•3*/ftp ^P^s. ws«r-M 5-^,- 'S •«. 1 v-r? v»j «^. rr^"-W::,r INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE TWO FAIRFAX COURT HOUSE 2,962 FIRES CAUSE LOSS E OF $4^63,633 IN STATE International Falls Abstract Co. AT BI6 SNOWFALL Report Containa Interesting Figure*— In This Ancient Building the Wills of George and Martha Washington, Matches 8tart 181 Blazes—Incendiaries BURDICK, KREMER & KING, Proprietors. Charged With 72. Restored to Almost Their Original Perfection, Are Carefully Preserved—Both a Have Passed Through Many Vicissitudes. St. Paul.—The story of year on ABSTACTS, REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE Art the trail of the fiend Is told brief* ASSERT ABNORMAL PRECIPITATION ly in figures between the fiery red covers Collections, Conveyancing and Loans of the 1916 report of the State Fire MEANS B0UNTE0U8 HARVESTS Marshal Robert Hargadine, which has FOR AGRICULTURISTS. J. E. BURDICK, Manager. lust come from the printer. It shows $4,963,533 2,962 fires with In losses in International Falls, 1916. Minnesota in Minnesota RAILR0AD8 FEAR WASHOUTS Carelessness with matches is charged For 151 fires, causing $159,975 property damage. Children playing with matches caused 68 fires and $23,268 In losses, View Situation With Much Apprehension—Experts and rat and mice and matches caused Border Wholesale Neat & Grocery Already Making Prep* nine fires, resulting in $9,825 of damage. aratione to Cope With Anticipated Chldren playing with fire are Flood#—Records Broken.' Company blamed for 41 fires that consumed property valued at $32,299. /%ao vV Backfiring automobiles- started 42 Winona.—While farmers in South* blazes with $11,575 loss. Bonfires are VC. A. YERNBERG, Manager era Minnesota are rejoicing over the blamed for two fires costing $1,150. the assurance of bounteous crops, railway Three Christmas tree fires caused $674 Wholesale and Retail Meats, Groceries, Fruits and Feed officials are viewing the situation, fire losses, and carelessness with candles V-^5. with much apprehension, for the two started 19 fires, with $4,317 damage. feet of snow on the ground indicates Electric wires began 96 fires, resulting even greater washouts than in the Home-Made Sausage and Hamburger in $402,638 of losses. There spring of 1916, according to experts. was a loss of $496,194 from i29 Area Preparations already -are being made Give Us a Trial and You Will Stay With Us communicated to adjoining buildings, to cope with- the situation. and $1,509,653 from 659 fires of undetermined Means Rioh Harvests. Our Prices Are Always Right and Our Stock Always Fresh origin. Seventy-two fires Grainmen and crop forecasters in were of ipcendiary origin. Winona assert that the-abnormal pre-' cipitation this winter means rich harvests RETAIL MERCHANTS TO MEET litis Block, Third Street, International Falls, Minn. for the agriculturalist this year. They point to their records to warrant: To Hold 21st Annual Convention in their prqphecy. Never in a year when! Mill City This Month. there has been heavy snowfall has I Minneapolis.—Minnesota retail grocei-s thei'e been a shortage of moisture in! and general merchants will hold the summer or a short crop, the figures JOHN N. GISH their twenty-first annual convention reveal. at the West hotel in Minneapolis February Moisture in the ground in the early 20, 21 and.22* Approximately season brings additional moisture during Watchmaker and Jeweler 1,000 members will attend, including the summer, is the cla4m. Never in EORGE WASHINGTON'S will 1916 by William Berwick, under the the history of tUe local weather bureau large delegation from- St. Paul. The was signed at Mount •,Vernon supervision of James M. Love, F. W. meeting will attract many visitors in has there been a greater fall of snow July 9, 1799, five months before Richardson and R. Walton Moore, a addition. than during the present winter and' his death. From begin­ committee appointed by the circuit never has more of it been on the! Features of the program include addresses ning to end it gives evidence of the court, the judge of which was J. B. T. ground in February. by Governqr Burnquist, John Agent for Singer Sewing firm hand and clear mind of its maker. Thornton. The will was stolen from J. Ryan of St. Paul, secretary of the It contains many legal phrases, tfut it Fairfax court house during the. Civil NEW MIMING RECORDS SEEN National Retail Grocers' association Machine Company and was not written under the instruction war and returned to the office 1915 after Secretary E. M. McMahon of the St. of a lawyer, and there is reason to believe litigation in the Supreme court of Paul Association, and C. C. -Neale, Preparations Underway for Another Woodstock Typewriter. the United States." that nobody was consulted in its state superintendent of weights and Big Year on Ranges/ construction. Both wills now are in steel cases, measures. St. Paul.—Preparations already are Modern skill has rescued the document sunk in concrete, thoroughly protected under way for another record-breaking against fire and thieves, as they are from dilapidation and impending CROP CONVENTION DELAYED year of operations in state-owned destruction and has assured to all hermetically sealed. They are placed mines in Northern Minnesota, F. A. Also dealer in the west wall of the court house at Americans the opportunity to read it Wildes, chief of mines under Static 6how Scheduled at Fairmont, Feb. 1314-15 exactly as it was written. It was filed Fairfax. The cases have glass fronts, Auditor J. A. O. Preus, stated after a to Open March 6. two pages of each will being exposed for probate in the year 1800 in the Wear-U-Well Shoes _____ trip to the ranges. court house of-Fairfax county, Virginia, to view through the glass fronts. Velvet "I believe that the 1917 output from Fairmont. Because of the snow curtains are drawn over these in which Mount Vernon is situated. the state mines will break the high blockade and Irregular train service, In the intervening 116 years it fronts when the documents are not on record totals of 1916, with 3,800,000 the annual Minnesota Crop Improvement exhibition, shutting out the destructive has undergone vicissitudes, including tons, and nearly $1,000,000 of revenue convention and show, scheduled rays of the light. much miscellaneous manhandling and paid the state in royalties," Chiel to be held at Fairmont February 1314 We Loan Money one removal and concealment. Thanks, to the foresight of the officials Wildes said. "Everything now points and 15, has been postponed until Through all of a century he who of the library of congress and the to unprecedented activity, and opera March 7 and President Vincent 6, 8. Tan so far as Fairfax court house intricate and expert work of Mr. Berwick tors are making all possible adyancc of the university will speak Mai^ch 6 the documents as they were written arrangements. ^1 might read at his leisure and with his and Governor Burnquist on March 7. are accessible to everyone. There own hands manipulate the original C. P. Bull, Uuiversity farm, St. Paul, is no charge or fee to view them. The Y. M. C. A. MEETING IN DULUTH document and at his pleasure thumb secretary of the association says that court ho# in which they are kept and fumble it, with only a court attendant any exhibits sent for the show with was built in the same year that General near to see that the will was This Bank loans money. That's the~"way we make our the expectation that it would be held Speaker Says I. W. W. Put Monkeywrench Washington's will was probated not carried away, wholesale or piecemeal. in Machinery. this month will be cared for and displayed living. But we don't loan money foolishly nor for improvident and filed, 1800.' The building and the One of the pages of the will in the later dates. Duluth. "The Industrial Workers purposes. most precious of its contents are of bears mute testimony to the success of 'rkf-—^ of the World organization is engaged the same age, 116 years. It is our ambition to see this community prosper and some unknown enthusiastic relic hunter "GRAFT' CHARGES QUASHED in throwing the monkeywrench of dis General Washington's will as restored who tore off and carried away one it is decidedly to our advantage to see that it does prosper, cord Into the machinery of Industrial is perfect as-it came from his corner. Hibbing Cases Dismissed After Se» efficiency," said Charles R. Towson ol because, if the community prospers our deposits will increase hand and has the few imperfections he At the beginning of the Civil war ond Acquittal. New York, dean of the industrial'department rffig|iCiriT~S and we will have more money to loan. It can readily be left in it, including some occasional the will was taken to Richmond, and Y. A. Duluth. Hibblng's so-called graft of the M. C. international there securely hidden. It was returned seen, therefore, that we cannot consistently loan money for S00 sases have been dismissed in district committee before leaders in to Fairfax court house when court here, marking the close of a the state's industrial and spiritual life any purpose not conductive to the best interests of the community peace had been restored. The same• ,v tempestuous chapter in the history ol who gathered at the opening banquet in general and the borrower in particular. On this care as not taken of the will of "the richest villagfe1 of the world." of the forty-third annual convention of basis this bank loans money gladly. Martha Washington, on file in the On motion of the St. Louis county the Minnesota Young Men'fc Christian same court house, and it was carried attorney, Warren H. Greene, and with association here. off by a Union soldier and was for a the consent of counsel for the defendants, time in the possesssion of the late J. Jury AUTO SHOW IS BIG SUCCESS the grand indictments re­ Pierpont Morgan. After a suit had! turned In November against officials We Loan Money on Farm Lands. Call and See Us been begun to secure its restoration to I 9f Hibbing village and Stuntz town•hip Eight-day Exhibition in Minneapolis Virginia and Fairfax county, it was and other Hibbfaag citizens were Attended by 165,295. returned to the court house. ordered dropped by Judge Feeler. Minneapolis.—Without an accident The decades that have passed since The First National Bank 1 to mar the week's program, the Minneapolis the filing of General Washington's ON DRAINAGE CO-OPERATION Auto show and East Side Industrial will, the Journey to and front Rich-1 exhibition has closed officially. mond, the careless if affectionate handling Three Nofthwest 8tates Agre&—U. S. From every standpoint—attendance: to which the precious manuscript Court to Decide Big Suit number and worth of exhibits, and was subjected did not tend to its pres-! St. Paul. Minnesota and North amount of business started—the show ervation. Finally it became a thing Hww OTaU^HSTniTmiR rwirnrtW TOaACCOJ ABOUTTHE and South Dakota will cooperate in was a record-breaker, Walter R. Wllmot, of rags and tatters. Its custodians, •VC TIM CO ALL OF irainage and flood control legislation, THATS EXACTLY is men manager, announoed. A LITTLE CHEW with the best intentions, added to its KIND OF TOBACCO or but they will allow the United States TOBACCO.-* Atendance for the closing day, figured W-A CUT SATISFIES WANTING I'M peril of early and complete obliteration IF YOU TAKE AND LASTS, WITH LESS courts to settle the suits for $2,000,000 at 19,100, brought the total number A LARFIE CHEW MINDIN8 AND by persistently folding it length-' Rood damages which the people of the of admissions to 155,285 for the SPITTING. OS 6RIND ON wise, following the original fold of tho IT, YOU MAY 1 two Dakotas have filed against Minnesota. eight days. THINK ITS clerk of 1800. That was the decision reached STRONG In charge of the repair section oi at the conference of state officials and FOR RED LAKE COUNTY ROADS the manuscript division is William legislators from the three states after Berwick, said to be the greatest living two days and a night of strenuous debate. "Get Together" Meeting Held at Red expert in the restoration of old manuscripts. Lake Falls, Minn. To him was given the task Red Lake.—The "get together" meet of restoring the immortal document, LUTHERANS ELECT BENSON and tag of the town county boards ol Impressed with a desire to preserve to Red Lake county discuss good roads the tremendously important and interesting Interior of Court House, Which Af* Swedish Conference, of Chisago District has been held heref under the auspices relic, Mr. Berwick has ac-' pears Now as It Did More Than a Held at Stillwater. of Lake the Red Falls Commercial Century Ago. complished something very like a mir-1 Stillwater.—The Rev. C. E. Benson club. work by acle. Although the was begun of has been elected Stillwater president Sam lapses in orthography and the omission President JJ Hunt of the Commercial Mr. Berwick in it was but recently 1910 the Swedish Lutheran conference of who of his name at the bottom of page 23, club, is also chairman The restorer, working completed. of the Chisago district at the jpt of, Red notwithstanding, the ..fec^Qiat Jwbe* the county boai$ Lake coun­ odd and Intervals sometimes, days closing session of a"'t%o-day meeting. ty, presided. gan: "In the name ^f ^^SS^ TATncm I, widely apart, needed much time tor The Rev. C. H. Frisk Taylor Falls George Washington of Mount Vernon, bring the manuscript to its present was chosen vice presldaiit the Rev. PHARMACISTS^WST^PAUL a 'citizen of the ^^^^Statea^wid -form. -WSgr- A. W. Kiioi, F^W^&iSta^ lately president of the same, do make, brothers. As soon as he finished with the will forhig It conducive to brotherly feeling. the Rev. Theodore Seinert, Marine, ordain and declare this instrument Attend Thirty-third Annual Cenvention of General Washington he began the rich 5 lor the tobacoo tkat makes a treasurer the Rev, Mr. Ofland, Center which Is written with my own hand e# State Society. restoration of the will of Martha littUnibble go so/arand for the touch of salt that brinfe City, statistician, and the Rev." J. A. and every page thereof sub-scribed Washington, returned by Mr..Morgan St. Paul.—More than 1,000 pharmacist tobacco satisfaction Slmqiiist, Scandia, field representative. out the without so much fair work: with my name to be my last Will 6 to Fairfax county. The elder Mr. Morgan were expected te attend the thirtythird Testament, revoking .all others." annual oonveotlon of the Minnesota having had the Martha Washington Old Owatonna Soldier Dies. IW. *7 WETMAM-itUTON COMPANY, SO thin Sfsws, few Twfc Ck, This omission may have been du$ will in his possession, and having Pharmaewtitftl aMooiatlon which Owatonna. FHedlin Boll, one of to the fact that the last three words on epened here Tuesday. bound and preserved it carefully, it the forty-seven soldiers who survived that particular page are "City of The business smfons took place ia was in much better condition than that the "charge of the First Minnesota at at Washington." It Is. easy to surmise the roof gardan Ifo Saint Paul. of the first president and gave Mr. Gettysburg," is dead at his home here. that having just written "Washington," Berwick far less trouble. Further, It Relieve War'e Turning Point at Han*. and engrossed in thought, the Good Roade Entourage Immigration contains but eight pages. Must Pay Kdueafcors More. London, Feb. 6.—British newspapers Father of his Country naturally mistook Minneapolis.—At tfea closing seesion Notwithstanding Mr. Morgan's care believe the turning point lb the war the name of the city for his own of the Minnesota Sftrvayors and Engineers' The of Martha Washington's will, the Yirginians Minneapolis.—The cost of highei has reaehed. An Indication of how been and thought that he had signed as In society, It wiaa asserted by J. apparently are yet somewhat education Is-about te go up. The authority Important they retard the situation asp MODERN ROOMS the preamble he undertook to do. Mullen, road deputy of this stats 1m Bmi—m resentful that the document was kept H. for the prediction 1a none less Located Hun ef Dfahiat may be judgtd from tha fact that editions highway commission, that the good from them so long. The text of the than Dr. George E: Vincent, who recently ONE PRICE —ONE DOLLAR! deveUwi tgftm 40 to 60 per cent PEReone ai .eo roads of N'orthsm Minnesota havi inscription over Martha Washington's President Rode In 8tate.'~ resigned from the presidency CUROPLAN RATE FOR TWO sf their editorial and news pages to RRIVATS BATH, eNOWCR ANO TOILST EXTRA been a direct factor in encouragini will in Fairfax court house is as fol- When Washington, as president of the University of Minnesota at a the American iltMlton. Americas COMPLKTjC SAFETY the best kind of immigration Into that lived in Philadelphia, his stables con news and salary of 91M0Q a. yoar to become AjQgrlcan naval AUTOMATIC SPftlNKLCRS l0^ "The original last will and testament territory and have greatly increased AND FIREPROOF CONSTRUCTION tained ten coach and saddle horses In strength head of the RwkefeUer Foundation. tost to IReilRANCE RseoRee mow of Mrs. Martha Washington. It Its rural populalttMb ''The method of THAT NEVER addition to the white chargers used exclusion Instead of paying Sftlartee corresponding Mae a LIFE BEEN LOBT IH ART BVILRIHB Is dated March 4, 1802, and was admitted when he went upon state occasions, carrying on thr iM work In lClnna Fronts av auvesumo aMWaattaa and to the average wage of a railroad PROTESTER to probate by the county court *Ae«OT MSMU NNSiat He had a coachman and two grooms^ •ota," fee said, 'fe baooming .more ol Interna! Engineer, mjmMm Musteetabllslia awevaie ue*r Fairfax June Zh 11(8, and vai lf who wore livery of white dot* business and MM rf *rPolitieftl tool la Ttupwym Hiinie -vs?. r-%* •Worn® Mm fir tana their** HP