INTERNATldNAIii^AlLS-PRESS PAGE FOURjs i'Ti |-|f|-' :'ff it i, 5*_ O* I RESOLUTIONS OF wounded, perhaps one man but" of FALLS PRESS ftOutlOinWar THE TEACHERS' INSTITUTE four, or tyenty-five per /(cent of our 1 total armies, will receive", a woun8 •Jf- -AND BORDER BUDGET The resolutions adopted by the of greiaterN or less severity if the war teachers are as follows: «... lasts a year longer. Agents for the Publishers of tlic County ProceeJinii "S "Whereas we, the teachers of Koo'ichiching Most of Wounded Recover. INTERNATIONAL F^^f PUBLISHING COMPANY Official Figures Show Loss of Life county, realizing the bens% But consider this: Of all the soldiets GEO. P. W^QN,) Editor aai Maugci Not Heavy—Ninety^five -Per Cent fit that we have received both in. instruction wounded in battle, the British Of Wounded Recover. and pleasure at this insti? n., as SeeraA-elatfa Matter surgeons and hospitals are ^.turning Iateraatloilai^alls, Mia Entered at tbc Post OJHce at tute, resolve: out 90 per cent, in such condition that i. .War is dangerous. The' soldier risks SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $1.50 FOREIGN, $2.00_PER YEAR. That w^ extend a vote of thanks they can go back to the battle front. his life daily. But nothing is more to Superintendent D. B. Jewell fojr About 95 per cent of the wounded certain than that the stay at home the privilege of attending this series? troops recover, and only 5 per cent Crops in this county have been good and the county f^ir should populatibn vastly exaggerates the of metings, that we express our sincere of them are permanently disabled. be the best ever held. dangers and risks of war. appreciation to^ Miss Conant Mos't startling have been the advanced There have been printed figures and Miss Gallagher for the splendid made in handling arid cure of late which purported to show the percentage Get in your donations for the uniforms before it is t9o work they have given us, also that wounds and in the prevention of suffering of deaths in the armies of we extend a vote of thanks to Messers on the part of tne wounded show your patriotism. x'' "c" to the Allies on the western front. According Heermj(nce, Gregg, Mclntire and men. New forms and methods of anesthesia Detroit Vapor to these tables the average Swinnerton for stimulating our patriotism, have been developed and Get your exhibits ready for the North County Exhibit in this Oil Stove life of an engineer or sapper on the and to Miss Shetland for presenting still other discoveries maxe more city Sejpt. 14 and 15 and the Koochiching County Fair at Northome battlefield front was thirty minutes to us a plan for patriotic crtain and greatly hasten the healing aviators could look forward to only Sept. 18, 19 and 20. work. Being conscious of the. importance of gunshot and other wounds. IRe only absolutely 30! days of life after reaching the of patriotic services by the The percentage of death from disaese front, and doctors were killed within Wickless Oil Stove teachers of. the county, we further among the troops of the allied Great Britain has advis£d the United States that President a week after going into active resolve that we pledge Ourselves tp armies is actually less than it would on the MatrJiet, Wilson's reply to the peace proposals of Pope Benedict is also the service. The impression was plainly 1 give our best efforts to the teaching be among the same number and kind Burns just liite gasii reply of Great Britain. •.: v: cbriveyed that nobddy in^any branch' of patriotism in the schools and localities of m^n in time of peace. Despite the Call' &ul m. jMt of tlje service could expect to survive and to carry out the work in hardships of trench life, constant living show ydtti more/ than a f6w months on the health and conservation and all of in tlie open air, together with The closing of the U. S. mails to disloyal citizens will probably western line. those things that will help our gov.ernment the enforced -physical fexercise and be the next step of the Department of Justice in its determination S. E. THOMPSON & SON Casualty Figures False. and her allies to win' this the watchful care of physicians, have to put an end to disloyalty and sedition. The figures were false. They were war'and to raise the level of pur reduced the percentage of soldiers wicked. They increased the fear and citizenship. dying from disease to little more suffering of millions of people who The Minnesota State Fair has been unusually successful, not Resolved that our supervisors and. than half what it would be. in normal had sons or other relatives in the lift. Mr. Stillings be thanked for- their only in its record attendance and $200,000 gate fees, but also every on the uniform will go through the uniform of the United States. If not splendid efforts to plan our year's There is no wish to demonstrate department of its exhibits are decided evidences of the stated prosperity. war without getting a serious wound direct German* propaganda, these figures work. Be it further resolved that our, that war is as safe as a Sunday and will come ba£k to civil life served to discourage and alarm instructors be presented with a copy school, picnic. Its dangers are real stronger men physically than they the, fathers and mothers of. America. of. these resolutions andx that the and great, its losses by death numerous were before. The truth about the dangers and publication committee send copies, Judge Stantoi} ordered thali no grand jury be called for the and terrible. A'considerable number That is a prediction which is justified risks of war are told in this article to at least three of our county pa- of our soldiers will never, come coming term of district court in dry Itasca county because there by the experience of the allied £s accurately as the official figures home ^from France. Another considerable pers- ',•** are no criminal cases to be heard, which is impressive testimony armies in the present war. will permit. Signed, fraction will com(e back to the benefits of prohibition. Geo. A. Smith, Canada, for example, has lost by crippled and helpless. The truth is Mike Lemmer of Littlefork was a H. I. Magladry,^ death ^during the three years of the bad enough. visitor here Tuesday. He will return Mrs. Cora Bernhardt. war, 7 out of every 100 she has sent It is not only unlawful to manufacture whisky in the United But mothers and fathers whose this week when an endeavor will be The above resolutions sum up the to the battle front. In times of peace States, but the three^ years' supply which is reported to be on hand \Sons have gone or are going to war fnade to initiate a class of members new spirit of the institute which closed at a certain percentage of men No'f military mayfind some comfort in the statethat. will probably be confiscated for munition purposes. It is no longer into the local council of the International Falls last '-Friday afternoon. age will die. Deducting that precentage mfe 8 out of every 10 of the Modern of which believed necessary for medicinal purposes. Samaritans, order Each ^eacher of the county from the total, it appears youn soldiers who are now putting Mr. Lemmer is an organizer. went away from the session not only that the direct war. loss among the with additional knpwledge but with troops of the dominion has been a A traveling man here yesterday said he "made" every town new enthusiasm to carry on the work little1 over 6 per cent./. between here and Bemidji by automobile. There,is no reason why 4 No Coal or Wood to Bit of the school and the country at Canadian Loss Only 7 Per Cent all the traveling men cannot do the same stunt, then advertise tlie this so critical a time in the world's •it is noteworthy that this percentage fact as they go all over their districts and it will help correct the history. tends to grow smaller with each Miss Mary A. Conant made a great erroneous impression that there are no auto roads north of Bemidji. y^ar of the war. When in the first hit with her interesting lecture, on winter of fighting Canada sent 33,000 the new course of study, put out by practically untrained troops to the "The German emperor is acting like a mad dog let loose among the state last year. Miss Gallagher front' she, lost in that single season the community of nations and when a man plays brute, acts brute proved a pleasing instructress in penmanship -2,267 men: Consider how greatly the IF YOU GET A and is brute, it is the business not only of every nation but of every and primary work. The losses have been reduced to bring the teachers heard for the first time Mr. individual who has a drop of r^d blood to turn out and fight the fc'fital1 percentage for three years of Smith, who is the new agriculturalist brute. Let there be no peace in the world until the brute is gone." .constant fighting down to 7 per cent, for the county, when he outlined the as against 8 per cent for the first —John.Lind. year's work, and Miss Hunt, who is few frionths. It will cook your or heat your w. the domestic science teacher for Kooctiicljirig.. -fi /v: ^FrAn'ce Avith' its armies of' nearly The magnificent yictory af the, "Jry" movement which makes house at less (V 3^fl0OjOOO mtrn, has had a similar experi^nce. no Several rieV Movements were given. booze sellers ^n St. Louis county outlaws, as was don^ in this During thc first year of impetus. It was decided to reduce county two years ago, has put an awful crimp in the few remaining it records casualties of between War the time formerly spent in the grades 5 per cent arid 6 per cent. Last year members of the "old gang" wtio have been so dull of comprehension Equipment and Instalation ready from eights to sev^n years' by these losses were cut down to 2 1-4 that they still had hopes of reviving their prosperity-blasting eliminating* repetition, and —material for service only $7.50 per cent. For 'the last six months of business. from the books that is no longer useful.^ 1916 the percentage of the whole Standard measurements are to French army killed,- missing or captyred be used extensively this coming The state good roads fund will bfe-boosted^o the amount of was- only 1.28 per cent, about school year. In every way, from the 5 men out of each 400. These are the two million ^dollars the first of the year by the income from the INQUIRE OF meetings to the picnic -up Rainy official French figures, made public automobile tax, which is then due for three years hr advance at Laks, the institute was a success. H. V. Sanders by the high commissioner of the $5 for three years, $3 for the following two years and $2 for ,the French republic to the United Ssates. ORDER LIMITING TIME TO FILE last year. This amount ought to help considerable and Koochiching Tjliey can be depended on as accurate. 1008 7th Stmt IntenmUonal, Falls Mtan. CLAIMS AND FOR HEARIMG, county should get enough out of it to gravel its trunk roads. M^ny more men, course, THEREON. TimePT. Estate o£ Fred C. Corell. Mayor VanLear missed a wonderful opportunity last week hy STATE OF. MINNESOTA, 1 ss. not being present and pledging his loyalty to thisv coiftitry together County of Koochiching. 10-SO with the leaders and delegates of union labor in their great meeting IN PROBATE4 COURT. in his city. He was glad enough to get their support to boost In the matter of the estate of Fred C. him into office but he is not American enough to go along with Corell, Decedent. Letters of administration this day them in upholding the country which has made him a prosperous having been granted to Margaret B. business man and his present office possible to him. Corel!, IT IS ORDERED,-that the time withwhich all creditors of the above A PEOPLE'S WAR. named decedent may present claims against ]}is estate in this court be, and the same hereby is, limited to "The great fact that stands out above all the rest is that this f- three months from and after the date? is a peoples' war, a war for freedom and justice and selfgovernment hereof and that Saturday, the 15th day of December, 1917, at 10 o'clock amongst all the nations of the world, a war to make the^world safe A. M., in the Probate Court Rooms, at for the people who live upon it and have made it their own/ the the Court House at International. Fa^ls in said county be, and the same hereby German people themselves included and that with us rests the is, fixed and appointed as the time and choice to break through these hyprocricies and patent cheats and place* for hearing upon and-the examination, adjustment arid allowance of masks of brute force and help set the world free,,or else stand aside such claims as shall be presented within and let it be dominated a long age through by sheer weight of arms the time aforesaid. I. Let notice hereof be given by the and the arbitrary choices of self-constituted masters-, byv the nation publication of this order in International which-^an maintain the biggest armies and most irresistable armaments—a Falls Press as provided, by law. Dated June 16, 1917., .. power to which the world has afforded no1, parallel, and in & JOHN BERG, the face of which political freedom must wither and perish."—Woodrow & 9 13-27 Judge of Probate p*/ Wilson, President of the United States. OUR SENTIMENTS TOO. CoriSemithStmt and Hannapin Annut Do you see that young man with the elastic step in khaki uniform MINNEAPOLIS! MINNESOTA walking down the street? He is a soldier of the Union. He THE ONLY MODERN •!, 1 has volunteered his- services to fight anywhere in the world his POPULAR PRICED HdTEL 3K country may command him, that the dignity^of the nation and the Within one Imek'oi ten theatre^and puncipal department store*. honor of the flag moy be upheld./ He has freely offered that which 49 ROOMSH 65ROOMSwith I is held most sacred and dear to any person*—his life blood—in: defei\se 75c-"$1.00 of his beloved country. Is there anything you can do with YA Hot end Cold Running W«tort Local and Long Dhtanew Phonee In Every Reein. money and property that can put your country under the same debt of gratitude to you that it is to this young man? It is your by RAY BOYD Managed Formerly Chief Clerk Vendome Hotel country as well as it is his: you owe it just as much, and perhaps Our Rates an Always AS ADVERTISED* more then if you are not. offering yourself in defense of it, why should you twist and squirm Sand dbdge in an effort to find an "excuse not to give a few paltrjr dollars of the money you have been enabled to earn under the protection of this government of grand Ni opportunities, to aid in caring! for this young man who has tendered and Tumors successfully treated his lifp, if need be, in casei he.jfnay be maimed in crippled on the (removed) without knife or pain. All work guaranteed. Come, or battlefield Don't -you? knovir thatiif you gave ..all the money and Sanatorium write for free book DrJWiLUAMS SANATORIUM Uncle Sam Apphoves property, you have,^however muth it may. be, you would, not give 3023 UcWenHfAr'..MbnaapoGs, Miim. as much in personal sacrifice *as/this 1 young rman is ^giving .Bxovviti's Yalley Tribune. 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