'i vlp!plpi INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS At The Churches ONLY 16 FARMERS fore his visitor called on him. But he could see no profit for himself AMONG BANKRUPTS nor glory for his paper in printing an item that would bring sorrow THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS to the gray hairs of a father, disgrace to a brother and probably Total of 441 Petitions Filed in serious consequences to a sick mother. If the news appetites of his ISraiciSfejfllSSeil AND BORDER BUDGET & nnesota During Fiscal Year, readers were so voracious, he thought, as to demand this costly food, Second St. Official Paper of Koochiching County, Minnesota. corner Fifth Ave. and U. S. Court Reports. he would refuse to pay the price. The editor was right. Many $ L. Pastor E. Heermance, Entered as Second Class Matter June 23, 1909, at the Post Office at things he has to print which he would rather leave unsaid, but the Community. Social Center for the Only 16 farmers went into voluntary International Falls, Minn., Under Act of Congress of March 3, 1S7». scandal which has only its "spice" to recommend it should have no bankruptcy in Minnesota "What shall I do to be saved?" place in the colums of a self-respecting paper. We would rather INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING CO. during the government fiscal year will be the topic Sunday evening build than tear down. We would rather print the things that help & that closed June 30, according to George P. Watson, Editor and Manager at 8:oo. At a. m. the pastor ft and encourage and uplift than to hold up the neighbors. Decency a report issued by the United will speak on "The Folly of Fault is not lack of courage. If it were, we would rather be decent than States district court clerk in St. Finding-." Automobiles are now running between Port Arthur, Ont. and Paul yesterday. courageous.—Selected. Duluth, what about the roads between International Falls and Port The number of wage earners Sunday school at 10 a. m. YOUR TOWN filling petitions was 173, mer Arthur. chants 112, manufactures 23, professional If you want to live the kind of a town Christian Endeavor at 7:00. men 36 and miscellane Not a single industry in this city has closed since the town voted That's the kind of a town you like, ous occupa'tons 23. The total dry but many people are drinking less and are beginning to pay up You don't have to slip your clothes in a grip South Bethlehem number of petitions filed during their old debts with the money thus saved. And start on a long, long hike. Town Hall, Holler's Addition. the year was 441. The total liabilities You'll only find what you've left behind vCBpung uo jooips vCnpung listed by the voluntary The many resolutions passed and petitions presented by the For there's nothing really new noon at 1130. bankrupts was $1,890,381 and the an any Austrian and German mechanics in this country against the It's a knock at yourself if you knock your town assets realized aggregated $394,I05 FIRST METHODIST °5- Dumba's interference with their business is flattering to this government For it isn't your town, it's you. EPISCOPAL CHURCH Real towns are not made, by men afraid There were dividends declared and the workmen alike. Are. Street, Corner ot 10th 5th during the year aggregating $93,829.32. Lest somebody else gets ahead C. H. Blake, Pastor The money value of the This county is completing hundreds of miles of good roads, thus If everybody works and nobody shirks, exemptions allowed was $129,083.13. making hundreds of thousands of acres of the best agricultural You can raise a town from the dead, Just two more Sundays before The number of creditors' lands accessible to markets. Now we are ready for the farmers And if, while you make your personal stake. conference. petitions filed was 52, with 72 overcrowded rom the farm sections of other states and the home Your neighbor makes one too cases disposed of during the year. seekers from the big- cities. Your town will be what you want to see Services at the Ranier church The liabilities in this class amounted For it isn't your town, it's you. to-night at 7:45:fc to $1,011,602.50. The if sji The coming fall and winter will be the most prosperous this —Selected assets realized totalled $225,007.20 Mrs. G. N. Millard will sing a city and county has vet seen. Five thousand men are being advertised and the dividends declared were special selection during the anniversary WAR CHEAPER THAN BOOZE for—three thousand for the logging camps of the International $116,745.63. service next Sunday The attorneys' fees allowed in Lumber Company alone. The M. D. and W. will also build thirty In what sort of financial position are we (in Great Britian) going morning. the voluntary bankruptcy cases miles of new railroad. Nord & Snyder need hundreds of men for their to find ourselves as a nation when this war is over? We have amounted to $20,361.39, and the road and ditch work. There is an abundance of work but a scarcity already added 900,000,000 pounds to our funded debt and well more Rebekah anniversary service involuntary bankruptcy cases of workmen. There is no excuse for any able bodied man being out than 200,000,000 pounds to the exchequer bonds and treasury bills next Sundav morning at 11:00 $15,285.75. of work in this count)' this winter. that, having to be met at comparatively early dates, are commonly o'clock. called floating debt. And some people tell us that the war is only !TA1'£1U£N1 Of CONDITIONS Next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, are the days for the just beginning—where shall we be at the end? Services next Sunday as follows OP Koochiching County Fair at Northome. The fair is always a good Everything depends on how we meet war's problems, financial Farmers State Bank fair, one you cannot afford to miss. It will be a revelation to those and commercial, in the meantime. If we meet them boldly and sensibly of Iiittlefork, Minn. Sabbath school 10 a. m. who have not visited it in other years to see for themselves the we may end the war a richer and more powerful people than we at Close of Business on Sept. 2, 1915 abundance and good quality of farm and garden produce and stock began it. Not richer in aggregate wealth—that is hardly possible ,but Public worship 11 a. m. and 8 that is being'raised in our own county. The committee have arranged richer through a great improvement in the distribution of our wealth, Date of Call by Superintendent .September p. m. Sth. for a large number of prizes to be given for the best productions and a diminuton in the number of people who are near the destitution 5k Date ol' Report by Bank September 13. in the many classes listed. Every resident of the county should endeavor line at the bottom of the social ladder. There is 110 need to be The Ladies Aid did so well at to attend and thus show their interest in the productions Resources terrified by the apparently appalling figures of the increase in our their tood sale and lunch Tuesday Loans and Discounts $37,980.16 •and developments in their own county. debt charge and other liabihlits. Overdarfts. 1,122.74 afternoon that they decided to Banking House, Furniture and have another at the same place In the current number of the Edinburgh Review its editor estimates Fixtures 3,207.25 next Wednesday. Don't worry. This town is not going to the bow-bows. When Due from Hanks that by the time the war ends the increase of our national debt Cash on Hand i,(534.37 jfc this county voted "dry" it did the best thing that has ever been will be not less than 2,000,000,000 pounds. This will mean an annual Total Cash Assets 2,fi!HJ.71 Cheeks and Cash Items Subjects for next Sunday's sermons 177.30 -clone for its real and permanent prosperity. If there is anything charge, for interest and sinking fund, of 110,000,000 pounds. Harold will be. morning, "The wrong with this town it is the fault of the saloon regime. With one $4o ,2 4 t. 1 Cox adds to this another 20,000,000 million pounds for pensions to Inabilities Sacredness of Life." Evening, •exception there is as mqny saloons here to-day as before election, disabled soldiers and to widows and dependents of the fallen, making Capital Stock $10,000.00 "The Devils Peace Or God's Surplus Fund 400.00 and if saloons make a town a good town then this town is as good a total of 130,000,000 pounds. Peace, Which." Undivided Profits, Net 276.95 to-day as ever it was. If it has alredy gone to the dogs, as "howling Deposits Subject to It is a monstrous big sum to find every year, but it is 30,000,000 Check $20,763:52 dervishes" on the street corners want to make you believe, then its pounds less than the amount that we spend in a year 011 various Demand Certificates 425.24 We extend to you a cordial welcome the system they are serving that has sent it there, and it is high forms of alcoholic indulgence. Viewed in this comparative light, to attend all the services of Total Immediate time the government was takn out of its hands. Liabilities 21,188.76 the Down Town church next Sundav. the charge begins to look very different. To a people that pours Time Certificates 13,381.45 160,000,000 pounds' worth of strong drink down its throat every year, Total Deposits 54,570.21 A great deal has been written and said about the Hibbing tax a charge of 130,000,000 pounds incurred for victory in the cause of FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH matters. We believe that no one is studying the situation as Total 45,247.16 civilization is a matter that can be faced with confidence. Amount of Reserve on hand $2,699.71 Church of the New Covenant. thoroughly and with as little bias as State Auditor Preus, whose It will be the business of the government to collect 130,000,000 Amount of Reserve Required by Law $2,788.00 Wm. Cross, Pastor. province it is to protect the state's interests at all times. We believe pounds over and above its former peace demands from the nation, STATE OF MINNESOTA 1 he is doing it at this time and in this matter as carefully as }-SS. and pay them back again to it. At least, that will be the effect, County of KoochichingWe, Bible school 10 a. m. anyone could protect them. He is a broad guaged man and an insofar as the increase in our debt is due to borrowing at home. If T. J. Johnson, president and cashier Mr. Gish, Supt. of the above named Bank, do solemnly honorable public official, and is evidently studying this important we borrow much abroad, we shall be really poorer, because we shall swear that the aDove statement is Sermon 11 a. m. "The Vicar of question from its many different angles and we believe that when true to the best of our knowledge and have to ship goods to America, or elswhere, to pay interest and sinking Christ on Earth." beleif. Sic takes action in the matter it will be of such a character that the fund. But we cannot do this to a great extent, for the good and T. J. Johnson, President Christian Endeavor 7 p. m. Subscribed and sworn to before me best interests of all concerned will be conserved. The people of Beginning Sermon 8 p. m. "In The simple reason that America, cannot and will not lend much. It may this 13th day of Sept., 1915 Hibbing and of this entire state can well afford to wait patientlv for Abraham Olson, Notary Public, God." a matter of a hundred or two of millions, if the war lasts long SEAL Koochiching- County, Minnesota. an equitable adjustment of these matters at his hands. Prayer Meeting, Wednesday, My commission expires Octo­ enough, but it can only be small fraction of the total increase in ber 3rd, 1915. 8 p. m. our debt. By far the greater part of our war debt will be a damestic Correct Attest: (Two) Directors POWER OF THE PRESS G. J. Vanderwalt affair, and the charge involved by it will be out of cne pocket into Lars A. Swanson The Christian Endeavor Society anoth'er.—London Chronicle. An editorial in a recent daily, in commenting upon the sinking will serve a Hot W^affie Supper •of the "Arabic" and the public sentiment aroused, had this caption, begining at 5 130 p. m. Saturday, CITATION FOR HEARING ON PINAL 1 he Country Heard From.'' Now just what was it that occurred ACCOUNT AND FOR DISTRIBUTION TIMBER IS CUT Sept. 18th at the corner of obtained by the government, to give the President, as this paper inferred, the ear of the nation? FROM STATE LAND 3rd st. and 5th ave. 25c. B. A. would amount to from $50,000 to iSnnply tins: I lie chief newspapers of every state gave editorial Busy B. $75,000." Be bate of Brick T. Brickson. State Will Attempt to Recover expression of their views springing from the event. The heart of Mr. Case added that the money STATE OF MINNESOTA 1 From Federal Government. If has gone into the Indian fund, cacli editorial was cut out and all were assembled in many of the S S County of Koochiching and that it would necessitate action THE SENSATION OF 1915 larger dailies. 1 he President has read these expressions and, as The state of Minnesota probably In the Matter of the Estate of Erick by congress to reimbruse THE ALTER AUTOMOBILE ''die above mentioned editorial states, has "heard from Germany." will bring action soon to collect Erickson, Decedent: Minnesota. His course of action will be mapped very largely from these editorials from the Federal government THE STATE OF MINNESOTA TO Tollef Erickson and Carl T. Erickson from $50,000 to $75,000 as payment which are but the personal opinion of a like number of editors. But and all persons interested in the final WARNS AGAINST THE for timber cut from state account and distribution of the estate to the public it means more. When the New York World or the OVR DEMONSTRATOR DANGERS OF LIQUOR of said decedent: The representative lands, according to announcement Louisville Courier-Journal speaks, back of these expressions are seen IS HERE of the above named decedent, having at the office of J. A. O. Preus, filed in this Court his final account of many thousands of readers who can reasonably be counted as supporting the administration of the estate of said Chicago, Aug—"A glass of state auditor. 27 Horse Power decedent, together with his petition the view expressed, and from whom, if the fact were known, Lake Michigan" was what Harry praying for the adjustment and allowance The attention of the state auditor Electric Starter the editor absorbed his own personal view. The most powerful of said final account and for distribution Thaw ordered when asked what has been called to the matter of the residue of said estate Lights exponent of op'nion. the most decisive mold of human action, is the "he would have" at the Congress to all persons thereinto entitled: by one of his assistants, B. F. THEREFORE, YOU, AND EACH OF public press. Its influence is past computation, its responsibility is hotel last night. Thaw is making Foot Accelerator Case, who has been estimating YOU, are hereby cited and required to fearful. Great is the power of the press.—Northwestern Advocate. an automobile trip across the show cause, if any you have, before this timber at Cass Lake, which he declares Everything Complete at Court at the Probate Court Rooms in country to San Fransico and is all that is left. Mr. Case the Court House, in the city of International COURAGE vs. DECENCY reached here last night. Falls in the County of Koochiching, added that the government land State of Minnesota, on the 16th $748.00 "I am not on the water wagon, has been cut over, and that it day of October, 1915, at 10 o'clock, a. The other day an excited individual rushed into a newspaper but I do not take a drink unless m. why said petition hould not be would be well for the state to dispose granted. f* office with a choice bit of scandal burning his tongue. It made no 1 want it, and I never want it," of its holdings while there is INTERNATIONAL FALLS, WITNESS, the Judge of said Court, difference to this person that the scandal affected the daughter of he said. A lot of misery, as caused and the seal of said Court, this 16th an opportunity to do so. day September, 1915. his neighbor—that the mother of the girl was seriously ill—that the by drink, and a fellow should "In my investigations," said Mr. JOHN BERG, Ready to push the Button brother was just entering what promised to be a successful professional be mighty careful. Life and liberty Probate Judge Case today, "I have found considerable COURT JEVNE & NORTON, Built for Rough Roads career. The scandal was rich in flavor, and he wanted to are too good." state land that the timber SEAL Attorneys for Petitioner Sept. 16-30 see it in paper. He told the editor about it, with every evidence of As good as any $1200. car made has been cut from under government MISS LYNCH the keen relish of the scandal connoissuer, but impressed upon the sale and supervision in the Strictly in a Class by Itself DR. N. J. TAYLOR newspaper man that the source of his information must be kept in"violably last twelve years. For some time graduate of Wesley Conservatory I have known of this condition, secret. When the paper came out, the man returned to dejmand LET US SHOW YOU Veterinary Physician and Surgeon of Music but have never been in close why the story hadn't been printed. Short, sharp words followed, Grand Forks, N. D. Graduate touch with the different descriptions S. E. THOMPSON & SON and the visitor called the editor a coward and left vowing that E A E O S I McKellip College, Chicago of land until the last few a man who was afraid to print the news had no right to be an. editor. JL j^^International Falls, Minn. Office at Koochiching Hotel Studio, back of the litis weeks. To our mind, that editor was a brave man. The informer who I "A close investigation, believe Drug Store demanded that his name be kept secret, was the coward. The editor will reveal a cut of from 10,000,000 FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Get your typewriter supplies ran a paper in a small town. So closely related were the lives of to 15,000,000 feet of pine timber, at the Press office. Residence Phone Studio SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PRESS 71 380 the inhabitants, that the editor knew every detail of the story be­ which, valued at the sale price iA, z/.-dlnJ* ill' xu«L. Ski 'I