INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS I" HIGH AND GRADE SCHOOLS positions as operator before he arrived at New York. From that I,.- ion. but This law provides an appropriation of an amount equal to time to the present he has made by his own efforts and expended not more than the state appropriation and not to exceed $10,000.00 COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES the sum of nearly five hundred thousand dollars. per year, providing that the protection is given to the watershe Mr. Edison has one of the most extensive laboratories, erected at forests of navigable streams, and the state must have laws govern^ Menlo Park. Its facilities for getting out inventions are far superior ing fire protection. The appropriation is small but has done wonderful to any other laboratory in the world. It is not an uncommon service and show a proper spirit to be cultivated. Continued from Page 3.) thing for Mr. Edison to make an invention in the morning, and before Mr. W. T. Cox, State Forester, says that Minnesota has three night receive the working model for the same from his chief million acres of state and school land. About one third of this is place. Secondly, if he continued under the disguise an innocent assistant. The analysis of labor is so perfect that the whole establishment non-agricultural, and under our state constitution it must be sold. man would have to suffer death at the gallows in place of himself, moves along like clock work. Edison is seen among We cannot hope to get over five dollars an acre for this land. The the guilty one. His respect for duty and honor decided his fate and his men, genial and jovial but moving through all as the Grand probability is that it never will be sold. If it should be sold, we he was taken back tu prison serve until his second escape. This Master spirit, he has proven himself to be. The laboratory is the would realize five million dollars. He has figures to show that white 10 was done through the saving of another's life and at the risk of his fulfillment of the unexpressed hopes of the inventor for years past, pine will grow at the rate of from five hundred to one thousand Own. and would seem to be one of his greatest achievements. But he board feet per acre per year. On this basis it would produce ft jean Valjean was quick and keen and often when in the closest considers the Great Central station on Pearl street, New York City, own value every year to the state when otherwise it would be useless of his enemies he escaped when they thought it least possible. his greatest. He undertook the task when there was absolutely in a commercial way. He was unselfish to the extreme. He never thought of himself nothing to follow from, as an example. There were no finger posts, At this time it would be appropriate for me to remark thatan amendment but did everything for the happiness of Cosette. He gave up his and beaten paths, nothing but darkness and obscurity. Everything to the constitution will be voted at the fall election for Whole happiness and for her sake saves Marius's life. had to be invented, dynamoes, regulators, indicators, meters, lamps it the setting aside of this one million acres as the state forest. Let This was the crowning sacrifice. Cosette was his all, Marius and numerous devices. All these were invented, put into practical be hoped that such a commendable proposition will be carried and ^was about to take her away from him. In an extremity where he form and the great work has become a wonder of electrical history. that International Falls will go on record with a big vote in its might have left the young man to perish, in one of the most exciting Biography favor. descriptions of the book he takes him upon his shoulders and with Mabelle Beaton was born in Superior, Wis., Jan. 6, 1895. She Biography his pursuers at his very heels, makes his way through the sewer of commenced school at the age of six.. For five years she attended the On Sunday, the twelfth day of July, Earl S. Pendergast was 1896, the city of Paris and to a place of safety. It would seem that the old public schools at Superior. Upon the removal of their parents to J°m about two miles from the village of Silver Lake, Minn. The Irian had done enough. Marius and Cosette are happy and he is at Duluth the next two years were spent in Duluth schools. She completed irst six years of his life was spent under the beautiful elms and oak.«—* peace in their happiness. her eight grade course in Montana, graduating with a class around the home. At the age of seven he was taken to the schqei' But no, the two find out that he is Jean Valjean, the ex-convict of four. Her high school course has been rather venturesome at Silver Lake, but after a month's schooling there, was taken to and they turn from him, leaving him the supreme example of loneli She attended the High school at Superior for one month, during her Hutchinson, Minn., to live with his aunt the rest of the year and attend liess and pathos. And at his death bed the ungrateful young people freshman year, then for the rest of the term at International Falls school. The next two years of schooling were spent at Silver become reconciled to him, thus allowing him to die in comparative, She studied like a good sophomore should at International Falls, Lake, when at the age of nine, his parents moved to International peace. and then was a junior at Eveleth, Minn. This year was very enjoyable Falls, where they still reside. He attended school here in the fourth Times have changed. Instead of shuddering and looking askance but she says that she is glad to be a graduate of the new Inernational grade with Annie Shelland as teacher the year 1906 and has been attending &t the ex-convict, we do all honor to the man who conquered when Falls High school. this school ever since. He expects to take up a course in all was against him and we are glad to call him great when he stands the university, which will probably be a four year course in forestry. up and says, "I am Jean Valjean." Biography REFUSES FEE DEMAND DISTRICT NEWS Minnie Mathison was born in Baldwin, Wisconsin, April 10, 1894. She commenced school in her seventh year. For four years she attended The demand of the state game the public schools in Baldwin and Hersey, Wisconsin. Her WILDWOOD parents then moved to Pequot, Minn., where she continued school and fish commission that Samuel to the seventh grade. In 1908 her parents moved to Ericsburg, G. Iverson, state auditor, credit Hanibal Johnson, an old homesteader Minn., where they still reside. In 1909 she attended the Lntheran the commission with $30,000 obtained Ladies' Seminary at Red Wing. While here she took up music of Wildwood, passed last year from hunting away last Wednesday after along and domestic science besides her eight grade work. She entered license fees, is based on a teehnicality, illness. He leaves a wife and little first year high school at Hudson, Wisconsin, and completed the last according to Mr. IversonV^ three years at International Falls. daughter and also a son by a formal reply to the request. Th«§ previous marriage. They have authority quoted to the commission have the sympathy of the entire is not sufficient, Mr. Iverson community in their bereavement. "EDISON" declares, and he will not turn Mr. and Mrs. Gust Erickson are Bv Mabelle Beaton. entertaining Mrs. Erickson's over the fee on these grounds. mother, Mrs. Jensen from near The controlling enactment, according Inventions multiply with increasing rapidity, and discoveries flash Baudette. Mr. and Mrs. Jensen to Mr. Iverson, is chapter as lightning over the land. Associated with the progress is Thomas were some of the early settlers New Alexander Baker High School ,International Falls, Minn. of 140 of the general laws !Edison, the acknowledged leader in applied electricity a veritable in Wildwood but moved to Canada 1913 which makes specific appropriations about four years ago. captain of industry, of whose many and useful mechanisms have of for the protection "FORESTRY" Mrs. Edna Johnson and little become to men of thought, the wonder of the world. game and fish. By Earl Pendergast. daughter Jessie, left Friday for Mr. Edison received the highest official and social honors at the "It is apparent," says Mr. Iverson, Annandale to visit her grandwfmother. The conservation of the nation's resources is becoming a very Paris exposition of 1889, and a* the World's Columbian Exposition "that the use of the word serious problem and occupying public attention more and more every At Chicago, 1893. Evidences of Edison were everywhere visible. John Bursack was a business 'fund' or 'funds' in the laws did year. Of these resources that which is the most important is our caller at Northome, and also made not intend to create a separat^ His name is enrolled with the great scientists of the world. forests. a trip to the county seat and filed and distinct cash fund, such aR~ Edison's father said of him that he never had any boyhood days. Forestry, as a science in the United States is in its infancy. Hereto-fore permanent for the nomination for commis- the permanent school, His early amusements were steam engines and mechanical devices. vast areas of timber have furnished all our demands for of S"v/rer l°r district. university or other division Edisr.n spent his early days at Milan, Erie county, Ohio. Milan was Mr. Peter Dahlgren, who has lumber without any apparent diminition of supply. It is only within blic but were intended been suffering from a bad case f. .. a prosperous place with its surrounding hills, old forests and rivers, recent years that the tremendous increase pf consumption has of poisoning, is recovering, under ., ., *ected so co all of which proved an excellent basis for the health and welfare of called our attention to the terrible onslaught of our forests, which the efficient care of Dr. E. A. s^lou^ be Paid into the state Edison. Skaro. treasury and used for the general will in a short time, unless wisely regulated, completely destroy this He was a chubby faced laughing boy from the first. He knew all Alvin Olson returned to his expenses of maintaining the declaim valuable resource. Therefore the attention of some of our ablest Of the songs of the canal men Jbefore the age of five. in Plum Creek, after an partment. men is being earnestly called to the problem that some wise solution It is a curious fact that Edison never attended the public school. absence of some time. "By chapter 140 of the general for it may be found. Miles Heath was a Northome law of 1913, the legislature aimvisitor His only university was "home" and the instructor his mother, to The original timber areas of the U. S. given by the Encyclopedia last Friday. ed to do away with the re-approSchool whom he owes much if not all that has made him great. Britannica, about the year 1880, constituted about four tenths of receipts^ examinations this week priation of miscellaneous Young Edison began public life as a train boy on the Grand Trunk its entire surface. Of this nearly one tenth had already been W? fr^ll next Thursday. etc. ,- such as Hce fi Railroad between Port Huron and Detroit, a position selected by We are all sorry to have Miss destroyed and of the remainder, a surprisingly large portion produced Altstadt leave us, but we under- t',er^of,ore h?d cred- his father because it afforded his son an opportunity to learn something been unservicable timber. stand she will teach in Northome added to the appropria- a of practical life. As a train boy he was a decided success. Throughout the domestic and industrial world, you will find the next year. tions for departmental support. And his business increased so rapidly that he was obliged to hire products of the forest utilized in every form. There is hardly a Miss Rousse accompanied her The clear intent being that each lour assistants. husband on his mail trip Friday, legislature should in specific useful article manufactured, but that the whole or a part of it is made Edison demonstrated his genius early in this vocation by telegraphing of Mr. and Mrs. Gust Erickson amounts provide for the needs of wood. Its commercial usefulness is almost more essential to in advance of his train, the head lines of the war news and Mrs. Jensen spent Sunday at the various departments of govNordby's. our welfare than any other one commodity. In addition to this, the columns which were properly bulletined at the stations and which ernment for the ensuing years forests are of inestimable value to the development of agriculture, Mr. and Mrs. O'Laughlin called and that all receipts from miscellaneous caused his papers to go off at almost electric speed. While disposing in that forested regions retain moisture in the soil during that season at Banner Park farm Saturday sources should go. to the of his papers it soon occured to young Edison and this is evening. of the year when moisture is mostly needed. Timbered areas prevent general revenue fund. another demonstration of his inventive resources that he might as The Wildwood Farmers' Club the rapid drying of the soil by the winds on adjacent open "I must respectfully advise hold their monthly meeting at well get up a paper of his own. fields, retard floods in these localities where floods are apt to occur, that my construction of the law Napoleon Rousse's next Saturday. Attached to the train was an abondoned springless freight car and modify temperature by preventing sudden changes, thereby does not authorize me to comply Business of importance to be having a room set apart for smoking purposes. This was selected contributing to the well-being of both life and property. brought up and finished. with the request." as a center of his first grand enterprise. He purchased three hun The destruction of our forests during the past generation is almost dred pounds of type and very soon was the editor and publisher of beyond comprehension. ^irst comes the railroad with CHILDREN'S CORNER a little paper 12x16 inches, issued weekly and called "The Grand an endless demand for ties, timber and lumber, then comes the Trunk Herald." It became quite celebrated as the-only journal in lumberman he in turn is followed by destructive fires, then comes the world printed on a railway train. In this same car Edison entered the settler, who, with his ax, from the forest shadows carves his BY LAURETTA DAVITT the great world of chemical law. He obtained a few necessaries home and field, then as if to add the last straw, tree diseases in thier and opened a laboratory. He saw at once the wonderful and varied various forms set in to complete the work of destruction. The result characteristics of material things and the mysterious power and is that at the present time, there remains of the original timber OUR RECESS good oner possibilities of the elements. This adventure met with downfall supply but a very small fraction. "Whee-ee-ee! Yeow!!!" "Out* When a bottle of phosphorous, from which the water had leaked Ding rings the gong. "Books Mr J. Garvin Peters, representing the U. S. Forestry Service Touched'er with the ball!" One day, tumbled to the floor. The car was ignited and confusion aside! Stand! Pass!" We in an address, recently said that in the U. S., statistics show that the Y'u never!" "Our inning" reigned. A conductor came to the rescue and in his efforts to rescue march from the room and hurry Thus the time speeds swiftly and average natural annual increase of timber is about twelve cubic out of doors where the sun and to prevent further accidents, threw overboard not only the profitably away. Swiftly because feet per acre. Now add to this the loss in the various ways just mentioned. shines but even if it doesn't shine chemical outfit but the printing establishment as well. enjoyed. every moment is heartily It requires but little speculation to show that the end is there's the fresh air, healthful exercise Profitably because we are out o^ Every day led Edison out further into the exciting wonders of fast approaching. in the open, and real fun. doors filling our lungs with fresh electricity. He next ventured into the arts of telegraphy. With Now comes the solution of this problem. We are face to face "Let's choose up." You're on air and making ourselves more tiis assistant, James Ward, Edison set up a short line. The first with it. What are we going to do A good move is to have federal my side, Hilding," "Here, Ernest r* healthy thus fitting ourselves to attempt to generate, a current was by means of two huge cats rubbed and state laws providing for and encouraging reforestation by those You're on lt's side, Sammy." do better with our studies and vigorously at each end of the line at an appointed time. The who are removing timber, to promote state reforestation of such "Which side is Mr. Pierce work in school and out. Improving tnly success attending this was the sudden disappearance of the on?" "Aw, that ain't fair!" "I'm lands as are better fitted for forestry, than agriculture or other purposes, our selves in every way that Cats. first batter!" Edison held his first position as a telegraph operator at Mt. co-operation between federal state and private owners and we may be better qualified for the Then the game isstarted in dead Clemens, near Port Huron, He was soon advanced to a position at life that is before us. the employment of competent and trained men for forestry service. earnest. the latter place. He worked industriously night and day that he Of course there are some who A specific example may be pointed out here in Minnesota. One "Strike one do not play base ball they are lnight improve himself as an operator. After six months at Port of the most serious problems with which the state has to contend, Strike two! mostly the smaller children, but fiuron he resigned and left for Stratford, Canada, but he soon returned is that of forest fires, as it is not Only the preservation of forests "He hit!" "Run Robert!" they too have enough to interest^ to his native land, discharged because of trying an original experiment. but the life and property, as is well illustrated by the Hinckley and "Make third base!!" them out in our school yard to While operating at Indianapolis,^^Edison invented his Baudette fires. The favorable attitude of co-operation by the federal "Now, its Gertie's turn!" make them come out in the open lirst successful telegraph instrument. He held several different government is shown in the Weeks law,which is in the right direct- "Hit it Fatty!" "Soak 'er a air and sunshine to play. «r 1J •t 1 JsC'rf