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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-11-03
STURDY PIONEES> AND
PROMINENT CITIZEN PASSES

ate. In one of these sessions he sue
ceeded in securing an appropriation of
$4,000 for a bridge across the Mime
sofa river at Montevideo, quite a feat
In those days. However well he serv-
ed his constituents Of Chippewa coun-
ty he declared that he had yet to
place his foot upon the soil of that
county for the first time. In 1876 Mr..
RailsOn was appointed mail agent on
the run from St.. Paul to Brecken.
ridge, a position which he held for
five years. In 1879 he was appointed
county treasurer and was elected to
that position in 1880 and 1882, serv.
Was Mayor Of WiIImar.
ing five years. During his residence
at Willmar he served as village prest-
dent one year. In July, 1884 he was
notified that he had been appointed
receiver of the U. S. land Office at
Redwood Falls, and was urged to &C.
cept the place. Not only had he not
applied for the position, but the of.
flee was located in a different con-
gressional district from the one in
which he resided. He held this posi-.
ton until Jan. /, 1887. In the fall of
1892 Mr.. Railson was again elected to
represent Kandiyohi county in the
state legislature.
Mr.. Railson has served his township
and school district in different capac-
tiles. He was one of the first trus.
tees Of the early Norwegian Lutheran
church organized at Norway Lake in
1866.
Five children were born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Railson: Robert Martin who died
March Is, 1902, at an age of 36 years;
Edwin c., who has the management of
the farm; Mary, now Mrs. o. A. He'd
in who resides at Minneapolis; Anna
E., now Mrs. c. E. Monson of New
London; and Ida, now Mrs. Knut
Hande who resides at Belgrade. Mrs.
Railson died in 1911. The surviving
children and their respective families
have the sympathy Of everyone in
the loss of their illustrious father and
grandfather.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-11-03
CONFIRMATION At
SYNOD CHURCH
Glass Of Fourteen Confirmed
Sunday Morning Alumni
Net Monday Evening.

Impressive confirmation services
took place last Sunday morning at
the Synod Lutheran church, when a
class Of fourteen spoke their vows.
and were confirmed in the faith. The
church was appropriately decorated
and was filled by an audience that
occupied seats, aisles and every avail
able space. At 10:30 o'clock the class
marched from the basement and took
their places around the altar. After
the opening, Rev. J. N. Andersen, the
pastor, made an address in Norweg-
ian based on Ps. 1861, giving reasons
for gratitude of the young people, the
older members and the church. The
choir sang an anthem, and the cathe-
chisation followed. The day being
the anniversary Of the Reformation.
Rev. Andersen centered his efforts on
the cardinal doctrines of the Luther
an faith, Justification" and ''The
Bible is the Word of God" Follow
ing the singing, of a hymn the vows
were spoken, and after another hymn
the pastor spoke in English on John
6:67-69, ''Wiu ye also go away" An
English hymn and an anthem by the
choir followed. The pastor then ad-
dressed the parents and others in
Norwegian on "Our Heritage" Ps.
1876. An Offering for Home Missions
was taken amounting to $122.1O. The
closing services took place at 1880
o'clock. The members of the confirm
alton class, which is the twelfth con.
firmed at Willmar by Rev. Andersen,
were the following:
Edwin B. Bredeson.
Eddie Clarence Hansen.
Orton Elroy Sandbo.
Joseph Benjamin Holt.
Russell Vernon Olson.
Sigmund julius Johnson.
Agnes Helene Kiland.
Laura Augusta Olson.
Continued on page 8.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-11-03

neighbor was Burdick, ten miles
away. Then Thomas .Osmundson,
John Tottland and wife aud John w.
erson arrived and l was not lonesome
any longer. In 1859 quite a number
Of settlers came to our settlements "
Mr.. Railson again left for Saltwater
and worked until the spring of 1860.
The fall Of the same year saw his re.
turn to Saltwater where on October
5 he was united in marriage to Miss
Berthe Johnson. Mrs. Railson was
born in Lands Parish Norway in De-
cember, 1888. Their wedding trip
right up into the unbroken wilder
ness could hardly be called a pleas
ure trip. Two years later the Indian
outbreak occurred. The Railsons NOV.
ed to Kenyon, Goodhue county, where
they remained during the first winter.
Then they moved to St. Cloud, where
they remained until in 1865. Leaving
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-11-03
Hon. Andrew Railson Died at His Lake
Andrew Home Yesterday-funeral
Next Friday.

Hon Andrew Railson, wellknown and
highly honored Norway Lake pioneer
and citizen Of Kandiyohi County, was
released from the illness with which
he had suffered a long time, Tuesday
morning, Nov. 2, at $3.50 o'clock, and
his spirit passed on to his reward.
Ailing seriously for the past eight or
nine years, he was helplessly bed-rid.
den the last years, wasting away to a
mere shadow of his former robust
SELF
The funeral will take place on Fri
day, Nov. S, from the late residence
at one o'clock and at the East Nor
way Lake Synod church at two O.
clock, Rev. N. J. Mus to ofticiate.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-11-03

his family at Crow River, Mr.. Rail-
son joined John Evenson and winter.
ed on their claims hunting and trap.
ping until spring.
Back in 1865.
Then the family was moved back
to the old home. A detachment of
soldiers was then stationed at Nor.
way Lake to protect the frontier. At
this time the settlers must go to
Paynesville for their mail, distance
of some twenty miles. Mr.. Railson
applied to Ignatius Donnelly, then a
member of congress, to have a post
office established at Norway Lake.
This met with some opposition from
the postmaster at Paynesville and
nothing was done. Mr.. Railson then
made application to Senator Ramsey,
who was chairman Of the committee
on post offices and post roads, and
the service was established forthwith.
The mail arrived weekly from Paynes-
vile. One Twitchell was the first mail
carrier. He was succeeded by John
Blakely, Sr. Mail was received for
the entire surrounding country in.
Guiding Mamre, Six Mile Grove (Ben.
SOM and the country north. A great
many foreign letters came to the set
tiers. The postage due on these u.s.
ually amounted to IS cents on each.
The amount thus collected frequently
amounted to SIS for each mail.
Prominent in Public Affairs.
Mr.. Railson has taken a prominent
part in county affairs. He was one
of the county commissioners, named
by the legislature in 1861 in the sec
ond attempt to organize Monongalia
county before the outbreak. In 1866
he was elected one of the commits.
sioners of Monongalia county and he
served as such until he resigned to
accept the position as one of the first
commissioners of the consolidated
Kandiyohi county in 1870. After as
sisting in appointing the first county
officials he resigned his seat on the
board, having been elected as one OF
the representatives of the Sixth leg
islative district. He had never left
his home during the election, making
no canvass whatever, and when the
auditor Of Wright county vVs to for
ward the credentials he was, unable tt
find out where Railson lived, and sc
| left them with his colleague, w. G
Greenleaf, at Litchfield. In the fal
of 1872 Mr.. Railson was elected to re
present the Fortieth legislative dis
trict comprising Kandiyohi, Swift aqt
| Chippewa counties in the state sen
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-11-03
FREE ILLUSTRATED LECTURE
Noted Sunday School Worker Will
Give Lecture, "My Trip to Eur.
ich," Sunday Evening.

Those who have ever heard Mr.. A.
M. Locker give one of his illustrated
lectures, will be pleased to learn that
on Saturday evening he will give the
one entitled, my Trip to Zurich" in
stead of the address advertised on the
programs of the Sunday School Con.
vention. This will be at the First
Methodist church. Special services
will be held in that church Sunday
morning, but none in the evening, as
they join in the union service at the
Presbyterian church. The illustrated
lecture will be free and all are wei.
come.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-11-03
Smoot-SkoaIund,

Mr.. George B. Smoot and Miss
Lille E. Skoglund were united in
marriage at the Methodist parsonage
on Monday afternoon at four o'clock
This was the first wedding ceremony
that the Rev. w. A. Rice has per
formed since coming to Willmar, and
was particularly pleasing because the
young people selected his tenth wed
ding anniversary on which to be mar
ried.
Mr.. and Mrs. Smoot are well known
and their many friends. extend con
gratulations and wishes for a long
and happy welded life.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-11-03

c.. W. ODELL-As a pioneer Mr..
Railson had great deal to do with
the early shaping of affairs in this
county and state. His stand for right
and honesty at all times was an in
spiration to those who knew him in
the prime of his life. He did not live
in vain. .: II a.,
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-11-03
Will Attend Annual Conference.

Will Attend Annual Conference.
This week Rev. Cyrus Sullivan, To-
cal missionary Of the American Sun
day School Union, will leave to at.
tend the annual conference of this
society in St. Paul. This annual gath.
ering of the Northern District brings
together about fifty paid rural Sun
day school experts. The conference
convenes in the Y. M. C. A. and con
tinues for one week. National repre-
sentatives Of. the American Sunday
School Union will be present and de-
liver special addresses. Rev. Geo. P
Williams, D. D., Philadelphia, Secre
tary Of Missions; Prof. Jas. McCon
aughy, editor Of the Society's publica
tions; Hon. Judge Livingston w
Cleaveland, New Haven, Conn.,, and
Rev. w. w. tombstone of Chicago
and Rev. Joseph Wells of Des Moines
Iowa, are among them. The program
is arranged so that it emphasizes the
place and importance of the rural
Sunday school.
The American Sunday School Un
ion has more paid workers in the rur
al districts in America than any 9th
er agency attempting to cover this
field. The Northern District which is
superintended by Rev. John o. Ferris
of Minneapolis, comprises the states
Of Minnesota, North Dakota and Mon
tana, where the local force of mis-.
sionaries has more than one thousand
neighborhoods to which they minister
or are responsible for Sunday schools
now in operation. More than $4,000
pupils are enrolled in these schools
Great emphasis is laid upon Evange
listic efforts.
The American Sunday School Un'
ion is the oldest Home Missionary
Society in America. Many of the
most prominent men this country has
produced have risen from the ranks
of the little Sunday schools. many OF
which were established by the mis-
sionaries of this Society. There is
still great need for the work of the
Union in these Northern States.
These annual gatherings are times
of inspiration and help along the lines
Of carrying forward the work that
needs to be done If this generation o1
children are. to, develop into Chris
tian fathers and mothers in the fut
ure.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-11-03
Mrs. Bake Entertains.

Last Wednesday afternoon Mrs.
Anton Bake entertained twenty-four
ladies at her home on Fifth St. A
''pie face" contest furnished the CHIEF
of the afternoon. Honors
were won by Mrs. Fred Wold. Delic
ious refreshments were served at six
small tables. The living room and
dining room were decorated with vel.
low chrysanthemums and autumna]
leaves.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-11-03
Stansberry to Move.

S. E. Stansberry's Office, which has
been located in his new building on
Litchfield avenue, will be moved this
week, to the Office formerly occupied
by the Northwestern Telephone Co.,
in the old Kandiyohi County Bank
building. The Stansberry building
will be occupied by the hardware
firm of Ohsberg, Selvig and Co.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-11-03
Board Of Education Proceedings.
Willmar, Mimi, Nov. /. 1915.

of Education Of Independent School
District No. 47 of Willmar, Minnesota
was held at the Office of Supt. G. A.
Foster at the high school building on
Monday, Nov. /, 1915. at 1880 p. m.
All members present.
The meeting was called to order
by the president. .5..~
The minutes of the foregoing req.
ular meeting were read and approved.
The following bills were presented,
audited by the Finance Committee
and upon motion allowed and ordered
paid, VIZ:
G. A. Foster, postage and ex-
press, etc. .................$ 7.29
Tribune Printing Co., supplies 6.25
Houghton Mifflin Co., text
books ................. 5.26
A. H. Brown, premium Of insur-
ance policy ........-...... 1890
2. R. Olson, gravel. ......... 1900
Perry Picture Company, pic
lures ................. 2.O1
N. w. School Supply Co., sup
p!les -. .................. S.75
Andrew Peterson, supplies,
$78.38; allowed for ........ 77.50
Mccormick & Mcdonald, Hv-
cry $500; allowed Tor. ...:. 500
American Sanitary Produce
Co., supplies .............. 300
Cash Market, supplies ...... GA
c. H. Stoelting Co., supplies. 200
Ohsberg, Selvig & Co., supplies
$163.5O; allowed for ....... 1925
Nichols, Hicks, McNairy Co.,
supplies -. ............... $50
N. w. School Supply Co., sup
plies -. .................. sos
CHM & Company, supplies. 63.49
D: Elmquist, supplies. ........ ESQ
st: Paul Book & Stationery Co.,
books ................. 1886
w. M. Welch Mfg. Co., supplies 1854
A. Flanagan & Co., books. ..... 4.5O
World Book Co., books. ..... 1.13
Charles Scribners Sons, books 1900
Nels Knutson & Co., drayage. loo
F. A. Owen Pub. Co., subscrip-
t1On ......... 1.25
Sears Roebuck & Co., supplies $50
F. L. Smith, freight and dray-
age, $35.61; allowed for. .. 1926
Andrew Bjorsell, supplies. 90. 5000
]. P. Larson, lake sand fur
n1shed -. ................ ZOO
City of Willmar, electric light 1.4O
c. A. Nelson, clock. ......... 500
Bill of Willmar Tractor & Mfg. Co.
for labor, $26.75, referred back for
further details.
Bill of j. H. Virgins & Co., for lab.
or and supplies, 1888, payment de.
ferred.
Motion was made, seconded and un.
anim0usly carried that the Building
Committee be authorized to complete
the plumbing work for the closets al
the Lincoln School Building at the
lowest possible cost, also to provide
for the laying of cement floor, parti
tions and such other work as may be
necessary to properly complete the
same.
Motion was made, seconded and un
animously carried, that the Presiden
of the Board be reimbursed for his ex
penses incurred in attending thu
meeting Of the Minnesota Educationa
Association on Oct. %, 1915, in thu
sum of Seven Dollars by the Schoo
District, and that the Secretary bt
authorized to issue an order in hit
favor for such amount. Meeting ad
journed.
N. S. SWENSON, Clerk.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1915-11-03
Commercial Club Meets.

Commercial Club Meets.
Routine business transacted and a
few minor communications read was
the extent of the work done at the
October meeting of the Willmar Com
mercial Club last night. There was
a fairly good attendance of members
present.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-12
CALOMEL TODAY,
 SICK TOMORROW
Dose of Nasty Calomel Makes You Sick and You
 Lose a Days Work.

Calomel salivates! It's mercury. Calomel acts like dynamite on slug gish liver. When calomel comes into contact with sour bile it crashes into it, causing crampng and nausea.
 If you feel bilious, headachy, con- stipated and all knocked out, just go to your druggist and get 50 cent bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone. which is harmless vegetable substitute for dangerous calomel. Take a spoonful and if it doesn't start your liver and straighten you up better and quicker than nasty calomel and without mak- ing you sick. you just go back and get your money.
 If you take calomel today you'll be sick and nauseated tomorrow; be- sides. it may salivate you, while if you take Dodson's Liver Tone you will wake up feeling great, full of ambition and ready for work or play It's harmless, pleasant and safe to give to children; they like it.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-12
 TWO CITY BRIDGES
 NEARLY COMPLETE
Expected that Missouri and Linden
 Streets Structures Will Be Opened Wednesday.

Work is virtually complet'd on two of the bridges recently ordered hn'lt by the city council and the board of public affairs, these structures being located in Linden street and iH MS souri street.
 By Wednesday night both bridges are expected to be open for use hy the general public. The Linden street bridge is of wood, while the bridge in Missouri street is a concrete struc- ture, and both have been very badly needed.
 Another bridge is in course of con struction, in Tennessee street. and this also is expected to be completed within a comparatively short time. This structure will be 54 feet long, and rather an extensive proposition.
 The work of filling Missouri street to grade. which has been under way hy the city street department for Esome weeks is rapidly nearing com- pletion and within the next ten days or two weeks will also be turned open for traffic. This street is to be given a top coating of gravel and it will become enc of the principal throughfares after the improvement work is finally completed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-12

It has been proved through the evi dence of a telegraph operator that he was sending messages to the German embassy in Washington and to other places giving details of the manutac- ture and shipment of munitions for the allies in Gary. Some of these seem to have been sent in code.
 One of these messages is said to have read:
 '"The Germans in Gary are willing to do as much for the Fatherland as the Germans who are fighting for the Fathcrland in Europe"
 The pastor obtained a mastiff of great size and fierce disposition, which bit several persons 1t was meant for watchdog.
 The evening of August "A the pas tor was visited by two persons, his family being away from homo. One was a Hungarian lawyer with whom he discussed the munition shipments and the other was young woman emplove of land title company who talked with him about his flock's mortgaged homes.
 After they left, the band of assas sins came upon him alone in his study. For fear that friend might be bitten he had chained the mastiff in the cellor. It is believed he was ,lnarmed The assassins. thought to have been four in number. shot him through the throat and the body and dragged his corpse to a sandy spot not many feet from the parsonage, where they left it and strolled away. They were seen by two chauffeurs, t is thought.
 The body was found by August Schultz, who lives block east of the scene. At first the crime attracted only moderate attention It was at tributcd to the church quarrel or to the land trouble.
 Then came the story of Kayser's work for the kaisers secret service. N The federal investigators became act i've.
 The telegraph operator who is said to have sent the many messages to Count von Bernstorff and to addresses in New York, some of them openly re- lating details of intuition shipments and others being notes of such sim plicity that they were obviously de- signed to bear some hidden meaning in code, was brought into the case.
 It appears likely that the whole system of German and allied secret services will be ferreted out by the department of justice. Whether tho result of their investigations will be made public is another story. Germans Te:rOrized. The murder has terrorized the Oth CT Germans in Little Wurtemberg as the district is sometimes called
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-12

Schultz, who discovered the murd, ed body, has moved away.
 One result of the murder may to clear up the origin of numeri fires and explosions which have f en place in American plants maE munitions of war for the allies. Sir December 23, 1914, there have b at least twenty of these which V of serious importance and proba three or four times as many atten which did not result in much dam and never became public. It is believed by every membo3 the detective force in Gary that K ser was the victim of an intcrnatf al plot to silence German propaGa ists and to thwart German efforts hinder manufacture and delivery allied war supplies.
 Otto Kramer, an employe of Aetna Powder works. at Aetna, l. a few miles east of Gary, says
 was approached by two men N offered him first $500 and later $1 1 to set off a bomb in the plant.
 understood, according to his ste
 that the slain pastor had sent
 men to him. He turned down
 offer.
 On August 2s, there was an att'
 10 wreck train in the Aetna groui and the next day, an explosion acid severely burned three men.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-12

British have played the game before, too. Those three powerful agencies combined are striving to outdo the Germans.
 A most interesting warfare between the rival secret services is going on throughout the United Statcs-the whole world. for that matter. Both sides conceal themselves well. Only now and then do their intense sub tcrranean struggles 2iyC a hint on the surface
 Of course. these facts cannot be proved. but they are known in every American detective a7ency. Indeed it would be more rcmarkab ble if either side neglected to build up an clabor- ate information system in a country which is to play such an important part in the world war from now on perhaps to determine the struggle with her factories.
 Every Stranger Suspected.
 So it comes about that every man is suspicious of every other In Gary. Any stranger is taken for an International secret service man.
 And this atmosphere of suspicion is intensified and made more mysteri- ous by the strange cosmopolitan na- ture of Gary's population. Emigrants from scores of peoples are settled here.
 There are many nersons violently sympathizing with The central Euro pean powers among the German, Aus trian and Hungarian irOnWOrkerS; while the numerous Russians, Serbi- ans and other Slavs are equally bitter against the kaiser's cause.
 Many Russians and Serbs are here known to the police as men of vio- lence, who will stop at almost noth- ing when their passions are aroused and who are wrought to extereme fury by war discussion.
 Tn St. Jobn's Evangelical church where the eloquent Rev. Mr. Kaysel preached. the small congregation was divided into two cliques. the SaXons and the Bavarians. The pastor was Bavarian. He had aroused person al antipathy of many members of the Saxon verein. It was this church quarrel which first attracted the at tention of investigators of the mur- der
 Tine pastor furthermore had been instrumental in having many of his parishioners buy little home plots in the neighborhood of his church and as some of the purchasers had had hard work in meeting the payments there was some bitterness on this score also Threatening unsigned let ters had been received.
 Wired Code Messages.
 The pastor evidently feared for his safety. but not from these sources