VOLUME XXXIV. $1.50 PER YEAR. WARREN, MARSHALL COUNTY, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1915 SECTION ONE. NUMBER 32. r •*•*•+•* -*-*-*-*-+-4...*-*«4w|Mw|, T •••••••••••••••H eviewo/Golden Opportunities i« Marshall County s Wonderful Wealth Producing Soil. ff^-7 I?.* A 4 Map of Marshall County. Minnesota, Locating pities, Townships, Railroads and Rivers '•£ MARSHALL COUNTY'S SPLENDID normal, domestic science, music and art departments, EDUCATIONAL ADVANTAGES presided over by noted educators. Splendid, large, well MARSHALL COUNTY'S CREAMERIES PAID MARSHALL COUNTY'S BANKS HAVE equipped college.building and ample campus with park • h-)-. FARMER-DAIRYMEN $167,030.25- OVER THREE MILLIONS DEPOSITS. State High and Graded Schools.—There are three grounds. , Villa Rosa Academy, Argyle, Minnesota, an insti- .- • There are thirteen co-operative creameries, having Number of banks, 1915, 25; capital $355,000; Sur­ \ :™^ fefei**^^^ training of the youth, ^ 1|18 patrons; number of cows, 7,870; number of pounds plus and Profits, $154,750; deposits $3,035,290; the • State High schools in the county, located. .va- t.«*.-?- Warre,. Augin i ~^,""~" ,ty*^^i^^^}^a^wi una training oi the i #^ter-J)lal!itifattufed 733,371; axe^e price, paid for ?^Lc^?ita wealth $185.78 for every man, woman an! fecienceArgyle foanrd thStephen^eace girls and h Manuawith l a Traininfour ir^omestie^^tlMegy**r?' and , Agrhigih T ^W^i«s^:or£l^ VJbutter-fat, 29 cents; paid'farmer-dairymen, $1^7,:030.25; ng 2and Agri- "' / LL. "*&*.• child in the county,, based on the 'I9iflti&- S. census. *- ^schooculturl e coursefor th,e thaboyst . deludeWarresn *als SewlHg"'^^"o has a Norma"~ "' l course r net profits of creameries, $33,411.08, all of which MARSHALL COUNTY'S GREAT LA>ND AREA. for the preparation of teachers for the rural schools. floated back into the pockets of the farmer-dairymen MARSHALL COUNTY AS A In the county are three graded schools, namely at in addition to the 29 cents paid for butter-fat. PRIMARY GRAIN MARKET. Oslo, Strandquist and Middle River, the two latter Area, 1,675.04 square miles; 1,072,024.12 acres; villages having just erected fine modern brick school 1,071,129.11 acres land; 895.01 acres water; 2lfel In the matter of grain shipments, this countv grows buildings costing $17,000 each. There are also five farms; 16,338 population, U. S. Census of 1910; assess­ MARSHALL COUNTY'S EXTENSIVE HIGHWAYS. the grain of the Minnesota Red River Valley, 'in 1914 semi-graded schools located at Boxville, Alvarado, ed valuation 1914, $8,622,727 real estate; $1,649,119 In|wagon and automobile roads, there are 1,200 the shipments from the various elevators were as Viking, Holt and Northeast of Holt. The schools at personal property; $898,115 money and credits. milesf^odicial and county ditches 900 miles; drainage follows: Argyle 900,000 bushels; Stephen 800,000 Strandquist, Middle River, Holt and Boxville are in Marshall county has.no indebtedness, bonded or other­ wise. sources: Sjnake, Middle, Tamarac, Thief and Red River bushels; Alvarado 700,000 bushels; Warren 600 000 the class known as consolidated schools, and offer of the North! bushels; Oslo 400,000 bushels; Viking 150,000 bushels- / cwirses in agriculture and home economics. < Middle River 100,000 bushels; Newfolden 4">0,000 Rural Schools and Buildings.—Marshall County has • • • •- bushels; Strandquist 65,000 bushels . Total bushels 156 school districts, independent and consolidated; 160 4,115,000. Some figures these. r*ral schools and.buildings, with property valuation of $135,912, while two new school houses are being Marshall County's Wide-awake Towns J WARREN AS AN INLAND erected at Boxville and Holt, at an outlay of $9000, RAILROAD PORT OF ENTRY. each. Rural school attendance 4,057, presided over by WARREN, County Seat. 157 teachers, with a maintenance expense of $151,405. ARGYLE Great Northern railway trans-continental service DIKING ALVARADO The rural school districts received special State Aid of STRANDQUIST between St. Paul-Minneapolis and Duluth-Superior; STEPHEN $10,969.33, and independent districts, $10,706. MIDDLE RIVER NEWFOLDEN GRYGLA four daily passenger trains, two North and two South; North Star College, Warren, Minnesota, an educa­ OSLO H0L Sco Line via head of the Great Lakes and Twin Cities, T RADIUM GATZKE tional institution having strong academic, commercial, /four trains daily, two East and two West, ^ MarshaU county has 131 miles of railroad, Great Northern.54 and Soo Line 77 miles. .