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WILLMAR
SEMINARY
A Letter From Rachie.
To the Voters of Kandiyohi County:
I became a candidate for State Re
presentative not because I wanted to
interfere with the rights of the farm
ers of this county, but be
cause on account of my ex
perience and training I believed that
I might, in the comins: session, be of
special service to the people in their
present fight against the dictation of
legislation by the "big interests,"—
in which struggle the people of the
cities as well as those of the coun
try districts have a common cause.
You people who live on the farm
will, upon reflection, realize that dur
ing my fight for county option for
the last five years—ever since I led
the fight for county option in the
session of 1907—I have been fighting
your battles. Can you expect much
improvement in our state politics as
long as the liquor interests, control
jur state legislature? Is it of more
importance to you that a candidate
for Representative should have lived
a great many years in this county or
be from a certain locality than he
should take an aggressive stand for
county option or some other definite
temperance legislation that will cause
the overthrow of brewery domination
in Minnesota polities'?
1 have not devoted much of my
iiuie in behalf of my own candidacy,
and I do not intend to do =o. The of
fice of Representative is not a "bread
and butter" office to a man who
wants to be honest, and it is not as
becoming for a man to beg for votes
for such an office as it is for some
clerical office.
31st SCHOOL YEAR BEGINS
ON O O E 1, 1 9 1 2
FOU SOLID COURSES:
College Preparatory Normal
Commercial Stenography.
A special review course is given to students wishing to
prepare for the teachers' examinations to be given in Feb
ruary.
A good music teacher has been engaged and lessons
will be given in piano and voice culture at 75c a lesson.
Improvements in the Seminary building have been
made, am heating plant has been added. A large
gymnasium has been provided. Good and thoro instruction.
Christian influence. Reasonable rates. Write for catalog
and particulars to
A. C. PETERSON, Principal
As there have been some rumors
of certain political combinations and
otherwise, I will definitely state at
this time that I do not expect to be
come a candidate for the legislature
from this county at any time in the
future. No one has ever asked me
to make any combination and I can
•assure you that I have made no
promises in the matter whatever. 1
became a candidate this year be
cause iis luted 1 was made to believe
that my services in the coming ses
ssi.iii of the legislature might be of
special value to the people of Min
nesota.
Our greatest ta.-.k, as republicans,
•for the coming primary election is the
nomination of an able, courageous
itnd high-minded man for governor.
What progress can we expect for
rounty option or any other legislation
for the purification of our state
politics without a man in the gov
ernor's chair who is willing to lead a
reform movement on to victory? I
believe that Lee or Young should be
nominated. One of them should be
our first choice and the other our
.second choice, according to our pref
erences.
As I believe that the governorship
question is of the most vital import
ance, I will leave my own candidacy
to your best judgment without any
further solicitation and I will de
vote my best efforts from now until
September 17th in the futherance of
the candidacies of Young and Lee for
governor.
Very truly yours,
ELIAS RACHIE.
Sept. 3rd, 1912.
life
Those old pictures of father and
mother are very dear to you. Price
less in fact. Just bear in mind that
your children would cherish just such
pictures of you. Olson Bros.
Trlbwn* Wante—Only ana cant a wort
Speaks for Rachie.
Sunburg, Minn., Aug. 29, 1912.
Dear Editor:
Permit me to thank you for your
kind offer to the citizens of our coun
ty to use the columns of your valu
able paper for the discussions of
public questions its well as candi
dates for office. I believe the tend
ency of the times on the part of the
voters is for a closer and fuller scru
tiny of the past life and record of
men who seek positions in the public
service. This is indeed desirable and
should bring the best men into our
public offices. Occupation, location,
business relationship or profession
should not be a matter of consider
ation in the selection of our men to
fill important offices and I have most
particularly in mind our legislative
offices. 1 consider a legislative posi
tion of much and grave importance.
May be I am prompted to that to
some extent owing to some personal
experience in that capacity, but be
that as it may, I feel compelled to
support a certain candidate in this
contest for the legislature who has
my utmost confidence, who stands
for justice to all the farmers-, labor
ing people -and business men. 1 had
the honor and pleasure of serving in
the legislature with the Hon. Elias
Rachie who is one of our candidates
for representative before the ap
proaching primary election. I can
conscientiousl}' say that on every oc
casion and on every vote recorded
to his credit he stood consistently
for the interests of the people and
the best interests of our state. His
position and principles were con
spicuously for good, clean and de
cent ideas and conduct and honest
government. The term "Progressive"
is popular today, but it could have"
been truly applied to the acts and
record of Mr. Rachie at that time.
He was born on a farm and spent
twenty-six harvests on the farm, so
while he is not an actual farmer to
day, he is unquestionably fully com
petent to judge as to the farmer's
needs and interests. We cannot all
be farmers, nature provides for var
ious callings in life and the fact that
a former farmer chooses to become
an attorney like many of our good
farmer boys do, should not necess
arily sever his relationship and his
kindly interest in his former brother
hood of farmers. We feel fully as
sured that the voters of Kandiyohi
county will not make a mistake nor
will they regret that they nominate
and elect Mr. Rachie to the legisla
ture. He is a man of ability, a force
ful speaker and debater. His advo
cacy of the temperance cause and
county option ought to be pretty well
known to all. His former legislative
experience, his consequent familiar
ity with state affairs and his wide
acquaintance with public men con
bine to make him a strong legislator
that will bring honor and credit to
our county.
Sincerely,
P. A. GANDRUD.
Paid advertisement Authorized by
the candidate, J. A. Rowat, whose ad
dress is Willmar, Minnesota, and for
which he has paid to this paper the sum
of $5.00.
For County Surveyor.
To the Voters of Kandiyohi County:
I hereby announce my candidacy
for the nomination on the Republican
ticket to the office of County Sur
veyor and respectfully solicit your
suppoi't at the primary election to be
held Sept. 17, 1912.
AN AUTOMOBILE BARGAIN!
I have just received from the factory
one of the new model 40-horse Maxwell
Special. If you are interested in buying an
automobile, I will be glad to demonstrate
the car to you and prove it to be the biggest
bargain you have ever been offered in the
line of automobiles.
LARS HALVORSON
Willmar Minn.
Sincerely yours,
J. A. ROWAT.
MIMM
LEE MAKES REJOINDER
TO EBERHARTS LETTER
An Open Letter to Governor in Which
He Makes Plain His Charges.
"Hon. A. 0. Eberhart, St. Paul,
Minn. Sir: I have read in the papers
your criticism of my speech at Fer
gus Falls. I have not seen the re
port of that speech to which you re
fer, but I wish to say that nearly
every statement you make is irrele
vant. Assuming that you have a cor
rect statement of what I said at that
time, I must characterize your crit
icisms of it as an attempt to attract
the nublic attention from your per
sonal failure in public matters by
raising issues which I said nothing
about. I did not question the state
ments of the state auditor or treas
urer. The figures I quoted were tak
en from the auditor's reports, except
when I gave other authority. I did
not suggest that the 'State go back
ten years/ nor did I advocate discon
tinuing any necessary or desirable
service the state is rendering the peo
ple, and you know I did not. I stated
that these services were costing the
people too much money and that you
had done nothing to improve things,
but on the contrary, it is your office
that has set the worst example. I
have said on several occasions that
your contingent fund is not an addi
tion to your salary but is a public
fund to be spent in the public serv
ice under your discretion and judg
ment, and that this discretion could
not be delegated to anyone else. I
have criticized Voucher No. 228085,
referring to the expense of transpor
tation of Bertha Clausen from New
York to Duluth. My criticism did
not refer to the purpose of this ex
penditure but to the method. You
tried to divert attention from the
bad method by calling attention to
the purpose of the expenditure.
"You have been guilty of the same
thing in your ci-itici^m of my Fergus
Falls speech. At Fergus Falls I said
in substance that a political machine
existed in Minnesota that it was
composed largely of iJrge business
interests that needed legislation or
desired to defeat legislation and
that this machine plays a large part
in the affairs of our state govern
ment that it controls largely the ac
tion of the state legislature that by
its manipulation it was able to defeat
most of the best legislation introduc
ed into the last general session of the
legislature and that you did nothing
to prevent it from doing so that
this machine was the cause of prac
tically everything the people had to
complain of concerning the state
government that with machine pol
itics, unnecessary extravagance al
ways followed that all the powers
of the state government rested with
the state legislature that the balance
of the state offices were executive or
ministerial that the effect of ma
chine control in the state legislature
permeated every department of the
state government, resulting in poor
business methods and flagrant ex
travagance.
"As proof that the state was be
coming more and more extravagant,
^1 quoted the following facts: That
there passed through the state treas
ury during the last year approxi
mately $16,000,000 that after taking
out the revolving funds of the state
institutions, and some loans made
from the school funds it leaves ap
proximately $13,500,000 that were
collected from the people and dis
bursed for various state expendi
tures. I have stated in every in
stance that I could not give the items
of expenditure, but that I would
compare three items of expendi
ture for the years 1901
and 1911 and to show their increase
during that period of ten years, and
from this increase the people could
judge something of how extravagant
their government was becoming. Of
the three items to which 1 referred,
one is the legislative expenses which
were in 1901, $145,929, which in
1911 reached the sum of $319,971.91
the executive expenses, in 1901, were
$124,212 in 1911 they had increased
to $317,809.12 state boards in 1901
cost $129,276, in 1911 they cost
$556,861.44. I have made no state
ment as to what use was made of the
balance of this $13,500,000. I made
no suggestion that any particular
item of the expense should be elim
inated. I simply stated the enormous
amount that was annually taken
from the people of Minnesota by tax
ation, and stated that I believed that
a large part of it was unnecessary
and much of it was wasted. I have
stated that I believe that under good
business management from 5 to 10
per cent of it could be saved to the
people. I stated that the tax levy in
1903 was 1.5 mills on a valuation of
less than $800,000,000 that it had
increased until in 1911 it was 2.65
mills on a valuation of $1,212,000. I
used Chester A. Congdon's figures as
published in The Minneapolis Journal
saying that one year, 1910, the per
capita cost in Minnesota was $6.08.
I have also used figures published in
the Duluth Herald of Aug. 3, as fol
lows1: 'The per capita cost for the
year 1911 was $7.89 and for the
year 1912 it was $7.86, being 23 per
cent more than in 1910.' I believed
these figures to be correct, and you
will see from them that practically
everything you have said is irrele
vant. I gave these figures to show
that Minnesota was becoming an ex
cessively expensive state. I attrib
uted the cause to the legislative de
partment of the government being
largely' controlled by the political
machine, made up priacipally of the
brewers' organization, the railroad
interests, the steel trust and the pub
lic service corporations, together
with a large part of the officers hold
ing appointive positions under the
present administration. And I have
stated that I believe this same polit
ical machine was using its powers to
re-elect you governor of Minnesota.
"I note your excessive concern
about the honor and fair name of the
state of Minnesota. I regret that
this laudable interest did mot stand
you in hand when you permitted
yourself to take the contingent fund,
which the legislature had placed in
your hands for great emergencies
only and use it for your personal ex
penses, for taxicabs, newspaper clip
pings and other equally personal ex
penditures.
"My campaign has been an appeal
to the people to take interest in pub
lic matters. I have reiterated that
the great issue of this campaign was
to determine whether the people or
a political machine was to govern
and control our state. I have said
that Minnesota is a great business
organization, collecting and disburs
ing vast sums of money that its
public officers are the servants of the
people and that every department
should be organized and correlated
as the departments of a large bus
iness enterprise are organized and
correlated that the chief executive
should be the responsible head and
directing hand in this great work,
and that a man whose principal sup
porters are the well-known members
of the political machine, is not the
best man to place in this important
position.
"In spite of all your juggling with
figures and parade of details, the
cold fact remains that Minnesota
ifcakes from the people in taxes, di
rect and indirect, more than $13,
000,000 annually, and the increase
has been greater under your admin
istration than under any administra
tion in the history of the state.
"—William E. Lee.
What We Never Forget
according to science, are the things as
sociated with our early home life, such
as Bucklen's Arnica Salve, that mother
or grandmother used to cure our burns,
Doils, scalds, sores, skin eruptions, cuts,
sprains or bruises. Forty years of cures
prose its merit. Unrivaled for piles,
corns or cold sores. Only 25 cents at
Carlson Bros.
Now is the time to make up your
mind to attend the Willmar Semin
ary the coming year. Classes begin
on October 1st. Write for catalog.
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HE CAUSTIC SODA AN
the rosin and the minerals in
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could supply us with that one right form
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Many of you remember the green soft
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All of you have probably heard of it.
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"Old Country" is nothing but pure
vegetable oils made into soap by the best
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You want these statements
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Lake Elizabeth, Sept. 2—Max
Bomsta, the oldest son of J. E. Bom
sta was taken to Litchfield some
time ago to receive treatment for his
eyes. He had in some way gotten
poison in his eyes from some weeds.
We are glad to learn that he is im
proving.
Carl Uner, our local blacksmith,
has installed a trip hammer which he
runs with his gasoline engine. With
the trip hammer he can sharpen a
plow lay much faster and also do a
much better job.
Mrs. B. T. Otos and children of
Willmar were here a couple of weeks
ago and visited with Mrs. Otos' par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Berg.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Paulson are the
proud parents of a baby boy born to
them a week ago last Saturday. So
far Roy has not made any sign of
passing the cigars around.
Miss Mary Lind, who has been
staying at Nels Peterson's the past
month, left for St. Paul a week ago
Saturday.
Mrs. Albert Olson was at Willmar
last Friday and visited with her hus
band who is sick at the Willmar hos
pital. Mr. Olson was operated upon
over two months ago and is not yet
able to sit up in bed. He is improv
ing, however, and we hope be can
soon return to his home.
Irving Forsberg left last week for
Foley after spending a couple of
weeks at his home here. He is learn
ing the butcher's trade from his bro
thers, Clarence and George, who have
a meat market at Foley and who are
full-fledged butchers.
Willie Larson was at Litchfield the
first part of last week and returned
with a load of merchandise.
Esther Larson is now staying at
her home, after working at Wallace
Hedlund'is for the summer.
Albert Swan and Martin Draxton
were at Willmar Thursday, returning
Friday evening. They went there with
a large gear for Swan's engine to
have it welded at Oman & Johnson's
shop. It is a great convenience for
the threshers to be able to have such
work done at the county seat.
Walter Ogren, head clerk at the
store, has been taking a short vaca
tion, which he spent at his home in
Danielson.
Oscar Dahlstrom expects to leave
for his home in Minneapolis the last
part of the week where he will attend
school. He has been clerk at the
store here for 2% months and made
a number of friends who are sorry to
see him leave.
Lillie and Florence Boom left for
Willmar Satuiday where they will at
tend school.
Gilbert Gibson says he is gbing to
quit farming and enter into some
professional business where he can
take life easier.
Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Erickson
were up from the eities for a few
days last week and visited with Mr.
Erickson's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Martin Erickson.
Rev. Ericson will preach at Fah
lun next Sunday, so there will be no
services at the Baptist church.
A number of our young people at
tended the social at the Oak Park M.
E. church last Friday evening. They
all report a good time, even Abel Ek
bom who had a 26 mile round trip on
muddy roads.
The reports from threshing show
that wheat yields from 12 to 15 bush
els per acre and oats 40 to 60 bush
els. There is- quite a lot of shock
threshing to do yet.
The fields are again turning black,
the trees are beginning to put on
their fall like appearance, and soon
we have winter again. We can't help
but wonder where the summer has
gone to.
Richard S. Danielson has decided
to quit farming and with his family
will remove to Chicago this fall,
where they expect to make their fut
ure home. Ottmar Danielson will
.LLMAR,MMH.—S.
THE BIGGEST EVENT IJV CENTRAL MI/TNE^OTA
have charge of the whole Danielson
farm.
Mr. and Mr®. C. A. Swan left for
the cities the first part of the week
to attend the State Fair and also to
do some fall buying for their store.
Miss Alma Carlson went to the
eities Saturday to attend the Fair
and also to visit relatives.
August Norine has purchased a
fine horse from Peter Mossberg for
a consideration of $175.
John J. Norine has been here from
Kandiyohi a couple of weeks helping
his brother August during the busy
season.
The Union Threshing Co. has de
cided to again thresh this fall. They
have formed a co-partnership with
Swan. They will have a first class
rig. Wm. A. Carlson, who has run
the separator several falls before
for the company, will again be sep
arator man and be the "boss." Any
man of the crew who disobeys Wil
lie's orders will be sent to Stillwater
for six months. Martin Draxten will
be the engineer. He has had a num
ber of years' experience in this line
and is a first class engineer. The
company will begin threshing the
middle of this week at Andrew
Bjur's.
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Ole A. Larson had as his guest a
couple of days last week his nephew,
Lewis Larson, from Indianapolis,
Ind. They had never seen each other
before.
Miss Annie Linman of Fahlun was
a guest of Rev. and Mr*. Erieson last
week. She also acted as organist at
the Baptist church last Sunday.
Most of the farmers around here
are going to vote for Wilson for
president. They don't want to vote
for a man who started a new oarty
simply to seek office for himself. Not
much bull moose around here.
Don't forget to feed your milk
cows seme of that good fodder corn
now when the pastures are getting1
dry. It will pay.
Atwater Republican-Press.
Parties were down from Willmar
last week looking up the prospects
for opening a moving picture show in
Atw.ater.
Mr. and Mrs. P. 0. Hall are home
again from their trip to North Dako
ta. Mr. Hall says that that state had
excellent prospects for a big crop
this year.
Rev. Newton Sundstrom has ac
cepted a call from the Swedish M. E.
church in Jersey City, N. J., and ex
pects to take charge of that congre
gation next month, preaehing his first
sermon Sept. 22.
Miss Matilda Nord, who is here
from California for a visit with old
Kandiyohi county friends, has been
a guest the past week of Miss Anna
Peterson, who has been enjoying a
vacation with her parents in Fahlun.
The work of removing the old de
pot was begun this week. J. H.
Strong was the successful bidder for
the purchase of the building and will
remove it onto his lots back of the
livery barn as soon as it is vacated.
Miss Ruth Covell is spending the
week here with her relatives and old
Atwater friends. She arrived Sun
day morning from Rainy Butte, N.
D., where she had been spending her
vacation with her parents, and ex
pects to leave tomorrow for Fergus
Falls to resume her position as
teacher in the public schools there.—
Atwater Republican Press.
Kerkhoven Banner.
Mrs. H. S. Gordhamer and child
ren, Wallace and Eleanor, visited
her parents at Willmar over Sunday.
Mrs. L. Nyquist and daughter, My
ra, were at Willmar Wednesday af
ternoon visiting Mrs. Jennie M. John
son.
W. G. Mapes, of Willmar, assist
ant traveling auditor for the G. N.,
was assisting Agent Steen at the de
pot here Tuesday afternoon, owing
to a shortage of help.
Special discount sale on watches
for the next ten days at Elmqulst's
Jewelry Store.
HUSK1N6S
Harrison, Sept. 2—Miss Ruth
Parsons departed last Thursday for
West Concord, Minn., where she has
accepted a position as teacher in the
public schools of that place. She
was accompanied to Minneapolis by
her sister, Miss Edith, who will again
resume her duties there after a few
days' visit at her parental home here.
E. M. Sanderson of Willmar, can
didate for the republican nomination
for the office of clerk of the district
court, was in this vicinity Wednes
day.
Misses Evaline and Delia Home
departed on Wednesday for Kalis
pell, Mont., where they will teach in
the public schools for the coming
year.
The Harrison correspondent for
the Atwater Press states that "coon
ing" apples is now the order of the
day, but in this part of the township
"cooning" plums is quite a fad.
Harry Martin and Roy Wilson took
in. the dance at Spicer last Friday
evening.
Mrs. Hans Hanson of Atwater is
assisting Mrs. Henry Martin with
housework.
Miss Ethel Govig of Willmar has
been engaged as teacher in District
No. 4 for the coming year.
Jenius Johnson has resigned his
position at S. M. Dahl's and is now a
man of leisure.
Richard Olson drove over to Kerk
hoven last Friday.
Mrs. E. M. Sanderson came down
from Willmar last Tuesday far a fo*
days' visit at her parental home here.
Threshing is now general in this lo
cality and reports show that the
wheat crop will not yield as well as
was at first expected. The average
yield in this locality will probably be
from 12 to 18 bushels per aero. Oats
are yielding all the way from 45 to
60 bushels per acre and barley from
30 to 45.
Pete Defoe of Kandiyohi did not
make bis uHual call in th:s vuinity
Sunday.
Earl Martin Sundayed with his
parents.
I am prepared to buy scrap iron,
rags, rubbers and wool. Bring in
anything in this line you may have
for sale, or notify me by mail or tele
phone and I will call for it, whether
you live in the city or in the coun
try. I pay the highest prices. Tel.
434. J. J. RIVKIN,
608 Litchfield Ave.
Used ByNearly All
Dressmakers
and Women of Taste Who
Make Their Own Clothes.
MRS. ADELE KING
OF NEW YORK
Representative of the manu
facturers of Ladies' Home
Journal Patterns, wiH be with us
Monday, Sept. 9th
Bring her your pattern and
dressmaking problems. You'll
be welcomed.
Peterson & Wellin
Bids for Coal Shed.
Sealed bids will be received by the
City Council of the City of Willmar,
Minnesota up to 8 o'clock in the af
ternoon September 9th, 1912, for the
erection of a brick coal shed and
boiler room edjoining the City Power
plant on the east.
Plans and specifications for the
said work may be seen at the office
of the City Clerk and all work must
be done in accordance with same.
All bids to be sealed and addressed
to the City Council and must be ac
companied by a certified check of ten
per cent of the amount of bid.
The Council reserves the light to
reject any or all bids.
Willmar, Minn., Aug. 31, 1912.
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HANS GUNDERSON,
City Clerk.
Discount onwatches at Elmqulst's
Jewelry store, Benson Ave,
See the advertisement of the Will
mar Seminary in this issue.
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