l)-,J will join them, this week. He can be sure it will be early in the iv 4^ w' •'«., 1 week too. The Rev. gentleman Minnesota International Falls, does not like solitude such as reigns when four little pair of feet BIRCHDALE SLIVERS are missing from the house, June ioth a birthday surprise The Park Ave. Sunday school HAS party was given for Miss Selma 1 held Chiddrens' Day exercises Free Waterway Across the Isthmus Created When President Webb. Baseball proved to be [yesterday the 22nd. A number LOCATION, POWER AND RAW MATERIAL Wilson Touched Button—^Possibilities Were Seen by Balboa—Story popular game of the day even for from town attended, and enjoyed all the girls. Along with the refreshments of the Panama Canal and of French These Combined Guarantee a Populous Center of Activity. the exercises very much. It certainly delightful melodies shows preservance on the and American Engineering. from the phonograph were enjoyed. part of those interested to have Miss Selma received many LOTS FOR REIN1T the children so well trained in New York—For more than 400 in was followed by a tremendous 1848 gifts from her friends. years the vision of a canal across the their parts where there are so The Koochiching Company will leasee volume of traffic 'between the Atlantic Mr. H. W Broeffle accompanied Isthmus of Panama has fired the imagination and Pacific coasts, and for fifteen few and each one has such a distance lots at International Falls, for building of the world, Frank Parker with his daughter Gertrude, went years practically all of this traffic was to travel. The M. E. Sunday purposes on the basis for the fivQ Stockridge writes in Popular Mechanics. by way of the isthmus over the Panama" to Boucherville, Can.., to assist school will hold their ChildTens' The vision became a reality on railroad, opened-in 1855 by Americans y«ars of current taxes and assessments in a barn riisin^ at Mr. Vipdnd's. Day service Sunday Jiine October 10. 1913, when President under a concession from the republic and six per cent per annum the 91^ Pev. T. W. Howard conducts of New Granada now known as 28th. The attendance at Sunday sessed valuation. Lease? foe ton^ep ttloruing church, services at 11130 Colombia. The explorations and surveys school and Epworth league has and a good growing Christian for the railroad, a work that Is period will provide for an apprwiiM decreased considerably' owing to said to have cost the life of a man Endeavor Society meet every the end pf each peri^ absence of many on their vacation. every for tie, led' to much more Sunday evening while -Mr. Howard Buildings must comply with city accurate knowledge of the topography conducts evening services at and. geology of the isthmus than had ordinances. a^nd jb^e appropriate to th^ Frontier. previously been available. President neighborhood, and must, in case of res|% WILDWOOD Grant in 1869 asked congress to take Wednesday night June ioth the dence property, be placed on the samet up the matter of a canal. The only Farmers Club met in the schoolhouse. Miss Sema Ettestad arrived action was a resolution providing for building line as other houses in blockx The main topic discussed Friday from Balfour, N. D., to see an exploration by officers of the navy Was the picnic and it was decided and the creation of a commission in her father who is very ill. to consider their reports. Then to postpone it 'till the glorious 1872 Residence Lots from $200 up Business Lots from $1,260 up Everyone turned out last Tuesday in May, the republic ef Colombia 1876, 4th on account of the 'skeeters' to help out their candidates Industrial Lots from $600 up Terms to Sqit Att granted a concession for the construction which kept us uncomfortably at the primary. of a canal Colon to from C. B. KINNEV jumping that night. A good prowas Panama, the terminals of the Panama Wednesday, June 17th, 1914, is enjoyed in spite of railroad, to Lieut, liucien Napoleon a day that will not soon be forgotten Bonaparte Wyee, an officer of the Hiosquitoes, however. The main SALES MANAGER by the people of Plum French army. Entertainment was an amusing Creek and Wildwood for it was In a new French company was 1894 International Falls Min^cscita tlarkie play given by Messrs. Russell on that day that A. B. Hostetter organized and work was resumed. In Ball and Leif Schonsby. the United States congress created 1899 of Duluth, T. G. Patterson o? Rev. Leonard of Warroad visited the isthmian canal commission Minneapolis, and D. B. Jewell of to examine all practicable routes and in Birchdale last and preached International Falls visited our to report which was the most prao Sunday morning and evening. town. These men are expert agriculturalists ticable and feasible for a canal "under Messrs. Clarence, Ernest and the control, management and ownership sent out by the N. Walter Ruberg are quite busy this of the United States." The commission Northern Minnesota Hospital P. to bring the gospel of good reported two alternative plans, week building a large crib near farming to our very doors. A. B. one for a canal at Panama and the the store. Hostetter who has charge of the other across Nicaragua. It estimated Mrs. J. Hard and her son, Westley, county agricultural agents in this the cost of a Panama canal at $156,378,258 were visitors in Beaudette Blowing Up of Gamboa Dike. and of the Nicaragua canal at. northern section, talked on rotation Woodro.w Wilson in the White House last week. But because the route $200,540,000. of crops and feeding cattle. at Washington pressed a button which from New to San Francisco Now comes the good old swimming York T. G. Patterson talked on hogs sent the electric current 2,000 miles to would be several hundred miles short- time! Hurrah! Just dive explode 40 tons of dynamite which and sheep and D. B. Jewell, our into the old Rainy at Birchdale blew up the last barrier to a free waterway own agricultural agent, talked on and enjoy yourself. across the isthmus. chickens ancl general topics. Cattle "Gamboa's busted!" exclaimed the Mr. F. G. Wells of St. Paul' our brought by club members was president he pressed the telegraph as honorable former principal is key. casualness of his remark judged and Wildwood has some The again visiting here. Really, Birchdale was a tribute to the engineers of the stock to grade from. The people has its attractions for some United army, to whom the dig- I States of Plum Creek and Wildwood one ging of the canal has been simply "another alright. and all pronounced this one of the in routine of their regular job" the Our assistant store clerk, Mr. events in the historv of our town one that called for no work and Ole Kloves, who has been with special ceremonies to brass bands or The N. P. took the right method us through the winter and spring, glorify it. With the same simplicity! this timeof reaching the farmers. is now leaving for Thief River the first vessel to pass through the A couple of years ago they sent famous Culebra cut, after the break-1 Falls where he. will visit his sister. out a train and only three from ing the Gamboa dike had let in the of Raymond Hard and Tom Howarc! water, was an ordinary rowboat, /while this town were able' to attend at spent Monday fishing at Sault a humble but useful tugboat was the R. H. Monohan, M. D. Elizabeth Monohan, M. D. Northome- but Wednesday over Rapids. It is evidently a good crafi of any kind to make the first ., Mary C. Ghostley, D« over sixty were in attendance. pspsage through the great Gatun place to cast your fish line as they locks. Office over International State Bank. International Falls, Mm cauht a dozen fish apeice. While the work at Panama is still 1 FOR SALE far from completed, yet the canal wk :h the first Spanish explorers vis-1 NORTHOME ualized is today an accomplished fact, Large tract of good valley Your correspondent has been On September 25, 1543, Vasco Nunez farming land just thrown open rather remiss in gathering items de Balboa climbed the peaks of the for free settlement, in Oregon. continental divide and discovered the from this village for your columns. LIST YOUK BEST BARGAINS Over 200,000 acres in all. Good Pacific ocean, which he named "the Lay it up against the mosquitoes. South sea." From where Balboa stood climate, rich soil, and does not They are the principal his new ocean lay directly south, because require irrigation to raise finest topic for conversation these days. of the S-shaped twist' of the isthmus, crops of grain, fruit, and garden which brings the Pacific entrance The weather gets a rest. truck. For large map, full instructions to the canal not only southward but Have furnished me every month by Central Work on the roads by the eastward of the Atlantic terminal. and information, and Northwestern Construction Co. Peal Estate Dealers' Association lists of Best When Balboa's report of his discovery a plat of several sections of exceptionally is being pushed rapidly. Autos reached Spain, it was accompanied good claims, send Bargains in Real Estate in Every State in the are being run over the roads as by the recommendation that a. canal First View of Canal Since Blowiny Jp $340 to John Keefe, Eugene, be immediately dug across the isthmus:. 1 of Gamboa Dike. they are at present as far west as Union, including Minnesota and Koochiching What the explorer had in mind Oregon three years a U. S. the R. Hledlar farm and each of er by way Nicaragua, and considering County. If you have Anything to Sell List it surveyor and timberman. An some six or eight miles but judging existing French concessions in •opportunity to get a good fertile it as from the looks of the wheels Panama, the commission gave its with me. It will be sent to Five Thousand free homestead near town nd belief that the Nicaragua route was on their return, they encounter more desirable under the circumstances. cities of the United States and Canada, market.—Adv. a few mud holes on the way The effect of this report was E. P. Elingson is remodeling the —CALL AND SEE ME— to induce the Panama French company Northome hotel, putting in a to offer to its concession the P. WANTED—We wish to know United States for S. PENDERGAST $40,000,000 in January, cement foundation and basement The isthmian cana! the personal experience of any 1902. commission which will improve it very much advised the purchase and congress |one farming in this county, whois in appearance and also in value. REAL ESTATE AGENT authorized the president to buy interested in BOOSTING his dis M. C. Paul spent Sunday with the property of the Panama company, all International Falls, Minnesota jirict. Tell us whnt YOU have including a majority of the stock his brother at Brainerd. done since coming to this county of the Panama Railroad company, and Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Troy are to obtain from Colombia perpetual —Send a picture of yourself and spending the summer on their control of a strip "of land six miles if possible. Give your post-: f:trm 1— farm in Bridgie township. wide, through which to build the canal: office address. Write, Colombia refused to grant this Miss Anna Gaveranof Minneapolis, J* -.UUJ W. R. McKenzie, Secretary, control, but In November, 1903 ten, 1 is spending the summer 1-rxc* jfi& BEFORE BUYING YOUR Northern Minnesota Development months later, the state of Panama declared With Mrs. L. M. Garrison. itself: Independent Within- a 1 Association, Minneapolis, Minn.' Northome will celebrate the month a treaty had beien negotiated glorious fourth this vgar, in:-the with" thfc new republic by" which' the |F^s 1 United States was given control of a Usual manner., but judging from strip of land tea:-miles wide. lor' the EYES. the display of fire crackers, large SEE purpose of a'canal* The French company's and small, in the store windows, property^ was bought and in Dr. Larson* the Optometrist, it will be a "safe and sane" celebration. FebMkrjr, a CbfamiSBidtl for the 0. M. LARSON ill Will be attheHotel Victoria, cons traction of ac&nal was* appointed. In May of that Tear work was begun riday and Sat urday, July 10 & 11 The ladies of the WV C. T. U. where the French company had abandoned are arranging a rest room for pr-rr rtff'wK it, In June, 1905, a board of ^those coming from ^a distance &>nsulting engineer* w&r appointed to 'consider whether the"»naI-shOitlid be that they may be able to better at. sea level or .with elevating looks.. Care for their children ••and enjoy The canal itself, from deep water to the sports at the same time. deep water, ta 50 miles long, its general Consult him if. you are afflicted We would be very pleased if direction from the Atlantic entrance with defective eyes or if you need some- of our friends from the to the Pacific end is from glasses. —Adv.July 9 Falls would feel disposed to celebrate northwest to Southeast thd northern? withi us. terminal. being about 22^-mUesr farther. :i, SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA west than .the southern entrance iMr. and Mry,F. S. Grindall and Under the Control and .Direction of Arch^fpp Ireland from the Pacific. "The" 'first sever children,, also Mr. and Mrs. S. E. W. C. MESSERSCHMIDT miled of the: Canal beginning at the Atlatftie'fcnd JI CATHOUC MILITARY CGLLEQE Grindall and-son, Harry, have ^rfe at sea lev6l. TOve ixflfes Plastering! (building and of channel, BOOfeet wide,-have been moved to Walfe©r and for a time First at A am a Collegiate (jomtpercial Jlcadcmic 'Preparatory a feet 'dredged to depth tof 41 .directly ..V yerftol,. Mortfl at least, will make that place their ... DlkeWa» Blasted. .. A south through iimda^bayy iuui two All Kinds of Mason Work. home. v. Six Hundred and Eighty Students /ram Eighteen State* Registered latt Ydau :#il&i"n6f Cfiii^^eii^i^el^'siic^im kas Nra#% ftea-leVtel7 (caiiil, ttifc All Work Guaranteed to Be First Mrs. M.tA. Soper and children thrcmgh lOw-lying liiiMl I qa a a re a Leonardo (tarr'Vinci.^ the" |pe4t itat&a Mm (fat a recently •n&ranot t& ther -Ctatan vlo^*^ irhere are visiting Mrs. Soper's father I J* painter-engineer, had' invents Very Re0. H,M- MWNIHAn^U,, the are raised, in/three steps, to ed the hydraulic lock, now generallv e,t ships €t TV-rt-vm, Minn. ca.e:* uji*s c!: -Press C.T. a '-r'ijlrt gs foov i-•bov.? }PV* U«fi" 1» "M .5 '"l. I1 i*. i.^. A',