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VOL. 27 LITTLE FALLS, MORRISON COUNTY, MINNESOTA FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1915*

CITY ELECTION NEXT TUESDAY MARCH SETTLEMENT READY THE 1915 CHAUTAUQUA TOR FARMERS AND THQR BOYS $16,000 FOR ROADS-BRIDGES VARIOUS OFFICES WILL BE FILL­

ED AND LIQUOR QUESTION WILL BE VOTED ON

Next Tuesday the regular city elec­tion will be held here. Up to the present time there has been but lit­tle election talk and indications are for a very quiet affair, although some new matters will be decided upon at that time.

The wet and dry question will no •doubt be the most interesting. No ••canvass has been made to learn how " the vote will turn out but those at the 'head of the dry movement state that the results will be astonishing.

Opposition has developed for four offices, namely: City clerk, city as­

sessor, municipal judge and alderman £rom the third ward. The office of municipal judge is a new one, created by an act of the state legislature es­tablishing a municipal court in Little "Falls.

Following are the offices and ques­tions to be voted upon at the election Tuesday:

Mayor—Dr. G. M. A. Fortier. City Clerk—Victor Sc-hallern, Leo

"Dohert-y. City Assessor—Lymari Signor, Frank

Ellenbecker. Treasurer—John Yertin. Justice.of the Peace, two to be elect­

ed—Phil. 3. Randall, W. C. Turner. Municipal Judge—Geo. Gerritz, F.

~W. Lyon. Alderman, First Ward—Frank E.

Hall. Alderman, Second Ward—J. S. Mur­

phy. Alderman, Third Ward—Dr. S. R.

Fortier, Geo. Johnon. Alderman, Fourth Ward—H. J. La-

Fond. Alderman at Large—Geo. Moeglein,

Sr. The polls will be open from 9 o'clock

a. m. to 9 p. m.

GET PLANS FOR NEW BUILDING Architect R. C. Buckley of St. Cloud

lias completed the plans for the new building to be erected on Broadway •east by the German American Nation­al bank and John Vertin, jointly. The building will be two stories high and will occupy the space from the west wall of the German American Nation­al bank building to the alley in that block. The building now occupying part of that space will be razed in the future and it is expected that work will be commenced on the new "ibuilding about April 1. A meeting -will be held next Friday to let the •contract for the work.

The front of the building will be practically the same as that of the "bank building, except that the cor­nice will be of terra cotta. The first floor will be fixed up for a land office for Mr. Vertin and a store room may also be provided for. The second floor will be used for office rooms.

TOTAL SETTLEMENT $91,590.81-SCHOOLS GET $33,210.28 AND

TOWNS $25,498.30

The March settlement has been com­pleted by County Auditor B. Y. Mc-Nairy and the apportionment will be made soon. The total settlement is $91,590.81, of which amount $43.77 must be refunded to the state, leaving a balance of $91,547.04 to be distribut­ed.

The settlement is divided into ten different funds, as follows: State revenue $ 8,562.32 State school 2,720.20 County revenue 12,426.67 County road and bridge.... 4,486.04 County bonds 1,621.94 County sinking fund 1,252,63 County state roads 495.15 County ditch 1,317.28 Towns 25,498.30 Schools 33,210.28

Total $91,590»81 Refund to state 43.77

Bal. to apportion $91,547.04

MUSICAL ART CLUB The following program will be car

ried out at the regular meeting of the Musical Art club this afternoon at 4:15 at the high school auditorium: Pas de Authores Chaminade Second Concertino Ortman

Wm. H. Bastien Voice:

My Dear Old Mother Dvorak Un doux lien Delbruck To You Speaks

Miss Helen McNair Piano:

Album Blatt Grutzmather Miss Elvira Ruth

Voice: Ave Maria Kahn

Miss McNair

PROMISES TO BE "BEST EVER' —SCHILDKRET'S ORCHESTRA

AGAIN SCHEDULED

The Chautauqua is coming. We are reminded of this fact by the recent visit of T. F. Graham, representing the Redpath-Vawter Chautauqua, who wa* here renewing acquaintance and com­pleting arrangements for the assembly to be held here this summer. He says the program for the coming season is "The best ever."

Kryl's Band Coming It will be remembered that the Sys­

tem has provided some big bands in the past, but Mr. Graham emphatically declares that Rohumir Kryl's band will easily eclipse anything that has been provided before. Kryl, himself, is given credit for being the world's greatest cornet player, and it is said that no one surpasses him as a band leader.

The Musical Companies and Preludes for the coming season are as follows:

Kryl's Band, The Cambridge Play­ers, The Old Home Singers, Schild-

BKH ran GOES 10 Bffllll DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP WILL

BE DECIDED THERE TO­MORROW NIGHT

CURK AND ROLLER TO WRESTLE MATCH MAT BE STAGED MARCH

23—LA FORCE AND LINE-HAN MAY BOX

Another good wrestling match will /be staged at the Victor theatre in the near future, posibly on the evening of March 23, when Howard Clark of this city and Ray Roller of Royalton will try for honors.

The men are well matched, being of about the same weight and an inter-

besting match is promised. Roller has "thrown Clark before but will have a •different task on his hands this time. Two falls out of three, catch as catch

'•can, will decide. As the main preliminary a good box­

ing match will be staged. An attempt is being made to get Joe LaForce of Uipley and Dan Linehan of Verndale to put on a six round bout. LaForce

• las already agreed to appear and the promoters expect to hear from Line-Ian today. Both are said to be very last. One or two other preliminaries may also be arranged for, to be staged

'"by local boys.

ARE TEARING OUT OLD DAM E. P. Callahan, who had charge of

"the construction of the east wing of "the new dam here, this week hftg a crew of about 20 men at work tearing -out a part of the old dam. Eleven •feet of the old head will be removed, extending out to the end of the waste gate section of the new dam. A cof­fer dam has been constructed a dis­tance back from the old dam to hold the water back. Mr. Callahan ex­pects to have the work completed next ' -week.

L. W. Carson, special officer in the "'United States Indian service, who has •charge of closing the saloons in the treaty territory in the northern part of the state, was in the city on busi­

ness yesterday.

Tomorrow the local high school bas­ketball team journeys to Bemidji for one game with the high school quint of that city, to decide the basketball championship of the Sixth district. "A game was played between these teams at the local high school gymnasium last night but it was played after go­ing to press and the results could not be published.

Little Falls is anxious to win the championship and the boys will put up the best game they possibly can. Bemidji has a very strong team and they also are striving hard to win the title. The championship will be awarded to the team scoring the high­est number of points in both games.

The management for the local team wanted to play Bemidji but one game to decide the championship, the game to be played on a neutral floor. Sat­isfactory arrangements could not be made, however, and it was decided to play two games, one at each place.

If Little Falls high wins the district championship it will be eligible for the state tournament, which will be held at Northfield the latter part of this month.

The Professional Five Hundred club was entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Parsons Wednesday evening.

Mrs. Cecil Kelly entertained the Tuesday Sewing club at her home on Tuesday afternoon. Refreshments were served.

The Kensington Embroidery clulb was entertained yesterday afternoon by Mrs. F. Kleber at her home on Second street southeast.

Four new members were admitted to Hose company No. 2 at the meeting .Tuesday evening. The new members are Arthur Smith, Frank Knuth, Mar­ion Roberts and Aloysius Raster.

Walter Johnson and Miss Grace Love, both of South Little Falls town, were married Tuesday by Justice of the Peace Geo. Gerritz. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson have gone to Mandan, N. D., to make their home.

Fred Hall and family, who oc­cupied the H. A Rider residence on Third street southeast, have moved to the Butler residence on Broadway east, which they have rented. Mr. and Mrs. Rider will move into their own residence as soon as it is vacated. F. H. Philbrick will soon move from the Buckman residence to flats in the Close block and Mr. and Mrs. C. B.. Buckman will re-occupy their resi­dence. C. Rosenmeier and family ex­pect to move to the Herman Pantzke residence on Fifth street southeast in the near future.

CORN POTATO AND PIG CON­TESTS—PRUNING DEMONSTRA­

TIONS—SEED TESTED

kret'g Orchestra, The Orphean Musi­cal Club, The University Girls, and the Kaffir Boys.

The Old Home Singers, as their name indicates, will sing the old songs that have established for themselves a place in human hearts.

The University Girls is a sextet that will feature the life of the University, and their entertainment will revive memories of youth. It is light and gay and full of entertainment front first to last.

Sam Schildkret Returns Mr. Graham informs us that, be­

cause of the almost universal demand made last season, Sam Schildkret's great orchestra will be on the program again this summer. This will be good news to the thousands of admirers of this talented little orchestra leader.

The Orphean Musical Club is a male quartet said to have all the old quar­tet stunts and some of their own in­ventions.

The Cambridge Players will put on acts from Shakespeare and Barrie, and one or two humorous selections, is a classy company.

Fine List of Speakers The orators for this year are, Ex-

Governor J. K. Vardaman, Hon. Victor Murdock . of. Kansas, Ng Poon Ch^Si* Judge Schoonover of Kansas, Lou J. Beauchamp, Byron Piatt and Hon. Jas. E. Watson of Indiana. Arthur Ka-chel, the celebrated interpreter of plays will render "The Melting Pot."

Senator "Vardaman and Congressman Murdock are well know public char­acters. So is Congressman Watson, and need no special comment here.

Judge Schoonover is one of the sta­ble citizens of Kansas and will talk good common sense. Ng Poon Chew is a Chinese statesman and editor who published the first Chinese newspaper in America. He will have an up-to-date discussion of the New China.

The humorist of the Chautauqua pro­gram this year is Lou J. Beauchamp, one of the best the country affords and a long time favorite.

Ross Crane, the celebrated clay modeler will be here to give an exhi­bition of the wonderful art for which he is famous, and Ryan Piatt, a reg­ular Lyceum lecturer, will deliver his great address on "Live or Die."

The Kaffir Boys, under the direction of Mr. Balmer, is a strong novelty feature, presenting five young natives of South Africa, representing five tribes. They will appear as a singing choir in the native costumes of their country. Mr. Balmer has toured Eng­land and America with this company and has met with decided success ev­erywhere.

Full announcement of the program will be made soon. The date will be June 29 to July 5, inclusive.

Corn contests among boys of the state will .be held by the Extension division of the University farm as in other years. T. A. Erickson has charge of this work. There will also be pig and potato contests.

The Boys' Acre-yield corn cutest will be carried on in 1915 on the same general plan as in 1914. Very liberal prizes will be given by the state which will be announced later. A ny boy in the state over 10 years of age and un­der 18, may enter. There is no entry fee. It is only necessary to sign the agreement and abide by the rules as given out by the state. Every con­testant must enroll with the Agricul­tural Extension division.

The potato contests are open to boys and girls from 10 to 18 years of age. Plot to include one-eighth of an acre or more. The variety of potato to be of the type generally known as Car­men, Rurals or Green Mountain. The contestant must do the work and keep the record, same as in the corn contest.

There will also be pig contests open for boys and girls. It will consist in the care and raising of a litter of pigs until sold.

Here surely is a very good chance for any energetic, ambitious boy or girl to get some real experience in farming, get information on farm ac­counts, and to get plenty of interest­ing work with a chance for some prize money.

Send to T. A. Erickson, University Farm, St. Paul, Minn., for more infor­mation on these matters. The Agri­cultural department of the Little Falls high school will give help to any boy or girt in seed selection, testing, planting or in any other way.

Pruning Demonstrations R. S. Mackintosh, horticultural spe­

cialist of the Extension division will conduct pruning demonstrations in three of four different communities near Little Falls. These demonstra-

This tions are held in any locality where fifteen farmers will sign a petition asking for such a demonstration. Three petitions liave already been sent in to the University farm. If any other group of farmers are interested send in a petition to the University Farm or to the Agricultural department of the Little Falls high school and dates will be arranged later.

The Little Falls high school will test farmers' seed corn for germination on the same plan as last year. >If the farmers desire to have their corn shell­ed and graded an extra charge will be made enough to cover expenes of stu­dent help.

All other seeds are tested free of charge by the agricultural department.

Annual Junior Short course for farm boys and girls on April 5 to 10. Get yourself interested your neighbor boy or girl.

[MORRISON COUNTY MUST SPEND $23,000 TO GET THAT AMOUNT

FROM THE STATE

Morrison county will receive $16,000 from the state to spend on roads and bridges this year, according to infor­mation received by County Auditor B. Y. McNairy from the state highway commission, which has charge of the distribution of this money.

In order to get this amount, how­ever, the county must expend $23,000 on the roads and bridges, of which amount 20 per cent, or $3,200 must be spent for the maintenance of the state roads in the county. The county re­ceives the state apportionment at the rate of 70 per cent for each expendi­ture until the full amount has been paid. Out of a total of $23,000 worth of road and bridge work the county will therefore have to pay but $7,000.

ALLEN SiTOCK COMPANY AT VIC­TOR NEXT WEEK

The Allen Stock company is schedul­ed to play at the Victor theatre for seven nights next week, beginning with Monday evening. The company recently played to capacity houses at Brainerd, St. Cloud and other places and is said to be very good.

COUnuraiKtKXTffiEI (LAST JURY CASE NOW ON TRXAiL

—HELM ARSON CASE TO JURY LAST NIGHT

BUCKMAN BARBER SHOP SOLD The Buckman hotel tonsorial parlors

will be operated under new manage­ment beginning with today, Messrs. J. H. Paquin and J. McClernan of Bemid­ji having purchased the place. Mr. Paquin was a former resident of this city and was employed in the local barber shops for several years.

A. G. Lee, the tailor, will shortly move into rooms over the City bakery in the Vasaly block, as the building in which Mr. Lee is now located, is to be torn down, and a new building erect-

More than 50 children belonging to the primary department of the Congre­gational Sunday school were enter­tained at the church parlors Wednes­day afternoon by their superintendent, Mrs. E. J. Richie, assisted by Mrs. Carl Bolander, superintendent of 'he cradle roll and teachers of the primary department. Games and a short pro­gram furnished amusement for the Tit­tle folks.

MUTT AND J1.FF AT THE VICTOR Mutt and Jeff in Mexico is the name

of a musical comedy which will be staged at the Victor theatre Saturday evening of next week by the Gust Hills company. The play is one of Bud Fischer's latest successes and promises to be one of the best attrac­tions staged here this season.

N. H. White, proprietor of the Am­erican House, is about again, after be­ing quite ill for a few days.

There will be a meeting at the Dar­ling Mission church next Sunday at 10:30 a. m. Rev. J. Albert Peterson will preach.

Burton & Greisch have purchased the Mike Berget farm of 207 acres, lo­cated on the river road midway be* tween this city and Royalton.

Marriage licenses have been issued during the past week to Walter John­son and Grace Love of South Little Falls town, Frank Sims and Martha Smith and to Oliver Eshelman of Moorhead and Alice B. Taylor of this county.

Sam Olson has gone to Minneapolis to submit to an operation for the re­moval of a bone from the left arm. His arm was fractured some time ago when he fell from a load of lumber and he has been' unable to use it since. The operation is expected to restore its use.

This morning at 10 o'clock James Mapes will be examined in Justice Phil. S. Randall's court, on a charge of grand larceny in the second degree. He is charged with selling 13 head of cattle belonging to Walter Ingvolstad of Minneapolis for $780 and appro­priating the money for his own use,

A marriage license was issued yes­terday to Knute Gunderson and Misg Minnie Nelson.

John Hinder left yesterday morning for Rochester to consult doctors in re­gard to his right eye, which was af­fected by an injury which he sustain­ed while deer hunting last fall.

RURAL SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS COUNTY AND STATE EXAMINA­

TIONS TO BE HELD MARCH 22-23 AND 25-26

County and state eighth grade ex­aminations will be held in the various rural schools of Morrison county this month, the first named on March 22 and 23 and the last named on March 25 and 26.

The county examinations will be helrl'""hr all school districts where the teachers request them. Pupils are ex­pected to be studying farm accounts in the schools now and Superintendent Barnes announces that the examina­tions will be given only to those who are taking this subject, except in cases where the schools are waiting for the books. The county examinations will be held as follows:

Monday, March 22, morning—9 to 11, grammar; 11:30 to 12, spelling. Af­ternoon—1 to 3, arithmetic; 3:15 to 4, agriculture.

Tuesday, March 23, morning—9 to 11, United States history; 11 to 12, reading. Afternoon—1 to 3, geogra­phy.

State examinations will be held in only sixteen districts, as follows: Dis­trict 89, Freedhem; 105, South Little Falls town; 14, Pierz; 73 ,Randall; 80, Ramey; 31, Culdrum; 52, Swanville; 95, Upsala; 24, Brickyards; 74, Darling 41, Buckman; 15, Elm Dale; 33, Lit­tle Elk; 75, Swan River; 10, Bowlus; and 133, Vawter. The program for the state examinations will be as follows:

Thursday, March 25—Spelling, Eng­lish, grammar, history.

Friday, March 26—Arithmetic, geo­graphy, eighth grade composition.

It is likely that district court will complete work next week, as 'the last jury case is now being tried and there are only a few court cases on the cal­endar. The case of Louis Nelson vs. Aaron A. Nelson was begun late yes­terday afternoon and continued to this morning and will likely be completed before noon today. In this action the plaintiff sues for $575 for alleged dam­ages to his farm in Darling town, caused by a fire which he charges Aaron Nelson started.

The case of the State of Minnesota vs. Barney Helm, which has occupied the court's time since Tuesday, was given to the jury late yesterday af­ternoon. At the time of going to press no verdict had yet been return­ed. Helm is charged with arson in the third degree, for setting a fire which caused the destruction of a barn on the farm of James Mapes, and a large number of cattle, horses and swine which were in the barn. Dep­uty State Fire Marshal S. Fullerton and a detective were here working on the case.

A verdict for the defeadant was brought in by the jury Friday in the lease of the village of Royalton vs. Chas. Borosh, et al. In this case the vil­lage sued Chas. Borosh and his brothers and' sisters for the support of Steven Borosh, their brother, who was a pau­per. The village held that the brothers and sisters should support him, whereas the defendants held that his children should take care of him.

Frank L. Allen was given a verdict for $110.09 against C. Kelly and Son Saturday morning for nursery stock which Mr. Allen and a number of other people had purchased from Kelly and Son, and which they claimed failed to grow. He sued for $155.

In the ease of Jos. Otremba vs. Chas. VanHercke, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $66. Mr. Otremba sued for the recovery of $280 which he claimed was due him as commission for selling some land for Mr. VanHer­cke,

On Monday the jury returned a ver­dict of $500 for the plaintiff in Lhe ease of Erik Eklund vs. Chas. Soder­holm, et al. In this action the plaintiff sued for the recovery of the value of a certain piece of land in Wisconsin, which he had deeded to Soderholm with the provision that Soderholm support him for the remainder of his days. Later Eklund became tired of living with him and left.

iThe case of Mrs. Elizabeth Ora-vetz vs. the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Ste. Marie railway company was set­tled out of court on Tuesday after­noon, the plaintiff receiving $2,600 Mrs. Oravetz sued the railway com­pany for $8,200 damages for the death of her husband, Andrew Oravetz, who was struck and killed by a Soo pas­senger train at a crossing near Bow­lus some time ago. His horse was also ^killed and the wagon in which he was riding was demolished.

DIED Mrs. Karin Swanson passed away

Thursday of last week' at the home of her son Oscar, of Freedhem, at an age of 83 years. Death was due to pneu­monia. She is survived by four sons. The funeral was held from the Swedish Lutheran church at Freedhem Mon­day afternoon at 2:30, Rev. Elof Pe­terson of Little Falls officiating. In­terment was in the church cemetery.

Edith Olivia Carlson, aged 3 years, 9 months and 9 days, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar R. Carlson of 410, Second avenue southwest^ passed away Friday evening at 7:15 from heart trouble, after an illness of sev­eral months' duration. Deceased was born in this city May 24, 1911. The funeral was held from the Swedish Lutheran church Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock, Rev. Elof Peterson officiat­ing. Interment was in Oakland cem­etery.

Peter H. Peterzen of Gilbert parsed away Monday morning at about 2:30 at the Hall hospital, at an age of 60 years. Death was due to kidney trou­ble. Deceased was born in Sweden February 20, 1855. He has been a res­ident of Gilbert for a number of years, and formerly lived in this city, being engaged as a painter. He is survived by a wife, two sons and three daugh­ters. The funeral was held at Gilbert Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock and interment was at Ft. Ripley.

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Will INSTALL BISHOP BUSH NEW HEAD OF ST. CLOUD DIOCESE

TO BE GIVEN SEAT NEXT THURSDAY

•St. Cloud! Journal-Press (9): The Rt. Rev. John Busch, recently ap­pointed bishop of the St. Cloud dio­cese, will be installed with appropri­ate ceremonies at 11 o'clock, in the morning of March 18, according to plans made by local clergy following the information received this morning that the official letters of tks new bishop had been received from Rome.

Though many details are still to be arranged, it is understood that the new bishop will arrive at 10:31 from St. Paul with Archbishop Ireland, who is to deliver the installation addtess and a number of eishops and clergy expected from other parts of the state. The formal services will be held at 11 o'clock, according to the present plans.

At 7:30 in the evening there will be a public reception at which the citi­zens of St. Cloud will .be given an op­portunity to meet the new head of the local diocese. A suitable program will be arranged with musical numbers and addresses by the visitors and local men. It is expected that the capacity of the Cathedral school hall will be taxed by the attendance on that eve­ning that will include delegations from all parts of the state.

A dance will be given at the Elks hall on St. Patrick's Day, March 17. ̂Bastien's orchestra will furnish- the ~S

music. . >

Wm. Kerich returned to Minneapo­lis, where he is employed, Wednesday, after a visit with his family in this city.

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