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

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PAGE FOUR INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS SUFFERED SINCE COMMISSIONERS THE INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS Of the Register of Deeds of said ty, Minnesota. county, and whereas there is not E WAS A CBW PROCEEDINGS sufficient money in the treasury of County Auditor, Koochiching county, AND BORDER BUDGET said county of Koochiching to defray Minnesota. the expenses incurred and to (Seal of the County of Koochiching). be incurred in so locating, establishing H. J. MINER, Editor and Manager Was Unable to Work When He Began Official Proceedings, Board of County and constructing said Judicial Form of Coupon. Taking Tanlac—Well and Ditch, as to said county, and on the Number $ Commissioners, Koochiching F.ntered at the Post Office at International Falls* Minn, as Second-Class Matter Strong Now. County, Minnesota, March Second, part of said county. International Falls, Minn. NOW, THEREFORE, be it and it Nineteen Twenty. The County of Koochiching, State SUBSCRIPTION RATES: U. S.,_$2.00 FOREIGN, $2.50 PER YEAR "I had taken but a few doses of hereby is resolved by the board of of Minnesota, will pay to bearer county commissioners of said county OFFICIAL $ at the banking house of Tanlac when I knew I had at last the expressed purpose of creating Sugar continues to be "one sweet' of Koochiching that it is expedient the Central Trust Company of found the medicine I had been looking a false impression in the minds of ly solemn thought." (Continued from last.. week.) and necessary to borrow said Chicago, Illinois, at said Chicago, for," said Joe Kroiss, an employee the people of the state and to gain Moved by Commissioner Munroe, amount of money and to issue, negotiate being the semi-annual on sympathy for the striking employees Spend and the world spends with of Swift & Co's. St. Paul that the following applications for and sell the bonds of said interest then due on its public drainage at the expense of the officers of the you, save and you'll own a home. plant, who resides at 466 Van Buren reduction of assessments, be rejected, ditch bond (Judicial Ditch Number county in said sum of $63,000.00 for company. viz: the purpose of defraying said expenses 36) datedMay 1, 1920, Number street, St. Paul, Minn., recently. The statement that the Minnesota Men still persist in getting a sliver A. M. Carlson ed ., so incurred and to be incurred, Continuing he said: and Ontario Paper Co. had any paper in their liver by drinking wcod John S. Dahl and be it and it hereby is contracts with publishers that they "I have suffered more or less with alcohol. William O'Brien (2) Chairman of the Board of County resolved further by said board of stomach trouble since childhood, and wanted to break and the inference B. G. Dahlberg, Vice-Pres. county commissioners that the negotiable Commissioners, Koochiching County, that Mr. Backus or any other official for the past twelve y^ars there Political bees are buzzing—some The motion was seconded by Commissioner Minnesota. coupon bonds of said coun hasn't been a month that I haven't of the company brought the honey but mostly bumble with the Langaard and carried. ty of Koochiching be issued, negotiated lost from two days to two weeks strike on for that purpose is absolutely accent on the first syllable. Commissioner Langaard then pro* and sold for said purpose in County Auditor, Koochiching coun from my work on account of it. My ridiculous and without a posed the following resolution and ty, Minnesota. said amount, said bonds to be sixtythree trouble would come on me by spells scintilla of foundation of fact. When A bolshevik is a brainstorm en moved its adoption, which motion Resolved further, that the chairman (63) in number and to be numbered —one day feeling fine and able tl the strike occured on December 10th tirely surrounded by whiskers, accordnig was seconded by Commissioner one to sixty-three (1 to 63) inclusive, of said board of county commissioners eat anything I wanted without any all existing contracts only had twenty to the Literary Digest. Green: and the county auditor each of said bonds to be of apparent bad effects and the next days to run. In other words they WHEREAS, the Board of County the denomination of $1,000.00, to be of said county are hereby authorized day I would be down in bed and unable expired on December 31, 1919 more The cow ihat jumped over the Commissioners of the county of dated May 1, 1920, to bear interest and directed to execute said bonds to retain a thing, not even a than that when new contracts were moon was famous in a way in her Koochiching and State of Minnesota at the rate of six per cent per an and coupons and the said county glass of water, on my stomach and made they were made at not over day but have you priced the ntw has heretofore duly resolved tb num, payable semi-annually on the auditor to affix the seal of said coun one-half the market price and the I would stay in that condition for spring bonnets? issue negotiate and sell tfie coupon first days of May and November in ty to said bonds that the execution company had opportunities to sell two or three days or maybe weeks bonds of said county in the aggregate of the coupons by the facsimile signatures each year, and to be due and payable before I could get enough strength their entire output for at least double Banks are selling Savings sec irities sum of $63,000.00 to defray expenses as to principal and interest at the of said officers is hereby the amount they charged their to be up and about again. I would on the partial payment pU .. incurred and to beincurred on adopted and approved as the due banking house of the Central Trust suffer with terrible headaches that customers. It developed that when It is getting so it is almost as easv the part of said county, in the location, Company of Chicago, Illinois, at said execution of said coupons and that the company fixed its psice for would nearly drive me wild, and I to save money as it is to throw it establishment and construction upon such execution of said bonds, Chicago, in lawful money of the 1920 they met a committee representing would break out all over with perspiration away. of a public drainage ditch, known United States, said bonds to mature and the due and lawful sale thereof, followed by severe chill and all their customers and that committee as Judicial Ditch Number 36, all pursitant as-follows: said bonds shall be delivered to the decided upon the price they fever, I also had been suffering with Mother did finally succeed in getting to the statutes in such gases Bonds numbered one to four (1 to purchasers thereof and the proceeds would like to have the company pains across the small of my back father to go with her and little made and provided and all as will derived from the sale of said bonds 4), both inclusive, to be payable make them and when they put that for the past few months, that were Chester to church. When they appear by reference to said resolution to principal on May 1, 1922, bonds shall be thereupon credited to the proposition to the company unanimously so bad I could hardly stoop over. I had returned home the insired Chester proper fund and devoted to the pur numbered five to forty-eight (5 to was in a terrible weak and run-down it was accepted without hesitation chirped: "Mama, you said heathens NOW THEREFORE, BF. IT AND pose for which said bonds were so 48), both inclusive, to be consecutively or any change whatever, so condition all the time, and although don't wear any clothes". To IT HEREBY IS RESOLVED, that ^ssued, negotiated and sold. payable as to principal four (4) it developed therefore that tht I tried to work when I could get this mother replied: "Yes, that is bids for the sale of said bonds be Commissioner Langaard seconded bonds in each respective year, commencing company only charged a price that, about at all, I was hardly able to right, they don't." The perplexed received, opened and considered at the motion to adopt said resolutions, in the year 1923 and to-wit: was fair and reasonable to its customers, work at any time. No one seemed to Chester continued: "Well then, why a meeting of the board of county Whereupon the following vote was on May 1 of. each year, up to and ifi-cluding whereas it might and could understand my case and it was a puzzle did Pa put a button in the contribution taken: commissioners to be held at the the year 1933, bonds numbered, to everybody. have secured a price which would box?" court house in the city of International Those voting in favor thereof: forty-nine to fifty-three (49 have netted them at least $5,000,000 "My wife had a lady friend who Falls, in said county, on Tuesday, Munroe, Langaard, Harrigan and to 53), both inclusive, to be payable more than they got under their contracts had been greatly benefited by Tanlac DISTORTED REPORT NOT Green. April 6th, 1920, at 11 o'clock, as to principal on May 1, 1934, bonds made at that time. and she suggested I give it a a. m., and that two weeks published Those voting against:—None. numbered fifty-four to fifty-eight (54 FOUNDED ON FACTS The captain concludes his report trial, so I got a bottle and began notice thereof, be duly given by publishing Whereupon said resolutions were to 58), both inclusive, to be payable with this paragraph: taking it, and before I had finished a notice in the International declared duly adopted by unanimous as to principal May 1, 1935, and bonds In its issue of February 28th the "Aside from the apparent wholesome this bottle the pain in the small of Falls Press, as the official newspaper vote. numbered fifty-nine to sixty-three Daily Journal, under the heading effect upon the disorderly element my back had entirely left me, and of said county, stating the time (59 to 63) both inclusive, to be payable On mation by Commissioner Munroe, "Worthington Officer Reports," copies in the occupied district, the in two days I was back at work and and place of said meeting and that seconded by Commissioner Langaard as to principal May 1, 1936 that an article from the Worthington three weeks tour of duty gave results I haven't lost a day since. Up to bids will be received, opened and and carried, the following bills attached to each of said bonds shall Progressive, wherein the editor of to this command, in training this time I have only taken four considered as aforesaid, all pursuant be appropriate coupons authenticated were audited and allowed and the that paper states that "he has had and discipline, which amply justified bottles, but I have a splendid appetite to the statute in such case made by the facsimile signatures of the auditor instructed to draw warrants the pleasure of examining a copy of the expenditure incurred." and can eat anything I want and provided and that the county for same: officers issuing said bonds and said the report made by Capt. Stelle S. The article in the Progressive without having a particle of trouble auditor of said county as the clerk bonds shall be in substantially the Poor Fund Smith, commanding Company F, 5th states further: with my stomach. I am regaining of said board of county commissioners Dn A .V. Garlock, medical following form with the necessary Minnesota Infantry, M. N. G., to the "Now then, as was said at the outset, my strength and feel full of be and he hereby is directed variations as to the numbers and care for A. Warner, pauPer commanding officer of the regiment the report is in fine form and energy all the time and can do a hard and authorized to cause such published maturities thereof: $ 59.00 at Mankato". couched in language which shows day's work without its tiring me notice to be given. John Glava, supplies for Mrs. Form of Bond Ill reviewing the report the editor due deference to higher ranking more than is natural. I have never Upon roll call, the resolution was United State of America, State of Trombley, pauper, Jan 20.00 of Progressive says "the report authorities. But one can always been able to sleep like I do now since declared carried and adopted on the John Haluptzok, supplies for Minnesota, County of Koochiching in its entirety is a most comprehensive read a whole lot between the lines I was a child, and it takes the alarm following vote: Public Drainage Ditch Bond Mrs. Warner, pauper, Jan. and splendidly prepared document, in a military report." clock to wake me up. I will praise Ays:—Commissioners Green, Munroe, No $1000.00 and Feb 12.00 but as most of the details The whole article is replete with Tanlac as long as I live for the good Langaard and Harrigan. Hasselbarth & Somers, supplies Know all men by these presents, having to do with the incidents of mis-statements and untruths and upon it has done me. Nays:—None. for county hospital that the county of Koochiching, State the tour of duty are already familiar careful perusal leads one who is Moved by Commissioner Langaard Tanlac is sold in International of Minnesota, acknowledges it is inmates 23.50 to most of our people, we shall pass familiar with the situation and all Falls at Rubin's Drug store and at that the petition of John Jackshaw, Swan Johnson, supplies for indebted and for value received hereby them over and simply epitomize the facts at hand, to conclude that Littlefork by M. E. Dimon and all and others for the attaching of promises to pay to bearer the Rude family, paupers 74.85 some of the paragraphs giving the the editor of the Progressive, unfamiliar Townships 63, Range 22 and 63, Frank H. Keyes, supplies for other leading druggists. sum of one thousand dollars, lawful results of the commanding officers with the situation, has stultified Range 24, to the Town of Summerville county hospital 38.20 money of the United States of findings with reference to the reasons himself at the behest of a certain (T. 63-23) be received, that pursuant America, on May 1, 19 with interest Frank H. Keyes, burial of PRICES FOR BLACKSMITH WORK for the maintance of troops at element here, who, outside of to Sec. 779, G. S. 1913, the auditor thereon from date hereof until Chas. Peterson 30.00 International Falls and the outlook the strikers, have assisted in keeping be instructed to issue notices of Mrs. Edw. Nelson, supplies paid at the rate of six per cent Until further notice prices for for the immediate future." up the agitation and done nothing a hearing on the matter and that' „and care of Rude family... 25.00 annum, payable semi-annually on work at my shop will be as follows: In the first place it is evident that to better conditions. said hearing be held at the office of the first day of May and the first Nor. Minn. Hospital, care of New shoes, plain .«* Capt. Smith acted with great indiscretion Yes it is easy to read between the the county board, in the court house, day of November of each year, as sick poor, February.... 270.00 Re-set shoes, plain __ .SO in his duty to his superior lines. city of International Falls, Minnesota, Peter Robertson, supplies for evidenced by and upon the presentation Never slips mj officers. Under and by what authority on Tuesday, April 6th, 1920, at and surrender of the annexed E. O. Knutson, Jan. and Never slips set with calks l.«J0 did he allow his report to be perused SOLDIER EQUIPMENT CAN 10:30 o'clock a. m. The motion was interest coupons as they severally peb 21.63 Giant Grips, per shoe i.^5 by the general public? It is seconded by Commissioner Green G. A. Semon, supplies for become due, both interest and principal BE RETAINED PERMANENTLY Giant Grips calks per shoe 20 almost inconceivable that Capt. and carried by a unanimous vote. Thersia Sumbs, Feby 30.00 being payable in lawful money All padding and packing 25c per shoe Smith would give a copy of his report W. H. Unger, premium on Moved by Commissioner Langaard of the United States at the banking Chas. Richardson, Prop. It has been brought to the attention to the Worthington Progressive that Dr. Clair C. Craig be appointed county hospital insurance. 137.16 house of the Central Trust Company 307 Second St. or anyone else outside of the of Congressman Carss that many as a member of the county board of Thomas Watson, supplies for of Chicago, Illinois, at said Chicago, International Falls, Minn. state capitol or the commanding officer of the soldiers of the Eighth District health, for the year 1920 and that his Mrs. Trombley, Feby 20.00 and that for the prompt payment of of the regiment, as it is generally who served in the recent world salary be set at $50.00 for the year. Thomas Watson, supplies for this bond, principal and interest as understood that these reports HORSES G. L. Carpenter, Jan. and The motion was seconded by Commissioner they severally mature, the full faith war, did not receive the full equipment are private and under no circumstances Green and carried by a and credit of said county of Koochiching 120.00 to which they are entitled, at Feb to be divulged excepting through unanimous vote. Mary White, board of county are hereby pledged. his superior officers. the time of the discharge from the On motion, the bills of Drs. Gilmore hospital inmates, Feb. .... 129.00 This bond is one of a series of It is evident that Capt. Smith was service. Thos. P. White, 35 cords and McCann, dated February sixty-three (63) bonds of like date, possessed of a biased mind either before The following is a list of the 25th, 1920, amount $150.00 and bill of wood for county hospital. 91.25 amount and tenor, except as to maturities, arriving here with his command equipment which may be permanently We want to sell four head St. Anthony's hospital of Bemidji, Unorganized Road and Bridge Fund issued by the board of county or shortly after, as during the late of horses and will sell asy retained by enlisted men upon receiving dated January 20th, 1920, amount Gustave Bloom, labor on road, commissioners of said county for visit of the Worthington guards team we have. One chestnut honorable discharge. $104.90, both for medical and hospital Twp. 64-27 $ 15.75 the purpose of defraying the expense here he did not call upon President gelding and one grey geld* Carl Lundgren, balance on 1 overseas cap (for oversea men care of Elmer Rude, was laid incurre and to be incurred Backus or any of the officials of the ing, weight 3200, ages 6 and only). over until the next meeting of the road contract, Twp. 154-27. 70.00 on the part of said county in locating, company to get any information upon 10 years board. County Road and Bridge Fund S425 1 hat and one cord (for all other establishing iand constructing a which to base his ideas as to the Wm. Couts, gravel for S. R. Resolution enlisted men.) certain public drainage ditch known merits or demerits of the strike. Commissioner Munroe offered the H. No. 24 $ 100.30 as Judicial Ditch Number 36, and is 1 olive drab shirt. It is evident that he was totally following resolution arid moved its Wm. Couts, gravel Jor S. R. One black mare and one issued by authority of and in strict 1 service coat and ornament. ignorant of the facts in the case and adoption: H. No. 24 28.00 grey gelding, weight' 2,000, accordance with the provisions of 1 pair breeches. that he accepted the statements of WHEREAS pursuant to Chapter Ignatz Flake, labor on county ages 4 and 5 years 1 pair shoes. Chapter 230, General Laws of the $425 the striking employees of the railroad, 230 General Laws of the State of road/ 34.00 State of Minnesota for 1905, and all 1 pair leggins. their leaders and certain agitators Improvement Bulletin, publishing Minnesota for the year 1905, and 1 poncho. acts amendatory thereof and supplementary which were very wide of the acts amendatory thereof and suplemental notices for bids 13.05 One chestnut gelding and 1 overcoat. thereto. mark. In fact we have been advised thereto, a certain public H. Jantzen, freight and grey gelding, weight 2 suits underwear. It is further certified and recited that he continually mingled drayage on oil for tractor drainage ditch known as Judicial 2^00, ages 12 years 4 pairs of stockings. that all acts, conditions and things with the strikers and was instrumental $225 Ditch Number 36, has heretofore 7.50 1 pair gloves. required by the constitution and laws in giving a dance in their interest. Frank H. Keyes, supplies for been duly and. legally located and 1 barrack bag. of the state of Minnesota to be done established within the county of tractor, Dist. No. 2 4.00 1 gas mask and one helmet (for and performed precedent to and in One grey gelding and one In reading the article in question Koodhiching and the county of Beltrami, O. M. Paulson, livery hire oversea men only.) the issuance of this, bond have been 3,000, as published in the Worthington brown gelding, weight for Engineer Rose 5.00 in said state of Minnesota, properly done and performed in legal Progressive we gain the inference 3 scarlet chevrons. ages 14 years $150 and whereas it has heretofore been O. M. Paulson, livery hire and due form as required by law,, that Capt. Smith in his report intimates Any honorably discharged soldier for Engineer Rose, road duly and definitely ascertained and and that the total indebtedness of that "the strike has been deliberately who served in the United States determined that the expense incurred work 10.00 said county, including this bond, does provoked by the controlling army, during the recent war, and One grey mare and one roan and to be incurred David Rose, Jan. and Feb. 1 not exceed any statutory limitation. power of these associated companies who returned to the government any horse, weight 2£00 in locating, establishing and expenses of Engineer Rose 73.53 $225 In testimony whereof the board of to take advantage of#a certain of the above articles, or to whom, constructing said ditch on the part Berg Swanson, labor on road county commissioners of said county clause in the contracts in case for some reason they were never issued, of said county of Koochiching, will in Twp. 67-26 32.00 of Koochiching and State of Minnesota, of strikes and disorders and to enable should write to Congressman be at least the sum of $63,000.00, and J. F. Friar, labor on county has caused this bond to be them to make new contracts at S.E.Tkonpsoii&Soi Wm. L. Carss, 182 House Office Bldg., whereas the lien statement required roads, Twp. of Kline 18.00 higher prices." duly executed as of the date of Washington, D. C. advising him of by law in connection with said Judicial J. F. Friar, labor on county May 1, 1920. If Capt. Smith did deliberately intend this fact, whereupon the congressman Ditch Number 36 has been duly roads, Twp. of Kline 30.09 Phone 128 to inject the inference into will be very glad to take the prepared by the county auditor of J. W. Greybill, labor on coun- his report or give such an opinion to International Falls, Ninn. matter up and see that the equipment Chairman of the Board of County said county of Koochiching and has the press, no doubt it was done for is forwarded to the soldier. been duly filed by him in the office Commissioners, Koochiching Coun­ Continued on last page fir* A i.