4* &&&% 7^***?*•/ INTERNATtONA£ FALLS PRESS, FEBRUARY 6 1919 PAGE EIGHT the operation or erection of said plant in this city, then and in that WHAT ABOUT THE GAS FRANCHISE? event this franchise shall not be subject to the forfeiture above oine mentioned. (Continued from page four) Section 6. Subject to the conditions herein mentioned, this our of gas should £et a better rate than those who only use a couple of franchise and the rights and privileges under this ordinance granted* thousand feet per month. Other cities have this sliding scale. .Why. shall be and extend for a period of twenty-five (25) years from and should not we have it? after the date of the publication of this ordinance. There Is no definite time set as to when this plant is to be com^ Section 7. When said plant is erected and completed a^s aforesaid pkted, and this &as company need not begin to install their plant the grantee shall have the right to use the same and all or any until a year from the date of publishing this ordinance. Why part thereof in the manufacture, sale, delivery and supply of gas not let a franchise to a company who is willing to begin at once, and to the inhabitants of any territory without the city limits and shall is willing to set a definite date on which its plant will be in successful have the right to extend its mains and other appliances pa£t, beyond operation? and without the city limits for that purpose. How does it come that the ordinance being passed the city by Section 8. This city reserves the right to rnake any and all council makes no provision for the company putting up bonds to rules and regulations governing the gas plant and works that may /Mext safeguard this city and individuals against accident, loss or the noil be necessary toprotect the public health and public safety. performance of agreements on the part of this company? Xmas Section 9. Grantee shall have the right and authority to make This ordinance makes no statement as to how many blocks ot and enforce reasonable rules and regulations concerning the installation she will mains this gas company shall lay, or as to where they shall be. and use of gas by consumers. neither does it state at whose expense the service pipes shall be HAVE Section 10. The city reserves the right to purchase the gas laid from the mains into the dwelling houses or business places. plant, property and business, rights and privileges granted hereunder According to this ordinance the gas company makes the rules from grantee at the end of every term of five years, if a (5) for fixing the prices for^ various necessary things connected with majority of the voters of the city vote in favor of such acquisition. individual service. Why does not the council require the company The amount to be paid therefor shall be its actual value as a going to tell what these prices shall be before it grants the franchise concern. Section 11. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force ORDINANCE If you haven't joined our Christmas banking club, come and effect from and after its publication, which publication shall An Ordinance granting unto The Public Improvement Company in and do so today. be made when and after the grantee shall have filed, within thirty Incorporated associates, successors and assigns, the right to con (30) days after the passage hereof, with the city clerk of said city struct, maintain and operate a gas plant for the manufacture and sale Men, Women, Boys and Girls all should join and we ur^e a written acceptance of the terms and conditions of this franchise. of gas and fixing the rate to be charged therefor. you to join for you own good. Passed and adopted this. day of A. D. 1919. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF INTERNATIONAL There are clubs to ft every purse—I cent, 2 cents, 5 cents, Approved this day of...... A. D. 1919. FALLS DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS 10 cents, where you increase yoiir deposits each week with .... 1.. Mayor. Section 1. The word city, as employed in this Ordinance, shall the amount you started with. ...„..._.....City Clerk. be held to mean the Incorporated City of International Falls, Minnnesota, We also have 50 cent, $1.00 and $500 clubs where you pay and the word Grantee, as employed in this Oridance, shall THE RED CROSS to try out the plan, and, on the basis in the same amount each week. be held to mean The Public Improvement Company, Incorporated associates, of this winter's experience, inaugurate WELFARE BOARD successors and assigns. a state-wide, and possible a nationwide, But join—join today. Section 2. Subj/ect to the conditions hereinafter contained, per plan for young men's clubs By E. L. Heermance. FIRST NATIONAL BANK next winter. The average village in mission and authority is hereby given unto the Grantee to build, Americans rotting at the rootj'because maintain and operate a gas plant in the City of International Falls, A meeting of the Directors of the the big boys and young" men Minnesota, for cooking, lighting, heating and for power to enter International'F alls, Minnesota Koochiching Chapter on January 18 have no place to go that, is clean and upon all streets, avenues, alleys, bridges, viaducts, wharves, and is likely to become historic. It put nothing to do during the wititer through a broader peace program for public places of said city, to take up pavements and sidewalks and months. That is why I called January the Red Cross than has yet .been .fidopted such excavations as may be necessary to lay, keep and maintain 18 a historic occasion. is awfully hard to tell, by any county. In^my work THE ARMADILLO AS A DIGGER We hope to start such recreation pipes, mains and conducts or other appliances there in. Grantee But we'll not parade in Heaven, for as Field.Representative for the Home center work within a few weeks, and shall prosecute such work so as not to impede or obstruct the safe we paraded here in Hell. I Service Bureau, I have found a growing In a Tug-of-War With a Boy the Animal visiting nurse work as soon as a suitable and convenient use of said streets, avenues, alleys, bridges, viaducts, interest in welfare work at home, Won Out In Quite nurse can be found and trained. We've passed a million sleepless Easy Manner. wharves and public places by the public. All excavations shall now that the war is over. At Walker The Red Cross Public Welfare Board hour upon our army cots, three weeks ago, a conference was be located, dug or made by the grantee under the direction of the of Koochiching County will consist And shook a hundred centipedes One day I was standing on a mound held by the representatives of the city council. All sidewalks, pavements, streets, alleys, avenues, of E. L. Heermance, named to represent from out our army socks, when an armadillo bolted from his various agencies interested in doing the Red Cross. Mr. Olson, the We've marched a hundred thousand earth and running to the very Spot bridges, wharves and public places in which pipes, mains, conducts such work in Cass county. We talked county school superintendent, Mr. where I was standing, began vigorously miles and made a thousand camps or other appliances shall be installed by the grantee, shall be, immediately all the afternoon, and finally digging to escape by burying himself Abbott, county agent, Dr. Mary And pulled a millions cactus thorns after such installation and construction, replaced and agreed on the plan of a "Public Welfare in the sdil. Ghostley, county health officer, Mrs. from out our army pants Neither men nor dogs had seen him, restored to their former condition as nearly as may be possible Board," which would be a stand F. J. McPartlhv named by Miss Correll So when our work on earth is done, and I at once determined to capture ing committee of the Red Cr^ss to do by grantee, at his cost. If the grantee shall fail to replace and to represent the Woman's Council our friends behind will tell him unaided by anyone and Imagined Chapter, and able to make use of^Is of National Defense, Mrs. H. Van restore any such sidewalks, pavements, streets, avenues, alleys, or When they died they went to heaven," It would prove a very easy task. machinery, but made up of representatives Etten, named by the Minneesota Pub cause they did their hitch is Accordingly.I laid hold of his black public places after a reasonable time after notice so to do, the city of the Red Cross, the Junior lie Health Association, and F. Ii. bone-cased tall with both hands and Hell. shall cause the same to be replaced and restored at the expense Red Cross, the Woman's Council of began tugging to get him off the Green the local member of the board /, of the grantee. Any and all such work be done in such manner as National Defense, the Child Welfare The slum and coffee we have cussed, ground, but couldn't move him. He of county commissioners. Board, the County Commissioners, likewise the willie canned, went on digging furiously, getting not to interfere with or remove any existing sewers, water pipes or deeper ^ahd deeper into the earth, and the County Superintendent of Schools We've damned the gentle gust of other structures or to do any damage thereto. In the event of subsequent BENTALL TO JAIL I soon found that instead of me pulling wind that filled the air with sand, and the County Agent. Thus it would changes of grades by the city, grantee shall at his own cost him out he was pulling me In after FOR ONE YEAR be a co-ordination of all existing We've taken the injection's, ten million him. take up and relay, if necessary any pipes, mains, conducts or other agencies, as well as a Red Cross germs or more It hurt my small boy pride to think Socialist Lauds Bolsheviki and Call* appliances affected by such change of grade. The grantee shall committee. The final adoption of And the vaccine scratched upon our that an animal no bigger than a cat Russia Wonderful Land indemify, defend and hold the city harmless from any and all suits arms has made then very sor?: this program was left to a meeting was going to beat me In a trial of of the Red Cross Chapter on January With all these things to get our goats, strength, and this made me hold on arising from or incurred by reason of the negligence of the grantee more tenaciously than ever and tug Minneapolis, Feb. 2—J. O. Bentall, 22nd. A similar conference was we all are her to tell of the prosecution of the work aforesaid. and strain more violently, until not to former Socialist candidate for governor, When the order comes to cross the held at Park Rapids for Hubbard Section 3. In consideration of the rights and privleges herein lose him I had to go flat on the wlfo will enter the Crow Win^ pond we'll give the Germans county. They reached the same conclusion, ground. But It was all for nothing. granted, the grantee herein covenants that on before one yesr Or county jail at Brainerd tomorrow to Hell. and the Retf Cross directors, Firat my hands, then my aching arms from after the date of the publication of this ordinance grantee begin serving a year's sentence following a majority being preseent, created were carried down Into the earth, and When the final taps is sounded and shall begin the work of building and installing in the city of International his conviction of seditious utterances, such a welfare board and authorized I was forced to release my hold and we lay aside life's cares made his farewell address get up to rid myself of the mound he the employment of a visiting nurse Falls, Minnesota, an effecient standard gas piant system, And we do the last and gloried bad been throwing up Into my face last night to a Socialist mass meeting. for the county. of ample capacity, and diligently prosiecute said work to completion rade, on Heaven's shining stairs and all over my head, neck and shoulders.—From 1 At International Falls, in creating in a good and workmanlike manner and after the erection And the angels bid us welcome and ."Far Away and Long Bentall referred to Russia as "a such a board for the Red Cross, we Ago" by W. H. Hodson. to harps begin to play thereof, grantee will manufacture and offer for sale to the city and wonderful land, which may yet become gave it three line of work to do. The v^We can draw a. million conteeti to the. inhabitants thereof standard manufactured gas of not less heaven if the fiqjsheviki are first .is the securing of a visiting checks arid spend them in a day, TREE PUZZLE TO FORESTERS not interfered with!" than 15 candle power for lighting, and not less than five hundred and nurse. The expense for 1919 was estimated It is then we'll hear St. Peter tell us "I am not going to jail with a at $2,000. This will be ob^ fifty (550) British Thermal Units for cooking, heating and for power loudly^ with a yell Peculiar Formation of Spruce Has long face," he said, "but I expect you tained'from the Christmas Seal fund during the term of the franchise granted by this ordinance provided Caused Speculation Among Men "Take front seats you soldier men. to fight on When 1 come out of a through the county which we expect Learned in That Lore. you've done your hitch in Hell. that in case said grantee is prevented from having said plant it? certain habitat I don't want to find to secure through the Minnesota Corp. Roy E. Martin, operation within the time named due to any injunction or other ie-gal all of you in jail." Public Health Association, from money A cross section of a great old spruce Co. C. 216 Fid. Seg. P. M. proceeding brought against grantee by any person, directed When Bentall finishes the sentence tree from Alaska tells the story of a voted by the various school dis-' Camp Kearney, Cal. tree which executed a spin, like a bnllet at Brainerd he will be., taken to -against the operation or erection of said plant in this city, then and in tricts, as much of the time of such a ^ancer, This cross section shows Leavenworth prison to serve five nurse would be given to the examination that evient this franchise shall not be subject to forfeiture under a most peculiar spiral structure, which years following his conviction of FOR SALE—A good six room house of school children from funds •this section. Jw'"^ has caused a great deal of speculation obstructing the draft water arid sewer. $1,000. Apply 712 raised by the Junior Red Cross and among the various foresters throughout Section 4. Grantee is hereby authorized to sell gas of the quality the balance £r,om funds of the Red' Eighth sitreet. the country and a very Interesting hbove specified in the preceeding section hereof, when said gas OUR HITCH IN HELL Cross Chapter and branches, $1,000 explanation is ^advanced in American Forestry. plant shall have been erected and completed, at the price of one dollar being appropriated at the meeting ORDER LIMITING TIME TO FILM It Is known that a tree growing at a Every day and night I'm thinking cjf for this purpose, CLAIMS, AN© FOR HKARI1VG and seventy-five cents ($1.75) for each one thousand (1,000) vslant forms on the lower side of the things I left behind, I,v£ The second line of work, is Americaniation, v' THEREOF feet of gas used. Provided, however, that these rates are Cubic trunk a dense reddish wood known a®, Yet I loath to *put on paper whtat of which the warvpiatk "rotholz." This spiral in this case ..subject to revision by either the city or thie grantee at any time Estate of Nels Andrewson. is running thru my mind shown the need. This work will be ot.such sortfand as it is a continuous" after five years, upon sufficient grounds for making such revision But I think I'll feel much better, so carried on through the -schools, the formation, winding from the center to State of Minnesota being first established. Grantee shall be at liberty to cut off the supply I guess I'll take a chance i: women's clubs and any other agencies within, half an inch from the circumference, .) SS Ere the regiment is ordered to the it is surmised that it was or committees which can be set. of gas from any. consumer failing or refusing to pay for ges County of Koochiching growing In an inclined position on the shores of sunny France.- to work, No~ special funds will be furnished, for a period of ten (10) days after bill has been rendered In Probate Court. edge of a glacier, where by some required. therefor. Each customer who shall pay his bill within ten days We'ye dug a million trenches and In the Matter of the Estate: of Nels shifting It was caused to rotate, so The third line of work, -already, Andrewson, Decedent. that ail sides of the tree were successively 'A? have cleared ten miles of ground, afterNthe same shall become due and payable, shall be entitled to a suggested elsewhere, but first put Letters of administration this day on the downward side. Thus. And a nearer place this side of Hell, reduction of ten (10) cents on each 1,000 cubic feiet of gas used as having been granted to Ole Fodnes. through in Koochiching'county, is a» the tree grew, and its rotation continuod I knowrhas ne'er been found ^i-ilT IS ORDERED, that the time within shown by the meter reading of each customer for that period—otherwise the organization of recreation centers, slowly, the "rotholz" developed We've drilljd' in dust and scorching which all creditors of the above into' a spiral. in cities and villages for recreation the rate shall be the maximum rate. The grantee shall have named decedent may present claims sun, in mud and driving rain centers in cities and villages the right to charge any consumer*a minimum fee of one dollar and against his estate in' this court, be, sinu 'Till" our eyes-and'ears-and-legs and for returning soldiers and other the same hereby is, limited to thres Throwing Chalk for Luck. twenty-five cents ($1.25) per month in the event that the-gas used arms were yellfhg loud with pain. months from and after the date hereof young men. --^TheJ idea is, to secure In throwing a piece of chalk after But there's .still oi\e consolation,. t\by such consumer for any month does not exceed the amount of and that Tuesday, the 6tth day of May, I' 1./+* his men for luck as they, poured into an organizer for this purpdse to spend si gather .closely while I tell 1919, at 10 o'clock A. M. in the Probate i§ such minimum fee. -the enemy's trenches, the Irish colonel two or three months in the county, Court Rooms, at the Court House at When we die We're bound for Heaven, was but reviving a superstition which An Section $. In case the Grantee shall at any timle wilfully and going from kovrn to town. ap-. International Falls, in said County,: be, 'cause we've done our hitch in dates back to the -ancient days of and the same hereby is, fixed arid|appointed ^propriation of $500 is mad^ by thfe ^without good cause fail to furnish gas to said city and to the inhabilants S^Hell.^- :Thrac^ where the custom originated as the time and place for hearing chapter to cover the expense of such thereof, as-provided for in this franchise, for a period of -one Of marking lucky days with a white upon and the examination, adjustment a worker. :The Red CrossV^vith.tlie We've built a thousand mess halls, stone and unlucky with a black one. 'it-week or shall violate or fail to comply with any of the provisions and allowancef-of such claims as branch-officers and memberships will for cooks to stow our beans, In its early youth Rome adopted the shall be .presented within the time ../V fS? °f this ordinance, then and in that evient grantee shall forfeit all custom, and although chalk, not beUf back -him in his work,but eaphtown We've .stood- a hundred guard aforesaid. V-l v-the privileges herein granted and the city reserves the right in Indigenous, was chiefly known, as Its I»et notice*' hereof „be given by the will work out its owit plan of a men's mounts, and cleaned the camp name, creta. Implies, as an import publication of^ this order in International s^sueh case to repeal this franchise provided, however* that in case club or a community "center. We are £3 lantrenes," Falls Press as provided by law. from Crete, it was -generally used for nowin correspondence with the War5 said grantee is prevented from having said :plant in operation We've washed a million mess kits, Dated January 31'st, 1919. -the marking of lucky days. According Camp Community Service, which will and sjeeled a million spuds =$§ ^within the time named, or is prevented from complying with any of to Horace, the marking was done probably furnisji such organizerl^for •^VeKve'plied a million blanket rolls Fgb. €-20. "SJudge ofjProbate. wtth^halk for good and coal for bad the provisions of this ordinanoe, due to any injunction or other legal this apl four or -jfive other- counties ffifV •®ck. w. and washed &" million" dudsj^ TTt' "proceedings brought against grantee any person, directed against by in northern. Minnesota n'esotai, The idea ^WHOLE YEAR FQR ONU^ft is,.The number of parades we've~ mad^ SPIT v* 5%: vfi PS if feiiii