a- wws^sn liXxjiRNATIONAL FALLS PRESS was but the money that is invested in the curse, and that which is made One of the few consulted in big ventures, whose advise he out of the curse, must be protected. The chief argument made by sought and acted upon, who had the confidence of buyers and THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS The the wine men and others against prohibition is the money argument. had the resultant large business with the inflow of wealth. Is there not something else that is worth more than money, only enemy he had was his habit of good fellowship. AND BORDER BUDGET «r« •4 invariably something that money cannot buy What price do you put on It is a strange commentary on human nature that quite -%*A Official Paper of Koochiching County, Minnesota. their V# your boy and girl? Were millions of money lost in destroying good fellows have seemed unable to demonstrate Just as Entered as Second Class Matter June 23, 1909, at the Post Office at the liquor traffic, it must be destroyed, because the traffic destroys good fellowship without consuming their share of liquor. International Falls, Minn., Under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. morals and men."—Alexander Citizen. it has invariably this measure of comradeship has increased until been the only one left. INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING CO. -V# 4S the During the past five years the state has paid out in bounties At this end what is left There is the same good heart, George P. Watson, Editor and Manager sapping for killing wolves $165,135.50, an. average of $31,20710 a year, samf kindliness, but the ability to do is gone with the VHW#»VhVHV»»W'NWHV»W»»WHV»HV»»WHW» or about 4,461 wolves killed annually. Despite this immense expenditure, business of stamina. Self respect is sacrificed, with social and "The meanest cuss in the world is the man who will rob his lodged however, wolves continue to thrive in the state, and standing, and nothing is left but the heart to feel despair •own family to pay for another man's drink." there is now on file in the office of State Auditor Preus claims in a degraded human hull. for killed amounting to a little over $20,000. The last legislature a There is nothing more pitiable in this world than such remnant That five cent beer is pretty hard on the kidneys after having Fortunately appropriated $20,000 to be available at once for the payment of of a man, and there is no more senceless waste. been used to the ten cent seller all these years. these claims and also appropriated $10,000 for each of the two to this world of men is learning that it is not necessary to drink O fiscal years beginning August 1 next. The state pays $7 for every comradeship, be a "good fellowthat there are other ways of showing Germany has ordered submarine attacks to cease, pending fullgrown wolf and $3 a cub.:— Fergus Falls Journal. and the genial, social side so admirable and attractive. negotiations in regard to President Wilson's note. bar Men are realizing the price is too high when paid at the BEMIDJI LIKES THE LID. that the friends made there are but surface friends and that the Wadena Brewing Company plead guilty to a charge of unlawfully has generosity evidenced by the willingness to pay for the drinks shipping liquor into Indian territory, before the Federal and Business men say that the effect of the closing of the saloons a hollow ring. Getting drunk is no longer a gentleman's sport Court at Fergus Falls last week. on mercantile lines has been advantageous, and some who a drunken man is no longer amusing.—News Tribune. were inclined to urge congress to abrogate the treaty now refuse If the saloon is a good thing for a community why did the BUSINESS MEN SAY, "VOTE DRY." to enthuse over such a move.—Bemidji sentinel. Brewer Journal on May ist, 1914, say, "The saloon has become an eye-sore to hundreds of thousands of Aimericans." LIKE IT DRY WANT MORE. We, the undersigned business men of Eagle Bend publish the following statement regarding business conditions in our village Thirty saloons and eleven distributing centers, together with At an election recently held in Montevideo, prohibition carried since the saloons were voted out. Eagle Bend has been without their $1,500,000 per year business, have been put out of commission l^y a majority of 156. The city went dry last year for the first saloons for more than three years. The village is so well satisfied in Moorhead by the Clay county dry vote last Monday. time by 34 majority. At Granite Falls the vote this year stood without them that this spring there was not enough saloon 7— 239 for prohibition and 145 for license. Last year the vote was sentiment to make license an issue. We are satisfied that business The country seems to be well satisfied with President WoodTOW close. Better business was the reason for the increased dry vote :onditions are better, that bill? are paid more regularly and that Wilson's note to the German government on the rights of in both places. Dollars talk in a way that business men can under we do not have the poor accounts we used to have. People now this neutral nation, a reply to which is expected most any time. stand, and prosperity and prohibition invariably go hand in hand. buy better grades of goods and we have more cash customers by —Minnesota Patriot. far than when saloons were running here- Bank deposits have Congressman Lindberg says, "The Svet' and 'dry' problem nearly doubled in the three years we have been without them. is no longer an issue in Minnesota—it has been settled and the ARCHBISHOP IRELAND AND PROHIBITION. Eagle bend voted out the saloons at a time when there were saloons people are voting out the saloons as fast as the opportunity comes 5 miles to the south and 8 miles to the north of us. We were to them." We have seen there is no hope for improving in any way the told that this would ruin Eagle Bend. On the contrary it has made liquor traffic there is nothing now to be done but to wipe it out a better, cleaner and more public spirited village. The village has What's going to make times so hard in this city when the saloons completely. The State alone can save us. To be satisfied with improved wonderfully during the dry period. The farmers are are voted out? Are the mills going to close? Are the men moral suasion while an army of lawless liquor sellers is day and better satisfied with present conditions as are also the business going to work for nothing? Or are they going to quit eating and night defending and producing intemperance, is simply trying to firms. There are not enough saloon sympathizers here to bring clothing themselves and families? heal wounded men on the battlefield while from safe intrenchments the issue back to life. In fact, instead of killing Eagle Bend by a persistent enemy darkens the sky with shot and shell, strewing voting out the saloon, it has made it a prosperous, hustling little Governor W. S. Hammond has issued a proclamation setting the ground with fresh victims. Any church that will not come out village. ^iside Monday, May as Memorial Day. This day should be 31st plainly before America as the church of temperance and sobriety, (Signed) fittingly observed in our city, and we trust the city fathers will will not be considered American but will be looked upon as an First National Bank. appoint a suitable committee to attend to this important matter. First State Bank. odious excrescence upon its soil-—Archbishop Ireland. D. N. McQuay, Livery. Reducing the price of beer at this time to five cents per glass DRY TOWN PROSPERS. Johnson Bros., General MerchandiseMartin is considered an evidence of weakness on the part, of the saloon Skoglund, Buttermaker. fraternity. Had the reduction been made two years ago, together Luverne, Minn.—Direful prophecies made by the wets when, George L. Draper, Confectionery. "with some evidence of some regard for law and decency, it might last April, this town for the first time voted no license, have not Wm. W. Bouslough, Lumber. have helped, but it is too late now. been realized. Instead, Luverne is enjoying the greatest prosperity John A. Miller, Implements. ever known. Many desirable has people have moved here to I. B. Kenney, Dentist. The bar-tenders' union of International Falls is a thrifty rear their families in a saloonless town, and have built substantial Chas. Cowgill, Hardware. 1 bunch, sure enough. A newspaper printed in a union office in residences.Not only has there been a boom in the building of G- Gunderson, Blacksmith. that town is fighting the booze interests, effectively, and the homes, but building in the business part of the city has also gone Martin'Weibye, Department Store. bar-tenders want the paper declared "unfair."—Mesaba Ore. ahead. As was anticipated^ there was at first a systematic effort R. J. Weibye, Barber. Wonder which paper he refers to. but to carry on bootlegging, the principal violators of the law Eagle Bend Implement Co., Implements and Lumber. were sent to jail and made to pay heavy fines. As time passes and McQuay and Quitmyer, Meat Market. If the abolition of the saloon increases the sale of liquor, why the city continues to thrive, the violations of law are diminishing H. C. Cralle, Shoe Dealer. did Lee Bernheim of the Bernheim Distillery Company, say, in in number. It has become exceedingly doubtful if the friends of Andrew Abbott, General Merchandise. reviewing the year 1913 in Bonfort's Wine and Spirit Circular the saloon will attempt to make an issue of the question at the Wm. H. Byman, Jr., Confectionery, Jan. 10, 1914, "Busness has been bad in Ohio, Texas and Arkansas. next election. Clover Leaf Land Company, Lands. «i 1 "Adverse legislation cut down the business very heavily" Hotel Kingbay- 1 —o BLACKDUCK PROSPERING. *Fagre Land Agency, Lands. South International Falls is now dry, the council there refusing-to A. R. Tuller, Photographer. grant any liquor license to the applicant- Littletork has First, Blackduck voted out the saloons then came the Indian E. V. Moore, Attorney. also been declared dry in a decision by Judge Stanton. Big Falls lid and last week the water tank toppled over and now it is so Fred M. Johnson, Garage. now has only three saloons. With a vote on county option during —Long Prairie Leader dry up there that the springs in the Waterbury clocks are covered the summer it now looks as if Koochiching county would be "dry with dust-—Bemidji Sentinel. Write to these men yourself and confirm the above statement. ill over" before another spring arrives.—Northome Record. We should worry! Blackduck has forgotten that it ever had saloons a new steel tank is now on the way to replace the wooden NEW AUTO LAWS CITATION POR HEARING OX Yes, it will make quite a difference to the business men of PETITION POR PROBATE one of other days, besides, it has rained every other day since the OP POREIGN WXKXi this city when the saloons go out, one of which will be that the tank fell, and as to the Waterbury clocks we confess that we Governor Hammond has signed men will get their checks cashed at the grocery store, or the 1 STATE OP MINNESOTA don't know what they are, but judging by the long strings of fish the new state automobile law ss meat market, or the dry goods store instead of at the saloon or being speared by the boys the story of the springs being dry is County of Koochiching and it is now in force. Hereafter better still, tliev will put them on deposit at one of our banks a fake pure and simple. The only thing that is causing concern IN PROBATE COURT when an automobile is sold, if md draw a check with which to pay for their two weeks supplies. among the people tributary to Blackduck is how to find room for IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE the license tag goes with the car OF JOHN A. KLAPF. DECEDENT. the first crop of the season of the big red clover and alfalfa which the purchaser must register with If the saloon is a good thing for a comunity why did a writer is almost ready for the scythe.—Blackduck American. The State of Minnesota to all persons in Bonfort's Wine and Spirit Circular for Jan. 19th, 1915, say, the secretary of state and pay Most all the former saloon keepers and bar tenders have interested in the allowance and "I have heard an importer and distiller say that he would fight to a fee of $i. This is to make it probate of the will of said decedent: started farming The petition of Dora Klapf, representing: possible to trace the ownership the last ditch any attempt to establish a saloon in the neighborhood that John A. Klapf, then a of a car, which has been difficult resident of the County of Spokane, in which he resides." If the people engaged in the business feel THE FARMER AND THE SALOON. State of Washington, died on the 14th in the case of second hand cars that way about it, they cannot find fault with others offering the day of December, 1913, testate and A farmer who resides in Walls township was recently discussing that his will has been allowed and passing from one owner to another. same objection. admitted to probate in Superior Court county option with the writer and stated his views as in and for the County of Spokane State of Washington, b,eing filed in follows: "I am not a prohibitionist and I drink a glass of beer Increased license fee provided this Court, together with authenticated Temperance legislation has run the gauntlet. It has been when I feel that I want it, but saloons have never made a dollar by the act does not go into effect copies of said will and of the probate thereof in the Court above named, and despised and rejected- It has been greeted with distrust and suspicion. until Jan. 1918. For the three for me that I know of, while I am sure they have cost me many. I, praying that said will be admitted to years beginning Jan. 1915, the But during all of this time there has been a growing demand probate in this State, and that letters I never drink enough to harm me nor interfere with my business, Testamentary be thereon granted to old fees prevail, of $1.50 for each on the part of the people for greater restrictions to be placed but the majority of the men I hire can't use the stuff that way. Dora Klapf: Now, therefore, you, and license, no matter when it is each of you, are hereby cited and required upon the liquor traffic, and the saloon in particular. Today When they go to town they make hogs of themselves and fill up to show cause if any you have taken out. They will expire in before this Court, at the Probate Court there is no question but that the people demand county option. until they become a nuisance to th'emselves and to everybody I Rooms in the Court House in International 1918 and new licenses in that The victory in the legislature last winter showed that the people Falls, County of Koochiching, else. Usually they bring a bottle, or two home with them and as year will cost $5, lasting three State of Minnesota, on the 18th day of throughout the state demand it.—Center City News. a rule it is three or four days or a week before they get straightened June 1915, at 10 o'clock A. M., why the years. Licenses issued in 1919 prayer "of said petition should not be up in condition to do a man's work. During harvest and threshing will cost $3.50, and in 1920, $2 granted. Witness the Judge of said Court, time that sort of thing is extremely aggravating, every Who are the men who are going to fill this county with blind as all to expire Jan. 1, 1921,..which and the seal of said Court, this 19th hour wasted is a loss to me as it is to every farmer who must day of April, 1915. will begin a new period. pigs when the county votes dry? They are certainly not the temperance JOHN BERG, help. Saloons arc of mploy no benefit to me or to anyone else in Under the new law the license people, then they must be the whiskey people, and if so Court Seal Judge of Probate Court. ML B. ROBLE, money goes into the road and the county, so far as I know, and I shall protect my. own interests then by this blind pig talk they are throwing down the gauntlet Attorney for Petitioner. bridge fund, and this takes effect by voting against them."—-Wheaton Gazette. 20 3 of defiance to all the officers of this city and county whose province at once. The change in chauffeurs it is to enforce law. If we know anything about the temper licenses also goes into For rent. A good seven room A TYPICAL GOOD FELLOW of our executives they will readily call such a bluff as this. effect right away, and they now house with good garden and When will the saloon bunch manifest any evidence of reasonable It took just 12 years for a Chicago "good fellow" to travel by cost $1.50 instead of $3 and renewals poultry house, South International the booze route from being one of the leading real estate factors judgment. each year will be only $1. Falls, or will sell on monthly \?f O- of the city to the grave of a penniless suicide. Popular, jovial, Beginning in 1918, the license "The only defence of the liquor interests is money. Even its kind-hearted, he had all the qualities of popularity that make men for any dealer, covering any payments, same as rent. Box 203 bT number of cars will cost $20. friends will admit that the traffic is against the public welfare so likeable. He also had the ability that made him a realty king. or phone 231. 1 -f 1, I? Aft,