Reminiscing: February 19, 2009

100 Years - Thursday, Feb. 25, 1909

St. Paul Letter

The White bill “to limit the granting of licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors” has, by decree of the Republican steering committee of both house and senate, been made a party measure.  As it is perhaps the only measure at all likely to be adopted by the legislature designed to carry out the pledge made by the Republican party in its platform to extend the operation of high license and local option laws and secure their just enforcement, it is important to enquire exactly what it does.

It professes to limit the granting of liquor licenses to one in each five hundred of the population in the municipality or county granting the license.

This it does not do.  If at the time of the passage of the act any town or village issues licenses in excess of one to each 500 population that state of affairs is permitted to continue until “the total number of licenses ..shall equal one for each 500 population.”

Reminiscing: January 29, 2009

100 Years - Thursday, Feb. 4, 1909

Board of Health.
St. Charles, Minn., Feb 3rd, 1909
This is to certify that I have this day inspected the St. Charles Bakery and find said premises kept in a cleanly and sanitary manner as required by the State Board of Health.
I further certify that a rigid physical examination of P.M. Dauser, proprietor of the St. Charles Bakery, fails to reveal any trace or sign of any form of tuberculosis or any other communicable disease.
F.H. Rollins, M.D., Health officer for the City of St. Charles.

Reminiscing: February 5, 2009

100 Years - Thursday, Feb. 11, 1909

In the debate on the Johnson bill for the establishment of a system of county agricultural schools, which has passed the house, Representative Adams advanced a somewhat novel plan to bring agricultural instruction to the farms.
His suggestion was that a corps of instructors be selected from the graduates of the agricultural college, who would become itinerant teachers.  Each of these teachers would go to a separate district, not too large, would help the farmers select their seed, give them instruction as to how to prepare the soil, how to plant and how to cultivate, right on their own farms.

Reminiscing: February 12, 2009

100 Years - Thursday, Feb. 18, 1909

The committee on dairy products and livestock has been considering for some time the senator’s bill making the use of the tuberculin test compulsory, and preventing the receipt of milk at creameries from any but tested cattle.  This is generally regarded as too drastic, and as imposing conditions on dairymen to comply with which would involve great loss and hardship.  Besides, it would be practically impossible, on account of the great number of herds and the limited number of veterinary surgeons competent to test them to have all the herds tested within a reasonable time.  Recognizing the force of the objections made to this bill, Senator Wright has prepared another one designed to bring about the same result gradually in another way.