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

March 5, 1914 · Page 1 of 6

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Entered as Second Glass Matter June 23,1900, at the Postoffiee at International means of communication,' tions, which are to be submitted the men will meet on Monday The voters will get a half-hitch Falls, Minn., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. without even a market to sell the to congress for approval. It is and Wednesday evenings, on them next month. All are cordially produce of the sweat of their proposed to put these regulations and the ladies on Tuesday. Visitors invited to come and hear IE0IK P. WATSfll, Etttar ail Uupr INTCIMTIMAL FALLS PIESS PUBLIHII6 60. brow, having denied themselves into effect Jan. i, 1915. always welcome. about them Sunday evening, and life's comforts in the cause of The regulations proposed for a special invitation is extended to The girls of the junior and intermediate Official Paper of Banier Official Paper of International Falls. civilization. But now when they Rainy Lake and river, and Lake classes in the Sunday voters. We're in for a bigger and have reached the hope °f realiz- of the Woods in the agreement school have organized the "Whatsoever better city. Come and hear ab°ut ing some of the fruits of .their'of 1908, are, in part, as follows: Club," with a membership it. oons benefits no one except the Senator James T. Elwell, author long and lonely years of labor, "No whitefish or lake trout of of ten. E. M. Hulett, Pastor. wholesale liquor houses and the of the good roads law which the god of debauchery, crime and less than two pounds weight shall Fifth St. corner of Tenth avenue brewers of beer. When the time bears his name, filed last Tuesday drunkenness forces himself in be fished for, killed, or captured comes that all business men realize Rev. E. L. Heermance, pastor. as a candidate for nomination for among them to fatten on the fat in these treaty waters, or yellow that saloons are anti-prosperous Governor on the Republican ticket. of their savings. pike of less than thirteen inches to a community, the saloons He is a good progressive man S. E. THOMPSON East and west of this commun in length. No nets shall be used BAPTIST NOTES will go. Very few men will now and has a popular platform. ity, at Waterloo and Indus, de- for commercial fishing in Rainy take the responsibility of giving spite of the str°ng resentment of river. No net shall be used within The contest between the reds & SON their sanction to the sale of liquor. Judging from the splendid the residents, your commissioners a radius of one-half mile from the and blues in the Sunday school By giving their vote for write-up given in the Bemidji saw fit, as becoming their innate mouth of any river flowing into was decided in favor of the blues, license, they realize that thev are Sentinel about the "Boys Congress," sense of justice and honor known Rainy Lake or Lake of the Woods 1 led by Einer Stubee, who made directly responsible for what which was held in that to you all I should think from and no net shall extend more International Falls, Minn. 321 points to the reds 318. It was happens by the sale of liquor, city last week, the gathering unmentionable past experiences, than one-third the distance across vefy close and only after the last through a license granted because must have been one of great inspiration —ignoring even the petitions of any bay or channel. No trap nets scholar was enrolled,,was the contest of their vote in favor of to the 200 boys who the poor fathers and mothers shall be used. decided. The defeated reds such license. Roseau County attended and will, without doubt, crying f°r justice and evidently gave a banquet and social to the There is also prposed a close Times. I S O E N result in permanent good. as some of them stated, having: blues at the church Wednesday strong feelings developed for the jSeaSOn °f four years on the stur LUTEFISK— evening. CORRESPONDENCE license fee of $500, to trample on geon fisheries in the Lake of the The murder of one British We were glad to welcome a COD FISH- the express wishes of these Woods. Representative Steener- subject has created more furore poor large number of strangers last To the Editor of the International against Mexico than the killing tillers of the soil. I had the son tried to have the sturgeon SMOKED SALMON- Sunday b°th morning and evening. Falls Press. of men of all the other nationalities pleasure, and it was an exertme fishermen heard by the commitgratification, Practically every seat was Dear Mr. Watson: PAIL HERRING- to address such put together in that revolution a filled at the evening service. We 1 I,. ,tee, but he was told that they Will you kindly publish the following noble, U1 manly, intelligent and, torn country. Everyone appreciates have a good, cozy, warm, homelike FRESH LAKE above all, highly moraled body of s'lou^ place their cas6 before the letter in your valuable paper a country where the church and gladly welcome men as y°ur commissioners. Their commission when it is appointed. SUPERIOR HERRING majesty of the law is supreme those who worship with us. Our County Board of Commissioners sense of justice and morality was ami which demands reparation Next Sunday morning the pastor 6 CENTS PER lb— certainly did a very brave too high to catch the meaning of for injury done to its citizens. will speak on "An Efficient and righteous act last Thursday what I had to say as a taxpayer, S O O N O E S Church." when they met in solemn conclave so they hesitated for two sessions By Mabel Beaton this issue On the first page of "The Stump Digger" on granting liquor licenses laying the matter on the- table be best will found the first of the at Pelland and Indus. both times, until finally, when Carl Harrison was absent the will appear articles (the second This will be the topic for an An almost unanimous petition they found all congenial, I being other day. have yet read anywhere evening sermon next next week) we Sunday. was filed from Pelland against it. O N E N O 1 2 8 absent, they quietly gratified life and habits of Hazel Preble was absent Wednesday on the There are some old stumps Father Killeen was present, the their sense of acceptance, Mr. President Huerta and deplorable afternoon. on the around International Falls ovfer County Superintendent was lobbying Ulvedahl dissenting, as I learned conditions that exist in All pupils seem to have survived as usual, and many others subsequently. Mexico. They appeared in the the monthly tests. who strenuously objected, seaten It is high time that pepple Minneapolis Journal during the The botany class is experimenting themselves in the room in the would open their eyes before it is past week and were written for International Falls Abstract Co. on "fleshy roots." hopes that they might at least be too late. The affairs of the county that paper by the famous war The sophomore clas/ i,i English considered. And they certainly are their affairs it is their correspondent, James Creelman,, have completed "Ivanhoe." were. Commissioner Royem BURDICK, KREMER & KING Proprietors money that is being handled, and who is perhaps the most careful made the motion that the license The eighth grade are planning it behooves them to use the most and accurate newspaper writer Abstracts, Real Estate and Insurance be granted, but not a single man extreme measures to have it another sleigh ride for the near on topics of this kind in the raised his voice to second it. future. rightly and equitably expended. world. Read them carefully and Collections, Conveying and Loans Noble sentiment held them back, Apathy will wreck the strongest Harold Mclntyre was absent you will have a fairly good conception and everyone was delighted when J. E. BURDICK, Manager empire, so lay not the flattering from school Wednesday on account of the most difficult task some one moved that the applications unction to your souls that things of illness, this nation is up against in its endeavor International Falls Minnesota be laid on the table. This will work out or right themselves. to handle the matter to Book reports seem to be no excuse was seconded, and many thanks Never! You must endeavor the best advantage. for not knowing a daily recitation were deservedly given to this to place some honest men in English IV. body of men collectively and individually at the head of affairs even if ytir The reporters are delighted because In this issue will be found two for the fine stand they are to take them from the plough Three Leaders their time is up. Here's communications in regard to the had taken and hoped they would or the shovel. Yours is the solemn hoping the next ones do better. issuing of two new liquor licenses finally settle it in the interests of duty to find them and place them by the Board of County commissioners It is hard to come to school the people. where you .nost need them at in a part of the county these fine spring mornings. They The commissioners then acted the head of your public affairs. which has practically no police are too much a reminder of June. on small other business, took up What redress, you may ask, protection. In making inquiry The Glee Club organized Wednesday the bills and audited them. By have these poor people who protested Golden Grain Belt Beers about this matter we were told this time they were alone. No afternoon under Miss against those and similar that one reason why the license constituents were watching them, emington. They will hold their saloons, when the peace of 'the at Pelland was granted was because Harpers Whiskey the ministry had retired and so weekly meetings in the high iiome is wrecked, when the father, there was a "blind pig" and school assembly room until a the motion was re-considered. the sons, and worse, the innocent a house of ill repute running in One voted against, one refused to piano arrives for the kindergarten daughters of those rural Rock Spring Water that neighborhood, and that the vote, and three brave fellows who We expect to hear music room. honest homes are maltreated and county board thought that a licensed would have nothing to do with in the air at anv time now. when in vain they appeal to those saloon would be better the liquor business two hours before same authorities who perpetrated than a "blind pig." If it is true "K ,rose and bravely decided the wrong under which thev suffer? UNDERWOOD & HASSELBARTH, Local Agents that a "blin^ pig" and a house of something to drink, whether the What redress have they N O E S International Falls, Minn. ill fame are running near Pelland, people wanted it or not, that What court can they appeal to? the petitioners against a licensed their friends who would run the Whose aid may they invoke? As saloon in that territory must M. E. CHURCH grog shop needed their aid and so thousands of noble hearts have know it, and if they know it. why they valiantly and heroically been broken by the same curse, have they not made complaint to stood by their convictions and Announcement will be made are these people along the Rainy the county attorney and sheriff granted them their licenses. Northern Minnesota Hospital later for themorning services. river to suffer the same fate? that such places were in existence, Brave fellows! How we honor Yes, I say, unless they use the Rev. Middleton will preach in and if the members of the county them when they so nobly do their inalienable rights of man, the the evening. board believe that such places duty in the face of fire. Sunday school at 10 a.m. means which God and nature are in existence, why don't they However, we feel somehow have placed in their hands. Song service will precede the order the sheriff to arrest the that it would have been just as evening service, conducted by P. J. Killeen. criminals. brave to stand by their opinions Chorister Lawrence Larson. Special in the fact of the mob and that selections will be rendered at TO CONSERVE FISH A non-advertising merchant perhaps the poor cursed chaps both services. told us the other day, "Too much who tried to hinder the action The pastof, Rev. C. H. Blake, advertising will send me to the Minnesota Boundary Waters for humanity's sake were even is improving rapidly and may be Bankruptcy Courts." Sure thing braver. And these noble men who able to return home in a few Affected by Bill Favorably it will, if the advertising is done pledged to represent the people days. Reported by competitors.—Northern News. knew that petitions did not count Rev. Samuel Parish, the District and that the money would build superintendent, will preach roads. Un(ler the terms of a bill jlust The new council took a step in on Sunday, March 15th. Oh, yes, $1,000 would build re'ported from the committee on the right direction last, evening whole mile in Koochiching county foreign affairs of the house, the when it refused to grant William BETHLEHEM CHURCH and fifty towards hell, but the fisheries in Minnesota boundary Hyatt anew license. No objection guardians of the public must help waters^will be restricted to', a was made as to Mr. Hyatt's con the poor people learn that de large extent, and, it is believed, duct as a saloon keeper but the Sunday school at 10 a.m. lightful habit which builds (tears) with the result that supply of aldermen proved that they are in R. H. Monohan, M. D. Elizabeth Monohan, M. D. Morning worship at 11 o'clock up the homes and perpetuates our food fish will not be in danger of favor of cutting the number of The pastor will speak of Reverence, Mary C. Ghostley, M. D. state institutions at Fergus Falls, extermination. drinking establishments now doing the fifth commandment. Office over International State Bank. International Falls, Min Stillwater, Sauk Senter, Redwing business in Bemidji. As McKim The bill is designed to put in'to Every father and mother needs and Willmar. NOBLE FELLOWS! & Son withdrew their application effect the boundary waters fisheries to learn how to cultivate this for a liquor license the city treaty agreed upon between quality in their children. The Yours Truly, is now shy two more saloons, the United States and Great BHt-j children's sermon at the opening A Subscriber and Heavy Taxpayer. leaving the total at twenty-seven, ain in 1908. An effort was ma(ie of the service will be on "The Licensed Plumbers and j—Bemidji Pioneer. to pass the measure several years Soldier's Salute." !#Sii? ago, but it failed because Senator Evening worship at 7:30 p.m. The saloon-keepers have declared MANIFESTS TO THE PUBLIC Smith of Michigan espoused the. The pastor will begin a series Heating: Engineers their co-operation with cause of herring fishermen operating of three sermons on "The Story Mayor Tom Morris in observing At the last meeting of the in Saginaw bay, in his state. Told by Isaac of Galilee," a vivid WATER AND SEWER WORK PROMPTLY DONS. the liquor laws. Business men County Commissioners there were The bill exempted Georgian bay picture of Jesus in his boyhood are awakening to the fact that granted licenses to conduct two, and young manhood. You cannot from its operation, and the Michigan ESTIMATES FURNISHED ON SHORT NOTICE. saloons are a menace to legitimate what I term nuisances' (for such fishermen claimed that this afford to miss it. We have a EAST & CORRIN business, that the license no doubt saloons are regarded) strong chorus choir to lead our would discriminate against' them. money does not help pay taxes ijv amongst a farming community In the present bill both Georgian evening music. OrasonBlock International Falls, Minn. PhonelSt and that the money spent in sal- that for many years in the most bay and Saginaw bay are exempt- Reading room open Saturday