KWi#" INTERNAXIQNAL FALfcS PRES? TIE MTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS what one other th^n Slocum ,j?lead guilty, and what he plead guilty THREE POUND SUGAR cent of the entire wheat,' you fnust of Please be so kind 3s to state why, if there was such a desperate sell six-tenths of a pound of substitutes RATION PER PERSON for every pound of- the whole gang, the Attorney General's assistant asked the court to AND BORDER BUDGET 77- wheat or graham flour you sell. dismiss all other indictments against Slocum, and at the same time (Continued from Page One "Rye flour may be sold alone but Publishers of the Official County Proceedings stated that all the charges against" Slocum were alike in character, not as a .substitute for wheat flour. who are endeavoring to secure an INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY although different in name, and a£ked the court to be lenient? The "If you have knowledge of unfair ab-normal supply by making purchases m« GEO. P. WATSON, Editor Mauser dealings, or failure on the part of offense to which Slocum plead gujlty was that of issuing a warrant from numerous houses which any dealer or consumer to comply Baterci at the Poat Oflce at lateraatloaal Falls. Mlaa., aa Seeoad-elaaa Matter on road Twenty to the construction company without authority. are really in excess of their needs, with these regulations you should and when selling sugar they will ascertain SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $1.50 FOREIGN, $2.00 PER YEAR. Elder was convicted of offering a. bribe to H. Fogarty of fifty report the facts with specific information what stock a merchant has dollars. No other offenses have been proven. No other persons over your signature. Such on hand and what amount he has ordered Russia under the Bolsheviki is a good example of what the have been prosecuted. In the great conspiracy case on road information will be considered confidential from his competitors: United States Avould be under the I. W. W. and their ilk. and all such cases will be twenty-four the court ruled rthat there was no conspiracy shown,, Schools to Give Publicity. 9 investigated. In no case will the and that question was never submitted to the jury. Arnold brought 'Every county superintendent, superintendent name of the informant be revealed Who knows but what knitting matches will divide the head an action against the bonding company on Slocum's bond for damages of schools,: and e!very but no unsigned complaints will be lines with baseball the coming season. Johanna Jenson is now teacher is requested to give publicity on {oad nine and admitted that the road was worth about considerd. two fingers ahead of Nicoline Staberg in the state knitting championship. to the new ruling concerning the "A. D. Wilson $125,000. When he came to prove his case of damages it developed three pounds per month per' capita "Federal Food Administrator, that the county had only paid $80,000 for that road, the rest of the sale, of sugar, in order that the children for Minnesota.'" warrants outstanding being unpaid, so the county was way ahead of the state may not only understand, Cheer up. Conditions in this county and city are a good deal but may also assist the government as to value received. The state rural highway fund is the onlv fund RED CROSS KITS FOUND more hopeful with forty-seven different factions than when their in the conservation of sugar. against which any. claim of irregularity has been tried out. It has COMFORT BY SAMMIES affairs were so absolutely under the whisky gang rule that no one never been claimed that any money was illegally spent out of the SO-SO Flour Order Holds. dared open his face. One of these days most of these factions funds of the county made up solely from the taxes of the taxpayers. Washington, Feb. 25.—Every American "To further emphasize the recent will get together and not only demand but get good government. soldier who enters the trenches The condition of the revenue fund is now t\yice as bad off flour order and to make clear that carries with him an American Red there has been no modification of it, as when ^Arnold and his gang took charge of the affairs of the Cross comfort kit packed by an American OTTO DISCOVERS AMERICA thfe following official interpretation county. Is this putting it on a business basis? The road and woman, Major James H. Perkins, of the order as it applies in Minnesota bridge fund, never touched illegally by the old officers, as admitted Red Cross commissioner to Europe, is called to your attention Otto Lempinen was called for the draft in Koochiching county. announced tod^r in a cablegram by the present gang in their efforts to take up the floating in^ "For each pound of wheat flour He was a Finnlander. His people came to this country* a few to Red Cross headquarters debtedness by bonds, is-in no( better condition now than when the you sell so the consumer you must here. years ago to escape from tyrrany, and militarism, and poverty. present gang took charge eighteen months ago. Road twentyfour, sell an equal amount of some of the The kits, which contain towels, America represented freedom, and bread and butter- -that was following items: Corn meal, edible that they call a skeleton, was pronounced a good road by shirt, writing paper, pencil, soap, about all. They settled in the timber in what is known as the corn starch, potato flour, oat meal, handkerchief, socks, mirror and tobacco, their own engineer at the Brainerd trial, and they seek state aid corn grits, barley flour, corn flour, Hay Creek neighborhood. It has had the reputation ot being have become a great conven- on it as a completed road. 1 rolled oats, buckwheat flour, nce ience to the troops, says Major Per- pro-German. The Finnish paper which the family took was antiRussian, hominy, soya bean flour, It would be of little use to' review Withrow's public acts as feterita kjns vvho wants more of them, particularly anti-capitalist, anti-American. Otto did not believe in flour and meals. it would be a Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde story from his first appearance ones with socks and tobac- the war. He was opposed to the draft. He had his own place, In selling whole wheat or gra-jco. as an advocate of five cent beer or prohibition to his recent which he was beginning to develop- He did not see why he cor.ld switch back to the wet wagon- The question is what does he Mrs. B. J. Livingston not be let alone. do for his fifteen hundred dollars from the county his six hundred 4 Bust last week Otto suddenly woke up to the fact that he must from the city, and his three hundred from the government? Is go. That he was one of the contingent from this county-. He was his job so soft that he could not afford to do as others doctors have almost stunned by the news. Why must he go leave his fartr done in our present national crisis—enter the service—or is it be Why should he go and fight for America? For hours he paced cause he did not get as high a commission as he wanted that he the floor of the hall outside the auditor's door at the court house, is not in the government military service? Just bear in mind like a surprised and unhappy litn in fa cage. that it was at the same meeting in February that his complaint wa Saturday evening came. Otto sat down with the rest of the served on the county board that the road meeting was had by {he eighty men to the banquet which was tendered them in the school citizens and business men. house. Such things as they had to eat. And the finest ladies Is it any wonder that these Arnoldites want to continue in of the city waiting on them. The spirit was so different from control of county affairs when by an arrangement an injunction the neighborhood where he had been living. These other young is sought against the payment of warrants in the hands of their men were eager to fight in this war. These older men and women enemies while their friends are left free to sue the count)- on war s., believed in the war and wanted to do what they could to honor rants of the same character. Will the courts of this district allow their soldier boys. Otto's eyes were opened. The war began Arnold and Phinney to present these matters from adverse to appear to him in a new light. In a few hours a change was sides when they are working together in county affairs? Will wrought in him for which most, of us required days and weeks, the bar of the state let these matters go without investigation? when the war first began to threaten our country. America Your gush about a fearless attorney and the two members of meant something more than freedom and bread and butter. He the board re-instated souftds self laudatory. Why did you net discovered that it means honor, and self-defense, and friendliness, say that the other members Of'{he board suspended by your gan,* and patriotism and service. so that a bunch of temporary officers might be had sufficient to The new convert was so full of his discovery that he could control the board were never removed by the governor, one of not wait to tell of it. Even while the chairijian was starting to them was re-instated, one defeated for re-election because of the introduce another speaker Otto jumped to. his feet and began to unproved charges against him, and the other was out of office at Mrs. B. J. Livingston, who died injferer, she was able to see what peoour make a speech. It was hard to understand the words, but the is re a as as W a it to as a in city, on Feb. 7th at the home of pie with eyes so often fail to see, substance of it was that it was a great thing that they could go her daughter, Mrs. E. L. Hecrmance,, and to live amid the things which vestigation of your two friends on the board than foi your gang and fight for America, that it was fine of the women to give them was well known to many of the old- make life worthy and happy and to ask one of the other three? Slip a few specifit facts into your this banquet, that they ought to express their thanks. That er residents of our county. Under beautiful. next burst of rockets and don't dodge the issue. Again, please the pen name of "Mrs. McClure" she! Britannia Lang Smith was born at speech received more applause than any which had been.given. state what specific misstatement of facts I have ntade. Also, why conducted for years the Home Coun-j Warren, Pa., Feb .21, 1841. She was But still Otto was not satisfied- The fresh enthusiasm kept rot publish the other articles I have written? You little know cil department of Farm, Stock and I married to W. R. Livingston at the nffflfrr* bubbling over. When, at the close, the chairman asked if ther~ Home. Her articles for this and for close of the war, July 11th, 1865. Af: what improvement it made in ypur paper, Monty, evei: if the answer the bee department attracted wide ter a year in Indiana the young couinterest were some of the boys who would like to say a word, after a number you made" to my criticism was no answer at all. I am not: and brought her a wide cir-jple pioneered at Tall Oaks farm in had spoken, the young convert was on his feet again. The on my way to California, nor am I boasting of oil fieli in. Okla1 cle' of friends. Her neighborhood I the southern part of Martin county, sentiment and conviction were unmistakable, even if the English Senti-J omaf, as 1 hea'r some of your buhch is.—(Continued next week.) notes for the Martin County which has since been the family was broken. As he said in'closing, it must be "one for all, and nel also were widely known. Every- home. Mr. Livingston died in 1909. TAXPAYER. all for one." thing she wrote was full of sympa-jSix of the eight children are now livjth'y and human interest. She had theiing. They are Roy R. of Brainerd, Yes, when Otto Lempinen shook hands with you for the bWer of taking the most trivial in-^uy ,iving California James V., STANLEY GAGNON are going to hit the blow which is in fourth time that evening, you realized that he had discovered America. cidents and embelishing them with the put kaiser to sleep. who is now in France with the 16th WRITES HOME her wealth of imagination and love And he said that he himself will have Engineers Mrs. Nora L. Heermance of nature and people. Though blind to take his hat off to us with the of this city Robert W. and Miss for twenty years, and for a still Camp Menith, N.'J. COMMUNICATION ON COUNTY AFFAIRS. rest of the American people. He also longer period „an invalid and a suf- Jan. 21, 1918. Louise, both now at home. said that the most interesting part Dear Mother is going to be when we come back Dear Monty We are in our new camp and like home telling of why we went, while Did you write the article in Wednesday's Journal of last week, it fine. We were 7 days and 7 nights the man that was physically fit and on the trip and went through 14 or did the Big Dqctor? It sounded like him. Maybe it was the got out of it will be trying to tell states. why he didn't go. gent with the big stick from Duluth. Anyway, it was unfortunate When we finally pulled into Phila-, So mother dear, don't worry for your bunch that it appeared that particular night with the delphia the Red Cross met us at the about me as I- expect to return safely. commissioner's proceedings in the same issue branding the whole depot and gave cigarettes, apples, But think of the day when Sammy and magazines to read. It was snowing gang. Someone spoiled the parade grounds for the Arnoldites. comes marching home again quite hard but it didn't seem to Just Listen! The commissioners'.proceedings showed that at with vistory. bother the ladies a bit.' The'y passed With lov^ and best wishes to all, the last meeting of the board it w^s decided not to have a county up and dtfwn the platform with baskets Your son, agricultural agent to help the farmers as the condition of the treasury and gave the things to all the Stanley Gagnon. would not warrant such extravagance. Immediately following boys, which wa^ certainly appreciated. this action the board passed one of the Arnold-drawn resolutions PLAN TO RESTORE I have been cooking for the past of goodly length reciting that Withrow and Abe Olson RUSSIAN MONARCHY three weeks. We have four cooks in had sued the county on warrants issued on roads nine and five, our company and two cooks do the and employing Arnold at $25 and $50 the day and expenses to. defend cooking one dayi and then they have ^London, Feb. 25.—Germany plans to the county against these suits. a day to themselves while the other -restore the monarchy in Russia, actwo cooks do the work, so you can COrding to a telegram dated Friday, Will investigation disclose th^t these two enemies of conspiracy see we have it pretty good in Petrogard to the Morning Post have hired as their attorney B. H. Phinney, who was employed by Jan. 31— It» says the grand duke of Hesse has the county to. help Arnold in all such matters and ne,ver released. I thot[jjeen •As we^ are just about to leave appointed the commander in per-j^]le If so, what a desperate fight Arnold and Phiriney will put up I would drop a line to you as Riga section of the German haps it will be sime time before you front. against each other on these matters* Remember, these warrants will hear from me again. "His sister,"' the dispatch adds, are of the same class as those that Arnold has been trying to' get Today Theodore Roosevelt, was, "the former Empress Alexandria, help win into court with a suit to test their legality. He was first hii^d here and gave. us a lecture and it, tjie guardian of her son, the for- as for investigation purposes by Withrow and others, according to sure sounded good to us. It made a|mer tzarevitch, is the favorite Gerperson feel so anxious to get at the man candidate for the throne. the admissions of the Journal. Withrow's crowd succeeded in Germans that he would almost have!The former emperor will not accept passing him on to the county. The county hired Phinney to help chills. He told us of his experiences!the throne from German hands. The war him, and now if Withrow has hired Phinney to sue the county on in the Spanish ^American war. He {.Bolsheviki have provided a form, of •warrants that Arnold aqd Phinney claimed were illegal, wouldn't told us of the soldiers, all the differ-, government which the Russians that be a good way to keep them both busy Talk about'conspiracy ent kinds, from lumber jacks, to cowjaione understand—pure despotism, punchers, of which he was one. -jThey have paved the way for the re- and treasury looters! Ye gods! The countv,didn't have And he told us never to pick. a turn of monarchy." .••• /. money enough to-provide a county agent for the farthers' benefit, quarrel or fight if there was any way1. but plenty to hire^Arnold to fight this case trumped up by members Jo get out of it, and when you do5!' HELEN A. DE WITTE of the Arnold sranirv fight, fight hard. Don't slap him but & Public Stenographer hit- him hard enough to put him to Now, will the Arnoldites please rise up and once more state Rex Hotel sleep. And t^iat is what Uncle Sam "what misstatement of fact I have made? /^Wifl you kindly-state is-idoipg and he^ knows the Sammies' International & -Jl i&