1«Af V"5 ,' ?R^S ysj:[ m-m. INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS. years, even with this increased taxation)-before grape fruit and other trees look nice, the consolidation of rural schools and *r 5*! IS 3^ I nternational Palls Press iAg ,3T Sk ML. but nothing here compares with Min^ our roads can be put 'in Taft, which is a whole lot, and isn't Mutchings Exploration Company and Border Budget nesota in the spring time. One gets shape to give all the state sufficient it reasonable to suppose that these a little tired of the palms and other good wagon roads to meet the needs matters keep .him so busy that he Offic iaJ City Paper of International tropical growths after a while. I tell of the several communities. For instance, hasn't time to' wrestle with the railroads Falls, Minnesota you you have scenery about Walker a county now gets $3,000 from Diamond Drilling which operate in Minnesota as that beats anything in Florida for the state, with which the commissioners though they owned the state with INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS Churn Driliing all around beauty. In place of palms of that county can, by using an the reapportionment question, which PUBLISHING COMPANY you have grass with its vivid greenness, equal amount of county funds, build he once declared he'd settle with an Contract Morl^ elms and oaks with their luxuriant six miles of road. One thousand dollars GEORGE P. WATSON. Editor and Manager. extra session of the legislature with verdure that in my opinion per mile will only build a fair a state wide primary and other matters makes Florida growths look tame. SI.50 A YEAR dirt road, but at this estimate that SUBSCRIPTION which political foes desiring to Office: 602 Torrcy Bldg. DULUTH, MINN. There are views back of my home county could only construct with the annoy a good but busy man instist on Entered as Second Class Matter June 23. that in June and July would make state fund six miles of road. What thrusting upon his attention. Some 1909, at the post office at International Falls, the native Floridan turn green with Minnesota, under the Act of Congress of does this amount to in counties that people seems to think that because March 3. 1879. envy." need hunderds of miles of road Now, our governor has operated under two by using the Elwell law, instead of men's names he can do two men's THURSDAY, APRIL, 18 six miles of road, you can build sixty work. They should know better.— S O E INFELT INSTALLS COLD STORAGE miles of road and not increase Hutchinson Leader. J. C. Infelt has just completed his Clay county farmers produced over state taxation in any amount. It does LA ZENDA compressed air and amonia refrigerator $2,000,000 of potatoes last year. seem as if it is the part of good sense by which ice cold air is pumped ROOSEVELT'S PLATFORM. to build sixty miles of road this year into his cold storage on much the Our aim is to secure the real and Domestic and have it to use for the coming ten same principle that hot air is forced We are in receipt of a beautiful not the nominal rule of the people. years than to build six jniles each succeeding into our dwellings. high grade booklet illustrating the industries We propose to do away with whatever LA TRINTA year and the rest of the time An up-to-date roller carrying equipment and attractions of Cass Lake in our government tends to sesure flounder through the mud, especially for the transfer of meats from presumedly prepared by N. M. Koll, privilege. when this can be done by the use his wagons to the storage does Havana the leading citizen of that progressive We believe in securing for the people of funds we already have. away with the back-breaking carrying the direct election of United States city. "All of the territory embraced in 1 task. He is now* ready to do a successful AT ALL DEALERS senators. the Northern Minnesota Development wholesale as well as retail We believe in securing for the people The city police department are not association will be greatly enhanced meat and grocery business and will the right of nominating candidates letting anything pass through their in value by the building of the proposed have a large and assorted stock to for office, from the president down, by fingers these days along the line of system of roads. These roads select from. direct primaries. lawbreakers. As sure as a "bad man" affect almost directly more than 20,000,000 We belive in securing for the people strikes town he is either instructed to acres of fine farm lands and J. C. ANDRE WM. ANDRE MAY BUILD THROUGH. the exercise of a real and not move on or is taken to the bastile to placing the enhanced value at the ridiculously Orders in force until cancelled. merely a nominal control over their await trial, or for the arrival of officers Littlefork Times: Last week the low estimate of 50 cents representatives in office. INTERNATIONAL rumor that the Backus interests had from other counties or states. per acre, this road system will increase Our object is to give the people purchased the Deer River railway was the valuation of Minnesota control and to have the people exercise afloat. Since then we have been reliably The cash payments made to the state lands more than $10,000,000, this control in the spirit of the informed that C. S. Giles, resident EMPLOYMENT Todd county farmers last year for while the value of the roads as fire broadest sympathy and broadest desire engineer of the present construction, breaks can scarcely be estimated. If their milk they delivered to the to secure social and industrial is looking over the fifteen miles OFFICE nothing unforseen happens, a system creameries exceeded the sum of justice for every man and woman. necessary to a connection with the of good roads known as state rural $500,000, while the amount they received We stand for the adequate control Deer River line. The local office of WE fURNISH YOU HELP FREE OF CHARGE for the potatoes they sold was highways will cover the state of Minnesota of all big business and especially of the railway people here will not confirm like a spider's web. Along over $200,000. all monopoilstic big business where Woodsmen, Railroad Laborers, Dock Laborers the above, but it is not to be expected such roads the daily mail carrier will it proves unwise or impossible to that information of this nature and Laborers of all Descriptins. whistle beside which the telephone The most appaling disaster of the break down the monopoly. will be given out except by those wires will hum down which the well sea occurred last Sunday night when Second Avenue INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MINN. Prosperity can only permanently high in authority in the Backus syndicate. ladened farm wagon will roll to the the new $8,000,000 steamship Titanic come to this country on a basis of best markets and over which the went down by colliding with an honesty and of fair treatment farmer will carry his family to the iceberg off the New Foundland coast. TO INSIST ON SALE. door of the church and his children Acording to the latest reports almost ON TO INTERNATIONAL FALLS. to the steps of the school house.': St. Paul, April 13.—Returning from 1350 lives, $5,000,000 worth of diamonds Duluth Herald: We are reminded the northern part of the state where and 3,424 bags of mail were by the ever active and ever vigilant he has been for several days, Walter lost in the wreck of the new passenger POTATOES BEAT ORANGE CROP. Secretary McKenzie that the regular J. Smith, state treasurer, this morning steamer. I N E meeting of the Northern Minnesota The editor of the Elk River Star said that at an early meeting Development association will be held News is sojourning in sunny Florida of the state board of investment, he We'd like to see the business man would insist that Minnesota sell the in International Falls June 20 and 21. this winter, and many of the things who is able to keep up with the prosperity Wholesale and Retail Meats and Groceries Says Mr. McKenzie: "This meeting he is noticing down there are of interest $2,145,000 bonds which it holds and our city is enjoying these will be strictly a business meeting to to Minnesota people, especially bring the money home for internal days. Mr. Backus and his associates improvements. talk over plans for the betterment of so, after reading the glaring literature have certainly made good in the establishment our section and to arrange with the of the wonders that are performed "I have investigated the matter," of industries and the employment several committees their line of work. on southern soil. Speaking Mr. Smith said, "have received quotations of labor. We know of no We are now seeing the good of cooperation of fruit lands in Florida the writer from eastern money brokers and other city of the size of ours that is and continued boosting in says: I find that from a financial standpoint 1 enjoying a payroll of $75,000 per the large amount of advertising our "Fruit culture, however, is ve*y the sooner we rid ourselves oi these month and a good prospect of a still courties are getting, and already the similar to potato growing in Minnesota, bonds the better. larger one. I have just installed the most modern "We bought them for $1,865,000 and work we have done is bearing fruit. some of the orchards look flourishing, Amonia Refrigerator Plant and Cold while others right alongside can sell them for $1,850,000. There are It behooves us, however, to redouble There is no need of importing theatre look as though they were going to school districts, municipalities, drainage our efforts for Minnesota, and keep Storage Warehouse with capacity enough troops to this city when our local districts and road builders that seed. The most flourishing ones are the good work up." Dramatic club can put on as difficult to take care of Meats and Groceries in are paying 5 per cent. We could bring those whose owners are right on the Well said, and truly. a play as "The Matchmaker" as perfectly It is none too soon to be making ground and live there the year that money home and lend it at 4 per car lots, because we are in a position to as it did last week, for the benefit around. The non-resident rarely gets cent almost immediately. In fact, plans for attending this meeting, and of the public library. We only there are applications in now for between seeing to it that it is as lively and much return from his investment, buy cheap. We can sell cheap and will -regret that the audiences were not $400,000 and $500,000." representative and inspiring as the and believe me, any man who invests I larger. The reserved seat idea does give are customers the benefit of our ad­ in fruit orchards with expectations i£~ meetings that have preceded it. Besides -not take well in our city. A popular CALL FOR CONVENTION. the pleasure of co-operating in of reaping a competency without being vantages. price for all is what "takes," especially this splendid work, the results of on the ground to personally superintend Chairman E. E. Smith and Secretary for a public benefit. it, will be disappointed in which are becoming so apparent, the J. A. O. Preus of the republican •A __________ trip will offer to many an opportunity the result, and be pretty sure to go state central committee have issued ''Jll4way up here in northern Minne- of seeing a new section of Minnesota, in the hole. And further, the man the call for the republican state delegate 5sbtU the people are wondering what and a very interesting and important who comes down here to make a business convention1. The call specifies "thff Voters in St. Paul are going to of fruit growing without practical one. that the convention shall meet in the "clj ih' tltere city elections on May 7th.! On to International Falls! experience and knowledge, will armory at Minneapolis at noon on *tl6rberi P: Keller, the present maygood Htewise be disappointed. It is a business May 16. It also provides that district Everybody is invited to inspect our plant. government and RURAL HIGHWAYS by itself, and more complicated conventions shall be held on May rthe. ^$1§''' t8J rule, while Bremer than the average outsider suspects. 15, although that order is not considered J. C. INFELT 'sf^hd^'^Mi^ih^ machine. The editor Still there is much money in the growing binding on districts in which CONTEMPLATED sfficerely hopes that the of oranges and grape fruit, as there is a regularly chosen congressional '"vfotei-l of ^tfr^&fMtal city will set the has been demonstrated by those making committee. The only district "Vrr?pfMno£government and re- International Falls, Minn. Telephone No. 11 I a business of it. I believe, though, convention provided for in the call is that the average of those engaged in Continued from pape 1 that of the fourth district and Geo. hiov Jo 0B. I My oi 0'd.lj, Ik. scientific farming in Minnesota who in mind the need of protecting? this F. Dix is named to call that convention the most rock-ribbed succeed will more than balance those Louisiana, vast wealth to the state. to order at noon on May 15 at democratic of the fruit grower in this part of "I have named a large number of Federation hall in St. Paul. Raw&sH It's Quality That Makes 3 go republican this tall Florida. Another thing that we notice .threatens to .go repu towns through which the proposed The apportionment of delegates by Mi^If(?i^i?fw^ajiT^fete-ious strang- a good deal about in glowing advertisements state rural higways shall run. This congressional districts gives the ilki,*®(o^ttlTl^f:iftft)CiiwMtCl?t(Aeon car- is truck farming. A is done for the purpose of showing the eighth 135, as follows: truck farm has to have special advantages. ifoon ^r§°ago, fifeay,cMave com- readers of your paper who own lands Aitkin, 9 Anoka, 10 Carlton, 10 The soil has to be just right, and those -desire to purchase Cook, 6 Isanti, 9 Itasca, 11 Kanabec, who MfWThitr# tfce'Tftfri&Po* tW^§wspapas and I have' seen no truck farms of homes in this fertile land belt wherfe 8 Koochiching, 8 Lake, 7 Mille morelthan two or three acres. It is they may be able to get lands' near Lacs, 8 Pine, 10 Sti Louis, 39. •l?rl# -tt^fcehiocracy, true, however, that they have remarkable good substantial highway's. Total "delegates, 1,106. Necessary yields and some get big results. if th^M^^pW1^"5- "How. many miles pf road and what to control, 554. ,^eee4s_m its ettmy LO put sugai on Celery, lettuce)' cabbagfes," etc., aire is the probable' cost of" tlici same lfi the g'rowp. here veiy successfully. ERICSBURG. systems of roads you refer to? "Speaking of vegetation, Florida Several Ericsburg men acquired "There are about 1,850 nules. of *J»tTP*d«y|ahpTtf *00 *»archistic hjasn't anything W Minnesota in that real estate at the state land sale last roads and the estimate for these roads week. Among them were Gust Holm, respect. Of course there is consid leibejr |f(isl ^i^a4/r^&grs wjjl probably be $2,250,600. This lilt World/' a cnmilifftir nrganiyation erable tropical vegetation of one kind Peter Matheson, Gust Franson, Chas. aounds like a vast sum, tfut under the or another, and as a novelty the Johnson and Martin Matheson. About in Orange county, Calif., went to Elwell law this amount of money is palms, cedars, pine, like oaks, orange, the same time others acquired land San Onofre, San Diego county, Calif., available for the buildng of all of from private parties, namely, Arthur where they were met by a large body these roads this summer and without of armed dep0^^A&0M§^M-i§ftt« Bergand, Fred Lindeman. Gust Holm iirtynfrf(?fease in the state taxation. zens, who cofflpe®edbjtls4®i f±a skneiel purchsaed the Grant Watt place. Wh$t is more, the amount now PRESTON &CO. ,and kiss the American flag. They Grant Watt and family left Friday raise# naaeh year and distributed to evening for the Dalles, Oregon, where were then divj^d f|Xe $hf0$ff/3fjei}tccounties in the state for Famous. They are made in St. Paul. Backed by forty-two under command of deputies, ahd a they will make their home in the future. Jbujldipgtof, roads, can build all these line of march ^.al^farmed pack $Jjthe jerfve more than $4,500,000 years of piano experience. If, with our knowledge and exper­ Genuine Calabash Pipes all Theodore Enke and his two boys county line aira Tn«?ri ^^mpfefied^o 'fw'ttie bliirahf^Tof roads elsewhere in from Zululand, South Africa ience, we are conscientious in what we say, this knowledge and sing "The Stafl^'Spiriglt&ba Bfemsenft have arrived from Staples and are irfKfc3§lat£ put it in another When the cotfatyr. diner busy getting ready for the rest of •toaW all. dgjflntoddstj that our commit- 1912 Designs experience is worth something to you in your selection of a the family. They will reside on their they were sta$§«J iftf omy one" about farm west of town this summer. road track with the admonition^ nev^er piano. Then, too, we can save you money. Also G. B. D. long briars. Miss Minnie Matheson and Lyman to return to San Diego cSuntj^tt under this law, leaving two-thirds of B. B. B. ownmake every county would take similar steps Matheson were at home over Sunday the entire fund untouched. with all of anarchistic dispositions A. Peterson visited his family "If the so-called Dunn amendment B. xnudKoaraiQ^ed&il andfuiAesfcA All English and Canadian over Sunday. sfcalAcM^ at tie ^Ixjeleetion—and Several of our Ray neighbors at I believe ind siifcerefjrHojie it may— brands tobacco. tended the Easter ball here the night this will increase the funds if the leg*^Nm*Mw|ies, JAMES A. TERRY of the 13th. Some of our eflc$p»nkls fa Per ?ent- 300 The Ice in the Rat Root is break is, the fund will be if the full rate is give Gov. Eberhart credit for the good PRESTON A CO. ing up and we expect to see the river .things in his record which is neither levied, just four times as large as it clear of ice after one or two more In The Marvin Music Stores FORT PRANCES, ONT. sunshiny days. good roads, good crops, fine weather, like the Elwell law, we must wait, for at* 'iv le^f .51 -A k" 'C n« t* A $ j. ,),( j. Kl /'T Ti- sassmmmm