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International Falls press and border budget (International Falls, Minn.) 1909-1926

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m. %«ssg$ SlES® .* fi® INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE FOUR ®p' THE field be held before them, and let the Government say "We want this Court at the Probate Rooms at Claimant names .as1 witnesses:"-' the Court House, in the City of International Matt Wuori, of Ray, Minn., men to fight in France!" anj^ the passage of an act for "selective Falls in the County of John Sippi, of Ray, Minn., -T-j? ?2it' AND BORDER BUDGET draft" will be but a legal formality. Koochiching, State of Minnesota, on Edward Ranta, of Ray,. Minn., the 12th day of May, 1917, at 10 o'clock John Liahtu, of Ray, Minn. There are said to be thirty thousand Americans fighting on A. M., why said petition should Publisher* of the Official County Proceedings JOSEPH WINSZEW8KI, the side of the Allies and under their, flags. A million would enlist not bei granted. 4 19-5 24 ........ Resistor... .. INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY WITNESS, the Judge, of said Court for the same service tinder their own flag.—Colliers Weekly. GEO. P. WATSON, Editor mi Muacer and the Seal of said Court, this 18th §:V. PRIZE EGGS FOR SALE day of April, 1917. i«9i- BE PATRIOTIC—SAVE YOUR HEALTH (Court Seal) JOHN BERG, Catered at the Post Office at Iateraatloaal Falls, Mian., as Second-class Matter Probate Judge. Thoroughbred White Leghorn Eggs JBVNE & NORTON, SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $1.50 FOREIGN, $2.00 PER YEAR. From Ferris Strain Leghorns By G. F. Swinnerton, M. D., County Health Officer Attorneys for Petitioner 4 1-9-5 3 The following prizes have been Every citizen of the U. S. A. owes it to his country to preserve won by thes chickens: International They have never allowed afire to get away from them yet. Buy his health. Falls Poultry show—six firsts, five n, a ticket fdr their show. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION Living contrary to the laws of health, squandering your seconds and two thirds five sweepstakes flft. and four specials. Emo, Ontario physicial fitness by bad living, unhealthy habits, and carelessness Those who volunteer:nf«m service in the army or navy now fair—first and second. North-' Department of the Interior. about protecting yourself disease, is bad citizenship, from will stand a better chance' of being appointed to officer rank ome fair—first and second. U. S. Land Office at Duluth, Minn., |e| If soldiering does one thing more than another for a man, it April 14, 1917. than those who are taken"ift under conscription which will begii Per Setting of fifteen eggs, $2.00 at least sets him up in health. The soldier of Uncle Sam has to Notice is hereby given that John ffi:.. $S in the very near future Apply Eagan & Kelly, Star, (formerly Karl John Ferdinand live according to the laws of hygiene. He has to take the exercise, it- Phone 180, International Falls, Tahtineen), of Ray, Minn., P. O. 241, be out in the open, and follow rigidly the rules of the medical Phone 210, Fort Frances, Ont. who, on September 8, 1911, made Homestead The mayor and police department of both this city and county Entry No. 09747 for N% NE14 department for the protection of his body from disease. are doing perfectly right in raiding any public or private place and N% NW%, Section 28, Township Bad as the climatic were for the who went conditions boys FOR SALE—We desire to offer a 69 N., Range 21, W. 4th P. Meridian, under suspicion of breaking the state laws and anyone wishing to has filed notice of intention to make IS-' limited number of RESIDENCE to the Mexican border last summer, many returned with increased can conduct themselves,, and their places so as to be above sus Final Five Tear proof, to establish LOTS for quick sale. Terms to suit., iEi: weight, sounder and feeling better than ever before in their health, claim to the land above described, before picion by exercising a little care. .. Let us kknow what you want arid Otto A. Poirier, U. S. Commissionat lives submit offer. Koochiching Realty Co. Virginia, Minn., on the 16th day of So every citizen though he may not be a soldier, should be There are millions of acres of land in this country lying idle. equally fit, if he is a loyal Americani All of it will grow something. The Chinese will grow enough Every man who dies before old age is a loss to the nation. garden truck on a patch of ground no bigger than a Turkish prayer The money spent for his education in our public schools is largely rug to feed his family. We ought to Chinafy our land while lost. The time taken to fit him to support himself is wasted. It the war is on. It is a duty which we owe to our army, our democracy, is an actual cash loss to the nation. our country, and our God. Go to the tool shed and get No man livieth to himself. Everyone is a unit in the state, out the rusty hoe! and owes it to the state to be fit, physically. There is not a property owner in this town who doesn't sleep ing his action except the drainage CANADA SUSPENDS better because he knows that our volunteer fire laddies are up and flood control bills, five appropriation CAMPAIGN IN U. S. and doing at the first screech of the whistle to put out the fire and bills and six minor measures. We Are Showing save the adjoining property.. Get behind the ticket selling. He tvill wait till Monday to Senator Kellogg Secures Stoppage of Canvass for Farm Labor sign or veto these. and Settlers. One of the bills signed is expected ^he prime requisites of our army boys, in their bill of fare, to consign the governor's own staff are wheat, corn, potatoes, beans, onions and meat. We are not to oblivion. This is the new codification Washington, April 21—Canada has a large variety of styles and leathers, from the overstocked in any of these foods today. If you have a back yard discontinued its campaign to take of military law which bars conservative to the extreme. Let us fit you in that will grow anything edible, you should spade it up this spring. the grand array of colonels and majors farm labors and settlers from the a so long in vogue. United States to replace the men Florsheim Style of the Times, and you will Instead of roses, grow cabbages instead of sweet peas, plant beans. Another measure, signed last night who have been aiding Great Britain Every stay-at-home stomach that is lined with "garden sass" of its thank us and the makers for the exceptional in the European battlefields. 4s the bill prohibiting issuance of in* owner's raising will make that much less demand on the supply satisfaction that you 'will have found in this junctions in .labor disputes except This has been brought about thru which should go to our soldiers and our allies. whenr necessary to protect life and the efforts of Senator Frank B. Kellogg shoe for men. of Minnesota, who took" the property. matter up directly with Sir George Their promptness and efficiency has saved this city hundreds E. Foster, acting premier Canada- Of We talk about Florsheims because of thousands of dollars. Buy a ticket for their drama. CITATION FOR HEARING ON PETI­ Tonight Senator Kellogg received we know their worth in TION FOR ADMINISTRATION the following telegram from the If you can't add to the man strength of the army, add to its our store—let us fit you in that Canadian official: Estate of Nathan Gordon, Deceased foocTsupply. The hoe is just as important as the gun. If you have "All advertisements referred toby next pair—you 11 be well you have been withdrawn and. instructions lost the fire of youth if you have a dependent family and hesitate State of Minnesota, County of Koochiching.—ss. pleased and well have another giyen for stoppage of labor to respond to the first call, do the next best thing and make two canvass." permanent customer. IN PROBATE COURT blades of grass grow where formerly but one flourished. Congress Senator Kellogg urged this action "In the matter of the estate of Nathan f«?*t has authorized an army of 2,000,000. men. The energetic application in a telegram yesterday in which he Gordon,Deceden t. Markowitz & of 2,000,000 hoes to back of Mother Nature will help feed said: ... THE STATE OF MINNESOTA TO "Offers of low fares, high \yages,, jjill persons interested in the granting these soldiers. .. Summerfield of administration of the estate of said preferential rights to take up land decedent: and guaranteed exemptions from A BOY WHO HAS THE RIGHT IDEA The petition of Thyra E. Gordon military duty are attracting thousands having been filed in this Court, representing from Minnesota farms and industries that Nathan Gordon, then a into Canada. Advertisements resident of the County of Koochiching Young Mr. Marshall Field, third of the name, arrived in in Canadian newspapers are State of Minnesota, died intestate on The "Oneida' Chicago the other day from New York to enlist as a private in an the 14th day of March, 1917, and praying raised arch, calling attention to that, and immigration and heel-1- a that letters of administration of Illinois National Guard cavalry troop. Mr. Field, who is twentythree, agents are sent out of Canada unit of style hiB estate be granted to Thyra E. Gordon, The Storm For The is rich—very rich but that makes no difference to the rest to aid in this labor canvas." and comfcri Afcn Who Cares THEREFORE, YOU, AND EACH OF of us. YOU, are hereby cited and required to U. S. TIGHTENS This young man sets an example for all the country. His show cause, if any you have, before UP ON ALIENS spirit is the right one. The nation being at war, those who can enlist should enlist—and being rich does not at all relieve them First Papers More Than' Seven of their obligation, nor does it mean that if they do go in it must Years Old Are Now Void be as an officer. •, The United States government has Too many rich young men, though doubtless willing enough tightened up on its regulations in to serve, can see no opening for them except as officers. Yet there admitting aliens to citizenship, arid is utterly nothing about wealth to fit a man to command others in considerable confusion prevails in the field of battle and the rich should take their, chances with the Duluth among aliens who have' not yet secured second papers. poor in the democracy of battle. In a ruling just handed down no Selective conscription would attend to all that automatically, papers tak.en out before the act of TO FOREIGN-BORN RESIDENTS for under that plan it would not be for the individual to decide, September, 1916, are acceptable, and but the nation.—Duluth Herald. persons with first papers who have neglected to become full-fleged citiwithin TO FRANCE the last seven years will I, Thos. P. White, Sheriff of Koochiching County, deem it wise in the have to begin over again. The office of the Feder&l clerk of present crisis, in this formal proclamation to assure all residents of foreign Before war was declared, the New York "World" demanded" court is being swamped ^with applicants, that the United States should repay its debt to France by making birth that even in the event of the United States becoming actively involved many of whom are in doubt a free gift' of a ntillion dollars. It was a magnificent idea. It recalled as to the latest ruling of the department in the great European war, no citizen of any foreign power, resident in Koochiching at Washington. the old dialogue at Weber and Fields's: "Mike, I have, offered I. Aliens who haVe paid the'r foe for a million dollars for the Hoffman House." "But you haven't County, need fear any invasion of lus personal or property rights so second papers and negiccted to appear I a cent in the world." "I know it, but wasn't it a fine offer?" ./ to take oath, will have to pay ong as he goes peaceably about his business and conducts himself in a lawabiding Discussing this exhibition of opulence, one of the most distinguished another fee unless i'u-.v have has! manner. their hearing postpone!. The names living Frenchmen said: of applicants who have neglerted to France does't need money gifts. She will borrow as before have their hearings postoned, have The United States has never, in any war, confiscated the property of what she has to borrow, and she will pay back as she has always been dfopped, making a' new application paid, and will pay, freeing herself from debt and flourishing as she necessary. any foreign resident unless by his own hostile acts he made it necessary. flourished even after Bismark thought to milk the country dry. -v, C. J. ROCKWOOD GOES What France needs more than the purse of America is the heart I take this formal means of declaring to all foreign-born residents that ON DISTRICT COURT of America. She wants to feel that her sons and yfrnr sons are _____ 'iPSOi* they will be protected in the ownership of their property and money and that brothers in arms not lfcss^'WIir^they are brothers in liberty and Governor Appoints Rockwood to equality. Five billion francsj' If I had it, I would give it all for Hennepin—Freeman to St. Louis— they wiH be free from personal molestation, so long as they obey the laws of aw« the sight of a division of tl^e American army marching down the Houpt to Ramsey District Benches fe the State and Nation and the ordinances of the City.: Champs Elysees on their wayv ta .the trenches^ We will lend then C. J. Rockwood, Minneapolis attorney, the gas masks and the helmets and the heavy guns your army counsel for the park board and I urgently request that all our people refrain from public discussion of Ah, lacks, but wil not lack for lonjg my friend, think of the sight long an active figure in public affairs of that American army bring-ing its contribution of service to our late last night was appointed by. questions involved in the present crisis and maintain a calm and considerate Governor J. A. A. Burnquist as .a cause and yours! -om, |i?r attitude toward all without regard to their nationality. judge of the Hennepin court -to fill On our side it is no mere consideration of sentiment that makes the new place on the bench created s* 'si -"71 us wish that the President would decide to send troops to France. by the 1917/ legislature. Edward ^Let it be understood thet every citizen owes undivided allegiance to ^JWe are now in this war,jind it is a real war, and it must be waged Freeman of Chisholm and Chas. with the earnestness and unanimity of armed forces and civile Houpt of St. Paul were named to fill the American flag that he is expected to loyally fulfill all obligations which similar new places on the St. Louis ians alike which is essential in a national war. Nothing could citizenship and residence impose upon him, and that any act, however slight, 4- and Ramsey county district benches. I" so bring the reality of the present struggle of the republics and Governor J* A. A. Burnquist last tending to give aid or comfort to the enemy is treason, for which «evere penidties liberal governments of the world against kaiserism before the Sfc -v night signed the bill enlarging the American people as the fact that our army is sharing in the dangers district benches of Hennepin, Ram~= are providedln addition to that punishment which public opinion inflicts I .. and- heroism pf the Erench battle line.wiThe impetuous youth sey and St. Louis counties. It had been expected he would veto the, upon the memory of all traitors in all lands. of this country will not respond with enthusiasm to a call to guard measure. #r bridges and aqueducts and to train for guarding more bridges At midnight Governor Burnquist International Falls, Minn. THOS. P, WHTTE, Sheriff and aqueducts. .But Jet. the guerdon of actuaL service in the battle had finished signing-, all bills ^await- P&