r-4'_ vp&i- 2V" -, f- 1 S**-- "Jw* fAGE FOUR INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS INTERNATIONAL FALLS office, otherwise let theffi.ife??&s&jd 4)$^!fc g^^Tiiraerit' fnws6'nie productive occupation during the, period of tlYe "war. Apply the story THERE'S DIG DIFFERENCE A AND BORDER BUDGET of the fellow who. was working with a crew and had fallen down on. tfvery task assigned him. The foreman took him to task for his INTERNATIONAL FXLLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY lS failure, and the fellow got angry and challenged the foreman to GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Wui|« fight. Says the fellow: "Step out here and I'll knock your block Entered at tke Post Office at International Falls. Minn., aa Seeond-elaaa Matter off!" The foreman refused to fight, saying: "No, John, my mother SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR always told me that a man must be good for something, and I've tried you at everything else, and found you no good, so you must be good at fighting." These fellows have fallen down on everything they have tackled in public life, retire them to private life and they may find a place in it'to succeed. At least their mistake. will not have to be paid for by the tax payer. TAXPAYER. FOR REPRESENTATIVE H. J. MINOR WHEN THE MAN PARSES W0 HA«S DONF HIS "8»T" IN AH. To the Voters of Koochiching County: THE PATRIOTIC DRIVES AND I have filed for re-election as Representative to the State Legislature from Koochiching county and trust that my record in tlupast two sessions of that body has been such as to meet with your approval and that I may have your loyal support and good will 'n the present campaign. If nominated and elected I pledge you that it will be my aim Governor Burnqulst all times to work for the best interests of Koochiching county and "Come Across" For the Red Cross the state at large as I have endeavored to do in the past. are During these grave and perilous times and while our country The man whom the Pro-Germans, Socialists and Wets is engaged in the most terrible war of history, I think that everv trying to defeat for another term of loyal service, but every hundred per cent American in our state will vote for him at the priies, /une 17th. ma Mt Here's the Graduates of our public schools who go forth TO WHEN THE FEJ.L0W PASSES WHO HAS DONE NOTHIN CARTOON FofiNlSHEO TMIS NlwSPAPER & today either to schools-of higher learning and more perfect preparation TO HELP WIN THE WAR. 6VTHF MINNESOTA COMMISSION OF PUBLIC SAFE TV for their life work or immediately into the stern battle of life. May success attend them and may the world be made better and THOS. P. WHITE still more prosperous by their activities. FOR SHERIFF I hereby announce myself as a This is Decoration day, the day when we assemble to pay tri candidate for nomination and re-election btite to those who have laid down their lives that our nation might as sheriff of Koochiching county. be preserved in its unity of democratic ideals. It is no longer a During the eight years I have held sectional observance but a whole-souled participation by our nation this office I have done the best I as a whole. This day has an added significance, today, than that could with the means at_my disposal and under the adverse conditions given to it when General Logan made it popular. It is now world under which I have been compelled to wide in its sympathy and devotion not only to those who fought and 7'v- labor, due to the unwillingness of the County Board to furnish me with died in defense of the Union or to break the shackles of Spain either sufficient deputies or funds. from suffering Cuba, but also to loving memory of all who have Since the District Court has ordered made the "supreme sacrifice" in the present awful war for a world more assistance for conducting the work of the office have selected wide democracy. And today as we gather we shall think not only the best available men as deputies of our own brave boys, but also of those of every allied nation anci and have instructed them to enforce say "our sympathies, our prayers our hopes are all with thee are all all the laws. with thee." During the year 1917, I have arrest ed over 100 violators- of the liquor CONCERNING COUNTY AFFAIRS laws, and collected $3,648.75 in fines, which is considerable more than my ATTORNEY F. J. McFARTLIN salary amounts to. Candidate for Legislature It might be interesting to the voters of the districts represented If you see fit to return me to office or misrepresented, on the cd'unty board by Bursack and Ulvedahl I can assure you that I shall endeavor JOHN F. GAVIN to read what they said about themselves as commissioners, through still more earnestly to fulfill all its dutiees. For Superintendent of Schools thuir highpriced attorney, Mr. Arnold, in the injunction case started Earnestly soliciting j^our vote and by four homesteaders to prevent the squandering of public funds influence, I am, After careful consideration the to enrich a Duluth lawyer. This is some of the things Mr. Arnold r- Board of County Commissioners has jr Yours truly, had ihem say about themselves "Your answering defendants are Thos. P. White. chosen me to fill the important office •The above announcement is pre* noi lawyers, not schooled in the technical work of making an investigation of County Superintendent of pared and the sum of $10 paid- for Schools and it is my desicion to give of county matters, AND ARE NOT COMPETENT TO its publication by said Thos. P. all school interests and the people CAR^Y ON SUCH INVESTIGATION." "That if they have failed White. of this county an efficient, patriotic candidate for public office should unhesitatingly state c}early wh in any matters pertaining to county affairs it has been, through an fearless administration. he stands for. LACK OF KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND JUDGMENT, and Ww DURRIN I was born in Minnesota, educated For County Commissioner I stand for: -&**«*_•»• in its Normal Schools and University not by reason of any desire to wrong or injure anyone, nor to invoh'e ... -«rti and I believe in Minnesota ideals America, first, last and all the tinje. the county in needless expense." and in the vigorous prosecution of. It might be well to re-elect tlrfc A vigorous and successful prosecution of the war, to the end They admit tfyat they are incompetent 4o carry on the investigatiori, man that advocated the construction the present war. My twelve years that, democracy and freedom,of all people shall forever _be secure. and admit that they may have made mistakes because their .experience has been in this state anil, of good roads, that fought for r.oads Loyal support of the administration both state and national four have been at Northome, this knowledge and judgment and experience is poor. These' men seek in your district and received more county, where a bdard of six members during the prosecution of the-war. than your share. I promise that if re-election. The voters of their districts have a right to be represented gave me. five unanimous elections. re-elected to surface and complete -State and National prohibition of the liquor traffics by men who can investigate county affairs. That's what The school'of which I have our system of state roads if in my Rigid'enforcement of laws especially thecounty option law. they are paid $800.00 a year and expenses for. That salary should been superintendent the last four power so to do. I think you will Good roads. secure competent men—men with good judgment arid experience. years has taken a lead in patriotic agree with the. That I have always For suc^:- legislation as is progressive and that will'meet the work also in County and State advocated agriculture and never neglected More damage may be done by the man or public officer who is incompetent, school, contests-and the men of my when opportunity offered to needs and requirements of the people and for the rapid and greater inexperienced and who lias poor judgment than by "a community have chosen me as Sec-^ speak words "of praise of our agri•cultural development 'erf' Kpochiching county. smart crook, for the acts of the onie might be successfully defended retary and Treasurer of their Civilian possibilities. The early settlers* 1 can assure you that I will deeply.jappreciate your'vote and o» the grounds of good faith, while, the .acts of the other nught be Auxiliary. must agree with-me that I -was influence at the primaries Jttne 17tiv ir I shall appreciate most highly a $et aside for fraud. You have no remedy against the incompetent instrumental in kxating the county chance to continue in' the work as Years veTy truly, fair at Northome. The records will official except by the"ballot. Use. it. These men admit that they county superintendent. I have begun show that I cast my ballot, not against have been holding a job entirely too big for them.' That after H. J.UlNER. iand pledge the votes my very best the lowering of corporation taxes. several years on the job they are still iacking in judgment and know-' efforts. If-re-elected--'I will try and safe ^THE EAGLE'S: ETEW ledge, and their experience has not done them any good and they are .. Sincerely Yoyrs, guard the interests of the people JOHN GAVIN. F. incompetent to carry on an investigation of county affairs, the very carefully and to the best of my. Prepared and .paid for by John F. ability. Yours for good roads and ^^^tfatfeW'jwcture is that which comes closest to the lives very affairs that are the dirties of their office. W. Gavin "in his own behalf. all other developments. I solicit' your Anyone interested in reading the original language as above or the American People. —-"MAKE W.S.S.' PLEDGES— vote. •. 1 quoted may find the same in *the ans^r on file with the'Clerk of 'That phase of the present world ir \vhich touches every one Recpectfully, DURRIN: the District Court., "r: of America's hundred millions—affecting their'Tives,^ their liberty Wm URRIN- .^4^.rs a closely cropped mustache, rebe Adv—For which $I0~ is to and their pursuit of happiness, is the ceaseless, ruthless, treacherous It perhaps has been a question,in the minds of maity .yvhy the 'psy# X^bling the kind bankers and other by William Durrin. ^olid men of a community wear. plotting of the Imperial German Government spies in America investigation in which many honest "citizens were, interested has —MAKE W.S.S. PLEDGES— Reports have it that a war argument 1 To put the people on their guard to o^en their eyes to hidden b^een so .bungled, so expensive, so productive of little value, and wh^ was in. progress, during which dangers,^and*to protect them froth these unseen foes, is the RIGH B^KAISER some of the worst malfactors, according to report, have neither MUSTACHE" Nusdorf gave vent to the expression IS NOT POPULAR Ife and PATRIOTIC purpose of Chief Flynn's^ great story of "THE jjeen punished nor their records cleared up. This must be the reason. that Austria and Germany were both "good ^buntries". Then the trouble The investigation has been carried on by-men "incompetent EAGLE'S EYE." "kaiser mustaclie" with its rap^ started—Brainerd Dispatch. to carry on an investigation of county affiairs."^. The commissioners, As the head- of the United States Secret Service Chi^f Flyim ier-like points upturned, did not appeal directed the work of the Government agents.in tearing tjje hypocritical elected by the people and responsible to them, charged by the to 4csoldier. and two, strangers in* Brainerd Tuesday morning and law with certain duties have attempted to shift this burden .upon mask from the suave and smiling diplomats of, the Impexia! they clipped the. offepding adornment a man outside of the county, having no interest in his job except German Government, and foiled their plans for the destruction of from the upper, lip of Heinrich ~Nusdorf. his per diem and expenses, and^the gratification of his spite Against the Atlantic Fleet the $50,000,000 bo^b plot 'their plans to bring The Minn—poiii Dollar-Hotal about a labor war, and fastenedut)Oh th^n the crjfne of the ages— 250 ta0DC«IN ROOMS certain men, and his desire to regard the others wiho have given Nusdorf's card showed him to be Located in HMrt af BmMM DfaMet him the position. He is not responsible to the people of the county, the sinking of the "Lusitania." a .registered Austrian alien of International °Mr pr|cc-°ne dollar Falls, serial No.- 977. He EU*P»*U* ron has* givfen. no bond for the faithful performance of ,the duties .delegated These and many other ^3! 'outrtfg^s are, together with the R«TC TWO nniON($t.lO claims he was. on his way from the. i*TNf «HOWKH AND TOIiKT KXTRA to him. You elected your commissioner to filt. that office. methods of the plotters, graphically and'realisticaliy shown in the CQMPLCTK SAFETY border-town to North Dakota. AUTOMATIC •PRINlUXftS slikJ You expected that he was competent.- He^y^, he isn't. The job twenty -"THE EAGLE'Si-pYE,'' the most timely APiD FlRtPROpF CONSTRUCTION episodes of He speaks little English and that INaURANCC Rtctua SMbW THAT WCVCR ,V is easy if he can draw his own payy time Hire soraeoneatao^dditional oatrioti4„photoplayi serial ever produce^. has ucp lost in ant buildinq very brokenly. After the loss «f the i?re PHOTCCTCb «T AUTOHATIC •MMNKLCItS expense• him. Is this THE FACTS AND TH^ PURPOSE OF "THE •mustache he claims he was/struck' NOT AND COLD RUNNING and he has a black eye to bear witness. EAGLETS EYE ARE RIGHT the service you wantVM Is this tjhe kinlJ6i#ni^ your,district is -r 5^ going to send to representvit.ion the county board? If you want Registration. June 5th being the inniv He states he is 43 years old," unmarried, a continuance of incompetency that will result in greatly added and that he has been in the SUBSCRIBE PRESS burde^upon sthe taxpayer, then continue these incompetents in Un'tid §tates-jiuce *1913. To}ayc h? .r-W'i V- -si