INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS temporary truce, agreeing that BELGIAN SAYS END OF I place-hunters when it comes to GOV. W. S. HAMMOND'S ATTITDUE whoever came to their release WAR IS LONG WAY OFF filling this most Important posi- ON LIQUOR LAWS THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS should decide their fate. The tion- The letter follows: 1 AND BORDER BUDGET Defending his vote in congress Belgian officer discovered them By Count De Beaufort. "Dear Fred—We see by the against nation-wide prohibition, peaceably together, /thejir rifles In Belgium, Dec. 27.—A Belgian Entered as Second Class Matter June 23, 1909, at the Post "papurs" that you are one of the Mr. Hammond meta perfect hail neatly placed in a triangle and the general who for many years has boys who is^ likely to lose his Office at International Falls, Minn., Under Act of Congress of questions today from the St. sharing their provisions. men watched and studied the progress official head when the new state of March 3, 1879. .Paul Ministers' association at the About a mile from Pervyse one of the Germany army—as far as administration gets its hooks on INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING CO. end of his short talk to the clerical of the officers noticed in the distance, such is possible to a foreign officer—discussed things down there. We are sorry gathering. Mr. Hampiond declined about two miles to the George P. Watson, Editor and Manager with me recently to hear it, Fred, and if Win Hammond the requests of the temperance south of us, in a farm which had the present situation. To one of allows that horde of hungry Official Paper of International Falls and Ranier, Minnesota legislation in Minnesota. He practically been razed, an intermittent my favorite questions, "How long seekers to bunco him into divorcing said he did not think much of light. We all stopped and do you think the war will still you from your job we will President Wilson was 58 years tion during the year 1915 will, we county option, but that he was for some time watched the signals never vote him for president. last?" he answered: old last Monday. hope, continue to be the greatest ready to support any measure which appeared to be given in "My friend, the duration of the Goodness knows we have a bunch force in northern Minnesota for they would devise to suppress the Morse code. "Sapristi," exclaimed war depends entirely on the of office-holders in this Minnesota the development of the agricultural evils of the saloons. one of the lieutenants, "there forces which the whole world will of ours who could be shot at sunrise The United States has served resources of our section of The Hobson resolution for national ,is something wrong there." be able to bring to bear against and buried before breakfact notice on Great Britain not to prohibition was bad, Mr. the state. The changes made in Our cavalcade of six was divided Gedmany. Let us not lose sight and the dear public would never prey upon her neutral commerce. the plan of operation at the Hammond told the ministers, because in two patrols, a number of of the fact that it has taken all miss them, but not with you, it would simply turn business Brainerd meeting will not cur Belgian infantry soldiers were our combined efforts, all our powers, Fre.ddie. There has been no Villa has evacuated Mexico tail the work they were made over to Canadian brewers commandeered to accompany us, to hold the enemy in check, funny business in that office of city, there may be two Mexican merely to cut down the cost of arid distillers and they could ship and soon we were on our way to and today, the Germans are still yours, and we hope no political governments one north and one operation. We shall continue to liquor without stint into the on foreign soil. One mistake on surround the house. It was pitdi pot-hunter is able to shoot it from south. advertise the resources of northern states. dark, and the country around here under our part could have the most fatal you. Minnesota. We shall continue "Can you give us a more definite results. We need men and men, is not exactly suited for cavalry One of the reasons we are statement as to what you to work with all other patrols. We had to wade or jump We have a large idea that some hundreds of thousands of them, strong for you, was your recent forces that are advertising our favor in the line of temperance to conquer Germany, because, remember a ditch almost every hundred of those congressment who voted trip into Iowa and Indiana. You counties, whether individuals, legislation?" asked one of the yards. The signals at the house against the Hobson prohibition well that they realize sure let loose of some great stuff railroads, associations, counties ministers. Mr. Hammond did not that this war will mean the end meanwhile had ceased. When resolution will not have many opportunities to that corn-husking bunch down or the state. We shall endeavor give any more definite statement, within about half a mile of the to vote on the question.—Duluth of their medieval sytsem. They there, arid if it does not send a to bring to northern Minnesota and he let his statement on prohibition will never surrender, but light to house we thought it better to News-Tribune. big gang of them up here we miss the best forces we are able to find stand as a reply to questions proceed on foot, so we left the the last man. our guess. The rosy hue you pictured for the furthering of this work. shot at him regarding that "Do not let us be deceived by horses in charge of one of the life on Northern Minnesota British returned the German The subject. We need your help in the future leports that Germany will lose soldiers. How disappointed and homesteads was something elegant, call Christmas day by attacking as we have in the past. I am sure "I could not approve the Hobson this war on economic grounds, disgusted he was to have to give Fred. The Region reproduced Cuxhaven with a fleet of seven resolution," said Mr. Hammond. that you will not withhold it." up the hunt. "Please, mon lieutenant," because such reports are beside a few of your talks, and the naval planes, assisted by destroyers sea "The net result of its adoption facts. She has prepared for this he begged, "I can tie the only reason that prevented our and submarines. The would be to enable the distilleries Where Prohibition Prohibits. horses so that they will be perfectly war for the last thirty years. I staff from lighting out for homesteads zeppelin attacks on the visitors and breweries of Canada have information that there are safe alone. Please let me themselves, was our promise If the drink evil undermines a failure. were to ship as much liquor into the enough foodstuffs in Germany today come along." But German spies that they would get their national vitality and is the determining United States as people would to feed an army of have proved very wily, so it was wages regularly in the future. 2,000,000 factor in the survival of order. The measure was aimed All the daily papers report that men for five years. We also know deemed safer to have a sentinel Believe us, Fred, we hope Mr. nations, then, unless other nations entirely at the sale of liquor. As temperance people of the county that the Krupp stores of ammunition guard our horses. Hammond has sense enough to quickly wake up to the peril of long as you permit the use of are well pleased over the majority have not as yet been touched, We had not gone very far when hang onto you. alcohol, Russia will prove herself liquor in the United States you vote given the bill for constitutional but that they manufacture from we heard the rifle reports in quick Yours truly, the fittest to survive. Russia, should permit it to be manufactured prohibition, although it was' and then saw a number day to day what they use." succession, The "Region." which constitutes one-seventh here. The Hobson amendment 61 votes short of the required two Nieuport has again been bombarded^ of our other party race across part of the habitable globe and would only be a slight deterrent, thirds vote for passage, yet it the field towards the farm. When and the little town is has a population of 170,000,000, is LIQUOR SOLD TO 19 YEAR making it somewhat more was a much better vote than even practically in ruins, Of the old we got there a man in peasant's today a dry nation. There has OLD BOY, FINED $100 difficult to obtain liquor. the most sanguine of prohibitionists church, which is several hundred clothes was lying on his back— been, dispatches from Petrograd "County option is not in any expected, and it is believed George W. Sawyer, proprietor years old, only the four walls are dead. Beside him a powerful 'K announce, such a "starting regeneration" sense a solution of the liquor than in 1916 the measure will standing the roof has been shot electric torch, papers, maps, and of a saloon at 316 Nicollet avenue, of the peasantry in question. If it were in force now ether documents in his pockets, carry. was fined $100 today by Judge E. away, the old clock lies in the the three months of prohibition in Minnesota instead of local opinion, center of the ruins, and not a marking the position of a certain A. Montgomery for selling liquor that the minister of finance has I should not favor repealing piece of glass three inches square French and Belgian battery, were to a minor. Sawyer pleaded guilty. Sixty-seven bar licenses were received an imperial order to the it. I see no great harm and no has been left unbrokn. sufficient evidence that no injustice The boy, who is 19 years old, suspended in Winnipeg this morning. effect that th prohibition of the great good in it. If it passed, we After having given my .horse had been done. The other purchased liquor in the place to This was the government's sale of vodka shall be continued would still have the question before in charge of a Belgian soldier I party had arrived before us. the the amount of $1.50. A policeman reply to the challenge of the after the end of the war. The us, how to legislate so that spy, under cover of darkness, proceeded through the streets on saw him leaving with it and, Hotel Men's association, which Russian empire will make good •men would consume less liquor. foot. Soon I was joined by a tried to escape, but a well aimed the boy testified against: Sawyer.Sawyer violated the agreement and sold the loss in revenue—as advised by "I want your co-operation on ihot from our sharpshooters dear old Cure, who' insisted I said that a bartender hadl liquor after o'clock Thursday 7 the Czar last March—from "the the temperance question and I caught him. should share his luncheon, two made the actual sale, believing thei evening. Only eleven hotels are inexhaustible wealth of the country Want you to seriously consider sandwiches of soldier's bread, A few days ago it was discovered boy was of age. "I cannot imr operating with their bars open in and the productive labor of 'whether "you have not been aiming with him. that the wings (or are pose less than the maximum fiiie Winnipeg and St. Boniface this the population." In spite of war at the use of beer, wine and "I am much grieved, Monsieur," they called "arms") of the windmills in any of these cases," said Judge afternoon. They were the ones conditions savings banks deposits liquor instead of trying to get he explained to me, "to be unable are being used for signalling. Montgomery* "-Minneapolis Journal. which respected the agreement increased during September 3,000,000 rid of the saloon ana the method to offer you the hospitality of my An order has therefore been issued and the public sentiment concerning roubles ($1,500,000) over of its distribution to the people. house, but, alas! it has shared the that every mill, unless working, the early closing of their bars the same month last year. The saloon is the great evil." fate of-most others." must have its four arms in 19 TOWNS MADE DRY at o'clock-—Winnipeg Telegram. 7 1 "I am willing to support any On the west entrance of the an exactly horizontal and vertical IN NORTH COUNTRY sane and reasonable temperance Pensions for State Teacher*. position. church the Cure drew my attention legislation, that would do some to quite a remarkable picture. Spies in every imaginable disguise 72 Minnesota Saloons Oat ef The Minnesota Education association ^good without doing harm! I am Above the doors had been a pedestal are simply overrunning this Vodka seems to be on the run. at its annual meeting in Business Under Chippew* Indian not desirous of revenge against country. with a large statue of the The German government, realizing Treaty ot 1855. October gave unanimous approval the manufacturers of liquor. I Virgin. The pedestal was shot I was shown this morning at that most of the desertions to a carefully drawn measure [would not say to them, you in the Coxyde the heavy cement platforms from its army are due to drink, away, but the statue, about feet 5 for the establishment of a statewide Saloons in 19 towns in northern United States may not manufacture high, had remained intact, and it for the large Germian siege have now prohibited its use in system of teachers' pensions. Minnesota have been closed by liquor, but your competitors guns. It was discovered underneath •eastern armies. France has also almost seemed as if it hung there This bill will be submitted to the agents of the federal Indian burea in Canada may do so." Tut the ban on absinthe and other in the air without any support. a villa. An officer of the coming legislature, and the teachers under the terms of the Chippewa Mr. Hammond then discussed Only a few inches of cement held Belgian Engineers told me that it intoxicants, and Great Britain is urge that Minnesota follow Indian treaty of according 1855* the effect prohibition would have it against the wall. took him almost a whole day to constantly putting more restrictions the example of a round dozen of to F. W. Zollman, attorney for on the federal revenues. "I have on consumption of liquors. As we left the church and crossed dynamite the heavy foundation. the states, including Wisconsin the Minnesota Brewers' association. just been working on a committee, the marketplace two little tots, These nations, like the rapidly From this particular point Dunkirk and North Dakota, which have already In all, saloons out of he said, "devising means to 72 increasing nun-,ber of employers I am sure not over or years could have been bombarded. 4 5 established such a system. in the territory covered by the 304 raise and I tell you $100,000,000, old, a boy and girl, came out of a —Minneapolis Tribune. in this country, are after best results The plan proposed is a conservative treaty have been closed, and the it was a difficult task." and experience has shown side street. At sight of their one. The income from department's activities have ceased The meeting was largely attended them that liquor stands in the Cure both began to run towards The Telephone GirL which annuities are to be p&id to for the present. Mr. Zollman by twin city ministers. It way and that it is the sober, clearheaded us as fast as their little legs could The telephone girl sits on her teachers who have given twenty said that he does not expect to see was held at the St. Paul Y. M. C. and physically able man carry them. They shook hands chair and listens to voices from years or more of service, is to more saloons closed in that any A that fills the bill.—Carlton Vidette. with the priest, and the girl offered everywhere. Hears all the gossip, com'e principally from two sources—the region for some time at least. him her apple. She answered she hears all the news, she contributions of the Minnesota O. K. "Only seven of the towns are a few questions the Cure asked knows who is happy and who has teachers themselves and a onetenth Minnesota is a better land to actually in Indian country," said gives her and then seemed to notice the blues she knows all our sorrows Each year the local paper mill tax imposed by the live twelve months in the year Mr. Zollman. "They are Walker, in lines my presence. "Ah, pauvre toi, she knows all our joys she trom $500 to $1,000 free state. than in any other state in the Cass Lake, Bemidji, Federal Dam, to community in which it is tu n' as pas un pomme? Attendoz knows every girl who is chasing the union. We of course have snow Those now teaching may join Bena, Ballclub and Boy River. located. otheJr agency can une minute." And, pulling her the boys she knows all our No up here and lots of it and it is a or not as they please, but all those The department has authority under or this. The editor, in little brother along with her, ran trouble she knows all our strife will do mighty good thing, too. It taking service after September 1, the treaty to establish a zone proportion to his means, does back into the side street and after she knows every man who is freezes up disease germs, brings 1915, must become members. The outside the actual Indian country more his town than any other a very short time returned with mean to his wife she knows for roses to the cheeks of young and contribution of each member in which saloons must close, but an apple for me. ten men, and in all fairness he every time we are out with the old alike, makes all feel young and for the first five years of service not to extend the closing order all ought to be supported—not because I think that the picture our boys she hears the excuses each vigorous and besides the many for the first fiive years of service over the treaty territory regardless like him or admire his group created would have been employs she knows every woman you good things it does for mankind to twenty-five dollars for the of whether it is Indian country." writings, but because the local worthy of the master hand of a who has a dark past she knows it places the soil in best possible years from the twentieth to the Towns in the Masaba and painter. paper is the best investment a every man who is inclined to be shpae for bumper crops. There twenty-fifth. Teachers who are Cuyuna iron ranges have been community can make. It may It seemed such an incongrous "fast" in fact there is a secret is nothing quite so nice as our already beneficaries of other such working through a committee not be brilliantly edited or crowded scene, so sad. The two little children 'neath each saucy curl of that northern winters and our snow funds would not be permitted to against the closing order, and believe with thought, but financially it with their apples in that devastated quiet, demure looking telephone storms. If California had a few join. This would exclude memr it will not be extended to is of more benefit to the community place, alone and unprotected, girl. If the telephone girl would of them it wouldn't have so many bers of the Minneapolis Fund. them. that the preacher or teacher. the ruined streets, and in tell all that she knows she would rattlesnakes, tarantulas, thousand Equitable provision is made Understand me, I do not mean The places made "dry" by the near distance the rumble of turn half our friends into bitter leged worms and several other whereby those joining may pay mentally and yet on moral questions federal order, and the number of the cannons and the reports and foes she would sow a small wind kinds of obnoxious insects and up arrearages for past years of you will find most of the saloons closed in each, are as follows buzzing of the mitrailleuses. that would soon be a gale engulf pests. We can't grow oranges service, if they desire to do so.— papers on the right side. Today Walker, 2 Bemidji, 21 Proceeding towards Lombeartzyde us in trouble and land us in jail or produce earthquakes in Minnesota, Minneapolis Journal. the editors of the local papers Cass Lake, 8 Federal Dam, 1 we met a small detachment she could let go a story, which but we will always maintain do the most for the least money Ballclub, 1 Bena, 4 Shevlin, 1 of Belgium soldiers escorting growing in force would cause half that we have the finest climate Immigration Com. Sherman. of any people on earth—Ex-Governor Solway, 1 Hackensack, 1 Boy three German prisoners. The wives to sue for divorce she our in the world notwithstanding Francis. River, 1 Detroit, 6 Pillager, 1 officer in charge told me they had "Billy" Noonan of the Baudette could get all the churches mixed that some of our people spend Park Rapids, 4 Frazee, 4 Deer been found in a cellar at Lombearszyde, Region writes an open letter to up in a fight and turn all our days a few months of the year in far River, 7 Tenstrike, 1: Kelliher, happy to get out alive. In an announcement which has Fred Sherman, State Immigration into sorrowing night, in fact she away California's sunny clime. 6 Wilton, 1 Turtle River, 1. This village has been bombarded just been issued by George D. Commissioner, and the Press could keep the*whole town in'a Great Scott! What would those McCarthy, who was recently in turn by the Germans, then the wishes to endorse the sentiment Citizens of Park Rapids, Deer stew if she'd tell a tenth part of poor sun-baked dew-drenched, French and Belgians, then again elected secretary of the Northern contained therein, and to express the things that she knew. Now River and Kelliher are making fog-blanketed people do were it Minnesota Development association, by the Germans. Three Belgians the hope that for the good of Minnesota, protests against the order, claiming doesn't it make your headxwhirl not for the tourists that visit that and three Germans found the he says: "The( Northern Governor-Elect Hammond when you think what you owe that Indians never visit those country each year?—Anoka Herald. Minnesota Development associa­ same celler, and established a the telephone girl ?—Ex. will turn a deaf ear to the hungry places.