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

December 13, 1917 · Page 3 of 8

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1 J- mm ijiy INTERNATIONAt FAIiS PRESS *AGE FOUR U* S. Mat Exempt W. C. T. U. NOTES. "some time" in the near future, for with Mrs. C. L. Kingsbury, on Tues THE "somewhere" in France, he will have day, Dec. 18. included among the members of his The regular meeting'of'the-'W. C. Next in order was a delicious lunch Groups of Aliens AND BORDER BUDGET staff of field experts none other than T. U. was ^held at the home of Mrs. served by Mrs. Carrier and Mrs.f§p Carrier, on Tuesday, Dec. 4. Nine SherriU C. Crockett, the first re Bigsby and enjoyed by all present. Publishers of the Official County Proceedings patriated American, who for nearly ladies responded to the roll call. Mrs. Kaneen then gave mostly INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY Washington, Dec. 8.—Suggestions a year was technically "a man There were two visitors present. beautiful and touching recitation/'S, tha tregulations governing alien enemies without a country." Nearly all were busy knitting for GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager followed by Mrs. Carrier who gavels within the United States be our soldiers. one of her own composition,' entitled4:1 Entered at the Port Office at International Fall*. Minn., as Second-clawi Matter applied with less severity* to the The business meeting was opened SALOONS ORDERED CLOSED "Our Uncle Sam." SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U., S., $1.50 FOREIGN, $2.00 PER YEAR. many thousand Austrian subjects at 3:30, several items of business The meeting was reopened, motionV AT BAUDETTE AND SPOONER who actually are pro-ally or are were looked after, made and carried that the piece even considered today by Department The union voted to send a telegram Let"s all take'off our "buttons" and wear a flag in,their place. composed by Mrs. Carrier lie sent ta Sheriff Andew Johnson and C. W. of Justice officials. to Congressman C. B. Miller, the Union Signal for publication.. Nelson of Crookston, representing asking him to use his influence in Exemption^ May Be Provided. After which th eladies departed for the State Safety Commission arrived Conserve your hard coal supply or you may have to buy a soft It is said the regulations," which the federal amendment for prohibition. their homes feeling that they had here on Tuesday serving orders, coal or wood burner before the winter is'past. will be issued riext week, may provide spent a very enjoyable and profitable which were issued by the Commission exemptions for certain groups, The meeting adjourned to meet afternoon. on all the liquor\dealers to close such as Hungarians, Poles, Rumanians on Tuesday, Nov. 27th. Whatever the Socialist party may have stood for in the past, and Slavs, who immigrated The following facts were contain F. C. ROGERS it stands for kaiserism in 1917 and some of the leaders are making •from Austria's heterogenous empire ed in the order: and who now maintain little love for little effort to conceal that fact- The sale of intoxicating liquors in their mother country. Beltrami and Clearwater counties by Officials realized, however, that it licensed saloonkeepers shall henceiforth Samuel Gompe'rs: "I am not a neutral in this war. Pacifist will not be an easy^task to arrange be limited to liquor to be drunk PRACTICAL FURRIER as I have been all of my life, when I find that there is a band of modifications of the general rules on the premises where sold. No sa murderers abroad, and I fail to defend my children, I am not a without impairing the effectiveness Fort Frances, loonkeeper in either of the counties .Ontario of the plan, which includes registration pacifist, but a coward." shall sell intoxicating liquors to be of alien enemies with police authorities, taken from the premises where sold V. restricting their travel and or permit such removal therefrom, Every line in a newspaper costs the proprietor something. If THE OLDEST EXCLUSIVE FUR HOUSE barring them ^rom water fronts. and the licenses of all saloonkeepers it is for the benefit of the individual it should be paid for. If the Burdens Rests With Police. shall terminate on Tuesday, November IN THE WORLD grocer were asked to contribute groceries to one abundantly able They believe a large element of 27th, and after that date no liquor discrimination must be vested in local to pay for them, he would refuse. The proprietor of a newspaper shall be sold by any saloon in police, particularly in ^communities, must pay for the free advertising if the beneficiary does not, and either of the counties. where a big proportion of the This order is made in the interest yet it is one of the hardest things to be learned by many, that a population is foregn. It is estimated of public safety after' investigation newspaper has space in its columns to rent, and must rent them to about 1,000,000 unnaturalized Austrian into the conditions existing in these live. To give away rent for anything less than living rates is as subjects and 500,000 Germans live counties, and shall take effect and be in th^- United States. fatal to a newspaper as for a landlord to furnish rent free.—Ex. in force as to such carriers from and after October 25th, 1917. Service of this order was made In Minnesota, preparations are already being made by all temperance this week by the sheriffs of the coun organizations for a state prohibition fight in 1918, and ties upon the proprietors of all liensed saloons in the two counties, the prospects are that saloons will be routed, but not without a and upon the president, or clerk or very hard and bitter fight. The saloons of Minnesota are doing recorder of~each municipality in the more to help Germany win the war than all the I. W. W.'s and counties in .which intoxicating liquors soap box orators in the United States. The saloons are the cause are sold, or kept for sale or delivery. of frightful waste of grain, and make for inefficiency in every department INTERNATIONAL! The order, which was signed by of the army and navy. Every loyal man caa help to win Governor J. A. A. Burnquist was'dated the war by voting out the saloons. All our great army officers DICTIONARIES are in use by business on Sunday, October 28th, 1917, men, engineers, bankers, in France are doing a tremendous work along temperance lines. The saloonkeepers have the pre EXPORTER AND IMPORTER OF •J judges, architects, physicians, Let us stand behind our boys not only with our money but with velege of returning their unsold liquor RAW FURS farmers, teachers, librarians, clergymen, by successful men and to the wholesale liquor dealers our votes and strike a deathly blow to the liquor traffic.—Ex. women the world over. who will also pay them back the tax: Are You Equipped to Win? levied upon it. The dealers can not SOME DIPPER. lose as the whiskey is twice as high The New International provides the means to success. It is an allknewing now as it was six months ago. A teacher, a universal question quart of whiskey which cost the dealer Attorney Arnold dipped into the Koochiching county treasury answerer. eighty cents to one dollar, "six Highest Cash Prices Paid on If you seek efficiency and advancement for another trifle of $4700 recently, and George Watson of the months ago is now worth in any why not make daily Press has been letting loose a series of groans almost loud enough Raw^Furs use of this vast fund of information? market two-fifty to five dollar^.Spooner to awaken the two mayors sent by the governor to International News. 'J ®®,000V°cabuIaryTerm8. 270© Pages. He will pay the duty and war tax on all furs from the United Falls and Ranier to keep their eyes open for blind pigs.—Baudette 6000 Illustrations. Colored Plates. IE srf 30,000 Geographical Subjects. 12,009 GROWTH OF THE ARMY States and pay as high a price for them as any Region. Biographical Entries. E Edi&ms. ORDINANCE DEPARTMEfit Regular and India-Paper Say Billy, the groans of the Press are as soothing murmurs house in the United States. Writeforspeo- t, of a summer zephyr compared with the continued crashings of a imen piiges, F' iv Washington, D. C., December 12.— illustrations, PJ mighty thunder storm that will go up from the few who accepted etc. Free, a Before the war began the United BE SURE AND SEE ME BEFORE YOU SELL OR BUY set of Pocket Arnold as their patron saint, on the recommendation of the worst Maps if you States government approximately name this F\ C. ROGERS enemies of this county when they realize the taxes they are up paper. 500,000 persons in the civil branch. G.&C. against to pay the expenses of this farce of an investigation he is Now that this country is actually engaged MERRIAM in the conflict, the great army co., stringing along so ridiculously at $50 per day and expenses. Jpringfield, Kass. of workers behind the fighting forces is growing by tens of thousands to the waist, aind with only thin linen I FIRST AMERICAN TO BE REPATRIATED A good example of this rapid The Press Office underclothing protecting him from BY NEW U.S. LAW addition of employees is in the the fusillade of bullets, saw hundreds civilian force of the Ordnance Department of his companions mowed down by Washington, Dec. 1.—Sheriff C. of the Army. Seven large the "made in Germany" machine Crockett, 26 years of age, the first Stationery Store privately owned office buildings^- in guns, which spitted death from the American to be repatriated after Washington are required to libjs&e defensive positions of the impregnable Congress passed a law to allow United the officials and clerks of this force, Turkish fortresses, which were States citizens to regain their in addition to the usual quarters in stormed time after time by lines of citizenship after serving with the the state, war and navy .buildings, Englishmen without success. armies of the other allies, will shortly which were sufficient before Uncle Finnally on September 26, at midday go back to France to strike again Sam began to prepare for war. The GEORGE P. WATSON, Proprietor when the sun was the hottest, at the troops^ of the kaiser. This gun division alone, which did not exist and the fighting as fierce, Crockett, time Crockett will go to war in the as a separate division before we uniform of a United States field expert with the surviving members of his entered the wiar, now has more than original company, joined in a_ concentrated with an engineers' force. *V *S *n "Ottsw two thousand civilian employees besides "09 Mririss&aM -09-9 Crockett was the first American to attack with other depleted about three hundred commissioned Masted Bjtfj anran nojt ji units of the Gloucestershire regiment This is the best place to trade for regain his lost citizenship. Last Friday 33Hd usuipads joj aXIHM officers and it is estimated *»!)1P3 S1JVOT20NI P» SV1093H in a final effort to surmount the barricades he appeared before Chief Justice that" this division will be three times ., 'oouiEodz^ otjiouj-uniBnttjj SCHOOL, OFFICE AND HOME of the heathen Turk. Covington of the district supreme 0KV3D (poui-V ?S3llaFH) 'HZilM its present size within a year. The ••)99fqnsi83FqtiBJ$oa QOO'OE court and took the oath of allegiance Late that night, long after sundown STATIONERY SUPPLIES great manufacturing plants of the -uairomdBJttoie OOO'ZI 'suopensni Crockett was picked up on the battlefield to the United States. "II0099 OOIZ -spjo^ OOO'OO* Ordnance Department in various 'J3AO pjiOA otp. uatnem puu nam pijssaa When the war broke out in France 'within the shadows of the parts of the country employed about -ons jo spuBsnoip jo spajpunq Turkish citadels, riddled with sharp Crockett went abroad to fight for the Aq osn £[rep sx -epaau 10,000 men last spring. Now 20,000 Allies.' He is the son of English parents, nel. jnoiC o) apcin are at work in these establishments. an id A S For two months he gazed into the and is a native of Montgomery, The task of supplying, these thousands -Mou^-ips u* ei AHVNOLLDT^ Pens Ala. After Germany's ruthless invasion blue skies of tropical Northern Europe of workers in the face of the 1VN0I1VNM31NI Mail from his cot on the veranda of of Belgium the youth left his greatest demand for labor the cohntry Pencils the British military hospital located home in Montgomery to New Or has ever known is the problem Tablets leans. There he took a mule ship on the beautiful inland of Malta. of the United States Civil Service Convalescent, he returned to London, for England. Rubbers Commission. At /this tim egreat .i3Modcic ins3jiptqM *fi8333ncptXB N He landed in Liverpool three weeks received an honorable discharge '/Xsiaapgp snout af aiaux .. .•jwmai jbm nhmbers of men and women are Mucilage BnlpziKlJOButumiu atp jaqoH 'qpjty* for valorous service, and an offer of later, and proceeded at once to London, needed to fill stenographic and other jo aotoip joeff pirn togdpuitirate! a commission should he re-enlist. ^here he immediately enlisted Letter. Files *Suni9^8 xnuooja Sotsvauequia ^soicSb positions in the offices at Washington anuo} o) itinnvviocldo iho£ ci a But desiring to visit his father, Step as a cavalry man in Gueen Alexandra's Paper Carbon and mechanic£n trades and tecical hen Crockett, Montgomery, Ala.,^he Hussars. positions in the government Library Paste returned to America last December. Before being accepted as a volunteer plants for manufacturing artillery When President Wilson declared in the English army he was compelled Fancy Stationery and ammunition. The local boards to swear allegiance to the king war against autocracy, Crockett,with HKIHiaitttHKtlHHIH of civil service examiners at the post Typewriter Ribbons of England, thereby forfeiting his true democratic spirit, volunteered offices in all cities aire furnishing for service in the American army. American citizenship rights. detailed information concerning po One Cent Each After undergoing several month's Recruiting officers temporary postponed^ sitions in which men and women are accepting his application for intensive training, at a mobilization needed. camp near Bristol, he was transferred enlistment as they were unable to determine his nationality. to the infantry of the Glouceestershire THEY ARE SOLD WRITING PAPER CHEAP TEN THOUSAND-DOLLAR MAP regiment when he vbulnteered Crockett's case was investigated, TO SUPPORT THE We have a large amount of the best suggestions were offered, and finally HANGS IN CHICAQO HOTEL for overseas service in the grade bond paper in white and various FIGHT AGAINST Dardanelles campaign. an appeal was made to Congress early colors, in tablet form but without While being transported across the in the last session to make some In the lobby of one of Chica'go's TUBERCULOSIS IN covers, that we are selling out provision for reinstating, not only large office buildings is a huge relief Mediterranean sea, a transport of OUR CITY, STATE, at 5 cents each—a third of a pound the same contingent, the King' "Edward Crockett, but the hundreds of former map of the European countries of good paper in each one. Also a American citizens now with the where the war wages, exhibited to AND NATION- VII., was-torpedoed by a -German large number of scratch pads at 5 submarine without warning and Allied armies on the battlefields of the public and lectured upon by a for 5 cents and 2 for 5 cents. 1(800 soldiers were drowned when former correspondent. The main Europe. £r V' the craft went down. The transport Recently Congress enacted a bill map is 10x20 feet, but owing to its on which Crockett and his comrades restoring citizenship to those Americans convex construction it^ contains an had embarked narrowly escaped destruction who had served with the Allied area of 300 square feet. It is a segment from the same source.' forces. of a 90-foot globe. It was Subscribe for THE^fRESS -The PtyglaFHone Weekly •—The l^ttest period of the DardanellesS'1, Without delay Crockett visited the made by William Robertson,^ with campaign ?iNvas during the ft&iflquartrers. of Maj. C. D. Hollbway the assistance of ten men" It t&>1c months of July, August and September of' the engineers, E. O. R. C., located them nine months to, make it. Including ONLY $1.50 PER YEAR of 1916, according to Crockett, in-the old land office building.. labor and .materials, the cost who, during these mot\tfis7 stripped Maj'oor HoUo^ay departs^.