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ET .. ,.U\ INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINN., ,THURSDAY, April 13, 1922 fcjJ^VoL. 13 Number 43 CMITf ASSESSORS 86CMDTIES RECEIVE HUNGER STRIKES NEW CITY COUNCIL MUCH LOWER BIDS MADE FOR DOC'S LONC jSUIT HARD ROAD CONSTRUCTION RECEIVE DISTRDCtHMIS s, TAKES Iff DUTIES ."Vp--V MUCH FROM STATE A5 PAID IN TAXES known^ 'J: Lee, as a "rub*' Early bids Vor the construction of doctor ol Leaf Lake township,,was recently Federal-aid roads Indicate that prices AtMm it'J-'M placed under arrest on' thjj, during the' coming season will be materially Ex-Sonator Lord Explaiu Dutin to D»w HiHbart Appeimted City charge of failing to support his wife lower than last season, ac* Mfe^G^^lMiNr $9^7.601!tm Shrte tot AuMtori of Koochiching County. tonwy. c. ..» and children and has -gone on a hunger cording to reports received by the I £J% ^a..-.m ^—7F1 && A jstrike in the, Otter Tail county Bureau of Public Roads of the. United Year Apiist $36,686ia Taxes. About Forty assessors of this coun-ty c-fc The new council convened for the jail arid announces that tof will not States Department of Agricuhtire. gathered at the Court. House on first time on Tuesday night. The appointment eat until he is released In vi^w of the While bids have not been on any volume r} Monday, April 10th,\ for the purpose of the city officers and of work, there is, however, fact -that the -gjand jury does not of receiving instructions from former employees occupied thetnight's session. mefet until May he has xa long /fast enough to indicate a lower level of *v7?C2Ts^yr3f rC- Senator Lord of the state tax commission The appointments are as follows: ahead, of him with but little sympathy prices/^|fi J: A Minnesota returned to its 86 £oun-'rothep 42 counties paid in'more than in regard to their duties ia Grading has been bid at 20, 23lA and John Berg, fire warden W. H. from those about him because of the ,L j^n 1 i.i J- ties over $3 for every dollar paid by they^received as a direct return. ^. assessing property, this year. Keenan driver fire department Alex alleged disposition to (let his own 30 cents a cubic yard in Missouri, them as,state t^N^s during the calendar To^the average tax payer taxes are Lord^ explained .to' the aspes- McDonald weigh master, janitor and family starve, so far as he is coincerned-f-From Arkansas and Minnesota, respectively, year, 1921. ./ ^si just Saxes, ah infliction to be patiently ^'^-«brs that the only way that the burden jailer James Curran, street commissioner Wadeiia ''Ptoneel"^ Journal. as compare'd with an average of 35 Figures just compiled by Ray P~ bori^' and consequently paid and later of taxation could be equitably Dave Hurlburt, city attorney cents for the section in which these During Doc's sojourn in this 'city Chase, state auditor, show that for the spn^cei^traX. autority. indicted ks respon-sible. *^distributed among the taxpayers pf states are located in 1921. F. E. Patterson, city electrician Dr. he contracted a debt with the Press l» year total taxes {or all purposes paid He does not always realJze ?'any community was by a full listing M, E. Withrow, health officer Art Prices of reinforcing steel in place and upon repeated Requests for payment by the' countie^ into the state treasury -fhat* the state tax is apart from' *,.•% of all property subject to taxation an(i Gordon, assistant to water department range ^around 6 cgnts as compared Doc^announced to our representative amount to -$11,481,146.28. thosel'lerfied for local purposes.. its assessment in accordance'with the with tha 1921 price or j8 or nine cents Ifloyd Seybold, electrical 'inspector that he was going to start a During the same 12 mopths the 'The tgx rate for state purposes* in r«" laws of the state.. He stated that and ^bridge steel .at 4^. qents against and Chris Rongerud, building fast period and as a result of npt having state returned to the counties in direct Minnesota for. the present calendar 7 *to 8 cents. inspector. All were re-appoint"iients extensive investigations by the tax to buy food he would be able to payments the sum_of $9,135,489 554 j'.eay.is the .lowest in yeafs and with commission of this state and of other* with the exception 'of the city A few bids, for the b^st grade, of pay his'debtsfe^The fifthj day of |he At the same time the state supplemented the statuory inflictions removed is states proved conclusively that any attorney and Art Gordon. concrete, (Jf about $17 a cubic yard '"K'i supposed fast he carr^e 4n and paid these direct- treasury returnswith jwithout a parallel in the state's historyv- deviation from the statuory rule nearly Dr.. E. A. TThompson, former alder- have been received' in sections where $1-on account. A few days later the other payrfients in the. shape of It is but a small fraction of always results in rank injustice, and the 1921^ price*,vras. jibout $25 a cubic large was sejected as alder- sheriff of Otter Tail county came man at arious forjns ,of state aid. totaling the total tax paid by the ta??payer§. this injustice the speaker said,, unusually yard. I man of the third ward to Jill t£e vaPrices here* and "Doc left with him.. We ai^ 1 $23,091,572.03. These" supplemental of the s.tafce. 'v- falls upon the people of moderate. rhft^'r bid fo the construction cancy made by'the election of John in hopes-that Doc will be able to hold "a 0 payments included such iiterils ass means. The only propter of concrete roads per square yard are I McDonald to tlve office.-ot mayor, out until May.- Soldiers' bonus aad tuition. $7,233214.73 BWpED^WITH feasible way that'assessors can pro/..te'ct as followsOhio ^1.25, Colorado I Mayor McDonald reappointed John trunk "highways, roads* and MILITARY HONORS the honest taxpayers From unjust $227 and Georgia ^1.38 ,as compared fire chief and Thos. Kinshella as CAR OF CERTIFIE6 bridges, 5,677,243.83. drainage, forest taxation is by strict adherence to the with an average for'the whole country' chief of police. These appointments as POTATO SEED WELL ly. fire r&lief, etc, 433.694.71 -armories, Edward J. Swain who was killed assessment laws of the state. during the period 1916-1920 of $2.571 confirmed by the council, were RECEIVED IN INDIANA parks and monuments, $411,359 educational, during a railroad accident at Springfield a squar? yard. The maybr gave the power of selectnng The speaker explainedAthat under charitable and penal institutions, Missouri, was buried with military the laws of the state asx they now patrolmen to the chief of police $9,346,060.76. In all the state honors by, the 'Wm. Robideau stand, iron ore is assessed at^50-per Tjhe carload of certified Irish Cobbler MISS KATHERINE GREEN a"d he w'ill be held responsible to the returned to'the counties directly or post of^ the American Legion of- this» potato'seed shipped to the county mayor for their actions in the cent of its full value. BECOMES BRIDE IN WEST line indirectly $34,572,718.31. city on Tuesday. Besides the'^Ltfgion agent ofi. Greenfield, Indiana, was of duty. If'Farm lands and all other rural lands Koochiching County paid to the boysivthat turned out-a full assembly well received according to the\coramunications Miss Katherine Green and A. Finke PI are assessed at 33' per cent, of 'full §5®*' state as a direct tax $36,686.90. It of the boy scouts and girl scouts also were united in marriage at St. David value and city and village rreal estate received by the local TWO MORE FILE. received from the state treasury 'during marked in the funeral cortege. The county agent's office from that state. Episcopal church of Portland, Oregon, Ik- at 40 per cen# of full value. I J921 $96,073.60 as^a. direct payment. body' was laid to* rest in the local M. E. Cromer, county agent of on Monday. The bride was until Household goods, wearing apparel, C. P. Ellingson of Notlirome filed as The taxes paid by the county direct cemetery. Deceased is survived by. just recently a resident of this cify Greenfield, Indiana, writer: "Farmers furniture, musical instruments, sewing candidate for nomination for the office* 'to the state include the one mill, mother and sister who live here. h^re were more than pleased and and is the daughter'of Mrs. Ella Green machines and everything in fact of representative. Mr. Ellingson is -St 3 road and bridge tax, the one mill lone of the pioneer residents here. ijiat is used in the home to equip or wanted to .increase their orders." F. the mayor of the village of Northorae school tax and the soldiers' bonus LaPagr«-Sinootz. ..^4 C. Gaylord, potato specialist of Indiana, „Following the ceremony, the couple beautify it. are assessed at 25 per and apparntly is not superstitious as tax, no part of which is in any way Wm. LePage, city, and Miss Nellie who inspected the car of potatoes left on a' honeymoon trip which will •t cent of full value. he w^s.the thirteenth filing for nomination used for thie expense of the state 'Mar^y Smootz, Indus, were united., in include the points of interest alongthe.. ^Merchandise, live stoejc, tools, implements writes: "They were the best in the coming election. Mr. government The amount referred to marr&ge at the Methodist parsonagi Pacific coast. The couple will potatoes I ever inspected." He also and machinery of all kinds, EUingsons filing makes the office of above.^s paid directly back to the Monday afternoon by Rev. C. E. Ireland. fnvited- Mr. White to send a sack.ofj make their home, at Brookfield, Washington, manufacturers' materials and manu**. represenative a three cornered fight, county does noT incude anjT of the The couple were entertained at this coming year's crop for exhibition where the groom is engaged factured products and all articles used T.J.Johnson as of Littlefork and Dave suppleme^al^treasury receipts before a dinner party given by the groom's in the lumber business. in any kind of business or profession at the Indiana Potato Show, which Hurlburt of this city also have filed noted. .. sister, Mrs ~t^arvey La Pointe, after The brides many friends in this city will be held next winter. He further are assessed at 33 per cent of full for that office. Ray Langraf filed for Of the 86 counties of the state, 44, which they departed for Deer River intimated _that several more cars of join with us in wishing her luck and the office of register of deeds, the lvalue. reqeiye more from the state treasupjr for a, yisit with the bride's sister at happiness. Street railway property the-equip-' the same variety of potatoes could be position which he now holds. than- they pay in.^ They paid, state return,. the sold there if' the price, was right ,. ^.ment of public service corporations, ,It is expected that the balance of taxes. amounting to $2,503,53670 and conplf will ike their home in this SENIORS TO GIV£ These potatoes were, grown by elevators and warehouses on railroad the incumbents will file before the received directly $3,890i,832.33. The city. PLAY lands, bank stoc^ and all other property, Francis White. o& .his* farm near termination of ttye coming week. fir^f at 40 per cent of full value. Littlefork and are the of their The annual senior class play will kind to "be sold from' this., county. He said that' money on hand or on MINNESOTA BUTTER They brought $1.50 per bushel which be given at the Grand Theater, Tuesday deposit in a bank or elsewhere, book PRODUCERS LEAD and Wednesday, April 18th and accounts, promissory notes not secured is a topnotch price for potatoes. i|l® 19th. The entertainment wilL be by real estate mortgages which Minnesota has a new milk and butter given in two parts, the first will be are recorded in Minnesota and credits wonder in a Holstein cow owned 1 '.V mills. While the new activities responsible an allegory in one act entitled "Non of every kind, and stock in corporations /by J. M. Hackney of St. Paul, Minn. for most of the increase in Palma Sine Lebore" and in which when tjie property of the corporation After 365 days on official test this cow the following will take part: Nellie taxes are probably all meritorious, it is not taxed in this state. Molly Veeman Segis Pontiac, is V- is a very grave question whether the Douglas, F. L. Smith, Catherine Cullen, are all subject to assessment at their credited'by the Holstein-Friesian Association ile^ M.A. Flora Scott, Irene Rupert, Gladys lead is not becoming too heavy for true value and taxed at the low flat of America with a production taxpayers of moderate means to carry. Pries and Edn^ Linden. The play is rate of mills on the dollar, the lowest 3 of 28,488.2 pounds of milk, containing These conditions are certainly serious-enough being directed by Miss B. Elkins. rate applied to 'any class of property 1019.19 pounds of fat, Equivalent |XOiLLf tf demand the thoughtful The lecond part of the program in the state. of 1273.98 lbs. of butter. This consideration of every taxpayer. will be a ripping comedy entitled The speaker said that "money and record gives her the honor of being THE NON-CHURCH GOER "What Happened to Jones" which is Wi credits" are" peculiarly the property It would seem the part of wisdom to the 48th cow of the breed to produce Why do men neglect church attendance? appy the brakes, a being directed by Mrs. W. L. Ward of prosperous and well-to-do people, over 1,000 pounds of. fat in 365 -/If you mean all men do not and Mr! Irwin. The following will Many taxpayers seem to think that ••.. and of course, like other property subject days. attend chuch you are in error. Itis the assesso/ is responsible for'high participate as characters in this play: to taxation, should 'all be assessed, ''Molly's best seven days' record is true that far to many stay away from Alton LaPl^iht, James Honey, Michael but, that in_spite of the small tax taxes, but nothing would be further 718.1 lbs. of inilk containing 28.891 lbs. divine worship. The following reasons Carew, Harold Shapira, Tom Withrow, imposed upon such property, a Jvery from the truth. The assessor, as an of fat, equivalent to 36.1 lbs. tf buter can be assigned why certain classes Daniel LaBelle, Arthur Olson, large amount of it is concealed'from official, has nothing to do with making ^Fourteen different supervisions neglect this important duty. Mabel Miner, Anna Hobbins, Frankie the taxes of a community either the assessors and escapes taxation, were employed in the conduct ofl'th^ FIRST—A seared Sabbath conscience high or Mow. It is the money that Burton, Alice Lapham, Mildr&d Mr. Lord declared that many people test. -it spends men to th^ golf link's of business, professional, political and litis and Mary Hobbins. commit wilful perjury in .listing such is voted/ for public purposes that, determines The champion Holstein for Minnesota on the Holy Sabbath. \l official men who neglect church because whether taxes shall be high The proceeds of the evening's entertainment property and are a type^of criminals in the full aged class for 365 SECOND The gasoline mania they are conscious of the fact will be usel in" the purchasing much more dangerous to^ good government or low. When .the state or county, x- JPT days' production is Duchesss Skylark causes thousands. tcK take the family, that they are grossly sinful, selfish, of a class memorial. than bibotleggers or chicken or any community is spending large Ormsby whose record of 27761.7 lbs. the dog and "the lunph -basket ^into the conceited, and derelict in the performance thieves.' Certainly no -one pretending amounts ,of money, it matters not of milk and 1205.09 lbs. of fat, equivalent automobile .early Sabbath morning Of their duty. They dread to 120 APPLICANTS INITIATED what for, taxes will invariably be to be a good citizen should attempt to 1506.36 lbs. of butter, surpasses when they begin to break the Ten NEW REBEKAH LODGE face the gospel mirror wherein they to evade this tax. He urged the assessors high, but the^ assessor, as 'an officer, all others, not only in Minnesota but Commandments, the speed laws, the can behold their own faces over to use all honorable means to has nothing to\say about how much The Rex hotel dining room was the in the United States, according to rules of domestic tranquility and Sabbath Winch" is written guilt. They know 'secure a full listing of all such propetty. money' shall be s^ent. scene of one of the biggest banquets the reports of the Holstein-Fresian observance. that if they fa6e the 'gospel as "expounded Matters j»f_ expenditures are determined Uver held in this city. Approximately Association of America. This record THIRD Screenit'.s sends thousands from God's infallible Word The speakfer .said that owingjto the by the voters at school 65 applicants for membership in production was made at the J. B. into the motion picture houses, they will have to surrender their seliish decreasing purchasing power of the meetings and town meetings, by village the new Rebekah lodg5"_were banqueted Irwin Farm, Minneapolis, Minn. where they make a pagan attack upon' mean, conceited business and professional dollar and other abnormal conditions and city council's, by county there! preceeding the initiation. According to W. E. Peterson, Sup-, Clod's Holy Day, 1 attitude toward the church brought afeout by the war, and to the boards, thg. state legislature and by A new Rebekah lodge /to be known erintendent of the official testing at' FOURTH Laziness k£eps thousands and the gospel. wide expansion of governmental ac'afiarities, the people themselves, but not by the as Kqochiching Lodge No. 216 was the Minnesota University there are at home wrapped ini the. bed especially in road building assessor. But while the assessor has The conceited professional man organized Tuesday nght ai the I. O. 82" Minesota Holsteins in the 1000 lb/ clothes of indolence ahd filth too ||nd in the development of schools practically nothing'to da with making V, tries to build for himself a code and O. F. ball. ^.bOut 120- new' members class and a few each of the Guernsey indolent, sloven and filthy to dress vijsmd school facilities, taxes have in^sVcfased the taxes of a community high produces a state of self-satisfied, selfrighteous, were initiated into -the new lodge. and Jersey breed, making the and attend divine worship. at a very rapid rate' during or low, he has nearly everything to do and self-centered contentment, Dr. J. O. Werntz, grand master of Gopher state the leading state ins FIFTH False conception of wor*•ship, the past few years. In ^1901 the tax with making thexh just and equitable. which he does not want disturbed the I. O. 0. F. of Minnesota, assisted America for cows that have produced' or because the sermOi^ is .poor, %st S 1 levy per capita in this state .for all If he does his work thorotj&hl^, with by the courageous presentation by H. A. Levin deputy grand master, 1000 lbs. or more of butter in one#/ Mi or the minister worse than dead, th£y purposes lpcal, school, county and gooji judgment, and in strict Accordance of the full gospel of Jesus Christ. 'and Mrs. A1 Daughtery, district deputy year. Great interest has been shown^ drift1 into the habt of neglectng the statei was $9.05. In 1911 it had increased with the laws of the state, the iMen are neglecting to attend church, president instituted' and installed in.. developing efficient cows in the'N^ church aittendane. 'r to $16.24, and in 1921 it had result will _be a square d^al for every because they afe afraid to face the the following officers of m- last few years. Jn 1915 Minnesota SIXTH A large" number o\ those ||f climbed to $44.73, an increase of 175 taxpayer in his (district, and every judgment gospel. Men are staying at the new lodge: Mabel Linsten, NQble had only one 1000 lb. producer, according who stay away do so beause they are per( cent in ten years. During this taxpayer will be compelled to carry home or they are going on the fields Grand Bertha Patterson, Vice-Grand to Mr. Peterson? This was thef plain pagans their education is defective Hf sam* ten-year period the wealth of his fair share of the burden of taxatidnk. of pleasure or they are attending to Jennie Doty, secretary Ida Taylor, f§F Duchess mentioned above. Besidesgiving their1 breeding is below the, business because of tnate and overt 'the. state increased, as nearly as we TreasurerT Emma Daughtery, District Minnesota a flying start on standard^ xThey are just plain heathen It can ascertain, 60 per cent. is painfully On the other hand if he violates and continued meaness. They are Deputy President, high production she set a mark no%||f$ No well-bred^ well-trained, modern, evident from these figures that his oath of office and does $is work tnring to avoid the doctrine of responsibility, other American cow has been able up-to-date and otherwise normal man tax^s are increasing diuch more i^tpidfly in careless *'and inefficient manner, accountability and judgement. FENTON FAMILY TO reach. Howevef, a Canadian Hobtein^j&f?^ stay& away fro^n church services. The or attempts to assess property" by They are foolish. Every sensible 'than wealth, a condition that is, .V MOVE TO JORDAN lately has surpassed her. meet bum, gambler, fraud, embezzler, outcast, 1 really startling^ Much the larger part any standard except the one "fixed by man bought to prepare to & rm loafer and the scum of the earth pf this i^creasii is local in character His God. |!,Every ^-desirab^e, worthy the laws-of the state, his ^assessment Chas E. Fenton, who for the past stay away from church Behold the aiid uhder the direct control of local js sure to abound in he grossest inequalities citizen .ought to be foUnd iff his pew four years has been manager of the crowd With which the non-chnrch Authorities and of the people themSelves: and result' in the rankest every Sunday morning worshipping Forest Inn has resigned from that goer'can be-classed. injustice. ''It is a very Ratifying thing to God and payinipiis honest obligations position and will move his family to A^toapi^U report of tho SEVENTH There are thousands 'be able to state, however, that state Mr. Lord urged the assessors to too thlfc church of jesus Christ. Jordan, Minn., where he is to manage rates instead of increasing have ac^ecreased perform all of their duties in a helpful \the Jordan Sulphur Springs add Mud Farm Bu^aau Mooting IwU hams during vthe past tea spirit, befitting a. public servant, '&• Bath Sanitarium"~Company of thai Satrnkj, Apit *31 bo gabHilwd ars. In 1919 the Mate tax rate was but at .the, same time to do -it thoroughly, placev On Monday nights Mr. and Mrs. mills:" in 1920 it: was 5.42 mills, unflinchingly andSrithOut Extending Fenton were. give$ farewell banquet $* "j*?-*! "A ja^-V i.' jbtthe present year iVis down to 4.23 unlawful favors to any. one. -ff f-T A& ~j3 x:' ?r^ )p*A: