»yi.jfjfj111 mi^'i.'^i'1'y |»yii yip,1 **v-?7 i/t INTERNATIONAL IfADtS PRESS AGE FOUK THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRES. there is not a Single thing in the ^ay ipf improvement to which we LETS PUT ANOTHER FEAf HER IN HIS HAT can point that has been given attention by the county board, and yet it has cost the people more than they ever spent in any one AND BORDER BUDGET yeai* during the so-called ')reign of terror." If there has been aijiy Publishers of the Official County Proceedings "moral effect" it was not generated by the county board or its fear1" INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY less employee. 1 GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager I got a wrong hunch on Arnold's filing for the legislature. He Entered at the Post Office at International Fall*. Minn., as Second-class Matter didn't file. He likes his job with.us to well. The snap is too soft SUBSCRIPTION RATES U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR and it anay not last much longer so he must attend to it while he may. Speaking of the legislature, Oh,-Mighty Monty, keep for yourself By the way the states are voting on the National prohibition the curry comb you mentioned and use it generously to take the. kinks out of your top-knot, and occasionally curry favor with amendment its a pretty safe bet that the U. S. will be a dry nation the non-partisan league and the democratic donkey. by Auril 1st next. TAXPAYER. It looks as though Pound-master Messerschmidt is going to be the right kind of a pound-master. The war gardens must be encouraged BANK NO. 1293. PTE. LIVINGSTON WRITES Statement of thfe Condition and saved. RAY STATE BAXK Copy of a. Letter From Private fclbse of business on Mn.y 1. at the James Livingston of the American Road overseer Curran is putting the streets in line shape. A 1918. Engineers, (Railway), April 12,' Date report by bank, May 7. 1918. of few more trips with his grader after showers will do the business 1918 (or is it 1819?) RESOURCES practically for all summer. Loans and discounts 527,S2S.50 Overdrafts 2,282 Somewhere else in France Furniture and fixtures 1,000.00 It is an open secret that if the Old Whiskey Gang's Candidates It seems a Jojig time tince I last Other real estate 500.00 wrote you. so much ha? been crowded get a fairly good vote at the primaries they will call for an election 6,433.68 into the time, and such complete Due from banks. next August to vote back the licensed saloon. They evidently Cash on hand.... 1,412.36 change. have an idea they can control this county and make it as law defiant You see did remove to another Total eash assets 7.S46.04 Ave as this city has been. job, somewhere else. Th 48.S3 iourr.cy/ Checks and cash items. Cash collections 3,067.79 was more interesting than luxurious, being accomplished in the manner1 There has never been a time when candidates have offered Total .$40,313.98 we read about before coming ovei LIABILITIES themselves for public service from more different parts of the in box'cars, which in these clays are Capital stock county than this year. Northome, Big Falls, Littlefork, Harrigan, all lettered: 1 Surplus fund Undivided profits, net Loman and International Falls each Have one or more candidates, HOMMES—40 Deposits subjects to and the end is not yet. It's too bad they cannot all be elected. CHEVAUX (enlong)—8 CARTOC-N FUK'viSWED THIS NEWSPAPER BY THE check $21,829.2-1 MiNNESO TA )Orj Of PUBLIC SAFLTY Cashier's checks .... 4,161.44 Let me picture to you our bourduir scene, sleeping in the cars. There ,mmediate It is up to everybody to conserve their flour supply as State Total ]iai was hay on the floor, and we lay'with SACRED CONCERT, IN CITY bilities 25,990.(58 Food Administrator Wilson says that all the flour manufactured heads'to the side walls, shoulder .to HALL, INTERNATIONAL FALLS by the Minnesota mills until harvest can go to the Allies, because 1,S37.3S shoulder' on both sides ofatcar 8 x27 certificates... ime the county administrators say there is enough on hand to serve with legs intermixed across the car, Total deposits. 27.S28.06 27,828.06 Sunday, May 19th, 1918, at 3:15 P. M. often two deep. Ape.rson who required until that time. to reach the door had a prob-! 290.00 Cash ov Net earnings 30.10 lem on hand, to navigate a troubled Conductor:.Mr. Frank G. Myers According to revenue .collectors who travel abolitthe state sen of etangled legs, if he would not, Accompanist: Miss Alvira Bishop, Miss Alma Winnifred Clark Total $40,313.98 walk upon his protesiing comrades assisting in the making out of income tax reports, and who therefor Amount, of reserve on hand$ 7{£46j.j4' We," in our car found opportunity to .Sanount ,o.f reserve required ..••• O A have an opportunity to know, there is no line of business that construct some upper platforms'\in by law 3410.74 has been so hard hit financially by war conditions as the newspapers. STATE OF MINNESOTA) both: ends, which relieved the intolerable ss. Presented by the, Fort Frances Choral Society And yet, strange as it may seem, there is no line of business (Congestion below. During the County of Beltrami expected to contribute so much for nothing as the newspapers. daylight portions of our trip we saw County of Beltrami .. •.? .The Star Spangled.Banner. ...... We, A. G. Wedge, vice' president and some beautiful country, fine fields and —Alexandria Citizen. H. C. Cardie, assistant cashier of the T\ budding forest. I'll put in some samp-. 1. "Worthy is the Lamb" ..„ Handel above named bank, do solemnly^ swear les of wild flowers. A year and a day that the ajiove statement is true to the Fort Frances Choral Society LAW ENFORCEMENT from the' momentous night when oi}r best of our knowledge and belief. A. G. WEDGE, Congress made its inevitable decision. 2. Piano Solo—"Spinning Song" Litolff President. I looked put into the misty night Every honest effort to clean up the town ought to have the H. C. CARDLE, Miss Gertrude Janitz and saw small flashes of sheet-light-. moral support of every citizen and of every pulpit in the place. The A«st. CaBhier. OJJ, ning along the horizon, quartering Subscribed and sworn to before me 3. Solo—"My Grace is Sufficient for Thee' Eberal lawless must be made to realize that they cannot break down society's our bows, and found the phenomenon, t)ijs 8th day of May 1918. Miss L. Neads safeguards without sharp, immediate punishment. Let authorities, (SEAL) fi. H. FRENCH, significant. We disembarked in riig, Notary Public, Beltrami County, those charged with the enforcement of the law, be indifferent, and sleet and lugged 6tir great packs. -V I ... 4. _Reading _'.i— __ri„^^jS^lected Minn. My commission .'expires "Sept. to billets in a village of the usia^ or carelessly overlook festering spote-andlike di'siease, they 10th, 19^4. Mrs. Pfottt type, where we rested luxuriously in Correct Attest:, (Two Directors.) will spread. To tolerate evil resorts is to invite moral destruction. A. G. WEDGE, Jr. barns with^ plenty of straw, for t\v'o 5 Chorus—"And the Glory" .Handel Dea\ summarily with them and they will cease to be.—Fort Frances G. A. MILLARD. nights. Then we marched to the Fort Frances Choral Society Times. scene of our job, where we wrok at. BANK NO. 976. our trade. 6. Piano Solo—"Were I a Bird" Henselt Statement of the Condition of But the trucks carried our heav^ CONCERNING COUNTY AFFAIRS AMERICAN STATE BAXK Miss Alma Winnifred Clark packs, for which we were devotedly OF RAMER grateful. at close of business on May 1st, 191S. 7. Solo—"The Plains of Peace" D'Auvergne Barnard Some time ago something was said about "Honest John Bursack" Date of report by bank May 9th, 1918. This must be a very stormy region Mrs. F. G. Myers having very little opposition because of his, stand on things furious thunder storms rage for hours RESOURCES in this county. To date there, appears to be five other candidates. ^Loans and discounts. ....$62,212.21 somewhere over behind the skylines, 8. Male Quartette—"Beyond the Smiling" .....Stebhins Overdrafts 1,375.72 but without producing rainfan. It is fair to assume that each one has a number of friends all opposed Messrs. Clark, Myers, Plenderleith and Collette Bonds and securities........ 600.00 |W to the work of the present encumbrance. The people of Furniture and fixtures 3,200.00 During this journey I hati* "gii^jlises, Other real estate. 200.00 9. Piano Solo—"La Fileuse _Raff his district have about stood all they can of his work. They have of the effects of shell-fire ami glitnp-. Miss Sarah Rifkin decided to get rid of him. They are all tired of having their district, Due from banks... .$11,444.14 ses of the titanic enginery of modem Cash on hand 1,152 51 which used to be so inviting to incoming settlers, made a warfare, including some "tanks" and 10. Anthem—"The Radiant Morn' -Woodward place to be shuned by the investor'. As soon as the county board have some faint, idea of the prodigious Total. cah assets 12,396.'65r Fort Frances Choral Society Cheeks and cash items. 218.72 traffic upon railways and h»ghr. is made up of men determined to use the means within their power Internal Revenue Stamps. 368.00 ways, required to maintain the Big, 11. Piano Solo—"Soirles de Vienne No. 6" Liszt to reduce taxes, disburse moneys for the improvement of the county's Business of killing men. Aircraft are Total $80,771.30 Miss Gertrude Janitz roads and generally make the county a fit place to live in the not occasional visitors, but hourly, LIABILITIES land seeker will again look for a place of abode in Koochiching commonplace things. 12. Solo—"Ave Maria" Gounod Capital Stock ..............$10,000.00 county. No county in the state has a better natural field for development. I have heard the fluttering rumble Surplus fund 2,000.00 Mrs. O. C. Damm Undivided profits, net 961.55 of a shell pursuing its way thru the No county has more natural drainage in its rivers. clowded sky overhead and presently 13. Piano Solo—"Valse Brilliante Moszkowski No county has more fertile river valleys. No county has a citizenry Deposits subjects to delivering its strenuous message several Miss Alma Winnifred Clark Check $4 4,S12.pl better suited to the developing of its vast resources. The miles beyond us. The boys have Demand certificates. 2,450.00 county temporarily fell into the hands of a bolshevik element after Certified, checks ... 50.60 lots of jokes about these tokens from 14. Chorus—"Hallelujah Chorus" ..Handel Cashier's checks ... 1,790.00~ Fritz, but they will not all bear repetition. the Czar was dethroned, and as soon as the people get control of Fort Frances Choral Society One claims to have seen the things again, as they will, this fall, a new life will be given to activities Total immediate liabilities ticket on the shell—it read for such a $49,102.61 America in this county. I have insistently urged that all factional towfi. differences be laid aside that we might all give our attention to the Savings deposits 3,032.29 Collection to be taken in did of American Red Cross Fund. I'll not describe our dwelling place Time certificates. 15,674.85 great cause. Our part in that cause is in developing our farm lands it is not allowable anyhow, but I may Patriotic Chorus directed by Mrs. R. C. Fraser and producing food-stuffs for the government where honest, gettogether say it excells all former places in re-: Total deposits $67,809.75 67,809.75 Piano solos by Pupils of Mrs. Luella Christello spect to manure and standing filthy efforts are made. We need the agricultural development Total $80,771.30 water. The people here have furnished in this county, and the nation needs the products. It is easily seen STATE OF MINNESOTA) their sons to,the war and naturally SURGICAL DRESSING VOLUNTEER NOW that the needs of the nation furnish the opportunity for sections County of Koochiching cannot keep up the work properly. .., DEMONSTRATIONS We, Ackley Hubbard, president, and such as ours. Those who cultivate factional strife instead of unity Fancy watering horses in a pool G. N. Anderson, cashier of the above In view that the next registration or pond as foul as a hog wallow! rtamed bank, do solemnly swear that in order to reap personal benefit at the expense of the people are The ladies of the Surgical dressing of all men that have become twentyone the above statement is true to the best Our boys are continually cursing and of no assistance to the nation in its present crisis. This county classes gave a demonstration Saturday. of our knowledge and belief. since June 5th fest will have to raging (in words) ,to see it, and I fbr the purpose of interesting ACKLEY HUBBARD has sent about four hundred of its best blood to military Service and register, you should volunteer your think they have some excue in this PreaMent. the public in this branch of patriotic service in the Ut S. Army and choose it is the duty of all to unite and! furnish our quota of food stuff to G. instance. W. ANDERSON, service. The need for bandages and your branch of service, dont' wait, Cashier. feed these men. We have donewell in liberty bonds, thrift stamps What a relief it is to go .put to surgical dressings is increasingly urgent Subscribed and. sworn to before me but go before June-5th. The U. S. and other matters where money was needed, but food must be produced work on the clean s\yeet open fields this 9th day of May, 1918. as our eboys are called to the Army is offering to you young men (SEAL) v. w. DAVIS, The digging is fine here not. rocky before it can be bought and the vast acreage of this county front line trenches, and the demonstration every advantage that could possiblv Notary Public, Koochiching, County, like our first job. was an appeal to the public has not given its percentage of food to the nation. To make a be offered for commisisions and occupations Minn. My commission expires July 20, Now' the daylight fades for more workers. The rooms in the 1922. that will fit you in civilian farming district out of Koochiching county, and to use the lands high school ire open for volunteers Subscribed and sworn to by Ackley I am superbly well. life after this war, if you are abled unfit for one kind of farming for another kind, raising sheep, dairy Hubbard before me this 11th day of Wednesday and Friday afternoons bodied you owe. it to your country- to We are working "like the Devil.' May 1918. herds and other food providing methods, is the task before the from 2 until 5 and Tuesday and (SEAL) MAE A. OSHORN, enlist, your brothers in France are Livingston. Thursday nights from 7 to 10. people of this county. No more disorganized efforts to tear Notary Public, Hennepin-^County, depending upon every young man to Minn. My commission expires Oct. 6, The domestic science class furnished enlist arid get in uniform ,your place down reputations^ communities and the credit of the county should 1921.'. the cookies for the light refreshments »is in the Army it takes men to van be permitted. Correct Attest: (Two Directors) the ladies served. The public HARRY I. HORTOST, this war and every man, woman and With a new man in the place of Bursack and another of the HENRY A. HUBBARD. iWas very generous in. its free will offering. child that must stay on this side right stamp in the place of Ulvedahl on the county board there will The surgical dressing classes should do everything possible! to see be a workable majority fit to carry out a progressive and constructive /wishes to thank svery one concerned that every man physicaly fit enlists EAT POTATOES in behalf "of the boys who will be in the army. A man's duty today is plan for the development of the county and the reduction of Dr. Larson the optometrist will bej lis benifited. to offerhimself to his country to help the taxes by the elimination of waste, and the application .of the at the Victoria hotel, June 4-5. Consult'him a But let the good work go-on every crush the germ of Prussianism before funds to the improvement of the county's highways. Those "two if you have defective eyes yrmM lady in to\fn is wanted to help make it becomes a plague. Do not put it or need glasses. Artificial eyes fit- districts have the destiny of this county in their hands this fall bandages for our wounded. off until tomorroWbyt do it today. They will do their duty. Since the so-called investigation started Apply at U. S. Army Recruiting Station, SUBSCRIBE SUL5CRIBE* International Falls. ,'K it