The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1919-02-22

Relief work At Cloquet impresses
many people az q gigantic business
enterprise. They comment on this
practice: Of requiring notes !. and
speak Of lumber being issued to set!
tiers ana city dHellers which is paid:
for by the.relief. i commission: but,
very oftensa note IL demanded from
the party who gets the lumber. In.
cidentally,, 1t fss charged in Cloquet
that the Johnson-W entworth Co.. a
Weyerhaeusefsc concern, Is unloading
lot of its rotten lunib6r stock on
the poor hre victims at stif figures.
It. is alleged that the Johnson
Wentworth Co. c' receives .%$36. per
thousand Tor No. = boards. ,$33 for
No. 3 :boards sand $50 for No. 4
boards: 3 Sons Of the stuff, 1t is al
legged, is not entitled to be c1assed
as second culls. - - .,'>~.. =: -,
Mrs. Sam Deharoshie was given
one Of the, small-sized shacks. Later
on she decided that there was no
future for her In C1oquet, so she
sold the lot on which the shack
stood. She then. was asked by the:
Relief committee to pay back the
price Of the shack.
Reputable Cloquet citizens allege
that employees Of the, big lumber
companies did not. need orders for
goods or other relief supplies. Other
working men had to go through all
the customary Relief commission
red tape and, even then. many Of
them declare that they did not get
proper relief. .~,.".~. 80. i: >..:>...
The Superior Red Cross did much
that, by rights belonged to the
Relief commission. Mike Ryan and
family fed to Superior from Clio
quet. The family came down with
influenza. The Superior Red Cross
found them and paid for Afurnitare
and gave other relief. 49,. I IL, ~
The local Red eross in Superior
did not hesitate or.quibble over red
tape in sending Mr., and Mrs. Beau-
pre-, an aged couple, to their rela-
tives in Lndiana.: a. married 1soH
developed tuberculosis and was sent
to. Walker; MINI. This family. as
we'll as that: Of. Mike Ryan, lives
back of the Lightbody & Wingate
store In Superior: - !. ::&&' .t.:-'> %SF
It may &be TINT Col, Eva and his
bevy Of Florence: Nightingale bird
les have. bushels. of documents to
prove Il t none Of these families
were worthy or quick and liberal
relief but the Superior Red Cross
folk needed their heart-throbs and
took chance. &C.,. 3. =. ~. -
In the issue of January g., 1919,
the Cloquet Pine Knot, Senator vi
bert's personal organ, contained a
notice, signed by Fred D. Vibert, as
follows, viz: p.
RED. CROSS NOTICE.
Owing to the fact that am leaving
to attend the. forthcoming session OF
the legislature and want to get my
work in connection with the Red Cross
cleaned up as soon as possible. it is
! desired that all those who gave notes
for ranges, and who have offered at
that time to pay. or who can pay now,
are requested to clear up part or all
Of these obligations. Pay was not
taken at the time Of issuance Of the
notes owing to the congestion of the
work, but should be made now in
order that final reports can be COM
piled. Payment should be made by
check, II possible. at the Red Cross
warehouse at any time. Twill be back
here for q time for the week-ends to
close up this work..
In the Pine Knot, issue Of Jan.
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peared, viz: ~ - -
RED CROSS NOTICE.
The relief committee win soon go
over the notes given for stoves; and
those whose circumstances warrant
the granting Of stoves will have their
notes returned through the mail. II,
In the opinion Of the committee. some
OF those who have already paid should
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