P. A. Ragatz (produce market) 2,000.00 
 
 Welfare Funds: 
 
 Battleship Minnesota 2,200.00 
 
 1st Regiment 2,500.00 
 
 2nd Regiment 2,500.00 
 
 3rd Regiment 2,500.00 
 
 1st Field Artillery 2,500.00 
 
 2nd Field Artillery 2,500.00 
 
 Brigade Staff Gen. F. E. Resche 250.00 
 
 Camp Cody Athletic Fund (L. R. S. Ferguson) 800.00 
 
 $ 766,832.79 
 
 The sums of $800.00 paid to Dr. Ferguson for the Camp Cody 
 Athletic Fund and $2,500.00 paid to Col. Wm. J. Murphy as welfare 
 fund for the 2nd Field Artillery have been refunded. 
 
 The Commission has established four departments in connection 
 with its various activities, viz: a labor bureau, a department for 
 taking fish from state lakes under the supervision of the Game & Fish 
 Commissioner, a bread marketing department and a department for 
 the marketing of produce. Each of these departments was advanced 
 a sum of money for a revolving fund. 
 
 The employment bureau received $1,000.00, of which $765.78 has 
 been returned to the state treasury and there are bills outstanding 
 against various persons and firms which when collected will make up 
 the difference. 
 
 The fishing department received $1,000.00, which has been refunded 
 to the state treasury. In addition there is cash and property in the 
 hands of the Game & Fish Commissioner, aggregating approximately 
 $35,000.00, which represents net proceeds from the sale of the fish 
 taken from various lakes in the state. 
 
 The bread marketing committee has refunded $1,481.90 of the 
 $1,500.00 turned over to them as a revolving fund. The balance 
 was used for expenses. 
 
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The produce marketing department was given a revolving fund 
 of $2,000.00. This department has not at the date of this examina- 
 tion closed up its affairs nor refunded the amount of the contingent 
 fund to the state treasury. Cash on hand and bills receivable in ex- 
 cess of the amount of the revolving fund were found by the examiner, 
 full report of which will be made as soon as the accounts are closed up. 
 
 Charles Foster, 
 
 Corporation Examiner. 
 
 CHARGES AGAINST NEW ULM OFFICIALS 
 
 To Hon. J. A. A. Burnquist, 
 
 Governor of Minnesota. 
 
 The Public Safety Commission has carefully investigated the movement which 
 had its public expression in the meeting at New Ulm on July 25, 1917, and which 
 since then has had expression elsewhere. The facts as disclosed are as follows: 
 On- Monday, July 23, 1917, four or five young men, residents of Brown County, 
 who had been drafted under the conscription act, consulted one Albert Pfaender, 
 city attorney of New Ulm, as to whether they could be constitutionally required to 
 perform military service for the United States in Europe. Pfaender is an educated 
 man about 40 years old, a member of the bar, and of the Minnesota State Bar 
 Association, who has served in the State Legislature and as an officer in the State 
 Militia on the Mexican border. Instead of advising them that they could be so 
 required as he well knew or ought to have known, and instead of advising them that 
 it was a soldier's duty to quietly and without question obey and submit to the 
 orders of his superiors, he encouraged them to believe that there was some hope, 
 under the constitution, of their escaping foreign service, and arranged with them 
 for a further conference which others of the drafted men would attend. Under 
 this incentive a public meeting was arranged for the following Wednesday evening 
 in the city park. What men made the arrangements, does not appear, except that 
 the drafted men who consulted Pfaender, and other drafted men, Louis Vogel, 
 the county auditor, Henry Berg, the county treasurer, Dr. L. A. Fritsche, the Mayor 
 of New Ulm, and the other men who are hereinafter referred to as speakers were 
 active in the movement. The secrecy as to the personnel of the promoters is an 
 indication that the illegal character of the movement was recognized, as is also 
 the method of announcement used. 
 
 Published notices were avoided, and the telephone and word of mouth were 
 the chief media of spreading information about the proposed gathering. On 
 the evening of July 25, 1917, a procession was formed in the city streets, headed 
 by Louis Vogel, the county auditor, who acted as marshal, and which included a 
 band and many of the drafted men of Brown County, and of adjoining counties. 
 This procession marched to the public park where between 8,000 and 10,000 people 
 assembled. Dr. L. A. Fritsche, the Mayor of New Ulm, who is also first vice presi- 
 dent of the Minnesota German American Alliance, presided over the meeting, 
 and the speakers were Captain Albert Steinhauser, F. H. Retzlaff, a local merchant, 
 and M. F. Wagner and A. Ackermann, teachers in the Dr. Martin Luther College 
 
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of New Ulm, and the last its president. The only available record of most of the 
 speeches is the recollection of the hearers. But Pfaender's speech was written out 
 in advance and the Commission has a copy of it. From this and the reports of 
 hearers about the other speeches it would appear that their general purport was 
 this: With a cunning, but futile effort to observe the letter of the law, while out- 
 raging its spirit, the speakers advised the drafted men to submit to the draft in 
 form, expressed doubt as to whether they could, under the constitution, be required 
 to serve abroad, suggested that before such foreign service was required, some 
 method of avoiding it could be found, and criticised the war as unworthy of popular 
 support. Pfaender, in his speech, was particularly incendiary. Perverting the 
 President's declaration that this country had no quarrel with the German people 
 as such, he demanded to know why, if this was so, our young men should be sent 
 abroad to fight against the German army, as murderers engaged in murder. The 
 other speakers took the same key with varying degrees of violence. The words 
 they Used do not alone disclose their purpose. This is to be found also in the effect 
 of their words on their hearers. What they said against the war and the legislation 
 in connection with it, excited responsive enthusiasm in their audience, and instead 
 of inspiring the drafted men to patriotically do their duty for the cause of God 
 and their country, they were pictured as martyrs, dragged to an unjust fate by a 
 tyrannical and cruel government. Intoxicated by the success of this meeting, 
 and by the reception their speeches had, other meetings were organized in neigh- 
 boring villages before which some of the same speakers, including Pfaender, made 
 similar addresses. One of these subsequent meetings was held at Gibbons in spite 
 of the protest and warning of the local authorities, and of Mr. W. F. Nelson, the 
 Commission's representative, who happened to be there. The local authorities 
 and Mr. Nelson told the organizers and speakers in advance that such a meeting 
 was ill advised and was calculated to throw a monkey wrench into the government's 
 machinery. But their interference was resented, and it was held in spite of it. 
 In the course of this speech Pfaender is reported to have said: 
 
 "I am going to do my little bit towards keeping the boys from going to 
 France to fight." 
 
 The Commission has learned most of these facts from Mr. Pfaender himself, 
 who, at his own initiative, appeared before it on his own behalf, and as attorney 
 for Mr. Vogel, Mr. Berg and Dr. Fritsche, at its meeting of August 14, 1917, at 
 which meeting you were not present. The purpose of Pfaender's appearance was 
 to effect some settlement with the Commission of the trouble which had arisen. 
 He made no admission that what had happened was a mistake, except as it affected 
 him personally, but he did express regret at the situation because it had involved 
 him in personal discredit which might dimimsh his earning capacity. He said in 
 substance that if the Commission would assume a conciliatory attitude, the whole 
 thing might be pleasantly disposed of, but that if it acted in a hostile spirit, there 
 would be resistance, and he suggested that to the end that the Commission might 
 better understand the nature of the propaganda, it should have a representative 
 at the future meetings of the same sort, which he thus disclosed, it was proposed 
 to hold in other places. His preposterous idea was that the Commission should 
 thus co-operate in such proposed meetings and exercise a kind of benevolent super- 
 vision over them, gently suggesting restraint, if it seemed to its representatives that 
 the agitation was exceeding safe limits. In reply to inquiries from the Commission 
 (a) as to whether Mr. Pfaender and those whom he represented wanted the United 
 States to win the war with Germany, Mr. Pfaender gave a qualified answer, saying 
 that this depended on what was meant by winning the war, and (b) as to what 
 patriotic purpose public officers like himself and Mr. Vogel and Mr. Berg and Dr. 
 
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Fritsche, and a teacher like Professor Ackermann thought they were advancing 
 by criticising the government and its motives in the prosecution of the war, he 
 stated in substance that Brown County was peopled largely by what he called 
 German Americans, that they were reluctant in war with men of their own blood 
 and that if the drafted men had not been encouraged by the speakers to believe 
 that they might escape foreign service, there would have been organized opposition 
 to registration under the conscription act. 
 
 It was hard for it to treat with courtesy one so minded, but the Commission 
 nonetheless tried to appeal to his patriotism. It called his attention to the local 
 discredit he and his assocaties were bringing on Brown County, and to the harm 
 they were doing in misguiding young men, and to these facts among others: 
 
 (a) that there was nothing peculiar and special about the situation in Brown 
 County, that nobody wanted our young men to risk their lives in France, and that 
 the women in other counties were not making bandages which might be used to 
 bind their own children's and brothers' wounds, because they enjoyed doing so; 
 that all this was not a matter of pleasure with them, but a matter of duty. 
 
 (b) that when the British Government in the 18th Century undertook to mark 
 lines on the ocean through which alone colonial commerce could go, as Germany 
 did in February last for our ships, although the colonies were weak in population 
 and wealth, their people under the leadership of John Hancock and Samuel Adams 
 and George Washington, took up arms against men of their own blood, that American 
 institutions were born in this fight of Englishman against Englishman, and that 
 fifty years ago, the young men of the North did not hesitate to wage war on their 
 kin of the South to the end, that the black man might be freed from the shackles 
 which bound him. 
 
 (c) that the United States was not the aggressor in this war, that we went 
 into it reluctantly, that it was not a war of races, but a war of principles, and that 
 the sacrifices of life and treasure our people are making was in order that the world 
 may be safe for democracy, and that a government which kills women and little 
 children and destroys the property of non-combatants may not triumph. 
 
 Without making any promises or giving any assurances as to what would happen 
 if this was done, it asked that he and his associates should reflect on their conduct, 
 and if they found it in their hearts to do so, they should join in a public statement 
 protesting their loyalty, admitting their course had been ill advised, promising 
 to participate in no further seditious gatherings, and advising that no more such 
 meetings be held. It said to him that in this way he might perform a valuable 
 service and help the Commission in its work as defined by the statute of "applying 
 the military, civil and industrial resources of the state most efficiently towards the 
 defense of the state and nation and toward the successful prosecution of the war." 
 When he appeared to acquiesce in this plan, a moderate writing embodying these 
 features was drafted in language which was not inconsistent with the signer's self- 
 respect, and he took it to New Ulm on Tuesday to submit to his associates. But 
 what was said made no impression. He has since telephoned the Commission's 
 attorney that he and his associates are unwilling to sign any writing. In other 
 words, they will not help quell the disturbance they have created. 
 
 The Commission is advised by its attorney that under the constitution the gover- 
 nor has no authority to remove an inferior officer except for malfeasance or non- 
 feasance in the performance of the duties of his office, and that before an inferior 
 officer is removed, he is entitled to a hearing. The Commission is also advised 
 by its attorney that the declaration of war by Congress is a law, and that for a 
 public officer, like a Mayor or a City Attorney, who is charged with the duty of 
 law enforcement, to publicly criticise a law like the declaration of war, and the acts 
 
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of Congress which have been passed for its enforcement, and take any other position 
 than that as long as these laws are in force, they should be unquestionably obeyed, 
 constitutes malfeasance in the performance of the duties of his office. As far as 
 an officer lik e a county auditor is concerned, the Commission is advised that the 
 Governor's powers would not be so clear, were it not for the provisions of the con- 
 scription act and the regulations under it, which make him the Clerk of the local 
 exemption board but that, in view of this provision and his acceptance of the posi- 
 tion, similar conduct on a county auditor's part also constitutes malfeasance in 
 office. It is an appalling situation when loyal merchants and bankers can be boy- 
 cotted in Minnesota because they are loyal, as the Commission is advised is the case, 
 when a county auditor, who is clerk of the local exemption board encourages and 
 even leads a procession of drafted malcontents and when the mayor and city attorney 
 of one of the most prosperous cities of the Minnesota Valley openly promote a 
 Pro-German propaganda. 
 
 The Commission will in due course formulate in more specific shape the charges 
 of malfeasance hereinbefore presented, and respectfully advises that proceedings 
 be instituted under the appropriate statutes for the removal of L. A. Fritsche from 
 the office of mayor of the city of New Ulm, of Albert Pfaender, from the office 
 of city attorney of the city of New Ulm and of Louis Vogel from the office of auditor 
 of Brown County, Minnesota. 
 
 Respectfully submitted, 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY 
 
 John S. Pardee, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 THE COAL CRISIS IN THE NORTHWEST 
 
 The following telegrams show efforts made to relieve the coal situation and 
 prevent a coal famine in Minnesota and the other northwestern states. 
 
 To the President of the United States, 
 White House, Washington, D. C. 
 
 May 28, 1917. 
 
 In consultation today with prominent coal dock men of head of Lake Superior 
 it appears that the conditions surrounding the movement of coal from Lake Erie 
 to the head of the lakes to supply the Northwest during the coming fall and winter 
 with bituminous coal are daily growing more serious. Today the supply is three 
 million tons short of a year ago, which shortage represents thirty-three and one 
 third per cent of the total requirements, not including the Steel Corporation, of 
 bituminous coal absolutely necessary to supply the territory entirely dependent 
 upon head of lakes for fuel. 
 
 Unless our fuel supply is adequate the movement of crops, iron ore and other 
 necessaries will be seriously handicapped and the people of this section will be 
 subject to intense suffering and hardship next winter. 
 
 I am reliably informed that large quantities of coal are being shipped daily 
 all rail from eastern mines to points in Ohio, Michigan and Indiana for the sole 
 
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purpose of stocking against next winter's needs. These points can be and normally 
 are taken care of in the fall and winter months by all rail shipments after the lake 
 requirements are supplied. If present conditions continue, reversing the usual 
 policy, it will not be possible to get the necessary coal up the lakes. I earnestly 
 request that some extraordinary measures be adopted immediately to insure an 
 adequate supply of bituminous coal moving to Lake Erie for the head of Lake 
 Superior. 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST. 
 
 Washington, D. C, May 30, 1917. 
 
 Hon. J. A. A. Burnquist, Governor of Minnesota, 
 St. Paul, Minn. 
 The President has turned over to me your telegram. We have een looking 
 into this situation with much concern and I believe you will find at t e end of the 
 season there will be no delinquency in coal for the Northwest. The worst thing 
 that can happen is to become alarmed now with regard to coal, for it leads to rush 
 orders and hoarding. The coal cars at Lake Erie points have been pooled, which 
 will allow greater expedition. Of course we have no means of extending the amount 
 of tonnage on the lakes. This matter will be given constant attention. 
 
 LANE, Secretary. 
 
 The White House, Washington, 
 
 St. Paul, Minnesota, July 4, 1917. 
 THE PRESIDENT: 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety begs leave to report to you that 
 the conditions in this State are eminently satisfactory so far as peace, quiet, and the 
 orderly pursuit of industry are concerned, but our people are looking forward to 
 the coming winter with much apprehension; the cost of fuel has virtually doubled 
 since last year. We may be able to protect the people against local abuses in the 
 coal trade, but we are helpless to afford relief against extortion at the mines and in 
 interstate operations. The cost of coal at the mines last year, as we are advised, 
 was one dollar and forty-five cents a ton for the same coal it is now proposed to 
 charge three dollars and fifty cents a ton at the mines, which is virtually the same 
 as the cost of the coal at the docks in Duluth last season. The numerous ore car- 
 riers leaving our state daily return empty, and our coal supply is exhausted. We 
 earnestly urge early and adequate action for the relief of the situation. The great 
 work of this state in producing food and supplies should not be hampered and the 
 well being of our people menaced by the greed of producers and inefficiency of 
 carriers in other sections. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, Governor and Chairman ex-officio. 
 
 Senator Frank B. Kellogg, 
 Senator Knute Nelson, 
 Washington. 
 
 People here exceedingly alarmed over coal situation. Public Safety Commission 
 continually besieged for assistance. Can you give us authoritative information 
 as to the present status? 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 Governor. 
 
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Washington, D. C., July 12, 1917. 
 
 Governor J. A. A. Burnquist, 
 St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 HaVe had interviews with Interstate Commerce Commission and with Advisory 
 Committee Council of Defense urging additional shipments to Northwest. Will 
 see them again today and wire you. 
 
 Frank B. Kellogg. 
 
 Washington, D. C. July 12, 1917. 
 
 Telegram received. Am unable to give you definite information. Situation 
 still seems to be in air. Nothing effective can be done until so-called food control 
 bill is passed. This bill will provide for control of fuel. 
 
 Knute Nelson. 
 Washington, D. C, July 13, 1917. 
 
 We received your telegram. Had conference with Mr. Willard of Advisory 
 Committee of Council of National Defense and Mr. Peabody having charge of the 
 coal situation. We find that every effort is being made to supply boats with coal 
 for the Northwest and that an increasing amount is now moving. Large amounts 
 of bituminous from Illinois and Iowa coal fields are going by rail and being distrib- 
 uted to interior points in Minnesota and Dakotas. From now on we believe 
 boats will be fairly supplied with coal. They assure us if not sufficient coal goes 
 by lake, they will send it up by rail in the winter. We were further told by Mr. 
 Peabody that the coal price would not exceed three dollars per ton for bituminous 
 at mine and it might be less. This is a considerable reduction in price heretofore. 
 So far as congressional action on the coal price is concerned it is still pending in 
 the so-called food and fuel control bill. We have done everything possible for the 
 last two months to increase shipments to Northwest. 
 
 Knute Nelson, 
 Frank B. Kellogg. 
 
 UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON 
 INTERSTATE COMMERCE, 
 
 August 10th, 1917. 
 
 TO THE PRESIDENT: 
 
 Dear Mr. President: We are threatened with a great shortage of coal in Minnesota 
 at this time, and unless extreme measures are taken, there will be great suffering 
 next winter. Compared with last year, the shortage at Duluth exceeds 3, Q00,000 
 tons. The only way they can get their coal is by the ore boats taking return car- 
 goes of coal to Duluth and other large ports. These boats are now, to a consider- 
 able extent, going back empty. 
 
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Judge McGee, of the Minnesota Safety Commission, has been here for a week 
 and has investigated the situation in connection with the Board of Railroad Presi- 
 dents and Mr. Clark, of the Interstate Commerce Commission. After conferring 
 with them, he took a trip to Cleveland and consulted numerous coal operators and 
 lake carriers, and from his investigation, it is clear the deficiency in the coal supply 
 arises from car shortage as well as motive power on the part of the railroads to move 
 coal to Lake Erie ports. Coal is also being diverted to other places where it is 
 not needed. 
 
 From a consultation with all of these men and with Judge Lovett, it is apparent 
 that the only way to relieve the situation is to have an order issued immediately 
 by you, or under your authority, under the so-called Priority Shipment Law just 
 passed. Under this law, you majy issue orders, either direct or through such per- 
 son or persons, or the Interstate Commerce Commission, as you may designate. 
 
 We realize it is out of the question for you to direct the matter personally, and 
 that it will be necessary for you to appoint some official or officials to act for you 
 in the premises. It seems to us in an analogy to the Food Control Bill, it woulid 
 be best not to have a Committee, but to have one person act in this matter in your 
 behalf, and while we do not send this communication with a view of suggesting 
 persons for appointment, we know Mr. Clark of the Interstate Commerce Com- 
 mission and Judge Lovett, and believe them exceptionally well qualified for such 
 position. 
 
 The coal situation in Minnesota and the Northwestern States depending upon 
 the lake ports, is exceedingly urgent, and, therefore, we write you this letter in the 
 hope that you will appoint a man as speedily as possible to act in your behalf to 
 make such priority orders as may be necessary to insure shipments to the lake 
 ports. 
 
 We are, Most respectfully yours, 
 
 (Signed) Knute Nelson, 
 
 Frank B. Kellogg. 
 
 St. Paul, Minnesota, August 14, 1917. 
 THE PRESIDENT: 
 
 The coal situation here threatens certain disaster in Minnesota and the two 
 Dakotas unless the priority bill passed last week becomes a law and is put into 
 effect and its provisions vigorously executed. May we hope for immediate action? 
 
 Commission of Public Safety, 
 
 By J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Chairman and Governor. 
 
 THE WHITE HOUSE, Washington, August 16, 1917. 
 My Dear Governor Burnquist: 
 
 Your telegram of August fourteenth has confirmed my impression of the critical 
 situation with regard to coal in Minnesota and Wisconsin and the two Dakotas, 
 and I write to assure you that I shall do all in my power to make the priority law 
 effective for the relief of that part of the country. 
 
 Cordially and sincerely yours, 
 
 WOODROW WILSON. 
 Hon. J. A. A. Burnquist, Governor, 
 St. Paul, Minnesota. 
 
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LAW CREATING COMMISSION 
 
 CHAPTER 261— S. F. No. 1006. 
 
 An act providing for the Minnesota Public Safety Commission, denning its 
 powers and duties in event of war and otherwise, and appropriating money for 
 carrying out the purposes thereof. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: 
 
 Section 1. Creation of Minnesota Commission of Public Safety. — There is 
 hereby created a commission consisting of seven (7) members, to be known as 
 the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety. The Governor and Attorney 
 General shall be ex-officio members of such commission and the Governor shall 
 be chairman thereof, and the other members shall be citizens of the State and shall 
 be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the senate, if in 
 session, and if not in session, the confirmation thereof to be as soon thereafter as 
 the senate shall be convened, and such appointees shall hold office during the 
 pleasure of the Governor. 
 
 Sec. 2. Organization. — Such commission shall elect one of its members 
 vice-chairman and he shall perform the duties of the chairman as such during the 
 absence or inability of the chairman to act. Such commission shall have power 
 to adopt by-laws for its government and the convenient transaction of its business, 
 to change such by-laws from time to time and to provide for the discharge of the 
 duties of such commission by subordinate officers, agents, sub-committees and 
 otherwise, and to prescribe the duties of all such subordinate officers, agents 
 sub-committees and employes. All official acts of the commission shall require 
 a majority vote of the entire commission. 
 
 Sec. 3. Powers of commission — may acquire property — to cooperate with 
 United States government — examination of persons — removal of officials other 
 than constitutional officers. — In the event of war existing between the United 
 States and any foreign nation, such commission shall have power to do all acts 
 and things non-inconsistent with the constitution or laws of the State of Minnesota 
 or of the United States, which are necessary or proper for the public safety and for 
 the protection of life and public property or private property of a character as 
 in the judgment of the commission requires protection, and shall do and perform 
 all acts and things necessary or proper so that the military, civil and industrial 
 resources of the state may be most efficiently applied toward maintenance of the 
 defense of the State and Nation and toward the successful prosecution of such 
 war, and to that end it shall have all necessary power not herein specifically 
 enumerated and in addition thereto the following specific powers: 
 
 1. Said Commission may purchase, lease, hire or otherwise acquire any and 
 all property of every kind and nature in its judgment necessary or desirable for use 
 for any of the purposes aforesaid. 
 
 2. It may seize, condemn and appropriate all such property for any of the 
 uses aforesaid, and provide for determining the value of such property and of 
 making proper payment therefor. 
 
 3. Said Commission shall have power and it shall be the duty of said Commis- 
 sion to cooperate with the military and other officers and agents of the United 
 States Government in all matters pertaining to the duties and functions of such 
 commission and shall aid the Government of the United States in the prosecution 
 of any such war and in relation to public safety so far as possible. 
 
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4. Said Commission may require any person to appear before it or before 
 any agent or officer of such commission for examination and may examine any 
 such person under oath as to any information within the knowledge of such person 
 and require such person to produce for inspection any writings or documents 
 under his control, and to that end the district court of any county in the State 
 shall issue a subpoena upon the request of any of its agents or officers, and all 
 said agents and officers shall have power to administer oaths and take testimony 
 and to procure the punishment for contempt of any person refusing to answer 
 or produce writings or documents requested by such commission, by any such 
 district court. 
 
 5. Said Commission may inquire into the method of performance of his 
 duty by any public official other than the constitutional officials of this State, 
 and may advise the Governor to remove any such official from office, if in the 
 judgment of the Commission the public interests demand such removal. Upon 
 being advised to remove any such official by said Commission, the Governor is, 
 hereby authorized summarily to remove such public official. 
 
 Sec. 4. To provide for comfort of persons in military and naval service. 
 
 — Said Commission shall have power, in addition to the powers hereinbefore 
 granted, to provide for the comfort of any persons in the military service of the 
 United States or of the State of Minnesota who shall enlist in any such war or 
 who, at the time of the commencement thereof, shall be residents of the State of 
 Minnesota, and in addition thereto shall also have power to provide and pay for 
 the support and maintenance of any person or persons dependent for support 
 upon any soldier in the military service of the State of Minnesota, or of the 
 United States, while such soldier is in such service, and shall have power to ex- 
 pend such sums as it may deem necessary for the relief of any such soldier or any 
 person dependent upon him, and shall make proper ru,les and regulations concern- 
 ing the same. Said Commission shall also have power to provide for any comforts, 
 clothing or other aid for any person in service of the United States government 
 on the battleship Minnesota during the continuance of any such war. 
 
 Sec. 5. Fifty cents per day to be paid to enlisted members of Minnesota 
 national guard. — Said Commission shall pay to each enlisted member of the 
 national guard of the State of Minnesota who honorably served in the Minnesota 
 military organizations on the Mexican border service pursuant to the call of the 
 President of the United States made June 18, 1916, in addition to the pay received 
 by him from the Federal Government, the sum of fifty (50) cents per day for each 
 day of such service and of such enlisted man after being mustered into Federal 
 service, such payment to be made upon duly signed and receipted pay rolls to be 
 prepared by the commander of the company, battery or detachment of which such 
 men were members, blanks therefor to be furnished by the Adjutant General; 
 said pay rolls to be checked and approved by such Adjutant General. Such 
 payment to be made upon the State Auditor's warrant drawn upon the State 
 Treasurer as soon as practicable after the muster out from the United States 
 service of any member entitled to such pay. 
 
 Sec. 6. To pay Minnesota national guardsmen from time of mobilization 
 until mustered into service of United States Government. — Said Commission is 
 also authorized to pay all members of the national guard of Minnesota for service 
 from the time said guard was mobilized pursuant to the order of the United 
 States Government for service on the Mexican border until the time the members 
 of such guard were actually, mustered into the service of the United States upon 
 pay rolls showing such service, properly certified to by the Adjutant General 
 
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of the State of Minnesota, and all sums sc paid, which shall hereafter be refunded 
 to the State of Minnesota by the United States Government, shall, when received 
 by the State Treasurer, be credited to the appropriation herein provided for said 
 Commission and shall be used for any of the purposes provided for in this act. 
 
 Sec. 7. Other powers pertaining to enlistment, organization and main- 
 tenance of home guard. — Said Commission is hereby authorized to do all acts and 
 things necessary to provide for the enlistment, organization and maintenance of 
 a home guard for service in the State of Minnesota, to consist of such numbers 
 and units of organization and officers as may be prescribed by said Commission, 
 and said Commission may secure proper arms and equipment for said guard from 
 the United States Government or otherwise, and shall have full power in all things 
 to provide for the organization, equipment, subsistence and maintenance thereof, 
 and said home guard may receive pay and allowances not in excess of that pre- 
 scribed for the national guard or volunteers in Federal service. All of the officers 
 of said guard shall be appointed by the Governor, who shall have the same powers 
 in relation to said guard as now conferred upon him by the Constitution and laws 
 of the state in relation to the other military and naval forces thereof. 
 
 Sec. 8. Termination at conclusion of peace. — When peace shall be concluded 
 between the United States and any and all foreign nations with which the United 
 States is now or hereafter may be at war, the Commission shall proceed, as soon as 
 practicable, to close up all of its affairs and upon termination thereof shall make 
 report to the Governor of its acts and expenditures, and the powers and duties 
 of such Commission shall terminate within three (3) months after the conclusion of 
 peace and shall sooner terminate if the Governor shall determine and proclaim 
 that the exercise of the powers and duties of such Commission are no longer 
 necessary for public safety. The Governor is also authorized to determine and 
 to proclaim that it is necessary to continue such Commission in existence for a 
 longer term than three (3) months after peace and shall, in such case, fix 
 the period of the termination of such Commission by proclamation 1 . 
 
 Sec. 9. $1,000,000 appropriated. — There is hereby appropriated from any 
 money not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one million dollars, to be imme- 
 diately available, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, the 
 same to be paid out on the order of said Commission as provided in its by-laws. 
 
 Sec. 10. Unconstitutionality of one section not to affect other sections. 
 The provisions of this act are separable and not dependent, and if any provision, 
 section, or part of either, is held unconstitutional, the same shall not affect any 
 other part of this act. 
 
 Sec. 1 1 . This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 
 
 Approved April 16, 1917. 
 
 CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE LAW UPHELD 
 
 COOK v. BURNQUIST et al. 
 (District Court, D. Minnesota, Third Division. July 16, 1917.) 
 
 1. Courts 101 — Number of Judges — Preliminary Injunction. 
 
 Judicial Code (Act March 3, 1911, c. 231) § 266, 36 Stat. 1162 (Comp. 
 St. 1916, § 1243), providing that no interlocutory injunction suspending or 
 restraining the enforcement, operation, or execution of any state statute 
 shall be issued, on ground of unconstitutionality, unless the application 
 shall be heard and determined by three judges, at least one of whom shall 
 
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be a Supreme Court Justice or Circuit Judge, does not include unconstitu- 
 tionality under the state Constitution, but only under the federal Con- 
 stitution. 
 [Ed. Note.— For other cases, see Courts, Cent. Dig. § § 344-350, 629.] 
 
 2. Courts 303 (2) — Federal Courts — Jurisdiction — Suits Against State* 
 
 A suit to enjoin the members of the Minnesota Public Safety Commission 
 from enforcing an order of such Commission, or prosecuting or threatening 
 to prosecute for nonobservance of such order, injunction being asked upon 
 the ground that such order is not within the purview of the statute creating 
 the Commission, is not a suit against the state, of which federal courts are 
 denied jurisdiction. 
 
 [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Courts, Cent. Dig. § 8443^] 
 
 3. Constitutional Law 2(5 — Grant or Limitation of Power — State Con- 
 
 stitutions. 
 
 State Constitutions are limitations, and not grants, of power. 
 
 [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Constitutional Law, Cent. Dig. §§ 36-38.] 
 
 4. Constitutional Law 81 — Police Power — Scope and Extent. 
 
 The proper extent of the exercise of the police power by a state is deter- 
 mined by the necessities of the situation, within constitutional limitations. 
 [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Constitutional Law, Cent. Dig. § 148.} 
 
 5. Injunction 114 (2) — Public Safety Commission — Persons Entitled. 
 
 An order of the Minnesota Public Safety Commission, declaring it neces- 
 sary and proper for the public safety, the protection of life and property, 
 and as a matter of military expediency and necessity, that licensed saloons 
 be closed at 10 p. m. and remain closed until 8 o'clock the following day, 
 and providing that the city council, board of trustees, or other governing 
 body of municipalities forthwith proceed to enact ordinances executing the 
 provisions of such order, is not directed against any individual, and, if 
 it orders any one to do anything, is directed only against city councils, 
 etc., and hence an individual who has voluntarily closed his saloon at 10 p. 
 m., and who has not been ordered by the Public Safety Commission to do 
 anything, or been threatened in any way by it, is not entitled to an injunc- 
 tion restraining the enforcement of such order, as any loss suffered by him 
 is not directly attributable to the Commission's order. 
 
 [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Injunction, Cent. Dig. §§ 203-210.' 
 
 6. War 4 — Precautionary Measures — Safety Commission — Powers. 
 
 Such order was within the power granted to such Commission by Laws 
 Minn. 1917, c. 261, § 3, providing that, in the event of war, such Commis- 
 sion shall have power to do all acts and things not inconsistent with the 
 Constitution or laws of the state, or of the United States, which are neces- 
 sary or proper for the public safety and the protection of life and public 
 property, or private property requiring protection, and to do all acts and 
 things necessary or proper, so that the military, civil, and industrial re- 
 sources of the state may be most efficiently applied toward the maintenance 
 of the defense of the state and nation, and towards the successful prosecu- 
 tion of such war, and it was also authorized by the specific provision of 
 such section that the Commission shall have power and it shall be its duty 
 to co-operate with the military and other officers and agents of the United 
 States government, and to aid it in the prosecution of such war and in re- 
 lation to public safety so far as possible. 
 
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7. War 4 — Safety Commission — Powers. 
 
 Laws Minn. 1917, c. 261, § 3, authorizing the Public Safety Commission 
 to do all acts and things "non-inconsistent with the Constitution or laws 
 of the state of Minnesota or of the United States," which are necessary 
 and proper for the purposes therein specified, should not be narrowly con- 
 strued, but as giving the power to do all things not inconsistent with the 
 broad purposes or the underlying principles and fundamental requirements 
 of the laws of the state. 
 
 8. Constitutional Law 62— War 4— Safety Commission— Powers- 
 
 Statutory Provisions. 
 
 Laws Minn. 1917, c. 261, § 3, construed as authorizing the Public Safety 
 Commission to require the closing of saloons at 10 p. m., is not invalid, as 
 delegating legislative powers to such Commission, though under other 
 statutes saloons may be kept open until 11 p. m., and until 12 p. m. under 
 a city ordinance, as the Legislature may leave the administrative details 
 to a board or officer, and may permit a change of administrative details 
 by a public board or individual, even after they have been enacted into 
 the statute, and the power in question relates simply to an administrative 
 detail. 
 
 [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Constitutional Law, Cent. Dig. §§ 94-102.] 
 In Equity. Suit by Phil Cook against J. A. A. Burnquist and others. On 
 application for a preliminary injunction. Motion denied. 
 
 M. H. Boutelle and E. S. Cary, both of Minneapolis, Minn., for complainant. 
 
 Ambrose Tighe, of St. Paul, Minn., for Safety Commission. 
 
 C. D. Gould, of Minneapolis, Minn., for city of Minneapolis and its officers. 
 
 BOOTH, District Judge. This suit is brought by the plaintiff against the 
 members of the Public Safety Commission of Minnesota, the city of Minneapolis, 
 its mayor its chief of police, and its city attorney, seeking to enjoin the defend- 
 ants from enforcing an order of the Commission which is known as "Order No. 
 7," or from enacting any ordinance or regulation enforcing the same, or from 
 threatening to prosecute or from prosecuting for nonobservance of said Com- 
 mission's order. 
 
 The motion now under consideration is a motion made on behalf of the 
 plaintiff for a preliminary injunction, and has been heard on a verified amended 
 bill, several exhibits which have been introduced, and some little oral testimony 
 on behalf of plaintiff, and on behalf of defendants a return to the order to show 
 cause, consisting of a verified answer, certain affidavits, several exhibits and some 
 oral testimony. 
 
 The bill of complaint sets up, among other things, the official character of 
 the several defendants, and that plaintiff is, and has been for some time, the 
 proprietor of a saloon and restaurant in the city of Minneapolis located at 25 
 Washington Avenue North; that he has built up a large and lucrative business, 
 and that he has been conducting the same in accordance with the laws of the 
 state of Minnesota and the ordinance of the city of Minneapolis. The bill of 
 complaint then alleges that on the 16th day of April, 1917, the Legislature of 
 the state of Minnesota passed a certain act, which is chapter 261 of the Session 
 Laws of 1917, entitled "An act providing for the Minnesota Public Safety Com- 
 mission, defining its powers and duties in the event of war and otherwise, and 
 appropriating money for carrying out the purposes thereof," and the bill sets 
 forth a synopsis of the act. It next sets forth that on or about June 5th said 
 Commission caused to be adopted a certain order designated as "Order No. 7," 
 
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and served the same upon the various local officials and authorities of the state. 
 It then sets out a synopsis of the order. It next sets forth that by various 
 threats and otherwise the members of the Commission required the defendant 
 mayor of the city of Minneapolis to instruct the superintendent of police of the 
 city of Minneapolis, and through him the police force, to enforce and carry out 
 the terms of the order, and that the order has been carried out, and that the 
 city council is threatening to pass an ordinance enforcing the provisions of the 
 order. It then sets out that plaintiff has obeyed this order and closed his es- 
 tablishment at 10 o'clock in the evening, whereas formerly he was accustomed 
 to keep it open until 11 o'clock in the evening, in accordance with the provisions 
 of the state law, and that by reason thereof he has suffered great loss and damage 
 in his business. It then sets forth, first, that the act of the Legislature referred 
 to is in contravention of the Constitution of the United States in certain specified 
 particulars; and, second, that said act, if it is construed as authorizing the Com- 
 mission to make the Order No. 7, is also in contravention of the Constitution 
 of the state of Minnesota; and, third, that if it is construed as not authorizing 
 the issuance of the Order No. 7, then the act of the Commission in issuing Order 
 No. 7 is without authority of law, and is a usurpation of power; and he prays, 
 as I have already stated, an injunction and other relief. 
 
 The answer of the defendants admits the passage of the act of the Legislature, 
 and states certain facts and circumstances in view of which it was passed, admits 
 the issuance of Order No. 7, and denies the other allegations of the complaint. 
 
 [1, 2] At the commencement of the argument upon the motion for a prelimi- 
 nary injunction, counsel for plaintiff stated that the plaintiff does not seek a 
 preliminary injunction on the first ground stated, namely, that chapter 261 violates 
 the provisions of the federal Constitution, but that he seeks the injunction only 
 on the second and third grounds. With that understanding the court overruled 
 the objection of the defendants to the jurisdiction of the court as at present 
 organized; they claiming that, if such constitutional question was raised under 
 the federal Constitution, at least, it required, under section 266 of the Judicial 
 Code, the presence of three judges to constitute the court. The defendants 
 also objected to the jurisdiction of the court as at present constituted, claiming 
 that the word "unconstitutional," as used in section 266 of the Judicial Code, 
 refers not merely to the federal Constitution, but also includes unconstitutionality 
 as regards the state Constitution. That objection was also overruled. The 
 defendants also attacked the jurisdiction of the court on the ground that, even 
 if it should be held that the act of the Commission complained of was not within 
 the purview of said chapter 261, still the members could not be enjoined in the 
 present suit, as this would be maintaining a suit against the state of Minnesota. 
 This objection has also been overruled. 
 
 Taking up the merits of the motion, the first question is: What is it that 
 is sought to be enjoined by plaintiff? I have already read the prayer for relief 
 contained in the bill. It has reference to Order No. 7. Now there are a number 
 of things in Order No. 7, about which either there is no complaint in this bill, 
 or no showing made upon which preliminary injunction can be based. For 
 instance, there is no complaint here as to that provision of the order covering 
 the closing of saloons until 8 o'clock on the following day, instead of 5 o'clock 
 on the following day; nor is there any complaint, or, if there is, there is no show- 
 ing for an injunction, on the ground that no women or girls be permitted to enter 
 such saloon, or be served therefrom at any time, because plaintiff's testimony 
 is that he had no such trade; nor is there any complaint, or, if there is, there is 
 no showing for an injunction, based upon the order so far as it touches dancing 
 
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performances, because the evidence is that there was no such performance in 
 the plaintiff's establishment. 
 
 [3] The really vital question in the case is this: Whether an injunction 
 should issue against the defendants to restrain them from taking any steps 
 to prevent the plaintiff from keeping his saloon open between the hours of 10 
 and 11 o'clock at night. The arguments of counsel upon this motion have taken 
 a very wide range, and perhaps necessarily so. The question of the police 
 powers of the state have been discussed; the nature and character and the ex- 
 tent of these powers; also the question of the delegation or the right of delegation 
 of legislative power by the Legislature to other branches of the government 
 or to administrative boards. It is not necessary, in my view of the situation, to 
 discuss at great length any of these questions. The police power of the state 
 of Minnesota, and indeed the police power of every state in the United States, 
 is exceedingly broad, and the state Constitutions are simply limitations of power, 
 and not grants of power. 
 
 [4] The question of what is a proper exercise of the police power may be 
 determined at one time as including certain matters and excluding others, and 
 at another time may be determined as including even those matters that there- 
 tofore had been considered as excluded. The proper extent of the exercise of 
 the police power is determined by the necessities of the situation, within con- 
 stitutional limitations. 
 
 The question of delegation of power by the Legislature, and especially legis- 
 lative power to other branches of the government, to administrative boards 
 or to individuals, has been a question that has caused a great deal of controversy 
 in the courts, not only in the state courts, but also in the federal courts. It 
 has been said that the Legislature makes the law, that the executive executes 
 the law, and that the judiciary expounds or determines what the law is. Of 
 course, that is true as a general statement; but as a matter of fact it is of little 
 help in any particular case, because practically all the cases that arise are border 
 line cases, and the question to be determined is whether the particular act is a 
 legislative act, or whether it is a judicial act, or whether it is an executive or 
 an administrative act. This question of delegation of power is one that has 
 received the attention of the Supreme Court of the United States, as well as 
 the Supreme Courts of the states. The latest decision of the Supreme Court 
 of the United States is that of First National Bank of Bay City v. Attorney 
 
 General of Michigan et al., 243 U. S. , 37 Sup. Ct. 734, 61 L. Ed. , handed 
 
 down on June 11th of this year, in which was involved the act of Congress, 
 approved December 23, 1913, establishing the Federal Reserve Board (38 Stat. 
 261, c. 6 [Comp. St. 1916, § 9794]), and particularly section 11 (k) of the act, 
 giving to that board authority "to grant by special permit to national banks 
 applying therefor, when not in contravention of state or local law, the right to 
 act as trustee, executor, administrator, or registrar of stocks and bonds under 
 such rules and regulations as the said board may prescribe." The question 
 arose whether or not that was a delegation of legislative power to the Federal 
 Reserve Board, such as was not authorized by the Constitution of the United 
 States. The Supreme Court in passing upon that question used the following 
 language: 
 
 "Before passing to the question of procedure, we think it necessary to do 
 no more than say that a contention which was pressed in argument, and which 
 it may be was indirectly referred to in the opinion of the court below, that the 
 authority given by the section to the Reserve Board was void, because con- 
 ferring legislative power on that board, is so plainly adversely disposed of by 
 
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many previous adjudications as to cause it to be necessary only to refer to them." 
 Then they refer to a number of cases, and among others to the case of the 
 United States v. Grimaud, 220 U. S. 506, 31 Sup. Ct. 480, 55 L. Ed. 563, which 
 was a case where Congress had passed an act with reference to the preservation 
 of forests in the United States, and had placed the carrying out of the plan in 
 the hands of the Secretary of Agriculture, with power to make rules and regula- 
 tions, and providing that violations of those rules and regulations should be 
 followed by punishment. It was claimed that this was giving the Secretary 
 of Agriculture power to make a law. It was held by the Supreme Court that 
 it was simply a delegation to him of administrative power, and although he had 
 made rules and regulations, violation of which was followed by punishment, 
 yet nevertheless this was not a legislative act on his part within the meaning 
 of that term in the oft-stated principle that a legislative act could be passed 
 by Congress only, and not by boards or by individuals. 
 
 There are many decisions in the state of Minnesota, also, as to this power 
 of delegation, and a number of them have been referred to in arguments of 
 counsel at this hearing. The tendency, not only in Congress, but in state Legis- 
 latures, is more and more to commit to administrative boards, or to individuals, 
 or to some other branch of the government, administrative details. In the 
 case of Alexander v. Mclnnis, 129 Minn. 167, 151 N. W. 901, the court in its 
 opinion said, quoting from a previous decision of that court: 
 
 "The marked tendency of legislation in recent years, not only in this state 
 but in other states, has been, to a large degree, to break away from the theory 
 of three separate and independent departments of government, by imposing upon 
 other departments duties and powers of a legislative character, which the courts 
 have been inclined to sustain. Perhaps few, if any, cases are to be found, how- 
 ever, where statutes imposing purely legislative duties and powers upon the 
 courts have been upheld; but the authorities are numerous, sustaining statutes 
 which impose upon the courts powers involving the exercise of both judicial 
 and legislative functions — such as the condemnation of land for public purposes, 
 the appointment of commissioners of election in proceedings for adding territory 
 to municipal corporations, and laying out and establishing highways. The 
 proceedings provided for by the statute under consideration involve the exercise 
 of both legislative and judicial powers. The question of the propriety or neces- 
 sity of public ditches to drain marshy or overflowed lands is one of legislative 
 character. The condemnation of land through which such ditches may be 
 constructed, the assessment of damages, and the determination of the legal 
 rights of parties affected are judicial. The exercise of all these powers is in- 
 volved in proceedings under this statute." 
 
 It must be taken, then, as true in Minnesota that the tendency is more and 
 more to leave administrative details of legislation to either some other depart- 
 ment of the government or to boards or to individuals. It need not, however, 
 be decided in this case whether that has been done in chapter 261, Laws 1917. 
 It is possible that this case may be disposed of upon a much narrower basis. 
 
 Order No. 7, which is attacked, reads as follows, so far as appertains to this 
 case: 
 
 "The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety hereby finds and declares it 
 necessary and proper for the public safety, for the protection of life and property, 
 and as a matter of military expediency and necessity: 
 
 "That all licensed saloons in the state of Minnesota be closed at 10 o'clock 
 p. m., and remain closed until 8 o'clock the following day, and that no intoxi- 
 
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eating liquors be sold, served, or otherwise disposed of therein between the 
 hours last above stated." 
 
 "That the city council, board of trustees, or other governing body of all 
 municipalities in the state of Minnesota forthwith proceed to enact ordinances 
 executing the provisions of this order and prescribing suitable penalties for 
 violation of such ordinances," etc. 
 
 [5] Narrowly considered, upon its face, this so-called Order No. 7 does 
 not purport to be a law. It does not purport to be an ordinance. It is not 
 directed against any individual in the state of Minnesota. There are no pen- 
 alties announced in the order for nonperformance of it, or nonobservance of it. 
 There are no threats made in the order, saying what will happen or what will 
 not happen to persons who pay no attention to the order. 
 
 Narrowly construed, this Order No. 7 is simply an announcement of certain 
 findings or a declaration by the Public Safety Commission that certain things 
 are necessary and proper for public safety, for the protection of life and property, 
 and as a matter of military expediency. If any one can be considered to have 
 been ordered to do anything, it is the city councils, boards of trustees, or other 
 governing bodies of municipalities in the state of Minnesota. It is possible 
 that the grammatical construction of the order will allow that interpretation 
 to be placed upon it, and that it is a direct order to the city council, although 
 I think it is fairly open to argument that it is not such order, even as to the 
 city council. But, conceding that it is an order to the city council, the council 
 of the city of Minneapolis and the authorities of the city of Minneapolis are 
 not here making any complaint. They are not complaining that any threats 
 have been issued to them, or that they have been ordered by the Public Safety 
 Commission to do anything which they do not wish to do, or which they have 
 not the power to do. The complaint here is by a private individual, that by 
 this order of the Public Safety Commission he has been injured in some way 
 in his business. He has had no direct communication from the Commission. 
 He has voluntarily closed his saloon at 10 o'clock p. m., instead of 11 p. m. 
 Giving this narrow construction to Order No. 7, the court would not be justified 
 in granting the application of the plaintiff for a preliminary injunction in this 
 case, because there is no sufficient showing made by the plaintiff that his loss, 
 if any, is so directly attributable to any act of the Commission as would authorize 
 an injunction to issue upon such construction of Order No. 7. 
 
 But I do not think that an injunction should issue if a much broader con- 
 struction is given to Order No. 7 than I have indicated. Let us look at the law 
 under which this Commission of Public Safety was established. It is entitled 
 "An act providing for the Minnesota Public Safety Commission, defining its 
 powers and duties in event of war and otherwise, and appropriating money 
 for carrying out the purposes thereof." There are contained in that act ten 
 sections. The first section simply is the creating part of the act, creating the 
 Commission. The second provides for organization of the board. The fourth 
 section grants power to the Commission to make provision for the comfort of 
 certain persons in military and naval service, and to provide and pay for the 
 support and maintenance of any person or persons dependent for support upon 
 Minnesota soldiers in the military service of the state of Minnesota or of the 
 United States, while such soldier is in service. Section 5 provides for the pay- 
 ment by the Commission of 50 cents per day additional pay to enlisted members 
 of the Minnesota National Guard, for their period of service on the Mexican 
 Border. Section 6 provides for the payment of National Guardsmen from the 
 time of mobilization until they are mustered into the service of the United 
 
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States government. Section 7 relates to enlistment, organization, and main- 
 tenance of a Home Guard. 
 
 It is thus seen that the powers conferred on the Commission are of a broad 
 and varied character. In this case it is section 3 that is particularly attacked. 
 Section 3 grants, in addition to the powers granted in sections 4, 5, 6, and 7, 
 certain special powers, five in number, and also certain general powers. The 
 special powers are not attacked in this proceeding. It is the general powers 
 contained in the first paragraph of section 3 that are attacked. That paragraph 
 reads as follows: 
 
 "In the event of war existing between the United States and any foreign 
 nation, such Commission shall have power to do all acts and things non-incon- 
 sistent with the Constitution or laws of the state of Minnesota or of the United 
 States, which are necessary or proper for the public safety and for the protection 
 of life and public property or private property of a character as in the judgment 
 of the Commission requires protection, and shall do and perform all acts and 
 things necessary or proper so that the military, civil and industrial resources 
 of the state may be most efficiently applied toward maintenance of the defense 
 of the state and nation and toward the successful prosecution of such war, and 
 to that end it shall have all necessary power not herein specifically enumerated 
 and in addition thereto the following specific powers." 
 
 That section contemplates several ends to be attained: First, the public 
 safety is to be guarded. Protection is to be afforded to life and public property, 
 and also to private property of such a character as in the judgment of the Com- 
 mission requires protection, and, further, the Commission is ordered to do all 
 acts and things necessary or proper so that the military, civil, and industrial 
 resources of the state may be most efficiently applied for the maintenance of 
 the defense of the state and nation, and toward the successful prosecution of 
 such war. 
 
 [6] No attempt has been made here to show that the acts which are sought 
 to be accomplished by Order No. 7 are not germane to the purposes set forth 
 in section 3, namely, public safety and the protection of life and property, and 
 the application of the resources of the state to accomplish certain ends. I 
 take it that no attack can successfully be made along that line, because it goes 
 without saying that the order here in question, if it were carried out, would 
 have some relation at least, whether direct or indirect, to the ends sought to be 
 attained; that is, public safety, and the protection of life and property, and the 
 application of the resources of the state to the specific purposes. In fact, it 
 can hardly be disputed that the relation would be direct, and the effect sub- 
 stantial. Nor do I think that the issuance of order No. 7 is without the pur- 
 view of the provisions of chapter 261. In my judgment, said order is within 
 special power No. 3 in section 3 of the act, and also within the powers granted 
 in the first paragraph of section 3 of the act. 
 
 [7] The words "non-inconsistent with the * * * laws of the state of 
 Minnesota," contained in section 3, should not be given a narrow construction, 
 in view of the broad purposes of the act and the great emergency it was intended 
 to meet. The words above quoted should rather be held to mean not inconsistent 
 with the broad purposes, the underlying principles, and the fundamental re- 
 quirements of the laws of Minnesota. With such a construction placed upon 
 section 3, the Order No. 7 is well within the purview of the act. 
 
 The only question that remains in the case is whether or not the Legislature 
 of the state of Minnesota could authorize the Commission to do the acts here 
 in question, namely, to issue Order No. 7. It is claimed that the Legislature 
 
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could not so authorize the Commission, because it would be a delegation of legis- 
 lative power. As has been stated here upon the argument by counsel for the 
 defendants, the authorities are almost overwhelming to the effect that a federal 
 court is very loath to declare a state statute contrary to the state Constitution, 
 when that state statute has not received an interpretation at the hands of the 
 Supreme Court of the state. That doctrine has been announced by the Supreme 
 Court of the United States, not only in the case of Louisville & Nashville Rail- 
 road v. Garrett, 231 U. S. 298, 34 Sup. Ct. 48, 58 L. Ed. 229, but also in the 
 case of Prentis v Atlantic Coast Line, 211 U. S. 210, 29 Sup. Ct. 67, 53 L .Ed. 
 150, also in the very recent case of Pullman Co. v. Knott, 235 U. S. 23, 35 bup. 
 Ct 2 59 L Ed. 105, and it has also been announced numbers of times by lower 
 courts. So that, unless it is perfectly plain on the face of it that section 3 of 
 chapter 261 of the Statutes of Minnesota of 1917 is a delegation of legislative 
 power, such as is forbidden or not allowed under the state Constitution, this 
 court would hesitate to hold that statute unconstitutional. 
 
 [8] In my view of this section 3, while there may be some doubt as to just 
 what powers are conferred on the Commission, yet I think that section 3 pur- 
 ports to confer merely administrative powers upon the Commission. It is 
 claimed that the act here in question, viz. the issuance of Order No. 7, is not an 
 administrative act, but is an exercise of legislative power. The argument of 
 counsel for plaintiff seems to proceed along the line that, inasmuch as the statutes 
 of the state have heretofore allowed saloons to be kept open until 11 o'clock 
 at night and inasmuch as the ordinance of the city of Minneapolis has allowed 
 saloons to be kept open until 12 o'clock at night, that this provision of the statute 
 is the law, and that this order No. 7, which provides that saloons shall close 
 at 10 o'clock at night, undertakes to change that law; that this is legislation 
 and that such legislation cannot be had through this Commission. It seems 
 to me that that argument is not sound in all respects. The Legislature of the 
 state, in passing a law, may include in that law many administrative details, 
 as well as the main vital provisions of the law, or it may pass a law covering a 
 matter broadly and in general, leaving the administrative details to a board, 
 or to certain designated persons; but the administrative details of any particular 
 matter included in a statute still maintain their character of administrative 
 details, and the Legislature may pass an act permitting the carrying out of a 
 change of these administrative details to a public board or to an individual, 
 even after they have been enacted into the statute. It seems to me that this 
 was intended to be done by section 3 of chapter 261; that it was not an attempt 
 to confer the legislative power of the state of Minnesota upon the Public Safety 
 Commission, but was simply an attempt to confer power over administrative 
 details in respect to matters pertaining to certain specified things. Those 
 things are the public safety, the preservation and protection of life and property, 
 and the efficient application of the resources of the state toward certain specified 
 purposes. So long as the act of the Commission is simply that of administrative 
 detail, carrying out those various matters, and looking towards those various 
 ends described and designated in section 3, it seems to me that such act is not 
 without authority of the statute, nor legislative in the broad sense, but rather 
 administrative. 
 
 That being the view that I take of this law and of this order, it follows that 
 the law is not in contravention of the state Constitution, and it follows, also, 
 that the act of the Commission here complained of is not without the purview 
 of the statute, chapter 261, but is within the purview of the statute; and, that 
 being the case, the plaintiff is not entitled to a preliminary injunction, and the 
 motion is denied. 
 
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HENNEPIN COUNTY DISTRICT COURT DOCKET NO. 166538 
 
 State of Minnesota, District Court 
 
 County of Hennepin. Fourth Judicial District. 
 
 William R. Carroll, Plaintiff. 
 
 vs. 
 J. A. A. Burnquist, C. H. March, Clifford L. Hilton, 
 Thomas E. Cashman, John F. McGee, A. C. Weiss, H. 
 W. Libby, H. H. Wilburg and William Leehy, 
 
 Defendants. 
 
 The above entitled action was commenced in Ramsey County, and, on 
 demand and affidavits of the defendants, was removed to Hennepin County. 
 Plaintiff made and served notice of motion for a temporary injunction, which 
 said motion was returnable on Monday, July 15th, 1918. 
 
 An order to show cause was also made and served herein why a temporary 
 injunction should not issue against said defendants, and each of them, as prayed 
 for in the plaintiff's complaint, which said order to show cause was made return- 
 able on the 15th day of July, 1918. 
 
 The hearing on said motion for a temporary injunction and said order 
 to show cause why a temporary injunction should not be issued was postponed 
 from time to time, by consent of the Attorneys of the respective parties, or 
 by order of this Court, until Tuesday, August 6th, 1918, at which time said 
 motion and said order to show cause came duly on to be heard, P. J. McLaughlin 
 and F. M. Catlin appearing as Attorneys for and on behalf of the plaintiff and 
 James E. Markham, Ambrose Tighe, William A. Lancaster and David F. Simp- 
 son appearing for and on behalf of the defendants. 
 
 After hearing the arguments of counsel and duly considering the same, 
 
 It Is Hereby Ordered, that plaintiff's motion for a temporary injunc- 
 tion be and the same hereby is denied, and the order to show cause herein why 
 a temporary injunction should not issue against said defendants be and the 
 same hereby is discharged. 
 
 And It Is Further Ordered, that the temporary restraining order 
 which was heretofore and on June 29th, 1918, issued by the Court against said 
 defendants be and the same hereby is set aside and discharged. 
 
 By the Court, 
 
 Wm. E. Hale, 
 Judge. 
 Dated this 9th day of August, 1918. 
 
 MEMORANDUM 
 
 This case was very fully and ably argued before me and at the close of 
 the argument I took it under advisement until the Supreme Court of this state 
 should decide the case of State of Minnesota ex. rel. J. A. A. Burnquist et al., 
 Relators, vs. District Court, Second Judicial District, et al., Respondents, think- 
 ing that perhaps the Court might in its decision in that case touch upon the 
 questions involved in the case at bar. That case was decided this morning 
 and I have a copy of the opinion. The Court declined in that case to pass 
 upon the question of the validity of Orders No. 17 and 34 issued by the Public 
 
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Safety Commission appointed by the Legislature of this state and therefore 
 it devolves upon me to take the responsibility of determining the validity of 
 
 those orders. . . . , 
 
 After listening to the arguments of counsel and being fully advised in the 
 matter I am of the opinion that those orders are valid and binding in all respects. 
 
 W. E. Hale, 
 
 Judge 
 
 FINDINGS OF FACT 
 
 No. 15228 
 Alfred E. Rietz vs P. H. O'Keefe 
 
 1. That the contestant, Alfred E. Rietz, has been for five (5) years con- 
 tinuously a legal and qualified voter, elector, citizen and resident of the township 
 of Empire, county of Dakota, State of Minnesota; that said Rietz, at the gen- 
 eral election on the 5th day of November, 1918, was a candidate for the office 
 of County Attorney for Dakota County. 
 
 2. That after said election of November 5, 1918, the county canvassing 
 board for said Dakota County duly met and canvassed the returns of said elec- 
 tion, including the returns and votes as to the office of County Attorney; that 
 said county canvassing board did duly make, certify and file with the Auditor 
 for said Dakota County its statement that the said contestant had received 
 two thousand four hundred and sixty-seven (2, 467) votes for the office of County 
 Attorney and the said contestee two thousand four hundred and eighty (2,480) 
 votes for said office; and duly declared the said contestee elected thereto; that 
 thereafter the said County Auditor, on the application of said contestee issued 
 to him a certificate of election to said office. 
 
 * * * 
 
 4. That on or about the 10th day of September, 1918, the Minnesota 
 Commission of Public Safety (established under the provisions of Chapter 261 
 of the laws of 1917) duly made, published and issued a certain order called Order 
 Number 46, a copy whereof, together with certain instructions prepared by 
 the Attorney General of Minnesota, appears in the evidence marked Exhibit 
 "C;" that under and in pursuance of said order and not otherwise, there were 
 cast by duly qualified voters of said county in the military or naval service of 
 the United States, absent from the precincts where they were entitled to vote, 
 sixty-four (64) ballots or votes for said office of County Attorney, whereof the 
 said contestant Rietz, received twenty-one (21) and the said contestee, O'Keefe, 
 received forty-three (43); that said ballots were known as "war ballots and 
 were separately canvassed by said county canvassing board under the heading 
 of "soldier vote" and were included by said board in the said official canvass 
 or statement above set forth, and credited to the contestant, Rietz,^ and the 
 contestee, O'Keefe, in the respective amounts herein set forth; that said ballots 
 and votes were cast under and in compliance with law and the order of said 
 Minnesota Commission of Public Safety, and complied with the provisions 
 of the laws of the state and with said order, Number 46; ( that, among other 
 things, that the certificates in each case on the so-called "return envelope, 
 in which said war ballots and ballot envelopes were enclosed were in the form 
 provided by said Order Number 46, (Exhibit "C") and not as provided by 
 said Chapter 261, Laws of the state of Minnesota, 1917; that the so-called di- 
 rections to voters" on the voter's certificate were not in the form provided by 
 
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said Chapter261, Laws of 1917, but in the form provided by said Order Num- 
 ber 46; that in all other respects said war ballots were applied for, cast, voted, 
 returned and counted under and in pursuance of said order Number 46, and 
 in accordance with the laws of Minnesota, but not in accordance with Chapter 
 261, Laws, 1917; that the said war ballots affected the result of said election 
 for the office of County Attorney in favor of the contestee and against the con- 
 testant. 
 
 7. That the contestee, P. H. O'Keefe, has been, for the past eighteen 
 
 (18) years, continuously a resident and duly qualified voter and elector of the 
 
 city of South St. Paul, Dakota County, Minnesota; that on the said 5th day 
 
 of November, 1918, he was a candidate for the office of County Attorney of 
 
 said Dakota County. 
 
 * * * 
 
 CONCLUSIONS OF LAW 
 
 1. That the contest and appeal herein be dismissed. 
 
 2. That the contestee, P. H. O'Keefe, was, at the said election of the 
 5th day of November, 1918, duly elected County Attorney of Dakota County, 
 state of Minnesota. 
 
 3. That said Chapter 261, Laws of 1917, is in all respects a constitutional 
 enactment, and its provisions within the legislative power of the Legislature. 
 
 4. That order number 46 of the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety, 
 in order entitled "An Order Providing a Method Whereby Minnesota Soldiers 
 and Sailors may Vote at the 1918 General Election" is a legal, valid and con- 
 stitutional order and its provisions were within the terms and provisions of 
 said Chapter 261, Laws of 1917, and was a legal and fair exercise of the authority 
 and powers of said Commission. 
 
 5. That the ballots and votes of the township of Empire were legally 
 and rightfully included by said county canvassing board in its official return. 
 
 6. That the contestee, P. H. O'Keefe, have Ten Dollars ($10.00) costs 
 and his disbursements herein. 
 
 Let Judgment Be Entered Accordingly. 
 Dated Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 2, 1919. 
 
 (Signed) C. J. Rockwood, 
 District Judge. 
 MEMORANDUM 
 
 No point is made against the soldier vote except that Chap. 261, Laws 
 1917, is a delegation of legislative power, and that the order providing for this 
 vote is not within the powers delegated. 
 
 The argument is that the constitution will not permit the people of the 
 State to make effective the whole power of the State for the preservation of 
 constitutional government itself, except as the legislature is able to forsee and 
 provide against all possible contingencies, — a thing which no legislature is wise 
 enough to do. 
 
 Our legislature was in session when war was declared, April 6th, 1917. 
 It recognized its own ability to formulate rules that would meet all emergencies. 
 It could not remain in continuous session. It did the only thing open to it 
 to do, by creating a commission and empowering it in general terms to do during 
 the period of the war whatever the exigencies of the war might require. 
 
 The legislature at the same session showed that in its judgment the duty 
 of prescribing the details of elections may be left to administrative boards. 
 
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Chap. 34 Laws 1917. 
 
 Some argument has been made against the propriety of the order of the 
 Commission designed to preserve to the soldier in France or in camp the right 
 of ballot in civil elections. It clearly tends to preserve the morale of the army 
 and to increase the country's fighting efficiency. It was not indispensable. 
 Neither was chewing gum indispensable. American soldiers would have fought 
 without either. Both were justifiable, and abundantly so. This order was 
 some mitigation of the loss suffered by every man who bore arms. 
 
 In time of riot the Governor of Pennsylvania called out the National Guard 
 and issued an order directing the commanding general to enforce order. This 
 officer set guards to a threatened house with instructions to "shoot to kill" 
 if persons approaching failed to halt on command. One of the guards obeyed 
 the order and killed a citizen who merely entered the gate after being halted. 
 The guard was prosecuted. The Supreme Court gave him his freedom without 
 trial on evidence that he had simply obeyed the order of his superior. 
 
 Com. Ex. rel. Wadsworth v Shortall 206 Pa. 165. 
 
 The court refused to follow the majority of the federal Supreme Court, 
 in Ex. parte Milligan, 71 U. S. 127, where it is said that "martial rule can never 
 exist where the courts are open, and in the proper and unobstructed exercise 
 of their jurisdiction." It sustained the order of the governor, made without 
 express statutory authority, invoking the law martial, and the act of the soldier 
 who took human life in obedience to that law. The decision is somewhat 
 lengthy. Its essence is in two short paragraphs on page 172. 
 
 "The resort to the military arm of the government, therefore, means that 
 the ordinary civil officers to preserve order are subordinated, and the rule of 
 force under military methods is substituted to whatever extent may be neces- 
 sary in the discretion of the military commander. To call out the military, 
 and then have them stand quiet and helpless, while mob law overrides the civil 
 authorities, would be to make the government contemptible, and destroy the 
 purpose of its existence. 
 
 "The effect of martial law, therefore, is to put into operation the powers 
 and methods vested in the commanding officer by military law. So far as his 
 powers for the preservation of order and security of life and property are con- 
 cerned, there is no limit but the necessities and exigency of the situation. And 
 in this respect there is no difference between a public war and domestic insur- 
 rection. What has been called the paramount law of self-defense, common 
 to all countries, has established the rule that whatever force is necessary is 
 also lawful." 
 
 The Act of 1917 is the institution of martial law by the legislature itself 
 not in time of peace but after the outbreak of a war which threatened all con- 
 stitutional government the world over. It surely cannot be unconstitutional 
 to use all appropriate means to preserve the constitution itself. 
 
 The common law rule which permits the destruction of buildings to stop 
 a fire is strictly analogous. 
 
 The Pennsylvania court did not make of the constitution a scrap of paper. 
 It simply held that the State is never without lawful power to enforce the only 
 conditions under which a constitution can live at all, namely, conditions of 
 order, obedience to law, and respect for the rights of others — the very con- 
 ditions to preserve which the present war was entered by the government and 
 people of the United States. Minnesota will never cease to be grateful that 
 it had a Legislature wise enough to create the Commission of Public Safety, 
 
as well as a Governor and a Commission courageous enough to see that the 
 
 arm of the state was not palsied while the war was on. 
 
 C. J. Rock wood, 
 District Judge. 
 
 BY-LAWS OF THE COMMISSION 
 
 ARTICLE ONE 
 
 MEETINGS. The Commission shall meet on *Monday in each week at 
 10:30 o'clock a. m. at its office in the State Capitol, Saint Paul and at any other 
 time or place to which such meetings may be adjourned. No notice need be 
 given of these meetings or of any adjournments thereof. Additional meetings 
 may be held at such times and places as may be designated in the notice thereof 
 and may be called by the chairman or vice-chairman and shall be called by the 
 secretary on the request of any two members. Twelve (12) hours notice of any 
 such additional meeting, by letter, telegram, telephone or otherwise, shall be 
 sufficient and any such additional meeting may be held without notice if all the 
 members are present or if those who are absent shall consent to its being held in 
 writing or by telephone. It shall not be necessary to specify in any notice of any 
 meeting the business to be transacted thereat. All meetings shall be regular 
 meetings and at them any business may be transacted. 
 
 A record shall be kept of the proceedings at all meetings in a book to be 
 provided for that purpose, and the record of any meeting shall be read or corrected 
 at the next succeeding meeting unless such reading is expressly waived. At the 
 beginning of the record of each additional meeting shall be recited the facts as 
 to the notice of which the same is held. 
 
 The meetings of the Commission shall be executive and attendance shall 
 be Umited to the members of the Commission and such of its employes as it may 
 from time to time designate and other persons whose presence it may from time 
 to time invite. Information as to the proceedings at any meeting may be given 
 to the public only in written form, approved by the chairman or vice-chairman. 
 The proceedings of the Commission shall be open to public inspection except to 
 such extent and in such particulars as the Commission shall in the public interest 
 otherwise provide. 
 
 ARTICLE TWO 
 
 SEAL. The Commission may, by resolution, adopt at its pleasure a seal 
 to be used for the authentication or attestation of such instruments as the Com- 
 mission may direct. 
 
 ARTICLE THREE 
 
 OFFICERS AND EMPLOYES. The chairman shall preside at meetings of 
 the Commission and shall perform such other duties as are incidental to his office 
 or as may be from time to time prescribed by the Commission. 
 
 The vice-chairman shall perform the duties of the chairman, as such, during 
 the absence or inability of the chairman to act. The vice-chairman shall be 
 elected by the Commission and shall hold office, as such, during its pleasure. In 
 case of the absence or inability of both the chairman and vice-chairman to act 
 
 *May 23, 1917 amended by substitution of "Tuesday" for Monday. 
 
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the Commission may appoint a chairman pro tern, who shall have the powers 
 and perform the duties of the chairman under such conditions. 
 
 There shall be a secretary. *He shall be elected by the Commission and shall 
 hold office at its pleasure, and shall receive such compensation as may be fixed 
 by the Commission. He shall give his whole time to the work of the Commission, 
 shall keep a record of its proceedings, have the custody of its documents and rec- 
 ords and perform such other duties as may from time to time be specified by the 
 Commission. 
 
 ARTICLE FOUR 
 
 EXECUTION OF INSTRUMENTS. All notices, orders and written con- 
 tracts shall run in the name of the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety and 
 be signed by the chairman or vice-chairman or chairman pro tem, as the case 
 may be, and attested by the secretary or such other person as may be expressly 
 designated therefor by the Commission. 
 
 ARTICLE FIVE 
 
 EXPENDITURES. No expenditure shall be made or obligation incurred 
 on behalf of the Commission without authority from said Commission first had 
 and obtained; but, in case of emergency the Governor and Attorney General 
 may, on the Commission's behalf and without previous authorization therefor, 
 incur obligations or make expenditures involving not to exceed in the aggregate 
 one thousand dollars ($1,000.00). 
 
 ARTICLE SIX 
 
 PAYMENTS. Moneys, in the State Treasury available for expenditure by 
 the Commission, other than those specified in sections 5 and 6 of chapter 261 
 G. L. 1917, shall be paid out on vouchers approved on behalf of the Commission 
 by the chairman or vice-chairman. 
 
 ARTICLE SEVEN 
 
 SERVICE OF ORDERS. The orders of the Commission shall, except as 
 otherwise provided in special instances, be served by officers empowered under the 
 law to serve civil process. 
 
 ARTICLE EIGHT 
 
 AUTHENTICATION OF RECORDS. A copy of any document, order or 
 extract from the proceedings of the Commission, when certified to by the secretary 
 as being a true copy of the original, shall be prima facie evidence, for all purposes, 
 of the contents of the original document, order or record. 
 
 ARTICLE NINE 
 
 EXAMINATIONS AND INVESTIGATIONS. In examinations, disclosures 
 and investigations which may be authorized or conducted under the proceedings 
 provided for in section 3, subdivision 4 of said chapter 261, G. L. 1917, each mem- 
 ber of the Commission shall be and be deemed an agent and officer thereof for 
 the purposes of such examinations, disclosures and investigations without special 
 order so designating him. 
 
 ARTICLE TEN 
 
 AMENDMENTS. These by-laws may be amended at any meeting of the 
 Commission by a majority vote of the entire Commission. 
 
 *Sept. 11, 1917 amended by adding words "and an assistant secretary." 
 
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ORDERS 
 
 ORDER NO. 1 
 
 Relating to saloons in Bridge Square District. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety hereby finds and declares it 
 necessary and proper for the public safety, for the protection of life and property, 
 and as a matter of military expediency — 
 
 FIRST 
 
 That the sale of intoxicating liquor in the territory hereinafter described be 
 prohibited and that all outstanding licenses authorizing the sale of intoxicating 
 liquor within said territory be revoked, provided that this prohibition shall not 
 apply to licensed saloons now existing in said territory facing on Washington 
 Avenue. 
 
 SECOND 
 
 That the operation of pool halls, moving picture theatres and other places of 
 amusement of like character within said territory, not facing on Washington, 
 Nicollet or Hennepin Avenues, be prohibited. 
 
 IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED: 
 
 I. 
 
 That from and after the first day of May, 1917, and until a treaty of peace 
 terminating the existing war is ratified, the sale of intoxicating liquor and the 
 operation of pool halls, moving picture theatres and other places of amusement 
 of like character within the territory hereinafter described, with the exceptions 
 hereinbefore stated in paragraphs First and Second hereof, be and the same are 
 hereby prohibited. 
 
 II. 
 
 That the Mayor and City Council of the City of Minneapolis forthwith 
 revoke all outstanding licenses of the character designated in paragraphs First and 
 Second hereof within said territory, said revocation to be effective as of May 
 1, 1917. 
 
 III. 
 
 That in the territory excepted in paragraphs First and Second no licenses 
 be issued during the period herein specified except renewals of existing licenses 
 and covering the same locations. 
 
 IV. 
 
 The territory hereinbefore referred to is that part of the City of Minneapolis, 
 Hennepin County, Minnesota, described as follows: 
 
 Commencing at the intersection of First Avenue North and Washington 
 Avenue in the City of Minneapolis, as now laid out, thence northeasterly along 
 the center line of said First Avenue North to the center of the Mississippi 
 River, thence in a northwesterly direction along the center of said Mississippi 
 River to a point which is the center line of Fourth Avenue North produced into 
 the center of the Mississippi River, thence in a northeasterly direction along the 
 center line of a channel between Boom Island and Nicollet Island to the center 
 
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of what is known as the East Side channel of the Mississippi River, thence 
 southeasterly along said East Side channel to the center line of the main channel 
 of the Mississippi River, thence southeasterly along the center line of the Missis- 
 sippi River to the center line of Tenth Avenue South, produced north, thence 
 southwesterly along the center line of Tenth Avenue South to the center 
 line of Washington Avenue South, thence northwesterly along the center line 
 of Washington Avenue South to the center line of First Avenue North, being 
 the point of beginning. 
 
 V. 
 
 That this order be forthwith served upon the Mayor and President of the 
 City Council of the City of Minneapolis by delivering to and leaving a copy of 
 the same with the Mayor and President of said City Council. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, this 24th day of April, 1917. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 
 Attest: 
 
 John S. Pardee, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NO. 2 
 
 Relating to dry zone around Military Reservation. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety hereby finds and declares it 
 necessary and proper for the public safety, for the protection of life and prop- 
 erty and as a matter of military expediency and necessity: 
 
 FIRST 
 
 That the sale of intoxicating liquor in the district hereinafter described be 
 prohibited and that all outstanding licenses authorizing the sale of intoxicating 
 liquor within said district be revoked. 
 
 SECOND 
 The district above referred to is all that territory in the counties of Hennepin, 
 Ramsey and Dakota, in the State of Minnesota, to the width of two and one-half 
 (2%) miles, immediately surrounding and adjoining the Fort Snelling Military 
 Reservation. 
 
 IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED: 
 I. 
 That from and after the first day of May, 1917, and until a treaty of peace 
 terminating the existing war is ratified, the sale of intoxicating liquor withing the 
 district or zone last above described be and the same is hereby prohibited and all 
 outstanding licenses authorizing the sale of intoxicating liquor therein are hereby 
 revoked. Said revocation to become effective as of May first, 1917. 
 
 II. 
 That the governing bodies of the Cities of Minneapolis, St. Paul and the 
 village of Mendota are hereby forbidden, during the period last above specified 
 to grant or issue any licenses authorizing the sale of intoxicating liquor within 
 the district or zone hereinbefore specified. 
 
 III. 
 That this order be forthwith served upon the mayor of the city of St. Paul, 
 Ramsey county, the mayor and president of the city council of the city of Minne- 
 apolis, Hennepin county, and the president of the village council and recorder of 
 
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the village of Mendota, Dakota county, all in the State of Minnesota. 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, this 25th day of April, 1917. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 
 Attest: 
 
 John S. Pardee, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NO. 3 
 Providing for Organization of Home Guard. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety hereby finds and declares it 
 necessary and proper for the public safety, for the protection of life and property 
 and as a matter of military expediency and necessity, and does hereby order: 
 
 1. That a Home Guard be enlisted, organized and maintained for service 
 in the State of Minnesota to consist of such units as may hereafter be authorized 
 by this Commission, and to be organized as now prescribed by law for similar 
 units in the Minnesota National Guard ; said force shall be known as "Home Guard 
 of Minnesota." 
 
 2. The term of enlistment in said Home Guard of Minnesota shall be for 
 the period of the present war and until peace shall be concluded between the 
 United States and any and all foreign nations with which the United States is 
 now or may hereafter be at war. The oath to be taken by the enlisted men of 
 said Home Guard of Minnesota shall be in the following form: 
 
 »I 5 , born at , in the 
 
 state of , on the day of , A. D. 
 
 19. ... , by occupation , do hereby acknowledge to have 
 
 voluntarily enlisted this day of , 1917, as a soldier 
 
 in the Home Guard of Minnesota for the period of the present war and until 
 peace shall be concluded between the United States and any and all foreign nations 
 with which the United States is now or may hereafter be at war, unless sooner 
 discharged by proper authority. And I do hereby solemnly swear that I will 
 bear true faith and allegiance to the United States of America and to the State 
 of Minnesota and that I will serve them honestly and faithfully against all their 
 enemies whomsoever within the State of Minnesota, and that I will obey the orders 
 of the Governor of the State of Minnesota and of the officers appointed over me 
 according to law and the rules and regulations now or hereafter governing the 
 Home Guard of Minnesota." 
 
 The officers of the Home Guard shall subscribe the following oath: 
 
 "I , having been appointed a 
 
 in the Home Guard of Minnesota, do solemnly swear that I will support and de- 
 fend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of 
 Minnesota against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith 
 and allegiance to the same; that I will obey the orders of the Governor of the 
 State of Minnesota; that I make this obligation freely without any mental reser- 
 vation or purpose of evasion, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of 
 my office in the Home Guard of Minnesota upon which I am about to enter; 
 so help me God." 
 
 3. Only able-bodied men over the age of twenty-six (26) years shall be 
 enlisted in the Home Guard of Minnesota. Any member of the Home Guard 
 
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who is hereafter enlisted or commissioned in the Federal service or in the Minnesota 
 National Guard shall be entitled to an honorable discharge from the Home Guard.* 
 4. No member of the Home Guard shall be entitled to any pay for his 
 services, or any allowance of any character, except as follows: 
 
 A. Officers when on duty at any place other than their home station shall 
 be entitled to the travel expense incurred and $2.00 per day for subsistence. 
 
 B. Officers when held in continuous active service for a longer period than 
 five days without an intervening leave of absence of equal duration, shall be en- 
 titled to receive $2.00 per day for such service. 
 
 C. Enlisted men, performing detached service away from their home sta- 
 tion, shall receive the travel expenses actually incurred and $1.00 per day for 
 subsistence. 
 
 D. Enlisted men when held in continuous active service for a longer period 
 than five days without an intervening furlough of equal duration, shall be entitled 
 to receive the same per diem pay as is paid to enlisted men in the service of the 
 United States. 
 
 6. The members of the Home Guard shall be subject to the disciplinary 
 provisions of the Military Code in so far as they may be applicable to that organ- 
 ization. 
 
 6. The following units of the Home Guard are hereby authorized, and the 
 Governor is hereby requested to provide for the organization and enlistment 
 thereof, namely: 
 
 Seven(l)separate battalions to be stationed as the Governor may direct and 
 in such subdivisions as he may deem proper and said number to be increased 
 in the discretion of the Governor and upon his order. The Governor may, in his 
 discretion, organize said units into regiments. (2) 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, this 28th day of April, A. D., 1917. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 John S. Pardee, 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NO. 4 
 Providing for the appointment of Peace Officers. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety hereby finds and declares it 
 necessary and proper for public safety, for the protection of life and property 
 and as a matter of military expediency and necessity: 
 
 *May 29, 1917, amended so as to read: 
 
 "Only able bodied men between the ages of 31 and 52 inclusive, shall be en- 
 listed in the Home Guard of Minnesota; provided, however, that able bodied 
 men under 31 years of age may be enlisted when it is shown that they are prob- 
 ably exempt from service in the Federal Army. Any member of the Home 
 Guard who is hereafter enlisted or commissioned in the federal service or in the 
 Minnesota National Guard shall be entitled to an honorable discharge from 
 the Home Guard." 
 
 (1) May 24, 1917, amended by substituting the word "ten" for "seven." 
 
 (2) Further amended by Order 57, page No. C-22. 
 
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FIRST 
 
 That certain proper persons, voters in the State of Minnesota shall from time 
 to time be appointed as Peace Officers in said State, invested with the powers 
 now possessed by constables in said State. 
 
 IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED: 
 
 I. 
 
 That said Commission by its resolution at any meeting thereof may appoint 
 any voter of the State of Minnesota as a Peace Officer, who Shall be vested with, 
 and have all the powers now possessed by constables in said State; that said 
 Peace Officer shall be furnished with, and entitled to wear a metallic badge on 
 which shall be the words "Minnesota Public Safety Commission, Peace Officer." 
 
 II. 
 
 Any person, corporation or co-partnership who desires to have property 
 guarded by any such Peace Officer may make application to the Commission for 
 the appointment of any voter of the State of Minnesota as a Peace Officer, and 
 upon his appointment he shall be assigned to the duty of guarding the property 
 of such applicant. All persons appointed as Peace Officers pursuant to this order 
 shall serve without pay or other remuneration from the State of Minnesota. 
 
 III. 
 
 To each person so appointed, pursuant to a resolution as above provided, 
 there shall be issued a commission signed by the chairman and secretary of this 
 Commission, and the adoption of any such resolution shall, as to each and every 
 person named therein, be an appointment of such person as such Peace Officer 
 under the authority of this order, and upon the issuance to such person of a 
 commission signed by the chairman and secretary, such person to whom such 
 issuance is made, shall thereupon be constituted such Peace Officer without the 
 taking of an oath or the giving of a bond. All commissions so issued may be 
 revoked at the pleasure of the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety at any 
 meeting thereof, by motion to be entered upon the minutes. Upon any such 
 revocation, the person whose commission is revoked shall return the badge then 
 in his possession to the secretary of the Commission and shall forthwith cease to 
 exercise any of the functions or duties theretofore devolving upon him pursuant 
 to said appointment. Every such Peace Officer, upon request, shall exhibit his 
 badge and commission to any person asking to see the same. 
 
 This order shall be effective from and after the fourteenth day of 
 May, 1917. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, May 14, 1917. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 John S. Pardee, 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NO. 5 
 Relating to forest fire emergencies. 
 
 Whereas, it appears that the prevalence of forest fires in Northern Minnesota 
 is destroying the military resources of the State and creating a grave public 
 emergency, therefore be it resolved, by the Minnesota Commission of Public 
 Safety that frornand after this date for a period of fifteen days, no person shall 
 
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kindle or set any fire, in grass, brush, slash or woods, or kindle any fire except 
 for domestic or industrial purposes within the structures and appliances for 
 which fires are usually and necessarily built, for such domestic and industrial 
 purposes, in the following territory: 
 
 Those parts of the Counties of Lake, Cook, St. Louis, Itasca, Carlton, Kooch- 
 iching, Beltrami, Aitkin, Cass, Clearwater and Hubbard, in the vicinity of which 
 there are forest fires; provided that this shall not apply to fires kindled or set 
 by the State Forester or under his direction, regulation, or permission. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, this 23rd day of May, A. D. 1917. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 
 Attest: 
 
 John S. Pardee, 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NO. 6 
 Relating to closing of saloons on Registration Day. 
 
 "Whereas, it appears necessary to conserve the peace and the orderly execu- 
 tion of the duties of citizenship on Registration Day that all traffic in intoxicants 
 be suspended on that day: 
 
 NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDERED, BY THE MINNESOTA COM- 
 MISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY: 
 
 FIRST 
 That all saloons and all places for the sale of intoxicants in any quantity 
 in the State of Minnesota shall be and remain closed during the whole of the 
 fifth day of June, 1917. 
 
 SECOND 
 That the Mayor or other governing person or body, of each and every 
 municipality in the State of Minnesota, is hereby directed and enjoined to exe- 
 cute the preceding order." 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, this 29th day of May, A. D. 1917. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 
 Attest: 
 
 John S. Pardee, 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NO. 7 
 
 Relating to saloon hours and cabaret entertainment. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety hereby finds and declares it 
 necessary and proper for the public safety, for the protection of life and property 
 and as a matter of military expediency and necessity: 
 
 FIRST 
 
 That all licensed saloons in the State of Minnesota be closed at 10:00 o'clock 
 p. m. and remain closed until 8:00 o'clock the following day, and that no intoxi- 
 cating liquors be sold, served or otherwise disposed of therein between the hours 
 
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last above stated; and that no women or girls be permitted to enter such, saloons 
 or to be served therefrom at any time. 
 
 SECOND 
 
 That in all cities having a population of more than 50,000 all cafes and restau- 
 rants, whether designated as roof-gardens, chop-suey houses or otherwise, in 
 which intoxicating liquor is sold, served or permitted to be sold, served or drunk, 
 be closed at 10:00 o'clock p. m., and that no intoxicating liquor be sold, served 
 or permitted to be sold, served or drunk therein until 8:00 o'clock a. m. thereafter, 
 and that no women or girls be served with or permitted at any time to drink 
 intoxicating liquors therein. 
 
 THIRD 
 
 That dancing and cabaret performances in any saloon or place where intoxi- 
 cating liquor is sold, served or drunk within the State of Minnesota is hereby 
 prohibited. 
 
 That the City Council, Board of Trustees, or other governing body of all 
 municipalities in the State of Minnesota forthwith proceed to enact ordinances 
 executing the provisions of this order and prescribing suitable penalties for 
 violations of such ordinances, which penalties shall include, for a second offense, 
 imprisonment in the county jail without the option of a fine, except in counties 
 having workhouses, in which case the imprisonment shall be in the workhouse, 
 and that a second conviction for such offense shall operate of itself and without 
 any further act to revoke the license of the offender. 
 
 Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to 
 extend the closing hour for licensed saloons where local ordinances fix an earlier 
 hour a than 10:00 o'clock p. m. 
 
 This order shall be effective from and after the 5th day of June, 1917. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, June 5, 1917. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQU1ST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 John S. Pardee, 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NO. 8 
 Relating to sale of liquor in St. Louis County. 
 
 Whereas, all of St. Louis County, Minnesota, outside of the City of 
 Duluth, is in proximity to mines and timber lands each producing material essen- 
 tial for war uses and purposes, and 
 
 Whereas, the unregulated sale of intoxicating liquors in territory in prox- 
 imity to producing mines and timber lands unfavorably affects and hampers the 
 utilization of such lands and the production of the said materials they furnish, and 
 
 Whereas, such unregulated sale tends to produce and has produced in said 
 territory breaches of the peace and violations of law, 
 
 Now Therefore — 
 
 It Is Hereby Ordered that nowhere within St. Louis County, Minnesota, 
 except in the City of Duluth, shall intoxicating liquor of any kind or in any quan- 
 
tity be sold or in any manner disposed of except in duly licensed saloons and in 
 drug stores as now regulated by statute. 
 
 This order shall be effective from and after the fifth day of June, 1917. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, June 5, 1917. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 John S. Pardee, 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 9 
 Relating to Forest Fire Emergency. 
 
 It is ordered by the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety that from and 
 after this date, for a period of eight weeks, no person shall kindle or set 
 fire in grass, stubble, peat, brush, slash or woods, or kindle any fire except for 
 domestic or industrial purposes, in the following counties : Cook, Lake, St. Louis, 
 Carlton, Itasca, Koochiching, Beltrami, Aitkin, Pine, Cass, Crow Wing, Clear- 
 water, Hubbard, Becker, Mahnomen, Morrison, Todd, Wadena, Otter Tail, 
 Clay, Norman, Polk, Red Lake, Pennington, Marshall, Roseau, Kittson. Pro- 
 vided that this order shall not apply to fields around which an ample firebreak 
 has been freshly plowed, or to fires kindled or set by the State Foreter or under 
 his direction, regulation or permission. 
 
 The chairmen of town boards and, for unorganized townships, the county 
 commissioners shall enforce this order. 
 
 The State Forester and Assistant State Forester are hereby appointed as 
 commissioners of the Public Safety Commission, to discharge the functions of 
 this body in respect to safeguarding life and property from forest and prairie 
 fires. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, August 21, 1917. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 John S. Pardee, 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 10 
 
 In the Matter of the Regulation of the Sale, and Keeping for Sale or Delivery, 
 of Intoxicating Liquors in the Counties of Martin and Pipestone, in the State 
 of Minnesota: 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety finds that the sale of intoxicating 
 liquors, as it has been and is being conducted in the said counties, has interfered 
 and is interfering with the production of food and with the health and good 
 habits of the soldiers of the national army and of the militia of said counties 
 and states herein mentioned, and that it has interfered and is interfering with 
 the efficiency of the application of the military, civil and industrial resources of 
 the States of Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota, towards the main- 
 tenance of the defense of the said states and the nation, and to the successful 
 prosecution of the war between the United States and Germany, now existing; 
 
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and to that end that said interference shall cease and comity between this state 
 and other states hereinbefore mentioned be restored and maintained. 
 
 It Is Hereby Ordered: 
 
 FIRST 
 That the sale, or keeping for sale or delivery, of intoxicating liquors, in the 
 counties of Martin and Pipestone, in the State of Minnesota, be and the same is 
 hereby prohibited, except when made at retail, between the hours of nine o'clock 
 in the forenoon and five o'clock in the afternoon, in licensed saloons, to be drunk 
 upon the premises. 
 
 SECOND 
 No licensed saloon-keeper in the counties aforesaid shall sell intoxicating 
 liquors to be taken from the premises where sold, or permit such removal there- 
 from. 
 
 THIRD 
 The violation of any of the provisions of this order shall operate in itself, 
 and without any further act whatever, to terminate the right of such person to 
 sell any intoxicating liquor in said counties. 
 
 FOURTH 
 
 Service of this order shall be made forthwith by the sheriffs of the counties 
 herein mentioned, and upon the proprietors of all licensed saloons in said counties, 
 and upon all persons, firms or corporations in said counties having intoxicating 
 liquors in their possession or under their control, for sale or delivery, and upon 
 the president and clerk or recorder of each municipality in said counties, in 
 which intoxicating liquors are sold or kept for sale or delivery. Said service 
 shall be made by delivery, to the person, firm or corporation to be served, of a 
 copy hereof. 
 
 This order shall take effect and be in force from and after September 17, 1917. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, September 12, 1917. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 11 
 Prohibiting Shipments of Liquors into Koochiching County. 
 
 No common carrier, or other carrier, shall accept intoxicating liquors, in any 
 container whatsoever, for shipment to any point within Koochiching County, 
 Minnesota, and no common carrier or other carrier shall transport into said 
 Koochiching County intoxicating liquors, in any container whatsoever, or deliver 
 the same to any consignee at any point in said county. 
 
 The sheriff of said county and other peace officers therein, shall seize any 
 intoxicating liquors shipped into said county in violation of this order, and forth- 
 with report such seizure to the Commission for its further instructions, giving 
 a description of the property seized, the names of the carrier, consignor and 
 consignee. 
 
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This order is made in the interest of the public safety, after investigation 
 into the conditions existing in said county, and shall take effect and be in force 
 from and after September 21, 1917. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, September 18, 1917. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OP PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 12 
 
 No common carrier, or other carrier, shall accept intoxicating liquors in any 
 container whatsoever, for shipment to any point within Beltrami County or 
 Clearwater County, Minnesota, and no common carrier or other carrier shall 
 transport into said Counties or either of them intoxicating liquors in any container 
 whatsoever, or deliver the same to any consignee at any point in said counties 
 or in either of them. 
 
 The sheriff of each of said counties and other peace officers, therein, shall 
 seize any intoxicating liquors shipped into said counties respectively in violation 
 of this order and forthwith report such seizure to the Commission for its further 
 instructions, giving a description of the property seized, the names of the carrier, 
 consignor and consignee. 
 
 This order is made in the interest of the public safety, after investigation 
 into the conditions existing in said counties and shall take effect and be in force 
 effect and be in force from and after October 26, 1917. 
 
 Dated at Saint Paul, Minnesota, October 16, 1917. 
 
 MINNESOTA'COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 AMENDED ORDER NUMBER 12 
 Prohibiting Shipments of Liquor into Beltrami and Clearwater Counties. 
 
 No common carrier, or other, carrier, shall accept intoxicating liquor, in 
 any container whatsoever, for shipment to any point within Beltrami County 
 or Clearwater County, Minnesota, and no common carrier, or other carrier, 
 shall transport into said counties, or either of them, intoxicating liquor, in any 
 container whatsoever, or deliver the same to any consignee at any point in said 
 counties, or either of them. 
 
 The sheriff of each of said counties and other peace officers therein shall 
 seize any intoxicating liquor shipped into said counties, respectively, in violation 
 of this order, and forthwith report such seizure to the Commission for its in- 
 structions, giving a description of the property seized and the names of the 
 carrier, consignor and consignee. 
 
 The sale of intoxicating liquor in said counties by licensed saloon-keepers 
 shall henceforth be limited to liquor to be drunk on the premises where sold. 
 
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No saloon-keeper in either of the counties aforesaid shall sell intoxicating liquor 
 to be taken from the premises where sold, or permit such removal therefrom, 
 and the licenses of all saloon-keepers in the counties aforesaid and each of them 
 shall cease, expire and terminate within thirty days from the date hereof, irre- 
 spective of any date otherwise fixed for such expiration or termination, and after 
 said period of thirty days no liquor shall be sold by any saloon in either of said 
 counties. 
 
 This order is made in the interest of public safety, after investigation into 
 the conditions existing in said counties, and shall take effect and be in force, 
 as to such carriers, from and after October 25th, 1917. L && 
 
 Service of this order shall be made forthwith by the sheriffs of the counties 
 herein mentioned upon the proprietors of all licensed saloons in said counties, 
 and upon the president or clerk or recorder of each municipality in said counties 
 in which intoxicating liquors are sold, or kept for sale or delivery. Such service 
 shall be made by delivering to the persons, firms or corporations to be served, of 
 a copy hereof. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, October 25, 1917. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Attest: Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 
 H. W. Libby, 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 13 
 Regulating Price of Milk. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety, in the public interest, does 
 hereby Find and Order as follows: 
 
 No person, company or association selling and delivering milk in Minne- 
 apolis or St. Paul for pasteurization, re-sale and delivery to consumers shall 
 ask charge, or receive a price in excess of six cents per quart for milk of the 
 standard grade and quality. 
 
 No person, company or association purchasing such milk for pasteurization 
 and re-sale as pasteurized milk, in Minneapolis or St. Paul, shall ask, charge 
 or receive a price in excess of ten cents a quart for milk of the standard grade 
 and quality. 
 
 The council or other governing bodies of Minneapolis and St. Paul shall 
 forthwith enact ordinances executing the provisions of this order and prescribing 
 suitable penalties for violations of such ordinances, having first submitted a 
 copy thereof to the Commission for approval. 
 
 This order shall be effective from and after November fifteenth, 1917, 
 shall be served by mailing a copy to any officer of the Twin City Milk Producers 
 Association, and to the wholesale distributors in Minneapolis and St. Paul, 
 whose names the Commission's Secretary can learn by reasonable inquiry, 
 and to the Mayor of each of said cities, and shall continue in force until mod- 
 ified by the Commission's order. 
 
 Dated at Saint Paul, Minnesota, November 2, 1917. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Attest: Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 
 H. W. Libby, 
 Secretary. 
 
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MEMORANDUM 
 
 To The Commission: 
 
 Your Committee, to which was referred among other things the milk problem 
 in Minneapolis and St. Paul, has completed its investigations. 
 
 The committee was originally appointed to make an inquiry into the causes 
 of the increased! cost of the necessities of life and the possible remedies, and as 
 constituted for this purpose, included the undersigned and Mr. W. S. Moscrip. 
 Inasmuch as Mr. Moscrip is himself a milk producer, he deemed it improper 
 that he should participate in the committee's milk investigations, has therefore 
 not done so, and does not join in this report. 
 
 The committee has held three public meetings in the Minneapolis council 
 chamber, at which it has heard every one who expressed a desire to be heard. 
 Each of these meetings covered an entire day, and one of them extended until 
 ten o'clock at night. All interested parties who had anything to contribute, or 
 thought they had, either in the way of information or opinion, were given the 
 fullest opportunity to do so. The committee was represented at the meetings 
 by the Commission's attorney, Ambrose Tighe. M. D. Munn, Esq., represented 
 the Milk Producers' Association. Hon. G. R. Smith represented citizens and 
 consumers acting through the Labor Loyalty League, and James Robertson, 
 Esq., represented the wholesale distributers. There were also other attorneys 
 present representing other parties. The meetings were continued until it ap- 
 peared in response to public inquiry of the chairman that no one cared to offer 
 further evidence or suggestions. Then, and not until then, were the hearings 
 closed. Most of the matter brought out at the meetings was already in the 
 committee's possession, and a good deal of it in completer form than there pre- 
 sented, and knowledge as the result of its investigations outside of the meetings. 
 It has, for its purposes, interviewed a large number of people besides those who 
 appeared at the Minneapolis hearings; it has had the benefit of the best expert 
 advice on all questions involved; it has made examinations and audits of repre- 
 sentative concerns operating the various branches of the industry, and has 
 procured information from all parts of the state by correspondence through 
 its local organizations. 
 
 The situation which compelled the committee's activity was a most serious 
 one. The retail price of milk in Minneapolis and St. Paul (which will herein- 
 after be referred to as the Cities) had increased four cents a quart within a few 
 months, was at twelve cents a quart when the committee began its work, existing 
 contracts with producers covered a period of two months only, and it was pre- 
 dicted, with apparent authority, that by Thanksgiving time there would be a 
 further advance. To some people an expenditure for milk of a few additional 
 cents a day means little. But many families of limited income found this grow- 
 ing cost of a commodity essential to their children's welfare something to which 
 they could not submit with equanimity. The committee has limited itself 
 strictly to the milk question, and to it as it affects these people of limited income. 
 It has tried to learn the facts and to determine what relief could be afforded 
 without doing injustice to any one. 
 
 Its conclusions are as follows: 
 
 (A) There are roughly speaking two sources of supply for the Cities: 
 
 FIRST 
 
 One of these is the milk sold by the so-called independent producers and 
 distributers who live on the outskirts, milk their own cows, and themselves 
 
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distribute their product among their customers. The St. Paul ordinances 
 require that their product shall be bottled, but do not require that it be pas- 
 teurized. The Minneapolis regulations, except as modified by recent legislation 
 not yet in force, require neither pasteurization nor bottling. 
 
 SECOND 
 
 The other source of supply is the milk which comes in chiefly by railroads 
 from points within a radius of about sixty miles around the Cities. This is 
 furnished by farmers or producers operating dairies in this territory, and is 
 marketed for the most part through a corporation known as the Milk Producers' 
 Association of which the owners of about forty thousand cows are stockholders. 
 The Association controls the output of its stockholders who agree to sell to and 
 through no one else; it secures for them a uniform price in the Cities and accounts 
 to each stockholder for his shipments at this price less the freight charges from 
 his shipping point and his share of the Association's incidental expenses. Prac- 
 tically all milk producers who ship by railroad to the Cities belong to the Associa- 
 tion. The average shipping cost appears to be about thirty cents a hundred 
 weight, but as each shipper is charged with the actual express charges on his own 
 shipments, a uniform charge for the Association's milk in the Cities nets the 
 shippers who live near the Cities a larger return than those who live at remote 
 points receive. The Milk Producers' Association sells all its milk to eight or 
 nine wholesale houses in the Cities who pasteurize, bottle and distribute it. 
 These eight or nine Wholesale houses, which will herein be called the distributers, 
 are in form independent of each other, but are closely affiliated by mutual under- 
 standings and they all charge the consumer the same price for the delivered 
 milk. It thus appears that all the raw milk which comes to the Cities by rail- 
 road is controlled as to price by one organization and the processing or preparation 
 of this raw milk for the market and its distribution is controlled as to price by 
 another organization. The committee was unable to learn how large a propor- 
 tion of the Cities' daily milk supply comes from the independent producers, 
 and how large a proportion comes through the Producers' Association and the 
 wholesale distributers. There were available no accurate statistics on the sub- 
 ject. But surely the Producers' Association supplies as much as fifty per cent, 
 and perhaps as much as seventy-five per cent. And the point is not important 
 because in practical operation the Producers' Association and wholesale dis- 
 tributers fix the price for milk from both sources. When they together raise 
 the price for the product they control, most of the independent producers follow 
 their example, and when they lower their price, most of the independent pro- 
 ducers have to do the same thing to protect their business. We thus have a 
 situation where the price of this most necessary commodity may be dictated 
 by two organizations without any restraint except such as is afforded by public 
 opinion, their sense of fair dealing, custom and the fear of losing business. On 
 the other hand both the Producers' Association and the distributers' organiza- 
 tion have features which are of much value. The Producers' Association assures 
 the farmer of a certain market at a fixed return, and some one to represent him 
 in possible disputes with the distributers, and the distributers' organization 
 affords opportunities for economies in preparation and distribution which might 
 not exist if there were active competition among them. The immediately 
 practical matter before the Commission is to get cheaper milk for the public, 
 if this can be achieved without treating the producers and distributers unfairly, 
 and the committee thinks that this can be accomplished more promptly and 
 efficiently without disturbing either of these organizations at this time than 
 
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by undertaking to dissolve or regulate them. Assuming that they are illegal 
 combinations dealing in a necessity of life, they are amenable to legislation, 
 and it will be easier to enforce orders on the subject if the parties concerned are 
 few in number than if many unrelated individuals had to be dealt with. 
 
 (B) The question then to be first determined is this: Is it possible to 
 arrive at a price at which milk supplied by the Producers' Association and pas- 
 teurized and distributed by the wholesale distributers can be sold with a fair 
 profit to the farmers and distributers? If this price can be arrived at and the 
 Commission, through its own action and with the co-operation of the Cities' 
 councils can fix it as the selling price in the Cities, the problem will be solved 
 for the present. 
 
 It is practically impossible to fix any figures on the actual production cost 
 of milk with any accuracy and in a scientific way in the territory tributary to 
 the Cities. Its actual cost varies in the widest degree with different producers. 
 In some cases, milk is a by-product of fancy farming or fancy stock raising, and 
 much of what its producers get from it is in the nature of profit. In other 
 cases the producer raises his own feed to a large extent at a cost perhaps less, 
 or perhaps greater than its quoted market price, so that the market price of 
 feed is not in such instances a true measure of this factor of milk production's 
 cost. In other cases the producer buys all his feed, sometimes under favorable 
 and sometimes under unfavorable conditions. The recital of individual experi- 
 ences of success or failure in the industry thus does not throw much light on the 
 problem. The real test seems to be here: 90 per cent or more of the milk 
 produced in the country is used for other purposes than human consumption 
 as milk. The price of butter fat on the New York market is well established, 
 and easily ascertainable at any time by current quotations. The relations be- 
 tween this current price of butter fat and the price of raw milk at any point 
 are capable of ready calculation by approved and admitted formulae which 
 obtain in the industry. Applying these formulae in a way most liberal and 
 fair to the milk producers, and allowing an average transportation expense of 
 thirty cents per hundred pounds, it would appear that raw milk can be deliv- 
 ered to the Cities' distributers by producers operating within a sixty-mile 
 radius of these Cities for about six cents a quart. If they get this price, they 
 will be getting more than ninety per cent of the milk producers of the country 
 whose product is made into butter and cheese, get for their milk at the pres- 
 ent time. The committee to simplify its statement, omits here the details of 
 the calculation, but it has confidence in its conclusions and has confirmed 
 them by a state-wide inquiry as to local prices. There is no shortage of butter 
 or cheese in the United States because of the prevailing prices for butter fat, 
 and if the farmers of the nation in general find it commercially profitable to 
 sell milk at a price which is equivalent to less than six cents per quart f. o. b. 
 the Cities, for creamery purposes, there appears to be no reason why the farm- 
 ers in the territory tributary to the Cities cannot furnish it for milk purposes 
 at this figure. This price may not yield a proper return in all cases any more 
 than does the price paid for butter fat in all cases. But under existing average 
 conditions of equipment and business efficiency, the result will be fairly satis- 
 factory. 
 
 When pasteurized milk was being sold lately in the Cities at twelve cents 
 a quart, raw milk was costing the distributers seven cents. That is, the dis- 
 tributers were charging five cents a quart for their expense and profit. When, 
 under suggestion from the Commission, the retail price was reduced to eleven 
 cents, the producers reduced their price to six and a quarter cents a quart, which 
 
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left the distributers a margin of four and three-quarters cents for expenses and 
 profits. Some of the nine or ten wholesale distributers in the Cities deal in all 
 creamery products, including butter, eggs, cheese and ice cream, as well as milk 
 and cream. Others carry on a milk and cream business exclusively. Most of 
 them have their chief output in a limited section of the city, but supplement this 
 with a smaller output in other sections. A few cover the whole city, but these 
 are the concerns which do a general creamery business. It has been as hard 
 to get any satisfactory information from them as to the expenses of their oper- 
 ation or their profits, as it has been to determine the cost of milk production. 
 This has not been because they have undertaken to conceal anything, or have 
 been otherwise than frank with the committee. But the books of the several 
 concerns are not kept on any uniform system, and startling discrepancies as 
 to outlays disclose themselves for this reason when comparisons are attempted. 
 Some of these houses claimed that it cost two and a half cents a quart for pas- 
 teurizing, bottling and otherwise preparing milk for distribution, and a like 
 amount per quart for delivery. If this is a fact all of them were selling their 
 milk at cost when the retail price was twelve cents, and they have been selling 
 it at a loss since the retail price has been eleven cents. But an analysis of their 
 books shows that these amounts are conventional figures roughly adopted by 
 the trade for purposes of ready reckoning rather than exact statements based 
 on actual experience. The committee is satisfied that five cents or even four 
 and three-quarters cents a quart is too much for the wholesale distributer to 
 add to the cost for himself, and that a four cents per quart margin will afford 
 a handsome profit to any one with sufficient business skill to warrant his being 
 in the business at all. The committee is prepared to defend this opinion by 
 convincing data in its possession, but it refrains from now giving these data 
 publicity because of its natural reluctance to disclose unnecessarily the business 
 secrets of the houses in question. 
 
 The committee thinks that the control of the so-called independent pro- 
 ducers as to price and methods of operation should be left to the local authorities 
 without suggestion or guidance by the Commission. The quality of the milk 
 they severally furnish, the conditions under which it is produced in any case, 
 and their relations to their customers are all so individual that it is not practicable 
 to classify them for treatment by a state body. But the pasteurized milk, in 
 its raw state, furnished the distributers, as already noted, for the most part by 
 one organization which has a practical monopoly of the supply, and distributed 
 by a few concerns which, while without a formal organization, act together at 
 least in the matter of price with complete unanimity, is properly a subject of 
 regulation as to price within limits of justice and fairness. 
 
 The committee therefore presents herewith to the Commission an order, 
 the adoption of which it recommends. This fixes the maximum price which 
 can be charged by milk producers for raw milk delivered to the wholesale dis- 
 tributers in the Cities, at six cents a quart, and the price which can be charged 
 'to the consumer by the wholesale distributer at ten cents a quart. The order 
 does not interfere at all with the independent operator producing and vending 
 his own milk. But it places on the market a standard product controlled by 
 the two combinations at a named price. This price seems to be fair to both 
 producer and distributer, and to be as low to the consumer as is possible under 
 the methods which obtain in the business. 
 
 It may be that the Cities could effect a further reduction in the price to 
 the consumer by undertaking the work of pasteurization and distribution them- 
 selves, and if they can do this work for less than four cents a quart, as perhaps 
 
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they can by eliminating the element of profit, the price could be made less than 
 ten cents to the consumer. ] 
 
 The Commission's order will put the Cities in possession of raw milk at 
 six cents a quart and it strongly recommends that the Cities themselves or 
 local organizations of public spirited citizens in them establish and operate 
 distributing plants in proper localities to the end that the people who need milk 
 and cannot afford to pay as much as ten cents a quart, may get it at a lower 
 figure. This program seems to be a highly proper field for municipal action. 
 
 C. H. MARCH, 
 
 GEO. W. LAWSON. 
 AMBROSE TIGHE, 
 
 Commission's Attorney. 
 
 AMENDED ORDER NUMBER 13 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety does hereby ORDER that 
 Order Number Thirteen be, and the same hereby is, amended to read as follows : 
 
 No person, company or association selling and delivering milk in Minneapolis 
 and St. Paul for pasteurization, re-sale and delivery to consumers, shall ask, 
 charge, or receive a price in excess of Three Dollars and Ten Cents per hundred 
 pounds for milk of the standard quality and of the grade of three and five-tenths 
 per cent butter fat. 
 
 No person, company or association purchasing such milk for pasteurization 
 and re-sale as pasteurized milk in Minneapolis or St. Paul, shall ask, charge or 
 receive a price in excess of eleven cents a quart for milk of said quality and grade, 
 whether sold in one or more containers, or in excess of six cents per single pint. 
 
 This Order shall take effect and be in force from and after its date, and 
 shall be served by mailing a copy to any officers of the Twin City Milk Producers' 
 Association, and to the wholesale distributers in Minneapolis and St. Paul, 
 whose names the secretary can learn by reasonable inquiry. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, December 5, 1917. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST,. 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 MEMORANDUM 
 
 The Commission's Order Number Thirteen was made on November 2, 1917, 
 and by its terms contemplated that a change of price might be necessary in the 
 event that conditions in the cost of production altered. Between the date of 
 the making of the Order and the date hereof the prices of feed stuffs have in- 
 creased on an average more than thirty per cent. In view of this situation it 
 appears only proper to the Commission that an advance of one cent a quart, 
 or ten per cent, made by this Order should be allowed. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 14 
 Regulating Pool and Billiard Halls and Dance Halls. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety finds, declares and orders as 
 follows: 
 
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FIRST 
 
 From and after the date of this order all licensed pool halls and pool rooms, 
 billiard halls and billiard rooms within the State of Minnesota shall be closed 
 and kept closed on Sundays and shall be closed and kept closed on each secular 
 day from 10 o'clock p. m. and shall not open prior to 8 o'clock a. m. of the next 
 secular day. 
 
 SECOND 
 
 From and after the date of this order the operation of public dance halls 
 in the State of Minnesota on Sunday is prohibited, and on all other days such 
 dance halls shall close at 10 o'clock p. m. and shall not open prior to 8 o'clock 
 a. m., of the following day. A public dance hall, within the meaning of this order, 
 shall be taken to be any room, place or space open to public patronage generally, 
 and without invitation, and in which dancing, wherein the public may partici- 
 pate, is carried on, and to which admission may be had by the public generally, 
 by payment, either directly or indirectly, of an admission fee or price for dancing, 
 and where the receipts from the business are for the private gain of the person, 
 firm or corporation conducting such dance hall. 
 
 The Council or other governing body of each and every municipality of the 
 state shall forthwith enact an appropriate ordinance or ordinances embodying 
 the provisions hereof, and providing suitable penalties for violations. 
 
 Dated this sixth day of November, 1917. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. Libby, 
 Secretary. 
 
 STATE OF MINNESOTA 
 
 Legal Department, St. Paul, Nov. 14, 1917. 
 
 Order Number 14 of the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety, relating 
 to Dance Halls seems to be misunderstood by many. It applies only to such 
 dance halls as are conducted for gain for their owners or proprietors and are 
 commercial enterprises. They are defined and regulated by sections numbered 
 8685 to 8692, which are assembled under the sub-title "Dance Halls" in the 
 General Statutes of Minnesota, 1913. The definition there found is the one 
 used in substance in Order No. 14. 
 
 The order has no application to dances conducted by lodges, societies and 
 social clubs or organizations. It does apply to such as are regulated by the 
 sections of the statutes above referred to and conducted as a business. 
 
 LYNDON A. SMITH, 
 
 Attorney General. 
 
 AMENDED ORDER NUMBER 14 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety finds, declares and orders as 
 
 follows : 
 
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First — From and after the date of this order all licensed pool halls and pool 
 rooms, b illia rd halls and bilhard rooms within the State of Minnesota shall be 
 closed and kept closed on Sundays and shall be closed and kept closed on each 
 secular day from eleven o'clock P. M. and shall not be open prior to eight o'clock 
 A. M. of the next secular day. 
 
 Second — From and after the date of this order the operation of public dance 
 halls in the State of Minnesota on Sunday is prohibited and on all other days 
 such dance halls shall close at eleven o'clock P. M. and shall not open prior to 
 eight o'clock A. M. of the following day. A Public dance, within the meaning 
 of this order, shall be taken to be any room, place or space open to public patron- 
 age generally, and without invitation, and in which dancing, wherein the public 
 may participate, is carried on, and to which admission may be had by the public 
 generally, by payment, either directly or indirectly, of an admission fee or price 
 for dancing, and where the receipts from the business are for the private gain 
 of the person, firm or corporation conducting such dance hall. 
 
 The Council or other governing body of each and every municipality of the 
 state shall forthwith enact an appropriate ordinance or or din a n ces embodying 
 the provisions hereof, and providing suitable penalties for violations. 
 
 Dated this sixth day of November, 1917. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 J. A. A. Burxquist, 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. Libby, 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 15 
 Providing and Regulating Sale of Bread. 
 
 By virtue of the power vested in the Commission to condemn and appro- 
 priate property in furtherance of the efficient prosecution of the war and for the 
 maintenance of public order and safety: 
 
 1. It is Hereby Ordered that the Occident Baking Company, of Minneapolis, 
 be, and the same is, hereby ordered and required to furnish this Commission, at its 
 bakery in Minneapolis, double pound loaves of white wheat bread, manufactured 
 from Bakers' patent flour and the required ingredients to make a well-baked, 
 wholesome bread, at a price not to exceed five and one-half cents per pound 
 and in quantity of not less than five thousand pounds per day, after the first five 
 days of the operation of this order. 
 
 2. This order shall be effective from and after the tenth day of November, 
 1917, and shall continue until terminated by this Commission on thirty days' 
 notice. 
 
 Dated this sixth day of November, 1917. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 J. A. A. BuRNQinsx, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. Libby, 
 Secretary. 
 
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ORDER NUMBER 16 
 Referring to Re-instatement of Employees of Twin City Rapid Transit Co. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety orders as follows: 
 
 1. The Twin City Rapid Transit Company shall, on or before November 
 29, 1917, reinstate in their positions and on their application, any employes 
 whose connection with the company has been terminated for any reason growing 
 out of the Commission's recommendations of November 19, 1917. 
 
 2. The employes referred to in paragraph (1) hereof shall return to the 
 company's service within the time hereinbefore stated. 
 
 3. Such employes and all other employes of the company shall, on such 
 reinstatement and thereafter, comply with the Commission's recommendations 
 of November 19, 1917, which are hereby given the force of orders binding both 
 on the company and its employes. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, November 27, 1917. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. Libby, 
 Secretary. 
 
 MEMORANDUM 
 
 A committee was appointed to investigate and report on alleged violations 
 by. the Street Railway Company of the order of the Commission adjusting the 
 strike. That committee, after full hearing, reported that certain men who had 
 been removed had been reinstated by the company, and also made certain recom- 
 mendations to insure future good relations. The Commission approved the 
 committee's report without making any formal order in the premises, except 
 to request that its recommendations be carried into effect. Misunderstanding 
 and controversy have arisen between the company and the union men in its 
 employ, with regard to the action taken to carry out the recommendations as 
 requested by the Commission. To end. that misunderstanding and to carry 
 out the recommendations of the committee, the Commission has adopted the 
 foregoing order. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 17 
 
 In the Matter of the Regulation of the Sale and Keeping for Sale or Delivery, 
 of Intoxicating Liquors, in the Village of Blooming Prairie, in the County of 
 Steele, and State of Minnesota. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety finds: That the sale of intoxicating 
 liquors, as it has been and is being conducted in the Village of Blooming Prairie 
 aforesaid, has interfered and is interfering with the production of food, and with 
 the health and good habits of the soldiers of the national army and of the militia 
 in the territory adjacent to said Village, and that it has interfered and is inter- 
 fering with the efficiency of the application of the military, civil and industrial 
 resources of the states of Minnesota and Iowa, towards the maintenance of the 
 defense of the said states and the nation, and to the successful prosecution of 
 the war between the United States and Germany, now existing, and to the end 
 that said interference shall cease and comity between this state and the state of 
 Iowa be restored and maintained. 
 
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It is Hereby Ordered: 
 
 FIRST 
 
 That the sale or keeping for sale or delivery of intoxicating liquors in said 
 Village of Blooming Prairie be, and the same is, hereby prohibited, except when 
 made at retail between the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon and five o'clock 
 in the afternoon, in licensed saloons, to be drunk upon the premises. Said 
 saloons to close at five o'clock p. m. and remain closed until nine o'clock a. m. 
 on the next secular day thereafter. 
 
 SECOND 
 
 No licensed saloon-keeper in said Village of Blooming Prairie shall sell 
 intoxicating liquor to be taken from the premises where sold, or permit such 
 removal therefrom. 
 
 THIRD 
 
 The violation of any of the provisions of this order shall operate in itself, 
 and without any further act whatever, to terminate the right of such offending 
 person to sell any intoxicating liquor in said Village. 
 
 FOURTH 
 
 Service of this order shall be made forthwith by the Sheriff of Steele County, 
 Minnesota, upon the proprietors of all licensed saloons in said Village, and upon 
 all persons, firms or corporations in said Village having intoxicating liquors in 
 their possession or under their control for sale or delivery, and upon the president 
 and recorder of said Village. Said service shall be made by delivery, to the 
 person, firm or corporation to be served, of a copy thereof. 
 
 This order shall take effect and be in force from and after December 10, 1917. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, December 5, 1917. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 MEMORANDUM 
 
 It has been said that the effect of an order like the above will result only in 
 moving further north the source from which supplies of intoxicating liquors can 
 be had, for the purpose of demoralizing the surrounding country, and that this 
 order will result in making Owatonna the distributing point hereafter, instead 
 of Blooming Prairie. On a showing that such has been the effect of the order, 
 the Commission can be depended upon to deal with the case of Owatonna, or 
 any other municipality in that locality, and experience may demonstrate that 
 instead of restricting the sale of liquor as herein contemplated, more drastic 
 action is necessary. The future will determine whether or not this is so. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 18 
 Regulating Manufacture and Sale of Bread. 
 
 Whereas, The Minnesota Commission of Public Saftey has conducted an 
 investigation in the City of Minneapolis to ascertain the cost of the production 
 
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and distribution of bread by bakers, subject to the provisions of the Proclama- 
 tion of the President, dated November 7, 1917, regulating the licensing of bakers, 
 and 
 
 Whereas, It is the duty of this Commission to co-operate with the National 
 Food Administration to carry out the rules and regulations promulgated pur- 
 suant to said Proclamation, and also to insure the public good bread at a reason- 
 able price, 
 
 It is Ordered, By the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety as follows: 
 
 FIRST 
 
 The bread, the manufacture and sale of which is hereby regulated, shall 
 be known as "Standard Bread" and shall be baked of unadulterated wheat flour, 
 not inferior in grade to that which is commercially known as Bakers' Patent, 
 with the added ingredients authorized by the Food Administration and required 
 to make a well-baked wholesome, palatable loaf. 
 
 SECOND 
 Standard Bread shall be manufactured and delivered to grocers and retailers 
 only in two-pound loaves, or multiples thereof, unwrapped, and shall not over- 
 run in weight to exceed two ounces to the loaf, nor fall short of two pounds, 
 within twelve hours after baking when weighed in lots of ten loaves. 
 
 THIRD 
 This order shall apply to every baker in the City of Minneapolis licensed 
 by the Food Administration under the Proclamation of the President, who pro- 
 duces in excess of five hundred pounds of bread per day, and every such baker 
 shall manufacture and sell, as herein provided, the standard bread denned in 
 paragraph 1. 
 
 FOURTH 
 
 This order also applies to every grocer and other retailer in the City of 
 Minneapolis who sells any kind of wheat bread to the consumer; and each such 
 grocer, or retailer, who sells any kind of wheat bread shall also at all times have 
 on sale and sell the Standard Bread at the prices hereby fixed. 
 
 FIFTH 
 
 Each loaf of Standard Bread shall be labeled with the words "Standard 
 Bread" in the first line of the label and the name of the baker and weight, in 
 pounds, below. 
 
 SIXTH 
 
 Every baker subject to this order shall sell and deliver, the Standard Bread 
 to the grocer or retailer, unwrapped, in lots of not less than twenty pounds at 
 not more that thirteen cents (13c) the two-pound loaf. The grocer or retailer 
 shall sell the unwrapped two-pound loaf to the consumer "cash and carry" at a 
 price not less than that paid the baker and not to exceed fourteen cents (14c). 
 If the consumer requests the loaf to be wrapped and delivered at his residence 
 the price shall be fifteen cents (15c). 
 
 SEVENTH 
 The grocer or retailer shall order from the baker the Standard Bread that 
 he requires, on the day before its delivery, and no baker subject to this order 
 shall deliver to any grocer or retailer at his store or place of business Standard 
 Bread unless the daily sales of such grocer or retailer average twenty pounds per 
 day, or more. 
 
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EIGHTH 
 This order shall take effect and be in force on and after December 10, 1917. 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY? 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 MEMORANDUM 
 
 It is confidently believed that the regulations contained in the foregoing 
 order, and the maximum prices established for Standard Bread to the consumer, 
 will settle and satisfactorily adjust the bread situation in Minneapolis with justice 
 to all concerned. The Standard Bread produced under this order from most of 
 the Minneapolis bakeries will undoubtedly be superior in both quality and 
 appearance to the bread recently distributed by the Safety Commission. And 
 it will be substantially as good as any bread that can be manufactured under 
 the regulations established by the National Food Administration, which go 
 into effect on the tenth of December next. 
 
 The leading bakers of the city have signified their willingness to accept the 
 prices established by the order and to co-operate to carry its provisions into 
 effect. The cordial co-operation of the grocers is also assumed. Their legiti- 
 mate claims are adequately protected. The one cent per loaf allowed the retailer 
 for handing out the unwrapped loaf "cash and carry" plan is ample pay for 
 that very limited service. If the consumer requires the same service as has 
 been the custom in the past, he must pay for it extra. 
 
 All the regulations relative to the size of the loaf and the minimum quantity 
 to be delivered to any retailer were adopted in the interest of economy. The 
 margin of profit to the baker under the selling price fixed by the order is so 
 small that every possible economy in production and in distribution must be 
 practiced and observed to insure a fair return for the labor and capital involved. 
 The high cost of all the ingredients that enter into a good loaf of bread, as well 
 as of labor, and especially fuel, necessarily make the cost of production of bread 
 very much higher than at any period in the past. The Commission has care- 
 fully examined the statistics of the cost of bread making, collected by Mr. Hoover, 
 and has given due weight to the data furnished by its own experiment in bread 
 distribution in the City of Minneapolis. In the light of the data collected and 
 examined, it is believed that no housewife whose time can be employed use- 
 fully at any other work, can possibly compete with the bakers in the matter 
 of price in baking bread of as good quality as the Standard Bread, that is, at 
 the "cash and carry" price. This is not suggested as an argument against 
 home baking where circumstances permit, but simply as a statement of fact. 
 The natural ambition of the several bakers operating under the order to excel 
 in quality, the price and services being fixed, will insure a high quality for the 
 Standard Bread, probably as high as the Hoover regulations permit. If this 
 expectation is realized, it is believed that it will be the highest economy, both 
 private and public, for the people to use the Standard Bread, except in families 
 favorably situated for home baking. 
 
 AMENDED ORDER NUMBER 18 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety does hereby ORDER. 
 That Order Number 18 be, and the same is hereby amended as follows: 
 
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First. Strike out therefrom Section Number "EIGHTH" and insert in lieu 
 thereof the following. 
 
 "EIGHTH" No baker producing standard bread under the provisions 
 of this order shall sell his product to any retailer who is already handling the 
 product of two other bakeries, nor shall any retailer who handles the standard 
 bread buy, handle or sell the product of more than two bakeries at the same time. 
 
 NINTH The amendments to this order shall take effect and be in force 
 from and after January 22nd, 1918. 
 
 Second. That as so amended said order shall stand and be the order of this 
 Commission. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, January 15th, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 19 
 Prohibiting Shipment of Liquor into Polk County. 
 
 No common carrier, nor any person, firm or corporation, shall accept intoxi- 
 cating liquor, in any container whatsoever, for shipment or transportation 
 into the County of Polk, in the State of Minnesota, or deliver the same to any 
 consignee or any other person at any point in said county. 
 
 No person, firm or corporation shall deliver to any common carrier or other 
 person whomsoever, any intoxicating liquor, in any container whatsoever, for 
 shipment or transportation into said County of Polk. 
 
 Provided, however, the provisions of this order shall not apply to, or affect 
 shipments of intoxicating liquors made to any duly licensed pharmacist or 
 druggist, actually carrying on business as such in said county. 
 
 The sheriff of said Polk County and all other peace officers therein shall 
 seize any and all intoxicating liquor shipped into said county in violation of 
 this order, and forthwith report such seizure to this Commission for its instruc- 
 tions, giving a description of the property seized, the point at which it was 
 seized, and the names of the carrier, consignor and consignee. 
 
 This order is made in the interest of public safety, after investigation into 
 the conditions existing in said Polk County, and shall take effect and be in force 
 from and after December 11, 1917. 
 
 Service of this order shall be made forthwith by the sheriff of Polk County, 
 by delivery of a copy thereof to every railway station agent, and every express 
 agent, and every other carrier or carrier's agents at each and all said points. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, December 11, 1917. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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ORDER NUMBER 20 
 Prohibiting Shipment of Liquor into Clay County. 
 
 No common carrier, nor any person, firm or corporation, shall accept in- 
 toxicating liquor, in any container whatsoever, for shipment or transportation 
 into the County of Clay, in the State of Minnesota, or deliver the same to any 
 consignee or any other person at any point in said county. 
 
 No person, firm or corporation shall deliver to any common carrier or other 
 person whomsoever, any intoxicating liquor, in any container whatsoever, for 
 shipment or transportation into said County of Clay. 
 
 Provided, however, the provisions of this order shall not apply to or affect 
 shipments of intoxicating liquors made to any duly licensed pharmacist or 
 druggist, actually carrying on business as such in said county. 
 
 The sheriff of said Clay County and all other peace officers therein shall 
 seize any and all intoxicating liquor shipped into said county in violation of 
 this order, and forthwith report such seizure to this Commission for its instruc- 
 tions, giving a description of the property seized, the point at which it was 
 seized, a'nd the names of the carrier, consignor and consignee. 
 
 This order is made in the interest of public safety, after investigation into 
 the conditions existing in said Clay County, and shall take effect and be in 
 force from and after January 18, 1918. 
 
 Service of this order shall be made forthwith by the sheriff of Clay County, 
 by delivery of a copy thereof to every railway station agent, and every express 
 
 agent, and every other carrier or carrier's agents at each and all of said points. 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, January 15, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 21 
 Providing Fees for Scaling and Measuring State Timber. 
 
 It is Hereby Ordered that, For the purpose of eliminating duplication 
 of work, reducing expense and expediting the work of scaling and measuring 
 state timber, thus preventing delay in lumbering operations, the offices of Sur- 
 veyors General and the State Forest Service under the Forestry Board shall 
 co-operate as follows: 
 
 The Forest Service will supervise the scaling and measuring of timber and 
 timber products, and from its fund will be paid the salaries and expenses of the 
 Surveyors General and their deputies, so far as deputies are needed in addition 
 to the forest rangers and patrolmen. 
 
 It is further ordered that, for the purpose hereinabove outlined, the State 
 Auditor shall approve payments made out of the Forest Service fund for scaling 
 work from and after August 1, 1917, and credit to the Forest Service fund fees 
 collected from a'nd after August 1, 1917, and turned into the State Treasury. 
 
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The fees for scaling and measuring state timber shall be as follows: 
 
 Logs 15c per 1000 feet. 
 
 Ties J^c each. 
 
 Poles 10c per 100 lineal feet. 
 
 Posts 20c per 100 posts. 
 
 Pulpwood and Lagging 10c per cord. 
 The Surveyors General may submit monthly bills of state timber scaled 
 under each permit, whereupon the scaling fee shall be collected promptly by 
 the State Auditor and credited to the Forest Service fund. 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, January 15, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 21 AS AMENDED 
 
 Order Number Twenty-one of the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety 
 is hereby modified to read as follows: 
 
 Whereas, Section 3 of Chapter 261, General Laws 1917, provides that 
 for the purposes that "The civic and industrial resources of the state may be 
 most efficiently applied toward maintenance of the defense of the state and 
 nation, and toward a successful prosecution of such war," and 
 
 Whereas, Timber produced from state lands constitutes an industrial 
 resource of the state, used in the construction of ships, in the construction and 
 equipment of cantonments, and in the manufacture of war materials, and 
 
 Whereas, The scaling of timber and timber products upon state lands 
 has been retarded by a duplication of work, and has become impossible of ex- 
 ecution, because of indefinite and inadequate fees for such scaling, an unparalleled 
 rise in the cost of labor, and a great increase in the number of small sales; 
 
 It is Hereby Ordered That, For the purpose of eliminating duplication 
 of work, reducing expense and expediting the work of scaling and measuring 
 state timber, thus preventing delay in lumbering operations, the offices of Sur- 
 veyors General shall be under the direct jurisdiction of the State Forest Service, 
 under the Forestry Board. 
 
 The Forest Service shall supervise the scaling and measuring of timber and 
 timber products; and from its funds shall be paid the salaries and office and 
 traveling expenses of the Surveyors General and their deputies, so far as deputies 
 are needed in addition to the forest rangers and patrolmen. ,;•>, 
 
 It is Further Ordered That, For the purpose herein above outlined, 
 the State Auditor shall audit payments made out of the Forest Service Fund, 
 for scaling work, from and after August 1, 1917, and credit to the Forest Service 
 Fund, fees collected from and after August 1, 1917, and paid into the State 
 Treasury. 
 
 The fees for scaling and measuring state timber shall be as follows: 
 
 Logs 15c per 1000 feet. 
 
 Ties J£c each. 
 
 Poles 10c per 100 lineal feet. 
 
 Posts 20c per 100 posts. 
 
 Pulpwood and Lagging - 10c per cord. 
 
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The Surveyors General may submit, through the State Forester, monthly 
 bills of state timber scaled under each permit; whereupon the scaling fees shall 
 be collected promptly by the State Auditor and credited to the Forest Service 
 fund. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, February 5, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. Libby, 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 22 
 Providing Disposition of Liquor Confiscated Under Orders of the Commission. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety Orders as follows: 
 
 Sheriffs, or other officers, who have seized or who may hereafter seize any 
 intoxicating liquors in pursuance of any order of the Commission, after having 
 held the same for thirty days and there being no proceedings pending for its 
 restitution, shall dispose of the same as follows: 
 
 If such liquor is beer or other fermented liquor, he shall destroy the same 
 in the presence of a witness, and transmit to the Commission a certificate signed 
 by himself and such witness, giving the date and place of such destruction, 
 and such details as will permit the identification of the liquor destroyed with 
 his previous reports of its seizure. 
 
 Liquor other than beer the sheriffs or other officers shall pack and ship 
 to W. F. Rhinow, Adjutant General, at St. Paul, Minnesota, advising him as 
 to any such shipment and its contents, and the reasonable expense of such pack- 
 ing and shipment shall be paid by the Commission on proper vouchers. The 
 Adjutant General shall turn over any such liquor to the United States Govern- 
 ment under such arrangement as he may make for the purpose. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, January 15, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. Libby, 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 23 
 Referring to Property of Aliens. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety orders as follows: 
 
 FIRST 
 
 That the Board of County Commissioners of each county of the State of 
 Minnesota provide the necessary machinery to conduct an investigation in 
 their respective counties: 
 
 (a) To determine the real property each alien holds within each county. 
 
 (b) To determine whether each alien actually lives upon the real estate. 
 
 (c) To determine the names of each corporation, having alien stock- 
 holder or stockholders, holding real estate in each county. 
 
 (d) To give the legal description of all real estate herein above referred to. 
 
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SECOND 
 
 That the State Auditor secure a list of all aliens living within the State of 
 Minnesota, and particularly secure copies of lists of all alien enemy registrants 
 under the selective drafts, now in existence, or other lists of aliens which may 
 hereafter be compiled. 
 
 THIRD 
 
 That all names of aliens secured by the State Auditor be delivered into 
 the hands of the Board of County Commissioners of each county. 
 
 FOURTH 
 
 That the results of the investigations conducted under the direction of each 
 Board of County Commissioners be delivered into the hands of the State Auditor, 
 in such form as may be provided by him, on or before March 1, 1918. 
 
 FIFTH 
 
 That a copy of this order be at once transmitted by the Safety Commission 
 to each Board of County Commissioners. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, January 15, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-ofncio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 24 
 
 An Order Prohibiting the Introduction of Intoxicating Liquors Into Territory 
 in the State of Minnesota, in Which by Virtue of the Provisions of any Indian 
 Treaty or the County Option Law of the State of Minnesota, the Sale of 
 Intoxicating Liquors is Prohibited. 
 
 FIRST 
 No common carrier, nor any person, firm or corporation shall transport 
 or accept for transportation, intoxicating liquors in any container whatsoever, 
 into any county in the State of Minnesota or any part thereof, in which the sale 
 of intoxicating liquors is now, or may hereafter be prohibited by reason of the 
 operation of the County Option law, so called, of the State of Minnesota, or 
 by the provisions of any Indian Treaty; or deliver the same to any consignee 
 or any other person at any point therein. 
 
 SECOND 
 No person, firm or corporation shall deliver to any common carrier, or 
 other person whomsoever, any intoxicating liquors in any container whatsoever, 
 for shipment or transportation into territory last above described; provided, 
 however, the provisions of this order shall not apply to or affect shipments of 
 intoxicating liquors made to any duly licensed pharmacist or druggist carrying 
 on business in said county to the extent necessary for the legitimate business 
 of such 'pharmacist or druggist. Provided, however, that every druggist or 
 pharmacist so receiving intoxicating liquors shall on the date the same is received, 
 in writing notify the mayor or president of the Board of Trustees of the city 
 
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or village in which his place of business is located, and the sheriff of the county, 
 of the receipt by him of the same, stating the amount of each kind received, 
 and the name and post-office address of his vendor. 
 
 THIRD 
 The sheriff of each county affected hereby, and all other peace officers 
 therein, shall seize any and all intoxicating liquors shipped into his county, 
 or any sub-division thereof, in violation of this order, and forthwith report 
 such seizure to this Commission for its instructions, giving a description of the 
 property seized, tiie point at which it was seized, and the names of the consignor 
 
 and consignee. 
 
 FOURTH 
 
 This order is made in the interest of public safety, after investigation into 
 the conditions existing in the territory hereinbefore referred to, and shall take 
 effect and be in force from and after January 31, 1918. 
 
 FIFTH 
 Service of this order shall be made forthwith by delivering a copy thereof 
 to an authorized agent of each railroad company, express company, and other 
 common carrier in the State of Minnesota. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, January 30, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 MEMORANDUM 
 
 The purpose of Section II of the above order, is to prohibit dealers in in- 
 toxicating liquors, wholesalers and retailers, including brewers, from sending 
 intoxicating liquors into dry territory. If they refrain from doing so, the terri- 
 tory will be dry. The effect of introducing intoxicating liquors into dry territory 
 is to undermine the County Option law, and the will of the people expressed at 
 the polls, pursuant to the provisions of that law. It is thought that no person 
 engaged in the sale of intoxicating liquors will attempt to infringe the provisions 
 of this order, and particularly with the knowledge and information that detection 
 of violation on his or its part will result in most drastic action by the Commission 
 to compel respect for its order. 
 
 No manufacturer or dealer in intoxicating liquors violating the provision 
 of Section II of the above order, will have any right to complain if on detection, 
 he finds it necessary to seek a new location and a new field for his operations. 
 
 AMENDMENT TO ORDER NUMBER 24 
 
 It having been made to appear to the Commission that the immediate 
 enforcement of Order Number Twenty-four according to its terms may result 
 in injustice and serious financial loss to certain manufacturers lawfully oper- 
 ating under existing statutes; 
 
 It is Ordered by the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety that Order 
 Number Twenty-four be, and the same is hereby modified and amended by 
 adding thereto the following: 
 
 Any brewery having stock on hand at the time of the adoption of 
 
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Order Number Twenty-four shall be permitted up to April 1, 1918, to b 
 dispose of such stock, not exceeding, however, !&>5,000 in value, in accordance, 
 with the laws and orders in force and effect prior to the adoption of Order 
 Number Twenty-four. 
 
 Said Order Number Twenty-four shall apply to all counties, sub- 
 divisions thereof, and all municipalities and districts within the state in 
 which the sale of intoxicating liquor is prohibited. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. Libby, 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 25 
 Providing for Registration of Aliens. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety hereby proclaims and desig- 
 nates February 25th, 26th, and 27th, 1918, as 
 
 ALIEN REGISTRATION DAYS 
 
 Throughout the entire State of Minnesota, and orders as follows: 
 
 FIRST 
 
 That every Alien shall register on one of the above dates, at places to be 
 designated by the board of county commissioners of the county, or village re- 
 corder, city or town clerk, of the municipality of which said alien is a resident, 
 and make certain sworn declarations as to real estate and personal property 
 holdings as prescribed by the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety. 
 
 SECOND 
 
 Each board of county commissioners, or village recorder, city or town clerk, 
 shall provide necessary and suitable places for registration of aliens, said regis- 
 tration to be conducted as far as practical after the manner of a general election. 
 
 THIRD 
 
 Each village recorder, city or town clerk, shall provide necessary registra- 
 tion clerks to conduct the said registration. 
 
 FOURTH 
 
 Each board of county commissioners shall cause to be distributed to each 
 village recorder, city or town clerk, the necessary supply of forms for said regis- 
 tration, who in turn shall distribute the same to the registration clerks; said 
 blank forms to be furnished by the State Auditor, and be distributed by him to 
 the several county boards. 
 
 FIFTH 
 
 Each board of county commissioners, and each village recorder,, city or 
 town clerk, shall cause general and widespread publicity of the dates and pur- 
 poses of the said registration days. 
 
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SIXTH 
 
 Each clerk of registration who may be selected by the village recorder, 
 city or town clerk, is hereby deputized as its agent by the Minnesota Commission 
 of Public Safety to administer the oath appearing on the registration blanks 
 attached hereto. 
 
 SEVENTH 
 
 Immediately following the last day of registration each village recorder, 
 city or town clerk, shall cause all registration blanks to be collected and for- 
 warded to the county board, who shall at once forward same to State Auditor 
 J. A. O. Preus, St. Paul. 
 
 EIGHTH 
 
 Any alien resident of the State of Minnesota, who fails to register, and make 
 prescribed declaration on one of the above designated registration days will 
 be interned or subjected to other action which the Minnesota Commission of 
 Public Safety will prescribe. 
 
 NINTH 
 
 Provided, however, that no aliens registered under direction of the De- 
 partment of Justice, and who owe allegiance to the German Imperial Govern- 
 ment need register. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety requests that election judges 
 and clerks serving at the last general election, members of" Home Guard organi- 
 zations, and other patriotic citizens, may volunteer their service to the nation 
 and state and co-operate with the county boards and village recorders, city or 
 town clerks in the administration of this order, to the end that the work may be 
 accomplished with the least possible expense; and also solicits the hearty and 
 liberal co-operation of the patriotic press of the state in acquainting the public 
 at large with the text of this proclamation and order. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, February, 5, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. Libby, 
 Secretary. 
 
 ALIEN REGISTRATION AND DECLARATION OF HOLDINGS 
 
 Serial No. 
 
 This registration blank to be forwarded to 
 
 J. A. O. Preus, State Auditor, St. Paul, Minn. 
 
 Town 
 
 County Village 
 
 City 
 
 1. Full name of Alien Registrant 
 
 2. Street address, post-office box or R. F. D. route 
 
 3. Village, city or town 
 
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4. Length of residence at the foregoing place 
 
 5. Give age last birthday 
 
 6. To what country do you claim allegiance? 
 
 7. Where born 
 
 8. Date of birth 
 
 9. Port of entry to United States 
 
 10. Date of arrival in United States 
 
 11. Married? 12. Is^wife living? 
 
 13. Residence of wife, if living 
 
 14. Do you speak and write English? 
 
 15. Have you a trade or profession, and what? 
 
 16. In exactly what line of work are you at present engaged?. . . . , 
 
 17. Give names and ages of all living children, and state which are attending 
 public schools 
 
 18. Have any of your male relatives taken part in present war, either for or 
 against the United States and its allies? If answer yes, give name, re- 
 lationship, and state which country served? 
 
 19. Did you register under selective draft, and if so, where? 
 
 20. What is your serial number? 
 
 21. Did you claim exemption from military service and why? 
 
 22. Have you ever taken out first papers of naturalization in the United States? 
 If so, state where and date 
 
 23. If you have taken out first papers of naturalization why have you not taken 
 out second papers? 
 
 24. If you have never taken out first papers of naturalization, why have you 
 not done so? 
 
 25. Do you own or have interest in any farm lands in any County of Minnesota? 
 If so give legal description, approximate value of your equity, and state 
 whether you are resident thereon 
 
 26. When did you acquire interest in above described lands? 
 
 27. Do you own or have interest in any city lots or other real estate in State of 
 Minnesota? If so give legal description and approximate value of your 
 equity therein „ 
 
 28. When did you acquire your interest in above described property? 
 
 29. Do you own or have equity in any farm Or city property outside of State 
 of Minnesota? If so give legal description and approximate value of such 
 equity 
 
 30. Do you own any stocks, bonds, or other securities? If so give name of 
 corporation and amount owned 
 
 31. Is any person holding in trust for you any Minnesota farm or city property? 
 If so give name of person, description, value of such property, and how long 
 held in trust 
 
 32. Give legal description of all real and personal property held by minors for 
 which you may be guardian, stating when property acquired and relation- 
 ship of minor? 
 
 33. Do you own any personal property such as cattle, sheep, horses, autos, 
 farm machinery, etc.? If so, what, and approximate value? 
 
 34. Have you sold or transferred any property since the United States declared 
 the existence of a state of war with Germany? If so, give description and 
 to whom sold or transferred? 
 
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35. Have you a safe deposit vault, and if so, where is it located? . 
 Miscellaneous remarks 
 
 Date Feb 1918. I do solemnly swear that the answers 
 
 Enrollment Taken and Card Issued to Questions Nos. 1 to inclusive 
 
 as above recorded are complete and 
 
 true to the best of my knowledge and 
 Agent, Minnesota Commission of belief. 
 
 Public Safety. 
 
 Signature of Registrant. 
 
 AMENDMENT TO ORDER NUMBER 25 
 
 1. That the time for registration of aliens throughout the entire State of 
 Minnesota, under Commission Order Number Twenty-five be and is hereby 
 extended for a period of two days, i. e., February twenty-eighth and twenty- 
 ninth inclusive. 
 
 2. That all aliens who are residents or who may hereafter become residents 
 of the State who have failed to register as such as provided in Order Number 
 Twenty-five during the three days originally designated for such registration, 
 be and are hereby ordered to register with a Village Recorder, City or Town 
 Clerk within forty-eight (48) hours after their arrival in the State of Minnesota. 
 
 3. That all registrations recorded pursuant to this order be promptly for- 
 warded by the various Village Recorders and City and Town Clerks to the County 
 Auditors of their respective counties, who shall at once forward to the Auditor 
 of the State of Minnesota all such recorded registrations. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, February 26, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 28 
 Referring to the Manufacture and Sale of Bread. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety Orders as follows: 
 Order No. 18, as heretofore amended, shall continue in force until March 
 9th, 1918. On and after said date it shall no longer be operative. 
 
 MEMORANDUM 
 
 In the course of the Commission's investigation into the reasons for the 
 increased prices of the necessaries of life, made in the fall of 1917, it was dis- 
 closed, among other things, that the wholesale price for a thirteen ounce loaf 
 of bread in Minneapolis was eight cents, and that the retail price was ten cents. 
 
 The Commission thought such prices were unwarranted, and with the pur- 
 pose of so demonstrating on November 6, 1917, it made an arrangement with 
 
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Occident Baking Company in the form of Order No. 15 under which the Baking 
 Company furnished the Commission well-baked wholesome bread manufactured 
 from "Bakers' patent wheat flour" at five and one-half cents per loaf of sixteen 
 ounces. The Commission retailed this bread at certain central stations in 
 Minneapolis on the cash and carry plan at the price of thirteen cents for two 
 loaves. The added one cent per loaf charged the consumer covered all the 
 Commission's marketing expenses except the pay of its superintendent. The 
 Minneapolis public thus were enabled to buy thirty-two ounces of bread for 
 thirteen cents where it had been previously paying twenty cents for twenty- 
 six ounces. 
 
 This arrangement operated for a month when by agreement with the Minne- 
 apolis bakers, Order No. 18 was entered, and the Commission discontinued its 
 own participation in the bread business. Under Order No. 18 the wholesale 
 price of the bread specified in Order No. 15^ was fixed at six and one-half cents 
 and the retail price at seven cents. The six and one-half cents wholesale price 
 it was calculated would enable the bakers to make deliveries to the retailers 
 and the retailers were allowed to charge one-half a cent profit per loaf. 
 
 Since December, 1917, when Order No. 18 was adopted, the federal food 
 regulations have been promulgated and the use of twenty per cent of cereals 
 required in the manufacture of bread. The unexpected demand for barley 
 and corn flours thus created has increased their price until they are now greater 
 than the price of wheat flour, and some complaint has been made that six and 
 one-half cents per loaf no longer allows the baking companies a reasonable 
 margin over cost. The Commission admits that if the price of the cereal flours 
 is further advanced and Order No. 18 were to continue in force, the prices for 
 bread which it fixes should be increased. But it thinks the point when this 
 is necessary has not yet been reached and will not be for the remaining period 
 during which the order is to be operative. 
 
 The Commission's activities in price fixing have been confined in the case 
 of milk to Minneapolis and St. Paul, and in the case of bread to Minneapolis 
 alone. If its measures were designed to be of substantive character, this would 
 be improper. The people of other sections of the State are entitled to the same 
 attention at its hands as the people of the large cities, and if the bread order 
 were to continue, its provisions should be extended to cover the state at large. 
 This would be a very difficult undertaking in view of varying local conditions, 
 and because a fair price for commodities in one place might be too big or too 
 small in another. But what the Commission has had in mind has been to learn 
 by actual experience whether there has been any justification for the constantly 
 mounting prices which have obtained in the common food stuffs, and where 
 it has been proved that there has not been, to bring this fact home to the public 
 and to make it realize that there is a remedy available. It has demonstrated 
 that ten cents for thirteen ounces of bread in Minneapolis was an unwarranted 
 price, and that there is no reason why it should not have been sold for a little 
 more than half of this sum. The fact thus established is an important contri- 
 bution to economic knowledge. 
 
 Having demonstrated this, the Commission is arresting its work in the 
 matter of bread and turning over to the several municipalities of the State the 
 practical application of the examples its work in this direction affords. It 
 puts the date of the repeal of the order far enough ahead to permit the governing 
 bodies of these several municipalities to take appropriate action meanwhile 
 if they want to do so. That the sale prices in a city of commodities of common 
 use like bread can be regulated by ordinance seems a novel proposition to some 
 
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people. But the Commission is advised that under most city charters this 
 course is entirely legal, and if any city feels doubt as to its powers in this direction, 
 the Commission stands ready to supplement or confirm by its orders any ordi- 
 nances on the subject which, may be adopted fixing reasonable prices for such 
 commodities. The Commission also stands ready to supply any inquiring 
 municipality with the information as to cost of bread production which its 
 investigations have elicited. Its views are (1) that during the period of the 
 war there must be price regulation in many of the necessities of life,* 
 
 (2) that it would be unfortunate from the standpoint of self-government, if, 
 in such matters, the several communities should come to depend on a body 
 like the Commission for action, and (3) that in the case of many commodities 
 price regulation can be most intelligently and effectively accomplished by local 
 legislation. The Commission has shown that in the matter of bread much 
 can be accomplished, and in its opinion the same thing can also be accomplished 
 in reference to other commodities. If the governing body of any municipality 
 asks it to, the Commission will gladly contribute every possible assistance to 
 protection against unreasonably high prices. 
 
 Dated at Saint Paul, Minnesota, February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred 
 eighteen. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 27 
 Providing for a Farm Crop and Stock Census. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety does Order as follows: 
 Whereas, the State Auditor has, under the Commission's instructions, 
 prepared blanks for the purpose in the form printed on the reverse side hereof, 
 to be distributed in proper quantities among the assessors, 
 
 Each such assessor at the time of his view or call specified in Section 1985, 
 General Statutes, 1913, shall present one of said blanks to each person in his 
 town or district whose names may be on the list specified in said section, every 
 person to whom one of said blanks shall be presented shall forthwith make 
 true and full answer to each of the questions on said blank and the assessor 
 shall note said answers on such blank and transmit the same without delay to 
 
 *Budd v. New York, 143 U. S. 517 
 
 "Under the powers of government inherent in every sovereignty, 'the govern- 
 ment regulates the conduct of its citizens one toward another, and the manner 
 in which each shall use his own property, when such regulation becomes necessary 
 for the public good;' and * * * 'in their exercise it has been customary in Eng- 
 land from time immemorial, and in this country from its first colonization, to 
 regulate ferries, common carriers, hackmen, bakers, millers, wharf-fingers, inn- 
 keepers, etc., and in so doing to fix a maximum of charge to be made for services 
 rendered, accomodations furnished, and articles sold.' * * * 'To this date, 
 statutes are to be found in many of the states upon some or all of these subjects, 
 and we think it has never yet been successfully contended that such legislation 
 came within any of the constitutional prohibitions against interference with 
 private property.' " 
 
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the State Auditor at St. Paul, Minnesota. The word "assessor" as used herein 
 shall include assistant or deputy assessors. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, March 12, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 28 
 Providing for the Eradication of Barberry. 
 
 Whereas, It has been represented to the Commission by the Secretary 
 of Agriculture of the United States, that wheat and other cereals are apt to be 
 more seriously injured by rust when grown in the vicinity of barberry bushes 
 of the varieties hereinafter specified, and that the black stem rust of wheat 
 and other cereals and grasses develops on such barberry bushes in the spring 
 and produces countless numbers of spores which are carred by the wind, and 
 find lodgment on grain and grasses, and 
 
 Whereas, The action of the Commission has been asked for the eradica- 
 tion of such bushes. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety Orders as follows: 
 
 1. All barberry (Berberis sp.) bushes except the species and variety known 
 as Japanese barberry (Berberis Thunbergii) are hereby declared to be, and the 
 same are, a public nuisance and a menace to the public welfare, and their main- 
 tenance, propagation, sale or introduction into the state is forbidden. It shall 
 be the duty of every person owning or having charge of any premises on which 
 barberry bushes of the rust-producing varieties are grown, or at any time found 
 growing, to forthwith destroy such bushes. 
 
 2. The State Entomologist is authorized, and it is hereby made his duty, 
 to cause all rust-producing barberry bushes within the State of Minnesota to 
 be eradicated, and he is hereby made the Commission's agent for that purpose. 
 It shall also be the duty of the county board of every county in this state to 
 order and cause the eradication of all such rust-producing barberry bushes 
 within their respective counties under the instructions, and according to the 
 direction of the State Entomologist. The State Entomologist shall make 
 rules and regulations relating to the most convenient and expedient method 
 of eradicating and destroying such rust-producing barberry bushes, he shall 
 have the power to appoint one or more agents to enforce the provisions of this 
 order, and he, or his agents, and the several county boards within their respec- 
 tive counties shall have free access at all reasonable hours to any premises to 
 determine whether such rust-producing barberry bushes are growing thereon, 
 and to require reports from the owners or occupants of any premises as tP the 
 presence of such bushes thereon. 
 
 3. In pursuance of the powers hereby granted, whenever the State En- 
 tomologist or his agents, or any county board, acting under his instructions, 
 shall have found barberry bushes of said rust-producing varieties on any premises, 
 it shall be the duty of the county board or the State Entomologist, or his agents, 
 as the case may be, to immediately notify or cause to be notified, the owner 
 and occupant of the premises on which such bushes are growing, such notice 
 shall be sent to such owner by mail in such form as the State Entomologist 
 shall prescribe, and if such barberry bushes are not destroyed within ten (10) 
 
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days after the mailing of such notice, the State Entomologist, or his agents 
 or the county board, acting under his instructions, as the case may be, shall 
 destroy or cause to be destroyed such barberry bushes. The expense of such 
 destruction shall be paid to the State Entomologist by the owner of the premises 
 within ten (10) days after the rendition of a bill therefor, and if such cost shall 
 not be paid within said time the bill shall be reported to the county attorney, 
 who shall forthwith collect the same in the name of the state and shall turn 
 the amount collected over to the State Treasurer to be credited to the appropriate 
 fund. 
 
 4. The State Entomologist, or his agent, whenever requested by any 
 county board, or by any resident of the state, shall determine, or cause to be 
 determined, whether or not the barberry bushes grown on certain premises are 
 of the rust-producing variety, and after such examination the results of the same 
 shall be certified to the county board, and his determination so certified shall 
 be conclusive. 
 
 5. No expenses or outlays chargeable to the Commission's fund shall 
 be incurred or made by the State Entomologist, or by any agent of his, or by 
 any county board in connection with the enforcement of this order, except in 
 the actual destruction of such bushes. On or before the tenth day of each 
 month, the State Entomologist shall report to the Commission all expenses 
 incurred or outlays made in such destruction during the preceding month, and 
 until the further orders of the Commission, the sum of two hundred and fifty 
 dollars is appropriated out of the Commission's fund for the purpose of such 
 destruction. 
 
 6. The State Entomologist shall, from time to time, make reports to the 
 Commission of his doings hereunder, and of any violations or breaches hereof 
 for the Commission's action in the premises. 
 
 This order shall be in force from its date. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, March 19, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY; 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. Libby, 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 29 
 
 WARNING 
 
 To Settlers, Campers, Construction Crews and All Citizens. 
 
 SET NO FIRES 
 
 It is ordered by the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety that from 
 and after April 15th, for a period of six months, no person shall kindle or set 
 any fire in grass, stubble, peat, brush, slash or woods, or kindle any fire, except 
 for domestic or industrial purposes, in the following counties: Cook, Lake, 
 St. Louis, Carlton, Itasca, Kanabec, Koochiching, Beltrami, Aitkin, Pine, Cass, 
 Crow Wing, Clearwater, Hubbard, Becker, Mahnomen, Mille Lacs, Morrison, 
 Todd, Wadena, Otter Tail, Clay, Norman, Polk, Red Lake, Pennington, Mar- 
 shall, Roseau, Kittson. 
 
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Provided, That this order shall not apply to fields around which an ample 
 firebreak has been freshly plowed, or to fires kindled or set by the State Forester, 
 or under his direction, regulation or permission. 
 
 The chairmen of town boards, and, for unorganized townships, the county 
 commissioners and the sheriffs, shall enforce this order. 
 
 The State Forester and Assistant State Forester are hereby appointed as 
 Commissioners of the Public Safety Commission, to discharge the functions 
 of this body in respect to safeguarding life and property from forest and prairie 
 fires. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, April 9, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 30 
 Providing for the Arbitration of Labor Differences. 
 
 Whereas, Pursuant to the Governor's Proclamation of March 30, 1918, 
 the members of the State Board of Arbitration have conferred with represen- 
 tatives of employers and employes for the purpose of adjusting all industrial 
 disputes and thereby preventing strikes or lockouts during the war; and 
 
 Whereas, As a result of said conference the Executive Council of the 
 Minnesota State Federation of Labor, the Minnesota Employers' Association, 
 and others have petitioned said board, through petitions of which the following 
 is a copy: 
 
 To the Board of Arbitration of the State of Minnesota: 
 
 Gentlemen: 
 
 Realizing that the full activity and energy of every citizen in some form or 
 another must be effectively used for the successful prosecution and termination 
 of the war, and that personal and selfish aims and ambitions must, at this time, 
 be entirely set aside for the welfare of the country, and believing that loyalty 
 is not confined to any one class or group: 
 
 We Propose, That employer and employe, organized and unorganized, 
 shall use every effort to prevent strikes and lockouts, to deal rationally and 
 unselfishly with serious wage disputes, and for the period of the war not compel, 
 or attempt to compel discriminations in employment by strikes, threats of 
 strikes or lockouts. 
 
 To this end the undersigned suggest the adoption of the following basic 
 conditions to cover both employer and employe, organized or unorganized, 
 during the period of the war: 
 
 1. That employer and employe must recognize that now, and for the period 
 of the war continuous, efficient production can alone equip and sustain our 
 military forces; that every dispute, whatever its motive, which interrupts pro- 
 duction, furthers the ends and operates to the advantage of the public enemy. 
 
 2. That employes shall not ask for recognition of a union which had not 
 been recognized before the war. 
 
 3. That employers, by a lockout or by other means, shall not try to break 
 up a union which had been recognized before the war. 
 
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 Realising that the full activity and energy of av«ry 
 altiaen In bo,« form ox another must »• affectively used for tfco 
 successful prosecution and termination of the war, and that par* 
 •otvil *nd wolfish aire and ambitions must, at this time, b« en- 
 tire!/ aot r.»lde for tho wolfaro* of the oountry, and believing that 
 loyalty is not donfined to any one olaae or groups 
 
 VE PROPOSE that employer and employs, organised and 
 unorganized, shall use every effort to prevent strikes and lookouts, 
 to deal rationally and unselfishly with serious wage disputes, and 
 for the period of the war not oompel, or attempt to oos.pol dlsorlm- 
 lnations in employment by strikes, threats of etril es or lookouts. 
 
 To this and the undersigned (suggest the adoption of 
 the following baaio conditions to cover both employer and employe, 
 organised and unorganised, during the period of the war. 
 
 1. That employer and employe must reaognise that now 
 and for the period of the war continuous, efficient production 
 can alone equi • and sustain our military forces: that every dispute, 
 «?hi».tever its motive, whioh interrupts production, furthers the 
 ends and operates to the advantage of the publlo enemy. 
 
 3. That employes anall not ask for recognition of a 
 union which hau not been r<oo,',ni*ed before the war. 
 
 3. That employers, by a lookout or by other weans, 
 shall not try to break up a union 'ihioh hud be n recognized before 
 
 the war. 
 
 4. That employers fend eaployes agree in good faith 
 to maintain the existing statue, in every place of employment, 
 of a union, non-union or open ehop. 
 
 5. That employers and employes %gree that differences 
 ■vlth rea-iaot to «»e«ee or hours of labor ahull be referred to the 
 State Board of Arbitration for adjudication under the provisions 
 of Chapter 23, Paction 3941 of the Laws of Mlnneoota.. 
 
 6. That luring the period of the war, there ahftll be 
 neither strike nor lookout under any ciroumst&noes. 
 
 In the event of an Arbitration, pending the de- 
 cision of the Board, work ahall be continued uninterrupted by 
 either party. 
 
 
4. That employers and employes agree in good faith to maintain the 
 existing status, in every phase of employment, of a union, non-union or open 
 shop. 
 
 5. That employers and employes agree that differences with respect to 
 wages or hours of labor shall be referred to the State Board of Arbitration for 
 adjudication under the provisions of Chapter 23, Section 3941, of the Laws 
 of Minnesota. 
 
 6. That during the period of the war, there shall be neither strike nor 
 lockout under any circumstances. 
 
 In the event of an Arbitration, pending the decision of the Board, work 
 shall be continued uninterrupted by either party; and 
 
 Whereas, The State Board of Arbitration recommends to the Commission 
 of Public Safety that the recommendations contained in said petition be given 
 the force and effect of an order of said Commission; 
 
 It is Hereby Ordered, That the aforesaid paragraphs, numbered 2 to 
 6 inclusive, be and the same are hereby given the force and effect of orders of 
 this Commission during the war, and that the members of the State Board of 
 Arbitration be given full power and authority to summon witnesses, and ex- 
 amine the same under oath, as provided in Chapter 26, Section 3, Paragraph 4, 
 and that the decision of said Board shall be binding on the parties to said dis- 
 pute. And pending the decision of the Board "work shall be continued un- 
 interrupted by either party" as in said petition requested. 
 
 In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal at the 
 Capitol in the City of Saint Paul, this sixteenth day of April, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. Libby, 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 31 
 
 An Order Authorizing Minnesota Soldiers and Sailors to Vote at the 1918 Pri- 
 mary Election. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety finds and declares: 
 
 That it is necessary and proper for the Commission to provide a method 
 by which Minnesota citizens who will be absent because they are engaged in 
 the military or naval service of the United States, may participate in the coming 
 primary elections, (1) to the end that the public safety at home may be thereby 
 subserved, (2) as a matter of military expediency lest enlistments be discouraged 
 if the absence necessarily entailed thereby should involve a loss or suspension 
 of civil rights, and (3) in order that our men under arms may have the comfort 
 of realizing that even while they are away, they are still members of their several 
 communities and entitled and expected to exercise all the privileges of citizenship. 
 
 The Commission, under the powers conferred on it by law, therefore Orders 
 as follows: 
 
 Section 1. Any person entitled to vote at the primary election to be held 
 in the several election districts of this state on the third Monday in June, 1918, 
 and who is absent on said day from the election district in which he is entitled 
 to vote, and is in the military or naval service of the United States, may vote 
 
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therein by having his primary election ballot delivered by mail to the judges 
 of such district on the day of such primary election by complying with the pro- 
 visions of Chapter 68, Laws 1917, and any amendments thereof heretofore 
 enacted, which said Chapter 68, Laws 1917, is entitled: 
 
 "An act authorizing voters absent from the election district of which 
 they are residents on the day when any general election is held to vote 
 therein by having their marked ballots delivered to the judges of election 
 therein through the agency of the United States Post Office Department; 
 prescribing the manner in which the official ballots shall be obtained, marked 
 and delivered to the election judges; imposing certain duties upon the officers 
 charged by law with preparing, printing and distributing election ballots 
 and election supplies; regulating the time of making nominations of candi- 
 dates for office to be voted for at any such general election and declaring 
 it to be a felony to do certain acts prohibited therein;" 
 so far as the provisions of said act as so amended are appropriate for application 
 to a primary election and the voting thereat and so far as the same are not in- 
 consistent with the provisions of this order and by also complying with the 
 provisions of this order. 
 
 Section 2. For the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of Section 
 1 of this order, the provisions of said Chapter 68, Laws 1917, so far as appropriate 
 and except as hereinafter otherwise provided, are hereby extended to and de- 
 clared to be applicable to the primary election to be held in this state on the 
 third Monday in June, 1918, provided, however, this order shall not be construed 
 as authorizing any person not in the military or naval service of the United States 
 to so vote by mail. It is hereby made the duty of all public officials in any way 
 charged with the performance of any duty under the provisions of said Chapter 
 68, Laws 1917, to perform like duties with reference to the said primary election 
 and to carry out and give effect to the intent and purpose of this order. For 
 the purposes of this order the words "general election" whenever used in said 
 Chapter 68, Laws 1917, shall whenever appropriate, be construed to mean 
 "primary election." The words "primary election" shall be substituted for 
 the words "general election" in all forms prescribed by said Chapter 68, Laws 
 1917, when said forms are used with reference to a primary election. 
 
 Section 3. That Section 2 of Chapter 68, Laws 1917, as so made applicable 
 to said primary election is modified to this extent, to-wit: that application 
 for primary ballots may be made not more than fifty (50) days or less than 
 four (4) days before the date of such primary election. The applicant shall 
 designate in the manner hereinafter provided the party ballot which he desires 
 to have furnished to him and shall be furnished with one such ballot only and 
 with one only of each of the non-partisan ballots which he is entitled to vote 
 in the district of which he is a resident on such primary election day. The 
 applicant shall take the oath hereinafter specified. Such oath may be taken 
 by any person in the military or naval service of the United States before any 
 commissioned officer of either of said branches of said service and any such 
 officer is hereby authorized to administer such oath. Any officer administering 
 such oath shall append to his signature a statement of his official rank and or- 
 ganization. If the applicant for ballots be a resident of a city of the first, second 
 or third class, the application for ballot shall be in the following form: 
 
 APPLICATION FOR BALLOTS 
 
 The undersigned, a duly qualified voter (1) of the. 
 precinct of the ward of the city of. . . 
 
 no 
 
in the county of State of Minnesota, residing at 
 
 (here insert street and number ) 
 
 in said city (2) residing at 
 
 (here insert street and house number) in the city of 
 
 in the county of State of Minnesota, 
 
 (3) hereby makes application for ballots to be voted on in the district in 
 which he so resides at the next ensuing primary election, to be held in said dis- 
 trict. Please mail ballots and accompanying envelopes to me at 
 
 Dated at , this day of 
 
 , 19 
 
 (Signature of Applicant.) 
 Note: If applicant does not know the description of his election district 
 he may strike out paragraph (1) above and fill in paragraph (2), otherwise 
 strike out paragraph (2). 
 
 If the applicant for ballots be not a resident of a city of the first, second 
 or third class, the application for ballots shall be in the following form: 
 
 The undersigned, a duly qualified voter of the 
 
 (here insert name of town, village or other description of election district) re- 
 siding at (town, village or 
 
 city of fourth class) hereby makes application for the ballots to be voted for 
 in said district at the next primary election. Please mail said ballots to me at 
 
 (here insert post office address to which to be mailed.) 
 
 Dated at this day 
 
 of ,19 
 
 (Signature of Applicant.) 
 There shall be printed on the back of each of said forms the following: 
 This is to certify that ballots were — mailed — delivered in person — as per 
 
 enclosed application, this day of 
 
 , 19 
 
 County Auditor. 
 Per 
 
 Deputy. 
 
 The oath to be printed on the back of the application for a primary ballot 
 shall be substantially in the following form and with appropriate alterations 
 shall be subscribed and sworn to by the applicant: 
 
 OATH 
 
 STATE OF ) 
 
 >ss. 
 County of J 
 
 I do swear that I am a citizen of the United States, that I will be twenty- 
 one years of age on the 17th day of June, 1918, and at that time will have been 
 a resident of the State of Minnesota for six months immediately preceding 
 said date: 
 
 (1) that I am an actual resident of the election district named in the within 
 application; or if no election district is named therein, my place of residence 
 
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is at the place set forth in said application; that I am an actual resident of the 
 election district wherein is situate the place of residence set forth in said appli- 
 cation. 
 
 That on the 17th day of June, 1918, I will have resided in said election 
 district thirty days, or more, immediately preceding said date; that I do not 
 intend to abandon my residence in said district prior to said date; that at said 
 time I will be a qualified voter in said election district. 
 
 (2) I further swear that at the last election I generally supported the can- 
 didates of the party and intend to sup- 
 port the candidates of that party at the next ensuing general election and desire 
 a ballot of said party. 
 
 (3) That I have never voted in Minnesota before and desire a ballot of 
 the party. 
 
 (4) I further swear that I am in the — military — naval — service of the 
 
 United States, to-wit: • 
 
 (here insert description of particular command or unit or branch of service to 
 which the applicant belongs.) 
 
 (Signature of Applicant here.) 
 
 Subscribed and sworn to before me this day 
 
 of ,19 
 
 Name of Officer. 
 
 Rank or description of office. 
 
 Organization. 
 
 Note: In filling out the oath the applicant should strike out either para- 
 graph (2) or (3) as the facts may require, also either the word "military" or 
 "naval" where the same appear in paragraph (4). This oath may be taken 
 before any commissioned officer in the military or naval service of the United 
 States, in which case the officer should give his rank and organization. The 
 oath may also be taken before any officer authorized to administer oaths by 
 the laws of the place where the oath is taken. If taken before an officer having 
 an official seal, the jurat should be authenticated with his seal. 
 
 Section 4. It is hereby made the duty of the several officers charged with 
 the duty of preparing the primary election ballots to prepare and have the same 
 ready for distribution as soon as possible after the last day for filing by candidates. 
 
 Section 5. The county auditor shall forthwith upon the delivery to him 
 of the primary election ballots, deliver or mail the ballots applied for to the 
 persons who have theretofore made application therefor and shall thereafter 
 mail or deliver ballots to persons who shall make application therefor within 
 the time hereinbefore limited. 
 
 Section 6. Section 5 of said Chapter 68, Laws 1917, so far as applicable 
 to primary elections, is modified as follows: No applicant for ballots who 
 swears that he is in the military or naval service of the United States shall be 
 required to pay the fee in said Section 5 provided for. The Minnesota Com- 
 mission of Public Safety will furnish all necessary blank "Applications for Bal- 
 
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lots," "Voters' Certificates," "Envelopes" and postage stamps necessary to 
 carry out the provisions of this order. The county auditor of each county is 
 hereby authorized to employ such extra clerical assistance as may be necessary 
 to carry out the provisions of this order and the cost thereof, if volunteer and 
 gratuitous assistance cannot be had, will be paid for by the said Minnesota 
 Commission of Public Safety. 
 
 Section 7. That Section 6 of said Chapter 68, Laws 1917, so far as the 
 same is applicable to primary election, is modified as follows, to- wit: 
 
 (1) That where the voter is in the military or naval service of the United 
 States any commissioned officer of either of said services may also act as an 
 attesting witness. 
 
 (2) That the certificate required by said Section 6 of Chapter 68, Laws 
 1917, to be printed on the back of the "Return Envelope" shall be modified 
 as follows: 
 
 "This is to certify that 
 
 after marking and enveloping the enclosed ballots as set forth in the enclosed 
 certificate by me attested, enclosed the said ballot envelope in this return en- 
 velope in my presence without opening the said ballot envelope or permitting 
 me or any other person to know or learn how he had voted as to any candidate 
 or proposition and that this return envelope was sealed in my presence and after 
 being sealed was deposited by me or in my presence in the United States Post 
 Office or mail box at without being opened. 
 
 Dated this day of ,19 
 
 Attesting Witness. 
 
 (3) That the "Certificate of Attesting Witness" to be printed on the Voter's 
 Certificate shall read as follows: 
 
 CERTIFICATE OF ATTESTING WITNESS 
 
 I hereby certify that I have read the foregoing certificate and know the 
 contents thereof and that the same is true, so far as it relates to the marking 
 of said ballots. 
 
 Dated at this day of , 19. . . . 
 
 Attesting Witness. 
 Rank or description of office. 
 
 Organization. 
 
 (4) That paragraph (E) of Directions to Voters shall read as follows: 
 
 (E) Enclose "Ballot Envelope" and "Voter's Certificate" in "Return En- 
 velope," seal the latter, having attesting witness sign certificate on back of 
 "Return Envelope" and then deposit same in the United States Post Office 
 or mail box in the presence of the attesting witness, or deliver to attesting wit- 
 ness for deposit by him in post office or mail box. 
 
 (5) That paragraph (h) of the Directions to Voters shall read as follows: 
 (h) Any commissioned officer in the military or naval service of the United 
 
 States, any United States postmaster, assistant United States postmaster, 
 or any county, village or city officer having an official seal may be an attesting 
 witness. 
 
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If a postmaster or assistant postmaster acts as attesting witness, his sig- 
 nature on the "Certificate of Attesting Witness" should be authenticated by 
 the cancellation stamp of his respective post office. If a military or naval 
 officer acts he should append to his signature a statement of his rank and or- 
 ganization. The signature of the attesting witness on the "Return Envelope" 
 need not, however, be thus authenticated. 
 
 Section 8. That Section 7 of Chapter 68, Laws 1917, so far as applicable 
 to primary elections, is hereby modified as follows: 
 
 The county auditor shall cause the applications for primary election ballots 
 theretofore received by him to be delivered to the judges of election of the several 
 election districts as provided for in said Section 7 of Chapter 68, Laws 1917, 
 and when it appears from the oath of the applicant that he is in the military 
 or naval service of the United States, and a qualified voter in the election dis- 
 trict, the judges of, election shall enter the name of such applicant upon the 
 registration list of the districts without further requirement, provided such voter's 
 name has not already been entered thereon and the ballot of any such applicant 
 shall be received at such primary election, if the receipt thereof is otherwise 
 lawful, although such voter may not have been previously registered in such 
 election district. 
 
 Section 9. The County Auditor before delivering the blank ballots to 
 applicants therefor under the provisions of this order shall print or plainly 
 stamp on the face thereof in letters as large as bold face pica, the words, "War 
 Ballot." 
 
 The county auditor shall furnish to the election officers of each election 
 district duplicate sets of tally sheets and blanks for returns to the County Can- 
 vassing Board of which the election officers shall tally and make return of all 
 "War Ballots." The County Canvassing Board shall canvass the returns 
 as to "War Ballots" with like effect as the returns as to ballots voted by persons 
 voting in person at such primary election. 
 
 Section 10. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Minnesota Com- 
 mission of Public Safety to cause a suitable number of blank "Applications 
 for Ballots" to be printed and furnished to the several county auditors for dis- 
 tribution to applicants or to persons who desire to mail or deliver the same to 
 absent voters who are in the military or naval service of the United States. 
 It shall be the duty of said Secretary to arrange for the delivery of such blank 
 "Applications for Ballots" in quantities to such suitable persons as may be 
 selected by him for distribution at camps and cantonments in which it is known 
 that there are a considerable number of Minnesota voters. 
 
 Section 11. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Minnesota Com- 
 mission of Public Safety to purchase and distribute to the several county audi- 
 tors a suitable number of "Envelopes" with the proper printed forms thereon, 
 Voter's Certificate with "Certificate of Attesting Witnesses" and Directions 
 to Voters and such other blank forms as may be required to give effect to the 
 purpose and intent of this order. All blanks prepared shall be approved by 
 the Attorney General. 
 
 Section 12. It shall be the duty of the Attorney General to prepare and 
 cause to be mailed to the several county auditors plain and concise instructions 
 concerning their duties under this order; also to prepare and furnish for distri- 
 bution to the county auditors for distribution to the election officials of the 
 several election districts similar instructions for the guidance of such officials. 
 The printing and distribution of the same to the county auditors shall be paid 
 for from the funds of the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety. 
 
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Section 13. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Minnesota Com- 
 mission of Public Safety to furnish blank "Applications for Ballots" to such 
 publishers of newspapers within the state as apply therefor and agree to pub- 
 lish in their respective papers a notice to the effect that they have such blanks 
 for free distribution to persons who may desire to send the same to absent voters 
 in the military or naval service of the United States. 
 
 Section 14. There may be printed on any blanks herein provided for, 
 such notices, explanations or directions as may be prepared by or approved 
 by the Attorney General and which he may deem necessary or desirable to 
 assist the voters or officials in giving effect to this order. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, April 30, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 32 
 Prohibiting Employment of Aliens as Teachers. 
 
 No person, who is not a citizen of the United States, shall be qualified to 
 serve as a teacher in any public, private, or parochial school or in any normal 
 school in which teachers for these schools are trained, but the State Superin- 
 tendent of Education may grant a permit to teach to an otherwise qualified 
 teacher who has made a proper declaration of intention to become a citizen, 
 or to a special teacher to be employed for technical work and for such a period 
 as the Superintendent of Education shall designate. 
 
 The State Superintendent of Education is authorized and directed to en- 
 force and carry into effect this order. 
 
 Dated at Saint Paul, Minnesota, April 30, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 33 
 Providing a Penalty for Violation of any Order. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety Orders as follows: 
 Any person violating or refusing or failing to obey any order of the Minne- 
 sota Commission of Public Safety, heretofore or hereafter made, in which no 
 other punishment is specifically provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 
 and shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than 
 three months, or by a fine of not more than One Hundred Dollars. 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, April 30, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY; 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 Secretary. 
 
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ORDER NUMBER 34 
 Closing Certain Saloons at Blooming Prairie. 
 
 Whereas, P. F. Coggins, Geo. E. Thomas and W. R. Carroll are operating 
 saloons in the Village of Blooming Prairie, Steele County, Minnesota, in viola- 
 tion and defiance of law, and of the Commission's Order Number 17. 
 
 The President of said Village is directed and ordered to close said saloons 
 forthwith for and during the period of the war, using all lawful means to that end. 
 
 And said P. P. Coggins, Geo. E. Thomas and W. R. Carroll are prohibited 
 from engaging, directly or indirectly, in the business of selling intoxicating 
 liquor in said Village during the period of the war. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, May 14, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 36 
 Prohibiting Transportation of Liquor by Automobile or other vehicles through 
 Dry Territory. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety finds and declares as follows: 
 
 The transportation of intoxicating liquor in automobiles and other vehicles 
 into and through districts in which the sale of intoxicating liquor is forbidden 
 by law, operates to nu lify the enforcement of such laws, makes public highways 
 dangerous for ordinary travel, tends to the spread of disorder and to breaches 
 of peace, and diminishes the efficiency of the man-power of the state, and the 
 successful application of its resources to the nation's need. 
 
 The Commission therefore ORDERS: 
 
 The transportation or carrying of intoxicating liquor in any quantity, for 
 any purpose, and in any container whatsoever, into or through any county, 
 city, village or borough, in which the sale of intoxicating liquor is illegal under 
 any law or treaty, is forbidden, and is hereby declared to be unlawful; provided 
 that steam railroads may transport intoxicating liquor in this state in the manner, 
 and to the extent permitted by existing or future orders of this Commission. 
 
 Any peace officer is authorized to arrest the progress of any automobile or 
 other vehicle on any highway in any district affected hereby, and if he has 
 reasonable ground to believe the same is being used for the transportation of 
 intoxicating liquor it shall be his duty to subject the same to search, and in the 
 event that he finds intoxicating liquor therein, he shall seize such liquor, and such 
 seizure shall operate forthwith as a confiscation thereof to the State of Minnesota. 
 The officer seizing such liquor shall dispose of the same according to the pro- 
 visions of Order Number 22, of this Commission. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, May 14, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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ORDER NUMBER 36 
 
 Providing for Notice to Attorney General in Case of Proceedings Involving 
 Commission. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety Orders as follows: 
 Whenever any action or proceeding shall be commenced against any munici- 
 pality of this state, or against any board, commission, officer or agent of the 
 state or of any subdivision thereof, which in any manner involves the validity, 
 construction, effect or operation of any order of this Commission, the person 
 upon whom service is made shall forthwith give notice in writing to the Attorney 
 General of Minnesota, of the commencement of such action or proceeding, 
 and of the nature thereof, giving the name of the court, the names of the parties 
 and the date of service. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, May 14, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OP PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. Libby, 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 37 
 Providing That All Able Bodied Men Must be Regularly Employed. 
 
 Whereas, It is necessary to enact such regulations as will utilize to the 
 best advantage the human energy of the State of Minnesota for the purposes 
 essential to the prosecution of the present war, and 
 
 Whereas, The need of men of Military age to provide reinforcements 
 for the Army and the equally urgent need for labor to assist in the production 
 of food and other articles essential for war purposes, necessitate special pro- 
 visions to the end that all persons domiciled in Minnesota shall, in the absence 
 of reasonable cause to the contrary, engage in useful occupations. 
 
 It is Therefore Ordered by the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety: 
 
 First: That every male person residing in Minnesota shall be regularly 
 engaged in some useful occupation. 
 
 Second : In any proceeding hereunder it shall be a defense that the person is : 
 
 (a) A bona-fide student in actual attendance at some recognized educa- 
 tional institution or proceeding with his training for some useful occupation. 
 
 (b) Children under sixteen years of age. 
 
 (c) Persons physically unable to comply with the provisions of this order. 
 
 (d) Usually employed in some useful occupation and temporarily un- 
 employed owing to differences with his employer common to similar employes 
 with the same employer. 
 
 Third: It shall be the duty of the sheriffs of the respective counties, and 
 of the Peace Officers, and of any other officer, State or Municipal, charged 
 with enforcing the law, to seek and continue to seek diligently, names and places 
 of residence of able-bodied male persons, within their respective jurisdiction, 
 not regularly or continuously employed, as provided by this order, and report 
 the same to the County Attorneys in their respective counties. 
 
 Any person violating or refusing or failing to obey this order shall be guilty 
 
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of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by imprisonment in the County Jail 
 for not more than three months or by a fine of not more than $100.00. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, June 4, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 C. H. March 
 
 Vice Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 38 
 Providing Municipal Wood Yards. 
 
 Whereas, There exist unlimited quantities of timber available for fuel 
 purposes in the forests of certain counties of this state, which in the judgment 
 of this Commission can and should be utilized without delay as a substitute 
 for coal, insofar as practicable, in order that the military, civil and industrial 
 resources of this state may be most efficiently applied towards the maintenance 
 of the defense of the state and nation, and the successful prosecution of -the 
 present war, and 
 
 Whereas, In the judgment of this Commission, if legal authority is granted 
 to the boards of county commissioners of counties containing available stands 
 of timber suitable for fuel purposes, to engage in the work of acquiring fuel 
 timber stumpage, of cutting and preparing the same for fuel from the lands in their 
 respective counties, obtaining the same by purchase, and marketing such fuel 
 by disposing of the same to the inhabitants and industries thereof, including 
 any municipality therein, at or as near cost as may be, but without financial 
 loss to such county, the demands for coal in such counties will be greatly dimin- 
 ished, and the military, civil and industrial resources of the state thereby more 
 efficiently applied toward the successful prosecution of the present war; 
 
 It is Hereby Ordered, That the Board of County Commissioners of 
 St. Louis County, Minnesota, being a county containing an abundance of such 
 fuel timber, be and the same hereby is authorized to engage in the work of ac- 
 quiring fuel timber stumpage, of cutting and preparing the same for market, 
 or purchasing cordwood and marketing such wood fuel purchased, or cut from 
 the lands in or adjacent to such county, and disposing of such fuel for cash to 
 the inhabitants and industries thereof, including any municipality therein, 
 at as near cost as may be, but without financial loss to said county; 
 
 It is Further Ordered, That said county board is hereby authorized 
 to appoint and employ a competent superintendent of such work, who, under 
 the direction of said county board, shall have general charge of the work of 
 acquiring fuel timber stumpage, of purchasing fuel already cut, and of cutting 
 and marketing fuel purchased or cut from lands in such county or adjacent 
 thereto, with full authority to employ men, teams and other equipment, and 
 do all other acts and things necessary to properly carry out the power hereby 
 granted, all subject to the approval of said county board. 
 
 It is Further Ordered, That the warrants of any municipality may be 
 accepted in lieu of cash in payment of fuel sold to such municipality. 
 
 It is Further Ordered, That any and all expenses necessarily incurred 
 in the carrying out of the powers hereby granted shall be audited, allowed and 
 paid out of the revenue funds of said county, in the manner provided by law 
 for the payment of other ordinary claims against said county. 
 
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It is Further Ordered, That the board of county commissioners of 
 said county be, and it hereby is authorized to set apart from the general revenue 
 fund of said county, such amount as it may deem necessary for the carrying 
 out of the purposes herein authorized. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, July 3, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 39 
 Closing Saloons on Entrainment Dates. 
 
 Whereas, The next entrainment of men called from Minnesota under 
 the selective service act have been fixed for the five days beginning July 22, 
 1918, and the points of entrainment and the several days for entrainment at 
 these points have been, or will be designated and announced by the Adjutant 
 General, and 
 
 Whereas, Experience has demonstrated that as a matter of military 
 expediency all saloons should be closed, and the sale of intoxicating liquors 
 should be prohibited at the several points of entrainment on the days thereof; 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety does Order: 
 
 That all saloons located or operating in any city, village or borough in the 
 State of Minnesota, which has or shall be designated by the Adjutant General 
 as a point of entrainment for men called under the selective service act shall 
 be closed on the day or days designated for such entrainment at said point, 
 from the beginning of such day or days until the hour of actual departure there- 
 from of the railroad trains carrying such men, and the sale of intoxicating liquor 
 in all such cities, villages or boroughs during said time is forbidden. 
 
 That the public officials and peace officers of such cities, villages and boroughs 
 shall enforce the provisions hereof. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, July 9, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 C. H. Makch 
 
 Vice Chairman 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. Libby, 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 40 
 Providing Municipal Wood Yard. 
 
 Whereas, By its order No. 38, this Commission granted authority to 
 the County of St. Louis, Minnesota, to engage in the work of acquiring fuel 
 timber stumpage, of cutting and preparing the same for market, purchasing 
 cord wood and marketing such wood fuel so purchased or cut from the lands 
 in or adjacent to such county and disposing of such fuel for cash to the inhab- 
 itants and industries thereof, including any municipality therein, at as near 
 cost as may be, but without financial loss to said county; and 
 
 Whereas, It now appears that express authority should be granted to 
 the cities and villages in said County of St. Louis, having a population of not 
 
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less than five hundred inhabitants, to acquire fuel stumpage and to cut and 
 prepare the same for market, to purchase cordwood from St. Louis County 
 or any other person or party and dispose of such fuel wood for cash to the in- 
 habitants and industries of such municipality; 
 
 It is Hereby Ordered, That each village or city, located in St. Louis 
 County, Minnesota, and having a population of not less than five hundred 
 inhabitants, be and the same hereby is authorized to engage in the work of 
 acquiring fuel timber stumpage, of cutting and preparing the same for market, 
 of purchasing cordwood and marketing such wood fuel so purchased or cut 
 from lands in said county and disposing of such fuel for cash to the inhabitants 
 and industries in such municipality, at as near cost as may be, but without 
 financial loss to such municipality; 
 
 It is Further Ordered, That the city or village council of any such 
 municipality is hereby authorized to appoint and employ a competent super- 
 intendent of such work, who, under the direction of such council, shall have 
 general charge of the work of acquiring fuel timber stumpage, of purchasing 
 fuel already cut and of cutting and marketing fuel so purchased or cut from 
 lands in such county, with full authority to employ men, teams and other equip- 
 ment and do all other acts and things necessary to properly carry out the power 
 hereby granted, all subject to the approval of such city or village council; 
 
 It is Further Ordered, That any and all expenses necessarily incurred 
 in the carrying out of the powers hereby granted shall be audited, allowed and 
 paid out of the revenue fund of such municipality in the manner provided by 
 law for the payment of other ordinary claims against such municipality. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, July 23, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 41 
 Providing Municipal Wood Yard. 
 
 Whereas, It appears that authority should be granted to the Village of 
 Crosby, County of Crow Wing, State of Minnesota, to engage in the work of 
 acquiring fuel stumpage, of cutting and preparing the same for market, pur- 
 chasing cord wood and marketing such wood fuel so purchased or cut from the 
 lands in or adjacent to such Village, and disposing of such fuel for cash to the 
 inhabitants and industries of such Village at as near cost as may be, but without 
 financial loss to said county; 
 
 It is Hereby Ordered, That the Village Council of Crosby, in the County 
 of Crow Wing and State of Minnesota, be and the same hereby is authorized 
 to engage in the work of acquiring fuel timber stumpage, of cutting and pre- 
 paring the same for market, or purchasing cordwood and marketing such wood 
 fuel purchased or cut from the lands in or adjacent to such municipality, and 
 disposing of such fuel for cash to the inhabitants and industries thereof at as 
 near cost as may be, but without financial loss to said Village; 
 
 It is Further Ordered, That the Village Council of said Village be and 
 the same hereby is authorized to appoint and employ a competent superintendent 
 of such work, who, under the direction of the Village Council, shall have general 
 
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charge of the work of acquiring fuel timber stumpage, of purchasing fuel already- 
 cut, and of cutting and marketing fuel purchased or cut from lands in or ad- 
 jacent to such municipality, with full authority to employ men, teams and other 
 equipment, and to do all other acts and things necessary to properly carry out 
 the power hereby granted, all subject to the approval of said Village Council; 
 
 It is Further Ordered, That any and all expenses necessarily incurred 
 in carrying out the powers hereby granted shall be audited, allowed and paid 
 out of the revenue funds of said Village in the manner provided by law for the 
 payment of other ordinary claims against said Village. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, July 23, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 42 
 Providing Municipal Wood Yard. 
 
 Whereas, It appears that authority should be granted to the Village 
 of Ironton, County of Crow Wing, State of Minnesota, to engage in the work 
 of acquiring fuel stumpage, of cutting and preparing the same for market, pur- 
 chasing cord wood and marketing such wood fuel so purchased or cut from the 
 lands in or adjacent to such Village, and disposing of such fuel for cash to the 
 inhabitants and industries of such Village at as near cost as may be, but without 
 financial loss to said county; 
 
 It is Hereby Ordered, That the Village Council of Ironton, in the County 
 of Crow Wing and State of Minnesota, be and the same hereby is authorized 
 to engage in the work of acquiring fuel timber stumpage, of cutting and pre- 
 paring the same for market, or purchasing cord wood and marketing such wood 
 fuel purchased or cut from the lands in or adjacent to such municipality, and 
 disposing of such fuel for cash to the inhabitants and industries thereof at as 
 near cost as may be, but without financial loss to said Village; 
 
 It is Further Ordered, That the Village Council of said Village be and 
 the same hereby is authorized to appoint and employ a competent superintendent 
 of such work, who, under the direction of the Village Council, shall have general 
 charge of the work of acquiring fuel timber stumpage, of purchasing fuel already 
 cut, and of cutting and marketing fuel purchased or cut from lands in or ad- 
 jacent to such municipality, with full authority to employ men, teams and other 
 equipment, and to do all other acts and things necessary to properly carry out 
 the power hereby granted, all subject to the approval of said Village Council; 
 
 It is Further Ordered, That any and all expenses necessarily incurred 
 in carrying out the powers hereby granted shall be audited, allowed and paid 
 out of the revenue funds of said Village in the manner provided by law for the 
 payment of other ordinary claims against said Village. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, July 30, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 J. A. A. Burnquist, 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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ORDER NUMBER 43 
 
 In the Matter of the Prohibition of the Sale and Keeping For Sale of Intoxi- 
 cating Liquors in the County of Red Lake in the State of Minnesota. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety finds : That the sale of intoxi- 
 cating liquors as it has been and is being conducted in the County of Red Lake, 
 in the State of Minnesota, has interferred with and is interfering with the pro- 
 duction of food and with the health and good habits of men of draft age, in said 
 county, and in all of the surrounding territory in northwestern Minnesota, and 
 northeastern North Dakota, and is interfering with the efficiency of the appli- 
 cation of the military and civil and industrial resources of the states of Minnesota 
 and North Dakota, towards the maintenance of the defense of the said states 
 and the nation, and is interfering with the successful prosecution of the war 
 between the United States and the Central Powers of Europe, now existing, 
 and to the end that said interference shall cease, 
 
 It is Hereby Ordered: 
 
 FIRST 
 
 That the sale or keeping for sale or delivery of intoxicating liquors in the 
 County of Red Lake, in the State of Minnesota, be and the same is hereby pro- 
 hibited during the period of the existing war and for a period of three months 
 after the ratification of the Treaty of Peace terminating said war. 
 
 SECOND 
 That all existing and outstanding licenses authorizing the sale of intoxi- 
 cating liquors at any point or in any place within the boundaries of said County 
 of Red Lake, including the city of Red Lake Falls, and the Village of Plummer, 
 be and the same hereby is cancelled and revoked. 
 
 THIRD 
 
 That no municipality within said County of Red Lake shall during the 
 period mentioned in Section One hereof, grant any license or licenses authorizing 
 any person, firm or corporation to sell intoxicating liquors at any point within 
 said County of Red Lake. 
 
 FOURTH 
 
 That all stocks of intoxicating liquors now in said County of Red Lake 
 shall be removed by rail from said County within ten days from the date of this 
 Order, said removal to be to some place or places within or without the State 
 of Minnesota at which the sale of intoxicating liquors is authorized by law. 
 That on the failure of the owner or owners of any stocks of intoxicating liquors 
 hereinbefore referred to, to transport the same from said County of Red Lake 
 within ten days from the date of this Order, that the same be seized and held by 
 agents of this Commission, the final disposition of the same to await the further 
 Order of this Commission. 
 
 FIFTH 
 
 That the Governor of the State of Minnesota be and is hereby requested 
 to take the necessary steps to enforce the provisions of this Order in such manner 
 as will insure the removal of such stocks of intoxicating liquors and all of the 
 same from the said County of Red Lake, as is provided in the fourth subdivision 
 of this Order, in order to prevent the distribution of the same in dry territory 
 heretofore served with intoxicating liquors from points within the said County 
 of Red Lake. 
 
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SIXTH 
 
 Service of this Order shall be made forthwith by a Peace Officer of this 
 Commission, upon the proprietors of all licensed saloons and other persons, 
 firms or corporations having in their possession or under their control within 
 the said County of Red Lake, stocks of intoxicating liquors, and shall also and 
 at the same time be served upon the Sheriff of Red Lake County, the Mayor 
 of the City of Red Lake Falls, and the President or Recorder of the Village of 
 Plummer in said County. Said service shall be made by delivery, to the person, 
 firm, or corporation to be served, of a copy of said Order. 
 
 It is ordered that the Memorandum hereto attached be made a part hereof 
 as fully as though the same was incorporated herein. 
 
 This order shall take effect and be in force from and after the day of its date. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, August 13, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 . Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 
 Hi W. Libby, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 MEMORANDUM 
 
 Almost from the date of its organization, complaints in the form of letters, 
 affidavits and petitions in rapidly increasing volume have reached the Commission 
 denouncing intoxicating liquor conditions in the City of Red Lake Falls and the 
 Village of Plummer and appealing for relief. The complaints mentioned have 
 been made by thousands of people— largely residents of dry territory outside 
 of Red Lake County. 
 
 The complaints are that the enormous quantities of intoxicating liquors 
 distributed from Red Lake Falls and Plummer were and are debauching and 
 demoralizing the man power on the farms and men of draft age in northwestern 
 Minnesota and northeastern North Dakota, seriously affecting the production 
 of food stuffs and the military resources of the territory described, and thus 
 in a measure interfering with the successful conduct of the pending war with 
 the Central Powers of Europe. 
 
 From the beginning the Commission has been extremely reluctant to in- 
 terfere with the local affairs of any community, taking the position that the 
 local authorities ought to be required to enforce the laws and maintain order 
 in their respective communities. 
 
 In some instances local officials failing to enforce the laws in their localities 
 have, on the recommendation of the Commission, been suspended by the Gover- 
 nor, and in some cases removed from office. In some cases suspension and re- 
 moval have proved sufficient to remedy bad conditions. 
 
 In the case of Martin and Pipestone Counties, an Order was made limiting 
 sales to those made at retail over the bar to be consumed on the premises be- 
 tween nine o'clock A. M. and five o'clock P. M. of each secular day. A decided 
 improvement resulted and within the past week Martin County voted the 
 saloons out by a majority of about five hundred. 
 
 The case now before the Commission is peculiar in its facts owing to the 
 situation of Red Lake Falls and Plummer, the only wet towns in northern Minne- 
 sota. Red Lake County contains only twelve townships. Red Lake Falls, 
 the county seat, contains a population of two thousand or twenty-five hundred, 
 
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with five saloons and two liquor supply houses. The population of Plummer 
 is from two hundred and fifty to three hundred and fifty with two saloons and 
 two wholesale beer warehouses. 
 
 It appears from the testimony of the agent of the Great Northern Railway 
 Company, testifying from his freight records, that from January 1st, 1918, 
 until the day before he testified, which was June 17th, 1918, or a period of five 
 and two-thirds months, there was delivered by the Great Northern Railway to 
 consignees in the City of Red Lake Falls, 436,910 pounds of whiskey and hard 
 liquor or about 218H tons, and that during the same period there was received 
 over the Great Northern road, about eight cars of beer per month or about 
 forty-five carloads of beer. 
 
 The agent of the Soo Road at Plummer, testifying from his freight records, 
 disclosed that between July 1st, 1917, and July 2nd, 1918, a period of one year, 
 there was received in this little Village, which this agent testified contained from 
 one hundred ninety-five to two hundred people, 2,728 gallons of whiskey, brandy, 
 gin, alcohol and wine, and 100,118 gallons of beer. 
 
 The surrounding territory is dry. In Canada on the north and North 
 Dakota on the west there is absolute prohibition of the manufacture and sale 
 of intoxicating liquors, Minnesota is dry from Red Lake County to its eastern 
 boundary, over two hundred and fifty miles. The same conditions exist to 
 the south of Red Lake Falls, the first place at which the sale of intoxicating 
 liquors is authorized by law being Little Falls, a distance of one hundred and 
 eighty-three miles. 
 
 With the sale of intoxicating liquors prohibited in Red Lake County, a 
 thirsty resident of that County or of the nearby counties of Polk, Marshall, 
 Pennington, Kittson, Roseau and Beltrami and the northeastern counties of 
 North Dakota, would have to journey from one hundred and eighty-three to 
 three hundred miles to the nearest saloon for relief. 
 
 It is entirely beside the question at issue to say that there is little actual 
 crime committed in the little county of Red Lake. The proposition is that 
 from within that County there passes into the surrounding dry territory intoxi- 
 cating liquors in vast quantities sufficient to demoralize the man power in the 
 agricultural districts at a time when the greatest crop in the history of the state 
 is being gathered, and is demoralizing to a considerable extent, men of draft age, 
 rendering them less fit for the military duties they will be called upon to per- 
 form. The liquor conditions existing in Red Lake County practically nullify 
 the laws under which all surrounding territory is dry. 
 
 While only twenty-four witnesses were examined, a fair inference from 
 their testimony is that the demoralization resulting from the conditions existing 
 in Red Lake County is very great. The conditions disclosed by that testimony 
 are symptomatic of the general conditions in the territory supplied with liquors 
 from Red Lake County. 
 
 The region thus demoralized from the saloons and wholesale liquor depots 
 in the two small communities in Red Lake County, is one of the most fertile 
 and productive agricultural districts in the world, and at this moment there 
 is being gathered the largest crops of wheat and other food stuffs ever known, 
 with the most distressing shortage (owing to the war) of man power ever ex- 
 perienced. 
 
 The roads throughout the territory mentioned herein are well kept and 
 automobiles are numerous, making access -to Red Lake Falls and Plummer a 
 comparatively easy matter. The evidence before the Commission shows that 
 a number of men returning from Red Lake Falls and Plummer in a drunken 
 
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condition, driving automobiles, have been killed and injured, and the roads 
 made unsafe for travel by people having a lawful right to pass along the same. 
 In order that the Commission might be advised of the exact conditions 
 existing in Red Lake County, the Honorable Thomas D. O'Brien was appointed 
 Commissioner with authority to take testimony arid report the same with his 
 conclusions. Pursuant thereto, public hearings were held and a large volume 
 of testimony taken, which is now before the Commission, with the report and 
 recommendations of Mr. O'Brien thereon. 
 
 At the hearings, the saloon interests were represented by F. A. Grady, 
 Esq., who in entering his appearance on the first day of the hearing said: "I 
 appear for those who are opposed to the petitions and associated with me is 
 Mr. Chas. E. Boughten, of Red Lake Falls." Mr. Boughten is the County 
 Attorney of Red Lake County. The counties of Polk, Pennington and Mar- 
 shall appeared by their County Attorneys and the city of Crookston by its 
 City Attorney. 
 
 The principal showing made by those opposed to the granting of the prayer 
 of the various petitions was that made by the County Attorney of Red Lake 
 County, and was to the effect that the county as a county, and Red Lake Falls 
 and Plummer as municipalities therein, were and are peaceful and law-abiding 
 communities, and there was an offer made to have this statement corroborated 
 by other public officials of the county and of the two municipalities mentioned. 
 The testimony reported by Mr. O'Brien and his findings thereon, sustain 
 the charges made and he recommends "that in any event" an Order be made 
 similar to that in Martin and Pipestone Counties. 
 
 On August 6th, 1918, after notice to all interested parties, a public hearing 
 was had before the Commission at St. Paul, at which G. A. Youngquist, County 
 Attorney of Polk County, appeared, and urged that the sale of intoxicating 
 liquors in Red Lake County be prohibited. At the same time, Mr. F. A. Grady 
 appeared in opposition thereto. The matter was argued at length, Mr. Grady 
 expressing his personal, but not his professional opinion, stated that the proper 
 remedy would be to limit the hours within which sales might be made, to the 
 hours between eight A. M. and six P. M. but with no other restrictions. 
 
 On the most careful consideration of the testimony, we have reached the 
 conclusion that owing to the location of Red Lake County, surrounded as it 
 is for hundreds of miles in every direction by dry territory, the only remedy 
 that will correct the evil is that prescribed in the attached Order. 
 
 With the present harvest in progress, to be followed by the threshing season, 
 and with the great shortage of man power for the work to be done, it is thought 
 that the presence of such large stocks of intoxicating liquors in Red Lake Falls 
 and Plummer would be a menace, and hence the provision made in the Order 
 for the removal of the same within ten days, from Red Lake County, to some 
 other part of the country in which the sale of intoxicating liquors is authorized 
 by law. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 44 
 Providing for Investigation in Connection with Sale of Liberty Bonds. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety, under the powers conferred 
 on it by law, Orders as follows: 
 
 The County Director of each County in the State, hereinafter called the 
 "agent" is appointed the agent of the Commission within his county until 
 further action by it, for the following purposes, and with the following powers: 
 
 On being advised at any time in writing by the then acting chairman, 
 
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having in charge the promoting or sale of any pending issues of Liberty Loan 
 bonds, that it is desirable or necessary to make investigation as to the property 
 and resources of any person, a resident of the county, to the end that the amount 
 of his proper subscription to such bonds may be determined, the agent may 
 require such person, and any witnesses, to appear before him for examination 
 at any convenient place in such county, may adjourn the hearings from time to 
 time and from place to place in said county, may administer oaths, may examine 
 such persons under oath as to any information within their knowledge perti- 
 nent to said investigations, and require such persons to produce for inspection 
 any writings or documents under their control pertinent to said investigations, 
 using for all and any such purposes any and all instrumentalities and proceedings 
 specified in Chapter 261, Laws 1917, or otherwise permitted by law. 
 
 The agent shall incur no obligations and make no expenditures which shall 
 be chargeable against the Commission or its fund, and shall receive no compen- 
 sation for any services performed hereunder, and no publicity shall be given 
 to the evidence elicited at any such investigation except with the Commission's 
 approval first had. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, August 27, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. Libby, 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 45 
 Prohibiting Sale of Liquor on Registration Day. 
 
 Whereas, It appears necessary in order to conserve the peace and the 
 orderly execution of the duties of citizenship on Registration Day, that all 
 traffic in intoxicants be suspended on that day. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety Orders as follows: 
 
 The sale of intoxicating liquor in the State of Minnesota on September 12, 
 1918, by any person, firm or corporation, in any quantities whatsoever, is for- 
 bidden. 
 
 All licensed saloons in the State shall be and remain closed during the 
 whole of said day. 
 
 The officials and peace officers, of the several municipalities shall enforce 
 the provisions hereof. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, September 10, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. Libby, 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 46 
 An Order Providing A Method Whereby Minnesota Soldiers and Sailors May 
 Vote at the 1918 General Election. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety finds and declares: 
 
 That it is necessary and proper for the Commission to provide a method 
 
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by which Minnesota citizens who will be absent because they are engaged in 
 the military or naval service of the United States, whether within or without 
 the territorial limits of the United States, may participate in the coming general 
 election, (1) to the end that the public safety at home may be thereby subserved, 
 (2) as a matter of military expediency, (3) in order that our men under arms 
 may have the comfort of realizing that even while they are away, they are still 
 members of their several communities and entitled and expected to exercise 
 all the privileges of citizenship. 
 
 The Commission, under the powers conferred on it by law, therefore Orders 
 as follows: 
 
 Section 1. Any person entitled to vote at the general election to be held 
 in the several election districts ot this state on the 5th day of November, 1918, 
 and who is absent on said day from the election district in which he is entitled 
 to vote, and is in the military or naval service of the United States, may vote 
 therein by having his election ballot delivered by mail to the judges of such 
 district on the day of such election by complying with the provisions of Chapter 
 68, Laws 1917, and any amendments thereof heretofore enacted, which said 
 Chapter 68, Laws 1917, is entitled: 
 
 "An act authorizing voters absent from the election 
 district of which they are residents on the day when any 
 general election is held to vote therein by having their 
 marked ballots delivered to the judges of election therein 
 through the agency of the United States Post Office De- 
 partment; prescribing the manner in which the official 
 ballots shall be obtained, marked and delivered to the 
 election judges; imposing certain duties upon the officers 
 charged by law with preparing, printing and distributing 
 election ballots and election supplies ; regulating the time 
 of making nominations of candidates for office to be voted 
 for at any such general election and declaring it to be a 
 felony to do certain acts prohibited therein," 
 
 so far as the same are not inconsistent with the provisions of this order and by 
 also complying with the provisions of this order. 
 
 Section 2. That the provisions of said Chapter 68, Laws 1917, be and 
 the same are modified, as to persons in the military or naval service of the United 
 States, to this extent; that any such person may mark and mail his ballot at 
 any place whether within the territorial limits of the United States or otherwise. 
 
 Section 3. That section 2 of Chapter 68, Laws 1917, is modified to this 
 extent, to-wit: that application for ballots may be made not more than fifty 
 (50) days or less than four (4) days before the date of such election, by the 
 absent voter, or by any voter of the district wherein such absent voter resides, 
 or by any relative of the absent voter residing anywhere within the state. 
 
 The applicant shall take the oath hereinafter specified. Such oath may be 
 taken by any person in the military or naval service of the United States before 
 any commissioned officer of either of said branches of said service and any such 
 officer is hereby authorized to administer such oath. Any officer administering 
 such oath shall append to his signature a statement of his official rank and 
 organization. The application for ballots shall be in the following form: 
 
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APPLICATION FOR BALLOTS 
 This application is made on behalf of. 
 
 (here insert name of absent voter) 
 
 (1) of the precinct of the ward 
 
 of the city of in the county of 
 
 , State of Minnesota, residing at 
 
 in said city. 
 
 (here insert street and number) 
 
 (2) residing at 
 
 (here insert street and house number) 
 
 in the city of in the county of 
 
 , State of Minnesota. 
 
 (3) residing at 
 
 (here insert name of town, village or other description of the election district) 
 
 (4) and the undersigned hereby makes application for ballots to be voted 
 on in the district in which the person in whose behalf this application is made 
 so resides at the next ensuing general election, to be held in said district. Please 
 mail ballots and accompanying envelopes to me (him) at 
 
 (here insert post office address to which to be mailed) 
 
 Dated at this day of 
 
 , 1918 
 
 (Signature of Applicant) 
 
 Note: If application is not made by the absent voter, strike out portion 
 not applicable. If applicant does not know the description of the absent voter's 
 election district, that is, the ward and precinct number, if it have such a de- 
 scription, he should fill in paragraph 2, and if such voter's residence be in a 
 town or village constituting a single election district he should fill in paragraph 3. 
 There shall be printed on the back of each of said forms the following: 
 This is to certify that ballots were — mailed — delivered in person — as per 
 
 enclosed application, this day of 
 
 , 1918. 
 
 County Auditor. 
 Per 
 
 Deputy. 
 This oath to be printed on the back of the application for a ballot shall be 
 substantially in the following form and with appropriate alterations shall be 
 subscribed and sworn to by the applicant: 
 
 OATH 
 
 STATE OP ) 
 
 /•ss. 
 
 COUNTY OF ) 
 
 I do swear that I (the person on whose behalf this application is made is) 
 am a citizen of the United States, that I (he) will be twenty-one years of age 
 on the 5th day of November, 1918, and at that time will have been a resident 
 of the State of Minnesota for six months immediately preceding said date; 
 
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(1) That I am (he is) an actual resident of the election district in which I 
 
 (he) reside(s) but that my (his) place of residence is at 
 
 in the 
 
 (here insert house number and name of street) 
 
 of 
 
 (city or village) (name of city or village) 
 in County, Minnesota; 
 
 That on the 5th day of November, 1918, I (he) will have resided in said 
 election district thirty days, or more, immediately preceding said date; that I 
 do (he does) not intend to abandon my (his) residence in said district prior to 
 said date; that at said time I (he) will be a qualified voter in 
 
 (3) said election district - 
 
 (4) the election district wherein said residence so described by me is situate. 
 
 (5) I further swear that I am (he is) in the — military — naval — service 
 of the United States, to-wit: 
 
 (here insert description of particular command or unit or 
 
 branch of service to which applicant belongs) 
 
 (6) (I do further swear that I am 
 
 (a relative of the person in whose behalf 
 
 this application is made, residing in Minnesota, or a voter of the district wherein 
 
 such person is entitled to vote.) (signature of applicant) 
 
 Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of 
 
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 Name of Officer. 
 Rank or description of Office. 
 
 Organization. 
 
 Note: If the absent voter subscribes to this oath the portion in parentheses 
 should be stricken. If a friend or relative makes the application and takes 
 the oath, the part not applicable should be stricken out. In filling out the 
 oath the applicant should strike out such of paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4) and (5) 
 as the facts may require, also either the word "military" or "naval" where 
 the same appear in paragraph (5). This oath may be taken before any com- 
 missioned officer in the military or naval service of the United States, in which 
 case the officer should give his rank and organization. The oath may 
 be taken before any officer authorized to administer oaths by the laws of the 
 place where the oath is taken. If taken before an officer having an official 
 seal the jurat should be authenticated with his seal. 
 
 Section 4. It is hereby made the duty of the several officers charged 
 with the duty of preparing the general election ballots to prepare and have 
 the same ready for distribution as soon as possible after the last day for filing 
 by candidates. 
 
 Section 5. The county auditor shall forthwith upon the delivery to him 
 of the election ballots, deliver or mail one of each of such ballots as he has on 
 hand to the persons who have theretofore made application therefor, or in whose 
 behalf application has been made, and shall thereafter mail or deliver one of 
 
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each of the remaining ballots to be voted on to persons who shall have made 
 application therefor or in whose behalf application shall have been made within 
 the time hereinbefore limited, as soon as such ballots are received by him. 
 
 Section 6. Section 5 of said Chapter 68, Laws 1917, is modified as 
 follows: 
 
 No applicant for ballots who swears that he or the person in whose behalf 
 application is made, is in the military or naval service of the United States 
 shall be required to pay the fee in said section 5 provided for. The Minnesota 
 Commission of Public Safety will furnish all blank "Applications for Ballots", 
 "Voter's Certificates," "Envelopes and postage stamps" necessary to carry 
 out the provisions of this order. The county auditor of each county is hereby 
 authorized to employ such extra clerical assistance as may be necessary to 
 carry out the provisions of this order, and the cost thereof, if volunteer and 
 gratuitous assistance cannot be had, will be paid for by the said Minnesota 
 Commission of Public Safety. 
 
 Section 7. That section 6 of said Chapter 68, Laws 1917, is modified 
 as follows, to-wit: (1) that where the voter is in the military or naval service 
 of the United States any commissioned officer of either of said services may 
 also act as an attesting witness. 
 
 (2) That the certificate required by said section 6 of Chapter 68, Laws 
 1917, to be printed on the back of the "Return Envelope" shall be modified 
 as follows: 
 
 "This is to certify that 
 
 after marking and enveloping the enclosed ballots as set forth in the enclosed 
 certificate by me attested, enclosed the said ballot envelope in this return en- 
 velope in my presence without opening the said ballot envelope or permitting 
 me or any other person to know or learn how he had Voted as to any candidate 
 or proposition and that this return envelope was sealed in my presence and after 
 
 being sealed was deposited by me or in my presence in the post office at 
 
 without being opened. 
 
 Dated this day of , 19 
 
 Attesting Witness. 
 
 (3) That the "Certificate of Attesting Witness" to be printed on the voter's 
 certificate shall read as follows: 
 
 CERTIFICATE OF ATTESTING WITNESS 
 
 "I hereby certify that I have read the foregoing certificate and know the 
 contents thereof and that the same is true, so far as it relates to the marking 
 of said ballots." 
 
 Dated at this day of 
 
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 Attesting Witness. 
 
 Rank 
 
 Organization. 
 
 (4) That paragraph (a) of directions to voters be and the same is modified 
 so as to read as follows: 
 
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(a) You may mark and mail your ballot at any place whether within the 
 territorial limits of the United States or otherwise. 
 
 (5) That paragraph (e) of directions to voters shall read as follows: 
 
 (e) Enclose "Ballot Envelope" and "Voter's Certificate" in "Return En- 
 velope," seal the latter, have attesting witness sign certificate on back of "Return 
 Envelope" and then deposit same in the postoffice in the presence of the attest- 
 ing witness, or deliver to attesting witness for deposit by him in postoffice. 
 
 (6) That paragraph (h) of the Directions to Voters shall read as follows: 
 (h) Any commissioned officer in the military or naval service of the United 
 
 States, any United States postmaster, assistant United States postmaster, 
 or any county, village or city officer having an official seal may be an attesting 
 witness. 
 
 If a postmaster or assistant postmaster acts as attesting ' witness, his 
 signature on the "Certificate of Attesting Witness" should be authenticated 
 by the cancellation stamp of his respective postoffice. If a military or naval 
 officer acts he should append to his signature a statement of his rank and or- 
 ganization. The signature of the attesting witness on the "Return Envelope" 
 need not, however, be thus authenticated. 
 
 Section 8. That section 7 of Chapter 68, Laws 1917, is hereby modified 
 as follows: The county auditor shall cause the applications for election ballots 
 received by him to be delivered to the judges of election of the several election 
 districts as provided for in said section 7 of Chapter 68, Laws 1917, and when 
 it appears from the application and oath that the absent voter is in the military 
 or naval sevice of the United States, and a qualified voter in the election district, 
 the judges of election shall enter the name of such absent voter upon the registra- 
 tion list of the district without further requirement, provided such absent voter's 
 name has not already been entered thereon, and the ballot of any such absent 
 voter shall be received at such election, if the receipt thereof is otherwise 
 lawful, although such absent voter may not have been previously registered 
 in such election district. 
 
 Section 9. The county auditor, before delivering the blank ballots to 
 applicants therefor under the provisions of this order shall print or plainly 
 stamp on the face thereof in letters as large as Bold Face Pica the words "War 
 Ballot." 
 
 The county auditor shall furnish to the election officers of each election 
 district duplicate sets of tally sheets and blanks for returns to the county can- 
 vassing board on which the election officers shall tally and make return of all 
 "War Ballots." The county canvassing board shall canvass the returns as to 
 "War Ballots" with like effect as are the returns as to ballots voted by persons 
 voting in person at such general election. 
 
 Section 10. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Minnesota Com- 
 mission of Public Safety to cause a suitable number of blank "Applications 
 for Ballots" to be printed and furnished to the several county auditors for dis- 
 tribution to applicants or to persons who desire to mail or deliver the same to 
 absent voters who are in the military or naval service of the United States. 
 
 Section 11. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Minnesota Com- 
 mission of Public Safety to purchase and distribute to the several county auditors 
 a suitable number of "Envelopes" with the proper printed forms thereon, "Voter's 
 Certificate" with "Certificate of Attesting Witness" and "Directions to Voters" 
 and such other blank forms as may be required to give effect to the purpose 
 
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and intent of this order. All blanks prepared shall be approved by the Attorney 
 General. 
 
 Section 12. It shall be the duty of the Attorney General to prepare and 
 cause to be mailed to the several county auditors plain and concise instruc- 
 tions concerning their duties under this order; also to prepare and furnish for 
 distribution to the county auditors for distribution to the election officials of 
 the several election districts similar instructions for the guidance of such 
 officials. The printing and distribution of the same to the county auditors 
 shall be paid for from the funds of the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety. 
 
 Section 13. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Minnesota Com- 
 mission of Public Safety to furnish blank "Applications for Ballots" to such 
 publishers of newspapers within the state as apply therefor and agree to publish 
 in their respective papers a notice to the effect that they have such blanks for 
 free distribution to persons who may desire to send the same to absent voters 
 in the military or naval service of the United States. 
 
 Section 14. There may be printed on any blanks herein provided for, 
 such notices, explanations or directions as may be prepared or approved by the 
 Attorney General and which he may deem necessary or desirable to assist the 
 voters or officials in giving effect to this order. 
 
 Section 15. Section 9 of Chapter 68, Laws 1917, is hereby modified to 
 this extent: 
 
 Where an application for ballots is not made by the absentee himself, but 
 is made in his behalf by some qualified voter or relative, then and in such case 
 the judges of election shall not be required to compare and identify the signa- 
 ture of the person who made the application for ballots with the signature of 
 the voter who subscribed to the voter's certificate. If said judges of election 
 or a majority of them are satisfied that the person attempting to vote by mail is 
 a duly qualified voter in such election district and entitled to vote therein at 
 such election, they shall receive his ballots. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, September 10th, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 47 
 
 In the Matter of the Prohibition of the Sale and Keeping for Sale of Intoxicating 
 Liquor in the Village of Ceylon, in the County of Martin, in the State of 
 Minnesota. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety Finds After Investigation: 
 
 That the provisions of Order No. 10, heretofore made for the reasons therein 
 recited, have been and are habitually violated and set at naught by the licensed 
 saloons operating in the Village of Ceylon, Martin County, Minnesota, and the 
 public interests so requiring, it is hereby ordered as follows: 
 
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FIRST 
 
 That the sale or keeping for sale or delivery of intoxicating liquors in said 
 Village of Ceylon, be and the same hereby is prohibited during the period of the 
 existing war and for a period of three months after the ratification of the treaty 
 of peace terminating said war. 
 
 SECOND 
 
 That all existing and outstanding licenses, authorizing the sale of intoxi- 
 cating liquor in said Village of Ceylon, be and the same are hereby cancelled 
 and revoked. 
 
 THIRD 
 
 That all stocks of intoxicating liquor now in said Village shall be removed 
 by rail therefrom and from said County of Martin, within ten days of the date 
 of this order, said removal to be by rail to some place or places within or without 
 the State of Minnesota, at which the sale of intoxicating liquor is authorized 
 by law. That on the failure of the owner or owners of any stocks of intoxicating 
 liquor hereinbefore specified to so remove and transport the same from said 
 Village and County within ten days of the date of this order, the same be seized 
 and held by agents of this Commission, the final disposition of the same to await 
 the Commission's further order. 
 
 FOURTH 
 
 That the Governor of the State of Minnesota be and he is hereby requested 
 to take the necessary steps to enforce the provisions of this order in such manner 
 as will insure the removal of such stocks of intoxicating liquor and all the same 
 from said Village and County as is provided in the third sub-division of this 
 order, in order to prevent the distribution of the same in dry territory heretofore 
 served with intoxicating liquor from said Village. 
 
 FIFTH 
 
 Service of this order shall be made forthwith by a peace officer of this Com- 
 mission upon the proprietors or persons in charge of all licensed saloons and other 
 persons, firms or corporations having in their possession or under their control 
 within said Village, stocks of intoxicating liquor and shall also at the same time 
 be served upon the Sheriff of Martin County and the President of the Village 
 of Ceylon in said County, said service be made by delivery to the person, firm 
 or corporation to be served with a copy of this order. 
 
 This order shall take effect and be in force from and after its date. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, September 24, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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ORDER NUMBER 48 
 
 In the Matter of the Prohibition of the Sale and Keeping for Sale of Intoxicating 
 Liquors in the Village of Blooming Prairie, Steele County, Minnesota. 
 
 The Commission made Orders No. 17 and No. 34 for the reasons therein 
 respectively found and recited. Investigations show and the Commission 
 finds that both orders have been and are violated by the parties to whom they 
 are severally applicable, and that conditions are such in the Village of Blooming 
 Prairie, Steele County, Minnesota, that the further operations of saloons therein 
 is inconsistent with the public safety and welfare and interferes, and will interfere 
 with the efficient application of the military, civil and industrial resources of the 
 State towards the maintenance of the defense of the State and Nation; and to 
 the end that said interference shall cease, 
 
 THE MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY ORDERS AS 
 FOLLOWS: 
 
 FIRST 
 
 That the sale or keeping for sale or delivery of intoxicating liquors in the 
 Village of Blooming Prairie, Steele County, Minnesota, be and the same is 
 hereby prohibited during the period of the existing war and for a period of three 
 (3) months after the ratification of the treaty of peace terminating said war. 
 
 SECOND 
 
 That all the existing and outstanding licenses authorizing the sale of intoxi- 
 cating liquors in said Village, be and the same hereby are cancelled and revoked. 
 
 TfflRD 
 
 That during the period specified in Section 1 hereof, no license or licenses 
 authorizing any person, firm or corporation to sell intoxicating liquors within 
 said Village shall be issued or granted. 
 
 FOURTH 
 
 That all stocks of intoxicating liquors now in said Village shall be removed 
 therefrom under the supervision and direction of an agent to be designated 
 for such purpose by the Governor, such removal to be made by rail within ten 
 (10) days from the date of this order, and to be to some place or places within 
 or without the State of Minnesota at which the sale of intoxicating liquors is 
 authorized by law; that on the failure of the owner or owners of any stock or 
 stocks of intoxicating liquors hereinbefore referred to, to transport and remove 
 the same from said Village within ten days from the date of this order, the same 
 be seized and held by agents of this Commission, the final disposition of the same 
 to await the further order of this Commission. 
 
 FIFTH 
 
 That the Governor be and he is hereby requested to take the necessary 
 steps to enforce the provisions of this order in such manner as will insure the 
 removal of such stocks of intoxicating liquors and all of the same from the said 
 Village, as is provided in the Fourth subdivision hereof. 
 
 SIXTH 
 
 Service of this order shall be made forthwith by a peace officer upon the 
 proprietor of any licensed saloons and other persons, firms, or corporations 
 having in their possession or under their control within said Village stocks of 
 
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intoxicating liquors, and shall also and at the same time, be served upon the 
 Sheriff of Steele County, and upon the President of said Village; the said service 
 shall be made by delivery to the person, firm or corporation to be served of a 
 copy of this order. 
 
 This order shall take effect and be in force from and after the day of its date. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, September 24th, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 49 
 Providing Agents of Commission in St. Louis County. 
 
 It having been made to appear that in view of the size of Saint Louis County, 
 it is not practicable that the county director should perform alone the "Agent's" 
 functions provided for in Order No. 44, and that other "Agents" for the purpose 
 should be designated in addition. 
 
 Minnesota Commission of Public Safety under the powers conferred on it 
 by law ORDERS as follows: 
 
 Carl H. Schuster, Biwabik, Minnesota. 
 
 Charles Trezona, Ely, Minnesota. 
 
 Ray Anderson, Gilbert, Minnesota. 
 
 J. H. McNiven, Chisholm, Minnesota. 
 
 Frank R. Campbell, Eveleth, Minnesota. 
 
 E. A. Bergeron, Hibbing, Minnesota. 
 
 H. J. Scharr, Virginia, Minnesota, 
 are hereby appointed agents of the Commission for the purpose, with the powers 
 and duties and subject to the limitations named in Order No. 44. They shall 
 exercise their functions so denned within St. Louis County only, and their ap- 
 pointment shall terminate on November 15, 1918, unless hereafter extended 
 by the Commission. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, October 8th, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 50 
 Authorizing Appropriations for Forest Fire Relief. 
 
 Whereas, Extensive forest fires have devastated large areas of settled 
 country in the counties of St. Louis, Carlton, Aitkin, and Itasca, in the State 
 of Minnesota, totally destroying many villages and hundreds of homes, farm 
 buildings and fences, live stock, machinery, all kinds of farm produce, and 
 many hundreds of human lives, leaving thousands of people wholly destitute 
 and homeless, all in need of immediate relief by being supplied with food, cloth- 
 
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ing, shelter for live stock, and also further relief to aid in rebuilding their houses 
 barns and fences all in order that the civil and industrial resources of the State 
 may be efficiently applied toward the maintenance of the military, civil and 
 industrial resources of the State and to aid in the successful prosecution of the 
 war; and 
 
 Whereas, The Board of County Commissioners, of St. Louis County 
 has applied to this Commission that authority be granted to said County 
 Board to expend public funds in providing immediate and future relief to all 
 needy fire sufferers; and 
 
 Whereas, In the judgment of this Commission if such legal authority be 
 granted to the Board of County Commissioners of said St. Louis County, where 
 such damage by forest fires is the greatest, to expend public funds to provide 
 immediate relief to needy fire sufferers by furnishing directly or through coopera- 
 tion with the Red Cross Association of Minnesota, or other relief organizations 
 all needed supplies and assistance so long as the same shall be reasonably neces- 
 sary, so that the present suffering of thousands of men, women, and children 
 will be alleviated; live stock saved from loss, farms restored and saved from 
 abandonment, the civil and industrial life of the community will be restored 
 and the military, civil and industrial life of the State thereby more effectively 
 applied toward the successful prosecution of the war, 
 
 It is Ordered, That the Board of County Commissioners of the County 
 of St. Louis, in the State of Minnesota, be and the same is hereby authorized 
 to appropriate and expend out of the General Revenue Fund of St. Louis County 
 such sums of money as the said County Board shall deem necessary and ad- 
 visable for the present and future relief of all such persons as shall have suffered 
 substantial loss from said forest fires and in the judgment of said County Board 
 shall be deserving of relief, such sums to be expended in co-operation with the 
 Red Cross Association or other relief organizations engaged in caring for such 
 fire sufferers, or to be expended by said County Board independently of such 
 relief organizations. That no money shall be paid to any needy person under 
 this order, but all relief shall be extended by furnishing supplies or such service 
 as may be needed. 
 
 It is Further Ordered, That said County Board is authorized to employ 
 such help as it deems necessary to carry out the power hereby granted, 
 
 It is Further Ordered, That all such payments shall be made out of 
 the General Revenue Fund of said County, on duly itemized and verified vouch- 
 ers, duly filed, audited and allowed by said County Board the same as are other 
 general claims against said County allowed. 
 
 It is Further Ordered, That the Board of County Commissioners of 
 said County be and it is hereby authorized to set apart from the General Revenue 
 Fund of said County such amount of money as it may deem necessary for the 
 carrying out of the purposes herein authorized. 
 
 Dated at Moose Lake, Minnesota, October 16th, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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ORDER NUMBER 61 
 
 Authorizing Appropriations for Forest Fire Relief. 
 
 Whereas, Extensive forest fires have devastated large areas of settled 
 country in the Counties of St. Louis, Carlton, Aitkin, and Itasca, in the State 
 of Minnesota, totally destroying many villages and hundreds of homes, farm 
 buildings and fences, live stock, machinery, all kinds of farm produce, and 
 many hundreds of human lives, leaving thousands of people wholly destitute 
 and h'omeless, all in need of immediate relief by being supplied with food, clothing, 
 shelter for live stock, and also further relief to aid in rebuilding their houses' 
 barns and fences all in order that the civil and industrial resources of the State 
 may be efficiently applied toward the maintenance of the military, civil and 
 industrial resources of the State, and to aid in the successful prosecution of the 
 war; and 
 
 Whereas, The Board of County Commissioners of Carlton County has 
 applied to this Commission that authority be granted to said County Board 
 to expend public funds in providing immediate and future relief to all needy 
 fire sufferers; and 
 
 Whereas, In the judgment of this Commission if such legal authority 
 is granted to the Board of County Commissioners, of said Carlton County, 
 to expend public funds to provide immediate relief to needy fire sufferers by 
 furnishing directly or through co-operation with the Red Cross Association 
 of Minnesota, or other relief organizations, all needed supplies and assistance 
 so long as the same shall be reasonably necessary, so that the present suffering 
 of thousands of men, women, and children will be alleviated; live stock saved 
 from loss, farms restored and saved from abandonment, the civil and industrial 
 life of the community will be restored, and the military, civil and industrial 
 life of the State thereby more effectively applied towards the successful prosecu- 
 tion of the war, 
 
 It is Ordered, That the Board of County Commissioners of the County 
 of Carlton, in the State of Minnesota, be and the same is hereby authorized to 
 appropriate and expend out of the General Revenue Fund of Carlton County 
 such sums of money as the said County Board shall deem necessary and ad- 
 visable for the present and future relief of all persons as shall have suffered 
 substantial loss from said forest fires and in the judgment of said County Board 
 shall be deserving of relief, such sums to be expended in co-operation with the 
 Red Cross Association or other relief organizations engaged in caring for such 
 fife sufferers, or to be expended by said County Board independently of such 
 relief organizations. That no money shall be paid to any needy person under 
 this order, but all relief shall be extended by furnishing supplies or such services 
 as may be needed. 
 
 It is Further Ordered, That said County Board is authorized to employ 
 such help as it deems necessary to carry out the power hereby granted. 
 
 It is Further Ordered, That all such payments shall be made out of 
 the General Revenue Fund of said County, on duly itemized and verified vouch- 
 ers, duly filed, audited and allowed by said County Board the same as are other 
 general claims against said County allowed. 
 
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It is Further Ordered, That the Board of County Commissioners of 
 said County be and it is hereby authorized to set apart from the General Revenue 
 Fund of said County such amount of money as it may deem necessary for the 
 carrying out of the purposes herein authorized. 
 
 Dated at Moose Lake, Minnesota, October 16th, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-ofncio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 52 
 
 Authorizing Appropriations by County Boards in Event of Calamities. 
 
 It having been made to appear to the Commission that public calamities 
 of great magnitude akid similar to those specified in Orders No. 50 and 51, 
 have occurred in several counties of the state by the action of the elements, 
 and whereby public and private property has been destroyed and people killed 
 or injured and the Commission being of the opinion that the relief of the 
 suffering by such calamities occasioned is a legitimate object for the expendi- 
 ture of the public funds of the counties in which such calamities occurred. 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety Orders as follows: 
 When there has or shall hereafter be a public calamity in any county caused 
 by the action of the elements (such as fire, water, storms, etc.,) of such magni- 
 tude as in the County Board's judgment to justify the application of public 
 funds to its relief, the County Board of such County is authorized to appropriate 
 and expend out of the General Revenue Fund of the County such sums of money 
 as the County Board shall deem necessary and advisable for the relief of all 
 such persons in said county as shall have suffered substantial loss from said 
 calamity, and in the judgment of said County Board shall be deserving of relief. 
 Such sums may be expended in co-operation with the Red Cross Association 
 or other relief organizations engaged in caring for the sufferers from such calamity, 
 or be expended by the County Board independently of such relief organization. 
 No money shall be paid to any needy person under this order, but all relief 
 shall be extended by furnishing supplies or such services as may be needed. 
 The County Board in making any such appropriation is authorized to employ 
 such help as it deems necessary to efficiently expend the same. All payments 
 shall be made out of the General Revenue Fund of the County on duly itemized 
 and verified vouchers duly filed, audited and allowed by the County Board, 
 and in the same manner as are other general claims against the county, and the 
 County Boards of said several counties are authorized to set apart from the 
 General Revenue Funds thereof such sums as they may deem necessary for 
 carrying out the purposes herein authorized. 
 
 Dated at Moose Lake, Minnesota, October 16th, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-ofncio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. Libby, 
 Secretary. 
 
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ORDER NUMBER 53 
 Relating to Forest Fire Emergency. 
 
 It appearing to the Commission that the safeguards provided for in Order 
 No. 29 should be continued, 
 
 THE MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY ORDERS as 
 follows: 
 
 That from and after October 21, 1918, to November 30, 1918, inclusive, no 
 person shall kindle or set any fire in grass, stubble, peat, brush, slash or woods, 
 or kindle any fire, except for domestic or industrial purposes in the following 
 counties: Cook, Lake, St. Louis, Carlton, Itasca, Kanabec, Koochiching, 
 Beltrami, Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Clearwater, Hubbard, Becker, Mahnomen, 
 Mille Lacs, Morrison, Todd, Wadena, Otter Tail, Clay, Norman, Polk, Red 
 Lake, Pennington, Marshall, Roseau, Kittson. 
 
 Provided: That this order shall not apply to fields around which an ample 
 firebreak has been freshly plowed, or to fires kindled or set by the State Forester, 
 or under his direction, regulation or permission. 
 
 The chairmen of town boards, and, for unorganized townships, the county 
 commissioners, and the sheriffs, shall enforce the order. 
 
 The State Forester and Assistant State Forester are hereby appointed as 
 Commissioners of the Public Safety Commission, to discharge the functions of 
 this body in respect to safeguarding life and property from forest and prairie 
 fires. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, October 21st, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Attest: Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 54 
 Appointing an "Agent" in Dakota County. 
 
 It having been made to appear in view of the fact that the present County 
 Director of Dakota County being a physician is so busily engaged in work inci- 
 dent to the Epidemic of Influenza that he cannot fully perform the "Agent's" 
 functions provided for in Order No. 44, and that another "Agent" for the pur- 
 pose should be designated in addition, 
 
 THE MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY under the 
 powers conferred on it by law 
 
 ORDERS as follows: 
 
 That E. C. Anthony is hereby appointed "Agent" of the Minnesota Com- 
 mission of Public Safety for the purpose, with the powers and duties and subject 
 to the limitations named in Order No. 44. He shall exercise his functions so 
 defined within Dakota County only, and his appointment shall terminate on 
 November 15, 1918, unless hereafter extended by the Commission. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, October 22nd, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Attest: Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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ORDER NUMBER 55 
 Providing for Cutting and Sale of Cordwood. 
 
 Whereas: Considering the receipts of coal at the docks at Duluth, it is 
 apparent that there will be a shortage of coal in the state of Minnesota during 
 the coming winter, and 
 
 Whereas: The state of Minnesota has upon its school and swamp lands 
 enormous stands of dry tamarack timber, which, when cut could be immediately 
 utilized for fuel purposes, and 
 
 Whereas: Requests have been received to purchase from the state cord- 
 wood stumpage in large quantities, and 
 
 Whereas: The parties that have made these requests are intending to 
 market the cordwood under the direction of the State Fuel Administration, and 
 
 Whereas: Too much delay would be experienced in offering for sale cord- 
 wood stumpage under the regulations as prescribed by the statute, 
 
 Therefore be it Ordered: 
 
 That the State Auditor be and is hereby directed during season ending March 
 31, 1919, to sell dead and down and dead and green standing timber suitable 
 for cordwood on state lands in any quantity to all responsible parties making 
 application therefor at a rate of not less than twenty-five cents per cord under 
 the same cutting regulations as apply to timber sold under the provisions of the 
 statute, except, that the scaling of the cordwood shall be done by a state ap- 
 praiser to be designated by the State Auditor, it being understood that all wood 
 so cut shall be sold under the direction of the State Auditor who at time of enter- 
 ing into contract of sale shall determine the amount for which the same shall 
 be sold by the vendors of the state to the ultimate consumer, and same shall be 
 disposed of to consumers prior to May 1, 1919. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, November 6, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 56 
 Prohibiting Hunting in Fire Area. 
 
 It Is Hereby Ordered, That hunting or killing of deer and moose during 
 the open hunting season from November 10th to November 30th, 1918, within 
 the following named seventy-one (71) towns in the burned district in St. Louis, 
 Carlton, Pine and Aitkin Counties be hereby prohibited except as to actual 
 residents of the towns named: 
 
 Towns 51 and 52, Range 13, W. 
 " 51 and 52, Range 14, W. 
 " 50, 51 and 52, Range 15, W. 
 " 49, 50, 51, 52 and 53, Range 16, W. 
 
 " 43, WY 2 46, WM 47, WV 2 48, 50, 51, 52, 53 and 54, Range 17, W. 
 " 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55 and 56, Range 18, 
 
 W. 
 " 43, 44, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51 and E^ 53, Range 19, W. 
 " 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 and 51, Range 20, W. 
 
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Towns 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 and 51, Range 21, W. 
 " 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 and 51, Range 22, W. 
 " 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49 and 50, Range 23, W. 
 " 47, 48 and 49, Range 24, W. 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, November 12th, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 57 
 Referring to Home Guard. 
 
 It having been made to appear to the Commission that in connection with 
 the public calamity mentioned in Orders No. 50 and 51, enlisted men in the 
 Home Guard of Minnesota have performed faithful and sacrificing service under 
 the direction of the Adjutant General in rescue work and in alleviating sufferings 
 of settlers afflicted by said calamity, but that in many instances said enlisted 
 men have not been held in continuous service for a longer period than five days, 
 and therefore have not been able by reason of the provisions of paragraph D of 
 the fourth subdivision of Order No. 3 of this Commission, to receive compensa- 
 tion for said services. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety therefore Orders as follows: 
 That enlisted men in the Home Guard of Minnesota who have been held in 
 continuous service one day or longer under the order and direction of the Adjutant 
 General in rescue and relief work in connection with the forest fires mentioned 
 in orders 50 and 51 shall be, and are, entitled to receive the same per diem pay 
 as is paid to enlisted men in the military service of the United States, and the 
 Adjutant General is authorized and directed to see that such payment is made 
 upon proper vouchers therefor. 
 
 Dated this 31st day of December, 1918. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 58 
 Certain Orders to be Inoperative Conditionally. 
 
 Whereas, the Commission of Public Safety having been created in April, 
 1917, by Chapter 261 of the General Laws of that year as a war board, did dur- 
 ing the progress of the war enact certain orders looking to the public safety and 
 the successful conduct of the war, which orders are in full force and effect; and 
 
 Whereas, the signing of the armistice with the conditions attached thereto 
 makes a renewal of the war practically impossible, and the Legislature is now in 
 session, and might desire, by legislative enactment, to continue said orders or 
 some of them in force after the date hereinafter suggested, 
 
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Therefore, it is hereby ordered by the Minnesota Commission of Public 
 Safety that all orders made by it now in force shall become inoperative on Feb- 
 ruary 5, 1919, unless the Commission is otherwise instructed by the Legislature 
 before the meeting of the Commission on February 4, 1919. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, January 14th, 1919. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 ORDER NUMBER 59 
 Recinding Certain Orders of Commission. 
 
 Whereas, the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety, in the passage of 
 Order Number Fifty-eight, did not intend to affect the status of the Home Guard, 
 Motor Corps and Peace Officers, and measures are now pending in the Legis- 
 lature relating thereto, and 
 
 Whereas, the Legislature has not instructed the Commission pursuant to 
 Order Number Fifty-eight, 
 
 It Is Hereby Ordered that all of the orders of said Commission, except 
 Order Number Three, and amendments thereto, and Order Number Four be 
 and the same are hereby repealed, and said Order Number Three, and the amend- 
 ments thereto, and Order Number Four, shall remain in full force and effect 
 until otherwise ordered, and any order heretofore adopted and inconsistent 
 herewith be and is hereby repealed. 
 
 Dated at St. Paul, Minnesota, February 4, 1919. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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Excerpts from minutes of the Commission's Meetings 
 arranged by Subjects. 
 
 LABOR 
 
 LABOR STANDARDS 
 
 Resolved, That in accordance with the recommendations of the Council 
 of National Defense, 
 
 And in recognition of the importance of maintaining the existing safeguards 
 as to health and welfare of workers, 
 
 This Commission is firmly of the opinion that no departure from present 
 standards in state laws or state rulings affecting labor should be taken. 
 
 Stated meeting June 19, 1917. 
 
 WAGE CONCILIATION 
 
 Whereas, It appears by a communication from Mr. E. G. Hall, President 
 of the Minnesota State Federation of Labor, that there is a controversy between 
 the Plasterers Union and the Plaster Tenders Union, of St. Paul, and their em- 
 ployers respecting wages, and that it is represented that the employers refuse to 
 meet their employees for the purpose of discussing and adjusting the differences 
 between them, 
 
 Therefore, Be it Resolved, by the Commission of Public Safety that the 
 employers and employees in the plastering trade in St. Paul be earnestly re- 
 quested and urged forthwith to meet in amicable conference to compose their 
 differences in a spirit of fairness to both sides so that the work of the community 
 may be carried on without interruption or loss. 
 
 Resolved, That copies of this resolution be forthwith communicated to 
 Mr. George Thill, 214 Fairview Ave., St. Paul, President Boss Plasterers Associa- 
 tion, and to President Hall of the State Federation. 
 
 June 13, 1917. 
 
 ENROLLMENT OF WOMEN FOR SERVICE 
 
 "Resolved: That the Governor be requested to call attention to the re- 
 quest of the government of the United States for the volunteer enrollment of 
 women for training and service during the period of the war and ask the women 
 of Minnesota to cooperate with the Women's Auxiliary of the Safety Commission 
 in securing such registration throughout the State." 
 
 Stated meeting September 18th, 1917. 
 
 STREET CAR CONTROVERSY 
 
 October 9, 1917. Discussion was indulged in concerning the pending 
 street car strike in St. Paul and Minneapolis. Moved by Commissioner March 
 that Mr. Horace Lowry, President of the Twin City Street Railway Company 
 be requested to appear at 2:30 P. M. and Mr. George Lawson, Secretary of 
 the State Federation of Labor at 3:00 P. M. and they were notified accordingly. 
 
 Mr. Horace Lowry, Vice-President of the Company, the Attorney for the 
 Company and Mr. Crosby were admitted and questioned concerning the pend- 
 ing strike. 
 
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Upon their retirement Mr. J. H. Cart, Thomas Costello, Presidents of the 
 St. Paul and Minneapolis Union of Carmen; Edward McMorrow, General 
 Organizer; T. F. Shine, Vice-President of the International Union and George 
 Lawson, Secretary of the State Federation of Labor were heard and the claims 
 of the strikers presented. 
 
 The following resolutions thereupon were presented by Governor Burn- 
 quist and on motion of Mr. Ames adopted. 
 
 "Whereas, a strike is now existing by reason of a dispute between the 
 Street Railway Company and a portion of their employees, and 
 
 Whereas, their differences have narrowed down primarily to the previous 
 discharge of fifty-seven men and their possible re-employment, and 
 
 Whereas, officials of the Street Railway Company have stated that it is 
 not the policy of the company to discharge employees on account of membership 
 in any organization, and 
 
 Whereas, unionism or non-unionism should not, during the war, be involved, 
 
 It Is Ordered that the Chairman advise that the strike be called off at 
 once by the men striking and that the men go to work immediately and, in that 
 event, it is ordered that the Street Railway Company reinstate the men who 
 suspended their work on the morning of October 6, 1917, in the positions held 
 by them at that time and that the status of each of the fifty-seven discharged 
 men be immediately thereafter investigated by this Commission and that those 
 who were unfairly discharged be reinstated when the Commission shall so order. 
 
 October 11, 1917. Mr. Robinson, Attorney for the Twin City Street 
 Railway Company appeared upon request and stated in what manner the Com- 
 pany had put into effect the order passed by the Commission on October 9th. 
 
 T. F. Shine, Vice-President of the International Streetcar Men's Union, 
 representing the fifty-seven discharged men, appeared and stated none of the 
 men had been taken back as yet. 
 
 Moved by Commissioner Ames and seconded by Commissioner Lind that 
 the following men be reinstated at once pursuant to order issued October 9th, 
 with pay in full from and on October 10th and the cases of the remainder of 
 the fifty-seven men discharged be considered and disposed of as speedily as 
 possible. Carried. 
 
 S. J. Harris, Kenneth Arrell, Olaf Lindeberg, Niels Nielson, Raymond 
 Johnson, O. D. Tollefsrud, Carl Anderson, Paul Olson, Clarence J. Swanson, 
 Otto H. Heimkes, Wm. H. Orbke, J. Hammer, Herbert Nimmo, O. Engen, 
 Louis J. Hesse, Henry E. Singley, Axel Johnson, L. A. Weiss, R. M. Pindle, 
 I. A. Dunn, Ezra Crum, Robert P. Knutson, Bahumil Hadd, K. C. Farrand, 
 Walter Johnson, N. J. Engle, James Reindahl. 
 
 October 12, 1917. Mr. Chase and Mr. Hiller and eighteen members of 
 the street car men's cooperative organizations not involved in the recent strike 
 were given a hearing. 
 
 N. A. Robinson, Vice-President of the Street Railway Company accom- 
 panied by their General Attorney appeared and presented data concerning 
 what portion of the fifty-seven men the Company desired not to take back. 
 
 October 12, 1917. It was announced that the thirty street car men pre- 
 viously discharged, or resigned were in waiting. They were thereupon given 
 an individual hearing and it was found that a number of these men had re- 
 signed voluntarily and others were discharged for actions. 
 
 Moved by Commissioner Lind, seconded by Commissioner March: "That 
 
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the following men be reinstated at once, pursuant to order issued October ninth, 
 with pay in full from and on October tenth: 
 
 Wm. J. Morris, J. W. Olson, James H. Rogers, James Meehan, M. J. L. 
 Finckelson, Jesse E. Horn, G. H. Conley, David E. Fitzgerald, D. J. Fitzgerald, 
 Anton Nordahl, F. R. Phelps, Howard Gephart, Conrad Frisk, P. H. Phelps, 
 H. R. Jorgenson, Cleo De Marie, W. R. Polsfuss." 
 
 The motion was adopted. 
 
 October 12, 1917. Mr. Lind. "Resolved, That in taking this action, 
 which concludes the work of the Commission in connection with the recent 
 Street Railway Strike, both sides to the controversy be ernestly admonished 
 to refrain from any action that will tend to revive or perpetuate past differences." 
 
 Resolution was adopted. 
 
 November 2, 1917. Communication from Union employees of the Twin 
 City Rapid Transit Company calling attention to alleged discrimination by 
 the company and other grievances. 
 
 Communication from the officials of the Twin City Rapid Transit Com- 
 pany stating that the claims of the Union employees were not well founded 
 and furnishing evidence in support thereof. 
 
 Moved by Commissioner March, seconded by Commissioner Weiss that 
 a Special Committee of three be appointed consisting of Samuel F. Kerfoot, 
 Waldron M. Jerome and Norman Fetter as agents of this Commission to investigate 
 alleged violations of orders and resolutions of the Commission on the part of 
 the Twin City Rapid Transit Company or its employees. Motion carried. 
 
 Moved by Commissioner March, seconded by Commissioner McGee that 
 the following resolution be adopted. Motion carried. 
 
 "Whereas, certain representations have been made to this Commission 
 that its order and resolutions relative to the recent street car strike have been 
 violated by each of the parties involved, and 
 
 Whereas, the Commission has this day appointed a Committee consist- 
 ing of S. F. Kerfoot, Waldron M.Jerome and Norman Fetter to investigate the 
 facts in connection with said alleged violations and report on the same, 
 
 Resolved, that if the findings of said committee show a violation of said 
 order and resolutions or any of them the Commission will take such action 
 as may be necessary to secure their strict enforcement, but the Commission 
 declares that no facts presented to it at this time justify a strike under existing 
 circumstances and that all agitation on the part of either side ought to cease, 
 it being clearly understood, however, that the Commission will not condone 
 any violation of said order or resolutions." 
 
 November 20, 1917. A report was read from the Special Committee ap- 
 pointed under the Resolution of November 2nd to investigate the facts in con- 
 nection with alleged violations of order and resolutions dated October 9th, 1917, 
 relative to the street car strike, together with recommendations of the Com- 
 mittee. 
 
 Moved by Commissioner Lind, seconded by Commissioner Ames that the 
 report of the Committee be received and placed on file and the following recom- 
 mendations be adopted in full and copies of the recommendations be sent to the 
 Twin City Rapid Transit Company and the presidents of the St. Paul and 
 Minneapolis Union Organizations: 
 
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RECOMMENDATIONS 
 
 In order to improve conditions and lessen the friction described in the last 
 paragraphs, and to avoid otherwise inevitable controversies, and difficulties, 
 your committee earnestly recommends: 
 
 1. The total disu:eand abandonment of buttons or other insignia sym- 
 bolizing the Union or the Non-Union organizations, except that the Committee 
 sees no objections to the badge of the E. M. B. A. to which all employees re- 
 ceiving a salary less than $2500 per annum are eligible irrespective of Union 
 affiliations. The reason for this recommendation is the fact that the evidence 
 discloses in innumerable cases that the buttons of both organizations have been 
 one of the principal causes of irritation, not only among the employees them- 
 selves but between the employees and the public at large. Both sides have 
 signified their willingness to abandon the use of the button or other insignia, 
 if the Commission so request. 
 
 2. Your committee further earnestly recommends that all solicitation for 
 membership and propaganda of every nature on behalf of the Union organ- 
 izations, as well as on behalf of the Non-Union organization shall cease on the 
 company's property, in and about stations, and upon the cars. The reason 
 for this recommendation is obvious, and needs no discussion. The Committee 
 is glad to report that both sides have willingly consented to acquiesce in an 
 order or request of the Commission to this effect. 
 
 3. That the Company is requested to prepare and post in all its stations 
 rules of the purpose of effectuating the foregoing recommendations, with a 
 provision that a violation thereof shall be cause for discipline. 
 
 4. Your committee finally recommends that the employees (both Union 
 and Non-Union) and the public at large, be earnestly requested to avoid all 
 utterances and conduct that would tend in any way to cause irritation or hard 
 feeling; that the incidents of the past be overlooked, and that this request be 
 carefully observed as a patriotic duty in this critical time. 
 
 Dated November 19, 1917. 
 
 Norman Fetter 
 
 W. M. Jerome, Secretary 
 
 S.»F. Kerfoot, Chairman 
 
 Motion carried. 
 
 November 20, 1917. Commissioner McGee read the following resolutions 
 and moved their adoption, seconded by Commissioner Ames: 
 
 "The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety views with alarm the in- 
 creasing number of industrial disputes, the effect of which is to impede the move- 
 ments of the national government in its conduct of the war, and in order that 
 its views may be clearly understood it declares: 
 
 First — That industrial combinations and machinations of producers, man- 
 ufacturers or distributors, to artificially raise prices to consumers will be sup- 
 pressed even to the point where the Commission will take over the plants and 
 operate them in the interest of public interest. The Commission's investi- 
 gations lead it to the conclusion that in case of many necessities of life the in- 
 creased prices prevailing are justified by no scarcity of supply or increased cost 
 of production. 
 
 Second — It looks with disfavor upon the presence within the state of non- 
 resident agitators and professional disturbers of the peace. It does not ques- 
 tion the right of any man or set of men to peaceably discuss with their employers 
 the correction of abuses or to insist upon proper compensation for work done. 
 
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But it declares that this is not a convenient time for agitation about abstract 
 principles like Unionism or Non-Unionism or the closed shop and the open shop. 
 The great thing now is to have the work done. 
 
 There must be a truce in such matters until the enemy is conquered. The 
 Commission calls on all employers and employees to patriotically treat with 
 each other in all matters of moment and settle any differences without publicity, 
 and in the same spirit of fairness and mutual concession which obtains among 
 right-minded people in the settlement of controversies, and to that end it is 
 ordered that in what are commonly known as open or closed shops, in whatever 
 industry or activity employed, every employer in the State of Minnesota en- 
 tering the period of the war with a union shop shall not by lockout or other 
 means undertake to alter such conditions for the duration of the war, nor shall 
 any individual or combination of individuals begin to unionize or undertake 
 during the like period, to further unionize or close an open or non-union shop 
 industry or industries." 
 Motion carried. 
 
 November 23, 1917. Moved by Commissioner Ames, seconded by Com- 
 missioners McGee and Lind as follows: "After investigating the present sit- 
 uation of the Street Railway Company and its employees, the Commission 
 sees no reason for further action on its part and expects both company and its 
 employees to conform in letter and spirit to its recommendations and requests 
 made by the special investigating committee and approved by this Commission." 
 
 Motion carried. 
 
 November 27, 1917. Fred B. Stevens and Horace Bigelow appeared and 
 stated that the business men of St. Paul and Minneapolis desired speedy ad- 
 justment of the controversy between the Twn City Rapid Transit Company 
 and its employees and assured the support of the business interests to that end. 
 
 John Cart, St. Paul; Tom Costello, Minneapolis and J. M. Clancy, St. 
 Paul, appeared and were questioned concerning the union-men's side in the 
 pending street car controversy. 
 
 Mr. Horace Lowry, President of the Rapid Transit Company and Director 
 appeared and stated the attitude of the company in regard to the present .con- 
 troversy. 
 
 December 18, 1917. At this point it was announced that the Federal 
 Board of Mediation consisting of Secretary of Labor, Honorable William B. 
 Wilson, John H.Walker, Felix Frankforter, Counsel and Secretary and Max Low- 
 enthal, Assistant Secretary and Private Secretary to Mr. Wilson were in waiting. 
 Upon appearing the orders and resolutions of the Comnrssion in respect to 
 the controversy between the Twin City Rapid Transit Company and its em- 
 ployees were reviewed. 
 
 FARM LABOR 
 
 The following statement was adopted and public attention called to same: 
 "Authentic reports from all sections of Minnesota indicate a phenomenal 
 crop of hay and of wheat, oats and other small grain— the biggest in the history 
 of the State. 
 
 The immediate problem is to secure adequate man power for its harvesting. 
 If this cannot be secured, nature's bounty will have been in vain. If it is secured 
 the state will make a contribution towards winning the war more important 
 and valuable than its other services and contributions in this direction. 
 
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There is a farm labor shortage. More than 50,000 of our young men are 
 under arms. 10,000 more will go in the five days beginning July 22nd, or at 
 the peak of harvest time. High wages in Canada and the industrial demands 
 of the government for its ship building and munition plants have taken away 
 thousands of our workers of non-military age. 
 
 There is a cry from the farmers in the country that we come and help them 
 as loud as the cry from Macedonia in Bible times. 
 
 Meanwhile there are many idlers in the cities and villages, and thousands 
 of able bodied men are engaged in occupations which could be as successfully 
 handled by women, children and old people. Public and private repair and 
 construction work which could safely be postponed is still going on everywhere, 
 and taking the time of laborers used to outdoor work, who would be most useful 
 on farms. 
 
 This condition must be arrested. The harvest cannot be postponed, but 
 everything else which can be suspended during the six weeks of harvest, should be. 
 
 The Commission urges: 
 
 1. That every man who is free and is fitted for farm work enlist in the 
 army of farm laborers for the duration of the harvest. 
 
 2. That employers in all lines release temporarily as many men as they 
 can and encourage them to get out into the country. 
 
 3. That civic organizations spread information as to the state's labor 
 needs and start a "save the crop" movement at once. 
 
 If any who are willing to work need information as to openings they may 
 apply in the cities at the Public Employment Bureau, Marquette Avenue and 
 Second Street, Minneapolis, or outside the cities to the County Director or 
 County Agent." 
 
 Stated meeting July 9th, 1918. 
 
 COAL SUPPLY 
 
 June 26, 1917. Mr. Ames reported as to the coal investigation that ac- 
 cording to information energetic measures were being taken in Washington and 
 that the supply moving west was to be materially increased so that receipts 
 of 12,000,000 tons at Duluth were to be anticipated. 
 
 Addressed to the President: 
 
 "The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety begs leave to report to you 
 that the conditions in this state are eminently satisfactory so far as peace, quiet 
 and the orderly pursuit of industry are concerned, but our people are looking 
 forward to the coming winter with much apprehension. The cost of fuel has 
 virtually doubled since last year. We may be able to protect the people against 
 local abuses in the coal trade, but we are helpless to afford relief against ex- 
 tortion at the mines and in interstate operations. The cost of coal at the mines 
 last year, as we are advised, was $1.45 a ton. For the same coal it is now pro- 
 posed to charge $3.50 per ton at the mines, which is virtually the same as the 
 cost of the coal at the docks in Duluth last season. The numerous ore carriers 
 leaving our state daily return empty, and our coal supply is exhausted. We 
 earnestly urge early and adequate action for the relief of the situation. The 
 great work of this state in producing food and supplies should not be hampered, 
 
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and the well being of our people menaced, by the greed of producers and in- 
 efficiency of carriers in other sections." 
 July 3, 1917. 
 
 July 11, 1917. Upon motion of Mr. Ames it was voted that the Chair 
 be authorized in his discretion to appoint a special agent to prosecute inquiry 
 in Washington as to means of expediting coal shipments. The Governor ac- 
 cordingly appointed Commissioner McGee. 
 
 August 1, 1917. It was reported that Commissioner McGee was in Wash- 
 ington on business of the Commission. 
 
 August 14, 1917. Mr. McGee reported upon the coal situation and the 
 results of his labor in Washington and Cleveland. 
 
 October 2, 1917. Moved by Mr. March that Judge McGee be authorized 
 to exercise all the powers and discharge all the duties as coal administrator and 
 employ agents and do whatever he may deem proper in connection with the 
 coal situation in the state. 
 
 FOOD 
 
 FOOD PROCLAMATION 
 
 To the People of Minnesota: 
 
 Food supply is of first importance in providing for public safety. 
 
 Food supplies are now short. Surplus is everywhere exhausted, inroads 
 have been made on normal stocks, harvests of countries in the southern hemisphere 
 are below expectations, our own winter wheat yield shows a grave reduction, 
 European production is shortened, live stock is under alarming shrinkage. 
 Famine threatens the whole world except our own country. 
 
 The world looks to America to save it from famine unprecedented. 
 
 To Minnesota especially, one of the few areas which is capable of yielding 
 a surplus, the President's appeal comes with compelling force. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety, recently invested with ex- 
 traordinary powers by the Legislature, in concert with the Minnesota Food 
 Committee, established under authority of the State, is preparing such measures 
 as will enable the farmers to meet the demands upon them. 
 
 Therefore, in consultation with the Minnesota Public Safety Commission, 
 of which I am ex-officio chairman, and with the Food Committee, and with 
 full expectation of co-operation and support from the National Council of De- 
 fense, I, J. A. A. Burnquist, Governor of Minnesota, declare: 
 
 That no effort will be spared to enroll, organize and place where needed 
 the available labor of Minnesota and other states in order that every farmer 
 may have at his disposal all labor needful for producing and harvesting the 
 maximum crop his acres will bear: 
 
 That, while all authorities agree that high prices for all farm produce will 
 necessarily obtain, in case of unexpected developments measures will be taken, 
 however possible, to insure a remunerative return from the crops and other 
 agricultural produce. 
 
 Upon these considerations and under the authority of the President's 
 appeal to the people of the United States and the entreaty of all the world to 
 
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avert the disaster of famine, I enjoin upon the people of Minnesota their pa- 
 triotic duty of highest import to do all things that may maintain the greatest 
 possible yield of food-stuffs from Minnesota for all the world. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Dated April 28, 1917. 
 
 Voted that the National Council of Defense having requested this Com- 
 mission to cooperate with it in eliminating waste of food, and to that end sug- 
 gesting that the practice of bakers in accepting the return from retailers of un- 
 sold bread be discontinued on and after June 24th, 
 
 Now Therefore, Be it Resolved, by the Commission of Public Safety, 
 that the bakers be, and are hereby requested to comply with the recommenda- 
 tion of the Council of National Defense and discontinue the wasteful practice 
 of returns. Motion adopted. 
 
 June 13, 1917. 
 
 June 26, 1917. Mr. March. "Resolved, That the Railroad and Ware- 
 house Commission be requested, on or before the 3rd day of July, A. D. 1917, 
 to supply to the Public Safety Commission an accurate statement showing the 
 number of empty cars upon the lines of each railroad in the yards, side tracks, 
 spur tracks, switch tracks, etc., at the Minnesota Transfer, Minneapolis and 
 St. Paul." 
 
 The motion was adopted. 
 
 July 3, 1917. Mr. McGee reported that the National Council urged the 
 calling of a conference of wholesale bakers. Moved by Mr. McGee that a 
 meeting be called of wholesale bakers in the state at 2 P. M., Thursday, July 
 5th in the Senate Chamber, to carry out the recommendation of the National 
 Council of Defense, Seconded by Mr. Ames and carried. 
 
 Whereas, There is general dissatisfaction about the high cost of living, 
 and the repeatedly advancing prices upon the necessities of life, and the wide 
 difference in the price paid to the producer and charged the consumer, 
 
 And Whereas, Numerous complaints have been made against speculating 
 in food and grain, and the unreasonable prices made by the trusts controlling the 
 food products, 
 
 Therefore, Be It Resolved, By this Commission that a thorough investi- 
 gation be made by this Commission. into the price paid the producer of all food 
 products, and the price paid by the consumer of all the said products, and to 
 fully investigate the amount of food products held in warehouses and cold storage 
 plants in this state, and the effect of such storage upon the price of such food 
 products, and to investigate the shortage of railroad cars, and the conditions 
 and supply of fuel and coal, 
 
 And be it Further Resolved, That the chairman of this Commission 
 appoint a committee of three as its agent to fully investigate said matters and 
 report to this Commission. 
 
 July 17, 1917. Mr. March. "Whereas on July 3, this Commission author- 
 ized the Chairman to appoint a committee of three to investigate the high 
 cost of living, and the repeatedly advancing prices of the necessities of life, 
 and the wide difference in the price therefor paid to the producer and charged 
 the consumer; and numerous complaints have been made against speculation 
 
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and gambling in food and grain, and the unreasonable prices made by the trusts 
 controlling food products and coal. 
 
 Pursuant to said resolution, the Chairman has appointed C. H. March, 
 W. S. Moscrip and George W. Lawson as such Committee. 
 
 Therefore Be It Resolved: That for the purpose of such an inves- 
 tigation and examination, said Committee is hereby designated and appointed 
 the agents of this Commission and they and each of them are authorized to 
 have and exercise all the rights and powers specified in Chapter 261, Paragraph 
 3, Subdivision 4, of 1917, and the Commission's By-Laws: 
 
 That they forthwith proceed with such investigation and examination, employ 
 in connection therewith such stenographers and assistants as may be necessary 
 and with all convenient speed report to this Commission their findings and 
 their recommendations for this Commission's actions in the premises. 
 
 Be it further resolved, that in the absence from any hearing in the con- 
 nection with such investigation and examination, of C. H. March, one of said 
 committee, any other member of this Commission designated by him may act 
 in his stead with all the rights, and powers he would have if present." 
 
 Mr. March moved the adoption which was carried. 
 
 February 26, 1918. After some discussion it was moved by Commissioner 
 McGee, seconded by Commissioner March that the following telegram be sent 
 to President Wilson: 
 
 St. Paul, Minnesota, 
 
 February 26, 1918. 
 Hon. Woodrow Wilson, 
 The White House, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 Minnesota, in response to requests from your administration and as a 
 patriotic duty, produced thirty-three million bushels of potatoes last year. 
 Thirteen million bushels on hand spoiling for want of market but principally 
 for want of refrigerator cars to move same. Cannot Supply Division Quar- 
 termaster's Department, furnish immediate outlet for large part of same and 
 Director of Railways furnish transportation to move this enormous supply of 
 valuable food-stuffs. Failure to do so at once means destruction of supply 
 and small acreage this year. All other sources of relief but your good self have 
 been appealed to without success. Here is an opportunity to cut red tape 
 and produce results. May we hear from you at once. If promises could have 
 accomplished desired results, the potatoes would have moved long ago. What 
 can we expect and when. The situation is a critical one both as affecting im- 
 mediate stock on hand and acreage to be planted this year. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 . Motion carried. Governor and Ex-ofncio Chairman. 
 
 PUBLIC MARKETS 
 
 The following resolution was adopted: 
 
 The Safety Commission recommends to the city councils and governing 
 bodies of the cities of the State as follows: 
 
 (1) That permanent or temporary market places be established in the 
 cities of the State not more than one mile apart, and that producers and vendors 
 of food products_be encouraged to offer their products for sale at such markets. 
 
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(2) That all license regulations that hinder the free sale and offering of 
 food products at any such markets be suspended for the period of one year. 
 
 (3) That at the request of any municipality this Commission will select 
 suitable persons to supervise and direct the conduct of such markets, and ap- 
 point them as agents or representatives with police powers to enforce the orderly 
 conduct of the business. 
 
 July 24, 1917. 
 
 REGARDING FISH LICENSES 
 
 June 26, 1917. Mr. Lind. "Resolved, by the Minnesota Commission 
 of Public Safety that the Game and Fish Commissioner of the State of Minne- 
 sota be and he hereby is directed to issue, upon proper application, licenses to 
 fish for and take, catch and capture with seines the kinds of fish mentioned in 
 Chapter 386, General Laws of 1917, in the waters therein named to such persons 
 as may be designated by the State Board of Control as its agents or employees, 
 and said Board of Control be and it is hereby authorized to make such appli- 
 cations and to do and perform such acts and things as may be necessary to 
 carry out the terms of this resolution, the fish so obtained to be used for food 
 in the State Institutions under the control of said Board insofar as such use 
 may be advantageously made, and the surplus supply remaining to be sold 
 by the Board of Control, at a reasonable price taking into consideration as far 
 as practicable, the cost of securing said fish. Said Board of Control also shall 
 pay, and it shall be an item of the cost referred to, the percentages provided 
 in said Chapter 386 supra. 
 
 Resolved Further, that the various County Boards of the State of Min- 
 nesota be and they are hereby directed not to prohibit such fishing and seining 
 under licenses that may be granted by the Game and Fish Commissioner pur- 
 suant to the terms of this resolution; all of the waters under the jurisdiction 
 of this State except the portions of the St. Croix and Mississippi rivers referred 
 to in said Chapter 386, being deemed to be and hereby are declared to be open 
 waters for licensed fishing under application by the Board of Control as in this 
 resolution provided. 
 
 Adopted. 
 
 DESTRUCTION OF FOOD 
 
 "Mayor C. R. Magney of the City of Duluth having reported charges that 
 certain commission merchants of that city have destroyed useful goods, be it 
 resolved by the Public Safety Commission of the State of Minnesota that L. 
 U. Young of Duluth be appointed its agent and empowered to make a thorough 
 investigation of such charges and to report the results thereof to this Commis- 
 sion, it being understood that no expense to the State is to be involved except 
 such clerical expenses as may be necessarily incurred in making a thorough 
 investigation of the facts and the preparation of a report thereon." 
 Stated meeting October 16, 1917. 
 
 RELATING TO FISHING IN THE ELY-WINTON DISTRICT 
 
 "Resolved: That Carlos Avery, Agent of the Safety Commission in 
 conducting State fishing, be authorized to enter into agreements with fishermen 
 in the Ely-Winton district for fishing for the State under his direction and con- 
 trol, for a period of not to exceed three years." 
 
 Stated meeting March 12th, 1918. 
 
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RELATING TO GRADING OF GRAINS 
 
 February 5, 1918. Moved by Commissioner McGee, seconded by Com- 
 missioner Weiss, that Commissioner March be instructed to visit Washington 
 and represent the people of Minnesota in the matter of proper grading of grains. 
 
 Motion carried. 
 
 March 19, 1918. Moved by Commissioner McGee, seconded by Com- 
 missioner Weiss, that Commissioners March and Cashman be instructed to 
 visit Washington again relative to the question of grading grains. 
 
 Motion carried. 
 
 August 13, 1918. It was the sense of the Commission that the members 
 of the Minneapolis and Duluth Boards of Grain Appeal, and Commissioners 
 March and Cashman of the Public Safety Commission meet August 16th and 
 come to some understanding as to uniformity of state and federal grain grades. 
 
 DISLOYALTY 
 
 FEDERAL COOPERATION 
 
 Whereas, The universal enforcement of the conscription law is an effort 
 applied toward the successful prosecution of the present war, 
 
 Be It Resolved, That the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety hereby 
 tenders to the United States District Attorney its active cooperation in the 
 enforcement of said law and asks his specific information as to how this Com- 
 mission may be of greatest assistance in such enforcement in this State. 
 
 Mr .Ames. "Resolved, that in the opinion of the Commission, nobody 
 should serve on registration or exemption boards who is opposed to the execution 
 of the law providing for registration and conscription." 
 
 Unanimously carried. 
 
 May 29, 1917. 
 
 PROSECUTION OF SEDITION 
 
 June 7, 1917. Voted that the Commission request each judge, a part of 
 whose court is a grand jury under his supervision, to instruct such grand jury 
 to inquire into all offenses against the provisions of Chapter 463 of the Session 
 Laws of Minnesota of 1917, and also that said judge state to such juries general- 
 ly, and in popular language, what constitutes the elements of these offenses. 
 
 June 21, 1917. Mr. Lind. "Whereas, It has come to the knowledge of 
 this Commission that meetings have been held and are announced to be held 
 in various parts of this State, for the advocacy of conduct on the part of the 
 people of this State, which is in violation of law, and contrary to the peace and 
 welfare of the State and nation, 
 
 Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Minnesota Commission of Public 
 Safety, that the attention of the sheriffs of the counties, chiefs of police of vil- 
 lages and cities, executive and peace officers of all municipalities in the State 
 be called to the provisions of the following sections of the statutes, and they 
 are hereby admonished to observe and enforce the same." 
 
 Chapter 463, General Laws of 1917. 
 
 Section 2. It shall be unlawful for any person in any public place, or at 
 any meeting where more than five persons are assembled, to advocate or teach 
 by word of mouth or otherwise that men should not enlist in the military or 
 naval forces of the United States or the State of Minnesota. 
 
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Section 3. It shall be unlawful for any person to teach or advocate by 
 any written or printed matter whatsoever, or by oral speech, that the citizens 
 of this State should not aid or assist the United States in prosecuting or carry- 
 ing on war with the public enemies of the United States. 
 
 Chapter 215, General Laws of 1917. 
 
 Section 3. Wherever two or more persons assemble for the purpose of 
 advocating or teaching the doctrines of criminal syndicalism defined in this 
 act, such an assemblage is unlawful and every person voluntarily participating 
 therein by his presence, aid or instigation is guilty of a felony and punishable 
 by imprisonment in the State prison for not more than 10 years or by a fine of 
 not more than $5000.00 or both. 
 
 Criminal syndicalism as used in the above section is defined by the act as 
 the doctrine which advocates crime, violence, or the malicious damage or injury 
 to the property of an employer by an employee, as a means of accomplishing 
 industrial or political ends. 
 
 Mr. Ames moved the adoption of the resolution which was carried unan- 
 imously. 
 
 June 20, 1917. It was the sense of the Commission that an ordinance be 
 drawn for submission to the municipalities providing methods for restraining 
 those who advocate opposition to the Government and hindrance to the con- 
 duct of the war. 
 
 It was voted that copies of the law relating to syndicalism and the law 
 relating to sedition be prepared in the principal languages used on the range 
 including Finnish, Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian and Italian. 
 
 June 26, 1917. Counsel under instructions presented the following or- 
 dinance covering offenders who hinder the conduct of the war. 
 
 AN ORDINANCE DEFINING AND PUNISHING VAGRANCY 
 
 (Proposed by the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety.) 
 (ENACTING CLAUSE) 
 
 Section 1. Any person found within the 
 
 of , who by word of mouth or in 
 
 writing advocates or teaches in said 
 
 or is about to advocate or teach therein, or habitually advocates or teaches, 
 or is engaged in whole or in part in the occupation, whether for gain or gratui- 
 tously, of advocating, advising or teaching the duty, necessity or propriety of 
 crime or of violence as a means of accomplishing industrial or political ends, 
 shall be guilty of vagrancy. 
 
 Section 2. Any person found within the 
 
 of , who by word of mouth, or in 
 
 writing, advocates or teaches in said 
 
 or is about to advocate or teach therein, or habitually advocates or teaches, 
 or is engaged in whole or in part-in the occupation, whether for gain or gratui- 
 tously, of advocating, advising or teaching the violation or disregard of any 
 duty or obligation imposed by any statute of this State, or of the United States, 
 upon any person or class of persons, shall be guilty of vagrancy. 
 
 Section 3. Any person found within the 
 
 of , who by any written or printed 
 
 matter whatsoever, or by oral speech teaches, advises or advocates or is about 
 
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to teach, advise or advocate or who habitually advocates or teaches or who is 
 engaged in whole or in part in the occupation, whether for gain or gratuitously, 
 of advocating, teaching or advising that citizens of this State shall not or ought 
 not aid or assist the United States in prosecuting or carrying on war with the 
 public enemies of the United States, shall be guilty of vagrancy. A citizen of 
 this State for the purpose of this ordinance, is hereby defined to be any person 
 within the confines of the State. 
 
 Section 4. Any person found guilty of vagrancy as defined in this or- 
 dinance shall upon conviction thereof be punished by 
 
 Section 5. Nothing contained in this ordinance shall be deemed to modify 
 or repeal any existing ordinance covering vagrancy. 
 
 Section 6. This ordinance shall take effect upon its passage, approval 
 and publication. 
 
 Moved by Mr. March that form be approved and sent to cities and vil- 
 lages. Carried. 
 
 August 1, 1917. Voted that Mr. Joseph Mott, of Die Wanderer and Mr. 
 F. Bergmeier, of the Volkszeitung, be called before the Commission at 2:30 P. M. 
 
 August 1, 1917. Voted that citation be issued to the following to appear 
 next Tuesday before the Commission: Louis G. Vogel, Auditor Brown County; 
 L. A. Fritsche, Mayor, New Ulm, and Henry J. Berg, County Treasurer, New 
 Ulm, to be questioned in regard to the recent meeting at New Ulm. 
 
 August 7, 1917. The charges against the Park Region Echo were taken 
 from the table. Voted that the post-office department be requested to issue 
 an order excluding this publication from the mails and that copies be sent to 
 the proper officials. 
 
 August 21, 1917. Mr. Weiss presented a telegram from Congressman 
 Miller referring to the imprisonment of Bergmeier of the Volkszeitung. It 
 was referred back to Mr. Weiss. 
 
 August 21, 1917. The Commission considered a letter prepared by Mr. 
 Tighe addressed to the Governor, relating to the New Ulm episode and to the 
 removal of the Mayor of New Ulm, the County Auditor, who was also a member 
 of the Exemption Board, and the City Attorney of New Ulm. The form of 
 letter was adopted by the Commission. 
 
 August 28, 1917. A form of specific charges against New Ulm and Brown 
 County officials, Fritsche, Vogel and Pfaender as drafted by Mr. Tighe, was 
 considered and adopted. The Secretary was instructed to present the charges 
 in the form approved to the Governor. 
 
 August 28, 1917. Otto_S. Langum, Sheriff of Hennepin County, having 
 been ordered by telegram from Governor to stop a so-called People's Council 
 meeting in Hennepin County, appeared and set forth that in his opinion the 
 proposed meeting of the People's Council would result in grave disorder. 
 
 Moved by Mr. McGee that in accordance with the Governor's telegram 
 and the representations of Sheriff Langum, that breach of peace will result if 
 this meeting is held and in view of the known character of the meeting, the 
 Commission of Public Safety recommends to the Governor that he issue an 
 order prohibiting the proposed meeting of the People's Council. 
 
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September 18, 1917. Moved by Mr. Weiss that the Commission instruct 
 the City Council of New Ulm not to accept the resignations of the City At- 
 torney and the Mayor, as these officials are now under investigation. Carried. 
 
 October 16, 1917. Information received concerning the application for 
 charter to organize a bank at Glencoe by alleged pro-German signers. Moved 
 that it is the sense of the Commission that the Superintendent of Banks be 
 asked to exercise extreme caution in the matter of granting charters where 
 disloyalty has been shown by applicants. Motion carried. 
 
 November 13, 1917. Moved by Commissioner Lind, seconded by Com- 
 missioner March that the chairman of the Commission be authorized and directed 
 to employ a competent person to investigate the report upon the propriety of 
 the granting or withholding of authorization for any bank charters in cases 
 where it is alleged that the proposed new bank charter is sought by disloyal 
 persons or for other than legitimate purposes. Motion carried. 
 
 November 20, 1917. Moved by Commissioner Lind, seconded by Com- 
 missioner Ames that Counsel Tighe be instructed to mail a copy of testimony 
 taken at Brown County hearing to the trustees of Martin Luther College at 
 New Ulm and ask their- approval or disapproval of the stand of Professor A. 
 Ackerman as given by him therein. Motion carried. 
 
 PUBLIC WELFARE 
 
 Moved that the Commission recommend to the United States Engineer in 
 charge of improvement on the upper Mississippi, that the dams be so operated 
 this season as to avoid unnecessary damage to hay and other crops, and de- 
 struction of forage, which motion was adopted. 
 
 May 29, 1917. 
 
 "Whereas, The Council of National Defense has requested the several 
 State Councils to cooperate with the Federal Reserve Banks in promoting the 
 sale of the new issue of American War Bonds, be it 
 
 Resolved: That Governor Wold of the Federal Reserve Bank of the Ninth 
 District be notified that the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety will aid 
 in the sale of these bonds by every means in its power, and be it further 
 
 Resolved: That a member of the Commission be designated to take charge 
 of the bond campaign in cooperation with the member of the Liberty Loan 
 Committee who shall be appointed to act with the Commission in the matter." 
 Stated meeting September 18th, 1917. 
 
 December 18, 1917. Moved by Commissioner March, seconded by Com- 
 missioner McGee that the State Auditor be directed to sell dead and down 
 timber and green hardwood on state lands to parties making application for 
 same in amounts not to exceed twenty-five dollars to any one person, at a rate 
 of twenty-five cents per cord, it being understood that until further notice, all 
 wood so sold shall be used by the parties paying for same and not cut for the 
 purpose of selling. Motion carried. 
 
 "Resolved: That public attention should be called in the several counties 
 to the importance of the utilization during the coming season of all arable land 
 for crop production and of vacant village and city lots for individual or neigh- 
 borhood vegetable garden purposes. 
 
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Some suggestion has been made that the Commission apply the powers 
 of eminent domain given it by the act of its creation, to compel the cultivation 
 of unoccupied farm lands and lots which might otherwise lie idle. The Com- 
 mission as at present advised does not think this necessary. It believes that 
 consent to their use can be had from their owners by agreement if seasonable 
 application for such consent is made by the county organizations, or by people 
 wanting to use them. But if it appears that this course is not effective, the 
 Commission stands ready on being so informed to provide the machinery for 
 the acquisition of the right to use by condemnation. 
 
 Last season's experience has demonstrated the value of the small garden 
 idea and has added to popular knowledge on the subject, so that it can be more 
 successfully applied another time. Its application helped materially in the 
 solution of the living problem for many this winter, and it may be needed still 
 more in the future in view of the possible increased stress of next year. 
 
 The high prices prevailing for food products make this whole matter of 
 crop production and kitchen gardening worthy of immediate attention, and the 
 directors are urged to impress it on their several constituencies through all 
 available mediums of communication." 
 
 Stated meeting February 26th, 1918. 
 
 April 23, 1918. Delegation headed by D. W. Doty, St. Paul, Mrs. Vye, 
 H. P. Keller and T. R. Kane appeared against proposal to hold a championship 
 boxing match July 4th. Colonel C. H. Miller appeared in favor of the proposed 
 boxing bout. Mr. Sieberlich, member of the Boxing Commission, was also present. 
 
 It was the unanimous opinion of the Commission that the proposed boxing 
 match would be improper, untimely and against the public interest, and should 
 not be held, but it appearing the "Boxing Commission" which, under the law, 
 has primary jurisdiction in the matter, had not as yet acted on the application 
 for a license, the Commission postponed action on the subject until the "Boxing 
 Commission" had passed on the application. 
 
 October 16, 1918. Moved by Commissioner March, seconded by Com- 
 missioner Cashman, that the Minnesota Fire Relief Commission appointed 
 by the Governor as follows: W. A. McMonagle, Duluth; C. F. Mahnke, Moose 
 Lake; Ben Hassman, Aitkin; C. R. Magney, Duluth; Geo. Partridge, Min- 
 neapolis; Colonel W. V. Eva, Duluth; C. I. McNair, Cloquet; C. A. Duncan, 
 Duluth, and E. C. Steger, St. Paul, be made agents of the Minnesota Com- 
 mission of Public Safety. Motion carried. 
 
 November 12, 1918. Moved by Commissioner March, seconded by Com- 
 missioner Cashman, that the following resolution be adopted: 
 
 "Whereas, the present economic condition of the state of Minnesota 
 demands more adequate means of transportation on the public highways and 
 the relief of congested railways, and 
 
 Whereas, the National Council of Defense has requested that this situ- 
 ation be relieved by the establishment of a Highways Transport Committee, 
 whose activities shall be directed towards that end, 
 
 Be It Therefore Resolved: That the Minnesota Public Safety Com- 
 mission, this 12th day of November, 1918, does hereby assume the financial 
 obligation of organization and maintenance of the Highways Transport Com- 
 mittee for the State of Minnesota and it is hereby ordered that funds be made 
 available for payment of such expenses upon order of C. M. Babcock, State 
 Chairman of the Highways Transport Committee. The total expenditures 
 
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under this resolution shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars. The 
 appointment of Harry G. Davis secretary of said committee at a salary of two 
 hundred dollars per month effective October 22nd approved." 
 Motion carried. 
 
 "Whereas, The usual road of travel to the Brown farm, which is to be 
 used in connection with the aviation school, is not in such condition as to permit 
 of the transportation of the loads that will necessarily be hauled over the road, and 
 
 Whereas, The application of tarvia or oil would improve the road to 
 the extent of permitting it to be used for the required purposes, and 
 
 Whereas, Immediate use of such road is essential to the furtherance 
 of the use of said farm as an aviation field and the aviation school authorities 
 have asked that this action be taken forthwith; 
 
 Therefore, Be It Resolved, That this Commission request the county 
 board of Hennepin County to provide sufficient tarvia or road oils to prepare 
 this road without previously advertising for proposals, as provided by Section 
 1092 of the General Statutes. 
 
 Be It Resolved Further, That this Commission request the county 
 attorney and other officials who may have to do with the legality of such ex- 
 penditures to take cognizance of the fact that delay in the repair of this road 
 would seriously hinder progress in connection with the country's plans, and 
 regard this as of such emergency as would justify the county commissioners 
 to comply with the request herein contained, and also provide for the perma- 
 nent care of said road." 
 
 Stated meeting July 9th, 1918. 
 
 "Whereas, The Governor of Minnesota has heretofore designated a 
 committee, of which J. L. Washburn of Duluth, Minnesota, is Chairman, for 
 the purposes of inquiring into the causes of the fires which burned extensive 
 districts in St. Louis, Carlton, Pine and Aitkin Counties, Minnesota, during 
 the month of October 1918, and to suggest legislative and other measures which 
 will prevent a repetition of such a calamity, and 
 
 Whereas, It is for the public interest and the conservation of the state's 
 resources and the protection of public and private property that said investi- 
 gation should be in every way facilitated, 
 
 Now, Therefore, Be It Resolved: That J. L. Washburn of Duluth, 
 Minnesota, be and he hereby is designated as the agent of the Commission in 
 connection with such investigation so to be had through said Committee, and 
 that there are conferred on him all the powers provided for by Chapter 261 of 
 the Laws in 1917 for agents of the Commission, including herein the power 
 to require the attendance of witnesses, the production of papers and the examina- 
 tion of witnesses, and the right to employ to such ends all instrumentalities 
 provided for by said Chapter 261, or otherwise by law, 
 
 Be It Further Resolved: That said J. L. Washburn so appointed agent 
 of the Commission report with all convenient speed to it the results of such 
 investigation for the action of the Commission in the premises." 
 
 Stated meeting October 29th, 1918. 
 
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SOLDIERS* WELFARE 
 
 May 23, 1917. The Chair presented the following communication from 
 J. E. Lawler, Secretary Hibbing Commercial Club. 
 
 "Hibbing, Minn., May 23. Naval Reserve from Twin Cities quartered 
 at Duluth in need of funds for food and clothing. Are appealing to range for 
 assistance. Government failed to provide salaries and boys are trying to live 
 on forty cents a day. How about that million dollars at disposal of defense 
 committee? Investigate." 
 
 By Mr. Lind: Resolved, That this communication be forwarded to the 
 Secretary of the Navy, with request that he advise this Commission whether it 
 jS the desire of the Navy Department that the State provide for the relief of 
 hese men. 
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 July 3, 1917. Upon invitation of the Commission the Military Board and 
 the State Auditor appeared, including General Resche, Colonels Mollison, 
 Eva and Luce, Captain Rhinow and Mr. Preus. Mr. Preus stated that $30,000 
 inspection money due the Guard had not been paid and that there was nothing 
 in the fund to cover it and asked that the Guard fund be reimbursed from the 
 Public Safety fund. Moved by Mr. Lind that we recommend that the militia 
 fund which is temporarily depleted to pay an emergency bill, be reimbursed 
 by incurring an indebtedness under the emergency provision of the laws. The 
 motion was carried, Ayes 6, Nays 0. 
 
 March 26, 1918. Moved by Commissioner McGee, seconded by Com- 
 missioner Hilton that: 
 
 "On recommendation of the Adjutant General, in cases where there ap- 
 peared to have been delay in the transmission of the allotment of the dependent 
 of a Minnesota citizen engaged in military or naval service, the Governor might 
 authorize the advance to such dependent out of the Commission's fund, such 
 sums as he deemed appropriate, taking therefore a promise of repayment in 
 a form to be drafted by the Commission's attorney." 
 
 Motion carried. 
 
 May 14, 1918. The attention of the Commission was called to the fact 
 that a considerable number of Minnesota young men and young men of other 
 states who are of conscriptable age and physically fit are engaged in the non 
 military service of the government under some arrangements which secure them 
 rank and freedom from the risks of military service and that such discrimination 
 is a source of scandal and popular dissatisfaction. The secretary was instructed 
 to secure a list of Minnesota men so favored and by inquiry of them or other- 
 wise to learn the reasons for such discrimination to the end that the true facts 
 may be made public and a remedy found if possible. 
 
 May 14, 1918. It was the sense of the Commission that eight hundred 
 dollars be allowed Camp Dodge with which to buy athletic equipment on con- 
 dition that appropriations are made by other states which have sent troops 
 to said camp. 
 
 March 26, 1918. Moved by Commissioner McGee, seconded by Com- 
 missioner Weiss, that the following resolution be adopted: 
 
 "Whereas, The National Congress has passed a Soldiers and Sailors Civil 
 Rights Bill, so called, protecting the men of the Army and Navy, in their prop- 
 erty rights during the period of their Federal service, and 
 
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Whereas, The State Auditor has announced that he will withhold from 
 re-appraisal and re-sale any State land purchased on contract where the pur- 
 chaser or holder is delinquent in his payments but is now engaged in Federal 
 service in either the Army or Navy, and 
 
 Whereas, It is necessary that the requisite information be secured forth- 
 with in order that the greatest protection may be extended to the men of the 
 Army and Navy 
 
 Therefore Be It Resolved, That all County Auditors, County Treas- 
 urers and Clerks of Courts are hereby directed to immediately notify J. A. O. 
 Preus, State Cafitol, St. Paul, of all cases coming within their knowledge, 
 where a soldier's or sailor's ownership of real property purchased under contract 
 from the state is jeopardized during the period of his Federal service." 
 
 April 30, 1918. Moved by Commissioner Hilton, seconded by Commis- 
 sioner Weiss that the following resolution be adopted: 
 
 MORATORIUM RESOLUTION 
 
 "Whereas, A number of petitions have been presented to the Commission 
 asking it, by order, to impose a moratorium as to the civil liabilities of Minne- 
 sota soldiers and sailors, and 
 
 Whereas, From the number of such petitions it appears that the true 
 situation in this regard is not as widely known as it should be, 
 
 Resolved, That the Secretary, through the columns of Minnesota in the 
 War, and otherwise, call public attention to the following, to wit: 
 
 That the subject of a moratorium has been before the Commission on a number 
 of occasions, but that it has deferred action thereon from time to time under 
 authentic information that the Federal Government had the matter before it 
 and would, in proper season, take action which would be more comprehensive 
 and effective in its scope than action by any state could be; and that in 
 keeping with this information the Congress of the United States has passed a 
 law, approved March 8, 1918, and now is in full force by which soldiers and 
 sailors 2nd their dependents are protected in the fullest regard and in the most 
 liberal way as to court proceedings, as to obligations under contracts of all sorts, 
 the payment of insurance premiums and taxes and are secured thereby delay 
 in general as to all civil liabilities during their term of service and for a pre- 
 scribed period thereafter; and that no occasion exists for action by the Com- 
 mission. 
 
 That the Secretary procure copies of this Federal act in such numbers as 
 is possible and distribute the same among applicants therefor." 
 
 Motion carried. 
 
 VIOLATION OF LAWS COVERING SALE OF LIQUOR 
 
 The following statement was adopted: 
 
 The Commission, at its session today, found itself overwhelmed with come 
 plaints from different sections of the State, rural and municipal, in regard to 
 violations of the liquor laws. Scores of blind pigs were reported, and the Com- 
 mission urged to inaugurate drastic action to stop the evil. 
 
 The Commission has not approached the question either from the stand- 
 point of prohibition or moral reform, as such. The steps it has taken to date 
 have been actuated solely by the necessity of the situation, to insure peace 
 and order and to carry out efficiently the legislation and policy of Congress. 
 
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The Commission, with its many other important duties, of necessity cannot 
 fritter away its time in prosecuting violations of the license laws of this State. 
 
 The situation has reached a point where it is up to the manufacturers and 
 licensed dealers in intoxicants to see to it that the law is observed. If they 
 continue to encourage and sustain blind pigging there is no recourse left to the 
 Commission, but to issue an order prohibiting the manufacture and sale of 
 liquor in the State or to urge the Governor to call an extra session of the legis- 
 lature to pass a bone-dry law. If that be done, under existing congressional 
 legislation which prohibits the shipment of intoxicants over interstate railways 
 into dry territory, the State will be dry and there will be no more blind pigging. 
 
 June 19, 1917. 
 
 November 20, 1917. Moved by Commissioner McGee, seconded by Com- 
 missioner March as follows: 
 
 That the Attorney General be and he is hereby directed to institute pro- 
 ceedings to vacate the charters of all domestic brewery corporations and to 
 terminate the right of all foreign brewery corporations to do business in this 
 state that habitually violate or connive at the violation of laws of this state. 
 
 Motion carried. 
 
 February 5, 1918. After some discussion it was moved by Commissioner 
 Smith, seconded by Commissioner Weiss that in response to the various pe- 
 titions and communications received relative to the general closing of saloons 
 and breweries, the following statement be issued by the Public Safety Com- 
 mission: 
 
 ^ "As matters now stand the general closing of saloons in this state and 
 nation is a war measure upon which the Federal Government has already acted. 
 Congress and the Commander-in-Chief of our forces have considered the revenue 
 situation, the waste incident to the business, the readjustment of labor con- 
 ditions that would be necessitated by immediate prohibition, together with 
 the effect on the morale of our people. The President, through legislation, 
 has now the power to eliminate the liquor traffic throughout all of the states 
 and, if he deems it advisable to exercise that power to a greater extent than has 
 heretofore been done, he will undoubtedly do so. Unless additional causes 
 should develop justifying a course which now appears inconsistent with the 
 present policy of the Federal Government, on which the responsibility for the 
 conduct of the war rests, the Commission does not feel it should act in this 
 matter. It takes this position without regard to its own views which are clearly 
 disclosed by the course it has heretofore followed in dealing with the general 
 problem here involved". 
 
 June 27, 1918. Counsel Tighe reported concerning the Blooming Prairie 
 saloon situation and presented a notice signed by F. N. Dicken, Judge of the 
 District Court, Second Judicial District, advising the attorney that a hearing 
 would be had on Saturday, June 29th, 1918, of an application in an action pro- 
 posed to be begun by one Carroll against the Commission for an order restrain- 
 ing the Commission from enforcing Orders Numbers 17, 33 and 34 as against 
 Carroll. It was voted that the Commissioner's attorney be instructed not 
 to appear in response to the notice. 
 
 June 27, 1918. From C. R. Magney, Mayor of Duluth, stating that the 
 village of Oliver, Wisconsin, opposite Steel Plant is wet and will continue so 
 after Superior goes dry, July 1st. St. Louis County is anticipating considerable 
 
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annoyance. Moved by Commissioner McGee, seconded by Commissioner 
 Cashman that Counsel Tighe and Commissioner Weiss be instructed to call 
 to the attention of the Wisconsin State Council of Defense the desirability of 
 having the saloon license at Oliver annulled. Motion carried. 
 
 SCHOOLS 
 
 GERMAN TEXT-BOOKS 
 
 "Resolved: That the committee on text-books of German be requested 
 to reduce the findings of its report to the form of recommendations calling for 
 the elimination from the public school curriculum of Minnesota of all the books 
 which they find objectionable on patriotic grounds as to their contents, and that 
 the committee be requested to prepare a "white list" of unobjectionable books, 
 from which school boards may safely make their selections. 
 
 Resolved: That the Commission will print such copies of the final recom- 
 mendations of the Committee as may be required for circulation among the 
 school authorities of the State." 
 
 Stated meeting November 13, 1917. 
 
 November 20, 1917. Commissioner Ames hereupon read the following 
 resolution and moved its adoption, seconded by Commissioner Lind: 
 
 "Whereas, English is the official language, as well as the language of 
 business and literature in the United States, and a thorough familiarity with 
 the English language is essential to American citizenship, and 
 
 Whereas, Complaints have been made to the Commission of a number 
 of private schools, chiefly parochial, where German or some other foreign lan- 
 guage is used as the principal vehicle of instruction, and 
 
 Whereas, From a partial survey made by the State Department of Ed- 
 ucation, it appears that there are in Minnesota some 200 such schools, using 
 a foreign language in whole or in part as a medium of instruction, where some 
 10,000 children are being brought up as alien- and foreigners, and are not being 
 properly prepared for American Citizenship, be it hereby 
 
 Resolved, That school-boards, principals and teachers be recommended 
 and urged, as a patriotic duty, to require the use of the English language as 
 the exclusive medium of instruction in all schools in the State of Minnesota, 
 and to discontinue and prohibit the use of all foreign languages in such schools 
 except as a medium for the study of those languages themselves, or as a medium 
 for religious instruction." Motion carried. 
 
 "Resolved: That the State Superintendent of Education be requested 
 to send out, in behalf of the Commission, a questionnaire to all superintendents 
 of high school systems and all principals of grade schools, to ascertain whether 
 they have received the Commission's report, on German text books used in 
 Public Schools, and whether any of the books embraced in Group A of said 
 report were in use when the report was received, and if so what action has been 
 taken to carry out the recommendations. 
 
 Further that the Superintendent be requested to inform the Commission 
 as to the results of his inquiry." 
 
 Stated meeting March 19th, 1918. 
 
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NON-PARTISAN LEAGUE 
 
 September 25, 1917. The following resolution presented by Mr. Ames 
 was adopted unanimously: 
 
 "Whereas, Senator Robert M. LaFollette made an address of a disloyal 
 and seditious nature at a public meeting before a large audience at the Non- 
 partisan League Convention in St. Paul on the 20th day of September, 
 
 Whereas, The utterances of Senator LaFollette, with all the prestige of 
 his high office as a Senator of the United States made under protection of a 
 guaranty by the President of the Non-Partisan League that no disloyal ex- 
 pressions would be permitted during the alleged conference between producers 
 and consumers on the high cost of living, have already served to create treason- 
 able sentiments in the State of Minnesota, and being spread through the public 
 press can have no other effect than to weaken the support of the Government 
 in carrying on the war, be it hereby 
 
 Resolved, That the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety respectfully 
 petitions the Senate of the United States to institute proceedings looking to 
 the expulsion of the said Robert M. LaFollette from the Senate, as a teacher 
 of disloyalty and sedition giving aid and comfort to our enemies, and hindering 
 the Government in the conduct of the war, and be it further 
 
 Resolved, That copies of this resolution together with stenographic copies 
 of said LaFollette's speech, be forwarded to the President of the Senate and 
 Senators Nelson and Kellogg." 
 
 Moved, That the matter of the conduct of Senator LaFollette and others 
 at the recent Non-Partisan Convention at Saint Paul be taken up with the 
 United States District Attorney and that copies of such stenographic reports 
 of the speeches as the Commission may have be placed at his disposal with the 
 request that same be investigated and the parties if found to have violated any 
 law of the United States be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. 
 
 Carried. 
 
 September 25, 1917. Moved by Mr. Smith that A. C. Townley, President 
 of the Non-Partisan League, be requested to appear before the Commission 
 for examination as to any information within his knowledge as to the attitude 
 and relation and conduct of the Non-Partisan League on matters relating to 
 the prosecution of the war, and to that end request the District Court of this 
 County to issue a subpoena accordingly. Carried. 
 
 Mr. Townley, accompanied by Mr. Manahan, appeared and Mr. Townley, 
 being sworn, was examined at length by Mr. Tighe and members of the Com- 
 mission. A transcript of the testimony was ordered prepared. 
 
 September 26, 1917. Moved by Mr. Ames: That the Secretary be di- 
 rected to request of A. C. Townley transcripts of the speeches and reports in 
 full covering the meetings recently held in Saint Paul under the auspices of 
 the Non-Partisan League exclusive of closing session or LaFollette meeting, 
 such transcripts to be accompanied by affidavit as to their completeness and the 
 Commission authorizing any proper expenses incurred in compliances with 
 this order. Carried. 
 
 INVESTIGATION OF NON-PARTISAN LEAGUE 
 
 'Whereas, numerous complaints have been made against an organization 
 known as 'The Non-Partisan League' alleging that said organization is dis- 
 loyal and guilty of disseminating sedition and disloyal propaganda: 
 
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Resolved, That the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety, under the 
 powers conferred on it by Chapter 261, Laws, Minnesota, 1917, does hereby 
 appoint and constitute C. W. Ames its agent, for the purpose of investigating 
 and examining into the organization popularly known as the Non-Partisan 
 League, of which A. C. Townley is the chief executive officer, and any branches 
 of said organization, and any collateral organizations, including herein, among 
 other things, an investigation as to the constitution of such organizations, their 
 method of operation, their financial methods, their purposes, their various 
 activities, and the effect thereof, and to this end said agent may require any 
 person before him for examination, may examine any such person under oath 
 as to any information within his knowledge, and require him to produce for 
 inspection any writings or documents under his control, using for that purpose 
 any and all instrumentalities and proceedings specified in said act, or otherwise 
 permitted by law. The said agent so appointed shall proceed with all diligence 
 to make said investigation, and shall report to the Commission the proceedings 
 had, and his conclusions and recommendations, that the Commission may there- 
 upon take such action in the premises as it may be advised is in the public in- 
 terest." 
 
 Stated meeting October 2, 1917. 
 
 Resolved: That for the purpose of investigating in the public interest 
 the organization known as the National Non-Partisan League and the several 
 officers and employers thereof, Charles W. Ames is hereby designated and ap- 
 pointed the agent of the Commission with authority to have and exercise all 
 the rights and powers specified in Chapter 261, Laws of 1917, Paragraph 3, 
 Subdivision 4 and the Commission's by-laws. 
 
 That he forthwith proceed with such investigation and examination and 
 have authority to employ in connection therewith such stenographers as may be 
 necessary, and that he with all convenient speed report to the Commission 
 his findings and recommendations for this Commission's action in the premises. 
 
 That the secretary deliver to Mr. Ames a certified copy of this resolution 
 as evidence of his appointment as such agent." 
 
 Stated meeting December 11th, 1917. 
 
 PROTECTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY 
 
 May 23, 1917. Resolved that it is the sense of this Commission that the 
 forests of Minnesota be and hereby are declared to be of a character which 
 requires protection and that the industrial relations of the state as to the timber 
 demands of the present war are such as to require the most rapid extinction 
 of the existing fires and the preventing of others; and that this Commission do 
 employ such persons and assign to them such duties and labors as may be 
 recommended to it by the State Forester. 
 
 That the State Forester be hereby made the agent of this Commission for 
 the purpose of employing such persons as may be necessary for the above in- 
 dicated purpose, to an aggregate expense of not to exceed $6,000. 
 
 May 29, 1917. Mr. Lind submitted a report of an agent on the Iron 
 Range Who had been inquiring into labor conditions and also a report as to 
 conditions on the Cuyuna Range. Reports were received. 
 
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July 17, 1917. Mr. Lind described certain conditions on the Cuyuna 
 Range and outlined information as to I. W. W. activities. Counsel was in- 
 structed to go to Washington to take up with the Department of Justice certain 
 matters therein contained. 
 
 August 1, 1917. Mr. Lind reported upon conditions in Michigan and other 
 mining districts. 
 
 August 1, 1917. Telegrams were presented by the chairman from Counse 1 
 as to his mission in Washington. 
 
 HOME GUARD 
 
 May 29, 1917. Mr. Lind moved to take from the table and adopt the 
 following resolution: 
 
 "It is the sense of the Commission, that members of the Home Guard are 
 liable to the general duties and obligations of members of the National Guard. 
 
 It is not the purpose, however, to call on the Home Guards for any duty 
 that can be as well performed by civilian officers or private watchmen. 
 
 Wherever in certain strategic locations it may be necessary in time of war 
 to have the presence of organized military forces, the Commander-in-Chief 
 may require guard duty limited in amount and so adjusted as to cause the min- 
 imum hardship to members." 
 
 The resolution was unanimously adopted. 
 
 December 11, 1917. Moved by Commissioner March, seconded by Com- 
 missioner Smith that the Home Guards throughout the state be equipped with 
 sheeplined overcoats, the cost of each garment not to exceed twelve dollars, 
 and not to exceed twenty-two hundred in number. Motion carried. 
 
 February 19, 1918. Adjutant General Rhinow appeared and recommended 
 that the members of the Minneapolis Battalion of the Home Guard of the State 
 of Minnesota be allowed remunerative subsistence for the period they were 
 engaged in active service during the recent street car strike in the Twin Cities. 
 
 Moved by Commissioner Smith, seconded by Commissioner March that 
 said subsistence in the amount of one dollar per day be allowed. Motion carried. 
 
 LIMITING THE ORGANIZATION OF NEW BANKS AND UNNECESSARY 
 PUBLIC ENTERPRISES 
 
 January 30, 1918. The following statement was, on motion of Com- 
 missioner Weiss, seconded by Commissioner March, adopted and ordered spread 
 on the minutes: 
 
 "Communications have been received from several sources asking that the 
 Commission take some action in reference: 
 
 (1) To the organization of new banks during the continuance of the war. 
 
 (2) To the prosecution of public enterprises calling for heavy taxation 
 and the incurring of public debt during the continuance of the war. 
 
 The opinion of the Superintendent of Banks is that in general the number 
 of existing banks is great enough to take care of the present business require- 
 ments of the state, that the organization of new banks in communities already 
 adequately supplied tends to waste and to tie up rather than to liquefy capital 
 and to weaken established institutions at the very time when financial strength 
 is most desirable. The law gives the Superindent very extensive powers in this 
 field. A new state bank cannot be started without a certificate from the Super- 
 
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in tendent, and he is not required to issue a certificate unless satisfied that the 
 bank has been organized under such conditions as to merit and have public 
 confidence. In time of peace the main test by which to measure an applicant's 
 title to public confidence has been its pecuniary soundness. But the Com- 
 mission sees no reason why under the statute other tests should not be applied, 
 and it recommends that the Superintendent give public notice that he will not 
 at this time approve the organization of new banks except in places and under 
 circumstances where there is a reasonable demand for additional banking facil- 
 ities, that he require evidence of these facts from applicants, and that where 
 in individual cases he feels the guidance of the Commission should be invoked, 
 he apply to it for instructions. 
 
 As to the second matter, to-wit: The prosecution of public enterprises 
 calling for heavy taxation and the incurring of public debt during the contin- 
 uance of the war, the extraordinary demands of the national government both 
 in the way of taxation and bond issues, requires that local demands in these di- 
 rections should be minimized. The high cost of commodities and labor operates 
 necessarily to check private activities in construction work except such as re- 
 lates to the war, but the same considerations will not in all cases be efficient 
 to the same and where public funds are the source of expenditure. 
 
 The Commission is of the opinion: 
 
 (a) That municipal bonds may, of course, be properly issued for funding 
 purposes where there are not on hand moneys to otherwise take care of maturing 
 obligations. 
 
 (b) That where contracts have already been let for public improvements, 
 and their postponement would result in loss, they may be made, and if necessary, 
 may be paid for out of the proceeds of bond issues. 
 
 (c) That new enterprises should not be inaugurated except such as are 
 calculated within a reasonable time to add to the domain of arable lands in the 
 state, or to facilitate the production or transportation of commodities. Other 
 enterprises, the primary purpose of which is to increase the comforts, conven- 
 ience or pleasure of life in the several communities should not be undertaken, 
 and the power of taxation should not be used nor the money markets be called 
 on to supply funds for such objects. 
 
 The Commission makes no order in the premises at this time because it 
 •feels that there will be a general acquiescence in the views it thus advances, 
 but it recommends that when any new public enterprises calling for expenditures 
 are contemplated by the several municipalities of the state, the Commission's 
 approval be secured before final action is taken." 
 
 June 4, 1918. On motion of Commissioner McGee, seconded by Com- 
 missioner Cashman, the following resolution was adopted: 
 
 "Resolved, That the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety is of the 
 opinion that during the continuance of the war new draining enterprises designed 
 to improve wild and unoccupied lands should be arrested, but that in cases 
 of occupied or cultivated lands, the construction of tile drains with the 
 necessary outlets is in some instances of the utmost importance for the pro- 
 tection of crops and the utilization of valuable tracts, and that the Capital 
 Issues Committee can, with propriety, modify its general ruling and substitute 
 therefor a ruling to the effect that no drainage enterprises be undertaken with- 
 out a preliminary presentation of the facts and express approval of the Com- 
 mitte after inquiry into the need and merits of the proposed work. 
 
 That a copy of this resolution be sent to the Committee." 
 
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"In the matter of the proposed new bank at Scandia, further representa- 
 tions were made to the Commission that the primary purpose of the bank's 
 organization was to punish the existing bank for its activity in patriotic move- 
 ments. The Commission was of the opinion that if this is true, the bank would 
 not be organized for legitimate purposes, and under such conditions as to merit 
 and have public confidence as prescribed by G. S. 1913, Section 6336, but in- 
 asmuch as the Commission lacks the facilities for the satisfactory investigation 
 of the facts, it was voted that the Superintendent of Banks be advised to deny 
 the application for a charter to the end that if the promoters of the enterprise 
 should decide so to do, they might institute proper proceedings in which the 
 truth of the charges made could be legally adjudicated." 
 
 Stated meeting June 27th, 1918. 
 
 CROP SAVING MEASURE 
 
 July 9, 1918. Moved by Commissioner Cashman, seconded by Com- 
 missioner Weiss that the following telegram be sent: 
 
 St. Paul, Minn., July 9, 1918. 
 Honorable W. B. Wilson, 
 Secretary of Labor, 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety understands that Federal 
 Labor Bureau in Minnesota is shipping Minnesota labor out of state and offer- 
 ing railroad fare and extraordinary wage inducements. 
 
 This Commission emphatically protests against such policy. It is vitally 
 necessary that all labor power be kept within this agricultural state now for 
 use in gathering the greatest grain crop ever produced in Minnesota. Unusual 
 efforts will be necessary to carry out this task and no policy of government 
 labor agencies should interfere with local labor agencies in providing farm labor 
 that is so vitally essential at this time. 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 C. H. March, Vice Chairman, 
 H. W.jLibby, Secretary. 
 Motion carried. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS 
 
 FEDERAL REGISTRATION OF ALIENS PROPOSED 
 
 February 26, 1918. Moved by Commissioner McGee, seconded by Com- 
 missioner Weiss, that the following resolution be adopted: 
 
 "Resolved, That the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety request 
 the Department of Justice of the Federal Government to cause a registration 
 of ALL aliens resident in the United States, and that the Governor of the State 
 of Minnesota be requested to forward to the Department of Justice such request." 
 
 SPECIAL AGENT APPOINTED 
 
 "Resolved: That the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety, under 
 the powers conferred on it by Chapter 261, Laws Minnesota, 1917, and more 
 
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particularly by Section 3, Subdivision 4 of said act, does hereby appoint Jos. J. 
 Moriarty of Shakopee, Minnesota, agent of the Commission (hereinafter called 
 the "agent") until further action by it for the following purposes and with the 
 following powers: 
 
 On being advised at any time that any person resident of Scott County, 
 Minnesota, has been guilty of conduct or utterances contravening the provisions of 
 Chapter 463, Laws, Minnesota, 1917, or any other statutes of said State of 
 similar import, the agent shall submit to the Commission's Secretary a brief 
 statement of the facts alleged and the name and address of the person charged 
 with the offense, and on the approval by the Secretary of his so doing, shall 
 proceed with an investigation in reference thereto. For the purpose of any 
 such investigation the agent may require any person to appear before him for 
 examination at any convenient place in said County, may adjourn hearings 
 from time to time and from place to place in said County, may administer oaths, 
 may examine any person appearing before him under oath as to any information 
 within his knowledge pertinent to said investigation, and require him to produce 
 for inspection any writings or documents under his control, pertinent to said 
 investigation, using for all and any such purposes any and all instrumentalities 
 and proceedings specified in said Chapter 261, or otherwise permitted by law. 
 At the conclusion of any such investigation the agent shall report to the Com- 
 mission the proceedings had, and his conclusions and recommendations that the 
 Commission may thereupon take such action in the premises as it may be ad- 
 vised is in the public interest. The agent shall incur no obligations and make 
 no expenditures which shall be chargeable against the Commission or its fund, 
 and shall receive no compensation for any services performed hereunder." 
 
 Adjourned meeting February 27th, 1918. 
 
 DEATH OF COMMISSIONER SMITH 
 
 "The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety has this day been advised 
 of the death of Lyndon A. Smith, Attorney General of the State, and member 
 of the Commission. 
 
 The Commission was organized in April 1917, and has held many meetings 
 since that time. General Smith, by virtue of his position as Attorney General, 
 was an ex officio member of many State boards, administering affairs of a wide 
 variety and much importance. Notwithstanding the demands on his time 
 made by his work as the State's chief law officer and as a member of these boards, 
 he regularly attended the Commission's sessions, remaining till their end, and 
 participating actively in all their proceedings. This is an evidence of his con- 
 scientious devotion to whatever duties he undertook. He did not delegate 
 them to others, as he might have, but gave them his personal attention. The 
 Commission's problems have been extremely novel from the legal standpoint, 
 and have involved prompt decision and action about many complicated matters 
 of great public concern. The history of American law discloses no body with 
 functions similar to those which the Commission discharges. General Smith 
 contributed in the fullest measure to its work. He had profound learning, 
 patriotism, patience, courtesy, sanity of mind, and sympathy with the average 
 man — all of which were qualities of the utmost value for what the Commission 
 had to do. He was a high type of educated American. He reaped the highest 
 rewards of his profession, and earned the respect and affection of the people 
 of the State by unselfishly applying his abilities to their service. 
 
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The Commission directs that this expression of its appreciation be spread 
 on its records, that a copy be sent to his widow and daughter, and that the 
 Commission attend the funeral services as a body." 
 
 Stated meeting March 5th, 1918. 
 
 ALIEN REGISTRATION 
 
 "Be It Resolved: That the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety, 
 pursuant to the provisions of Paragraph 4, Section 3, Chapter 261, Session 
 Laws, 1917, hereby designates and appoints J. A. O. Preus, Fred H. Hester 
 and J. F. Gould, and each of them, (hereinafter called the "agent") as its agents 
 for the following purpose and with the following powers: 
 
 The agent may cause any person or persons, who he may be advised has 
 knowledge as to any facts pertinent to the registration of alien residents of 
 the State under Orders 23 and 25 of the Commission or to the public ends sought 
 to be effectuated by said orders, to appear before him for examination at any 
 convenient place to be fixed by the agent, may adjourn hearings from time to 
 time and from place to place, may administer oaths, may examine any person 
 appearing before him under oath, as to any information within his knowledge 
 pertinent to said investigation, and may require him to produce for inspection 
 any writings or documents under his control, bearing on the subject of said 
 investigation and may use for all and any such purposes any and all instru- 
 mentalities and proceedings specified in said Chapter 261 or otherwise permitted 
 by law. At the conclusion of any such investigation the agent shall report 
 to the Commission the proceedings had and his conclusions and recommenda- 
 tions that the Commission may thereupon take such action in the premises as 
 it may be advised is in the public interest." 
 
 Stated meeting March 5th, 1918. 
 
 PROVIDING FOR SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS 
 
 "RESOLVED THAT THE MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC 
 SAFETY, under the powers conferred on it by Chapter 261, Laws, Minnesota, 
 1917, and more particularly by Section 3, Subdivision 4, of said act, does hereby 
 appoint the County Director of each County (hereinafter called the "agent") 
 the agent of the Commission within his County, until further action by it, for 
 the following purposes and with the following powers: 
 
 On being advised at any time that any person resident of the agent's county, 
 has been guilty of conduct or utterances contravening the provisions of Chapter 
 463, Laws, Minnesota, 1917, or any other statutes of said State of similar import, 
 the agent shall submit to the Commission's Secretary a brief statement of the 
 facts alleged and the name and address of the person charged with the offense, 
 and on the approval by the Secretary of his doing, shall proceed with an investi- 
 gation in reference thereto. For the purpose of any such investigation the agent 
 may require any person to appear before him for examination at any convenient 
 place in said county, may adjourn hearings from time to time and from place to 
 place in said County, may administer oaths, may examine any person appearing 
 before him under oath as to any information within his knowledge pertinent 
 to said investigation, and require him to produce for inspection any writings 
 or documents under his control pertinent to said investigation, using for all 
 
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and any such purposes any and all instrumentalities and proceedings specified 
 in said Chapter 261, or otherwise permitted by law. At the conclusion of any 
 such investigation the agent shall report to the Commission the proceedings 
 had, and his conclusions and recommendations that the Commission may there- 
 upon take such action in the premises as it may be advised is in the public in- 
 terest. The agent shall incur no obligations and make no expenditures which 
 shall be chargeable against the Commission or its fund, and shall receive no 
 compensation for any services performed hereunder." 
 Stated meeting March 5th, 1918. 
 
 TIMBER ON STATE LANDS 
 
 "Whereas: It has been called to the attention of the State Safety Com- 
 mission that timber permits issued by the State and expiring June 1st, 1918, 
 and to whom the statutory two extensions have been granted, have not been 
 of full value to the holders of the permits, by reason of the fact that due to the 
 war, a great many workers in the woods have left the service and, secondly, 
 because the alien registration ruling by the Safety Commission, their Order 
 No. 25, drove from the woods of Northern Minnesota more than 2,000 woodmen, 
 and third, because the winter has been such as to make it extremely difficult 
 on account of snow, as well as labor for the holders of the above mentioned 
 permits to execute their contracts, 
 
 Therefore, Be It Resolved: That the State Auditor be requested not 
 to dispose of the timber which shall after June 1st, be situated upon the lands 
 so under permit, either cut or standing, until the legislature by legislative action 
 will give relief to holders of such permits, as in its wisdom and fairness it is 
 deemed just and equable that such relief be given." 
 
 Stated meeting May 7th, 1918. 
 
 BUILDING CONSTRUCTION PERMITS 
 
 "Resolved: That Mr. D. R. Cotton, Regional Advisor of the War In- 
 dustries Board, is hereby appointed the Commission's agent in respect to the 
 matters covered by Circular No. 21 of the War Industries Board, This ap- 
 pointment to continue until terminated by further action of the Commission. 
 The agent shall report his doings from time to time to the Commission, and shall 
 make no expenditures or incur no obligations chargeable to the Commission, 
 or its fund, in excess of specified appropriations made in advance by the Com- 
 mission." 
 
 Stated meeting September 24th, 1918. 
 
 UNITED STATES PUBLIC SAFETY RESERVE FOR MINNESOTA 
 
 "Resolved: That Mr. D. R. Cotton of St. Paul be nominated Federal 
 Director of the United States Public Safety Reserve for Minnesota, pursuant 
 to the request of the Department of Labor at Washington, and that one thousand 
 dollars be appropriated from the Commission's funds, to be expended under 
 Mr. Cotton's direction for clerk hire, traveling expenses, telephone and tele- 
 graph tolls, and stationery, in connection with the work of the Safety Reserve 
 in the State of Minnesota, it being understood that Mr. Cotton will furnish 
 office space and secure the help of competent volunteer assistants." 
 
 Stated meeting October 2, 1917. 
 
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LOCAL EXPENSES 
 
 May 23, 1917. 
 
 Resolved, That it is the sense of the Commission that the local organization 
 should provide for its own expense, but that if any county is unable to make 
 such provision the Commission will at the end of the year, allow proper bills 
 necessarily incurred by the director, not to exceed $100.00 in any county. 
 
 APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL COUNSEL 
 
 June 12, 1917. Mr. Smith presented the following resolution: 
 "Resolved, That the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety hereby 
 requests and instructs its chairman to put its request in writing, that the Attor- 
 ney General employ a special attorney for said Commission and that said attorney 
 be authorized to employ such clerical help as he may need, the same to be paid 
 reasonably upon the presentation to this Commission of his claim therefore, 
 duly approved by the attorney employed as hereinbefore indicated, pursuant 
 to Section 105 of the General Statutes of 1913." 
 
 Mr McGee moved the adoption of the resolution which was carried 
 unanimously. 
 
 June 26, 1917. Mr. Ames. "Resolved, That Mrs. T. G. Winter, Di- 
 rector of the Women's Committee of Public Safety, be requested to call a 
 convention of the District and County Chairmen of the Committee to be held 
 at St. Paul, July 10 and 11, with one session at the State Capitol, the traveling 
 expenses of the delegates to be paid from the funds of the Commission." 
 
 Seconded by Mr. Weiss, the resolution was adopted. 
 
 CONVENTION OF SHERIFFS 
 
 "Resolved, that a convention of the sheriffs of the State be called to meet 
 in St. Paul on August 15th, to consider the organization of special posses with 
 automobile squads the enforcement of laws and other matters connected with 
 public safety." Stated meeting August 1st, 1917. 
 
 RELATING TO THE COORDINATION OF WAR ACTIVITIES 
 
 "Whereas: It appears that there are many voluntary organizations 
 and committees engaged in patriotic service throughout the state and, 
 
 Whereas: In the opinion of the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety 
 such organizations and committees can render the most effective service if 
 properly coordinated; and 
 
 Whereas: A Public Safety Association has been organized in each county 
 to coordinate the war activities within the county and to cooperate with the 
 Minnesota Commission of Public Safety; therefore 
 
 Be It Resolved: That the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety 
 strongly urges that wherever practicable, voluntary patriotic organizations 
 and committees in this state work through and under the guidance of the Minne- 
 sota Commission of Public Safety so that the said Commission of Public .Safety 
 
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may be the central, coordinating agency for all voluntary patriotic work within 
 the state directed toward assisting in the prosecution of the war." 
 Stated meeting December 11th, 1917. 
 
 HEALTH 
 
 November 20, 1917. Doctor R. O. Beard and Doctor L. G. Rowntree 
 appeared and stated that action had been taken by representatives of the State 
 Board of Control, by the University of Minnesota, and by various public welfare 
 and service organizations, looking to the promotion of the social hygiene of the 
 state, to the better control of vice conditions and to the prevention, discovery, 
 isolation and treatment of venereal diseases, concerted effort being made to bring 
 these several forces into a single organization for the better attainment of these 
 ends. Moved by Commissioner Lind, seconded by Commissioner Ames that 
 the following recommendations by Dr. R. O. Beard and others interested be 
 approved. Motion carried. 
 
 1. That this proposed Body be endorsed by the Public Safety Commission 
 and recommended to the Governor for his official sanction. 
 
 2. That the Governor exercise his function in the appointment or approval 
 of this Body. 
 
 3. That the State Board of Health be requested to cooperate with this 
 Body, to clothe such of its members or agents as it may select, and require the 
 enforcement of such regulations for the control of venereal diseases in the state, 
 through the agency of the medical bureau of this Body, as shall have the force 
 of law. 
 
 4. That the Public Safety Commission be asked, upon the presentation 
 of a budget by this Body to consider the appropriation of such sums of money 
 from the emergency fund, as it may deem desirable to devote to the control 
 of venereal diseases through the educational preventive and curative measures 
 proposed by this Commission or governed by the regulations provided by the 
 State Board of Health. 
 
 "Whereas, The State Board of Health on October 21, 1918, adopted 
 the following regulation: 
 
 'Whereas, It has been made to appear to the Minnesota State Board 
 of Health after a full investigation and this Board finding that the public safety, 
 health, and lives of the people of the state are seriously endangered by a com- 
 municable disease known as "Influenza," and that unrestricted and unregulated 
 meetings and gatherings of people at this time are calculated to add to the 
 public danger, the following regulation be adopted, the same to take effect as 
 provided by law: 
 
 220. The holding of all public meetings and gatherings is prohibited 
 except as authorized by written order of the State Board of Health or the Execu- 
 tive Officer thereof, on application duly made. This regulation shall not apply 
 to sessions of public or private schools or to church services, or to moving picture 
 and other theatres. The regulation of these gatherings shall be under the con- 
 trol and supervision of the local health authorities within the powers now con- 
 ferred thereto by this Board or its Executive Officer. 
 
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This regulation shall continue in force until revoked by the Board.' 
 
 Now, Therefore, Be It Resolved by the Minnesota Commission of Public 
 Safety that in view of the serious situation in this state, the people are hereby 
 requested to at once obey and comply with said regulation to the end that the 
 life, safety and health of our people may be protected and safeguarded to the 
 greatest extent possible." 
 
 Stated meeting October 22nd, 1918. 
 
 January 29, 1918. Chas. L. Sommers, L. W. Feezer, Dr. L. G. Rowntree 
 and Dr. H. G. Irvine representing the Minnesota Social Hygiene Commission 
 appeared and requested the Commission to make an appropriation of fifty 
 thousand one hundred and fifty dollars to cover a proposed budget and plan 
 for one year of the Minnesota Social Hygiene Commission. 
 
 Moved by Commissioner Smith, seconded by Commissioner March that 
 the following resolution be adopted. 
 
 "Whereas: The Commission is impressed with the importance of the 
 general plan of work outlined by the Social Hygiene Committee, and thinks 
 it will subserve the public welfare if it is undertaken, and 
 
 Whereas: On the facts presented it is of the opinion that the project is 
 one properly within the purview of the State Board of Hjealth rather than of 
 the Commission, and that the fund for its prosecution should be provided out 
 of a public health appropriation and not out of the appropriation for the Com- 
 mission, and as it was made to appear that the health department has no moneys 
 available for the purpose, 
 
 Therefore, The Minnesota Commission Of Public safety recom- 
 mends: That the plan submitted be referred to the State Board of Health with 
 the request that it confer with the above named Committee, devise a plan which 
 can be operated under the Board of Health's supervision and at a minimum 
 expenditure until the next legislative session and present this plan to the Board, 
 provided for by Section 115 of the General Statutes with application to it for 
 the required funds and that when so presented this Commission recommend 
 that the Board make provision under said Section for sufficient funds to carry 
 on said work as herein recommended." 
 
 MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFETY, 
 
 J. A. A. BURNQUIST, 
 
 Governor and Ex-officio Chairman. 
 Attest: 
 
 H. W. LlBBY, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
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COUNTY DIRECTORS 
 
 COUNTY 
 
 DIRECTOR 
 
 ADDRESS 
 
 Anoka 
 
 John Palmer 
 
 Anoka 
 
 Aitkin 
 
 F. M. Shook 
 
 W. F. Knox, Resigned 
 
 Aitkin 
 
 Becker 
 
 Lou Benshoff 
 
 Detroit 
 
 Beltrami 
 
 Chas. S. Carter 
 
 Bemidji 
 
 No. Beltrami 
 
 John R. Norris 
 
 Williams 
 
 Benton 
 
 Oliver Chirhart 
 
 Ed. Indrehus, Resigned 
 
 Sauk Rapids 
 
 Big Stone 
 
 M. S. Stevens 
 
 Graceville 
 
 Blue Earth 
 
 Samuel B. Wilson 
 
 Mankato 
 
 Brown 
 
 Judge I. M. Olsen 
 H. C. Hess, Resigned 
 
 New Ulm 
 
 Carlton 
 
 Fred D. Vibert 
 
 Cloquet 
 
 Carver 
 
 H. F. Lueders 
 
 Norwood 
 
 
 Chester T. Fenton, Resigned 
 
 Cass 
 
 P. H. McGarry 
 
 Walker 
 
 Chippewa 
 
 S. G. Eliason 
 
 Montevideo 
 
 Chisago 
 
 • Victor L. Johnson 
 
 Center City 
 
 Clay 
 
 H. E. Roberts 
 
 Moorhead 
 
 Clearwater 
 
 L. Jensen 
 
 Clearbrook 
 
 Cook 
 
 Charles Johnson 
 
 Grand Marais 
 
 Cottonwood 
 
 D. U. Weld 
 
 Windom 
 
 Crow Wing 
 
 R. R. Wise 
 
 Brainerd 
 
 Dakota 
 
 Dr. W. M. Dodge 
 
 R. A. Pollock, Resigned 
 
 Farmington 
 
 Dodge 
 
 John L. Curtis 
 
 Mantorville 
 
 Douglas 
 
 Tollef Jacobson 
 
 Alexandria 
 
 Faribault 
 
 0. D. Ackerman 
 
 Wells 
 
 Fillmore 
 
 M. V. Facey 
 
 Preston 
 
 
 A. W. Thompson, Resigned 
 
 Freeborn 
 
 Albert Myer 
 
 Albert Lea 
 
 Goodhue 
 
 W. H. Putnam 
 
 Red Wing 
 
 Grant 
 
 E. J. Scofield 
 
 J. S. Jacobson, Resigned 
 
 Elbow Lake 
 
 Hennepin 
 
 Fred B. Snyder 
 
 Minneapolis 
 
 Houston 
 
 L. L. Duxbury 
 
 Alfred Johnson, Resigned 
 
 Caledonia 
 
 Hubbard 
 
 M. J. Woo'ley 
 
 Park Rapids 
 
 Isanti 
 
 Geo. C. Starr 
 
 Cambridge 
 
 Itasca 
 
 E. C. Kiley 
 
 Grand Rapids 
 
 Jackson 
 
 Robert Muir 
 
 Jackson 
 
 Kanabec 
 
 C. F. Serline 
 
 Mora 
 
 Kandiyohi 
 
 Russel Spicer 
 
 W. A. Rice, Resigned 
 
 Willmar 
 
 Kittson 
 
 G. Goodman 
 
 J. D. Henry, Resigned 
 
 Hallock 
 
 Koochiching 
 
 John Brown J 
 
 International Falls 
 
 Lac qui Parle 
 
 John Dale 
 
 Dawson 
 
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COUNTY 
 
 DIRECTOR 
 
 ADDRESS 
 
 Lake 
 
 John Dwan 
 
 Two Harbors 
 
 Le Sueur 
 
 Thos. H. Smullen 
 
 Le Sueur 
 
 Lincoln 
 
 George Graff 
 
 Ivanhoe 
 
 Lyon 
 
 James Hall 
 
 Marshall 
 
 McLeod 
 
 H. H. Bonniwell 
 
 Hutchinson 
 
 Mahnomen 
 
 A. L. Thompson 
 
 Mahnomen 
 
 Marshall 
 
 A. N. Eckstrom 
 
 Warren 
 
 Martin 
 
 Clifford Jones 
 
 Fairmont 
 
 Meeker 
 
 N. I. Peterson 
 
 Litchfield 
 
 Mille Lacs 
 
 I. G. Stanley 
 
 Princeton 
 
 Morrison 
 
 Don M. Cameron 
 
 Little Falls 
 
 Mower 
 
 W. A. Nolan 
 
 Grand Meadow 
 
 Murray 
 
 Burt I. Weld 
 
 Slayton 
 
 Nicollet 
 
 N. H. Olson 
 
 St. Peter 
 
 Nobles 
 
 W. E. Oliver 
 
 Worthington 
 
 Norman 
 
 E. J. Herringer 
 
 Ada 
 
 Olmsted 
 
 J. A. Melone 
 
 A. C. Gooding, Resigned 
 
 Rochester 
 
 Ottertail 
 
 Henry G. Dahl 
 
 Fergus Falls 
 
 Pennington 
 
 C. A. Pitkin 
 
 Thief River Falls 
 
 Pine 
 
 W. J. McAdam 
 
 F. R. Duxbury, Resigned 
 
 Pine City 
 
 Pipestone 
 
 John Gray 
 
 Pipestone 
 
 Polk 
 
 A. D. Stephens 
 
 Crookston 
 
 Pope 
 
 John R. Serrin 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 Ramsey 
 
 D. R. Cotton 
 
 St. Paul 
 
 Red Lake 
 
 Dr. N. M. Watson 
 
 Red Lake Falls 
 
 Redwood 
 
 A. D. Stewart 
 
 Redwood 
 
 Renville 
 
 T. O'Connor 
 
 Renville 
 
 Rice 
 
 Richard B. Kent 
 
 Faribault 
 
 Rock 
 
 C. H. Christopherson 
 
 Luverne 
 
 Roseau 
 
 M. J. Hegland 
 
 Roseau 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 W. I. Prince 
 
 Duluth 
 
 Scott 
 
 Theodore Weiland 
 
 Shakopee 
 
 Sherburne 
 
 Andrew Davis 
 
 Elk River 
 
 Sibley 
 
 John W. Boock 
 
 Gibbon 
 
 Stearns 
 
 Chas. F. Ladner 
 
 St. Cloud 
 
 Steele 
 
 Fred H. Joesting 
 
 Owatonna 
 
 
 Thos. E. Cashman, Resigned 
 
 Stevens 
 
 R. M. Adams 
 
 Morris 
 
 Swift 
 
 Frank C. Thornton 
 
 Benson 
 
 Todd 
 
 A. D. Day 
 
 Long Prairie 
 
 Traverse 
 
 Chas. E. Houston 
 
 Wheaton 
 
 Wabasha 
 
 David C. McKenzie 
 
 Lake City 
 
 Wadena 
 
 John H. Mark 
 
 Wadena 
 
 Waseca 
 
 R. P. Ward 
 
 Waseca 
 
 Washington 
 
 Col. R. A. Wilkinson 
 
 Stillwater 
 
 Watonwan 
 
 0. C. Peterson 
 
 St. James 
 
 Wilkin 
 
 F. L. Pierce 
 
 J. B. Buscher, Resigned 
 
 Breckenridge 
 
 Winona 
 
 H. E. Blair 
 
 Winona 
 
 Wright 
 
 John Kelly 
 
 Waverly 
 
 Yellow Medicine 
 
 H. P. Bengtson 
 
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 Granite Falls 
 
COUNTY ORGANIZATIONS 
 
 AITKIN COUNTY 
 
 Name Address 
 
 B. R. Hassman Acting Director Aitkin 
 
 T. R. Foley, Jr. Secretary Aitkin 
 
 Nicholai Wladimiroff Vice-Chairman Aitkin, R. 1 
 
 W. T. Mount Treasurer Aitkin 
 
 Advisory Council 
 
 Chairman and Clerk of each Township Board 
 
 Township Chairmen 
 
 Clerk of each Township Board. 
 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 B. R. Hassman 
 
 Aitkin 
 
 J. 0. Werntz 
 
 Palisade 
 
 W. T. Mount 
 
 Aitkin 
 
 A. E. Poison 
 
 Shovel Lake 
 
 J. B. Galarneault 
 
 Aitkin 
 
 0. H. Ligaard 
 
 Lawler 
 
 R. L. Abrahamson 
 
 Hill City 
 
 E. E. Ellis 
 
 McGrash 
 
 J. P. Brenner 
 
 Tamarack 
 
 A. G. Reiter 
 
 McGregor 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Thos. Brusegard 
 
 Hill City 
 
 E. 0. Reiter 
 
 McGrath 
 
 Gustav Berglund 
 
 Palisade 
 
 Martin Newstrom 
 
 Aitkin 
 
 C. W. Brown 
 
 Lawler 
 
 C. W. McDonald 
 
 Tamarack 
 
 War Finance Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Thos. Brusegaard 
 
 Hill City 
 
 Carleton W. Brown 
 
 Lawler 
 
 A. G. Reiter 
 
 McGregor 
 
 Frank Hense 
 
 Aitkin 
 
 A. L. Hamilton 
 
 Aitkin 
 
 C. H. Holmgren 
 
 Aitkin 
 
 W. F. Knox 
 
 
 
 
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ANOKA COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 
 
 Address 
 
 John Palmer 
 
 County Director 
 
 Anoka 
 
 Theo. A. E. Nelson 
 
 Secretary- 
 
 Anoka 
 
 Roe Chase 
 
 First Vice-President 
 
 Anoka 
 
 Frank King 
 
 2nd Vice-President 
 
 Anoka 
 
 Geo. W. Green 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Anoka 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Dr. S. Bond 
 
 Anoka ' 
 
 G. W. Wyatt 
 
 Bethel 
 
 W. W. Blanchard 
 
 Anoka 
 
 Adolph Tillong 
 
 Anoka 
 
 J. T. Dunn 
 
 Anoka 
 
 Charles Whipple 
 
 Elk River 
 
 P. J. Nelson 
 
 Anoka 
 
 J. H. Peloquin 
 
 Hugo 
 
 N. P. Moberg 
 
 Anoka 
 
 Ivan Anderson 
 
 Forest Lake 
 
 F. H. Koos 
 
 Anoka 
 
 J. B. Ryberg 
 
 Fridley 
 
 J. P. Coleman 
 
 Anoka 
 
 Frank Patchen 
 
 Constance 
 
 J. B. Jasperson 
 
 Anoka 
 
 Oscar Halberg 
 
 Constance 
 
 C. S. Hosmer 
 
 Anoka 
 
 Frank King 
 
 Stacy 
 
 W. C. Smith 
 
 Bethel 
 
 Bert Sims 
 
 Cedar 
 
 D. Cardinal 
 
 Hugo 
 
 F. W. Warneke 
 
 Dayton . 
 
 F. H. Morton 
 
 Columbia Heights 
 
 W. H. Robinson 
 
 St. Francis 
 
 S. Laird 
 
 Anoka 
 
 P. Lyon 
 
 Fridley 
 
 Township Organization 
 
 Thos. Coleman 
 
 Fridley 
 
 A. Tillong 
 
 Fridley 
 
 C. A. Nelson 
 
 Fridley 
 
 Martin Laska 
 
 New Brighton 
 
 E. Christenson 
 
 Fridley 
 
 Frank Patchen 
 
 Constance 
 
 C. M. Locke 
 
 Fridley 
 
 0. Schleshart 
 
 Constance 
 
 J. B. Ryberg 
 
 Fridley 
 
 B. 0. Walter 
 
 Constance 
 
 S. A. Carlisle 
 
 Wyoming 
 
 P. P. Kelsey 
 
 Anoka 
 
 T. A. Grant 
 
 Wyoming 
 
 M. E. Dunn 
 
 Anoka 
 
 C. A. Carlisle 
 
 Wyoming 
 
 S. Laird 
 
 Anoka 
 
 E. P. Holden 
 
 Stacy 
 
 C. M. Barney 
 
 Anoka 
 
 J. B. Meister 
 
 Anoka 
 
 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Name 
 L. O. Jacobson, Chairman 
 
 Name 
 All township directors 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Add] 
 
 A. D. W. Johnson 
 
 
 
 
 Chairman 
 
 Anoka 
 
 Geo. W. Wyatt 
 
 Bethel 
 
 Robt. Leathers 
 
 St. Francis 
 
 Johnson Bros. 
 
 Cedar 
 
 177 
 
Finance Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 N. P. Moberg 
 
 Anoka 
 
 Dr. S. Bond 
 
 Anoka 
 
 J. P. Coleman 
 
 Anoka 
 
 
 
 Publicity Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 T. G. J. Pease 
 
 Anoka 
 
 T. J. Abbett 
 
 Anoka 
 
 W. A. Blanchard 
 
 Anoka 
 
 
 
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Name 
 L. Benshoof 
 Chas. H. Kelson 
 C. T. Ebeltoft 
 F. J. Ruth 
 
 BECKER COUNTY 
 
 Director 
 Vice-President 
 Secretary 
 Treasurer 
 
 Advisory Council 
 
 Address 
 Detroit 
 Lake Park 
 Detroit 
 Callaway 
 
 Name 
 L. Benshoof 
 Chas. H. Kelson 
 C. T. Ebeltoft 
 F. J. Ruth 
 L. O. Larson 
 H. A. Londeen 
 L. W. Oberhauser 
 Wm. Gallagher 
 A. K. Torgerson 
 J. W. Nunn 
 R. C. Madsen 
 Geo. Eidenschink 
 Fred Kratschmar 
 Frank Frye 
 Nels Yilitila 
 Ole A. Gire 
 Fred Meskimen 
 
 Address 
 Detroit 
 Lake Park 
 Detroit 
 Callaway 
 Ulen 
 Audubon 
 Frazee 
 Callaway 
 Lake Park 
 Ponsford 
 Detroit, R. F. D. 
 Detroit, R. F. D. 
 Frazee, R. F. D. 
 Sprucedell 
 Menahga, R. F. D. 
 Audubon, R. F. D. 
 Destroit, Star Route 
 
 Name 
 Carl Heuters 
 E. E. Burnham 
 J. M. Brendal 
 S. G. Griffin 
 Chas. Robinson 
 L. G. Zurn 
 Thos. Doherty 
 Gaston Jacobs 
 Ambrose Gaylord 
 S. G. Davis 
 George Brager 
 Severt Severtson 
 Henry Herlitz 
 Peter Engebretson 
 Theo. H. Beaulieu 
 Chas. Kinnunen 
 
 Address 
 Rochert 
 Detroit, R.F.D. 
 Lake Park 
 Detroit, R.F.D. 
 Osage 
 Callaway 
 Detroit, R.F.D. 
 Menahga 
 Arago 
 Ogema 
 Brager 
 Snellman 
 Arago 
 Flom 
 
 White Earth 
 Frazee, R. 4 
 
 Name 
 L. O. Larson 
 H. A. Londeen 
 L. W. Oberhauser 
 Wm. Gallagher 
 Ed. McDonnell 
 A. K. Torgerson 
 J. W. Nunn 
 R. C. Madsen 
 Geo. Eidenschink 
 Fred Kratschmar 
 Frank Frye 
 Nels Yilitala 
 Ole A. Gire 
 Fred Meskimen 
 E. E. Burnham 
 J. M. Brendal 
 S. G. Griffin 
 Chas. Robinson 
 L. G. Zurn 
 Thos. Doherty 
 Gaston Jacobs 
 Ambrose Gaylord 
 Mike Waiters 
 
 Township Organization 
 
 Township 
 Atlanta 
 
 Audubon and Village 
 Burlington 
 Callaway 
 Cormorant 
 Cuba 
 
 Carsonville 
 Detroit 
 Erie 
 
 Evergreen 
 Grand Park 
 Green Valley 
 Hamden 
 Height of Land 
 Lake Eunice 
 Lake Park 
 Lake View 
 Osage 
 Riceville 
 Richwood 
 Runeberg 
 Savannah 
 Silver Leaf 
 
 Address 
 Ulen 
 Audubon 
 Frazee 
 Callaway 
 Audubon, R.F.D. 
 Lake Park 
 Ponsford 
 Detroit 
 
 Detroit, R. F. D. 
 Frazee, R. F. D. 
 Sprucedell 
 Menahga 
 
 Audubon, R. F. D. 
 Detroit, Star Route 
 Detroit, R. 3 
 Lake Park 
 Detroit, R. F. D. 
 Osage 
 Callaway 
 Detroit, R. 2 
 Menahga 
 Arago 
 Frazee, R. F. D. 
 
 179 
 
Name 
 
 Township 
 
 Address 
 
 S. G. Davis 
 
 Spring Creek 
 
 Ogema 
 
 George Brager 
 
 Shell Lake 
 
 Brager 
 
 Severt Severtson 
 
 Toad Lake 
 
 Snellman 
 
 Henry Herlitz 
 
 Two Inlets 
 
 Arago 
 
 Peter Engebretson 
 
 Walworth 
 
 Fiona 
 
 Theo. H. Beaulieu 
 
 White Earth 
 
 White Earth 
 
 Chas. Kinnunen 
 
 Wolf Lake 
 
 Frazee, R. 4 
 
 Detroit Greater Crops Association 
 Executive Board 
 Geo. D. Hamilton J. K. West H. S. Erickson J. B. Hagen 
 
 M. E. Walz Chas. E. Morse Dr. L. C. Weeks 
 
 Officers 
 J. B. Hagen, President Dr. L. C. Weeks, Vice-President E. Morse, Sec.-Treas. 
 
 Westbury Farmers' Club 
 
 Officers 
 C. E. Hanson, President R. L. Greenlaw, Vice-President 
 
 Mrs. V. R. Rasmusson, Secretary Miss Nellie Gandrud, Treasurer 
 
 Ogema Welfare and Safety League 
 Executive Board 
 S. G. Davis Fred Baker B. Tiken B. P. Rasmussen 
 
 J. C. Gray H. Vorderbruggen M. J. Suchomel 
 
 Officers 
 S. G. Davis, President Fred Baker, Secretary-Treasurer 
 
 Lake Park War Committee 
 Executive Board 
 J. M. Brendal Nels Jahren W. J. Norby Chas. H. Kelson 
 
 C. E. Bjorge Dr. O. K. Winberg Dr. J. A. Anderson 
 
 Officers 
 
 J. M. Brendal, President Nels Jahren, Secretary-Treasurer 
 
 Frazee Crop and Public Safety Association 
 Executive Board 
 L. W. Oberhauser C. Kittelson P. O. Field F. A. Stillings 
 
 E. B. Bothe Max Jess D. L. Durkin 
 
 Officers 
 L. W. Oberhauser, President C. Kittelson, Secretary-Treasurer 
 
 Callaway Welfare League 
 
 Executive Board 
 William Gallagher F. J. Ruth Albert Lonson D. E. Brown 
 
 Annie Jenkins J. T. Shannon Albert Londeen 
 
 Officers 
 Wm. Gallagher, President F. J. Ruth, Vice-President Albert Lonsen, Sec.-Treas. 
 
 180 
 
Osage Farmers' Club 
 
 Officers 
 Jas. Robinson, President F. F. Seigford, Secretary Levi Stevens, Treasurer 
 
 Ponsford Welfare League 
 Executive Board 
 Clarence Lemon Bryce Stevens Peter Johnson M. E. Stephens 
 
 U. S. G. Henry Guy Smith J. A. Nygren 
 
 Audubon 
 
 Officers 
 H. A. Londeen, President O. A. Netland, Secretary-Treasurer 
 
 Floyd Lake Farmers' Club 
 
 Officers 
 
 Thos. Doherty, President A. E. Jones, Secretary -Treasurer 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 H. A. Nelson 
 
 Detroit 
 
 Frank Murphy 
 
 Callaway 
 
 Geo. D. Hamilton 
 
 Detroit 
 
 A. E. Wyvell 
 
 Ogema 
 
 J. B. Hagen 
 
 De troit 
 
 I. 0. Orstad 
 
 Audubon 
 
 C. E. Morse 
 
 Detroit 
 
 J. W. Nunn 
 
 Ponsford 
 
 Peter 0. Field 
 
 Frazee 
 
 Theo. H. Beaulieu 
 
 White Earth 
 
 Chas. H. Kelson 
 
 Lake Park 
 
 
 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 
 H. D. Blanding 
 
 Detroit 
 
 W. H. Constans 
 
 Callaway 
 
 John Nelson 
 
 Lake Park 
 
 Fred M. Hibbard 
 
 Ogema 
 
 J. H. Baldwin 
 
 Frazee 
 
 Chas. L. Johnson 
 
 Westbury 
 
 I. 0. Orstad 
 
 Audubon 
 
 
 
 181 
 
BELTRAMI COUNTY 
 
 Name Address 
 
 Chas. S. Carter, Director Bemidji 
 
 E. H. Winter, Vice-President Bemidji 
 
 J. R. Morris, 2nd Vice-President Williams 
 
 Frank Smith, 3rd Vice-President Solway 
 
 E. H. Denu, Secretary Bemidji 
 
 Geo. Rhea, Treasurer Bemidji 
 
 Township Chairmen 
 
 Name 
 M. W. Knox 
 Alfred Moen 
 V. M. Owen 
 Chas. Hayden 
 Simon Torgerson 
 C. W. Clark 
 
 E. W. Hall 
 Thos. Slind 
 
 F. M. Pendergast 
 C. J. Wild 
 
 P. J. Millbach 
 R. N. Holt 
 L. J. Kramer 
 Geo. W. Secrest 
 Carl Boe 
 A. P. Blom 
 F. Gardner 
 Martin Olson 
 F. B. Cook 
 W. A. Worth 
 J. C. Riebe 
 Philip Medley 
 Adolph Sorenson 
 Aug. Stromberg 
 C. R. Nelson 
 Christ Lauvik 
 Wm. Fellows 
 P. H. Mintey 
 W. A. Protsman 
 C. F. Rogers 
 Geo. H. Newton 
 H. A. Brown 
 J. R. Norris 
 W. F. Dickens 
 Geo. W. Butler 
 
 Township 
 Alaska . 
 Bemidji 
 Blackduck 
 Blackduck Vil. 
 Boone 
 Durand 
 Eckles 
 Eugene 
 Bemidji 
 Hagali 
 Jones 
 Kelliher 
 Kelliher Vil. 
 Lammers 
 Langor 
 Liberty 
 Maple Ridge 
 Myhre 
 Nebish 
 Northern 
 O'Brien 
 Port Hope 
 Prosper 
 Quiring 
 Solway Vil. 
 Sugar Bush 
 Tenstrike Vil. 
 Turtle River 
 Washkish 
 Wilton Vil. 
 Funkley Vil. 
 Turtle River Vil. 
 Williams Village 
 Red Lake Vil. 
 Redby Village 
 
 Address 
 Nebish 
 Nebish 
 Hines 
 Blackduck 
 Baudette 
 Puposky 
 Wilton 
 Roosevelt 
 Grant Valley 
 Tenstrike 
 Wilton 
 Kelliher 
 Kelliher 
 Solway 
 Blackduck 
 Wilton, R. No. 1 
 Puposky 
 Roosevelt 
 Nebish 
 Turtle River 
 Nebish 
 Tenstrike 
 Dutchie 
 Quiring 
 Solway 
 Louis 
 Tenstrike 
 Lavinia 
 Washkish 
 Wilton 
 Funkley 
 Turtle River 
 Williams 
 Red Lake 
 Redby 
 
 182 
 
NORTH BELTRAMI COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 
 
 Address 
 
 John R. Norris, President 
 
 Williams 
 
 Geo. Erickson, Vice-President 
 
 Spooner 
 
 Thos. J. Clauson, Secretary- 
 
 Baudette 
 
 Morris Willet, Treasurer 
 
 Baudette 
 
 Advisory Council 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Township 
 
 Address 
 
 A. J. Hilden 
 
 Spooner 
 
 Baudette 
 
 E. J. Tucker 
 
 Wabanica 
 
 Pitt 
 
 A. Chilgren 
 
 McDougald 
 
 Williams 
 
 Martin Olson 
 
 Myre 
 
 Roosevelt 
 
 Richard Olson 
 
 Chilgren 
 
 Roosevelt 
 
 B. A. Arenson 
 
 Lakewood 
 
 Arneson 
 
 Adolph Sorenson 
 
 Prosper 
 
 Dutchie 
 
 Vic Jacobs 
 
 Zipple 
 
 Zipple 
 
 Wm. Zipple 
 
 Wheeler 
 
 Hackett 
 
 Pat Mohan 
 
 Eugene 
 
 Williams 
 
 Ole Clementson 
 
 Gurid 
 
 Clementson 
 
 J. M. Perkins 
 
 Rapid River 
 
 Baudette 
 
 Ray Brown 
 
 Baudette 
 
 Baudette 
 
 Frank Peterson 
 
 Walhalla 
 
 Pitt 
 
 Geo. Bancroft 
 
 Patoma 
 
 Williams 
 
 R. J. Flynn 
 
 Meadowland 
 
 Pitt 
 
 Arthur Tanem 
 
 Swiftwater 
 
 Carp 
 
 C. R. Middleton 
 
 Baudette 
 
 Baudette 
 
 Gus Erickson 
 
 Spooner 
 
 Spooner 
 
 Pat Woods 
 
 McDougal 
 
 Graceton 
 
 Loylan A. Wilson 
 
 159-33 
 
 Williams 
 
 Edward L. Smith 
 
 Pioneer 
 
 Carp 
 
 T. W. Stanley 
 
 Boone 
 
 Baudette 
 
 Arthur A. Cooley 
 
 Norris 
 
 Roosevelt 
 
 John Pratt 
 
 Williams 
 
 Williams 
 
 Adolph Sorenson 
 
 Prosper (Substitute) 
 
 Dutchie 
 
 Robert Dawson 
 
 N. W. Angle 
 
 Warroad 
 
 Floyd F. Burchett 
 
 N. W. Angle 
 
 Warroad 
 
 Gust Palm 
 
 158-30 
 
 Baudette 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Name Address 
 
 Vic Jacobs Zipple 
 
 C. R. Middleton Baudette 
 
 Gust Erickson Spooner 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 John R. Norris, President Williams 
 
 Thos. J. Clauson, Secretary Baudette 
 
 Morris Willet, Treasurer Baudette 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Jas. Clark Williams 
 
 A. J. Hildon Baudette 
 
 Geo. Bancroft Williams 
 
 183 
 
BENTON COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 
 
 Address 
 
 Oliver Chirhart, Acting Director 
 
 
 Sauk Rapids 
 
 0. C. Lance, Secretary 
 
 
 Foley 
 
 Dr. G. 
 
 A. Holdrige, Treasurer 
 
 
 Foley 
 
 
 Advisory Committee 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Frank Zulowski 
 
 Gilman, P. 0. 
 
 Al. Loidolt 
 
 Sauk Rapids, R. F D. 
 
 Martin Herman 
 
 Gilman, P. 0. 
 
 C. H. Waldeen 
 
 Rice, R. F. D. 
 
 N. Skogan 
 
 Ronneby, R. F. D. 
 
 0. S. Ellis 
 
 Rice, R. F. D. 
 
 Chas. Hall 
 
 Oak Park 
 
 0. Chirhart 
 
 Sauk Rapids 
 
 A. P. Carlson 
 
 Foley, R. F. D. 
 
 Geo. E. Rice 
 
 Foley 
 
 Nic Herbrand 
 
 Foley, R. F. D. 
 
 Ivan Greener 
 
 Ronneby 
 
 Ed. Brennan 
 
 Sauk Rapids, R.F.D. 
 
 G. C. Magnuson St. Cloud 
 
 Wm. Barthelemy 
 
 Sauk Rapids, R.F.D. 
 
 S. E. Meagher 
 
 St. Cloud 
 
 E. W. Mayman 
 
 Sauk Rapids, R.F.D. 
 
 
 
 J. D. L. Gilman 
 
 Sauk Rapids, R.F.D. 
 
 
 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 
 Geo. E. Rice 
 
 Foley 
 
 A. F. Koep 
 
 Sauk Rapids,R.F.D. 
 
 J. H. Coates 
 
 Sauk Rapids 
 
 *Jessie L. Gifford St.Cloud,R.F.D.,R6 
 
 Scott Thomas 
 
 Rice 
 
 John L. Foster 
 
 Foley, R. F. D. 
 
 Christ Mueller 
 
 Rice, R. F. D. 
 
 T. D. Maxson 
 
 Oak Park 
 
 Severon Aker 
 
 Rice, R. F. D. 
 
 Mr. Larson 
 
 Princeton, R. F. D. 
 
 H. H. Koep 
 
 Sauk Rapids, R.F.D. 
 
 
 
 *Deceased. 
 
 184 
 
BIG STONE COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 M. S. Stevens, Director 
 
 E. C. Baird, Secretary 
 J. H. Erickson 
 
 O. J. Loftus, Vice-President 
 P. L. Collins, Vice-President 
 J. D. Ross, Vice-President 
 H. H. De Wall, Vice-President 
 Wm. Rize, Jr., Vice-President 
 
 F. L. Cliff, Vice-President 
 
 Phil H. Thomas, Vice-President 
 
 Address 
 Graceville 
 Graceville 
 Clinton 
 Beardsley 
 Barry 
 Clinton 
 Correll 
 Johnson 
 Ortonville 
 Odessa 
 
 Advisory Council 
 
 Name 
 A. J. Loftus 
 James Fitzharris 
 John McNamara 
 Jake Luchsinger 
 J. N. Welander 
 Ole I. Steen 
 Oscar Gustafson 
 
 Address 
 Beardsley 
 Barry 
 Graceville 
 Johnson 
 Clinton 
 Ortonville 
 Ortonville 
 
 Name 
 J. A. Smith 
 Chas. Lindquist 
 Peter Storm 
 C. D. Fifield 
 Lars B. Dobak 
 L. Wolfmeyar 
 
 Address 
 Ortonville 
 Ortonville 
 Ortonville 
 Ortonville 
 Correll 
 Odessa 
 
 Township Organization 
 
 Names 
 
 Cliff Baker 
 
 Nels Nelson P. W. Daly 
 
 H. A. Christopherson 
 
 Township 
 Akron 
 
 Almond 
 
 Artichoke 
 
 Big Stone 
 
 B. H. Smith Harry Hippie J. M. Hegge 
 Graceville 
 
 John McNamara J. H. Sullivan Cliff Mitchell 
 Browns 
 
 Chas. Flynn C. A. Wright H. M. O'Neill 
 Moonshire 
 
 Jake Lucksinger 
 Prior A. G. Knudson 
 
 (Double Township) 
 
 Address 
 
 Correll 
 L. Martenson C. G. Johnson 
 
 Clinton 
 Abel Steen 
 
 Correll 
 Egan Anderson 
 
 Ortonville 
 
 Graceville 
 Beardsley 
 
 Johnson 
 Fred Wolf Wm. Rixe, Jr. 
 
 Oscar Gustofson 
 
 Malta 
 
 Ortonville 
 
 Otrey 
 
 Odessa 
 
 Toqua 
 
 C. W. Green Ole Steen 
 
 T. G. Anderson 
 Arch Williams 
 
 C D. Fifield N. E. Wilkins Frank Coggswell 
 
 George Gardner Frank Sweland Oscar Olson 
 
 Phil H. Thomas 
 
 Jas. Fitzharris Wm. Nash F. L. Collins 
 
 185 
 
 Clinton 
 
 Clinton 
 
 Ortonville 
 
 Ortonville 
 
 Odessa 
 
 Barry 
 
Labor Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 M. S. Stevens 
 
 Graceville 
 
 • F. L. Cliff 
 
 Ortonville 
 
 0. J. Lofthus 
 
 Beardsley 
 
 Phil H. Thomas 
 
 Odessa 
 
 F. L. Collins 
 
 Barry 
 
 John C. Littleton 
 
 Graceville 
 
 J. D. Ross 
 
 Clinton 
 
 C. N. Evans 
 
 Johnson 
 
 H. H. DeWall 
 
 Correll 
 
 John Gowan 
 
 Ortonville 
 
 Win. Rixe, Jr. 
 
 Johnson 
 
 
 
 
 Marketing 
 
 Committee 
 
 
 J. D. Ross 
 
 Clinton 
 
 C. N. Evans 
 
 Johnson 
 
 F. L. Cliff 
 
 Ortonville 
 
 H. W. DeWall 
 
 Correll 
 
 0. J. Lofthus 
 
 Beardsley 
 
 Philip H. Thomas 
 
 Odessa 
 
 F. L. Collins 
 
 Barry 
 
 H. J. Vollmer 
 
 Graceville 
 
 E. A. Smith 
 
 Beardsley 
 
 Samuel Chapman 
 
 Ortonville 
 
 186 
 
BLUE EARTH COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 S. B. Wilson, County Director 
 A. E. Quimby, Secretary 
 P. W. Pitcher, Treasurer 
 
 Address 
 Mankato 
 Mankato 
 Mankato 
 
 Township Organization 
 
 Name 
 A. H. Spaulding 
 John Casper 
 O. V. Karlburg 
 C. E. Whitney 
 Fred C. Oftdahl 
 Louis W. Hintze 
 E. M. Tabott 
 Wm. A. Just 
 H. F. Day 
 Moses Roberts 
 Wm. Mead 
 Henry Thielman 
 L. C. Rew 
 Fred C. Wilber 
 
 Township 
 
 Mankato 
 
 Madison Lake 
 
 Mapleton 
 
 Mapleton 
 
 Medo 
 
 McPherson 
 
 Pleasant Mound 
 
 Rapidan 
 
 Shelley 
 
 South Bend 
 
 Sterling 
 
 St. Clair 
 
 Vernon Center Village 
 
 Vernon Center 
 
 Address 
 Mankato, R. 4 
 Madison Lake 
 Mapleton 
 Mapleton, R. 3 
 Pemberton 
 Smith Mill, R. 1 
 Amboy, R. 3 
 Rapidan 
 Amboy 
 
 Mankato, R. 1 
 Mapleton, R. 4 
 St. Clair 
 Vernon Center 
 Vernon Center, R. 2 
 
 Precinct Committee 
 
 Hubert Kinney 
 James Will 
 Jens Johnson 
 Ben D. Hughes 
 Tom Rooney 
 Harry Ogle 
 C. H. Johnson 
 John D. Cummins 
 M. F. Crane 
 F. H. Griffith 
 Mike Farrell 
 Henry Nelson 
 David E. Johnson 
 Mathias Nostdahl 
 W. Adams 
 Hiram E. Hanson 
 Oliver Olson 
 E. V. Watters 
 Gus Widell 
 Lorin Gray 
 Al Quimby 
 L. J. Carney 
 
 Amboy 
 
 Beauford 
 
 Butternut Valley 
 
 Cambria 
 
 Ceresco 
 
 Danville 
 
 Decoria 
 
 Eagle Lake 
 
 Eagle Lake 
 
 Good Thunder 
 
 Jamsestown 
 
 Judson 
 
 Le Ray 
 
 Lincoln 
 
 Lime 
 
 Lyra 
 
 1st Ward 
 
 2nd Ward 
 
 3rd Ward 
 
 4th Ward 
 
 5th Ward 
 
 6th Ward 
 
 Amboy 
 
 Mapleton, R. 1 
 Lake Crystal, R. 5 
 New Ulm, R. 5 
 Madelia, R. 5 
 Minnesota Lake, R. 1 
 Mankato, R. 1 
 Eagle Lake 
 Garden City 
 Good Thunder 
 Madison Lake, R. 1 
 Lake Crystal, R. 2 
 Madison Lake 
 Madelia, R. 2 
 Mankato, R. 3 
 Mapleton, R. 1 
 Mankato 
 Mankato 
 Mankato 
 Mankato 
 Mankato 
 Mankato 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Thos. H. Foley, Chairman. All county commissioners. 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name Address Name Address 
 
 E. F. Searing Mankato P. R. Hammer Pemberton 
 
 John J. Hughes Lake Crystal Frank Nelson Rapidan 
 
 187 
 
Name 
 John M. Chapman 
 Henry Kraus 
 C. W. Chamberlain 
 Pat Lyons 
 John L. Cummins 
 
 Address 
 Garden City 
 Vernon Center 
 Amboy 
 Madison Lake 
 Eagle Lake 
 
 Name 
 Geo. Barnard 
 B. F. McGregor 
 J. P. Kramer 
 Wm. Roberts 
 M. J. Ryan 
 
 Address 
 Good Thunder 
 Mapleton 
 Minnesota Lake 
 Judson 
 Smiths' Mill 
 
 Finance Committee 
 
 Name 
 W. D. Willard 
 T. J. McGovern 
 Chris Steiner 
 S. B. Wilson 
 
 Address 
 Mankato 
 Mankato 
 Mankato 
 Mankato 
 
 Name Address 
 
 H. A. Patterson Mankato 
 
 John H. Hohman Mankato 
 
 E. F. Searing Mankato 
 
BROWN COUNTY 
 
 Name Address 
 
 I. M. Olsen, Director New Ulm 
 
 F. W. Johnson, 1st Vice-President New Ulm 
 
 Dr. J. R. Hollister, 2nd Vice-President Sleepy Eye 
 
 Aug. Erickson, 3rd Vice-President Springfield 
 
 Rev. A. Norman, 4th Vice-President Hanska 
 
 H. D. Reed, 5th Vice-President Comfrey 
 
 J. P. Ed Bertrand, 6th Vice-President Cobden 
 
 Emil Rasmussen, 7th Vice-President Sleepy Eye 
 
 R. B. Kennedy, Secretary New Ulm 
 
 Vice Chairmen 
 
 Name 
 F. W. Johnson 
 Dr. J. R. Hollister 
 Aug. Erickson 
 Rev. A. Norman 
 
 Address 
 New Ulm 
 Sleepy Eye 
 Springfield 
 Hanska 
 
 Name 
 J. P. Ed Bertrand 
 H. D. Reed 
 Emil Rasmussen 
 
 Address 
 Cobden J ; 
 Comfrey - ; 
 Sleepy Eye 
 
 Township Organization 
 
 Fred Behnke 
 
 J. W. B. Wellcome 
 
 Fred Bott 
 
 Mart. B. Erickson 
 
 Mart Windschitl 
 
 S. C. Frederickson 
 
 Wall. Hogemann 
 
 John S. Aspelund 
 
 Fred Mielke 
 
 Peter Newdall 
 
 J. A. Hillesheim 
 
 Emil Hammermeister 
 
 New Ulm 
 
 Sleepy Eye 
 
 Springfield 
 
 Hanska 
 
 Comfrey 
 
 Cobden 
 
 Evan 
 
 Hanska 
 
 Springfield 
 
 Springfield 
 
 Springfield 
 
 Morgan 
 
 Jos. Corey 
 
 A. O. Amundsen 
 
 T. Thormodson 
 Louis Spelbrink 
 Fred Prahl 
 Peter J. Isackson 
 H. E. Zellner 
 Anton Hillesheim 
 J. A. Hillesheim 
 Jos. N. Schafer 
 
 Sleepy Eye 
 Hanska 
 Sleepy Eye 
 Hanska 
 New Ulm 
 Comfrey 
 Springfield 
 Sleepy Eye 
 New Ulm 
 Sleepy Eye 
 New Ulm 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 F. W. Johnson 
 Dr. J. R. Hollister 
 Aug. Erickson 
 
 New Ulm 
 Sleepy Eye 
 Springfield 
 
 Rev. A. Norman 
 H. D. Reed 
 J. P. Ed. Bertrand 
 Emil Rasmussen 
 
 Hanska 
 Comfrey 
 Cobden 
 Sleepy Eye 
 
 Chas. Stuebe 
 Chas. Cutting 
 J. O. Wood 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 New Ulm 
 Sleepy Eye 
 Comfrey 
 
 Theo. Fred Torgrimson 
 
 Hanska 
 
 189 
 

 
 CARLTON COUNTY 
 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 
 Fred D. Vibert, Director 
 
 Cloquet 
 
 
 
 E. S. 
 
 Davis, Secretary 
 
 Cloquet 
 
 
 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 
 
 H. M. Dixon, Mayor 
 
 Cloquet 
 
 
 
 E. S. 
 
 Davis, Secretary Y. 
 
 M. C. A. Cloquet 
 
 
 
 Dr. F. W. Raiter 
 
 Cloquet 
 
 
 
 Mrs. 
 
 Peter Oleson 
 
 Cloquet 
 
 
 
 
 Districts 
 
 
 Name 
 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Dr. Walters 
 
 
 Moose Lake 
 
 Andrew Frisk 
 
 Calrton, R.F.D. 
 
 John H. Mattson 
 
 Kettle River 
 
 Omer Herbert 
 
 Wrenshell 
 
 Ray Barstow 
 
 
 Cromwell 
 
 W. J. Darby 
 
 Wrenshall 
 
 Ed. Barstow 
 
 
 Wright 
 
 Oscar Isaacson 
 
 Sawyer 
 
 Martin Christianson 
 
 Barnum 
 
 Alex Esko 
 
 Cloquet, R.F.D. 
 
 Jos. P. Pfeifer 
 
 
 Iverson 
 
 0. W. Erickson 
 
 Cloquet 
 
 A. C. Willcuts 
 
 
 Holyoke 
 
 Carl D. Ohman 
 
 Cloquet 
 
 J. A. Gillespie 
 
 
 Carlton 
 
 John Mattinen 
 
 Cloquet 
 
 C. L. Dixon 
 
 
 Cloquet 
 
 Mrs. Peter Oleson 
 
 Cloquet 
 
 John Christenson 
 
 Atkinson 
 
 
 
 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 
 Name 
 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Dr. Walters 
 
 
 Moose Lake 
 
 Omer Herbert 
 
 Wrenshall 
 
 Martin Christianson 
 
 Barnum 
 
 F. R. Walter 
 
 Mahtowa 
 
 J. A. Gillespi 
 
 
 Carlton 
 
 Marketing 
 
 Fred D. Vibert 
 Committee 
 
 Cloquet 
 
 Dr. Walters 
 
 
 Moose Lake 
 
 John Christenson 
 
 Atkinson 
 
 Martin Christianson 
 
 Barnum 
 
 Andrew Frisk 
 
 Carlton, R.F.D. 
 
 Jos. P. Pfeifer 
 
 
 Iverson 
 
 Omer Herbert 
 W. J. Darley 
 
 Wrenshall 
 Wrenshall 
 
 A. C. Willcutte 
 
 
 Holyoke 
 
 Oscar Isaacson 
 
 Sawyer 
 
 J. A. Gillespie 
 
 
 Carlton 
 
 Alex Esko 
 
 Cloquet, R.F.D. 
 
 Guy Smith 
 
 
 Carlton 
 
 C. L. Dixon 
 
 Cloquet 
 
 F. R. Walter 
 
 
 Mahtowa 
 
 0. W. Erickson 
 Carl D. Ohman 
 
 Cloquet 
 Cloquet 
 
 
 
 Coal Co: 
 
 tnmittee 
 
 < 
 
 C. D. Ohman 
 
 
 Cloquet 
 
 Ole Swanson 
 
 Moose Lake 
 
 John Wright 
 
 
 Cromwell 
 
 
 
 190 
 
CARVER COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 H. F. Lueders, Director 
 E. F. Kelm 
 
 Name 
 John Boegeman 
 A. M. Geske 
 E. F. Kelm 
 Theo. Quast, Jr. 
 P. A. Mohrbacher 
 Peter Kleven 
 R. O. Funk 
 C. A. Riel 
 C. C. Teas 
 Frank Kuntz 
 C. H. Gibson 
 
 Address 
 Chaska, R. F. D. 
 Chaska, R. F. D. 
 Chanhassen 
 Cologne, R. F. D. 
 Cologne 
 
 Carver, R. F. D. 
 Carver 
 Waconia 
 Watertown 
 Mayer 
 Chaska 
 
 Address 
 Norwood 
 Chanhassen 
 
 Name 
 A. F. Truwe 
 Wm. Noll 
 H. F. Lueders 
 H. F. Droege 
 J. B. Johnson 
 F. F. Block 
 Ray G. Olson 
 Selby Peterson 
 C. F. Anderson 
 Elmer Fink 
 
 Address 
 Young America 
 Norwood 
 Norwood 
 Hamburg 
 Young America 
 Mayer 
 
 Waconia, R. F. D. 
 Carver, R. F. D. 
 Victoria 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Name 
 E. F. Kelm 
 R. O. Funk 
 P. A. Mohrbacher 
 Selby Peterson 
 C. A. Riel 
 
 Addrees 
 Chanhassen 
 Carver 
 Cologne 
 Waconia 
 Waconia 
 
 Name 
 Wm. Noll 
 B. Johnson 
 Walter Lundstrom 
 Frank Kuntz 
 
 Address 
 Norwood 
 Young America 
 New Germany 
 Mayer, R. F. D. 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 R. 0. Funk 
 
 Carver 
 
 J. B. Johnson 
 
 Young America 
 
 E. F. Kelm 
 
 Chanhassen 
 
 H. F. Lueders 
 
 Norwood 
 
 Elmer Fink 
 
 Victoria 
 
 H. F. Droege 
 
 Hamburg 
 
 C. A. Riel 
 
 Waconia 
 
 H. D. Mielke 
 
 New Germany 
 
 0. E. Wolf 
 
 Augusta 
 
 F. F. Block 
 
 Mayer 
 
 P. A. Mohrbacher 
 
 Cologne 
 
 Frank Barth 
 
 Watertown 
 
 
 
 Dana Dutoit 
 
 Chaska 
 
 191 
 
CASS COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 P. H. McGarry, Director 
 R. P. Ross, Secretary 
 
 Address 
 
 Walker 
 
 Walker 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Odin Naustvold, Treasurer 
 Mack Kennedy, Committee 
 C. D. Bacon, Committee 
 Ed. Rogers, Committee 
 
 Walker 
 Walker 
 Walker 
 Walker 
 
 Township Organization 
 
 Name 
 Geo. Ramsey 
 C. E. Clemans 
 A. E. Farnum 
 Ed. Countryman 
 Al Hansen 
 Geo. Bluhm 
 L. R. Ban- 
 Jim Ross 
 Chas. Dunnell 
 Frank Kinkel 
 Chas. Berggren 
 Frank Anderson 
 J. La Page 
 A. P. Chenevert . 
 J. E. White 
 E. A. Cole 
 Carlton M. Hough 
 Mat Barnes 
 Thos. Gallagher 
 J. W. Bickford 
 Alfonzo Olds 
 N. W. Sawyer 
 Mark Foote 
 L. J. Thorsett 
 G. A. Kappenberg 
 
 Address 
 Sylvan 
 Remer 
 Walker 
 Boy River 
 Cyphers 
 Snowball 
 Remer 
 Cohasset 
 Jenkins 
 Wabedo 
 Hackinsack 
 Boy River 
 Raboiri 
 Outing 
 Pine River 
 Pillager 
 Brainerd 
 Ball Club 
 Ansel P. O. 
 Staples 
 Swatara 
 Hackensack . 
 Boy River 
 Ellis P. O. 
 Pine River 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 John A. McFarling 
 
 Backus 
 
 Sam Flanigan 
 
 Oshawa 
 
 John A. Sanju 
 
 Bay River 
 
 Geo. Robinson 
 
 Hackensack 
 
 G. W. Schulz 
 
 Pequot 
 
 Ben Clarke 
 
 Longville 
 
 Tom Welsh 
 
 Leech Lake 
 
 Ole Halvorson 
 
 Remer 
 
 Mads C. Anderson 
 
 Pequot 
 
 John Schmit 
 
 Pillager 
 
 John Hylen 
 
 Pequot 
 
 August Erickson 
 
 Leader P. 0. 
 
 John Gilmore 
 
 Grant P. 0. 
 
 L. Dougherty 
 
 Backus 
 
 J. P. Williver 
 
 Mildred 
 
 H. H. Martin 
 
 Cass Lake 
 
 Al. Schaffman 
 
 Longville 
 
 T. H. Lauer 
 
 Longville 
 
 J. M. Ives 
 
 Backus 
 
 Cal. Wetherell 
 
 Poplar 
 
 P. N. Kruckaw 
 
 Pontoria 
 
 Gust Holstrum 
 
 Remer 
 
 D. H. Slater 
 
 Tobique 
 
 J. H. Casner 
 
 Shovel Lake 
 
 Name 
 Z. E. House 
 
 President 
 Ed. Miskella 
 
 Secretary 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Address 
 Cass Lake 
 Cass Lake 
 
 Name 
 Ed. Boyce 
 Al. E. Nolan 
 P. M. Larson 
 
 Address 
 Cass Lake 
 Cass Lake 
 Cass Lake 
 
 192 
 
CHIPPEWA COUNTY 
 
 Name Address 
 
 S. G. Eliason, Director Montevideo 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 E. Thomas 
 
 Montevideo 
 
 A. G. Dahl 
 
 Watson 
 
 W. F. Benson 
 
 Wegdahl 
 
 H. L. Shand 
 
 Maynard 
 
 Henry Marquard 
 
 Clara City 
 
 L. 0. Christenson 
 
 Milan 
 
 Finance Committee 
 
 C. J. Thompson, Vice-Chairman Fred S. McCarger 
 
 J. J. Bohlander, Chairman J. J. Stennes 
 
 Chas. H. Budd Andrew Rubertus, Secretary 
 
 S. G. Eliason J- W. Peterson 
 
 193 
 
CHISAGO COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 Victor L. Johnson, Director 
 
 Address 
 Center City 
 
 Name 
 Victor L. Johnson 
 Julius E. Vanstrom 
 M. W. Tuttle 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Address 
 Center City 
 Chisago City 
 Lindstrom 
 
 Name 
 J. A. Rystrom 
 A. R. Hammargren 
 
 Address 
 North Branch 
 Harris 
 
 Township Organization 
 
 Hjelmar Anderson 
 Herman Berg 
 John N. Melin 
 Guy Deming 
 G. J. Stolberg 
 Theo. Thompson 
 F. G. Magnuson 
 W. Abrahamson 
 
 Rush City 
 Rush City 
 Harris 
 Sunrise 
 Harris 
 
 North Branch 
 North Branch 
 Center City 
 
 Frank Sherman 
 John A. Johnson 
 Jas. A. Tuvey 
 C. E. Swenson 
 L. J. Andrews 
 V. A. Leedholm 
 Ray Seavey 
 J. E. Vanstrom 
 
 Stacy 
 
 Center City 
 Taylors Falls 
 Chisago City 
 Lindstrom 
 Center City 
 Taylors Falls 
 Chisago City 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 G. M. Ericson 
 
 Rush City 
 
 Alfred Bloom 
 
 Chisago City 
 
 A. O. Stark 
 
 Harris 
 
 C. A. Victor 
 
 Lindstrom 
 
 Sen. J. A. Rystrom 
 
 North Branch 
 
 C. G. Burns 
 
 Center City 
 
 A. J. Levander 
 
 Stacy 
 
 C. L. Linstrom 
 
 Shafer 
 
 A. Richner 
 
 Wyoming 
 
 W. P. Hobart 
 
 Taylors Falls 
 
 194 
 
CLAY COUNTY 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 H. E. Roberts, Director 
 
 Moorhead 
 
 D. W. Meeker, Secretary 
 
 Moorhead 
 
 Chas. S. Marden, Chairman 
 
 Moorhead 
 
 C. R. Peterson, Treasurer 
 
 Ulen 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Tom Gunness 
 
 Barnesville 
 
 R. L. Scott 
 
 Borup 
 
 A. H. Costain 
 
 Moorhead 
 
 H. P. Hendrickson 
 
 Ulen 
 
 T. B. C. Evans 
 
 Hawley 
 
 
 
 District Chairmen 
 
 Chris. Rehder 
 
 Sabin 
 
 Michael Dauner 
 
 Hawley 
 
 C. A. Sieber 
 
 Barnesville 
 
 Alfred Olson 
 
 Moorhead 
 
 M. A.Giere 
 
 Hawley 
 
 John I. Smith 
 
 Rustad 
 
 Carl J. Knutson 
 
 Hawley 
 
 A. T. Berkkerus 
 
 Glyndon 
 
 D. A. Lamb 
 
 Barnesville 
 
 P. J. Landin 
 
 Moorhead 
 
 John Schmidt 
 
 Sabin 
 
 Nels N. Melvey 
 
 Moorhead 
 
 Peter Sanders 
 
 Felton 
 
 Martin Olson 
 
 Felton 
 
 G. 0. Osmundson 
 
 Averill 
 
 0. M. Steen 
 
 Moorhead 
 
 H. P. Skorstad 
 
 Georgetown 
 
 E. 0. Peterson 
 
 Hawley 
 
 E. D. Grant 
 
 Moorhead 
 
 F. J. Raleigh 
 
 Glyndon 
 
 Nils Hammer 
 
 Hitterdal 
 
 Lewis Quam 
 
 Glyndon 
 
 Edw. A. Trennes 
 
 Ulen 
 
 H. T. Wamre 
 
 Hawley 
 
 Chas. Gibbons 
 
 Hawley 
 
 B. P. Solum 
 
 Rollag 
 
 C. J. Cederberg 
 
 Hawley 
 
 L. A. Opsahl 
 
 Ulen 
 
 David Askegaard 
 
 Comstock 
 
 Geo. H. Levitre 
 
 Borup 
 
 F. E. Kieselbach 
 
 Barnesville 
 
 J. M. Manning 
 
 Dilworth 
 
 N. B. Hanson 
 
 Barnesville 
 
 J. H. Northup 
 
 Georgetown 
 
 L. F. Possehl 
 
 Felton 
 
 Knud Wef aid 
 
 Hawley 
 
 W. S. North 
 
 Glyndon 
 
 J. T. Johnson 
 
 Ulen 
 
 Name 
 J. M. Wither ow 
 Chairman 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Address 
 
 Moorhead 
 
 Name 
 H. J. Harris 
 A. M. Dammen 
 
 Address 
 Moorhead 
 Moorhead 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 J. H. Northrop 
 
 Georgetown 
 
 R. B. Webb 
 
 Glyndon 
 
 C. B. Brodine 
 
 Felton 
 
 T. B. C. Evans 
 
 Hawley 
 
 195 
 
Name 
 
 Address Name 
 
 Address 
 
 C. R. Peterson 
 
 Ulen F. A. Wyatt 
 
 Sabin 
 
 John Olness 
 
 Kragnes Samuel Holland 
 
 Comstock 
 
 M. J. Solum 
 
 Hitterdal H. C. Possehl 
 
 Baker 
 
 F. 0. Olson 
 
 Moorhead Alf. Haagenson 
 
 Clay County War Board 
 
 Moorhead, Minn. 
 
 Barnes ville 
 
 Leslie Welter, V. Pt. America First Association. 
 
 Prof. J. A. Aasgaard, Chairman, Red Cross. 
 
 Prof. F. A. Weld, Chairman, Y. M. C. A. 
 
 R. B. Webb, Chairman, County Commissioners. 
 
 A. H. Costain, Chairman, Liberty Loan Committee. 
 
 S. O. Tang, County Supt. of Schools. 
 
 H. E. Roberts, County Director. 
 
 Wm. Russell, Chairman War Certificate and Thrift Stamp Committee. 
 
 196 
 
CLEARWATER COUNTY 
 
 Name Address 
 
 L. Jensen, Director Clearbrook 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 L. Jensen 
 
 Clearbrook 
 
 Alfred Nelson 
 
 Clearbrook 
 
 Aug. Westerlund 
 
 Clearbrook 
 
 Harden Anderson 
 
 Clearbrook 
 
 0. G. Lee 
 
 Bagley 
 
 C. H. Hovland 
 
 Leonard 
 
 *James Nelson 
 
 Bagley 
 
 T. E. Rider 
 
 Shevlin 
 
 A. H. Holland 
 
 Gonvick 
 
 G. E. Burfield 
 
 Shevlin 
 
 Martin Quern 
 
 Gonvick 
 
 E. H. Reff 
 
 Bagley 
 
 •Deceased 
 
 19T 
 
COOK COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 Chas. J. Johnson, Director 
 Dr. F. B. Hicks, Vice-President 
 Rev. Wm. Ripon, Secretary 
 Jas. G. Scott, Treasurer 
 
 Address 
 Grand Marais 
 Grand Marais 
 Grand Marais 
 Grand Marais 
 
 
 Chairmen 
 
 
 
 Name Address 
 Wm. C. Smith Schroeder 
 M. H. Greggs Tofte 
 T. F. Thomas Lutsen 
 John Marshal Grand Marais 
 H. 0. Engelrow Tofte 
 
 Name 
 L. H. Lien 
 Wm. Clinch 
 W. J. Bray 
 M. D. Archiqette 
 
 Address 
 Grand Marais 
 Grand Marais 
 Hovland 
 Hovland 
 
 198 
 
COTTONWOOD COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 D. U. Weld, Director 
 Al. T. Anderson, Secretary 
 W. J. Clark, Treasurer 
 
 Address 
 Windom 
 Windom 
 Windom 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 D. U. Weld 
 
 Windom 
 
 Al. T. Anderson 
 
 Wimdon 
 
 W. J. Clark 
 
 Windom 
 
 
 
 Township Chairmen 
 
 Name 
 C. H. Anderson 
 Geo. W. Potter 
 A. O. Stark 
 Peter Klaassen 
 John F. Gustafson 
 F. D. Dewey 
 A. G. Mereness 
 Wm. Juhnke 
 Elias Warner 
 A. F. Manee 
 Abr. Teichroew 
 J. H. Wall 
 Geo. Eichner 
 Emil Altermatt 
 Lloyd St. John 
 Milo E. Smith 
 Hans M. Johnson 
 E. Engbretson 
 
 Township 
 
 Ann 
 
 Amboy 
 
 Amo 
 
 Carson 
 
 Dale 
 
 Delton 
 
 Great Bend 
 
 Germantown 
 
 Highwater 
 
 Lakeside 
 
 Midway 
 
 Mountain Lake 
 
 Rose Hill 
 
 Selma 
 
 Springfield 
 
 Southbrook 
 
 Storden 
 
 Westbrook 
 
 Address 
 Revere 
 Jeffers 
 Storden 
 
 Mountain Lake 
 Windom 
 Comfrey 
 Windom 
 Sanborn 
 Larrtberton 
 Bingham Lake 
 Mountain Lake 
 Mountain Lake 
 Westbrook 
 Comfrey 
 Heron Lake 
 Heron Lake 
 Lamberton 
 Westbrook 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Gustav Muller 
 Ralph F. Crim 
 
 Windom 
 Windom 
 
 Market Town Chairmen 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 A. L. Holt 
 
 Bingham Lake 
 
 C. H. Ruhberg 
 
 Storden 
 
 C. E. Perkins 
 
 Jeffers 
 
 John E. Villa 
 
 Westbrook 
 
 H. P. Goertz, Sr. 
 
 Mountain Lake 
 
 C. Beier 
 
 Delft 
 
 199 
 
Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address Name 
 
 Address 
 
 M. S. Porter 
 
 Windom 
 
 C. E. Perkins 
 
 i Jeffers 
 
 W. J. McGladry Bingham 
 
 Lake C. H. Ruhberg Storden 
 
 H. P. Goertz 
 
 , Sr. Mountain Lake John E. Villa 
 
 Westbrook 
 
 C. Beier 
 
 Delft 
 
 Advisory Council 
 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Name 
 
 Name 
 
 
 E. H. Klock 
 
 Frank Stedman 
 
 M. L. Fisch 
 
 
 A. W. Annes 
 
 Jens Anderson 
 
 J. E. Foss 
 
 
 0. J. Finstad 
 
 H. E. Hanson 
 
 G. F. Warren 
 
 
 Wilson Borst 
 
 John J. Rupp 
 
 L. C. Churchill 
 
 
 Paul S. Redding 
 
 Dr. H. C. Beise 
 
 T. A. Perkins 
 
 
 A. F. Strunk 
 
 A. D. Nelson 
 
 0. G. Peterson 
 
 
 Dr. F. R. Weiser 
 
 C. W. Gillam 
 J. T. Johnson 
 
 Food Administration 
 Dr. L. Sogge 
 
 A. A. Quevli 
 
 200 
 
CROW WING COUNTY 
 
 
 Name 
 
 
 Address 
 
 
 R. R. Wise, Director 
 
 
 Brainerd 
 
 
 S. A. Adair, Vice-President 
 
 Brainerd 
 
 
 G. P. O'Brien, Treasurer 
 
 Brainerd 
 
 
 Fred T. Lincoln, Secretary 
 
 Brainerd 
 
 
 R. R. Gould, Assistant Secretary- 
 
 Brainerd 
 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 W. H. Gemmel Brainerd 
 
 R. A. Beise Brainerd 
 
 *N. H. Ingersoll Brainerd 
 
 R. M. Sheets Brainerd 
 
 Edward Crust 
 
 Brainerd 
 
 E. A. Colquohoun Brainerd 
 
 H. I. Cohen 
 
 Brainerd 
 
 Mrs. Henry Theviot Brainerd 
 
 J. A. Thabes 
 
 Brainerd 
 
 Miss Anne Mahlum Brainerd 
 
 A. J. Halsted 
 
 Brainerd 
 
 Mrs. J. A. Thabes Brainerd 
 
 W. C. Cobb 
 
 Brainerd 
 
 A. G. Trommald Brainerd 
 
 Elof Nelson 
 
 Brainerd 
 
 D. D. Shrader Brainerd 
 
 
 Township Organization 
 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Township 
 
 Address 
 
 
 W. H. Jenkins 
 
 Allen 
 
 Cross Lake 
 
 
 Nels A. Nelson 
 
 Allen 
 
 Cross Lake 
 
 
 Neils Gaarden 
 
 Allen 
 
 Cross Lake 
 
 
 L. P. Hall 
 
 Bay Lake 
 
 Deerwood, R. 1 
 
 
 H. E. Workman 
 
 .Bay Lake 
 
 Deerwood, R. 1 
 
 
 Chas. Barrett 
 
 Baxter 
 
 Brainerd 
 
 
 A. R. Cass, Sr. 
 
 Baxter 
 
 Brainerd 
 
 
 Geo. Spies 
 
 Baxter 
 
 Brainerd 
 
 
 Fred J. Winquist 
 
 Deerwood 
 
 Deerwood, R. 1, Box 12 
 
 
 Peter E. Nelson 
 
 Deerwood 
 
 Deerwood, R. 1, Box 13 
 
 
 Chas. C. Osterlund 
 
 Village of Deerwood Deerwood 
 
 
 C. C. Adams 
 
 Village of Deerwood Deerwood 
 
 
 W. H. Andrews 
 
 Emily 
 
 Outing 
 
 
 John M. Lambert 
 
 Emily 
 
 Emily 
 
 
 C. M. Taylor 
 
 Emily 
 
 Outing 
 
 
 P. Kealy 
 
 Cuyuna 
 
 Cuyuna 
 
 
 Frank Buchanan 
 
 Cuyuna 
 
 Cuyuna 
 
 
 J. R. Britton 
 
 Daggett Brook 
 
 Brainerd 
 
 
 Walter Caughey 
 
 Daggett Brook 
 
 Brainerd 
 
 
 M. F. Shannon 
 
 Daggett Brook 
 
 Fort Ripley 
 
 
 Robt. Terry 
 
 Dean Lake 
 
 Aitkin 
 
 
 Homer M. Wells 
 
 Dean Lake 
 
 Aitkin 
 
 
 John Franz 
 
 Dean Lake 
 
 Aitkin 
 
 
 W. J. Sullivan 
 
 Garrison 
 
 Garrison 
 
 
 Tom Dykeman 
 
 Garrison 
 
 Dykeman 
 
 
 E. M. Prindell 
 
 Deerwood 
 
 Deerwood 
 
 
 B. McGiffin 
 
 Deerwood 
 
 Deerwood 
 
 
 Fred Lester 
 
 Hubert 
 
 Hubert R. 5 
 
 
 C. B. Whitney 
 
 Jenkins 
 
 Jenkins 
 
 
 John Oberg 
 
 Deerwood 
 
 Deerwood 
 
 *Deceased 
 
 201 
 
Name 
 
 J. N. Harrison 
 A. L. Bratt 
 J. J. Tucker 
 F. J. Meyers 
 John Driver 
 Wm. LaBoard 
 Fred Dayton 
 Ed. Syverson 
 H. P. Armstrong 
 D. B. McAlpine 
 N. R. Bowman 
 L. O. Johnson 
 Freeman Thorpe 
 H. M. Hoff 
 C. P. Moore 
 Carl Wheeler 
 H. G. Hughey 
 H. P. Madsen 
 Peter Peterson 
 Frank Mickelson 
 George E. Hughes 
 W. A. Kuro 
 Frank Bryant 
 Fred H. Bock 
 J. H. Dickinson 
 C. H. Kyloo 
 Wm. McCall 
 R. E. Phillips 
 Nels G. Olson 
 Peter Peterson 
 Bert Sabin 
 A. T. Kimball 
 Harvey Drake 
 Geo. McCulloch 
 Geo. Keough 
 Dick Sagli 
 M. D. Gorton - 
 Henry Grand 
 W. S. McConnell 
 Martin Halvorsen 
 Sol Marquis 
 A. J. Nelson 
 Joseph Prushek 
 Robt. Wood 
 Judge A. R. Holman 
 F. G. Schrader 
 Perry Gustafson 
 Wm. J. Keeler 
 Mose Simpson 
 S. S. Rood 
 Henry Fellerman 
 
 TOWNSHIP 
 
 Garrison 
 
 Fort Ripley 
 
 Fort Ripley 
 
 Fort Ripley 
 
 Fairfield 
 
 Fairfield 
 
 Fairfield 
 
 Ironton 
 
 Ironton 
 
 Ironton 
 
 Ideal 
 
 Ideal 
 
 Lake Edward 
 
 Lake Edward 
 
 Lake Edward 
 
 Long Lake 
 
 Long Lake 
 
 Long Lake 
 
 Little Pine 
 
 Little Pine 
 
 Little Pine 
 
 Jenkins 
 
 Jenkins 
 
 Nokay Lake 
 
 Nokay Lake 
 
 Nokay Lake 
 
 Maple Grove 
 
 Maple Grove 
 
 Maple Grove 
 
 Manganese 
 
 Mission 
 
 (Watertown) Mission 
 
 Mission 
 
 Oak Lawn 
 
 Oak Lawn 
 
 Oak Lawn 
 
 Platte Lake 
 
 Platte Lake 
 
 Platte Lake 
 
 Pellican 
 
 Pellican 
 
 Pellican 
 
 Perry Lake 
 
 Perry Lake 
 
 Pequot 
 
 Pequot 
 
 Ross Lake 
 
 Ross Lake 
 
 Ross Lake 
 
 Rabbit Lake 
 
 Rabbit Lake 
 
 Address 
 
 Flak 
 
 Fort Ripley 
 
 Fort Ripley 
 
 Fort Ripley 
 
 Cross Lake 
 
 Cross Lake 
 
 Cross Lake 
 
 Ironton 
 
 Ironton 
 
 Ironton 
 
 Jenkins 
 
 Pequot 
 
 Hubert 
 
 Merrifield 
 
 Merrifield 
 
 Brainerd, R. 1 
 
 Brainerd, R. 3 
 
 Brainerd, R. 3 
 
 Little Pine 
 
 Little Pine 
 
 Little Pine 
 
 Jenkins 
 
 Jenkins 
 
 Brainerd 
 
 Brainerd, R. 2 
 
 Brainerd, R. 3 
 
 Brainerd, R. 3 
 
 Dykeman 
 
 Brainerd, R. 3 
 
 Manganese 
 
 Mission 
 
 Pequot 
 
 Mission 
 
 Brainerd, R. 3 
 
 Brainerd, R. 3 
 
 Brainerd, R. 2 
 
 Brainerd, R. 3 
 
 Dykeman 
 
 Dykeman 
 
 Pequot 
 
 Nisswa 
 
 Pequot 
 
 Cuyuna 
 
 Mission 
 
 Pequot 
 
 Pequot 
 
 Aitkin 
 
 Aitkin 
 
 Aitkin 
 
 Aitkin, R. 3 
 
 Aitkin, R. 3 
 
 202 
 
Name 
 
 W. H. Gear 
 C. H. Ballow 
 John Dewing 
 James Ingram 
 Eugene Dana 
 Grover C. Dixon 
 P. D. Flansburg 
 F. J. Reid 
 Henry Longevin 
 Wm. Murray 
 W. B. Bill 
 Melvin Bailey 
 Harry Gould 
 Neal McKay 
 Oscar Peterson 
 Benj. Pordyce 
 Claud Michel 
 R. Wolford 
 Joseph Sorg 
 Wm. A. Syreen 
 Albert Jacobson 
 John Peterson 
 E. C. Peabody 
 H. L. Stearns 
 Levi Bailey 
 Nels Johnson 
 R. J. Wetherbee 
 W. Koof 
 
 Herman Lefkowitz 
 W. S. Pitt 
 Jim Sorenson 
 P. C. Peabody 
 
 TOWNSHIP 
 Rabbit Lake 
 Roosevelt 
 Roosevelt 
 Sibley 
 Sibley 
 Sibley 
 
 St. Matthias 
 St. Matthias 
 St. Matthias 
 Smiley 
 Smiley 
 Watertown 
 Watertown 
 Watertown 
 Timothy 
 Timothy 
 Timothy 
 Wolford 
 Wolford 
 Klondike 
 Klondike 
 1st Asst. District 
 1st. Asst. District 
 1st. Asst. District 
 Crow Wing 
 Crow Wing 
 Crow Wing 
 Village of Crosby 
 Village of Crosby 
 Village of Crosby 
 Kennedy 
 Lietner 
 
 Address 
 
 Aitkin, R. 3 
 
 Dykeman 
 
 Garrison 
 
 Pequot 
 
 Pequot 
 
 Pequot 
 
 Fort Ripley 
 
 Fort Ripley 
 
 Fort Ripley 
 
 Nisswa 
 
 Nisswa 
 
 Cross Lake 
 
 Cross Lake 
 
 Cross Lake 
 
 Swanberg 
 
 Pine River 
 
 Swanberg 
 
 Wolford 
 
 Wolford 
 
 Crosby 
 
 Ironton 
 
 Brainerd 
 
 Brainerd, Box 27 
 
 Brainerd, Box 27 
 
 Crow Wing 
 
 Brainerd 
 
 Crow Wing 
 
 Crosby 
 
 Crosby 
 
 Crosby 
 
 Merrifield 
 
 Merrifield 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Name Address Name Address 
 
 F. T. Lincoln Capt. G. A. Anderson Crosby 
 
 Chairman Brainerd R. R. Gould Brainerd 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 R. R. Wise 
 
 Brainerd 
 
 E. E. Taylor 
 
 Brainerd 
 
 F. T. Lincoln 
 
 Brainerd 
 
 R. R. Gould 
 
 Brainerd 
 
 Food Administrator 
 
 Name 
 R. R. Wise 
 
 Address 
 Brainerd 
 
 203 
 
DAKOTA COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 Dr. W. M. Dodge, Director 
 
 Address 
 Farmington 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Name 
 C. J. Zehander 
 James Slater 
 Chas. Kohls 
 Tom Scott 
 Sam Wallace 
 
 E. H. Chamberlain 
 Nic Conzemius 
 
 I. E. Day 
 
 F. A. Thomas 
 Frank Wetterlin 
 F. N. Fox 
 
 Address 
 So. St. Paul 
 Mendota 
 Rosemount 
 Rosemount 
 Rich Valley 
 Hastings 
 Hastings 
 Hastings 
 Farmington 
 Farmington 
 Hampton 
 
 Name 
 P. J. Brummel 
 A. L. Sayers 
 Geo. Hoffman 
 H. L. Stevens 
 J. F. Wille 
 Edward Peter 
 Theo. Kimmes 
 M. C. Larson 
 A. F. Howland 
 L. H. Hunter 
 
 Address 
 Hastings 
 Lakeville 
 Farmington 
 Farmington 
 Randolph 
 Randolph 
 Hampton 
 Northfield 
 Northfield 
 Randolph 
 
 Name 
 F. A. Ruhn 
 W. A. Samels 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Address 
 Rosemount 
 Lakeville 
 
 Name 
 John Heinen 
 A. Muellerleile 
 
 Address 
 Hastings 
 Hampton 
 
 James Ahern 
 Fred Groves 
 Geo. W. Becker 
 Edward Peter 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Hastings 
 Farmington 
 Hampton 
 Randolph 
 
 N. M. Jacobson 
 O. M. Christenson 
 Albert Hughes 
 Oscar Shumway 
 
 Northfield 
 Lakeville 
 Stanton 
 Castle Rock 
 
 204 
 
DODGE COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 
 J. L. Curtis, Director 
 
 D. A. Hinckley, Secretary 
 
 Address 
 
 Mantorville 
 Claremont 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Name 
 Fred Solle 
 Ole Saderahlen 
 J. E. Thorndsen 
 W. E. Schuck 
 L. R Tucker 
 F. Longeigan 
 Alfred Tvedt 
 Gus Tully 
 J. L. Curtis 
 J. H. Bell 
 John Aitken 
 Andrew Anderson 
 Henry Yahn 
 Ed. Eastman 
 W. F. Rosenthal 
 F. H. Holstenson 
 Ed. O'Conner 
 Alfred Yentch 
 J. F. Madsen 
 Carl Eckman 
 
 Address 
 
 Hayfield 
 
 Kasson 
 Kasson 
 Kasson 
 Mantorville 
 Mantorville 
 Mantorville 
 Dodge Center 
 Dodge Center 
 West Concord 
 Kasson 
 Dodge Center 
 Hayfield 
 Hayfield 
 West Concord 
 West Concord 
 West Concord 
 Hayfield 
 
 Name 
 Fred Kruger 
 Albert Johnston 
 K. E. Strandemo 
 Albert Johnson 
 J. H. Halvorson 
 Thos. Tollefson 
 P. L. Davis 
 C. D. Bell 
 Fred Zeller 
 F. M. Yenne 
 
 F. H. Noehl 
 
 J. M. T. Cooper 
 W. P. Mann 
 
 G. A. Gray 
 
 C. B. Von Ruden 
 M. D. Williams 
 F. L. Wilson 
 P. H. Bielengerg 
 H. A. Parker 
 
 Address 
 Hayfield 
 Hayfield 
 Hayfield 
 Hayfield 
 West Concord 
 West Concord 
 West Concord 
 West Concord 
 West Concord 
 West Concord 
 West Concord 
 Mantorville 
 Claremont 
 Claremont 
 Claremont 
 Dodge Center 
 Dodge Center 
 Dodge Center 
 Dodge Center 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 J. L. Curtis, Chairman 
 Chairman of each township board 
 
 Mantorville 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name Address Name Address 
 
 W. E. McCommins Dodge Center A. R. Britzins Hayfield 
 
 205 
 
DOUGLAS COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 Tollef Jacobson, Director 
 Constant Larson, Secretary 
 
 Address 
 
 Alexandria 
 Alexandria 
 
 Township Chairmen 
 
 Name 
 
 B. E. Howe 
 L. E. Olson 
 Clyde Robbins 
 Aug. J. Michaels 
 F. E. Meade 
 John Lund 
 
 C. H. Cooper 
 Gilbert Thompson 
 Geo. Freudenberg 
 
 C. J. Christopher son 
 N. E. Nelson 
 
 T. J. Baros 
 J. O. Lewis 
 A. J. Hauglie 
 Emil Bergh 
 F. G. Dobmeyer 
 A. F. Johnson 
 
 D. J. Davidson 
 
 Address 
 Osakis 
 Nelson 
 Carlos 
 Alexandria 
 Alexandria 
 Alexandria 
 Carlos 
 Carlos 
 
 Parkers Prairie 
 Alexandria 
 Alexandria 
 Alexandria 
 Farwell 
 Brandon 
 Brandon 
 Brandon 
 Melby 
 Evansville 
 
 Name 
 Nels Bye 
 Jorgen Spilseth 
 O. W. Harrison 
 A. J. Ostrom 
 Frank Buscher 
 O. J. Berg 
 John Nelson 
 J. B. Hove 
 Geo. Stromlund 
 N. P. Norling 
 C. H. Bronson 
 H. E. Gingery 
 H. A. LeRoy 
 Roy Franklin 
 S. R. Drum 
 H. S. Campbell 
 Geo. Susens 
 
 Address 
 Brandon 
 Kensington 
 Kensington 
 Evansville 
 Brandon, R.F.D. 3 
 Brandon 
 Garfield 
 Carlos 
 Nelson 
 Forada 
 Osakis 
 Osakis 
 Alexandria 
 Alexandria 
 Alexandria 
 Alexandria 
 Alexandria 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Tollef Jacobson, Chairman 
 Local agents of each township. 
 
 Alexandria 
 
 Finance Committee 
 
 Name 
 Constant Larson 
 B. E. Howe 
 F. H. Borchert 
 Tollef Jacobson 
 
 Address 
 Alexandria 
 Osakis 
 
 Alexandria 
 
 Name 
 Andrew Jacobson 
 George Susens 
 Geo. L. Treat 
 
 Address 
 
 Alexandria 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Richard Johnson 
 
 Melby 
 
 Geo. Stromlund 
 
 Nelson 
 
 L. A. Schwantz 
 
 Evansville 
 
 0. P. Stevens 
 
 Forada 
 
 Anton Strom 
 
 Brandon 
 
 Aug. Kohlhaas 
 
 Carlos 
 
 Aug. Sanstead 
 
 Garfield 
 
 J. A. Hintzen 
 
 Miltona 
 
 O. W. Hanson 
 
 Kensington 
 
 Geo. Herberger 
 
 Osakis 
 
 F . A. Weed 
 
 Alexandria 
 
 
 
 206 
 
FARIBAULT COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 O. D. Ackerman, Director 
 F. E. Hadley, Secretary 
 J. M. Malmin, Treasurer 
 
 Address 
 Wells 
 
 Winnebago 
 Blue Earth 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 C. W. Franklin 
 
 Winnebago 
 
 R. J. Havensen 
 
 Bricelyn 
 
 J. E. Hynes 
 
 Winnebago 
 
 Oscar Mundale 
 
 Frost 
 
 Geo. Root 
 
 Easton 
 
 0. C. Enge 
 
 Elmore 
 
 Albert Sonneck Jr. 
 
 Minnesota Lake 
 
 H. E. Stewart 
 
 Elmore 
 
 Geo. Hollands 
 
 Wells 
 
 C. H. Garnsey 
 
 Winnebago 
 
 Oscar Penny 
 
 Wells 
 
 Wm. Haynes 
 
 Delavan 
 
 Paul Dulas 
 
 Wells 
 
 L. R. Johnson 
 
 Easton 
 
 J. F. Paul 
 
 Easton 
 
 C. W. Moore 
 
 Minnesota Lake 
 
 John Claude 
 
 Delavan 
 
 F. B. Stubbs 
 
 Wells 
 
 E. A. Maiers 
 
 Huntly 
 
 0. H. Koetke 
 
 Walters 
 
 John Clifford 
 
 Guckeen 
 
 John Robertson 
 
 Kiester 
 
 Aug. Bartz 
 
 Blue Earth 
 
 Ed. 0. Lund 
 
 Bricelyn 
 
 E. 0. Dybevick 
 
 Frost 
 
 W. 0. Dustin 
 
 Elmore 
 
 J. M. Bergstetter, 
 
 Bricelyn 
 
 H. J. Frundt 
 
 Blue Earth 
 
 R, F. Drake 
 
 Wells 
 
 Levy Lund 
 
 Frost 
 
 L. Hintz 
 
 Walters 
 
 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Name Address 
 
 J. M. Malmin, Chairman Blue Earth 
 
 F. E. Krause Blue Earth 
 Township, Village and City Chairman 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 F. E. Krause 
 
 
 E. A. Maiers 
 
 Huntley 
 
 Chairman 
 
 Blue Earth 
 
 Theo. F. Gary 
 
 Gucken 
 
 George Whaley 
 
 Winnebago 
 
 Elmer Wicken 
 
 Elmore 
 
 F. E. Stubbs 
 
 Wells 
 
 Ed. Weber 
 
 Frost 
 
 L. R. Johnson 
 
 Easton 
 
 John Robertson 
 
 Kiester 
 
 0. A. Holt 
 
 Delavan 
 
 Ed. Holmes 
 
 Elmore 
 
 
 
 Arthur Gansmoe 
 
 Bricelyn 
 
 War Finance Committee 
 
 Dr. Wm. H. Barr, Vice-President 
 W. A. Streeter, (Resigned) 
 
 207 
 
 Wells 
 Winnebago 
 
FILLMORE COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 M. V. Facey, Director 
 
 Address 
 Preston 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 John O. Rustad 
 
 E. I. Torgerson 
 H. E. Olson 
 
 F. D. Feustemacher 
 D. B. Ogg 
 
 Oscar Dahl 
 J. W. Fairbairn 
 A. C. Austin 
 
 C. H. Farrell 
 Sidney Baker 
 Arthur Sheldon 
 John F. Healy 
 Dr. S. L. Boucsein 
 Ole Brokken 
 
 Gus Gartner 
 Otto Wendorf 
 I. H. Zupee 
 
 D. M. Backman 
 M. B. Gullickson 
 Geo. Julsrud 
 Henry Danglie 
 
 Address 
 Whalan 
 Whalan 
 Ostrander 
 Spring Valley 
 Preston 
 Prosper 
 Preston 
 Lanesboro 
 Chatfield 
 Wykoff 
 Spring Valley 
 Fountain 
 Spring Valley 
 Preston 
 Preston 
 Wykoff 
 Chatfield 
 Whalan 
 Peterson 
 Rushford 
 Lanesboro 
 
 Name 
 D. A. Mosher 
 R. A. Jenson 
 Leon Lillie 
 D. W. Bacon 
 Gerhard Byholt 
 K. T. Hegland 
 N. W. Wiker 
 
 B. A. Lyke 
 
 C. W. Hale 
 W. C. Love 
 Asmund Vogen 
 Rev. S. J. Wallace 
 Fred Bacon 
 Chas. Utley 
 
 D. J . Danielson 
 L. D. Hamlin 
 J. C. Ness 
 
 J. A. Fife 
 
 D. F. Sirus 
 Chas. Vanderbie 
 
 E. L. Babcock 
 
 Address 
 Harmony 
 Whalan 
 Chatfield 
 Mabel 
 Rushford 
 Lanesboro 
 Mabel 
 
 Spring Valley 
 Stewartville 
 Lime Springs,Ia 
 Rushford 
 Spring Valley 
 Mabel 
 Preston 
 Fountain 
 Spring Valley 
 Canton 
 Canton 
 Granger 
 Greenleafton 
 Amherst 
 
 208 
 
FREEBORN COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 Martin Blacklin, Director 
 Albert Myer, Secretary 
 
 Address 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Name 
 C. H. Day 
 S. O. Simonson 
 Albert Iverson 
 Sam L. Hanson 
 H. C. Hanson 
 Clarence Wedge 
 J. F. Hedgecock 
 John E. Ransom 
 C. T. Helgeson 
 H. Carroll Day 
 L. S. Whitcomb 
 Frank Thompson 
 Frank Faville 
 M. M. Jones 
 Bert Skinner 
 Edward Olson 
 
 Address 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 
 Name 
 D. D. Devine 
 C. G. Lembke 
 
 A. F. Wohlhuter 
 C. H. Mitchell 
 S. Haugdahl 
 
 B. M. Loeffler 
 
 Dr. W. L. Devaney 
 W. L. Beadle 
 Harold Stoa 
 G. W. Knorr 
 Mrs. J. A. Fuller 
 Mrs. Earl Dominick 
 Mrs. Frank Thompson 
 Mrs. Henry Harm 
 Mrs. E. H. Haisley 
 Mrs. Albert Myer 
 
 Address 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 
 Freeborn Advisory Council 
 
 Name 
 C. H. Day 
 Clarence Wedge 
 Frank Thompson 
 C. H. Mitchell 
 Mrs. Frank Thompson 
 John Cunningham 
 G. P. Meadowcroft 
 P. A. Stensrud 
 H. M. Christopherson 
 N. M. Henry 
 Botolf Bridly 
 M. J. Harty 
 Frank Sistek 
 Jens Talle 
 Chas. Ackland 
 
 Address 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Twin Lake 
 London 
 Hartland 
 Hartland 
 Hayward 
 Oakland 
 Geneva 
 Oakland 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 
 Name 
 Geo. L. Sexton 
 C. T. Helgeson 
 Bert Skinner 
 Mrs. J. A. Fuller 
 W. C. Gruetzmacher 
 N. H. Hoyne 
 R. M. Olson 
 C. M. Field 
 S. O. Singelstad 
 O. A. Ulland 
 Ole S. Nelson 
 C. D. Franklin 
 Charles Nelson 
 Olaf Mauseth 
 
 Address 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Geneva 
 Albert Lea 
 Hartland 
 Glenville 
 Emmons 
 Lansing 
 Emmons 
 Ellendale 
 Hayward 
 Alden 
 
 Name 
 W. C. Gruetzmacher 
 N. H. Hoyne 
 R. M. Olson 
 C. M. Field 
 S. O. Singelstad 
 
 County Organization 
 
 Address 
 Geneva 
 Albert Lea 
 Hartland 
 Glenville 
 Emmons 
 
 Name 
 John Cunningham 
 C. P. Meadowcroft 
 P. A. Stensrud 
 
 Address 
 Twin Lakes 
 London 
 Hartland 
 
 H. M. Christopherson Hartland 
 N. M. Henry Hayward 
 
 209 
 
Name ' 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 0. A. Ulland 
 
 Lansing 
 
 Botolf Bridly 
 
 Oakland 
 
 Ole S. Nelson 
 
 Emmons 
 
 M. J. Harty 
 
 Geneva 
 
 C. D. Franklin 
 
 Ellendale 
 
 Frank Sistek 
 
 Oakland 
 
 Charles Nelson 
 
 Hayward 
 
 Jens Talle 
 
 Albert Lea 
 
 Olaf Mauseth 
 
 Alden 
 
 Chas. Ackland 
 
 Albert Lea 
 
 Township Organization 
 
 Name 
 
 Township 
 
 Address 
 
 W. C. Gruetzmaker 
 
 Geneva Village 
 
 Geneva 
 
 B. H. Murray 
 
 Geneva Village 
 
 Geneva 
 
 John Cunningham 
 
 Nunda 
 
 Twin Lakes 
 
 J. F. McKeown 
 
 Nunda 
 
 Twin Lakes 
 
 N. H. Hoyne 
 
 Freeman 
 
 Albert Lea 
 
 G. P. Meadowcroft 
 
 London 
 
 London 
 
 John Bergeson 
 
 London 
 
 Northwood, la., R No. 2 
 
 R. M. Olson 
 
 Hartland 
 
 Hartland 
 
 P. N. Pederson 
 
 Hartland 
 
 Hartland 
 
 P. A. Stensrud 
 
 Freeborn 
 
 Hartland 
 
 C. B. Howard 
 
 Freeborn 
 
 Freeborn 
 
 C. N. Field 
 
 Glenville 
 
 Glenville 
 
 A. T. Sawyer 
 
 Glenville 
 
 Glenville 
 
 H. M. Christopherson 
 
 Hartland 
 
 Hartland 
 
 J. A. Halvorsen 
 
 Hartland 
 
 Hartland 
 
 S. 0. Singelstad 
 
 Emmons 
 
 Emmons 
 
 Albert H. Rasmusson 
 
 Emmons 
 
 Emmons 
 
 N. M. Henry 
 
 Riceland 
 
 Hayward 
 
 Ole 0. Biridley 
 
 Riceland 
 
 Hayward 
 
 0. A. Ulland 
 
 Newry 
 
 Lansing 
 
 B. K. Benson 
 
 Newry 
 
 Blooming Prairie 
 
 Olaf Grant 
 
 Newry 
 
 Blooming Prairie 
 
 Geo. Cashman 
 
 Newry 
 
 Blooming Prairie 
 
 Botlof Bridly 
 
 Moscow 
 
 Oakland 
 
 C. L. Freeman 
 
 Moscow 
 
 Austin, R. No. 4 
 
 Ole S. Nelson 
 
 Mansfield 
 
 Emmons 
 
 Lewis J. Helland 
 
 Mansfield 
 
 Emmons 
 
 M. J. Harty 
 
 Geneva 
 
 Geneva 
 
 C. D. Franklin 
 
 Geneva 
 
 Ellendale R. No. 4 
 
 Frank Sistek 
 
 Oakland 
 
 Oakland 
 
 L. 0. Ofstuen 
 
 Oakland 
 
 Oakland 
 
 Charles Nelson 
 
 Hayward 
 
 Hayward 
 
 A. B. Frydenlund 
 
 Hayward 
 
 Hayward 
 
 Jens Talle 
 
 Bancroft 
 
 Albert Lea 
 
 Bernhard Jonsrud 
 
 Bancroft 
 
 Albert Lea 
 
 Olaf Mauseth 
 
 Carlston 
 
 Alden 
 
 Chas. Ackland 
 
 Manchester 
 
 Albert Lea 
 
 G. 0. Myran 
 
 Manchester 
 
 Manchester 
 
 John L. Johnson 
 
 Bath 
 
 Ellendale 
 
 John G. Stadheim 
 
 Bath 
 
 Clarks Grove 
 
 210 
 
Name 
 Severt P. Nelson 
 C. M. Jensen 
 A. F. Struck 
 S. Rose Buchanan 
 A. P. Hansen 
 Fred Teide 
 T. C. Irvine 
 Sylvester Horning 
 H. C. Wittmer 
 
 Township 
 Albert Lea 
 Albert Lea 
 Shell Rock 
 Shell Rock 
 Alden 
 Alden 
 Alden 
 
 Pickerel Lake 
 Piokerel Lake 
 
 Address 
 
 Gordonsville 
 
 Northwood, la. 
 
 Alden 
 
 Alden 
 
 Alden 
 
 Albert Lea, R. No. 4 
 
 Alden, R. No. 1 
 
 Farm Organization Labor 
 
 Name Address 
 
 C. C. Dwight, Chairman Albert Lea 
 
 H. H. Dunn Albert Lea 
 
 N. E. Peterson Albert Lea 
 
 Albert Myer Albert Lea 
 
 Joe Kilbride Albert Lea 
 
 W. G. Chamberlain, President Albert Lea 
 
 L. S. Whitcomb, Secretary Albert Lea 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 Oscar Subby 
 Theodore Speltz 
 E. A. Nelson 
 C. O. Myran 
 H. H. Emmons 
 Knudt A. Overland 
 C. B. Howard 
 Earl Stanley 
 Louis Fogel 
 
 Address 
 
 Albert Lea 
 
 Albert Lea 
 
 Hartland 
 
 Manchester 
 
 Emmons 
 
 Twin Lakes 
 
 Freeborn 
 
 Alden 
 
 Armstrong 
 
 Name 
 Martin Springer 
 E. P. Howe 
 John M. Miller 
 E. E. Dunn 
 John E. Lukes 
 P. J. Fibelstad 
 A. Sorenson 
 O. A. Ulland 
 J. J. Sorenson 
 
 Address 
 Conger 
 Glenville 
 Gordonville 
 Myrtle 
 London 
 Hayward 
 Oakland 
 Lansing 
 Clarks Grove 
 
 Sll 
 
GOODHUE COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 W. H. Putnam, Director 
 Martin Halvorson, Secretary 
 
 Address 
 Red Wing 
 Wanamingo 
 
 Name 
 Sam Thoretenson 
 
 C. H. Ekblad 
 
 A. F. Johnson 
 M. H. Kindseth 
 P. J. Tvelstad 
 Wm. Gorman 
 W. R. Sawyer 
 Anton Schafer 
 Nick Musty 
 
 E. S. Berggren 
 O. E. Harme 
 
 B. C. Peterson 
 Cliff W. Gress 
 H. P. Hanson 
 
 A. R. Mensing 
 W. R. Collister 
 T. T. Comstock 
 John J. Quam 
 H. H. Young 
 Henry Henricks 
 
 B. G. Featherston 
 Dan O'Reilly 
 
 J. Hoffman 
 
 F. Church 
 
 N. H. Husbyn 
 W. C. Hayward 
 Carl Degner 
 A. C. Ylvisuker 
 L. L. Cornwell 
 
 D. C. Sheldon 
 A. W. Parkin 
 T. O. Sundry 
 P. O. Finstuen 
 Louis Tyelstad 
 Robt. J. Goudy 
 W. A. Dibble 
 Geo. Laro 
 
 N. B. Ofelt 
 Hjalmer Pearson 
 Henry Damman 
 
 W. H. Putnam 
 W. C. Krise 
 
 Township 
 
 Address 
 Red Wing 
 Red Wing 
 Red Wing 
 Goodhue 
 Goodhue 
 Goodhue 
 Belle Chester 
 Lake City 
 Goodhue 
 Cannon Falls 
 Cannon Falls 
 Cannon Falls 
 Cannon Falls 
 Cannon Falls 
 Cannon Falls 
 Skyberg 
 Kenyon 
 Kenyon, R. 1 
 Lake City 
 Red Wing, R. R. 
 Red Wing, R. R. 
 Goodhue 
 Frontenac 
 Frontenac 
 Zumbrota, R. 1 
 Pine Island 
 Pine Island 
 Zumbrota 
 Pine Island 
 Pine Island 
 Pine Island 
 Kenyon, R. R. 
 Zumbrota 
 Pine Island 
 Stanton 
 Stanton 
 Staton 
 Vasa 
 
 Cannon Falls 
 Red Wing 
 
 Organization 
 
 Name 
 J. H. Nibbe 
 J. H. Boxrud 
 Fred Volmers 
 Chas. F. Sawyer 
 C. E. Rucker 
 C. L. Parkin 
 A. K. Finseth 
 I. S. Stegnier 
 Geo. Langemo 
 L. H. Underdahl 
 J. H. Gihlstort 
 O. W. Kolshon 
 Albert Helmeske 
 Henry Sathrum 
 John P. Gross 
 Geo. Solberg 
 A. Finstuen 
 J. A. Hanson 
 M. F. Gunderson 
 F. F. Edstrom 
 A. G. Johnson 
 A. L. Flom 
 A. L. Ballard 
 C. A. Erstad 
 Martin O. Floan 
 A. H. Tongen 
 L. J. Roma 
 A. I. Haugan 
 Severt Charlson 
 J. E. Norsvig 
 John P. Wangen 
 L. F. Cary 
 E. E. Nelson 
 Frank Boothroyd 
 Ole Sunnes 
 
 E. J. Nelson 
 
 F. J. Parker 
 A. J. Rockne 
 Leo. Schafer 
 S. B. Barteau 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Red Wing 
 Red Wing 
 
 Martin Rudd 
 R. F. Gunderson 
 
 Address 
 Goodhue 
 Goodhue 
 Goodhue 
 Goodhue 
 Goodhue 
 Goodhue 
 Kenyon 
 Nerstrand 
 Kenyon 
 Nerstrand 
 Red Wing, R. R. 
 Red Wing, R. R. 
 Red Wing, R. R. 
 Kenyon 
 Kenyon 
 Kenyon 
 Kenyon 
 Kenyon 
 Kenyon 
 Cannon Falls 
 Cannon Falls 
 Cannon Falls 
 Zumbrota 
 Zumbrota 
 Zumbrota, R. 4 
 Zumbrota, R. 1 
 Kenyon, R. 4 
 Kenyon, R. 5 
 Dennison 
 Dennison 
 Dennison 
 Welch 
 Welch 
 
 Red Wing, R. R. 
 Zumbrota 
 Zumbrota 
 Goodhue 
 Zumbrota 
 Zumbrota 
 Zumbrota 
 
 Kenyon 
 Kenyon P. O. 
 
 212 
 
Name 
 M. T. Nilaw 
 R. J. Peterson 
 L. F. Cary 
 Wm. Tanner 
 A. W. Swinton 
 Carl Veek 
 Harry Lee 
 
 Address 
 Eggleston 
 Frontenac 
 Welch 
 
 Cannon Falls 
 Stanton 
 Dennison 
 Kenyon 
 
 Name 
 Wm. Shepard 
 C. F. Parkin 
 W. R. Sawyer 
 John M. Holton 
 J. D. Grover 
 Arthur W. Parkin 
 
 Address 
 Kenyon P. O. 
 Goodhue 
 Belle Chester 
 Wanamingo 
 Zumbrota 
 Pine Island 
 
 Advisory Council 
 
 J. C. E. Holmen 
 Chas. F. Sawyer 
 L. L. Cornwell 
 
 Kenyon 
 Goodhue 
 Pine Island 
 
 Liberty Loan Committees 
 All Campaigns 
 
 County Executive Committee 
 
 W. H. Putnam, County Chairman 
 
 J. C. E. Holmen Kenyon Chas. F. Sawyer Goodhue 
 
 A. R. Mensing Cannon Falls Leo Schafer Zumbrota 
 
 Carl Vik Dennison L. L. Cornwell Pine Island 
 
 H. M. Halvorson Wanamingo Jens K. Grondahl Red Wing 
 
 City of Red Wing Executive Committee 
 
 Sam'l H. Lockin, Chairman 
 E. C. Bryan Fred W. Putnam 
 
 E. H. Lidberg J. F. Merrill 
 
 D. M. Neill 
 
 ais 
 
GRANT COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 E. J. Scofield, Director 
 N. E. Rulien 
 L. C. Johnson, Secretary 
 
 Address 
 Elbow Lake 
 Hoffman 
 Elbow Lake 
 
 County Organization 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 A. W. Wells 
 
 Herman 
 
 O. E. Shefloe 
 
 Hoffman 
 
 L. 0. Foss 
 
 Elbow Lake 
 
 Henry Hessel 
 
 Elbow Lake 
 
 C. A. Bergren 
 
 Elbow Lake 
 
 J. M. Stene 
 
 Ashby 
 
 W. H. Beach 
 
 Barrett 
 
 
 
 Advisory Committee 
 
 E. J. Scofield 
 O. M. Hubred 
 K. K. Lee 
 A. E. Fuglie 
 John Brennin 
 Iver Stamnes 
 Andrew Johnson 
 Tosten Hagen 
 A. E. Phinney 
 Adolph Aanerud 
 
 Elbow Lake 
 Barrett 
 Elbow Lake 
 Ashby 
 Hoffman 
 Barrett 
 Elbow Lake 
 Elbow Lake 
 Herman 
 Elbow Lake 
 
 Geo. W. Blume 
 Geo. Houps 
 Chas. Larson 
 H. L. Marple 
 O. W. Jones 
 N. E. Rulien 
 Arthur Smith 
 Mrs. A. W. Wells 
 John Ferguson 
 
 Herman 
 Norcross 
 Norcross 
 Wendall 
 Herman 
 Hoffman 
 Wendall 
 Herman 
 Elbow Lake 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Aldred Peterson 
 
 Barrett 
 
 J. T. Lindem 
 
 Herman 
 
 Fred Olson 
 
 Elbow Lake 
 
 W. T. Ziebarth 
 
 Herman 
 
 T. A. Boyd 
 
 Wendall 
 
 Geo. Houps 
 
 Norcross 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Carl H. Larson 
 
 Hereford 
 
 Julius 0. Hagen 
 
 Barrett 
 
 Tosten E. Dybdal 
 
 Elbow Lake 
 
 Paul S. Goodsell 
 
 Herman 
 
 Andrew Olson 
 
 Ashby 
 
 Geo. Houps 
 
 Norcross 
 
 H. T. Harrison 
 
 Erdahl 
 
 Arthur Smith 
 
 Wendall 
 
 N. E. Rulien 
 
 Hoffman 
 
 
 
 214 
 
HENNEPIN COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 Fred B. Snyder, President 
 A. L. Sorter, 1st Vice-President 
 Frank Nelson, 2st Vice-President 
 Grant, Robinson, 3rd Vice-President 
 Edgar L. Noyes, Secretary 
 E. L. Mattson, Treasurer 
 
 Address 
 800 Security Building, Minneapolis 
 342 Security Bank Bldg., Minneapolis 
 Minnesota College, Minneapolis 
 Excelsior Minnesota 
 1212 Plymouth Building, Minneapolis 
 Scand.-Am. Bank Bldg., Minneapolis 
 
 County Organization 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Ward 
 
 Wallace G. Nye 
 
 3rd 
 
 *Carl L. Wallace 
 
 8th 
 
 Joseph R. Kingman 
 
 5th 
 
 William A Currie 
 
 4th 
 
 Ernest Malmberg 
 
 13th 
 
 J.E.Smith Town of Brooklyn 
 
 C.H.White Town of Excelsior 
 
 
 Advisory 
 
 Name 
 
 Ward 
 
 John F. Walsh 
 
 1st 
 
 Wm. M. Ives 
 
 1st 
 
 F. E. Barney 
 
 2nd 
 
 R. S. Read 
 
 2nd 
 
 Francis A. Gross 
 
 3rd 
 
 Wallace G. Nye 
 
 3rd 
 
 J. L. Kiichli 
 
 3rd 
 
 Geo. H. Selover 
 
 4th 
 
 E. G. Potter 
 
 4th 
 
 Joseph Kingman 
 
 4th 
 
 Charles B. Homes 
 
 4th 
 
 C. M. Jordan 
 
 5th 
 
 John P. Nash 
 
 5th 
 
 H. M. Lewis 
 
 5th 
 
 John Auble 
 
 6th 
 
 E. M. Jones 
 
 7th 
 
 George 0. Hauge 
 
 7th 
 
 Wm. Siegmann 
 
 7th 
 
 L. A. Lydiard 
 
 8th 
 
 Dr. R. R. Todd 
 
 8th 
 
 Frank T. Moody 
 
 8th 
 
 J. C. Mclntyre 
 
 8th 
 
 *Carl L. Wallace 
 
 8th 
 
 August Johnson 
 
 9th 
 
 J. F. Conroy 
 
 9th 
 
 A. S. Pollock 
 
 9th 
 
 W. C. Batdorf 
 
 10th 
 
 ♦Deceased 
 
 
 Address 
 
 1215 Queen Ave. N., Minneapolis 
 801 Met. Bank Bldg., Minneapolis 
 
 1010 Security Bank Bldg., Minneapolis 
 422 First Ave. N., Minneapolis 
 810 Security Bank Bldg., Minneapolis 
 
 Osseo 
 
 Excelsior 
 
 Council 
 
 Minneapolis 
 520 University Ave. N. E. 
 2322 Marshall St. N. E. 
 915 S. E. Fourth 
 406 Fourth St. S. E. 
 1411 Fremont Ave. N. 
 1215 Queen Ave. N. 
 1501 Dupont Ave. N. 
 910 McKnight Bldg. 
 945 Andrus Bldg. 
 1010 Security Building 
 
 801 N. Y. Life Building 
 
 615 E. Eighteenth St. 
 
 516 N. Y. Life Building 
 1626 Third Ave. S. 
 1406 Second St. S. 
 4017 Park Ave. S. 
 
 412 Nicollet Ave. 
 2651 Thirteenth Ave. S. 
 
 516 N. Y. Life Building 
 2816 Blaisdell Ave. 
 2606 Dupont Ave. S. 
 2721 Colfax Ave. S. 
 
 801 Met. Bank Building 
 
 716 Adams St. N. E. 
 1854 Central Ave. 
 2639 N. E. Jackson 
 3011 Girard Ave. N. 
 
 215 
 
Name 
 
 Ward Minneapolis 
 
 L. A. Hillier 
 
 10th 3635 Fremont Ave. N. 
 
 C. S. Ross 
 
 11th 917 S. 
 
 Seventh St. 
 
 Chris Nelson 
 
 11th 1830 E. 
 
 Franklin 
 
 C. E. Ryberg 
 
 12th 3008 Forty-First Ave. S. 
 
 Herman Moe 
 
 12th 3936 Thirty-Eighth Ave. S. 
 
 Dr. Thos. T. Warham 
 
 13th 806 Masonic Temple 
 
 E. L. Richardson 
 
 13th 4448 Washburn Ave. S. 
 
 Ernest Halmberg 
 
 13th 810 Security Building 
 
 Name 
 
 Township 
 
 Address 
 
 J. A. Baillif 
 
 Bloomington 
 
 Station F. R. 1, Mpls. Box 79 
 
 J. E. Smith 
 
 Brooklyn 
 
 Osseo P. O. 
 
 D. H. Garrett 
 
 Brooklyn Center 
 
 Osseo, R. 1 
 
 B. F. Seymour 
 
 Champlain 
 
 Champlain 
 
 Charles Bursch 
 
 Corcoran 
 
 Rogers P. O. 
 
 G. A. Kirkwood 
 
 Crystal Village 
 
 Robbinsdale, R. 1 
 
 Alex McNeil 
 
 Dayton 
 
 Dayton P. 0. 
 
 J. J. Margens 
 
 Deephaven 
 
 Dayton P. 0. 
 
 A. H. Lyman 
 
 Excelsior Village 
 
 Excelsior 
 
 C. H. White 
 
 Excelsior Town 
 
 Excelsior 
 
 J. W. Pemberton 
 
 Eden Prairie 
 
 Eden Prairie 
 
 Melvin Grimes 
 
 Edina Village 
 
 Eden Prairie 
 
 W. H. Schoening 
 
 Greenwood 
 
 Loretto P. 0. 
 
 Wm. Sweeney 
 
 Golden Valley 
 
 Golden Valley 
 
 G. W. Moore 
 
 Hopkins 
 
 Hopkins 
 
 Albert Fisher 
 
 Hassan 
 
 Rogers P. 0. 
 
 John Lockedellie 
 
 Hanover 
 
 Loretto P. 0. 
 
 0. Styner 
 
 Independence 
 
 Maple Plain P. 0. 
 
 Samuel Rettinger 
 
 Long Lake 
 
 Maple Plain P. 0. 
 
 A. F. Campbell 
 
 Maple Grove 
 
 Osseo 
 
 F. E. Tallant 
 
 Mound 
 
 Osseo 
 
 John H. Gerber 
 
 Medina 
 
 Wayzata, R. 2 
 
 A. A. Crane 
 
 Minnetonka Beach 
 
 1st & Sec. Nat. Bank, Mpls.— 
 
 J. G. Cressy 
 
 Minnetrista Town 
 
 Mound 
 
 E. M. Beal 
 
 Maple Plain 
 
 Mound 
 
 N. Martinson 
 
 Minnetonka Town 
 
 Wayzata P. 0. 
 
 Milo Stubbs 
 
 Orono 
 
 Crystal Bay P. 0. 
 
 M. M. Carpenter 
 
 Orono 
 
 Osseo 
 
 J. B. Howe 
 
 Plymouth 
 
 Hopkins P. 0., R. 3 
 
 E. J. Ohr 
 
 Richfield 
 
 Station F, Minneapolis 
 
 J. H. Morse 
 
 Robbinsdale 
 
 Robbinsdale 
 
 Frank W. Harves 
 
 Rogers Village 
 
 Rogers P. 0. 
 
 Francis Jager 
 
 St. Bonifacious 
 
 Rogers P. 0. 
 
 Louis W. Fuller 
 
 St. Louis Park 
 
 Rogers P. 0. 
 
 Theo. A. Pahl 
 
 St. Anthony 
 
 New Brighton P. 0. 
 
 E. W. Becker 
 
 Tonka Bay 
 
 Excelsior P. 0. 
 
 H. L. Turner 
 
 Wayzata 
 
 At Large 
 
 Excelsior P. 0. 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 
 John Ryan 
 
 20 Second St. 
 216 
 
 N. E., Minneapolis 
 
Name 
 Wm. A. Currie 
 J. G. Robb, 
 John Peterson 
 T. 0. Dahl 
 W. H. Rendell 
 A. P. Ortquist 
 Wm. R. Morris 
 Fred G. Smith 
 John B. Irwin 
 A. W. Ingenhutt 
 W. F. Nelson 
 Alfred F. Pillsbury 
 Jas. D. Williams 
 W. L. Martin 
 
 Address 
 422 First Ave. N., Minneapolis 
 
 1600 Chicago Ave., Minneapolis 
 
 615 Twenty-First Ave. S., Minneapolis 
 
 1601 E. Lake St., Minneapolis 
 210 Seventh St. S., Minneapolis 
 1012 E. Fifteenth St., Minneapolis 
 818 Met. Life Bldg., Minneapolis 
 311 Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis 
 Station F, R. 1-, Minneapolis 
 
 301 E. Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis 
 554 McKnight Building, Minneapolis 
 Met. Life Bldg., Minneapolis 
 2618 E. Franklin, Minneapolis 
 412-16 1st Nat. Soo Line Bldg., Mpls. 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Name Township 
 
 David C. Adie, Chairman 
 
 J. A. Baillif 
 J. E. Smith 
 Charles Bursch 
 Alex McNeill 
 J. W. Pemberton 
 C. H. White 
 W. H. Schoening 
 Albert Fisher 
 O. Styner 
 A. F. Campbell 
 John H. Gerber 
 N. Martinson 
 J. G. Cressy 
 Milo Stubbs 
 J. B. Howe 
 Theo. A. Pahl 
 
 Bloomington 
 
 Brooklyn 
 
 Corcoran 
 
 Dayton 
 
 Eden Prairie 
 
 Excelsior 
 
 Greenwood 
 
 Hassan 
 
 Independence 
 
 Maple Grove 
 
 Medina 
 
 Minnetonka 
 
 Minnetrista 
 
 Orono 
 
 Plymouth 
 
 St. Anthony 
 
 Address 
 
 Minneapolis, R. 1, Box 79 
 
 Osseo 
 
 Rogers P. O. 
 
 Anoka 
 
 Eden Prairie 
 
 Excelsior 
 
 Loretto 
 
 Rogers 
 
 Maple Plain 
 
 Osseo 
 
 Wayzata, R. 2 
 
 Hopkins 
 
 Mound 
 
 Crystal Bay 
 
 Hopkins, R. 3 
 
 New Brighton 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 W. H. Rendell, 
 
 Chairman 
 M. M. Carpenter 
 Frank W. Harves 
 A. H. Lyman 
 
 Address 
 210 Seventh St. S., 
 
 Minneapolis 
 Osseo 
 Rogers 
 Excelsior 
 
 Name 
 G. W. Moore 
 F. E. Rallant 
 H. L. Turner 
 Louis W. Fuller 
 Francis Jager , 
 
 Finance Committee 
 
 Name 
 R. M. Bennett 
 F. L. Carpenter 
 F. A. Chamberlain 
 Geo. D. Dayton 
 E. W, Decker 
 
 Address 
 Hopkins 
 Mound 
 Wayzata 
 St. Louis Park 
 St. Bonifacious 
 
 Address 
 710 Security building, Minneapolis 
 900 1st Nat. Soo Bldg., Minneapolis 
 1st and Sec. Nat. Bank, Minneapolis 
 Dayton & Co., Minneapolis 
 411 Marquette Avenue, Minneapolis 
 
 217 
 
HOUSTON COUNTY 
 
 Name Address 
 
 L. L. Duxbury, Director Caledonia 
 
 Chas. A. Dorival, Secretary Caledonia 
 
 L. H. Briggs, Treasurer Houston 
 
 Township Organization 
 
 Name 
 Michael Donahue 
 Fred Deters 
 Carl T. Trehus 
 L. T. Johnson 
 O. B. Nelson 
 Knut Rauk 
 Peter Schmitt 
 John P. Bouquet 
 Chas. H. Murphy 
 Rev. J. F. Lang 
 Win. J. Daley 
 Chas. Fetzner 
 M. E. Sullivan 
 A. W. Krage 
 Jos. Orr 
 
 Taylor Robinson 
 Rev. B. B. Ostrem 
 I. G. Iverson 
 W. H. Eberhard 
 Allen Cameron 
 F. H. Snure 
 John J. Geiwitz 
 Dan Brown 
 Mrs. C. W. Belding 
 
 Township 
 Jefferson 
 Winnebago 
 Wilmington 
 Spring Grove 
 Spring Grove 
 Black Hammer 
 Caledonia 
 Caledonia 
 Mayville 
 Crooked Creek 
 Brownsville 
 Brownsville 
 Union 
 Sheldon 
 Yucatan 
 Money Creek 
 Houston 
 Houston 
 Mound Prairie 
 La Crescent 
 La Crescent 
 Hokah 
 Hokah 
 
 Address 
 
 New Albin, la. 
 
 Caledonia 
 
 Caledonia 
 
 Spring Grove 
 
 Spring Grove 
 
 Spring Grove 
 
 Caledonia 
 
 Caledonia 
 
 Caledonia 
 
 Freeburg 
 
 Caledonia 
 
 Brownsville 
 
 Caledonia 
 
 Houston 
 
 Houston 
 
 Houston 
 
 Houston 
 
 Houston 
 
 Houston 
 
 La Crescent 
 
 La Crescent 
 
 Hokah 
 
 Hokah 
 
 Caledonia 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Name Address 
 
 K. P. B. Reishus, Chairman Caledonia 
 
 Name 
 L. T. Johnson 
 Peter Schmitt 
 Alex Cox 
 
 Crop Improvement Committee 
 
 Address 
 Spring Grove 
 Caledonia 
 Brownsville 
 
 Name 
 Frank H. Snure 
 Dan Brown 
 
 Address 
 La Cresecent 
 Hokah 
 
 C. J. Sylling 
 Ole Hefte 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Spring Grove 
 Caledonia 
 
 J. J. Sliter 
 John Harvey 
 
 Houston 
 Hokah 
 
 218 
 
Finance Committee 
 
 Name Address 
 
 F. A. Duxbury, Chairman Caledonia 
 
 O. E. Burtness, Secretary Caledonia 
 
 R. D. Sprague Caledoina' 
 
 O. B. Nelson Spring Grove 
 
 J. C. Kelly Houston 
 
 J. W. McCaffrey La Crescent 
 
 Louis Bunge Eitzen 
 
 Dr. W. E. Browning Caledonia 
 
 219 
 
HUBBARD COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 M. J. Woolley, Director 
 R. J. Olinger, Secretary 
 J. H. Halvorson, Treasurer 
 
 Address 
 Park Rapids 
 Nevis 
 
 Nevis 
 
 Township Organization 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Chas. Andress 
 
 Chamberlain 
 
 Geo. C. Allen 
 
 Emmaville 
 
 C. B. Talbot 
 
 Akeley 
 
 S. J. Smith 
 
 La Porte 
 
 Gus Rex 
 
 Nevis 
 
 Geo. L. Carver 
 
 Yola 
 
 A. E. Segmiller 
 
 Benedict 
 
 Henry J. Schummer 
 
 Bemidji 
 
 P. E. Peterson 
 
 Guthrie 
 
 C. L. Potter 
 
 Park Rapids 
 
 John Gladen 
 
 Cass Lake 
 
 Fred Wolfe 
 
 Park Rapids 
 
 Fred Sanford 
 
 Hubbard 
 
 David Short 
 
 Arago 
 
 H. M. Johnson 
 
 Nevis 
 
 Joe Cross 
 
 Arago 
 
 Joe Nixon 
 
 Nevis 
 
 Ivan K. Neihus 
 
 Becida 
 
 L B Giles 
 
 Laporte 
 
 Geo. Gress 
 
 Fern Hill 
 
 Robt. Black 
 
 Guthrie 
 
 Fred E. Giese 
 
 Nevis 
 
 A. M. Marks 
 
 Guthrie 
 
 0. W. Ramsdell 
 
 Akeley 
 
 J. Snustad 
 
 Nary 
 
 Ira L. Smith 
 
 La Porte 
 
 B. L. Waterman 
 
 Hubbard 
 
 C. E. Ward 
 
 Park Rapids 
 
 J. W. Jackson 
 
 Park Rapids 
 
 Mrs. M. M. Nygaard 
 
 Park Rapids 
 
 P. C. Teus 
 
 Park Rapids 
 
 
 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 
 R. J. Olinger, Chairman 
 
 Fred E. Giese 
 
 Nevis 
 
 R. 0. Webster 
 
 Akeley 
 
 Ira A. Smith 
 
 Laporte 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 J. L. Larson, 
 
 
 Peter Avenson 
 
 Dorset 
 
 Chairman 
 
 Park Rapids 
 
 C. E. Harding 
 
 Nary 
 
 B. F. Daniels 
 
 Akeley 
 
 Anton Almquist 
 
 Laporte 
 
 Oliver Halvorson 
 
 Nevis 
 
 W. S. Weimers 
 
 Ferris 
 
ISANTI COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 Geo. C. Starr, Director 
 Minerva B. Hixson, Secretary 
 A. H. Southerland, Treasurer 
 
 Township Organization 
 
 Address 
 Cambridge 
 Cambridge 
 Cambridge 
 
 Name 
 John Irwin 
 Wm. Conklin 
 A. G. Engberg 
 L. M. Peterson 
 Elmer V. Erickson 
 Fred Falk 
 H. E. Norelius 
 
 A. Wickstrom 
 Ray Christie 
 C. O. Flodquist 
 Peter Jacobson 
 O. W. Blomquist 
 V. E. Erickson 
 
 B. H. Stoeckel 
 Wm. Westling 
 
 Township 
 Athens 
 Bradford 
 Cambridge 
 Cambridge Village 
 Dalbo 
 
 Braham Village 
 Isanti 
 
 Isanti Village 
 Maple Ridge 
 North Branch 
 Oxford 
 
 Spencer Brook 
 Stanchfield 
 Stanford 
 Wyanett 
 
 Address 
 Esthel 
 
 Cambridge, R. 3 
 Cambridge 
 Cambridge 
 Dalbo 
 Braham 
 Isanti, R. 1 
 Isanti 
 
 Braham, R. 1 
 North Branch, R. 1 
 Stacy, R. 2 
 Princeton, R. 3 
 Stanchfield 
 Bethel 
 Princeton, R. 2 
 
 Name 
 Chas. Nelson 
 C. J. Bellin 
 
 C. J. Hammargren 
 Alfred Anderson 
 Leonard Larson 
 A. J. Lillion 
 Aug. Otto 
 
 Julius Steinbring 
 Wm. Dahlman 
 John Linden 
 Peter Eastlund 
 Eli Norell 
 Phebian Bergdahl 
 Peter Haldin 
 Will Kluck 
 Fred W. Goodwin 
 
 D. S. Walker 
 Aug. Johnson 
 J. O. Krave 
 
 Marketing 
 
 Address 
 Stacy, R. 2 
 Stacy, R. 2 
 North Branch, R. 3 
 Isanti 
 Isanti 
 Isanti 
 
 North Branch, R. 1 
 North Branch 
 North Branch 
 Isanti 
 Isanti 
 Isanti 
 Isanti 
 
 Cambridge, R. 3 
 Cambridge, R. 3 
 Cambridge, R. 3 
 Princeton, R. 3 
 Princeton, R. 3 
 Princeton 
 
 Committee 
 
 Name 
 Louis Palm 
 N. R. Englund 
 Peter Peterson 
 Ed. Peterson 
 Miles Usher 
 N. E. Nelson 
 Alfred Berglund 
 Erick Moody 
 Henry Lindquist 
 John Becklin 
 Louis Hilden 
 A. J. Groff 
 Gust Krona 
 O. D. Anderson 
 Linus Anlund 
 Nils Mattson 
 Fred Carpenter 
 Anton Peterson 
 Sam Lindbloom 
 
 Address 
 Princeton, R. 1 
 
 Stanchfield, R. 1 
 
 Stanchfield, R. 1 
 
 Stanchfield, R. 1 
 
 Stanchfield, R. 1 
 
 Braham, R. 2 
 
 Grandy, R. 2 
 
 Cambridge 
 
 Cambridge 
 
 Cambridge 
 
 Cambridge, R. 2 
 
 Cambridge, R. 2 
 
 Cambridge, R. 2 
 
 Dalbo 
 
 Dalbo 
 
 Dalbo 
 
 Dalbo 
 
 Isanti 
 
 Bethel 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 P. J. Engberg Braham Elmer V. Erickson Dalbo 
 
 M. G. Geslin Grandy W. W. Shulean Isanti 
 
 Knute Bjorka Cambridge A. C. Smith Isanti, R. 2 
 
 Chas. G. Gustafson North Branch, R.l 
 
 221 
 
ITASCA COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 E. C. Kiley, Director 
 
 Address 
 Grand Rapids 
 
 Welfare of Itasca County Soldiers and Sailors 
 
 Name 
 C. M. King, County Commissioner 
 R. K. Stokes, County Commissioner 
 Andy Nelson, County Commissioner 
 Frank Gran, County Commissioner 
 P. J. Zinga, County Commissioner 
 H. D. Powers, Captain, Co. D, 4th Battalion, 
 Home Guards of Minnesota 
 
 Name 
 C. C. Peterson 
 Mrs. D. M. Gunn 
 Mrs. O. I. Bergh 
 Mrs. S. G. Benzing 
 Mrs. W. C. Gilbert 
 Mrs. C. M. Erskin 
 Mrs. N. D. Kean 
 Mrs. F. Woods 
 Mrs. F. J. Skoodopole 
 Mrs.Archie McCullum 
 Mrs. C. M. King 
 
 Address 
 Grand Rapids 
 Grand Rapids 
 Grand Rapids 
 Grand Rapids 
 Grand Rapids 
 Grand Rapids 
 Coleraine 
 Cohasset 
 Cohasset 
 Deer River 
 Deer River 
 
 District 
 
 Address 
 
 No. 1 
 
 Deer River 
 
 No. 2 
 
 Cohasset 
 
 No. 3 
 No. 4 
 
 Bovey 
 Coleraine 
 
 No. 5 
 
 Marble 
 
 ittalion, 
 
 Grand Rapids 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Mrs. Geo. E. Keenan Deer River 
 
 Mrs. N . C. Bardsley Alvwood 
 Mrs. H. M. Johnson Jesse Lake 
 Mrs. W. J. Doyle Liepold 
 Mrs. Charles Leise Marble 
 
 Mrs. Earl Carlton 
 
 Orth 
 
 Mrs. May Marshall Bengilly 
 Mrs. J. Latier Spring Lake 
 Mrs. Charlotte Rima Warba 
 
 Mrs. Wm. Welte 
 
 Big Fork 
 
 W. J. Corwin 
 Chairman 
 
 Resources 
 
 Grand Rapids 
 
 Frank Sherman 
 J. A. Van Dyke 
 
 Grand Rapids 
 Coleraine 
 
 Finances 
 
 Geo. B. Aiton 
 
 Chairman 
 O. E. Huyelehan 
 S. J. Moran 
 C. A. Peterson 
 Grant Seaton 
 A. R. Inman 
 
 Grand Rapids 
 Deer River 
 Deer River 
 Bigfork 
 Coleraine 
 Coleraine 
 
 V. A. Batzner 
 
 C. E. Aiken 
 John T. Ring 
 
 D. M. Vermilyea 
 F. J. Skoodopole 
 A. B. Dudgeon 
 F. V. Wakkinen 
 
 Bovey 
 
 Grand Rapids 
 
 Nashwauk 
 
 Marble 
 
 Cohasset 
 
 Warba 
 
 Keewatin 
 
 Farm Products 
 
 O. I. Bergh 
 Chairman 
 A. M. Sisler 
 Neil McKinley 
 Ole Sherman 
 
 Grand Rapids 
 Grand Rapids 
 Blackberry 
 Bovey 
 
 Wm. Welte 
 Martin Nesseth 
 B. O. Hofstad 
 D. A. McLeod 
 
 Bigfork 
 Northome 
 Deer River 
 
 Nashwauk 
 
 222 
 
Enlistments 
 
 E. C. Kiley, Chairman 
 
 All County Postmasters 
 
 Public Safety 
 
 Company D, Minnesota Home Guards: 
 H. D. Powers, Captain 
 E. J. Luther, 1st Lieutenant 
 Carl Eiler, 2nd Lieutenant 
 
 Charles Gunderson, Sheriff 
 
 All Police Officers of the County 
 
 Name 
 W. M. West 
 
 Chairman 
 Frank B. Gran 
 
 Labor Committee 
 Farming 
 
 Address Name 
 
 Grand Rapids 
 Coleraine 
 
 C. M. King 
 Andy Nelson 
 
 Address 
 Deer River 
 Bovey 
 
 E. R. Salsich 
 Chairman 
 
 Mining 
 
 Coleraine 
 
 B. P. Batchelder 
 R. L. Downing 
 
 Nashwauk 
 Keewatin 
 
 General 
 
 Geo. Arscott 
 
 
 C. W. Latvalia 
 
 Nashwauk 
 
 Chairman 
 
 Grand Rapids 
 
 A. C. Bossard 
 
 Grand Rapids 
 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 
 Henry Hughes, 
 
 
 J. P. Murphy 
 
 Blackberry 
 
 Chairman 
 
 Grand Rapids 
 
 W. J. Stock 
 
 Coleraine 
 
 Geo. Herried 
 
 Deer River 
 
 Erick Johnson 
 
 Bovey 
 
 P. A. McEachin 
 
 Keewatin 
 
 Clarence Bennett 
 
 Taconite 
 
 Jas. Grady 
 
 Cohasset 
 
 Louis Cucci 
 
 Calumet 
 
 J. P. Raattama 
 
 Nashwauk 
 
 A. E. Perrier 
 
 Marble 
 
 Hjlmer Bjorge 
 
 Bigfork 
 
 Swan Carlson 
 
 Warba 
 
 Geo. T. Johnson 
 
 Wawina 
 
 
 
 Newspaper 
 Herald-Review 
 Independent 
 Chronicle 
 Herald 
 
 Publicity Committee 
 
 Hugh McEwan, Chairman Grand Rapids 
 
 Address 
 Grand Rapids 
 Grand Rapids 
 Keewatin 
 
 Nashwauk 
 
 Newspaper 
 Itasca News 
 Optic 
 Iron News 
 
 Address 
 Deer River 
 Coleraine 
 Coleraine 
 
 223 
 
JACKSON COUNTY 
 
 Name Address 
 
 Robert C. Muir, Director Jackson 
 
 B. B. Sontag, Sectretary Heron Lake 
 
 H. L. Bond, Treasurer Lakefield 
 
 A. B. Cheadle, Vice-President Jackson 
 
 Township Organization 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Peter Gunderson 
 
 Kimball 
 
 Otto Kuhlmann 
 
 Lakefield 
 
 R. M. Campbell 
 
 Alpha 
 
 Chas. Buckeye 
 
 Heron Lake 
 
 L. Anderson 
 
 Jackson 
 
 E. J.' Kay 
 
 Heron Lake 
 
 S. 0. Harstad 
 
 Windom 
 
 Geo. H. Smith 
 
 Heron Lake 
 
 E. J. Voda 
 
 Jackson 
 
 E. A. Tripp 
 
 Round Lake 
 
 F. S. Hedge 
 
 Jackson 
 
 Fred Horkey 
 
 Heron Lake 
 
 B. W. Frost 
 
 Windom 
 
 H. L. Mikelson 
 
 W. Heron Lake 
 
 0. L. Barkheim 
 
 Lakefield 
 
 Julius B. Thompson 
 
 Jackson 
 
 Andrew Bakalayer 
 
 Lakefield 
 
 Arthur Peterson 
 
 Estherville, la. 
 
 Fred Tyre 
 
 Spirit Lake, la. 
 
 Mrs. H. J. Leigh 
 
 Lakefield 
 
 J. M. Rentscheller 
 
 Lakefield 
 
 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 R. A. Gruhlke 
 
 Jackson 
 
 Geo. Behrenfield 
 
 Heron Lake 
 
 Chas. Evers 
 
 Alpha 
 
 H. L. Mikelson 
 
 W. Heron Lake 
 
 H. A. Rhodes 
 
 Lakefield 
 
 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 L. E. McMillan, Chairman 
 
 Lakefield 
 
 Finance Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 W. H. Jarmuth 
 
 Heron Lake 
 
 H. M. Burnham 
 
 Jackson 
 
 0. Thoreson 
 
 Lakefield 
 
 J. J. Pribyl 
 
 Jackson 
 
 W. D. Hunter 
 
 Jackson 
 
 R. C. Muir 
 
 Jackson 
 
 John Brauch 
 
 Lakefield 
 
 
 
 224 
 
KANABEC COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 Chas. F. Serline, Director 
 
 Address 
 Mora 
 
 Kanabec County Public Safety Association 
 
 Name 
 Chas. F. Serline, President 
 C. Oscar Peterson, Vice-President 
 
 Name 
 Aimer J. Peterson, Secretary 
 Geo. H. Newbert, Treasurer 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 C. C. Neff 
 
 Wahkon, R. 1 
 
 
 W. M. Spurlin 
 
 Mora 
 
 Ernest Dixon 
 
 Warman 
 
 
 Frank P. Powers 
 
 Mora 
 
 Josh B. Clark 
 
 Mora, R. 2 
 
 
 A. C. Mann 
 
 Ogilvie, R. 1 
 
 Chas. H. Reynolds 
 
 Warman 
 
 
 Edwin Skoglund 
 
 Brunswick 
 
 John Trudell 
 
 Wahkon, R. 1 
 
 
 John Oscar Serline 
 
 Braham, R. 1 
 
 Clarence 0. Hill 
 
 Ogilvie 
 
 
 Wm; W. Tenney 
 
 Mora 
 
 Victor Elf strom 
 
 Brookpark, R. 
 
 4 
 
 C. M. Wall 
 
 Ogilvie 
 
 Elmer Wessner 
 
 Brookpark, R. 
 
 4 
 
 A. T. Westrom 
 
 Grasston 
 
 Frank Spindler 
 
 Ogilvie 
 
 
 
 * 
 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 
 Chas. F. Serline, 
 
 
 
 E. E. Lilja 
 
 Grasston 
 
 Chairman 
 
 Mora 
 
 
 J. G. White 
 
 Ogilvie 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 J. A. Grahek, 
 
 Chairman 
 J. G. White 
 G. A. Gustafson 
 
 Mora 
 
 Ogilvie 
 
 Grasston 
 
 A. F. Everett 
 Nels 0. Larson 
 D. W. Murphy 
 Geo. Chamberlain 
 
 Brunswick 
 Mora 
 Braham 
 Mora 
 
 P. H. Peterson 
 
 Quamba 
 
 
 
 W. J. Brown 
 C. M. Wall 
 C. A. Gustafson 
 Ed. Palmer 
 
 Finance Committee 
 
 Mora 
 Ogilvie 
 Grasston 
 Ogilvie 
 
 Rev. Oscar Ebb 
 A. T. Westrom 
 John O. Serline 
 Geo. Shipton 
 
 Brunswick 
 Grasston 
 
 Braham, R. No. 1 
 Ogilvie 
 
 225 
 
KANDIYOHI COUNTY 
 Kandiyohi County Loyalty League 
 
 Name 
 Russell Spicer, Director 
 G. A. Foster, School Activities 
 A. A. Anderson, Farm Labor 
 
 Name 
 E. C. Wellin, Municipal Activities 
 Victor E. Lawson, Relief 
 Peter Bonde, Surveillance 
 
 Young Ladies' Safety Service 
 
 Miss Lillie B. Noren, Chairman 
 
 Kandiyohi County Red Cross 
 
 Mrs. Russell Spicer, Chairman 
 Mrs. J. Albert Peterson, Secretary 
 
 Willmar 
 
 Willmar 
 Willmar 
 
 Civilian Relief 
 
 Dr. J. M. Rains 
 
 First Liberty Loan 
 L. O. Thorpe, Chairman 
 
 Willmar 
 
 Second Liberty Loan 
 L. O. Thorpe, Chairman 
 
 Willmar 
 
 Third and Fourth Liberty Loan 
 
 C. W. Odell, Chairman Willmar 
 
 Y. M. C. A. War Council 
 
 Russell Spicer, District Chairman Willmar 
 
 J. F. Millard, County Committee Chairman Willmar 
 
 F. G. Handy, County Committee Willmar 
 
 G. H. Otterness, County Committee Willmar 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 A. A. Anderson, Township Chairman 
 E. L. Rodegeb, County Agent 
 Russell Spicer, Special U. S. Agent 
 
 Willmar 
 
 Name 
 John H. Henjum 
 Herman Edman 
 Syvert Reigs'tad 
 M. O. Batterberry 
 J. Peter Johnson 
 
 Township Organization 
 
 Township 
 Arctander 
 Arctander 
 Arctander 
 Burbank 
 Burbank 
 
 Address 
 Kerkhoven, R. No. 
 Pennock, R. No. 2 
 Kerkhoven, R. No. 
 New London 
 Georgeville 
 
 226 
 
Name 
 
 A. L. Lohn 
 
 P. 0. Sonstegard 
 P. W. Anderson 
 G. P. Tangen 
 Darwin Johnson 
 R. C. Sletten 
 N. B. Leiness 
 David Swenson 
 Ingeberg Johnson 
 Erick Norden 
 J. B. Gram 
 H. J. Hanson 
 
 B. Van Houveln 
 Roy Chase 
 
 N. E. Nelson 
 
 C. A. Broman 
 C. Christianson 
 Gunder B. Samstad 
 B. P. Hovey 
 Elmer W. Peterson 
 Carl V. Carlson 
 Knute Kloster 
 Albert O. Erickson 
 Arnt. C. Carlson 
 Wm. Henderson 
 
 N. E. Halvorson 
 Wm. Dickman 
 Fred Lindermeier 
 Ernest Reetz 
 John H. Taatjes 
 H. J. Roelofs 
 O. L. Olson 
 Ole R. Sletten 
 
 B. G. Larson 
 M. L. Michelson 
 Olof Mattson 
 
 C. J. Swenson 
 Arthur Klint 
 C. A. Harrison 
 J. A. Halvorson 
 Oscar Mankell 
 L. H. Larson 
 H. S. Nelson 
 Louis Rosenquist 
 C. W. Holmgren 
 A. H. Vick 
 
 E. J. Hedlof 
 John Bengston 
 Otto Holmgren 
 A. W. Bergstrom 
 Albert Anderson 
 
 Township 
 Burbank 
 Burbank 
 Colfax 
 Colfax 
 Colfax 
 Dovre 
 Dovre 
 Dovre 
 
 East Lake Lillian 
 East Lake Lillian 
 East Lake Lillian 
 Edwards 
 Edwards 
 Edwards 
 Fahlun 
 Fahlun 
 Fahlun 
 Gennessee 
 Gennessee 
 Gennessee 
 Gennessee 
 Green Lake 
 Green Lake 
 Green Lake 
 Green Lake 
 Harrison 
 Harrison 
 Harrison 
 Holland 
 Holland 
 Holland 
 Irving 
 Irving 
 Irving 
 Irving 
 Kandiyohi 
 Kandiyohi 
 Kandiyohi 
 Kandiyohi 
 Lake Andrew 
 Lake Andrew 
 Lake Andrew 
 Lake Elizabeth 
 Lake Elizabeth 
 Lake Elizabeth 
 Lake Lillian 
 Lake Lillian 
 Lake Lillian 
 Mamre 
 Mamre 
 Mamre 
 
 Address 
 Georgeville 
 Georgeville 
 Belgrade, R. No. 1 
 New London, R. No. 1 
 Belgrade, R. No. 1 
 Willmar, R. No. 1 
 Willmar, R. No. 1 
 Spicer, R. No. 1 
 Atwater, R. No. 7 
 Bird Island 
 Atwater, R. No. 7 
 Raymond 
 Raymond 
 Raymond 
 Atwater, R. No. 6 
 Willmar, R. No. 2 
 Willmar, R. No. 2 
 Atwater, R. No. 3 
 Atwater 
 
 Atwater, R. No. 3 
 Atwater, R. No. 5 
 Kandiyohi 
 Spicer 
 Kandiyohi 
 Spicer 
 
 Atwater, R. No. 5 
 Atwater, R. No. 4 
 Atwater, R. No. 4 
 Raymond, R. No. 2 
 Raymond, R. No. 4 
 Raymond, R. No. 4 
 Spicer 
 Atwater 
 Hawick 
 Spicer 
 
 Willmar, R. No. 2 
 Atwater, R. No. 3 
 Willmar, R. No. 5 
 Kandiyohi 
 
 New London, R. No. 3 
 New London, R. No. 3. 
 Spicer, R. No. 1 
 Atwater, R. No. 6 
 Atwater, R. No. 1 
 Atwater, R. No. 1 
 Atwater 
 Olivia 
 
 Bird Island, R. No. 3 
 Pennock, R. No. 2 
 Pennock, R. No. 2 
 Pennock 
 
 227 
 
Name 
 
 Township 
 
 Address 
 
 N. B. Johnson 
 
 New London 
 
 New London 
 
 J. R. Carlson 
 
 New London 
 
 Spicer, R. No. 2 
 
 J. A. Jenson 
 
 New London 
 
 New London, R. No. 2 
 
 E. J. Peterson 
 
 Norway Lake 
 
 New London, R. No. 4 
 
 K. A. Botten 
 
 Norway Lake 
 
 Brooten, R. No. 3 
 
 Christ Peterson 
 
 Norway Lake 
 
 Brooten, R. No. 3 
 
 John Zuidema 
 
 Roseland 
 
 Svea, R. No. 3 
 
 Fred Lindquist 
 
 Roseland 
 
 Olivia 
 
 Wm. A. Lindquist 
 
 Roseland 
 
 Olivia 
 
 A. J. Smithson 
 
 Roseville 
 
 New London 
 
 K. I. Lunde 
 
 Roseville 
 
 Regal 
 
 0. B. Thorson 
 
 Roseville 
 
 Hawick 
 
 M. J. Rusten 
 
 St. John 
 
 Raymond, R. No. 5 
 
 Leo Blair 
 
 St. John 
 
 Pennock, R. No. 1 
 
 John Swenson 
 
 St. John 
 
 Willmar, R. No. 4 
 
 I. M. Nelson 
 
 St. John 
 
 Pennock 
 
 S. M. Swenson 
 
 Whitefield 
 
 Svea 
 
 C. T. Eddy 
 
 Whitefield 
 
 Willmar, R. No. 4 
 
 John P. Johnson 
 
 Whitefield 
 
 Willmar, R. No. 3 
 
 Nels H. Anderson 
 
 Willmar 
 
 Willmar, R. No. 4 
 
 Albert J. Johnson 
 
 Willmar 
 
 Willmar, R. No. 1 
 
 G. A. Nord 
 
 Willmar 
 
 Willmar, R. No. 1 
 
 C. J. Ellingson 
 
 Willmar 
 
 Willmar, R. No. 2 
 
 228 
 
KITTSON COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 G. Goodman, Director 
 W. V. Longley, Secretary 
 
 Address 
 Hallock 
 Hallock 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 G. Goodman 
 
 Hallock 
 
 C. L. Gast 
 
 Hallock 
 
 W. V. Longley 
 
 Hallock 
 
 
 
 Mrs. A. E. Nelson Hallock 
 
 Food Conservation 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 R. E. Bennet 
 Albert Brown 
 R. M. Alexander 
 T. W. Shogren 
 
 St. Vincent 
 Humboldt 
 Orleans 
 Lancaster 
 
 John A. Engelbert Bronson 
 
 O. P. Becken 
 D. S. Andreason 
 L. Melgard 
 A. Arveson 
 James Cannon 
 
 Halma 
 
 Karlstad 
 
 Kennedy 
 
 Donaldson 
 
 Northcote 
 
 Township Representatives on General Work 
 
 J. E. Sundberg 
 
 Kennedy 
 
 J. A. Engelbert 
 
 Bronson 
 
 Chas. Widerstrand 
 
 Orleans 
 
 Peter Oiein 
 
 Halma 
 
 Peter Steen 
 
 Lancaster 
 
 Wm. Stein 
 
 Karlstad 
 
 H. P. Ruud 
 
 Bronson 
 
 Carl Johnson 
 
 Cariboo 
 
 Louis Swenson 
 
 Kennedy 
 
 L. D. Klinger 
 
 Lancaster 
 
 John Murray 
 
 Donaldson 
 
 Dennis Rice 
 
 Bronson 
 
 John Mclver 
 
 Lancaster 
 
 Oscar Roos 
 
 Karlstad 
 
 Bernard Berg 
 
 Lancaster 
 
 A. M. Englund 
 
 Karlstad 
 
 J. C. Johnstone 
 
 Humboldt 
 
 Victor Holmquist 
 
 Hallock 
 
 Jas. Reinhold 
 
 Hallock 
 
 Hans Lindberg 
 
 Kennedy 
 
 Axel Norberg 
 
 Hallock 
 
 Peter Nelson 
 
 Orleans 
 
 B. E. Herseth 
 
 Robbin 
 
 Olander Benson 
 
 Lancaster 
 
 G. E. Harrington 
 
 Orleans 
 
 W. H. Hawkyard 
 
 Hallock 
 
 T. D. Winter 
 
 Northcote 
 
 Ole N. Bengtson 
 
 Kennedy 
 
 T. W. Truedson 
 
 Hallock 
 
 Hans Moen 
 
 Hallock 
 
 Village Representatives on General Work 
 
 C. J. Forsberg 
 
 D. J. Campbell 
 Frank Keine 
 Carl Veblen 
 John McEnroe 
 Albert Brown 
 Wm. Peterson 
 
 Karlstad 
 
 Lancaster 
 
 Kennedy 
 
 Hallock 
 
 Donaldson 
 
 Humboldt 
 
 Lancaster 
 
 R. E. Bennett 
 G. Goodman 
 W. V. Longley 
 J. D. Henry 
 Wm. Gamble 
 Otto Thorson 
 
 St. Vincent 
 Hallock 
 Hallock 
 Hallock 
 
 St. Vincent 
 St. Vincent 
 
 229 
 
Labor Committee 
 
 Name 
 G. Goodman, 
 
 Chairman 
 R. E. Bennett 
 Albert Brown 
 R. Alexander 
 T. W. Shogren 
 
 Address 
 
 Hallock 
 St. Vincent 
 Humboldt 
 Orleans 
 Lancaster 
 
 Name 
 John Engelbert 
 O. P. Becken 
 D. S. Andreasen 
 L. Melgard 
 A. Arveson 
 James Cannon 
 
 Address 
 Bronson 
 Halma 
 Karlstad 
 Kennedy 
 Donaldson 
 Northcote 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 R. E. Bennett 
 
 St. Vincent 
 
 R. M. Alexander 
 
 Orleans 
 
 Albert Brown 
 
 Humboldt 
 
 T. W. Shogren 
 
 Lancaster 
 
 James Cannon 
 
 Northcote 
 
 G. C. Lee 
 
 Halma 
 
 C. L. Gast 
 
 Hallock 
 
 J. A. Engelbert 
 
 Bronson 
 
 L. Melgard 
 
 Kennedy 
 
 D. S. Andreasen 
 
 Karlstad 
 
 A. Arveson 
 
 Donaldson 
 
 
 
 230 
 
KOOCHICHING COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 John H. Brown, Director 
 Geo. S. Langland, Secretary 
 G. W. Anderson, Treasurer 
 
 Address 
 International Falls 
 International Falls 
 Ranier 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 Rev. E. L. Heermance, 
 
 Chairman 
 D. B. Jewell 
 M. M. Abbott 
 John Berg 
 John Brown 
 Martin Marson 
 Louis Peterson 
 
 Address 
 
 International Falls 
 International Falls 
 International Falls 
 International Falls 
 International Falls 
 Ericsburg 
 Ray 
 
 Name 
 Chas. Jameson 
 W. G. Richards 
 Chas. Romans 
 M. J. McHuge 
 L. R. Bryant 
 E. W. Kohnhase 
 C. P. Ellingson 
 
 Address 
 Little Fork 
 Big Falls 
 Happlyland 
 Margie 
 Gemmell 
 Mizpah 
 Northome 
 
 231 
 
LAC QUI PARLE COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 
 
 Address 
 
 J. W. Dale, 
 
 Director 
 
 Dawson 
 
 William Jackson, Secretary 
 
 Dawson 
 
 J. E. Reyerson, Treasurer 
 
 Dawson 
 
 
 Advisory Council 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Township 
 
 Address 
 
 Oscar Skallerus 
 
 Arena 
 
 Madison 
 
 Herman Gloege 
 
 Agassiz 
 
 Bellingham 
 
 C. J. Orton 
 
 Augusta 
 
 Marietta 
 
 H. J. Stratte 
 
 Baxter 
 
 Dawson 
 
 Geo. Blocher 
 
 Bellingham Village 
 
 Bellingham 
 
 A. H. Nibblink 
 
 Boyd Village 
 
 Boyd 
 
 Geo. Jorgenson 
 
 Camp Release 
 
 Montevideo 
 
 J. 0. Hoyum 
 
 Cerro Gordo 
 
 Dawson 
 
 Chas. 0. Hill 
 
 Dawson City 
 
 Dawson 
 
 Andrew Amundson 
 
 Freeland 
 
 Canby 
 
 Sigfred J. Sather 
 
 Garfield 
 
 Madison 
 
 A. E. Schacherer 
 
 Hamlin 
 
 Dawson 
 
 M. 0. Ulstad 
 
 Hantho 
 
 Madison 
 
 M. S. Tinderholt 
 
 Lac qui Parle 
 
 Montevideo 
 
 D. D. Olson 
 
 Lake Shore 
 
 Louiburg 
 
 I. L. Philley 
 
 Louisburg Village 
 
 Louisburg 
 
 J. H. Hay den 
 
 Madison Village 
 
 Madison 
 
 P. A. Olson 
 
 Madison 
 
 Madison 
 
 C. W. Hubbs 
 
 Manfred 
 
 Gary, S. D. 
 
 G. C. Lewis 
 
 Marietta Village 
 
 Marietta 
 
 James Donaldson 
 
 Maxwell 
 
 Dawson 
 
 Frank Willis 
 
 Mehurin 
 
 Marietta 
 
 David Woulfe 
 
 Nassau Village 
 
 Nassau 
 
 A. K. Doyle 
 
 Perry 
 
 Bellingham 
 
 Oscar Quist 
 
 Providence 
 
 Dawson 
 
 John I. Femrite 
 
 Riverside 
 
 Dawson 
 
 0. J. Agre 
 
 Ten Mile Lake 
 
 Boyd 
 
 Andrew Raaf 
 
 Watler 
 
 Bellingham 
 
 J. I. Von Eshen 
 
 Yellow Bank 
 
 Odessa 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 A. B. Amundson 
 
 Dawson 
 
 E. L. Oien 
 
 Boyd 
 
 J. H. Hayden 
 
 Madison 
 
 David Woulfe 
 
 Nassau 
 
 G. C.Blocher 
 
 Bellingham 
 
 Frank Willis 
 
 Marietta 
 
 Knute Kolkjen 
 
 Louisburg 
 
 
 
 232 
 
Publicity Committee 
 
 Name Address 
 
 Prof. Delong Bellingham 
 
 J. H. Driscoll Madison 
 
 Prof. Robert Ringdahl Dawson 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 G. C. Baker 
 
 Marietta 
 
 A. H. Nibbelink 
 
 Boyd 
 
 Frank Putnam 
 
 Nassau 
 
 Merchandise and Food Products Federal Food Administrator 
 
 Name 
 O. T. Mork, Chairman 
 
 Address 
 Madison 
 
 Permanent War Finance Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 J. H. Hayden 
 
 Madison 
 
 David Woulfe 
 
 Nassau 
 
 Geo. Gorgenson 
 
 Boyd 
 
 Herman Gloege 
 
 Bellingham 
 
 R. C. Hankins 
 
 Dawson 
 
 D. D. Olson 
 
 Louisburg 
 
 Frank Willis 
 
 Marietta 
 
 
 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 E. 0. Sage 
 
 Madison 
 
 August Mittlestadt 
 
 Bellingham 
 
 Chris Emerson 
 
 Dawson 
 
 I. L. Philley 
 
 Louisburg 
 
 E. L. Oien 
 
 Boyd 
 
 Charles Danielson 
 
 Marietta 
 
 David Woulfe 
 
 Nassau 
 
 
 
 233 
 
LAKE COUNTY 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Name 
 John Dwan, Director 
 O. LeClair, Secretary 
 Geo. Munford, Treasurer 
 
 Address 
 Two Harbors 
 Two Harbors 
 Two Harbors 
 
 Advisory Council 
 
 Name 
 Wm. Feller 
 O. D. Bailey 
 Col. Reynolds 
 Christ Jensen 
 Louis M. Lorentson 
 A. J. Sonju 
 
 Address 
 Two Harbors 
 Two Harbors 
 Knife River 
 Two Harbors 
 Beaver Bay 
 Finland 
 
 Name 
 Alfred M. Fenstadt 
 H. G. Good 
 E. P. Christensen 
 Thos. Owens 
 Jas. H. Lunz 
 A. E. Webb 
 
 Address 
 Little Marais 
 Winton 
 Two Harbors 
 Two Harbors 
 Two Harbors 
 Two Harbors 
 
 234 
 
LE SUEUR COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 Thos. H. Smullen, Director 
 M. W. Grimes, Secretary 
 
 Address 
 Le Sueur 
 Le Sueur 
 
 Name 
 A. G. Smith, Sr. 
 Leo Hayden 
 C. T. Baker 
 John Sprey 
 W. H. Becker 
 Job. W. Lloyd 
 M. McCourtney 
 Jas. O'Meara 
 Chas. Babcock 
 David Turritin 
 Milton Cheadle 
 Wm. Lloyd 
 M. R. Everett 
 C. L. Chase 
 Wm. K. Wilcox 
 John Rosenaue, Jr. 
 James A. Meagher 
 W. L. Harvey 
 Fred Wieland 
 John Spence 
 Dr. Jas. McKeon 
 John Shortall 
 Chas. Garvin 
 
 Township Chairmen 
 
 Township 
 Le Sueur 
 Tyrone 
 Ottawa 
 
 Le Sueur Center 
 Lexington 
 Sharon 
 Derrynane 
 Cordova 
 Kasota 
 
 Town of Kasota 
 . Cleveland 
 Cleveland Village 
 Waterville City 
 Waterville Township 
 Elysian Village 
 Elysian Township 
 Washington Town 
 New Prague City 
 Lanesburgh 
 Montgomery Townsh. 
 . Montgomery City 
 Kilkenny Town 
 Kilkenny Township 
 
 Address 
 Le Sueur 
 Le Sueur 
 Ottawa 
 
 Le Sueur Center 
 Le Sueur Center 
 Ottawa 
 Le Sueur 
 Le Sueur Center 
 Kasota 
 Kasota 
 Cleveland 
 Cleveland 
 Waterville 
 Waterville 
 Elysian 
 Elysian 
 Madison Lake 
 New Prague 
 New Prague 
 Montgomery 
 Montgomery 
 Kilkenny 
 Montgomery 
 
 Name 
 Thos. H. Smullen 
 C. W. Glotfelter 
 Daniel Vollich 
 J. P. Foley 
 P. J. Keehen 
 
 Address 
 Le Sueur 
 Waterville 
 Le Sueur Center 
 Le Sueur 
 Montgomery 
 
 235 
 
LINCOLN COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 Geo. Graff, Director 
 A. E. Tasker, Secretary 
 H. B. Danielson 
 
 Address 
 Ivanhoe 
 Lake Benton 
 Hendricks 
 
 Advisory Council and Town Chairmen 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 John Hanson 
 
 Hendricks 
 
 R. S. Carlisle 
 
 Lake Benton 
 
 Albert Anderson 
 
 Canby, R. 4 
 
 Frank Wirt 
 
 Elkton, S. D. 
 
 William Boulton 
 
 Taunton 
 
 Geo. Maurer 
 
 Verdi 
 
 G. J. Goodmundson 
 
 Ivanhoe 
 
 Nels Hansen 
 
 Lake Benton 
 
 Ed. Goebel 
 
 Ivanhoe 
 
 H. W. Rasmussen 
 
 Tyler 
 
 John H. Hexum 
 
 Hendricks 
 
 T. A. Holtey 
 
 Hendricks 
 
 H. H. Danielson 
 
 Hendricks 
 
 Dr. G. L. Jacquot 
 
 Ivanhoe 
 
 L. M. Townsend 
 
 Ivanhoe 
 
 Matthew Fowlds 
 
 Arco 
 
 Geo. Hauswedell 
 
 Arco 
 
 P. J. Theissen 
 
 Tyler 
 
 N. H. Sandager 
 
 Tyler 
 
 Dr. P. J. Bursheim 
 
 Lake Benton 
 
 Market Committee 
 
 Name 
 John A. Pukrop 
 Wm. P. Stork 
 Ernest Osbeck 
 
 Address 
 Ivanhoe 
 Tyler 
 Lake Benton 
 
 Name 
 N. O. Lien 
 Niels C. Pedersen 
 Ed. Twedt 
 
 Address 
 Hendricks 
 Arco 
 Verdi 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Name Address 
 
 T. P. Hermanson, Chairman Tyler 
 
 Warren Miller Verdi 
 
 together with the village members of the Advisory Council 
 
 Fuel Commissioners 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 M. Glemmestad 
 
 Tyler 
 
 Alfred Soderlind 
 
 Lake Benton 
 
 Geo. Graff 
 
 Ivanhoe 
 
 
 
 Food Administrator 
 
 Name 
 J. T. Clawson 
 
 Address 
 Ivanhoe 
 
 236 
 

 LYON COUNTY 
 
 
 Name 
 
 
 Address 
 
 James 
 
 ; H. Hall, Director 
 
 Marshall 
 
 Arne B. Gislason, Secretary 
 
 Minneota 
 
 J. w. 
 
 Pike, Treasurer 
 
 
 Marshall 
 
 
 County Organization 
 
 
 Name 
 
 
 Township 
 
 Address 
 
 F. T. Shaeffer 
 
 
 Amiret 
 
 Amiret 
 
 E. F. Whiting 
 
 
 Village 
 
 Balaton 
 
 V. B. Tubbs 
 
 
 Clifton 
 
 Marshall 
 
 James Anderson 
 
 
 Coon Creek 
 
 Russell 
 
 B. M. Olson 
 
 
 Custer 
 
 Balaton 
 
 J. T. Garry 
 
 
 Village 
 
 Cottonwood 
 
 L. J. McDonald 
 
 
 Eidsvold 
 
 Minneota 
 
 C. E. Erickson 
 
 
 Fairview 
 
 Green Valley 
 
 Adolph Larson 
 
 
 Village 
 
 Florence 
 
 J. A. Engels 
 
 
 Grandview 
 
 Ghent 
 
 John Holden, Jr. 
 
 
 Village 
 
 Garvin 
 
 L. A. Wewetzer 
 
 
 Island Lake 
 
 Lynd 
 
 C. H. Middleton 
 
 
 Lake Marshall 
 
 Marshall 
 
 L. E. Larson 
 
 
 Lucas 
 
 Cottonwood 
 
 E. E. Davis 
 
 
 Lynd 
 
 Lynd 
 
 Christ Johnson 
 
 
 Lyons 
 
 Balaton 
 
 A. H. Amundson 
 
 
 Monroe 
 
 Garvin 
 
 Franklin Edwards 
 
 
 City 
 
 Marshall 
 
 T. F. Dahl 
 
 
 City 
 
 Minneota 
 
 J. L. Teiglund 
 
 
 Nordland 
 
 Minneota 
 
 L. E. Peterson 
 
 
 Rock Lake 
 
 Balaton 
 
 M. J. Aurandt 
 
 
 Shelburne 
 
 Balaton 
 
 Charles Ford 
 
 
 Sodus 
 
 Amiret 
 
 0. S. Todnem 
 
 
 Stanley 
 
 Marshall 
 
 A. R. English 
 
 
 City 
 
 Tracy 
 
 P. P. Ahern 
 
 
 Village 
 
 Taunton 
 
 Siver Erickson 
 
 
 Vallers 
 
 Minneota 
 
 F. Smith 
 
 
 Village 
 
 Russell 
 
 J. W. Pike 
 
 
 Treasurer 
 
 Marshall 
 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 F. Edwards, Chm. 
 
 Marshall 
 
 T. F. Dahl 
 
 Minneota 
 
 D. H. Evans 
 
 Tracy 
 
 Chris Johnson 
 
 Balaton 
 
 A. E. Anderson 
 
 Cottonwood 
 
 
 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 
 A. R. English 
 
 Tracy 
 
 E. F. Whiting 
 
 Balaton 
 
 E. Smith 
 
 Russell 
 
 J. A. Engels 
 
 Ghent 
 
 J. T. Garry 
 
 Cottonwood 
 
 Fred Shaeffer 
 
 Amiret 
 
 T. F. Dahl 
 
 Minneota 
 
 Adolph Larson Florence 
 
 John Holden, Jr. 
 
 Garvin 
 
 
 
 237 
 
McLEOD COUNTY 
 
 
 Name 
 
 
 
 
 Address 
 
 H. 
 
 H. 
 
 Bonniwell, 
 
 Director 
 
 
 Hutchinson 
 
 H. 
 
 H. 
 
 , Bonniwell, 
 
 Jr. ; 
 
 , Secretary 
 
 Hutchinson 
 
 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 
 Name 
 
 
 Address 
 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Dr. John Dorsey 
 
 
 Glencoe 
 
 
 
 Oscar Merrill 
 
 Silver Lake 
 
 Jay Greaves 
 
 
 Glencoe 
 
 
 
 William Beise 
 
 Lester Prairie 
 
 Prank Mann 
 
 
 Brownton 
 
 
 
 C. L. Todd 
 
 Hutchinson 
 
 Fred Rehse 
 
 
 Stewart 
 
 
 
 0. W. Lundsten Hutchinson 
 
 Bert Hanlain 
 
 
 Winsted 
 
 
 
 Geo. Minder 
 
 Plato 
 
 Advisory Council 
 Sam. G. Anderson, Jr Hutchinson Dr. K. Wakefield Hutchinson 
 
 Wm. E. Harrington Hutchinson Percy Avery Hutchinson 
 
 Name 
 Henry Kuehl 
 S. S. Beach 
 Geo. Poshek 
 Theo. LaMotte 
 Louis Larson 
 Joseph Popelka 
 William Tomlinson 
 Geo. Plath 
 Dennis Provo 
 Ray Newcomb 
 W. W. Groupmann 
 W. D. Jensen 
 E. B. Preston 
 L. D. Phillips 
 Dr. C. W. Tinker 
 M. B. West 
 T. F. Miller 
 Wm. Beise 
 Frank Hawlick 
 J. W. Thomas 
 L. A. Ritter 
 J. A. Lindernberg 
 Herman Groupman 
 John Bell 
 
 Name 
 C. W. Tinker 
 M. B. West 
 T. F. Miller 
 Wm. Beise 
 Frank Hawlick 
 
 Township Organization 
 
 Township 
 Acoma 
 Hutchinson 
 Hale 
 Winsted 
 Bergen 
 Rich Valley 
 Hossau Valley 
 Lynn 
 Collins 
 Sumter 
 Helen 
 Glencoe 
 Penn 
 
 Round Grove 
 Stewart Village 
 Brownton . 
 Plato 
 
 Lester Prairie 
 Silver Lake 
 Winsted . 
 Hutchinson City 
 Hutchinson City 
 Glencoe City 
 Glencoe City 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Address 
 Hutchinson 
 Hutchinson 
 Silver Lake 
 Silver Lake 
 Glencoe 
 Glencoe 
 Hutchinson 
 Huthinson 
 Stewart 
 Glencoe 
 Glencoe 
 Glencoe 
 Brownton 
 Stewart 
 Stewart 
 Brownton 
 Plato 
 
 Lester Prairie 
 Silver Lake 
 Winsted 
 1st Ward 
 2nd Ward 
 1st Ward 
 2nd Ward 
 
 Address 
 Stewart 
 Brownton 
 Plato 
 
 Lester Prairie 
 Silver Lake 
 
 Name 
 J. W. Thomas 
 L. A. Ritter 
 J. A. Lindenberg 
 Herman Groupmann 
 John Bell 
 
 Address 
 Winsted 
 Hutchinson 
 Hutchinson 
 Glencoe 
 Glencoe 
 
 238 
 
MAHNOMEN COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 
 
 Address 
 
 A. L. Thompson, Director 
 
 
 Mahnomen 
 
 Dr. F. 
 
 M. Archibald, Chairman 
 
 Mahnomen 
 
 G. W. Gunderson, Secretary 
 
 
 Mahnomen 
 
 Olaf Q 
 
 ually, Treasurer 
 
 
 Mahnomen 
 
 
 County Districts 
 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Otto Horn 
 
 Bejou 
 
 W. A. 
 
 Montgomery 
 
 Duane 
 
 Paul Wille 
 
 Mahnomen 
 
 N. B. 
 
 Nelson 
 
 Mahnomen 
 
 Geo. C. Johnson 
 
 Mahnomen 
 
 CM. 
 
 Grannum 
 
 Mahnomen 
 
 Frank Suda 
 
 Waubun 
 
 L. G. 
 
 Sanders 
 
 Mahnomen 
 
 J. H. Cogswell 
 
 Fosston 
 
 Roy F. Everett 
 
 Waubun 
 
 E. A. Watson 
 
 Beaulieu 
 
 Thos. 
 
 Gleason 
 
 Lengby 
 
 James Staska 
 
 Mahnomen 
 
 CD. 
 
 Wilkinson 
 
 Naytahwaush 
 
 Martin Branchaud 
 
 Waubun 
 
 
 
 
 Township Organization 
 
 Name 
 
 Township 
 
 Address 
 
 James Longon 
 
 Bejou Township 
 
 Bejou 
 
 C V. Lind 
 
 Bejou Township 
 
 Bejou 
 
 Gunder Boe 
 
 Marsh Creek 
 
 Mahnomen 
 
 F. J. Lootka 
 
 Marsh Creek 
 
 Mahnomen 
 
 John King 
 
 Pembina Township 
 
 Mahnomen 
 
 Chris Halvorson 
 
 Pembina Township 
 
 Mahnomen 
 
 John Ommodt 
 
 Peoples Grove Township Waubun 
 
 Chas. Burris 
 
 Peoples Grove Twp. 
 
 Waubun 
 
 J. H. Cogswell 
 
 Gregory Township 
 
 Fosston 
 
 Frank Allen 
 
 Gregory Township 
 
 Fosston 
 
 H. Swiers 
 
 Gregory Township 
 
 Bejou 
 
 Chas. Bloker 
 
 Chief Township 
 
 Beaulieu 
 
 Henry Larson 
 
 Chief Township 
 
 Beaulieu 
 
 Jos. Sweeney 
 
 Rosedale Township 
 
 Mahnomen 
 
 Ed. Sleeth 
 
 Rosedale Township 
 
 Mahnomen 
 
 John Maxwell 
 
 Lake Grove Township 
 
 Waubun 
 
 H. P. Jensen 
 
 Lake Grove Township 
 
 Waubun 
 
 Ed. Snetzinger 
 
 Heier 
 
 Duane 
 
 A. D. McDonnell 
 
 Heier 
 
 Duane 
 
 Bert Hart 
 
 Legard Township 
 
 Waubun 
 
 Chas. McNiff 
 
 Legard Township 
 
 Beaulieu 
 
 Lewis Larson 
 
 Beaulieu Township 
 
 Beaulieu 
 
 Frank Hopfner 
 
 Beaulieu Township 
 
 Beaulieu 
 
 Alfred Warren 
 
 Island Lake 
 
 Lengby 
 
 Thos. Antell 
 
 Island Lake Township 
 
 Lengby 
 
 Philip Star 
 
 Twin Lakes 
 
 Nay tah waush 
 
 Thos. Cahill 
 
 Twin Lakes 
 
 Waubun 
 
 239 
 
Labor Committee 
 
 Name 
 Otto Horn 
 Paul Wille 
 Geo. C. Johnson 
 Frank Suda 
 J. H. Cogswell 
 E. A. Watson 
 James Staska 
 Martin Branchaud 
 
 Address 
 Bejou 
 Mahnomen 
 Mahnomen 
 Waubun 
 Fosston 
 Beaulieu 
 Mahnomen 
 Waubun 
 
 Name 
 W. A. Montgomery 
 N. B. Nelson 
 C. M. Grannum 
 L. G. Sanders 
 Roy F. Everett 
 Thos. Gleason 
 John Hill 
 
 Address 
 Duane 
 Waubun 
 Mahnomen 
 Mahnomen 
 Waubun 
 Lenbgy 
 Naytahwaush 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 J. M. Sluke, Chm. 
 V. Dryden 
 Geo. O. Lee 
 Julius Owen 
 
 Address 
 Mahnomen 
 Mahnomen 
 Mahnomen 
 Mahnomen 
 
 Name 
 J. W. Nelson 
 R. Klubeck 
 Henry Harty 
 
 Address 
 Mahnomen 
 Mahnomen 
 Mahnomen 
 
 Fuel Committee 
 
 Name 
 A. L. Thompson, Ch. 
 H. P. Phillips 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 C. C. Cooper 
 
 Address 
 
 240 
 
MARSHALL COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 A.N. 
 
 Eckstrom, Director 
 
 Warren 
 
 
 David Johnson, Secretary 
 
 Warren 
 
 
 
 Advisory Council 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 H. L. Wood 
 
 Warren 
 
 Chas. Kimbrough 
 
 Strandquist 
 
 Lewis Hedquist 
 
 Argyle 
 
 M. L. Ihle 
 
 Newfolden 
 
 Christ Nelson 
 
 Thief River Falls 
 
 Albert Larson 
 
 Newfolden 
 
 S. D. Lincoln 
 
 Stephen 
 
 Olof Opseth 
 
 Rosewood 
 
 Carl Haugen 
 
 Oslo 
 
 John Wang 
 
 Oslo 
 
 H. S. Beckwith 
 
 Argyle 
 
 George Haggen 
 
 Stephen 
 
 V. M. Johnson 
 
 Warren 
 
 Richard Nelson 
 
 Gatzke 
 
 Otto Kranz 
 
 Middle River 
 
 J. W. Field 
 
 Stephen 
 
 Jos. McGregor 
 
 Radium 
 
 E. M. Evans 
 
 Middle River 
 
 Chas. H. Omlid 
 
 Middle River 
 
 F. A. Green 
 
 Stephen 
 
 Perry Bush 
 
 Stephen 
 
 Chas. J. Berg 
 
 Jane 
 
 Otto Haack, Jr. 
 
 Grygla 
 
 Otto Hohle 
 
 Grygla 
 
 Chas. Thibido 
 
 Stephen 
 
 Chas. W. Rodquist 
 
 Warren 
 
 Rasmi Lund 
 
 Karlstad 
 
 Ed. Sheldrew 
 
 Grygla 
 
 John Sorum 
 
 Holt 
 
 Chas. Gustafson 
 
 Viking 
 
 Milton Adams 
 
 Esplee 
 
 Ernest Mack 
 
 Argyle 
 
 John Whitman 
 
 Thief River Falls 
 
 Fred Peterson 
 
 Warren 
 
 Alfred Wilier 
 
 Argyle 
 
 Andrew Ramstad 
 
 Newfolden 
 
 Martin J. Nelson 
 
 Stephen 
 
 H. M. Scovell 
 
 Middle River 
 
 0. A. Rambeck 
 
 Germantown 
 
 John Gratzek 
 
 Strandquist 
 
 T. B. Folden 
 
 Holt 
 
 Henry Sands 
 
 Alvarado 
 
 S. 0. Hoff 
 
 Jevne 
 
 0. Hendrickson 
 
 Argyle 
 
 C. K. Koland 
 
 Strandquist 
 
 E. P. Modin 
 
 Middle River 
 
 Peter Backlund 
 
 Casperson 
 
 Carl Hanson 
 
 Newfolden 
 
 M. L. Warner 
 
 Warren 
 
 Olger Oseth 
 
 Oslo 
 
 P. W. Gast 
 
 Newfolden 
 
 C. R. Gillespie 
 
 Stephen 
 
 Wm. Erickson 
 
 Argyle 
 
 A. 0. Fladelund 
 
 Grygla 
 
 Fred Solley 
 
 Anstad 
 
 B. Docken 
 
 Holt 
 
 A. P. Nelson 
 
 Gatzke 
 
 J. J. Oistad 
 
 Strandquist 
 
 Christ Norbeck 
 
 Rollis 
 
 Mrs. H. I. Yetter 
 
 Stephen 
 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 David Johnson 
 
 Warren 
 
 Henry Sands 
 
 Alvarado 
 
 C. L. Spaulding 
 
 Warren 
 
 0. P. Oseth 
 
 Oslo 
 
 0. Hendrickson 
 
 Argyle 
 
 E. P. Modin 
 
 Middle River 
 
 C. R. Gillespie 
 
 Stephen 
 
 B. Docken 
 
 Holt 
 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 C. L. Spaulding 
 
 Warren 
 
 I. M. Myrho 
 
 Viking 
 
 241 
 
Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 0. Hendrickson 
 
 Argyle 
 
 Carl Hanson 
 
 New Folden 
 
 C. R. Gillespie 
 
 Stephen 
 
 J. J. Oistad 
 
 Strandquist 
 
 Anton Hill 
 
 Alvarado 
 
 B. Docken 
 
 Holt 
 
 0. P. Oseth 
 
 Oslo 
 
 E. P. Modin 
 
 Middle River 
 
 Jos. McGregor 
 
 Radium 
 
 
 
 Finance Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 H. L. Wood, Chairman 
 
 Warren 
 
 J. J. Olson 
 
 Warren 
 
 C. L. Spaulding 
 
 Warren 
 
 Aug. A. Johnson 
 
 Warren 
 
 0. H. Taralseth 
 
 Warren 
 
 A. N. Eckstrom 
 
 Warren 
 
 H. I. Yetter 
 
 Stephen 
 
 Fred Tiedt 
 
 Argyle 
 
 142 
 
MARTIN COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 Clifford Jones, Chairman 
 J. T. Swearingen, Secretary 
 C. E. Landin, Treasurer 
 
 Address 
 Fairmont 
 Fairmont 
 Sherburn 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 C. E. Jones, Chairman 
 
 J. T. Swearingen, Secretary 
 
 L. J. Hinton, Chairman Liberty Loan 
 
 Attorney Haycraft, Chairman America First 
 
 Rev. Fillmore, Chairman Red Cross 
 
 Supt. Wolfe, Chairman War Savings 
 
 Attorney Ward, Chairman Y. M. C. A. 
 
 John Wolf, Chairman Knights of Columbus 
 
 A. R. Allen, County Attorney 
 
 W. S. Carver, County Sheriff 
 
 Mr. Volrath, County Commissioner 
 
 Fred Betz, Postmaster 
 
 C. J. Timms, Food Administrator 
 
 Axel Grant, Fuel Administrator 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 F. A. Day 
 
 Fairmont 
 
 R. W. Stewart 
 
 Ceylon 
 
 J. C. Musser 
 
 Fairmont 
 
 J. D. Griggs 
 
 Truman 
 
 Geo. Bullock 
 
 Fairmont 
 
 Mons Olson 
 
 Truman 
 
 F. C. Gould 
 
 Fairmont 
 
 L. E. Champine 
 
 DolHver, Iowa 
 
 Richard Murray 
 
 Fairmont 
 
 James Prouty 
 
 Granada 
 
 L. A. Milow 
 
 Fairmont 
 
 John Maxwell 
 
 Granada 
 
 Frank Nowicki 
 
 Fairmont 
 
 J. T. McNerney 
 
 Granada 
 
 John Burns 
 
 Fairmont 
 
 C. L. Larson 
 
 Dunnell 
 
 H. H. Canright 
 
 Fairmont 
 
 J. A. Linder 
 
 Dunnell 
 
 C. E. Colman 
 
 Fairmont 
 
 H. P. Deneen 
 
 Triumph 
 
 C. Blanchar 
 
 Sherburn 
 
 L. W. Steel 
 
 Triumph 
 
 C. E. Landin 
 
 Sherburn 
 
 Harry Sheppard 
 
 Triumph 
 
 0. L. Larson 
 
 Sherburn 
 
 J. H. Hagen 
 
 Ormsby 
 
 John Carlson 
 
 Sherburn 
 
 Peter Wortman 
 
 Monterey 
 
 F. H. Wherland 
 
 Welcome 
 
 W. W. Adams 
 
 Winnebago 
 
 0. W. Kinney 
 
 Welcome 
 
 
 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 R. W. Stewart 
 
 Ceylon 
 
 B. A. Burton 
 
 Granada 
 
 C. E. Landin 
 
 Sherburn 
 
 J. A. Linder 
 
 Dunnell 
 
 F. H. Wherland 
 
 Welcome 
 
 Peter Wortman 
 
 Monterey 
 
 L. J. Hinton 
 
 Truman 
 
 Wm. Doyle 
 
 Fairmont 
 
 Geo. Brockman 
 
 Triumph 
 
 Clifford Jones, Chm. 
 
 , Fairmont 
 
 243 
 
Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 Clifford Jones 
 Prof. Lawrence 
 J. W. Allison 
 John Gerber 
 John Roepke 
 Geo. Winzenberg 
 J. H. Sprague 
 
 Address 
 Fairmont 
 Fairmont 
 Fairmont 
 Welcome 
 Sherburn 
 Granada 
 Northrup 
 
 Name 
 Christian Scott 
 Robert Nelson 
 Peter Wortman 
 George Brockman 
 George Pasely 
 Linus Peterson 
 
 Address 
 Truman 
 East Chain 
 Monterey 
 Triumph 
 Ceylon 
 Dunnell 
 
 Following are the names of the Safety Guards of the County, the first name of each 
 
 squad being the Captain 
 Welcome 
 
 Name 
 A. R. Decker 
 Otto Miller 
 Geo. E. Van Amber 
 
 Name 
 John Pytleski 
 Geo. Tobin 
 
 Name 
 L. O. Thompson 
 H. C. Roloff 
 
 Name 
 Wm. Klusendorf 
 W. H. Schrotberger 
 
 Name 
 Art. Nutin 
 R. E. Rich 
 
 East Chain 
 
 Name 
 J. H. Wagar 
 Elvin Guy 
 
 Name 
 H. E. Schwarz 
 Bernard Warner 
 
 Name 
 R. W. Nelson 
 Oscar Carlson 
 
 Truman 
 
 Name 
 L. J. Hinton 
 Christian Scott 
 Samuel S. Rector 
 
 Name 
 A. A. Harris 
 John W. Pixler 
 
 Name 
 Charles Morgan 
 C. C. Poole 
 
 Name 
 Lloyd Parsons 
 G. E. Foster 
 
 Triumph 
 
 Name Name 
 
 Ellsworth Hallett W. R. Sturgeon 
 F. A. Kroeger S. P. Pope 
 
 Name 
 G. M. Sieberg 
 T. C. Cole 
 
 Name 
 C. M. Stockdill 
 C. F. Roforth 
 
 Sherburn 
 
 Name 
 A. R. Flygare 
 Henry G. Seifert 
 C. C. McFadden 
 
 Name 
 R. W. Stewart 
 N. P. Larson 
 L. Larson 
 
 Name 
 Frank A. Sandin 
 E. G. Mathwig 
 
 Name 
 Frank Collins 
 A. G. T. Broun 
 
 Name 
 B. H. Roth 
 E. E. Risley 
 
 Ceylon 
 
 Name Name 
 
 W. C. Cook Neal Bode 
 
 Wm. Drummond Archie Gardner 
 
 Dunnell 
 
 Name 
 Carl F. Carlson 
 H. C. Clute 
 
 Name 
 August Wenberg 
 Carl G. Applequist 
 
 Name 
 C. E. Landin 
 H. J. Whitehead 
 
 Name 
 J. Gundelfinger 
 G. W. Clark 
 
 Name 
 C. J. Berg 
 M. M. Sorenson 
 
 244 
 
MEEKER COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 H. I. Peterson, Director 
 John N. Gayner, Secretary 
 E. O. Hammer, Treasurer 
 
 Address 
 Litchfield 
 Litchfield 
 Litchfield 
 
 Township Organization 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Nels C. Brown 
 
 Rt. 3 Grove City 
 
 J. E. Matsen 
 
 Dassel R. 3 
 
 Tanney Johnson 
 
 Dassel 
 
 G. A. Nelson 
 
 Litchfield 
 
 Alfred Oberg 
 
 Darwin 
 
 P. J. Mitchell 
 
 Litchfield 
 
 Emil M. Nelson 
 
 Litchfield 
 
 J. B. Warren 
 
 Grove City Rt 1 
 
 J. E. Nelson 
 
 Darwin 
 
 W. R. Stiff 
 
 Grove City Rt 1 
 
 David Carlson 
 
 Dassel 
 
 0. L. Langren 
 
 Litchfield 
 
 Rudolph Lewerenz 
 
 Darwin 
 
 A. A. Miller 
 
 Grove City 
 
 C. A. Gilman 
 
 Litchfield R 3 
 
 H. E. Swanson 
 
 Dassel 
 
 Theo. Borman 
 
 Watkin 
 
 Jos. Friedman 
 
 Eden Valley 
 
 F. 0. Anderson 
 
 Litchfield R 7 
 
 H. J. Wartman 
 
 Watkins 
 
 A. T. Johnson 
 
 Grove City R 4 
 
 Mrs. Alva R. Hunt 
 
 Litchfield 
 
 Olaf L. Olson 
 
 Dassel 
 
 
 
 
 Marketing 
 
 Committee 
 
 
 Frank Piefer 
 
 Litchfield 
 
 C. E. Warren 
 
 Grove City 
 
 K. Johnson 
 
 Dassel 
 
 
 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 
 0. M. Olson, 
 
 Litchfield 
 
 Joseph Olson 
 
 Dassel 
 
 A. P. Nelson 
 
 Grove City 
 
 
 
 Chairman Food Committee 
 
 J. N. Gayner Litchfield 
 
 245 
 
MILLE LACS COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 Ira G. Stanley, Director 
 
 Address 
 Princeton 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 R. P. Morton 
 
 Princeton 
 
 Nels Robideau 
 
 Princeton, R. 1 
 
 Fred R. Burrell 
 
 Onemia 
 
 C. W. Wills 
 
 Milaca 
 
 C. E. Gilbert 
 
 Foreston 
 
 Nils B. Berg 
 
 Isle 
 
 Charles Malone 
 
 Isle 
 
 Carl Anderson 
 
 Milaca 
 
 D. S. Phillips 
 
 Milaca 
 
 John J. Axel 
 
 Milaca, R. 2 
 
 Fred Gravel 
 
 Onamia 
 
 F. A. Maynard 
 
 Milaca 
 
 E. K. Evans 
 
 Princeton 
 
 G. H. Carr 
 
 Onamia 
 
 B. H. Potts 
 
 Wahkon 
 
 Thure Lindberg 
 
 Milaca 
 
 A. J. Franzen 
 
 Milaca, R. 2 
 
 August F. Meyer 
 
 Princeton, R. 2 
 
 Carl Eckdahl 
 
 Bock 
 
 E. E. Dinwiddle 
 
 Vineland 
 
 Frank Robinson 
 
 Onamia 
 
 Chas. L. Freer 
 
 Onamia 
 
 Oscar C. Anderson 
 
 Opstead 
 
 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 A. J. Franzen 
 
 Milaca, R. 2 
 
 Carl Eckdahl 
 
 Bock 
 
 Frank Tobinson 
 
 Onamia 
 
 Oscar C. Anderson 
 
 Opstead 
 
 Nels Tobideau 
 
 Princeton 
 
 C. W. Wills 
 
 Milaca 
 
 Nils B. Berg 
 
 Isle 
 
 Carl Anderson 
 
 Milaca 
 
 John J. Axel 
 
 Milaca, R. 2 
 
 F. A. Maynard 
 
 Milaca 
 
 G. H. Carr 
 
 Onamia 
 
 Thure Lindberg 
 
 Milaca 
 
 Aug. F. Meyer 
 
 Princeton, R. 2 
 
 D. E. Dinwiddle 
 
 Vineland 
 
 Chas. L. Freer 
 
 Onamia 
 
 Ira G. Stanley 
 
 Princeton 
 
 Rufus P. Morton 
 
 Princeton 
 
 Fred R. Burrell 
 
 Onamia 
 
 C. E. Gilbert 
 
 Foreston 
 
 Chas. Malone 
 
 Isle 
 
 D. S. Philips 
 
 Milaca 
 
 Fred Gravel 
 
 Onamia 
 
 E. K. Evans 
 
 Princeton 
 
 B. H. Potts 
 
 Wahkon 
 
 Finance Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 
 Address Name 
 
 Address 
 
 E. L. McMillan 
 
 
 Princeton F. R. Burrel 
 
 Onamia 
 
 J. A. Allen 
 
 
 Milaca Roleff Vaaler 
 
 Milaca 
 
 C. E. Gilbert 
 
 
 Foreston S. S. Petterson 
 
 Princeton 
 
 W. H. Smith 
 
 
 Princeton S. P. Skahen 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Princeton 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 R 
 
 .P. 
 
 , Morton 
 
 Princeton 
 
 246 
 
MORRISON COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 Don M. Cameron, Director 
 Andrew Johnson, Secretary 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Chas. Sylvester 
 
 Geo. Kiewel 
 
 H. A. Rider 
 
 Mrs. Winnabel M. Cochrane 
 
 J. W. Stephenson 
 
 J. K. Martin 
 
 E. J. Richie 
 
 Rev. Phil E. Gregory 
 Geo. H. Peterson 
 
 F. W. Dobbyn 
 Jos. Sharrowski 
 Eric Erickson 
 Chas. E. Nichols 
 John H. Hanfler 
 I. E. Claassen 
 Alb. A. Dominick 
 Albert Johnson 
 *R. E. Mann 
 Jos. E. Brandl 
 Gust Franzen 
 Earnest G. Haymaker 
 R. D. Wheeler 
 Herman Lemnitz 
 Genore Pelkey 
 Alwin P. Sell 
 
 C. E. Look 
 Swan Johnson 
 E. J. McCollum 
 Geo. Danfort 
 Mrs. L. D. Brown 
 
 Address 
 Little Falls 
 Little Falls 
 
 Little Falls 
 Little Falls 
 Little Falls 
 Little Falls 
 Little Falls 
 Little Falls 
 Little Falls 
 Little Falls 
 Little Falls 
 Little Falls 
 Pierz, R. 3 
 Ramey P. O. 
 Randall 
 
 Little Falls, R. 3 
 
 Little Falls 
 
 Pierz 
 
 Little Falls, R. 7 
 
 Foley, R. 3 
 
 Pierz Route 4 
 
 Pillgaer 
 
 Motley 
 
 Lincoln 
 
 Randall, R. 1 
 
 Little Falls, R. 1 
 
 Hillman 
 
 Hillman, R. 1 
 
 Swanville, R. 1 
 
 Royalton 
 
 Royalton 
 Little Falls 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Name 
 Andrew Johnson 
 
 Address 
 Little Falls 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 J. W. Stephenson, Small Grain 
 *T. W. Dewey, Produce 
 Samuel Lafond, Live Stock 
 E. K. McCollum, Grain, Produce and 
 Live Stock 
 
 R. B. Millard, Chairman Liberty Loan Organization 
 J. K. Martin, Food and Fuel Administrator 
 
 Address 
 
 Little Falls 
 Little Falls 
 Little Falls 
 
 Royalton 
 
 ''Deceased 
 
 247 
 
MOWER COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 W. A. 
 
 Nolan, Director 
 
 Grand Meadow 
 
 E. M. 
 
 Doane, Secretary 
 
 Austin 
 
 F. M. 
 
 Beach, Treasurer 
 
 Lyle 
 
 Name 
 
 Township 
 
 Address 
 
 W. H. Spencer 
 
 Township of Leroy 
 
 Leroy 
 
 N. L. Weber 
 
 Township of Lodi 
 
 Taopi 
 
 Iver Tigen 
 
 Township of Adams 
 
 Adams 
 
 L. M. Eggen 
 
 Township of Nevada 
 
 Lyle 
 
 Jay Monahan 
 
 Township of Lyle 
 
 Austin, R. R. 
 
 T. M. Haggerty 
 
 Township of Bennington 
 
 Grand Meadow 
 
 E. A. Wignes 
 
 Township of Clayton 
 
 Elkton 
 
 B. J. Huseby 
 
 Township of Marshall 
 
 Adams 
 
 A. C. Brooks 
 
 Township of Austin 
 
 Austin, R. R. 
 
 W. H. Goodsell 
 
 Township of Frankford 
 
 Grand- Meadow 
 
 Frank Smith 
 
 Township of Windom 
 
 Austin, R. R. 
 
 E. J. Naish 
 
 Township of Grand Meadow 
 
 Grand Meadow 
 
 Jno. Christgau 
 
 Township of Dexter 
 
 Dexter 
 
 S. K. Dahle 
 
 Township of Red Rock 
 
 Brownsdale 
 
 A. E. Bedell 
 
 Township of Lansing 
 
 Lansing 
 
 H. P. Johnson 
 
 Township of Pleasant Valley 
 
 Grand Meadow 
 
 Jacob Gjerness 
 
 Township of Sargeant 
 
 Sargeant 
 
 Geo. Wuertz 
 
 Township of Waltham 
 
 Austin, R. R. 
 
 Robt. Bagley 
 
 Township of Udolpho 
 
 Blooming Prairie 
 
 R. W. Chadwick 
 
 Township of Racine 
 
 Racine 
 
 Chris Madsen 
 
 Village of Leroy 
 
 Leroy 
 
 H. J. Gosha 
 
 Village of Taopi 
 
 Taopi 
 
 P. H. Can- 
 
 Village of Adams 
 
 Adams 
 
 Gill Ferris 
 
 Village of Lyle 
 
 Lyle 
 
 Ed. C. Keefe 
 
 Village of Rose Creek 
 
 Rose Creek 
 
 L. C. Carder 
 
 Village of Elkton 
 
 Elkton 
 
 Geo. Brown 
 
 Village of Grand Meadow 
 
 Grand Meadow 
 
 Sam'l D. Goetsch 
 
 Village of Dexter 
 
 Dexter 
 
 W. H. Lawrence 
 
 Village of Brownsdale 
 
 Brownsdale 
 
 Franklin Grimm 
 
 Village Of Sargeant 
 
 Sargeant 
 
 E. J. Markham 
 
 Village of Waltham 
 
 Waltham 
 
 Gen. A. W. Wright 
 
 Village of Austin, 1st Ward 
 
 Austin 
 
 J. N. Nicholsen 
 
 Village of Austin, 2nd Ward 
 
 Austin 
 
 Ira Padden 
 
 Village of Austin, 3rd Ward 
 
 Austin 
 
 The above is a list of village and township chairmen. 
 
 They also constitute 
 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 
 Finance Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 W. A. Nolan 
 
 Grand Meadow 
 
 Ralph P. Crane 
 
 Austin 
 
 C. F. Cook 
 
 Austin 
 
 C. Madsen 
 
 Le Roy 
 
 A. J. Krebsbach 
 
 Adams 
 
 J. H. Skinner 
 
 Austin 
 
 J. N. Nicholsen 
 
 Austin 
 
 
 
 248 
 
Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 J. W. Hare 
 
 Austin 
 
 Chas. Palmer 
 
 LeRoy 
 
 Carl Syck 
 
 Brownsdale 
 
 N. E. Fedsane 
 
 Lyle 
 
 Stanley Stevenson 
 
 Dexter 
 
 E. Markham 
 
 Waltham 
 
 E. G. Christgau 
 
 Grand Meadow 
 
 Geo. Eastman 
 
 Elkton 
 
 A. E. Bedell 
 
 Lansing 
 
 Henry Hahn 
 
 Sargeant 
 
 John Cronon 
 
 Rose Creek 
 
 Henry Stern 
 
 Renova 
 
 H. Carey 
 
 Adams 
 
 David McKee 
 
 Racine 
 
 G. S. Pitts 
 
 Taopi 
 
 
 
 Food Commission 
 
 Name Address 
 
 W. A. Nolan, Chairman Grand Meadow 
 
 Mrs. Nellie M. Allen, Women's Aux. Austin 
 Mrs. Eunice L. Rice, Co. Supt. Schools, 
 
 Secretary Austin 
 
 Coal Commission 
 
 Name 
 O. W. Oberg 
 C. Madsen 
 G. A. Wright 
 Dr. W. F. Cobb 
 
 Address 
 
 Austin 
 
 Leroy 
 
 Grand Meadow 
 
 Lyle 
 
 249 
 
MURRAY COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 Burt I. Weld, Director 
 P. H. Harrington, Secretary 
 
 Address 
 Slayton 
 Slayton 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 R. F. Lamb, Chairman 
 
 Slayton 
 
 Sam Campbell 
 
 Lake Wilson 
 
 A. W. Tierney, Counsel 
 
 Fulda 
 
 R. B. Forrest 
 
 Lake Wilson 
 
 F. D. Lindquist 
 
 Fulda 
 
 Alex Lowe 
 
 Hadley 
 
 T. P. Flynn 
 
 Avoca 
 
 Burt I. Weld 
 
 Slayton 
 
 B. DeMersseman 
 
 Currie 
 
 C. H. Helweg 
 
 Fulda 
 
 Labor Committee and Special Agents 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Archie McHarg 
 
 Lime Creek 
 
 P. N. Hansen 
 
 Currie 
 
 John S. Tolverson 
 
 Fulda 
 
 Mike Schrantz 
 
 Slayton 
 
 F. J. Stebor 
 
 Iona 
 
 J. J. Mihin 
 
 Hadley 
 
 Fred Hart 
 
 Chandler 
 
 W. S. Pattinson 
 
 Lake Wilson 
 
 Thomas Radcliffe 
 
 Chandler 
 
 0. J. Olson 
 
 Ruthton 
 
 A. S. Peters 
 
 Lake Wilson 
 
 E. H. Johnson 
 
 Balaton 
 
 C. E. Reed 
 
 Hadley 
 
 John Carlson 
 
 Garvin 
 
 S. C. Escher 
 
 Slayton 
 
 George F. Haugen 
 
 Tracy 
 
 T. 0. Westby 
 
 Avoca 
 
 Birch N. Bell 
 
 Walnut Grove 
 
 E. J. Cohrs 
 
 Dovray 
 
 Jennie Holm 
 
 Slayton 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name Address 
 
 J. W. Case, Chairman Slayton 
 R. B. Forrest Lake Wilson 
 
 Name 
 B. DeMersseman 
 
 Address 
 Currie 
 
 250 
 
NICOLLET COUNTY 
 
 Name Address 
 
 N. H. Olson, Director St. Peter 
 
 Andrew Cook, Secretary St. Peter 
 
 Mrs. H. L. Stark, Director Women's Aux. St. Peter 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Name 
 J. B. Summers 
 
 Address 
 Nicollet 
 
 Name 
 Rupert Altman 
 
 ADDRESS 
 
 Gibbon, E. 4 
 
 Township Organization — Districts 
 
 Name 
 
 District 
 
 Address 
 
 C. H. Jackson 
 
 St. Peter, First Ward 
 
 St. Peter 
 
 Andrew Cook 
 
 St. Peter, First Ward 
 
 St. Peter 
 
 C. G. Seifert 
 
 St. Peter, First Ward 
 
 St. Peter 
 
 G. H. Townley 
 
 St. Peter, Second Ward 
 
 St. Peter 
 
 H. S. Baker 
 
 St. Peter, Second Ward 
 
 St. Peter 
 
 W. G. Laumann 
 
 St. Peter, Second Ward 
 
 St. Peter 
 
 W. E. Joern 
 
 Nicollet Village 
 
 Nicollet 
 
 J. W. Summers 
 
 Nicollet Village 
 
 Nicollet 
 
 Martin Frey 
 
 Nicollet Village 
 
 Nicollet 
 
 0. A. Olin 
 
 Lafayette Village 
 
 Lafayette 
 
 Dr. 0. L. Peterson 
 
 Lafayette Village 
 
 Lafayette 
 
 T. F. Berquist 
 
 Lafayette Village 
 
 Lafayette 
 
 Geo. Bobsin 
 
 Courtland Village 
 
 Courtland 
 
 Herman Poehler 
 
 Courtland Village 
 
 Courtland 
 
 H. E. Stellmacher 
 
 Courtland Village 
 
 Courtland 
 
 Thos. Smith 
 
 No. Mankato 
 
 No. Mankato 
 
 M. M. Gram 
 
 No. Mankato 
 
 No. Mankato 
 
 L. B. Steel 
 
 No. Mankato 
 
 No. Mankato 
 
 J. A. Schuck 
 
 Oshwa Township 
 
 St. Peter, R. 1 
 
 Otto H. Anderson 
 
 Oshwa Township 
 
 St. Peter, R. 2 
 
 Jay Miner 
 
 Oshwa Township 
 
 St. Peter, R. 2 
 
 Thos. Wright 
 
 Traverse Township 
 
 St. Peter, R. 2 
 
 C. H. Poncoin 
 
 Traverse Township 
 
 St. Peter, R. 2 
 
 Gilbert Gilbertson 
 
 Traverse Township 
 
 St. Peter, R. 3 
 
 Murde McKenzie 
 
 Lake Prairie 
 
 St. Peter, R. 5 
 
 Albert Annextad 
 
 Lake Prairie 
 
 St. Peter, R. 3 
 
 Mahlan Johnson 
 
 Lake Prairie 
 
 St. Peter, R. 3 
 
 H. H. Tegner 
 
 New Sweden 
 
 Nicollet, R. 2 
 
 251 
 
Name 
 
 District 
 
 Address 
 
 Christ Hoveland 
 
 New Sweden 
 
 St. Peter, R. 2 
 
 J. A. Johnson 
 
 New Sweden 
 
 Nicollet, R. 2 
 
 L. W. Samuelson 
 
 Bernadotte 
 
 Lafayette, R. 1 
 
 John A. Hinquist 
 
 Bernadotte 
 
 Lafayette, R. 1 
 
 Aug. A. Malmberg 
 
 Bernadotte 
 
 Lafayette 
 
 Julius Hagberg 
 
 Lafayette 
 
 Lafayette 
 
 J. W. Berger 
 
 Lafayette 
 
 Klossner 
 
 Joseph Transig 
 
 Lafayette 
 
 Lafayette 
 
 Jos. Kienlen 
 
 West Newton 
 
 Gibbon, R. 4 
 
 Alex Russel 
 
 West Newton 
 
 New Ulm, R. 1 
 
 Rupert Altaian 
 
 West Newton 
 
 Gibbon, R. 4 
 
 A. F. Pickle 
 
 Ridgely 
 
 Fairfax, R. 3 
 
 G. F. Merkel 
 
 Ridgely 
 
 Fairfax, R. 3 
 
 W. B. LaFramboise 
 
 Ridgely 
 
 Fairfax, R. 3 
 
 J. W. Schroeder 
 
 Courtland 
 
 Courtland 
 
 Louis Hulke 
 
 Courtland 
 
 Courtland 
 
 Louis T. Precht 
 
 Courtland 
 
 Courtland 
 
 Louis Ketner 
 
 Nicollet 
 
 Nicollet 
 
 J. C. Bode 
 
 Nicollet 
 
 Nicollet 
 
 Robt. Frietag 
 
 Nicollet 
 
 Nicollet 
 
 W. W. Randall 
 
 Belgrade 
 
 Mankato, R. 5 
 
 C. P. Langren 
 
 Belgrade 
 
 Mankato, R. 5 
 
 G. M. Cole 
 
 Belgrade 
 
 Mankato, R. 5 
 
 M. J. Schouweiler 
 
 Granby 
 
 Nicollet, R. 2 
 
 C. J. Doucet 
 
 Granby 
 
 Nicollet, 
 
 Louis Wells 
 
 Granby 
 
 Nicollet 
 
 R. E. Anderson 
 
 Brighton 
 
 Nicollet, R. 3 
 
 Chester Nelson 
 
 Brighton 
 
 New Ulm, R. 3 
 
 Fred Gieseke 
 
 Brighton 
 Labor Committee 
 
 New Ulm, R. 3 
 
 Name 
 
 Address Name 
 
 Address 
 
 C. G. Seifert 
 
 St. Peter J- W. Berger 
 
 Klossner 
 
 E. R. Jones 
 
 North Mankato John A. Johnson 
 
 Nicollet, R. 2 
 
 Anton Malmberg 
 
 Lafayette Geo. Burke 
 
 St. Peter, R. 3 
 
 A. P. Anderson 
 
 Nicollet J. A. Schuck 
 
 St. Peter, R. 1 
 
 Herman Poehler 
 
 Courtland 
 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 A. C. Anderson 
 
 St. Peter 
 
 0. A. Olin 
 
 Lafayette 
 
 John C. Roby 
 
 Nicollet 
 
 John Hinquist 
 
 Lafayette 
 
 352 
 
NOBLES COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 
 
 Address 
 
 W.E 
 
 1. Oliver, Director 
 
 1 
 
 Worthington 
 
 J.J. 
 
 Kies, Secretary 
 
 Worthington 
 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 J. J. Kies 
 
 Worthington 
 
 A. F. Deihn 
 
 Round Lake 
 
 Ole Johnson 
 
 Bigelow 
 
 John Faragher 
 
 Adrian 
 
 Jas. McRoberts 
 
 Ellsworth 
 
 F. Comiskey 
 
 Lismore 
 
 C. W. Becker 
 
 Wilmont 
 
 B. N. Bodelson 
 
 Dundee 
 
 E. W. Kane 
 
 Kinbrae 
 
 F. G. Mitchell 
 
 Brewster 
 
 
 Township Org 
 
 ;anization 
 
 
 Chairman 
 
 Township 
 
 
 Address 
 
 Jens Langseth 
 
 Indian Lake 
 
 
 Worthington 
 
 0. B. Thueson 
 
 Bigelow 
 
 
 Bigelow 
 
 N. A. Early 
 
 Ransom 
 
 
 Bigelow 
 
 K. T. Feeney 
 
 Little Rock 
 
 
 Adrian 
 
 J. P. Campbell 
 
 Grand Prairie 
 
 Ellsworth 
 
 F. W. Knapp 
 
 Lorain 
 
 
 Worthington 
 
 Fred Trunk 
 
 Worthington 
 
 
 Worthington 
 
 W. C. Renshaw 
 
 Dewald 
 
 
 Rushmore 
 
 George Beacon 
 
 Olney 
 
 
 Rushmore 
 
 A. H. Rust 
 
 West Side 
 
 
 Adrian 
 
 J. S. McCarvel 
 
 Hersey 
 
 
 Brewster 
 
 W. H. Marquardt 
 
 Elk 
 
 
 Worthington 
 
 Henry F. Moss 
 
 Summit Lake 
 
 Reading 
 
 Mike Hendel 
 
 Larkin 
 
 
 Rushmore 
 
 Henry Rust 
 
 Lismore 
 
 
 Lismore 
 
 John Ramerth 
 
 Graham Lakes 
 
 Kinbrae 
 
 N. R. Jorgensen 
 
 Seward 
 
 
 Fulda 
 
 John Paradies 
 
 Bloom 
 
 
 Wilmont 
 
 Fred Hartman 
 
 Wilmont 
 
 
 Lismore 
 
 Cbas. Cook 
 
 Leota 
 
 
 Edgerton 
 
 
 Labor Commission 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 ADDRESS 
 
 G. W. Bramer 
 
 Worthington 
 
 Ole Johnson 
 
 Bigelow 
 
 F. J. Cummiskey 
 
 Lismore 
 
 G. W. Bramer 
 
 Worthington 
 
 P. J. Carter 
 
 Adrian 
 
 R. S. Stronks 
 
 Brewster 
 
 F. W. Stanton 
 
 Ellsworth 
 
 A. F. Diehn 
 
 Round Lake 
 
 C. W. Becker 
 
 Wilmont 
 
 E. W. Kane 
 
 Dundee 
 
 Albert Jacobsen 
 
 Rushmore 
 
 Morris Ronan 
 
 Reading 
 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 
 Names 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Dr. J. N. Gould, Chm. Worthington 
 
 C. W. Becker 
 
 Wilmont 
 
 W. H. Christensen 
 
 Rushmore 
 
 Morris Ronan 
 
 Reading 
 
 Edwin Brickson 
 
 Adrian 
 
 Ole Johnson 
 
 Bigelow 
 
 F. W. Stanton 
 
 Ellsworth 
 
 A. F. Diehn 
 
 Round Lake 
 
 A. J. Rice 
 
 Lismore 
 
 Rudolph Guyerman Brewster 
 
 253 
 
NORMAN COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 
 
 Address 
 
 E. J. Herringer, Director 
 
 Ada 
 
 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address Name 
 
 Address 
 
 B. F. Tenney 
 
 Ada 
 
 Mrs. W. B. Holmes Ada 
 
 C. C. Allen 
 
 Ada 
 
 Sam Olson 
 
 Ada 
 
 Rev. A. B. Hinderlie 
 
 Ada 
 
 Township Organization 
 
 
 Name 
 
 
 Township 
 
 Address 
 
 Lambert Roesch 
 
 
 Ada 
 
 Ada 
 
 P. P. Olson 
 
 
 Anthony 
 
 Ada 
 
 S. J. Lee 
 
 
 Bear Park 
 
 Flaming 
 
 A. T. Rogen 
 
 
 Flom 
 
 Flom 
 
 Lars J. Moreland 
 
 
 Fossum 
 
 Twin Valley 
 
 Lewis Garden 
 
 
 Gary 
 
 Gary 
 
 John Libak 
 
 
 Good Hope 
 
 Shelly 
 
 A. H. Betcher 
 
 
 Green Meadow 
 
 Ada ,R. 4 
 
 N. J. Enger 
 
 
 Halstad 
 
 Halstad 
 
 C. L. Sulerud 
 
 
 Halstad, Village 
 
 Halstad 
 
 R. P. Idtse 
 
 
 Hegne 
 
 Ada 
 
 H. 0. Rask 
 
 
 Hendrum 
 
 Hendrum 
 
 J. J. Nelson 
 
 
 Hendrum, Village 
 
 Hendrum 
 
 H. 0. Ellefson 
 
 
 Home Lake 
 
 Syre 
 
 J. J. Lindbeck 
 
 
 Lake Ida 
 
 Twin Valley 
 
 B. 0. Lee 
 
 
 Lee 
 
 Perley 
 
 A. P. Heinen 
 
 
 Lockhart 
 
 Lockhart 
 
 John P. Lorentz 
 
 
 Mary 
 
 Perley 
 
 H. F. Sprung 
 
 
 McDonaldsville 
 
 Ada 
 
 M. A. Larson 
 
 
 Village of Perley 
 
 Perley 
 
 Walter Hadler 
 
 
 Pleasant View 
 
 Ada ,R. 3 
 
 Gilbert Bilden 
 
 
 Rockwell 
 
 Twin Valley 
 
 A. Aanenson 
 
 
 Shelly 
 
 Nielsville 
 
 James Hanson 
 
 
 Shelly Village 
 
 Shelly 
 
 August Swanson 
 
 
 Spring Creek 
 
 Gary 
 
 N. B. Bagne 
 
 
 Strand 
 
 Gary 
 
 Jacob E. Eid 
 
 
 Sundal 
 
 Fertile 
 
 A. A. Durling 
 
 
 Twin Valley Village 
 
 Twin Valley 
 
 Rev. G. C. Gjerstad 
 
 
 Waukon 
 
 Gary 
 
 A. K. Rude 
 
 
 Wild Rice 
 
 Twin Valley 
 
 G. Kittilson 
 
 
 Winchester 
 
 Borup 
 
 Mrs. B. F. Tenney 
 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Ada 
 
 Name 
 
 Address Name 
 
 Address 
 
 C. C. Allen 
 
 Ada 
 
 Ed. Engelstad 
 
 Shelly 
 
 G. Kittilson 
 
 Borup 
 
 A. P. Heinen 
 
 Lockhart 
 
 Jos. Gaara 
 
 Perley 
 
 N. B. Bagne 
 
 Gary 
 
 E. F. Rustad 
 
 Hendrum Gust Durling 
 
 Twin Valley 
 
 G. 0. Benson 
 
 Halstad 
 
 
 204 
 
Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 P. W. Beck 
 
 Ada 
 
 James Hanson 
 
 Shelly 
 
 G. Kittilson 
 
 Borup 
 
 A. P. Heinen 
 
 Lockhart 
 
 Martin Anderson 
 
 Perley 
 
 Lewis Garden 
 
 Gary 
 
 E. F. Rustad 
 
 Hendrum 
 
 Bennie Bakke 
 
 Twin Valley 
 
 C. L. Sulerud 
 
 Halstad 
 
 
 
 Name 
 C. C. Allen 
 
 Quartermaster's Chairman 
 
 Address 
 Ada 
 
 Name 
 Sam Olson 
 
 Four-Minute Men Chairman 
 
 Address 
 Ada 
 
 Military Training Camp Chairman 
 
 Name 
 B. F. Tenney 
 
 Address 
 Ada 
 
 265 
 
OLMSTED COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 J. A. Melone, Director 
 A. C. Gooding, resigned Nov. 26, 1918 
 E. C. Hacket, Secretary 
 J. F. Spencer, Treasurer 
 
 Name 
 E. S. Morris 
 J. W. Hart 
 Joseph Underlean 
 George Wood 
 
 E. B. Harvey 
 A. B. Shonyo 
 J. P. Kelly 
 
 F. W. Dunnett 
 S. W. Morris 
 Frank W. Cornwell 
 C. J. Manahan 
 Chas. E. Postier 
 Arthur Ayshford 
 
 J. I. Vermilya 
 John A. Robertson 
 David B. Brakke 
 H. P. Christensen 
 George Purves 
 F. M. Williams 
 Harlow Brown 
 Homer Woolridge 
 Mrs. H. H. Witherstine 
 
 Township Organizations 
 
 Township 
 Cascade 
 Dover 
 
 Elmira and Chatfield 
 Eyota 
 Farmington 
 Haverhill 
 High Forest 
 Kalmar 
 Marion 
 New Haven 
 Orion 
 Oronoco 
 Pleasant Grove 
 Quincy 
 Rochester 
 Rock Dell 
 Salem 
 Viola 
 
 Byron Village 
 Dover Village 
 Stewartville Village 
 
 Name 
 J. F. Spencer 
 J. B. Kendall 
 W. G. Early 
 Harlow Brown 
 *Geo. R. Thompson 
 Hiram McHugh 
 
 Name 
 J. R. Randall 
 John E. McGovern 
 W. L. Mercer 
 
 Name 
 J. A. Melone, Chm. 
 T. R. Lawler 
 A. L. Roberts 
 H. J. Harwick 
 Mrs. C. H. Mayo 
 
 *Deceased 
 
 Address 
 Rochester 
 Rochester 
 Rochester 
 Rochester 
 
 Address 
 Rochester, R. 4 
 Dover 
 Chatfield 
 Eyota 
 
 Rochester, R. 4 
 Rochester, R. 3 
 Stewartville 
 Byron 
 
 Rochester, R. 8 
 Pine Island 
 Chatfield, R. 2 
 Oronoco 
 
 Stewartville, R. 1 
 Dover, R. 1 
 Rochester, R. 7 
 Byron, R. 2 
 Rochester, R. 6 
 Eyota, R. 2 
 Byron 
 Dover 
 Stewartville 
 Rochester 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Address Name 
 
 Rochester C. L. Denny 
 
 Byron Jos. W. Daly 
 
 Eyota M. J. Dixon 
 
 Dover H. C. Blumentritt 
 Chatfield 
 Viola 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Address Name 
 
 Rochester W. G. Hagerman 
 
 Rochester E. C. Green 
 Rochester 
 
 Address 
 Simpson 
 Douglas 
 Stewartville 
 Chester 
 
 Address 
 Rochester 
 Rochester 
 
 War Finance Committee 
 
 Address Name Address 
 
 Rochester Miss Marg. Sullivan Rochester 
 
 Rochester S. J. Norsby Stewartville 
 
 Rochester J. W. Hart Dover 
 
 Rochester Elmer E. Dodge Rochester, R. 3 
 Rochester 
 
 256 
 
OTTER TAIL COUNTY 
 
 
 Name 
 
 
 Address 
 
 
 Henry G. Dahl, Director 
 
 
 Fergus Falls 
 
 
 Louis Keane, Secretary 
 
 
 Fergus Falls 
 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 John L. Townley Fergus Falls 
 
 J. S. Billings 
 
 Fergus Falls 
 
 Pre:ident 
 
 
 C. R. Wright 
 
 Fergus Falls 
 
 J. V. Bopp 
 
 Fergus Falls 
 
 R. J. Angus 
 
 Fergus Falls 
 
 
 Districts 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 G. C. Skeim 
 
 Almora 
 
 W. L. Wilson 
 
 Maine, Under- 
 
 J. A. Otte 
 
 Bluflton 
 
 
 wood (P. 0.) 
 
 W. A. Wells 
 
 Battle Lake 
 
 E. R. Rosser 
 
 New York Mills 
 
 Theo. Fossen 
 
 Carlisle 
 
 E. W. Perk 
 
 Otter Tail 
 
 H. A. Gosslee 
 
 Clitheral 
 
 C. H. Dahlstrom Parkers Prairie 
 
 J. P. Brendal 
 
 Dalton 
 
 P. C. Frazee 
 
 Pelican Rapids 
 
 E. F. Selvig 
 
 Deer Creek 
 
 J. H. Shea 
 
 Perham 
 
 E. J. Stoll 
 
 Dent 
 
 A. B. Ouren 
 
 Richville 
 
 H. F. Maurin 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
 Odin Loscth 
 
 Underwood 
 
 P. M. Knoff 
 
 Erhard 
 
 Jas. Nesbitt 
 
 Vergas 
 
 J. W. Barker 
 
 Henning 
 
 Ole Nyhus 
 
 Vining 
 
 
 Finance Committee 
 
 
 
 Name 
 
 
 Address 
 
 
 E. E. Adams, Chairman 
 
 
 Fergus Falls 
 
 
 Bankers of County 
 
 
 
 Welfare of Enlisted Men 
 
 Name Name 
 
 E. T. Terry, Chairman Mrs. Geo. B. Wright 
 
 Mrs. G. O. Welch Mrs. F. J. Evans 
 
 Farm Products and Gardens 
 
 Name Address Name Address 
 
 J. V. Bopp, Chairman Hannah J. Kempher Erhard 
 
 H. N. Gray Fergus Falls Fred Syck Campbell 
 
 H. A. Putnam Battle Lake S. M. Skrove Dalton 
 
 Enlistments 
 Name Address Name 
 
 Dr. A. B. Cole, Chairman P. C. Frazee 
 
 Dr. A. C. Baker Fergus Falls J. H. Shea 
 
 C. H. Dahlstrom Parkers Prairie 
 
 Publicity 
 
 Name 
 W. L. Robertson, Chairman 
 All editors in County 
 
 257 
 
 Address 
 Pelican Rapids 
 Perham 
 
Public Safety 
 Name 
 J. S. Billings, Sheriff 
 All Peace Officers in County 
 
 Public Health 
 
 Name 
 Dr. O. N. Haugan, Chairman 
 All Health Officers in County 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 G. C. Skeim 
 
 Almora 
 
 W. L. Wilson 
 
 Underwood 
 
 W. A. Wells 
 
 Battle Lake 
 
 E. R. Rosser 
 
 New York Mills 
 
 J. A. Otto 
 
 Bluffton 
 
 E. W. Park 
 
 Otter Tail 
 
 Theo. Fossen 
 
 Carlisle 
 
 C. H. Dahlstrom 
 
 Parkers Prairie 
 
 H. A. Gosslee 
 
 Clitherall 
 
 P. C. Frazee 
 
 Pelican Rapids 
 
 J. P. Brendal 
 
 Dalton 
 
 E. J. Emal 
 
 Perham 
 
 E. F. Selvig 
 
 Deer Creek 
 
 A. B. Ouren 
 
 Richville 
 
 E. J. Stoll 
 
 Dent 
 
 Odin Losesh 
 
 Underwood 
 
 H. F. Maurin 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
 James Nesbitt 
 
 Vergas 
 
 P. M. Knoff 
 
 Erhard 
 
 Ole Nyhus 
 
 Vining 
 
 J. W. Barker 
 
 Henning 
 
 
 
 258 
 
PENNINGTON COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 Charles A. Pitkin, Director 
 John Morgan, Chairman 
 Theo. Quale, Secretary 
 T. L. Melgard, Treasurer 
 
 Address 
 Thief River Falls 
 Thief River Falls 
 Thief River Falls 
 Thief River Falls 
 
 Advisory Council 
 
 Name 
 John Morgan 
 Theo. Quale 
 T. L. Melgard 
 T. A. Way 
 Norman J. Silk 
 T. H. Bjerke 
 Olaf Larson 
 John Skjoldsvold 
 C. W. Nelson 
 Elbert Gunderson 
 C. O. Wahlin 
 Emil Larson 
 Jess Thorstad 
 S. O. Lee 
 J. M. Thiege 
 K. K. Austin 
 Joe Johnson 
 M. R. Harper 
 Paul Borgie 
 I. A. Ralstad 
 H. C. Jan- 
 John Rodervski 
 Julius Olson 
 Selmer Benson 
 Jay Payne 
 
 Address 
 Thief River Falls 
 Thief River Falls 
 Thief River Falls 
 Thief River Falls 
 Thief River Falls 
 Thief River Falls, R. F. D. 
 Thief River Falls 
 Thief River Falls 
 Mavie 
 Goodridge 
 Torgerson 
 Wylie 
 
 St. Hilaire, R. F. D. 
 Thief River Falls 
 Thief River Falls, R. F. D. 
 Kratka 
 Erie 
 
 Red Lake Falls 
 Hazel 
 Hazel 
 
 Plummer, R. F. D. 
 Rhoda 
 Ruddel 
 St. Hilaire 
 Goodridge 
 
 Township Organization 
 
 (Same list as above) 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name Address Name Address 
 
 F. H. Herrick Thief River Falls Karl Korstad High Landing 
 
 W. B. Fuller Thief River Falls Rev. Halvor Bjornson Mavie & Kratka 
 
 C. W. Hooper St. Hilaire Jay Payne Goodridge 
 
 T. J. Sumpter Hazel J. A. McNally Torgerson 
 
 259 
 
PINE COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 W. J. McAdam, Director 
 C. L. Jack, Secretary 
 A. S. Dean, Treasurer 
 
 Address 
 Pine City 
 Hinckley 
 Sandstone 
 
 Township Organization 
 
 Chairman 
 
 Gust Westman 
 M. J. Scoville 
 Henry Gould 
 
 F. L. Oleson 
 
 G. M. Scofield 
 James Meek 
 Alf. R. Merritt 
 Tom Hogan 
 
 J. H. Lindgren 
 F. D. Baker 
 Robt. Blankenship 
 Geo. Luckman 
 Louis Erickson 
 John A. Stenson 
 J. F. Brunner 
 R. Ruphal 
 H. E. Shaffer 
 F. M. Rodenberger 
 Otis Hankins 
 Frank Mortison 
 James Hogan 
 C. M. Erickson 
 Phil Wood 
 Anton Kacer 
 J. D. Johnson 
 Gust Overbeck 
 H. B. Lyons 
 L. C. Pederson 
 A. A. Robinson 
 N. Perkins 
 Eugene Ryan 
 Chas. Peterson 
 R. M. Morrow 
 Fred Hartz 
 Andrew Edin 
 Adolph Larson 
 George Cunningham 
 Lee Bates 
 John Selinsk 
 Mrs. James Slaven 
 
 Township 
 
 Arlone 
 
 Arna 
 
 Barry 
 
 Birch Creek 
 
 Brook Park 
 
 Bremen 
 
 Barry 
 
 Bruno 
 
 Bruno Village 
 
 Chengwatana 
 
 Clover 
 
 Crosby 
 
 Danford 
 
 Dell Grove 
 
 Dosey 
 
 Finlayson 
 
 Finlayson Village 
 
 Fleming 
 
 Hinckley 
 
 Hinckley Village 
 
 Kerrick 
 
 Kettle River 
 
 Mission Creek 
 
 Munch 
 
 Nickerson 
 
 Norman 
 
 Ogema 
 
 Partridge 
 
 Pine City 
 
 Pine City Village 
 
 Pine City 
 
 Pokegama 
 
 Rock Creek 
 
 Royalton 
 
 Sandstone 
 
 Sandstone Village 
 
 Sturgeon Lake 
 
 Wilma 
 
 Windemere 
 
 Sandstone Village 
 
 Address 
 Hinckley 
 Markville 
 Hinckley 
 Denham 
 Brook Park 
 Ellison 
 Belden 
 Belden 
 Bruno 
 Pine City 
 Hinckley 
 Hinckley 
 Sandstone 
 Sandstone 
 Cloverton 
 Sandstone 
 Finlayson 
 Bruno 
 Hinckley 
 Hinckley 
 Kerrick 
 Willow River 
 Brook Park 
 Hinckley 
 Nickerson 
 Willow River 
 Hinckley 
 Askov 
 Pine City 
 Pine City 
 Finlayson 
 Henriette 
 Rock Creek 
 Pine City 
 Sandstone 
 Sandstone 
 Sturgeon Lake 
 Duxbury 
 Sturgeon Lake 
 Sandstone 
 
 260 
 
Labor Committee 
 
 (Same as Township Chairmen) 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Ludvig Mosbak 
 
 Askov 
 
 W. G. Otte 
 
 Bruno 
 
 Name Address 
 
 Geo. Cunningham Sturgeon Lake 
 B. H. Langerak Cloverton 
 
 Y. M, C. A. 
 
 J. Adam Bede, Chairman 
 
 Pine City 
 
 Fuel Administration 
 
 F. T. Lersinger, Chairman 
 
 Hinckley 
 
 Red Cross 
 
 Dr. E. L. Stephen, Chairman 
 
 Hinckley 
 
 Federal Reserve Agent 
 C. L. Jack Hinckley 
 
 261 
 
PIPESTONE COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 John Gray, Director 
 Chas. Dealy 
 S. B. Duea, Treasurer 
 
 Name 
 Lee Baldwin 
 Alex Sinclair 
 Robt. Moffett 
 Chas. Anderson 
 John Pehrs 
 J. P. Ryan 
 B. J. Mooney 
 Fred Bauman 
 Chas. Maynard 
 Henry Heeresma 
 
 Address 
 Edgerton 
 Jasper 
 Holland 
 Pipestone 
 Ruthton 
 Woodstock 
 Woodstock 
 Jasper 
 Pipestone 
 Pipestone 
 
 Address 
 Pipestone 
 Pipestone 
 Pipestone 
 
 Name 
 
 John Morgan 
 Elmer Vaughn 
 
 F. H. Kingsbury 
 S. B. Duea 
 Forest Moffett 
 W. E. Keister 
 Harry Filer 
 
 G. S. Evarts 
 W. J. Dingier 
 Mrs. Grace Hanson 
 
 Address 
 Pipestone 
 Haffield 
 Edgerton 
 Pipestone 
 Woodstock 
 Trosky 
 Pipestone 
 Ruthton 
 Cazenovia 
 Pipestone 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 A. E. Enerson 
 
 Pipestone 
 
 B. J. Mooney 
 
 Woodstock 
 
 Chas. Dealy 
 
 Pipestone 
 
 Alex Sinclair 
 
 Jasper 
 
 G. S. Evarts 
 
 Ruthton 
 
 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 B. F. Veach 
 
 
 Pipestone 
 
 C. M. Christenson 
 
 Ruthton 
 
 J. P. Peterson 
 
 
 Jasper 
 
 Paul Reikow 
 
 Holland 
 
 Lee Baldwin 
 
 
 Edgerton 
 
 W. J. Dingier 
 
 Cazenovia 
 
 B. J. Mooney J. 
 
 ~n "^r 
 
 1 Woodstock 
 
 Farmers Elevator Co. 
 
 Ihlen 
 
 L. Nel on ^ kiyl 
 
 ^fer. 
 
 "/Trosky 
 
 
 
 262 
 
POLKfCOUNTY 
 
 Name 
 A. D. Stephens, Director 
 Ruth V. Perry, Secretary 
 
 Address 
 Crookston 
 Crookston 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Name 
 G. L. McNally 
 Martin O'Brien 
 Mrs. T. R. Sewald 
 N. A. Thorson 
 
 Address 
 
 Mcintosh 
 Crookston 
 Crookston 
 Crookston 
 
 Name Address 
 
 C. E. Brown Crookston 
 
 Wm. Diedrich Crookston 
 
 Mrs. C. Q. Roemer Crookston 
 
 Rev. E. E. Shawl Crookston 
 
 Township Organization 
 
 Chairman 
 
 Township 
 
 Address 
 
 John Perry 
 
 Andover 
 
 Crookston 
 
 A. J. Peterson 
 
 Angus 
 
 Angus 
 
 W. J. Durtalm 
 
 Brandt 
 
 Euclid 
 
 C C. Heath 
 
 Beltrami 
 
 Beltrami 
 
 Herman Lee 
 
 Badger 
 
 Erskine 
 
 Herman Berg 
 
 Brandsvold 
 
 Fosston 
 
 Geo. W. Landon 
 
 Belgium 
 
 Euclid 
 
 *J. M. Boyd 
 
 Brislet 
 
 Warren 
 
 George W. Olson 
 
 Bygland 
 
 Fisher 
 
 Edward Lanctot 
 
 Crookston 
 
 Crookston 
 
 B. Siverson 
 
 Columbia 
 
 Lengby 
 
 L. J. O'Neill 
 
 Chester 
 
 Okler 
 
 J. S. Chapin 
 
 Euclid 
 
 Euclid 
 
 Julius Espeseth 
 
 Eden 
 
 Gully 
 
 Wm. Pape 
 
 Esther 
 
 E. Grand Forks 
 
 Theo. Nelson 
 
 Erskine 
 
 Erskine 
 
 Frank Hedleys 
 
 Fairfax 
 
 Crookston 
 
 John P. Peterson 
 
 Farley 
 
 Warren 
 
 J. W. Rose 
 
 Fanny 
 
 Euclid 
 
 J. L. Wentzel 
 
 Fisher 
 
 Fisher 
 
 A. P. Hanson 
 
 Fertile 
 
 Fertile 
 
 S. R. Miller 
 
 Grand Forks 
 
 E. Grand Forks 
 
 Nels J. Kvenolden 
 
 Garfield 
 
 Fertile 
 
 Hans Johnson 
 
 Garden 
 
 Fertile R. 2 
 
 A. Laliberte 
 
 Gentilly 
 
 Gentilly 
 
 John E. Tice 
 
 Grove Park 
 
 Mentor 
 
 Ed. A. Ness 
 
 Godfrey 
 
 Maplebay 
 
 Oscar Thor 
 
 Gully 
 
 Gully 
 
 H. A. Tofsly 
 
 Hammond 
 
 Crookston 
 
 Christian Anderson 
 
 Helgeland 
 
 Warren 
 
 A. N. Anderson 
 
 Higdem 
 
 Oslo 
 
 L. M. Linfors 
 
 Hill River 
 
 Fosston 
 
 D. B. Ferguson 
 
 Huntsville 
 
 E. Grand Forks 
 
 John T. Orick 
 
 Hubbard 
 
 Nielsville 
 
 'Deceased 
 
 
 
 263 
 
Chairman 
 
 Township 
 
 Address 
 
 
 A. E. Ness 
 
 Johnson 
 
 Wanke 
 
 
 D. D. Geddes 
 
 Keystone 
 
 E. Grand Forks 
 
 C. W. Ellinger 
 
 Kertsonville 
 
 Crookston 
 
 
 Chas. McCarthy 
 
 King 
 
 Mcintosh 
 
 
 Martin Benson 
 
 Knute 
 
 Erskine 
 
 
 Nels Clementson 
 
 Liberty 
 
 Fertile 
 
 
 Chas. Lowry 
 
 Lessar 
 
 Mcintosh 
 
 
 J. K. Quamme 
 
 Lowell 
 
 Crookston 
 
 
 Joseph Tagley 
 
 Mentor 
 
 Mentor 
 
 
 James McDonald 
 
 Nesbit 
 
 Fisher 
 
 
 Joseph H. Myerchin 
 
 Northland 
 
 Angus 
 
 
 H. H. Halvorson 
 
 Onstad 
 
 Melvin 
 
 
 Martin Ca c ey 
 
 Parnell 
 
 Crookston 
 
 
 Halvor Johnson 
 
 Queen 
 
 Fosston 
 
 
 Ole G. Olson 
 
 Reis 
 
 Beltrami 
 
 
 P. H. Solstad 
 
 Roome 
 
 Eldred 
 
 
 E. G. Eklund 
 
 Rosebud 
 
 Fosston 
 
 
 A. R. McCrae 
 
 Russia 
 
 Beltrami 
 
 
 Gust Peterson 
 
 Rhinehardt 
 
 E. Grand Forks 
 
 H. J. Beardmore 
 
 Sandsville 
 
 Warren 
 
 
 G. G. Eia 
 
 Scandia 
 
 Beltrami 
 
 
 Barney Flesch 
 
 Sletton 
 
 Fosston 
 
 
 Thos. Onneland 
 
 Sullivan 
 
 E. Grand Forks 
 
 A. M. Palya 
 
 Tabor 
 
 Tabor 
 
 
 John T. Olson 
 
 Tilden 
 
 Mentor 
 
 
 Edward Quirk 
 
 Tynsed 
 
 Climax 
 
 
 Carl Gronberg 
 
 Vineland 
 
 Climax 
 
 
 A. I. Solberg 
 
 Winger 
 
 Winger 
 
 
 John Hanson 
 
 Woodside 
 
 Mentor 
 
 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 
 Name Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Martin O'Brien Crookston 
 
 R. H. Von Scoick 
 
 Crookston 
 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 
 Name Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 L. S. Kolden Nielsville 
 
 Noramn Rosholt 
 
 Climax 
 
 A. 0. Stortroen Fisher 
 
 
 N. J. Nelson 
 
 E. Grand Forks 
 
 Joseph Tagley Mentor 
 
 
 Norman Hanson 
 
 Fertile 
 
 C. L. McNelly Mcintosh 
 
 S. M. Siverton 
 
 Crookston 
 
 J. F. Montgomery Angus 
 
 
 Lewis Lohn 
 
 Fosston 
 
 A. I. Solberg Winger 
 
 
 A. D. Stephens 
 
 Crookston 
 
 C. C. Heath Beltrami 
 
 J. F- King 
 
 Euclid 
 
 A. Stark Gully 
 
 
 Ed. Welte 
 
 Lengby 
 
 Theo Nelson Erskine 
 
 
 
 
 
 Finance Co: 
 
 mmittee 
 
 
 Name Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 A. D. Stephens Crookston W. E. McKenzie Crookston 
 
 264 
 
Name Address Name Address 
 
 S. G. Selvig Crookston G. H. Sanberg Crookston 
 
 W. P. Murphy Crookston S. M. Sivertson Crookston 
 
 N. A. Thoreson Crookston Jos. Ball Crookston 
 
 E. G. Eklund Crookston Chas. Loring Crookston 
 
 Rev. E. E. Shawl Crookston Mrs. C. Q. Roemer Crookston 
 
 L. G. Mustain Crookston Martin O'Brien Crookston 
 
 N. J. Nelson East Grand Forks 
 
 265 
 
POPE COUNTY 
 
 John R. Serrin, Director 
 Carl N. Nelson, Secretary 
 
 Glenwood 
 Starbuck 
 
 General Finance Committee 
 
 Name Address 
 
 Dr. J. Jeffers, Chairman 4 minute Men Glenwood 
 
 G. C. Wollan, Chairman Red Cross Glenwood 
 
 Mrs. John R. Serrin, Chairman Woman's Comm. Safety Glenwood 
 
 Comm. 
 
 W. J. Carson, Chairman Liberty Loan Glenwood 
 
 J. L. McLaury, Chairman War Savings Stamps Glenwood 
 
 General Committee — County 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 0. M. Pederson 
 
 Starbuck 
 
 J. Jeffers 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 Geo. Hughes 
 
 Starbuck 
 
 H. H. Johnson 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 T. N. Torgerson 
 
 Starbuck 
 
 Theo. Aune 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 Ed Chalenberg 
 
 Starbuck 
 
 I. S. Selleseth 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 T. J. Rooney 
 
 Sedan 
 
 G. C. Wollan 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 Robert Vollmer 
 
 Sedan 
 
 Julius 0. Haugan 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 W. E. Martin 
 
 Sedan 
 
 Frank Beal 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 I. M. Engebretson 
 
 Lowry 
 
 W. J. Carson 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 A. 0. Lysen 
 
 Lowry 
 
 Nick Webber 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 P. J. Chan 
 
 Lowry 
 
 Henry Ronning 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 L. 0. Lund 
 
 Farwell 
 
 A. Irgens 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 C. M. Peterson 
 
 Farwell 
 
 H. W. Wollan 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 J. F. Taylor 
 
 Villard 
 
 Tory Hoff 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 C. M. Higley 
 
 Villard 
 
 H. A. Greaves 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 P. G. Peterson 
 
 Villard 
 
 Carl Ettesvold 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 C. F. Angel 
 
 Villard 
 
 T. 0. Ofsthun 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 0. E. Bjorgard 
 
 Cyrus 
 
 W. F. Dougherty 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 C. 0. Ofsthun 
 
 Cyrus 
 
 Harry Beal 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 H. C. Estby 
 
 Cyrus 
 
 H. Shipstead 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 P. 0. Lee 
 
 Cyrus 
 
 W. S. Toombs 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 Geo. Gilbertson 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 Sam Kroonblawd 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 D. J. Burns 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 W. M. Engbertson 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 B. A. Benson 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 C. H. Addington 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 Frank A. Hill 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 Frank A. Brown 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 Ole Irgens 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 E. A. Eberlin 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 Thomas Callaghan 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 J. Eastman 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 C. L. Peterson 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 
 
 
 Labor and Market Committees 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 R. C. Wagness 
 
 Farwell 
 
 I. L. Tobias 
 
 Glenwood 
 
 T. R. Hume 
 
 Lowry 
 
 C. N. Nelson 
 
 Starbuck 
 
 H. C. Eastby 
 
 Cyrus 
 
 W. E. Benner 
 
 Villard 
 
 266 
 
Food andjFuel Committee 
 
 Name 
 John R. Serrin 
 Carl N. Nelson 
 O. E. Bjorgard 
 J. F. Taylor 
 
 Address 
 Glenwood 
 Starbuck 
 Cyrus 
 Villard 
 
 Name 
 T. J. Rooney 
 A. O. Lysen 
 Louis Lund 
 
 Address 
 
 Sedan 
 Lowry 
 Farwell 
 
 Town or Village 
 Westport 
 Westport 
 Westport 
 Leven 
 Leven 
 Leven 
 Reno 
 Reno 
 Reno 
 Ben Wade 
 Ben Wade 
 Ben Wade 
 Nora 
 Nora 
 Nora 
 
 New Prairie 
 New Prairie 
 New Prairie 
 White Bear Lake 
 White Bear Lake 
 White Bear Lake 
 Minnewaska 
 Minnewaska 
 Minnewaska 
 Glenwood 
 Glenwood 
 Glenwood 
 Grove Lake 
 Grove Lake 
 Grove Lake 
 Bangor 
 Bangor 
 Bangor 
 
 Chippewa Falls 
 Chippewa Falls 
 Chippewa Falls 
 Barsness 
 Barsness 
 Barsness 
 Blue Mounds 
 Blue Mounds 
 Blue Mounds 
 
 List of Township and Village Officers 
 
 Name Address 
 
 L. J. Buchholz, Clerk Westport 
 
 J. R. Frederick, Treasurer Westport 
 
 W. P. White, Chairman Villard 
 
 F. H. Linow, Clerk Glenwood 
 L. Newmann, Treasurer Glenwood 
 H. A. Schumacher, Chairman Glenwood 
 Wm. E. Andrew, Clerk Lowry 
 Alex Ferguson, Treasurer Glenwood 
 
 A. K. Johnson, Chairman Lowry 
 Linus Rudgren, Clerk Lowry 
 Anton E. Johnson, Treasurer Lowry 
 Andrew Knutson, Chairman Lowry 
 Edward T. Olson, Clerk Farwell 
 John T. Rotto, Treasurer Farwell 
 
 B. O. Tollefson, Chairman Farwell 
 Andrew Sansness, Clerk Farwell 
 John T. Hogy, Treasurer Cyrus 
 Gust Engebretson, Chairman Cyrus 
 
 L. E. Finstad, Clerk Starbuck 
 
 J. E. Moen, Treasurer Starbuck 
 
 C. L. Brevig, Chairman Starbuck 
 L. G. Solhaug, Clerk Starbuck 
 John Dyrstad, Treasurer Glenwood 
 T. O. Lee, Chairman Glenwood 
 W. H. Engebretson, Clerk Glenwood 
 E. H. Engebretson, Treasurer Glenwood 
 
 G. M. Gandrud, Chairman Glenwood 
 O. A. Tye, Clerk Glenwood 
 E. F. Anderson, Treasurer Brooten 
 H. V. Lilienthal, Chairman Glenwood 
 J. C. Rooney, Clerk Brooten 
 M. Gannon, Treasurer Brooten 
 S. A. Mitchell, Chairman . Brooten 
 L. J. J. Midthun, Clerk Sedan 
 
 G. A. Anderson, Treasurer Terrace 
 
 Gjert Hanson, Chairman Glenwood 
 
 H. W. Anderson, Clerk Starbuck 
 
 P. D. Gilbertson, Treasurer Glenwood 
 
 J. Thorson, Chairman Glenwood 
 
 John Engebretson, Clerk Starbuck 
 
 S. C. Sorenson, Treasurer Starbuck 
 
 John Hovelson, Chairman Starbuck 
 
 267 
 
Town or Village 
 Walden 
 Walden 
 Walden 
 Hoff 
 Hoff 
 Hoff 
 Langhie 
 Langhie 
 Rolling Fork 
 Rolling Fork 
 Rolling Forks 
 Gilchrist 
 Gilchrist 
 Gilchrist 
 Lake Johanna 
 Lake Johanna 
 Lake Johanna 
 City of Glenwood 
 City of Glenwood 
 City of Glenwood 
 Village of Starbuck 
 Village of Starbuck 
 Village of Starbuck 
 Village of Villard 
 Village of Villard 
 Village of Villard 
 Village of Cyrus 
 Village of Cyrus 
 Village of Cyrus 
 Village of Lowry 
 Village of Lowry 
 Village of Lowry 
 Village of Farwell 
 Village of Farwell 
 Village of Farwell 
 Village of Sedan 
 Village of Sedan 
 Village of Sedan 
 
 Name 
 Theo. Wold, Clerk 
 A. O. Barsness, Treasurer 
 H. W. Yingst, Chairman 
 Oscar Maanum, Clerk 
 O. K. Maanum, Treasurer 
 Swen Nelson, Chairman 
 Carl Knutson, Treasurer 
 
 A. M. Lund, Chairman 
 J. P. Berge, Clerk 
 
 R. B. Davidson, Treasurer 
 C. L. Lund, Chairman 
 Oscar K. Iverson, Clerk 
 Jewel Syverson, Treasurer 
 Arne Hitman, Chairman 
 Charles M. Ellis, Clerk 
 O. A. Sonstegard, Treasurer 
 J. T. Halvorson, Chairman 
 Arthur Irgens, Clerk 
 W. F. Dougherty, Treasurer 
 G. C. Wollan, Chairman 
 J. C. Skoglund, Clerk 
 
 B. C. Bergeson, Treasurer 
 Ed. Chalenberg, Chairman 
 
 C. F. Angell, Clerk 
 CM. Higley, Treasurer 
 Ed. Kurth, Chairman 
 C. O. Ofsthun, Clerk 
 
 0. E. Bjorgaard, Treasurer 
 Iver Thompson, Chairman 
 Ole Hoplin, Clerk 
 
 1. M. Engebretson, Treasurer 
 I. W. Misensol, Chairman 
 
 L. E. Vollum, Clerk 
 Oscar Max, Treasurer 
 J. V. Larson, Chairman 
 Henry Hess, Clerk 
 T. S. Gannon, Treasurer 
 J. T. Rooney, Chairman 
 
 Address 
 Starbuck 
 Starbuck 
 Hancock 
 Hancock 
 Clontarf 
 Hancock 
 Benson 
 Starbuck 
 Starbuck 
 Terrace 
 Starbuck 
 Terrace 
 Terrace 
 Terrace 
 Brooten 
 Brooten 
 Brooten 
 Glenwood 
 Glenwood 
 Glenwood 
 Starbuck 
 Starbuck 
 Starbuck 
 Villard 
 Villard 
 Villard 
 Cyrus 
 Cyrus 
 Cyrus 
 Lowry 
 Lowry 
 Lowry 
 Farwell 
 Farwell 
 Farwell 
 Sedan 
 Sedan 
 Sedan 
 
 Pope County Teachers Patriotic League 
 
 Name 
 
 Addres 
 
 Miss Mae Gannon, President 
 
 Terrace 
 
 Amanda Sprangrude, Vice-President 
 
 Starbuck 
 
 Anna Landmark, Secretary 
 
 Starbuck 
 
 Martin Knutson, Treasurer 
 
 Brooten 
 
 Food Committee 
 
 
 (Same as Coal Committee). 
 
 
 263 
 
 
Finance Committee 
 
 Name Address Name 4 „ 
 
 Mrs John R.Serrin G C Woohan ^^ 
 
 W^j Carson John L. McLaury 
 
 Driver W.T.Chris t naw y 
 
 269 
 
RAMSEY COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 
 D. R. Cotton, Director 
 
 E. M. McMahon, Secretary 
 
 Address 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul Assa., St. Paul 
 
 Dr. A. H. Aherns 
 Louis Betz 
 C. H. Bigelow 
 H. A. Blodgett 
 J. Brandtjen 
 H. B. R. Briggs 
 C. P. Brown 
 Wm. Burrows 
 Carl W. Cummins 
 W. J. Dean 
 S. W. Dittenhofer 
 B. B. Downs 
 H. A. Dreves 
 A. B. Driscoll 
 J. F. Druar 
 J. C. Enright 
 F. P. Fellows 
 H. J. Hadlich 
 Max H. Herrmann 
 Edw. Randall 
 Geo. C. Lambert 
 
 F. C. Listoe 
 H. A. Merrill 
 
 G. R. Neilson 
 Dr. Walter R 
 R. H. Seng 
 J. N. Storr 
 E. S. Warner 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Lowry Bldg. 
 State Savings Bank 
 Farwell, Ozman Kirk & Co. 
 Brown Blodgett & Sperry Co. 
 Barnhardt Bros. & Spindler 
 Daily News 
 First National Bank 
 Johnston Land Co. 
 Morphy Bradford & Cummins 
 Nicols Dean & Gregg 
 The Golden Rule 
 St. Paul Electric Co. 
 Brokerage Bldg. 
 McKibbin Driscoll & Dorsey 
 321 Commercial Bldg. 
 Lindeke Roller Mills 
 Capital National Bank Bldg. 
 Hamm Brewing Co. 
 799 Osceola Ave. 
 Randall Printing Co. 
 Pioneer Bldg. 
 Listoe & Wold 
 Merrill, Greer & Chapman 
 Swift & Co. 
 Ramsey Lowry Bldg. 
 
 Anheuser-Busch Brg. Assn. 
 Kuhles & Stock Co. 
 McGill-Warner Co. 
 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul " 
 So. St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 
 Advisory Council 
 
 Hon. L. C. Hodgson Court House St. Paul 
 
 P. N. Myers H. L. Collins Co. St. Paul 
 
 T. D. O'Brien Endicott Bldg. St. Paul 
 
 Geo. W. Lawson Minn. State Fed. of Labor St. Paul 
 
 M. N. Goss Court House St. Paul 
 
 F. C. Stevens 1115-20 Merchants Bank Bldg. St. Paul 
 
 W. C. Koch, Chairman, Invention and Research St. Paul 
 
 Hugo Koch, Chairman, Labor St. Paul 
 
 Horace Irvine, Chairman, Military Industrial Co-operation St. Paul 
 
 Walter Mayo, Chairman, Commercial Economy St. Paul 
 
 B. C. Gorham, Chairman, Fuel St. Paul 
 N. P. Langford, Chairman, Emergency St. Paul 
 Monte Appel, Chairman, Public Information St. Paul 
 W. J. Dean, Chairman, Transportation St. Paul 
 
 C. H. Bigelow, Chairman, War Finance St. Paul 
 
 270 
 
S. W. Dittenhoffer, Chairman, War Relief 
 Alex Janes, Chairman, Intelligence Bureau 
 Geo. C. Lambert, Chairman, Military Affairs 
 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 St. Paul 
 
 First Ward 
 First Ward 
 Second Ward 
 Second Ward 
 Third Ward 
 Third Ward 
 Fourth Ward 
 Fourth Ward 
 Fifth Ward 
 Fifth Ward 
 Sixth Ward 
 Sixth Ward 
 Seventh Ward 
 Seventh Ward 
 Eighth Ward 
 Ninth Ward 
 Ninth Ward 
 Tenth Ward 
 Tenth Ward 
 Eleventh Ward 
 Eleventh Ward 
 Twelfth Ward 
 Twelfth Ward 
 New Brighton Village 
 White Bear 
 White Bear 
 Mounds View Twp. 
 North St. Paul 
 North St. Paul 
 Town of Rose 
 Town of Rose 
 New Canada 
 New Canada 
 New Canada 
 
 Emanuel E. Larson, Chairman, Swedish Am. State Bank 
 
 Andrew J. Newgren, Vice-Chairman, St. Paul State Bank 
 
 John A. Seeger, Chairman, Seeger Refrigerator Co. 
 
 E. C. Mahle, Vice-Chairman, Langford, Schuler & Fahey 
 
 Angus Cameron, Chairman, Sibley and Fourth Sts. 
 
 Wm. Harris, Vice-Chairman, 322 E. Seventh St. 
 
 Dr. Carl A. Ingerson, Chairman, 200 Pittsburgh Bldg. 
 
 Walter King, Vice-Chairman, 89 E. Fifth St. 
 
 Adolph Bremer, Chairman, 855 West Seventh St. 
 
 Otto Rohland, Vice-Chairman, 459 West Seventh St. 
 
 Lloyd Peabody, Chairman, 303 Globe Bldg. 
 
 V. Lauerdale, Vice-Chairman, 225 Exchange Annex 
 
 Homer P. Clark, Chairman, West Publ. Co. 
 
 Perry Gilfillan, Vice-Chairman, 803 Pioneer Bldg. 
 
 A. E. Lehamnn, Chairman, 912-193 N. Y. Life Bldg. 
 
 Dr. B. F. Simon, Chairman, 546 Lowry Bldg. 
 
 Robert McMullen, Vice-Chairman, Ramsey Co. State Bank 
 
 L. C. Simons, Chairman, Twin City State Bank 
 
 Charles Montgomery, Vice-Chairman, Hackney Invest.. Co 
 
 J. C. Ottis, Chairman, 816 Guardian Life Bldg. 
 
 Howard Everett, Vice-Chairman, Luse Land & Devel. Co. 
 
 Martin J. O'Malley, Chairman, Court House 
 
 Fred Gosewisch, Vice-Chairman, Court House 
 
 S. W. Reasoner, Chairman 
 
 H. A. Warner, Chairman 
 
 Geo. S. Belland, Vice-Chairman 
 
 James Ryan, Chairman 
 
 John Efhnger, Chairman 
 
 Joseph Cowern, Vice-Chairman ' 
 
 Nick Lebeus, Chairman 
 
 Nich Reinningen, Vice-Chairman 
 
 Argele Rondeau, Chairman 
 
 C. R. McKenny 
 
 Julius Schoroer Gladstone P.O. 
 
 First Ward 
 
 1st Precinct 
 
 2nd Precinct 
 
 3rd Precinct 
 
 4th Precinct 
 
 6th Precinct 
 
 7th Precinct 
 
 8th Precinct 
 
 9th Precinct 
 
 10th Precinct 
 
 11th Precinct 
 
 12th Precinct 
 
 13th Precinct 
 
 Lester Johnson 
 G. H. Desilva 
 Dr. A. W. Whitney 
 A. E. Bjorklund 
 W. F. Benz 
 Alex Lindahl 
 John G. Fischer 
 Paul Tararra 
 C. A. Oberg 
 Lewis Hedman 
 Dan J. Nordgren 
 J. A. Jackson 
 
 591 Olive St. 
 
 470 Hopkins St. 
 
 673 Burr St. 
 
 485 E. Minnehaha St. 
 
 848 Payne Ave. 
 
 757 Case St. 
 
 1033 Sims St. 
 
 1079 Forest St. 
 
 1110 Payne Ave. 
 
 559 Case St. 
 
 593 Como-Phalen Ave. 
 
 1189 Jessie St. 
 
 271 
 
Second Ward 
 
 1st Precinct 
 
 2nd Precinct 
 
 3rd Precinct 
 
 4th Precinct 
 
 5th Precinct 
 
 6th Precinct 
 
 7th Precinct 
 
 8th Precinct 
 
 9th Precinct 
 
 10th Precinct 
 
 11th Precinct 
 
 12th Precinct 
 
 13th Precinct 
 
 Third Ward 
 
 1st Precinct 
 
 2nd Precinct 
 
 3rd Precinct 
 
 4th Precinct 
 
 5th Precinct 
 
 6th Precinct 
 
 Fourth Ward 
 
 1st Precinct 
 
 2nd Precinct 
 
 3rd Precinct 
 
 4th Precinct 
 
 5th Precinct 
 
 6th Precinct 
 
 7th Precinct 
 
 8th Precinct 
 
 9th Precinct 
 
 10th Precinct 
 
 11th Precinct 
 
 12th Precinct 
 
 Fifth Ward 
 
 1st Precinct 
 
 2nd Precinct 
 
 3rd Precinct 
 
 4th Precinct 
 
 5th Precinct 
 
 6th Precinct 
 
 7th Precinct 
 
 8th Precinct 
 
 9th Precinct 
 
 10th Precinct 
 
 11th Precinct 
 
 12th Precinct 
 
 13th Precinct 
 
 14th Precinct 
 
 15th Precinct 
 
 16th Precinct 
 
 17th Precinct 
 
 E. A. Otto 
 Paul Deebach 
 Gilbert Henry 
 E. J. Fuchs 
 Theo. Blase 
 Peter Skoglund 
 Geo. L. Siegel 
 Louis Sorns 
 Horace H. Glenn 
 Eugene Marien 
 Fred Kohnke 
 Wm. Bamiester 
 Jos. C. Stoffel 
 
 Walter A. Pocock 
 D. E. Foley 
 
 955 Hastings Ave. 
 138 E. Fourth St. 
 Foley Bros. & Quinlan 
 Seventh & Senate 
 614 Bates Ave. 
 750 Maryland E. 
 1036 Reaney St. 
 1170 E. Seventh St. 
 Merchants Bank Bldg. 
 Highwood 
 896 Fremont Ave. 
 1203 Pioneer Bldg. 
 985 E. 5th St. 
 
 Merchants Hotel 
 Foley Hotel 
 
 Jas. Tierney 
 M. C. Ryan 
 Wm. Dailey 
 
 Geo. E. Dilley 
 Chas. R. Parker 
 Frank Horn 
 H. E. Jennings 
 
 471 Sibley St. 
 327 Eighth St. 
 735 Olive St. 
 
 Third and Exchange 
 Fourth and St. Peter 
 281 W. University 
 410 Jackson St. 
 
 E. P. Danz 
 Thos. Galvin 
 Joseph Barrett 
 
 161 W. Sixth St. 
 97 No. Smith Ave. 
 Wolf Apts. 
 
 Chas. Christopherson 885 Hague Ave. 
 Bester E. Allen 10 E. Summit Ave. 
 
 Andrew Mandel 
 Zimmerman 
 Geo. E. Adams 
 L. J. Pleiss 
 John D. Higgins 
 Ph. Martin 
 Jos. Thornton 
 Martin Lillis 
 Thos. Walsh 
 F. R. Magee 
 Paul Schultz 
 Chas. Schleck 
 James Lynch 
 F. X. Mooney 
 Joe James 
 John Jueneamnn 
 John Vogelgesang 
 
 222 Chestnut St. 
 
 246 Pleasant Ave. 
 
 305 Sherman St. 
 
 316 Pleasant Ave. 
 
 71 W. Seventh St. 
 
 293 Harrison Ave. 
 
 369 Von Minden St. 
 
 499 W. Seventh St. 
 
 402 Grace. St. 
 
 264 Duke St. 
 
 W. 7th and Tuscarora Ave. 
 
 319 Arbor St. 
 
 682 Armstrong Ave. 
 
 1180 W. Seventh St. 
 
 44 Upper Levee 
 
 49 W. Ninth St. 
 
 899 Watson Ave. 
 
 272 
 
Sixth Ward 
 
 
 
 1st Precinct 
 
 Elmer E. Whistler 
 
 270 W. Fillmore Ave. 
 
 2nd Precinct 
 
 M. L. Niles 
 
 89 So. Robert St. 
 
 3rd Precinct 
 
 Samuel Litschultz 
 
 156 Robertson St. 
 
 4th Precinct 
 
 Frank Warren 
 
 214 State St. 
 
 5th Precinct 
 
 Chas. E. Villaume 
 
 569 Ottawa Ave. 
 
 6th Precinct 
 
 John J. Hurley 
 
 378 Livingston Ave. 
 
 7th Precinct 
 
 Chas S. Sherman 
 
 142 E. Congress St. 
 
 8th Precinct 
 
 B. E. Harmon 
 
 242 Prescott St. 
 
 9th Precinct 
 
 F. X. Moosbrugger 
 
 422 Stryker Ave. 
 
 10th Precinct 
 
 E. T. Spangler 
 
 837 So. Smith Ave. 
 
 11th Precinct 
 
 Rose R. Miller 
 
 651 Bidwell Ave. 
 
 12th Precinct 
 
 H. L. Curry 
 
 155 E. Belvidere 
 
 13th Precinct 
 
 W. S. Wright 
 
 205 E. Winnifred 
 
 Seventh Ward 
 
 
 
 1st Precinct 
 
 John Davern 
 
 267 Farrington Ave. 
 
 2nd Precinct 
 
 M. B. Carpenter 
 
 The Aberdeen 
 
 3rd Precinct 
 
 F. G. Ingersoll 
 
 438 Portland 
 
 4th Precinct 
 
 
 
 5th Precinct 
 
 S. Appleton 
 
 117 Mackubin 
 
 6th Precinct 
 
 H. Rotschild 
 
 553 Marshall Ave. 
 
 7th Precinct 
 
 M. F. Bohlig 
 
 737 Dayton Ave. 
 
 8th Precinct 
 
 G. W. Lepwis 
 
 ' 698 Ashland Ave. 
 
 9th Precinct 
 
 F. P. Fellows 
 
 Capital Trust Co. 
 
 10th Precinct 
 
 Kenneth Brill 
 
 1408 Mer. Bank Bldg. 
 
 11th Precinct 
 
 Frank L. Gazzola 
 
 940 Laurel Ave. 
 
 12th Precinct 
 
 Henry J. Lehr 
 
 927 Iglehart Ave. 
 
 13th Precinct 
 
 Howard Bixby 
 
 1017 Portland 
 
 14th Precinct 
 
 S. L. Ringold 
 
 1196 Ashland 
 
 Eighth Ward 
 
 
 
 1st Precinct 
 
 E. A. Bodin 
 
 266 Carroll 
 
 2nd Precinct 
 
 G. A. Boelter 
 
 276 Rondo 
 
 3rd Precinct 
 
 A. Fredlund 
 
 275 Rondo St. 
 
 4th Precinct 
 
 R. Deppe 
 
 487 Aurora 
 
 5th Precinct 
 
 
 
 6th Precinct 
 
 Frank Horn 
 
 251 University Ave. 
 
 7th Precinct 
 
 
 
 8th Precinct 
 
 Wm. Diegl 
 
 Dale and Thomas 
 
 9th Precinct 
 
 Chas. Briasti 
 
 242 Thomas St. 
 
 10th Precinct 
 
 
 
 11th Precinct 
 
 
 
 12th Precinct 
 
 J. Hilzinger 
 
 227 Front St. 
 
 13th Precinct 
 
 August Lamb 
 
 536 Como Ave. 
 
 Ninth Ward 
 
 
 
 1st Precinct 
 
 James Drummond 
 
 Court House 
 
 2nd Precinct 
 
 Clarence C. Woods 
 
 645 Central Park Place 
 
 3rd Precinct 
 
 F. C. Holman 
 
 612 Temperance St. 
 
 4th Precinct 
 
 T. V. Moberg 
 
 294 E. Thirteenth St. 
 
 5th Precinct 
 
 
 
 7th Precinct 
 
 John W. Whitz 
 273 
 
 523 Cap. Bk. Bldg. 
 
Ninth Ward — Cont'd. 
 
 8th Precinct 
 9th Precinct 
 10th Precinct 
 11th Precinct 
 12th Precinct 
 13th Precinct 
 
 Tenth Ward 
 1st Precinct 
 2nd Precinct 
 3rd Precinct 
 4th Precinct 
 5th Precinct 
 6th Precinct 
 7th Precinct 
 8th Precinct 
 9th Precinct 
 
 Eleventh Ward 
 1st Precinct 
 2nd Precinct 
 3rd Precinct 
 4th Precinct 
 5th Precinct 
 6th Precinct 
 7th Precinct 
 8th Precinct 
 9th Precinct 
 10th Precinct 
 11th Precinct 
 
 Twelfth Ward 
 1st Precinct 
 2nd Precinct 
 3rd Precinct 
 4th Precinct 
 5th Precinct 
 6th Precinct 
 
 H. J. Malmquaist 
 C. B. Holmquist 
 J. F. Swenson 
 M. Rosness 
 
 116 Winnipeg 
 27 W. Acker St. 
 109 Poplar 
 947 Sylvan St. 
 
 T. J. Greene 
 
 A. S. Billing 
 
 617 Warren St. 
 
 1358 Thomas St. 
 
 Frank Truax 
 E. E. Johnson 
 A. B. Baker 
 
 S. W. Pinkerton 
 L. I. Herrick 
 Alvot M. Bull 
 
 N. A. Lytle 
 B. B. Douglas 
 
 898 Cromwell Ave. 
 21 Langford Pk. Place 
 752 Prior St. 
 
 1430 Capitol Ave. 
 1657 Minnehaha St. 
 2148 Carter Ave. 
 
 Vandalia and Montgomery 
 435 Aldine 
 
 R. D. O'Brien 
 H. B. Humason 
 R. C. Bross 
 Noyes C. Robinson 
 C. E. Turning 
 John A. Lagerman 
 Edward P. Davis 
 A. V. Fabian 
 
 1749 Portland Ave. 
 1941 Laurel 
 123 Macalester Ave. 
 1616 Portland Ave. 
 Otto and Cleveland 
 2128 Marshall 
 1944 Goodrich Ave. 
 1914 Jefferson Ave. 
 
 Frank E. Morrison 
 F. L. Bauman 
 John Sovereign 
 Anton Novak. 
 Geo. W. Heaton 
 
 Town of White Bear 
 
 Wm. A. Gall 
 
 Village of White Bear 
 
 F. H. Murray 
 
 875 W. Central 
 909 Sherburne 
 868 Thomas 
 747 Van Buren St. 
 1104 Argyle St. 
 
 White Bear, R. F. D. 1 
 
 White Bear Lake 
 
 274 
 
RED LAKE COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 Dr. N. M. Watson, Director 
 Geo. F. Hennings, Secretary 
 J. D. Houston 
 Chas. Fellman 
 C. O. Kankel 
 
 Address 
 Red Lake Falls 
 Red Lake Falls 
 Red Lake Falls 
 Red Lake Falls 
 Red Lake Falls 
 
 Vice-Chairmen 
 
 Name 
 I. Baril 
 
 Frank Deymonaz 
 Jos. Bergeron 
 A. P. Toupin 
 Ole O. Lee 
 Ingvald Huseby 
 A. J. Hemstad 
 Alex Patnode 
 
 Address 
 Red Lake Falls 
 Brooks 
 Brooks 
 Oklee 
 Oklee 
 Oklee 
 Plummer 
 Red Lake Falls 
 
 Name 
 H. J. Enderle 
 John Konikson 
 Ed Enright 
 T. P. Smidesang 
 Alfred St. Michtel 
 Jos. Page 
 Mrs. D. L. Keck 
 
 Address 
 Plummer 
 St. Hilaire 
 Red Lake Falls 
 Wylie 
 
 Red Lake Falls 
 Crookston Rt 2 
 Red Lake Falls 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Name 
 C. O. Kankel 
 
 Dr. N. M. Watson 
 Geo. F. Hennings, Sec. 
 Frank Deymonaz 
 H. J. Enderle 
 
 Address 
 
 Red Lake Falls 
 
 Red Lake Falls 
 
 Red Lake Falls 
 
 Brooks 
 
 Plummer 
 
 Name 
 T. P. Smidesang 
 A. P. Toupin 
 W. B. Torgerson 
 J. A. Duffy 
 W. J. Quesnell 
 
 Address 
 Wylie 
 Oklee 
 Oklee 
 
 Red Lake Falls 
 Red Lake Falls 
 
 Name 
 Ed. Enright 
 Anton Lee 
 Andrew Anderson 
 Edward Wickey 
 Octave Lefaive 
 Nap. Delorme 
 Mose Riel 
 Frank P. Grenier 
 Thos. Moreau 
 Geo. W. Nelson 
 P. J. Gustafson 
 Alcide Perusse 
 Ferd Gother 
 Wm. Bottineau, Pres. Council 
 J. A. C. Torgerson, Pres. Council 
 Jos. J. Helm, Pres. Council 
 
 Township Chairmen 
 
 Township 
 Browns Creek Twp. 
 Emardville Twp. 
 Equality Twp. 
 Games Twp. 
 Gervais Twp. 
 Lake Pleasant Twp. 
 Lambert Twp. 
 Louisville Twp. 
 Poplar River Twp. 
 Red Lake Falls Twp, 
 River Twp. 
 Terrebonne Twp. 
 Wylie Twp. 
 
 Address 
 Red Lake Falls 
 Plummer 
 Wanke 
 Plummer 
 Red Lake Falls 
 Red Lake Falls 
 Brooks 
 
 Red Lake Falls 
 Brooks 
 
 Red Lake Falls 
 St. Hilaire 
 Red Lake Falls 
 Red Lake Falls 
 Red Lake Falls 
 Oklee 
 Plummer 
 
 275 
 
REDWOOD COUNTY 
 
 
 Name 
 
 
 Address 
 
 A. 
 
 D. Stewart, Director 
 
 
 Redwood Falls 
 
 J- 
 
 S. Gunelson, Secretary 
 
 
 Belview 
 
 W 
 
 . H. Ball, Treasurer 
 
 
 Morgan 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 N. W. Cobleigh 
 
 Redwood Falls 
 
 Albin Anderson 
 
 Revere 
 
 Thos. Hoskins 
 
 Redwood Falls 
 
 H. C. Lau 
 
 Tracy 
 
 Francis Stronach 
 
 Delhi 
 
 Herman Fixen 
 
 Morton 
 
 Daniel McKay- 
 
 Delhi 
 
 C. B. Huschke 
 
 Morgan 
 
 Otto Flom 
 
 Delhi 
 
 A. C. Dolliff 
 
 Redwood Falls 
 
 Chas. Boushek 
 
 Vesta 
 
 W. R. Werring 
 
 Morgan 
 
 H. L. Hogren 
 
 Vesta 
 
 Dr. M. C. Pipei 
 
 Sanborn 
 
 W. R. Goudy 
 
 Seaforth 
 
 George Grimm 
 
 Lamberton 
 
 E. W. Butcher 
 
 Morgan 
 
 P. A. Peterson 
 
 Revere 
 
 C. M. Bendixen 
 
 Morgan 
 
 J. F. Hesnault 
 
 Walnut Grove 
 
 Otto Stasson 
 
 Redwood Falls 
 
 Wm. Duncan 
 
 Milroy 
 
 J. M. Little 
 
 Seaforth 
 
 Nels Larson 
 
 Lucan 
 
 J. Neuenberg 
 
 Wabasso 
 
 C. D. Jensen 
 
 Clements 
 
 L. H. Terhell 
 
 Milroy 
 
 S. F. Scott 
 
 Vesta 
 
 S. P. Hicks 
 
 Tracy 
 
 J. J. L. Torrens 
 
 Wabasso 
 
 John Sabin 
 
 Walnut Grove 
 
 W. A. Hauck 
 
 Seaforth 
 
 John Arends 
 
 Wabasso 
 
 C. A. Johnson 
 
 Belview 
 
 C. W. Whelan 
 
 Sanborn 
 
 E. W. Currier 
 
 No. Redwood 
 
 Christ Fredrickson Clements 
 
 D. R. McCorquodale Delhi 
 
 S. J. Hanson 
 
 Springfield 
 
 C. W. Hamlon 
 
 Lamberton 
 
 Burt Small 
 
 Lamberton 
 
 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 C. A. Laterbaugh 
 
 Redwood Falls 
 
 Paul Callaghan 
 
 Wabasso 
 
 W. H. Ball 
 
 Morgan 
 
 Theo Blake 
 
 Milroy 
 
 Wm. J. Simondet 
 
 North Redwood 
 
 C. C. Enestvedt 
 
 Belview 
 
 C. B. Fraser 
 
 Vesta 
 
 Jens Larson 
 
 Lucan 
 
 A. W. Olson 
 
 Walnut Grove 
 
 John Longbottom 
 
 Seaforth 
 
 Asmus Bendixen 
 
 Lamberton - 
 
 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 (Same as Labor Committee) 
 
 276 
 
RENVILLE COUNTY 
 
 Name Address 
 
 Timothy O'Connor, Director Renville 
 
 M. J. Dowling, Vice-President Olivia 
 
 J. L. Jacobs, Secretary and Treasurer Franklin 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Name 
 Ed. Farrell 
 Wm. Zumwinkle 
 Mike Jungers 
 John Head 
 Will Klawitter 
 Mike Halloran 
 J. A. Whitmer 
 N. J. Olson 
 Henry Haen 
 Louis Grunert 
 Herman Milsten 
 Stephen O'Brien 
 W. E. O'Connor 
 W. E. Koemp 
 Geo. Siebke 
 Frank J. Polansky 
 H. W. Koehler 
 Chas. Leasman 
 John McNamara 
 
 Address 
 Franklin 
 Morton 
 Bird Island 
 Franklin 
 Stewart 
 Hector 
 Fairfax 
 Franklin 
 Renville 
 Danube 
 Sacred Heart 
 Renville 
 Granite Falls 
 Hector 
 
 North Redwood 
 Olivia 
 Hector 
 Hector 
 Bird Island 
 
 Name 
 Thos. Kirkpatrick 
 Arvid Anderson 
 W. D. Wallner 
 Charles Clay 
 
 A. W. Black 
 
 B. Johnson 
 Henry Clobers 
 Geo. Billiard 
 J. E. Essen 
 Fred Sausele 
 
 Dr. A. M. Crandall 
 A. S. Erickson 
 
 C. H. Nixon 
 H. F. Rubey 
 J. R. Landy 
 
 S. M. Serkland 
 A. H. Anderson 
 M. J. Dowling 
 
 Address 
 Bird Island 
 Hector 
 Buffalo Lake 
 Sacred Heart 
 Danube 
 Maynard 
 Fairfax 
 Danube 
 Bird Island 
 Danube 
 Fairfax 
 Franklin 
 Hector 
 Morton 
 Olivia 
 Renville 
 Sacred Heart 
 Olivia 
 
 Township Organization 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 G. A. Torgersqn 
 
 Franklin 
 
 S. H. Grimpalen 
 
 Fairfax 
 
 C. P. Sather 
 
 Franklin 
 
 W. A. Fiss 
 
 Fairfax 
 
 C. A. Johnson 
 
 Franklin 
 
 Olof Nelson 
 
 Franklin 
 
 Milton Piersol 
 
 Morton 
 
 C. E. Freeman 
 
 Franklin 
 
 John Cheney 
 
 Morton 
 
 Dr. D'Arms 
 
 Hector 
 
 E. H. Roske 
 
 Morton 
 
 Al. E. Schroeder 
 
 Hector 
 
 Anton Kieff er 
 
 Morton 
 
 Julius Ratzwold 
 
 Morton 
 
 Wm. Fox 
 
 Franklin 
 
 Rev. S. C. Ferris 
 
 Morton 
 
 Wm. Kirth 
 
 Stewart 
 
 Geo. Gage 
 
 Olivia 
 
 Albert Schramm 
 
 Stewart 
 
 M. J. Dowling 
 
 Olivia 
 
 B. J. Butler 
 
 Hector 
 
 Rev. Father Hart 
 
 Morton 
 
 Joseph Julius, Jr. 
 
 Fairfax 
 
 J. H. McGowan 
 
 Morton 
 
 Louis F. Palmer 
 
 Fairfax 
 
 Grover C. Jaehning 
 
 Morton 
 
 A. H. Peterson 
 
 Franklin 
 
 W. B. Strom 
 
 Hector 
 
 Geo. Kvam 
 
 Franklin 
 
 0. A. Allen 
 
 Hector 
 
 P. J. Wigdahl 
 
 Renville 
 
 A. B. Anderson 
 
 Hector 
 
 John Wordes 
 
 Renville 
 
 J. P. Butler 
 
 Hector 
 
 Albert Packow 
 
 Danube 
 
 Joseph Prelvitz 
 
 Hector 
 
 G. W. Wisman 
 
 Hector 
 
 
 
 277 
 
Name 
 John Grabow 
 S. S. Lanning 
 Peter Sjoberg 
 Melvin Sagness 
 Wm. Johnson 
 H. B. Black 
 A. K. Hegna 
 Steve Odegaard 
 John Bakke 
 T. A. Nellermoe 
 P. P. Schurts 
 A. E. Jung 
 
 E. L. Colby 
 A. N. Hayes 
 Chas. W. Chroup 
 W. C. Kodet 
 Geo. Chroup 
 Herman Draheim 
 Al. Pheifer 
 Albert Kopacek 
 J. H. Tompkins 
 Wm. Dehnel 
 John Eggers 
 Levi Ratz 
 
 John Peterson 
 D. W. Brown 
 Wm. J. Glesner 
 0. F. Freberg 
 James Lucas 
 
 F. O. Grimm 
 S. H. Rodneyre 
 Martin Nelson 
 R. E. Sell 
 
 J. C. Nagel 
 Carl Olufson 
 Nels T. Hove 
 O. F. Haber 
 James McCormick 
 Ed. Grunert 
 Emil Evanson 
 Helge Weslen 
 Herman Schmechel 
 Robert Kiecker 
 Herman Panke 
 Fred Schroer 
 Chas. Cuta 
 Joseph Teeter 
 Adoplh Kaiser 
 Chas. Heilig 
 C. H. Hopkins 
 
 Address 
 Renville 
 Sacred Heart 
 Sacred Heart 
 Sacred Heart 
 Renville 
 Renville 
 Sacred Heart 
 Sacred Heart 
 Sacred Heart 
 Sacred Heart 
 Hector 
 Hector 
 Hector 
 Hector 
 
 North Redwood 
 North Redwood 
 North Redwood 
 Olivia 
 Olivia 
 Olivia 
 Hector 
 Hector 
 Hector 
 Hector 
 Hector 
 Bird Island 
 Bird Island 
 Bird Island 
 Bird Island 
 Bird Island 
 Hector 
 Hector 
 Buffalo Lake 
 Buffalo Lake 
 Sacred Heart 
 Sacred Heart 
 Danube 
 Olivia Box 61 
 Danube 
 Maynard 
 Maynard 
 Fairfax 
 Fairfax 
 Danube 
 Danube 
 Danube 
 Bird Island 
 Danube 
 Danube 
 Fairfax 
 
 Name 
 Wm. Peters 
 Ed. Kienholz 
 N. L. Lundstrum 
 Joseph Murrer 
 Tim Hurley 
 T. A. Karnos 
 C. V. Corson 
 H. C. Sherwood 
 Thos. Foster 
 Phil Ploof 
 John A. Dalzell 
 T. M. Keefe 
 R. B. Henton 
 Gust A. Daun 
 Miss Julia A. Keefe 
 Dr. F. W. Penhall 
 H. L. Quist 
 J. A. McQuire 
 Mrs. B. S. McGowan 
 G. A. Rieke 
 H. F. Dickmeyer 
 E. H. Brown 
 Adolph Rieke 
 Nels Nelson 
 Michael Ruddy 
 Henry Keuster 
 A. E. Melvold 
 Thos. Caven 
 Peter Nestande 
 J. C. Farrell 
 Peter Mortenson 
 Thomas P. Berg 
 Ole P. Edlund 
 Ed. Paulson 
 W. A. Day 
 H. O. Skalbeck 
 Jess Paulson 
 G. P. Mangerud 
 Dr. Harry Evenson 
 Charles A. PYantz 
 A. T. Ellingboe 
 P. J. Kolbert 
 A. A. Bennett 
 S. W. Bierlein 
 A. R. Holmberg 
 J. H. Dale 
 John Wegner 
 Fred Leistikow 
 P. J. Bjorn 
 Emil Sjoberg 
 
 Address 
 Hector 
 Hector R 6 
 Bird Island R 2 
 Bird Island 
 Bird Island 
 Olivia, 
 Hector 
 Bird Island 
 Buffalo Lake 
 Fairfax 
 Morton 
 Morton 
 Morton 
 Morton 
 Morton 
 Morton 
 Sacred Heart 
 Morton 
 Morton 
 Fairfax 
 Fairfax 
 Fairfax 
 Fairfax 
 Fairfax 
 Fairfax 
 Fairfax 
 Fairfax 
 Fairfax 
 Fairfax 
 Fairfax 
 Sacred Heart 
 Sacred Heart 
 Sacred Heart 
 Sacred Heart 
 Sacred Heart 
 Sacred Heart 
 Sacred Heart 
 Sacred Heart 
 Sacred Heart 
 Morton 
 Maynard 
 Renville 
 Renville 
 Renville 
 Renville 
 Renville 
 Renville 
 Renville 
 Sacred Heart 
 Sacred Heart 
 
 278 
 

 Labor Committee 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 W. E. Morris, Chm. 
 
 Olivia 
 
 W. D. Wallner 
 
 Buffalo Lake 
 
 J. R. Lande 
 
 Olivia 
 
 A. M. Crandall 
 
 Fairfax 
 
 Chas. Clay 
 
 Sacred Heart 
 
 A. D. Erickson 
 
 Franklin 
 
 Fred Sausele 
 
 Danube 
 
 H. F. Ruby 
 
 Morton 
 
 J. E. Essen 
 
 Bird Island 
 
 C. H. Nixon 
 
 Hector 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Timothy O'Connor 
 
 Renville 
 
 H. F. Ruby 
 
 Morton 
 
 A. S. Erickson 
 
 Franklin 
 
 A. M. Crandall 
 
 Fairfax 
 
 W. S. Wallner 
 
 Buffalo Lake 
 
 G. H. Nixon 
 
 Hector 
 
 J. R. Landy 
 
 Olivia 
 
 Fred Sausle 
 
 Danube 
 
 Jake Essen 
 
 Bird Island 
 
 C. F. Caly 
 
 Sacred Heart 
 
 W. E. Morris 
 
 Morris 
 
 
 
RICE COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 Richard B. Kent, Director 
 
 Address 
 Faribault 
 
 Name 
 Geo. S. Weston 
 Samuel S. Crossett 
 Dr. Chas. Robilliard 
 
 Address 
 Faribault 
 Faribault 
 Morristown 
 
 Advisory Council 
 
 Name 
 
 Dr. Wm. Hunt 
 R. B. Kent 
 H. B. Smith 
 
 Address 
 
 Northfield 
 
 Faribault 
 
 Faribault 
 
 Name 
 Geo. A. Miller 
 Edward Hagerty 
 Wm. Eddy 
 Chas. Hersman 
 William Griffith 
 J. D. Plummer 
 
 D. A. McLean 
 J. W. Topka 
 W. F. Schilling 
 Geo. S. Weston 
 
 E. E. Flom 
 J. E. Clifford 
 Chas. Kiel 
 
 Mrs. Fred B. Hill 
 Mrs. H. C. Theopold 
 
 Township Organization 
 
 Township 
 Forest 
 Shieldsville 
 Morristown 
 Webster 
 Warsau 
 Wells 
 
 Cannon City 
 Wheatland 
 Bridgewater 
 Walcott 
 Richland 
 Northfield 
 Wheeling 
 Northfield 
 Faribault 
 
 Address 
 Faribault, R. 5 
 Faribault, R. 5 
 Morristown 
 Webster 
 Warsau 
 Faribault 
 Faribault 
 Veseli 
 Northfield 
 Faribault 
 Kenyon 
 Northfield 
 Nerstrand 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Name 
 R. B. Kent 
 Also Township Chairmen 
 
 Address 
 
 Faribault 
 
 Name 
 N. M. Jacobson 
 
 Address 
 
 Northfield 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 J. McNeary 
 
 Address 
 
 Faribault 
 
 280 
 
ROCK COUNTY 
 
 Name Address 
 
 C. H. Christopherson, Director Luverne 
 
 A. 0. Moreaux, Secretary Luverne 
 
 Advisory Council 
 
 
 Name Address Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Alex Walker Magnolia H. Titzer 
 
 Luverne 
 
 Henry Rolfs Edgerton J. R. Lester 
 
 Magnolia 
 
 D. C. Ertreim Garretson, S. D. T. M. Jacobson 
 
 Hills 
 
 E. A. Appleby Ash Creek John Welzenbach 
 
 Luverne 
 
 E. E. Dell Hardwick H. D. Schmuck 
 
 Luverne 
 
 A. Jensen Ellsworth Otto K. Steen 
 
 Jasper 
 
 I. S. Woodrow Luverne Gust N. Oldre 
 
 Kenneth 
 
 Mrs. A. D. LaDue Luverne 
 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 C. H. Christopherson, Chairman Luverne 
 
 Local Committeemen 
 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 C. H. Christopherson 
 
 Luverne 
 
 A. Jensen 
 
 Ellsworth 
 
 A. 0. Moreaux 
 
 Luverne 
 
 L. S. Woodrow 
 
 Luverne 
 
 Alex Walker 
 
 Edgerton 
 
 W. H. Williams 
 
 Magnolia 
 
 Henry Rolfe 
 
 Beaver Creek 
 
 J. R. Lester 
 
 Magnolia 
 
 M. 0. Page 
 
 Garretson, S. D. 
 
 T. M. Jacobson 
 
 Hills 
 
 D. C. Eitreim 
 
 Ash Creek 
 
 John Welsenbach 
 
 Luverne, R 
 
 E. A. Appleby 
 
 Hardwick 
 
 H. D. Schmuck 
 
 Luverne 
 
 E. E. Dell 
 
 Hardwick 
 
 Otto K. Steen 
 
 Jasper 
 
 J. P. Kennedy 
 
 Hardwick 
 
 Gust N. Oldre 
 
 Kenneth 
 
 A. A. Hanson 
 
 Hills 
 
 
 
 281 
 
ROSEAU COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 M. J. Hegland Director 
 Paul Wallin, Secretary 
 
 Address 
 Roseau 
 Ro:eau 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Peter Jasmer 
 
 Warroad 
 
 Otto T. Carlson 
 
 Badger 
 
 Frank F. Kluceny 
 
 Klectzen 
 
 U. S. Whaley 
 
 Warroad 
 
 C. H. Carlson 
 
 Greenbush 
 
 Wm. Moser 
 
 Klectzen 
 
 A. F. Hayes 
 
 River 
 
 J. B. Carlson 
 
 Salol 
 
 Ole Benson 
 
 Juneberry 
 
 R. I. Grover 
 
 Roosevelt 
 
 Oscar Sward 
 
 Warroad 
 
 S. M. Sobtzak 
 
 Greenbush 
 
 Elmer Brandli 
 
 America 
 
 Johan J. Vatsdal 
 
 Duxby 
 
 Ole I. Christianson 
 
 Strathcona 
 
 Hogan Bergerson 
 
 Benwood 
 
 M. T. Mickelson 
 
 
 Emil Benson 
 Knut Thorbjornson 
 
 Wannaska 
 
 Ed. Brovold 
 
 Ross 
 
 Badger 
 
 Andrew Nilson 
 
 Penturan 
 
 Andrew Erickson 
 
 Badger 
 
 August Larson 
 
 Falun 
 
 Chas. J. Navak 
 
 Haug 
 
 August Olson 
 
 Casperson 
 
 John P. Norman 
 
 Roseau 
 
 B. 0. Fuglem 
 
 Wannaska 
 
 Peter E. Strandberg 
 
 Badger, R. 2 
 
 Ole J. Olson 
 
 Stratchona 
 
 Henry Wammer 
 
 Badger 
 
 C. S. Richardson 
 
 Roseau 
 
 Jalmer Wellen 
 
 Badger 
 
 Wm. Watt 
 
 Swift 
 
 Olaf Hildahl 
 
 Greenbush 
 
 J. 0. Hendrickson 
 
 Karlstad 
 
 Al L. Minium 
 
 Roosevelt 
 
 August Hedin 
 
 Malung 
 
 Riley Rasmusson 
 
 Roseau 
 
 Lars 0. Valsvik 
 
 Wannaska 
 
 F. F. Spreiter 
 
 Warroad 
 
 Mrs. Geo. McGillivary 
 
 Roy Briggs 
 
 Salol 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Thos. Bily 
 
 Greenbush 
 
 E. L. Thompson 
 
 Badger 
 
 Paul Anderson 
 
 Roseau 
 
 Geo. Marvin 
 
 Warroad 
 
 A. E. Abel 
 
 Roosevelt 
 
 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 O. M. Olson, Member at large. 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 O. M. Olson, Member at large. 
 
 282 
 
ST. LOUIS COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 W. I. Prince, Director 
 J. M. Nolte, Secretary 
 Stephen H. Jones 
 
 Address 
 Duluth 
 
 Commercial Club, Duluth 
 308 Board of Trade Bldg., Dul. 
 
 Name 
 W. C. Agnew 
 H. R. Armstrong 
 B. E. Baker 
 Milie Bunnell 
 Hon. W. A. Cant 
 Robert E. Carroll 
 A. H. Comstock 
 Dr. J. J. Eklund 
 Hon. J. A. Farrell 
 M. J. Filiatrault 
 Mason M. Forbes 
 W. B. Getchell 
 
 E. R. Grignon 
 Odin Halden 
 
 F. C. Harris 
 
 G. G. Hartley 
 
 E. B. Hawkins 
 J. H. Hearding 
 S. W. Hill 
 
 F. E. House 
 T. W. Hugo 
 M. L. Jenks 
 M. H. Kelley 
 R. B. Knox 
 
 M. W. Koneczny 
 
 O. J. Larson 
 
 J. S. Lutes 
 
 D. B. McDonald 
 
 J. R. McGiffert 
 
 R. J. Coole 
 
 Frank Crassweller 
 
 Geo. H. Crosby 
 
 F. J. Dacey 
 
 Oscar Dahly 
 
 W. A. McGonagle 
 
 John M. McNaughton 
 
 Hon. C. R. Magney 
 
 J. D. Mahoney 
 
 John J. Moe 
 
 Rev. J. D. Morrison 
 
 William Murnian 
 
 F. A. Patrick 
 
 Oscar Peterson 
 
 County Central Organization 
 
 Address 
 619 Hawthorne Road, Duluth 
 Nation Iron Works, Duluth 
 321 Board of Trade Bldg., Duluth 
 Duluth News-Tribune 
 Court House, Duluth 
 Duluth Lumber Co., Duluth 
 Marshall Wells Hardware Co., Duluth 
 7 East Superior St., Duluth 
 City Hall, Duluth 
 5409 Ramsey St., Duluth 
 Court House, Duluth 
 319 55th Ave. W., Duluth 
 2519 West Third St., Duluth 
 Court House, Duluth 
 Zenith Furnace Co., West Duluth 
 740 East Superior St., Duluth 
 205 First National Bank Bldg., Duluth 
 Wolvin Bldg., Duluth 
 1926 West Superior St., Duluth 
 Wolvin Bldg., Duluth 
 221 Sixth Ave., W., Duluth 
 Board of Trade Bldg., Duluth 
 703 Sellwood Bldg., Duluth 
 1 Exchange Bldg., Duluth 
 1931 West Superior St., Duluth 
 804 Lonsdale Bldg., Duluth 
 1405 Alworth Bldg., Duluth 
 301 Glencoe Bldg., Duluth 
 Clyde Iron Works, Duluth 
 514 North 52nd Ave., Duluth 
 309 Exchange Bldg., Duluth 
 607 Lonsdale Bldg., Duluth 
 Gogebie Steam Boiler Works, Duluth 
 Morgan Park, Duluth 
 Wolvin Bldg., Duluth 
 527 West Boulevard, Duluth 
 City Hall, Duluth 
 
 American Exchange National Bank, Duluth 
 2002 West Superior St., Duluth 
 2131 East Superior St., Duluth 
 509 East Third St., Duluth 
 F. A. Patrick & Co., Duluth 
 203 Central Ave., Duluth 
 
 233 
 
Name 
 Rt. Rev. James McGolrick 
 F. W. Sullivan 
 Hon. P. G. Phillips 
 George E. Robson 
 W. N. Ryerson 
 H. F. Salyards 
 William C. Sargent 
 H. H. Scobie 
 R. M. Sellwood 
 Rev. T. B. Shorts 
 Hon. Bernard Silberstein 
 B. Stockman 
 E. A. Swanstrom 
 Otto Swanstrom 
 L. R. Taylor 
 E. P. Towne 
 Hon. F. J. Voss 
 J. L. Washburn 
 A. C. Weiss 
 L. M. Willcuts 
 Dr. R. E. Wheeler 
 David Williams 
 E. H. Windom 
 Parker M. Paine 
 P. F. Heimick 
 W. S. Telford 
 Norton Mattocks 
 L. B. Arnold 
 A. B. Hostetter 
 H. G. Larsen 
 
 Address 
 Duluth 
 Duluth 
 
 City Hall, Duluth 
 Board of Trade Bldg., Duluth 
 Great Northern Power Co., Duluth 
 Board of Trade, Duluth 
 Providence Bldg., Duluth 
 3405 West Third St., Duluth 
 City National Bank, Duluth 
 6009 Raleigh St., Duluth 
 City Hall, Duluth 
 Board of Trade Bldg., Duluth 
 21 N. 21st Ave. W., Duluth 
 Diamond Chalk Horseshoe Co., Duluth 
 New Duluth 
 Torrey Bldg., Duluth 
 City Hall, Duluth 
 Alworth Bldg., Duluth 
 The Herald, Duluth 
 205 First National Bank Bldg., Duluth 
 2031 West Superior St., Duluth 
 First National Bank, Duluth 
 Wolvin Bldg., Duluth 
 Duluth 
 Duluth 
 Duluth 
 Duluth 
 Duluth 
 Duluth 
 Duluth 
 
 Districts 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 E. T. Sandberg 
 
 Aurora 
 
 A. H. Weigel 
 
 Gilbert 
 
 Carl Schuster 
 
 Biwabik 
 
 E. A. Bergeron 
 
 Hibbing 
 
 M. A. Nichols 
 
 Buhl 
 
 F. H. Cash 
 
 Kinney 
 
 J. H. McNiven 
 
 Chisholm 
 
 Chas. W. Murphy 
 
 Mountain Iron 
 
 L. F. Luthy 
 
 Cook 
 
 Wm. J. Mudge 
 
 Mesaba 
 
 Dr. G. L. Ayres 
 
 Ely 
 
 C. J. Buell 
 
 Proctor 
 
 Frank Campbell 
 
 Eveleth 
 
 Andrew Rystrom 
 
 Tower 
 
 John Suikkonen 
 
 Embarrass 
 
 H. J. Scharr 
 
 Virginia 
 
 E. B. Robinson 
 
 Floodwood 
 
 Wm. G. Wall 
 
 Winton 
 
 Mrs. Harriet P. LerchHibbing 
 
 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 H. G. Larsen 
 
 Duluth 
 
 W. C. Sargent 
 
 Duluth 
 
 A. H. Hostetter 
 
 Duluth 
 
 
 
 281 
 

 SCOTT COUNTY 
 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 
 Theo. Weiland, Director 
 
 Shakopee 
 
 
 Geo. F. Sullivan, Secretary 
 
 Jordan 
 
 
 John H. Moore, Treasurer 
 
 Shakopee 
 
 
 Township Organization 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Township 
 
 Address 
 
 J. R. Ryan 
 
 Cedar Lake 
 
 New Prague 
 
 John Vaughn 
 
 Cedar Lake 
 
 New Prague 
 
 Peter Cihlar 
 
 Cedar Lake 
 
 New Prague 
 
 Henry Engler 
 
 Jordan 
 
 Jordan 
 
 Al. C. Hagie 
 
 Jordan 
 
 Jordan 
 
 John Eilinger 
 
 Jordan 
 
 Jordan 
 
 E. G. Bandy 
 
 Louisville 
 
 Jordan 
 
 Henry Bruggemann 
 
 Louisville 
 
 Shakopee 
 
 Wm. Thornquist 
 
 Louisville 
 
 Shakopee 
 
 Nic. Thomas 
 
 New Market 
 
 New Market 
 
 P. J. Welter 
 
 New Market 
 
 New Market 
 
 M. C. Baltes 
 
 New Market 
 
 New Market 
 
 Fred. Sprain 
 
 New Market 
 
 Elko 
 
 Peter Zweber 
 
 New Market 
 
 Elko 
 
 S. 0. Miller 
 
 New Market 
 
 Elko 
 
 Jas. June 
 
 St. Lawrence 
 
 Jordan 
 
 Phil Orr 
 
 St. Lawrence 
 
 Jordan 
 
 Mr. Riley 
 
 St. Lawrence 
 
 Jordan 
 
 Peter Poetz 
 
 Sand Creek 
 
 Shakopee 
 
 Wm. Arentz 
 
 Sand Creek 
 
 Jordan 
 
 Wm. Bandy 
 
 Sand Creek 
 
 Jordan 
 
 Frank Schneider 
 
 Credit River 
 
 Prior Lake 
 
 Thos. White 
 
 Credit River 
 
 Prior Lake 
 
 M. I. Lannon 
 
 Credit River 
 
 Prior Lake 
 
 Jos. Jasper 
 
 Eagle Creek 
 
 Shakopee 
 
 Anton Marschall 
 
 Eagle Creek 
 
 Shakopee 
 
 Walter W. Duffy 
 
 Eagle Creek 
 
 Shakopee 
 
 D. N. McCall 
 
 Glendale 
 
 Shakopee 
 
 H. J. Fits patrick 
 
 Glendale 
 
 Shakopee 
 
 F. A. Bean, Jr. 
 
 New Prague 
 
 New Prague 
 
 Mich. Schreiner 
 
 New Prague 
 
 New Prague 
 
 John F. Barta 
 
 New Prague 
 
 New Prague 
 
 G. L. Nye 
 
 Shakopee 
 
 Shakopee 
 
 C. J. Hartmann 
 
 Shakopee 
 
 Shakopee 
 
 Eugene Lucy 
 
 Shakopee 
 
 Shakopee 
 
 F. C. Irwin 
 
 Belle Plaine 
 
 Belle Plaine 
 
 Jos. Grossner 
 
 Belle Plaine 
 
 Belle Plaine 
 
 Ed. Kane 
 
 Belle Plaine 
 
 Belle Plaine 
 
 Allen Taylor 
 
 Belle Plaine 
 
 Belle Plaine 
 
 Norman Chard 
 
 Belle Plaine 
 
 Belle Plaine 
 
 M. C. Moriarty 
 
 Belle Plaine 
 
 Belle Plaine 
 
 J. C. Westenhoff 
 
 Blakeley 
 
 Blakeley 
 
 James O'Neill, Sr. 
 
 Blakeley 
 
 Blakeley 
 
 J. W. Belliveu 
 
 Blakeley 
 
 Blakeley 
 
 285 
 
Name 
 R. H. Kaufenberg 
 
 E. C. Henkel 
 Chas. Kline 
 Dominic Majerus 
 John McGovern 
 Henry Pink 
 John Deegan 
 Jas. Costello 
 Thos. Lyons 
 Chas. Miller 
 
 F. F. Gierlich 
 Wm. Geister 
 Thos. Shimota 
 John Michael 
 Jos. Bastys 
 
 Township 
 Savage 
 Savage 
 Savage 
 Jackson 
 Jackson 
 Jackson 
 Prior Lake 
 Prior Lake 
 Prior Lake 
 Spring Lake 
 Spring Lake 
 Spring Lake 
 Helena 
 Helena 
 Helena 
 
 Address 
 Savage 
 Savage 
 Savage 
 Shakopee 
 Shakopee 
 Shakopee 
 Prior Lake 
 Prior Lake 
 Prior Lake 
 Prior Lake 
 Prior Lake 
 Prior Lake 
 New Prague 
 New Prague 
 New Prague 
 
 Finance Committee 
 
 Name 
 F. A. Bean, Jr. 
 J. A. Coller 
 Ed. Kane 
 Norman Chard 
 
 Address 
 New Prague 
 Shakopee 
 Belle Plaine 
 Belle Plaine 
 
 Name Address 
 
 C. H. Casey Jordan 
 
 Dr. E. E. Cannady Prior Lake 
 Jos. Lenertz Shakopee 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 . Name 
 Edw. M. Kane 
 John Feidler 
 Michael Schreiner 
 
 Address 
 Belle Plaine 
 Belle Plaine 
 New Prague 
 
 Name 
 Henry Arens 
 R. B. Smith 
 Jos. Lenertz 
 
 Address 
 Jordan 
 Shakopee 
 Shakopee 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 ' Name 
 
 Address 
 
 G. L. Nye 
 
 Shakopee 
 
 F. A. Bean 
 
 New Prague 
 
 J. H. Moore 
 
 Jordan 
 
 
 
 286 
 
SHERBURNE COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 Andrew Davis, Director 
 Chas. F. Knapp, Secretary 
 
 Address 
 Elk River 
 Big Lake 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Name 
 Andrew Davis, President 
 Chas. F. Knapp, Secretary 
 Chas. W. Cater, Treasurer 
 Younger Dyson, Councilman 
 Wm. Mosford, Councilman 
 W. V. Davee, Councilman 
 E. A. Smyth, Councilman 
 Chas. Iliff, Councilman 
 E. E. Hamilton, Councilman 
 Thos. F. Carlin, Councilman 
 Clarence Taylor, Councilman 
 G. S. Hunt, Councilman 
 Earl D. Cross, Councilman 
 John E. Odegard, Councilman 
 
 Address 
 Elk River 
 Big Lake 
 Clear Lake 
 Becker 
 Clear Lake 
 Clear Lake 
 Zimmerman 
 Zimmerman 
 Princeton, R. 1 
 St. Cloud, R. 6 
 Zimmerman, R. 1 
 St. Cloud, R. 1 
 St. Cloud ■ 
 Clear Lake, R. 1 
 
 Name 
 C. L. White, Ch. 
 Andrew Davis 
 E. A. Smyth 
 E. E. Hamilton 
 
 Farm Labor Organization 
 
 Address 
 Big Lake 
 Elk River 
 Zimmerman 
 Princeton, R. 1 
 
 Name 
 Chas. Iliff 
 W. V. Davee 
 Thos. F. Carlin 
 
 Address 
 Zimmerman 
 Clear Lake 
 St. Cloud, R. 6 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name Address Name Address 
 
 Chas. E. Brown, Ch. Elk River Younger Dyson Becker 
 
 E. A. Smyth Zimmerman John Dingmann Clear Lake 
 C. L. White Big Lake 
 
 287 
 
SIBLEY COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 John W. Boock, Director 
 J. C. Deterling, Vice-President 
 Chas. Wallin, Secretary 
 
 Address 
 Gibbon 
 Gaylord 
 Gaylord 
 
 County Organization 
 
 Name 
 E. L. Bauer 
 Wesley Beseke 
 Ole Swanson 
 J. Aug. Swanson 
 A. L. Stoner 
 A. H. Briest, 
 C. Christofferson 
 Jas. M. Scully 
 Chas. Purcell 
 John O'Meara 
 Paul Quandt 
 John Mann 
 
 Address 
 
 Arlington 
 Arlington 
 Winthrop 
 Winthrop 
 Henderson 
 Gaylord, R. 3 
 Gibbon 
 
 Henderson, R.F.D. 
 Green Isle 
 Green Isle 
 Stewart, R.F.D. 
 Blakely, R F.D. 
 
 Name 
 A. D. Johnson 
 F. A. Streseman 
 Philip Kroehler 
 W. G. Sander 
 Henning Johnson 
 Fred Wick 
 F. V. Burdorf 
 Albert Kienitz 
 A. A. Hubbard 
 O. N. Johnson 
 E. T. Connelly 
 Ben Rieke 
 
 Address 
 Gaylord 
 Winthrop 
 Henderson 
 Henderson 
 Lafayette 
 Winthrop 
 Gibbon 
 Arlington 
 New Auburn 
 Gibbon 
 
 Glencoe, R.F.D 
 Gaylord 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 L. A. Guilbert 
 
 Henderson 
 
 Dan Sweeney 
 
 Green Isle 
 
 H. M. Noack 
 
 Arlington 
 
 Jacob Geib 
 
 Gaylord 
 
 0. R. Greene 
 
 Winthrop 
 
 Wm. Hoppenstedt 
 
 Gibbon 
 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 E. L. Bauer 
 
 Arlington 
 
 A. L. Stoner 
 
 Henderson 
 
 J. Aug. Swanson 
 
 Winthrop 
 
 John W. Boock 
 
 Gibbon 
 
 John O'Meara 
 
 Green Isle 
 
 
 
 288 
 
STEARNS COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 Chas. F. Ladner, Director 
 G. C. Mantor, Secretary 
 Rt. Rev. Joseph F. Busch 
 Hon. J. D. Sullivan 
 Hon. R. B. Brower 
 Alvah Eastman 
 C. F. Mac Donald 
 
 Address 
 St. Cloud 
 St. Cloud 
 St. Cloud 
 St. Cloud 
 St. Cloud 
 St. Cloud 
 St. Cloud 
 
 Township Organization 
 
 Name 
 Geo. R. Christen 
 W. S. Bartholemew 
 
 F. A. Telschar 
 Jos. L. Schaubach 
 Geo. Justin 
 Geo. Odell 
 
 Ole Strand 
 Wm. Arnold 
 D. J. Chamberlain 
 Frank Willenbring 
 Albert Botz 
 Victor Woeste 
 Geo. Miller 
 Chas. A. Boerger 
 Sever Brick 
 Jos. Nichols 
 W. L. Sartell 
 Frank Enderle 
 
 G. H. Wells 
 W. H. French 
 F. J. Weisser 
 Anth. Westbrock 
 J. J. Ahman 
 
 H. S. Tilletson 
 Frank Rieland 
 Forest Sheldon 
 Geo. Rooney 
 John Meinz 
 John N. Benoit 
 J. J. Hess 
 John Lauermann 
 Val Haehn 
 John Rossman 
 H. G. Borgmann 
 Jos. Salchert 
 P. P. Maurin 
 Clem Kost 
 
 Township 
 Albany 
 Avon 
 Ashley 
 Brockway 
 Collegeville 
 Crow Lake 
 Crow River 
 Eden Lake 
 Fair Haven 
 Farming 
 Getty 
 Grove 
 
 Holdingsford 
 Krain 
 
 Lake Henry 
 Lake George 
 LeSauk 
 Luxemburg 
 Lynden 
 Maine Prairie 
 Melrose 
 Millwood 
 Munson 
 North Fork 
 Oak 
 
 Paynesville 
 Raymond 
 Rockville 
 St. Augusta 
 St. Cloud 
 St. Joseph 
 St. Martin 
 St. Wendel 
 Sauk Centre 
 Spring Hill 
 Wakefield 
 Zion 
 
 Address 
 Albany 
 Avon 
 
 Sauk Centre 
 Rice 
 
 St. Joseph 
 Brooten 
 Belgrade 
 Eden Valley 
 South Haven R. 2 
 Richmond 
 Sauk Centre 
 Melrose, R. 2 
 Holdingsford 
 Albany, R. 4 
 Paynesville, R. 4 
 Belgrade, R. 2 
 Sartell 
 
 Watkins, R. 3 
 Clearwater 
 Kimball 
 Melrose 
 Freeport 
 Richmond 
 Brooten, R. 1 
 Freeport 
 Paynesville 
 Brooten 
 Rockville 
 St. Cloud, R. 3 
 St. Cloud 
 St. Joseph 
 Roscoe 
 St. Joseph 
 Sauk Centre 
 Melrose, R. 3 
 Cold Spring 
 Roscoe 
 
 289 
 
Township Organization 
 
 Name 
 Thos. Thomasek 
 M. F. Reine 
 C. M. Iversle 
 Joseph Friedman 
 Nick Kremer 
 Ed. Wardian 
 Peter Schmitz 
 Henry Terhaar 
 Frank Tolman 
 Nick Freidrich 
 P. Wirtzfield 
 Jos. L. Justin 
 Frank Weisser 
 Hon. A. DeBeau 
 Peter Meinz 
 
 Township 
 Albany 
 Brooten 
 Belgrade 
 Eden Valley 
 Greenwald 
 Holdingford 
 Lake Henry 
 New Munich 
 Paynesville 
 St. Anna 
 St. Nicholas 
 St. Stephen 
 Melrose 
 Sauk Centre 
 Waite Park 
 
 Address 
 Albany 
 Brooten 
 Belgrade 
 Eden Valley 
 Greenwald 
 Holdingford 
 Paynesville 
 New Munich 
 Paynesville 
 Avon, R. 2 
 Watkins, R. 2 
 Rice, R. 2 
 Melrose 
 Sauk Centre 
 Waite Park 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 John J. Ahman 
 
 Richmond 
 
 Frank Rieland 
 
 Freeport 
 
 Geo. M. Borgman 
 
 Sauk Centre 
 
 Geo. M. Schaefer 
 
 Albany 
 
 T. J. Anderson 
 
 Belgrade 
 
 Frank Schmidt 
 
 Avon 
 
 N. A. Storage Co. 
 
 Paynesville 
 
 Martin Loso 
 
 St. Joseph 
 
 Ferdinand Peters 
 
 Cold Spring 
 
 John Bohmer 
 
 Brooten 
 
 M. Kleber 
 
 Melrose 
 
 
 
 290 
 
STEELE COUNTY 
 
 Name Address 
 
 Fred H. Joesting, Director and Chairman Owatonna 
 
 Jul Ausin, Secretary Owatonna 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Name 
 D. R. Kanne 
 Will Gillman 
 Geo. Brush 
 M. J. McGrath 
 H. J. Luhman 
 John Pichner 
 Anton Stand 
 M. T. McCardy 
 M. J. Darmody 
 H. Wrede 
 M. J. Lonergan 
 John Page 
 Ed. J. Buche 
 Robt. Deininger, Sr. 
 Roy Penhallegon 
 Otto Kubat 
 Armin Bosshard 
 Oscar Cedardahl 
 D. J. Sullivan 
 Mrs. M. S. Alexander 
 
 Address 
 Deerfield 
 Medford 
 Owatonna 
 Owatonna 
 Meriden 
 Owatonna 
 Owatonna 
 Owatonna, R. 7 
 Blooming Prairie 
 Owatonna 
 Ellendale 
 Blooming Prairie 
 Owatonna 
 Owatonna 
 Owatonna 
 Owatonna 
 Owatonna 
 Owatonna 
 Ellendale 
 Owatonna 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Name 
 Jul Ausin 
 D. R. Kanne 
 Will Gillman 
 Geo. Brush 
 M. J. McGrath 
 H. J. Luhman 
 John Pichner 
 Anton Stand 
 M. T. McCrady 
 M. J. Darmody 
 Hugo Wrede 
 
 Address 
 Owatonna 
 Owatonna 
 Medford 
 Owatonna 
 Owatonna 
 Meriden 
 Owatonna 
 Owatonna 
 Owatonna, R. 7 
 Blooming Prairie 
 Owatonna 
 
 Name 
 John Pichner 
 M. J. Lonergan 
 John Page 
 E. Buche 
 Sam Rask 
 
 Robt. Deininger, Sr. 
 Roy Penhallegon 
 Otto Kubat 
 Armin Bosshard 
 Oscar Cedardahl 
 D. J. Sullivan 
 
 Address 
 Owatonna 
 Ellendale 
 Blooming Prairie 
 Owatonna 
 Blooming Prairie 
 Owatonna 
 Owatonna 
 Owatonna 
 Owatonna 
 Owatonna 
 Ellendale 
 
 Name 
 Jul Ausin, Chm. 
 Chas. Raymond 
 John Lynard 
 Chas. Fisher 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Address 
 Owatonna 
 Owatonna 
 Owatonna 
 Owatonna 
 
 Name 
 H. C. Partridge 
 A. M. Lerberg 
 Nels Nelson 
 
 Address 
 Owatonna 
 Ellendale 
 Blooming Prairie 
 
 391 
 
STEVENS COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 C. C. Erstad 
 H. C. Timbrock 
 L. P. Norby 
 
 Name 
 R. M. Adams, Director 
 P. E. Miller, Secretary 
 Address 
 Donnelly 
 Chokio 
 Alberta 
 
 Address 
 Morris 
 Morris 
 Name Address 
 
 A. Overstad Hancock 
 
 P. E. Miller Morris 
 
 L. C. Dorweiler Chokio 
 
 Chairmen for Districts 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 J. H. Devenney 
 
 Morris 
 
 Geo. A. Johnson 
 
 Alberta 
 
 F. J. McLaughlin 
 
 Donnelly 
 
 Lee Eddy 
 
 Chokio 
 
 F. E. Taplin 
 
 Hancock 
 
 
 
 Chairmen for Townships 
 
 Name 
 
 Address Name 
 
 ADDRE! 
 
 Martin Corregan 
 
 Baker Fred Andert 
 
 
 Frank Vikturek 
 
 E. E. Walpole 
 
 Morris 
 
 Henry Blees 
 
 Donnelly John LeSage 
 
 Morris 
 
 Chas. Heubner 
 
 A. L. Cook 
 
 Morris 
 
 L. L. Hanse 
 
 Detrick Schmeckpeper Chokio 
 
 Dennis DeWane 
 
 A. C. Jessner 
 
 Morris 
 
 0. A. Solvie 
 
 Hodges Geo. H. Farwell 
 
 Alberta 
 
 Mrs. Frank Hancock 
 
 Morris 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address Name 
 
 Address 
 
 J. H. Devenney 
 
 Morris Geo. A. Johnson 
 
 Alberta 
 
 F. J. McLaughlin 
 
 Donnelly Lee Eddy 
 
 Chokio 
 
 F. E. Taplin 
 
 Hancock 
 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 T. H. McGuire, Ch. 
 
 Morris 
 
 Stephens Burt 
 
 Chokio 
 
 Andrew Oberstadt 
 
 Hancock 
 
 J. J. Schultz 
 
 Alberta 
 
 F. J. McLaughlin 
 
 Donnelly 
 
 
 
 292 
 
SWIFT COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 F. C. Thornton, Director 
 I. M. Hudson, Secretary 
 
 Address 
 Benson 
 Benson 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 F. C. Thornton, Ch. 
 
 Benson 
 
 A. D. Schendel 
 
 Holloway 
 
 J. C. Piefer 
 
 Benson 
 
 Y. Laws 
 
 Appleton 
 
 0. G. Hough 
 
 Kerkhoven 
 
 Wm. Perrizo, Jr. 
 
 Clontarf 
 
 E. C. Kiseling 
 
 Murdock 
 
 Henry Olson 
 
 Benson 
 
 G. M. McCarthy 
 
 DeGraff 
 
 Harry M. Nelson 
 
 Benson 
 
 T. H. Connolly 
 
 Danvers 
 
 
 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Jos. Sanchagrin 
 
 Benson 
 
 A. D. Schendel 
 
 Holloway 
 
 Geo. M. McCarthy 
 
 DeGraff 
 
 Martin J. McGowan 
 
 Appleton 
 
 T. H. Connolly 
 
 Danvers 
 
 E. C. Kiesling 
 
 Murdock 
 
 Wm. Perizzo, Jr. 
 
 Clontarf 
 
 0. G. Hough 
 
 Kerkhoven 
 
 293 
 
TODD COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 A. D. Day, Director 
 Raymond A. Lee, Secretary 
 E. V. Moore, Vice President 
 
 Address 
 Long Prairie 
 Long Prairie 
 Eagle Bend 
 
 Advisory Council 
 
 Name 
 N. A. Smith 
 
 F. E. Crosgrove 
 Chas. Hunter 
 J. A. Shaver 
 Ola Larson 
 
 P. Perreten 
 E. N. Erickson 
 Frank Steinkugler 
 Wm. Gammelien 
 M. T. Klukken 
 J. H. Borgert 
 O. K. Foreberger 
 Jonas Eckberg 
 
 G. E. Curtis 
 
 E. W. Johanson 
 J. W. McKellip 
 Wm. McCartney 
 
 Address 
 Hewitt 
 Bertha 
 
 Ward Springs 
 Long Prairie, R. 4 
 Burtrum 
 Long Prairie 
 Clarissa 
 Philbrook 
 Bertha 
 Osakis, R. 2 
 Browerville 
 Clarissa 
 Sauk Centre 
 Osakis 
 Browerville 
 Round Prairie 
 Long Prairie 
 
 Name 
 L. Deering 
 W. W. Brooks 
 Geo. Koonze 
 C. Remmilard 
 W. H. Miller 
 J. S. Hanley 
 H. A. Corey 
 Chris Dempsey 
 Hugh Owen 
 F. A. Mason 
 J. F. Bassett 
 T. H. Mertz 
 Wm. Rodman 
 S. H. Schowalter 
 L. H. Colson 
 Wm. Gerling 
 
 Address 
 Browerville 
 Long Prairie 
 Round Prairie 
 Staples 
 Hewitt 
 Browerville 
 Philbrook 
 Browerville 
 West Union 
 Bertha 
 Browerville 
 Burtrum 
 Eagle Bend 
 Grey Eagle 
 Hewitt 
 Long Prairie 
 
 Farm Labor Organization 
 
 Name 
 C. F. Miller, Chairman 
 
 Address 
 Long Prairie 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 A. D. Day 
 H. E. Hart 
 I. E. Hart 
 Louis Langeson 
 Wm. Rodman 
 Louis Bottemiller 
 
 B. R. Bartlett 
 
 Address 
 Long Prairie 
 Long Prairie 
 Browerville 
 Clarissa 
 Eagle Bend 
 Bertha 
 Hewitt 
 
 Name 
 Paul Read 
 Laurence Smith 
 L. R. Branch 
 Otto Fernstahl 
 Chas. Krousey 
 Bert Thomson 
 
 Address 
 Staples 
 Philbrook 
 Round Prairie 
 Little Sauk 
 Burtrum 
 Grey Eagle 
 
 Federal Fuel Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 A. D. Day, Chm. 
 
 Long Prairie 
 
 Geo. W. Beckell 
 
 Staples 
 
 H. E. Walseth 
 
 Eagle Bend 
 
 
 
 294 
 
TRAVERSE COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Chas. E. 
 
 Houston, President Wheaton 
 
 D. J. Leary, 1st Vice-President Browns 
 
 Valley 
 
 Geo. Putnam, 2nd Vice-President Tintah 
 
 
 Wm. H. 
 
 Zeiher, 4th Vice-President Dumont 
 
 Carl 0. ! 
 
 Saterbak, Secretary Wheaton 
 
 J. L. Paul, Treasurer Browns Valley 
 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Chas. E. Houston 
 
 Wheaton Carl 0. Saterbak 
 
 Wheaton 
 
 F. W. Murphy 
 
 Wheaton 
 
 Advisory Council 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address Name 
 
 Address 
 
 E. C. Tubbe 
 
 Wheaton C. F. Koch 
 
 Wheaton 
 
 D. J. Leary 
 
 Browns Valley Chas. H. Rixe 
 
 Graceville 
 
 W. H. Zeher 
 
 Dumont Paul Winter 
 
 White Rock,S.D, 
 
 Geo. Putnam 
 
 Tintah Joe Benson 
 
 Graceville 
 
 J. L. Paul 
 
 Browns Valley D. J. Neuman 
 
 Wheaton 
 
 Arthur Duffield 
 
 Browns Valley John Horner 
 
 Collis 
 
 Martin Monson 
 
 Wheaton C. H. Streeter 
 
 Tintah 
 
 Matt Doll 
 
 Collis J. R. Lane 
 
 Tintah 
 
 E. M. Anding 
 
 Chokio Fred Seidensticker 
 
 Wheaton 
 
 John Toelle 
 
 Browns Valley *0. J. Spafford 
 Resources 
 
 Wheaton 
 
 Name Address 
 
 W. 
 
 H. Zeiher, Chairman Dumont 
 
 Traverse County Assessors 
 
 
 
 Finance 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address Name 
 
 Address 
 
 J. L. Paul, Chm. 
 
 Browns Valley W. H. Zeiher 
 
 Dumont 
 
 Andrew Peterson 
 
 Wheaton Geo. W. Cross 
 Welfare of Enlisted Men 
 
 Tintah 
 
 Name 
 
 Address Name 
 
 Address 
 
 H. B. Cory, Chm. 
 
 Wheaton ' Martin Lynch 
 
 Dumont 
 
 E. W. Hayes 
 
 Browns Valley David Burton 
 
 Wheaton 
 
 Rev. F. M. Hofman Tintah 
 
 
 
 Farm Products 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address Name 
 
 Address 
 
 H. E. Kiger, Chm 
 
 Wheaton Andrew Peterson 
 
 Wheaton 
 
 Frank D. Smith 
 
 Browns Valley Louis Bender 
 
 Wheaton 
 
 Geo. H. Putnam 
 
 Tintah F. J. Steidl 
 
 Wheaton 
 
 ''Deceased 
 
 295 
 
Gardens 
 
 Name 
 D. J. Leary, Chm. 
 Ed. Robinson 
 
 Address 
 Browns Valley 
 Dumont 
 
 Name 
 Fred Ellwanger 
 
 Address 
 Tintah 
 
 Name 
 Van Gordon, Chm. 
 W. R. McReynolds 
 Otto Paulson 
 
 Enlistments 
 
 Address 
 Browns Valley 
 Wheaton 
 Wheaton 
 
 Name 
 L. A. Anderson 
 Geo. Allanson 
 
 Address 
 Tintah 
 Wheaton 
 
 Name 
 H. T. Lewis, Chm. 
 John A. Hammond 
 
 Motor Vehicles 
 
 Address 
 Wheaton 
 Wheaton 
 
 Name 
 Fred J. Wheeler 
 Jacob Heidelberger 
 
 Address 
 Wheaton 
 Wheaton 
 
 Name 
 V. E. Anderson, Ch. 
 Mrs. A. C. Bayrell 
 
 Address 
 Wheaton 
 Wheaton 
 
 Publicity 
 
 Name 
 E. F. Joubert 
 Sam. Y. Gordon 
 
 Address 
 Wheaton 
 Browns Valley 
 
 Name 
 P. H. Leonard 
 
 Address 
 Wheaton 
 
 Public Safety 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 Wm. Paul 
 A. W. Putnam 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Address 
 Browns Valley 
 Tintah 
 
 Name 
 Ole Fuglie 
 Bert Pedalty 
 
 Address 
 Dumont 
 Dakomin 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name Address Name Address 
 
 F. W. Murphy, Chm. Wheaton John A. Norsen Wheaton 
 
 H. E. Higer Wheaton M. J. Lunch Dumont 
 
 E. J. Kay Wheaton R. C. Davison Tintah 
 R. R. Buchanan Browns Valley 
 
 296 
 
WABASHA COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 D. C. 
 
 McKenzie, Director 
 
 Lake City 
 
 E. R. 
 
 Paterick, Secretary 
 
 Advisory Council 
 
 Lake City 
 
 Name 
 
 Town 
 
 Address 
 
 Dr. C. S. Shore 
 
 Lake City 
 
 Lake City 
 
 L. V. Hurd 
 
 Lake City 
 
 Lake City 
 
 W. H. Rafferty 
 
 Wabasha 
 
 Wabasha 
 
 John W. Murdock 
 
 Wabasha 
 
 Wabasha 
 
 Linn Whitmore 
 
 Wabasha 
 
 Wabasha 
 
 Joe Ley 
 
 Plainview Village 
 
 Plainview 
 
 W. H. Grieve 
 
 Plainview Township 
 
 Plainview 
 
 Grant Nichols 
 
 Mazeppa Village 
 
 Mazeppa 
 
 Wallace Whipple 
 
 Mazeppa Township 
 
 Mazeppa 
 
 Sam Cliff 
 
 Chester 
 
 Zumbro Falls 
 
 Fred Anding 
 
 Gilford 
 
 Lake City 
 
 F. A. Wassmann 
 
 Mt. Pleasant 
 
 Lake City 
 
 Levi Scruby 
 
 Zumbro Falls Village 
 
 Zumbro Falls 
 
 Ole Oleson 
 
 Lake 
 
 Lake City 
 
 Geo. F. Hayes 
 
 Elgin Village 
 
 Elgin 
 
 R. L. Wood 
 
 Elgin Township 
 
 Elgin 
 
 John McMillan 
 
 Theilman 
 
 Theilman 
 
 John Duffus 
 
 West Albany 
 
 Lake City 
 
 J. W. Nolan 
 
 Oakwood 
 
 Millville 
 
 W. G. Rilly 
 
 Hyde Park 
 
 Millville 
 
 S. R. Anderson 
 
 Hammond 
 
 Hammond 
 
 John Robinson 
 
 Zumbro 
 
 Hammond 
 
 H. E. McGuigan 
 
 Millville 
 
 Millville 
 
 Peter Koob 
 
 Pepin 
 
 Wabasha 
 
 E. J. McDonough 
 
 Kellogg Village 
 
 Kellogg 
 
 John J. Dady 
 
 Greenfield 
 
 Kellogg 
 
 Alex Huddleston 
 
 Glasgow 
 
 Wabasha 
 
 John Peshon 
 
 Minneiska 
 
 Minneiska 
 
 Richard Montgomery 
 
 Weaver 
 
 Weaver 
 
 E. R. Lee 
 
 Watopa 
 
 Kellogg 
 
 P. E. McDonough 
 
 Highland 
 
 Kellogg 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 D. C. McKenzie, Lake City 
 Howard Eastman, Lake City 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 E. G. Quade, Lake City 
 
 297 
 
WADENA COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 
 
 Address 
 
 J. H. Mark, Director 
 
 Wadena 
 
 Geo. M. Stowe 
 
 ;, Secretary 
 
 Wadena 
 
 Name 
 
 Township 
 
 Address 
 
 R. L. Benedict 
 
 Aldrich 
 
 Aldrich 
 
 M. L. Wood 
 
 Aldrich 
 
 Verndale 
 
 Chas. C. Greenwood 
 
 Blueberry 
 
 Menagha 
 
 G. C. Bockhart 
 
 Bullard 
 
 Verndale R 4 
 
 Roy Petrie 
 
 Huntersville 
 
 Huntersville 
 
 A. J. Marshall 
 
 Leaf River 
 
 Sebeka R 2 
 
 Tom Dahlvang 
 
 Lyons 
 
 Verndale R 4 
 
 J. H. Hunt 
 
 Meadow 
 
 Sebeka 
 
 Dr. Chas. H. Pierce 
 
 Menagha 
 
 Menahga 
 
 Marvin Perkins 
 
 Orton 
 
 Sebeka 
 
 C. A. Mattson 
 
 Red Eye 
 
 Sebeka 
 
 Wm. H. Dorn, Jr. 
 
 Rockwood 
 
 Sebeka 
 
 A. A. Johnson 
 
 Sebeka Village 
 
 Sebeka 
 
 M. E. Isherwood 
 
 Sebeka Village 
 
 Sebeka 
 
 John Dorn 
 
 North Germany 
 
 Sebeka 
 
 John Juntunan 
 
 Shell River 
 
 Menahga 
 
 Matthew Williams 
 
 Thomastown 
 
 Staples 
 
 W. W. Pike 
 
 Verndale 
 
 Verndale 
 
 John Dower 
 
 Wadena 
 
 Wadena 
 
 James Boyd 
 
 Wadena 
 
 Wadena 
 
 N. A. Wells 
 
 Wing River 
 
 Verndale 
 
 Mrs. C. W. Miller 
 
 Wadena 
 
 Wadena 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 John H. Mark 
 
 Wadena 
 
 James Boyd 
 
 Wadena 
 
 A. A. Johnson 
 
 Sebeka 
 
 R. L. Benedict 
 
 Aldrich 
 
 298 
 
WASECA COUNTY 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 R. 
 
 P. Ward, Director 
 
 Waseca 
 
 P. 
 
 J. Crandall, Secretary 
 
 Waseca 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Carl Sampson 
 
 New Richland 
 
 Charles Woodhall 
 
 Waldorf 
 
 E. A. Everett 
 
 Waseca 
 
 Wm. Schwartz 
 
 Waldorf 
 
 James Sullivan 
 
 Janesville 
 
 S. Y. Harmon 
 
 Waldorf 
 
 E. J. Goltz 
 
 Janesville 
 
 C. E. Root 
 
 New Richland 
 
 J. J. Hogan 
 
 Janesville 
 
 Nick Dineen 
 
 New Richland 
 
 Wm. Roemhelt 
 
 Waseca 
 
 F. F. Kreuger 
 
 New Richland 
 
 A. F. Bethke 
 
 Waseca 
 
 John Spillane 
 
 New Richland 
 
 Justice Reinhardt 
 
 Waseca 
 
 F. H. Quade 
 
 Janesville 
 
 R. T. Maloney 
 
 Waseca 
 
 R. R. Brown 
 
 Janesville 
 
 L. L. Fretham 
 
 Waseca 
 
 John Henry 
 
 Janesville 
 
 John B. Quran 
 
 Waseca 
 
 John Moonan 
 
 Waseca 
 
 Emil Kraske 
 
 Waseca 
 
 F. W. Senn 
 
 Waseca 
 
 Wm. Dumdie 
 
 Waseca 
 
 M. L. Jacobson 
 
 Moorhead 
 
 J. L. Morrel 
 
 Waseca 
 
 Ed Everett 
 
 Waseca 
 
 Dick Ballard 
 
 Waseca 
 
 George Goodspeed 
 
 Waseca 
 
 Gust Mittelstaedt 
 
 Waseca 
 
 Henry Habein 
 
 Waseca 
 
 L. B. Zimmerman 
 
 Waseca 
 
 G. P. Madden 
 
 Waseca 
 
 Hiram Powell 
 
 Waseca 
 
 Wm. Bartlett 
 
 Waseca 
 
 H. Pream 
 
 Janesville 
 
 H. M. Gallagher 
 
 Waseca 
 
 Henry Leeman 
 
 Janesville 
 
 T. K. Sommerstad 
 
 New Richland 
 
 Raymond Doyle 
 
 Waldorf 
 
 John A. Johnson 
 
 New Richland 
 
 Peter Burns 
 
 Waseca 
 
 A. A. Samson 
 
 New Richland 
 
 Ralph Leslie 
 
 Waseca 
 
 John Papke 
 
 Waseca 
 
 Selmer Hanson 
 
 Waseca 
 
 John Bowers 
 
 Waseca 
 
 Oscar Swenson 
 
 Waseca 
 
 Mrs. D. S. Cummings Waseca 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 P. J. Crandall 
 
 Waseca 
 
 C. R. Paulson 
 
 Otisco 
 
 J. A. Henry 
 
 Janesville 
 
 Chas. Woodhall 
 
 Waldorf 
 
 J. J. Spillane 
 
 New Richland 
 
 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 R. P. Ward 
 
 Waseca 
 
 T. A. Sommerstad 
 
 New Richland 
 
 James Sullivan 
 
 Janesville - 
 
 Raymond Doyle 
 
 Waldorf 
 
 Finance Committee 
 
 Name 
 R. P. Ward, Chairman Public Safety Commission 
 John Moonan, Chairman Loyalty League 
 Charles Leuthold, Chairman Red Cross 
 
 299 
 
 Address 
 Waseca 
 Waseca 
 Waseca 
 
Name Addbess 
 
 John Jennison, Chairman Liberty Loan and War Stamps Janesville 
 
 Henry C. Johnson, Chairman Y. M. C. A. Waseca 
 
 M. W. Ryan, Chairman Knights of Columbus Waseca 
 
 John L. Hanson, Chairman County Committee New Richland 
 
 Bernard Fisher, Sheriff Waseca 
 
 Harry Van Loh, Superintendent of Schools Waseca 
 
 W. S. Brown, Coal Administrator Waseca 
 
 C. H. Watson, Food Administrator Waseca 
 
 H. F. Gallagher, Publicity Manager Waseca 
 
 E. W. Senn, Manager of Speakers Waseca 
 
 C. H. Norton, Secretary Waseca 
 
 Mr. Lyness, County Agent, County Labor Bureau Waseca 
 
 John L. Hanson, Chrm. County Commissions New Richland 
 
 E. A. Everett, Gen'l. Counselor Waseca 
 
 300 
 
WASHINGTON COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 R. A. Wilkinson, Director 
 A. G. McCormick, Secretary 
 
 Address 
 Lake Elmo 
 Stillwater 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 
 Name Address Name Address 
 
 w 
 
 . R. Sawyer St. Paul Park Geo. E. Munkel Stillwater 
 
 J- 
 
 R. Kolliner Stillwater H. R. 
 
 Woerz Stillwater 
 
 George H. Atwood Stillwater Frank Morrison Copas 
 
 A. 
 
 W. Johnson Marine-on-St. Croix W. S. 
 
 Soule Withrow 
 
 F. 
 
 C. Anderson So. Stillwater Victor Munson Newport 
 
 R 
 
 . S. Davis Stillwater 
 
 
 
 
 Advisory Council 
 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Township 
 
 Address 
 
 
 John Clarey 
 
 
 Stillwater 
 
 
 Wm. Kundy 
 
 
 Stillwater 
 
 
 Andrew Anderson 
 
 
 Marine-on-St. Croix 
 
 
 Albert Lohman 
 
 
 Lake Elmo 
 
 
 H. F. Hartman 
 
 Afton 
 
 Afton 
 
 
 J. S. Barker 
 
 Baytown 
 
 So. Stillwater 
 
 
 Walter Stone 
 
 Denmark 
 
 Newport R 2 
 
 
 A. H. Bahe 
 
 Cottage Grove 
 
 Newport R 2 
 
 
 Fred Walquist 
 
 Forest Lake 
 
 Forest Lake 
 
 
 Thomas Minogue 
 
 Grant 
 
 Stillwater R 4 
 
 
 Sam McKean 
 
 Lakeland 
 
 Stillwater R 7 
 
 
 Thomas Lynch 
 
 May 
 
 Withrow 
 
 
 J. D. Collopy 
 
 Oakdale 
 
 Lake Elmo 
 
 
 Mike Steiner 
 
 Oneka 
 
 Hugo 
 
 
 C. W. Grandstand 
 
 Scandia 
 
 Copas 
 
 
 H. B. Vollmer 
 
 Stillwater 
 
 Stillwater 
 
 
 W. S. Krause 
 
 Woodbury 
 
 Lake Elmo 
 
 
 Chas. Lindahl 
 
 Vil. of Marine 
 
 Marine-on-St. Croix 
 
 
 F. E. Heney 
 
 Vil. of Hugo 
 
 Hugo 
 
 
 J. R. Kolliner 
 
 Stillwater 
 
 Stillwater 
 
 
 John McPherson 
 
 So. Stillwater 
 
 So. Stillwater 
 
 
 J. F. Chase 
 
 
 Forest Lake 
 
 
 C. H. Gillmore 
 
 
 St. Paul Park 
 
 
 J. V. Bailey 
 
 
 Newport 
 
 
 W. C. Krog 
 
 
 Stillwater 
 
 
 Herbert J. Anderson 
 
 
 So. Stillwater 
 
 
 Alfred S. Merrill 
 
 
 Hastings R 6 
 
 
 M. H. Brennan 
 
 
 Hastings R 6 
 
 
 Jno. G. Wright 
 
 
 Hastings R 6 
 
 
 Frank Crippen 
 
 
 Hastings R 5 
 
 
 A. W. Johnson 
 
 
 Marine-on-St. Croix 
 
 
 Leonard Benson 
 
 
 Copas 
 
 
 Abe Shoblom 
 
 
 Marine Mills 
 
 301 
 
Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Ben J. Long 
 
 Hugo 
 
 T. Enerson 
 
 Forest Lake 
 
 Geo. S. Taylor 
 
 Withrow 
 
 J. W. Mardous 
 
 Stillwater R 1 
 
 Harry A. Swenson 
 
 Afton 
 
 W. W. Wilcox 
 
 White Bear, R. 2 
 
 J. E. Gillespie 
 
 Stillwater 
 
 H. C. Robertson 
 
 Stillwater 
 
 M. C. McMillan 
 
 Stillwater 
 
 W. S. Masterman 
 
 Stillwater 
 
 W. S. Moscrip 
 
 Lake Elmo 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 A. G. McCormick 
 
 Stillwater 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 J. E. Gillespie 
 
 Stillwater 
 
 N. A. Olson 
 
 Copas 
 
 Maurice Sliney 
 
 Lake Elmo 
 
 W. S. Soule 
 
 Withrow 
 
 August Noltimier 
 
 St. Paul Park 
 
 Henry Raths 
 
 Newport 
 
 Committee on Contributions for Red Cross 
 
 Name 
 W. S. Moscrip 
 John Wright 
 Frank Crippen 
 A. W. Johnson 
 Leonard Benson 
 Geo. S. Taylor 
 T. Enerson 
 W. W. Wilcox 
 F. G. Morisson 
 
 Township 
 
 Denmark 
 Cottage Grove 
 Scandia 
 Copas 
 
 Address 
 Lake Elmo 
 Hastings, R. 6 
 Hastings, R. 5 
 Marine Mills 
 (Big Lake) Copas 
 Withrow 
 Forest Lake 
 White Bear, R. 2 
 Copas 
 
 Name 
 Mrs. John Joyce 
 Paul Burtzlaff 
 Chas. Nelson 
 
 Garden Committee 
 
 Address 
 Stillwater, R. 1 
 Stillwater 
 Afton 
 
 Name 
 J. V. Bailey 
 Rev. Krutz 
 
 Address 
 Newport 
 St. Paul Park 
 
 Finance and Membership Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 H. C. Robertson 
 
 Stillwater 
 
 0. Struble 
 
 Forest Lake 
 
 J. D. Bronson 
 
 Stillwater 
 
 Ray Kern 
 
 Lake Elmo 
 
Name 
 J. E. Schow 
 Henry A. Johnson 
 Harry A. Swenson 
 
 Address 
 
 South Stillwater 
 
 Copas 
 
 Afton 
 
 Name 
 J. E. Gillespie 
 W. C. Krog 
 
 Address 
 
 Stillwater 
 Stillwater 
 
 Name 
 M. C. McMillan 
 W. E. Easton 
 
 Enlistment Committee 
 
 Address 
 Stillwater 
 Stillwater 
 
 Name 
 J. H. Davis 
 John Rosell 
 Otto Hoffman 
 
 Address 
 Stillwater 
 Marine Mills 
 Newport 
 
 (Woodbury) 
 
 Name 
 W. C. Masterman 
 F. M. Welch 
 F. T. Wilson 
 
 Publicity Committee 
 
 Address 
 Stillwater 
 Stillwater 
 Stillwater 
 
 Name 
 Reuben Thoreen 
 M. H. Galer 
 
 Address 
 
 Stillwater 
 Forest Lake 
 
 303 
 
WATONWAN COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 Oliver C. Peterson, Director 
 Thomas Tonneson, Secretary 
 
 Address 
 
 St. James 
 St. James 
 
 Name 
 P. H. Grogan 
 Samuel Jackson 
 J. K. Sonneyson 
 C. N. Sonneyson 
 P. N. Sterrie 
 Wm. Curtis 
 F. J. Appel 
 F. H. Schweppe 
 Geo. W. Seager 
 C. E. Fuller 
 J. L. Lobben 
 H. W. Haislet 
 Fred Church 
 Oscar P. Anderson 
 J. G. Hotchkiss 
 J. O. West 
 Albert Running 
 H. J. Mellum 
 E. A. Gibbs 
 C. T. Crowley 
 Roy Crowley 
 Johan Rolf 
 O. A. Mickelson 
 Scott Henshaw 
 Wm. Schabelen 
 C. W. Spinter 
 
 Address 
 St. James 
 St. James 
 St. James 
 St. James 
 St. James 
 St. James 
 St. James 
 St. James 
 St. James 
 St. James 
 St. James 
 St. James 
 St. James 
 St. James 
 St. James 
 St. James 
 St. James 
 St. James 
 St. James 
 St. James 
 St. James 
 St. James 
 St. James 
 St. James 
 Madelia 
 Madelia 
 
 Name 
 W. D. Hinchen 
 
 E. R. Haycraft 
 O. F. Larson 
 A. B. Gjewik 
 Frank Morris 
 G. S. Hage 
 
 O. A Crosby 
 
 C. H. Coalin 
 
 D. E. Raney 
 Ed. McCarthy 
 Jacob Broger 
 Oscar Finseht 
 Claus Syverson 
 
 F. A. Nelson 
 T. P. Hunstad 
 O. E. Sundt 
 Oscar Rask 
 
 J. W. Sommers 
 Lewis Larson 
 Theo. Englin 
 Frank Dewar 
 Henry Madson 
 Joe Davis 
 John West 
 T. P. Laingen 
 Mrs. Wm. Curtis 
 
 Address 
 Madelia 
 Madelia 
 Madelia 
 Madelia 
 Madelia 
 Madelia 
 Madelia 
 Madelia 
 Butterfield 
 Madelia 
 Butterfield 
 Butterfield 
 Ormsby 
 St. James, R. 4 
 Odin 
 La Salle 
 Darfur 
 St. James 
 St. James 
 Darfur 
 Lewisville 
 Madelia 
 Lewisville 
 St. James 
 Odin 
 St. James 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Oliver C. Peterson 
 
 St. James 
 
 Thos. Englin 
 
 Darfur 
 
 Jacob Brogger 
 
 Butterfield 
 
 T. Laingen 
 
 Odin 
 
 0. Syverson 
 
 Ormsby 
 
 Philip Henderson 
 
 Echlos 
 
 0. E. Sundt 
 
 LaSalle 
 
 Wm. Schalaben 
 
 Madelia 
 
 Adolph Sucker 
 
 Lewisville 
 
 Aimer Rask 
 
 Grogan 
 
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WILKIN COUNTY 
 
 
 . Name 
 
 
 Address 
 
 
 F. L. Pierce, Director 
 
 
 Breckenridge 
 
 
 J. B. Busher, Resigned 
 
 
 
 
 Geo. Mace, Chairman 
 
 
 Campbell 
 
 
 D. J. Jones 
 
 
 Breckenridge 
 
 
 G. W. Burrows 
 
 
 Breckenridge 
 
 
 John Hult 
 
 
 Breckenridge 
 
 
 J. S. Stearns 
 
 
 Breckenridge 
 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 T. E. Knudson 
 
 Wolverton 
 
 Geo. W. Mace 
 
 Campbell 
 
 L. L. Olson 
 
 Kent 
 
 P. F. Nash 
 
 Nashua 
 
 J. S. Jenson 
 
 Foxhome 
 
 W. J. McAlpin 
 
 Tenny 
 
 S. C. Bowman 
 
 Rothsay 
 
 J. J. Brady 
 
 Doran 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Dr. C. P. Rice 
 
 Breckenridge 
 
 S. H. Narum 
 
 Lawndale 
 
 J. P. Buscher 
 
 Breckenridge 
 
 Thos. Juvrud 
 
 Rothsay, R. 5 
 
 Geo. W. Mace 
 
 Campbell 
 
 A. N. Larson 
 
 Tenny 
 
 M. J. Olson 
 
 Wolverton 
 
 J. J. Brady 
 
 Doran 
 
 Olaf Smerud 
 
 Kent 
 
 J. L. Cohen 
 
 Nashua 
 
 Howard Gore 
 
 Childs 
 
 J. S. Jenson 
 
 Foxhome 
 
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WINONA COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 
 H. E. Blair, Director 
 
 H. B. Watkins, Secretary 
 
 .Address 
 
 Winona 
 Winona 
 
 
 Advisory Council 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Township 
 
 Address 
 
 H. C. Garvin 
 
 
 Winona 
 
 J. A. Latsch 
 
 
 Winona 
 
 Martin Boyle 
 
 
 Winona 
 
 J. M. Voelker 
 
 
 Winona 
 
 H. L. Buck 
 
 
 Winona 
 
 J. W. S. Gallagher 
 
 
 Winona 
 
 S. H. Somsen 
 
 
 Winona 
 
 J. W. Lucas 
 
 
 Winona 
 
 H. J. McConnon 
 
 
 Winona 
 
 Earl Simpson 
 
 
 Winona 
 
 John Dietze 
 
 
 Winona 
 
 S. L. Prentiss 
 
 
 Winona 
 
 Paul Watkins 
 
 
 Winona 
 
 S. L. Wright 
 
 
 Winona 
 
 Julius Protz 
 
 
 Winona 
 
 Geo. Mallery 
 
 
 Winona 
 
 J. P. Bennett 
 
 Norton 
 
 Bethany 
 
 H. D. Woodward 
 
 Hillsdale 
 
 Stockton 
 
 W. Krenzke 
 
 Winona 
 
 Lewiston 
 
 Chas. Wolf 
 
 Richmond 
 
 Dakota 
 
 C. P. Robb 
 
 Homer 
 
 Winona, R. 3 
 
 C. A. Anderson 
 
 Wilson 
 
 Winona, R. 2 
 
 John Burns 
 
 Warren 
 
 Lewiston, R. 1 
 
 W. J. Fischer 
 
 Utica 
 
 Lewiston, R. 2 
 
 Henry McKay 
 
 Hart 
 
 Rushford, R. 1 
 
 D. A. Tiffany 
 
 Wiscoy 
 
 Witoka, R. 1 
 
 C. G. Corey 
 
 Pleasant Hill 
 
 Witoka, R. 1 
 
 L. J. Brown 
 
 New Hartford 
 
 Dakota, R. 1 
 
 E. F. Baker 
 
 Drescach 
 
 Dakota 
 
 John Madden 
 
 Lewiston Village 
 
 Lewiston 
 
 R. D. London 
 
 Utica 
 
 Utica 
 
 F. 0. Anderson 
 
 St. Charles 
 
 St. Charles 
 
 Dr. F. H. Rollins 
 
 St. Charles Village 
 
 St. Charles 
 
 Jas. Ferrier 
 
 Saratoga 
 
 St. Charles 
 
 F. A. Crane 
 
 Fremont 
 
 Lewiston 
 
 Mike Reiland 
 
 Rollingstone Village 
 
 Rollingstone 
 
 Geo. Church 
 
 Minn. City Village 
 
 Minnesota City 
 
 Andrew Greden 
 
 Mt. Vernon 
 
 Minneiska, R. 1 
 
 Ed. Churchill 
 
 White Water 
 
 Plainview 
 
 Alex Bole 
 
 Elba 
 
 St. Charles 
 
 Albert Kramer 
 
 Altura Village 
 
 Altura 
 
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Labor Committee 
 
 Name Address Name Address 
 
 J. M. Voelker Winona H. Kaupbusman Town Hart 
 
 James Ferrier St. Charles A. Lilly Town Warren 
 
 John Frisch St. Charles H. W. Stedman 
 
 W. H. Harrington Dakota 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Geo. L. Beck 
 
 Winona 
 
 John Litcher 
 
 Lewiston 
 
 Ed. Forrestelle 
 
 St. Charles 
 
 Henry Spelts 
 
 Altura 
 
 Nick Meyer 
 
 Rollingstone 
 
 
 
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WRIGHT COUNTY 
 
 Name 
 John Kelly, Director 
 Oscar Bjork, Secretary 
 W. H. Cutting 
 S. A. Johnson 
 
 Address 
 Waverly 
 Buffalo 
 Buffalo 
 Buffalo 
 
 Advisory Council 
 
 Name 
 Patrick Doherty 
 Chas. Aldrich 
 H. J. Elsenpeter 
 John Ojamferta 
 Henry Ransom 
 Peter Valesch 
 Ed. Kelsey 
 L. F. Demarais 
 Chas. Dahlberg 
 
 Address 
 Maple Lake 
 Buffalo 
 Buffalo 
 Cokato 
 Annandale 
 St. Michaels 
 Delano 
 Buffalo 
 Howard Lake 
 
 Name 
 V. H. Kingsbury 
 Edison Washburn, Jr. 
 C. C. Hastings 
 J. H. Lee 
 Anton P. Moody 
 A. L. Allen 
 Henry Kruz 
 J. D. Allen 
 Luther Laughton 
 
 Address 
 Monticello 
 Monticello 
 Buffalo 
 Annandale 
 Cokato 
 Howard Lake 
 Annandale 
 Buffalo 
 Clearwater 
 
 Farm Labor Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 A. A. Jewett 
 
 Annandale 
 
 Fred Belden 
 
 Montrose 
 
 Oscar Bjork 
 
 Buffalo 
 
 C. M. Johnson 
 
 Rockford 
 
 Bernard Nelson 
 
 Cokato 
 
 Wm. Elliot 
 
 St. Michaels 
 
 Chas. H. McNaughton 
 
 Delano 
 
 Henry Tessman 
 
 South Haven 
 
 Geo. E. Means 
 
 Howard Lake 
 
 W. H. Boland 
 
 Waverly 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 A. A. Jewett 
 C. C. Hastings 
 Bernard Nelson 
 Chas. H. McNaughton 
 Geo. E. Means 
 
 Address 
 Annandale 
 Buffalo 
 Cokato 
 Delano 
 Howard Lake 
 
 -Name 
 C. F. Merz 
 Fred Belden 
 Wm. Elliot 
 Henry Tessman 
 W. H. Boland 
 
 Address 
 Monticello 
 Montrose 
 St. Michaels 
 South Haven 
 Waverly 
 
 Sneaking Campaign 
 
 Name 
 C. A. French 
 
 Address 
 Monticello 
 
 Food Commissioner 
 
 Name 
 J. P. McDonnell 
 
 Address 
 Waverly 
 
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YELLOW MEDICINE COUNTY 
 
 Name Address 
 
 H. P. Bengston, Director Granite Falls 
 
 Marketing Committee 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 H. P. Bengston 
 
 Granite Falls 
 
 C. C. Anderson 
 
 Hazel Run 
 
 K. D. Meste 
 
 Granite Falls 
 
 Otto Friberg 
 
 Clarksfield 
 
 Philip Melcher 
 
 Echo 
 
 Gust Miller 
 
 Porter 
 
 A. E. Martin 
 
 Wood Lake 
 
 Emil Mygren 
 
 Canby 
 
 T. A. Velde 
 
 Hanly Falls 
 
 Herman Krogh 
 
 Burr 
 
 
 Labor Committee 
 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 Name 
 
 Address 
 
 E. C. Watts 
 
 Granite Falls 
 
 Otto Friberg 
 
 Clarkfield 
 
 K. D. Meste 
 
 Granite Falls 
 
 A. E. Martin 
 
 Wood Lake 
 
 B. C. Schram 
 
 Canby 
 
 
 
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MINNESOTA WOMAN'S COMMITTEE 
 
 Executive Committee 
 
 Director: 
 
 Mrs. Thomas G. Winter 
 
 First Vice-Chairman: 
 
 Mrs. Cordenio Severance 
 
 Second Vice-Chairman: 
 Mrs. William T. Coe 
 
 Mrs. George H. Adams 
 
 Mrs. John N. Jackson 
 
 Mrs. Bertha Dahl Laws 
 
 Mrs. A. MacLaren 
 
 Mrs. W. R. Mandigo 
 
 Mrs. Charles P. Noyes 
 
 Mrs. Frances Buell Olson 
 
 Miss Agnes Peterson 
 
 Miss Annie Shelland 
 
 Mrs. George Squires 
 
 Mrs. James G. Swan 
 
 Mrs. Bertha Allen Van 
 Campen 
 
 Mrs. J. L. Washburn 
 
 Miss Mildred Weigley 
 
 Secretary: 
 
 Miss Aimee Fisher 
 
 2617 Dean Boulevard, Minneapolis. 
 
 Cottage Grove, Minnesota. 
 
 Wayzata, Minnesota. 
 
 2411 West Twenty-first Street, Minneapolis. 
 
 483 Grand Avenue, St. Paul. 
 
 Appleton, Minnesota. 
 
 412 Holly Avenue, St. Paul. 
 
 799 Iglehart Avenue, St. Paul. 
 
 89 Virginia Avenue, St. Paul. 
 
 Shubert Building, St. Paul. 
 
 Old Capitol, St. Paul. 
 
 Department of Education, Historical Society 
 Building, St. Paul. 
 
 21 South St. Albans Street, St. Paul. 
 
 2216 Kenwood Parkway, Minneapolis. 
 
 Rochester, Minnesota. 
 Hunter's Park, Duluth. 
 University Farm, St. Paul. 
 
 2617 Dean Boulevard, Minneapolis. 
 
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CHAIRMEN OF STANDING COMMITTEES 
 
 Americanization : 
 
 Mrs. Frances Buell Olson Shubert Building, St. Paul. 
 
 Accredited War Organizations. ' 
 
 Mrs. George H. Partridge 1 Groveland Terrace, Minneapolis. 
 
 Children's Year: 
 
 Mrs. James G. Swan 
 
 2216 Kenwood Parkway, Minneapolis. 
 
 Committee on War Emergency Training Courses: 
 
 Miss Merle Higley 204 Transportation Building, Minneapolis. 
 
 Dress Conservation: 
 
 Miss Marion Weller 
 
 Food Conservation: 
 
 Miss Mildred Weigley 
 
 Legislative Committee: 
 
 Mrs. Charles P. Noyes 
 
 University Farm, St. Paul. 
 University Farm, St. Paul. 
 89 Virginia Avenue, St. Paul. 
 
 Liberty Loan and War Savings Stamps: 
 
 Mrs. A. MacLaren 412 Holly Avenue, St. Paul 
 
 Maintaining Existing Social Agencies — 'Executive Committee. 
 
 Historical Society Building, St. Paul. 
 
 2411 West Twenty-first Street, Minneapolis. 
 
 483 Grand Avenue, St. Paul. 
 
 799 Iglehart Avenue, St. Paul. 
 
 612 Tenth Avenue S. E., Minneapolis. 
 
 Old Capitol, St. Paul. 
 
 Patriotic Education: 
 
 Miss Annie Shelland 
 
 Publicity: 
 
 Mrs. George H. Adams 
 
 Red Cross: 
 
 Mrs. John N. Jackson 
 
 Registration: 
 
 Mrs. W. R. Mandigo 
 
 Speakers' Bureau: 
 
 Mrs. Anna H. Phelan 
 
 Women in Industry: 
 Miss Agnes Peterson 
 
 Young Women's Auxiliary: 
 
 Miss Elisabeth Congdon 3300 London Road, Duluth. 
 
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WAR COUNCIL 
 
 In every state, the presidents of state-wide woman's organizations and 
 individuals representing state-wide but unorganized women's work are by- 
 request of the National Committee constituted the Women's State Council of 
 Defense. (Meeting monthly.) 
 
 Allied Relief: 
 
 Mrs. C. W. Ames 501 Grand Avenue, St. Paul. 
 
 American Red Cross: 
 
 Mrs. John N. Jackson 483 Grand Avenue, St. Paul. 
 
 Anti-Suffrage Association: 
 
 Mrs. J. B. Gilfillan 222 Clifton Avenue, Minneapolis. 
 
 Association of Collegiate Alumnae: 
 
 Mrs. Jas. Richardson 3408 Irving Avenue S., Minneapolis. 
 
 Audubon Society: 
 
 Mrs. Phelps Wyman 5017 3rd Avenue S., Minneapolis. 
 
 Big Sisters: 
 
 Mrs. Robbins Gilman 917 Andrus Building, Minneapolis. 
 
 Children's Protective Work: 
 
 Mrs. C. M. Ferguson 124 E. 13th Street, Minneapolis. 
 
 Churches: 
 
 Baptist: 
 
 Mrs. A. F. Gale 1620 3rd Avenue S., Minneapolis. 
 
 Catholic: 
 
 Mrs. Daniel Coonan 424 W. Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis. 
 
 Christian Woman's Board of Missions: 
 
 Mrs. W. U. Smith 1044 Dayton Avenue, St. Paul. 
 
 Congregational: 
 
 Mrs. George B. Drake 4044 Sheridan Avenue, Minneapolis. 
 
 Episcopal: 
 
 Mrs. H. C. Theopold Faribault, Minnesota. 
 
 Liberal Union: 
 
 Mrs. K. E. Mo 701 15th Avenue S. E., Minneapolis. 
 
 Lutheran: 
 
 Mrs. L. F. Gruber 1213 Hague Avenue, St. Paul. 
 
 Methodist: 
 
 Mrs. F. F. Lindsay 25 Seymour Avenue S. E., Minneapolis. 
 
 Methodist Home Missionary Society: 
 
 Mrs. A. J. Matchett 1416 Capitol Avenue, St. Paul. 
 
 National Council of Jewish Wo,men: 
 
 Mrs. Israel Rypins 1049 Lincoln Avenue, St. Paul. 
 
 Presbyterian: 
 
 Mrs. Willard Weld 2428 Bryant Avenue S., Minneapolis. 
 
 Colonial Dames: 
 
 Mrs. Charles Furness 265 S. Exchange Street, St. Paul. 
 
 Council of Defense (St. Paul) : 
 
 Mrs. J. T. Hale 1005 Commerce Building, St. Paul. 
 
 Daughters of American Revolution: 
 
 Mrs. James Morris 2109 Blaisdell Avenue, Minneapolis. 
 
 Daughters of Revolution: 
 
 Mrs. John A. Schlener 2025 Portland Avenue, Minneapolis. 
 
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Daughters of Veterans: 
 
 Mrs. Clarice Parker 3109 4th Avenue S., Minneapolis. 
 
 Educational: 
 Grade Teachers: 
 
 Miss Isabelle Williams 798 Osceola Avenue, St. Paul. 
 
 High School: 
 
 Miss Agnes Dougherty 2078 .Summit Avenue, St. Paul. 
 
 Kindergarten: 
 
 Miss Stella L. Wood 2500 Grand Avenue, Minneapolis. 
 
 Home Economics Teachers: 
 
 Miss Leila Gerry Girl's Vocational School, Minneapolis. 
 
 Vocational Work: 
 
 Miss Elizabeth Fish Girl's Vocational School, Minneapolis. 
 
 University: 
 
 Dr. Anna Helmholtz-Phelan 612 10th Avenue S. E., Minneapolis. 
 Farm Women's Congress: 
 
 Mrs. C. C. Neale 3525 31st Avenue S., Minneapolis. 
 
 Florence Crittenden Home: 
 
 Mrs. Albert Strong 2324 Pillsbury Avenue, Minneapolis. 
 
 Fraternal Orders: 
 
 Mrs. Sara Mathews 1620 W. Lake Street, Minneapolis. 
 
 Intercollegiate Bureau of Occupation: 
 
 Mrs. Frank Warren 3427 Humboldt Avenue S., Minneapolis. 
 
 International Federation of Catholic Alumnae: 
 
 Mrs. John Donohue 1481 Summit Avenue, St. Paul. 
 
 King's Daughters: 
 
 Mrs. G. H. Heidenreich Waconia, Minnesota. 
 
 Minnesota Federation of Women's Clubs: 
 
 Mrs. George Allen Rochester, Minnesota. 
 
 Minnesota Medical Women's Association: 
 
 Dr. Auten Pine 749 Lowry Building, St. Paul. 
 
 Minnesota Garden Flower Society: 
 
 Mrs. H. B. Tillotson 1320 5th Street S. E., Minneapolis. 
 
 Minnesota Board of Nurse Examiners: 
 
 Miss Lydia Keller Old Capitol, St. Paul. 
 
 Minnesota State Sunshine Society: 
 
 Mrs. W. C. Fiske 3025 Irving Avenue S., Minneapolis. 
 
 Minnesota Women's Suffrage Association: 
 
 Mrs. Andreas Ueland Calhoun Boulevard, Minneapolis. 
 
 Minnesota Graduate Nurses Association: 
 
 Miss Minnie Patterson 1409 Stevens Avenue, Minneapolis. 
 
 Minnesota State League of Nursing Education: 
 
 Miss Louise Powell University Hospital, Minneapolis. 
 
 Minnesota Scandinavian Woman Suffrage Association: 
 
 Mrs. Luth Jaeger 615 James Avenue N., Minneapolis. 
 
 Musical Women : 
 
 Mrs. Carlyle Scott 3322 Lyndale Avenue S., Minneapolis. 
 
 Mrs. Charles Sargent 1613 Jefferson Avenue, Duluth. 
 
 National Housewives League: 
 
 Mrs. V. C. Sherman 2209 Humboldt Avenue S., Minneapolis. 
 
 National League for Women's Service: 
 
 Mrs. Cordenio Severance Cottage Grove, Minnesota. St. Paul Hotel. 
 
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Naval Service (Woman's) : 
 
 Mrs. E. W. Backus 75 Oak Grove Street, Minneapolis. 
 
 Needlework Guild 
 
 Mrs. C. G. Bates 3751 Portland Avenue, Minneapolis. 
 
 National Organization for Public Nursing: 
 
 Miss C. E. Epply Hopewell Hospital, Minneapolis. 
 
 State Library Commission: 
 
 Miss Clara Baldwin Historical Society Building, St. Paul. 
 
 United Daughters of Confederacy: 
 
 Mrs. M. B. Harvey 682 Holly Avenue, St. Paul. 
 
 Women's Christian Temperance Union: 
 
 Miss Rosette Hendrix 2408 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis. 
 
 Women's Peace Party 
 
 Miss Hope McDonald 201 Ridgewood Avenue, Minneapolis, 
 
 Woman's Relief Corps: 
 
 Mrs. M. D. Fritz Mankato, Minnesota. 
 
 Woman's River and Harbor Congress: 
 
 Mrs. Delia Armstrong Curtis Court, Minneapolis. 
 
 Young Women's Auxiliary: 
 
 Miss Elisabeth Congdon 3300 London Road, Duluth. 
 
 Young Women's Christian Association: 
 
 Mrs. Chas. P. Noyes 89 Virginia Avenue, St. Paul. 
 
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CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT CHAIRMEN AND VICE-CHAIRMEN 
 
 The Congressional Districts are divided geographically between the District 
 Chairman and Vice-Chairman, so that each has from four to seven counties 
 "under her wing," in order to keep closer track of the counties and to be helpful 
 to them in local problems in a way that is impossible for the State Chairman. 
 These chairmen are members of the State War Council. 
 
 First District: 
 
 Mrs. Charles H. Mayo, Rochester, Chairman. 
 Mrs. D. O. Irwin, Lake City, Vice-Chairman. 
 
 Second District: 
 
 Mrs. Frank Manson, Worthington, Chairman. 
 
 Mrs. C. E. Wise, 226 Byron Street, Mankato, Vice- Chairman. 
 
 Third District: 
 
 Mrs. William Duffy, Shakopee, Chairman. 
 Mrs. H. C. Theopold, Faribault, Vice-Chairman. 
 
 Fourth District: 
 
 Mrs. Cordenio Severance, Cottage Grove, Chairman. 
 
 Mrs. Robert Earl, 745 York Street, St. Paul, Vice-Chairman. 
 
 Fifth District: 
 
 Mrs. A. W. Strong, 1254 McKnight Building, Minneapolis, Chairman. 
 Miss Rosette Hendrix, 2408 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, Vice-Chairman. 
 
 Sixth District: 
 
 Mrs. W. H. Gemmell, Brainerd, Chairman. 
 
 Mrs. C. A. Weyerhauser, Little Falls, Vice-Chairman. 
 
 Seventh District: 
 
 Mrs. Frank Murphy, Wheaton, Chairman. 
 Mrs. John Serrin, Glenwood, Vice-Chairman. 
 
 Eighth District: 
 
 Mrs. C. E. Spring, 1622 East Fourth Street, Duluth, Chairman. 
 Mrs. Peter Oleson, Cloquet, Vice-Chairman. 
 
 Ninth District: 
 
 Mrs. C. G. Selvig, Crookston, Chairman. 
 
 Mrs. H. M. Wheelock, Fergus Falls, Vice-Chairman. 
 
 Tenth District: 
 
 Mrs. T, J. Abbott, Anoka, Chairman. 
 
 Mrs. Minerva B. Hixon, Cambridge, Vice-Chairman. 
 
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CHAIRMEN OF COUNTY WOMEN'S COMMITTEES 
 
 County 
 
 Chairman 
 
 Postoffice 
 
 Aitkin 
 
 Mrs. F. E. Murphy 
 
 Aitkin. 
 
 Anoka 
 
 Mrs. T. E. Coleman 
 
 Anoka. 
 
 Becker 
 
 Mrs. S. D. Ensign 
 
 Detroit. 
 
 Beltrami 
 
 Mrs. W. Z. Robinson 
 
 Bemidji. 
 
 Benton 
 
 Mrs. J. E. Malloy 
 
 Foley. 
 
 Big Stone 
 
 Mrs. M. S. Stevens 
 
 Graceville. 
 
 Blue Earth 
 
 Mrs. H. C. Hotaling 
 
 Mapleton. 
 
 Brown 
 
 Mrs. Ora Trautman 
 
 Comfrey. 
 
 Carlton 
 
 Mrs. F. R. Walters 
 
 Moose Lake. 
 
 Carver 
 
 Mrs. George Dutoit 
 
 Chaska. 
 
 Cass 
 
 Mrs. C. M. Taylor 
 
 Cass Lake. 
 
 Chippewa 
 
 Mrs. S. G. Eliason 
 
 Montevideo. 
 
 Chisago 
 
 Mrs. Marilla Stone 
 
 Rush City. 
 
 Clay 
 
 Mrs. William Russell 
 
 Moorhead. 
 
 Clearwater 
 
 Mrs. J. A. Cogswell 
 
 Bagley. 
 
 Cook 
 
 Mrs. Jack Scott 
 
 Grand Marais. 
 
 Cottonwood 
 
 Mrs. T. C. Collins 
 
 Windom. 
 
 Crow Wing 
 
 Mrs. L. P. Hall 
 
 Deerwood. 
 
 Dakota 
 
 Mrs. T. A. Brown 
 
 Hastings. 
 
 Dodge 
 
 Mrs. P. J. Schwarg 
 
 Dodge Center. 
 
 Douglas 
 
 Mrs. A. D. Haskell 
 
 Alexandria. 
 
 Faribault 
 
 Mrs. D. L. Morse 
 
 Blue Earth. 
 
 Fillmore 
 
 Mrs. H. M. Smith 
 
 Rushford. 
 
 Freeborn 
 
 Mrs. W. H. Walker 
 
 Alden. 
 
 Goodhue 
 
 Mrs. A. R. Mensing 
 
 Cannon Falls. 
 
 Grant 
 
 Mrs. A. W. Wells 
 
 Herman. 
 
 Hennepin (rural) 
 
 Mrs. J. E. Spencer 
 
 Wayzata. 
 
 Houston 
 
 Mrs. C. W. Belding 
 
 Caledonia. 
 
 Hubbard 
 
 Mrs. M. M. Nygaard 
 
 Park Rapids. 
 
 Isanti 
 
 Mrs. W. L. Moody 
 
 Cambridge. 
 
 Itasca 
 
 Mrs. Otto Bergh 
 
 Grand Rapids. 
 
 Jackson 
 
 Mrs. H. J. Leigh 
 
 Lakefield. 
 
 Kanabec 
 
 Mrs. R. J. Streetly 
 
 Mora. 
 
 Kandiyohi 
 
 Mrs. D. N. Tallman 
 
 Willmar. 
 
 Kittson 
 
 Mrs. Florence Nelson 
 
 Hallock. 
 
 Koochiching 
 
 Mrs. F. C. Correll 
 
 International Falls, 
 
 Lac Qui Parle 
 
 Mrs. Theo. Christianson 
 
 Dawson. 
 
 Lake 
 
 Mrs. H. C. Hanson 
 
 Two Harbors. 
 
 Le Sueur 
 
 Mrs. C. W. Glotfelder 
 
 Waterville. 
 
 Lincoln 
 
 Mrs. R. F. Schultz 
 
 Ivanhoe. 
 
 Lyon 
 
 Mrs. B. B. Gislason 
 
 Minneota. 
 
 McLeod 
 
 Miss Cora Reed 
 
 Glencoe. 
 
 Mahnomen 
 
 Mrs. H. P. Phillips 
 
 Mahnomen. 
 
 Marshall 
 
 Mrs. H. I. Yetter 
 
 Stephen. 
 
 Martin 
 
 Mrs. M. R. Diment 
 
 Fairmont. 
 
 Meeker 
 
 Mrs. Alvah Hunt 
 
 Litchfield. 
 
 Mille Lacs 
 
 Mrs. H. C. Cooney 
 
 Princeton. 
 
 Morrison 
 
 Mrs. L. D. Brown 
 
 Little Falls. 
 
 Mower 
 
 Mrs. A. W. Allen 
 
 Austin. 
 
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Murray 
 
 Miss Jennie Holm 
 
 Slayton. 
 
 Nicollet 
 
 Mrs. Peter Schuweiler 
 
 Nicollet. 
 
 Nobles 
 
 Mrs. Lee Shell 
 
 Worthington. 
 
 Norman 
 
 Mrs. B. P. Tenney 
 
 Ada. 
 
 Olmsted 
 
 Mrs. H. H. Witherstine 
 
 Rochester. 
 
 Ottertail 
 
 Miss Mildred Lowry 
 
 Fergus Falls. 
 
 
 *Mrs Charles R. Wright 
 
 Fergus Falls. 
 
 Pennington 
 
 Mrs. J. H. Hardisty 
 
 Thief River Falls. 
 
 Pine 
 
 Mrs. James Slaven 
 
 Sandstone. 
 
 Pipestone 
 
 Mrs. Grace Hanson 
 
 Pipestone. 
 
 Polk 
 
 Mrs. C. Q. Roemer 
 
 Crookston. 
 
 Pope 
 
 Mrs. John Serrin 
 
 Glenwood. 
 
 Ramsey- 
 
 Mrs. J. T. Hale 
 
 1st Floor, Athletic Building. 
 St. Paul. 
 
 Red Lake 
 
 Mrs. S. C. Shockley 
 
 Red Lake Falls. 
 
 Redwood 
 
 Mrs. E. A. Pease 
 
 Redwood Falls. 
 
 Renville 
 
 Mrs. M. J. Dowling 
 
 Olivia. 
 
 Rice 
 
 Mrs. H. C. Theopold 
 
 Faribault. 
 
 Rock 
 
 Mrs. A. D. La Due 
 
 Luverne. 
 
 Roseau 
 
 Mrs. George McGillivray 
 
 Roseau. 
 
 St. Louis 
 
 Mrs. Erwin Lerch 
 
 Hibbing. 
 
 Scott 
 
 Mrs. William Duffy 
 
 Shakopee. 
 
 Sherburne 
 
 Mrs. A. Robinson 
 
 Elk River. 
 
 Sibley 
 
 Mrs. Peter Morton 
 
 Winthrop. 
 
 Stearns 
 
 Mrs. H. S. Halvorson 
 
 Sauk Center. 
 
 Steele 
 
 Mrs. M. S. Alexander 
 
 Owatonna. 
 
 Stevens 
 
 Mrs. Frank Hancock 
 
 Morris. 
 
 Swift 
 
 Mrs. Julius Thorson 
 
 Benson. 
 
 Todd 
 
 Mrs. George Christie 
 
 Long Prairie. 
 
 Traverse 
 
 Mrs. Albert Olin 
 
 Wheaton. 
 
 Wabasha 
 
 Mrs. M. J. Nerbovig 
 
 Plainview. 
 
 Wadena 
 
 Mrs. C. W. Miller 
 
 Wadena. 
 
 Waseca 
 
 Mrs. D. W. Cummings 
 
 Waseca. 
 
 Washington 
 
 Mrs. W. G. Masterman 
 
 Stillwater. 
 
 Watonwan 
 
 Mrs. Will Curtis 
 
 St. James. 
 
 Wilkin 
 
 Mrs. George Mangskau 
 
 Breckenridge. 
 
 Winona 
 
 Mrs. C. H. Robbins 
 
 St. Charles. 
 
 Wright 
 
 Mrs. Charles Hawker 
 
 Buffalo. 
 
 Yellow Medicine 
 
 Mrs. Howard Kerns 
 
 Granite Falls. 
 
 *Died Nov. 1918. 
 
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INDEX 
 
 Americanization 22 
 
 Commission's Law Enforcing Activities 30 
 
 Governor's Proclamation 33 
 
 Prevention of Waste 35 
 
 Suppression of Disloyalty 31 
 
 Commission's Creative Activities 12 
 
 Alien Registration 19 
 
 An Effective Campaign 15 
 
 Banks and Public Improvements 21 
 
 Emergency Relief 21 
 
 Employment Service 18 
 
 Farm Crop and Labor Census 16 
 
 Fish and Food Supply 16 
 
 Forest Fire Protection 21 
 
 High Cost of Living 18 
 
 Home Guard and Motor Corps 13 
 
 Initial Measures of Safety 12 
 
 I. W. W 37 
 
 Labor Bureau 14 
 
 Labor and Industrial Peace 17 
 
 Marketing Department 14 
 
 Preservation of Public Order 37 
 
 Production of Iron Ore 17 
 
 Production and Conservation of Food 13 
 
 Peace Officers 13 
 
 Soldiers and Their Dependents 20 
 
 Square Deal for the Farmer.... 14 
 
 Street Railway Strike 38 
 
 Enforcement of Commission's Order by the State Executive 40 
 
 Membership and Organization 9 
 
 Minnesota a Pivotal State 10 
 
 Minnesota's War Contributions 43 
 
 Publicity Work 28 
 
 Safety Commission Act 7 
 
 Team Work Within the State 43 
 
 Theory of the Law 11 
 
 Work of the Office 29 
 
 War Records Commission 24 
 
 Work of Women's Committee 24 
 
 APPENDIX 
 
 By-laws of the Commission 70 
 
 Charges against New Ulm Officials 48 
 
 Coal Crisis in the Northwest 51 
 
 Constitutionality of Law Upheld 57 
 
 Cook vs Burnquist, et al, re Order No. 7 57 
 
 Rietz vs O'Keefe, re Order No. 46 67 
 
 Law Creating Commission 55 
 
 Orders No. 1-59 72-142 
 
 Report of Examination of Books and Affairs 45 
 
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INDEX— Continued 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS— 
 
 Alien Registration 169 
 
 Appointment of Special Council 171 
 
 Co-ordination of War Activities 171 
 
 Convention of Sheriffs 171 
 
 Death of Commissioner Lyndon A. Smith 168 
 
 Federal Registration of Aliens 167 
 
 Special Agent Appointed 167 
 
 Special Investigations 169 
 
 Timber on State Lands 170 
 
 United States Public Safety Reserve 170 
 
 Excerpts from Minutes of Commission's Meetings: 
 
 Banks and Public Enterprises 165 
 
 Coal Supply 148 
 
 Crop Saving Measure .' 167 
 
 Destruction of Food 152 
 
 Disloyalty: Federal Cooperation 153 
 
 Enrollment of Women for Service 143 
 
 Fishing in Ely-Winton District 152 
 
 Food 149 
 
 Fish Licenses 152 
 
 Funds for Fire Protection, 1917 164 
 
 Farm Labor 147 
 
 Grading of Grains 153 
 
 Home Guard 165 
 
 Labor Standards 143 
 
 Moratorium Resolution 160 
 
 Non-partisan League: La Follette's Speech 163 
 
 Ordinance Defining and Punishing Vagrancy 154 
 
 Protection of Life and Property 164 
 
 Prosecution of Sedition 153 
 
 Public Markets 151 
 
 Public Welfare: Loans to Dependents 156 
 
 Schools: Resolution re German Text Books 162 
 
 Sale of Liquor at Oliver, Wis 161 
 
 Soldiers Welfare 159 
 
 Street Car Strike 143 
 
 Violations of Liquor Laws 160 
 
 County Directors 175 
 
 County Organization 176-309 
 
 Health 172 
 
 Women's Organization 310 317 
 
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 Minnesota Commission of Public Safety Opp. 142 
 
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