RARE PORTRAIT Rainy River line, which runs north ple living in the Battle River, Saum, SEES BRIGHT FUTURE FOtt U9. from Deer River to connect with Domaas and Shotley country and will International Falls Abstract Co. Prominent Lumberman Says BackusBrooks open up the center of the county for the Backus line at Effie. This will OF HONEST Ar Interests, M. & I. and give a railroad through a country settlement. Great Northern Have Many' which has had some timber cut 4. The Great Northern is looking BURDICK, KREMER & KING Proprietors Plans for This Section. and floated down the Big Fork but toward a line around the west end of of which a large part is virgin. the Red Lakes to run north and connect ABSRACTS. REAL ESTATE & if^lF/IU Bemidji Pioneer: Bemidj as the The country lies in Itasca and with the Great Northern at Roseau Picture Believed to Have Been distributing center of Northern Minnesota Collections, Conveancing and Loans Koochiching counties and contains or Warroad. To this end, the Taken for Purposes of Presidential is what is seen by one of the thousands of cords of pulp wood which Great Northern has an interest in the most prominent lumber men of the Campaign. J. BURDICK, Manager E. the Backus-Brooks people need for Wilton and Northern line, It is said, state who was in this city recently. their paper mill at International Falls. however, that the Red Lake line is INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINNESOTA He further believes that Bemidji will The saw timber will be put in the rivers under consideration. be the trade center of a dairying and IS NOW AT LEWISTON, MAINE and floated to the Rainy where it Should the Red Lake extension go farming community which will extend will be made into lumber in mills through, it is probable that Bemidji for miles from this city in every direction. owned by the same people. will be made a Great Northern division Is Fragmentary, To prove that he has this confidence History of the Picture 2. The Backus-Brooks people will point with the Sauk Center, Red A. Scttcrlund &. Co. Though It Seems Most Probable and is willing to back his Lake, Grand Forks and Swan River extend the Minnesota, Dakota and Made It Was at Qulncyv opinion with his pocketbook, he has Western into Beltrami county and divisions centering here. Mr. Jones III.. in the Year 184S. bought a half interest in a large farm pointed to the fact that the Great run it north into Baudette. This line portrait of Abraham Lincoln, within fifteen miles of Bemidji and now uses the M. & I. for about eight Northern had put $40,000 into a depot which those who are familiar with it General Contractors has made other investments in the believe to be a very rare one, hangs miles out of International Falls. here and had plenty of room for mercantile line. upon the walls of a Lewlston law office. The extension will go through virgin yards. He said that the Great At all events no one has yet The gentleman in question, who country and will also furnish an Northern was not a road to spend been found who remembers to have does not care to have his name mentioned outlet for the settlers who have already money unless returns were in sight. International Falls, Minnesota seen one just like it among of the any but who may be called Mr. taken homesteads there. The Mr. Jones believes that as this many portraits of the martyred president Jones, was in the city looking after country is best for raising company plans to haul pulp wood to which have been published so some of his interests. Taking a map frequently during the last few years International Falls and to haul saw grasses and root crops, the farmers of Northern Minnesota, he traced out in the leading many of magaiines ol logs on trains running west to put should raise stock. railroad movements which are being the country. into rivers emptying into the Rainy. The picture is a lithograph, erldently planned by the heads of the interested These will also be cut at the mills Hutchings Exploration Company taken from a crayon drawing, systems and showed that Bemidji owned by the same interests. Get your horse shoed and your and shows Mr. Lincoln as a somewhat will be the natural center for the network 3. Either the M. & I. will build younger man than the majority of hit sleigh repaired and your general machine of lines. north from Kelliher or the BackusBrooks portraits do. Diamond Drilling repair work done at the International Among the changes which he indicated Under It is a facsimile of his autograph, people will build south from together with the words: "Republican machine company's shop near Baudette and to connect Bemidji with Churn Drilling were: Candidate for President, the wholesale meat and Grocery Co. the north end of the county. This 1. The Backus-Brooks interests 1860," showing that it was evidently Contract^WorK F. A. Niles, Manager.—Adv. used as a campaign portrait during line will furnish an outlet for the peo­ have bought the Minneapolis and the campaign preceding his first election. DULUTH, MINN. Office: 602 Torrey Bldg. The portrait was obtained by the late John Read, father of the present owner of it, at Quincy, 111., during that campaign, but who took the original from which it was made is unknown. Eighteenth Semi-Annual Statement Some years ago a book salesman Northern Minnesota Hospital who saw it claimed to know something about it, and said that it was OF THE Northwestern Building International falls. Minnesota JStill 5 Association .s i-.•AJfW"! & Fergus Falls, Minn. December 31, 1912 R. H. MONAHAN, M. D. ELIZABETH MONAHAN. M. D. MARY C. GHOSTLEY, M. D. Office over International State Bank. ELMER E. ADAMS. President JOHN LAURITZEN. Vlo# President ROBERT HANNAH, Seoretary F. G. BARROWS, Treasurer W. L. PARSONS. Attorney IJfl ASSETS Mortgage Loans .. $278,967.65 Three Leaders Loans 19,238.10 Stock Real Estate 1,957.29 Real Estate Contracts 2,467.12 Tax Certificates. 949.72 Arrears, Dec. 31, 1912 743.75 Golden Grain Belt Beers Insurance Advanced 184.20 Interest on Bills Receivable 19.50 Cash in Bank 25,447.01 Harpers Whiskey ABRAHAM LINCOLN. $329,974.34 From an Old Print. taken soon after the convention at Rock Spring Water THE FUNDS OF THE ASSOCIATION ARE LOANED IN which Mr. Lincoln was nominated, and that the original photograph was THE FOLLOWING TOWNS taken at the request of Mr. Medlll of Chicago, for campaign jurposes. He TOWN AMOUNT UNDERWOOD & HASSELBARTH, LOCAL AGENTS TOWN AMOUNT said further that when Mr. Lincoln Alexandria $ 2,500 Ha,wley..- $ 5,350 went in to the photographer's to sit International Falls, Minnesota. Henning 2,350 for the picture he had just come from Audubon 300 the barber's, and his hair was.plastered Hitterdal 1,000 Barnesville 5,300 smoothly down upon his forehead, Battle Lake 1,200 International Falls 32,650 but that happening to catch sight of himself in a glass, Mr. Lincoln remarked Breckenbridge 2,200 Kent 1,200 that no one would know him Bemidji 34,050 Lake Park 4,950 with his hair so smooth as that, and Brainerd 10,750 Melby 1,200 ran his hands through It, giving it the disheveled appearance of the portrait. Baudette 1,850 Moorehead 2,300 New York Mills 1,800 Callaway 6,500 He said further that in making the Campbell 1,600 Otter Tail 600 enlargement for the lithograph the It Wins portrait was somewhat idealized, and Crosby 10,500 Perham 14,050 much of the natural ruggedneas of Dilworth 1,300 Park Rapids 3,800 Mr. Lincoln's features were smoothed Dent 4,700 Parkers Prairie 2,350 out. Whether this man was oorrect in Detroit 1.900 Pelican Rapids 3,650 his belief as to the origin of the portrait, its way ly service Deer Creek 3,750 Richville 1,700 it is undoubtedly true that it is Dalton .1,000 Spooner 500 considerably idealized, as will be seen from the copy, the portrait, while retaining Staple 14,650 Deerwood 1,500 L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter the essential features which Underwood 4,900 Elbow Lake 600 are so well known, nevertheless making Uien 17,850 Fergus Falls. 36,400 him a far handsomer man than (Ball Bearing—Long Wearing) ^VVergas 10,600 he is currently reported to have been. Frazee ..... 24,350 tf^Wadena .... 1,400 In buying a typewriter you want a satisfactory answer to three questions: And yet Mrs. Read, who has seen Glyndon 750 ^Wendell.... 400 him often as a young man, always What will it do for me? said that it was an excellent likeness, How well will it do it? THE and that it looked just as Mr. How long will it do it? Northwestern Building Association has Lincoln did at the time he made his speech at Quincy, in the course of the By answering these queries with the needs of the typewriter owner and funds at all times to loan to those who want famous debates with Stephen A. Douglas user in mind, the L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Company has attained on October 13, 1858. the front rank in the typewriter field. to buy, build or borrow to pay off the mortgages Two Humorists Well Met. Some people think that a typewriter is a typewriter nop on their properties. It loans on first mortga|ls A variety of Locke's writings during and that is all there is to it. Machines may look alike but there is ft lot of difference in efficiency. the war referred to the great excitement on real estate and alt loans are closed caused by the discovery of turning The new Model Five is built not only for straight oil wells in Pennsylvania, whereby correspondence but for tabulating, billing, and in fact prOtnptly. If you contemplate buying or building for every service needed in the average business. great and sudden wealth had come to Its ball bearings at all points where friction developes many formerly poor farmers and oth through .action, permit close adjustment and insure wme for information. era in that region. One catch phrase .correct and accurate typewriting. which Lincoln especially enjoyed repeating We would like the opportunity to tell you was "Oil's well that ends well." more about it. He was particularly fond of David R. Northwestern Building Association Write for free book of our new Model Five. Locke (Nasby), whom he first met in L. C. SMITH & BROS. TYPEWRITER CO. 1858 in Quincy, 111. In 1863 he wrote a letter to Locke in appreciation of A. f, v. ,• ,.r' Head Office for Domestic and Foreign Business: SYRACUSE, N. Y., U. S. one of NaBby's humorous articles, and Fergus Falls, Minnesota Branches in all Principal Cities ended the. letter with this inquiry: Minneapolis Branch, 420 Second Ave. "Why don't you come to Washington 'J. Minneapolis* Minn 6 91 and see me?" Locke accepted the in* vitation and spent a delightful hoar vitb the president