INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS hsw *JS3S3»8XXX*XS«»S Hi* SPIRIT UNQUENCHEQ. WOMEN WHO HELPED International Falls Abstract Three Leaders TO FREE 1COUNTRY j-: BURDICK, KREMEK & KING, Propriety & ZA Numerous Instances Where the Wives Abstracts, Real Estate and Insurance and Daughters of Patriots Showed ThemselvestMforthy a 8har» GOLDEN GRAIN BELT BEERS Conveying and Loans 4 Collections, of the Glory. WOMEN J. E. BURDICK, Manager HARPERS WHISKEY gave their services In manifold ways during the Revolutionary International Fall. war. Elizabeth ROCK SPRING- WATER Zane, at the siege of Fort Pincastle— ^*M«i\-WtS8S898SSSX9SSS3eSC?«t9iSe*9S%StX^%^%^^*^^3^»SeS^^W^ later Port Henry—on the present site of Wheeling, W. Va., crossed a zone of fire swept by the rifles of 500 savages UNDERWOOD & HASSELBARTH, Local Agents SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PRESS carrying an apronful of powder from an auxiliary blockhouse to the! main works, the fresh supply of ammunition International Falls, Minnesota saving the garrison from the necessity of surrender. Catherine Schuyler, wife of the far 'mous general, set fire to a vast acreage of wheat fields on the Schuyler estate to prevent them from falling into the hands of Burgoyne upon his Border Wholesale Meat & Grocery Go. THIS YEAR, THE SAME AS LAST YEAR advance from Port Edward to Saratoga. THE DULIITH HERALD Mrs. Esther Reed of Philadelphia E. A. Yernberg, Manager defied the British, who were at that time in possession of her home city, by clothing and raising funds for the Wholesale and Retail Meats, American army at Valley Forge. Upon Groceries, Fruits and Feed her death the work was continued by Mrs. Sarah Bache, daughter of Benjamin Franklin. Hundreds of other IS THE Horao-Mc.de Sausage and Philadelphia women eecretly co-operated. BEST NEWSPAPER IN THE NORTHWEST Hamburger 3 The wives of most of the commandting generals—notably Martha Washington and Mrs. Nathaniel Greene— Give us a Trial and You Will Send for sample copies—after you've read {accompanied their husbands in every •r- Stay With Us (campaign, and did everything in their them you'll surely want to join The Herald's Photograph by Frank Fournler, Staff $ [power to alleviate the hardships of Photographer. family of satisfied readers. happy the soldiery. Mrs. Washington even Our Prices are Always-Right and Our Stock Always Fresh 5 went through the cruel winter at Valiley OLD AGE AND YOUTH DAILY BY MAIL—THREE MOUTHS FOR $1.1 Forge, where her ministrations Second Ave. and Fifth Street International Falls, Minn. &re said to have saved many lives.! IN FREEDOM'S FIGHT ADDRESS—HERALD, DULUTH, KSINN. Still other women went into British prisons and prison ships to save the sick and wounded American prisoners. Signers of the Declaration of Ind* Mrs. Elizabeth Jacksqn, mother of pendence Represented All Glasses SUBSCRIBE FOR THE PRESS Andrew Jackson, in fact, died from of the People and Were of prison, fever contracted while engaged 1 All Ages. in this work of mercy among the ^American captives at Charleston. THE men who gathered together Mary Draper Invented the pewter early in July, 1776, to consider LICENSED PLUMBERS bullet, which came into use after the $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE the question of independence supply of lead was exhausted, and represented many professions and thousands of patriotic women the ages. Of the 56 men who constituted and Heating Engineers country over surrendered their prize all of the signers of the Declaration, pewter utensils to be melted up for 24 \^ere lawyers, 14 agriculturists, four ammunition. physicians, one a minister, one manufacturer, WATER AND SEWER WORK PROMPTLY DONE Mrs. Rebecca Motte, whose splendid nine merchants, and three mansion between Charleston and Camden, ESTIMATES FURNISHED ON SHORT NOTICE I who had been educated for the ministry, S. C., was turned into a fort by but who later followed other professions. the British, instructed the besieging EAST & CORRIN Although at the time of Americans to set the structure afire signing the Declaration the majority by shooting blazing arrows on to the Phone 22 Oveson Block International Falls,'Minn. roof. The result was that the British Do you want were smoked out, though the mansion this dandy iteelf was reduced to ashes. No But the most bizarre service of all BICYCLE was rendered by Handy Betty Hager, /a?. ft Money known also as Betty the Blacksmith, The McCallCo who refitted guns and artillery for the 23S W. 37th Slrct {1.00 PER ACRE SSS CROP NewYorkCiiy patriotic armies. Betty was a natural mechanic, whose latent abilities were Dear "Bicycle Man": Please tell me how developed in the employ of Samuel This js not a Prize Contest. Every boy 4B AAA A CHEAPER THAN RENTING. NO CROP, NO PAYMENT. Improved y/ ret one of your high-grac' Leverett, a blacksmith-farmer living CS farms and wild land. Heavy soil, clay subsoil. Near R.R., Schools and who fills out and mails the corner coupon Bicycles, without money, a T\»l—Churche*. Cheap fuel. Prices $15 to 825 per acre—10 annual payments near Boston. for very little effort. can earn this high-grade Bicycle .^° S#OlMfIH or crop aach year. Excursions every Tuesday. Free fares to purchasers, nt riMOdS MISSOURI Prior to the battle of Concord, the SLOPE COUNTRY for very little effort during spare vv Write or see The A. H. MAAS CO., 215 Andrus BIdg., Minneapolis, Minn. Name. patriots of the surrounding country time. ASK "The Bicycle Man." had been preparing themselves for the Address Mail this coupon TO-DAY. conflict for months. Guns of all types —matchlocks, flintlocks, smoothbores, blunderbusses and what not, some of which had not seen service for three or four generations—came piling into the Leverett shop, and while Leverett WELL JUDQE,- Vou C^AVE. himself could be observed by any E A I W E N O O O THAT WAS A QOOO TIP passing tory to be busily engaged ia QAVE MY BOY O E W I S E O shoeing horses, his unsuspected assistant of the men were between forty and THE REAL JSJ&EF/FT+iST O A O E W was working in a secret chamber sixty years of age, several were in the }•••. making the neighbors' antiquated old ST PAUL, MINN. early thirties, and two forty-seven. firearms serviceable once more. OPPOSITE 'CITY MALL The youngest signer was Edward Rutledge Betty kept up this volunteer work MODERN EUROPEAN PLAN of North Carolina, who was not throughout the whole course of the twenty-seven until about fou* LOCATED IN HEART OF BUSINESS DISTRICT waff, never accepting a single copper RATES: Rooms with detached bath and months after the signing. The other shower bath— for her labor. To Betty and her employer, was Thomas Lynch, Jr., who celebrat per One person 75c, S1.00 and SI.50 day likewise, belongs the credit of Two persons in same room, 50c extra. ed his twenty-seventh birthday three putting the first captured British cannon ROOMS with private baths and toilets— days after the signing. Mr. Lynch One person $1.50 and $2.00 per day into action. On the retreat from was drowned at sea before he was Two persons in same'room, $1.00 extra. Concord the British left eix brass cannon thirty. On the other hand, Benjamin Send postal card lor colored blotters. behind them, thoughtfully spiking Franklin was seventy at the time of WE AIM TO PLEASE the touchholes so that they could not signing. Equally interesting are the be discharged. ages of the men when they died. Betty and Leverett, however, patiently Three lived to be over ninety, 14 over PURE drilled out the spikes at the sixty, 11 over fifty, and the remainder, rate of one a week, and in no long with the exception of Lynch, lived to time the British 'found the beleaguering be over forty-four. Americans driving them out of Boston at the mouths of their own METHODS TO AVOID LOCKJAW cannon. (THE STABLE BOY FEELS THAT ONE qoooA Mothers Will Do Well to Keep These TURM DESERVES ANOTHER MUST BE SPECIFIC in I instructions Their Kills Germs Kills Odors Memory. T'S a glad day for a tobacco chewer when he finds the Real Tobacco Chew. Surgeon General Wyman Issued the deserves the best protection yo^ Use it today—the following instructions for the proven "Right-Gut" is made of rich, mellow, strongest Lye in can give it--and when the best tion of tetanus (lockjaw) following ln the New Sifter Can means a saving of good, crisp dollars full-bodied tobacco. Seasoned and juries from Fourth of July blank cartridges, ALITTLE pistols, toy cannon, firecrackers, in your pocket, why deny Babbitt's Lye and sweetened just enough/ etc.: a lot of water will keep your yourself the best? San, wind, Knowing how much it means to his comfort, "In addition tp giving a preventive home and barn free of all germs snow and rain attack in vain if dose of tetanus antitoxin, It should a man takes pleasure in telling his friends about and odors-. be an invariable procedure to lay your house is painted as it ought it, too. WTiy not try it today ?—and see open all Fourth of July wounds. All tobe—with for yourself how easily, cheaply You don't have to grind it away. The taste [orelgn matter, dead or badly injured flesh, should be removed, anaesthetic and thoroughly it does the work. lasts. being used to prevent pain and Write for booklet showing many proper measures taken to limit bleeding. Take a very small chew—less than one-quarter the old uses. Valuable presents for the size. It will be more satisfying than a mouthful of ordi- labels. Write for Catalogue aary tobacco. Just nibble on it until you find the strength chew that "After the wound has been thoroughly 10c PAINT auita you. Tuck it away. Then let it rest. See how easily and evenly cleaned it should be swabbed Highest in Strength tha real tobacco taste comes, how it satisfies without grinding, how But Not in Price out with carbolic acid of at Btrong *r much less you have to spit, how few chews you take to be tobacco least per cent, followed by a wash1 29 The Real Tobacco Chew. You Use Less It Lasts Longer satisfied. That's why it is That's why it The paint that gives you length Ing with 95 per cent alcohol to prevent costs less in the end. further actittn of the acid, B. T. BABBITT of service is the Economical Paint. It is a ready chew, cut fine and short shred so that you woa't "After the wound has been cauter* have to grind on it with your teeth. Grinding on ordinary candied to* The paint that will give you sturdy Friend—Oh! Doc, how'* Willie? P. O. Box 1770 NEW YORK CITY Ized in this way it. should be thoroughly bacco makes you spit too much. Doc (testily)—Which Willie, man! wear under every sort of exposure washed out with a bichloride of 'The taste of pure, rich tobacco, does not need tobe covered up Don't you know every Willie within is Rogers, because it is made to with molasses and licorice. Notice how the salt brings out the rich. mercury solution, packed with gauze, two miles is blown up? tobacco taste in "Right-Gut." and dressed every day. endure. Let us show you just, "As results of the celebrations of Independence If your dealer does not sell it, M»nd us'lOc.instamps why Rogers Pnint stands the wear EQUALITY. day in this country during for pouch of "Right-Cut" Chewing Tobacco. and tear. the last five years there have been WEYMAN-BRUTON COMPANY "All men may be bora freeflrat it's FOB SA£E BY 768 cases of lockjaw, with 721 deaths. absolutely foolish to say that they are H. L. FRANK CO. '•„BO Union SquarebNew York 8 Of these deaths, 693 were traceable to born equal." blank cartridges. But the number .. .. ._\v "Sank theft* ham eauL baft 5 and 10c Store this cause has pf deaths from direct