International Falls press and border budget (International Falls, Minn.) 1909-1926
July 4, 1912 · Page 1 of 6
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INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. WOODS DRY FIRE IS FEARED- the Great Northern line between ed that same be adopted and ordered CQMISKEY BUYS MOOSE. Low Fares International falls P,ress Crookston and Duluth. published, which motion was seconded Ashland, Wis., June 29.—Charles and Border Budget The trip to Brainerd will be made by Alderman Lynch and carried by Comiskey, owner of the Chicago a State Forest Official Says That Unless to on the evening of Monday, July 15. unanimous vote. White Sox, probably the most popular We Official City Paper of International Get Rain Soon Disaster Beginning Tuesday morning, the Duluthians Ordinance No. XXVIII was read sporting magnate in the country, was Fargo Falls, Minnesota is Probable. will travel over the Minnesota for the third time. Alderman litis in Ashland for a short time last evening. & International, visiting Pequot, moved that same be adopted and ordered1published, St. Paul, June 28.—Unless rains INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS Jenkins, Pine River, Backus, Hackensack, which motion Was Mr. Comiskey owns a big sporting within a week, the forests of PUBLISHING COMPANY come July 9, to 12,1912 Walker, Laporte, Gutchrie, Navy, seconded by Alderman Mather and the northern part of the state will resort south of Ashland near Mercer, I QEORGE P. WATSON. Editor and Manager. Turtle River, Farley, Tenstrike, carried by unanimous vote. Wis., and has a game preserve there be in danger from disastrous fires, Blackduck, Funkley, Northome, Mizpah, Ordinance No. XXIX was read for with all kinds of wild animals in it. according to Deputy Forester Tierney 91.50 A YEAR For the NORMANA FESTIVAL SUBSCRIPTION Gemmell, Margie, Big Falls and the third time. Aldermaj| Qveson He has been up in northern Minnesota who returned last night from a tour Littlefork, arriving at International moved that same be adopted and ordered Sons of Norway Convention and Entered as Second Class Matter June 23. near Ranier where he purchased Of inspection along the Canadian border. 1B09, at the post office at International Falls. Falls at 6:40 for tbe night. published, which motion was a cow moose calf for his game preserve. Minnesota, under the Act of Congress of Norwegian National Saengerfest The start will be made from Fort March 3.1879. seconded by Alderman Lynch and "There has been scarcely any rain Frances, Ont., on the second day and carried by unanimous vote. Mr. Comiskey stated that he had at Fargo, July 10 to 14 inclusive, for the last month in northern Minnesota," THURSDAY, JULY 4 the following towns will ,be visited: Ordinance No. XXX was read for already elk, deer, antelope and moose said Mr. Tierney, "and the Rainy River, Baudette, Spooner, The Northern Pacific will sell the third time. Alderman Lynch on his preserve and intended, to make danger from fires breaking out is Roosevelt, Warroad, Roseau, Badger, moved that same be adopted and ordered additions to his herd as fast as he great. In the burnt-over districts the from all stations on the Minnesota A. N. Clelland, general passenger Greenbush, Strathcona, Middle. River, published, which motion was could. While in the city Mr. Comiskey burned trees have fallen and make agent of the Northern Pacific road, Holt, Thief River Falls, St. Hillaire seconded by Alderman Infelt and and International and Big Fork visited with Bill Augustine, with it extremely difficult to coimbat the has joined the army of northern Minnesota and Red Lake Falls, arriving at carried by unanimous vote. whom he has been acquainted for flames. The trunks and branches are advocates since his recent visit and International Falls Railways, Crookston at 7:50 for the night stop. Ordinance No. XXXI was read for some time. Mr. Comiskey was positive dead in many places and are like tinder. to International Falls.—News-Tribune. On the third day the towns to be the third time. Alderman Mather that his team would win the pennant round trip tickets to Fargo on visited are Dugdale, Mentor, Erskine, moved that same be adopted and ordered and he declared that he considered "There were no towns in immediate Mcintosh, Fosston, Lengby, Bagley, July 9, 10, 11 and 12 at one third published, which motion was the aggregation of players he Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey danger from any of the fires when I Shevlin, Solway, Bemidji, Farris, Cass seconded by Alderman Infelt and carried now had would develop unquestionably fare for the round trip, return was nominated on the forty-sixth ballot left, and the rangers had most of Lake, Bena, Deer River, Cohasset, by unanimous vote. into the greatest team in the country. them in control. On account of the as the Democratic nominee of the Grand Rapids, Warba, Island, Floodwood, Ordinances Nos. XXXIII, XXXIV limit July 15. Splendid service danger, however, the ranges have presidency of the United States at Brookston, Cloquet and Carlton, and XXXV were read for the second to Fargo via been instructed to place in service a the national convention at Baltimore IF! arriving in Duluth at 6:47. time. large number of men, to be ready at Tuesday after a six-day session. The If all the noisy candidates who toot About 100 business men are expected On motion the council adjourned. vote was as follws: Wilson, 990 any time to fight fires. A rain within the brazen horn—if all of these and to make the trip. They will be accompanied Attest: R. C. Fraser, City Clerk. Northern Pacific Ry. the next week would stop all the Clark, 84 Harmon, 12 absent 2. The kindred skates were busy plowing by the Third Regiment Lew Wilson, choice was made unanimous. fires that are now burning in northern corn, we wouldn't need to fuss and band as usual and will be supplied President. H. A. McCORMACK, Agent. Minnesota, and would put an end fret about the nation's good prosperity with all the facilities for putting Duluth to most of the fire danger in that The semi-annual meeting of the as never yet would rule our on the map and keeping it there. country." Northern Minnesota Development association neighborhood. If tariff tinkers and The trip over the ranges this month drew a large crowd of interested the like would drop their futile loads, Mr. Tierney told of an interesting was a very successful one, and the We Invite Vou to flake This business men, farmers and and work with shovels on the pike, method by which afire was discovered coming trip, taking in a wider range legislators to International Falls last we'd have the finest roads! Then every about 18 miles from Bemfdji, and of territory, is expected to be fully as Bank Your Depository week where not a few surprises were town would prosper well, the people'd a crew of men rushed to the scene successful. sprung. To a good many the "City sing a song, and merry as a in time to stop what promised to be of Destiny" meant nothing more than marriage bell the world would roll PROCEEDINGS OF a disatrous conflagration. A ranger If you have an idle hundred—or fifty a prosperous village, sprung up, as it along! If all the loafing Jims and stationed at the tower at Bemidji or any other amount which you desire were, during the night, and the enthusiastic Jakes who on the corners stand, sighted smoke at some distance from THE CITY COUNCIL exuberance of its citizens would fix themselves with hoes and the town, but was unable to tell its to lay aside for safe keeping, bring it to was looked upon as the effervescence rakes and cultivate the land, a million exact location. Communicating with this bank for deposit. of a rapidly working townsite boom. wives who wash and scrub and the ranger at Cass Lake, who also We issue Certificate of Deposit payable However, this mistaken notion was carry in the wood, might say farewell was able to see the smoke, they immediately on demand, also Time Certificates Minutes of a regular meeting of the soon dispelled and to those making to mop and tub, and live as matrons arrived at the exact location city council held July 1st, 1912, at bearing 4 per cent interest. their third or fourth trip to the Falls should. And ragged children, of the fire by triangulation. 8 o'clock p. m. the solidity of the foundations of a short of scads, their cheeks by famine We make a specialty of our Savings Reports received by Chief Forester All members present. big city now being laid were even thinned, might live in comfort if Department. Money deposited in the Cox yesterday indicated that most of more apparent than to those who had The minutes of the meeting held their dads would just cut out the the fires would be soon under control, Savings Department draws 4 per cent June 24th, 1912, were read and on been denied the opportunity of watch-1 wind. If all the men who take a although the danger had not yet been interest which is compounded quarterly ing the wonderful transformation motion same were approved. horn some umpty times a day, would averted. The fires for the most part or four time's each year. which has been taking place since the Alderman Infelt moved that John just pass up J. Barleycorn and walk are as yet located 30 or 40 miles from earlier frontier buildings were erected. Peterson be granted a license to sell the sober way, sidestep the joints any important settlements, and unless First came the wonderful works intoxicating liquors for a period of where lager foams to tempt the thirsty FIRST NATIONAL BANK a strong wind should arise, or of nature, the Indian and the home-1 one year from July 3rd, 1912, which boy, then in a million darkened some other unlooked-for condition steader's shack. Then the men with motion was seconded by Alderman homes the wives would weep for joy! should be met, they probably will be capital and courage harnessed the' Lynch, the yeas and nays being called —Walt Mason. under control before the towns of International Falls, Minn. seething torrents and bade the giant for the vote was as follows: Yeas, International Falls, Northome, Ely THE VALUE OF THRIFT. forces do their bidding. Millions upon Aldermen litis, Keyes, Oveson, Infelt, and other places are menaced. The millions were spent upon the great Place a Jew in any American community Lynch and Wilson. Nay, Alderman town of Margie is in most peril, and dam and paper mill before the wheels with seventy-five cents in his Mather. Motion carried. several small settlements may be endangered. of industry made their first revolution, On motion duly made and Efeconded pocket, says the Galesburg (111.) Their inhabitants have but while the preparatory work the bond of John Peterson, retail liquor Mail, and in five years he will have been warned to be ready to flee, in was being done the men who take the a business of his own. In ten years dealer, in the amount of $2,000 case the fires should get beyond control. tide at its flood grasped their opportunity was approved. he will be one of the town's leading and built even better than they On motion of Alderman litis, seconded INTERNATIONAL FALLS citizens. knew. All the foundation work of a' by Alderman Mather, Herman Why? Because no matter how little YU SKALL LAFF. large city is laid. Sewers and water the Jew makes, he lives on a little Koeneke was granted permission to mains for a second Minneapolis have less. He is willing to sacrifice to build a 6-foot veranda over Second The Ole Olson, Jr., Co., which will MINNESOTA been laid fire limits have been established, succeed, and his wife and his children street in front of the building situate appear at the city hall next Saturday building ordinances are in are willing to help him. on lot No. 1, block No. 9 of the night, July 6, is a company of more force and the town is full of boosters' When the Jew is fifty years old he city of International Falls, Minnesota. than ordinary merit, and seldom stops •whose faith is supplemented by work is riding in his own carriage or his On motion of Alderman Lynch, seconded at as small a city as this. HAS of the most substantial character. A own automobile, and his wife is riding by Alderman Infelt, the city We clip the following glaring tribute big $90,000 steel bridge is about com-| with him. When the American, who clerk was instructed to buy some from the Rochester Daily Bulletin: pleted, connecting International Falls had as good a start as the Jew but more chairs for the city hall. LOCATION, POWER, RAW MATERIAL with Fort Frances on the Canadian "had a good time as he went along" is On motion the street commissioner "The entertainment, "Ole Olson," a side, where another paper mill is being grinding away at the same old thing was instructed to hire a team three three-act Swedish dialect comedy erected and where the Shevlin-1 he started at, bewailing the cruel days in each week to haul garbage presented at the local opera house Carpenter company have their large society which gives a poor man no and charge the cost of such work to last Saturday evening attracted a saw mill. Besides the paper mill at chance. Perhaps he embraces socialism parties having garbage hauled. These combined guarantee a populous center of activity. large number of people from here and the Falls is the immense saw mill or some other wonderful panacea On motion the following bills were neighboring towns and a well packed plant of the Backus-Brooks Co., the1 that promises to transform the allowed: house greeted the cast of skilled and planing mill and woodworking factory world into paradise where no one will Geo. OstofF. labor on gravel.. .$13.50 accomplished actors. The play was and numerous other industries to* be have to work in one day. Arlie Lapping, labor on roller 13.50 full of exciting climaxes which kept undertaken which the people of International What the average American needs J. Ingersoll, one pair rubber the audience in a continuous roar. Falls have not even been advised to learn more than anything else is boots 3.75 Throughout the entertainment there of, but the knowledge of which thrift. What he needs to do and Sam Salempia, labor on watermains was not a disinteresting moment and comes to the Eagle in a pretty what his wife needs to do, is to spend 16.50 the success of the play might easily straight line from headquarters—Delano less than he makes. Only in this Geo. Crismus, labor on watermains be read in the hearty applause which Eagle. way can a family in a business or an 16.50 followed each and every act. Ole Olson institution, succeed. The reform of John Berg, salary 27.30 PRESENT OUTPUT OF MILLS: and several of the performers entertained our social system will never come A CANDIDATE FOR OFFICE. Mike Gorgas, labor on gravel.. 13.50 the large audience between from destroying the upper classes of Alex Aho, labor on street .... 13.50 News Print Paper 220 tons per day The Northome Record says: acts with some of the latest sogns society. There will be classes as long Mike OstofF, labor on street .. 13.50 Patrick H. Fogarty of International which was enjoyed by all. Ground Wood Pulp 200 tons per day as the human race exists. All progress Julius Mountain, labor on Falls was in the village Wednesday "The management of the opera hall will continue to come, as it always street 13.50 night and made the announcement Sulphite Pulp 110 tons per day is to be congratulated upon securing has come, from the efforts of J. A. McDonald, team work .. 36.00 that he is a candidate for the nomination these higher class entertainments the lower classes to lift themselves Alex McDonald, team work .. 36.00 for county treasurer, the office Saw Mill 100,000,000 ft. annually which usually pass the smaller towns into the higher. Sig Wenberg, team work .... 51.00 which has been held by George A. by and we hope a continuance of the C. M. Ardis, services of fire permanent pay roll of over per month Snyder since the county was formed A $75,000 WILL RESUME LATER. good work will prevail." department 36.00 six years ago. Mr. Fogarty is a very Northome Record: Drilling operations Consider these facts, and we feel sure you C. M. Ardis, services of fire department popular young man, has a wide acquaintance at the Koochiching-Vermilion 24.00 JULY TRADE EXCURSION. throughout the county and Iron company's property, east of will agree with us that International Falls A. A. Lea, photos 4.12 his friends will rally to a man to his Duluth, June 28.—Plans are going town, have been suspended until after 0. J. Masters, city share of support in the event he has opposition is destined to become one of the most im forward for the next trade extension the Fourth. sidewalk 20.50 for the place. He will start his excursion under the direction of Drilling Contractor Schultz left for 1. J. Hagey, meals to prisoners campaign within a week or two and portant manufacturing centers of the North the wholesalers' committee of the Duluth his home at Grand Rapids early in 24.60 will set the pace for any others that Commercial club. The committee the week and a letter from him received West. J. F. Grandberg, painting city may get in. He has resided eight has not yet definitely decided upon yesterday morning states that hall 74.75 years in the county and much of the he is threatened with typhoid fever. the dates. The tentative plans The Green Hardware Co., supplies time has been employed in court contemplate leaving Duluth on the He says, however, that in the event he 1.55 house record work. It is not known evening of July 15 and returning on is unable to return he will send a drill The Green Hardware Co., supplies whether or not Mr. Snyder intends the evening of July 18. A change operator to continue the work. 9.75 to make a try for re-election. may be made to a week later, the final Eight drill holes have been put R. E. Burdick, services on election to be made by the wholesalers' down on the property and the indications decision board 3.00 FIGURING ON SCHOOL HOUSE. committee at a meeting to -be are said to be most encouraging. F. O. Markell, services on election held Friday. Duluth News-Tribune: Local contractors Gold continues to be present in the board 3.00 are estimating upon the proposed cores, it is said, but the ore wanted About sixty towns will be visited E. W. Kibbey, steel tape and express new International Falls high is that of iron and the company has on the trip, which will cover 707 ... 6.60 [b Full particulars will be cheerfully furnished by school, ,the plans for which were received. an abiding faith that a body of that miles. The special train carrying the J. B. Thomas, putting out fire rr& from the architects, Bell, Tyrie ore will be penetrated at that point. C. B. KINNEY excursionists will go first to Brainerd, jn dock 3.25 & Chapman of Minneapolis. It An unexepectedly strong line of then north on the Minnesota & International Jail. B. Clow & Sons, supplies 31.93 lisno will be a large brick structure with magnetic attraction exists there. On railroad to International Ordinance No. XXVII was read for terra cotta trimmings, 181 by 120 feet the older ranges iron ore is found a Falls, where the night will be spent. Sales Manager the third time. Alderman litis mov- on its ground floor plan and three short distance south of the attraction On the second day, the trip will be .b' 1 stories in height. It comes in about but on the Cayuna range the ore lies over the Canadian Northern from fti EMERSON'S STUDIO iterni International Falls, flinnesota the same class as the other handsome ijmmediately under the line. There Fort Frances to Warroad, where the schools erected and under construction appears to be no given rule to follow train will be transferred to the Great ^fts' everything necessary for producing •Sy in this district during the last where the attraction Exists, andit is Northern tracks for the trip to Crookston, higb class photos. •noi'*2—ynnrfcte and the present season, with its cost the intention of the company to continue where the night stop will be I Remember Emerson's Stuiio for estimated at $125,000. the drilling in all directions. made. The last day will be given to the best grade of photos. •/Vv (/-I