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Colonizing is an The city of Ardmore, Oklahoma has presented interested in watching the task he has assumed Official Paper of Koochiching County, expert business it calls for long and diversified an industrial situation during the last in How vital it is to that part of the country Minnesota. few weeks, that is unique, and an eloquent example experience. that which it is operated is shown by tl\e fact Perhaps, this our first, will be our last to the whole country. dividends $92,000,000 was paid to shareholders in Entered as Second Class Matter June' 23, 1909, at the ventrue of the kind. On September the 27th, an oil tank on the Post Office at International Falls, Minn., own-' in thirteen years. It is a property Under Act of Congress of tracks of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe March 3, 1879. ».\ GERMS, BUGS AND POLLYWOGS ed by 25,000 persons. railroad, in the city of Ardmore, exploded. in Mr* The owners got a real bargain Internationl Falls Press Publishing Company Forty three people were killed, 350 injured, and Elliott.—Pioneer# Press. By G. F. Swinnerton, M. D., County Health Officer George P. Watson, Editor and Manager whole btocks of downtown property, and other WHY A REVOLVER? buildings wrecked. If you talk to some hardheaded The old expression "mad as a wet hen," Here was an Eldorado for shyster lawyers, business man about really ought to be changed to "mad as a wet flocking to a battle field, these legal parascites germs, bugs etc., as the immediate who In Minneapolis the other day a man alderman" for the time being.—Chicago Herald. of society began to gather in the city. Local cause of most has always has no use for a revolver but attorneys of shady professional reputation began diseases, he will go off with uncontrollable carried one, came near using it in a fit of to scent the feast. Being popular in one's home town has its a quizzical smile, take a stiff was was temper. Fortunately he Then the unexpected, and unprecedented drink of whiskey, and tell charge disadvantages. Gaze on Judge C. W. Stanton restrained and today is not facing a a his friends you are dippy. He was professional" „in the industrial world happened. Within of first degree murden a of Bemidji, for instance. Has there ever been week after the disaster, the head of the Santa The same man will stop to ordinary man, but he is in the same class with the an office in the gift of the state about which air his scientific knowledge, Fe system voluntarily accepted all liability shiny gun toter, who goes armed with a W. has not denied that he is a candidate, by telling you about well explain. for the railroad company. A commissioh of gun for no reason that he can following announcement by admiring homefolk?— six representative citizens of Ardmore was appointed laws, the old horsehairs in the rain barrel, when he The incident indicates again that the weapons Duluth News Tribune. by the Mayor, to represent the interests covering the carrying of concealed was a boy, that would turn into "live wigglers." of all claimant citizens. The company armed What can you do towards the advancment of are inadequate. Half the men who go merely and city at once put an ample corps of men on do not need such 'protection. They the scientific supervision of Public Health with It is worth a good deal to the law abiding the ground, to meet and go over the claims fancy they do. It is this class who every once a man like that? people of this city to have such a conscientious it. of all. in a while use a gun because they need Whiskey is the panacea of lots of men, for and fearless champion of their rights on the general However, the gun-toting habit is more Simultaneously all shyster and jackleg all immaginable diseases. But their mental city council Alderman Frank S. Lang. Ever than is popularly supposed. lawyers, snitches, and other such, were informed operations are tremendously at fault. Why since he was elected he has taken a firm stand A record of the sales in any town, if of the healthiness of the climate of use whiskey when disease is mentioned, or against whatever came up in the council inimical one were kept would show that. The dealer northern Minnesota, or elsewhere while local prevalent? The very act is an admission of to good government even though he had in firearms has a responsibility and he should attorneys were warned against acts which something or other, which the whisky is supposed to stand alone. be made to bear it, something he is not compelled would militate against the speedy adjustment to kill. What is this something? It to do now. Every man who carries a of all claims with the full benefit to the claimants. It beats every thing how anxious Mayor may be possible by strenuous and patient effort, revolvor shoul^ be made to file a declaration Keyes is to enforce an ordinance which regulates to convince such men of the causal relation with the police authorities, should undergo an a reputable business but deliberately The mutual cry was "lets avoid all lawsuits." between germs and disease. But the fact examination at the time he files it and should The results to date, confirm the sincerity •allows the ruthless and wholesale breaking of remains nevertheless. be proven thoroughly responsible and desiring ordinances when any member of the saloon of the cry. Of 1275 claims, 916 have To convince these men of this fact, is of to go armed for some good reason. Such gang is interested. We are not objecting to already been settle satisfactorily to both parties, immense importance. They are business men. regulation, especially in this section of the the enforcement of the auctioneer's license at a disbursment by the railroad company They are the men who influence and direct the state would have a wholesome effect and would but we do say that if the Mayor is going to of $500,000, while the balance of claims, are legislative acts of our legislators, representatives considerably reduce the number of capital enforce this, then why doesn't he enforce the expected to be settled with a further expenditure and senators. If they once get the crimes.—Virginia Enterprise. of $250,000 by the company. ordinances and laws against gambling, houses Vision of Germs, as the ultimate and immediate of easy virtue, the illegal sale of liquor and Everybody is satisfied but the lawyers, things of evil at the bottom of disease, there THE COUNTY BANKER don't to make a noise. This every other damnable crime that is being and they dare will surely be something doing. But they are 'winked at in this city every night. What a speaks most eloquently for the wisdom displayed from Missouri. The function of the country banker is that splendid opportunity there is in this city for a by the unparalled incident. If one-half the hard-headed business men of financial father of his own town. In years Mayor with a little "sand." of Minnesota, were intensely convinced, that THE PHILIPPINES gone by he was not thus considered. Popular diseases that cause death, suffering, deformity, tradition then made him the hard hearted Much credit is due to city attorney F. J. sorrowful hearts, wasted citizens, were due keeper of the strong box in which were locked McPartlin for his determinded stand at the Congressman Miller of this district, has to germs, that can be defied, and rendered the treasures of the town and country—the council meeting last Monday night in favor figured prominently during the last few days, harmless against human life, the appropriation legalized^ hold-up artist to whom men came of law enforcement and better government in the press of the country, on account of his for public health purposes, in Minnesota, only in the last extremity. If ever he was as shown in the written opinion given to the statement of the deplorable conditions which would be the most liberal in the entire Union. black as He was painted he has changed color council, of his own violition, relative to the he avers exist in the Philippines. Facts are stubborn things. Germs are or has given place to a man of lighter shade. liquor license application of Fred Shaw, which When at the close of the Spanis^Arnerican facts, therefore very stubborn in their reality, The banker of today is the chief prosperity is contrary to the county option law of our war, this country took over the' Islands and desperate in their efficiency. If a business promoter of his town. He knows that his state. It must have taken considerable time from Spain, at an expenditure of a neat sum man cannot be convinced in any other way, fortunes grow with the fortunes of his community and careful thought to have prepared this of American money, a strong section of Americans but is open to conviction, he might step into and that he himself has the power to were opposed to the deal, as involving opinion, confirmed as it is by so many cited add measurably to his neighborhood's welfare. the State Bacteriological Laboratory, and see cases. We believe that Mr. McPartlin's firm the United States in a policy, to which, up The work now being done by the bankers these germs under the microscope, and the stand on this matter as well as on other maters that time, it had been flatly opposed. We never of Minnesota in financing the development of cultures of them visible to the naked eye. relative to law enforcement in this city will wanted any colonies, we «i.re not a colonizing diversified farming is opening a new era in do much toward the long needed "clean up" nation, and did not want to begin to be such. He could see their action on experimental agriculture and in the relation of country animals, and the actual production of a disease, which officials seem to be afraid to bring But there we were. The deal made, the banker to country client. Where the old Philippinos had become ours for better or for which, may be, has robbed, him of some member about. school banker used to keep track of his client of his family. We know that he would worse. Some hoped for better, others feared by the spy method, the man of the new school for worse. But anyhow they were on our be convinced of the very intense reality of One hundred thousand men, more or less, goes out to the farm and talks the matter hands. this menace to life and health. paraded the streets of Chicago in protest of the over in a brotherly fashion, advising and getting So to the task the government went, with Such an investigation will convince a man •enforcement by the mayor of that city of the advice. The outcome of this is a closer, of sound mind and reasonable judgment. The commendable wisdom and conscientiousness. Sunday laws as applied to the closing of saloons. warmer relation that makes the banker, if he True, with no other experience in molding a man who is not, is impervious to argument and When men claiming to be civilized is wise, a consulting architect for his client's barbarous people, such as our cousin Across demonstration, both are wasted on him. A brazenly clamor in public for the right to fortune. In this way many a cow barn, silo the seas possessed, we applied hygeine, sanitation, man of good judgment, will be convinced upon override a sacred provision of the law and hurl and hog house have come into being in this education, salvation, and legislation to threats of defiance and vengeance against a the basis of reasonable probability. THIS state during the past decade. Corn, clover, this motley crew. And out of a polygot mass is the man the people need, to urge unremittingly, high executive official for doing his duty under cows, hogs, alfalfa and silage have been added of swarthy humanity, for a time, seemed to be the provision of adequate and up-todate his oath of office, it is about time that they to the farmer's stock in trade to the upbuilding winning some semblance to western ways of were given to understand their room is better means to check and nullify the activities of the banker's profit and of the dependable civilized life, and government. True the reins of disease germs against the life and health than their company, and if they don't like the income of the farmer.—The Minnesoten. had been in the hands of Americans, but as it of his fellow citizens. way this country is governed they can retfirn seemed us fit, we let a Philippino hand here and The great scientist of the middle ages, to the land of their birth. They must also be TO OUR READERS. there rest upon a rein. So all was seemingly Gallileo, was persecuted for teaching that the served notice that rummies are not going to going well. Congressman Milller's lectures run this government and that the time is very earth goes round the sun. Though he recanted Every family in this county is perhaps^a two years.ago, after his return to this country, near at hand when their disreputable joints in form- he said: "the earth still goes subscriber to various maganizes and newspapers. from an official visit to the Philippines, gave us must close entirely and the men running them round the sun." No recantation can change The total amount of money paid for hope that the barbarian was merging into at forced to earn a decent and respectable living. the fact. Equally, no amount of poohpoohing these publications probably amounts to several least semi-civilization. —Fairmont Sentinal. the facts of science, can alter them in one jot iy thousand dollars annually. It is money Now at a later date, Mr. Miller, after an or tittle. Whether men believe it or not, well spent, of course, because we must have "WANTED" other trip to this remote territory, informs the GERMS cause disease. They will get us surely, something for the family to read. country, that things have become slack, the. if we are not adequately and fully protected But if you can save about seventy-five per flag is insulted, unrest and treachery are evident "How often do we read the advertisement by intelligent public health methods. The cent of this money, and still have all the papers on all hands. He hints even at supression "Wantd—Good reliable, sober and intelligent goblins of disease will sure get YOU if you and maginzes you want, it is worth considering, of correct information of conditions by resident v- men.'' This is the kind of men the world don't watch out. is it not? Americans in government position, and wants, and the demand is great. In every •$• '. We have made arrangements whereby we A GOT A BARGAIN IN ELLIOTT maladministration, as part of his charge. line of endeavor these men are wanted. You can save this community hundreds of dollars 1&- The facts and figures in the matter will... never read an ad—Wanted—A man who by merely ordering their reading matter undoubtly be aired during the next session of fgamfoles Wanted a man who spent his youth Directors of the New Haven road were on through our office. Our best offer is a club congress, and a clearer impression of actual :in idleness and is ignorant, knows nothing trial just as the annual report of Howard of four maginzes with your own paper for conditions revealed to the country. of books or business.' Our common sense Elliott, chosen to rehabilitate the property, only $1.25 a year. Meanwhile, may it not be,- that in our inexperience -will teach us that it is reliable, sober, intelligent was made public. Arraignment of the directors You will find this big offer advertised on at the work of remaking and reshaping men that the business man is looking fpr. on a charge of contributing to the financial another page of this paper. Look up the advertisement none desire a semi-barbarous people, we have failed Every young man expects to succeed, disasters of the line served excellently to and read all about this remarkable make a failure. will to appreciate the experience of the greatest to Then why they call attention to the task assumed by Elliott. offer. Send us your order right in—mail it, We colonizing nation of th world, England. the footsetps of those who failed follow President Mellen's management amassed telephone it, or bring it to us, and we will fix K^"' gg#', have perhaps endeavored to do, with a relatively through these insets This is a good time to debts of $168 for every $100 of captial stock. it up at once so that you can get your g?3L k**'~\ 1 Cc- ,$ shun evil and avoid evil companions, for "birds inferior race, in a few short years, what maginzes. With this burdensome legacy, President Elliott 'of a feather together." chances for flock The England has never seen fit in her colonizing is accomplishing a notable feat in building up If there is anything in the advertisement knowledge were never so great as now and wisdom to do, for almost two centuries in the property and making it prosperous again. you do not understand, drop into our office knowledge is power. Men draw big salaries -India, and other of her colonies. The evolu-^ It's With operating revenue only $2,000,000 sometime and let us explain all about it. for what they know, and a diploma certificate, tion of human nature from semibarbarism to below that of the previous year, President the best clubbing offer we have ever seen, and 9 $' accounts for little if the bearer cannot do what ieven a semblance of civilized reliableness Elliott whittled more than $5,000,000 off the we are anxious to have every reader take advantage faill it sufficient even to admit a part administration he claims."—Ex. road's expense account. Leaks were prevent- of it. ^iifr