-j*~ "vFf&F" -v -®t.' & "'**ix 4 s/ ^'"'/p* iy INTERNATIONAL FALLSPRESS PAGE FOUR am WAS UNABLE TO REPORT OF FALLS Game and Fish Commissioner. the opportunities to result from the COMMERCIAL CLUB Hon. Jacob .A. O. Preus, State Idevelopment of travel to and from Auditor. Canada. COMBJERHAIR AND BOSfiBR BUDGET Messrs/ Chas E. Vasalay, C. J. Annual Report of the Secretary of the EIpHTJI: The Publicity Committee Swendsen, and R. W. Wheelock, International Falls Commercial has now under preparation certain GEO. P. WATIOT, Biiin members of the Minnesota Board of Club to the Board of Directors, literature descriptive of the agricultural Control. January, 1920 St. Paul Woman Is Relieved of Rheumatism resources-and tourist attractions Ace a(/4itenuitloial Fall*. Mima., a* Sccrai-claM Mattel btet«4 at the F«(t Oi Senator P. H. McGarry of Walker. by Taking Tanlac of this locality. It is their intention Hon. C. M. Babcock, Commissioner On February 12th, eleven months to prepare folders^to be mailed SUBSCRIPTION RAffcS U. S., $2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR of Highways. "It is certainly remarkable how to some five thousand persons who ago, 34 business men of International Senator Knute Nelson says, among have n^ade inquiry regarding agricultural Tanlac helped me," said Mrs. Otillie Falls, answered a calLfor a meeting other things, under date of November Kenstenoff, who besides at 234 East to organize a Commercial Club In and^ tourist features of resides 7th: "I assure you I shall be very Winifred. St., St Paul, northern Minnesota of certain State Minn., re- ApriKthe Club was organized under glad to pay International Falls a Publicity Bureaus, which mailing cently. a charter previously granted to similar THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY OF KOOCHICHING visit at the very first opportunity in list is now in the possession of th* "I suffered dreadfully from rheumatism organization in 1913, the membership the spring." JL Club. and stomach trouble for some at this time being 58. There .On October 16th, tfie Commercial attention to the lawmakers, with the "See America Burst," seems to be were additions to the membership time," she continued. "I had scarcely NINTH: To encourage the location result that the next legislature was Club, at the instance and through roll at each succeeding meeting any appetite and what little I did the slogan of the Reds. of new enterprises within our the assistance of our postmaster, Mr. made a dry body. By it a prohibitory manage to eat would sour, bloat me From June to September of last year county, such as: Boat works, box act was passed, only %o vetoed Nightingale, brought the attention of up terribly and cause such intense the Club occupied a single room in factory, cannery, cheese factory, cigar Winter—and then some more winter. by governor Barstow. The slavery our representative at Washington, pains I could hardly stand the Clark apartments on 3rd avenue. factory, cold storage plant, con. Old King Coal is a costly old W. S! Carss, our needs of a new issue then engrossed public attention fectionery works, fish preserving heart would palpitate at times and I On September 15th, with a membership soul. and the effort to make Wisconsin dry federal building. This will be followed would feel like I was smothering. of 103, the- Club entered upon plant, -furrier, greenhouse, machine was abandoned. by a more comprehensive pros-, the occupancy of its present Club My kidneys also bothered me a great shop, monument works, potato warehouse, Why should any bolshevist object petcus of the reasons why we should deal and my back and limbs pained rooms. On September 8th the present well driller and wholesale to being sent back to Russia at LJncle have a new building adequately to me so I could barely get around the grocery. By-laws and the organization PARTIES MAY UNITE Sam's expense. house our post office, customs department, house. But my right arm caused thereunder was adopted. Our present TO DEFEAT TOWNLEY TENTH: To investigate the adaptability immigration bureau, agricultural more suffering than all the rest membership is—non-resident individual of/our cutover areas to It looks as though we^shall have department, and other federal my troubles. I just couldn't move it members, 43 resident individual sheep raising. peace, without victory fo^7th^ Wilsonian Last Sunday's Pioneer Pres^ says activities in Koochiching county. at all, couldn't raise it to comb my members, 280 total 323. ELEVENTH: To continue to emphasize League of Nations. that tentative plans were made at a On December 10th, a committee hair and the pain was so intense it The avowed purpose of this organization necessity the imperative of conference held on Friday at the from the Commercial Club met with nearly drove me crazy. I couldn't is to promote-those common increased hotel and living accommodations Saint Paul for organization of Republicans Japan threatens to fight the "reds" Fishermen's a committee from the sleep for the pain and would get up undertakings conceded bj^, every to care for the population and Democrats over the if they appear there. No years of Association, pursuant to a suggestion in the morning so tired and worn one as-measures that will make coming here on the completion of state to combat effects of the Nonpartisan "watchful waiting" in the land of by the Game and Fish Commissioner, out that I could hardly stand on my Koochiching county a better place our roads in the spring. League to control the next the Mikado. and agreed upon certain recommendations feet. My head ached all the time and in which to live both from a social session of the Minnesota legislature. TWELTH: We need, in International to the Commissioner regarding I was almost a physical wreck. All and a business point of view. With Falls, a new library building, The South, like all other parts of the location and early Completion this trouble started after I had an affairs of a local nature, upon which a public hall, and a better station. This step followed publication in the country, appears to be enjoying of the use of nets in certain waters attack of the 'flu' last winter. persons may differ in opinion, this Among the things we ought to the Dispatch on Friday of the of Rainy Lake, and the reservation "I tried all sorts of treatments and prosperity. A Georgia negro bought Club has no concern. undertake are: true state of affairs affecting the of certain areas for hook and line "two piano's to balance de sittin' medicines, but none of them did mev The name "INTERNATIONAL governorship and of an editorial in fishing. FIRST: A membership, in the any good, and I gradually got worse room." FALLS COMMERCIAL CLUB" is a United States Chamber of Commerce. the Dispatch on Friday, pointing out all the time. At last a friend advised misnomer. The Club wasNiamed in On January 20fh we expect to p'ritit how the-present primary law opens Second: A closer relationship between me to try Tanlac, and she was so the charter granted by the state. It a small folio bulletin of Internation- The 1920 War Savings stamp bears the Commercial Club and the the way for Townley control of Minnesota. enthusiastic about it and what it was proposed at one time to change^l Falls Commercial Club, and there- the likeness of George Washington. Farmers' Clubs that are in active would do I decided to take her advice. the name to the "COMMERCIAL after each month, so that non-resident When you are tempted to say you operation throughout the county. It At first it didn't seem to do me CLyB OF KOOCHICHING COUNTY," Only first steps were taken on Friday. members may keep abreast of can't buy one, remember the cherry .is doubtful whether we can be of very much good, except my appetite The conference was attended but inasmuch as this would be our activities. tree episode. much help to them. We are to be began to improve, but by the time I a matter that would have to be taken by__Senator F. E. £utnam of Blue In September a'committe was appointed the gainers. The farmer is teaching had finished by fifth bottle I was in up with the state and permission to arrange for a home coming Earth, former Senator John Noonan The bill introduced by representative industry. the world lessons of Mr. fine condition. I could eat anything therefrom granted, it was thought of Waseca, Senator Henry N. Benson celebration for the returned soldiers Carl W. Riddick, of Montana, to Hoover says: "The farmer has maintained I wanted and everything agreed with best at that time not to make the of Nicollet county, Oliver 'j. Quane, of Koochiching county. This work provide $4,000,000-for loans to farmers production, he has kept hard me perfectly. I had no gas or bloating editor of the St. Peter Herald W. change. Therefore "International was finally taken over by the city in drought-stricken sections of the work performing the social service at Falls" used in connecton with the and the headaches left me entirelly. R. Hodges, editor of the HeraldDispatch council and a fund provided for thAt United States for the purchase of that comes only by the production The rheumatism still bothered of Sleepy Eye W. W. Siv* name of our club is to be taken in a purpose. Wisely this money was seed for the 1920 spring planting is of commodities. The manufacturers, me, but I kept on taking it, and in a general sense only, for we are quite used by the Legion in fitting up headquarters right of Hutchison, J. A. Nicholson meeting with general approval among the miner, and the transportation short time I was completely relieved as much interested in the welfare of and now they have a wellequipped of Austin, S. A. Langum of Preston the farmers. It is stated in the bill agent has slackened enormously of pain of any kind,, and now I am and others. Ranier, Ray, Ericsburg, Loman, Littlefork club room. that no loan shall be made to any since the armistice and are not enjoying the best of health and can and Happyland, and every The celebration on the Fourth of farmer in a greater sum than $300, Men prominent in both parties are carrying their share of the load. The get^ arbund as well as I ever could ia other part of Koochiching county. July was conducted urider the auspices to be invited to a conference in St. and that all loans shall be made thru farmer is making an economic contribution my life, and do all my own housed Nor is our interest necessarily of the Commercial Club. The national or state banks, and be secured Paul, it was said at which a call to the other sections of the work with ease, I will praise Tanl limited to this side of the border. published account of the receipts will be issued for a state convention. by a first lien on the crop community that they have no right as as long I live, and intend to te Those who live across the blue line and expenditures on this occasion planted with rfie seed so secured. It will be the aim of this meeting to to exact from them." others about it every time I get th that threads the center of Rainy by the chairman and secretary of make certain that the strongest man Any one.making a false oath as to opportunity. river, speak the same language, have This part of the state is to become, the committee, Messrs. J. P. English and only one man is picked in each the facts is fined $1,000 or imprisoned Sold at Rubin's drug store at In-J the same institutions, andhavfe ih ultimately, agricultural and we and John Fransen, established the legislative district to oppose, the Nonpartisan six months or both. ternational Falls and at S. E. Dimoa common with us the same interests. should lend our efforts to make this wholesome precedent that a fund collected League candidate. early.*: at Littlefork and all other leading .transition easy and normally The prosperity of one side of thV from the public is impressed What action will be taken on the That the Republican party is fully druggists. stream cannot be independent. of with a trust and the collector should THIRD: The resort opportunities gubernatorial situation and whether determined to stamp out Bolshevism that of the other. We bespeak their answer back to the public as to its of our 4ake region enormous in their any action will be taken was not decided in any form in the United States, is interest in our endeavors and we use. extent and gorgeous in their character, VOTE AID TO TEN oh. made evident by a resolution introduced pledge our co-operation in their efforts The Club has looked aftier the allotment have scarc'ely been touched. We THOUSAND LAKES ASS'N. by Senator Kenyon and passed A deliberate plot is seen on the part to make this neighborhood in made to Koochiching county in must make known these advantages by the Senate, providing investigation of. the Nonpartisan League to kidnap better one in which to live. connection with the Fergus Falls Relief to the end that every foot of our Support of the Ten Thousiand of the activities* of L. C. A. K. Martens, the Republican and the state. paVty In the matter of good roads, the Fund. lake and river shore line may be privately Lakes of Minnesota association in its who claims to be an ambassador The league finds an easy method of first object of this club, the following In August the club represented the owned and every island be campaign to advertise the lakes and to this country from the Russian procedure in the present primary has been done:. county in connection with the Salvation dotted with a summer cottage, to the lands of Minnesota was unanimously soviet government. The resolution law. Party organization has been A committee was appointed to recover Army Home Service Fund. increased merchandising of Koochiching voted at the closing session of the calls attention to the fact that Martens broken down because of the fact that certain funds technically withheld The campaign was from August 10th county. Minnesota Realty Owners and Dealers' has headquarters in New York election to the legislature is on a to 20th. On the evening of August frojn .our use by the state. As association's annual conventio FOURTH: We must believe in the City, and is alleged to be directing nonpartisan basis. This destroys the 20th, we telegraphed the Army Headquarters a result of their recovery, we are future of Koochiching county and the at the Saind Paul last Friday afternoon. propaganda against this government smaller unite of party organization— assured by the County Commissioners in Minneapolis as follows: Action followed the appeal of environment of our river and lake region. and resolves "that the Committee on precinct and county. "Koochiching county is over the through Commissioner Slack, This is a new country. A region Senator P. H. McGarry, Walker, Foreign Relations is hereby authorized Townley has ordered precinct and top." that, by virtue of the work already N beyond the fabled St. Croix of Minn., president, who urged support andf directed to investigate as 'county conventions, the first to be On August 11th we received the done and now going on, the road from Proctor Knott. Within the memory of the work of his association. speedily as possible the status of held January 23. Only leaguers will following answer: Northome to International Falls will "Minnesota climate, scenic beauties, of young men, the place where we said Martens what alleged government be admitted. League members longj*be a good passable highway by April "Congratulations. Koochiching now are, surrounded by all that exhalts summer resorts and railroad facilities or power in Europe he represents have been coached in what to do and 1st of this year. The same can be county wins state honors. Fjrst and embellishes our frontier rank in with any other state what recognition of any kind will do what they are told. Posing said of the road to Baudette and jto county over you get flag." in point of attractiveness to the tourist, life, the timber wolf roamed the forests has been accorded to him by this as friends of the primary, Townley's Ericsburg. In September the Club gathered unscarred and the tall Norway and\he one thing needed to make government whether or not he is gang has abandoned it for the convention We are now negotiating with the data as to damages sustained by it the Mecca for traxelers and tourists nodded in the Saskatchewan breeze. an alien enemy what propaganda he plan organized on the old homesteaders on account of floods D. W. & P. R. R. for the hauling of But these are not days of ox team is a network '—-Surfaced is carrying on for the overthrow of gang plan. and cyclone and placed this information gravel to resurface^the roadjjetwe^n progress. These are times of the roads over the entire state," Senator governments and all facts and circumstances By this means he .proposes to control in the hands of the Board of Ericsburg and Ray, and recently ve railroad and telegraph and telephone McGarry seated. With the state relating to his activities the Legislature and elect a minority Relief. Mr. Scott Laird, the appraiser had the assurance of the cooperation honeycoirfbed with good roads' million and wireless telegraph and airships in this country." governor of Minnesota. under this board has visited International of this company to this end. from Duluth. We can't raise bananas of tourists would be attracted The Republican gubernatorial situation Falls for the purpose of In November it came to our knowr and bread—fruit, but we can annually, Senator McGarry, said. TOOK MORE THAN 60 YEARS TO is not as bad' as painted, in adjusting these losses. The collection ledge that there was a possibility of grow the things that sustain man Larger stat^f appropriations are MAKE WISCONSIN A DRY STATE the opinion of Julius A. Schmahl, of additional data has been diverting a branch of the King of and fatten animals. Our good friend, needed to carry on ^the work of the who has filed for the Republican Trails from Madison, this state to placed in the hands of the county Mr. Gunheim in Big Falls says, "This association, he pointed out. "We are Despite Wisconsin's reputation for nomination. He is confident of his a$ent, M. M. Abbott. International Falls by way of Duiluth. is the country! where clover^is a availing ourselves of every form of wetness in recent years, among the ability to defeat both Thomas Frankson The following matters are now We sent Judge Frank-Palmer weed." national and local advert:M*"~ and if fathers of the commonwealth a and the hand^picked nominee of as a delegate to the Minnesota Asvision undertaken but, as yet, not completed: the work of the associations-is to contine, Th(Pcountry is susceptible of the strong prohibition sentient existed, A. C. Townley. of this King of Trails A* ociation our last appropriation of $30,000 same development as the southern and the national dry enactment Mr. Schmahl predicts a primary FIRST: An effort to securt an improved at Madison, and through the must be considerably increased," portion of the British possessions realizes belatedly for Wisconsin an vote of 450,000. Of these, there will telegraph service. It is hoped efforts of Judge Palmer, who went, he said. at the north where the almost innumerable ideal which was vigorously fought for be 100,000 service men who were absent and saw, and conquered, the Minnesota that the -present undertakings may spurs and branches of the Canadian seventy years ago. Records preserved in 1918.) Few of these votes, he eventuatfe in the establishment of a Division will recommend to the National railroad present a BONUS PAYMENTS- TO in the State Historical library at says, will go to the league. Frankson's downtown telegraph office with a National Council that this Trail be spider web effect. BE DUE IN FEBRUARY Madison show that the Wisconsin vote he doV not fear seven-day and messenger service. diverted at Jtladison to Winnipeg |y Located at the western part of liquor law passed in 1849 and known "Have yo ufound in St. Paul," lie way of Alexandria, Bemidji, and International SECOND: An application to the Jarge water areas we find such places Information comes frota the state as the "bond law", attracted nationwide askked, "one "man outside the 'Frankson Falls, and we are as War Department whereby we may as Buffalo, Toledo, Chicago, and Duluth. bonus board that service men may attention. organization who is for him for have lights placed at' both entrances sured that the recommendations of And from our strategic position expect payments of the $15 a month The bond law made every liquor governor to Bruhl Narrows and at the mouth a State Council are usually followed at the head of^ Rainy waters we bonus to start about the middle of dealer responsible for the support Others, however, are not so hopeful of Kettle River, the marking of reefs, by .the National Council of this stand in a direct line of the course February, and to be continued as of "j*ll paupers, widows and orphans of the situation Friday as it concerns Trail Association. rocks, and other dangerous places of commerce from this^ great undeveloped rapidly as they can be reached' till made or helped to be made" by his the governorship J. A. O. Preus whereby the navigation of The State Highway Commissioner Rainy northwest seeking a seaboard all have been paid. The state is offering traffic. In 1850 the provisions of the said he -'regarded the summary in assures us that there will be delivered lake may be made safer. outlet on Great Lakes ports. the necessary certificates of law were made more stringent. After yesterday's Pioneer Press as ac* THIRD: An application to W to the County Commissioners, in And it is not\far distant when .International indebtedness for sale, and expect to several efforts to have it declared curate. H. C. Hotaling, Herbert Keller, the spring a certain number of army Weather Bureau for the display in Falls, Ranier, Birch Point, place $7,500,000 in certificates on sale unconstitutional had failed, opponents O. C. Neuman, Oliver J. Quane motor trucks for there free use in International Falls of weather signals. Clark's Beach and Crystal Beach will at once. Payments to the men can of the bond law started a campaign, and others made the same statement maintaining our county roads. be mere suburbs of^-a larger northern begin as soon as the certificates are chiefly among the foreign element, Democrats, too, confirmed it. In June the club purchased 600 FOURTH: TJie opening of a racetrack commercial and resajt metropolis. marketed. which in 1851 secured its re Balibock road maps of Minnesota, in International Falls. Information given out by the bonus peal, and a license law took its place. RAGON HEARD FROM that being a contribution from Koochiching FIFTH: The Wild Rice Committee Respectfully submitted, board last week is to the effect th.it Temperance forces now turned their county to the campaign has purchased and has stored re^ady David Hu|lbu|!t, l^i^nesota men who^s.erved^ith the Frances Times: attention to making Wisconsin completely Fort Tfre accour fund of the Minnesota Highway Improvement for planting next spring in the bays January 20th, 1920. Allied forces, other than those of th dry. of the disappearance of Joe Ragon Association, whicTF seeks and lakes adjacent to Rairiy lake, United States cannot share in the In response to their demands a has turned out to be witftput/foundation. the adoption of amendment No. 1 on 2,625 wild "feelery buds. FOR SALEu distribution of the bonus. This was is popular referendum on prohibition Mr. Ragon very much alive November 2nd, 1920. SIXTH The promotion of the use Lots 9 and 10*\Block 4,* Forest the substance of an opinion given to was ordered, and by organizing their and Sherig Baber has a letter written During the past six months the for l^ind clearing purposes of certain Heights First-Addition to International the board by the state Supreme court. forces in every hamlet of the state by him from Keewaitin dated club, has entertained the following excessive stores of TNT now held by Falls cheap for 4uicki sale. It means that any Minnesota men the "Cold Water Jesuits" won a the 26th day of December, which (public men: nnKliV triAti the Federal Government. Inquire at the this office or address, who served in the Canadian, French, clear-cut victory. The wets controlled sets at rest the false rumors as to Dr. R. F. Denfield of the Federal SEVENTH: Active -cooperation 15f7 E. Richter, Bangor, Wis. British or Italian armies will not^be the governpr and legislature, however, his being lost in the bush„ This will Civil Extension Service Bureau. with the TouristxAssociation secretaries entitled to a bonus payment. There and the latter refused to pass be good, news to his many friends Mr. G. Duncan, president of the in their endeavor to divert Good pine slabs* for sale, delivered are a number of such men in Koochiching the law demanded by the votets. The who .had been rather, alarmed at h^s" Fort Will:am Board of Trade! travel from Europe to travel within right from the mill, only four ti county, to* who.m this, news temperance forces then turned their reported misadventure. Hon. Carlos Avery Minnesota the United States and to recognize lars pej- cord. Apply S. E. Thompson will not be (welcome, ,v v' -.. 4