INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, JANUARY 30 19i9 PAGE FOUR THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS Does it look wise to the businessmen and other taxpayers of SERDARIS—BROWMAN telling of the good points of their pet bills. The excess chatter spilled is this city for the council to go ahead and expend thousands of dollars On Wednesday, January 15th at a something awful to behold. of their money without first finding out whether such a move AND BORDER BUDGET Both houses are just getting the quiet home wedding at the home of will be either beneficial or profitable? decks cleared for action, and from the pride's parents on Seventh street, We shall be very much pleased to publish in our next issue INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PUBLISHING COMPANY nqfw on they will be as busy as a St. Mr. James Serdaris and Miss Helge any facts or figures the city council may have in their possession Paul bar room on. Saturday night, Browman were united in the bands GEO. P. WATSON, Editor and Manager as to their future plans in this or any other matter of public concern. which will be stepping some. of holy matrimony by Rev. P. O. The two counties are fortunate in Hanson, according to the beautiful Entered at the Post Office at International Falls. Minn., aa Second-el^aa Matter their three representatives. It is ritual of the Swedish Lutheran SOME MORE INTELLECTUAL BOLSHEVISEM church. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR giving away no secret to say that Messrs. Rako, Nord and McPartlin The bride is one of our most popular The outcome of modern discontent which has led to the ex are considered "some pumpkins" and young ladies who has resided The issue contains the annual financial statement of the county's treme of Bolshevik rule in Russia, is biting at the throat of Germany already they have made their presence here the past few years with her parents. It expenditures, assets and liabilities. is the most complete state­ during its period of "governmental chaos and has broken out in the The groom, who is one of the felt. In a future letter we will ment that has been rendered to date and is a credit to the Auditor's proprietors of the Chicago Cafe, is go into detail concerning some of the American congress in its tax laws has inspired a book by Eugene office. It should be carefully studied then laid away for future reference. one of our successful business men, legislation they will endeavor to manufacture Read advocating the abolition of inheritance and of the right to bequeath for the benefit of their constituents.-- whose business ability and genial property to one's heirs. disposition appeals favorably to all. The writer argues that the worldly comforts of life, food raiment, There is a regular flock-of north The happy couple are now comfortably Those who are figuring on Ontario voting wet, when the war shelter and pleasure are created from the labor of today that enders down here this week. Only domiciled in their beautiful home, is over, have another guess coming. It seems hard for the old topers no person should inherit property because the possession of such which the groom purchased a month an hour ago Jack Jewett, Bill Zippel, and half way siports to believe the time is coming when they will Leo Hackett, Doc Lewis and ago from Thos. McLaren on "Millionaire property would enable him to command the labor of others without get along better without their "schnops and snorts" as they do now Tony Hoover swooped into the room. Avenue." Their continued having labored himself of such command. Accumulated property with them. But its sure coming. Ice is up from Pique on business, happiness and prosperity is wished or estates would all go to the state instead of a per cent of estates while Tony came from Indiania and for by all who know them. which governments now claim in their taxes upon inheritances. expects to take a job representing a Few better investments could be made than that of building a of It is a modification the socialist's idea that there should be no cartridge company, having the state POTATOES FOR SALE few hundred houses in this rapidly growing city. It will be several private ownership of property at all and it would lead almost as of South Dakota for a territory. Ninety cents per bushel delivered years before the available houses will catch up with the demands. of All of us had a reunion, with Otto swiftly to a condition society such as the Bolsheviks have brought in International Falls. Apply, L. Fulton, Diercks also joining the party. One third could be added to the present population if there were no food Fort Frances. J. 3. about in Russia wherein there is and none that care to sow W. T. Noonan. houses enough for those who are here that want to move their families for the reason that there is no assurance that they may reap. Farmers Frank S. Lang has opened offices here and otliers who are staying away because they can find do not care to sweat at their farming if some hobo or I. W. W. LETTER FROM FRANCE in the International State Bank place to live. with a club can come along and appropriate the crop when it 110 building, where he has tht management raised. Brebant, France, of the Koochiching County Abstract According to Editor Noonan's political letter in another column Nov. 27, 1918. Abolish the right of inheritance and more harm would be done Co. (the abstract with the Dear Mother: the bill introduced for more money for the Treasurer's office is for map). to society than to the heirs. It is true that young men who start Not having heard from you folks clerk hire instead of an addition to the treasurer's salary. This bill with nothingf usually succeed better than the sons of rich fathers SALE OF SCHOOL AND for some time I though would drop bill may be alright for there are times when $800 per year will not but each generation "lives better, produces more comforts of life you a few lines. I wonder why I OTHER STATE LANDS pay enough for necessary clerk hire for that office. "Pat"Fogarty, and progresses because of the things which are saved and left over don't get your mail know/you write the treasurer gives his personal attention to the work of the office from one generation to another. We need buildings on a farm and real often. It has been a month and pvirt- in good honest day's labor at it the year round. now since I received a letter from buildings for a factory. Then we need machinery to put into the State of Minnesota, home. Surely nothing could of happeneed factory. We must have these things before we can produce the State Auditor's Office. at home. St. PauT, Minnesota, January 25th many things that we enjoy today. Without them we would be set Something shojul«Jj|be? done immediately by the state department I have read about the fires in 1919. back to the conditions of the man shipwrecked on an island who to prevent the- Wholesale overflowage, of previously drained northern Minnesota but it did not Notice is hereby given that on must wear goatskins for his coat and eat penguins eggs. March 10, 1919 at 10 o'clock a. m. in the mention a thing about the Falls. land by good state, ditches, by the beavers which are building dams office of the county auditor, at International trade such as Hope nothing has gone wrong. Our capital in buildings, machinery, railroads, en­ across them. The ^aSKestion that only state wardens be allowed Falls, Koochiching county, in Have you heard from William lately? are all saved up gines, tools by one generation and handed down to trap beavers is nota^fbod suggestion, they have plenty to do the State of Minnesota, I will offer for Last letter said that he was in sale certain unsold state lands and al to the next. Abolish the right to bequeath them to one's children and in enforcing the game laws, without going into the trapping business Camp Devens, Mass. Now that the so those state lands which have reverted men would stop work at: a very early age or they would quit saving themselves. Then too, some good Indian could put it all to the state by reason of the war is over I think that he ought to or they would give away their property before death which would non-payment of interest. over the average game warden in trapping the wily beaver. be discharged if he is not overseas. Terms of Sale: evade the purpose fabolishing the right. In my letters that I have written Fifteen per cent of the purchase price There must be private gain in this world for those who work before I asked, to look after my allotment. is payable to the County Treasurer at It seems as though the State Fish and Game Commission should For this reason it is an the time of sale. The unpaid balance and sacrifice to save or men will not try to build up anything, farm, make some provision before licenses are issued this year so that is payable at any time in whole or in order because the government asks a business or an estate. If everybody lived up all he made there part within forty years from the date the people of International Falls and other Koochiching county us to heelp them along. You have would be nothing saved or accumulated for others to use as capital of sale, interest rate of four per cent not told me in your recent letters. towns and villages could have the advantage of cheaper fish, sucii per annum, due on June 1st of each in producing other goods. The time has come in our national life So let me know as soon as possible. year provided, that the interest cai. as the commission has made for people living in the twin cities to return to the teaching of thrift as preached in Ben Franklin's Today is Tha-nksgiying and say we be paid at any time within the interest and almost all southern Minnesota sections. There is something year without penalty. In effect, this day instead of worrying about what a few men may do with large had PIE what do you know about wrong when a town of six thousand pfeople right at the finest fishing means that the interest money may be that. Also we get paid. Every property. So long as only three men out of 100 ever leave any paid any time between June first and grounds in the state should Aave to pay extravagant prices lor blessing comes all at once. I sure estate of more than $10,000, while seven out of eight men at sixtyfive May thirty-first without penalty. fresh fish, and half the time cannot get it at any price. Tons of did get my share of that pie I am The appraised value of timber, when years of age are dependent upon their relatives for support. telling you. But the weather is nasty so stated, must be paid in full at the rough fish are caught in the nets on Rainy Lake every year and The real problem is the old problem of how to get ahead in the world. time of sale. and it rains about every day. thrown back. If some provision could be made so that these fish All mineral rights are reserved to the Let us not so dispose-of the estates of three men out of a hundred Now that the war is over I or all 01' State by the laws of the State. were placed on the local markets at prices as in other towns it that we make all men dependent upon their relatives at an early age us boys are wondering when we are All lands are sold subject to any and would help considerable to lower the cost of living—or is this cheap going home. You hear all kinds of It would be too much of a load for those in middle life—Times Republican. all ditch taxes thereon. fish talk all hot air. Lands on which the interest has become rumors but you can't believe what delinquent may be redeemed at you hear. I expect if I am home by any time up to the hour of sale, or before the first of March it will suit me CITY COUNCIL BUYS SITE FOR WATER PLANT resale, to the actual purchaser. LEGISLATIVE NOTES Our statement last week that a bill Just now we don't know wh fine. Such lands are listed under the caption: had been introduced raising the salaries By W. T. Noonan we are going to do. Here's hoping "Delinquent Lands." of the treasurers of Beltraxni home soon. No person can purchase more than Last Monday night the city council passed a resolution purchasing and Koochiching counties was as 320 acres of land, provided, however, When we stayed at the Rex in Baudette Was up to Verdum on a Liberty the corner on second avenue and Second street, from the Gopher that State lands purchased previous, to long as a two foot yard stick. The we used to think that hotels Party last week, it sure does look as Real Eseate Co. which is a branch company of the Duluth Brewing 1905, are not charged against such purchaser. bill provides merely for additional were made to sleep in, but since coming though the Germans could not of done & Malting Company, as.a. site for a city water pumping plant. funds for clerk hire. to this burg we are convinced any more damage than what they1 No lands will be sold to an alien, unless This property is 80 feet 6 inches by 50 feet and the cost price to that hotels are constructed to stay he has secured his first papers. did. The town is just all shot to I The Bemidji Normal School Corporation Agents acting for purchasers must awake in. Between jass orchestras the city is $2,800 or about $800 more than we understood this property pieces. It will take the Frencn is undoubtedly occupying furnish affidavit of authority. in the basement, political conventions was offered for a year ago. years of labor to build that town up Appraiser's reports showing quality a space inside the skulls of the majority on the first floor, dances on the second "again. Was also through an old cathedral and kind of soil are on file in this office. We are in favor of the city owning its water plant, providing of you, and permit us to say floor and a circus across the of St. Catherine. It was jusij that nobody is going to sleep on the money can be saved the taxpayers, but it looks as though the council Lists giving legal descriptions of street, a guest has about as much a mass of ruins. Verdum the Ger-' job down here, and that there is every lands to be offered may be obtained of must have taken this action without consulting a competent engineer chance tcgrab off some sleep as old mans never could of taken for it has prospect of the appropriation coming the State Auditor or the Immigration Von Hindy has of winning a beauty or the taxpayers or they would not have purchased such a some fortications. I wisfy you could Commissioner at St. Paul, and of. the rattling along at the proper time. As prize. They put carpets on the floor small tract and in such a location. see some of the towns_that have been County Auditor at the County seat. far as local committees are concerned, J. A. O. PREUS. so your feet won't make any noise, under shell fire. Pileses of Stone are go ahead and appoint all you like. Many of our business men are asking for information as to Jan. 6-Feb. 20 State Auditor. then they stake some chap to about all that is left. They won't do a bit of harm—as long where the best location for a pumping station would be and also as eleven brass drums and a set of Have you heard from any of the as you keep them at home. After NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION to its initial cost and also what would be the cost of maintainance sleigh bells. They ought to put the Andersons you are down here a few weeks you of a city plant as compared with the present contract price for pumping carpets on the drums. Why they call Neews is scarce mother so I must don't have to be a cousin of Sherlock United State Land Office, Duluch, them hotels instead of boiler factories cents per thousand gallons. close hope you enjoy your dinner the water at five Minn., January 27, 1919. Holmes to discover that the best way is a puzzle we can't unravel. next Thanksgiving. I hope we are all NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That Would it not be to the best interests of the city for the council to "spill the beans" is to send a local together. Oden T. "Wick, of Duluth, Minnesota, All of which has nothing to do with committee down'to muddle up things. first to have a competent engineer look carefully over the situation as final assignee of Jacob Retzer, et politics, but we had to get it off Our Your son, Whether ^the legislature will! take al, on January 27, 1-019, filed in this and advise them in regard to these particulars before spending any chest anyway. any action on the recommendation of Corp. Arthur J. Holt, office, his application to select under of the taxpayers money? Sections 2306 and 2307 of the Revised the education department that the 183 Aero. The Babcock plan for six thousand Statutes of the United States, the The following is the approximate cost of operation of a steam school be used for training teachers .Lot 5 of Section 22, Township 69 miles of hard surfaced highway^ pumping station such as might be necessary here. for rural schools only, is hard to predict. North, Ranee 19 West, 4th P. M., containing MEYER-CARPENTER in which Beltrami and Koochictiing 42.50 acres. A city like International Falls would require a 1,500 or a 2,00C counties are vitally interested,' is ifr Any and all persons claiming adversely gallon plant. Two pumps would be required, so as to give the assurance some danger of being spiked in the A very pretty wedding occured at It is not often that one gets an the land described, or desiring to cars. It is all due to the fact that the home of Mr. and Mrs. St. Claire, object because of the Mineral Character that one pump would be running all the time.. opportunity to sprain an eye at the of the land, or for any other theiribers whose home towns are not Tuesday evening, when Miss Rosa V. same time on two of the world's require Such a plant if operand by steam would about a 400 H. reason, to the disposal to applicant, on the rfienu prepared by Mr. Babcock Carpenter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. greatest artists, .but. .we enjoyed it should file their affidavits of protest P. boiler plant which uses from 12 to 15 tons of coal per day. are making hollers, and unless Geo. Carpenter was united in marriage the other night in the lobby of the in this office, on or before March 10th, The lowest qu9tations made by any coal company for lump, harmony in large chunks is injected to Mr. Emil G. Meyer. Rev. E: 1919. St. Francis when Dr. Cook and A. G. screened coal is $5.18 per ton, F. O. B. Duluth, the freight rate is into the works the bill is in danger Kaneen using the beautiful ring service Joiepk Wiaciewikl, Townley were sitting just opposite Jan 30 Feb. 27 Register. $1.60 per ton, making the coal cost on board cars here $7.78. Figuring of going to the political grave yard'. of the Methodist church, united us. The lad who almost discovered The meeting held the other day was the north pole and the gent who has them in the holy bonds of matrimony. on the minimum of 12 tons per day gives us a coal cost of $93. 6 NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION as full of kicks as Russia is' of whiskers by 8hey were attended by Miss been steering North Dakota the per day, $800 per month or $33,600.00 pej* year. and it ,looked for a time ast if Josie Schultz and Mr. Chas. McKeogh ears for the last two years were sit-' United State Land Office, Duluth, The lowest number of men possible to operate a plant of this the plan would turn out to be a total ting side by side, but whether Dqc The bride was beautifully gowned Minn., January 27, 1919. kind would be three men, as the plant must be operated on a twentyfour However wiser counsel loss. is in Champagne colored Georgiette embraced the opportunity to inhale NOTICE IS HEREBT GIVEN, Thac hour basis in three shifts. These men would have to be liscenced vailing, and at a meeting to be held Oden T. Wick, of Duluth, Minnesota,as Crepe and carried a large bouquet of a course in Mr. Townley's methods final assignee of James R. Whitman, engineers at a minimum wage of $150 per month or a total Wednesday it is hoped that an irmistic roses and carnations. The groom was we know not. One thing we 'Were and Ned Armstrong, on January 27th, will be signed. gowned in the conventional black. wage of $450 per month, then there is also the cost of oil, waste and thankful to Doc for was that he didn't 1919 filed in this office, his application other supplies. bring the north pole along with him Mrs. Myers is one of our city's to select under Section 2306 of the Our old friend Charley Carter, 's most charming young ladies and has to crowd out the beautiful sunny Revised Statutes of the United States, In addition to this it would be necessary to hi^e extra labor to buzzing around the capitol with a the weather we have been enjoying. for a long time been a clerk in the handle coal and cinders, then there is the cost of building the plant, bill allowing insurance companies to Lots 6 and 8, Section 22, and Eot 2, International bakery. The groom is lend money on unimproved land as Section 27, Township69 North, Range interest on the money invested and depreciation. Although the session is only nicely an expert baker and has also been 19 West, 4th P. M., containing 57.75 well as improved land, and if he puts under way, there has been a regular A city plant would have to consist of not only a pump house, but employed at .the International bakery. acres. it over it won't cause any sorrows in epidemic, of bills introduced, more a sufficient tank for fire emergency protection and filtering station. At the conclusion of the ceremon Any and all persons claiming adversely Beltrami and Koochiching counties. than thiie hundred having already the land described, or desiring to a bounteous weddinig supper was served. During the months of October, November and December the A bill raising the salaries of the found their way to the desk of the object because of the Mineral Character M. & O. Paper Company furnished the city 33,000,000 gallons of commissioners of Beltrami county-to house. It is no libel to say that many of the land, or for any other The young couple were the recipients reason,. to. the disposal to applicant, eight hundred dollars has been introduced water, an average of 1.1,000,000 per month at 5 cents per thousand of them will be tossed behind the of many beautiful presents and should file their affidavits of protest by Mr. Rako: It provides gallons which equals a cost of $550 per month. Under a city owned towel rack with the rest of the junk, have the best wishes of their many in this office, on or before March 10th for a flat salary without mileage, the but that doesn't prevent members plant the wages and coal alone would cost over $3250.00 per month i919. friends, for a prosperous and happy same as the present arrangement. from getting corns on their voices Joseph WlnczeWHkt, voyage on life's sea. -.'j Hegiste»v Jan 30 Feb. 27 __ "o-