TV" "'J' pp.*? -i INTERNATIONAL FALLS PKESS TAGE FOUR -T-r •:.i.r./wi"r. THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS MAIN STUMBLING BLOCK HAS BEEN REMOVED AND BORDER BUDGET We clip the following, frbm^the-Big. Falls Compass relative to the road work in that district which corroborates the many articles by "taxpayer" and otherwise in regard to the unfitness of Mr. Ulvedahl INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY COnOTTU)^ for public office: GEO. P« WATSON, Editor and Manager "It is not with pleasure, but it has became a necessity for us to secured by Entered at the Post Olrice at International Falls. Minn., aa ^eeond-elaaa Matter tills simple take a stand in public matters to defend the action taken by the device— citizens of Big Falls regarding the up-keep of roads in this district, SUBSCRIPTION RAISES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR to get any action, it became necessary to strip off our honorable County Commissioner the authority as supervisor of the .Elwell The fulfillment of the prophesy that the war will end next year road in this district, which he has purely used for his political purpose, depends on the manner in which every citizen does his full duty this voere the rub of regardless of money spent with his tinker-toy (county tractor). year, wherever his lot may be cast. corset comes, This caused an appeal to be made to State Engineer L. A. Ogaard who immediately hired[ Dell Cartwright to do necessary Every nation seems to be having food riots of one kind or another Ptttico&t turned ia» repairs for the tractor and repair .the roads wherever needed which except our own United States, where every loyal citizen considers RGe cur ihcwiog the "Ptoleciq" shield tint so far has been done, we invite other communities who have roads it a pleasure to do his share toward conservation along every »*ies fyb of comet in shape for the tractor and grader in this district to tender their necessary line. tsd prottcu the silk.. application for its service to Mr. Ogaard who will take tha matter up with the proper authorities will outwear two ordinary silkpetticoats for In assigning boys from eighteen to twenty-one to service in double iKe simple reason tbat there is "Saturday notice was served on Mr. Cartwright by Mr. Ulvedahl schools our government is not only preparing them for war but for protection where the wear fames. to leave his tinker-toy (tractor, alone. Apparently he does'nt seem to useful and necessary occupations after the war, to take care of the be able to realize, that he is only a representative chosen by the tremendously increased business that will be required of this country Faultless in Style, Fit and Finish people to assist in carrying out -the wants and wishes of his consti and moderate in price. .tuents, fortunately his order has not been obeyed arid it is out every With a dry majority- in Blue Earth county, .last Monday, of 783 day Yesterday a half-mile of road south of town was graded into You Can^ Always JD^Better at votes, sixty-one Minnesota counties are now dry and with the rap fine shape, tciday the outfit went down toward Margie to trim up idly growing serifim^rit'in favor of saving the grain to win, it is the muskeg and other need peaces. It must be an awful sensation very evident that the erijtjre state will be voted bone dry by Constitutional for our Representative to see the -work go on in spite of him and his Amendment, and by selecting only "dry men" to the state o. effort to block the public movement for better roads. legislature, Minnesota will register her vote in favor of National "Last year, so we are informed, more than $600.00 reverted '•The Store of'Quality" Prohibition of the greatest curse that can hang over any people. back into the county treasury from this district, to be spent in W other parts of the county, because our representative could riot In another column will be found a digest of the platform by the find a community in his district that hie thought worthy of any improvement. national socialist conference in Chicago, which was readopted by not reforin. We need to get down to business in this county for the Is it any wonder that the voters in Big Falls failed a vote of 44 to 6 and is not only against the government in the prosecution development of its abundant resources that we may do our share for to set their seal of approval to his work at the primary election last of this war with Germany, but pledges ieself to "active and the country, and get prosperity and contentment at the same time. June. It is now up to the tax-payers to demand that their part public opposition" to the government in all its endeavors to raise Arnold will never give this county prosperity, but his own prosperity of the county road money be spent in this district this year, men, money, food and equipment for the winning of the war. It continues while our credit becomes a byword throughout the or know the reason why-r-Bjg Falls Compass. does not seem possible that the many good men in this county who •state and our state officials blame us for it. Let's root the bunch out are recognized as socialists, will be willing to follow the disloyal and get down to business. CONCERNING COUNTY AFFAIRS an unpatriotic national leaders in this respect. There are, and alwa^will G$r. TAXPAYER. -til be differences of opinion as to the best way to govern I was not surprised to find no reference in the letter of Engineer our countfy, butthei^ should never exist any spirit of disloyalty to YOUR LOCAL PAPER PEAT MAY BECOME Bliler, published last week, to: Stiiifops in the road along number 24, A PUBLIC UTILITY our government FUEL SUBSTITUTE at war with a foreign power which has so but that surfacing of the swariip sections alone was necessary to deliberately planne^Jjind by various methods has destroyed the Minnesota Farm Review: Your local make the road servicable. This condition, discovered on the tour Duluth'* Experiments May Prove life and property oi our and other peaceful peoples for the purpose paper, the paper published in your Great Aid in .Solving Coal Problem of inspection of the State Highway Commissioner, shows that road of selfish conquest. home community, is one of the best The experimeents of Jphn Westin 24, while there may be, and undoubtedly are, some roots and small things you have. It is one of the of Duluth, through which* he has stumps still in the road bed, they are few in nuriiber and not suffic discovered that peat may be used as strongest ties that bind you to the Monday was* another fine summer day so we accepted the invitation ient to warrant criticism from expert road riien. The letter also a fuel substitute, may prove a great others in your particular corner of of Mr. L. A. Ogaard and took a seventy-five mile one way shows that for nearly four yearsJthe surfacing of the swamp sections vactor in solving the fuel problem the world. Throught it you are kept trip largely over Road 24, between here ar.d Baudette. It is impossible in touch with that corner's round of in Duluth and perhaps the whole has been neglected on a claim of lack of funds while the commissioners for any county to look more beautiful with its crops of waving country. Mr. Westin, who is a carpenter affairs, and through it you share the have continued to spend vast sums of money for agitation, employed by the St. Louis wheat, oats and barley, the former two of which were either being joys of others and help' them bear litigation and the enrichment of the special attorney who hotel, has produced, by years of experimenting their burdens. It is what the farmer harvested or waiting for their turn for the reaper to come and started the investigation because of stumps left in the highway. would call the evener 6n which all a "peat bicket" through gather in the golden grain. Most of the settlers along both'sides A sriiali portion of the money0thus wasted devoted surfacing to which is declared .to be aft excellent are pulling together for the progress of the road were looking prosperous with massive stacks of h.iv. substitute for coal. It is made of of- the community. and the. removal of the few stuirips would have had this highway good buildings, enlarged clearings and nice looking stock. The swamp and peat bog. The use of the You ought not, therefore, to look such shape as to be useful to rthe great number of settlers thrifty greater part of the way the roads were smooth high and dry and a bicket was demonstrated before a on it as something to be read and along its length. Such-an expenditure of money would not have company of engineers at the RustParker then cast aside. You ought to regard twenty-five mile an hour gait was easy, through the swamps, especially furthered the scheme of Arnold. It would not have furnished him plant and expert opinions is it, rather, as an agency for good to the five mile swamp between Birchdale and Frontier we his long continued employment. If would not have produced the that the inventor claims for it. which you can give strength by cooperation. had to run on low but it was a good road for a dirt or muskeg road John Q. Adams, president of the and factional strife necessary1, to give him a hold on the A local paper is not a discontent and like all the other similar roads in this and other counties there local branch of the American Engneers' private institution? it is a public bolshevik element of the county. It would have increased the association, who was present were a few roots, and perhaps a dozen sttimps which should be removed utility, and its usefulness is increased wealth of the county, promoted prosperity, afforded relief to the at the trial, said today that the peat before the gravel is put on. But when these good dirt roads as it is supported by the community, settlers and increased the food producing powers of the farmers. bicket burned well and apparently by you. This means that you are gravelled, which everyone hopes will be done before another It would have encouraged dairying, sheep raising, crop production contains as many heat units as most must contribute to it, giving it news spring this fine agricultural section will be within a very few hours grades of coal. The great question and better conditions generally. This was not-the desire of Arnold and backing the editor in the good of good markets and no part of our county or adjoining counties is whether it will be found practical things he tries to promote. If such The State Highway Commissioner, to whom the information has will be more attractive to those seeking a farm home and more pro to develop Minnesota's vast peat deposits co-operation were given every good been given that stumps blocked this road and that it was generally or whether the cost of this fitable for grain, or stock raising for those who have labored all paper by every ^Ood citizen in his unfit for travel, was able to go its entire length in his auto with his process will not make it impossible community, the editor could accomplish these years under the no road disadvantage which characterize all of engineers. No wonder that he hesitates in turnig over to market the fuel for any less than party vastly more than he does. When new counties, but who in spite of these have got a good start to a the present cost of coal. the funds necessary to help in, highway repair and construction to you are disposed to grumble at the prosperous farm life. Another who witnessed the. demonstration a county run by such mis-managers of the county's business. Along failure of the editor to get results, was H. W. Richardson of then ask yourself whether you have road nine, the same conditions exists Ulvedahl wanted discontent the local weather bureau. He said given him your share of support. CHEER UP to continue in his district. It produces socialist voters. Harold that there was no reason why peat This applies with double force to Grove shows up the situation there in his paper last week. Ulvedahl could not be used for fuel in America the teacher. The teacher who gets There never was a road so long it never had an e»id, and if you're as it has for many years in various turned back part of the road money allotted to his district while his anywhere is the one who sees his patient, brave and strong you'll reach the goal my friend. The parts of Europe, especially Ireland. school in its relation to the community constituents donated their services to road work for, lack of fund?. clouds of yesterday are gone, with all the gloom they gave look ,who spares no pains to interest They took in charge the county tractor to do voluntary work on their forward to tomorrow's dawn with hearts serene and brave. the community in the work of his roads and he served notice on thetn to leave it alone. They told the practical use upon the farm of school or his part of the school. To There never was ,a night so dark that endless were it hours: the information gained in school him to go to the Kaiser's future home. Can anyone doubt that he accomplish this end, the teacher the morning ^Hj^sipging lark, with sunshine and with flowers. work. only desires to feed his chosen few and make his enemies suffer? should be inclosest touch with his The Crookston school has an enviable And they who darkened ways, or who in sadness grope, will Can anyone convince himself that Ulvedahl is fit for public office local paper, keeping the public informed, reputation for giving practical see the dawrt'^raiBPiter days, if they have faith and hope. And through it, as to the work -vhen he adopts such tactics in a district where the farmers are service to the northwestern part if the man whdSMpet have strayed from off the proper road, corrects of his school or his department He the state as regards the extension trying to develop the land and need good roads? It might be well of should have no fear of lack of cooperation the errorype has made, and nobly bear his load, he'll find of modern, progressive, agricultural for the settlers along road number nine from Big Falls to Gemmel on the part of the editor. when rosy mor1 breaks that men are kind and good and they'll education. This, feature of the work to take up with State Forester Cox the condition of the swamp The editor is keen for chool news, is similar to the Boys' and Gorls* forget hisvfpas't istakes and guide him from the wood.—Walt sections along that portion $f the highway left unsurfacea. These and you as a teacher, are in the position Club work which Mr. Records organized v.4 Mason, to see that he: gets it, aiid muskeg sections area positive fire menace and if a fire, got in there and promoted in this country. through the publishing of the niws the road would be destroyed an^ serve as a communication for fire •.. ..• wM.-"' of your school you keep, awake the WISCONSIN NEEDS A BURNQUIST .Mr.. Records proved himself, aa to: the state ^riiberi Thferf^s still some two thousand dollars left interest of the cpmmunity in the energetic, intelligent, efficient and of" the nibriey: appropriated for: fire breaks to be spent under h?£ school V*.. I .--4 thoroughly- -patriotic school man. These are sad days in Minnesota for those who would grow direction in this county, l^is liiight well be used in graveling these' Look upon the local paper, therefore, The Crookston school is fortunate as your coadjutor. It will aid fat in body and purse by the misery of their fellows. The supren e, swamp sections as a fire protection^ arid IJam satisfied that if the in its choice and Mr. Records is to your school lifting it to greater efficiency. court has., upheld Governor Burnquist in reclosing the s,aloons of be.congratulated upon his promotion .ettlers along that line^ took the^natjter up with l£r. Cox he would It will aid you. lifting you to a position of so much larger responsibility, .Blooming Prairie. The court that granted these: saloons a respite be glad to co-operate witfctihejg./jn usingl.tjhis money for that purpose. to higher rounds of .the educational, pay and, prestige. .has had a lesson,..at least in war emergency powers. They need not relief from their commissioner, ladder P^ E. Bown. FoHowing this^^ecision. the board of public Safety has swept that is sure. They are giving thjiir own time to road work when it liquor out of all Red Lake county, the only remainingWetspot in DISTRICT NO. 1 LOSES needed in taking care^o|)9ieir crops. If this money can be spent TEACHERS' fT5r Agriculturist INSTITUTE northwestern' iftftlesota,' and just, such a county, with its sparse under the direction of thes$tate Ic^estry d^partpient^ giving employmen TO BE HELD HERE Last Sunday evening ,H. S. Records ,r settlement and small jgjg|hmunities, as should not be allowed to be to these settlers and*l£rayelirig and making suitable for travel former Agriculturist for the schools a drunkard's paradise. a bad part of the highwa^ it is worth getting up a petition for A five-day institute for teachers, of Distri9t. No. 1, .left .Big-. Falls to assume principals and supervisors of Koochiching. Prov*ng» in advance of prohibition, that andi urging vigorously^' V:•. V. i,... ./* the duties of,his new position County will be held the dty l&ws can The people now knoW they cati Be, and Next year with a fiv^[ teill,.Ievy for road purposes there Will in connection,, wjth, the Northwest week of September 2 at International Ste-* School of Agriculture at Crookston. will be, as long as Mrm|trist is governor, which is one reason they be raised for the fund about $35,000 or $7,000 per di.^trici.- Ulvedahl Falls. Mr. Records will have charge 'of p§^ will reelect himf\ They will not swap to a governor who does riot turned back some $60Q ou% of $2800 allotted to him so it is fair| to Mrs. Adella Pratt and Miss France* the extension work in connection believe in prohibition and says so. assume that he would not Want any greater portion next year. Smith, instructors selected by the with the pure seed co-operators of If only 66M' was in this state that sinkhole would also feel the people of this district waij^ their just share of the road money State Department of Education, will the thirteen counties contiguous to the hammer. *It 'is a disgrace to Wisconsin. It is a stench that place special emphasis on civici, they must look to sbmepne.' else to provide it for them. It is riot the Crookston School. This season language and reading in the grades. state should not tolerate. Nor should the federal government 250 farmers are co-operating with because there has not bee» enough money raised for road purposes About one hundred teachers are expected this school in an effort to produce tolerate it. Washington hafc full authority to close its saloons and that the settlers in many sections are without roads, but because of to be in attendance, and all pure seed of a better quality than is clean out its scarlet^yomen, and since Wisconsin will not, or does feKC: a scheme to keep the people iri an ugly mood that profiteers may others who are riterested educational procurable elsewhere. He will also M£», not, act, the administration at Washington should.—Duluth News wax rich in power and wealth playing at satisfying their desire for work are welcome to the have charge of the student home project ,Tribune. meetings. work which has ior its object y** U,r VV- W -A ia SEtt 4 I /V. 'itf it) -A ij-