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International Falls press and border budget (International Falls, Minn.) 1909-1926

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Ifcfl £RXAT JN A#TAl .L J'RHSS cleanse or cause the same to be emptied of said city and under his direction done the best I could for the advance lj another or to or from any vehicle tract, adjustment of taxes, both real International falls Press and cleansed as often as may be within said city, any person who is and supervision. ment of my ward and have also kept estate and personal property, and if necessary to prevent such receptacles C. In preparing for shipment the and Border Budget sick with smallpox or any other contagious in mind the interests of the entire or the contents thereof from becoming I am elected as youy councilman I dead body of any person, who has died or infectious disease without city. If you choose to re-elect me to a nuisance or as often as the board of scarlet fever, measles, diptheria, shall protect the interests of the city. having first obtained a permit so to Official City Paper of International of health of said city may direct, and this office I shall continue to consistently erysipelas, tuberculosis, puerperal fever, do from the health officer of said city. Yours truly, Falls, Minnesota no person shall mix any ashes with whooping cough or typhoid fever, Section 10. Every physician who is do my duty as I see it-» L. W. Wilson. any vegetable or animal matter, garbage, or any other contagious, infectious or attending any person or persons affected Yours truly, swill, slops, offal, butcher's communicable disease^ then said body with any contagious or infectious INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS CHAS. MATHER. waste, store sweepings, street sweepings, disease, shall report promptly to the must be wrapped in a, sheet thoroughly PUBLISHING COMPANY Having filed for the office of Alderman-at-Large, rubbage, refuse, manure, straw, health officer of said city* the recovery saturated with a strong solution of I wish to announce if hay, animal beddings, night soil, contents Received our full line of Kuppenlieimer bichloride of murcury in the or death of such person or persons GEORGE P. WATSON. Editor and Manager. of cesspool or privy vaults or proportion of one ounce of so affected and certify to said health clothing in all shades at the any other unwholesome substance, bichloride of mercury to a gallon of officer that the house in which said #1.50 A YEAR SUBSCRIPTION Plymouth. fluid or thing. person or persons have been quaran water, and encased in an air-tight Section 30. No person shall throw tined, has been thoroughly disinfect zinc, tin, copper or lead lined coffin or Entered as Second Class Matter June 23. into any privy vault, sink or cesspool ORDINANCE NO. XVII. in an air tight iron casket hermetically ed, together with the date of said dis 1909, at the post office at International Falls, within the city, any garbage, offal, sealed and all encased in a strong AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO infection. Minnesota, under the Act of Congress of swill or other household refuse, nor March 3,1879. Section 11. Whenever quarantine tight wooden box or th§ body must shall any person discharge or cause has been established by the board of be prepared for shipment by being to be discharged into any privy vault, THE PRESERVATION O health upon or in any house within wrapped in a sheet and disinfected THURSDAY, MARCH, 28 said city in which contagious or infectious by a solution of bichloride of merury the slops or running water from any HEALTH AND THE SUPPRESSION disease exists by a placara as above, and placed in strong coffin sink- or drain pipe within any dwelling AND PREVENTION OF or casket and said coffin or casket encased or other building. affixed to said house, said quarantine As was anticipated, the consolidated DISEASE IN THE CITY OF INTERNATIONAL Section 31. The owner, agent or and all the provisions thereof shall be in a hermetically sealed (soldered) occupant of any house, store, factory school is proving to be a great promoter FALLS, MINNESOTA, maintained until the recovery or death zinc, copper or tin case and all of the person or persons affected with enclosed in a strong outside wooden or other building or premises, within of punctuality in attendance, AND TO PREVENT THE any such disease has been reported box of material not less than one and said city, upon or in connection with Pupils quickly learn that they must INTRODUCTION OF CONTAGIOUS to said health officer and until the sai.i half inches thick. Such body must which any privy vaults or cesspools SL be ready for the farm wagon when it AND INFECTIOUS AND not be accompanied by articles which house has been thoroughly disinfected are maintained, shall make and keep calls at their homes, and the accidents OTHER DISEASES IN THE CITY. and until said disin have been exposed to the infection of such privy vaults and cesspools, water are rare which prevent the wagon fection has been approved ano the disease, and shall not be shipped tight and in good repair and shall until after the same shall have been said placard has been removed by the empty the same to the bottom and from reaching the school house "on The city council of the city of International inspected by the health officer of said said health officer. In the event of the cleanse and disinfect the same when Falls do ordain as follows: time." Some schools report not a city, nor until a written permit to occurence of scarlet fever, the quaran their said privy vaults or cess-pools Section 1. No person shall put or single case of tardiness during the ship such body shall have been obtained tine shall extend over a neriod of noi shall be come offensive or dangerous place or allow to run or pass into from said health officer. term.Farm Press News. less than three weeks from the .date to the public health or whenever the any source of drinking water or into of the appearance of such disease board of health of said city may adjudge D". No. person who has been exposed any hydrant or fount or water pipe such emptying, cleansing and two weeks after the disinfection, of to c&itagion or infection from the used for the convenience of the same elected I will accept the office unpledg disinfecting to be necessary or order any such house so quarantined, has^ dead body of any person, who has It is reported in the Twin city pa within said city, any dirty, poisonous the same to be done. It been approved and such quarantine pers that "The Appeal to Reason' ed to any interests whatsoever. died of any contagious or infectious or noxious substance or any animal has been released by the health officei disease, either before or after death, Section 32. Every owner of or agent will be my aim to represent at all or vegetable matter, nor shall published at Girard, Kan., is about to of said city. A permit may be writtei shall be permitted to accompany the for-any house, store, hotel, factory any person do or permit to be done times the city of International Falls suspend. It's editor, Fred D. Warren, by said health officer authorizing tht remains of such dead person in their or other building within said or imperil the-'purity or wholesomeness insuring a square deal to all by a says: "It is too hard work to keep it return and readmission to school oi removal to or from said city. city shall make connections agreeable of any water or fluid used or designated business administration of city affairs any such child or children, resident ir Section 19. No cemetery, burying to the provisions of the Plumbing ordinances going. This is my last fight. The to be used as a drink within such house, provided that no othei ground, vault or tomb for the reception of said city between such and guaranteeing proper ex said city. present contest with the federal case or cases of contagious or infec of dead human bodies shall be building and the public sewers of said Section 2. No person shall introduce penditure of public moneys. Our court and the postoffice department tious disease, have appeared in sucl established in said city, or under the city whenever such sewers exist in or aid in introducing into said present tax rate is .05376. believe over the Leavenworth prison scandal house in the meantime. control of any organization in said the immediate adjacent or abutting city any person sick with or any person this rate (by far the highest in the I Section 12. No parent, guardian o. is the 'Swan Song' of the little old city unless a permit so to do, shall streets, or whenever the board of or thing infected with Asiatic custodian of any minor child withii first have been granted by the board health of said city shall order county) should be reduced or we cholera, yellow fever, typhus or typhoid Appeal." said city shall permit such child of health of said city. such sewer connection to be made and fever, small pox, scarlet fever, should have public improvements in Warren is to be tried in May in the I be unnecessarily exposed to contagior Section 20. Every veterinary surgeon no cesspool shall hereafter be used, whooping cough, measles, diptheria, proportion to it, and I believe this can federal court on the charge of sending or infection from any contagious who is called to examine or attend maintained or allowed to remain on tuberculosis or any other contagious be accomplished by electing a city infectious disease. unfit printed matter through the professionally any animal within any such premises which are properly or infectious disease. Section 13. Every parent, guardi said city which has or is suspected connected with a sewer and in the council with no strings on them. Section 3. It shall be the duty of! mails. an, or custodian or any minor or any of having, glanders, farcy or pleuro- absence of any such sewer, in the immediately any and every physician who is called Yours truly, other individual within said city, shall pneumonia or hydrophobia or tubercause or adjacent abutting streets to attend any case of Asiatic cholera, Frank S. Lang. According to Mary D. McFadden, such minor or other individual culosis, shall report the facts and the the owner or agent for such building whooping cough, yellow fever, to be properly, frequently and affec- whereabouts of such animal to the shall make or cause to be made a small pox, scarlet fever, measles, who is perhaps as near to the actual tively vaccinated. health officer of said city. cesspool in connection with such tuberculosis, diptheria, membraneous I hereby announce myself as candidate political situation as any political building whenever the board of health Section 14. No principal, teacher Section 21. No person shall buy, croup, typhus or tyhoid fever, within writer in the state, Congressman for alderman-at-large for this of said city shall consider the same said city to notify the health officer or other person in authority, over any sell or keep or cause to be kept withpublic city. I have lived here for three to be necessary and shall order the Hammond gave out the following for or private school, college, universit- of said city in writing within twenty-: in the said city, a horse, ass, colt or years, consequently I am well same" to be done and in such location four hours after the first visit there-! or academy, within said city, publication last Monday: other animal which is sick with either acquainted with the needs of the and of such dimension as the said shall permit any pupil or student to to or after he has first seen or prescribed of the diseases known as danders, "I am not a candidate for the gubernatorial city. If elected I shall do my part board shall direct. enter or be enrolled in said school, therefor of the existence of farcy, pleuro-pneumonia, hydrophobia nomination in any sense. I toward an economic, agressive and academy, college or university, unless said disease and of the date of its appearance or tuberculosis. Every person owning, Section 33. The owner, agent or intend to be a candidate for renomination he or she shall present a certificate together with the name and occupant of any house, store, or other clean administration of its affairs. keeping or caring for or knowing residence of the person affected therewith. of vaccination, signed by some building in said city in which any to congress in the September primaries." of any animal affected with e-landers, Yours truly, physician in actual practice within farcy, pleuro-pneumonia, hvdrophobsaid Subsequent cases of contagious drain pipe, soil-pipe or passage exists L. A. Wheelock. city and the said certificate of diseases which may occur in the same in connection with any sewer or cesspool, ia or tuberculosis shall report the fact She then adds: vaccination shall be preserved and recorded shall make and keep such drain family or at the same residence while and thp whereabouts of said animal "This, in the opinion of many, by such principal, teacher or the same is under quarantine regulations promptly to the health officer of said pipe, soil pipe or passage adequate Having filed as a candidate for alderman other person in authority. shall each and all be reported in city. for its proper purposes and free of leaves Judge C. W. Stanton of Bemidji in the Second ward I hereby any obstacle to the passage of such a similar manner to the sid health officer Section 15. Every physicion within the logical candidate for the respectfully solicit you vote and in- Section 22.' Any animal which is by the physician in attendance materials that may or shall be put or said city shall be in professional diseased with glanders, farcy, pleuropneumonia democratic nomination to the governship discharged into the same. upon said cases. attendance upon any person at the or hydrophobia or tuberculosis if he can be made to see it that Section 34. Every owner, agent or Section 4. Every person who shall time or within twelve hours of the within said city and which has occupant of any building or any part way. treat, attend or visit for the purpose time of the death of such person, shall been condemned by the board of of treating with or without physical thereof within said city which is unfit furnish promptly to the health officer health of said city shall be immediately agencies, any other person who is for human habitation by reason of of said city, a certificate written in quarantined and shall be killed and Before another issue of this family and on account of its infection with sick or affected with any contagious ink, setting forth the date of such removed so soon and in such manner or infectious disease, such as Asiatic any disease dangerous to human date, the full name, the age, the sex, journal another city election will have as thp board of health shall direct. health or life, shall vacate such building cholera, whooping cough, yellow fever, the color, the social state of the and Section 23. No diseased or sickly been held and the new council sworn or part thereof within such reasonable small pox, scarlet fever, measles, tuberculosis, the place of birth, the place of death, horse, cattle, swine, sheep, dog or to do, to the best of their ability, whatever time as may be specified in a diptheria, membraneous the true and recognized cause of cat or any other animal shall be written notice to such effect which Jduties may devolve upon croup, typhus or typhoid fever, within death, the duration of the disease brought into or exposed in any street, shall be served by such board of said city, there being no regularly which has caused such death, the them as aldermen. Tuesday was registration alley or public place in said city health upon such owner, agent or licensed physician in attendance, shall length of residence in the city and day and the following is the Section 24. No person shall abandon occupant of sucli building. within twenty-four hours after the state, together with the place of proposed or leave in any street, alley, lot numerical result: first treatment, attendance or visit in terment of such dead person, Section 35. No person shall remove or other public place within said city, First Ward 233 aforesaid, report in writing to the and the name, if known, of the or cause to be removed or carried any sick or injured horse or other animal. said health officer of said city, the Second Ward 201 undertaker who shall have charge of within said city, the contents of any The owner of such sick or injured existence of said disease, the date of such interment. In the event of any vault, cesspool or any offal, butcher's 'Third, Ward .107 animal shall make provisions its appearance, the name and residence death occuring in said city from any waste, garbage, swill, rough tallow for the cariner and shelter of the same Total 541 of the person affected therewith contagious or infectious disease, the or slaughter house refuse or any carcass or if such sick or injured animal shall and every person who shall so of any dead animal without having Which is an increase of about 100 physician in attendance upon the adjudged past recovery, the owner treat, attend or visit as aforesaid first obtained a written permit same, shall furnish to the board of thereof shall kill or cause the same over last year's registration. It is any other person who is sick with any so to do from the board of health of health of said city, a written certifi- to be killed and removed under the estimated that at least 600 votes will such disease, shall be presumed to said city and it shall be the duty of cateof death as described above, with- directioi,s of the board of health of fluence in my behalf on Tuesday be cast next Tuesday. have and possess such knowledge of twelve hours of the time of such id ity. said person to comply with all the next, April 2nd. My three years' sa the characteristic symptoms of said death. In the event of the ocurence regulations and contents of such permit. The following is the list of candidates residence in this ward gives me a OK contagious and infectious disease as who have filed: good knowledge of its needs and being .?«!? & know" is commonly possessed by physicians city upon whom no physician has been a taxpayer I shall certainly do my Section 36. No person engaged in which has been abandoned or left or A lderman-at-Large. regularly licensed to the practice of in professional attendance at the time the removal of any refuse of whatever best to give to the city an economic which has been found upon any street, medicine under the laws of the state or within twelve hours preceding F. S. Lang. kind within said city, shall permit or and business man's administration. alley, lot or public place within said of Minnesota. cause the same to be piled up or raked L. W. Wilson. Very truly yours, Section 5. Every proprietor, superintendent, ea£ "fabove dSribed"shS *5 W together in any street or public B. M. Hamre. P. S. Pendergast. manager, principal, nished and ^ned by the corona place for a longer time than four L. A. Wlieelock. owner, agent or other person in I hours. Section 16. No person shall retain abouts of such animal. I have filed for election as alderman charge of any hotel, boarding house. Alderman—First Ward. or allow to be retained unburied, the Section 37.x Every person who is Section 26. Any sick or injured of the Third ward and I earnestly boardine school, tenement house or dead body of any human being within engaged in the removal, loading orunloading R. F. C. litis. animal found or abandoned upon any solicit your vote for that office other place of residence or of any said city for a longer period than or conveyance within said street, alley, lot or public place within Fred Heinemann. hospital, asylum or other public institution, three days after the death of such next Tuesday. I have been a resident city of any contents of any privy said city without an owner, which Joseph Keyes. within said city in which any human being, without having obtained vault or cesspool or of any offal, butcher's of this ward for a period of three is adjudged by the board of health of (Short Term.) contagious or infectious disease may a written permit, so to do, from the waste, swill, slaughter house said city or by any veterinary surgeon years and am thus in a position to be discovered, shall give immediate health officer of said city, which permit refuse, straw, sweepings or any filthy Alderman—Second Ward. summoned by said board of health to notice to the health officer of said know its needs. If elected I shall endeavor shall specify the length of time substance shall do the same neatly be past recovery, shall, after an interval S. N. Rubin. city of the existence therein of said during which such dead body may be and avoid all unnecessary offense in to do my part toward giving of two hours, if unclaimed and uncared F. G. Nelson. contagious or infectious disease and retained unburied, provided that in so doing. the city a clean, agressive businesslike for by owner thereof, be the the name of the person or persons affected G. A. Oveson. case such dead person shall have died Section 38. No person shall permit killed and removed by the order of policy. therewith. of Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, small B. M. Hamre. or cause any vehicle carrying the said board of health. Section 6. No person or guardian Yours respectfully, pox, scarlet fever, measles, or diptheria, contents of any privy vault or cesspool Alderman—Third Ward. Section 27. No person shall deposit of any minor child or children sjiall the body of such person shall C. E. Nightingale. or any offal, garbage, swill or or cause to be deposited upon permit such child if affected with F. V. Peterson be buried within twenty-four hours other filthy or offensive substanee any lot, or in any street, alley, lake any contagious or infectious disease after death. Chas. Mather. within said city to stand or remain Having filed for election to the aldermanship or river or other body of water or of the same family or any other resident Section 17. The undertaker, near C. E. Nightengale. before or near any building or residence bury or conveal in any way in said of the Second ward, of the same house, in which said relative or any other person having or upon, any street, alley, lot All of whom are good men and are city, any dead animal or part thereof. child so affected may be living to attend respectfully solicit your votes at the charge of the funeral or burial of the or other public place for a longer anxious to give to the city, if possible, The owner or other person having any private or public day school, dead body of any person within said city election next Tuesday, April 2. time than is actully required in the eharge of any animal at the time of night school or Sunday school within city, who has died of Asiatic cholera, abetter administration. loading conveyance and unloading of It has been my privilege to serve you its death shall remove or cause to be said city. yellow fever, typhus fever, typhoid The sentiment is so much divided such materials. during the past year as alderman-at-large Section 7. Every principal or removed the dead body of such animal fever, small pox, scarlet fever, diptheria, that even the most experienced poli Section 39. No person shall bring, within six hours after its death and have endeavored teacher in charge of any private or measles, tuberculosis or any store, sell, deliver or distribute, or ticians are unwilling to bet on the to the dumping ground or other place public day school, night school or Sunday other contagious or infectious, disease, to give the city a clean, business-like cause to be brought, sold, stored, delivered school within said city, shall report within .said city or adjacent thereto winners. Every day brings alternating shall keep such funeral strictly private administration. If elected I shall be or distributed within the limits designated by the board of health. to the health officer of said city, and shall permit no other persons smiles and frowns upon the faces of said city, any ice for domestic pleased to continue this policy and the name and residence of any child, excepting the inimediate members Section 28. No owner of, agent for of the candidates and their leaders or household use or purposes within improve upon it as opportunity offers. who being affected with any contagious or occupant of any house, store, hotel, the diseased person's family of said city, which shall have been formed Only the counting of the votes next or infectious disease, shall present restaurant, market or stable nor Very truly yours, who are resident at the place of death or produced by the freezing of himself or herself for attendance Tuesday night will determine the any other person shall accumulate, and the officiating clergyman or minister F. G. Nelson. unwholesome, impure, or contaminated at said school, shall cause such child throw or deposit or cause to be thrown to be present thereat and shall closeness of the races and declare the water, the use of which would be so affected to return home immediately or deposited, or shall pass or allow to convey such dead body directly from winners. deleterious to health. No person shall and shall excuse from attendance be passed into or upon on street, alley, the place of death to the place of burial I hereby announce myself as a candidate within the limits of said city cut or at such school any child so affected and in no other vehicle than a lot, vacant place, sidewalk, catch for re-election as alderman of harvest or in any way obtain any ice and any other child children who or hearse. basin, man-hole, butter, pond, lake, intended for domestic or household the Second ward of this city. A year POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS may belong to the same family or live river, creek or other body of water Section 18. The undertaker, near use or purposes within said city in or ago you honored me by electing me to in the same residence as that to or at or upon the banks thereof within said relatives and any other person or persons I have filed for the office of alderman from any river, stream, lake or other which said child so affected may belong city, any animal or vegetable matter, within said city who shall have this office. All I have to say at this body of water, the waters of which at large and most earnestly ask or reside, until such time as the garbage, swill, slops, offal, butcher's charge of the burial or shipment of time is that as a business man I have are unwholesome, impure or contaminated health officer of said city shall issue waste, store sweeping, street sweepings, your consideration and support. I the dead body of any person who has the use of which would be or endeavored during my term of office rubbage, refuse, manure, straw, a written permit providing for the died of any contagious or infectious have been alderman one year for this deleterious to health. No person shall readmission of such child or children hay, animl beddings, ashes, contents to take suchcare of the interests disease, shall observe and obey the cut, harvest or in any other way obtain city and invite you to look over my of cesspool or privy vaults or any other of this ward and the city generally, to said school. following rules and regulations embodied within said city, any ice intended record. "This city for the last two or ashes or unwholesome or nauseous Section 8. Every person who may in this section: as I would of my own private business. for domestic of household use, or substance, fluid or thing. three years has been building and constructing know, of any case of contagious or A. The dead body of any person I trust that if you see fit to reelect fer cooling purposes within the limits Section 29. Any owner, manger, infectious disease within said city, Who has died of any contagious or infectious its water works, sewers, me to this office I may be able of said city without having first obtained proprietor, agent or occupant of any which he shall have reason to believe disease, shall be thoroughly to serve you still better. a permit so to do from the streets, sidewalks and other improvements house, store, hotel, restaurant, saloon, has not been reported to the health disinfected and shall be exposed to Yours truly, city council. to a large extent. Taxes have or stable within said city shall provide officer of said city, shall report immediately the view of no person who is not necessarily Passed, ordained and ordered published G. A. Oveson, water tight boxes, barrels or been levied acordingly as is done in to the said health officer, engaged in the preparation this 25th dav of March. 1912. Alderman 2nd Ward. other suitablie receptacles for the reception the name, if known, the place of residence of the same for burial. all new towns growing up so quickly. F. G. NELSON, of garbage, offal, ashes, manure of the person affected with such B. No dead body of any person who President of City Council. This city at the present could be and other refuse and shall place disase, together with a statement of has died of Asiatic cholera, diptheria, Attest: likened to a growing boy at a nonproductive At the request of many of the the same upon the premises, such per-, the name and nature of his or her yellow fever, typhus fever or small R. C. FRASER, sons may own, occupy or control, in a disease. pox, shall be shipped or carried into age. This year many more voters of the Third Ward I filed for City Recorder. situation as remote as possible from things of value will be presented to Section 9. No person shall carry or from said citv by any means or conveyance re-election as alderman to represent Approved this 28th day of March, any surrounding dwellings.. not less or remove or aid in carrying or removing whatsoever, except to a cemetery the newly elected council. Among that ward in this city. than twenty-five feet from any adjacent 1912. A. B. COLBURN, or cause to be carried or removed adjacent to said city, without a isi these I may name telephone con­ City Mayor. During my year of office I have street and shall empty and the written permit of thehealth officer from one building or plaee to III I