ALL TOGETHER FOlt THE HAPPENINGS OF 22 YEARS AGO THIS MONTH OLD HOME TOWN PAPER It is a notable fact that with all the wonderful things .that have been IT From the columns of the Border Budget of Aup.lO, and 24, 189&. written about the so-called "country newspaper" very fe'w of them realize Koochiching during the past week, Thos. Codd of Rainy Lake City, is all their possibilities, or what an influence returning to their homes yesterday. in town today. ^they are in the world. Messrs. Pelland inform us that they It is also a notable fact that very will again carry on logging opera Go to John Berg's store for soap^ few of the readers of the papers realise tions the coming winter. 20 bars for $1.00. what a loss it would be to them' and to the world if the "country paper" L. A. Ogaard, D. S., W. A. Jameson, Duncan McPhee of Rainy Lake should cease to exist. and Douglas Corey, came in from City, is spending ^the day in Koochiching. The large papers, with immense cir~ their work in township 69-22, Tuesday, culations, tell of "world happenings" returning again "iJji-f morning. as they understand them, and display^ While in town, Mr. Ogaard, as U. S. C. B. Lang of Rainy Lake City, heads telling of the latest scandals,: Commissioner, took evidence in two spent a couple of days in Koochiching prize fights, and the misfortunes of contest cases and received several filings the past week. •humanity. upon land in this vicinity. But it remains for the "local paper", John Berg advertised ladies' low the "country weekly", the "home John Berg, and Eric, Gus and John shoes at $1.05 per pair and gent's low town paper", to really give the news Franson of this place sold the Swede shoes at $1.35 per pair. of the world, or that of Mr. Common Boy gold mine located near the_Manitou, People and his wife. to an eastern syndicate represented Hon. J. A. Holler, collector of customs Reach Up! by Bannell Sawyer of Montreal. at this port, left yesterday for It is time that the country newspaper Messrs. Berg and Eric Franson a trip to his former home at Monticello, should do something to place itself retained a considerable amount Minn. on a higher plane, and also make of stock in the new company, which some noise. Just one paper to start has been capitalized for $400,000 under C. B. Watrous, the Hannaford saw something would not amount to much, the name of the Atlin Mining mill operator, was a pledsant caller but if the 15,000 country newspapers company of Ontario. on Monday last. Mr. Watrous reports would join in the chorus, a noise that that a number of new settlers are The Indians of this vicinity, having would go around the world would be locating in the Big Fork country. the result. received their treaty payments, have Some time ago I was going through been expressing their gratitude by Miss Hazel Paulman, daughter of some trade paper, or bulletin of a holding an almost incessant pow wow W. J. Paulman of this place, is suffering state press association, or something for the past week. Fantastically from an acute attack of erysipelas. of that kind, ami noted that somebody dressed in paint and feathers they At Mast accounts, though wrote that it might be a good visited both sides of the river, giving somewhat better, she was still confined idea to have a "Subscribe for Your street exhibitions to the music of the to the house. Home Town Paper Week". I smiled tom-tom at each place and were rewarded at the idea at first, and then I started by donations of provisions by Joseph and Frank Pelland of Littlefork, to find out who originated the idea, the residents. spent a couple of days in but the paper was lost. The publisher who thought of the CHEST CLINIC Minn., was in town Friday and made idea just let it go at that, but I decided io a brief visit with Martin Molstre, that it was good that it BIG SUCCESS which town is also the home of the should not die, so at once asked all latter. He is at present visiting at the trade papers, priters' magazines, the home of his relatives H. N. Nelson and the great printers' supply houses of Northland. what they thought of the idea, Value Shown.—About One Half of The officers of the National Editorial Those Examined Were Tubercular Mrs. O. J. Wold was pleasantly Association were written to, and Suspects. surprised last Thursday evening at in fact some two hundred letters were her home when all the neighbors and sent out with the result that everyone other friends called on her to help wrote that the idea was just-the A real start in the long fight commemorate her birthday. thing, and it is now up to the newspapers against tuberculosis was made last of the country, the home town week in Koochiching county by holding papers, to see the wonderful. possibilities Mr. Dan Holler of International chest clinics at International of such a week, where in Falls, has already made preparations Falls and Northome. every locality readers will be asked to for duck hunting. Last week he put Dr. L. B. Byington, recently appointed subscribe for the local weekly, and in up a portable cottage at Lake Kabetogama medical director of our Lak6 addition the home town paper where to be used for that purpose. Julia Sanatorium, came to International they were* born—if they were not Falls August 18th and met the born where they now live. •V local doctors who gave him their a a In this way every home town paper hearty cooperation. AROUND LOMAN W The first chest clinic was held at will help every other home town paper, and by concentrating the the court house August 19th. Fifteen efr forts to one week, or to three or four persons were examined and two were Henry Metcalf is doing some painting seen outside of the clinic. On August v/eeks, the home town p^-per will receive at Camp 6. 20th the Northome school house the publicity it is entitled to. The Metcalf family spent Sunday The home town paper is ever ready ,was the place of the second clinic, at the Plummer home. nineteen being examined. Both clinics to "boost" for the other fellow, to were arranged by Anette Miller, print item after item about this and There was a danfce at the Loman hotel R. N. Public Health Nurse, who also that kind of a day or week—the time last Saturday night. assisted at the clinics. has come for it to boost and blow its Messrs. Tone and Durrin, resident bugle for itself^ to print several columns Wm. Haner purchased a binder of members of the sanatorium commission, about itself and all home town Richard Anderson last week. papers, to put on a campaign of publicity, showed an active interest in the and take advantage of what Northome clinic, as did also Dr. Dufort. Louis Peggar has gone west to take other papers will do—in other words, in the harvest and threshing. The result of examinations are as throw its hat into the ring, vand- put follows: up a fight that will get it somewhere Most of the grain is cut now and Number examined 36 instead of sitting on the side lines the threshers are starting out. Not tuberculosis .....18 and hollerin' for the other fellow. Suspected 5 Ben Peterson is painting the Consolidated Active (pulmonary) tuberculosis... 3 ST. CLAIR-GEROW WEDDING* school here, inside and out. Cervical adenitis (tuberculosis) 4 For further observation 10 A wedding of much interest here J. P. Madsen loaded a car of hay for Referred to physician 5 occurred Tuesday afternoon at Owatonna, Millard & Lang, Saturday and Sunday.. These figures bespeak the need for Minn., when Miss Leona St. active cooperation of every person in Clair, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Koochiching county. The next chest Jesse Kennedy has been helping William Frost St. Clair, became the clinic will be held at the Big Falls W. B. Ogden haul in his grain the bride of Theron Gerow of this City. school house, Tuesday, September 6, past week. The ceremony took place at 5 o'clock from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Chest clinics at the home of the bride's parents. are free to all. Emil Johnson, who is hedping Joe Mr. and Mrs. Gerow left for a motor Mercure made a trip to the Falls last trip and after Sept. 1st will be at Vt f»!•• Thursday. V* home in this city, where Mr. Gerow j.j .} is employed as one of the engineers RAY ITEMS The hoist starts to load, out pulpwood for the M. and O. Construction Co this week and will be a busy place until fall. BARE FEET NOT INJURIOUS. Mrs. Otto Anderson and son. of Duluth, are visiting with relatives and Joe Mercure and Edward LaPointe Eve was reputedly barefoot anl friends in town. stacked grain for John Durand at Indus Nausicaa played ball all the better last week. because she went unshod. Helen of Mr. L. A. Duffy, who is at present Troy at the most wore sandals, and Loman again has ..train service— employed as night operator at Ranier the sandal is the compromise between the first since the ice crippled the spent Sunday with friends here. the shoelesss and the shod. It is easier bridges last spring. to make sandals than to make Mr. W. F. Robinson left Thursday shoes. In Ireland and Scotland the Paul Mercure made a trip to Frontier afternoon for Duluth to spend a few children have run barefoot for many about a week ago and bought a days with his family who resides a day, and the wit of one and the en-' horse of Clarence Blake. there. terprise of the Other show that th'ere is nothing really demoralizing in going We lacked about one degree of Mr. G. N. Millard, of international without shoes and stockings.— frost on Sunday, Aug. 14, but don't Falls, vice president and auditor of London Chronicle. need it for som'e time yet. the Ray State Bank, was in town Friday. Ed. Mercure of Fort Frances, is HAD HIM GUESSING. helping his son Joe, get his house Mr. Adolph Sagno arrived from ready to live in. Marcus looked at4 his chum Tony% Canada the other day to spend some time visiting his sister, Mrs. Geo. Tony's face Was as long as a fiddle. Mrs. S. M. Thomas will return to And Tony had just become engaged Hebert. Minneapolis this week to be with her to beautiful Marcella Lennox. son Harvey, who is still in a hospital Mr. Leon Brennan has returned "For a chap just engaged to such'a there. home after completing a six weeks' lovely girl as Marcella, you ^eem a course at an automobile school in bit gloomy/' Marcus ventured at last. C. E. Brown, appraiser' for the Federal Austin, Minn. N Tony woke from his reverie with a Land Bank of St. Paul, was here start. "Mark, old boy," he said, "I'm about a week ago to examine some Mrs. L. Otness arrived from Lengby, worried. You know, Marcella is an firms for loans. Minn., last week and expects to enthusiast always. Once it was for spend the winter with her daughter, horses, once for dogs, once prize poufc W»ated-rto adopt a baby girl. Mrs. A. A. Gilchrist. try, once Angora cats. Now, am I Write A. D. Box 605, International regular sweetheart, or is she just Uhr Mr. J. Albert Peterson of. Dawson, Falls. ingup another animal fad?"