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October 20, 1921 · Page 8 of 10

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-•i11 ®W,4 A 11 «-y —7^ ij 11 1 ilillOTlWiWlllllllii^ ",jt» {$t i?tx 1 r. .. .*,, ... ,. ,.,- .... ., ,.1,,,^ .. #,rtp .-^t--r INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS »,• ».« 4 33 33 4A. «v #.• mers on the wholesale price of dynamite- J.J in carload lots! 8 ERICSBURG 1 •V AROUND LOMAN 33 »v ».• •.» tr* v* Enrollments are coming rapidly in Len Adams just received some lumber The past week has been real Indian the Boys and Girls projects. It is expected and other material tp finish his summer but the' wild geese are going that a state leader will soon house up with, also to maike a chicken south and we may get some STRIKE be here to hold a session with those coop. weather. Wear your uniform, or bring it The greatest gathering in the history interested in pushing the club work with you, when you start for Kansas of American heroes is assured. in the county. CIGARETT Mrs. Andrew Anderson returned J. H. Rogers just finished harvesting City, October 30th, is the slogan of Twenty-five Congressional Medal of from Cokato last week. She left her 1000 bushels of potatoes from those who are planning the big National Honor wearers have accepted an invitation A meeting of the board of directors mother in a much improved condition. three acres, all good marketable potatoes, Convention Parade of 50,000 to attend the Kansas City of the Koochiching Dairy and Produce besides several bushels of Legion National Convention. These Legionaires, which will be led by Mar association will be held tomorrow Owing to the very busy time, our small ones he will feed to his stock. shal Foch, General Pershing, and oth honored guests, from every part of morning at 10 o'clock at the International Community Fair did not have as large America, will have their expenses er world-famous men. Minnesota State Bank. an attendance as it merited, but some Mrs. F. L. Folsom and niece, Miss paid by the Legion and will be at the Legionaires will be in uniform, led by very fine specimens of our farms and Clara Stormo, of International Falls, their 56-piece Legion Band from the head of the big parade, with General homes were exhibited. were Ericsburg and Ray visitors last Pershing and Marshal Foch'. S. B. Clelland district leader of David Wisted Post, Duldth. week. Koochiching county, will be in this Notice this delicious George Peggar and crew sawed the The three days of the Legion National ^Minneapolis Legionaires of the city tomorrow in the interest of farm flavor when you school wood last week. Convention will see more wedding The road grading crew on route bureau activities. in City Aero Clnb will operate an smoke Lucky Strike number 11 have completed repairs to performed in Kansas City than rial express to Kansas City, Oct. when Sam Plummer is loading a car with in any other three days of the city's the road from the Falls to here and it's sealed in by th, using their own planes to take le by nit $$ ».• rutabagas and cabbafge for shipment. history. For scores of Legionaires are working between here and Ray the toasting process elegates to the Legion national conention. St ie mail have arranged to be married by the now. Prizes will go to the planes NEIGHBORING TOWN NEWS 8 Ir and Thomas and Hinckley are each Legion's National Chaplain, who will which make the fastest time per hotir tl loading another car of potatoes to perform' the cereinonies without Grace Wilmath Rogers, a seven to Kansas City from any point in the ship out. charge. Kansas City folks will furnish pound baby girl was born to Mr. and United States. All right, crank 'er up! The new school for the Bois Fort the rings, the wedding breakfasts, Mrs. J. H. Rogers last Wednesday. locality to replace the old one which S. E. Mannausau is hauling wood and all other expenses of the Mother and daughter doing fine. Poughboy and doughnut, so fond has been outgrown, was the subject to the creamery. happy couples during their stay in of each other in France, will be reunited of much discussion last Wednesday afternoon a team. Officers of the- farm bureau the national convention city. All Fred1 Lindeman has completed a at Kansas City, where Salvation at the regular meeting of the unit intend to see other members of Andy Amundson and son Fred took aboard, buddies! Now or never! large new barn on his farm this Army Lassies will distribute Farm Bureau unit held at W. H. Holler's the community who were not present a truck load of potatoes to the Falls fall. thousands of doughnjits and cups of place. In order to secure this at this session but who will in all last Friday. One month prior to the Legion National hot coffee to Legionaires attending new structure members of the community probability be glad to do their part. J. J. Kucera harvested over three Convention in Kansas City, 384 the Third National Convention, Oct. decided to unite their efforts, Plans were made for regular meetings The output of butt,er from our hundred bushels of potatoes last Minnesota Legionaires and their relatives 31 and Nov. 1 and 2. They will have cut logs and haul them to the site of the Bois Fort Farm Bureau creamery fell off about 500 pounds week, several bushels of which he had requested traveling and A booths on the sidewalks. Legion selected on the range line where Gunner each month on the first Wednesday. in the past month. On account of sold at $2 per hundred. hotel accommodations for the big button will get hot refreshment for Williams donated the property. The next session will be held again very bad roads the cream could not event. Additional requests were arriving any buddy, any place, any time, day Among those who pledged themselves at the home of Mr. Howell, and be reached. Pete Mantel is busy graveling the daily at Minnesota Legion to render service were Phil Satonia, thereafter at the new school building. or night. road into his place from the railroad Headquarters, St. Paul. These are William H. Howell, Olaf Risem, Earl They have decided to investigate The finder of the small gold lodge track. carefully filed, and about October 15 Barnes, W. F. Smith, Ollie .Morris, the possibility of securing a road The colors of many Minnesota Legion pin, lost at the Community Fair, will the necessary credentials and reduced Arthur Daniels, George Ward and to conntct with railroad points on the posts will be decorated with a silver Parker Hall returned home from please leave same at the postoffice. fare certificates will be sent out. Indication? Mr. Hill, who also agreed to furnish M. and I. and the D. W. P. R'y. bar after Nov. 2nd. For every Page, N. D., last week, where he put are that two and possibly Minnesota Legion post whose colors in the threshing and "spud" picking Peter Sathre and Harold Royem three special trains will be required are carried in the Third National season. He reports potatoes a big FOOT BALL sailed thru our berg in a new "Lizzie" between the Twin Cities and Kansas Convention Parade at Kansas City crop out there, yielding from 110 to Saturday. They run to the Falls and City,, October 30th, return fare for will have the right to this mark of 185 bushels to the acre. The average back from Birchdale. which is $10.61. Other Legionaires honor. Every post represented at the yield around here this year is will travel on regular trains. convention will send its colors with about 300 bushels to the acre. A large graveling crew at Indus is its representatives, to be proudly Every railroad in Minnesota declares working both ways and improving the carried in the big parade. Little "Bill" Cromett has been on that" it will sell tickets to the clay roads wonderfully. the sick list for the past week, but at Legion National Convention at Kansas AT ATHLETIC PARK American veterans who slept overseas present seems to be improving. City at one cent per mile, good Jim Drummond and Ray Landgraf in French barns or haymows, in day coaches only, or at one and -made a trip thru here and to Indus and those familiar with stony army Raymond Nelson returned from one-third the regular one-way fare Tuesday looking after their farms. tfh" cots, need fear no such fate when they Kinmount Saturday where he was for the round trip, good in sleepers, attend the Legion's annual convention working for his brother Rudolph on provided the purchasers are paid-up at Kansas City. Cozy accommodations Andrew §kifstrom, on the Black, is a road building job. Legionaires or their dependent relatives, for a whole American armycorps believed to have the championship and present proper credentials have been secured by the housing Oscar Haggbom is busy building a for raising large spuds. He has six and reduced fare certificates. These committee—more than one hunared that weigh 21 pounds and one that new chicken coop for W. H. Eddy on may be secured from Minn. Legion thousand beds—and fifty thousand the back end of Eddy's lots here in weighs 4 pounds. Where else can Headquarters, Old Capitol, St. Paul. more are being held in reserve. town. you find them? The one cent per mile rate is good from "competitive points" on all Minnesota Wallace Kucera returned from Fur raising is getting to be quite railways. the hospital at the Falls last week, popular around Loman. Jesse Kennedy where he underwent an operation for Through the efforts of State Commander has a very fine lot of B.elgian appendicitis. He is able to return and other hares, Ole Scheie' has a Arthur A. Van Dyke, who to school again now. made a special trip to Chicago for bunch of pet skunks, Emery Thomas the purpose, Minnesota will be honored is keeping ferrets, Lafe Swope is Lyman Mathison has been at Happyland raising muskrats, Joe Kalkman has by a visit from Marshal Foch of the past week scaling lumber France. The Visit will be made about weasels and others have tabbies. loaded out by H. J. Scott's loading a week after the Legion National Convention crew. that is, about November 7th. FARMER-BANKER BODY The exact date will be determined TO PLAN CREDIT FIRM STOCKMEN TO ACT ON later. MARKET PLAN NOV. 10 Farmers, county agents, extension Units of the American Legion workers, farm magazine editors and Minnesota livestock shipping organizations Auxiliary are taking an active part bankers met in St. Paul at, the call will be asked to send delegates in helping their Legion posts- to properly of the Minnesota Farm Bureau federation to attend a national convention celebrate Armistice Day. For to discuss agricultural credit in Chicago, Nov. 10, to consider instance, at Wabasha the men are conditions last week, and authorized national stock marketing plans worked planning a parade, football game, and the appointment of a committee of out by th"e Committee of Fifteen. 4 other fun, and the women are backing five bankers and farmers to plan the ./•ft The plan calls for co-operative sales HARRY 0. EftlCKSON them up by providing a big dinner organization of a state farm credit agencies at terminal markets, similar at the auditorium, to which all corporation. to that already established by Minnesota Wabasha County Legionaires will be shippers, and for a national #,• invited for a good time and county Tfce toler Titifenist •V V* V« V# clearinghouse to handle traffic problems, Legion reunion. regulate the flow of livestock FARM BUREAU NEWS See Harry O. Erickson for to the market and build up a national When Legionaires of Moorhead, ».• »,• ».• .*« ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft*# stocker and feeder trade direct from fine work and reasonable Minn., decide to put on a big banquet farmer to/farmer. The committee 1 Just finished unloading the first Int'l Falls Blackdack instead of going to the local butcher, rates for mounting birds was appointed by the American Farm carload of picric acid. 20260 pounds they take their guns and scatter in all ts. Bureau federation. being distributed to farmers in the directions across the surrounding and heads. vicinity of International Falls, Littleftfrk, prairie. Soon they return with enough Lindford, Dentaybow, Ray, Loman, Legionaires of J. Burt Pratt Post prairie chickens to feast a mob. Recently Phone No. Toll 6-—3 2 S Sat., Oct. 22d—2 P.M. Bannock and Indus. This should of Virginia, Minn., make a specialty they gave an American Legion mean a clearing of at least 500 acres of enrolling noted ex-service men. Prairie Chicken Dinner at which of Koochiching county farm lands. Not long ago they enrolled one of more than fifty birds were served, This material has been delivered at Madame Schuman-Heinck's sons. Re5 with salad, coffee, cake, ice cream, 9z/2 cents a pound at International cently^ when the noted dancer, Ted smokes, followed by entertainment. Falls, a saving of $2 000 to the far­ Shawn, passed through, they signed Everyone went home, full and happy. him up. Shawn said, "I have always Sixth District Legionaires honored been a Legionaire in spirit and have Milton Mahlum of Brainjerd at-their just been waiting for some friendly MEATS district convention in Brainerd, Sept. member t£ sign #ie up." Though a 26th by electing him district commander. Californian, he is now a Minnesota Legionaire. His first act in that capacity was to induce the BraitVerd Chamber The Hibbing Central Labor Union of Commerce to urge Congress to SPECIALS FOR ONE WEEK pass the Legion federal bonus bill. will unite with Hibbing Legionaires Every Chamber of Commerce in the in celebrating Armistice Day. A Legion-Labor Smile with us at th,e Old Pafade, a mass meeting Sixth District will be asked to urge to be addressed by representatives of High Cost of Living. The market President Harding 'and. Minnesota senators and congressmen to do justice both organizations, dancing and other basket is stop one on to ex-service men. Ben Saunders entertainment, wMl form the program. of Wadena was elected Sixth District Last week the Hibbing Central Thrift avenue. But—the thrifty Labor Unioii voted its thanks to the Vice-Commander. A. W. Lyddon of wife of. today helps s&ve by Chisholm, Minn, Legion Band, for Brainerd was named District Adjutant. When you put your car the letter's cooperation at the Hibbing The next district convention watrhing our prices. "V Labor Day Parade.- will be held in St. Clbud. away for the winter we ~^We are now located in our will call for your battery When women of the Third District "Any American' Legion post may new quarters and ready to and will install same in Legion Auxiliary met in Farmington secure a copy of an Armis.tic.e Day, meet the demands of our cus~ Fancy Bacoi 24 Beef- Pot Roast- -15 the spring at reasonable to perfect a district organization, the program entitled "Lest We Forget" tomers with a splendid line of Picnic Hams. Beef BoiL_i —13 weather man was- mean enough to by sending to "Community S.ervice,1 meats and groceries. rates. send wet weather, but that did not Beef Rib Boil _10 Madison Square Avenue, New Salt Pork 15 We WU1 Deliver Goods keep the delegates away. Four young York", rejquest, together with ten Round Steak -^1 V*- Lard .16 women from Watertown drove, the cetits in fctagips ,tp cover mimeo-, IrCHOLLER Sirloin Steak .28 D. E. WILCOX Lard Compound: .16 75_ miles1 over wet roads to attend graphing and postage. The program Pork Chops .30 Mrs. Bertha Herman of Le Seuer was emphasizes' the .principles of true Fresh Ground elected District^ President. The next Americanism for which Legionaires Second Are. and Third St Hamburger„.___:i 430 3rd St. Phone 395 Porl| jSitc^jk— ,.22 .15 convention will be held at New fought and for which so many of their ilhlL.v C&<1 bpddks died,. PP