Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 27, 1909, Page 43

E | l BEMIDJI, BELTRAMI COUNTY AND NORTHERN MINNESOTA. BELTRAMI COUNTY BOARD A. W. DANAHER, Chairman, Fiftn Distrlct. A. W. DANAHER. A. W. Danaher, more intimately known to his close personal friends as ‘“‘Andy,” is the present chairman of the Board of County Commissioners of Beltrami county, a position which is deserving of compliment to one 'who is serving the county for the best interests of the tax- payers. Mr. Danaher comes from good old Irish stock—the kind that is always ‘true blue” and always dependable, a trait which is one of Mr. Danaher’s principal characteristics. Mr. Danaher came to Beltrami county some ten years ago, and for a time was a resident of Bemidji. Seven years ago he moved to Tenstrike and has made his home in the community since that time. In 1904 Mr. Danaher was elected coun- ty commissioner to represent the Fifth commissioner distriect, which position he VIGGO FETERSON, Fourta District, | has held continuously sinece that time. Mr. Danaher served the county well, and at the January, 1909, meeting of the county board, he was elected chairman of the board. His slogan is ‘‘economy in the administration of the county’s affairs,” and in this he is ably seconded by the other members of the board. Mr. Danaher has always been a true- blue Republican, a good politician, and one ‘'who.has always been loyal to his friends. Mr. Danaher is a pioneer of Beltrami county and one of her most respected and progressive citizens. VIGGO PETERSON. Mr. Peterson is serving his first term as one of the county commissioners, hav- ing been elected as an independent can- didate. He represents the town and township of Durand, where he is now a supervisor of that place. Previous to his selection to the latter-named office, Mr. WES WRIGHT, First District. Peterson had served in the capacity of chairman of the village board, distinctions which indicate the genuine worth of Mr. Peterson as a citizen, and his attainments as a business man and executive. Mr. Peterson has been a resident of Durand for seven years, where he settled in order to homestead a section of timber and farm land. A native of Denmark, he migrated direct to the place where he now resides, and his prosperity in ‘his present location affords but another ex- ample of what Beltrami county has to offer to the true husbandman of the soil. Mr. Peterson is among the county’s most responsible and able men. Public- spirited to the last letter, a firm believer and advocate in and for the greatness of this county, Mr. Peterson is indeed to be appreciated not only for his quali- ties as a resident of Beltrami county, but because he has so rapidly ascended the ladder of success, an element which goes to show how he is esteemed by his neighbors. HELIC CLEMENTSON, Second District, WES WRIGHT. Having been one of the county com- misisoners for eight consecutive years, Mr. Wright requires no frills to com- prehensively elucidate his virtue as a servant of the people. Mr. Wright was elected from Bemidji, a c¢ity noted for its critical observance of the public policy of its representatives, and that he has fulfilled the most ardent expectations of those who placed him in office is apparent by his return to office year after year. Mr. Wright was a res- ident of Beltrami county before it was organized—about nineteen years ago. He is a homesteader, having taken up a claim near Kelliher. Coming to Bemidji, he engaged in the business of draying, and continued in that occupation until he took up street work contracting, a business he followed for some years. Later he represented the Standard Oil company in this field, a position he held for eight years, resigning a few months © E i { _E