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INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS •'We heard from him no platitudes brought up from Camp Devens. /OF said was about his maximum strength. the sources of raw materials near NOTIC'K SALE ON EXECUTION WARREN HARDING NOMINATED about a million men springing to arms Lowden also increased his vote, going the great population centers be not Bossed by Senators. over night," cried Allen, and everyone up to 289, while Johnson reached Notice is hereby given that under stopped up. Shorter operating hours strained for a look at Mr. Bryan, who From the first it was heralded as 140%. The votes for the dark and by virtue of an execution, directed in the the woods and mills of the iised in order to prevent monopolies. Resumption sat in the press stand close to the and delivered to me, issued out of the that most unusual thing, an unbossed horses did not vary to any great extent Lake States would entail great public of trade relations with every speaker. district court of Itasca county, Minnesota, convention. All the experts asserted though Butler lost steadily and nation with which America is at peace The governor went on to describe sacrifice. Of all times to curtail on a judgment duly entered and that the delegates were going to do as Pritchard soon dropped out entirely. ixvas pledged. No changes were promised Wood's skillful training of an army docketed in said county on the 9th day lumber output this is the least advantageous they pleased and that the old:time By this time everyone was ready for of June, 1920, for the sum of $5125.30, in the existing immigration laws, and his unselfish and uncomplaining to workmen themselves. leadership was impotent. For a day a rest and the convention adjourned in favor of Backus-Brooks Company, a jbut the bettering of naturalization devotion to duty wh'en he was kept or two this seemed true, but then the to Saturday morning. There is a constantly growing corporation, and against Andrew B. Haws was pledged, and the party went from going to Europe in command of senate coterie got into action, and shortage of news print paper. Publishers, The Break to Harding. Clair, also known and described as A._ 'on record as favoring a policy by the boys whom he had taught how to from that time to the end what was small and large, are paying The crowd filled the Coliseum to B. Clair, and which judgment was dulj»*' which American women who marry fight and conquer. He also recounted done was generally what it wished docketed in the office of the clerk of suffocation on what was destined to extraordinary prices for paper and foreigners shall not lose their citizenship. the general's success in quelling labor done. To start with Senator Lodge the district court of said Koochiching be the final day of the convention, for even then are unable to get more The government's authority to and race disturbances within the last was selected as temporary chairman, county on the 10th day of June, 1920. It was felt that the conferences of than enough to supply their most deport and exclude undesirable aliens year or so, and dwelt on his popularity and was continued permanently in the I have levied upon, as the property cf the preceding night would be fruitful. was upheld, but asurance was given with the very men whom he had meager needs. This hand to mouth place, the entire temporary organization said judgment debtor, and on Saturday, The senatorial coterie had been in session that the rights of free speech, free been sent to quiet. existence will be inevitably intensified the 31st day of July, 1920, at 10 being retained. On the all-important many hours and the word was :press and free assembly will not be o'clock A. M., at the sheriff's office in committee on resolutions there if the logging operations in the Wood's Feathery Ovation.. passed around that they had picked abridged. the county court house building in the were numerous senators and ex-senators, north and in Canada are curtailed. As the governor ceased speaking a on Harding as the nominee. In the city of International Falls in said What They Said of Mexico. and they pretty much dictated It is from here that the spruce and storm of applause broke out, and another early ballots of Saturday theOhioan county of Koochiching, I will sell at the makeup of the platform. In the A large number of minor topics were hemlock logs and pulpwood come storm of red and green feathers did not gain rapidly, and all were public sale to the highest bidder for selection of the ticket their influence handled in the platform, and then fell from the rafters all over the The small newspapers—most of all cash, all right, title and interest of| waiting for the moment when the big was seen and felt in every move and came the plank on Mexico. It dealt house. The Wood delegates marched said judgment debtor in and to the delegations from New York, Pennsylvania will pay for the stoppage or curtailment every shift of votes, clear down to the ivery severely with President Wilson's following described lands situated in through the aisles, led by Beveridge and Massachusetts would find of production in the logging moment when Senator Harding received ipolicy and pledged that the party will said Koochiching county, to wit: The of Indiana and Frank Hitchcock, and the time ripe for a break. The men camps and the mills of the north. the ballots that made him the northeast quarter of southeast quarter not recognize any Mexican government the tumult continued for half an hour. from the Keystone stat'e had been convention's choice. All this time the Farms are lying partly idle because (NE1^ of SE1^) of section eight (8) unles the lives and property of "If Wood drops feathers, I suppose voting almost solidly for Sproul, for greatest of the old-time party bosses and southwest quarter of southwest of inadequate help. So that it is Americans there are protected. Armenia Johnson will drop light wines and the bosses were not decided between quarter (SWft of SW&) of section still alive, Senator Boies Penrose, lay came next in the list of planks. predicted that the scarcity of staple beers from the rafters," laughed Mr. him and Harding. And the New twenty-two (22) in township sixtythree on a sick bed in his Philadelphia home. Deep sympathy was expressed for the food products will be during the Bryan, and someone said: "Get your Yorkers really did not know to whom (63), rSmge. twenty-three. (^3) But a direct telephone wire was run Armenians, but the president was cup ready then, William." coming winter even more severe and southeast quarter of northwe~ to throw their strength. into that room and there was scarcely condemned for asking for authority to quarter (SE^ of NW%) of section The demonstration was calmed at Johnson's vote dwindled gradually, than before. an hour of the day or night when he accept an Armenian mandate and it thirty-four (34) in township sixtythree last—really it did not seem very spontaneous—and and then the Lowden column suddenly was not in communication with his The pressure of public opinion is was added that the Republican party (63) range twenty-four (24) after Frank Knox of began to go to pieces. He was really friend, John T. King. He knew all directed toward urging upon the was unalterably against the acceptance west of the fourth principal meridian, New Hampshire had made a seconding the victim of the shift, for the Wood that was going on, and It is fair to iof a mandte for any country in Europe according to the government survey farming industries still greater production speech, the first of the convention's delegations stood by the general almost assume that in most cases he knew or Asia. thereof, to satisfy said execution and of food stuff. The workmen woman orators appeared. She was to the last moment. On the ninth beforehand that it was going to go on. the costs and expenses of sale. The men who fought in the great in the cities urge the farmer to his Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson of ballot it was seen that Harding What happened, happened because he Dated June 10, 1920. war were assured of the party's deep best this year. Is it appropriate or New York, sister of the late Colonel could be "put across," so the uncertain Hughes Van Etten, willed that it should happen. This te gratitude and were promised liberal Roosevelt. With much of the colonel's ones climbed into the band wagon sensible on the one hand to urge increased Sheriff of Koochiching County. not written exactly in criticism, for it legislation for the care of the d?sabled, fire and vim, she told why Leonard Junel7-July29 on the tenth and gave the Ohio farm production and on the may be that what Penrose decreed infirm and dependents. Wood should be the next president, and senator a grand total of 674%, which will suit the party and result in its other hand to entice from the farms Though William Jennings Bryan was CARSS IS AFTER THE she told it so well that prolonged applause was 181% more than necessary to nominate. still more of their remaining labor? present throughout the entire life of rewarded her efforts. DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION victory in November. But the fact the convention with the avowed purpose But that is what we will do if we Governor Lowden's turn came next, The hubbub was deafening and*after cannot be blinked that some emiment of persuading the Republicans increase still further the disparity in Pennsylvania put 60 votes in the Harding Democrats who attended the convention and the honor of presenting his name Congressman W. L. Carss of this to insert a "dry" plank in their platform, working hours between the farm and went away with grins of satisfaction was entrusted to Congressman Rodenberg column the clerks could scarcely district returned home from he failed—possibly because the complete the roll call. At its Cnish the mill. It will be poor public decorating their faces. of Illinois, a big man with a big Washington late last week and immediately timely decision of the Supreme court voice who made an old-fashioned the usual motion to make the choice economy to exchange the lessened seemed to render unnecesary any explicit Lodge Was Too Scholarly. launched into his campaign unanimous was made, but' those 24 speech that hit the audience In the production and increased cost of declaration. The convention for the Democratic nomination. To back to the beginning again, go La Follette men from Wisconsin voted right way. He, too, had an excellent both the farms and lumber industry, merely declared that all laws should Headquarters have been established something must be said of the keynote in the negative and marred the love subject, whose cause was handicapped be enforced, and let it go at that. for the doubtful advantages of a address by Chairman Lodge. It was at Duluth, and a strong "Carss For feast. only by the revelations of excessive Women and Irish Displeased. shorter working- day for a single one of the most scholarly efforts of its Congress" committee has been organized expenditures brought out by the senate Coolidge Gets Second Place. Two other elements also were disappointed. kind, and the great mass of the delegates, class of people. to promote his interests. committee at the instigation of These were the suffragists There still remained the task of to say nothing of the audience, Johnson and his friends. The inevitable outcome of such a In an interview, Mr. Carss says selecting a vice presidential candidate. utterly failed to comprehend it. The Lowden's ovation outlasted that for policy, if persisted in, will be an increasing that he has gained considerable senator did not once descend to the Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, Wood, but was no more enthusiastic. knowledge during his first term as shortage of commodities a Governor Allen of Kansas, Governor level of most of his hearers, and consequently It was featured by a display of banners decrease in the means of production, congressman and has become quite Coolidge of Massachusetts and Col. he failed to arouse any great and portraits of the candidate, familiar with department details at Harry Anderson of Virginia were a gradual eating away of capital. Our measure of enthusiasm. and by a pretty girl in a cerise sweater placed in nomination and the roll of customary standards of living under the capitol. "A new congressman," It was noticeable that this address, who was carried on men's shoulders the states was called. Lenroot received as well as eviery other speech and the says Mr. Carss, "is always handicapped such conditions could be maintained at the head of the paraders. Lowden, a good vote, but Coolidge was platform as well, devoted its denunciatory only by going back to an even longer at the beginning of his term too, had a woman among his seconders, the evident favorite and long before passages not to the Democratic until he gets onto the ropes, after work day than we now have, 12 to 14 Mrs. Fletcher Dobyns of Chicago, the roll was completed his nomination party, as is usually the case, but to which it does not take long to expedite hours, as they are now doing in Germany. a clever politician and good speaker. was assured. The 24 La Follette men President Wilson. It was always his Then Governor Morrow of Kentucky all small matters that dail} voted for Senator Gronna. acts and his policies that were condemned—and told why the Republicans of his state require the attention bf a member With some difficulty Chairman Ledge, This is no time to talk about lessening the language used in loved Lowden and wanted him for congress. I would have been home whose voice was gone, managed to hold dealing with him was scorching. Of production unless we want replace president. earlier, but I remained at Washington the delegates together long enough to course, the reason for this is that, ourselves in the condition of pass the usual resolutions of thanks until near the close of Congress, from the viewpoint of the Republicans, Johnson's Sponser a Failure, the nations of Europe today. to the officials of the convention and so that I would have an opportunity Mr. Wilson has been the Democratic The public must consume less if it Charles S. Wheeler of San Francisco to the city of Chicago, and then the party for the last seven years. to vote for the soldiers' bonus bill. had been deputed to place Senator produces less. If everybody aims «t republican convention of 1920 came The first day found three candidates In all matters coming before the Johnson in nomination, and much was big production with' expert management to an end. in the forefront of the race for the house I made an honest effort to reflect expected of him, because a reputation prices must fall and wages buy Convention Well Handled. nomination, and while the preliminaries the sentiments of the majority for fiery eloquence had preceded him. more. were completed their workers Tl\6 management of the convention But, though his address was smooth of the people of this district." hall deserved thanks, for the were straining every nerve to have really If there was twice as much of every and his voice pleasing, he scored the "I will not have an opportunity to seating, the policing and the other them make the best possible show on commodity on hand today, a dollar worst failure of the entire convention. visit all the points in this district, so arrangements were the best ever seen the first ballot. These men were Governor He evoked some cheering from the galleries would buy a wonderful lot of in such gatherings. The Coliseum was it will be impossble for me to make Lowden of Illinois, General by a denunciation of the League things. A step in that direction is Leonard Wood, and Senator Hiram handsomely decorated and well lighted a thorough canvass between now and of Nations, but soon after made the the only possible way to reduce the and the comfort of the delegates and Johnson of California. From their the prmaries. However, I am quite gross mistake of twitting the reservation cost of living. guests was as well looked after as elaborate headquarters in the hotels sure my friends are familiar with the ists on having been worsted by could be expected. Of course the usual' swarms of men and women flocked to records I made they will recognize Johnson in the committee on resolutions. SUMMONS the Coliseum jwith banners and buttons swarm of sergeants at arms was present, The delegates did not relish that one good term deserves another clogging up the aisles-and getting and literature. Each of them that, nor did most of the others in and will see to it that I am nominated Mrs. Warren G. Harding. was certain of victory—for public consumption—but in the way of the workers, but State of Minnesota the hall. Then he made an unfortunate next Monday." that is inevitable, for the distribution as each of them knew in and the friends of the Irish "republic." allusion to the campaign expenditure County of Koochiching: his heart that he could not win if the of those badges is a perquisite of the Mr. Carss ran as an independeT?? The former, under the leadership of revelations, and as those had hit local Republicans. It was no worse senatorial bosses had their way. All candidate two years ago, but this the heads of the woman's party, were most of the candidates, their friends the rest of the possible candidates this time than usual. The doors were District Court, 15th Judicial District year concluded to file as a Democrat, in Chicago in strength and during the resented it with boos and hisses. Mr. really ranked as dark horses. They in charge of a force of ex-service men after it was discovered another person entire week maintained around the Wheeler smilingly waited for the row. included Herbert Hoover, Dr. Nicholas tinder the command of General Ryan, International Lumber Company Coliseum a line of pickets bearing to cease, and proceeded to finish an had filed for the Democratic Murray Butler of Columbia university, and their work was done with military a Corporation PLAINTIFF banners that warned the Republicans address that was fully twice as long nomination. Mr. Carss has supported Gov. Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, efficiency. vs. that the women demanded the franchise as it should have been. His poor performance the administration on all matters Ida Casey and Ida Neveux Senator Poindexter of Washington, Everyone had good things to say and would be satisfied with no cast a wet blanket on the coming before congress and enjoys DEFENDANTS Senator Howard Sutherland of West about the music supplied by Johnny less. A plank was inserted in the platform planned demonstration, and the California the confidence and respect of the Virginia, Governor Sproul of Pennsylvania, Hand's band, which was stationed in urging Republican legislatures delegates, accompanied by a few The State of Minnesota to the above Democratic organization at Washington, Senator Philander Knox of a lofty little gallery. On occasion it that have not acted to ratify the suffrage others, marched rather sadly through named Defendants: Pennsylvania and Senator La Follette was led by John Hand third, a sturdy which is hopeful for his renomination amendment, but this did not appease the aisles, listlessly waving flags. You are hereby summoned and required of Wisconsin. A long enough list in chap in brilliant uniform who used ther and election. the ladies. In the last few moments Far better than Wheeler's was the to answer the complaint of the all conscience. From these dark baton presented to his father. Arm® of the last session they dropped speech for Johnson by Thomas D. plaintiff in the above entitled action, horses, it was predicted, would emerge Hand, by Theodore Roosevelt at tht which complaint is on file in the office from a balcony a great yellow banner the court herein for the relief demanded Schall, the blind congressman from the winner, and the prophecy was fulfilled. Progressive convention. It was made of the clerk of the above named court, in said complaint. on which was the statement that they Minneapolis, and better, also, were th* of wood from trees on the "River of and to serve a copy of your answer to J. H. Brown, wanted votes, not planks. As for the Doubt," which the colonel discovered. said complaint upon the subscriber at Attorney for Plaintiff, Irish, they, too, made a big demonstration brief talks by Richard Doherty of New (Copyright, 1920, Western Newspaper Union.) his office in the city of International International Falls. Minnesota, in Chicago and De Valera, the Jersey, Charles P. O'Neil of Michigan Falls in said county and state within may 27-J10 Routine Work, Then Oratory. president of their "republic" was there and Mrs. Katherine Phillips Edson of twenty (20) days after the service of THE PUBLIC EFFECT OF to deliver a speech before a great gathering. It required three days to get through California. this summons upon you, exclusive of For Sale—A 4 room house, lot and A SHORTER WORKDAY But something went wrong with wtih the preliminary work of the gathering Now began the parade of dark the day of such service and if you fail one-half water and sewer. Inquire the plans and the plank which was and to have the platform built, horses. They were led forth as follows: to answer said complaint within the at 1015" Eighth street. tentatively shaped for the platform read and adopted. The latter took Would Increase Cost of Newsprint— time aforesaid plaintiff will apply *o Calvin Coolidge, by SpeakerGillette suited them so little that it was omitted place on Thursday. As has been said, of the house of representatives Takes Labor From Farms, Decreasing entirely and nothing put in its the resolutions met with, almost unanimous and Mrs. Alexander Peiffer Butler, by Food Supply. pkice^ ^There was a story that this approval. A young man from Ogden Mills of New York Pritchard, dissolution naS been drawn up by Justice Milwaukee was the only dissenting by Marion Butler of North Carolina The workmen of Germany whereever Cohalan of New York in the hope member of the committee and he presented Hoover by Judge Nathan L. Miller of they have been given a chance that it would be unsuitable and that a minority report that embodied To Keep American Ships New York Harding, by Frank Willis to work have voluntarily increased the Democrats in San Francisco would many of the policies advocated by La of Ohio Sproul, by William I. Schaffer be enabled to take advantage of the their working hours to meet the public Follette. The audience did not want Poindexter, by George H. Walker, on the Seas circumstance. So, though considerable to hear him and he took advantage need for greater production. They and Sutherland, by Joseph M. Sanders. space has perforce been given to the of their impatience to try to place himself When Wisconsin was reached on the know now that they cannot consume platform of the Republican party, It is In the position of a martyr, but roll call the clerk paused expectantly what is not produced. For the first time since the Civil War we have a real not because it must be considered as Chaiiman Lodge cleverly forestalled but no one appeared to nominate merchant marine. It cost us $3,000,090,000 to get it. This is Germany's way of compensating a great or a particularly strong pronouncement. this, and the minortiy report was La Follette, and the crowd seemed for the nation's loss in manpower. The farmer, manufacturer, laborer—every American It Lots of men and womlen speedily dumped into the waste basket. grateful. The individual's output is increased Interested in holding our position on the teas. in the party are far from pleased Friday was the day of oratory. Men Balloting Begun. Is not diminished. with many parts of it, and it must be who thought themselves eloquent and As a first step in this direction It Is necessary to modify The powers that were decreed that Do the people of America intend confessed that the writer failed to find others who really were eloquent mounted those articles of existing commercial treaties which have several ballots should be taken that merchant anyone who was crazed with enthusiasm the speaker's platform in procession to do less than the workmen of Germany? operated to thwart the upbuilding of our marine-" day before adjournment, and in an excited over it. throughout most of the day to place Here there is abundant employment. hush the call of the states was By giving the notice of termination for which the several before the convention the names and treaties provide. begun. The hush did not last, however, There many factories The story of this convention would qualifications of the candidates. In for every considerable vote for be intensely interesting if one could are idle because of lack of equipment, This action is directed In the constructive Shipping BUI many cases women were among those any one aspirant was greeted with the now before Congress tell all the truth about the secret influences competent managers, supplies who seconded the nominations, and cheers of his friends. that governed its actions. On and capital. Here the job seeks the Which declares It to be the policy of the United States usually they acquitted themselves As had been foretold. Wood led the surface it was not a very exciting man. Wages are constantly increasing. "to do whatever may be necessary to develop and encourage" much more to the satisfaction of their on the first ballot with 287% votes, affair, and the enthusiastic outbursts a merchant marine. There the man who finds hearers than did the men, for they Lowden was second with 211%, and that characterized some of Its I steady employment is trying to help were brief, snappy and graceful of Johnson gathered in 133%. The others This policy deserves the support of every American. sessions appeared too often to be facetious. address. German industry to regain its feet, For five days the 14,000 delegates, in general wereaccorded the votes Lacking this support the present effort to maintain our On the roll call of states Arizona of their home states and a few more. and as best they can do to repair the alternates, seat-holders and possessors merchant marine may suffer the fate of many Ineffective yielded to Kansas, and Governor Henry Of the Wisconsin delegation 24 voted of tickets that allowed them to damage and make good the wastes of attempts of the past. J. Allen stepped up to nominate stand about the few open places and for La Follette and it may.as well war. Now that our greatest public Send for a copy of "For an American Merchant Marine.1* General Wood. Though obviously* be recorded here that those 24 delegates hamper everyone else gathered faithfully need is for greater production do nervous and not quite adequate of In the Coliseum, prepared to howl kept voting for La Follette. ./ Americans intend to reduce it instead Committee of American Shipbuilders voice, he did his excellent subject to the bitter end. And every time the with glee over expected contests and of increase it? full ustlce, setting forth specially the announcement was greeted with groans triumphs. But most of the time all 30 CHURCH 8TREET, NEW YORK CITY Because of the shortage of transportation fine record the general had made in jthey conld do was to cheer for and hisses from the galleries. Cuba and the Philippines, and his preparedness equipment and the comparative In the following three ballots Wood their favorite on occasion and try to for war when the great helplessness of the railroads Ikeep up with the strong-lunged climbed to.314%, which the wise ones conflict broke out. cheer and song leader who. had been it is of the utmost importance that •'«£&/*" IMwlh kt&j, *r DEFECTIVE PAGE