THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS of one half mile of ditch. DR. G. F. SWINNERTON GIVES hank, in the sum of |2,500 with the j.CommisMoner Proceedings Road No. 9 T: 151 N. R. 27 W IDEAS TO MINNEAPOLIS Bonding company as surety, and a personal bond in the sum of $30,000 On this road we cut out and grubbed SCHOOLS charges on ditch work authorized and AND BORDER BUDGET as sureties, be both approved and ac- petitioned for is dargely in excess of 1 poih approved and ac one-half mile of right-of-way Illustrated by Methods Used in* Oar what would be fair and reasonable! S^fthe iSSn10^ f"mSSOn and built one double timber culvert sec Publishers of the Official County Proceedings charge, and we deem it for the best ™otlon' sa?e the was amount spent on this road $250. Schools interests KnnAhiiiiin» «.!««• canned.upon a. unanimous vote. interests of Koochiching county that INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY Elwell Roads A bill was presented by the Minnesota no more ditches be authorized at the School for Feeble minded covering GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager When mother used to insist on having present time, and that no more ditches The final reports on all these roads the 1915 expenses for county inmates, be financed. a kettle of water always steaming have been submitted to the highway and the same was referred to Now, therefore, be it resolved, that Entered at th^ Post Office at International Falls Minn as Second-class Matter commission. Division road No. 9 on coal stove or kitchen range the county auditors office. the approval of the county board on she had the right idea about breathable On motion the board adjourned un- was approved by this board at their ditches rllvO No. iiv« 19, Xvy 21, Ml) 22, 23, 6O1 24, 44* 25 25 and 2nd SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 PER YEAR 26 be withdrawn and the district! ^xl Wednesday, December 13, 1916, at air, according to Dr. G. F. Swinnerton last meeting, subject however, to the judge in charge of said proceedings a* m* of International Falls, Minn., approval of the Highway commission. be, and hereby is notified that the who has been conferring with Minneapolis Final estimate on this division has place occurrence with these soldiers. A police officer as well as any other county of Koochiching is unable to school officials as .to methods been sent in, but I have had no report Yet with this intimate association finance any more ditches, and praticularly The board re-convened on Wednesday, executive official is supposed to enforce on it so far. used in ventilating school buildings the ditches above named, and December 13, 1916, at 9:30 a. the laws of the state, not follow of the living with the dead in this m. hereby desires to and does enter a here. He is strong for moist air. All of road No. 24 will not be accepted war, aside from the greusome sights, the whims and fancies of his superior. protest against the allowance -of any Roll call, members present, Commissioners Dr. Swinnerton is city physician until the swamps have surfaced. the fetid odors, not in themselves more ditches in said county. Colburn, Ellingson, Mcintosh and school physician in International It should be borne in mind dangerous to health many times, Be it further resolved, that copies and French. Falls and county health officer and that we are not losing any money on of this resolution be served upon the I Members absent, Commissioner there does not seem to be any marked A prominent member of the gambling Holm. clerk of the district court, in which rural school health inspector for Koochiching. account of not having this road accepted, increase of disease among these fraternity won a cool thousand at the ditch proceedings above referred Moved by Commissioner French 1 Thus he devotes most of as the state does not have soldiers from this cause. the gambling table a few nights ago. to are pending, in order that a copy that the following bills be allowed his time to community health work. It is true that proper instructions funds on hand to pay their obligations. Another won six hundred and fifty, of this resolution may be filed in etw.. Md auditor instructed to draw war- He has been making a special study We are paid out of the one of said proceedings. rants for same: ar»% given to prevent the contamination but we understand he is at Hot of school heating and ventilating. Be it further resolved, that the au- Poor Fund mill tax. Last year we got about of any food or drink taken by Springs now. ditor be and hereby is directed to O. Cruickshank, supplies The Koochiching man is a firm advocate $19,000 as this countys share, and at the mouth, by these bodies, to the serve a copy of this resolution upon Mrs. Marie Olson, (Oct.).$ 5.0 of mechanical ventilating systems that rate it will take years to pay rank and file of the soldiery. It is with much pleasure that we welcome the district judge in charge of said Qreen Hdwe Co., burial of in school and other large buildings. their share or $150,000. C. But the great danger, both- to these ditch proceedings. Thos. Fingeas 25.00 to our city again the Hon. W. He takes issue with Henry The foregong resolution was off- Green Hdwe Co., burial of I have been informed there will be Stanton, Judge of the District Court who soldiers at war, and the millions of ered by Commissioner Ellingson but' Peter Barry 25.00 Deutsch, Minneapolis school director, arrived Tuesday and is presidihg at the a bill introduced in the coming session the peaceful civilians of our America, receiving no support to his motion Green Hdwe Co., burial of John and all others who hold that such winter session now in progress, also to the of the legislature, to pay up the as far as health is concerned, ccmes no further action could be taken in "Suojanen 25.00 systems are inefficient and that window visiting attorneys and the members of the from the living. states obligations to our county for the matter. Green Hdwe Co., burial of un- grand and petit jurrors and we trust that opening must accompany any As an illustration, it i3 a very unlikely roads and ditches. If that measure Whereas, it appeal's to the county known 25.00 their presence here will be mutually enjoyable system of ventilating to get satisfactory board that the county of Koochiching Indus Merc. Co., supplies for thing for one to contract tuberculosis goes through it will give this county cannot at this time finance any more H. A. Garrett, (Aug.) and beneficial. results. 1501 from a person dead of the a great boost forward. ditches, and that it would be unwis Indus Merc. Co., supplies for They Keep It 64 disease. But that same person ali/e The federal government has made to attempt to do so, Mrs. H. A. Garrett, (Sept.).. 15.00 On another page will be found a In the new Central school in International was a constant menace, and danger an appropriation for roads commencing John Kerry, supplies for Mrs. Now, therefore, be it resolved, that clear and concise annual report of Anna Carlson (Oct.) Falls the air in every one to everyone who came in contact with with five millions' for 1917, ten 6.02 the approval of the county board on Mr. L. A. Ogaard, state highway en- '7^ John Kerry, supplies for John of the more than 30 rooms is maintained million for 1918, fifteen million for ditches No. 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and Saumier (Nov.) gineer, on the state and Elwell roads 14.59 at a temperature—get ready 26 be withdrawn, and the district irprr,.' This fact is applicable to many diseases. 1919, twenty million for 1920 and T"," of this county. Read it completely judge in charge of said proceedings' Saumier^'rNovS to shiver—of around 64 degrees and a One alive with the disease twenty-five million for 1921. This 15.46 and if there is anything about it you be, and he hereby is notified that the jiLhlfld Richard humidity of 65. Dr. Swinnerton says is infinitely more dangerous than, one money is to be divided between the county of Koochiching is unabie to do not understand we are sure the the teachers like it and the pupils 17.94 d^ad of it. different states. Area, population dice my more ditrnes, and partic- iffWnrl- «&••••• writer will be pleased to explain it. like it. ularly the ditches above named and S^'es If the same abhorrence and fear o." and mileage of post roads in the different for Mrs John Lee 1 5 5 4 "When I left home last week there those who are alive and capable of herebv desire to and does enter a protest states are taken into consideration Littlefork Merc. Co., supplies If Van Lear, the new socialist against the allowance of any wasn't a cough among those 600 pupils giving all kinds of diseases to others, for Mrs. E. Bamet (Nov.).. 15.35 in dividing the money. The more ditches in said county. mayor of Minneapolis, goes through Littlefork Merc. Co., supplies and teachers," said the doctor. as people often entertain of the dead, money is to be spent under the direction Be it further resolved, that copies I with his apparent program for the for Mrs. Walter May (Nov.) 15.38 "Take almost any gathering of folks there would be much less disease extirction of the State Highway commission -f this resolution be served upon the Littlefork Merc. Co., supplies suppression of gambling, prostitution, in Minneapolis or most other cities of-it from among the livinj and we ought to get a good slice rVrk the district court, in which for Johannes Olson (Nov.4.. 15.27 and other prevalent evils in his city, at this time of year and how many the ditch proceedings above referred Ton'd bc attained. from that source. Minn. State Sanatorium, care "he will not only give a great impetus to are pending, in order that a copy coughs and colds will you find in it? of Bochmeyer children One living person with measles, 9.60 We have built more roads than we to the commercial life and general of this resolution may be filed in each Motor Inn, trip to poor" farm' We are overheating our dwellings, 4.00 diphtheria, typhoid fever, or any similar ought to during the last three or four of said proceedings. Mike Nagurski, supplies for business life of that metropolis but our business offices, our stores and disease is vastly more dangerous years and no more road building Be it further resolved, that the Eny Orlack (Nov.) 16.20 he will also give renewed life to the to the rest of humanity, than any our schools—and the results is a vast auditor be and hereby is directed to ought to be considered before the A. E. Solberg, supplies for party he represent and immortalize serve a copy of this resolution upon one of them dead with it. number of colds that were preventable. Mrs. Wm. Nelson (Sept.)... 15.00 roads already built have been graveled himself in the doing of it. the district judge in charge of said And these colds too often develop A. E. Solberg, supplies for For one thing, the germs of all and put in first class condition. ditch proceedings. Mrs. Wm. Nelson (Oct.)... 15.00 these diseases, only live and multiply I into pneumonia and other During the last season there has The foregoing resolution was offered A. E. Solberg, supplies for It is reported that attorney Arnold *e worse diseases. in a living body at body heat and th been spent on maintenance as follows: by Commissioner Ellingson and Mrs. Mina Carlson (Sept.).. 15.10 wants his case against the bonding ditions of the living. After on his motion supported by Commissioner "The prevalent colds are due, for For dragging $2,647.00 eut- A. E. Solberg, supplies for body con Mcintosh, the roll was called company postponed until next term $50^)0 "cleaning ditches, Mrs. Bullock (Nov.) 15.00 the most part, to living in overheated death and the body hoat has ting weeds with the following votes resulting: A. E. Solberg, supplies for because in making service pered germs of the human $105.00 repairing washouts, $317.75- bone-dry air. If we lower the temperature these pam Ayes, Commissioners Mcintosh and Mrs. Mina Carlson (Nov.).. 15.05 on the company he was one day short body, cannot live for any repairing culverts, $47.41. Total $3,- and increase the humidity, Ellingson. living A. E. Solberg, supplies for *f the legal requirement of time for .th 1 only is bodily comfort augmented, Nays, Commissioners Colburn and at len& of time So that for 167.86. Wle have dragged 4,914.2 Mrs. Mina Carlson (Nov.)... l£ French. service. A man who makes a mis- reason a dead body is not nearly but the respiratory system is served. A. E. Solberg, supplies for-"'' miles at an average cost of 54 cents this Chairman thereupon declared the take like that isri't worth fifty cents dan?erous as a living one with any Mrs. Wm. Nelson (Nov.)... 15.00 Why parch your bronchial membranes so per mile. Owing to the lack of funds rmption lost. per day, saying nothing of fifty dol- ]jseaselars, J. F.. Sullivan, board of poor with dry, hot air? only the most traveled portions of A report was next read, submitted (Nov.) 127.00 unless he's figuring on prolong the means of spreading Requires Skilled Operator by Special Attorney Arnold on the Tbcn too the roads were kept up. Part of the J. E. Sullivan, pealing posts wig his job. cost of ditching and other general "We get results in our school by these germs in a living person are so roads were only gone over a couple and digging holes for same. 26.00 information on the subject. The report insidious. Every escape of tho nose Zimmerman Electric Co., constructing proper operation of a well installed of times during the season. I hav» was ordered filed. Yep, the saloons are gone—and telephone line to Or mouth secretions, as'well as ether mechanical ventilating system, such made demands on the Highway Commission Commissioner French moved that with them more or less families, and poor farm 90.00 secretions and excretions of the living as you have in mary of your newer tho surety bond of the Ray State for a maintenance fund of The motion was seconded by Commissioner in some ways the time is quieter. But are a constant menace to everyone school buildings in Minneapolis. It $10,000.00 or $12,000.00 for the coming Ellingson and carried upon Carlton is just now going through who comes near them. worksadmirably, but it requires constant, the following vote: season. takes temperature and other readings that period which all towns do after Ayes, Commissioners Mcintosh, So that it behoves people to read- skilled oversight. It is a Good roads should be uppermost in at stated periods daily. From these the saloons go out—a readjustment Ellingson, French and Colburn. just their fears and drer.ds regarding, the minds of every business man, scientific mechanism and easily put we regulate the system. Nays, none. of business features and in due time, the dead, and transfer them to the homesteader out of service is misused. It is true or land owner in the Moved by Commissioner Ellingson it has been the history of other places. "Such a system cannot be operated living. that opening windows in any part of that the following bills be audited county. If we orice get away from that the business picks up and by the school janitor, and it is not Dead men as a rule tell but few and allowed and auditor instructed the building will derange the operation. fighting and get down to business gets on a more stable footing than operated satisfactorily by the average to draw warrants for same: tales of disease, where living ones It is also true that there is no and everybody pull the same way our ever—and the money is spent for principal. It requires respectful Road and Bridge Fund are always those who start the many need whatever of opening windows road and other problems mill be solved. necessities instead of beings shipped treatment and scientific underst Moved by Commissioner Colburn fetal tales of disease and death in when the system is wisely operated. War does not bring anything. to the breweries. It is rather ing. When so much fautl is found that George A. Snyder, contractor, be others. "New teachers come to our school As there has been so many conflict- allowed $1,500 out of the sum reI on. the saloon men, but they realize in Minneapolis with these systems with the conviction that a school tained on Division of state rural ing reports regarding roads, ditches that the day of the saloon is past in I am inclined to think it due to improper THE BOARD OF COUNTY highway No. 9. Commissioner room is cold if it doesn't register 70 engineering expenses and padding of COM- this counti v—it will be but a short operation rather than to imperfect I French seconded the motion, and up- rrencn seconaea uie mouon, ana upon degrees Or higher. are used to MISSIONERS I They estimates, etc., take this opportun- time until thorn is one left :n systems.?' roll call the following vote resulted: no dry ^air. We began experimenting ity to make a few remarks about Minnesota, and not very long until Dr. Swinnerton was asked what The Board of County Commissioners, with slight reductions of temperature those items. Ayes, Commissioners Ellingson, there will not be one in the United could be done to regulate air conditions I Colburn and French. Koochiching County, Minnesota: and increases of moisture. We The State Highway commission States. Th-i end only came in Carlton in the average dwelling in a Nays, Commissioner Mcintosh. dropped to 66 degrees temperature 1 submit herewith a report on road was organized about the same time just a little quicker than other Minnesota winter. "That's one of the The vice-chairman thereupon declared and now our standard is 64 degrees, woik during 1916: our county was separated from Itasca the motion carried. places. Make the best of it, boys, biggest health problems we have," and every one is happy. State Roads county. Commissioner French offered the r-d change businesses—forget it. he replied, "and too few of us pay following resolution: "How do we do it? Well, air enters Road No. 24 T. 63 N. of R. 22 W. The state had a small appropriaAppropriation fpny saloon men say they are glad any attention to it. In the average Be it resolved, by the county board, the building through a fan room, on this road was tion to distribute between the differ$2,000.00. it came—they didn't like the business house heated by hot air or hot w&- in regular sessiofi on December 12, where it comes in contact with a ent counties provided they would anyway.—Carlton Videttes^ ter furnace, the temperature is al- 1916, that, inasmuch as stat* rural steam jet and absorbs moisture. Contract was let to J. H. Ward on make surveys and submit plans 0 lowed to get anywhere between 70 hiRhway Nos. 9 and 24, Koochiching Moistened air is fanned through ducts a unit price basis, he worked out the Highway commission on roads r/d^gn"' DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES and 80 degrees, while the moisture Kft to the various rooms. Each room $1.8ol.08. Owing to rainj^ weather they proposed to improve and also is way below par. It would be far scenic highway, that the State Highbetter By Dr. G. F. Swinnerton, County has' control of its temperature by ho was unable to carry on the work construct those roads^ according to if we could reduce one and way Commission us* influence to Health Officer. thermostatic connection with its radiators. as well as he would if the weather the plans issued by the Highway raise the other. I see that an amount, fair and proper, This tei'se statement, reminiscent Anemometers in the rooms conditions had been favorable. commission. Kettle Right Idea 7^'°n*d to Koochiching counT, ... ,, ty for expenditure on said Scenic 'of the days of Captain Kidd, and othor measure the supply of air served Ro?.d No. 25 T. 64 N. R. 22 W. I was the only surveyor and engineer The kettle on the stove all the Highway in said Koochiching countime desperadoes of former days, has through the ducts and hygrometers Appropriation for this road was in the county at that time and was the right idea, but it didnt ty. tartich meaning for us today, though measure the amount of ^moisture in $2,500:00. for several years after. It was up to go far enough. In the average house I Commissioner Ellingson supported these heroes of stirring fiction are the entering air. Temperature, air Contract was let to Olc Vasli. NHe me to do, what I could in. order to get, of six or eight rooms in below zero """tion and same was caiTied 0*- 11 long since gone. volume and humidity are under con"1 would have come out in fair shape what by right belonged to us. weather, one should evaporate about I the following vote: There is something weird about :n each room. Ayes, Commissioners Mcintosh, El- if he had started the work as he was From 1906 to 1912 we received 1 12 gallons of water a day to keep the Iingson, French and Colburn. the abhorence of the ordinary mind advised to do, cutting down the hills Ab-Solute Co-operation Necessary from the state $14,323.16 (I was unable air properly moist and then keep Nays, none. for a dead body. Something spooky first and then use the steam tractor, "Without absolute co-operation on to find the financial statement the temperature down. This would Whereas, it appears to the county the part of teachers, the system .is associated with it by the average but instead he spent his time on tuvnTiiind. for 1907 and the amount received save coal, too—another way to bit board from the report of Special Attorney would not work. Under direction of Even those who have gotten piking at $140.00 per mile and when for that year is not included). During the cost of living." N. B. Arnold that certain the superintendent, every teach or "over this rp oky feeling, still regard he was ready for his cuts and fills ditches in this county have been petitioned that period I received from the George F. Womrath, business su for, some of which are not 'a dead a very dangerous rain set in and he was unable to county $2769.57. Deducting this perintendent of schools, said yet authorized and some of which thing r~ far as life and health are any headway. He completed w-*vV from the sum received from the state did work in the field and office, making Swinnerton, was undoubtedly on the have been authorized and not yet financed, concerned. to the amount of $845.33. Ho nri leaves a balance in favor of the all the maps and profiles and I right lines and doing a much needed and Mary of the dangers associated short on paying his help $605.55. If Whereas, it appears to the board county of $11,553.59. Unless I had believe all of you gentlemen will work. "The reason he gets such results that the Cotinty of Koochiching canT»nt. with tho bodies of the dead are much he is allowed to complete his contract taken up this work this money would agree with me that those charges are in his school/' Mr. Womrath at this time finance any more exaggerated by the average person. next season I am satisfied he ll have been lost to the county, as money unusually low. said, "is because he is on the job ditches, and that it would be unwise Nothing perhaps has thrown men come out all right. A petition from not used by one county was divided If I was in the grafting business himself every day. He tells me that to attempt to do so, and into such greusome, nnd intimate contact his neighbors to that effect has been between the other counties. All and in the habit of padding estimates, he spends an hour and a half in the Whereas, it appears to this board with the dead as has the war in filed with the county auditor. this work was done prior to starting as has been reported to this board, school building each morning, testing over^°ad or adminstration. Europe. The personal stories of men Road No. 8 T. 158 N. R. 25 W. the Elwell roads. why didn't I at least double the the air in each room and regulating from the trenches, tell of trench Appropriation $1,000.00. Contract I have been engineer and had amount on every ditch. There was his fan system according to findings. LAND FOR SALE walls, and floors being the common was let to Olaf Bovold on a unit charge of the construction of the following no one, who could have objected to With such careful supervision we burying places of the dead soldiers. price basis. He completed work to judicial ditches: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, it and been sustained. could get like results in Minneapolis The following described land owned One recent writer in the Atlantic the amount of $663.52. 6, 10, 11,^'and 19. All of these ditches I have always made it a point to schools similarly equipppd. hy the estate of Herbert S. Lea and monthly tells of eating his supper Road No. 26 T. 153 N. 25 W. & 2G have been constructed save 19. charge what was actually due 013 and ^ur standards for Minneapolis located right near the city of Interschools the dark with the aid of a lantern All have been accepted except 2 and no more so far and I am going to do w. are 68 degrees for tempera-] national Falls is for sale: Lots 3 and hung upon the foot of a dead soldier On this road we spent about $350 9. As engineer of these ditches" I so hereafter. ture and 66 for humidity, but I be- 4, Sec. 17 Lot 1, Sec. 18 Lots 1 and sticking out of the trench wall. Constant The work consisted of cleaning out have received approximately $2,200 Respectfully, lieve Dr. Swinnerton's, as observed in 2, Sec. 19 and the SE^4, NE*4, Sec. and intimate contact with the and lowering old ditches and rounding or an average of $220 per ditch. I L. A. Ogaard, International Falls, are even better 19, in Twp. .70, Range 24. In- 7 a dead, is an everyday and common- up the grade also the construction did not do all the work alone, but I HiSi Highway Engineer.^ —Minneapolis Tribune, quire of Jevne & norton. Jan. 11-25 1