*3\'- VSzT** ,*a /iT^? __*»»*»** _. ,w *=4j*V»fc|^rV $3S&! INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS ^, js^®/ fAGEFOUk TBE toissuea certificate is not required *m- IT'S A GOOD THIN6 THERE'S A POLICEMAN AROUND iV by the contract or, the statute: Provision W for such-notice is not necessary SipK il2ND BORDER' BUDGET to"" the validity of the .contract, 70 111. 420161 Mich: 28 187 Mass. 25 11 Gill. iy^khiti cdt till* Official County ProcMdiags (Continued from Page One) & J: 58 Corpus Juris 770, nor to the INTERNATIONAL PALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY validity of the statute. section 5541 does not require notice GBQ. iP. \WAT80N, Eiltar aii Muigtr It seems to me nothing more is involved to the county of the application., for in this case. Whether the EatonJ the IM Oln Jrt Interaattaaal Fall*. MIbb, as SMui-daw Matter at a warrant was held as a matter of county is a "party" to a drainage proceeding statutory construction in Moody, vs. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. Sv $1.50 FOREIGN, $2.00 PER YEAR. is of no consequence in this Brasic, 104 Minn. 463. -The question case. In State vs. District Court, 138 of constitutionality was not suggested. ANNOUNCEMENT Ninn. 204, it was said that the county V''r-": is a party. The majority decision in In the drainage scheme of the statute this case holds that it -is not. The On and after the lOtla day of April the subscription price of the county is an agency of the result is the same in either event. It. state. State vs. George, 123 Minn. 59 this paper will foe raised to $2.00 per year. This change should is a party to the contract. The contract Van Pelt vs. Bertilrud, 117,Minn. 50 have been made over a year ago when the cost of news print paper is a good one. In connection Bowler vs. County of. Renville, 105 with the statute it determines that was raised to three times its former price and the price of inks increased Minn. 26. The? state may impose upon the rights of relator are as relator several times what tihey formerly sold "for. the county and. its officers such claims them tp/be.—Hallam, J. We are s.ure none of our. subscribers will object to paying this dutieg as are appropriate to the working —-Buy Liberty Bones out of the drainage project. It advance in price of less than a cent a week, in order that they may MILITARY OFFICIAL REPORT requires the county to finance the continue to receive this all home-print, eight-page paper, which OF THE LUXURIES FUND undertaking. If all goes well assessments lias always championed the best interests of this county'and will for benefits will pay the cost The following is the official audit continue to do so. of the project. If loss occurs to the report of the funds subscribed by the county it is incidental to its posiiton renewnig subscription, any subscriber Anyone their or new. as an agency of the state and such various counties for the "Luxuries" whose money is in our office before April 10th,' will be given the fund for the boys in the National army. loss carries no suggestion of want of advantage of the former price of $1.50, but after that date it will at Camp Dodge. This fund for our due process. It is clear that the failure be $2.00 in advance in the United States and $2.50 Tn Canada or county was collected by Mr. Seymour to provide for notice to the county in connection with a preliminary W. Backus, the local treasurer: other foreign countries. Camp Dodge, Iowa. or progress certificate or the issuance February 19, 1918. of a warrant does not render the statute If the city council and the board of county commissioners Special Orders unconstitutional for want of due would head the next draft procession to the depot, we don't believe process nor does such result follow No. 21. any loyal American would consider they had committed either EXTRACT from the failure of the statute to 5. The following committee of officers provide for service of notice of the an undignified or unpatriotic act. ditch proceeding upon the county is detailed to audit the accounts of the Donation Fund committee: such as might be necessary to make CARTOON FURNtSHfD No thoroughly loyal member of the legislature will vote for Detail one a party in a strict or the Usual THIS NCWSPAPE* DY THE the repeal of the State Public Safety commission law. This commission sense. The county«is not a party, in Lieut. Colonel Frank D. Wickham, MWiiFSOTA COMMISSION Of PUBLIC SAFETY the sense that a land owner is, nor Inf. N. A. has proved itself to be the "one thing needful" in times in a proprietary capacity, and its Major Joseph H. Barnard, Inf. N. A. like these. It has done its work well without abusing its authority. Captain Ivan J. Kipp, Inf. R. C. property interests are not involved as 2nd Lieut., Wallace B. Graham, Inf are those of a land owner whose land Announcement As long as Senator Adams is the legal advisor of the St. Louis is affected by assessment, nor is it a R. C., recorder. 6. All letters, papers, and data in county commissioners our county board will have to send some one party to the proceeding at all except regard thereto will be collected by as an agency of the state charged else besides Arnold if they really want the road from Duluth connected the committee and checked by the with the financing and working out up with our road, which ends east of Ray. of the project. Because of such duties same. 7. Complete report will be made cast upon it the statute requires CONCERNING COUNTY AFFAIRS shoeing the moneys received and the notice of the proceeding to be filed amount apportioned at different times with the auditor. G. S. Nos. 5553-5561. INTERNATIONAL FALLS IS GOING TO HAVE A to the various organizations of this It is still merely an agency of the After employing an attorney at $25 and $50 per day and expenses, state. Viewed as such it is its duty command. as well as detectives, engineers, accountants and the like By Order of Colonel Hawkins. FIRST CLASS SHOE REPAIR SHOP to follow the statute. It is not in the to dig up information regarding judicial ditches in this county, and Verl A. Ruth, position of a property owner, whose after authorizing actions to be commenced to recover moneys Captain, 352 Inf. N. A., property is taken or affected, it is.not Our shop is now ready for business. While all of our equipment Adjutant. an adversary, and the question of the claimed to be misspent out of judicial ditch funds, all at the expense is not in still we are ready for business and will turn Gamp Dodge, Iowa, sufficiency of notice to constitute due of the taxpayers of the county and on the advice of Arnold, it out with the right material, at the right time, and at the March 25, 1918. is not present. .Whether G. S. 1913 the Supreme Court now comes out with a decision that a county right price. Board met pursuant to the foregoing Nos. 5553, 5555 and 5556 provide for is not a party to judicial ditch matters and has no property* interest order at 2:00 p. m. today. sufficient notice to the county if it We want to do business with the whole of Koochiching county. Present All the members except at stake in that connection. Applying this rule it is timely to ask: were necessary to sustain the proceeding 2tnd Lieut., Wallace B. Graham, Inf. as one against the county in What right did the county commissioners have to spend the people's Parcel Post System. We are going to install a In a few day* ft/ jC., who is excused by authority a proprietary capacity, as a party, it we will send our circulars and tags with price lists throughout money in matters with which the county was not concerned? Htj.' 88th Div. is not of interest to consider. That the county. Note the price, .look your old shoes and tie the Who is going to make good this money so expended? Will these The board then proceeded with the is not what the statute intends In tag to them. Drop them in the post office, and we will repair business before it. commissioners make it good? How many of them are financially State vs. District Court, 138 Minn. them and send them back C. O. IX with the privilege of examination^. Found the accounts of Captain 204 reference was made to the complete responsible Is it any wonder that Ulvedahl, Bursack and others George H. Russ, Jr., 352nd Inf. N. A., character of the notices and VJ are anxious to hold on to the reins of government to prevent, if with Donation fund, 352nd Inf. N. A. their sufficiency for the purposes in-1 We pay the parcel post charges' one way. possible, being made to pay back the money so expended? It is to be correct and as follows with no tended. It was there held that G. S. likely that the same rule applies to state .rural highways, in the balance remaining on hand. 113, No. 5571 intended that the county If they for any reason do not give service we will repair them Receipts free of charge. building of which much trouble arose, and many warrants were should be liable for engineers' expenses Total amount received from Minnesota and the like though the ditch issued against the special fund that have never been redeemed. It We buy only the best of leather and other kinds of material. local treasurers: was not established and tha't so construed, 5 would not be amiss for the taxpayers to look behind the scenes and County— Amount and when notice to the county When our shop is completed it will be one of the most modern find out if all the profiteers have been expbsed. What number Aitkin .... $ 0.00 was not given, an order for their payment and thoroughly equipped outside of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Anoka 10.00 of horses now browse around the county purchased by the contractors? was invalid for want of dtife Becker 6.00 pro ec« for, as as there said, the Who were some of the subcontractors, and why A Our new electric machinery will be here in not later than ten Beltrami 300.00 county was a necessary party to the days- We want you to come in and see it. We want you to little suspicion is commencing to drift around that whitewashing Carlton .... 9 801.50 controversy, oyer it and it was left get acquainted with us and we can assure you that we can be has been more practiced than omitted. Ca^se. 11.15 for future decision whether an order, courteous and obliging to you. Remember, we are now doing Clar ^, ... No agricultural agent has yet been selected by the county 10.00 would be valid if made after due nov 5 work and can take care of all you bring us. Clearwater tice to the county and an opportunity 0.00 board, although it is the patriotic duty of all to see that the farmers Cook ....... 84.50 to be heard upon an order to show are afforded every opportunity to produce as much crops as possible. Crow Wing 524.55 cause or its equivalent. Nothing NOTE PRICES There is not much patriotism exhibited by some of the members Douglas 268.40 more was decided. The question Qrant .. -... of the board, as I said before, and those who lack real patriotism 24.50 whether the county was a party to Men's Neolin full soles......$1.75 Women's turn'd sew'd Yz soles 1.25 Hubbard ... that proceeding prior to the dismissal 20.75 Men's half soles, sewed 1.25 should be treated accordingly. Bursack and Ulvedahl are now Women's new leath. heels .75-1.00 Itasca 1,033.05 thereof, and. the 'subsequent Men's half soles, nailed .... 1.00 Women's rubber heels 50 trying to get one of their faithful followers in as superintendent Kanabee 0.00 lowance of the bill of costs incurred Men's full soles, sewed 2.00 Women's leather heels 25 of schools who, with Ulvedahl, would control the unorganized Kittson 106.50 therein, interested or otherwise was Men's full soles, nailed 1.75 Boys' half soles, sewed 1.00 school board and would select teachers for our schools whose ideas Koochiching 365.85 not involved in that. case. There' was Men's rubber heels 50 Boys' half soles, nailed ...... .85 Lake :.v 506.65 of patriotism would be: on a par .with their own.' The children no intention of deciding it. It is O'Sullivan rtibber he'els 60 Youths' half, soles, sewed .. .. .85 Mahnomen .". 0.00 clear that the county was not there Men's new leather heels .60 would get splendid examples of loyalty from such instructors. The Youths' half soles, nailed .... .75 Marshall ". 78.00f Men's heels straightened 50 an interested party until it was Misses' half soles, sewed .... .85 very fountain head of the nation's strength would be poluted to Norman 18.00 dragged in by the exparte order of ...Women's half soles, sewed .. 1.00 Misses' half soles, nailed".... .75 the great glee of the kaiser and his ilk. Bolshevism/supported by Ottertail 110.30 Women's half soles, nailed .. .85 the court allowing the claim agaiivst Pennington TO.OO Child's half soles 60 th® state platform of socialism at its last convention, would, perhaps, it. There is no intimation that when Women's full soles, sewed ..1.75 Pine 89.00 Women's Neolin sloes 1.50 Boys' leather heels 35c to 40c a ditch is regularly established the be taught in the schools in place, of Amerieanism. Never, in Polk 185.50 auditor is justified because -of want Women's full soles, nailed... 1.50' New toe caps, men, women,.. .60 the history of this county has such a menace hun^ over the loyalists Red Lake 70.48 of due process in refusing to issue of this county than at this time when this attempt to control Roseau 19.25 warrants on progress certificates for th& schools of the county by the socialists is being madet This is St. Louis 5,228.25 the reason that the statute does not Dear Square Shoe Repairing Shop Sherbourne l.OO 44 what they have been planning all .along in'this investigation and provide for notice to the county of ra verse- 70.00 the application and none is given. deluding many -loyal men into believing that they were working Wadena 2.50 Very clearly he is hot. for the interests of the county. Their true flag is now being raised J. P. ENGLISH, Prop. 5 There is no doubt whatever of the and everyone, mindful of their duty to country, will forget everything Total .....r.......$9,955.68 constitutionality of the statute assailed. 308 Third St. International Falls, Minn. No further business the board adjourned else for the grea^. cause and rally to the support of the children sine die. Order affirmed. that they may not be left as the victims of political greed, F. D. WICKHAM, I concur in the result on the following Those who have seen this coming have sounded the alarm and been Lieut.'Col. Inf. N. A., President. grounds: SUPREME COURT JUSTICES of this state, regardless of political"' called obstructionists, and many other names, but to the openminded J. H. BARNARD, This ditch was constructed under affiliations, and *io change in the personnel S INDORSED citizen it must be now plain that greater evils may befall Major, Inf. N. A, Member. a contract in writing between relator of said court' is desirable at I. J. KIPP, this county than the loss of moneyor the failure to prosecute corrupt as party of the first part and Lincoln this time and The following resolution indorsing Captain, Inf. R. C., Recorder. public officials. There is nc»'offence at this time that should county as party of the second WHEREAS, The terms of three of Approved: Chief Justice Calvin L. Brown and part. No question is raised as to the rank as high as disloyalty: The dangerous obstructionist is the one the present judges of that cofurt, towit: C. E. HAWKINS, Associate Justices. Andrew Holt and validity of the contract. None could Chief Justice Brown, Justice who would obstruct the progress of Americanism and the unity Colonel, 352 Inf. N. A., Comdg. Oscar Hallam was passed at the State be raised. The proceedings up to Holt and Justice Hallam are about to Buy Liberty Bonds Democratic conference assembled of the nation's strength to win thenar. thaf point were unquestionably] regular. expije: v. March 27th in St. Paul. The election STORE PAINTED YELLOW We want a loyal superintendent" of schools. No. other should The contract was valid unless THEREFORE, We hereby expressthe of justices of the-supreme court is, the whole drainage law is void, and be tolerated." We want a loyal agricultural agent, and money fof hope' that Chief Justice Brown, under the present law,, non-partisag, it is not. The statute, Sec. 5541, which The first indication that the Sons that purpose should*be supplied if other things have to be neglected. Justice Holt and Justice Hallam willj but the justices named are all Republican enters into the contract, provides of Liberty have organized in this city This county must stand- four-square for everything Hhat in politics. be candidates to succeed themselves-^ 1 that payments shall be made to the occurred last week when the confectionery WHEREAS, It is a part of the anc-^ makes for the success of the boys at war. Hundreds of our young at the coming election. *. contractor on progress certificates of and news store of W. B. MacLachlan ient faith of the Democratic -party men are offering their lives to the country and anyone who does the engineer in charge. There" can be was painted yellow. We cheerfully endorse them all, asiV—" 1. welfare of the American institutions no question as to the validity of such On the door of the building a sign tha£ ,the the slightest act that obstructs the proper steps to supply them men of conspicuous ability and of depends very largely on an provisions. They are common, necessary was bung on .which was painted..4he with every aid and comfort should be attended to by the1oyal citizens. high character, and we trust that^v^ upright and independent judiciary to expeditious transaction of following "There is no room in this I have the number of some who are about ready for a visit they may be re-elected to their'pres-^"^ a"d construction business, and do not town for your type. Thirty days for from some organization as the Knights "of Liberty, and 'unless I ent positions, by the united support?^ "|f contravene any public policy Leigh' yQU?t& get out, or, a rail and tar and WHEREAS, The Supreme'cburt of ton .vs. Grant\20 Minn. 345 33 Mint^ feathers. Take warning you-pro-German this state meets those requirements ^mistake the temper of our people the visit will soon be made.jg~ of all good citizens. t§ Thf-c. ,-.0 hear*nr or tr al h, skunk. Ku Klux Klan—Bemidji for which reason it has'gained the respe^and -TAX pave *e enrrueer. Notice that he Is Seotinel. evidence of. all the p.GQpit£,,5U£S£RIIlE FOR THE IsS* mm