PWSKg"W w-v-T"r^ t- 'i V' ,m ,sw INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS NOR. MINNESOTA A SALE OF SCHOOL AND farm operations. A homeseeker m-B TREASURE HOUSE with even moderate means, who OTHER STATE LAND I S I NEWS is willing to work for an established (Continued from page INTERNATIONAL FALLS s&uoett!8sajiiiuiiiNiiiNMli I future, cah find no better 8tate Auditor's Offloe. E S S Mrs. Rogers and children came schools and churches of all denominations opportunity anywhere than in are seen in all parts of St. Louis St. Paul. Minnesota, Sunday morning and the family the upper counties of Minnesota. county. have moved in the M. Erickson Limitless Empire. August 23rd, 1916. —St. Paul Dispatch. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. That house on the homestead. The natural* rich resources of on Oct. 9th, 1916, at 10 o'clock A. M. the upper counties offer golden FARM LAND VALUES in the office of the County Auditor at international Falls, Koochiching County, The Community club met opportunities to the homeseeker. AVERAGE $55 AN ACRE in the State of Minnesota, I will offer again Saturday and in spit.e of It is an empire of limitless possibilities. for sale certain unsold state lands, and (Continued from Page I.) also those state lands which have reverted the rain there was a large crowd Here one may find these to the state by reason of the nonpayment out. The program was good. rare combinations: Rich soil, real estate within the state, that of interest. Terms of Sale. 180 pure water easily obtained, has not been subdivided into Fifteen per cent of th.e purchase price George Garrison is in Bemidji tracts different from the subdivision days of sunshine yearly, an in is payable to the County Treasurer at 5 "THE PAPER WITH THE FlilVC the time of sale. The unpaid balance geting surgical aid, as the car of a section. vigorating climate, ample- rainfall is payable at any time in whole or in turned turtle on their homeward during growing season, railroads The compilation made by the part on or before forty years from the date of sale at an interest rate of four trip breaking his collar bone. He and wagon roads, good commission shows that the value per cent per annum, due on June first of is getting along nicely. The rest markets, churches, schools, and of unplatted lands is increasing each year provided that the interest SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 PER YEAR can be paid at any time within the interest escaped with a few bruises. more repidly in Southern Minnesota neighbors, and this is also under year without penalty, in effect, this means that the interest money may "Old Glory," and in the North than in the northern part be paid any time between June first and Mr. and Mrs. G. Garrison returned $200,000,000 Star State with its of the state. May thirty-first without penalty. Book, Job, Commercial Appraised valufe of timber, when so from their auto trip 1914'and 1915 school fund, and the most progressive For the years stated, must be paid for in full at the Sunday afternoon. They have the average selling price of land and the most prosperous time of salei Printing Our Specialties All mineral rights are reserved to the spent the past three weeks in the state in the Union. in ten adjoining southern counties State by the laws of the State. southern part of the state visiting All lands are sold subject to any and The soil is easy to work and (Sibley, Nicollet, Brown, Le all ditch taxes thereon. with friends. is adapted to all kinds of diversified Sueur, Watonwan, Blue Earth, Lands on which the interest has become delinquent may be redeemed at farming—grasses, grains,' Waseca, Martin, Faribault and any time up to the hour of sale, or before and root crops. Corn is not a1 $89.25 Freeborn), was an acre. resale, to the actual purchaser. Wedding Invitations, Announcements Such lands are listed under the caption: 1912 1913 sure crop yet, but I have seen For the years and it LITTLEFORK Delinquent Lands." Calling Cards, Catalogues, Booklets, Sale $72.85 1910 1911 No person can purchase more than 320 excellent corn, ripe on the stalks,] was and for and acres of land as provided by the General $60. Bills, Window Cards, Shipping Tags, Note as far north as Roseau, and on it was This is an increase of Laws 1906 provided, however, that State A new Baptist preacher is in lands purchased previous to 1906 is not 22.5 1914 1915 the east shore of the lower Red per cent for and Heads, Letter Heads, Bill Heads, Statements, charged against such purchaser. town for a few days sizing up 1912 1913 lake. I have seen the finest of over the and period Agents acting for purchasers must furnish Envelopes, Dodgers, Programs, etc. the situation. affidavit of authority. 48.7 oats and barley crops in Koochiching, and an increase of over the Appraisers reports showing quality 1910 1911 19121913 and kind of soil are on file in this office. St. Louis, Lake and Cook and period. The Lists giving legal descriptions of Auditor A. G. Wedge was a counties. increase over the preceeding lands to be offered may be obtained of visitor at the First National the State Auditor or the Immigration 21.4 It has a natural grass soil. two years was per cent. Commissioner at St. Paul, and of the Bank here yesterday. Clover, timothy, alfalfa, and all This may be compared to ten County Auditor at above address. J. A. o. nm tame grasses cah be seen growing adjoining northern counties, Kitson, Auditor. Mats Geo. W, Cochran left last wild along old logging roads. Roseau, Marshall, Polk, THE PRESS night to assist with the county I have seen thrifty fields of clover Pennington, Red Lake, Norman, NOTICE OP SALE OF BEA£ ESTATE exhibit at the state fair. and alfalfa in all the upper Clay, Becker and Mahnomen, in BY DECREE IN PARTITION counties. A soil which will grow the Red river valley. In these the Editor Jameson has just removed 1914 tame grasses without irrigation selling price of land in and STATE OF MINNESOTA, 1 the old landmark built yam. 1915 $30.38 is a safe one to build a home on. averaged an acre, County of Koochiching STATIONERY twenty years ago, in the form of Here also blue joint and red top $27.45 1912 compared to in and IN DISTRICT COURT, his old homestead shack. 1913 $22.23 in I9I° I911- FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT grasses grow wild. A man in and and Oscar C. Hanson, 1914-15 Carlton told me he sold the hay The increase over the Plaintiff, STORE Teddy Lachapelle, formerly of $10 stumpage on his land for 10.6 vs. preceeding two years was Victor Tornquist et al, this village but who has been at *910-11 an acre. Dairying is very profitable. per cent, and over was Defendants. Superior for the past year, returned In fact all farm products 36.6 per cent. The increase from NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. That here this morning. by virtue and in pursuance of a decree find a brisk sale in Duluth, the 1910-11 1912-13 23.4 to was per of Court made in said matter by the Twin Cities and the busy manufacturing cent or two per cent more than said District Court in and for the said County of Koochiching on the sixth MiSs Nelia Muus expects to towns in that region. the increase during the same dax of July, 1916, the undersigned, as leave this week for the state Soil for Sugar Beets. one of the referees named in said decree, period in the southern counties. iARTER'S will on Tuesday, the Seventeenth fair where she will represent the An expert on beet sugar whom 1914-15 For the period the (17th) day of October. 1916, at CONVENIENCES eleven (11) o'clock in the forenoon of county as one of its best bread met in Northern Minnesota, highest valuation per acre is that day, at the dwelling house situate Glue makers. told me that the soil there was shown in Hennepin county where on the lands to be sold as hereinafter described in the Town of Williams, naturally well adapted to raise Paste the average as disclosed by the County of Koochiching, State of Minnesota, $125.45.- sugar beets. Fifteen tons to the sales was As there is offer for sale at public auction The bridge company are doing Mucilage for cash, those tracts or parcels of $5.50 acre at per ton, without the rapid and good work on the considerable unplatted land in land, situate and being in the said Fluids Writing County of Koochiching, described a? tops, is a steady price. Minnesota Minneapolis and adjoining Lake new bridge across the Littlefork Fountain Pen Inks follows, to-wit: $11,000,000 spends annually river for which they got the Minnetonka which commands Lots Three (3) and Four (4), North half (N%) of Southwest quarter (SW $350,000 $17,200. for sugar, and makes only higher prices than prevailing Contract recently for and Southeast quarter '(SE*4) of worth, in our one sugar elsewhere. Carver county is Southwest quarter (SW%) of Section Five Township One Hundred sixty (5), plant at Chaska. This comes really entitled to the highest John Vanderwalk was taken (160) North of Range Twenty-nine 6,000. from only acres average in the state for rural (29) West of the 5th P. M. in Minnesota. to International Falls for medical It is a natural stock country. property. There land sells for treatment Tuesday morning. There are twenty-five acres of these $116.11 lands under cultivation and thirty-five /With such abundant grasses for per acre. Rock is second His condition is quite serious. acres in hay and pasture. Other imnrovements hay and pasture, live stock of all $102.96 with land worth and the Mrs. Vanderwalk went up yesterday are as follows: Dwelling house 16 ft. by 30 ft. with kitchen annex kinds can be made to pay big adjoining county of Nobles is to spend the day with 14 ft. by 16 ft. store house 16 ft. profits. There are fewer cattle in $101.09. third with an average of him. He is under the care of Dr. by 20 ft. stable 10 ft. by 16 ft. and hay shed 20 ft. by 30 ft. the United States today than Then in order come Blue Earth, Withrow. This land fronts on the beautiful twenty years ago. At present $99.45 $98.35 Rainy River there is a school house Ramsey, (conditions on the land, and it borders on two 3-year-old prices a fair steer will similar to those in Hennepin) Mr. Chas. Lemmon and family state roads. $100 $98.01 bring in the St. Paul stock Le Sueur, Martin, Dated August 31, 1916. c. arrived from Fairmont in an FRANK MILNE, Referee yards, and a hog nine years old $95.99 $95.96 Rice, Mc Leod, S E I A I E S A31 05 Address, Clementson, Minn. old fashioned but comfortable $25. will bring There is room $95.26. "prairie schooner" to find a farm for millions of cattle, horses, The new classified assessment 1914 of this same property in Doilies home in this county. He decided sheep and hogs in the upper law, first effective in 1914, requires $22,131,753, was or 34-36 Per cent to spend the winter here while Table Sets counties. that all unplatted land be 5.64 of the sales price, per cent SWtwon looking around and at once got 33 1-3 I doubt if any country can by assessed at per cent of its 40 less than the per cent required. Tally Cards work and a good house to live in. natural process excell the soil of true and full value and platted It is also true here that the He was recommended to this Place Cards the upper counties of Minnesota 40 land at per cent. By use of most of the sales were made county by relatives of Rev. Heer in the quantity and quality of the sales method it is easy to determine 1914 after the assessment and it mance who live at Fairmont, Table Covers food production for both man whether this act is being is believed by the commission and says that in all his travels Crepe Papers and beast. substantially complied with. that the increased valuations for he has not found a place that We have many iron mines, 1916 As already stated, the aggregate will easily make up for looks as good to him and his Sbeet Tissue Papers mills and manufactures, but 25,141 sales price of the this shortage. family as our delightful village. these are all merely handmaid transfers of unplatted land tabulated For equalization purposes the ens of agriculture. The farm 1914-15 for the period tax commission uses the sales comes first. The soil moves the $154,840,588, 27.03 was or per averages for the preceeding four STEEL TRAINS wheels of commerce,, industry cent of the sales value. While year period. This is believed to and trade. 5.3 this is per cent less than the be a fairer test of land values Northern Minnesota is blessed 33 required 1-3 per cent, yet is than would be the use of sales with many other natural g't1*— must be remembered that the covering but two years, as, in CITATION FOB HEARING* ON FETITZON great water powers which only assessment was made May 1, some sections purely local conditions TO SELL,. MORTGAGE need harnessing. Sparkling lakes 1914, before a large majority of during a short period OB LEAHB UJIS. .A. and Winding rivers, teeming the sales included in the biennial might either inflate or depress We are exclusive agents for the of W. Thomas. Estate J. with food and game fish, woodlands of compilation. As a matter fact prices sufficiently to make the REMINGTON TYPEWRITER wherein roam large and 1914-15 I9TATE OP MINNESOTA, 1 the averages will be averages unreliable. By using the and supplies small wild game. Surely he who used by the commission as one four-year period the number of County of Koochiching hears the call and loves the great for of the measures fixing 'land sales considered is doubled and IN PROBATE COURT. w. out of doors, will here find 1916 Ribbons values for the assessment, consequently the liklihood of In the matter of the estate of J, Thomas. land rich in its opportunities for and the tabulation strikingly indicates error is decreased to a minimum. Carbon Papers The State of Minnesota to Emory enjoyment. :.»fj a very general compliance 191210 1915 Thomas, Gertrude E. Christensen. Allen For the years inclusive, Typewriter Papers Thomas, Harvey Thomas, and Edna Northern Minnesota is a treasure of with the terms the new 53,949 a total of sales of Thomas, and all persons Interested. In house of undeveloped wealth. the mortgaging of certain lands belonging law, even for the first year of unplatted property has been reCorded, to said estate. The petition of Its surface is mainly level and its pperation. 5,804,503 involving acres Sallie M. Thomas, as representative of 'the above named estate, being duly undulating, free from rocks and The range in the proportion and an expressed consideration filed in this court, representing that it I sand, with hardwood and pine of assessed to full valuation is $296,348,524. of The assessed is necessary and for the best Interests BLANK BOOKS, SCHOOL AND OFFICE SUPPLIES tf said estate and of all interested ridges, interspersed with brush remarkably small, except in a $87,042,468, value of these lands was Of therein that certain lands said decedent and drained swamp land. Land few isolated cases. 29.37 described therein be mortgaged, or per cent of the &nd praying that a license be to Sallie in private hands can still be secured The commission has applied consideration. M. Thomas granted "to mortgage the cheap. A few government the same tests to platted property Same: Transfers of platted land numbering THE PRESS NOW THEREFORE, you. and each homesteads, somewhat remote which is assessed at 40 78,756. have been tabulated of you, are hereby cited and required "I from railroads, can still be taken. to show cause, if any you have, before per cent of its full and true value. for that period, showing a total this court, at the Probate Court Rooms 6f 2,000,000 The state has upwards $122,026,756. For the years 1914 and 1915 it consideration of in the Court House in International of acres to sell at prices from Palls, County of Koochiching, State has tabulated 41496 sales of this The assessed value of this property STATIONERY Minnesota, on the 25 th day of September, $5 per acre upwards, andftconsidering class of real estate, located almost $44,056,261, 36.1 1916, at 2 o'clock P. M.. why the was pr *7^ prayer of said petition should not be location they are in the entirely in cities and Villages, of the sale price. For both classes granted. long run about as cheap as a and has found the aggregate Witness the judge of said Court, and of property the assessed value 1 STORE the seal of said court, this 29th day government homestead There consideration represented 31.33 bf averaged per cent of the Au&ust, 1916. a JOHW Bract, rM t, is usually enough timber to by these transfers to have, been amount for which sold during .. v. Tfc A.31 814