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International Falls press and border budget (International Falls, Minn.) 1909-1926

January 1, 1920 · Page 5 of 12

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tr -f -swji f" ^'S !, |'i ,': PAGE FOUR 'v,-^0 •&.**'*$3f§i INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, SS, JANUARY JANUARY 1st, 1920, ^C'C ^v THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PREi K'W, soil suitable climate, good and market X" S" conditions. FROM OUR EXCHANGES is Northern- Minnesota-" especiallV OCT WITH All FACTS ¥r a AND BOLOER BUDGET & V? j-"* well adapted to the growth o"f wheat About the only way to get the governor and the International oats, barley, rye flax, ciover, alfalfa, GEO. P. WATSOX} Editu root timothy, potatcres and all other Falls officials together is to keep shortening the telegraph wines.— Hansen Gains Eighteen Pounds and crops. ,and vegetables. In the growth Bntercil ut tlte Pont Office at International Fall*. Minn., aa Second-clam Mattel Raudette Resfion. of corn Minnesota do.es not lay claim Troubles End After Taking Tanlac W to the same honors that southern SUBS GRIPTiON RATES: U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR Northern Minnesota lynjber woods are again facing a probable Minnesota Io^a and Illinois maintain, "I have gained eighteen poundslindi^^— *v» shakeup of labor tranquillity by tbe activities of I. W. W. and Red but large crops of corn are'produced am still gaining at the rate of one-J^f V'.r /x 61 in northern Minnesota. half pound a day as the result of agitators^ The number .radicals in the camps"is said t? be nearly vt' 5.' "Mi A happy and prosperous New Year to you all. I believe that there is no part of taking Tanlac," said William M. Hansen, fe,.: 50 per cent. Conditions arc tbe best that have ever prevailed, anl the world that grows wild or tarn? well known superintendent of 3"et—no conditions can be good enough for the chronic agitator grasses more luxuriantly than norther^ the Superior Electrical Mfg. Co., of bunch.—Carlton County Vid'ette. ... 'V ^'7 Minnesota. Last"year I procured Minneapolis,'Minn.,'in talking of his Those new resolutions v/on't be so hari to keep this year boys. a sample of timothy that had grown remarka.bl^ recovery from stomach foluntarily in the woods in the vicinity trouble and rheumatism./ Th'e only' disappointed person because the world did not come Why not cend those Reds to old Mexico and let nature take its ofan abandoned lumber camp "I had stomach trouble and rheumatism to an end last week .was, a Western farmer who complained to -the which was five feet tall. The heads course. for seveh years and got so police that, though "a man had sqld hi a $15 ticket for a front 3eat of this tin^otl-.y vere fully six iaiches.! b^d off I could scarcely eat enough to *£W whence he sould see th& beginning of thei end of the world.'5 -he long. v, I keep alive and mj1- wife often had to While they arc debating- on which to do with the Kaiser, why performance had nofcome off and he had failed to get the v.)rth One can scarcely conceive of the|lleP me when I dressed because I cant we get the loan of him to chop wood. wonderful7 producing power of /Min-1 c°"ld not lift my hands as high as of his money—Red Wing Eagle. nesota land without a visit to the, m3r shoulders," he continued. "One T^rc is no argument to. show that sugar at 20 cents plus a state and county fairs. People of or two mouthfuls at mealtimes would There! seems to be quite-a'verbal passage at arms Wer the sending one-county can hardly realize .that me. so Iwould have to leave nauscate pound is any sweeter than that of the 6 cent variety of months ago. of a National Guard company to International Falls on--account their county produces such marvel- table an-d I suffered with spatl of a strike of less, than 50 men on a logging railroad running into ous exhibits as are shown at these ex-j indigestion that almost doubleu In emphasizing the holiday shopping -spirit, one must not' forget positions. I 'firmly believe and my -mc UP v/ith'paih. My stomach would V-. the northern town. Governor Burnquist ndv leading citizens of International that the peace and good will privkge has not been placed under judgment is based upon local an 1 almost fill with ga.- and I would bloat Falls don't seem ,t'o agree on the necessity of the guard's 5 comparative, conditions that during rso ^iat 1 v/ottld nearly suffocate. The presence. Whether tbe situation was misrepresented to the governor .the next five years wo vrill witness a Casses pressing up againf my heart is one matter, but apparently-E. W. Baakus, tbe big lumberman most -remarkable m'eagure of progress^ macle lTle so awful faint and weak Most any American boy, filled with present-day ambition, would and development in nortlrern Minno-1 t':a- 1 co-.:Id hardly breathe. My back of that district through the sheriff of the county, is responsible rather be Pershing than be ..Presid'eTit. The patriotic U. S. uniform sota. These lands, are cheap and Gnc- vrould hurt and ache ter- .ittle Falls Herald. for the guards thjere. stands for bis: things. are -be:ng eagerly sought by people. nD-y aU(1- rhe'utnatism pains would ray all over the country. s*ioot from-- one portion of -bodv A report reached Minneapolis Friday that twenty-seven- miej? to another until sometimes. I wal. almost ..Almost daily there is an addition to the list of the Mexicans who I.predict a great increase in population wild. I spent hundreds of del*ars had been arrested at Noirthome for rioting, and the Associated Press in this particular section of want to b*e president of Mexico. .Some people can't understand why on doctors anTkoediCincs and fo»* the story, and. was informed tbere was telephoned for verification-of the state. With the addition of any body should want the job. montns at a'-'time lived on ccreals* and" thousands" of earnest toiler, men who' no trouble here -vyhatever. That does not prove, however, that -tcait. bi:i no*h:nrr dry 'seek to make permanent homes for ^'r' n°^*-a5T ^gavc mc eyen O tYI O 11 "1 A a 1 the I. W. W.'s are not actiye, as the contrary, has been proven' in Beginning today the r&?( temporary rel'ef. I year v/20 will deposit to your credit 1440 themselves, the development of the _rc^ Cl- I -ent c!ear to sr. mahy ..cases. A man was sent out last week to a camp of the Empire ex':iNew ork for one 'minutes each day sto country must go forward at an "CV/ York for onc siccial 'medicine .s: or use. -In. that respect all are equal hri it. lMve the other?, failed to do me Coal & Lumber company to work, and upon his arrival he was cee'dingiy rapid rate. Five years1 •Why not resolve,to put'those minutes to good use. any- 'ocd. I kept losing in weight asked by, ah I. W. W.. worker for lii^ Red Card. Upon his saying from nbw v/e will behold 'a great teadily grew worse and worse. transformation in the c'lies and vil had none, and did not wdntpn'e, he was informed lie could not workwithout SO lit nere are numerous holiday compliments being handed opt I got country. Ia'n-es snrl in the I 1 eo.iid Sieep only nwiv0aj it. He1 reported the case to Manager Ward and the I. W. ,'\! a few hour fiicnds of political aspir at nt^iu and tnc morn- ... mts for the Pnesicjciicy of the U. S. Th. Iii the :xt tew years tnousandsi. W. and a sympathizer .were ordefed out of the camp. —Northonie Ning I would got up. so tired and fagged list of those mentioned for the position daily is growing. of ni les of reads are sure to be built, out I could hardly put one foot R»ecord. because the people of northern Minnesota before the other. My condition got demand a^nd are going to have The allies propose to make pe^ce with Turkey without the ai so bad I tnough I would have to quit better roads. Hundreds of schools PUBLIC OPINION or consent of the United States. No doubt they can do that. Th^erc' work altogether. will be established where no schoqls "I commenced to pick up in weight no doubt, alsp, that Uncle/ Sam willTind a way to take proper car exist at present and many of these and improve with the very first bottle One of the most powerful forces in tbe world today is public of his interests throughout the earth. newly-established schools will take of Tanlac. My rheumatism and opinion. ^Few inequities can thrive in tbe face of it. Seldom w^as advantage of the agricultural educational indigestion began to leave me almost this more clearly illustrated than last week wlu'en C. E. Strangelanc'! features and consolidation privileges Austria greatly needs help, say allies who have investigate* immediately and now, since taking now offered by the law. was dismissed as state librarian in North Dakota because it became conditions over there. They are willing, also, that the United Statev six bottles, both are entirely gonc^Jr1' One of the most important industries, generally known that he was introducing books on "free love, bolsh'evism, I can eat afij'-thing I want as often do the helping. The world still flings to notion that Am eric: tbe which is certain to play a as I want it and never have the least etc" iiito the libraries Jo£ the state. is the land of the free—free to aid the needy anywhere and everywhere .prominent part in the development of trouble in digest'ng what I eat As Public opinion ousted this fellow. as soon as the people have shown the necessity. Such, a reputation, northern Minneota in a few years the old, saying is, "I can eat like a And yet many people in jNorth Dakota have known that thir is the shipping of sheep and cattle is one that other nations need to emulate. horse and sleep like a log," and I get very thing had been contemplated for months. As a matte! of fact on the cut-over lands of this section up in the,,morning feeling fresh and of- the state. It has always been we have copies of questions us'ed in examinations in the pu1li'. fine. As I have said before I have There is a possibility that Oscar Arneson may be permitted tc conceded that northern Minnesota is gained eighteen pounds in weight and schools there as long ago as 1917 showing that socialism is being seek the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor with out a natural grazing country, and those am still gaining. Tanlac has done all tauight the school boys and girls. congest. So far no cne has com eforward in the shape of a Reptile interested in the development of this for me, so no wonder I give it This man Strangeland is no better and noi worse than most of that territory have unanimously lican rival and gossip concerning this particular plum is barren ii my unqualified endorsement. the imported red card office holders in that state. The way in agreed'that the placing of stock on the shape of 5ther possibilities. The country press generally ha^ Sold at Rubin's drug store at International these wild lands would solve the which he has tried to introduce free love literiature.. into the hemes Falls and at S. E. Dimon picked Mr. Arneson as a winner. Added to this is a heavy legislative problem and hasten its develbpment, at Littlefork and all* other leading and schools of the state is no worse than other evil plans being fostered acquaintence dating back some years. but up until this year, 1919, only the druggists. in North Dakota by the deciples of Townley. usual amount of livestock was being It merely happens that public opinion has been dramaticly focused Old high cost of living is charged with anotber-^low at tin brought in. However, circumstances, received by some with more or less on Strangeland and he has t'hen sanctimoniously dismissed. coupled v,Tith local organization, He IsiSMSE peoples liberties. In order to meet his fast increasing demands skepticism, I firmly believe that a have started and-now have under way will be placed elsewhere, to continue his activities and some other membership in the Nonpartisan League has been,rained t\vo larg visit through the northern coun'd a movement that bids fair to see th tool of Lenin will continue.to corrupt the minds of tbe school children five years from now will prove simoleons making it $18 for the bi-annual period. This step wa more live stock placed on"ihcse lands correctness of my present forecast. and to send into the momes stuff unfit for reading- there—for taken by the Lcagtie in convention ass&mbl'ed in St. Paul last wee! this year than five or possibly ten that is the Townley method of evading thg wrath of ^public opinion. years combined. First, the attention and is to go-into effect at once. Quoting^ the official of tht Organ NOTICE —Anoka Herald. of the Duluth Commercial club was League, which by the-way has beeiis.gwitched from a weekly to called to the possibilities of bringing semi-monthly publication, the increase of $2 in the membership fc Ik large flocks of sheep from the Children who are putting snow iji NORTHERN MINNESOTA NO the attention of the entire country will go to the county organization. The $l& is to b»e apportionee: the mai1 collection boxes in# this ci£v western states to graze on the cutover AND FEW- YEARS HE has been drawn to this fertile region tliereby spoiling out going mail as follows: county organization., $7' stite^•...organization,und the-', lands by Roger M. Andrews, Ariil where the settler is assufed of discontinue the practice at once or publisher of the Cloverlarid Magazine, national organization $7. A feature^ added to? the by-laws js. a'provision Fred D. Sherman, Commissioner of fertile soil, favorable climatic conditions, Meno'ffffnee, Mich. Mr. Andrews came severe methods will be used by the permitting county organization to enter, local or district Immigration, in Cloverland Magazine sufficient rainfall and market? vpolitical U. S. government. to Duluth, mQj the Commercial club unexcelled by the whole world. contests, Such are to be more or less independent of the C. E. NJghtirtga?e, an(l, by pointing out to thehl the The development of northern Minnesota state and national organization which is Townley. '. success other states had made along Northern Minnesota, or the great -is now going' on at a rapid this line, convinced them that it t^art of it, a few-'years ago was almost rate. Thousands of faripers from could be done in northern Minnesota. FREE SPENDING AND FREE BUYING entirely in its natural state tand other states and sections of the countryv Accordingly, a vigorous cam.paign almosi wholly undeveloped. O'ne' I are antujally taking up their was, launched to bring bands traveling through northern Minnesota homes in northern Minnesota: Those The buying* power of the population is large and there is nc SS?'© of sheep from tht west and as a re*j woiild have fpund a, broad \yho have'cast their lot in this torritory reluctance to use it. On tbe contrary, there is a mjinia for, spending, suit at this writing, July 15, ovjr 20,000 stretch of territory covered with pine are highly pleased with the head of sheep are feeding -he which, taken in connection with the curtailment of producton and hardwood, dotted here and there cess with which they have met' in succulent grass a'mont the stumps in m^ny lines, causes a scarcity of gscods irises 't%.-high prices witlr most beautiful lakes and creeks. building up their homes. Today-every and brush of northern Minnesota's Between the vast table lands of pine which everybody ocmplains of but which apparently a^ect nobody's county of northern Minnesota can cut-dv^r lands. Hard or. the heels and hardwood would have been /(Wt- boast of luxuriant ancf\weil-equ pped purchases. Travel is Very heavy, 'hotels yar!e crowded, although of this sheep movement comes the ft^und low, level stretches of groulid farm homes, exceedingly large and charges have been everywhere advanced. The demand for nik alarming news that owing to ro^tracted then called swamps or marshes. In profitable yields of small grain, lisy cjrouth.the pastures of ntana, stockings and fine jp^hing1' -'n -EAGER ha^ds- will most cases these'low lands were covered and,,potatoes, social and farnf life western North Dakota and Wyoming strip the tree of its the past, flic sales ^|f49^^it*e^/State^^a'y-,^ffic.e!! wfth tamarack, spruce, balsam conditions that appeal to peopl,6 desiring had become destitute )f forage \tg«pa^fact«i:^^ and a luxuriant growth of wild hay. New York jejkV]pj[riB',.i^.^h.e1.'fir^ia:inonths ol to make new homes* splendid treasures, tinsel, atid and cattle were on the vergi of The soils of northern Minnesota, cities and villages, good railroad 1919 amounted it^.'.^26^I9 oS ^ix starvation and must be shipped to cah dies will vanish then as now, were as fertile as any facilities, roads that are built and re months of 1914. All this is not the luxurious living of jpi arnfocs new ranges. Representatives^ of the and tHe tree itself wj-i soils of the Mississippi valley ofjto be built in the very near future, stricken states were sent to investigate lacy of wealth, but fi'ee spending by the great body of the people. Ayliich northern Minnesota is a part, churches and schools, «.rid last biit qome to an ignominious conditions 'in Minnesota. The The^' clj'ipate has^ alwa}^ been favor- not -leapt, an enthusiasm ond inter :st state department of agriculture hurriedly dnd in the rubbish \3TIDE HAS TURNED able to general agriculture. The pre» in life on the part of its people that formed an organization, listed heap. cipitation for a period df fifty years tends to make the development of A up over half a million acres or undeveloped or n?iore lias, according to- records northern Minnesota a- certkin *iuaritity. But pictures of ther For some ye^rs ^iany go^d people south of the Canadian b'offder lands suitable- for pasture kept,N been in the neighborhood of ,and tendered them to tlie western tree, qi the children^ viewed with alarm :the fising tide-of American emigrants seeking twenty-eight inches per annum. .- Northern Minnesota offers better ranchers. As a result" of this avlarge kt play with their new '1|K:M4 new hohies aiicj fi^ld^in the Dominion^ Canada's" notdble Until a comparatively, few years opportunities to the homeseeker than movenifcnt was- started" to bring ago. this vast section of the country, tising campaigns^nd her cheap lands gave" Untie Sam no end^of, any section of undeveloped _c5untry' toys, pictures of all stocjc from drouth-strickcn tyritory reaching approximately from a line in the United States or Canada. People uncomfortablc\hours» f-^u' the green pastures of Minnesota.\ that^-nakes^a Christ drawn east and west Across the center from every state in*the union With this combined movement or lhe«.-li^ -.has -turned: More people are coming, this way t^ian mas merry will' of the state, to the Canadian 'border have^been pouring into northern Minnesota sheep and cattle to northern Minnesota j* going thai.. .Official figures just made public by the government and from Lake Superior to ^.the buying the cheap 'inimprm-ed lorevsr- .the-development of that section shov/s emigration from the United States to, Canada for the^cal Red Riyer valley of Minnes.ot^ on landS7, clearing off the timber draining* -of the state is sure to be hastened. the west, wa^ unnoticed by people in ear have bee^^4^.'003/-Hvhieh was 9000 less-than for the y'ear befoic. the low lands and. buildin tip 3 lo Ever during my residence in M:n-' search for new homes, in the west arnij highly improved farmsVjjr^ There American citizens among these emigrants, sne^ota I have been firm'in my belief sq northwest. Probably this was beceuse- When we consider that the United as agamst 3$,{]jpb -fpj- tj^e-,pi»eceeding year. -of a-bright future in store f?r northern ofrthe fact, that the opei* prairie.. States as. a whole has but a comparatively Minnesota bjut some r6cent vi^-i NELSON *. Durin" ^[s^p^O^ths 96,075"emiigr{fni s"reft Canada f^r tie TV lands of the west an^^ northv/est small t&rritory adapted its -there have convinced,me of great-, States. "^_h^^s^22i441 were Americans who were coming offered less- resistance to develop general agriculture we can realise er possibTt'es thali. those ,for which THE JEWELER raent% than this wooded section. For the ppssibilities in store for northern n* lja^k thcir'dId-M#' taste of 'Canadian atmosphere and t0 1 Iiad early hoped?^ While /ply ,en 412 Third Street trial of CanaSi?*v^,i^~*',tj''-^- the past few years^ JioweveMr^the tide 1 -MiiViesota and anv section of the thusiasm^ for 0^, immigration has been filming and country having sufficient raiftfall, a northern section of the state •Ci